Tianjin people will never lose SAN

Chapter 322 The Kind Donkey
Last night, Liu Yonglu was so happy that he fell asleep in the second half of the night. When he opened his eyes, it was almost noon. He rolled out of bed and stretched:

"Xiaohu! Mi Li'er!"

The only downside to having a big house is that you don’t know where the people are. After calling out twice and seeing no one paying attention to him, Liu Yonglu guessed that the two people must have gone out.

Just as I was about to go wash up, I heard the phone ringing downstairs.

"Hey, who are you looking for?"

"Is it... von Stroevsky?"

Huh? Liu Yonglu, who had just been scratching his back through his pajamas, suddenly woke up. The person on the other end of the phone was looking for "after-sales service."

The reason why Liu Yonglu had "kindly" left Millie Tang's home phone number to Prince Helama was because he knew that these days, it didn't matter even if the other party knew the phone number. Without the Internet, he couldn't find any clues through a broken phone.

A phone number is just a phone number. You haven't done half of the job yet. You have to at least piss off the other party.

But there was one thing: the tone and voice on the other end of the phone were completely unfamiliar and unexpected to him.

According to the original plan, it should be Prince Herama who came to question him angrily, or at least it would be Balkan's voice coming from the other end of the phone.

"Hey, Holy Lady of Mercy Shines on the Earth, how did you get my phone number?"

"Prince Herama gave it to me. Please allow me to take ten minutes of your time. Last night..."

Alva was an inventor after all, and he meticulously repeated the course of last night's experiment according to the notes in his notebook.

After he finished speaking, there was no response on the phone for a long time.

"Mr. Feng, Mr. Feng, are you still listening?"

"Oh...oh, lost child, do you know what the problem is?"

Liu Yonglu frowned and found that things were not simple. After listening carefully for ten minutes, he discovered one thing. First of all, he had never heard the other party's voice before, and it did not belong to any of Herama's entourage.

Second, the other party seemed to be very familiar with steam machinery. If Helama had an expert, why didn't he bring him with him that day?
Unless... the other party is not from Herama.

Originally, in Liu Yonglu's plan, the role of "von Stroevsky" should have come to an end today. Once he had revealed the punchline and made the other party so angry that he was fuming, the play would be over.

But at the moment, there seem to be variables.

"I've seen enough of the bargaining faces of the mercenaries, but I didn't expect that today's worship would be interrupted by this.

At first I mentioned the price of eight ancient relics, but your Lordship negotiated it down to four. If you cut it by half, it will only have half the effect. If you want the invention to hold up the umbrella, you have to pay the other half of the price."

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone.

After a while, the young voice slowly said:

"You mean... you can only help us perfect this invention by paying the price of four more ancient relics?"

The other party really didn't understand what Liu Yonglu meant. His thinking framework was still stuck on the assumption that "Calabash Brothers was a real invention". After a while, Alva continued:

"I think it's better for us to talk about this in person. Four ancient relics are a big deal after all."

"No problem, but we can't leave New Newland for the time being. You know the reason."

"Why can't you leave New Nulund?"

As soon as he asked this question, Liu Yonglu was completely certain that Hera Ma was also a middleman. He didn't know where he had been sold to.

"Hmm? You're not Prince Herama's man?"

"...No, we are a secret sect, and we have always maintained a close personal relationship with His Highness Herama."

Secret cult? Want Nicholas' invention? Wordsworth!

“According to the rules, we shouldn’t meet, but honesty is one of the virtues preached by the Saint. As a practitioner of the Saint’s will, I can’t just watch you slander the Saint’s kindness behind her back because of such a trivial matter.

So, young man, come to New Newland, and I will give you a satisfactory answer. "

"Squeak."

Liu Yonglu heard the door open behind him. Millie Tang came back with Xiaohu. Millie Tang was wearing a dark purple wool coat with a plush collar. Xiaohu beside her also changed clothes, which was rare. He was wearing a khaki cotton coat with bone buttons and a khaki newsboy cap on his head.

Both of them were holding things in their hands. Liu Yonglu turned around and made a "hush" gesture to Millie Tang.

Millie Tang put the sandwich in her hand on the table and pointed, meaning to remember to eat it.

"Okay, but you have to give me three days. We will meet at Bastia Restaurant in the suburbs of New New Lent at 8 pm three days later."

Now Wordsworth's sect has been wanted by the New Newland Police Department and is under close surveillance. Painter Hat originally wanted to make an appointment with Mr. Feng to meet in another city.

“…Yeah, no problem.”

After a long while, Liu Yonglu finally agreed with a reluctant look. Before hanging up the phone, he pretended to suddenly remember something and asked:
"Young man, what is your name?"

"Me? Alva, see you in three days then."

The call was disconnected, and Liu Yonglu stood there and nodded. Alva, Nicholas's missing child, and the deputy of the Wordsworth Order, everything matched up. He poured himself a glass of milk and ate a sandwich while thinking about the arrangements for three days later.

At this time, Millie Tang also changed into home clothes and walked down the stairs. She made herself a cup of black tea and sat opposite Liu Yonglu.

"Who called just now?"

Liu Yonglu told Mili Tang the whole conversation from beginning to end. Mili Tang saw Liu Yonglu's embarrassed look and asked:

"Are you struggling with what to do with Alva?"

"No, there's nothing to think about. Just catch him and sentence him accordingly."

Liu Yonglu's decisiveness was beyond Millie Tang's expectation. In her eyes, although Liu Yonglu was an investigator, he was a very unruly person. For example, when he picked up the prince last night, he dared to grab the gem around his neck.

Nicola got along quite well with Liu Yonglu along the way, and she thought Liu Yonglu wanted to show leniency.

"Nicholas and Alva's story is one thing, and Alva and the other victims' story is another.

Hendrik also has a wife and children, and I am trying to repay him on behalf of Nikola.

Besides, Nicholas can't say that he has no responsibility for Alva's current situation. Whether he spoiled him or let him do whatever he wanted, it's the father's fault if he didn't teach him.

It really proves the old saying, the whole country hates me, and I hate you two. They can settle the matter between the two of them in the detention center.

The biggest favor I gave to Nicholas was not to personally send Alva to see Toad."

Liu Yonglu was not really thinking about this matter. He was thinking about how to properly arrest Alva three days later without alerting Wordsworth.

"By the way, did you buy clothes for Xiaohu?"

"I didn't buy it. I found it in the attic this morning. It's an old piece of clothing from when I was a kid."

"Okay, it looks pretty good. It's much better than his usual black outfit."

"Eat quickly. After we're done, we'll take the ancient relic to the Investigation Department. Give the gloves to Kogan. I have to personally tell him about the restrictions on their use.

Also, it would be best if I could move the opal over there, as I don’t dare to experiment with it on a large scale at home.”

"Success, I listen to you."

After the two of them had lunch, Millie Tang spent half an hour setting up the forbidden spells at home before she went out.

"What are you tinkering with?"

"Be careful of Ling'er. What if she breaks in and kidnaps Xiaohu when we're both out? Although these won't stop her, at least they can give us a timely warning."

……

In a room of the New Nurent National Library, Ling'er was sitting on a chair, with countless books floating around her. The order of the books in front of her was changing all the time, like pieces of a puzzle.

This is the deepest part of the library, housing Moses Sadeh’s rarest ancient books, which contain the most unknown secrets.

There are two iron gates at the entrance, and guards are standing in front of the gates, but how can these stop Ling'er?
In fact, as long as Ling'er is willing, the superficial knowledge recorded in the books in the library can be integrated into her consciousness in an instant.

But she just enjoyed this feeling. It was more like satisfying an instinct that had been rooted in her body since her existence than enjoying it.

She is simply attracted to unknown mysteries, no matter how superficial or not.

At the same time, in an inconspicuous corner of the study, two streams of black liquid quietly dripped down the wall.

They gathered on the ground, and recklessly stretched out their tentacles to explore left and right, as if adapting to a completely new environment. Gradually, the black liquid slowly solidified, and a stream of the black liquid grew into long tentacles and bat-like wings. It looked like a naughty child had forcibly broken off the bat's wings and put them on the spider's body.

The other liquid produced a round cap and slender oral arms that only cnidarians have. There were faint flashes of dark red light on the oral arms, as if there were densely packed small animals hiding inside, secretly opening their eyes.

Bats and jellyfish-like black creatures roamed silently in the room, slowly approaching Ling'er who was sitting on the chair with her eyes closed.

"We meet again, and I still can't resist my curiosity."

"And I thought again and again, if the current Newlund is a mouth-watering cream cake, you must be the most conspicuous strawberry on the cake."

"So I came here very carefully. Don't worry, I just carefully infiltrated a little. If you mind, I will disappear now. It's okay."

"But please, for my honesty, let me stay a little longer, because there are so many..."

Bats and jellyfish surrounded Ling'er and whispered to each other, but they all spoke with one voice, which was so magnetic that people couldn't help but listen attentively.

But the next second, a hardcover book with a gold-stamped cover appeared on each side of the black bat.

"Bang" the two books slammed shut, and the black bat turned into a pool of black water.

Ling'er opened her eyes and recognized the voice that spoke to her. It was the donkey she met on the deserted island in the Lost Sea a few months ago!

I am so sleepy. I am going to sleep after sending two pictures.

Good night everyone, it’s cold, please cover yourself warmly!

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(End of this chapter)