It is impossible for the girl to find the evil god in the textbook

There was silence inside the door, no response.

So Alice knocked again,

"Miss Williams, Miss Ling, we are here to apologize for what happened just now."

Still no response, Alice twitched her nose, as if she smelled something burning.At first she thought it was an illusion, but soon the burnt smell became more and more unpleasant.

Alice became anxious, and her knocking on the door became more urgent.She was worried that Ella and the others would encounter a fire after they fell asleep in the room, and the black smoke seeping from the crack of the door was also verifying her guess.

"Miss Williams! What happened!"

"Get out of the way, let me come!"

Andre pulled his wife behind him and slammed his shoulder on the door heavily. He took another step back and kicked the door open.

……

"Ahem, Ling, the fire is too high, and the medicinal materials are all burnt by you."

Ella looked at the thick smoke rising from the alchemy cauldron, she was speechless for a while, she couldn't figure out why Ling made the simple tranquilizer like this.

Ella has not yet regained her ability to move, and Ling offered to help her refine a special sedative, which is of great help in calming her mood swings.

But judging from the current situation, Ling's grades in the magic potion class must have been very bad. Ella even suspected that it was Professor Roger who allowed her to successfully advance to the third grade.

"How to do how to do."

Ling was in a hurry, stirring the weird black paste.

"Add water, I think it can be salvaged, and I will do it again after cleaning the crucible... Wait, did the door shake, as if someone was knocking on the door."

"Ah, I used the tranquility spell to block the sound..."

Before Ling finished speaking, the door was suddenly kicked open heavily. First Mr. Andre covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve, and then Ms. Alice followed him closely.

Ella was taken aback and almost sat up from the bed, but her body was still limp and fell down again, which even worsened her symptoms. Before the sedative was successfully refined, Ella might have to lie down for half an hour It's been an hour.

"Miss Williams, Miss Ling, run away, there may be a fire inside..."

When Alice saw the black iron pot, her expression changed from anxious to dull.

Ling turned off the alcohol stove, poured clean water into the crucible, covered his mouth and nose, coughed and opened the window, and the fresh sea breeze poured into the room, blowing away the burnt smell.

"Uh, a little mistake... don't worry about it."

Ling said, helped Ella up, folded the pillow and put it behind her back, helping her change into a more comfortable position.

"Miss Alice, what's the matter with you?"

Alice was stunned for a while, and after thinking for a few seconds, she recalled that she and Andre had come to apologize.

"We are here to apologize...but now is not the time to talk about this. What happened here, and that pot is-"

Alice realized that she seemed to be asking too much, so she stopped herself.

"As you can see, I am brewing a special sedative. Ella has some sequelae after she came back from London. When her mood swings are strong, her body will be paralyzed and half disappears. It's just that something happened when I was brewing the medicine. , um...little accident."

Ling didn't think of any suitable words for a while, so he simply answered truthfully, since there was nothing worth hiding anyway.

Alice looked at Ella who was weak and leaning on the bed, and felt even more guilty for a moment, all because she brought back painful memories of the girl.

Alice took Andre, walked to Ella's bed, and sincerely apologized to the two girls.

"Don't be like this, I know you don't mean any harm, Miss Alice, Mr. Andre, you don't have to apologize."

Andre scratched his hair, and looked at the wooden door that was kicked by himself with some embarrassment.

"It's good that there wasn't a fire. Looks like I'll have to pay the hotel owner some money. I hope he doesn't kick us out."

"It's not a problem."

Ling had already cleaned the crucible. She pointed at the wooden door and read out a syllable to restore it to its original state. This was a useful rune character. The snake-shaped character "Fowulu" represented rotation and the previous moment. state.

Alice covered her open mouth in surprise, and Anderson rubbed her eyes, stared blankly at the wooden door that she had kicked down before, walked forward in disbelief and touched it with her hand, and found that there was a little bit on the wooden door. No scars.

"This is amazing, Miss Ling, are you a witch?"

"Well, so is Ella."

Ling shrugged. She felt that there was no need to hide it. Instead of explaining the pile of medicinal materials and the alchemy equipment that hadn't been put away, it would be better to admit it, which would save a lot of explanation.

"I knew that there are indeed many wonderful things in this world..."

Alice muttered dully, and gradually became excited.She thought of many things in an instant, maybe the London plague four years ago was not the malaria outbreak mentioned in the newspaper, but the battle between magicians and monsters, and the two girls in front of her were the participants of that incident. It is also the reason why they survived, or the children who were ordinary people at that time were rescued by the tall Professor Adolf, and became magicians after that.Scenes of warm or romantic dramas played out in her brain, making her tremble with excitement.

"Can you tell us about magic? Or your adventures or something!"

"Of course, but I still need to prepare a sedative. It would be great if you could help me."

Alice was full of energy, and Ling's work began to go smoothly.

After Ella took some special sedatives, she became extremely calm and understood a truth. Ling's level of magic potion preparation was at the same level as that of ordinary people who had never been exposed to magic.

Chapter 6 Gold Coins Make You Big

After resting overnight, everyone boarded the railway.

This was built a few years ago. The Baltimore-Ohio Railway is less than [-] kilometers away from the east coast to the town of Sutter, where gold was discovered. It takes less than half a day to take the steam train. Able to have lunch in the town of Sutter.

The train was full of smartly dressed young people. The men wore woolen windbreakers or short leather jackets, blue and black denim trousers for easy movement, and long Martin boots that hugged the calves.Ella also bought herself a new pair of boots yesterday. The height-enhancing boots popular among Scottish ladies are really not suitable for the environment here. After leaving San Francisco Bay, it is difficult to see the tidy stone paved road. She has done it more than once before I sprained my foot on the sandy road.

When the train left the dock area, the scenery outside the window began to be very different. It was not the prosperous city that Ella saw on the railway from Glamis to London before, nor was it the rural countryside, which was yellow-brown sandy soil. The endless desert, the speeding sand and stones, tall cacti and dry shrubs.

Women are rarely seen in the carriage, and Ella and the others look very different. They bought tickets entrusted by Dolores to a businessman friend, but more passengers are crowded in the gaps in the carriage.Occasionally, someone whistled at them and made obscene gestures, but the two adventurers and Professor Adolf were not easy to provoke at first glance, and no one actually made any real provocations, which made Ling feel very disappointed.

Ella looked at the passengers in the carriage and felt that their outfits were a bit strange, so she asked:

"Professor Adolf, who are they?"

"It's some gold prospector who hears the news and wants a piece of the pie, or some itinerant cowboy."

Gold Rush?

This is already the second time Ella has heard the term,

"what is that?"

Adolf thought about it seriously, and then said:

"Let's talk about the gold diggers first. In the last few months, someone found gold at the Sutter Logging Field in California, which is where we're going now. The lumberjack stumbled upon it in the shallows of the Mississippi River. Gold, he made a fortune down the shallows to the source, Ella, guess what that gold mine is worth?"

"Maybe half a million pounds?"

"I guess it's worth a million pounds!"

Ling interjected, but Ella thought it was impossible. 50 pounds was already an unimaginably huge amount of money, and even the big bankers in London would have a hard time scraping together so much cash in a short period of time.

Adolf shook his head with a smile, he showed three fingers,

"It's worth 5000 morgan silver pieces, that is—3000 pounds!"

Ella opened her mouth wide in surprise, as if she saw an ocean made of gold coins coming from the front, and buried herself in it.

"Since then, people have discovered other large and small gold mines and gold sands one after another. People from all over the world have flocked to California, San Francisco Bay, intending to try their luck and get rich overnight. They are the so-called gold rush. By."

"What about the cowboys?"

Professor Adolf paused, touched the hard stubble, and thought for a while.

"Cowboys...I don't know the specific origin. I only know that they are workers who graze and drive cattle in the western United States."

"Let me answer this question."

The middle-aged adventurer Horace interrupted, and Adolf motioned him to continue without worrying.

"When I was young, I worked as a cowboy in the American West for a while, and that kind of work goes back 200 years, when the Spanish colonized this area and they brought livestock like cattle and horses to Mexico and Texas. State proliferates."

Horace picked up the brown water bag and took a sip to moisten his throat.

"It has to be said that those Spaniards were very good at raising and taming livestock. After the independence of the United States, the Spaniard's technology was left behind, and many young people began to do this kind of work, herding, trading cattle, and repairing cattle. Fence or whatever. Girl, you find this kind of dress a bit strange, mainly because these clothes are more durable and practical, Martin boots can prevent feet from slipping out of stirrups, and woolen pants can prevent walking through bushes They were torn apart when they were clumps, but a lot of people are dressed like this now. It doesn’t mean they are grazing, it’s just more suitable for the environment here.”

"...I think I understand."

"No, miss, I don't think you understand."

Horace grinned wide and gave an inexplicable smile,

"What I want to say is that whether it's a gold digger or a cowboy, they are outlaws on horseback when they have no work at hand, they are scum, they are scum, and you two ladies better follow after you leave the train. My lord, this is my piece of advice before parting."

With the loud whistle, the steam train stopped at the dilapidated station not far from the town of Sutter.

After getting off the car, Horace and the young adventurer Louis said goodbye to them. They came here to find a chance to make a fortune, and there was no reason to stay here any longer.

Alice and Andre proposed to travel together. For this young couple who are newlyweds traveling, it is certainly a joy to have other friends on the trip, not to mention that Alice had a lot of feelings for Ella and the others as magicians. big interest.

Adolf had already heard Ling mention the previous episode, and understood that the couple already knew their identities, so he spoke a little more casually.

"Let's go to Yousef first, that guy may have found the thorn of the human face, and he only needs a little fresh juice to heal you."

"How do we contact Professor Yousef? Through messenger, or you have already agreed on the contact method."

Ling looked at the small town with only a dozen or so houses in the distance. The passengers on the train had already got off the train one after another, or they were walking, or pulling their horses from the cargo hold to their respective destinations.

"No need, Yousef lives in the hotel in Sutter Town, let's go directly to him."

Sutter Town is a town surrounding the lumber camp. It consists of two rows of more than twenty houses with a street and a well in the middle.Two mines have been discovered within one kilometer of it. Gold prospectors tend to choose other towns as their base, but many people also choose to live here and try their luck in the shoals or river beds.

Golden Sunshine Hotel is the only hotel in the town. It consists of three floors, an underground wine cellar and a small attic above.

"I'm looking for a guest named Yousef, Howard Yousef, a very thin man, does he live here?"

The owner of the Golden Sunshine Hotel is a bald, short, fat old man wearing reading glasses. He looked at the strange combination in front of him, raised a finger, and said nothing.

Adolf threw a gold coin on the table, and the old man answered:

"He left three days ago, but he paid enough money. The room is on the last left side of the second floor. He said he left the key to a tall Englishman...it seems to be you."

"Then you still want to charge me a gold coin?"