Judging from the current situation, Miss Windsor did not follow the schedule for a day's activities at all.
Miss Yindi heard from Miss Windsor's servants that around eleven o'clock, Miss Windsor claimed to be unwell and canceled all plans to go out today, so she didn't go out in the afternoon, which did not make the servants suspicious.
Miss Yindi didn't find any signs of fighting in the study, so she came to Jenkins decisively. She thought it might be that Miss Windsor needed to deal with secret matters, so she asked Miss Magic to help her go out, and she would come back at dinner. But it cannot be ruled out that the two of them were really in danger, so they took the risk to find Jenkins outside the church of the [Night and the Hidden Church] where the Twelve Churches were meeting.
"No clues?"
Jenkins thought in his heart, trying to activate [Unknown Way Ahead], but unfortunately there was no response.
"Go back first and take a look at Miss Windsor's house."
The carriage galloped down the street.
Miss Windsor lives with her parents now, and the Windsor family has a house with a pretty good location in Nolan. When Jenkins came to visit, the Duke of Windsor was in a meeting at City Hall, and her mother was out, so unnecessary embarrassment was saved.
The servants all knew Jenkins, and they were not disturbed to hear that he wanted to speak to Miss Windsor alone.
He hurried into the study together with Miss Yindi, and sure enough, he saw the somewhat scary paper figurine. After a rough inspection, he didn't find the note left by the two before they left, so he directly used the eye of truth to look for clues.
It turned out that there was a faint trace of aura by the window. After careful inspection, it was found that it was actually some finely divided powder, extending from the window to the outside of the house until Jenkins could not observe it.
"It seems to be the eye shadow of Miss Magic."
If Jenkins hadn't pointed it out, Miss Silver Flute would only have thought it was dust, and after twisting it up and examining it carefully, she confirmed that it was the trace left by Miss Magic. Jenkins intends to follow the traces to find it. Since Miss Magic left a mark on purpose, she must not be out on errands.
"Is it just the two of us? Don't we need to find someone else?"
Only Miss Magic clearly knew that Mr. Candle was Jenkins Williams, and Miss Silver Flute meant to ask Jenkins to find his friends, or simply ask the church for help.
"Before the two of them left, they specially made a disguise with paper figurines, just to prevent others from finding out that they were missing. There may be their reasons for this, so our actions are not suitable for too many people to know. As for Mr. Candle …Okay, let’s split up now, I’ll go find Mr. Candle, you stay here and wait, and to prevent the paper doll from becoming invalid, you have to stay here to prevent anyone from knowing about Miss Windsor’s disappearance.”
Miss Silver Flute knew that this idea was the most reasonable, so since William told her to stay, she didn't object.
Just looking at the man with the cat on his waist and sneaking out of the window, I always feel that this action is very familiar.
"If that cat was a pure white cat."
Immediately she thought of Miss Magic and her odd way of talking about her employer's employer occasionally.
"Oh~"
She covered her forehead, and then told herself that she actually didn't know anything.
Jenkins on the other side has already followed the trace of the faint aura to the street. Miss Magic's eye shadow is probably specially made, and it has not been blown away by the wind, nor has it disappeared due to trampling and crushing. Jenkins was able to keep searching along this trace, and finally stopped in front of a cloakroom shop on another shopping street next to Fifth Queen's Avenue where Papa's antique shop is located.
He was very worried that the powder in Miss Magic's eye shadow box was limited, and he was relieved when he saw the traces going straight into the store next to the street. Even if the clues were broken here, at least he knew where they last appeared.
This is an ordinary cloakroom, different from the cloakroom on the outskirts of the city that actually has the nature of a mercenary mission intermediary, this one is really just an ordinary store. Traces of Miss Magic's special eye shadows disappeared as they made their way into the store.
Jenkins looked around, and was embarrassed to find that all the women's coats and hats for sale were here. So soon he lowered his head and came to the counter:
"Have you seen these two people?"
He took out a black and white photo of Miss Windsor, because it was just "painted", and it was absolutely clear.
The young clerk behind the counter with a lot of black pimples on his nose, probably because Jenkins looks good, did not refuse to provide information. She tilted her head slightly to look at the photo, and had an impression of the two very temperamental women:
"About eleven o'clock, before lunch, these two ladies came together."
"What did they do?"
"Didn't do anything, walked around the door in a hurry, looked at the hat hanging over there, and left. Sir, is that your friend? Do you want to buy that hat and give it to them as a gift?" Gift?"
"OK!"
The young clerk originally wanted to test the relationship between the three, but he didn't expect the man to agree immediately. He turned around, took the hat, asked the price, paid the money, and even rarely asked for change, and hurried out of the shop.
Twirling the paper pinned in the lining from the inside of the hat, Jenkins frowned.
This way of conveying information is very dangerous. In an afternoon, anyone who touches the hat may find this note. This can only show that the environment the two of them faced at that time was so bad that they had to use this method.
"What could it be?"
He stood behind the mailbox on the street and opened the note. There was no complete sentence on it, only a letter and a few words hastily scribbled:
[A][Knowledge increases strength][Swallowing Darkness][Snake Tail Alley]
The first few words are obviously describing the characteristics of some kind of monster, which means that just as Jenkins thought, the two encountered a monster. And "knowledge will increase power", on the one hand, it describes one of the power properties of the monster, and on the other hand, it also shows that Jenkins did not rashly inform the church to help search is the correct behavior.
"But where is this Shewei Lane?"
Although the original owner was an aborigine of Nolan, and the current Jenkins has been hanging out in this city for nearly a year, he can't find any fragments related to "Snaketail Alley" in his memory. This is also normal. Nolan is one of the largest cities on the west coast. Alleys in the urban area are criss-crossed. Even the old people who lived in Nolan since childhood dare not say that they know the name of every alley here.
Fortunately, Jenkins knew an older man. Since it was next to Dad's antique shop, he went directly to ask Dad.