The all-powerful wife of the wealthy family

Chapter 170 The safest place in the world

Maybe, he has three heads and six arms, Josh thought.

After walking about 50 meters, the line of sight became clear. There are five elevators in the corridor of [-] square meters. The three elevators on the left are blue, black and red from the outside to the inside. The one on the right is yellow, and the one on the inside is yellow. is green.

They got on the yellow elevator, which went to the first to tenth floors of the basement. Arthur pressed six, and Raul muttered: "Brother, didn't you say that this floor was given to me?"

Arthur said: "Josh and Alice are not familiar with this place, please help take care of it, and deal with it if there is anything."

Raul pouted, very dissatisfied with his brother's arrangement, "Why don't you leave it to me if you don't take care of it."

Alice interjected, and said, "Do you have a map or a building map here? We can take care of ourselves and walk around a few more times. We should get familiar with it soon."

Raul glanced at his brother's eyes, and then reluctantly said: "Okay, I don't mind being alone, it's nice to be with you, are you a couple?"

Before Alice could deny it, Josh raised his arms and put Alice in his arms, "What do you think?"

Raul said enviously: "That's great, I'm sorry I have to be a light bulb."

The elevator is fast, and it starts and stops imperceptibly.

There are many rooms on the sixth basement floor, and it is impossible to count how many rooms there are at a glance.

Josh and Alice were taken to the room closest to the elevator, which was a four-bedroom suite, basically a complete home.

Alice went to the bathroom to relieve herself, and found toilet paper neatly stacked on the small counter next to the toilet. This is not a high-end, but still easy-to-use flush toilet.

The sink is clean and clean. After washing her hands, Alice opened the long vertical cabinet to look for towels. As soon as the cabinet door was opened, the light bulb embedded in the door lit up. The brightness was moderate, and all the items inside could be seen clearly without making people feel Dazzling, when I took a closer look, there were dozens of washed and dried white towels inside, and two white cotton bathrobes were hung.

Alice thought to herself, I don't know if every room is decorated like this, if so, it can really be regarded as a high-quality five-star hotel.

Arthur is the most meticulous man she has ever seen, and only such a man who is meticulous in everything can make good use of his perfect intelligence and make inventions that span the ages.

When Alice entered the bathroom, Arthur and Lauer had already left the room. Josh was sitting on the sofa in the main living room, and was also observing the house. There was really no mess. Properly placed in the best place.

At first glance, the room is very empty, and there are not many things stored except for the necessary furniture, but upon closer inspection, there are everything that should be there, and there are not many things at all, but they are placed very scientifically, taking into account human habits The line of sight and field of vision, so resulting in a clean, bright effect.

The only thing that is not in harmony with this room is the pile of luggage at the door. Large and small luggage packages are lying on the ground in a mess.

Josh has been taken care of by his grandmother since he was a child. He has never cleaned up the room or done housework. Alice lives in the research center all year round. Strictly speaking, she does not have her own home and has never lived a normal life. It can be difficult for two people to do it.

If the house itself was messy, it would not appear so discordant if these things were placed casually, but now in such an abnormally clean place, it is impossible to do as one pleases.

Alice came out, sat cross-legged next to the luggage, and said, "What should I do?"

Josh scratched his head, and finally decided to give up on keeping Arthur's style, "Let's be ourselves, easy."

Alice thought about it, took out all the things in the backpack in the box, took a deep breath, as if she had made a big decision, and said, "That's no challenge! Actually, how difficult it can be. "

"It's not that difficult, it will never be more difficult than your aviation training."

"So, I decided to learn Arthur's life spirit and start from scratch."

Josh suddenly stood up and said, "I'm with you!"

Then, the two found a room with a door to door, and went back to sleep.

Arthur likes soft aromas, especially the elegant scent of jasmine, rose and green tea. Put it in the bathroom and carry it with you.

He gave this taste a good name, called "Mom".

This smell is the smell of his mother, he called this scent his mother's fragrance.

Mama fragrance can refresh him when he is sleepy, help him sleep when he is insomnia, just like mother is by his side, when you are tired and weak, hug you and kiss you.

When you can't fall asleep, sing you a lullaby, pat your back, and lull you to sleep.

When Arthur was young, he thought that there would be no chaos in a house with a mother, so he kept the room spotless every day, as if there was a mother in the house, and he did it all.

And Lauer told Arthur that Zelle never cleaned up the room, "Zelle throws away clothes, shoes, and smelly socks every time she comes back from the bar, and I have to clean up every time. Did we inherit our father? !"

"how could I know."

Seeing the portraits hanging on the wall that occupy one of the walls, Raul asked, "Did you find her?"

Arthur would watch her for hours every day, until he saw that her appearance was getting blurred, and he began to wonder if his memory had made a mistake, maybe her eyes weren't so big, maybe her nose wasn't so big. Wider, maybe her lips have grown fuller, maybe she's gotten fatter, or maybe she's gotten thinner...

Arthur seemed to see the thin girl in front of the counter of the small bookstore again, still the same as before, in the memory he played repeatedly.

The sound of glass breaking interrupted Arthur's memory.

Raul dropped the glass of juice on the floor. This wild log floor was shipped from the Far East of Russia. Although the texture is fine, it is not corrosion-resistant. Arthur has been taking care of it carefully, although he has done anti-corrosion The treatment, but in the wet underground, still can not be careless.

At that time, Arthur fell in love with the yellow-white birch wood, just because it was similar in color to the bookshelves in the small bookstore, which made him feel a sense of security and belonging.

Raul knew his brother very well, knew he had made a mistake, stuck out his tongue, ran quickly to get a mop and towel to clean the floor, and finally dried the area that was just stained with green juice with hot air.

Raul asked his brother, "Aren't you worried that they'll rot the house?"

"Of course I'm worried, so I let them live on your floor. They broke the house, and I'll ask you to settle the score."

Raul knew Arthur's high standards, utterly perverted standards.

The bright tiles in the bathroom should be kept dry at all times. After being stained with water, they must be wiped carefully with a pure cotton towel to maintain its soft touch and crystal clear vision.

The books in the small cream-white bookshelves next to the bed and sofa must always be arranged in order from small to large. The inner board made of fiberboard must not be contaminated with dust. After the dust has accumulated, it will be too late to wipe it. , that tender milky white color will never return to its original appearance.

The chest of drawers, which are also dominated by milky white and framed with catalpa wood, should also be carefully looked after.

The rooms are all underground, so there are no windows and no sunlight, but people can't smell a little damp and moldy smell inside, which shows that there is good ventilation here. The most difficult point in the building, and the most important part of daily maintenance in the future, are the air vents. Every room has at least one air inlet and one air outlet.

On the sixth floor where Raul lives and the seventh floor where Arthur usually lives, there are an average of three air inlets and two air outlets in the rooms. The air that comes in carries Arthur’s mother’s fragrance and the tea fragrance of jasmine and rose. It is intoxicating and refreshing, but it is not so pleasant to clean the air outlet. There is often a lot of dust deposited there very quickly, so it has to be scrubbed more than three times a day, and it takes a long time each time. This is The one place Lauel least liked to clean up was the one Arthur was most obsessed with.

Arthur did not neglect to set up a spacious and bright kitchen for each suite. With good ventilation, oil fume is not a problem, but the treatment of oil fume is several levels higher than the difficulty of dust. Raul usually If he doesn't cook in the house, this trouble is less. Although Arthur cooks and cooks by himself, he always cleans his room by himself, but Raul doesn't know if Josh and Alice will cook in the room. He can rely on Snacks to satisfy the hungry stomach, and occasionally go to my brother's place for some hot meals, but Josh and Alice can't always eat fast food, or often go to eat the meals made by Arthur, then they need to cook by themselves, if cooking If so, then... soot... headache...

……

Raul felt that he was alone and didn't care so much. Josh and Alice's room still needed to be tidied up by themselves, so he went to knock on their room. Both of them just woke up, and the messy luggage store It was worse than imagined, and Lawrence suddenly felt his temples throbbing non-stop.

Raul explained these rules clearly one by one, and Alice took a small notebook seriously and recorded them carefully one by one, like a schoolboy who listens carefully. Raul was very relieved, it seems that he only needs to Come over and have a look and check for loopholes.

After Raul left, Josh smiled and asked Alice, "Can you do it?"

Alice smiled silly, she was also very skeptical about her ability to do housework, "Try it."

"They are demanding enough."

"High standards and strict requirements can produce outstanding apprentices."

Josh suddenly remembered the training in the research center, "When you trained us before, the standard was also high. You had a serious face at that time, didn't you pretend?"

Alice said seriously, "Of course not."

Josh said: "I don't know if there is a smoking area in this building. If Cui Nana comes, she will probably live next to the smoking area."

Alice divided the laundry into four categories: dark-colored, light-colored, red, and hand-washed, and said while tidying up: "If there is no one, I think Cui Nana will refuse to live here."

Josh was sitting opposite Alice, looking at Alice intently. At this moment, it seemed that she had become his wife. They were doing housework and chatting relaxedly on the weekend, "No, I think Cui Nana will live here , and then smoke in the room regardless of Arthur's permission."

Alice laughed: "As a result, she was kicked out."

"Then Dennis moved out with him."

Neither Josh nor Alice mentioned the disappearance of Cui Nana. They were afraid that if they said it, it would add meaningless depression. In their hearts, they prayed for Cui Nana's safety and the early return of Dennis and Cui Nana.

According to Raul, this 90.00-story underground building can withstand an earthquake of magnitude [-]. It sounds incredible, but it is true, because this building has passed the test of earthquake expert Carney, who once worked for the Italian Many high-rise buildings have been evaluated. In the [-] Messina earthquake, [-]% of the eight houses were damaged in this [-]-magnitude earthquake, and that resisted [-]% of the earthquake. Among the houses in the country, there are houses that Carney evaluated as being able to withstand an earthquake of magnitude [-].And among those buildings that unfortunately collapsed, none of them passed Carney's [-] rating.

Because of his accurate evaluation, Carney became a popular figure in Eastern Europe at that time, and was labeled as an earthquake expert. In fact, he was not an earthquake researcher, but an architect. However, due to his advanced architectural ideas, he was not recognized by others. Accepted, so he was once regarded as a clown figure in the construction industry.

Maybe people's fate has always been a joke. In order to survive, Carney gave up his beloved construction career and devoted himself to the study of earthquakes.

In the process of building the secret base, Arthur never thought about testing its ability to resist earthquakes, because Vienna is not on the earthquake zone, and the possibility of a major earthquake is very small. Occasionally, in order to build a base by himself, Arthur went to the bookstore to find some related books to learn. It happened that Carney was also reading books in front of the architecture bookshelf. Help, and based on trust in him, Arthur told Carney about the secret base. Carney helped solve many theoretical and technical problems in the later period, and also did a lot of hard work.

So before Josh and Alice came to the base, Carney was one of the three people who knew about this place, the other two were the designer Raul, and the builder and owner Arthur.

To the east of the underground building is a large lawn, which is where ST-1 landed. It can be seen that the lawn is carefully taken care of. I don’t know where Arthur got so much energy. In addition to his work as a teacher and research work, he spent So much energy was devoted to these insignificant things, and he was still being followed and hunted by many people.

There is a flower bush in the south, full of jasmine and roses, and tea trees are planted in the dense forest in the distance. I don’t know what magic Arthur has cast on them. Open, one wave after another, forming such a lush and lush scene, exuding a soft fragrance.The same is true for the tea trees, which are lush and green. They do not flinch in the drizzle, in the cold wind, or in the cold night. They thrive tenaciously in this land that was not suitable for them.

Everything here has a strong Arthur temperament, and everything that is impossible is really possible here.

Raul led Josh and Alice for a walk in the grass and flowers outside the base.

Josh asked Lauer: "I pick a rose, will Arthur agree?"

"will not."

After hearing this, Josh bent down and plucked one, pinning it behind Alice's ear.

Raul widened his eyes and said, "I'm not wrong, I said that Arthur would not agree... Well, you heard me right..."

"No, you said he would not agree, I heard it."

"Then you still..."

Josh looked at Alice, and said to Lauer, "Don't you think the flower becomes more beautiful when it's pinned on Alice's head?"

Raul looked disgusted, braving the acetic acid smell of a single dog: "Meimeimei, she is the most beautiful, she is your woman, not my woman, beauty has nothing to do with me, but if I don't like these flowers of Arthur , he will clean me up."

Alice smiled and asked, "How to clean up?"

Raul thought about it and said, "I don't know."

Josh: "I don't know? How could I not know?"

Raul: "I don't live here often, and I never make mistakes in front of him, how do I know what he will do to me."

Alice: "Then how do you know he will clean you up?"

Raul: "Of course he told me, he often told me, if you do something wrong, you should punish me."

No matter what, he was still a child after all, just like those children who beat their breasts and stamped their feet in front of their favorite candy and toys, innocent and cute.

It was getting dark, and at the strong request of Josh and Alice, Raul led them to other floors of the underground base with Arthur's consent.

Josh and Alice were shocked by its luxury. There should be no such building in the 21st century, or such a building can never be made public and exhibited in the world.

They shuttled in elevators of different colors and became dizzy after a while.

Josh asked, "Raul, did you design these?"

Raul nodded proudly, "How about it, isn't it good?"

Josh admits that this is a masterpiece, but it's too perverted.

Raul said: "As long as my brother is in this building, no matter how many people chase him in, they will not be able to catch him. This is the best place to protect my brother. He can sleep well here alone, because as long as someone ventures If you break in, you will touch the secret organ and wake up the owner here."

Alice asked: "Then we have been here for a day, why haven't we touched any secret organs?"

"Whoever said you didn't touch it, I don't know how many times. It's just that my brother saw who triggered the switch, so he just turned it off. Fortunately, you didn't wander around at night, otherwise my brother would not be able to sleep at all. "

Raul did not elaborate on where these organs are, how they are triggered, and how they always remind Arthur in the room that there are outsiders.

However, this is indeed a house that looks warm and tidy, but in fact it can definitely be called a house with iron walls.

"So, don't worry, this is definitely the safest place in the world. People can't get in, and ordinary earthquakes can't knock it down."

Josh sighed: "It's a fight with Noah's Ark."

"It's bigger and more luxurious than Noah's Ark," Lauer said.

Arthur was under tremendous pressure, but he never collapsed, because he had a belief that supported him. His belief was not in the design of the shuttle, or in becoming a great man who would last forever, although he could do it.

His beliefs are his mother and Zelle. Maybe Lauer subconsciously has the same beliefs as his brother, so when he was beaten, he didn't resist at all.

If one day, the days of the two brothers return to tranquility and peace, they want to take their mother to their side, live in a small warm room, bask in the sun, drink coffee, eat snacks, and chat with each other.

They were all looking forward to this day, but the more they saw it, the more they looked forward to it, the farther it was.

Alice asked Raul: "Why are there so many elevators installed, one is not enough."

Raul led the two into the blue elevator, pressed down on the [-]th floor, and explained: "It's so convenient to escape, people who are not familiar with this place will be trapped, so even if they chase them, Arthur will have a way to escape, no As for being blocked in the base."

It wasn’t until Josh and Alice walked around that they truly realized what it means to come in and not get out. Raul’s brain circuit is really not something that ordinary people can have. It seems that the structure of the sixth floor is the most common and simplest , the design of other floors is simply a complicated maze, and you will feel dizzy after turning around.

Except for the yellow elevator, the others can reach the ground floor, but these four elevators are scattered in different corners of the [-]th floor underground, corresponding to four different rooms, including the chemical laboratory, medicine storage room, gunpowder depot and In the operating room, each room is oval and has at least six doors. The overall light on this floor is very dark. Raul can control the turn on and brightness of each light through the dial on his wrist. The light and dark of the light bulbs in different positions can be controlled It brings temporary confusion to people's sight, and makes people feel dizzy and confused for a moment.

Josh couldn't help sighing: "It's amazing!"

Raul shook his head triumphantly, "This is my masterpiece, but it's amazing that Arthur can make all of my designs."

Alice smiled and asked, "Then who do you think is stronger, you or your brother?"

Raul didn't even think about it, and said, "Of course it's me. Without my careful design, how could he have made it?"

In addition to elevators, there are also stairs between some floors. For example, from the [-]th floor underground, you can go to the [-]th floor underground. This floor is full of bloody and violent atmosphere, and it is glowing red.

Alice felt a chill down her spine, and hurriedly asked, "What is this floor for?"

Josh put Alice half in his arms and followed behind Raul.

Raul turned his head slowly, got a miniature flashlight from nowhere, illuminated his grimacing face from bottom to top, and said in a gloomy voice, "This is a haunted house..."

Alice is also a person who has experienced many times of life and death. How could she be really frightened by these ghosts? After realizing Raul's prank, Alice suddenly stuffed her cold hands into the back of Raul's neck, and at the same time squeezed out a horrible hoarse voice. Said: "You give me back..."

The headlights in the room suddenly turned on, and Raul said with a sad face, "Ang, Alice, you scared me to death!"

Josh laughed and said, "Obviously you started to scare us first, okay?"

Raul said coquettishly: "I was teasing you, how come you are serious."

Alice patted Raul on the shoulder and asked, "Are you afraid of ghosts?"

"kindness……"

Alice: "Afraid of ghosts and pretending to be ghosts to scare me?"

The room that looked like a haunted house just now, after all the warm lights were turned on, turned into a warm cottage with a Mediterranean style. The overall color is light yellow and matcha green, like a room for a cute little girl.

"My sister Joy must like this room very much." Josh suddenly missed Joy very much, he thought, Joy must be counting the time for him to go home every day.

Raul sat down on the big springy Simmons bed, nestled the soft pillow in his arms, sunk half of his face in it, and said, "Arthur wants to have a daughter in the future, so this is a model room designed."

Alice remembered the red lights before, and asked Raul, "What was the atmosphere in the haunted house just now?"

Raul laughed and said: "I'm going to scare those who come to look for the design draft, because there is one hidden in this floor, I got dizzy in the base, and I was afraid and anxious, and then lost in this gloomy room." How can I find the very hidden blueprints."

Alice asked: "Is there more than one blueprint hidden in the base?"

Lauer replied: "Of course there are more than one."

Under the leadership of Raul, he turned left and right to the green elevator, walked up one floor, and came to the eighteenth floor underground.

As soon as the elevator door is opened, the eyes are full of partitions one after another. If you take a closer look, the partitions are filled with precious calligraphy and paintings, porcelain, jade, ancient books, sculptures and other collectibles.

Josh's grandmother is also a collector. However, due to financial constraints, she buys and hides less. She mostly serves as a consultant for some businessmen who are interested in collecting. She has also seen it in several large auctions at home and abroad. There are many authentic works, the most impressive one is "Di Zhu Ming" seen at the [-]th Anniversary Spring Auction of BJ Poly in [-]. This volume of calligraphy works scattered among the people is the work of Huang Tingjian in the Northern Song Dynasty.

This representative of the calligraphy world in the Northern Song Dynasty is from Xiushui, Jiangxi, and the founder of the Jiangxi School. Josh’s grandmother admired and admired him very much. It is a great blessing to be able to see his authentic works from a distance. After returning from BJ, After talking to Josh for a full year, Josh was able to recite all of Huang Tingjian's works.

This "Pillar of Inscription", which was hammered at [-] million in [-], suddenly appeared in Arthur's secret underground base at this moment, which surprised Josh.

"This is a fake, right?"

Raul tilted his head and looked again and again, with a confused look on his face, "I don't understand these things, and Arthur probably doesn't understand much either, maybe it's for him to pass the time."

Raul raised his eyebrows treacherously, and continued: "It's true, most of them must be fakes, the real ones are so easy to get, but the fakes here are not ordinary things."

Josh nodded, fully agreeing, "This, "The Inscription of the Mainstay", should not be genuine."

Raul asked, "Why?"

Josh: "Intuition."

Raul: "Che—"

Alice stared at a scrawny figurine and said, "Raul, what did you say about Arthur? Killing the time? Doesn't his time look like ours, isn't he 24 hours a day? Doesn't he sleep every day?" Is it?"

This is what Raul envied Arthur the most, "He is extremely efficient in doing things, I don't understand, usually people with quick brains, the physical fitness is not very good, how come he has a strong mind and good physical fitness , God is so unfair." Raul suddenly thought of something, and said: "I can't say it's fair, hey..."

No matter how much Arthur has, he still lacks the most precious and important thing, which is his mother, that is, maternal love.

Perhaps the lack of maternal love has brought him wisdom and stamina. Arthur, who lacks maternal love and needs to face a bleak life alone, is too pitiful, so God bestowed him with all other extreme talents.

Raul walked up to Alice and said, "I know this, Arthur did it himself."

Josh exclaimed: "My God, why is it so similar to "The Instructor"!"

"What? What's that?" Raul asked.

Alice also looked at Josh curiously.

"That's the most expensive sculpture in history. It sold for more than [-] million dollars, but it's not right." Josh did the math, but the time was wrong.

Raul asked, "What's wrong?"

""The Instructor" is the work of a Swiss sculptor. He is only in his teens now, so it is impossible for him to have completed "The Instructor". Could it be that he did it when he was a child? How could Arthur make this?"

"How do I know, my brother probably has the head of an alien. You all came from another dimension, nothing is impossible, he might be a mutant from an alien planet..."

Alice smiled and said, "Then you must be too. When you look in the mirror, you are exactly the same as your brother."

Raul touched his face, looked at himself in the bronze mirror next to him, and couldn't help becoming narcissistic, "Why am I so handsome..."

"Cough cough..."

"..."

Alice said suddenly: "This floor should hide at least one design drawing."

Raul swallowed, and said, "Don't worry about it all the time. After finding everything, I will definitely let you take it away. Arthur means what he says, don't worry."

Alice has nothing to worry about, coming here has exceeded their expectations.

Later, Josh and Alice could no longer remember how the elevator worked. They generally walked from the bottom [-] floors to the upper floors, but Raul would think of something halfway and took them back to the previous shopping mall. The places I passed by, like this, after several times, I became more and more ignorant.

In addition to the [-]th floor where the collections are kept, what Josh was most impressed with was the [-]th and [-]th floors, because these two floors are the library, where all kinds of books are placed, regardless of major and category, although Just passing by, I also found many books that I wanted to feast my eyes on.

"How do we get here from the sixth floor where we live?" Josh asked Raul.

"It's easy to handle. You can take the yellow elevator down to the tenth floor, and then change to the blue elevator to get there directly. You can get to the fifteenth and sixteenth floors. You can read the books here. The only requirement is to read the books after reading." Insert it back to the original position intact. Otherwise, Arthur will not be able to find it, and he will run away."

Josh nodded happily, and said briskly, "OK, no problem."

Alice asked: "On the tenth floor, after getting out of the yellow elevator, can you see the blue elevator at a glance?"

Raul said: "Oh, yes, you can't see it at a glance. Let me tell you first. After getting out of the yellow elevator, you can walk along the gray wall until you reach the blue elevator."

It's really strange, Josh looked incomprehensible, "Is this what you had when you designed it, or did Arthur think of it when he built the house?"

"Such a smart design, of course, was in my original design draft, and Arthur just followed it."

Sure enough, they are two brothers. Not only do they look alike, but their brains are also abnormal.

Alice herself did not expect that the most impressive thing was the gymnasium on the ninth floor underground. It may be too long since she has not exercised well. She is lazy and always lacks energy. She should start to resume fitness. Here It really has everything, except for standard football fields and golf courses that occupy a particularly large area, or pole vaults that require a particularly high height, there are basically everything else you can think of, such as horizontal bars, parallel bars, and treadmills. Dumbbells, punching bags, boxing rings, and more.

"Shall we come over to play later?" Alice raised an eyebrow at Josh excitedly.

Josh was also very interested, "Okay, let's compete?"

Alice shook the corners of her eyes confidently, "Don't cry if you lose."

Josh looked down at Alice in a condescending posture, showing his height, then patted his chest, showed off his strong muscles, and said, "Anyway, I can't compare to you in the test of skill, but the confrontation in strength , must be stronger than you."

"Really?..." Alice stretched out her hand to touch Josh's muscle, and nodded, it's not bad.

However, after the comparison, we will know the result.

Raul and Arthur are very interested in the contest between the two people who are very disparate in height and figure. Naturally, they are not optimistic about Alice, because they have never seen the Alice in the research center, only the petite and fair American girl. Pretty Alice.

But soon, they will see the real King Kong Barbie.

"Josh, what is the project you are most confident in?"

Josh pointed to the horizontal bar not far away and said, "Pull-ups."

Alice smiled lightly, and said: "Well, if it takes too long to compare endurance, I guess it won't be a problem for you to do it for a few hours, because I am the same, then let's compare speed, Arthur, Raul, what do you set up?" Set a time, and we will see who does more during this time. Josh, is it okay?"

"Of course." Josh looked at Raul and Arthur.

Arthur didn't express his opinion, Raul thought for a while and said, "Let's do it for an hour, the people we see will be bored to death if you do it for too long, but Alice, can you do it for an hour?"

Alice raised one corner of her mouth and moved her neck and shoulders.

(End of this chapter)