Chapter 904 The Countess Visits

"Since Ruby brought you here, why is she refusing to show up?" Joan asked Mrs. Josephine.

"Ruby doesn't like your mentor. To be precise, she's a little afraid of him, so she doesn't want to be near any place where his smell remains."

Joan thought about it, the mentor did come to his laboratory often to inspect, and it was reasonable to have a smell. I didn't expect Ruby to even care about such a small detail.

From Ruby's fear of her mentor, Joan naturally thought of the somewhat exaggerated joke that the mentor made to Ruby in the carriage on the way to the dance yesterday evening.

Although "Miss Ruby" has the intelligence level of an adult, she is still like a young girl psychologically. She seems to be unable to distinguish between real hostility and jokes. It is a bit funny to be frightened by Professor Moriarty's few words. .

However, in a flash, Qiao An remembered that when he first met Ruby on the top of Bailun Mountain, he had murdered her, which caused her to misunderstand... If Ruby knew his true thoughts at that time, I'm afraid He and the mentor will be regarded as the same thing.

Mrs. Josephine noticed that he was in a daze, and teased with a smile: "When you mention my little Ruby, you become completely out of your mind. Are you thinking about her? Don't be shy to admit that Ruby also likes you very much." .”

Fearing that the misunderstanding would get deeper, Qiao An blushed and shook her head repeatedly, intending to explain, but didn't know where to start.

When he was in an embarrassment, Madam Josephine kindly changed the subject and offered to help him out of the embarrassment.

"Joan, is Trophim also working in this laboratory?"

"The supervisor is in another laboratory. His research topic is 'smallpox virus', and the requirements for the environment are much higher than mine."

The "smallpox virus" is different from the "worm-like virus". The latter can only be transmitted through blood, but the former can be transmitted through the air. Therefore, the working environment of Professor Moriarty must be strictly isolated from the outside world.

After listening to his explanation, Mrs. Josephine nodded, and asked seemingly casually: "It's already here, why don't you go to Trophim's place for a stroll, if you can spare time, can you help me guide the way?"

"Of course I am happy to serve you, but the tutor is still entertaining guests at the moment, and he is not in the laboratory, so you won't be able to see him when you go."

"That's it, then can you tell me which distinguished guest Trophim is accompanying?" Mrs. Josephine looked at Joan with a smile.

Joan opened his mouth, and his face immediately became extremely stiff.

It wasn't until this moment that he realized that he had just said unnecessary words, and he wished he could sew up his troublesome mouth!

However, it was too late to regret it now. Under the gaze of Mrs. Josephine's beautiful and oppressive eyes, he had no choice but to tell the truth.

"The mentor's guest is... Ms. Betty."

Mrs. Josephine frowned slightly, as if searching for the name in her memory, and asked Joan after a while.

"The Ms. Betty you are talking about, do you mean the half-drow warlock of Donning Castle, Betty François Fantine?"

Joan wiped off his cold sweat, nodded and admitted with difficulty.

Mrs. Josephine was still smiling, as if she was pleasantly surprised by the news, she stood up excitedly.

"What a coincidence! Betty and I are old acquaintances. It's a rare chance to meet. Why don't we go and say hello to her?"

"You better not go!"

Joan tried to stop it. However, as soon as the words came out of his mouth, he realized that he had done another stupid thing that backfired.

"Why can't you go?" Mrs. Josephine smiled half-smile, "There must be some...shady business, right?"

Joan really couldn't answer this question, so he simply kept his mouth shut so as not to say the wrong thing again.

"Don't worry, I'm just going to say hello to old friends, I won't get in their way."

Mrs. Josephine picked up her handbag, turned and walked to the door.

Seeing her firm posture, Qiao An knew that she couldn't stop her, so she had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow.

If a fight breaks out later, I'm on the scene, so I can stop it, so as not to cause death.

The two, one behind the other, each with their own thoughts, hurried across the courtyard to the front of the big house.

Before entering the door, Joan heard a burst of hysterical laughter, which floated out from the open window of the bathroom. It was clearly Ms. Betty's voice.

The laughter was so weird that it was almost terrifying, it was really not something a woman with a normal mind could make. Joan couldn't help but stop, wondering what kind of illness she was suffering from.

Mrs. Josephine obviously also heard the movement coming from the room. A look of doubt first flashed across her face, which was soon replaced by an uncontrollable anger. She angrily pushed open the door and rushed in with great strides.

Joan stood blankly at the half-open door, at a loss.

Not long after, Mrs. Josephine yelled angrily in the room, followed by the piercing sound of glass breaking, which frightened him and rushed into the room.

Joan followed the noisy movement, searched all the way, and finally came to the bathroom on the first floor.

Opening the door and looking inside, both Professor Moriarty and Ms. Betty were taking a hot spring bath. Their lower bodies were soaked in the pool water with sulfurous steam, and their faces were obscured by the mist, making them blurry.

Qiao An quickly touched the "prosthetic eye", opened the "fog vision", and at the same time approached the bathing pool to observe the two strange-looking people up close.

The tutor and Ms. Betty, although soaked in the hot spring water, seemed to be lying naked in the freezer, their skin was trembling uncontrollably, so intense that it was almost convulsive.

Their expressions were also indescribably weird. Their emptiness pierced through the angry Mrs. Josephine directly opposite, and cast them to infinity. Facial muscles spasmed from time to time, followed by distorted smiles, as if they were watching a scene. A farce that only the two of them can see.

The scene before him made Joan both worried and confused.

After being dazed for a few seconds, he came back to his senses, and found broken glass scattered around his feet, which seemed to be the wreckage of a wine bottle or a kettle.

In the glass shards, there was also a puddle of light green liquid, exuding a dizzyingly strong fragrance.

Joan was no stranger to this smell, and immediately recognized that it was the special drink "Phantom Dew" in Fort Donning. To put it bluntly, it was a powerful and addictive hallucinogen.

Seeing the phantom dew flowing everywhere, Joan turned back to observe the strange expressions of the mentor and Ms. Betty, and immediately realized that they must have taken too much phantom dew and were in a hallucination state out of reality.

Mrs. Josephine seemed to have a deep abhorrence of such things as "taking drugs". As soon as she entered the door, she grabbed the container containing the phantom dew and smashed it to pieces on the spot.

Professor Moriarty turned a blind eye to this angry uninvited guest, and reached out to grab the medicine bottle, but ended up grabbing a handful of glass shards. His finger was cut and bled, and he still didn't care, and instead grabbed the porcelain cup by the bathtub.