"It's called Dunwall inside the walls", this simple folk proverb exhausts the difference between the imperial city and the walls of the imperial city.

The inner city of Dunwall, the most dazzling pearl of the Danwall Empire, has often seen barrels of spilled wine and frozen and starved bones lined up inside and outside the walls just 20 meters wide, making people sigh that this is a place where heaven and hell coexist.

It is precisely because of this difference between the two worlds that the demand arises, the slums outside the city need the high-end goods that occasionally leak from the fingers of the nobles, and the high-ranking families in the inner city sometimes need some unpopular gadgets from the bottom, and the secret passage for Lao Wang, Takenaka and Corvo and his party to enter the city is the product of this market demand.

This secret passage was originally built mainly for trafficking in moonshine, because of the high demand, and the bottled moonshine is a fragile product, so the secret passage is quite wide, and everyone marches in a formation in the secret passage, and it does not seem crowded.

The terrain was flat and open, so everyone marched quickly, and in less than 20 minutes, all the men who had killed Gambol entered the inner city of Dunwall, the imperial capital.

The clutches of the plague and the harshness of the regent did not let this magnificent city go away just because it was the heart of the Empire, and the once majestic Imperial City was one of the most prosperous cities in the world, bustling with people, merchants from foreign countries, and seafarers carrying rare treasures.

And now, the great imperial capital seems to be in disgrace, the streets are sparsely populated, and every house is closed, as if the plague cannot invade as long as the door of the house is closed.

The rows of tall buildings will not disappear with the plague, but it can be seen that the labor shortage caused by the sharp decline in population has affected the former prosperity of these magnificent buildings, and they are like a group of ragged giants, only the tall and rotten shells remain.

Even so, the Tiger is still in power, and this is still the place where the Lord Regent calls the shots, and if a dozen or so well-dressed and uniformly armed men suddenly appear on the streets of the inner city of Dunwall, they will definitely be taken away by the city police or the Iron Mask Overseers for questioning.

Careful Takenaka prepared a large number of inner city inhabitant costumes and camouflage in the secret passages, and along the way, everyone changed their disguises, shaved with beards, put on fake beards without beards, and dressed up in various identities, and before they met Gambol, the less attention they attracted the better.

When they finally arrived in the inner city, the team of 15 people formed into squads and split up.

The 12 whale oil privateers were divided into three teams of four, dressed as seafarers returning from a long voyage, and dispersed into the city to prepare for a predetermined plan to attract fire.

The main assassination team composed of three people, Lao Wang, Takenaka and Corvo, prepared to quietly approach Gambor's official residence, Takenaka was young, disguised as a newsboy, and Lao Wang and Corvo disguised as street and alley cigarette sellers, and the four teams infiltrated Dunwall City from the hidden secret passage at intervals of 10 minutes.

Corvo led the main assassination team to set off at the end, Takenaka went first for 5 minutes, the identity of the child was not easy to be interrogated, and the newsboy also had a very reasonable excuse to wander around, and he was the pathfinder, leaving marks along the way, telling Lao Wang and Corvo the direction of progress.

Lao Wang and Corvo each held a large open box, tied it tightly to their shoulders, and then pressed their chests against the lower edge of the box, spread the box out, and swayed forward.

In Lao Wang's box, there are five rows and five columns of twenty-five boxes of cigarettes, and Corvo has a bunch of tobacco and a few cigars on Corvo's side, this kind of tobacco seller usually works in a group of two, one sells boxed paper cigarettes, the other sells relatively miscellaneous, pipe silk, cigars and even raw tobacco leaves, and finally the two share the account together, the imperial people are used to calling them "conjoined boxes", so that even if the two stick together, they will not arouse suspicion.

"Imperial high-grade fog brand cigarettes ~ Maha Island specialty tobacco ~ and spice tobacco from the East ~!" Lao Wang shouted skillfully, and walked forward with Corvo.

What did Lao Wang do, it was not a problem for him to shout and shout, Zhuzhong called a few little sparrows to listen to the cries of cigarette vendors on the street and came back to repeat with Lao Wang a few times, Brother Wang immediately entered the role, regardless of his demeanor and temperament, there was no place without revealing the style of a hawker.

Although Corvo is the chief of the royal guard and has the title of former protector, he started with assassination, and he did a lot of wet work.

The distance between the two men was about three or four hundred meters after falling into the bamboo, and the closer they got to the central area of the inner city where the Gambol Mansion was located, the more iron-masked overseers and city police patrolled the road, and from time to time someone stopped them for questioning, and took a pack or two of cigarettes along the way.

Gambol has been the new Supreme Overseer of the Empire for 5 months, he is a close ally of the Regent, and his status has risen with the expansion of the Regent's power in the imperial political arena, and now he has a faint control over half of the Empire's military power, and is the second person after the Regent.

One person attained the Tao and the chicken dog ascended to heaven.

The Iron Mask Overseer troops, as a descendant of Gambol, are now also very powerful, especially the group responsible for the garrison of the Imperial Capital of Dunwall, the small rule, under the banner of investigating suspicious elements, beating people and kicking stalls in the street is commonplace, and the big one, entering and leaving the residence of the imperial nobles at will, and casually buttoning the hat of the suspected assassination of the empress can take people away.

However, it would be a mistake to simply understand these guys as evil slaves who fight against people, the selection and training process of the Iron Mask Overseer is extremely rigorous, and everyone has the strength to approach the elite royal guards, and they are the biggest obstacle for the three of them to get close to the Gambol Mansion.

"Box, stop, get here!" another group of iron-faced overseers stopped the old king and Corvo with unkind expressions, raised their hands and hooked them twice like a greeting dog, signaling them to come, there were many such things along the way, the old king and the former protector secretly looked at each other, nodded with a flattering smile and greeted them.

"Honorable lord, may the monsoon spread your prowess to all the seas. "Lao Wang concentrated on a large number of hawkers' flattery to the law enforcers during the day today, and it was very smooth at this time, and it seemed that he had returned to the scene of the vegetable market and the city management in a trance.

"Shut up!" the iron-masked overseer who replied seemed to have seen too many sycophants of him, and impatiently whispered a word from Lao Wang, and rummaged through the box on his chest, pretending to be censored, and said in a lengthened tone: "Are there any forbidden private goods in your box?"

Despite the fact that the Iron Overseers covered their faces with iron masks, could not see their expressions, and their voices sounded like they were being made by locking people in cans, the king still heard the nonchalance and extortion in the tone of his questioning.

The greengrocer immediately panicked, "Oh, honorable Overseer, I am an honest trader, and I have always made only honest money, and many of the Overseers on these streets in the patrol area are frequent customers of our brothers. ”

The Iron Mask Overseer was not on the search at all, he reached out and made a mess of the cigarette box that Lao Wang had stacked, and said, "Honest money? How many of the boxes on the street make honest money? I think you are going to go back to the Overseer Headquarters with us to check it, right?"

That being said, the Iron Overseer didn't move his body, but still reached out and scratched inside the box, looking up at the king and Corvo from time to time, the gaze shooting from behind the iron mask with a hint of impatience.

"Look, Lord Overseer, we're just two small merchants, and we don't dare to work for you. Corvo rushed forward, pushed Wang Mancang to the side, and then picked out two packs of cigarettes and handed them to the Iron Overseer just now, and said with a smile: "Master, you can try the quality of these cigarettes, can't you? Who dares not trust the taste of tobacco in the Empire's Iron Mask Overseers?"

This is the ploy of Lao Wang and Corvo, to draw one person to be stunned, pretending not to understand the dirty deeds on the street, and the other person to come up to the round to bribe, such a cooperation is more likely to be accepted.

The strategy paid off, and the Iron Overseer glanced at Corvo's hand, and finally snorted a few times, expressing a slightly contemptuous appreciation, then he withdrew his hand from the chimney, took the two packs of cigarettes, and then waved his hand impatiently, motioning to the nodding Corvo and the old king to walk away, as if they didn't even bother to say a few more words to these untouchables.

Corvo laughed, lowered his head, and gestured to the old king with the hand hanging at his side, Wang Mancang understood, left the few iron-masked overseers who had already begun to distribute cigarettes, and continued to walk forward, the mark in the bamboo will not be noticed by outsiders at all, but the insiders they have discussed can easily distinguish it at a glance.

Corvo also got up and followed Wang's footsteps, and the two of them continued to walk along the mark, one after the other, and Wang moved his jaw to start selling again.

Just when the voice was about to shout, the voice covered by the iron sheet sounded again: "Stop!"

Lao Wang and Corvo were stunned at the same time, and began to drum slightly in their hearts, they had always performed very well on the way here, except for sending out a few more packs of cigarettes, they didn't even receive more criticism, and they were suddenly stopped, and they couldn't help but feel worried.

Wang Mancang signaled to Corvo not to hesitate too long to arouse suspicion, and then the two of them turned back together, changed into a smile and said, "Venerable Overseer, is there anything else our brother can give you a few of you?"

This time, Lao Wang, who had learned from his brother, took the lead in greeting him, stretched out his hand and picked up two packs of cigarettes from the box and said, "Master Overseer, do you need to check our goods more, I will send them to you." ”

"Shut up, pig!" This time it was not the guy who had a slightly high-pitched voice, but a more muffled voice, his left hand holding the cigarette that Corvo had sent before, and his right hand holding the handle of his knife, stopping the old king from wanting to come over and set a similar act.

"Master..."Lao Wang's mouth sneered, a typical appearance of being frightened by the military master.

"I'll ask you something, and I say, you answer, if I'm not satisfied, you're ready to stay with the plague corpse!" The iron-masked overseer seemed to be the leader, and after scolding the old king, he waved his hand to his comrades, "Go and keep an eye on his companions, and don't let them make any changes!"

Several of the Iron Mask Overseers hula surrounded him, and Corvo's intention to take a few steps to relieve the old king was immediately contained.

The muffled Overseer approached, his vicious gaze shot out of the hole in the iron mask, and he stared straight at the old king and said, "Answer me pariah, what brand of cigarette did your brother who was as lowly as you just handed him over for inspection?"

Corvo chuckled in his heart, and secretly said that it was broken, although the two packs of cigarettes were handed over by himself, and the old king could excuse himself by saying that he didn't know or didn't see clearly.

But the bad is here, the "box" that buys cigarettes for a living knows what kind of goods are handed out in the box even if they don't have to look at it, this is a professional characteristic, they can imitate every detail vividly, and they can't imitate this point.

The old king was dumbfounded, unable to speak for a long time, and could only make a muffled voice in the muffled footsteps of the overseers getting closer and closer.

"Let's talk about the pigs, the cheap boxes always know what cigarettes they are taking, because they need to be restocked frequently, but if it's the other guys who pretend to be the boxes, they won't be able to remember, am I right?" The muffled voice of the Overseer was like a death knell, getting closer and closer, and the old king saw that his hand had pressed the strapping spring of the handle of the standard knife, as long as he could not answer, the other party would be in a violent position, and he and Corvo would be able to fight, but it would be very bad to delay the plan to assassinate Gambor, or let Gambol escape early.

"Lord Overseer, I was stunned by your majestic voice, so I didn't answer for a while, and of course I know what brand of cigarettes you were examining. The old king winced and looked at the muffled overseer's iron mask, half acting and half real.

"Damn, you're still stubborn, so what the hell is it?" The Iron Mask Overseer took a step closer, this distance was already very dangerous, and according to the Iron Mask Overseer's skills, he could already slash the old king in the neck with a single sword.

"It's... One pack of 'church' and one pack of 'black fish', two packs are... Not the same. Lao Wang said tremblingly, looking frightened.

The Muffled Overseer and Corvo flickered at the same time, Corvo himself didn't know what the cigarette was just grabbing out of the spot, thinking that the old king was going to make a move, while the Muffled Overseer was surprised that he thought that the spy was really just a "box" with too little courage.

The cigarettes in their hands are indeed as Lao Wang said, this is not that Lao Wang really took the time to memorize the placement of each brand of cigarettes, but his own experience as a vegetable vendor.

In order to hide his embarrassment, he snatched the two packs of cigarettes that the old king had brought up again, then pushed him aside and left with a few of his men who began to laugh at him.

Corvo nodded his head in approval, he didn't expect that an ordinary royal guard who was unknown under him would now grow to such a point, which made him feel mixed feelings, and he didn't know whether to be happy or not.

The two of them rearranged the goods in the chimney box, and once again followed the road sign in the bamboo to Gambor's official residence.

"Stop!" a muffled voice rang out again.