Section 422: A New Dawn (5)
Rayale looked at the floor-to-ceiling mirror of the ready-to-wear store, where the middle-aged man looked a little tired with a stubble and a red rosacea on his pale face. "Sir, you'll have to drink less." The halfling old lady, who was the store manager, looked at Layale's face in the mirror while changing the shawl for his 'daughter'.
"I'm sorry, ma'am, but sometimes men can't help themselves." Rayale sighed when he said this—in the past week, he and Si Ye had been hiding in Tibet, and had managed to escape from Naples to Rongma.
The whole thing started half a month ago, when Rayale got in touch with the ancients, and they gave him a task to find ancient parts from a ruin in the eastern wilderness.
It's a very difficult task, but the ancients said that as long as Rayale can complete it, you can get a reward, and Rayale asks if she can change the body of the four leaves, because she is weak and sickly, and Rayale has always wanted to help her when she was in the orphanage.
But until the orphanage was broken by bandits, he couldn't help much, and the only thing he could do was to escape with the four leaves with the extraordinary power he had just awakened.
With no talent, Rayale could only wander around with the four leaves, and they fled from the Eastern Kingdom to the north of Farol, and then followed the Eastern Farol Railway south to Naples.
Able to help the four leaves, to be able to regain her health, Rayale accepted the task, and then he turned his attention to the self-discipline machine in the ancient building of Naples.
Although his illusions were ineffective against machines, Rayale learned to dismantle ancient machines from a very young age - the orphanage would recover them from ancient battlefields, dismantle them, and sell them to different organizations.
Rayale knew very well that the mechanical bodies in the ancient buildings of Naples did indeed have the parts he needed.
So he took some materials from the local workshop and made them into an electric shock device that could break the circuit of the mechanical body, and Rayale was able to activate it with his technique, so he was able to find the parts and complete the task without any danger.
While waiting for a response, Rayale came across several fat sheep...... Well, there are also the real ones in the physical sense, anyway, a lot of money was taken out of their pockets, which made the originally precarious life much better.
It wasn't until a week ago that he received a letter from an ancient man telling him to go to 117 East Avenue in the city.
Out of an abundance of caution, Rayale takes Yotsuha out of the hotel and settles her in the attic of an uninhabited hut in Xicheng District, which is the vacant house that Layale has confirmed.
Why do you say that, one is for safety, and the other is because it's clean.
This clean means unobtrusive, Rayale has spent a lot of money lately, and he is afraid of letting the local thugs come to his door - it's not that he is afraid of them, the ordinary thugs are not his opponents at all, just like the gangsters in the north before, they can't catch him at all.
But Siye is different, she is weak and sickly, if she falls into the hands of these gangsters, Layale can't imagine what kind of torture she will suffer, so, this time it may take some time to go out, he must arrange the safety of Four-Leaf, leave her enough food, for this reason Rayale went to buy some canned food, and some easy-to-store black bread and water, enough for Rayale to survive for a week without a fire.
If he doesn't come back by then, Yotsuha will have to leave Naples and go to live in the north and in the small town that Layale mentioned, where there is a small house on the street that he bought, and Yotsuha can live there until Rayale returns to her.
What if you can't come back?
Rayale didn't say, and the four leaves didn't ask.
Although Layale has never been so pessimistic.
"Sir, twenty-four pieces in total."
"It's expensive, but it's worth it for the materials and workmanship." After Layale finished speaking, he took out three ten pieces of Mowis in denomination.
"You're very discerning." After smiling, the old lady went back to the counter to get change.
Rayale patted Yotsuba's shoulder and continued to recall what had happened before.
On his way to No. 117, he saw a pedestrian on the side of the road, dressed in very expensive clothes, holding a small suitcase in his hand, and the bag was bulging, which looked like a brand new fat sheep.
Rayale's hands itched for a moment, and he took the contents of his satchel from the guy's hand.
It was two objects, a figurine of pure gold with a sapphire on it, and if taken to the big city, it would be a standard work of art, much more valuable than simply melting into gold bars and gems to sell.
The other item is a slimy egg.
Rayale threw it into the gutter - there was something wrong with this thing.
The young man deliberately washed his hands with a bottle of holy water, but he still had corrosive wounds on his hands.
This doesn't bode well, so as he approached 117, Rayale deliberately used an illusion clone - his supernatural ability to create a standard and perfect illusion that could speak, and be able to give feedback on almost all of what he heard, read, and wrote.
Rayale let him enter the scene with the figurine.
Rayale thought it was just a superfluous move, but he didn't think there was something wrong with the statue as well—he saw a group of people outside surrounding 117.
Inside the room, the halfling and his companions, who had been the connectors, suddenly raised their guns at him.
When those men rushed into 117, the doppelganger of Rayale died as shots rang out.
By the time the men had rushed into 117 and the shots were starting to fire inside, Layale saw the mechanical bodies of the ancient buildings suddenly appear on the other side of the street, their legless track transmissions darting down the street, and then rushed into 117.
This made Layale choose to run away without hesitation - if you don't run, you will really wait for death.
When leaving Naples, Layale deliberately used the appearance of a local drunkard to make an illusion appearance for himself, and the four leaves were also - the combination of the young man and the elf girl was too obvious, and a drunkard and his daughter looked much more normal, and the drunkard still had two train tickets in his pocket, since he was leaving Naples, what could be faster and safer than taking the train.
Besides, train tickets are bearer, and who knows that a drunkard with his daughter will be fake.
So, Rayale and Four Leaves finally escaped.
But for the past two days, he has always had a question - why did the ancients kill themselves? Is it their own ideology that eats black, or is it that the agent wants to kill himself?
Why would the machinery in the ancient buildings of Naples know about number 117, Rayale does not feel that the machinery that is separated by most of the city will come to exercise law enforcement authority.
Those guys must have come for the statue and the egg, who the hell were they, and the egg he touched, and would it leave a mark on Rayale?
So Layale got off at the Jungma and Nabulus halfway through and stayed in the small town of Roca Secata for four days - the four leaves rented a local half-elf house, and Layale stayed in a hotel on the other side of the town.
For four days, the killers failed to catch up with them, which finally relieved Layale - if there was really something wrong with the egg, these four days were enough time for the mysterious pursuers to come on horseback.
So he took back the four leaves, and Rayale simply used the church's teleportation circle to come directly to Rongma.
To be on the safe side, he stole another unlucky one, and then used the money to buy new clothes and an empty house - Rongma is being expanded recently, and there are a large number of vacant houses in the new city, which is said to be the idea of the prince named Marin Gayat, although it costs a lot of money, but to be honest, if something really happens, there is still a place for the four leaves to live.
Like Roca Sekata, Yotsuha uses his real identity to live in a new house, while Layale uses a fake identity to rent a room in the north of the city.
Leaving the ready-to-wear store, Layale returned to the new house, the furniture he had just bought had been arranged by the service department, and after paying, Layale handed the last money bag to Siye: "You have to be careful when you live alone, remember to dress yourself up with the makeup techniques I taught you, be sure to draw good eyeliner, good foundation, that will make you look like another, remember." ”
"I remember, but Rayale, are you really not staying?"
"It's too dangerous, I won't put you in danger, trust me, Yotsuba, when this is over, I'll take you to Fort Carter."
Looking at the tears in the girl in front of him, Rayale also wanted to cry, but he had already sworn that the tears of his life had been completely drained with the destruction of the orphanage.
"Be sure to take care of yourself, I'll go first, and two days later, we'll meet in the market street in the south of the city, remember, 9 o'clock in the morning, don't forget." After speaking, Rayale kissed the four leaves goodbye, and then left the small building.
Rayale did not dare to stay any longer, for he was afraid that he would not have the courage to leave.
Walking out of the small building and leaving the new city, when he passed through the city gate, he was in line and was suddenly tapped on the shoulder from behind: "Hi, Harriel." ”
The owner of this body is called Harriel? Rayale immediately controlled his desire to kill, and he quickly changed the color of his pupils, changing the thickness of his lips and dilating his nostrils.
Then, when he turned around, he found that the Thaisan who patted him on the shoulder smiled with some confusion and embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person, you are very similar to a friend of mine." ”
"In terms of drinking?" Rayale smiled.
"yes." The Thainan-looking half-breed pulled out his credentials in embarrassment: "Joint Investigation Department, Jin Haocheng, your back is very similar to that of my friend Harriel Duboa. ”
"Really...... He's gone. ”
"Yes, he said he would meet me in Rongma, I don't know where he is now."
"I'm sorry, Mr. Officer, I don't know where your friend is." After Layale finished speaking, he scratched his head.
Officer Kim nodded: "I understand, I'll wait for him here, and, I'm sorry." ”
"Nothing, sir, there will always be times when people recognize the wrong person." With that, Rayale said goodbye to the police officer.
Pulling out his ID and handing it to the guards, Rayale, who had changed back to his original form, smiled and waited.
The city guard checked his papers: "Ah, Mr. Harriel Duboa, you can go. ”
"Well, I'm leaving." Retrieving his papers, Rayale walked through the city gate and into the side alley.
As a first step, Rayale's appearance changed, her burgundy curly hair turned into a long blond shawl, her groggy eyes became sharp, her red pupils, her long, proudly raised lips, and her wheat-colored skin, which represented health.
Rayale changed his trench coat inside and out – this reversible trench coat was prepared for the moment.
Walking out of the alley, a standard Sidney teenager appeared on the street, his previous documents had been discarded, and he was in the final state of spontaneous combustion at this moment.
"Sir, do you want to read the newspaper?"
"Bring me one."
Giving a slot and taking a newspaper, Rayale confirmed the tattoo on the kid's arm: "I need a little help, kid. ”
"Sir, how else can you help?"
"That kind of help on your arm."
The child put away his smile, looked around, and finally confirmed that there was no one, and he opened his mouth to Rayale: "Chengdong Avenue, No. 117." ”
"Thank you." Rayale nodded, and then walked to Chengdong Avenue without looking back—strange.
Because Layale finally got it.
117 East Avenue is the property of the Farol Brotherhood, which ...... It is the dark chess of the ancients.
No wonder their documents can be fake.
Because no one really has been able to win them over in this regard.
After going around in circles, Rayale finally settled on a combination of young men and young women who looked like Sidney Travelers.
He and she were holding hands and were walking around the city, seeming to be ...... Traveling to get married?
What a rich man.
With this in mind, he took the newspaper and pretended to bump into him unintentionally as he passed by them.
"I'm sorry, sir." Rayale apologized in standard Sidney.
"Hey...... Are you also a Sidney? The young man was angry at first, and then noticed Rayale's appearance and his accent: "Ah, I really didn't expect to see my own people here, what's the matter, is there something urgent?" ”
"Yes, there is an urgency." Rayale said with some embarrassment as he pulled his pocket watch out of his pocket, and as he opened it, a crisp voice rang out.
The young couple's expressions were stunned at the same time.
With the help of illusion, Rayale took the young man's papers, his pocket watch, his wallet, and the private money in his collar in public.
"Sorry sir, I'm five minutes late and my girlfriend is waiting for me."
Hearing this answer, the young husband suddenly smiled, and then he began to live like a man again: "I see, then you do have a reason to be forgiven, go quickly, young boy." ”
Saying goodbye to him, Rayale walked a little way and turned into another alley.
He picked up the new document and glanced at the name on it.
Logan?