"Oh?"

　　 The blonde girl smiled and said:

　　 "I don't believe that when the counter-insurgency is over, the border will remain the same as it is now."

"This has nothing to do with me, and since the two countries borrow troops, naturally it will not be free. In addition to the convenience of the negotiation table, how much they can reasonably take is up to their own ability. Of course, they will not be too much. Too much, although the church acquiesced in this incident, it was only because the church did not want to see the internal chaos in the material world at this point in time. But of course the church did not want to see Chesland being annexed."

Chapter 1810 Chapter 1781 The Locked Antique Store

　　 "Why? Why doesn't the church want to see Chesland being annexed?"

　　 asked Julia who brought hot tea for Briney.

　　 "Because the church is the righteous party."

　　 Jenkins said, turning the newspaper to the next page:

　　 "Of course, this matter has nothing to do with me."

　　 seemed to be afraid that the girls would not believe it, so he emphasized:

"It has nothing to do with me. The believer who heard it was a lie reported Luther, who was originally qualified to compete for the throne, and got a clue from him. But the hapless Luther also died. , Was killed by a group of cultists. Don’t ask more about this, because it’s deeply involved and the church is still investigating."

　　 "Are the believers of lies good people?"

　　 asked Britney, who didn’t know anything about it, it was Hathaway who gave the answer:

　　 "It's neither good nor bad, but in any case, don't provoke them. That group of people have a weird temper."

　　 She glanced at Jenkins who was hiding behind the newspaper:

　　 "And they also like to keep cats."

　　 Today is Thursday, and the joint meeting of the Twelve Churches is getting closer and closer. The plan to invite the girls and Sigrid back home was disrupted, and these days are also very busy, so this matter can only be pushed to next week. But there is another thing that cannot be postponed, that is, the old man asked Jenkins to talk about it. This was originally a Tuesday event, but was delayed because of the sudden death of Tuckwen. Because Luther's death and the report of the lie believer have nothing to do with Jenkins, his plan today is to find his father.

　　 After breakfast, Jenkins said goodbye to the girls at home. He didn't know what the old man would be looking for, he only knew that his father's mood was not very good recently. He guessed that maybe the old man happened to see Miss Stillwell in Nolan.

　　 The shopkeepers on Fifth Queen’s Avenue opened their doors very early. Although they do not expect to have customers so early, they must at least behave diligently. It is very rare that Dad did not open the door. Jenkins knocked on the door and did not get a response. He was about to walk around the door and open the back door to see if Dad was not there. I didn’t expect someone to call him out in the thick fog. first name.

　　 Turning his head, it was the old Jack, who was in the dust, walking with his suitcase. After blinking, he was indeed Dad's friend in Turin, the old man who was good at preparing medicine. Last time I met my dad in Evergreen Forest, I mentioned that Old Jack would also come to Nolan, but I didn’t expect to show up so soon:

　　 "Jenkins, I knew it was you."

　　 He threw the suitcase to the door, and leaned on the door to catch his breath:

　　 "This is really exhausting me. I haven't found the carriage for a long time. I can only walk by myself. Didn't Oliver say that he is going to pick me up with you? Didn't you leave yet?"

　　 "Huh? Is it today?"

　　 Jenkins wondered:

　　 "The old man said that when you came, he would go to the station to pick you up with me, but he didn't write me a specific date. Is it today?"

　　 "I know you are very busy lately, but you don't need to pick me up."

　　 Old Jack is empathetic, but he looks at the antique shop:

　　 "But what's the matter with Oliver? I also wrote to tell him the number of trains I took. Is he too old to forget about this?"

　　 "I haven't seen Daddy yet."

　　 Jenkins knocked on the door again, but no one responded. So he walked to the souvenir shop next to him and inquired with the owner, Aunt Sally. Yesterday, Dad opened the shop normally, and he should be in the shop now.

　　 When the shop is closed at night, the shop is locked from the inside, so the two can only enter through the back door. Jenkins picked up the suitcase for the old Jack, but before he walked a few steps, someone stopped Jenkins.

　　 This time it is Miss Stewart, of course, this is also a real person. She came up from the carriage stopped in the distance, wearing a blue summer dress and a white hat with a wide brim.

　　 "Oh, Lena, it's been a long time since I saw you."

　　 Old Jack also saw her, and after a moment of stun, he immediately recognized who it was:

　　 "I saw you last time, but it was ten years ago."

　　 He smiled enthusiastically, that kind of joy from the heart even Jenkins was infected.

　　 "Old Mr. Jack?"

　　Sure enough, everyone would call him Old Jack.

　　Miss Stillwell also recognized who this was, she walked over quickly, and then hugged the old man:

　　 "Old Uncle Jack, it’s been a long time since I saw him, it’s been a long time."

　　 When Miss Stewart was an apprentice at Daddy's, Old Jack was not yet a pharmacy shop owner in Turin, and she often walked around Daddy's place, so Old Jack and Daddy's apprentices were very familiar with each other.

"How will you be here?"

　　 After the greeting was over, the old Jack asked again, smiled and tidyed up his collar, and then carried his suitcase regardless of Jenkins' insistence.

　　 "Jenkins asked me to come."

"I?"

　　 Jenkins points to himself:

　　 "No, I never wrote you a letter. Last time we met, you said that you have an important mission in Nolan, so I should not contact you lightly. I abide by this request."

　　 said, and looked at the cat on the shoulder:

　　 "Chocolate, have I written a letter to this lady?"

　　 The cat shook his head immediately.

　　 "Look at it."

　　 Jenkins said.

　　 "Who would it be?"

　　Miss Stillwell frowned. She is now sensitive and is undertaking an important task of undercover beside the lie believer. No matter who sent her the letter, it meant that the person knew her identity.

　　Of course, both she and Jenkins thought that it was probably written by the old man. The old man noticed that Miss Stillwell had returned to Nolan, so in the name of Jenkins, he invited her back to the antique shop.

　　 "Let's go see the old man first."

　　 Jenkins said, seeing Miss Stillwell hesitating, he added:

　　 "You are going to see the old man sooner or later, will you never see him again? Even though it was a bit unpleasant when you were separated, and because your work is not convenient to see him, I think it should be okay this time."

　　 I observed the aura upstairs when I was at the entrance of the antique shop, and I was roughly certain that Dad was in his room. But when Jenkins used the key to open the back door and let Miss Stevier and Old Jack come to the backyard together, the father's aura disappeared.

　　 Jenkins did not point out the strangeness he saw, but went down the stairs with the two to the second floor. After stopping at the door of the old man's bedroom, he turned the handle but the door could not be opened.

　　 "It can't be Oliver who locked the room and left, right? I don't remember his habit of locking the door of the room."

　　 As he said, Old Jack knocked on the door with his fingers, but he still couldn't get a response. Jenkins frowned and looked at the aura of the yellow spell on the door. After making old Jack and Miss Stevier step back, after placing the chocolate on the floor, he took a breath and slammed into the door with his shoulder. .

The loud noise of 　　嘭~ startled the two of them, but the door did not move. Jenkins rubbed his shoulders and stood up straight. He looked back. She wanted to say that she had a way, but Miss Stevier came up and took a hairpin from her hair and stabbed it into the keyhole, as if from her ears. The click sound made Jenkins look behind him nervously, and when he looked forward again, the door had already been pushed open.

　　 The gap in the door keeps getting bigger with the movements of Miss Stevier, but there is no light coming out of the door, there is only a thick solid darkness inside.

　　 Jenkins was surprised and wanted to stop opening the door, but he couldn't speak.

　　 was about to reach out, but he didn't expect the old Jack behind him to be faster than him. But Old Jack wasn't going to stop Miss Stillwell, but slammed Jenkins away from the door.

　　 Before the two parties even came to remember and communicate, the door was completely opened. As if a strong suction came from the darkness of the mouth of the abyss, Miss Stevier, who stiffly held the doorknob, was first sucked in like a shadow, and then old Jack pushed Jenkins aside again. I was also plunged into the darkness inside the door.

　　 Jenkins, whose eyes widened, couldn't think about it. He picked up the cat that had been sucked to fly, and then jumped to the other side of the corridor.

　　 Mingming also felt the suction when he took off, but when he landed, there was nothing strange. When I looked back, the door of the old man's bedroom was closed tightly, but Miss Stevier and Old Jack were no longer in front of the door.

　　 "What's wrong with this again?"

　　 Since returning to Nolan, these strange things have rarely visited Jenkins suddenly. What happened just now reminded him again of the thrills and excitement of his life in Nolan, but he did not recklessly pull the door again. Instead, he carved the sage emblem with a dagger on the floor of the second floor. The package is on the ceremonial base array.

　　 Simply write the situation on the triangular paper spell, and then throw it into the ritual base. But the triangular paper bag did not burn, as if it was simply thrown on the ground.

"failed?"

　　 thought suspiciously, pressed the curiously curious cat with its head out of his arms back, and quickly walked downstairs. Sure enough, neither the front door nor the back door could be opened at this time, and the door seemed to be integrated with the wall.

　　 took out the key privately named by Jenkins as the [Door Key]. This is a key gift found through the clues of Miss Magic that can open the enchantment and the mysterious lock. Pushing toward the door, a huge repulsive force directly bounced the key from Jenkins's hand, whirled to the counter, and when it fell on the counter, it still made a clanging sound.

　　 It's not that the [Door Key] is invalid, but it doesn't touch the door at all, so it can't work. Jenkins turned around to retrieve his key and looked around suspiciously.

　　 The first floor of the antique shop is very quiet, so quiet that Jenkins can almost hear the heartbeat of the cat next to him. He pasted the cylindrical key tooth [Door Key] with another exquisite silver [Silver Key], and wanted to try the effect together, but the two immediately trembled at the same time, and there was a fusion. Signs.

Chapter 1811 The first thousand seven hundred and eighty-two chapters of evolutionary fairies (plus more)

　　 Almost as soon as the two keys showed a trend of fusion, Jenkins did not hesitate to separate the two. He just wanted to try to open the door with two keys together, but if it loses part of the gift characteristics, then it's not worth it. Whether it was opening the door to the outside world or breaking the seal and the lock, he didn't want to lose these two characteristics.

　　 "Meow~"

　　 The disobedient cat came out from the collar of Jenkins' coat again and looked behind him. Jenkins turned around with its gaze and saw a small human figure disappearing from the back door.

　　 He did not catch up, but blinked his eyes, but saw nothing:

　　 "Phantom?"

　　 Jenkins guessed, and took out the small silver bottle that was gifted in the treacherous world from his pocket. According to "Sigrid", the potion in this bottle can make Jenkins the strongest mortal in the material world within an hour.

　　 "No, it's not the time yet."

　　 hesitated, did not use the potion immediately.

　　 looked at the counter next to him. In addition to the chocolate mat, there were a few upside-down pieces of paper on the counter. Jenkins picked it up and saw that it was the church's investigation into Luther's death. Because it involves the Gear Artisan Society, this time the efficiency is very high, except for the part that Jenkins already knows, the strange curse of Luther’s corpse and the mechanical fusion mentioned above is not the first example in Nolan, even within a week, This happened in other places, but it was only treated as an exception.

　　 "Where did so many gear germs come from? Or is there a problem with my judgment. Is this really a natural curse?"

　　 He thought, then looked at the documents again:

　　 "Since these documents are on the counter, it means that the old man received news from the church before dawn. When I was looking at these materials on the first floor..."

　　 He glanced at the wall, and the faint gas lamp was still on.

　　 "I heard a voice upstairs, so I temporarily put down the paper in my hand, and never came back."

　　 He speculated that he raised his head and put on the monocle, and once again looked into the room with real eyes, and after careful observation, he could see a faint black aura spreading on the wall, very rarely, very slight, but it did envelop the entire antique shop.

　　 was about to go upstairs again to determine the source of the aura on the door, but at this moment suddenly heard a loud baby crying. He followed the sound to the warehouse in the backyard of the antique shop and saw an ugly baby-like thing in the empty cardboard box in the corner.

　　 But that is definitely not a human baby, but more like an oversized mouse cub. His body was pink and tender and there was no hair, he had a short tail on his thighs, and his body was twitching constantly in the cardboard box. The howling sound made Jenkins extremely uncomfortable, and when he saw the little monster, it made him shiver.

　　 "What is this again?"

　　 The opponent is not a phantom but a real entity. Although there is the flow of life spirit in the body, it is more of the power of death. It is not so much a living thing as it is an undead alien of unknown kind. Jenkins can be sure that this is definitely not something that should be in the old antique shop. Its appearance is related to today's things.

　　 "Chocolate, is this a mouse?"

　　 He asked his cat. The cat was very upset to see this ugly thing, so he ignored Jenkins. Jenkins knew that his cat had never been interested in mice, but when he saw that he couldn't even tell if it was a mouse, he was disappointed at the cat.

　　 picked up the carton and returned to the antique shop, put it on the counter, and there was no abnormality. Jenkins didn't know why, but found another anomaly at this moment. He and Chocolate left the front of the antique shop for less than ten minutes, but the umbrella standing behind the counter was replaced.

　　 It was originally a black ordinary canvas umbrella. It was a little worn out because it took a long time to use it. It was used by the old man in the store at any time. But now the umbrella in that position turned into a new umbrella. More accurately, it was a new umbrella with a golden yellow surface and a red wooden handle.

　　 glanced at it and confirmed it was an ordinary umbrella, Jenkins held it and opened it directly in the store. There is no hindrance to the opening process, unlike the old umbrella before, you need to use force, just press the obvious button, and the umbrella will be unfolded with a bang, but it makes Jenkins think of the umbrella of his previous world in a daze. .

　　The grip is genuine mahogany. The golden umbrella surface is a bit hard, like metal and plastic, but there is no plastic in this world. These are not the key points. While the umbrella surface was "smoothly" opened, Jenkins faintly heard the slight gear turning in the handle of the umbrella, and he felt the regular vibration of the umbrella shaft, which showed that the interior was very delicate. Mechanical organs.

　　 "It's weird, why is there such a thing in the store?"

　　 He closed the umbrella and placed it next to the cardboard box containing the "rat man cub", looking at these two things in vain:

　　 "It's not that Dad's trick key is out of control, right?"

　　 That key has the power of "evolution", and if the two things in front of you are the little mice and ordinary umbrellas that originally existed in the store, it is likely that they have accepted the power of "evolution".

　　 But Jenkins doesn't understand why the whole store cannot go out now. This may also be the power of the key, but the key happened to be out of control today, which is a bit too coincidental. Whether it's Miss Stewell's memory or the year Jenkins and Dad have known each other, they haven't even seen Dad use the key.

　　 thought in his heart, took another look at the "rat man" cub in the carton, picked up the cute cat squatting on his mat and walked up to the second floor again. This time there was still a strange sound from the corner of the first floor, but Jenkins didn't care, and still entered the second floor without looking back.

　　 The corridor was still the same. Except for the father's bedroom that couldn't be opened, Jenkins searched all the other rooms. There are a lot of rooms on the second floor. Except for the study, reception room, daddy's bedroom, and bathroom, the rest are all spare rooms for daily use.

　　 Finally, leaning on the reminder of chocolate, Jenkins was in the room at the far end of the sunny side on the left, opened the bed board and saw a huge rune engraved on the back of the bed board.

　　 He couldn't recognize what it was, so he could only write down the rune with his heart. When he turned around and wanted to leave the room, a sign of extreme danger suddenly came in his heart.

　　 jumped to the side, and the soft white light instantly shot from outside the half-covered door. Almost the entire door frame was filled with light. Of course, Jenkins' movements couldn't be faster than the speed of light, so he was hit by the light.

　　 A warm feeling filled every corner of his body, and the extreme comfort made him want to sing.