As the carriage moved toward the city center, its height was actually rising. Before Shade was about to reach his destination, the coachman signaled his foreigner passengers to look to the right:
"Guest, have you seen that castle?"
A castle did appear outside the car window. It is located southwest of Vista City on the other side of the hill:
"See, this is the most magnificent building in the city, right? The Dawn Church we passed just now is not as spectacular."
The driver smiled and introduced:
"That's the Ximu Town Conservatory of Music. It's the original school in this city, and it's also the best music conservatory in the entire Kasenlik. Many famous young musicians in the country came from here. You can go there when you have time.
Take a look there.”
"Was that castle built specifically for the academy? It must have cost a lot of money, right?"
Shade asked again, but the coachman did not give a clear answer this time:
"It is said that this is a castle that originally existed in the forest. I don't know what it was originally used for."
Therefore, there is a high probability that this is another building renovated from ancient ruins.
The road to the "Accordion Hotel" needs to pass through the "Golden Music Hall", so Shade finally saw with his own eyes this concert hall, which is said to be the largest in the entire Old World.
It stands like a golden palace in the center of the highest point of the city. The flat building adopts a symmetrical structure, and the four squares facing the four gates in the four directions make it look like an unfolding four-leaf clover pattern.
The exterior walls are decorated with carved beams and painted beams, and are decorated with rich and gorgeous reliefs and carvings. Every part is a masterpiece of art. The delicate and complicated decoration reflects the brilliance of the sun in the early autumn morning, and is similar to the baroque-style porch that foreigners have seen in their hometown.
, the huge arch seems to lead to another mysterious world.
Of course, considering that this is also a building converted from an ancient ruin, this sense of mystery and antiquity is not surprising.
In order to let Shade take a good look at this place, the driver deliberately slowed down when passing by.
Every detail here exudes a strong historical atmosphere, but although it is called the "Golden Music Hall", in fact the exterior wall of the building is not gold but rather classic white and light tones.
The coachman told Shade that when the gas lights were turned on at night, the walls would turn golden due to the light of the gas lights. This was the origin of the "Golden Hall".
The opening hours here on weekdays are from 9 am to 8 pm. In addition to being a "concert hall", part of the magnificent building is also a museum. Although there are concerts inside after 8 pm, the audience is no longer allowed to enter.
Tourists are no longer allowed to visit the venue.
The time was right now. If Shade hadn't been in a hurry, he would have really wanted to go here to take a look. But after all, Miss Daniste's matters were the most important. Once he found the lady, he would have plenty of time to take a look at this forest.
cities in.
The elf was right, the "Accordion Hotel" and the Golden Concert Hall are indeed very close, closer than the distance between No. 6 Saint Teresa Square and the Yodel Palace.
A yellow-painted signboard hangs outside the second-floor window. The four-story hotel has a right-angle shape, occupying the intersecting "Golden Music Avenue" and "Elton Walk".
This hotel is the largest hotel in the city. Because it is close to the "Golden Music Hall", most of the musicians who have played or sang in the "Golden Music Hall" have stayed here, making this place more famous over time.
But because of this, when the Moon Dance Festival concert was about to begin, when a foreigner entered the hotel and tried to ask the hotel waiter if there was any room available, he got a negative answer:
"I'm really sorry, guest, because the Moon Dance Festival is coming, guests from out of town have been booking rooms since the beginning of the Thunder Moon, and now they are fully booked."
A very pretty lady said behind the counter, wearing a silver accordion-style brooch on her chest.
The first floor of the Accordion Hotel is very large, but like the "Three Cats Hotel", the first floor is used as a lobby and a tavern for dining and socializing. The counter is also in a right-angled shape, and there are three ladies receiving guests.
Shade, who pretended to be troubled, said sheepishly:
"Can you please accommodate me? I can pay a premium for the room."
"Sorry, guest, there's really nothing we can do about this. But there should be other hotels in the city. You can go there and ask."
Shade was not sure that Miss Daniste lived here. Luvia only divined that she could find clues here. He could not even ask "if there is a lady named Daniste Gustave living here."
"Here", after all, Miss Daniste would most likely not use her real name when going out for personal matters like this.
If you want to rent a room, you just have to give yourself a mailing address as usual, but now that you don't have a room, you can only give up.
So Shade thanked the waitress and left. Then he turned into a silver cat in the alley nearby. After a few quick runs, he climbed up the heat-insulated steam pipe on the outside of the wall.
It took some effort to climb to the top of the building. Shade had just arrived in a strange city and didn't want to cause trouble. Instead of using illusions to hide himself and then enter the hotel to check if there was any problem, it was better to turn into a cat and check in the hotel openly.
He was not afraid of getting dirty. After confirming that the chimney on the roof was not for decoration, he jumped directly from the chimney. A few minutes later, the silver cat, having shaken off the soot, successfully appeared in the corridor on the fourth floor of the Accordion Hotel.
The hotel corridor is quiet, but the decoration here is quite good. The oil paintings hanging on the walls are all famous musicians, of course, outsiders have only heard of a very few of them.
In order to prevent other troubles, he did not waste too much time looking at the oil paintings in cat form, but quickly ran along the corridor to the fourth floor, and then went to the third floor.
During this period, the silver cat met other guests who were walking up the stairs, but they only thought it was a pet cat raised by other guests running around, so they didn't pay attention to it at all. There was no problem on the fourth floor, and on the third floor
It was normal. Because it was an ordinary guest room on the second floor, the rooms were smaller and more numerous, but Shade still didn't feel anything unusual.
There were too many guests on the first floor, so it kept its cat state and stopped at the stairs to recall whether it had missed any details:
"The clue can't be in the kitchen? Or in the basement? Yes, this is bigger than the Green Lake Hotel. There is no way there is no basement. Maybe Miss Danist left a clue in the potato pile?"
But no matter how much I think about it, I know it's impossible.
There is no need to doubt the results of the special divination. Shade is sure that he has found the right place.
【Maybe you need to be a little patient.】
"She" said in the silver cat's ear. The cat's ears twitched a few times and turned its head to look behind it.
[After all, even if I can’t find it, isn’t there a new fortune-telling opportunity tonight? 】
"Yes."
So ten minutes later, Shade returned to his human form and walked into the hotel again, but this time he was a guest.
It was just past eleven o'clock at this time. Although it might be a little too early to have lunch according to the habits of this era, the kitchen of such a big hotel is always open, so after Shade asked for the menu, he chose a few dishes at random, and then
I generously tipped the waiter 5 pfennigs:
"Let the kitchen serve food faster."
"Yes sir."
The waiter who got the tip was also very considerate and helped Sha De to order the dishes, so soon Sha De's lunch arrived. It was still the waiter who came to deliver the food, so Sha De gave him another tip and asked him to wait.
He helped to buy today's newspaper.
In addition to those newspapers published throughout Kasenlik, the most famous local newspapers in Vista City are the Brookwood Morning News, the Sound of Music and the Daily Lumberjack. Shade ate leisurely
I checked the local news during lunch and was reassured that the city was really peaceful.
And when he finished his meal and signaled the waiter to come over to pay, he took out his wallet and asked:
"I originally wanted to stay at your place, but there are no vacancies. It's a pity. I'm actually a travel writer, and I heard that this place is haunted."
"There is no such thing."
The waiter said hurriedly, and Shade asked curiously:
"But I heard that in Vista City, especially within the original Ximu Town, don't phantoms or sounds from strange sources sometimes appear?"
I heard this on the black market yesterday.
The waiter shook his head again:
"I am a local, and I have heard such rumors, but they are within the scope of the old city. We are in the new city. You may have heard false rumors. We are here"
He saw Sha De take out another banknote from his wallet and press it under the cup. Sha De did not drink alcohol, but drank the "Song of Ximu Town" drink. In fact, it was local honey water, and there was
The taste of apple juice.
"If you want to collect information, I just heard that there were strange noises coming from the broom room between Rooms 318 and 319 on the east side of the third floor last week, but nothing was found after inspection."
The waiter tried hard to lower his voice, as if he was afraid that others would hear:
"But Boss Bennet won't let us talk nonsense. He's afraid it will affect business. Now is the eve of the Moon Dance Festival, which is the most profitable season of the year."
Shade nodded slightly, then raised his eyebrows suddenly, but said nothing to the waiter.
When he packed up his newspaper and stood up, he asked in his heart:
"The mermaid of Moon Bay asked me to find her. The last name of the person who owes her debt is"
[Bennet. And she said you don’t have to bother looking, the other person will take the initiative to appear in front of you.]
Now "Bennet" indeed appeared on its own, and it appeared just when Shade arrived in the "Music City". He had some doubts that the mermaid also had powerful prophecy abilities, or that the city of Vesta was actually Shade.
Places you will definitely come to:
"So, the story of the eighth chosen one will not really happen in this forest city, right?"
Of course, finding Miss Denister is still the top priority right now, and the "Bennet" matter can be put aside for now.