Chapter 1082 Pay on Delivery
"If that's the case, then the admission situation will be troublesome."
After learning that Aldridge was actually one of the directors of this university, Dorothy felt a little relieved and spoke, while Beverly waved her hand and spoke.
"It's not a bother, I just want to let you know. Normally I would charge a fee for this, but this is the old man's order, so I'll give it to you for free.
"Also, I suggest you rent an empty house in this town first, and then you can go to school. You look a little young, so living in a dormitory may be inconvenient. It's better for you to live alone."
"That's exactly what I want." Dorothy replied to Beverly. She liked to tinker with esoteric taboos whenever she wanted, so it was impossible for her to live in the dormitory. She couldn't imagine the scene of her performing rituals while her roommates were playing around.
"Well, then you can go pick a house later. Although the houses here are a little more expensive, they are all pretty good.
"Also, I am the general manager of the Tivian Stonemason Union. If you need to trade extraordinary items, you can come to me. We have a rich inventory here."
Beverly continued to speak, and her words surprised Dorothy again. She did not expect that a self-regulating mechanical puppet would have an official status in the Stonemasons Guild, and was also the person in charge of an important city like Tivian.
"That's good. I can now buy and sell extraordinary items in Tivian."
Dorothy was thinking this, and suddenly she seemed to have remembered something and asked Beverly another question.
"By the way, do you know where the Security Headquarters in Tivian is? What should I do if I want to contact them?" Dorothy asked. The documents left by Thordod were still with him.
"I know the exact location of the Security Bureau, but you should also know that in our industry we cannot disclose customer information, so I can't tell you where the exact location is. Although many people know it, I still can't tell you.
"But if you just want to contact them, you can ask me for help. I will tell them for you, and I can also hide your identity when I tell them."
Beverly said this, and Dorothy's eyes lit up after hearing her words.
"Help convey it? That's great. I'm also worried about how to contact the Security Bureau while exposing myself as little as possible. Now it's just right to have a middleman."
"Thank you for that. I need your help to pass something to the Tivian Security Headquarters later. Please do not disclose my information." Dorothy said to Beverly, and the other party responded lightly.
"Oh, I didn't expect you to have contact with the Security Bureau. Don't worry, I will send someone to deliver your things safely. However, this project is beyond the scope of the old man's instructions. I won't do it. I will charge you a fee."
"Expenses? Again!?" Dorothy was startled by Beverly's words, as if she had recalled some bad memories. She looked at Beverly, and saw that she was in deep thought.
"The postage for sending anonymous goods to the Anyin General Administration... Let me see... For the sake of that old man, I can give you a discount on the postage. How about 50 pounds?"
"50 pounds? You're just helping to forward something, is it necessary to spend so much?"
Listening to Beverly's words, Dorothy blurted out and complained that the 50 pounds was enough for her tuition and rent in Igwynte for a long time. The other party was just helping to transport things in the same city, and she wanted so much?
Listening to Dorothy's words, Beverly shook her finger and chuckled.
"This is not a transfer fee but a doorman fee. You can directly contact the Security Bureau peacefully and even negotiate terms with them. Apart from our Artisan Guild, there are not many such places in Tivian. If you go to other places and they ignore you, you're lucky. It may even be dangerous. You should know that as long as you have money, we can accomplish many things."
"But Aldridge's charges are not as exaggerated as yours."
"Come on, you met that old man in Igwinter, but this is Tivian, the cost of living here is different. I usually buy gas on the street and it's twice as expensive as other places. I'm being conscientious by charging you only this much."
Beverly said as a matter of course. Hearing her words, Dorothy's face darkened. She suddenly realized that although the personality and aesthetics of the mechanical girl in front of her were very different from those of Aldridge, the father and daughter (?) were of the same lineage when it came to profiteering, and the younger one was even better than the older one.
Dorothy had no choice but to let out a long sigh and speak.
"Well... okay, I'll give you the gift later.
"And one last thing. Do you have any clues about how to enter the ruins under the school? Can I use divination to figure out its entrance?" Dorothy asked. If possible, she planned to directly make a floor plan of the school and then use a pendulum to divine the location of the entrance to the ruins.
"Divination? Haha... Miss Meshhos, the Star Number Book Society is the only one in history that has been 'initiated'. All of its bases are affected by an extremely powerful extraordinary effect that has been maintained to this day. The source of this extraordinary effect is still unknown. We generally believe that it was an information defense network that the Star Number Book Society gathered huge extraordinary resources to create for itself during its heyday and can work independently. Although it has been damaged a lot now and many defense measures have failed, some functions are still working.
"One of them is anti-divination of traces. Because of the existence of the defense network, almost all the location information about the members and even the bases of the Star Number Repair Society is protected by the defense network. No one can divine the location information about the bases and members of the Star Number Repair Society.
"In order to find the many treasures of 'Qi' contained in the ruins of the Book Repair Society, countless people have tried to break through the defense network to divine the location of the ruins, including many high-level extraordinary people. However, they have all returned empty-handed after consuming a large amount of divination resources, and some have even suffered backlash during divination. So far, no one has been able to break through the high anti-divination wall constructed by this defense network."
Beverly spoke slowly. Dorothy couldn't help but frowned and spoke after hearing her words.
"It's been such a long time since the Book Repair Society was destroyed, but there are still remnants operating... Does the anti-divination defense network have so much spiritual energy reserve? It has defended against nearly a thousand divinations and it hasn't used up all of it yet?"
"First, the Book Repair Society was once wealthy, and it did reserve sufficient spiritual power for the defense network. Second, the status of the defense network is high enough, so high that other people would incur unaffordable extra consumption if they were to divine the location of the Book Repair Society. Some people speculate that the status of the defense network is even higher than gold."
Beverly explained, and Dorothy asked again unexpectedly after hearing her words.
"Does status affect the cost of divination?"
"Well, don't you know? From the bottom up, when a person of lower rank divines a person of higher rank, it will consume additional divination resources. The greater the difference in rank, the more it will consume.
"For example, if a person below 40 wants to divine a red-white word, you need to prepare more 'lamp' and 'inspiration' spiritual power than usual, almost twice as much. If a person below 40 wants to divine a golden word, the additional consumption will be even greater. If the opponent has anti-divination tools, then the spiritual power required will be ridiculously much."
Beverly explained to Dorothy that she didn't seem to have the habit of asking Dorothy for money on such common sense issues, which was indeed more prudent than Aldridge.
"From now on, low-level extraordinary people will have half the effect of high-level divination. It turns out that the difference in status can bring such an effect. If the status of the information defense network is really above gold, then it is not surprising that it is still effective after thousands of years..."
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After that, Dorothy informed Beverly of some other items, and then gave her the documents of Thordod, with some notes attached, asking her to send them to the Security Bureau anonymously. When she was about to pay the money, her eyes turned, and she suddenly had an idea, and then she said to Beverly.
"By the way, Beverly, can I send it cash on delivery?"
"Cash on delivery?"
"The recipient will pay after the package is delivered. If they don't pay, I will pay you next time. Is that okay?"
Dorothy explained to Beverly that, in her opinion, it was the Security Bureau, not herself, that needed the document, so the postage should be paid by them. After hearing this, Beverly nodded thoughtfully and murmured.
“Do you think they’ll pay?”
"Of course~ And then you won't need to bargain with them. Just ask for as much as you should, or even a little more. The An Yin General Administration is a big company, and you should be able to squeeze more money out of them than I can."
Dorothy said this. Given the importance of the contents of the document, she thought the General Administration would be willing to spend money to get it back. She was hinting to Beverly that the document was important to them and they could ask for more at that time.
After listening to Dorothy's words, Beverly nodded slightly and then said.
"Well... okay, I'll give it a try. If I really make a good income there, I'll give you some of it, Miss Meshhos."
"Ha, then I'll wait and see."
Listening to Beverly's words, Dorothy also answered with a smile, and when they looked at each other, the corners of the two girls' mouths curled up with a hint of smile.
In this way, Dorothy successfully avoided going bankrupt.
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