Chapter 387 Travel
Blue Moon Bay Street, East Tivian.
In the afternoon, a cold wind blew with flakes of snow on the streets of East City. People wrapped in thick clothes walked along the street. The Boyle family's mansion was located next to this street.
Wearing a home sweater and loose trousers, Nephthys sat in front of the desk in her bedroom. Next to her was a warming brazier with burning charcoal fire. Nephthys warmed herself by the fire while reading the books on her desk. From time to time, she looked out the window at the cold street and examined the patrolling police who happened to pass by.
"It's been over a week since the incident happened... The tense atmosphere on the street hasn't subsided much. It seems that the death of Lord Barrett has made His Majesty the King and his men very angry."
Looking at the scene outside the window, Nephnis thought so, and then she glanced at the newspaper placed beside the table. This newspaper, which was published two days ago, contained the news that Lord Barrett died after unsuccessful medical treatment.
'I never thought that the events I participated in that day were actually an assassination plan against His Highness the Lord of the Eight Peaks... I thought it was just a matter of the residents, but it turned out to be a conspiracy of the Eight Peaks Nest.
"This Eight-pointed Nest... I originally thought that they were just a group of bastards who specifically targeted college students and carried out control and blackmail. I didn't expect that their power was so great that they dared to directly murder the Lord..."
Nephnesse thought so in her heart while looking at the newspaper beside the table. After she learned from Dorothy that the mastermind of the assassination was actually the Eight-Pointed Nest, she couldn't help but feel a lingering fear for a moment. She never thought that a group of people who secretly controlled the students in her own school actually had the means to assassinate the royal family.
Originally, Nefnis thought that the main purpose of the Eight-Pointed Nest was to control students and then slowly extract wealth from these children of wealthy families. It was an extraordinary society that targeted students. Now that the other party suddenly made such a big news, Nefnis couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart. An organization that could assassinate the royal family was not an extraordinary society.
'Before you came to me... have you always been against such an organization? It feels really scary... If it weren't for the help of Aka and Miss Dorothy... I don't know how many times I would have died by now... I am an ordinary college student... I actually got involved in such a big event?'
Nephnis thought with some fear in her heart. She was very happy and excited after her successful promotion to the black level. However, after learning the truth of what happened on New Year's Eve, the excitement in her heart did not last long.
When she thought about the fact that she was currently facing an enemy of a terrifying secret society that could oppose the royal family, and the fact that the royal government was seriously investigating the case of Lord Barrett, and that she was also a person involved in the case, Nephnis could not be happy for a moment. She had been in a state of worry for more than a week.
After all, Nefernis was just an ordinary college student who knew little about extraordinary things not long ago. Although she participated in many secret activities, she could not feel the impact of her actions due to the gap between the secret world and the secular world. She had always felt the secret world, until that night when she participated in the assassination of Lord Xu, which had a huge impact even in the secular world. Only then did she feel the significance of what she was doing.
"I have been involved in such a big event without realizing it... I feel very uncomfortable... Especially since the atmosphere in the city is so tense during this period... Whether it is the Palace or the Eight-pointed Nest, I feel that it will be very dangerous if I expose myself a little bit..."
Nephnis thought to herself that the tense atmosphere on Tivian Street made her feel a little uneasy, and she even had the idea of going out to avoid the limelight.
䀴Just as Nephthys was thinking about this in her room, there was a knock on her door. Upon hearing this, Nephthys immediately spoke.
"who?"
"It's me, Miss. I just received your letter downstairs." A slightly old voice came from outside the door. Nephnis recognized that the voice belonged to Nunot, the butler of the Boyle family.
Hearing this familiar voice, Nephnis immediately stood up from her seat and walked to the door in two or three steps. After opening the door, she saw her old butler standing in the corridor behind the door with an envelope in his hand.
"There's a letter for me? Who sent it?"
With a hint of doubt, Nefernis took the letter in her hands, and Nunot responded in a timely manner.
"According to the address, this is from your school. It's probably a list of things you need to buy for next semester."
"School?" Nephnis murmured as she looked at the wax seal of the Royal Holy Crown University on the envelope. Then she thanked Nunot and closed the door.
Before returning to her desk, Nephnis opened the envelope, took out the letter inside and began to examine it. When she saw the notes on the letter, she knew who wrote it. It was her archaeology tutor at her university, a middle-aged professor named John.
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To the diligent and excellent Miss Neferness Boyle, you are about to enter the second semester of the second year of archaeology. In the past year and a half, you have learned enough theoretical knowledge, and the rich knowledge has enriched your mind. However, in our activities of exploring the past, the knowledge gained from books alone is far from enough. We need to go out of the campus to obtain more knowledge.
Your learning journey is about to enter a new stage. In the second semester of the second academic year, our teaching will focus on extracurricular practice. I will personally lead you to some well-known historical sites and even some cutting-edge excavation sites, so that you can experience the stories of the past and the traces left by the present, apply past knowledge to practice, and personally discover the dusty past that is still under the land.
Your third year of study will take you a long time to go to distant places outside the school. The first journey will start on the 20th of this month, and the destination is some ancient sites of the Conquest of the Sea Kingdoms. The first stop is the ancient city of Adria in Ivigo. Around mid-February, this famous water city will have a precious cultural relic exhibition, where many cultural relics unearthed from the ancient sites of the Conquest of the Sea Kingdoms will be exhibited. This is a rare opportunity for us. After visiting this exhibition, we will continue to take a boat to visit some other famous places in the Conquest of the Sea Kingdoms. Finally, if we have enough time, we can even go south to Beiwu to inspect some excavation sites there.
Our entire trip is expected to last for two to three months or even longer. In order to cope with the long journey, you should make preparations as soon as possible, prepare funds and carry various items needed for the journey. The estimated cost of this trip is...
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The rest of the letter was a detailed list of various expenses, including living expenses, boat ticket fees, tutoring fees, and many other items. When all these miscellaneous expenses were calculated, it would amount to about one hundred pounds. This was a considerable sum for the expenses of mundane affairs. Only the group of rich children attending the University of Hong Kong could afford such an amount of expenses.
"This is... the bill for the practical class... Yes, I almost forgot that in the second semester of the second year, many of our classes will go out for practical study tours... Mr. John mentioned it many times last semester, but I forgot because I was involved in so many secret affairs."
Looking at the bill in her hand, Nephnis understood clearly that she was a student of archaeology, and archaeology was not something that could be learned by staying in school and focusing on research. It would inevitably involve a lot of on-site practice.
In the past, Nefnis's tutors would occasionally take students of their grade to some historical sites in Pritt for a short period of time to experience Pritt's various histories over the past thousand years. Now, in the second semester of the second academic year, they will also have their first long-term investigation activity.
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