The corpse collector's wooden house was very dilapidated and very dark. The whole room has no windows, and the atmosphere is stale. As soon as the door was closed, there was a hole in it. When the cold wind blows outside the house, the wooden boards of the house creak, as if they collapse at any time.
There was no bed in the house, and a dozen corpse collectors fell asleep on the cold ground. They lay piles of hay and got in to sleep, but the cold wind still blew in from the cracks in the planks, and the person who was blowing stiffened.
The fuel of Banshee Fort is generally dependent on wood, but logging is hard physical work. For heating and daily life, the surrounding areas of the city are cut and bare, so the fuel is very expensive.
The poor cannot burn firewood, they can only burn what they have. The cheapest is the excrement of large animals. This thing is too smokey to burn, and it can choke people indoors. But as a corpse collector, there is no choice at all, either frozen to death or smoked to death.
Adrian's eyes burst into tears when he was smoked in the corpse collector's cabin. He thought to himself that he was not a delicate person in the past, so why couldn't he stand it
After thinking for a moment, it can only be that the life of Coldwind City has been greatly improved, and the bottom of Banshee Castle is not as good as a dog.
The corpse collector’s lunch is a batter, the cheapest food on the market. This thing can't see what it was originally, but the taste is hard to say.
Adrian has eaten many unpalatable things in the past. But his meal today is definitely the most unpalatable, not one of them.
"You have had a hard time." Adrian put down the broken wooden bowl in his hand and took out a silver coin from his pocket. "Can I still buy food in the city now?"
"Yes. Go to Master Buche's grain store, but we never can afford it. These batters are issued to us by the city hall. They are a bit unpalatable, but the advantage is that they don't need money.
The youngest among the corpse collectors spoke. He is about eleven or twelve years old, thin and small, and the wooden bowl in his hand has been cleaned long ago.
The old corpse collector next to him saw Adrian's silver coin and shook his head: "We usually only use copper coins. If we use silver coins to buy food, the sheriff will definitely think it was stolen. Unless... he divides him in half. ."
This situation is really not surprising, the normal operation of the noble dog leg.
Adrian thought about how his lord did it—as long as His Excellency Hugo is free, he must ride his mechanical dragon to patrol everywhere, wandering in and out of the city.
Propaganda, education, removal, the lord forcefully reformed the bureaucratic public service system. In order to express the difference from the past, the sheriff of Coldwind City even changed his name and called the policeman.
Looking at the situation in Banshee Castle, Adrian could only shook his head, and took out a few more coins from his pocket to the corpse collector, asking them to change to copper coins to buy some food.
"Take it, you can live only if you are full, and you can escape to Coldwind City to live a good life."
More than a dozen corpse collectors were very grateful, took the silver coins carefully, and vowed to do their best to be loyal to Your Excellency Hugo. Adrian was smiling on his face, but shook his head in his heart. He told the corpse collector a few words before leaving.
Coldwind City didn't want to fight, but reality forced it to expand. In order to give the Bouche family a back blow when the war broke out, the erosion and penetration of Banshee Fort was officially started half a year ago.
Adrian is responsible for this, specifically looking for potential allies within the enemy. From the noble family to the traffickers, any group that is dissatisfied with the Buche family is his contact object.
Coldwind City specially trained a spy team, with hundreds of people sneaking into various cities in the Northland. There are more than one hundred Banshee fort as a key point, and nearly two thousand insiders of different levels have been developed.
At present, there are more than a dozen safe houses and dozens of different routes in the Banshee Fort. The intelligence network is expanding in the city like mercury.
The corpse collector's hut is an intelligence point. It is not noticed here and is discriminated against. With a little publicity, the corpse collectors who are living in extreme hardship will fall to Coldwind City in an all-round way. They actually only eat for one bite and don't think much about anything else.
Adrian established this intelligence point to complete the task assigned by the lord-to execute the Baron Bishop who committed war crimes.
Six months ago, Bishop led thousands of troops into the territory of Coldwind City. During the stationing in Dense Mist Town, many of its troops caused the appalling incident of slaughtering the village.
Of the more than 2,000 people in Dense Mist Town, one-third of them died under Bishop’s direct troops. Rape, robbery, arson, massacre, all kinds of accusatory crimes are related to him.
Victor Hugo issued a lord's order in Coldwind City, tried Bishop's death sentence in absentia, and offered 10,000 gold coins as a reward for the life of the baron.
This Lordship Order was published in the Coldwind City newspaper a few months ago. But unlike other policies that have aroused heated discussions, this order has not received much attention at all. Everyone regards it as His Excellency Hugo.
Bishop is powerful and protected by his side, and he is still in the Banshee Fort. How can he be killed if he wants to kill? Even the adventurers in the North, who regard wealth as their fate, are not interested.
But if you don't take it seriously, it doesn't mean that this order will not be implemented.
Adrian spent half a year weaving a net in Banshee Fort, not only to obtain information and establish an underground front, but also to kill Bishop when the time was right.
The Bouche family is a city, and the baron is the highest title that the family can confer. Eliminating Bishop from the enemy’s nest will inevitably cause a huge psychological shock.
Bishop was known for his brutality and brutality among the nobles. He made a lot of credit for the Butcher family. Suppressing riots, clearing out dissidents, arbitrarily levying extravagance, every meritorious service means a large number of deaths, and there are countless people who hate him.
To get rid of such a goal is conducive to gathering people's hearts, and it will inevitably suffer wild revenge from the Bouche family. Adrian planned to accomplish this for a long time, but he didn't pay attention until he established contact with the corpse collector.
Leaving the corpse collector's hut, Adrian walked slowly around the streets of the city in a rotten robe. This city is much larger than Coldwind City, and each district is relatively independent.
The Bouche family used to be very rich, and urban construction was better than Coldwind City. Most of the buildings on both sides of the street are made of stone, which is strong and durable, and has better warmth retention than wood.
In the past, people wanted to live in Banshee Castle, because the living conditions and job opportunities here were much better than those in Cold Wind City, and it gathered talents and funds. Now... .. slightly changed.
After going around a few commercial streets twice, making sure that no one was following him, Adrian arrived at the back door of a furniture store in the city. This is the private business of a small nobleman who made a lot of money by buying finished wood from the north.
The furniture store is three stories high, with a small attic on the roof of the back door. Someone was staring behind the wooden windows of the attic, and seeing Adrian appeared, the people in the store prepared with pre-plans.
The back door opened, and two shop associates came out and passed Adrian. The former will walk around in the nearby streets to ensure that no one is watching, and be alert to the movement outside. The latter didn't greet him and walked directly in.
Because the Buche family blocked the border, cheap materials from the north were not available in the shop, and business was bleak. A few apprentice carpenters were chatting, not much to look at outsiders coming in.
Adrian walked through the backyard, and a man in a black robe was waiting. He quickly exclaimed: "Master Mondino, are you here too?"
The black-robed man raised his head slightly, revealing a half-skeleton face, "Your lord has received your plan of action, and he approved it.
But considering that Bishop is not an ordinary goal, I will send you support. Not only me, but Old Bank, and..., Meow Meow. "
Behind the Necromancer's chief, was Old Bank, who was once again the chief prophecy of Coldwind City. There was a black cat licking its paw on the table behind Old Bank.
This team is quite luxurious, obviously it is going to make a big noise.