After sailing for nearly a whole day, Dorothy relied on her precise navigation skills and the sea chart she had memorized in her mind to reach a settled island called Bijou Island. She took a short break there and slept for a whole day. After a good rest, she found an opportunity to let the puppet drive the ship that Mon Carlo brought with her out of the island's waters, and the puppet sank it at the maximum distance to remove the traces. Then she and Nephnis bought tickets and took an ordinary passenger ship to the mainland. After several days and several transfers, they arrived at Adria, a large coastal city of Ivigo where they had stayed before.
"I didn't expect to see this city again... By the way, Miss Dorothy, your current goal is to find the White Stonemasons Guild base in a big city, right? There are many big cities along the Conquer Coast, why did you choose Adria?"
Standing next to Dorothy, Neveu withdrew her gaze from the distant city and looked at the girl on the side and said, while Dorothy gave a simple and clear answer.
"There's no special reason. If I have to say something, it's just that this place is quite far from Mon Carlo, and I don't have a bad impression of it. Anyway, the Whitestone Guild has a stronghold in every big city, so why not pick a comfortable place to stay and have a good rest for a few days."
Dorothy said this. In this era when industrialization was in full swing and expanding rapidly, almost every major city on the mainland had established its own industrial zones of varying sizes. At a time when no one had any awareness of environmental protection, these industrial zones brought various types of pollution to these cities. Dorothy had been to many major cities by now, and did not give them high scores in terms of livability.
The situation in Adria is somewhat different. Due to geological problems, it is impossible to develop industry on a large scale. The municipal government here began to realize the benefits of tourism to the city earlier than other places. Therefore, intentionally or unintentionally, it has begun to build it towards the direction of tourism and trade city, making it one of the few prosperous cities without heavy industry, and the environment is naturally much better.
Dorothy felt pretty good when she stayed in Adria during those days. There was nothing wrong with the place except that it was easily flooded during high tide. So when she chose to go to the big city to find the base of the White Stonemasons Guild, she also chose this place. This was a place she had already booked when she was still in Mon Carlo.
Standing on the deck of the ship, Dorothy looked into the distance at the port which was getting closer and closer. Then she took out a ship ticket from her clothes and unfolded it in front of her eyes. The arrival date on the ticket was July 10, which was today. It had been 11 days since the Monte Carlo incident.
'Arrived on the 10th... pretty punctual. There are still 5 days until the agreed time. I wonder if he will be there on time?'
Dorothy thought to herself as she stared at the boat ticket in front of her, and then she began to look forward to an appointment that would come in two days.
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After Dorothy and Nefernis arrived in Adria, they got off the boat and checked into a hotel. In the following days, they had a good rest and relaxed, especially Dorothy, who had relaxed her tense nerves from the planning of the Monte Carlo incident to the escape. After a few days, the calendar turned to July 15th, and it was time for Dorothy to start her own business again.
In the morning, Dorothy sat in a riverside cafe in Adria, sipping tea while controlling a corpse in the distance to walk into an art wood carving shop in a remote corner. She let the well-dressed young male corpse walk to the counter of the store and said "yes" before the other party opened his mouth.
Qianxun..:;Free.novel:"skirt.",2,5;!:5."5:;9!5!,3:,0"0 "Hello, I need to customize a 4.25-meter-high column sculpture of the Son of God, using oak. Can you do it?"
Hearing the words of Dorothy's corpse, the waiter at the front desk was slightly startled, then spoke with a smile.
"Of course, it is possible, but sir, your custom-made product is a little large. You need to explain the details and specific requirements to the master in detail. Please follow me."
With that, the guy at the front desk left his work station and walked in through a small wooden door on the wall next to him. Dorothy let the puppet take a quick look at the dazzling array of wood carvings in front of her, and then followed him.
This is the base of the White Stonemasons Guild of Adria. Through Beverly's connections, Dorothy found this place easily.
Dorothy followed the receptionist into the small wooden door, and then a dark and narrow corridor came into his sight. When the receptionist heard the guest following behind him, he also spoke in a low voice.
"Guest, do you need a secret transaction service?"
"No, I don't have any plans to buy anything for the time being. I need to use your No. 4 telegraph room, which provides real-time telegrams. I'll wait there to receive the message." Dorothy controlled the corpse and spoke to the front desk guy in front, who responded immediately after hearing it.
"Real-time telegraph communication? Haha... the customers are well-informed. We have only started this service a short time ago, and only a few people have used it."
Smiling, the receptionist led the corpse forward, and after turning left and right, they came to a private but well-decorated small room, with carpet on the floor and a comfortable sofa inside. On the coffee table was a telegraph machine, and the telegraph machine's line was connected to the outside of the wall through several small holes on the wall.
After Dorothy sat on the sofa, the receptionist who led the way closed the door and walked out. Before leaving, he asked if she needed translation services, but Dorothy refused. Then Dorothy asked the corpse to adjust the telegraph in the small room silently. After the adjustment was completed, she began to wait. After waiting for dozens of minutes, the telegraph on the coffee table suddenly started to beep and spit out a long piece of paper in the rhythmic sound. Dorothy listened to the sound of the telegraph and looked at the dots and lines on the paper. She immediately understood the meaning of it. It was some information of a confirmed nature.
Dorothy then had the puppet respond to the message using the telegraph to confirm it, and soon after, the telegraph began to spit out meaningful content.
"I am Xuelang, in the base of a craftsman's guild profiteer. I have sent you a message at this time as you requested, thief."
After the beeping sound ended, Dorothy couldn't help but smile after translating the content of the telegram. She then controlled the corpse puppet to quickly press the keys to respond to the other party.
"Hello, Mr. Xuelang, I am the thief who stole your ten gold bricks. Now, are you ready to take back some of them?"
"Stop talking nonsense, what do you want?" When Dorothy responded, the other end of the telegram replied with impatient words. Seeing this, Dorothy sent a telegram directly to the point.
"What I want is the intelligence about the Haiyuan Cult. Since you don't have any leverage in their hands, and since they haven't tried their best to bring you back, they will have a place to use you in the future. You may have guessed that the Haiyuan Cult... and even the entire Afterbirth Cult are planning to do something big. If they find you again in the future and use leverage to threaten you to do something for them, tell me their request, and I will return some of the gold bricks to you based on the value of the information.
"Of course, I also know that these gold bricks in my hand are urgently needed by you now, so I can also pay you a little in advance. You just need to provide me with enough secrets about the Haiyuan Sect and even the entire Afterbirth Sect, then I can return a gold brick to you first to help you solve your urgent needs. What do you think?"
Manipulating the corpse puppet, Dorothy sent new telegrams to Edward far away. Dorothy encrypted some key parts of these telegrams, and the decryption method was left in the letter to Edward in advance.
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