Before entering Miss Audrey's house, even though Jenkins repeatedly ensured that his hands were clean, Chocolat kept slapping the hand he was trying to touch with his tail.
Therefore, after seeing Miss Audrey holding the cardboard box, Jenkins could only borrow her bathroom and her soap to wash his hands with the cheek.
Soap has been around for a long time, but until today it has not been popularized because of its high price. But Miss Audrey's piece is clearly a high-end product, and the ingredients must have been mixed with spices, otherwise it would be impossible to explain the strong floral fragrance.
After washing his hands carefully, Jenkins regained the right to pet the cat after sniffing it twice.
After nearly a month of long theoretical study, Miss Audrey finally decided to let Jenkins practice it today.
After having dinner together, she beckoned Jenkins to go out, took a cardboard box full of sundries and garbage, and boarded the carriage on the corner of the street, and then ordered the driver to go to a certain street in the south of the city.
"Last week it was planned to have our classes on Thursday, but I ran into something that I had to deal with. I'm sorry."
"No, no need to apologize. I'm in no hurry when you have time."
Miss Audrey is not a native of Nolan. In fact, Jenkins only knows that she lives in the middle of the mainland all year round, a small country on the border between the Kingdom of Cheslan and the Kingdom of Fidetictli, where is the Holy See of [Church of Destiny and Balance] location.
But her accent is similar to that of a local. If you don't know the background, you can't find out that she is a foreigner.
Today she was dressed as usual, except that her hair was tied with a golden headband and hung naturally behind her. This hairstyle was the first time Jenkins had seen it.
He compared the hair of the girls he knew horizontally in his mind, and he still thought that Miss Audrey's hair was the most beautiful, but the one that looked smoothest was Miss Michael's blond hair.
"But chocolate fur is the most comfortable to touch."
He concluded in his heart, touched the chocolate that was licking his paw, and began to guess where Miss Audrey was taking him.
The carriage sent the two of them to a not very spacious shopping street. The moonlight had already shone from the sky, and there were no pedestrians on the street. Judging from the signboards on both sides, there should be shops selling metal parts and mechanical parts around them. .
The two walked forward along the street one after the other. When they came to the next intersection, Miss Audrey raised her head and looked around, and then led Jenkins to turn into another wide street and passed the street. Regal club, dessert shop, bookstore and clothing store at the entrance, and then turn into a side alley.
There are high walls on both sides of the alley, and the meaning of its existence should be to communicate two different blocks.
"Here it is...can you give me some light?"
"Oh, yes, just a moment, please."
Under Miss Audrey's command, he slid the starlight ball close to the ground. The two soon saw the cover of a rusted sewer. Because it was covered with dust, it almost merged with the ground next to it. If Jenkins hadn't happened to step on it, they would probably have to look for it for a long time.
"That's it. Last time I went down another way, so I'm not sure about the exact location. Let's go."
Miss Audrey did not ask Jenkins to open the heavy manhole cover, but squatted down and rolled up his sleeves, and drew a circle on the dust of the manhole cover with white jade-like fingers. She made Jenkins step back at that point, and whispered the incantation, and with a dull thud, a hole opened in the face of the manhole cover.
Below is a ladder embedded in the wall of the well, which looks very unsafe. The two climbed down one after the other, and then walked forward along the intricate sewer pipes under the illumination of the starlight ball.
The smell here is not very heavy, even lighter than the sewer in the black market. The sewer is also very spacious, there is no disgusting garbage, but there are some disgusting green moss on the pipe wall, and from time to time, there will be mice jumping out of the darkness to make people jump.
These mice are quite large, and it is not known how to find food sources in such an environment.
He glanced at the chocolate on his shoulder under the dim light of the two balls of light in the distance. This cat has never been interested in mice. The last time it was in the warehouse of Papa's antique store, it didn't react when it watched the mice scurrying past in front of it.
"Are you really a cat?"
He joked in a low voice, Chocolate opened one eye, and the amber eyes seemed to be glowing in the dark:
"Meow~"
After walking for more than ten minutes in the sewer, Jenkins gradually lost his way due to the complicated underground water system. Only Miss Audrey kept chanting, as if she was looking for something in a special way.
They quickly walked into a pipeline without forks, and after a few minutes of deep darkness, the front was already at the end.
But what the starlight sphere shines on is not a smooth tube wall or an uneven wall, but a metal machine embedded in the soil layer.
Its surface showed a metallic luster mixed with copper and silver, but it was not smooth, instead it was covered with small thorns as if it had not been polished.
The fuselage is as tall as a person, and it blends perfectly with the surrounding soil. In the soil layer next to the fuselage, some rust-colored pipelines interspersed here and there, like the roots of plants, were exposed. From time to time, some hot steam would burst out.
This doesn't look like a product of this era at all. No matter in terms of appearance or artistic style, it looks like some kind of weird machine that can only be born under the crazier steam science civilization.
"Yes, this is it!"
Miss Audrey pressed the other shoulder of Jenkins to let him wait a moment, her voice was low and steady:
"B-08-02-8214, a vending machine for equivalent exchange."
"Well, special items?"
Jenkins asked in surprise, blinking his eyes, the surface of the machine with a strange industrial aesthetic was indeed mixed with an extremely complex aura.
"The appearance of this machine originated from a failed deception operation in the 15th era. This can only be found in the oldest reference room of [Church of Creation and Mechanism]. Its location is not fixed, and It is impossible to find out the time law of the movement, but the places where it appears are usually the corners of the city that humans are not aware of. As for the function, have you seen the drawer-like structure at the bottom of the machine?"