Chapter 20: Extortion
Not long after Dorav agreed to Wei Ya's plan, he personally ordered three hundred black-armored guards to run directly to Hobins's mansion, and did not avoid the surprised eyes of the people of Golden Shield City along the way, so he came to the west of the city with such fanfare. No one noticed that there were two exceptionally young teenagers among the three hundred black-armored guards.
A group of men and horses stopped in front of Hobbins's mansion, startling the gatekeeper and a team of guards at the door, one of the slightly more daring gatekeepers cautiously walked to Doraf, who was riding on the saber-toothed panther, looked up and said with a shy smile, "Hello Lord Dorav, are you here to visit my family, I'm really sorry, my family has a distinguished guest today, it's not very convenient, do you think you will come back another day?"
Sitting on the saber-toothed panther, Doraf looked at the janitor condescendingly, and said with a disdainful expression, "How can I have the spare time to visit the smiling tiger, I have received reliable information that an assassin has taken a hostage and is hiding here, I want to go in and arrest the assassin, get out of here!"
The janitor's expression changed greatly, and he forgot Doraf's identity in a panic, and said anxiously, "Lord Doraf, you can eat indiscriminately, you can't talk nonsense, how can there be assassins in our house, are you mistaken!"
Doraf's eyes flashed when he heard this, and he exclaimed, "Presumptuous, is this how Hobins disciplines his servants!" As soon as he finished speaking, a cyan pillar of wind as thick as an adult man's arm formed out of thin air and slammed into the janitor's chest.
The hapless janitor spat out a mouthful of blood, and the whole person was knocked into the air and slammed into the door, knocking the door panel into it, and then fainted with a glare, and the dark red door with the delicate relief fell in response.
Lei Xiu, who was disguised as a black armor guard on the side, saw that his eyes lit up, this method of using momentum to attract the elements of heaven and earth into attacks had been seen in the hands of Kaido's guard Dosley when he was young, but in comparison, Doraf seemed to be more weightless, worthy of a higher order Silver Demon Fighter!
Doraf's hand instantly suppressed more than a dozen heavily armed guards at the door, these guards originally received a secret order, originally to kill the Messiah, a little sheep who threw themselves into the net, who knew but met Doraf, the vicious black panther, for a while under Doraf's momentum, they didn't know what to do, although their strength was not weak, but they didn't have the courage to confront three hundred elite black armor guards and a silver demon fighter, so they had to stand awkwardly on both sides of the gate, motionless looking. Seeing that the situation was not good, the other janitor immediately turned around and ran, and kept shouting that Dorav, the deputy city lord, had killed someone, but Dorav didn't mind, he came this time to find trouble, and the bigger the scene, the better.
One hand touched the panther's head, and the other hand jerked up, and Doraf exclaimed, "The Black Guards obey the order, capture the assassins, and protect the adults!"
With Dorav's order, three hundred black-armored guards poured into Hobins' mansion like a black torrent.
In the living room of the inner courtyard of the house, Hobbins respectfully handed a cup of freshly brewed tea to a middle-aged man dressed in a gold-patterned aristocratic dress on a black background, and said softly, "My lord, Golden Shield City is located in the border wilderness, and there are no good things, but this cold valley tea is a border specialty, not only has the effect of health preservation, but the taste is also different from ordinary tea, adults can taste it." ”
The middle-aged man took the teacup and said with a smile, "The deputy city lord is polite, Hangu tea is a specialty of the southern border, it is quite famous, it is a rare grain tea in my country, look at this tea with fresh color, light and elegant fragrance, it must be the best grade, right?"
Hobbins said with a smile, "My lord's eye, this batch of Hangu tea was harvested just after the winter, taken from the coldest frontier, so the health effect and taste are also the best, I have sealed all the five catties of tea I received, and I can bring it when I return to the imperial capital." ”
The middle-aged man smiled lightly, did not agree or refuse, just slowly tasted the tea in his hand, and did not say a word.
Hobbins couldn't help but feel a little nervous in his heart, not only because of the other party's attitude, but also because of the identity of the other party, this person in front of him was the supreme head of the imperial supervision agency, and he was deeply trusted by His Majesty the Emperor.
I don't know what this youngest big man among the three giants of the empire thinks, he actually came to the city of Golden Shield City to inspect, the city lord and himself have almost been around this big man for the past few days, and they don't dare to slack off a little.
He was a few years younger than himself, and he was already at the pinnacle of the empire.
Thinking of this, Hobbins couldn't help but feel a little jealous in his heart, but he immediately forcibly suppressed it, he knew very well in his heart that he was just a small nobleman who was a hereditary deputy city lord, and he was really nothing compared to this, and the other party's words were enough to ruin his family.
Just as Hobbins was wondering what was going on in the big man's mind, a panicked cry came from far and near.
"Come on, the deputy city lord is killing, the deputy city lord is killing!"
After this sentence reached Hobbins's ears, a heart almost popped out of his mouth, and he hurriedly glanced at the adult opposite, and found that the other party was looking at him with a strange gaze, his face suddenly turned white, and he hurriedly got up and bent down and said, "My lord, things are by no means what you think, this voice came from the servants in my house, I will go and see what happened immediately." ”
The middle-aged man smiled playfully and nodded, "Go ahead." ”
Exiting the living room, Hobbins couldn't help but shiver when the wind blew him, only to find that the cold sweat had soaked his clothes in just such a moment, he took a deep breath, and before he could breathe out, a servant fell at his feet with a rolling crawl, and said with a panicked face, "My lord, the deputy city lord has killed someone!"
After hearing this, Hobbins's originally pale face instantly turned red, his eyes burst out with infinite anger, and he slapped the servant with all his strength with his right hand, and roared wildly, "Who killed someone! You idiot, if it weren't for today's special situation, I would cut off your flesh piece by piece and feed it to the dog!"
The servant who reported the news was slapped by Hobbins and knocked out two of his teeth, and stammered in fright, "My lord, the deputy lord of Dorav, he killed Kabu, and now he is rushing in with someone." ”
Horbins couldn't help but be furious when he heard this, and slapped the servant again with his backhand and roared, "What the hell does Dorav want to do with that wild boar!"
The servant covered his swollen and pig-like face on both sides aggrievedly, and said like a leak at the corner of his mouth, "I, I don't know." ”
After snorting angrily, Hobbins walked out with an angry face, and after a while, he saw Doraf riding a saber-toothed panther, commanding a large group of black-armored guards to search and rummage around his mansion, causing a mess.
"Dorav! Stop!" Hobbins saw this scene, and Rao, who had always boasted of being calm, couldn't help but be angry.
Looking at Hobbins's fiery appearance, Doraff's heart was greatly relieved, and he said with a smile, "Yo, Smiling Tiger, I've rarely seen you so angry, what's wrong today, so uncontrollable?"
Shocked in his heart, Hobbins secretly blamed himself for how he lost his cool so easily today, and after taking a deep breath, his expression calmed down and said in a deep voice, "Doraf, what do you mean by this?"
With a smile, Doraff jumped off the panther's back with one hand, looked at Hobbins and said, "I received a reliable report that an assassin took a hostage after an attempted murder in Golden Shield City, and hid it in your house, and I came to protect you and your lord as soon as I heard the news, isn't it very touching?"
Hobbins sneered, "Ridiculous, how can there be assassins hiding in my house, do you know, just by your words, I can complain to the adults about you for a defamatory charge!"
The smile on Dorav's face also turned cold, and he stared at Hobbins's eyes and said, "Is there any, you'll know if you search it, come on, let me go to the backyard to search!"
Hobbins's face changed instantly, and he shouted angrily, "I see who dares!"
The black-armored guards around who were about to make a move couldn't help but hesitate when they heard this, and at the same time hesitated, and their eyes also turned to the direction of Doraf, how to say that they were also searching the mansion of a deputy city lord, to say that there was no pressure in their hearts It would be fake, although they were under Doraf, but if Hobbins really wanted to rectify them, there was a way.
"Hobins, you didn't let the Black Guards search, did you want to shield the assassins!" Doraff's eyes widened, and he shouted this sentence in a loud voice, as if he was afraid that others would not hear it.
His face changed again, and for the first time at this time, Hobbins began to regret why he had hidden that woman in his mansion, and now there was a lot of fuss in front of him, and there was the adult waiting in the back, it was too passive!
With his pupils shrinking, Hobbins forcibly suppressed his anger, took two steps closer to Doraf, and said in a voice that only Doraf could hear, "What the hell do you want to do, say!"
With a smile in his eyes, Doraf said in the same deep voice, "Simple, give me that woman first, and then give me 100,000 gold coins." ”
Hearing this, Hobbins laughed angrily, "100,000 gold coins, you want to go crazy with money, it's impossible, I'll hand over that woman to you, and give you another 10,000 gold coins, and you will leave here for me immediately!"
Dorav frowned, and immediately turned back to the black guard and roared, his voice a little louder than just now, "What are you still doing in a daze! Hurry up and search for me, if you let the assassin escape, I'll skin you!"
Hobbins's body trembled, his eyes flashed with struggle and anger, and he whispered again, "Fifty thousand gold coins at most, don't go too far"
Doraff glanced at Hobbins with disdain, took a deep breath, and shouted with all his strength, "Hurry up, you idiots, this assassin is extremely dangerous, if that lord is injured by this, you will all lose your heads!"
"One hundred thousand, I'll give it to you, you take that woman and get out of here for me right away!" the sentence almost came out in a low voice, and Hobbins trembled angrily and stared at Doraf.
"You're just cheap, wouldn't you have been so happy earlier!" The smile on Dorav's face was as if he had just married a little girl, and with a wave of his hand, he ordered the black guard, "Okay, okay, go back to the camp, I suddenly remembered that an assassin dared to come to Lord Hobbins's house, isn't this looking for death, let's go, who is it, you arrange for a few people to help Lord Hobbins clean up the tables and chairs that have fallen at home, you are soldiers, not bandits, really, you don't pay attention to the image at all." ”
Hobbins glared at Doraff fiercely, stretched out his hand to summon a man who looked like a butler, and whispered a few words, until the butler nodded and left, then looked at Doraf again and said coldly, "You are ruthless this time, but you remember for me, what you did to me today, I will definitely repay it in the future!"
Shaking his head with a grin, Doraf was not afraid at all, "Even if you let the horse come, the two of us have been fighting for decades, as if I was afraid of you." ”
"It's so lively, just now I heard that there was a deputy city lord killing people, and I heard that there were assassins taking hostages, two deputy city lords, can you explain to me why the security of Golden Shield City is like this?"
A faint voice sounded from behind, and Doraff and Hobbins changed their faces almost simultaneously, looking in the direction of the inner courtyard.
In the corridor of the inner courtyard not far away, I saw a not tall figure coming from far and near.
At the same time, there was also a black-armored guard whose face changed, Lei Xiu looked at the familiar face, and muttered with straight eyes, "Uncle Izo, why is he here?"
Doraff and Hobbins took a few quick steps to meet the man, bowing at the same time, "See your lord!"
Izor smiled and nodded, and after glancing at Doraf, he turned to Hobbins, "Deputy City Lord Hobbins, your voices here have all spread to the inner courtyard, so I came out to take a look, I didn't expect to see Deputy City Lord Doraf come to your house to arrest the assassins, do you still have assassins?"
Such a fluttering sentence made the cold sweat that Hobbins had just dried flow out again, he didn't even care about how many people were present, he knelt down on one knee directly, and said with a panicked face, "My lord, how is this possible, how can I raise assassins, the deputy city lord of Doraff just happened to come over when he was tracking down assassins, I don't believe you ask him!"
Doraf scolded in his heart, he didn't expect Hobbins to lead the words to him, so he had to nod and say in a deep voice, "Yes, my lord, an assassin appeared in Golden Shield City before, stabbed an ordinary person, in order to maintain the safety of the city, so I ordered the whole city to be searched, and I happened to come near the house of the deputy city lord of Hobbins, so I stopped by to see if there was any special situation." ”
Nodding, Izo said, "I seem to have heard about this, this person who was stabbed is a friend of Miss Wei Ya, the daughter of the city lord, she came to me early this morning and wanted the light healer next to me to heal one of her friends, I agreed, but how can there be assassins in Golden Shield City? ”
Speaking of the last two sentences, Yi Zuo's tone was already a little cold, as the highest official of the Imperial Supervision Organization, his duty was to supervise the government affairs and violations of law and discipline of officials and nobles all over the country, and the Emperor even gave him the privilege of dealing with it by himself below the Viscount, and he was inevitably unhappy when there were assassins in Golden Shield City during his inspection.
Doraf was also taken aback, he came to help Wei Ya save people, and by the way, he blackmailed Hobbins, but he didn't intend to give himself an account in the hands of the Imperial Inspector General, so he pulled out a smile that was uglier than crying and said, "My lord, you are joking, there has always been good law and order in Golden Shield City, not to mention assassins, there are not even a few thieves, I don't know where this assassin came from, maybe it's just an ordinary robber passing through Golden Shield City, my lord, don't worry, I will definitely arrest the assassin as soon as possible." ”
Yi Zuo's face was calm, and he said coldly, "That's fine, you are limited to arrest the assassin within three days, otherwise, you are ready to go back to the imperial capital with me." ”
Dorav complained bitterly in his heart, and secretly shouted bad luck, but he didn't dare to disobey this adult, so he had to take the order.
At this moment, a black-armored guard said a sentence that shocked the audience.