Ellen City is about a hundred kilometers away from Echo City. There is a plain between the two cities, and the road is not bumpy, so this trip is not hard.
However, at the speed of the carriage, they still camped out halfway for one night, and arrived at Ellen City at noon the next day.
Ellen is also a big city. Although it is worse than Echo City, it is still a very prosperous place. When they reached the outskirts of the city, the four carriages separated, and one entered the city every hour. After all, nineteen professionals entered a city at the same time, and they would definitely be questioned and watched. It was better to separate them.
Beta was in the third team and was the last to enter the city. The guards guarding the side of the road just glanced in and saw Beta, who was extravagant and fair-faced and tender, and immediately let him go.
It seemed that the young master of some family brought his subordinates here to play. When encountering such a person, the guards are generally unwilling to be troublesome.
After entering the city, the four of Beta found a hotel to stay in. Although the four teams were separated, they had their own contact methods.
Beta opened two rooms, one for him and Heidi, and one for Robben and Sion.
It's not that Beta wants to take advantage of Heidi, but that he is playing the role of son-in-law now, so it's normal for son-in-law to live in the same room with the female subordinate and enjoy the service of the female subordinate. What's more, the room where Beta lives is an inner bedroom and an outer bedroom. Beta sleeps in the outer bedroom, and Heidi sleeps in it. The two will not have substantial 'contact'.
Robben and Sion didn't have any objection to this. They both knew that Heidi and their employer were lovers, and they didn't make a fuss when they saw Beta and Heidi living in the same room.
Some things are beyond their control. Besides, they don't think Heidi is such a selfish person... If Heidi didn't love himself, they would have kissed Fangze long ago, so why wait until Beta.
After having lunch and taking a little sleep, Beta pretended to take Heidi and Robben out for shopping, while Liusion was guarding in the room.
In fact, this was just an illusion. After they left, Xiong used the thief's invisibility ability to directly turn into a shadow, sneaked out from the back door of the hotel, and went to find Arnold and the others.
Beta strolled around the street, apparently taking the beauties along the street, but in fact, in the process of stopping and going, they gave most of the urban planning of Ellen City and the location of the Temple of Light to Make a note of it.
When he returned to the hotel in the evening, Beta immediately drew the general topographical map of Ellen City from memory on the parchment. There must be some deviations, but Beta's intelligence is as high as ten points, and his memory is definitely better than the other three. Much more, if they draw it, it will be even more unreliable.
After finishing the painting, Xiong also came back quietly. He crept in through the window, then went to Beta's room and knocked on the door. After entering, he closed the door and said in a low voice: "The first group is in the east of the city, the second group In the west of the city, the fourth group stayed at the hotel next to the Temple of Light, and none of them should have attracted the attention of the Temple of Light."
Beta nodded: "The resident population of Ellen City is more than one million, and the number of people entering and leaving every day should be between one hundred thousand. They can't find it. How is the defense at the Temple of Light?"
"It's very tight." Xiong said, "It should be that the news of Payne's death reached them. Just looking at it from the outside, they can feel a tense atmosphere. This mission is a bit troublesome."
Beta smiled and said: "No rush, the city lord gave us a month, and in a few days, their emotions should relax, and then we will think about other things. During this time, if you want to go out and play, go out and play. We have quite a lot of funds for the mission, as long as we don’t spend too much money, it should make everyone’s life more comfortable.”
Robben and Sion laughed a few times. They liked Beta's generous character very much, and Heidi was also smiling.
Each team was allocated a mission fund of 30 gold coins. Nadette was a very generous person, and it could be seen that he had always been generous and generous to his own people.
Beta took out three gold coins from the money bag, divided one for each of them, and let them go out to play by themselves. All three of them accepted with smiles and left the room.
Beta stayed in the room, took out the magic pattern record book, and studied the magic pattern on the black coffin again.
Most player mages have this habit of squeezing some time out to learn new magic knowledge in their free time. After a while, it was completely dark, and Beta stretched his waist. He was a little curious when he heard movement on the balcony next door. He walked to the balcony, and then saw Robben resting on a rocking chair on the balcony next door. .
He turned his head to look at Beta, and smiled embarrassedly: "Your Excellency Cook, are you bothering me?"
Beta waved his hand: "It's okay, I just plan to relax... Didn't you go out with them?"
Robben smiled awkwardly: "I didn't go out, I wanted to save some money."
"Are you planning to save up for marriage?"
Robben smiled even more embarrassedly: "No, it is money saved for the family. I am the eldest in the family, and there are five younger brothers and four younger sisters. My family used to be very poor until I became a professional , that's better."
Ten offspring... Beta twitched the corner of her mouth: "Your parents are really capable of giving birth."
This was a joke in itself, but Robben took it as a compliment: "Yes, my parents are really good at raising children. In our village, the more fertile people are, the more they will be respected by others."
Next, Robben began to talk about his family affairs, such as the fifth younger brother who is very powerful and has the talent to become a professional, a certain younger sister who is very beautiful, similar to Heidi, and so on. Beta listened quietly by the side, very emotional, the little people also have their own emotions, which reminded him of his previous experience in the game.
At the beginning of the game, he and Roland received a mission to help an elderly couple find their son in Lakeside Town.
Roland, who was three years older than him, was unwilling to take this task, but Beta was not very sensible at the time, so he insisted on following it, and pulled Roland, with his own efforts, to find After picking up the young head, he excitedly gave the head to the couple to see what task reward he could get.
As a result... the old couple couldn't bear the shock and fainted on the spot. At night, the old couple woke up, cuddled together, hugged their son's head, calmly lit their small thatched hut, and died in the sea of flames.
However, Beta only got 20 mission experience points, and a penalty of 5 points for the residents' friendliness points.
At that time, Beta was still young and soft-hearted. He stared blankly at the burning hut, and for the first time in his life, his eyes were red and tears flowed for the NPC.
In the following eight years of playing games, he saw too many partings between life and death, which made his heart as hard as steel. Now he can help Nadette and kill Payne, who is also a good man, for the benefit of the Wealth Cult and to weaken the Temple of Light.
Standing is sometimes more important than right or wrong.
Robben talked for almost two hours, and Beta also listened for such a long time, and occasionally interjected and asked a question, which made Robben speak even more vigorously. It can be seen that he has not said so many words for a long time. .
It's normal to think about it. As a shield fighter, Robben usually pays most of the bills for training and maintaining his equipment. He also doesn't seem to fit in well with the team. It's strange that someone is willing to talk to him.
Not long after, Sion and Heidi came back one after another. Sion smelled strongly of cheap rouge powder, while Heidi had a few more beautiful clothes in his hand.
You can tell what the two of them did when they went out.
Xiong smiled a little embarrassedly, and hid in his room, while Heidi showed a displeased expression: "It's obvious that I'm out on a mission, but I'm not willing to save some energy, and I don't know how to adjust my state, what's really going on?" The problem, he was the first to die."
Beta said helplessly: "Don't curse your teammates."
Heidi patted his forehead lightly: "Sorry, I've been in a bad mood these two days."
Beta nodded to express her understanding, without asking further questions. He and Heidi are not close friends, he shouldn't ask these things, otherwise he will be suspected of flirting with girls.
Heidi breathed a sigh of relief, and then went to take a shower. After changing into comfortable pajamas, she sat across from Beta and said, "Cook, I have something to say to you."
Heidi also had a scent after taking a bath, but it was not strong.
Beta put down the parchment in his hand. In Beta's eyes, these magic patterns are all knowledge and power. But in Heidi's eyes, they were all ghostly symbols, and he felt dizzy just by looking at them.
"Well, let's talk."
Heidi took a deep breath: "The city lord asked me to apologize to you on his behalf?"
Beta is a little unclear.
"He sent someone to Laguo County to investigate you." Heidi said helplessly, "You are very capable and powerful. When you first came, the city lord was a little wary of you, so..."
Beta smiled 'understanding': "It doesn't matter, I can understand the actions of the city lord. If it were me, and someone came to join me, I would have to check the other party's background. This is a very normal approach."
Heidi breathed a sigh of relief: "It's great if you can understand, the city lord is afraid that you will have a grudge if you find out... But I really didn't expect that you already have two powerful women by your side, and one of them is a foreigner. "
Hehe, Beta laughed dryly.
"Do you think your woman is more beautiful than mine?"
Heidi squinted her eyes, her eyelashes were long, and she looked quite seductive under the oil lamp.
Beta Yi said without hesitation: "Judy and Angel are more beautiful."
Heidi stood up, walked behind Beta, pressed her upper body on Beta's back, stroked Beta's face with one hand, and said, "Then what's going on now?"
Beta still said without hesitation: "They are more beautiful."
Heidi glanced down and said with a sneer: "The weapons are all out of their sheaths, and they are still standing tall. Don't you feel against your will if you say such things again?"
"This is a normal physiological reaction and cannot be controlled." Beta said with a smile: "But I can control my behavior."
"What a pity, I wanted you to rest in my inner room for the night." Heidi let go of Beta, went back to the inner bedroom, and waved to him before closing the door: "Good night... You changed your mind, You can come to me anytime, I don't mind."
The door to the inner bedroom was gently shut. Beta turned her head and snorted coldly in her heart. Nadette believed in herself, but this woman was still testing herself.
Sometimes he admires a woman's intuition. Although she is not very smart, she can often point to the core of things inexplicably.
In the next few days, Beta and the other three have been wandering around the city, firstly to draw a more accurate topographic map, and secondly to see if they can find out the pattern of action of the target.
After a few days, the terrain map was quite accurate, but the target never appeared once.
Two days later, Beta and Arnold quietly met in a remote hotel: "The target has never come out of the Temple of Light, we are very passive... Cook, you are smarter, what can I do?"
Beta also shook his head helplessly: "This kind of target that hides in its own cave like a turtle is the most difficult to deal with. How about finding a night to attack and strengthen the attack?"
Arnold shook his head: "No, the Temple of Light's defense is very tight, and the storm damage is too great, so it may not be successful. And unlike our Echo City, it is our home field, and we have a great advantage, but this is someone else's territory. Only assassination."
"Don't be in a hurry, there are still more than 20 days before the time set by the city lord, let's wait slowly, opportunities will always come."
Arnold sighed: "I'm afraid that the other party will not leave the Temple of Light for several months."
Facts have proved that Arnold's judgment is correct. The other party is really hiding in the Temple of Light and does not intend to come out. At this time, another ten days passed, and the target still hadn't come out of the temple.
Now, except for Beta, almost everyone became impatient.
The captains of the four teams gathered in the small remote hotel room at the same time. Arnold said helplessly: "The time set by the city lord is less than half a month, but we haven't even seen the shadow of the target person. What do you say?" manage?"
No one answered.
Beta looked left and right, took out a pamphlet from his clothes, and read it: "Bemesy, sixty-two years old, is old-fashioned, stubborn and cautious. He was originally a combat priest. He has a strong fighting ability, is unmarried and has no children, and is said to have a tendency to like little boys."
Everyone froze for a moment, and Arnold asked, "Cook, where did you get this information from?"
"I've been wandering the streets for more than ten days, listening to the words of passers-by, and I wrote them down. These few are more credible."
Everyone was stunned, and they were all a little ashamed.
"There are a few more interesting ones, but they are not very reliable." Beta turned a page and read: "It is said that Bemesy has an ambiguous relationship with the city lord, which may be due to a bayonet relationship. In addition, at the end of each month In those few days, he might have appeared at the home of a noble man named Bulgari, but others said it was just a resemblance, so I don’t know if it’s true.”
Arnold's eyes lit up slightly: "It's the end of the month now."