Chapter 450 Obstacles
Conquer the northern coast of the sea, Adria.
Outside the door of the Coronet Hall in the Church of the Pure Flow, a famous tourist attraction in Adria, Dorothy was standing in a place where the light radiating from the door could not reach. On the surface, she was admiring an antique plate with a missing corner in the glass case, while she was lost in thought. Her eyes swept over the exhibit introduction with the donor's information posted on the outside of the glass case, but her thoughts were not on this at all.
'The exhibits in the Crown Hall...are constantly exposed to the Emmanuel Crown. If any traces of something extraordinary appear on the exhibits, they will be exposed immediately. If Azamu is determined to give the divination tool to the church rather than to Galib, then it would be best to put the divination tool in a place where Galib would not dare to step into easily, so that the divination tool can be completely confiscated by the church once it has cooled down. There is no place in the entire Pure Flow Church that meets this requirement better than the Crown Hall...
'But the problem now is that if the divination props are placed in the Coronet Hall, not only will it be difficult for Ghalib's people to get involved, but it will also be difficult for me to go in and investigate. The illumination of the Coronet Hall by the Emmanuel Crown is much stronger than that outside the church. Whether I go in with my body or the corpse, it will probably cost a lot of shadow.'
Dorothy was admiring the vase while walking around it, thinking in her heart that although she already knew the approximate location of the divination props, she did not intend to spend a lot of time to go in and investigate. She was seen slowly moving away from the door of the Crown Hall while admiring it, and heading towards other places in the Church of Purity. After walking around the Church of Purity for several times, she left the church through an exit.
Using the Ring of Concealment, Dorothy quickly moved away from the Church of the Pure Flow under the illumination of the Crown of Emmanuel. She crossed the arch bridge and left the church square into the city. She did not return to the hotel immediately, but boarded a sightseeing boat at a small pier, and then asked the boatman to take her to visit other places in Adria.
Following the experienced tour guide, Dorothy visited the old lord's palace, the armory, the water stage, the sinner's bridge and other places in Adria. Finally, she went to the largest library in Adria and sat for a while... After a solid half-day of tourism and a serious relaxation, the sun in the sky was setting.
At dusk, Dorothy chose a restaurant along the waterway to have dinner. Many of the pasta dishes here left a very good impression on Dorothy, such as Adrià macaroni and Ivigo pie, which she liked very much.
Dorothy has been traveling for a while now and has been to many cities in many countries. Generally speaking, the food in every country and city satisfies her. This may be the reason why Dorothy has low expectations for food after staying in Pritt for a long time.
After enjoying dinner, Dorothy took a boat to explore Adria at night, and finally arrived at her hotel in the lights on both sides of the river. After arriving in the room, she took off her shoes and lay on the bed for a long time. After struggling for a while, she stood up from the bed with her hands, put on the slippers beside the bed, and came to the table by the window of the suite. After thinking about her experience in the afternoon, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"It would be nice if this trip was just for fun and not for business..."
After sighing, Dorothy temporarily ended her travel time and began to deal with the main purpose of her visit to Adria, planning how to get the divination props in the Crown Hall.
'The divination tool is most likely stored in the Crown Hall... If I want to get it, I must steal it from the Crown Hall before the three-year period of the divination tool expires, otherwise it will be discovered by the church and moved away.
'The detection efficiency of the Crown of Emmanuel in the Crown Hall is quite high, but according to my calculations, it is not too high. If we want to make a quick decision in the Crown Hall, my Shadow is definitely enough... But the key problem is that I don't know what the divination prop looks like. There are dozens of exhibits of different sizes in the Crown Hall. I can't take them all with me. It takes a lot of time for me to open a locked display case silently. I don't know how long it will take to open these dozens of display cases. I don't have that much time.'
Gazing through the window at the church square in the distance, Dorothy thought to herself that, in general, her "shadow" reserves could not support her staying in the Crown Hall for too long. Since she could not pack up all the collections in the Crown Hall and take them away, she could only carry out precise theft. But the problem was that Dorothy did not know what the divination props looked like.
'In fact, all the labels on the display cases in the Pure Flow Church have the names of the donors written on them... If I knew the alias that Azamu used when donating the divination items, I could also find the divination items in those display cases. But the problem is that the information I got from Beverly didn't mention what alias Azamu used when donating.
"More importantly, I don't know Azam's alias, but Ghalib's people do. If he chooses to steal things by force, he will have a much greater advantage than me..."
While thinking this, Dorothy took out her bag, opened it, and took out a bundle of things from it. It was a bunch of rolled up newspapers.
Dorothy unfolded the papers and scanned the dates. They were mostly from last year, so they were all old papers.
Dorothy got these old newspapers from the Adria City Library this afternoon. She was interested in some old news on them.
"On September 10, 1359, the Moran Municipal Museum was robbed... On October 9, 1359... The Lonia Municipal Museum was robbed, and the stolen artifacts were all donated... On November 16, 1359, the Kedna Museum was robbed, and several artifacts were lost..."
Looking at the news in the newspapers, most people probably have a picture of a group of thieves who specifically target museums and steal cultural relics. But Dorothy knows that these thieves are not ordinary people, they are the subordinates of Ghalib of the Haisha Society, and they frequently steal from these museums not to find ordinary things, but Azam's divination props.
In order to conceal his tracks, Azam donated cultural relics to seven museums under different aliases and mixed divination tools among them. In order to find the divination tools, Ghalib had already stolen from six museums except the Jingliu Church.
According to Beverly's intelligence, the Haisha Society would have been preparing to excavate the remains of the Xingshu Xiushu Society at this time of year in previous years, but now they were silent, which proved that Ghalib had not found what he wanted in the first six museums. Although Ghalib's six failures seemed irrelevant to Dorothy's current goal, they actually revealed some important information to Dorothy.
'Ghalib stole the suspicious collection before the divination items were cooled down. There are two possibilities. One is that he has some means to identify the divination items without using the Brilliant Light. The other is that he is simply collecting all the collections donated by Azam, and he can easily use the Brilliant Light to find the divination items after the cooling period is over.
'According to the newspaper reports, the museum didn't lose many collections, which proves that Ghalib had a specific target for his theft, and that target was the cultural relics donated by Azam. This also means that... Ghalib has all the pseudonyms that Azam used when donating... Museums usually put the names of donors on the labels of the cultural relics display cabinets, and they only need to take all the things donated by Azam away...'
Looking at the newspaper in front of her, Dorothy thought about this. She knew clearly that she was not the only one eyeing the divination props. The current leader of the Haisha Society, Ghalib, was also secretly eager to try. The other party was superior to her in strength and intelligence. It would be very difficult for her to seize the divination props from them.
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