Chapter 298 Early morning letter
LR417 - March - 1st.
On the first day of the new moon, Ronald left the boarding house early in the morning and looked at the mailbox at the door out of habit.
Three rolled newspapers.
A Citizen's Daily, a Queen's Daily, an Arts Weekly.
With Ronald's sense of smell, he could even smell a bit of ink printing.
But in addition, there was a white envelope, which was obviously just delivered to the apartment this morning.
Seeing this letter, Ronald raised his eyebrows.
Ordinary people can only see that this is a mailed letter, but to him, there is a mark printed on the white page with magic power. The person who left the mark was very clever in his technique, and not even a tiny bit of the magic power leaked out.
Mysterious personnel with weaker observation skills will miss this mark if they don't look specifically.
And Ronald can detect this subtle thing.
Or because when I communicated with the great witch before, the other party specifically mentioned this matter.
"..."
"Ms. Teresa...?"
Ronald muttered, thoughtfully reaching out and taking out the letter.
In fact, what happened before was exactly as he expected.
When the witch incident was over and he and the investigators returned to Springs, it turned out that the big witch who had left the city with Ronald did not return. Later, the [Twelve Witches] also said that the big witch was unwell and needed to return to the school. Internal recuperation.
And the current letter seems to confirm this.
Ronald opened the envelope with one hand. In addition to the expected letter paper, there was also a brand new [Gert] note issued in Springs, with the denomination of one dollar as expected.
Let’s look at the contents of the letter again:
[Dear Ronald:
I’m so sorry for leaving without saying goodbye.
But for people of my age, once various old diseases occur, the body and bones cannot survive. The coins in the envelope were the rent I paid for the apartment during that time, and I wanted to pay it on my behalf.
Looking forward to seeing you again.
Your loyal friend.
P.S. Teresa Russell
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There is still some unfinished tea on my table. It is tea that I brought from my hometown and is mixed with local flavor. You can try it if you don't mind. ]
"As for the rent, I gave [Depp] more..." "
..."
After reading the text on the letter, Ronald raised his eyebrows.
When communicating with the big witch, he incidentally taught the old magician about text encryption methods, and also communicated with each other in comparison.
And according to the language grammar of this world...
there seems to be a shadow of this encryption method in the last incident.
He took the letter and walked out into the street.
Ronald subconsciously rubbed his temples.
He has always had a good memory. He could probably recall the original exchange, and he could also recall the Vigenère cipher from that experiment, as well as a few lines of the cipher table that transcribed the text.
I reluctantly try to translate it, the content is——
【——Mezzanine on your desk, put down the gift,——To pursue——the truth,——Please accept this——,——I believe——it will be for you—— -help. ]
"..."
"Fluid mechanics is really a convenient thing..."
After standing there for a moment, Ronald stuffed the letter paper and coins into his pocket, and then continued walking towards [Weiss University].
Although not all characters have been successfully translated, the general meaning is obvious.
The great witch left a gift on the mezzanine of the table.
Of course, Ronald had no intention of going back to study the desk now.
Now as an original code holder with 'strong combat power'.
You don't need to guess to know that the Investigation Bureau has specialized personnel to observe your movements. If you want to study the things on the table, you should wait until you come back in the evening.
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The work of the [Scroll Research Association] has not changed much.
Reading books normally, helping with research normally, practitioners having normal arguments, and then going to and from get off work normally.
In such a research institution, Ronald's life has not changed in any way, and the battle that took place on the beach will not affect the research institution's attitude towards him.
In this way, a working day passes quickly.
When Ronald returned to the apartment in the evening, the landlady was wearing a pair of glasses, sitting in the courtyard holding a book and reading attentively. Next to her was the pen and paper she used to take notes.
Ronald glanced at it and saw that it was a composition-type book that had no overlap with his knowledge.
So he stepped forward and Ronald took out the coins he received this morning from his pocket.
"Miss Cynthia, this is the previous rent for Ms. Teresa."
"She left in a hurry, so she entrusted me to pay the rent for that period."
Hearing Ronald's voice, the landlady immediately put down her book and looked up, her face Shangya showed a somewhat reserved smile:
"That's right."
"As for Ms. Teresa, she has lived in the room for more than a week but less than two weeks. There are no problems with the interior of the room, so it can be counted as one week. "
As she said that, she took the coins, Cynthia touched the side pocket of her clothes, then immediately got up and walked to her room.
"Mr. Ronald, I don't seem to have any change on me. Come with me to the house to get some change."
Hearing this invitation, Ronald smiled slightly:
"I'll just wait here."
"..."
Successfully After collecting the change, Ronald said goodbye to Cynthia and walked up to the third floor.
Hanging his coat on the hanger, he went straight to the balcony and closed the curtains.
After blocking the sunlight and sight outside, he began to fiddle with the desk in the center of his room.
Considering the big witch's behavior, he prefers that the 'gift' mentioned in the letter be placed in the mezzanine of his desk. Otherwise, after the big witch leaves the apartment, there is a high probability that this 'gift' will be collected by people from the Bureau of Investigation. Walk.
And it turned out that Ronald's guess was consistent with the big witch's idea.
Just under the top drawer of his desk, Ronald quickly found an extra item.
—It was a sheet of paper clipped to the back of the bottom of the cabinet.
So I carefully pulled out the page.
Ronald looked at what was written on it seriously.
[Significantly solid and standardized planning diagram of the Luminous Loud Channel Method...]
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"Okay..."
Looking at the black and white pages in front of him, Ronald smiled wryly and scratched his hair.
It's the same encryption method they used before.
However, compared to the text on this morning's letter that still made sense after being encrypted, the text on the page here was obviously a lot more unfamiliar. It was obviously the work of the great witch after she had just learned the encryption method.
In other words, long before leaving the city.
The big witch had already prepared this 'gift', and now she told Ronald about the existence of this gift as she continued to pay the rent.
For this original code holder to have such an attitude...
what the great witch wants to tell him is probably very important.
[Thank you Da Qilin for the reward! 】
(End of this chapter)