Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 273 Strange Rules
After hesitating for a while, Adele decided to leave the area.

Anyway, it would be impossible to find out anything by continuing the investigation here, and she didn't dare to rush into the core area without knowing new information, so she could only return to the place where she and Wendy separated according to her memory.

It had been two hours since she was sucked into the wall of air. Catalina had already returned and told the sailors on the ship the news. Now, she, Tracy, and Wendy were directing the sailors to deliver the things Adele needed to the island.

Seeing Adele appear on the other side of the wall, Wendy hurried forward and wanted to communicate with Adele, but was stopped by Tracy.

Tracy remained alert, with balls of black fire floating around her body. She asked Adele loudly:
"Who did I ask you to find in Intis the last time you saw me?"

Adele stopped and calmly replied, "Annie asked me to go to Intis to find Elaine."

"no problem."

Tracy then made the flames around her disappear and walked to the wall of air.

"We may have to stay here for a long time this time. Are your pirates okay?" Adele also came over and asked Tracy with concern.

"It's hard to say. The witches' control over the fleet is entirely based on my existence, so if I can't get in touch with them in a month at most, they are likely to mutiny."

Tracy looked worried. "I did say that I might have to leave the fleet for a while this time, but if it's too long, those guys might do something."

Adele nodded in agreement. The witch's control over her subordinates was based on her extraordinary abilities. Except for Anne, who had been following Tracy from the beginning, there was no loyalty to them.

In other words, as long as Tracy stays by their side and maintains her strong and beautiful image, the pirates under her will be her loyal hounds, and they will bite whoever Tracy tells them to bite; however, as long as Tracy is not around, or loses her fighting ability in front of them, they will never let go of such an opportunity.

"I'm also worried about Vinata." Adele sighed, "And that child, she has a serious problem."

"So you have to find a way to open this thing as soon as possible." Tracy reached out and knocked on the barrier. "We will provide you with help with mystical knowledge here."

Adele nodded and turned to Wendy.

"I found a lot of strange-style buildings inside, and the ancient texts you mentioned before. The original carriers were either too heavy to transport or had been damaged by flooding, so I only selectively copied a portion of them."

Adele said as she carefully took out the notes she had copied down inside those houses and handed them to Wendy.

The paper without spirituality easily passed through the invisible barrier and fell into Wendy's hands.

"These words are engraved on the doors of almost every building." Adele added, "I guess these rules must be very important..."

and many more?

Adele was halfway through her speech when she suddenly realized the source of the discomfort she had always been aware of.

I clearly didn't recognize the words on the notice, so why did I think that was the rule?!
Wendy and Tracy seemed to have not noticed anything unusual, and were just reading the copied text.

Could it be that, in their eyes, those documents are also rules, so they didn't notice my abnormality?
Adele glanced at Catalina secretly and found that she also had no reaction. She breathed a sigh of relief and continued to wait for Wendy's interpretation results with trepidation.

Adele was nervous as she was looking forward to the result, but Wendy was equally nervous as she was interpreting it.

As a person who has just learned that she has never left her hometown, but her hometown has undergone thousands of years of changes and is no longer what it used to be, it is difficult to say whether Wendy's attitude towards the news from the original world is more of expectation or fear.

She unfolded the paper, which was covered with Adele's neat handwriting. Although Adele didn't know how to write English and just copied it down, Wendy could still easily recognize the content.

"Notice to all Bimini Islands members:"

Wendy translated, read out the content, and quickly wrote it down on paper.

Thank you to all citizens for your support of the official work of the archipelago! At present, the archipelago is in an important stage of disease prevention and control, and we ask all citizens to actively cooperate.

1. The disease is particularly serious in the Hilton Hotel and surrounding areas, which are called the "core area" and other areas are called the "peripheral areas".

2. In order to better prevent and control the disease, the "core area" will always be closed, and no one is allowed to enter or observe the internal situation.

3. If you want to contact relatives living in the "core area", it is strictly forbidden to enter the core area without permission. Please go to the duty personnel headquarters for help.

4. The surrounding buildings in the core area include Walmart Supermarket, Garden Community, Duty Officers Headquarters and Bimini Hospital.

No other buildings exist.

5. If you see any buildings other than those listed above, please remind yourself repeatedly that the building does not exist and go to the hospital for treatment.

6. If someone mentions a non-existent building, especially an "observatory", please move away quickly and report the matter to the duty team.

7. If you find a strange person with a hat, clothes, or mask covering the neck and above in the core area, please stay away from him immediately. It is strictly forbidden to have any conflict with him. It is strictly forbidden to pull the clothes covering the face of the other party. Report to the duty brigade immediately and follow the arrangements of the duty personnel.

8. If you accidentally see a strange person's face, please actively report it to the on-duty personnel, stop thinking about it, and follow the on-duty personnel's instructions.

9. If you are in a peripheral building in a core area, please follow the rules of those buildings.

10. If you mistakenly enter the core area, please follow the "Special Convention" issued by the official.

……

"It sounds like the precautions issued by the officials at that time."

After Wendy finished translating, Adele frowned and thought.

"Considering the conditions around this sea area, could the so-called disease be the source of underground pollution?"

Tracy said her own judgment, "In order to resist pollution, people at that time tried various methods, but they still failed. In the end, they sank into the ground along with the city and became the current pollution source."

In fact, I have similar doubts... Adele looked at Katarina, who didn't object.

"Then, judging from the text you just copied down from other areas, you should be in the ruins of the garden community described."

Wendy nodded, wrote down her guess on paper, and continued to analyze the information in the rules.

"According to the description in the rules, there is a high probability that a strange person with a masked face will walk out of the core area. Although a long time has passed, considering that there is a high probability that at least a copy of the main material of the Immortal Witch is hidden in this area, we cannot completely rule out the possibility that you will directly encounter the person with strange behavior mentioned in the rules."

Wendy continued, "It is very likely that the faces of these strange people have changed due to pollution. Looking directly at the pollution or recognizing them will increase the degree of pollution of humans. When the pollution level is high enough, you will see the so-called 'observatory'?"

She used an uncertain tone at the end, indicating that this was just her guess.

"It sounds strange, but in a world where supernatural powers exist, we consider this normal."

Catalina tactfully indicated that she also agreed with this speculation.

"The problem now is that we don't know how terrible what they are afraid of is right now."

Tracy suggested, "After all, thousands of years have passed between the time the announcement was made and our time. How much damage would the pollution at that time have caused? Will it completely disappear or weaken over time, or will it devour the entire city and become stronger? We have no way of knowing."

According to the style of the Witch Cult, they should have lured a group of cannon fodder to come in and explore the way, at least to find out whether the existence here can be solved directly by personal force. However, Adele was the only one left in the area, and there was only one chance, so she could not make similar attempts.

"To be on the safe side, I will try to avoid conflict." Adele nodded in agreement, but her words were not very confident. After all, she didn't even know the channels of contamination. If she really could be contaminated by just one look, then she could only pray that after thousands of years, the members of the core area would still wear masks as described.

"Then we'll contact each other in six hours."

Catalina signaled to the sailors around her to divide the supplies brought down from the ship into two parts, one to be placed inside the air wall and the other to be left outside, and then gave instructions to Adele.

"Ms. Pellet, can you find a way to contact the outside world?"

Adele hesitated for a moment, but still asked Katarina, "Tracy and I can't leave our forces outside unattended for a long time. I still have Vinata to look after my side, but Annie is currently working with Vinata, and I'm worried that something might go wrong with the Black Death."

"You don't need to worry about her."

Catalina said indifferently, "They are all pirates anyway. If they dare to rebel, we can kill them all after we get out and find new ones."

She used a common saying from the Roselle era: "Although it is not difficult for witches to find three-legged frogs, there are indeed many people with two legs."

"All right……"

Adele didn't dare to ask any more questions. She was originally worried about what was happening with Venata, and wanted to ask indirectly under the banner of Tracy, but Katarina didn't take the bait at all, so she had to give up with regret.

"Wendy and Tracy will stay here. If you find an area with a new notice, don't rush in. Write down the notice first, then come back here and wait for Wendy to translate it for you."

Catalina continued, "I'm going back to the ship first. But you have to remember, no matter whether everything goes well or not, we will be back in a week, so you have to hurry up."

"I understand, Ms. Pellet."

Adele took the notebook that Wendy threw over, which had translated notes written in Loenese. Wendy also thoughtfully wrote the English and Loenese translations of several important landmarks mentioned in the notebook at the back, making it easier for Adele to find them when the time comes.

After realizing that this air wall could not be opened for a while, Catalina became quite relaxed and was no longer so attentive to other people.

After all, even if Gagran really showed up and kidnapped Tracy as a hostage, the trait she wanted was not in her hands. To advance to Sequence Three, one needed not only the Beyonder trait, but also the medulla produced in the center of the spring and a large amount of spring water near the spring as ritual aids. Therefore, even if Gagran snatched the magical item made of the Unaging Witch trait from Katarina, he still couldn't advance.

The premise of kidnapping hostages is that the kidnapper wants something in the hands of the blackmailed party. Katarina can't give Gagran what he wants, so Gagran kidnapping Tracy is a stupid move, exposing himself to Katarina's sight in vain.

Before, Catalina brought Tracy, Wendy and Adele with her because she didn't know that the fountain of youth was sealed within the barrier, and she was afraid that Gagran would use some means to get to her first; but now she knows that it is almost impossible for Gagran to get the fountain, and the initiative suddenly fell back into her hands.

Even if Gagran really hid it from her and took the last step to occupy the water of the Fountain of Youth, she could sink the ironclad ship and then hide in the dark, wait until Gagran had to be promoted, then sneak attack and kill Gagran directly during the ceremony.

Adele was well aware of this, but she knew even more clearly that there was nothing she could do.

Adele now has complicated feelings towards Gagran.

Originally, she only knew that she was a spy planted by Miss Audrey into the witch sect, so she felt very indebted to Geglan, a boss who was lazy at ordinary times but treated her surprisingly well at critical moments. So she was extra diligent in showing her loyalty in front of Geglan.

However, after Katarina arrived, Adele realized that not only was she a traitor, but her boss, Geglan, was also a traitor, and was more thoroughly traitorous than she was. She was just thinking about collecting some intelligence about the witch sect so that she could report back, but her ultimate goal was to take revenge on the original witch... Thinking of the previous scene, Adele felt that her toes could dig out a three-bedroom apartment on the floor.

The traitorous subordinates showed great loyalty to their traitorous bosses...

Adele resisted the urge to put her hands over her face.

Geglan, oh Geglan, I beg you to not show up this time. If you really show up in front of me, even if Katarina doesn't kill me, I will be so embarrassed...

Adele sighed heavily, found some dried meat and water among the supplies brought by the sailors, filled her stomach, and walked towards the garden community again.

(End of this chapter)