Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 148 Unexpected Discovery
"What do you think, Miss Chief Engineer?"

Adele asked Vinata after Wendy left the room.

"He's a very interesting guy. Although he's not very talkative due to cultural differences, he's generally not a bad person. This is a hunter's intuition." Vinata said confidently, recalling Wendy's performance.

"It's hard to imagine that as a 'provocateur' you would mock others for not being able to speak." Adele mocked at first, and then her eyes gradually deepened. "But besides this, I also suspect that she is an extraordinary person."

"Oh? How did you know?" Vinata asked curiously.

"I just used my psychic vision to observe her. Did you notice that I flicked my hair when she took out her pocket watch? That was the psychic vision activation action I designed recently."

Adele rubbed her temple. "Her pocket watch doesn't seem to be an ordinary pocket watch... Although the sequence is not very high, I am sure that pocket watch must be a magical item. The color of its spiritual light is different from the color of Wendy's emotions. Even if it is an item carried by the owner and is stained with the spiritual light of the owner, there should not be such a big difference."

"Be careful these days. After all, the other party has shown goodwill to us. Even if the other party is unknown, we can't just take action."

Adele exhaled, "Take Sophie to the bottom of the ship first and buy her some snacks. I'll check the ship carefully during this time. Although she said she just got on the ship, we have to confirm it carefully."

"Okay." Without saying anything more, Vinata put down her luggage and took Sophie off the boat.

In the past few days, Adele and her friend had taught Sophie some basic knowledge about the world of mysticism, so they didn't need to avoid Sophie when talking about these things.

"Then, Sister Adele...Mom, you should be careful too."

Sophie tugged at Adele's clothes with some concern.

"Okay, okay, don't worry." Adele touched Sophie's hair lovingly. The green curly hair was like seaweed and felt great to touch. "I'm very good."

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After sending Venata and Sophie away, Adele immediately activated her psychic vision and checked the cabin inside and out. However, she did not find anything with spiritual light. Then, based on her knowledge as an assassin, she carefully checked the beds and cabinets of several people, and also checked the nearby floors, ceilings, and walls.

Finally, she discovered that a piece of floor in the room seemed to be loose.

Adele looked around and confirmed that no one was peeping. Then she carefully urged her spiritual power to slowly extend her hair and probe through the cracks in the floor. Although the effects of the spiritual power exhaustion in the past few days had not been completely eliminated, it did not prevent her from using spells such as hair manipulation, which consumed less spiritual power.

She has spirits attached to the ends of her hair that can briefly give her hair a sense of touch, allowing her to know what's underneath without opening the floor.

Her hair touched some long objects with obvious mechanical structures. Adele judged from experience that it was definitely a high-pressure steam rifle. Then she found bullets and detonators on the side. This was enough to arm an infantry squad, and it was obviously beyond the specifications of a whaling ship.

With so many guns, it is obviously impossible for Wendy to own them alone... It seems that she is also unaware of the situation and is inexplicably dragged into the dispute?

Adele carefully pulled her hair back and took out the citrine pendulum from her pocket. She decided to do a divination to see who these things belonged to.

Adele sat on her bed, leaning against the folded bedding, collecting her thoughts, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

In her dream, she saw a group of people dressed as sailors whispering in the Harpoon Restaurant, occasionally saying words like "pirates" and "can't do this any more". She also saw them buying a batch of long strips of objects wrapped in oil paper in the Feysac-style black market and hiding them under the engine room floor when no one was there.

It seems as if a group of fishermen and sailors felt that the whaling industry was in decline and they had nowhere else to go, so they thought of stockpiling some weapons and equipment, and when they went out to sea, they would kill Captain Basque and steal the ironclad ship to become pirates?
Adele frowned. Now it seemed that the other party had obviously planned this for a long time, hiding the weapons in the unused engine room. It was very likely that even Engineer Wendy was their target. After all, they also needed someone who understood the relevant technology to help them maintain the warship.

It's a bit troublesome, but it seems like an opportunity.

Adele picked up the pendulum again and began to divine, "Among these rebellious sailors, there are extraordinary people who can pose a threat to me."

The citrine pendant rotated counterclockwise, which meant that there was no Beyonder among the rebel sailors who could threaten her even in her current state.

Adele thought about it. Although reporting it now is indeed a solution, if such a group of fully armed desperadoes really cause trouble in the port area, there may be a lot of casualties. Instead of igniting the conflict in advance, it is better to wait until the ship leaves to make a decision.

Moreover, compared to killing these rebels with real weapons, "instigation" is obviously a better way.

When Adele played the role of the instigator, the code of conduct she summed up was "to make others willingly do unexpected things". In order to play this role, she worked as a stylist in a beauty salon for a while, and tricked a noble lady into signing up for an annual membership at the salon.

After Gagran learned about her way of acting, it took her a long time to squeeze out a sentence, asking her to find time to properly play the role of "instigator", otherwise in the eyes of the witch sect, she might still have a chance to change her appearance and return to the normal world.

Even though she had already assassinated Baron Sindras, the sect's requirements for the first two stages of the witch were extremely strict, and she had to act out each sequence once in the traditional sense.

However, despite having joined the witch sect, Adele still maintained her own bottom line, so she never found an opportunity to "instigate".

"That's perfect. I'll let you become my stepping stone to officially join the Witch Cult..."

Adele smiled slightly, her eyebrows curved, reminiscent of a fox.

At this time, there was a sound of someone pushing the door. The other party was obviously a little surprised to find that the door was locked, but then he started knocking on the door.

Adele closed her eyes slightly, holding the citrine pendant, and soon received spiritual revelation.

The person knocking on the door was a middle-aged man in a sailor's uniform with a hideous scar on his face. He was one of the rebellious sailors Adele had just seen in the dream divination.

Adele took a deep breath, took off the large tweed coat she was wearing and hung it on the hanger, revealing the home clothes with hollow chest underneath. She pulled the straps down slightly, then touched the floor with her fingers and wiped a little dust on her face.

After doing all this, she adjusted her breathing and made her voice sound a little tired and lazy.

"Please wait a moment, I'll be right there—"

(End of this chapter)