The smell of the sewer was extremely bad. In order not to disturb the fluctuation of magic power and alarm the enemy, even the water mirror technique was useless, so Beta and Heidi carefully searched in the sewer.
After checking the east and west sewers, no landlord was found. They came to the sewers in the northern outskirts of the city and were about to go in, but Beta suddenly grabbed Heidi. He silently pointed to the cover of the sewers, under the bright moonlight , there is a long dark golden hair reflecting a slight light.
Around the manhole cover, there are some very inconspicuous footprints.
Although the priests have deliberately concealed their whereabouts and tried to eliminate their footprints, they are not professional anti-reconnaissance personnel after all.
Beta has its own Yunlong pupil, which can see places that ordinary people cannot see, and Heidi is an archer, and archers have another name... hunter.
Her reconnaissance and tracking abilities are not weak.
"One, two... six." Heidi observed carefully for a while, and said, "Six pairs of different footprints, one pair of footprints is smaller, it should be the female paladin, and the other pair of footprints is particularly heavy, it should be Carrying something, I guess it's Lux."
Heidi came to this conclusion after glancing around for a while on the ground that seemed perfectly normal to ordinary people.
The gap between professional and non-professional is that big.
Then the two left. Since they knew that the enemy was probably hiding in this place, there was no need to be tempted by them.
After leaving a certain range here, Heidi asked: "Shall we go back to the Santo's Mansion now and report this place to Nadette?"
Beta thought for a while and said, "Don't you find it strange?"
"Huh?" Heidi snorted softly with his nose. Although it was a questioning tone, there was a strange sense of temptation in his low voice.
"It stands to reason that in addition to the powerful thieves and archers in our team, other noble families and even the army should also have people who are good at scouting." Beta's tone eased, and said: "The ability of priests to hide their tracks is not important. Not strong, but why only we found it."
Heidi froze for a moment.
Beta continued: "It's not so much that they can't find it, it's better to say that they deliberately don't want to find it."
Heidi understood, and there was a murderous look in his eyes: "Someone is secretly targeting Nadette?"
Beta sighed: "It's a very normal thing, no matter what age, no matter what plane, there are fewer people who give charcoal in a timely manner, and more people who fall into trouble."
Heidi sneered twice, as if thinking of something bad, and then said: "It is indeed like this, so what should we do next?"
"We don't need to show up, stay in the dark, we can help Nadette more easily." Beta looked at the bright moon in the night sky, and said: "But we have to quietly tell him the news that the priests are hiding here, for example A long-distance arrow teaser or something."
"Do you want me to pass one to you too." Heidi gave Beta a charming look.
no…
Nadette was sitting in the study, superficially quiet, but in his heart he was already very anxious.
The daughter has not been found yet, and the deadline given by the paladin is only two days. Anyone who faces such a predicament will feel restless.
'call out'
An arrow shot through the window and impaled on the wall to his right.
Nadette grabbed the long sword on the table at the same time, but then relaxed because he saw a white paper tied to the middle of the arrow.
Walking over, he took down the arrow, opened the paper, and smiled in surprise. It turned out that Heidi and Cook had returned. Although Arnold, who he trusts more, has not yet returned, both Cook and Heidi are quite capable.
As for Cook, after observing some time ago, he is very clear that this young man has great abilities.
Especially now his judgment about the two hiding and acting in secret made Nadette feel that this young man has quite good intuition and comprehension whether it is his own grasp of the combat situation or the political situation.
Perth is also a spellcaster, but compared with Cook, he is crushed in all directions.
Sure enough, compared with the wild mages, the starting point and upper limit of academic mages are much higher.
With the good news, Nadette was in a better mood. He rubbed his pockets, leaned against the chair, closed his eyes and meditated. After a while, there was a knock on the door outside, he called in, and the door was pushed open.
Ashish walked in, dragging a man with a cloth bandage around his mouth, who was screaming.
Seeing this man, Nadette had obvious anger on his face: "Let him talk."
The dirty cloth towel was ripped off the man's mouth.
Nadette looked at him coldly, and said, "Ralph, I'm curious why you betrayed me. I think I've treated you well. Do you think you can escape? Can it keep you?"
Ralph's legs had already been broken. He sat on the ground with a pale face, looked up at Nadette, and said with a wry smile, "City Master, I didn't betray you, I just targeted your vicious daughter."
Upon hearing this, Nadette couldn't help bursting into anger. He threw a book and smashed it on Ralph's forehead. Then roar.
"Lax is my daughter. Whether she is vicious or not is up to me to decide. As my servant, you violated my wishes. Isn't this what betrayal is?"
No matter what Nadette said, he was also talking about a soldier. His strength was not high enough.
Ralph's head was hit hard, and his whole body fell to the ground. Not only was the place where he was hit bloody, but his head was also buzzing, and his eyes were pitch black. It took him a while to wake up, and he could barely see.
Nadette sat in a chair and waited for Ralph to wake up. Seeing that he opened his eyes, he said, "Ralph, why, tell me a reason. If it makes sense, I might spare your life."
"Hehehe, I was mentally prepared to be caught and executed by you. I don't need you to be hypocritical." Ralph sneered and sat up: "But for the sake of your pity, I will tell you The reason. Because I am afraid of your daughter, she is too vicious, maybe she is very well-behaved in front of you, at most she is a bit coquettish, but that is just an illusion, since she was ten years old, she has already started killing people. "
"It's impossible!" Nadette was a little startled, but still didn't quite believe it: "Since you know, why didn't you tell me."
"I told you." Ralph smiled bitterly: "When she was twelve years old, she quietly killed a beautiful girl with outsiders. Because there is no conclusive evidence, I only mentioned it in front of you. This matter, but you didn't take it seriously, a few days later, my eldest daughter disappeared. Since then, I never dared to mention her, nor did I dare to behave abnormally."