Chapter 255 The Secret of the Golden Statue (Part 2)
Not long after the Joan of Arc left the port, a galloping carriage rushed to the dock. Groups of dock porters were frightened by the carriage and avoided them, and shouts spread. Some annoyed porters even picked up the shoulder pole and walked towards the carriage that was parked on the dock, trying to argue, but when they saw two gorgeously dressed foreign women walking down from the carriage, they all turned their heads and retreated like shabby persimmons.
One of the two women had fiery red hair, wearing very prominent American denim costumes, with a cowboy hat on their heads, and the other wrapped the whole body with a piece of black cloth, with a veil on their faces, only a pair of big eyes with black frames, which looked very charming. These two women were Catherine and Beth who had dealt with Xu Changqing. After they got off the carriage, they looked around anxiously, as if they were looking for something, but soon their faces showed disappointment.
"Did you feel wrong? Although my ability in this regard is not as good as you, I should be able to feel it if I am nearby?" Catherine frowned slightly, her face looked a little gloomy. She turned her head to look at Beth, who covered her whole body with a black scarf, and asked: "You also said you felt it last night, but later she said it was an illusion, and she wouldn't do it this time..."
Beth also showed doubt, stepped forward a few steps, closed his big eyes with long eyelashes slightly, and seemed to be feeling something. Soon she opened her eyes, turned her head, and said with a firm tone: "No, I did feel it this time! Although it was dispersed by the people on the dock, the power emitted from the golden statue is still some of the remaining power around." As she said, she turned around and walked slowly into the depths of the dock, and walked to the berth where Joan of Arc had been docked before, and then said: "Here, the power of the golden statue is emitted from here and all around."
Catherine quickly followed, looked at the dark water surface in front, and said, "You mean the golden statue is in the water."
"No." Beth shook his head, raised his hand and pointed to the air above the water surface, and said, "It was here at first," then pointed to the sea outside the harbor, and said, "After that, slowly move towards the sea outside."
"Move towards the sea?" Catherine looked at the sea along Beth's finger, and suddenly thought of something, her face changed slightly, and she waved to find a dock clerk from not far away, and asked, "Is this the berth of the Joan of Arc?"
Looking at the woman who was one head taller than him, the dock clerk muttered disdainfully, "Why is a woman not that tall?", and a flattering smile appeared on her face. She pretended to take out the notepad, looked through it, and then replied in not-so-pure English: "Miss, the Joan of Arc did stop here before. Are you two passengers of the Joan of Arc?"
"No. Thank you!" Catherine got the news she wanted, and she tactfully pulled out a silver ball from her pocket and handed it to the dock clerk. When she was about to instruct the clerk to walk away, she suddenly called him again and asked, "When will the fastest ship to Europe be waiting?"
"No ships have traveled to Europe in the past two months, and the fastest ship will have to wait until three months later." The dock clerk touched the silver ball in his hand, smiling, without any impatience.
Catherine frowned, pondered for a moment, and asked again: "What about the fastest ship to Southeast Asia?"
"It's really troublesome." The dock clerk muttered in his heart. With the mentality of taking money and eliminating disasters, he looked through the notepad very carefully and said: "There is only one ship heading to Southeast Asia recently. At 4:00 pm, it headed to Bangkok, Thailand. The next half month, it was ship heading to the east."
After getting the answer he wanted, Catherine ignored the dock clerk, turned around and signaled to Beth, then turned away, and walked towards the carriage. Beth did not understand Catherine's intention, and wanted to ask immediately, but his body still habitually did not speak and followed quickly. It was not until the two of them got on the carriage and the carriage left the dock that she couldn't help asking: "Why do you suddenly want to ask the ship to Southeast Asia? It is obvious that the golden statue is on the Joan of Arc. We should hire a ship to catch up with Joan of Arc."
"Catch up with Joan of Arc?" Catherine smiled, pointed to the ships docked on the dock outside the window, and said, "Do you just rely on these ships? Do you know that Joan of Arc is one of the fastest cruise ships in Europe, with an average speed of fifteen knots and the fastest one reaches twenty knots. These ships cannot even be caught up with it, even if they see its shadow."
"What are you going to do?" Beth obviously disliked the fanatical look of Catherine when she talked about the ship, and asked with a frown.
"What should I do? Of course, if I catch up, we just don't chase from the sea, but we walk from land." Catherine took out a stack of maps from her pocket, then found an Asian map from it, and pointed to the map and said: "Joan of Arc will dock five ports in Asia next, Brunei Port in Luzon, Lampung Port in Borneo, Colombo in Sri Lanka, Mumbai in India, and Aden in the Arabian Peninsula. The time for the Joan of Arc sailing at sea, plus the time it docked at various ports, it will take about one and a half months to reach Mumbai. We can take a boat to Bangkok in the afternoon, and it will take about five to seven days on the sea, and then cross the South Asian continent from land. One month is enough for us to reach Mumbai. At that time, we only need to wait for Joan of Arc in Mumbai."
Beth didn't say much. She knew that she was far inferior to Catherine in the arrangement of the itinerary, but after thinking about it carefully, she still said with a little concern: "Although we are chasing the Joan of Arc, our purpose is the Golden Planet. If the Golden Planet is halfway up..."
"Don't worry, the golden statue will not get off the boat halfway." Catherine said with great certainty: "As far as I know, the Xu Changqing was on the Joan of Arc. His ticket destination was Alexandria, and I can be sure that the golden statue must be in Xu Changqing's hands." As she said that, she clenched her fists tightly and said, "The golden statue is related to whether the surname Kadalina can restore its former glory. No matter what the price is paid, I will get it."
Chapter completed!