April 9, 599 in the Misty Calendar, was destined to be an unusual day for Uno. Vertices are updated the fastest

Although it is surrounded by mountains on one side and foggy on the other, it is located in the southwest corner of Heru, and there are still several safe roads leading to the rest of the city, and with the timid character of Uno, he only dares to take the big road.

But he had only been out of town for a day before he met an acquaintance.

To be precise, it is the feeling of acquaintances.

He remembered that when he went to the kitchen to steal food when he was a child, he was often inexplicably discovered by his father, once or twice, but no matter how careful he was, even if he was sure that there was no one around, he would be discovered, which was very strange.

He later learned that it was Uncle Ricky watching him in the dark.

Uncle Ricky was his mother's eldest brother, a native of Tallinn north of the River Styx, born with blue skin and a petite stature, and the smaller they were, if not the tangled goat horns on their heads, they were somewhat similar to the gold-loving green-skinned dwarves.

The people of Tallinn were by nature brilliant assassins, adept at stealth and assassination, and Uncle Ricky was one of them.

Uno remembers one year when he was a child, someone kidnapped him to get his father to hand over some family heirloom, and it was Uncle Ricky who saved him alone, and not only that, but he assassinated all the kidnappers and didn't let the enemy find out where he was. Even Uno didn't see anything, he just remembered crying from beginning to end, and when he opened his eyes, he found all his enemies lying in a pool of blood.

He still remembers that the reason why he stopped crying was because a cold hand touched the back of his neck.

"Don't cry and cry."

That's what Uncle Ricky said at the time.

……

After many years, although some memories have been blurred and forgotten, when the cold hand was placed on the back of his neck, Uno immediately thought of Uncle Ricky.

The hand seemed to be a little rough.

"Have you forgotten your Uncle Ricky?" Familiar voices seemed to come from all directions.

"Uncle Ricky!"

Uno shouted into the air, he couldn't sense where the other man was.

"I'm here." Ricky, dressed in purple leather armor, appeared behind him, as unnoticeable as a leaf or a stone, and if it weren't for him speaking, Uno would never have felt that there was someone behind him.

"Uncle Ricky, why did you come to me?" Uno stepped forward and hugged Ricky, looking like a kind father hugging his young son from a distance.

It's just that this son's growth is a little anxious, and he has grown a goatee at a young age.

"Lightly, my little Uno." Ricky deftly jumped out of the bear hug and stood lightly on a rock.

"Your mother returned to Tallinn to inherit the throne and took your father with her. The servants were dismissed, the estate was sold, and now the whole family was left with the two of us. I intend to join the 'Shadow Footsteps' of Port Geoor, and until then have been commissioned by your father to give you this box. ”

"What??" A flurry of information shocked Uno away.

"They...... They went to Tallinn? When? So what do I do? ”

"Didn't you decide to live on your own?" Ricky frowned, a little puzzled, "Your mother's exact words are 'Little Uno has finally grown up, and knows that we will run away from home, so we will not care about him, and we can finally live a carefree life for two.'" Then the two of them went away, taking with them the money they had received from the sale of the estate.

"This happened almost at the same time as you ran away from home, and during this time I just completed the trial of the 'Shadow Steps'.

"Oh, by the way, it's worth mentioning that they always had tears of joy on their faces when they said this, maybe they were so happy to see you so sensible."

Uno's mouth was so shocked by the sudden change that he widened his eyes and asked, "Why didn't she mention it before I left?" ”

"Probably because if you want to inherit, the throne will be yours." Ricky shrugged. "But it's too late, trust me, if you cross the River Styx to find them, my grumpy sister will blast you out."

Uno's sudden feeling of powerlessness was the foolish act of quitting his job.

It was the easiest job for Hosdey, and although he was often called a "coward", he knew very well that the guys who mocked him were all waiting and waiting with their necks stretched out, they were the real cowards.

The true brave disdain to elevate themselves by belittling the weak.

"Well, your father asked me to give it to you, saying that it can be opened with your blood, and maybe it will improve your life." Ricky jumped down from the stone and walked up to him and said.

Uno took the box listlessly.

It was made of age ghost wood, and it was carved with strange magic patterns, which may be why he was kidnapped in the first place.

He dripped a drop of blood, which was quickly absorbed by the box, and the magic pattern flashed, and then with a "click", the box opened.

"It's ......"

Uno picked up the bone-white note in the box. The note was made of unknown materials, cold to the touch, hard to the touch, and a little slippery to the touch, with a huge ship painted in dark green paint, the bow of which resembled a one-eyed hipster with a sickle on his back.

The pattern moves, and the boat is surrounded by the murky waters of the River Styx, with the spray of the waves, and the boat sways and undulates with it.

"This is a ticket for the Nagfar?" Unoult asked, surprised, remembering that he had heard his father describe it when he was young.

"Oh, really?" Ricky leaned over to take a look. "Really. When I went to the 'Shadow Footsteps' test, they asked me to get a ticket that looked like this one. ”

Hearing this, Uno held up the ticket at him and said, "Then Uncle Ricky, did you get it?" Why don't you take this one and pay for it? ”

"Huh." Ricky smiled disdainfully, and he raised his right hand with an identical ticket between his fingers.

"You're too small, your Uncle Ricky."

The sharp-eyed Uno saw not only the ticket, but also the ring of the eagle's head on his finger, which he remembered seeing as a child in the hands of a wealthy merchant who had a conflict with his father.

In this way, the origin of this ticket could not be clearer.

"So what are you going to do with it?" Ricky asked.

Uno looked at this happy trouble, and couldn't think of what to do for a while.

"Or ...... Sold? I'm not going to get on the boat anyway. "He was very resolute." I can't kill it. ”

"It's okay, Shadow Footsteps is also in charge of the black market business, and this ticket can also sell for more than 300,000 gold coins."

"What? Three hundred thousand? Uno's voice rose several degrees at once. Only 300,000? ”

"So what do you think?" Ricky looked at him in surprise: "I bought this one for 350,000 gold coins, and I will take out five copies in one go in that auction." It's worthless. ”

Uno immediately figured out why.

"That's the port of Geol! Uncle Ricky, if we sell it on the black market in Hosde, we'll have at least 500,000 gold coins! ”

"Really?"

"Really!"

"Okay then." Ricky will be skeptical. "Do as you say, and if things don't go well, we'll return to Port Geol at once."

After saying that, his figure faded out of Uno's sight again, slowly melting like salt sprinkled into water.

"No problem!"

Uno, who suddenly felt a lot of strength in his body, strode towards Hosti.

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At the same time.

The stinking sewers of Hosty are the strongholds of the Grey Hats, though they stink.

In the intricate drainage pipes, water stains and garbage are covered in enchantments and magic circles, and although they look disgusting and smell foul, they don't do anything when you step on them.

People come and go here, extending in all directions, like a gray heart, transporting blood-like gray gold coins everywhere.

In the hall where the commissions and quests were issued, Jerry and Tom sat in front of a goblin with bitter faces.

"I'm sorry, gentlemen." The green-skinned dwarf with the enchanted monocle stared at the parchment scroll in his hand, and said with a straight face: "The failure rate of the two of them has exceeded 67%, and they have been transferred from the official personnel to the state of pending assessment, and they can no longer accept the commission, and the names of the two will also be crossed out from the employment list, so as not to make the wrong choice." ”

"So we can't take on any more missions?" Tom couldn't help but ask.

"Not so absolutely." The goblin shook his head. "Some simple orders can still be made, such as ......"

He looked down for a moment, pushing away all the reddish parchment rolls in his field of vision, and pulling out the gray-bordered ones from underneath.

"For example, the manager of Mika at 'Mika's House' needs two helpers with a keen sense of smell."

"Sensitive sense of smell?" Jerry suddenly came to his senses. "Yes...... Follow the trail of blood? ”

"No," the goblin shrugged. "Spices."

Jerry was a little puzzled by the answer.

"Why should such a simple task be sent to the Grey Hat? Shouldn't you go to the mercenary guild to find someone? ”

"In fact, no one in the mercenary union took this task, so it was sent to us." The goblin explained impatiently, tilting his head to look at the group behind them.

"You two can leave if they don't have anything to do." He said, and shouted in a shrill voice. "Next."

……

Drilling out of the special underground pipe and breathing fresh air again, the brothers, one tall and one short, were a little dazed for a while.

"What shall we do, old cat, where shall we go?" Jerry asked.

Tom spreads his hands. "I don't know, but maybe we can talk to the employer who did the last assignment, after all, we were robbed"

Jerry immediately jumped up and covered his mouth.

"You'd better be careful what you say!" He whispered: "At present, only the two of us have discovered the fact that memory has passed on our hands and feet, what if the matter is big and that soul grabber comes to the door?" Even the employer said don't startle the snake, you're good, and you still want to trouble a soul snatcher? ”

"But"

"It's nothing, but since the other party has spared us a life, it means that we are still useful, and we are not a man with our tail between our legs at this time?"

Tom had a different view.

"Why can't it be that guy named Mu Yan who is timid and doesn't dare to kill?"

"Oh my God, old cat, do you have shit in your head?? That's Mr. Glazer's guys. Jerry looked at him with an exaggerated expression, "Have you forgotten how Lord Glazer bought two storefronts on Fifth Avenue in the first place?" ”

Tom pouted.

"What else? That's the territory of the 'Shining Gold Coins', and if it weren't for Moraby's dead fat pig giving him face, he would have been able to buy the next two stores? ”

"Hehe, you can afford that fat pig too much." Jerry sneered: "I heard that Morabi was reluctant at the beginning, but then he was frightened by others and had to compromise. In the end, it was the gray hat man who stepped forward to settle the matter. Speaking of this, he suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Old cat, do you think that in the past five or six years, there have been more and more green-skinned dwarfs in the sewers?" ”

Hearing him say this, Tom frowned as well.

"Seems like that, Spike's old dog hasn't shown up in a long time, and every time something important happens, it's his greenskin assistant who informs him......"

A terrible thought suddenly flashed through his mind, and he immediately raised his head, just in time to meet Jerry's frightened eyes.

"Could it be that the old dog has ......?"

The two of them said almost in unison, and then quickly covered their mouths and swallowed the second half of the sentence back.