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The next day, the twenty-fifth day of the harvest month of the year of candles, late at night.

The night in the Northland is colder than the day, and the snowflakes in the night sky seem to fall with a faint frost mist in the eyes of those who look up, but the night scene in the Helmet City is not without other movement than the cold, for example, some of the streets are still lit with candles and oil lamps after dark, and the soft light leaks some light through the old glass windows to the snow outside the house, and people can't help but think of whether there was an unknown little girl curled up there to light a match outside the window of the house. The light of the match blends with the light in the room through the window, and on one side of the window is the rippling ale of ale with the sound of people and the walls of the glass, and on the other side is a little hope to slowly fall asleep in the dream of toasting bread and the fire, and sleep with winter.

Cold and hot air enter and exit the nose and mouth. Urs turned his head, dispelled a fairy tale that had come to mind, and turned back from the window of the tavern on the street, half of his face and the corner of his eye, his steps keeping pace as he had been since he came out of the castle of the lords, and followed Alice with Thea.

As for tonight's action, Alice had already informed the young man and the girl in the dungeon yesterday.

Like the sun casts shadows in blind spots where the light does not shine, Kevin Stone rules the Northlands as a paladin and count, and although this land in the north of the empire has a kindness and justice that many other commoners cannot want, there are several blocks in Armor City that are not entirely under the control of the lord, and Hyena Street is the most troublesome and complicated place in it, which is openly occupied by a street gang called the Korrick Gang, located in the northern half of the city to the west.

The Kolick Gang is a cutting-edge gang that has risen rapidly in the northwest city of Helmet City in recent years, and it is secretly said to have some inexplicable involvement with some local minor nobles under the Earl of Northland, mainly relying on contraband smuggling, black market usury, operating casinos, gangster taverns and prostitution halls and other gray and black industries that are rarely light to maintain the operation of funds.

Because of the smuggling of contraband, the Corick gang did not shy away from touching the drug field in the smuggling industry they organized, so after Alice recently discovered the strange epidemic she had verbally mentioned to Urs and Thea last night in the city, she and Scambed arranged for people to conduct a series of covert investigations, and finally determined that the source of the epidemic may be related to the illegal goods flowing from Hyena Street, so she planned to have another person personally go to conduct an in-depth investigation this evening.

Thanks to the fact that the time of the operation was a buffer last night, Urs retrieved the molten iron greatsword that had been symbolically seized at the time of capture in the castle of the lords, and took advantage of the daytime to send a message through the palace guards, and communicated with Dorothy, Bellinglis, and Grolaydon who remained in the Warm House Drunkard Tavern for a safe time, and then he and Xia were fully prepared to walk with Alice late this night at Alice's request.

"But then again, Lady Alice......"

"What's the matter, Reverend Thea?"

"The strange epidemic you recently discovered in the city, apart from the unknown source of the disease and the lack of obvious symptoms, is there anything special about the patients?"

Before the operation began, Thea had sat in a room in the Lord's Castle with Urs a few hours earlier, and asked Alice.

"Well, if you don't laugh, I think I'm also a qualified church pastor, and I have a good grasp of several magic techniques in epidemic repellent."

The afternoon before darkfall was the time for the participants to discuss the plan.

At the time of the discussion, Alice heard Thea's question and replied, "If there is anything special about it, it will only weaken the patient at an almost negligible rate, and there is a chance that people who have been in close contact with the patient will be infected." ”

Wouldn't that be no different from an ordinary disease? Even... Since the rate at which people are getting weaker is negligible, it is possible that it is not even a disease, maybe it is just a simple cold? ”

"If there had not been a slight element of magic detected in the patient's body, and that slight element of magic had not been removed even by the magic of the priest of Macallon, I would probably have thought the same."

"So a magical disease?"

"Yes. Compared to ordinary epidemics, magical diseases are theoretically infinitely possible, so even if there are no obvious symptoms, they must be taken seriously. ”

"But...... There's no need to take the risk yourself, right? Especially in places like Hyena Street, and at this critical time when the Duke of Ducatlet wants to forcibly reclaim the Northlands by His Majesty's will......"

"Thank you for thinking about me, Pastor Thea. However, even so, this investigation still needs to be led by me or one of the Scambede's chief managers with a small number of men, otherwise it will be difficult for the Kolik gang to show our feet in our eyes this time. ”

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In this way, the picture returns to the city tonight-

The night of Hyena Street is filled with a hint of harmony in the noise and a danger in the quiet, the so-called harmony in the noise here refers to the fact that the street under the feet of Urs, Thea and Alice at the moment seems to be chaotic on the surface, but in fact it is monitored and controlled by the Korrick gang, and the various shops on both sides of the street that are still open even late at night are secretly sheltered by gang members while receiving customers, and the troublemakers are not only unable to take advantage of the victims, On the contrary, it is very easy for shopkeepers and itinerant vendors who have paid protection money to the Kolik gang to call out thugs and throw them into the garbage heaps in the dark alleys, not to mention that some of the larger stores are actually run and managed by the small leaders and cadres within the gang organizations.

If Kevin Stuyn rules the Northlands with the idea of goodness under order, the atmosphere of Hyena Street is like an evil under order, and the danger in the so-called quiet is reflected in the evil atmosphere under this order.

Walking on the streets controlled by street gang forces, Urs hardly needs to worry about whether any guy who doesn't know what to do will suddenly rush out to block the road and rob, but he must always walk beside Alice and Thea and open the way with his eyes and arms, and cooperate with his tall body, scarred side face, a few dispensable intimidation skills in the attribute panel, and the 7 points of charm that he has secretly complained about countless times, to force back some of the obscene people around him who are trying to do something to the two ladies.

As a slave knight under the command of a lord, Urs had done a lot of dirty work for his lord before his soul came to the world of this life with memories in his previous life, so it can be regarded as clear that any gangster in a human city may manage the order of the neighborhood on the surface, but they will definitely turn a blind eye to undetected theft or the abduction of women and children, and even quietly participate in it.

Although he didn't really have to worry about Thea and Alice being stolen or abducted from the street.

If you want to ask why, first of all, the belongings that you have with you, except for the molten iron greatsword that seems to be too large to be stored directly in the spatial ring, the things of the young man and his party are all packed in the two spatial rings on the middle finger of Urs and Alice and squeezed tightly with their hands. Thea's dimensional bag was a little more risky to be stolen, so she simply put the bag in your ring and took it from the young man when needed.

As for personal safety, there are hidden dangers at the direct hands-on level, and young people don't need to worry about it at all; Xia's words, it seems that since the druid ability in the bloodline of the beast angel was activated by Yu Stina, she has gradually become immune to the bad state of drugs, and it is undoubtedly a fantasy to use a handkerchief contaminated with strong drugs to kidnap and abduct her.

And Alice is the most "ruthless" in this regard. She seemed to have cast a protective spell on her body in advance, and so far she had caused a few thugs who dared to sneak out of her to jerk back their arms as if their fingertips were touching ghosts, and then they all showed the same hellish expressions on their faces, gritting their teeth and covering their hands in fear as if they were holding back the pain of frostbite.

Walking by and paying attention to the details of these scenes, Urs subconsciously mobilized the memories he knew in his previous life, and suddenly couldn't help but shake his head in his heart at the few thugs who had eaten deflated on Alice, recalling that a certain sentence he had heard in his previous life was really good to say here.

The origin of that sentence is quite interesting, how do you say it......

Oh, I remember.

"Never touch the skin of the Frost Princess without permission!" ——byThe consensus reached tacitly by a certain class of magic apprentices of the Royal Mage Academy of the Golden Que Ying Empire after individual cases of itchy hands

Of course, as a person who has the memories of two lifetimes, he actually knows that this mage lady with the nickname "Frost Princess" actually didn't actually cast any protective spells on her body in advance.

It was just a secret she was born with.

Just as young people have private secrets that they only know and understand, Alice also has another secret about her ability to cast spells as a mage that only she and a few people know about besides young people......

"What are you doing in a daze? Come on. Suddenly, Alice walked in front of the three-man squad and turned her face to keep up, reminding the young man to keep up with her usual stern and cold voice.

"Uh, sorry." Urs came back to his senses, immediately understood, and nodded at her.

Subsequently, it was not long before ......

After about a few minutes or so, it was time to go.

"Here it is." Alice led a three-member action team to a stop near the entrance to the black market on Hyena Street, turned around and whispered to the young man and the wolf-eared girl. (https:)

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