The two brothers squatted at the street corner, which attracted many passers-by's glances. After all, Alphonse's armor was too conspicuous. After reading the list, Edward started playing Hache. It seemed that more than half the time had passed by now. It's almost an hour, why hasn't Tiya come out yet? ,
"Hey~Al~Tiya hasn't come out yet?"
"Not yet, brother~"
Alphonse stared intently at the door of the store. Tiya had not come out after entering. However, a carriage pulled by a mixed horse turned out from behind the store and drove past the two of them.
An hour later, Edward was bored and started to use alchemy to make some trinkets to play with┉┉
Three hours later, Edward was already sleepy and wanted to talk┉┉
Four hours later. Finally, Xiaodouzi got mad and pulled his brother. Edward signaled that he should go shopping first, otherwise the store he often went to would be closed┉┉
"Wait a minute, brother, Tia hasn't come out yet!" Without seeing Tia, Alphonse looked very worried and remained motionless no matter how hard Edward pulled, as if there were roots in his feet.
Edward, who couldn't pull or push Alphonse, could only 'please' like an old mother: "Let's go Al, if you don't leave, the store will close. Maybe Tia left before we noticed it just now." "
Alphonse was opposed to this. He had been observing the store attentively since just now. Unless the store had a back door, Tiya would definitely be seen by him as soon as she came out. What kind of thing could delay Tia for four hours? Judging from the situation just now, Tiya didn't seem to be going in to buy anything.
Al, who had a better impression of Tia, thought for a moment and ignored his brother and strode towards the store. Edward, who was anxious, quickly pulled Al and tried to stop him, but in the end, he was pulled along by Alphonse's huge strength. Drag forward.
"Al, what are you doing? If Miss Miria finds out and we go to see the temple people again, we won't be able to get even a cent of the pocket money for the stabbing."
“I want to go see it┉┉”
Alphonse, who turned a deaf ear to Edward's dissuasion, walked outside the store and looked inside. The store was not very big and seemed to have just been opened. The products on the shelves were very scattered. In the store, there was only a somewhat gloomy woman looking at the store, and there was no sign of Tia at all.
The female clerk looked a little panicked when she saw the tall man in armor walking in. Soon the clerk hurriedly walked up and said, "Sorry~ We are not open now. Please come back in a few days."
"No, I don't want to buy anything." Al waved his hand hurriedly.
"Really┉┉Please leave, we are not open now."
The clerk's attitude of just wanting to drive Alphonse out made Edward, who followed behind, a little confused and took a look at the store. Edward felt that something was wrong with this store. The products on the shelves were sparse, not to mention that many items seemed to be placed completely irregularly. It is impossible for any store to have such an unsightly arrangement. If you want to describe it, it is like It was placed randomly like this just to cope with it.
At this time, Alphonse, who was worried about Tia, was still talking to the clerk: "That's it, a girl just entered your store. She is our friend. We have been waiting for her but we didn't find her coming out┉┉"
When she heard these words, a fierce look flashed in the female clerk's eyes, but she quickly concealed it: "I don't know, please leave, we are about to close the store."
"But┉┉we just saw her and another person come in here┉┉"
"Please get out quickly, I told you I don't know." The female clerk seemed a little impatient. He began to speak in an urging tone.
Edward came over and apologized hurriedly, grabbing Al and dragging him out of the store. After the two brothers left, the female clerk seemed to be impatient and began to close the store door, completely shutting out people.
Alphonse, who was pulled aside, scratched his head and looked at Edward distressedly: "Brother, I didn't find Tia, what should I do?"
"Really Al, you're still talking about Tia at this moment..." Edward looked at his brother with an annoyed look and said, "Didn't you just see that there was something wrong with that store?"
"What makes you think so?"
Edward knocked Alphonse's head and secretly stretched out his head to spy on the female clerk who was closing the store: "Are you sure you didn't see Tia come out after watching for so long?"
Alphonse nodded affirmatively. In the past few hours, Alphonse never relaxed for a second while looking at the store. Tia never stopped looking after she came out. It was impossible for her to miss it.
After receiving Alphonse's affirmative answer, Edward pondered for a moment and whispered a few words quietly into Al's ear, and then the two brothers sneaked around to the back of the store. After careful inspection, this shop did not have a back door but had a side door connected to the stables. But the side door is also connected to the street. Unless Tia climbs over the wall from behind, she will definitely be seen by Al who is guarding the front door.
"Sure enough, there is something wrong with this store."
Edward thought for a moment and seemed confused. Generally speaking, when encountering this kind of thing, it is better to go to the temple to have a look. It would be better if Tiya has already gone back. If she has not returned much, she can let the priests of the temple know that their maid is missing. . But if he ran directly to the temple like this and was unfortunately discovered by Miria, then he and Albie said that he had received pocket money, and he might be kicked back to the Yanold Mountains.
Edward, who was in a dilemma, suddenly heard the sound of the door. He hurriedly hid behind the stable with Alphonse when he found the gloomy female clerk in the shop coming out. The woman looked around, pinched the things in her hands, and quickly walked out. After the woman left, Alphonse hurriedly pulled his brother.
"Brother~ That woman is holding Tia's bracelet!" The sharp-eyed Alphonse recognized at a glance that the woman just now was holding the only relic left to her by Tia's mother, although It is not a very expensive treasure, but it has extraordinary commemorative significance for Tiya. She wears it on her hand almost every step of the way.
"Al~ are you sure you read it correctly?"
Tia once showed the bracelet to Alphonse. Al nodded firmly to this.
Something must have happened to Tia! Edward and Al almost burst out this idea in their minds at the same time, and then they followed the female clerk quietly in a tacit understanding. The two of them did not dare to alert the enemy until they saw Tiya, and carefully followed the female clerk to a meat processing factory in the southern district of the city. Seeing someone guarding the door, the two brothers took a detour and used alchemy to open a door in the wall when no one was around and rushed in.
The processing workshop is not very big. Edward and Al were lying on the ground and could judge their location in the processing workshop from the footsteps of the female clerk. Fortunately, the processing workshop seemed to be closed today. Apart from the footsteps of the female clerk, there was no other sound. sound. The two of them squirmed like caterpillars for a distance and then found that the female clerk seemed to have entered a small room in the processing workshop. Al, who could no longer hear the sound, began to become anxious.
Worried about Tia Alphonse, she couldn't help but want to use alchemy to clear the way and rush in. Fortunately, Edward grabbed Al. After confirming the position of the female clerk, Edward gently used alchemy to do it on the wall. A hidden pipe emerged, and the entire pipe continued to extend through the wall and entered the wall of the room inside the processing workshop before stopping.
Through this channel, the two of them put their ears together, and soon some intermittent conversations came over.
There seems to be a second person talking in the processing workshop. Due to the distance, the sound has become blurry when transmitted through the pipe, but fortunately, I can roughly determine what the people inside are talking about.
Edward and Al were already sweating when they heard this. The other party actually kidnapped Tia, and judging from the dialogue inside, it seemed that he wanted to sacrifice Tia as a sacrifice to a certain master! Alphonse stood up suddenly as if he was stimulated. He put his hands together and activated alchemy instantly. Before Edward could stop it, the light of alchemy shone, and the wall collapsed like a pile of sand. , the smell of rancid meat suddenly came out from the processing workshop, and Edward subconsciously pinched his nose.
Alphonse completely ignored the unpleasant smell, ignored the minced meat and blood on the ground, and rushed to the small room in the processing workshop like an unstoppable heavy tank.
"Who is it?" A woman's voice came from the room.
But before they could stand up and open the door, the two women in the room found that the door had been kicked open very rudely. With a huge noise, the entire door was almost filled with a tall figure walking in. At this time, the female clerk in the room realized that the person who broke in was actually the man in armor who had just come to the store to inquire about the temple maid.
"Damn it! Tell me where you hid Tia!" Alphonse stared at the two women in front of him angrily and yelled. (To be continued...)
ps: Sorry, it’s a little late