In the darkness of the night, a figure was running fast in the streets.
In the early hours of the night, the hasty and rapid footsteps were particularly obvious. After hearing it, some guards patrolling the intersection of the street immediately shouted together.
"You! Stop, what are you doing, if you run again, you will kill it no matter what." The voice was eager and fast.
Hearing the shouting voice behind him, the adventurer in hunting suit stopped and ran faster instead.
He nimbly jumped up to the low wall next to him, and then approached the city wall, ready to find a gap and forcibly break through.
Although Viscount Moruo was a real nobleman, he did not have too many guards. Although there were people on duty on the city wall, they were scattered around, with only two or three people per 100 meters.
"Catch him!" Seeing the figure leaping up the city wall, there were anxious shouts from the street, and the people on duty on the city wall also reacted and began to gather here.
The iron lock coat and the armor pieces rubbed against each other while running, and some guards began to take out their bows and crossbows, aiming at the figure who kept jumping and running in the dark night.
swoosh—
After several bows, the arrow cut through the air and shot towards it. The tip of the arrow flashed a little blue-blue light, like reflective glass, and it sank into the adventurer's right chest at once, causing him to let out a groan, and then his body fell.
"Chase!"
Several black-clothed sergeants speeded up again, jumped over the long arc, and flew towards the place where the figure fell.
"Yeah!" In the dark alley, the adventurer took out the knife in his hand, and a bright and dangerous red light adhered to it, and then he turned like an electric shock, facing these black-clothed sergeants who were chasing him back. The demon sequence has always been so dangerous, whether it is against people or against oneself.
clang clang-
There was a fierce collision in the alley, sparks flashed in the darkness, and then there were several muffled groans of injury.
'Cut and kill array! 'In the short stalemate, another man in black came to the entrance of the alley. He also had epaulettes on his body and seemed to be an officer.
Under the command of the newly added officer, the sergeants who were chasing immediately changed their bodies. At the same time, their sabers showed pale magic power, twisting the space, and then chopped them down in a very high-speed manner, cutting the The narrow space is divided into several areas.
The blood spattered suddenly, staining the walls and the ground, and the adventurer who had resisted fell down with a look of astonishment. There were still several open wounds on his body, sharp and neat.
A sergeant stepped forward and checked the body again before turning around.
"Sir, he's already dead." In fact, the sergeant was a little puzzled. According to the form just now, it was obvious that he could be caught alive, but why did he suddenly use the combined combat skill of 'cutting and killing array' to put this A sinner was killed on the spot.
"Well." The young officer looked at it before giving an explanation.
"We've got another one of them, this one isn't needed."
Afterwards, the night in the small town returned to calm again, the streets became quieter and quieter, and no one dared to stand up and run around at will. Even those restless punks know that now is a very moment, and if one gets it wrong, it will die.
Inside the castle, the lights were bright, and Viscount Moruo was sitting in the lord's hall, surrounded by two rows of fully armored guards. These people were their family's heirs, and only under the protection of these Sequence Three guards, Viscount Moruo could get a little bit of money. sense of security.
In addition to Viscount Moruo, there are several other people in the hall now, one is Miss Charlene of the Roentgen Chamber of Commerce, the other is an official of the Imperial Army, and there is Kevin kneeling in the center of the hall.
The original captain of the guard was now tied with ropes, and there were still traces of whipping on his body. The red marks, some of which were directly split, still contained dark red scarred blood.
"Useless thing!" Viscount Moruo held the wine glass in his hand firmly, wishing to crush it.
After a while, he calmed down a little and drank the dark red and transparent wine.
"Is this how you pay back? Captain Kevin Guard! With so many subordinates and such tight protection, people have stolen things. It's hard for me not to wonder, are you colluding with outsiders?"
Viscount Moruo sat on the high throne, looking down at the captain of the guard, Kevin, who was derelict in his duties.
"I...I'm sorry." Kevin lowered his head and panted, replied hoarsely, and then lowered his head.
"Humph!"
Viscount Moruo looked at this familiar face, and his heart was like a poisonous fire. Because of his trust in this subordinate, the thief had stolen such a crucial thing.
What made him even more anxious was that there were investigators from the Imperial Army in the city. These people were directly under the command of the royal family and were not easy to get along with.
If one is not good, the existence of the ruins will be exposed, and then ordinary nobles like him will not be able to get involved.
Thinking of this, he felt that the fire in his heart was a lot bigger.
"How is the situation in the city, and have anyone found suspicious?" After a pause to calm down, the viscount asked the housekeeper beside him.
"Sir, wait a moment, someone has been contacted just now." The butler bent over and replied.
"Okay, I'll reluctantly wait for a while." He closed his eyes and leaned on the throne behind him, and the hall fell into silence.
A few minutes later, the sound of footsteps came from outside, followed by the sound of a few pieces of armor colliding.
Viscount Moruo opened his eyes, and a hurried guard reported.
"It's caught, my lord." He panted and reported, and behind him came several investigators wearing black capes and black armor.
"Lord Viscount Moruo, I have found some traces." The inspector stepped aside immediately and let a embarrassed adventurer be pushed forward. There were still some bloodstains and tears on his clothes, which seemed to be from the experience had a fight.
"Where's the stuff?" Viscount Moruo didn't care about people's problems, he just needed to get back that precious magic creation.
"He admitted that he stole the thing, but hid it elsewhere." The investigator said the answer he had just interrogated.
"That's right." The adventurer spat, then raised his head and looked at the short old man in front of him.
"You must guarantee my life before I will tell you where I am hiding."
Hearing such an answer, Moruo's face was cold, he didn't speak, staring coldly at the shabby adventurer.
"You are not an ordinary person."
After a while, Viscount Moruo said in a low voice.
"I'm familiar with you guys. If you were an ordinary adventurer, you wouldn't do such a risky thing at all, and you wouldn't know the situation in the castle."
"You should be a thief or an assassin cultivated by a certain organization, so you have such courage." Viscount Moruo is not one of those hedonic vase nobles, he knows the lower classes of these empires.
"Let me think about it, in Longyi Province, there are not many organizations with such intelligence capabilities."
"Except for some lucrative and timid chambers of commerce, that is, you poisonous snakes in the woods can be so keen." Gu
Compared to before, Viscount Moruo calmed down. He leaned on the back of the chair, crossed his hands in front of him, raised and pressed it from time to time, calmly analyzing and thinking.
"'Poisoned Water Lizard', 'Blindfolded Man' or 'Fire-Eyed Warbler'? No other small organization can afford to support a good guy like you." He said several names, and then had his weapons and belongings checked. .
Several guards held the adventurer down, then kept searching and pulling, and placed one by one neatly on the ground, among them small hooks, ropes, flints, daggers in boots, small magic spar, and small alchemy playing sound. Creation, whistle, coins, chalk, knife, wound medicine powder, mosquito repellent spices, clean gauze.
After searching for things, Viscount Moruo swept his eyes slowly, and then slowly opened his mouth.
"It seems that you are not from the 'Poison Water Lizard'. You don't have poison on your body, and you didn't commit suicide. Although I can't guess the remaining two, they are easy to deal with."
"Come here, cut off both of his hands and give them to these two organizations, and let them come forward to clarify, otherwise, his body will be seen hanging on the city gate in a week." The shadows of the fingers cover the part, and the corners of the mouth reveal a cruel smile.
In this era, although the disability is not incurable, because it needs someone above the Angel Sequence 7 to take action, and such a noble person is basically not accessible to the underlying organizations. In this way, this person's life is considered a waste, but compared to his dead companion, or a little luckier
"Ah, no!" After hearing such an order, the adventurer who was held down struggled violently, but the guards beside him held him tightly, preventing him from struggling.
Then, two axes sounded, and there was a hoarse scream in the hall, and then it was silent again.
Seeing the man collapsed on the ground, Viscount Moruo asked him to be taken down.
"Let the priest in the city give him a simple treatment, and don't die soon."
"Yes, my lord." The guard replied with his fists folded, then dragged the man down.
After finishing the treatment, Viscount Moruo felt a little relieved, but he was a little irritable when he thought that the things had not been returned to his hands.
"Any other findings? Inspector Pansy." He looked at the veteran soldier in the hall.
This able-bodied soldier watched all this with a cold eye, and didn't speak until then. "Not yet, but I want the adults to seal the city for a few more days, maybe I can get new clues."
"Naturally, even if you don't mention it, I will continue to seal the city." Viscount Moruo nodded and asked the housekeeper beside him to give instructions.
Then he looked at the blood on the ground and stood up to go back to rest.
"Lord Moruo." The investigator stopped the viscount.
"What's up?"
"Can you briefly say, what key treasure was lost?"
"This is our family's secret, so please don't inquire about it, Lord Inspector. Perhaps, you should pay attention to another aspect, such as those burning bugs, or the descendants of the red dragon."
After he finished speaking, he turned and left, taking away the guards in the hall behind him.
"Don't you want to say it... .." Looking at the back that gradually disappeared into the shadows, the inspector slowly tasted it, and took a long time to leave here with his subordinates.
As Viscount Moruo said, they should really focus on those bugs. The flies and dogs among the nobles, although they don't look easy, but compared to those rebellions, this kind of thing is nothing but a trifle.
Not long after the beginning of the year, riots broke out in Zishan Province, and there were also uprisings in several surrounding provinces. The nobles of the local fiefs carried out difficult repression to suppress the flames of these uprisings. Not long after that, the descendants of the red dragon in the southern border also set off large and small rebellions. Among them, the so-called descendants of the Baska family were real and fake, which made people angry.
That's why, for the stability of the south, the regent specially asked the military to set up a search agency, and several powerful and professional search teams patrolled the empire to capture those possible Mars, and they were one of them.
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On the other side of the city, the turmoil of the search gradually calmed down, and the sky was bright again.
"Is Miss Mercia here?" Lorraine Hill, who woke up early. I heard Miss Charlene looking for her voice.
"Yes." She bit the headband, looked at the vanity mirror, quickly tied the hair behind her head, tied it, and then walked out the door.
Miss Charlene is still dressed in the past, with a woven waistcoat around her shoulders, and a dark dress on her body. She is decent while keeping a low profile.
Miss Charlene looked at Lorraine Hill, the blond swordsman was still so cute, "Did you have a rest last night?"
"is acceptable."
"That's good." Miss Charlene lightly pressed her forehead with her fingers.
"It's estimated that there will be a lot of things going on recently. Why don't you go to breakfast together, I'll tell you."
"Well." Then the two walked downstairs.
When they came to a place in the yard, the members of the caravan had already prepared breakfast, and Charlene asked someone to bring two servings.
Simply eating the bread, Miss Charlene began to talk about what she saw last night.
"At first, I was also called by Viscount Moruo to check some things. After all, it is our Chamber of Commerce who has been in and out of the castle more recently."
"But fortunately, Viscount Moruo didn't doubt us very much, and quickly paid attention to other things."
"Kevin was miserable this time. It is estimated that he will be punished and locked up for a period of time. But in my opinion, there is no need to worry too much. After all, he is also the old man of the Moruo family. He has served the Moruo family since his grandfather."
"Although Viscount Moruo is very angry now, he won't kill him because of it."
"But other people may not be so simple. When I was there yesterday, I saw an adventurer who was arrested. He seems to be from a certain organization..." Miss Charlene said with lingering fears about last night's story. Happening.
"These nobles, don't look at their amiable looks on weekdays, but if you really offend them, it will be savage and bloody."
"The recent closure of the city will continue for a while. If you can, Messia should not run around, just stay here to avoid attracting attention."
"Thank you, Miss Charlene." Roland Hill expressed her gratitude, then hesitated for a while before asking.
"Why does Miss Charlene take care of me so much." In fact, they didn't know each other for a long time.
Miss Charlene blinked after hearing this, looked at Lorraine Hill and laughed again.
"Why? Because I'm a businessman."
"Mesiya is very unconscious about certain things. How many geniuses do you think can reach Sequence 5 before the age of 20 in the South."
"For a genius like you, in a few years, I'm afraid he will become a big man that I can't reach. And he is so beautiful, maybe someday a prince will take a fancy to him and become the mistress of a certain family. "
"So, it's natural to have a good relationship now." Miss Charlene smiled calmly. These days, she has gradually understood the character of this Messiah. Flawless gem.
"Maybe one day in the future, you will become the backer of a weak girl like me." After speaking, Miss Charlene tapped her chest with her fingers, expressing her pity and weakness. However, such behavior is not convincing.