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"Earl, how are my acting skills? Ah, the beauty in the flaws! ”

Truss's intoxication justified her mistake and pulled the trance-like Plant for a curtain call.

"It's just wanton, are you still satisfied with this business this time?"

I jumped out of the carriage, my legs a little numb, and I had to find a way to exercise.

"Of course, the quagmire of war is floating with fishy dried corpses, and that's the smell I'm familiar with."

"That's good, this lonely city that is about to usher in death, but it's still calm, don't you think it's a little strange?"

I glanced at the calm of the city, and there was little sign of panic.

"If there is only one explanation, it is that the deceived masses are not aware of the changes in the pattern, and when they are involved in a crisis, they will start complaining."

Plant leaned against the coffin, listened to the call of death by name, and made a sympathetic sigh.

"Do you want to go together?"

Si Qi instigated the two who were angry with each other, just to appreciate the scornful contempt of the two.

"I don't want to breathe the same air as a ghost-cultivated monster, and besides, a wandering swordsman is my defining label, and it's always a bit unpleasant to disobey at will."

"Please restrain your exaggerated acting skills, but it's me, and I don't want to witness the executioner's shuttle!"

Truss despised Plant's drunken gibberish, and even more found fault with the loopholes in his talent.

"Then, let's separate for the time being, as for the future itinerary, both of them can carry it out according to their own wishes."

The two of them, who were still chattering, disappeared into the street shrouded in darkness with the freedom they had been given.

"Now it's time to find a resting place, young master, do you have the rest of the arrangements?"

"Well, the unfamiliar environment, even the grains of sand floating in the dust, are all tempting to explore and discover."

"Brother Bell is going on an adventure? Shuangye is also going! ”

Shuangye pulled my arm, for fear of getting lost under the dark night sky.

"Sister Xiaoyi, let's go together!"

Shuang Ye pulled Xiao Yi with his other hand, maintaining the left and right sides without getting out of balance.

"Young master, I hope you won't be bothered by simple roadblocks!"

"Well, you'll have to be ready to clean up your troubles, so you'd better pray for my sudden sense of direction, though I don't want to believe the hypocrisy myself."

"Yes, I'll follow your advice, and it might work."

Si Qi drove the carriage, waved the reins, and disappeared in place.

"Okay, it's the night for the adventurers, where are we going?"

Shuangye's lively energy retains the child's innocence, and he is always full of confidence in the unknown ahead.

"How about getting around the city to add familiarity? By the way, eavesdropping on some sensitive information. ”

"Spy games? Great, go! ”

Shuang Ye dragged me, who was used to lazy strolling, and led Xiao Yi to run in the night market.

The central area of the city has not yet faded from the bustle, and all kinds of small vendors are still operating their shops by candlelight, and Shuangye let go of my hand, licking his dry lips, and looking at me.

"Go ahead, I don't have the habit of eating at night, the intersection ahead, waiting for you!"

The two who were allowed happily plunged into the dazzling streets, like pampered children.

Drifting thoughts unconsciously led me to the intersection, but the intersecting veins were not complicated, perhaps because of the cold of the night, even in summer, there was indeed a slight chill.

"This young master, can't you find your way home when you are on the streets?"

Searching for the source of the darkness, a wanderer leaning against a corner, shivering in the cold moonlight.

"No, it's just a hobby used to late at night, but it's you, dressed in fancy clothes, but not decent."

The wanderer looked down and stroked the expensive costume and laughed disdainfully.

"Sure enough, the expensive decoration needs to be set off by temperament? It's the harvest of my scavenging on the streets, and a hat that's ugly in my aesthetic. ”

The wanderer pulled out a new style of leather hat from the corner and handed it to me to admire, apparently the thick mezzanine might have some special meaning.

"It's not pretty, but there's always a lot of weird fetishes. Looks like you're already a professional scavenger in the city! ”

"Well, I've been living here for five or six years since the first day this city was raised. You're the strangest aristocrat I've ever met, willing to communicate with what you're considered trash. ”

The wanderer was somewhat relieved, a thick nasal voice wrapped around warm feelings, perhaps some kind of comfort from the bitterness of the twists and turns.

"Maybe it's my new hypocrisy, can you tell me something about the city?"

"It turned out to be a foreign aristocrat, and the difficulties were a little blind. However, it seems that many nobles have moved out of the city recently, is it a change of duty? ”

The man's speculation was a bit outrageous.

"No, I'm just a temporary traveler, stopping by to visit some old friends."

"I see, that is the escape after accumulating wealth, to prevent accountability. There are a lot of tedious stories about the city, although the history is short, what parts would you like to hear? ”

The man was happy to relay his rich experience to me, and pride is a disguise that is difficult to embellish.

"Let's talk about its origin, after all, brand new buildings always have a tortuous piling process."

"If you want to have the origin, it was probably five or six years ago, and I don't remember much about the specifics, but I don't care about the passage of dates. At that time, it was still a flat rice field, but because of the convenience of hoarding grain and grass, the government itself built the town on vacant land. ”

"So this is the granary that keeps the government alive?"

"Well, just yesterday at noon, a batch of grain was transported to the imperial capital!"

The man's words made me a little suspicious, as a city about to rebel, it still retains the tradition of vassalization, coupled with the calm of the people, it is really strange.

"Young master, young master?"

The man's call pulled me back to the reality that already existed, and the hesitation was put aside for the time being.

"Go on!"

"Well, because of the control of the lifeline, this place soon became a surplus town, and it also began to have a large-scale population inflow, with the contradiction between land occupation and quantity, a small town began to expand, and gradually evolved into the current size."

The man paused, briefly moistened his throat with saliva, and continued.

"Various aristocrats saw the business opportunities for development, and relocated their factories and shops to accelerate the development process. But it is strange that a few days ago, after the newly appointed administrator of the government took office, some nobles began to leave, and soon a trend formed, and today Count Goka in the west of the city also left, he is a greedy fellow. ”

"Oh? Has there been any change in the indigenous population? ”

"Hardly, since the nobility did not take their property with them, it was soon taken over by some local commoners, and the government did not interfere. Sometimes I even wonder if this is a precursor to the government's readiness to reform and oust the powerful, but then I think that if it happens, it would be a joke. You're also an aristocrat, have you caught some wind at the top? ”

The man belittled the pedantic and fearless nature of the government, and asked me about some possible news in passing.

"No, it's true that the government has failed to have a similar decree, and as you said, leaders don't play funny clowns. But who is the local guard appointed by the government? ”

"It was a mysterious gentleman, who had never even been seen in isolation from the records of the archives. But what does it matter, in short, it is the transfer of the decision-making at the top, and for the common people, there will be no essential change. ”

"Transfer, do you mean the previous officer on duty is still alive?"

"Huh? Do you mean Mr. Conneid's accident? In the evening, he is still patrolling the law and order in this area! Give all wanderers a silver coin as well! ”

The man groped for a silver coin worth one hundred from his bosom.

"It's a completely unexpected plot! Can you trade this silver coin for me, 10,000 Turans! ”

My proposal seemed a bit harsh, and the man slapped his ears that might have been blocked, staring at me.

"I seem to be having some kind of auditory hallucination, what are your trading chips?"

"10,000 Turan coins, buy the hat you hate by the way, if you want a price increase, I don't mind."

"No fair trade is like blackmail, but people like you who take the initiative to suffer losses must have more meaning, although I shouldn't ask, but I'm still a little curious, your identity!"

Cunning eyes, greedy and shameless.

"That's just a title, there's no need to pursue it, what do you think?"

"Well, I can't seem to find a reason to refuse, the dream of becoming a rich man is so simple in the opportunity. Let me guess that your lavish consumption must have some kind of grudge with Conrad that cannot be eliminated! ”

The speculative look in his eyes, clear and piercing.

"No, we don't know each other, but if you want to survive, you'd better take the money and fly away, otherwise when the crisis comes, there will be no chance to reverse your fate."

"Brother Bell, we're here!"

Shuangye shouted in the streets, waving to me.

"It turns out to be a continuation of the legend, the deal takes effect, I'll get out of here immediately!"

The scavengers clutched a stack of wealth, took off their ill-fitting garments, and fled in a hurry. (To be continued.) )