Chapter 207: Murder
Knocking out three dirty hands that wanted to touch him, avoiding two porters who almost hit him, and breaking the bones of a scoundrel who wanted to stab him with a poisoned dagger, Shepard walked out of the dock area without incident.
"It's a bustling and peaceful city." The doppelganger stood at the entrance of the dock area and sighed.
The metal statues stand silently in the square, and the adventurers and citizens who come and go rarely pay attention to them, except for the occasional first-time visitor.
Although it was not the first time Shepard had seen this statue, it was the first time he had seen such a real scene, and the traces left by time were all over the sculpture, reaching out and touching the rusted and stained exterior, as if touching the hundreds of years that had passed, and the unreachable previous life.
The stranger sighed, dispelled the sudden sorrow in his heart, and looked up to see a dozen citizens on the edge of the square hurriedly disappearing into the crowd.
His heart moved, it was an extremely ordinary scene, but as soon as he saw those citizens, he couldn't help but feel a kind of disgust in his heart, this emotion came inexplicably, so that Shepard instinctively followed those people.
With the pedestrians next to him blocking his tracks, and his manipulation of light to blur his position, the group that was being followed was alert but did not notice that someone was following him.
It was only when he came to a place where there were few people that he suddenly stopped, and Shepard heard one of them muttering, "Shall we just go over like this?" How does it feel a little unsteady. ”
Someone next to him chuckled in a low voice: "What can be the problem?" Recently the madmen have discovered several strongholds, and the priest has told us all to assemble at the main altar, and we have never had a problem with this road many times. ”
The tone of the person who muttered at first was a little uneasy: "Hey, let's speed up, I don't want to meet those crazy people, anyway, the priest let us go, so naturally we have to go." ”
Someone else said in an agitated tone: "That's right, the priest has conveyed the command of my lord, and it must not be disobeyed!" Whoever disobeys the Lord is against the will of my Lord. ”
The people next to him were silent for a moment, and after a few words of low prayer, they looked left and right to see that no one was paying attention, and then they disappeared into a dark alley together.
Shepard, who was following behind, moved his ears slightly, catching the thin fragments coming from the air: "...... The blood ...... Only death...... The Scarlet Feast is about to begin......"
He raised his eyebrows and said to himself, "Blood and death? Seeing that the group of civilians suspected of being demon believers disappeared into the alley, he hurriedly strode up, but as soon as he walked to the alley, a cold face appeared in front of him, which made him feel startled, and he subconsciously wanted to punch it, but he suddenly reacted and stopped the movements in his hand.
The cultist hiding at the entrance of the alley looked forward blankly, and a gust of wind brought by the swing of his fist hit his face, causing the somewhat yellow skin to twitch and blink, but he did not find the stalker in front of him, and after a while, the cultist hiding at the entrance of the alley turned his head and said: "Nobody, are you too suspicious." ”
Shepard gently turned to the side of the alley and heard a voice coming from inside: "It's always good to be careful, since it's true that no one is following, let's go quickly, the entrance is not far away, and you have to walk for a long time to get in, everyone's weapons are ready, right?" It's not a safe journey! ”
Hearing the sound of Suosuo's voice, Shepard turned his head to look over, only to see that the group of cultists held short swords, daggers, short axes and other weapons in their hands, and some of them also held a small wooden shield in their other hands, and disappeared from the corner of the alley under the leadership of the leader, and only when the last person disappeared into the ground did they see that there was an entrance to a sewer on the ground.
"Sure enough, it's in the sewers...... The sewers are a great place to hide dirt and dirt. Shepard sighed, a place like the sewers is naturally in the blind spot of the sunlit world, and it is difficult to spread light here no matter where it is, because everything has two sides, even the multiverse has to separate the upper and lower realms to place purity and filth.
He took a few steps back, although he found traces of cultists, but these guys had obviously been planning for a long time, and Baldur's Gate was not his territory, so it was not his turn to be a god from another continent to meddle in things, and besides, listening to the conversations of those cultists, it seemed that someone had already discovered their existence, so there was no need for him to worry about it.
The alleys that are so vast and chaotic are an inevitable part of all towns, and Baldur's Gate is no exception, and Shepard just casually found the alley and got in, and it didn't take long for him to forget where he had come from.
The foul smell of sewage was accumulating on the ground, the low, dilapidated houses were crumbling, and the few figures who came into view were also emaciated, wearing more dirty rags than clothes.
Shepard looked at the scene in front of him with a calm face, with a little unbearable in his eyes, and he didn't have to think about it to know that this must be the slum of Baldur's Gate, close to the docks and the market, and the poor people here probably relied on fishing for some dead fish in swill and rotten vegetables and rotten fruits.
A few stronger paupers looked at the brightly dressed Shepard in the corner, but the clothes and equipment he carried with him were worth a lot of money, but the discerning people were not easy to provoke at first glance, those paupers were nothing more than some gang members, and they still had basic eyesight, so after a few glances, no one dared to come over and ask what to do.
"Ahh
A scream rang out, and the paupers looked up numbly, and then returned to their lifeless appearance, and the gang members looked in the direction from which the screams had come from, and then at Shepard, and decided not to leave the matter alone.
However, the matter did not end there, the screams rang out one after another, and the sound of fighting and screaming and roaring became closer and closer, Shepard suddenly retreated quickly, and in the blink of an eye, he retreated to the mouth of the alley more than ten meters away.
The gang members were shocked, but at this moment they heard a loud bang, a dazzling fire suddenly rose from the ground, and the sturdy figure held the firelight in his hand, and slashed down coldly without saying a word, and the wall on one side of the alley collapsed in a loud noise, revealing the scene on the other side.
The fire set many houses on fire, and the poor fled from their homes wailing, and the unfortunate ones rushed out with a body of flames, and after a few steps they threw themselves into the sewage.
Footsteps sounded, and the figure holding the fire slowly walked from the collapsed gap, Shepard looked up, only to see that the fire turned out to be a long sword, which was a quarter larger than the ordinary long sword, which was obviously an enchanted weapon, and the jumping flames had a touch of dark blue, which made people feel cold in their souls inexplicably.