Seeing the brave girl (Jenkins) disappear around the corner of the stairs, the people trapped on the third floor looked at each other in dismay. Some people wanted to follow Jenkins' bold footsteps, but they were forced back by the fire wave after a few steps.
Someone wants to jump from the window, but this is a tower, not an ordinary building, and the height of each floor is higher than the average height of each floor of an ordinary building. Jumping down from the current position is basically equivalent to jumping down from the attic roof of the four-story apartment building facing the street.
In addition, the camp outside was also in flames at this time, not to mention the ladies who were guests, and even the men who were guards did not have the courage.
"Look over there!"
The girl standing at the window suddenly shouted, and people flocked towards the window.
In the distance of the ever-spreading sea of flames, a towering cloud ladder, like an ancient siege ladder, was slowly moving towards this side.
Naturally, it was Jenkins who pushed the ladder. When he went downstairs, he saw that there was no one around, so he directly constructed this large and exaggerated ladder by reading and writing. Although it looks exaggerated, only the stone skin on the surface is real stone, and the inside is actually solid ice. He happened to find the water storage bag of the shop nearby. Without this, his [Ice Condensation] would not be able to gather from the air. Come so much water.
At the bottom of the ladder was a circular wooden wheel Jenkins had drawn, which was rather impractical, but luckily he only had to push it a short distance.
After the top of the ladder touched the window, Jenkins immediately disappeared from below and returned to the sea of flames on the first floor of the tower. After finding the load-bearing pillars, he used his ability to protect those pillars from being burned against the flames, so as to fight for more time.
He waited until Britney escaped safely and everyone upstairs escaped from the third floor before running out of the flames. He went to destroy his own ladder first, and then hurried to the distance.
Three hours later, at sunset, the flames finally went out, but the camp had been burned to ruins, and only traces of the towers in the center remained.
Curls of black smoke rose from the ruins, and explosions occurred from time to time. A large number of people gathered outside the camp, the city hall, the fire brigade, reporters, local residents, doctors and the wounded intertwined together. The noisy voices could be faintly heard by Jenkins and Hathaway on the hill a few miles away.
The two of them looked at the black smoky ruins in the distance silently. After a long time, Hathaway asked with difficulty:
"I just asked you to follow Britney and find out what she was doing. How did you make things like this?"
"It was all an accident..."
Jenkins is difficult to explain, even though he has explained the encounter with the ghoul, the coincidence is indeed worth thinking about. Fortunately, Britney was not injured. After hearing the news, Hathaway had already visited her before meeting Jenkins. Apart from being a little scared, the blonde girl had no other problems.
Now that Britney has returned to her home in the city, it is believed that Mrs. Michael will not let her go out in a short time.
"The corpse of a ghoul is extremely flammable. The one I killed is probably burned to ashes now. I will go to the black market in a while and pass the whole story to the church through an intermediary. The church will investigate the one that escaped." Ghoul."
He could only bypass Britney's topic. After all, Goldilocks' crisis was indeed directly caused by Jenkins.
Hearing Jenkins' words, Hathaway nodded lightly, thinking that Mr. White Cat mentioned in the last gathering that the three types of aliens, [Ghoul], [Frenzy] and [Bone Eater], were mixing together to plan a conspiracy, so He reminded Jenkins that Nolan probably had more than two ghouls.
Jenkins naturally understood what she was thinking of, and then said that he would exaggerate some details when passing on the information to keep the church vigilant enough.
Things have developed to this point this afternoon, the main reason is not only the ghoul and Jenkins, but also the stone box that he is holding.
The box had already been checked, and it was the patterns on it that concealed the aura. But after experimenting, these lines are specially designed for the mirrors in it, and other spirit-containing materials are put in, and there will still be spirit light.
Only one-third of the mirror was broken inside the stone box, and Jenkins has already figured out that it is the [Incomplete Treasure Hunting Bronze Mirror] numbered B-07-4-2637.
This is a rather weird mirror. The complete mirror has three fragments, and those three different fragments have all been found in history, even in the same era. According to the leftover drawings, people can be sure that the three mirrors with different edges are the complete part of a whole bronze mirror.
But the three broken mirrors have never been pieced together, and any attempt to restore them will inevitably lead to failure. And a single piece of broken mirror, such as the side in Jenkins' hand, can increase the success rate of finding things when carried on the body.
It's like forgetting where you put the keys in your home. With this mirror, you can find them quickly.
As for how the virtual concept of "increasing the success rate" was tested, I'm afraid it will be explained by [The Church of Destiny and Law].
Of course, broken mirrors can also be used as disposable items. The specific method is to randomly find a way to discard it, and at the same time write the item you want to find on the mirror with your own blood.
When the broken mirror is discarded, the discarder can pick up clues to help them find the item, and the lost mirror can never be found again.
The so-called "clues" here are not drawings such as treasure maps that point to specific locations, but abstract clues, and the more you want to find precious things, the more vague the clues you find.
The only exception is that what you want to find is one of the three mirrors, then when the mirror is discarded, the person who discarded it will also disappear, and no one knows where they went.
"You can never find each other, but you can find other items. This is fate."
This was the last sentence of the document Jenkins saw.
In short, this is a very useful thing. The ghouls are looking for this mirror, probably because of the "treasure" under the construction site of the "Nolan Branch of the Bank of the Kingdom of Fidiktli" mentioned by Mr. White Cat.
Hathaway suggested that Jenkins take it to Luen so the ghouls would never find it again.
"Also, remember to write a letter to Britney, and write more sweet words to comfort her in the letter. If you can't write, I can write it for you, but you must send it to Nolan."
Hathaway didn't forget to ask, all that was left was to mention that Jenkins would write the letter and hand it to Britney a week later.
"I understand, I will comfort her well."
"It's good to understand. I wanted to keep you overnight tonight, but now I can only go to accompany Britney. I won't keep you for dinner. Next time you come to see me, remember to write the letter and I will read it for you." one look."
After finishing speaking, the red-haired lady turned around and left. After walking a few steps, she still didn't hear Jenkins' voice to stop her. So I turned around to question, but Jenkins and his cat had disappeared among the green leaves.
"This guy… "
The woman said angrily.
Naturally, Jenkins didn't hear Hathaway's not-so-subtle hint, so when he returned to Loen, he was still unhappy, worried that Britney, who was hurt, would be frightened and would be hated by the red-haired girl for a while.
Later, Alexia, who came back from the city, inquired about what happened, and came to the conclusion that Jenkins had been too idle recently. It happened that Dolores was busy with official duties, so she suggested that Jenkins could appropriately reduce the number of times he returned to Nolan, and instead help with some unimportant documents in the manor, or hold public speeches or even book signings in Loen:
"The beautiful ladies of Luen are all waiting for you."
she said so.
After dinner, Jenkins used the spiritual magnet stored in the ice and snow castle to return to the snow mountain, and then took out the three pieces of knight, astrologer and priest, and returned them to the manor to Dolores.
After fighting with the ghouls today, he found that although the basic damage of these chess pieces was not as good as most of his own abilities, they could still play a role in the face of multi-person beatings, so he let Dolores keep them. Very safe for her.
In this way, the new Monday came. After breakfast, the manor welcomed guests from afar. That was the glasses lady Jenkins met in Hot Spring Town. After receiving a letter from Dolores in Loen City, she traveled day and night and finally arrived in Loen last night.
After a night of rest, I met Jenkins at the manor this morning.
They haven't seen each other in just three weeks, and the appearance and temperament of Jenkins and Miss Glasses haven't changed much, but the two can't get along as equals as they did in the strange world.
Even though Jenkins still had the original attitude, he instinctively felt that Miss Glasses had an indescribable awe of him.
The first is to inquire about the health of another companion in the adventure of the strange world. Mr. Stone was mentally traumatized and did not wake up when Jenkins and them parted. But the situation is getting better now. Although there are still minor problems such as photophobia, the man who has woken up is recovering his health step by step. If he wants to rest for a while, he will be able to get rid of the haze of that strange situation.
Talking about this is to get closer, and then Jenkins didn't go around in circles, but said very straightforwardly:
"Miss Glasses, if you think about it, you know from the letter that I have something to ask you this time, not Dolores. Please don't be nervous..."
He saw that the woman sitting across the table was a little embarrassed, so he comforted him softly, and then asked:
"Although this is a bit impolite, I want to confirm your beliefs first... Excuse me, are you a believer in the Great One [God of Rituals and Mysteries]?"
False god believers are a very embarrassing existence in human society, but there are not very few such believers. Therefore, generally speaking, it is very impolite to ask about your beliefs after meeting, just like asking about your age, weight or income rashly.