Whispering Verse

Today is Monday. Because he got up early and went to the Prophet's Association, Shade didn't have time to get the gift.

Luvia and Iluna happened to be there, so Shade proposed to pick up this week's gifts in front of them.

Asking Iluna to hold the cat tightly to prevent it from escaping into the box again, Shade reached into the metal box.

It has been more than two months since he got this sage-level relic. Except for some surprises brought to him by the money printing master, most of the gifts were dispensable.

But this time, Shade's luck finally came.

"oh!"

His eyes suddenly widened because his finger touched a key at the bottom of the box, and he immediately sensed that it was a relic.

"Finally! Finally! I've been really lucky lately. First I got the [Corpse Mirror] in Mibao, and now I actually got another gift!"

Trying hard not to show an overly exaggerated expression on his face, Shade took out the big, cold, black iron-colored key. The key itself is as long as Shade's palm, and the key teeth are small squares. This kind of key is often used in large locks in the old days. . .

There are very difficult-to-observe carvings on the metal surface. They are slender ancient letters that look like earthworms. After translation, their meaning is:

[The only lock that cannot be opened is the heart lock of girls. 】

"Is this it? It turns out that relics can really be taken out of [God's gift box]."

Luvia commented on the side.

"What's this?"

Shade asked curiously, and Iluna, who was well-informed in the church, also recognized it:

"Poet-level [Master Key]?"

"Yes, a master key, a one-time relic, with an unknown quantity and unknown origin. Its characteristics are very simple, it can open a lock unconditionally."

Luvia nodded to Shade:

"Yes, it is very similar to your [Door Key]. But the advantage of the relic is that it does not consume the user's spirit. Even if you open a mysterious lock, there is no consumption. And when you hold this key, you can enhance Its own ability to break illusions. The shortcoming is not only the one-time use, but also the resulting spatial instability."

Luvia thought for a moment:

"The Ring Warlock who holds the key is more likely than others to encounter accidents in areas where space is inherently unstable. A small example is that he took this key to Midhill Fort and was accidentally involved in the [Life and Death Constriction]. time] is more likely.”

"That's really a pity. Just take it. I have the [Door Key] myself, so I don't need this."

Shade put the key on the table. Although he couldn't use the key, Shade was still very happy to get a relic.

The purple-eyed fortune teller and the seventeen-year-old Rapunzel looked at each other.

"Put it where you are."

Iluna took the initiative and said:

"I'm going to Fort Midhill in a few days. I don't want Shade to go to the Narrows of Life and Death again to rescue me."

"That's fine, I will find an opportunity to compensate Shade."

Luvia put the key away and asked Xiang Shade:

"So big boy, what kind of mission has God given you this week?"

She and Iluna both laughed. The "getting gifts" feature of the gift box can only be triggered by children. It was indeed funny that Luvia compared Shade to a "big boy".

"It's very simple, at least easier than swinging the knife 100 times on each of the three days last week. It seems that the difficulty of the weekly task has nothing to do with the value of the gift - give your pet a bath."

Shade said.

"Meow?"

Little Mia, who was held by Iluna, suddenly stretched out her head. The big amber eyes looked at Shade, and the way he tilted his head was very cute, so Shade smiled and took the cat back from Iluna's arms:

"It just so happens that the weather is about to get colder, so I'll wash it again after autumn. I often hear people say that it's best not to bathe your cat too frequently, so wash it this time so you don't have to wash it again in winter."

Because of this idea, on Tuesday morning, the tenth month of this year, the first day of the Dead Leaf Month, Shade and Mia got into a "dispute" over taking a bath.

The winner of this dispute was of course Shad. He first used food to lure the cat to the bathroom where hot water was placed. After closing the door, he and Mia started a chase in a narrow space and won.

No matter how agile the cat is, it can only lose in front of Shade who has the ability to move in space.

She had obviously seen the sea and had taken a bath before, but when Shade put it in the bathtub, little Mia still made a "screaming" sound.

But after just barking, the cat looked around suspiciously. Seeing that the warm water did no harm to him, he suddenly became obedient and rubbed Shade's hand while letting him wash it, without even resisting.

Although this cat may seem smart at times, in the final analysis it is just a cat.

After washing the cat, Shade did not go to Fort Midhill immediately. Instead, he took advantage of Monday to take the dried Mia to handle the monthly bills, taxes, and advertising fees in Tobesk, and collect them. This month’s MI6 salary.

After taking care of this, I took the cat for lunch. By the time Shade entered the city limits of Fort Midhill, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

Fortunately, he didn't have anything important to do today. He just wanted to help Leziya count the goods in the warehouse at No. 19 Punjab Street to determine how much the local "rats" had stolen.

Punjab Street is a street in the city center, close to Santa Carla Street and Perfume Street. It is mostly home to multinational trading groups. It is bustling on weekdays, and even more crowded on the first day of October. Businessmen from all over the world want to finalize important commodity transactions before winter comes.

Nos. 10 to 20 of Punjab Street are warehouses, but when Shade came here, the first thing he looked at was not No. 19, but No. 18 with a red door plate on the side.

Gray Gloves received information that the goods would arrive at the warehouse on the 18th on the last day of last month, which was yesterday. And if Shade's guess was correct, the agent who came to pick up the goods had died on the fourth floor of the Sikal Hotel last week.

Among the three people who picked up the goods, the one who knew the address was shot dead, and the person in charge of security committed suicide at the local police station. Only Professor Higgins is still alive, and he is suspected of having stolen the pen that had no information on the night the gunman committed suicide.

"Theoretically speaking, there is a high probability that the goods are still here. The professor of linguistics has no possibility of knowing this address under normal circumstances."

Shade stared at the house number of No. 18 for a long time, then reached out and tapped the door of No. 19, and the door lock opened automatically. I looked around and saw that although there were many people on the street, no one paid attention here, so I lowered my hat with my right hand and ducked in.

This kind of warehouse located in the city center is generally small in area. Of course, for the sake of land utilization, there will naturally not be only one floor. In addition to the main door that opens on Punjab Street, there is also a cargo door on the other side, but that door is now locked from the inside with rusty hinges, so Shade does not have to worry about someone coming from the other side. Side entry door.

Lesia didn't know why she rented this place, and from the looks of it, some steam engine repair parts were piled here.

There wasn’t much decoration inside the warehouse, just paving the floor and painting the walls. There was a very obvious smell of oil in the air, and the boxes of metal parts were the source of the smell.

"Lecia asked me to go to the third floor to check."

Between the second and third floors and the first floor, there is a lifting platform with a steam engine as the power source, and it is very convenient to use. You can start the lifting platform by standing on it and stepping on the bulge in the middle. But starting the power source steam engine requires a special key, and the key is not available now.

Of course, this thing was also very noisy, so Shade did not use the magic of unlocking to move it. Instead, he chose to open the iron door at the entrance of the stairs, and then took the stairs to the upper floor.

He didn't forget to lock the door again.

On the second floor are rows of shelves with scattered steam engine parts. There are even some outdated decomposition diagrams of small steam engines posted on the walls, with specific sizes and alloy types marked.

Shade stood by the wall and watched for a while, then opened the iron door at the stairway again and went to the third floor.

The layout of the third floor is similar to that of the first floor, and there are also wooden boxes. Shade found a crowbar by the wall, pried open the wooden board that was nailed down by iron nails, and saw that there was straw inside, and lying in the straw was a machine gun powered by a mixture of steam and gunpowder.

The black metal gun body has the eyepiece, magazine, steam chamber and other small parts disassembled and placed aside. This is a controlled munition that outsiders can only see in books. It is an extremely destructive weapon in the wars of this era.

"Oh, Lesia is actually in the arms business, and it's a multinational arms business. Who is she selling to?"

Shade whispered in his heart, but it was not surprising. After all, Lecia and Miss Aurora can jointly open a shipyard to build some ships that "have military potential but she can't modify them", so selling a few boxes of arms is not a big deal. Unimaginable:

"The arms business seems to be very profitable."

Muttering in his mind, he took out the notebook toy from his pocket, restored it, and recorded it while counting the number of boxes. Occasionally, one or two boxes would be opened to confirm that the kingdom-controlled arms were inside.

After working for almost an hour, Xia De finished the work.

Carefully return the way you came, trying not to make too much noise. Fortunately, Shade's luck was pretty good. He didn't attract anyone's attention until he left Warehouse No. 19.

He lowered his hat and walked down the steps, walking along the wall toward the street entrance, thinking of returning to Tobesk immediately and telling Lesia the result. But because he was walking with his head down, he accidentally bumped into the shoulder of a stranger who was walking against him after only a few steps.

PS: In addition to the two major kingdoms of the Old World, there are also a series of small principalities, so Lesia did not necessarily sell Delarion's arms to Kasenric.