The Whispering Verses Chapter 132: Receive goods
After seeing off Miss Anat, Shade spent the morning studying [Origin, Silver Moon], and then had to admit that this card might not really have any mysterious power.
He even put the cards in front of the cat with the attitude of giving it a try. But the orange cat just sniffed it and walked away in disgust.
I went out for lunch at noon, and then spent time reading and continuing to translate Miss Louisa's books. His progress is not bad, and he should be able to translate the entire content before the group meeting tomorrow afternoon. In this way, there is no need to worry about delaying Miss Louisa's affairs.
While looking through the textbook, Xia De suddenly realized that he might actually be able to complete the exams in certain subjects during the exam week at the end of this month.
Although he is not the kind of person with a photographic memory, the foreigner is proficient in examination skills and is even more proficient in completing studies in just a few weeks that take others half a year.
What's more important is that the study of these theoretical courses, whether it is the classification of plants in other worlds, or the introduction to alchemy, or even stargazing and divination, is what Shade is very interested in.
With interest, hard work and some skills, Xia De is full of confidence in passing several exams by the end of the month.
Of course, the subjects he is best at should actually be "Introduction to Ancient Languages (Fifth Age 0~2000)", "Introduction to Ancient Languages (Fifth Age 2000~4000)", "Ancient Languages (Fifth Age 4000~)" 5793) Getting Started". Three courses provide an introduction to most of the important languages of the Fifth Age, covering more than thirty languages.
The course only requires a simple introduction, and proficiency requires higher grades. But Shade flipped through the book several times and confirmed that these languages were completely fine for him.
He understands it completely. Although he cannot speak or write, the first-grade exam does not include speaking and writing. As long as he can simply classify the language and translate some simple sentences, it is enough.
"In this way, except for tonight's delivery and the game on the weekend, there seems to be no major event recently."
Xia De thought in his mind while looking out the window and relaxing his eyes during his free time.
The newspaper advertisement was posted yesterday, so of course no client came to the door today. So the whole day was spent reading. Because I have a large income, I still take my cat out for dinner.
It wasn't until the time for Miss Carina's delivery task was almost over that she set out.
The trading time is midnight. This is probably like the fact that undercover agents have to talk on the roof of the building. It is an established practice, otherwise it is actually 10 o'clock at night. After all, there wasn’t much decent nightlife in this day and age that kept people wandering the streets late at night.
The trading location is on the Disick Bridge across the Terrareal River, which is only thirty minutes away from Saint Teresa Square.
Shad deliberately put on a mask and a robe from the cabinet, and left home at eleven o'clock.
With the arrival of the Thunder Moon in July, the city will not feel cold even late at night. It was only eleven-twenty minutes when he arrived near the bridge. Shade stood for a while against the wall of the street that was about to enter the bridge entrance. He looked around and found that only a few pubs were open.
But he did not enter the tavern in this suspicious costume. Instead, he made a large circle nearby, bent down from under the river embankment, and entered under Tower Bridge.
This is the home of homeless people, and they all slept on their own straw mats and newspapers so late at night. Some people noticed the arrival of the strangely dressed guy, but no one paid any attention to Shade.
Huddled in the dark corner, Shade held a pocket watch and hid beside the man with a peculiar smell. He waited until 11:50 before he suddenly stood up, stepped forward and wanted to leave, but after thinking about it, he took out a small one-penny copper coin from his pocket and threw it in front of the man. After accepting the low-pitched thank you, Then we walked from the stone steps of the river embankment to the bridge entrance.
It was exactly twelve o'clock when I stepped onto the bridge. Far away in the thick fog of the night, I saw a carriage parked on the left side of the center of the Tower Bridge. Three old-fashioned kerosene lamps hung at the rear of the carriage, which were the agreed signals.
The vision in the thick fog was affected, and the three kerosene lamps looked like the eyes of a giant beast crawling on the bridge.
The masked detective took a deep breath, then choked on the air and coughed. He patted his chest before walking over. Looking at the four-wheeled carriage from a distance, it seemed that no one was inside.
But when we got closer, we saw the coachman standing on the side of the carriage, between the edge of the Tower Bridge and the carriage.
The other party is dressed very much like the coachman who pulled the trigger of the Gun of Kindness yesterday, only he is taller. His skin was dark, as if he had been exposed to the sun, but the city of Tobesk was often filled with fog in recent weeks, so there shouldn't be that much sunlight.
The other party saw the strangely dressed stranger approaching, but he just looked at it without saying a word. His sharp eyes scanned Shade up and down. After Shade came closer, he coughed and asked:
"Did you bring what the lady asked for?"
The man nodded hesitantly, then flicked the cigarette **** in his hand under the bridge, and the light spots swirled and disappeared into the thick fog:
"Brought, but you need to prove your identity."
"No problem."
Shad recalled the contents of the piece of paper with the transaction information written on it. The code words this time were much more normal than those on Old John’s side:
"The lady said that the blue pansies on the shores of Lake Scythia were Queen Diana's favorite."
The two were less than five steps apart. Xia De could clearly see that the expression on the other person's face had softened. The man dressed as a coachman nodded:
"That's no problem."
He bent down and entered the carriage. He came out in just ten seconds and gave Shade something the size of two palms wrapped in newspaper.
The thing was very light. Shade took out the folded "Three Penny News" newspaper with the date of yesterday. The outside page of the newspaper was the follow-up report of the child abduction incident.
What was wrapped was a dark red lacquered wooden box, with a bright red Manzhushahua specimen placed on the lid. This was probably the method of containment.
Shad clicked open the silver lock, but could not open the box no matter what. This feature fits the description of "only women can use it."
"Is this it?"
But I still asked worriedly, in case the box was simply stuck with glue.
The murmuring voice reminded me:
[You have come into contact with ‘Whispers’. 】
When the Ring Warlock comes into contact with [Relics] with familiar characteristics, he can get direct prompts. Miss Carina has said about the characteristics of this makeup box, so even if Shade does not have such a special soul and "another self", he can still know whether the one he received is genuine.