The next day, June 26, Gray Linte vaguely said "Zhou Mingrui" would probably come down in the next few days.
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As the leader of the team, Graylingt first sent a telegram to Vertek through Darnell's headquarters telegraph machine and made some work arrangements. Later, Darnell arranged a "
After the mission of "pursuing the rebels who fled to the Northern Continent", the two returned to Backlund "reasonably".
They were not teleported back using Graylingt's "Secret Chain", but a teleportation spell. Its advantage is that it can teleport more people, but it seems that it can only teleport to a fixed point. Thanks to this, Graylingt
Te's manservant "Alister" was also teleported over. If not for this, Gray Linte would have lost this newly obtained marionette.
In the afternoon, with the cooperation of the lawyers of Gradlint and Darnell, Gradlint handed over the ownership of the West End villa to Darnell and received the final payment of 6,000 pounds.
In the evening, after seeing Darnell leave, Gray Lint returned to his mansion in Queens in a very low-key manner. He said he was low-key because he only alerted the butler and valet, and the other servants did not know that he had returned secretly.
once..
He didn't want to rest here, he just wanted to ask the housekeeper and the valet about the current situation at home in the past six months, as well as the current situation of some people and things related to him.
"Everything is going well financially at home...
Sylvie's research seems to be stuck, and she hasn't asked for progress payment for a long time...
Earl Hall has returned to Backlund from the fiefdom, but Audrey may still be a few days later..."
This is some information that Gray Lint is more concerned about, as well as some current news, such as "In April, the House of Lords passed the abolition of the "Corn Act", "The Kingdom's steam ironclad manufacturing has achieved a breakthrough" and so on
wait.
After taking a short rest, Glerint "traveled" non-stop to the port of Enmatt.
Without the instigation case created by Tris, there would be no interrogation by the police station. Therefore, the "Alfalfa" that Shirley and Jim took had successfully arrived at the Port of Enmat a few days ago.
"Where's the 'instigator'?"
The specific tasks that Gray Lint assigned to Shirley through Jim were:
"Ensure the "Alfalfa" sails safely and enters the port smoothly."
So in Shirley's eyes, he actually only knew that there would be a crisis on the "Alfalfa", but he didn't know the specific details. So after he inquired about the dangers of this voyage, he then asked about the whereabouts of Tris.
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"After being warned once by Jim and I, he temporarily became honest and stopped trying to instigate."
Shirley didn't particularly understand why Gray Lint, as a person, would attach so much importance to a Sequence 8 Beyonder. Not only did she and Jim start the mission a month and a half in advance, but she even had to interrogate all the details of the mission later.
"There was no direct conflict...it's okay."
While thinking to himself, he nodded with satisfaction.
Although if Shirley directly kills Tris, Gray Lint will not have any objection at all. After all, he really deserves to die, but it is certainly better to maintain the "original" plot to a certain extent——
Although he may be about to tear up Tingen's script.
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The next day, Graylingt, three men and one mouse took a steam train to Storn, which is the central city of East Chester County.
Gray Linte planned to pay a visit to Audrey on the way, and then go to Tingen.
With his identity as "Viscount Graylingt", although he did not make an appointment in advance, he still met Audrey who happened to be resting.
Today she was wearing a pink house dress, and her green eyes seemed to be overflowing with brilliance.
"Graylint? Why did you come to Stone?"
The corners of her eyes were slightly curved, feeling a little surprised.
She is now a skilled "audience"... Although she is not worried about what Audrey will do, Gray Linte still subconsciously tensed up, not wanting her to see her true thoughts.
He replied with some apology:
"I happened to have a mission in the Northern Continent, so I returned to Loen. I happened to be in Ston today, so I wanted to come and see you, but I was in a hurry and forgot to prepare a gift for you."
Audrey smiled slightly and responded:
"It doesn't matter, your visit itself is the best gift."
During this process, she couldn't help but use her "audience" observation ability to observe Gray Linte and his two followers.
"A boy with a profound face, a typical Southern Continent person... He seems a bit... well, a bit 'deadly', with no expression or attitude."
After all, Gray Lint is not a serious "Secret Puppet Master". In addition, he is mainly paying attention to his words and deeds at the moment. Of course, he also ignores the details of controlling Morgan. However, he did not expect that he would be captured by O
Delly discovered something unusual.
"An extremely beautiful lady, seems to be of mixed race?"
Most of the features on Shirley's face were those of people from the Northern Continent, so Audrey was a little afraid to confirm it for a while.
"She looked at me several times... Well, she seemed to be very interested in my appearance? She also had a strange sense of recognition."
But when she focused her attention on Gray Linte, she was suddenly startled, and an uncontrollable surge of frustration and sadness came over her.
She saw a hint of wariness.
"Why... why is this happening?"
Gray Lint has not yet realized that his always paying attention to his words and deeds is also an attitude that can be read by the "audience".
This attitude is a normal caution for experienced Extraordinaries. After all, no one is willing to openly reveal everything in their heart.
But for Audrey, his friend who had been dating him since childhood, his caution was very sad.
Fortunately, she did not hide her low mood, and Gray Lint quickly noticed it. Although he still didn't understand the reason, he finally had the consciousness to remedy the situation and began to take the initiative to bring the topic to her feelings.
Those things of interest.
"Extraordinary animals with intelligence? Can animals also have human intelligence?"
Suddenly she caught a very interesting detail.
Gray Linte was suddenly stunned, and then she remembered that one of the reasons why she trained Jim was because of her training of Susie in the "original work". But later, Audrey swallowed the "audience" under her gaze.
Magic potion, it seems that there is no such accident, and it will never happen again?
However, Audrey, the "audience", probably needs a friend who can speak her mind.
Thinking of this, he dismissed the entourage and asked Audrey to dismiss the servants, and then called Jim from inside his sleeve:
"Come on, Jim, say hello to Miss Audrey."
The mud-yellow figure emerged cautiously. Jim twitched his nose, shook his beard, cleared his throat, and said with a lively voice:
"Hello, beautiful Miss Audrey, my name is Jim, nice to meet you."
Jim had never learned the etiquette of aristocrats. He just learned this kind of wording from seeing Gray Linte's actions. He didn't care whether it was appropriate or not, and just used it.
His child-like voice combined with the standard adult social diction, coupled with the bizarre sight of speaking in human language while wearing a mouse body, completely attracted Audrey's attention for a moment.
Although she originally hated rats as a species, at this moment, her focus was not on Jim's body at all. Whether it was his tone or demeanor, Jim looked like a naughty child, not an animal walking through the sewers.
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"Uh... hello, little Jim, nice to meet you."
The little mouse patted its front paws as if angry and said dissatisfied:
"Wrong, wrong, it's Jim, not Little Jim.
Jim is not little, and he does not have an older brother named Big Jim."
Audrey was embarrassed for a moment. Just when she wanted to say something to explain or apologize, she saw Gray Linte pinch the back of Jim's neck, lift him up, and explain to her apologetically:
"This guy just likes to tease people. Don't be fooled by him. He can completely understand our conversation."
"squeak?"
Seeing Gray Lint exposing him mercilessly, Jim rolled his eyes slightly and pretended to be innocent and shouted.
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After showing Audrey some of Jim's magic, Gray Lint continued:
"Audrey, if you want, you can have such a friend."
Hearing these words, Audrey couldn't help but stare at Gray Lint in surprise, and said happily:
"Really?"
Smiling and nodding, Gray Lint replied affirmatively:
"Of course, but for your safety, I think you should do this under my watch."