Chapter 37: The Hidden Murder Machine
"Ahh
"Thea?"
"It's okay, my nose is suddenly a little cold." Thea blinked, hurriedly raised her hand to cover her mouth and nose, her amber eyes looked left and right with a little embarrassment, then her complexion returned to normal, she half-turned her face and smiled stupidly at Urs, put her hands together and landed in front of her abdomen to stand still, waiting for Alice to give new orders to herself or the young man.
After being guided by the venue staff, Alice has now taken Urs and Thea to one of the VIP boxes on the second floor of the venue.
The corridor on the second floor of the Hyena Street underground auction hall is like a curved ring hidden in the curved wall at one end of the semi-circular arena, and a VIP box is connected through a door at short intervals, and the VIP box rooms have a raised stand overlooking the first-floor sales stands, and the edge of the stands is covered by chest-length low walls and curtains to ensure the basic safety and personal privacy of VIPs.
If a VIP in a box does not want to be revealed or seen, the VIP can close the curtains and leave only a gap in the middle of the stands to peek down, and if he wants to bid on a certain item, he can call the waiter at the door of the room to run an errand and pass his offer to the emcee on the first floor of the sales stand.
Alice put on a half-covered hood, waited for Urs to check the room to make sure that there were no surveillance facilities, closed the curtains on both sides of the stands, and ordered a waiter in each VIP box to wait outside the door of the room to wait for her instructions, no matter what, to prevent others in the venue from noticing her, and then stood on the edge of the stand and looked down at the stalls below the view.
The auction has not officially started, the master of ceremonies of the venue is standing on the booth and discussing something with several other staff members next to him, and the first floor of the venue is gradually sitting at the same time, and the new invitees fill the idle area little by little, and the noisy discussion will be filled from quiet to noisy in a short time-
It wasn't until about ten minutes later that the emcee at the booth seemed to have finally discussed something with the staff around him, and then held a horn-shaped handle object to his mouth to clear his throat.
"Ahemβbe quiet, ladies and gentlemen, please be quiet for now."
The master of ceremonies' words suddenly expanded through the horn-like object, and even the usual volume was audible to every corner of the room, and then the lively atmosphere of the discussion cooled down little by little, and returned to the silence he had requested in his words.
Alice stood expressionlessly on the edge of the stands of the box on the second floor when she heard the voice of the master of ceremonies, looked at the sales booth in front of and below the field of vision, blinked and explained casually: "I have seen the magic props designed with the qi element in the Royal Mage Academy. β
As the words fell, she glanced back at Thea and Urs, who were standing a short distance away from her, who were on basic alert, as if to signal that the two of them did not have to make a fuss about the function of such a small thing.
Urs read the meaning from the way she looked back, and on the surface she did not show the slightest surprise as she meant, but in his heart he wanted to say that Lady Alice was more calm than he appeared, and that it was actually a loudspeaker......
The fantasy world version of the megaphone, which I used in my last life, can be used with a goldfinger gadget called the system to swipe a silent message on a communication platform called the World Channel, which is convenient for a group of creatures called players to team up for adventures.
Or ...... For the amusement of another creature called the local tyrant.
Of course, there is no need to deliberately point out this small detail, because then neither Thea nor Alice will understand what they are talking nonsense.
Absolute.
The young man exhaled a hot breath, raised his right hand to the side of his shoulder and touched the hilt of the molten iron greatsword, and for a moment he made sure that his weapon was still obediently lying behind his back and not running around, and then tilted his head and moved his neck and cervical vertebrae, and suddenly thought to himself, if he could almost find a time to try to confess his biggest secret to Xia?
Memories and experiences of your previous life......
Speaking of which, he naturally had such an idea for a long time, but he always thought that he could not find the most suitable opportunity to put it into action, after all, while he had this thought in his mind, he was also worried about the situation that "if he said something wrong, it would not have any effect on the relationship between himself and the wolf-eared girl".
After all, although they have never spoken directly and thoroughly to each other, Xia seems to have vaguely sensed the so-called something wrong in her when she was in Twilight City, but she always deliberately ignores it after vaguely perceiving it, and expresses unconditional trust in herself in action, as if trying to erase the vague gap between herself and her in this way, and at the same time patiently and empathetically waiting, waiting for herself to find the right time to confess everything to her.
Urs thought, his eyes unconsciously looked at Xia, and then quickly retracted and shook his head, saying that forget it, the business is important, and it is better to focus on the auction at this time.
As for the items to be exhibited in the underground auction on Hyena Street, Alice and Scambed have learned from the information they have already investigated in advance that the Korrick gang will auction off the ingredients and recipe of a high-end dim sum tonight, and the so-called high-end dim sum is probably a contradictionary product that has clues related to the strange epidemic in Helmet City.
Alice didn't pay too much attention to the changes in Urs and Thea's demeanor after hearing the emcee's voice, she just verbally explained and looked back at her, and then turned her gaze back to the front and continued to pay attention to the sales booth on the first floor of the venue, guessing in her heart that the formal part of the venue should be about to open if nothing else.
There was nothing wrong with her inner conjecture.
When the first floor of the venue finally fell completely silent, the master of ceremonies on the sales booth was indeed ready accordingly, holding the horn-shaped magic prop that Urs recognized as a megaphone, and smiling professionally at the invitees in the entire venue, and then proclaiming, "So, let's start tonight's theme, everyone!" β
As soon as the words fell, his words were transmitted through the processing of magic props to all parts of the first floor of the venue, as well as to the ears of Alice, Urs, and Thea in the stands of the box on the second floor.
Urs stood by Alice's side, and when he heard the announcement from the direction of the booth, his brown eyes followed the mage lady's line of sight towards the first floor of the venue below, and the brows on his sockets suddenly felt a certain incongruous wrinkle.
ββ¦β¦ Wrong. β
"Knight of Urs?" Alice turned her face in surprise.
She was about to open her mouth to ask the young man what was wrong, when an alert flash of lightning flashed through her mind, and then she heard the slave knight, who had been trusted by her brother, shout in her ear:
"Get down!"
At the same time, in addition to yelling and reminding, Urs did not forget to open his arms and press Alice and Thea down with him, and lay down on the low wall of the guardrail at the edge of the box stand as a cover.
Xia was a little unresponsive to the young man's sudden forceful press, and the next moment she collapsed on the stone brick floor of the box stand, and before she could remember to ask her astonishment and confusion, she heard a series of sharp objects tearing the curtains and air at high speed in the air above her head.
Sound...... Like arrows! (https:)
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