Chapter 338: An Unexpected Discovery (Part I)

New day, early morning.

Ayton got up early, heard the snoring sound from the dwarf in the next room, and couldn't help but laugh bitterly in his heart, this Phirf really became more and more energetic the more he studied, and he actually slept here in a dignified manner last night, but for his sake, Ayton couldn't force him away.

Looking at the sleeping girl beside him, Ayton pinched the tip of her nose, saying that if Luna was here, would it be another scene of hugging left and right...

Today was the day when Feng Li left Huangyao City, and when Ariel had also gotten up for breakfast, Ayton took Ariel out with him while Filip hadn't woken up yet. Otherwise, the dwarf would have yelled at him not to go out.

However, to his surprise, when he heard that he went out to visit Feng Li, Ariel, who had always been cold to him, actually agreed very cheerfully.

According to the address he provided, Ayton and the others came to the East District, but found that the building had already been empty, and it turned out that as early as noon yesterday, Feng Li had packed his bags and left Huangyao City.

There was only an envelope left on the table, on which were written the words of nostalgia for getting along with each other these days, as well as the realization of the lowliness of his strength, expressing his idea that it was difficult for a civilian mage to get ahead in Huangyao City, and finally saying that he would return to his hometown and see him again in the future.

Ayton shrugged his shoulders and left the hotel with Ariel, and got acquainted, so let's just say goodbye...

"Brother, don't rush back yet, how about we take a good walk around this street?" On the street, Ariel affectionately grabbed Ayton's arm and looked at him with sly eyes.

“... That's what you thought was when you went out on the street. Ayton glanced at the girl helplessly. It's no wonder that she was unusually energetic when she went out in the morning, it turned out that she was thinking of shopping after the fact.

"I don't care, you've been in the basement for almost a day yesterday, and you have to play with me today. ”

"Okay, okay, then you talk first, where to play" Ayton, who was stubborn but couldn't help Ariel, agreed repeatedly, but even in the bustling East District of Brilliant City, in the first few days after coming, Ayton also took Ariel around. I really don't know where to go now.

"Hee-hee, just come with me. ”

He could never guess a woman's mind, but as long as she was on the street, she could always find something of interest.

It didn't take long for Ariel's eyes to fall on a small stall covered in masks, but there was a group of five or six-year-old children wandering around the area... Ayton suddenly remembered that at the underground auction in the Thornlands, he had said that he would make a mask for Ariel.

In order to better hide his identity in the future, Ayton carefully selected, and then bought two masks that were considered fine in workmanship, but could be improved after returning.

Ariel's mask was half of a black butterfly pattern, which only covered it, and Ayton was a little embarrassed to wear this kind of thing that only children wore in public, but the girl insisted on wearing it.

In desperation, Ayton still put on a mask, and the two attracted countless strange glances for a while...

Before I knew it, it was afternoon, and it was sunny today, which was the hottest time of the day, and there were fewer pedestrians on the streets.

In the shady alley, Ayton took off the mask on his face and leaned his back against the cold wall, gasping for air.

The girl beside her wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead and smiled playfully: "Brother, those human security teams are nothing, so easily get rid of them." ”

Clang...

"Easy?!If we run slower, we guess we'll be invited to the prison for tea by those security patrols!" Ayton knocked heavily on the girl's head and looked at her speechlessly.

On a hot day, the two of them walked down the street wearing strange masks, which inevitably attracted the attention of the security patrol team, and stopped the two of them in the sense of duty, but Ayton was so likely to be willing to go with them.

So a thrilling chase scene was staged on the street, but luckily the two managed to shake them off, and in the process they were both wearing masks, and their faces should not be remembered by the patrol.

"What are you afraid of" Ariel touched her head aggrievedly: "Didn't you say that there is still a blue coco covering us, and I heard that Cécily was also on patrol before, and if she reported her name, those guys shouldn't dare to embarrass us." ”

"Have you forgotten how the city gate officer intercepted us when we entered Huangyao City?" Ayton raised his hand again, and the girl bowed her head to admit her mistake.

The sheriff said that he was taking them to find out their identities, but in this era, how can the identity be so easy to prove, if it is an ordinary person, when they get to other people's territory, they will be charged with a crime casually. And reporting Lan Coco's name, he didn't want to trouble others unless it was a last resort.

"Eh, but this place is cool, or..." Ariel suddenly moved closer to Ayton, her delicate face showing a meaningful smile, her eyes flashing with anticipation.

The girl's body fragrance inhaled into her heart, looking at the girl's face close at hand, Ayton stretched out a hand, helped her wipe the sweat on her forehead, and then flicked her forehead hard.

"What are you thinking about during the day, and what are you talking about at night. Ayton turned around, and suddenly felt that the alley was quite cool, as if it were completely different from the hot street.

"At night... I'm afraid you'll study those broken drawings late in the evening. Ariel pursed her lips and put her hands on his arm again.

"Wait, something isn't right here," Ayton's gaze suddenly fell on a closed iron gate in an alley. There was a faint hint of coolness in the crack of the iron door, and when I put my finger on it, the coolness became more and more obvious, this was by no means the room temperature that should be in the summer.

Ariel felt it too, and not only that, but there seemed to be a faint smell of gunpowder inside.

"Forget it, Ariel, let's go home" Puzzled to confused, but now Fili probably had waited for him to stare at him with his beard.

"Eh, no, no, brother, what are you doing here, let's go in and take a look. Ariel grabbed Ayton, and her originally faint mind surged with infinite curiosity again.

"......" Ayton looked helplessly at the girl who was forcibly pulling her arm, estimating that if she didn't satisfy her curiosity today, she would make a face for herself all day long.

Ayton looked up at the structure of the building, it was quite old, and the iron gate was unremarkable, but in the entire alley, only the ground in front of this door had not accumulated dust, and it was indeed a bit annoying.

"Brother, there's a voice in there. Ariel whispered suddenly.

Ayton moved closer again, and soon heard an extremely small sound coming through the iron door. Leaning on the wall, there seems to be a noisy sound deep inside... and, the subtle sound of footsteps.

"Wait, someone's out!"

Ayton's face changed, and he pulled the girl next to him to hide in a corner of the alley.

After a while, the simple iron door slowly opened, and two strong men came out of it, carrying a black cloth bag containing a humanoid object in their hands, looked left and right, and found that there were no pedestrians nearby, so they threw the cloth bag to the door, and then returned to the house and closed the iron door.

Ayton and Ariel, who had all of this in mind, looked at each other, and noticed that there was still no one nearby, and their curiosity drove them to go forward and check.

The two of them walked lightly to the black cloth, untied the rope on the top, and a strange fishy smell emanated from it, and then a woman's head was revealed, and her consciousness seemed to have fallen into a coma, only about twenty years old, her face was covered with marks of beatings, and... She still seemed to be naked, knocked unconscious, in a cloth bag, and then thrown into the alley.

"......" Ariel and Ayton looked at each other again, and the atmosphere sank.

"Do you still want to go in and see it?"

“... I kind of wondered, what the hell is this place?" asked Ariel, earnestly.

"Miss you, is this the place you should go in!" Ayton knocked the girl on the head.

Looking at the unconscious woman underground, Ayton rubbed his fists, thinking that he didn't expect that there was such a ghost place in Huangyao City. "I guess it's an unsightly underground place, and it's very dark inside. ”

"Well, if you don't go, you won't go, but why are you still beating me. In a short period of time, she was blown up twice in a row, and Ariel covered her head aggrievedly.

Ayton glared at her fiercely again, and suddenly felt someone reach out and grab her feet, and when she looked down, it turned out that the poor woman had grabbed him, her eyes were still half-closed, but her right hand was firmly grasping him, and she didn't know if she was conscious.

"Hey, let go!" Ariel snorted coldly at her, but the latter didn't respond.

"Ariel, forget it. Ayton looked at the closed door, and figured that the poor woman might have angered some big man and threw it here in the form of such an insult.

"Brother, there's already that woman named Basha at home, you don't want to..."Ariel looked at Ayton suspiciously.

"Then we can't pretend we didn't see it," Ayton pulled out a black cloak from the storage space and placed it next to her.

"Hmph, what if she's like Bazaar again?" said Ariel.

"Who said they were going to take her back, can't we sit here for a while?" Ayton raised his hand to strike, but there was a slight sound of footsteps inside the iron door.

Ayton looked hesitantly at the poor girl on the ground, and finally moved away ruthlessly, and took Ariel to the corner again.

The iron door opened again, and it was the two strong men from before, who found the cloak next to the black cloth, and when they saw that there were no pedestrians around, two foul words burst out of their mouths, and pressed the woman's exposed head back into the cloth bag, making a gesture to carry it back again.

Suddenly, a shadow swept by, shooting through the throat of one of them, and before the other could react, the figure of Linglong appeared behind him, and the sharp blade in his hand silently slit his throat.

It all happened so quickly that by the time Ayton came to his senses, Ariel had already solved the two of them in a flash.

"Ariel!What do you want to do?!"

"They're not good people anyway, if they kill them, they'll kill them, and no one can find us anyway. Ariel smiled mischievously at him. Looking at the scene behind the iron gate, there was silence inside. In the side room, there is a dark and bottomless underground passage, which exudes a biting coolness.

"You..." Ayton looked around, the alley was so deep that no one would come here for a while, and he quickly carried the two corpses to the room, and then processed the blood on the ground a little.

"Brother, do you want to go in and have a look?" Ariel's curious eyes fell once again into the underground passageway, where it didn't lead there, and a noisy shout faintly came from the deepest part.

"Still want to go in? Haven't you had enough trouble! It's time to go back!" Ayton shouted at her in a low voice.

"Oh.." Ariel pursed her lips in disgust.

Looking at the woman in front of the door, Ayton thought about it for a while, and decided to move her into the house, I don't know when she will wake up, now that Ariel has killed someone, she can't stay here and wait for her all the time, he is not a good person, she can only let her beg for more blessings.

Suddenly, Ariel suddenly ran towards the underground passage, Ayton's face changed suddenly, and he hurriedly chased after him.

"Ariel!? stop!"

"Hehe, I haven't had enough of it" Ariel grimaced at him with a quick pace.

This almost didn't make Ayton bleed, didn't have enough fun?!Is this place for us to get into?! Even if you don't want to go back, you don't need to explore here!