Chapter 130: A Vendor Who Sells Human Flesh
"Human flesh!?" The companions around him were taken aback, Bai Yan's words were too terrifying, the meat sold by the small stall was actually human flesh? Passing off human flesh as beef!?
"No mistake, the dragon's nose is very smart." It's not that Bai Yan hasn't killed anyone, and the meat on the stall is obviously the taste of human flesh.
Connor sniffed with her little nose and echoed, "Yes, what Lord White King said is right, it is indeed human flesh." ”
Ciri, Shihua, and Michelle all changed their faces, and a chill rose from behind.
"What to do? Want to report it to the guards? Shihua asked.
"No, I don't think it's that simple, let's observe it first." Bai Yan usually doesn't like to meddle in things, but he is very interested in digging out the truth about curious things, to put it bluntly, he just wants to do things and make a big news.
"Hmm~ I feel like I won't want to eat meat for the next period of time." Ciri covered her mouth, a little sick to her stomach.
Everyone pretended not to know that the butcher was selling human flesh, and continued to walk forward, and after walking a short distance, Bai Yan suddenly stopped, his eyes fixed on a man in a white shirt in front of him.
The man crept up to a woman with a dagger in his hand, admiring the gems on the jewelry stand, unaware of the approaching people behind her, the jeweler beckoning customers with a smiling face, and the butcher busty chopping the meat into small pieces, equally oblivious to what was about to happen.
"Die!"
The man's left hand was already stuck in the woman's neck, and his right hand was about to plunge into the back of her heart, when the woman who sold the jewels finally saw this scene and screamed in fright: "There is a man who has broken his oath! ”
At this moment, a long sword slashed horizontally, and the man's head immediately flew out, and the fierce blood splashed on the woman's back.
The headless corpse fell, and the woman who had been lucky enough to pick up a life turned around with a pale face.
Seeing that she was trembling and not saying a word, Bai Yan put away his sword and smiled at her: "I was in a hurry for a while, and I almost injured you by mistake, please forgive me." ”
The woman was frightened for a moment, looked at the headless corpse on the ground, and then looked at the heroic Bai Yan, and said gratefully: "My benefactor! I really don't know how to thank you, I can't repay you for saving my life, please accept this. ”
She untied an emerald silver necklace from her neck and handed it to Bai Yan: "My name is Margaret, thank you again." ”
"It's a gesture." Bai Yan accepted the gift without hesitation and asked, "Who is this person, and why did he kill you?" ”
Margaret shook her head and said, "I don't know, I'm just a tourist, I'm here to buy silver jewelry for my family, I don't know this man." ”
"Dare to openly kill people in the downtown area, is this person a madman?" Bai Yan guessed, and suddenly felt that the situation was wrong, but he couldn't say what the problem was.
Several guards hurried over and shouted, "Who is it, who was shouting that there are oathbreakers in the city just now?" ”
The jeweler trembled, the butcher's face turned pale, Margaret was silent, Bai Yan watched coldly, no one spoke for a while, and the guard said coldly: "Listen, everyone, there are no oathbreakers in this city, and no nonsense will be allowed in the future." ”
One of the guards observed the heads of the people rolling to the edge of the butcher stall and laughed, "Isn't this the scoundrel of Welling, who killed him?" ”
His gaze fell on the long sword on Bai Yan's waist and asked, "Is that you?" ”
Bai Yan admitted calmly: "It's me, but I didn't intentionally kill someone, he was about to kill this Margaret girl, this aunt who sells jewelry is a witness, if you don't believe it, you can ask her." ”
The guard looked at Bai Yan and said, "I haven't seen you, you just came, listen, don't make trouble in the city in the future, if there is a problem, we will solve it, if you keep to yourself, it will be good for everyone." ”
Bai Yan argued: "I know it's none of my business, but if I don't make a move, I ...... at this moment."
The guard intercepted: "It's good to know that it's none of your business, now this matter is up to us, please leave, don't interfere with official affairs anymore." ”
A few hawkers looked at each other, and the butcher shouted, "Let's go, we're going to close the stall too." ”
For a while, the originally not lively bazaar quickly dispersed.
This matter is a bit strange, but Bai Yan doesn't want to cause trouble anymore, so he can only leave.
"There's something evil about this city." Shihua also felt that something was wrong.
"yes, you have to be careful." Bai Yan reminded with a smile.
"Don't worry, we still have no problem protecting ourselves." Ciri is confident in her swordsmanship.
As soon as everyone walked a few steps, Bai Yan was stopped by a young man, who asked enthusiastically, "Oh my God, I didn't hurt you just now, did I?" ”
Bai Yan looked at this tall and thin young man and felt very strange: if this person saw what had just happened, he shouldn't ask this question, and if he didn't see it, then he shouldn't ask it.
Seeing that Bai Yan didn't say a word, the man chuckled, stuffed something to Bai Yan, and said, "I saw that you accidentally dropped this thing just now, so I picked it up for you." ”
"It's yours, right?" Bai Yan looked at the paper ball in his hand, inexplicable.
The man had already walked away, still saying, "No, it's yours, but take it." ”
Bai Yan unfolded the paper ball, only to see that it simply wrote: "Come with me." ”
Bai Yan guessed that it was related to the incident just now, and decided to find out, and said to Shihua and the others: "You guys stay in the hotel first, and I'll investigate." ”
"Be careful, don't step into the trap."
"I know that unless Arridding comes back, there are few people who are my opponents." Bai Yan was curious about the secret behind the city, and after separating from his companions, he followed the man alone to see what this guy planned to do.
After passing through most of the city, the man entered a small temple, and Bai Yan followed him in, and at a glance he saw the idol of Talos, and there were a lot of tributes, and the incense was vigorous.
"This is the Temple of Talos, I'm Edrice, thank you for coming, we need to have a good talk." The man leaned on the stone pillar and said to Bai Yan.
"What's your name?" Edith asked.
"Bai Yan."
"Nice to meet you, Bai Yan, do you have any thoughts on what just happened?"
"You're going to get straight to the point, I'm not here to guess riddles with you." Bai Yan could sense that there was only one person in this dim and narrow temple, and he should have no ill will.
"Okay." Arice, too, felt as if she was talking too much nonsense, and said, "Actually, this kind of thing happens a lot, although it doesn't happen every time, but we all know what happened, it was the oathbreaker who did it. ”
"Who is the Oath Attenuent?" Bai Yan asked.
"They were originally indigenous to the territory, and they were later conquered by the northerners, but they have been waiting for the opportunity to rebel." "More than 20 years ago, they took advantage of the war between the north and the south, launched a rebellion, captured Marcas, and declared independence. ”
Bai Yan gradually understood: "Well, then what? ”
"Later, Ufrik led his army to regain the city of Marcas, and killed many people, and the remnants fled into the mountains outside the city, calling themselves oathbreakers, constantly raiding the farms, mines, merchants, and even infiltrating the city to kill people, but strangely enough, Marcas's guards did not seem to intend to investigate one murder after another."