Kleist narrowed his eyes and was silent for a while, as if accepting the result.

"It can be regarded as a little harvest."

Ella couldn't understand those broken and abstract graphics at all. The "Book of the Future" should be completely damaged. It was just the last bit of messy magic color blocks, meaningless.

"Did you see anything?"

"It's a verification of one of my guesses, that's all."

Kleist waved his hand, as if he didn't intend to delve into this topic.

For the time being, Ella can't know what the shadow saw. Although she still cares about it very much, she can only accept this helpless result.Originally, she did not have the opportunity to see the "Book of the Future", and the future will be left to her future self. If she thinks this way, this matter will become more acceptable.

"Look here!"

Ling's voice came from behind. In the corner of the temple, there were some stone tablets carved with some kind of characters, and some ancient sheepskin scrolls, but most of them were seriously damaged, and the records on them were already illegible.Ella was brought here by the shadow before, but she didn't notice this place. Time almost stopped in the spiritual world. The damage to these parchment scrolls was the result of the temple falling into the underground river.

Kleist looked through some of them with interest. The words recorded on the stone tablets should be some kind of very ancient cuneiform script, at least much older than the time when Sibylla lived.This should be the personal collection of Prophet Sibylla, which is a very valuable harvest.

After eliminating the danger in the cave, the next job is very simple. These precious ancient books and Sibilla's remains will be sent to Kraft for research, and the cave here will be sealed off by the local wizards. forever buried in the mud.

Chapter 32 Back to Glamis

The next afternoon, Ella and Ling followed the two professors Adolph and Kleist and boarded the Baltimore-Ohio Railway again and returned to San Francisco Bay from the train station near the lumberyard.

Yousef needs to stay in the United States to deal with the aftermath of the cave. In order to avoid the impact of the Sibilla mine on ordinary people, the local wizard decided to completely change the terrain here.This would be a huge project, and the old principal arranged for Yousef to stay and assist.

It was supposed to be his own job.But in one month's time, it will be the entrance ceremony of Kraft School of Magic this year, and Kleist, as the principal, cannot be absent.It was still Dolores and her Marguerite who received them at the port.

After this success, Dolores will return to England to inherit her father's business, and her father can safely leave the fleet business to her.

Dolores was very surprised by Kleist's arrival. You must know that ordinary events are difficult to alarm this great magician.

Ella told Dolores about her two-month experience, the relics of the prophet, the Philosopher's Stone, and the confrontation between the gold diggers and the gangsters. The more Dolores heard it, the more shocked she was. Can't close my mouth.

Dolores has been busy with business matters recently, and the news is not well-informed. Maybe in a few days, the news of the prophet's relic will appear in newspapers and parchments circulating among wizards.

Before the ship set sail, Ella saw gold diggers from all over the world gathering here, and sailing ships from all over the world moored in the port.

"The Philosopher's Stone is no longer in the ground, what else can they find here?"

Ella found it a bit difficult to accept, and she clearly knew that most of these people were destined to return empty-handed.

Many gold prospectors left everything and came to San Francisco, and most of them may stay in this strange land forever.

Ella couldn't see the point of it. Sailors abandoned their ships, priests abandoned their missions and their faith, soldiers left their barracks, and farmers pawned their fields. These people could have stable lives and complete families, but in order to pursue The illusory gold, they will lose everything in the end.

Maybe a few lucky ones will succeed in finding gold, and they will bring more people here, which will be a new beginning.

Ella sees no end to this cycle.

The Margarita sailed away from the port, and the vacancy left by it was quickly filled, and more ships crowded towards the port, the darkness was countless.

"That's not necessarily a bad thing."

Adolf's words made it difficult for Ella to understand. For most of the gold diggers who came here, in her opinion, there would be no bright future.

The professor went on to say,

"The west was just barren land before this, gangs, unrest, poverty, maybe just for a well, there would be big conflicts. But as more people came here, they also brought more Resources and opportunities, maybe in the future this place will really become a golden mountain.”

Ella opened her mouth, instinctively wanting to refute, but then thought of Edward and his team, there were many others like the Gold Diggers and Cowboys.What they will create in the future is anyone's guess.

The retort was swallowed, and Ella's expression finally stayed on a vague smile.

"Maybe."

Under the command of the female captain, the Margarita spread its sails, and it got farther and farther away from San Francisco Bay. The port of Java Buena was only a line of the sky, which merged with the sea.

-

Two weeks later, Ella and the others returned to the port of Liverpool and took the steam train back to Glamis, Scotland. It took half a day to return to the town.

"Then I'll go back to Mr. Turner first. If it's a few days later, maybe Mr. Turner will rent the house to someone else."

Ella joked that their trip was taking much longer than expected. She had originally reserved three months' rent, but now it was obviously not enough.But according to Mr. Turner's character, he would not rent the house to others.

"Well, remember to come to Glamisburg before seven o'clock, and don't miss the welcome party for freshmen, especially this time."

Adolf emphasized,

"Is there anything different this time?"

Ella was a little surprised. The party generally did not require students above fourth grade to participate. Senior magic apprentices could allocate their time more freely to conduct research or other activities.

"It was Kleist who told me that when we left, the school carried out the selection of the student council president. According to the voting results, you got the highest number of votes. So you are already the student council president, and you need to be the president of the student union at the party It's a Kraft tradition to say a few words to the freshmen."

"I have no idea?!"

Ella was stunned. She remembered that she should not have run for office at all.

"That should be Kleist's decision."

"But... I don't know what to say...!"

The girl was a little overwhelmed and accidentally bit her tongue. For Ella, this may be more difficult than calculating each other with the shadow or fighting the monster.

"Does the student council president have any privileges?"

Ling, on the other hand, showed a lot of interest and smiled maliciously.

"Maybe Ella can take them out of confinement at any time in the future, or get more scholarships or something?"

"As far as I know, probably not so exaggerated."

Adolf replied with a smile, which disappointed Ling greatly.

After saying goodbye to the two, Ella came to Mr. Hans Turner's house and rang the doorbell.

Miss Tullo, the maid employed by Mr. Turner, opened the door, and the black cat Renee meowed twice, and came up to rub Ella's calf.

"Is Mr. Turner there?"

Hans Turner's hoarse voice came from the living room,

"Miss Williams? It's very good of you to be back. I happen to have something to trouble you with."

According to Miss Tullow, old Turner twisted his back when he took the book from the shelf, and had been in pain for several days, and was lying on the sofa in the living room.

"This is really... sorry, wait a moment."

Ayla skillfully took out the cauldron from the travel bag, and prepared medicines for pain relief and sprain treatment.She seemed to be busy when she returned to Glamis, but this busyness reassured Ella.

While applying the medicine, Mr. Turner and Ella chatted,

"It's been a long time since you've been here, hasn't it been three and a half months?"

"It's been over four months in fact, sorry for the delay."

Mr. Turner was surprised,

"It's been so long? Let me do the math... You still need to pay me about eight pounds after you leave the part you left before, and you can only give me five pounds if you count the money for the treatment, starting next week Let’s count as normal.”

This is already a very reasonable price in Glamis, and even Mr. Turner asked for a lot less.

Ella let Miss Tullow take the five-pound note from her satchel while she continued to dispense old Turner's medicine.After a few minutes, she was back on her feet, magically cleaning the green potion stuck to her hands.

"Stand up and try it, it should be fine."

Turner moved a few times, admiring,

"Your potion is still so effective. Tarlow prepared honey pie today, why don't you stay for dinner?"

"Thank you, but tonight is Kraft's orientation party, and I'm going to school later."

Ella declined Mr. Turner's invitation, but in fact, she was still very interested in Miss Tullow's craftsmanship.

"Well, then I'll ask Tulo to bring you a few dollars and heat up the fireplace before you come back. The weather has started to get cold again recently."

"That's very much appreciated."

Ella squatted down and touched the head of the black cat Renee, and then went directly to Glamis Castle.

Kleist changed back to his flower farmer-like dress, which was already a major feature of Kraft School. He still had the short and over-the-top opening remarks, followed by Ella’s speech as a student representative. Ella’s nervousness made Ella La only stuttered and said hello to the newly admitted little magicians, and his words were even briefer than Kleist's.

But fortunately, most of the magic apprentices have already read the recent wizard newspapers, and Ayla's adventures made them very envious, so these children only regard this brevity as the unique style of this senior.

Hyde had a stinky face. The fact that Ira became the president of the student union was probably the worst news he had heard this year.

Ella returned to the seat. The young freshmen reminded her of herself four years ago. Looking at those curious first-year freshmen, she smiled and blessed them silently.

Miscellaneous remarks at the end of the volume

A few gossips at the end of each volume... This will probably become a certain practice in the future.

The author Bacteria finally signed a contract a few days ago, and the contract will be sent on Friday, finally.

Let me tell you in advance, because the author will go out tomorrow, and it will probably be night when I get off the car, and I will have dinner with friends, it will probably be quite late, so tomorrow...

It will probably become a routine to take a day off every time I finish writing a volume (laughs).After all, I need to sort out the information for the next volume and some things that are missing.

A reader friend mentioned that the story progress of the book Cthulhu is a bit too fast, and it has been sprinting [-] meters on the main line.The author has thought about this for a long time, so the next volume may try to write something else, including the stories of other characters, and try to open some branch lines. (After all, if you signed the contract, you have to write the story for a longer time... cross out this sentence)

Let me tell you about the story of this volume, because my roommate was watching Westworld before, so I put the stage of the story in the western United States, but the understanding here is generally from some film and television works, so it may not be as detailed as the first volume. This is a pity.Although I have tried my best to present the west, I still feel that there is still some flavor missing.

In this volume, our protagonist has grown up a bit.The story is relatively simple. The main thing is that the protagonist solves some hidden dangers in the body, and digs some holes through prophecies. There are much less big scenes than in the first volume.

Regarding the "Secret Sutra of Seven Chapters of Xuanjun" that appeared in the previous chapters, that is also something in the Cthulhu mythology. The author thinks it is more interesting, so he uses this setting. It is not to rewrite Xiuxian, please rest assured.

After that, it will still be updated every day, and the update time may be released earlier during the annual vacation, instead of waiting until the early morning every day, emmmmmmm is like this.

Chapter 1 Thief

Western calendar 1845, Liverpool, England.

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