Chapter 132: Picking up the Goods

After sending Miss Annette away, Xia De spent the morning researching 【Genesis · Silver Moon】, and then had to admit that this card might really have no mysterious power.

He even tried to hold the card in front of the cat, but the orange cat just sniffed it and walked away in disgust.

He went out for lunch at noon, and then spent his time reading and continuing to translate Miss Louisa's book. His progress was not bad. Before the group meeting tomorrow afternoon, he should be able to translate all the content. In this way, he didn't have to worry about delaying Miss Louisa's affairs.

While flipping through the textbook, Xia De suddenly realized that he might really be able to complete the exams for some subjects in the exam week at the end of this month.

Although he didn't have the memory of never forgetting, the outsider was proficient in exam techniques and even more proficient in completing studies that others could only complete in half a year in just a few weeks.

And more importantly, the study of these theoretical courses, whether it was the classification of plants in another world, or the introduction to alchemy, or even stargazing and fortune-telling, were all contents that Xia De was very interested in.

Interest plus effort plus some techniques, Xia De was full of confidence in passing several exams at the end of the month.

Of course, the subject he was best at should actually be "Introduction to Ancient Languages (Fifth Era 0~2000)", "Introduction to Ancient Languages (Fifth Era 2000~4000)", "Introduction to Ancient Languages (Fifth Era 4000~5793)". The three courses introduced most of the important languages of the Fifth Era, involving more than 30 types of languages.

The course only required simple introduction, and proficiency would be in higher grades. But Xia De flipped through the books several times and confirmed that these languages were completely fine for him.

He could understand them completely. Although he couldn't speak or write, the first-year exam didn't include speaking and writing. As long as he could simply classify the languages and translate some simple sentences, it would be fine.

"In this way, except for picking up goods tonight and the game on the weekend, there seems to be nothing major recently."

Looking out the window during his leisure time, relaxing his eyes, Xia De thought in his heart.

The newspaper advertisement was only arranged yesterday, so naturally, no client came to the door today. So the whole day was spent reading. Because he had a large income, he still took the cat out for dinner.

It wasn't until the time for Miss Galina's pickup mission was almost up that he set off.

The transaction time was midnight. This was probably like a convention that undercover agents had to talk on the roof, otherwise ten o'clock at night was actually fine. After all, there was no decent nightlife in this era for people to wander on the street late at night.

The transaction location was on the Disque Bridge spanning the Terraril River, which was only a thirty-minute walk from St. Deran Square.

Xia De specially put on a mask, put on a robe he found from the cabinet, and left home at eleven o'clock.

With the arrival of the Month of Thunder in July, even the city late at night didn't feel cold. When he arrived near the bridge, it was only 11:20. Xia De stood against the wall at the street corner about to enter the bridge entrance for a while, looking left and right, and found that only a few taverns were open.

But he didn't enter the tavern wearing this suspicious costume, but circled around the vicinity, bent down from under the river embankment, and entered under the Taqiao.

This was the home of the homeless, and they were all asleep on their respective straw mats and newspapers in such late night. Someone noticed the arrival of the guy wearing strange clothes, but no one paid attention to Xia De.

Huddled in the dark corner, Xia De held his pocket watch and stayed beside the man with a strange smell on his body. He didn't suddenly get up until 11:50, opened his steps and wanted to leave, but thought about it and took out a small copper coin of 1 penny from his pocket and threw it in front of the man. After accepting the low thanks, he walked from the stone steps of the river embankment to the bridge entrance.

It was exactly twelve o'clock when he stepped onto the bridge. Far away in the thick fog in the middle of the night, he saw a carriage parked on the left side of the center of the Taqiao. Three old-fashioned kerosene lamps were hung at the rear of the carriage, which was the agreed signal.

The vision in the thick fog was affected, and those three kerosene lamps looked somewhat like the eyes of a giant beast crawling on the bridge deck.

The detective wearing a mask took a deep breath, and then was choked by the air and coughed straight. He patted his chest before walking over. Looking at the four-wheeled carriage from a distance, there seemed to be no one inside.

But when he got closer, he saw the coachman standing on one side of the carriage, between the edge of the Taqiao and the carriage.

The other party's dress looked exactly like the coachman who pulled the trigger of the Gun of Kindness yesterday, only taller. He had dark skin, like the traces after being exposed to the sun, but Tobesk had been shrouded in thick fog for the past few weeks, so there shouldn't have been such strong sunlight.

The other party saw the strange-looking stranger approaching, but just watched without speaking, his sharp eyes scanning Xia De up and down. After Xia De walked closer, he coughed and asked:

"Did you bring the things that lady wanted?"

The man nodded hesitantly, then flicked the cigarette butt in his hand toward the bridge, and the light spot disappeared into the thick fog while spinning:

"Brought it, but you need to prove your identity."

"No problem."

Xia De recalled the content on the paper with the transaction information. The secret code this time was much more normal than the one on Old John's side:

"That lady said, the blue butterfly flower by the side of the Cecia Lake is Queen Diana's favorite."

The two were less than five steps apart, and Xia De clearly saw the expression on the other party's face relax a little. The man dressed as a coachman nodded:

"Then there is no problem."

He bent down into the carriage, and it only took ten seconds to come out, giving Xia De something the size of two palms wrapped in newspaper.

That thing was very light. Xia De took away the "Three Penny Newspaper" with the date of yesterday, and the version facing out was a follow-up report on the child trafficking incident.

Wrapped inside was a dark red lacquered wooden box with a bright red Manjushage specimen on the lid, which was probably the storage method.

Xia De clicked open the silver lock, but no matter what, he couldn't lift the lid of the box. This feature was consistent with the description that "only women can use it."

"Is this it?"

But he still asked in his heart, fearing that the box was just simply glued shut.

The whispering voice then reminded in his ear:

【You have touched a 'Whisper'.】

When a Ring Mage touches an 【Artifact】 with familiar characteristics, they can get a direct prompt. Miss Galina had told him the characteristics of this makeup box, so even if Xia De didn't have such a special soul and "another me," he could know whether what he received was genuine.