1270 Caring from peers(4000)
Vito stiffened, then obediently raised his hands, his mouth in response, and then took the initiative to walk into the side alley.
He was so scared that his fingers were shaking, but he was very smart, and he didn't show any intention of calling for help from beginning to end, and he closed his eyes, not thinking about looking back at who stopped him.
This is a kind of survival wisdom of the people at the bottom in troubled times.
He understood that if the other party's request was met, he could still survive.
But if he annoys the other party in advance, then he will fall on the street today, and he may be picked up by a passing evil wizard or necromancer as an experimental material, and he will not even be able to get out of his soul.
"What do you want to know?" The child spoke cautiously.
Lan Shuying didn't expect him to be so cooperative in advance.
It can be seen that after the natural school and the undead settled on this coast, the locals have begun to get used to the many dangers and horrors around them.
She had mixed feelings.
Maybe it's a little sympathetic.
A good child is always more lovable.
However, the group of people who indirectly lit the fuse were still chasing after her.
The pent-up anger in my heart seemed to be suddenly provoked by something.
Vito suddenly felt that the coldness behind him was becoming more and more biting.
He gritted his teeth and wanted to wrap his clothes tightly, but in the end he didn't put his arms down, let alone urge.
Lan Shuying came back to her senses and retracted: "I want to know, do you have a local ...... Particularly lazy people? β
The guidance of the gods of the day only goes to Haicheng. The golden imprint in her palm that sensed evil thoughts was also invalid.
If you want to find that goal, there are two direct ways to do this:
If you want to be quick and hassle-free, radiate your spiritual sense to the entire North Coast. The downside of this is also obvious β it's too high-profile. In particular, the Lich Emperor and the higher-ups of the Natural School were almost all nearby, and although she was not afraid, she did not want to make enemies out of thin air.
The second method is slower, which is to find a guide to walk through the streets and alleys, and feel the existence of that person little by little. Very secure, the problem is that it is too time-consuming.
She was short of time.
In the end, Lan Shuying decided to find a clever local to inquire, go and see it first, and then decide on the next step.
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Vito apparently didn't react...... Particularly lazy?
This is a strange question.
Fortunately, it is not difficult to answer.
Vito is a child of the aborigines, who grew up in Haicheng and can name several names at will.
Now it's Lan Shuying's turn to be entangled.
Ideally, of course, there is a strangely lazy person in the local area, so evil thoughts must be parasitic on that person.
Unexpectedly, the little boy gave her several options at once.
She was slightly silent: "How lazy are we?" β
Vito replied honestly, "Hogan, who lives next street, inherited a large inheritance at the age of twenty, and since then has been lying at home for servants to serve him, and has not done anything but to eat, drink, and Lazar. Not...... Last month, his inheritance was finally spent, and this morning I saw him out begging. β
"......" Lan Shuying thought with schadenfreude, poverty can cure laziness.
The voice behind did not respond, Vito had an epiphany, and obediently said the second person:
"He had been a bachelor for decades, living alone in a log cabin far from Haicheng, with a broken roof, sleeping in a different position on rainy days, basking under a hole on sunny days, and if he was hungry, he would go to the back of the house to fork a fish...... He is too lazy to make a fire, and he always eats it raw. β
At this point, the little boy inevitably showed a disgusted and disgusting expression.
Even in fairytale towns, where the law of the jungle prevails, most people have passed the time when they drink blood, and everyone has begun to think of themselves as civilized people - eating sashimi is a mood of life, and eating a live fish is another.
Lan Shuying wrote down the address of the cabin and asked him to continue.
She noticed that Vito hesitated slightly. She coldly warned, "I just want to hear the truth, immediately." β
Vito shuddered and said, "I'...... What I want to say is, I just remembered that the third particularly lazy person, he, he is dead! β
"Oh?"
Lan Shuying was interested and asked him to talk about it in detail.
Vito tells her that this man's name is Gordon, and he is recognized as a scumbag here, and that his laziness is actually not as famous as his badness!
Hearing this, Lan Shuying's heart moved, she was lazy, and she had done bad things, wouldn't that be more in line with that?
Come on, come on, just say, the clearer the better.
"Yes, Gordon was arrested and put in jail three days ago for ...... When he got drunk, he killed his adopted daughter, Jasmine, and was seen by many people. β
There was some indignation in Vito's low voice, and his hands clenched into fists unconsciously as he raised them high.
If the drunkard were still alive, the child might have wanted to do something for the poor adopted daughter, such as jumping on it and punching him twice.
However...... It's late.
"You must have thought he was executed by law, did you......" Vito said with his head hanging and sulking.
Lan Shuying asked rhetorically, "Then how did he die?" β
Vito laughed briefly.
That's genuine schadenfreude.
"He deserves it! He said that Jasmine would curse the family by giving bread to the devil, and that those who were well-dressed were not good things. Jasmine explained to him that it was not a devil, it was Mr. Wizard from the Western Continent, but he didn't listen, insisting that it was a vampire! β
Shout.
A passing bat stopped and hung upside down in a dark corner.
Unbeknownst to Vito, his words had attracted an authentic vampire, he continued, "He also said that Jasmine must have thought he was poor and that his family could not give her a rich life, so she would abandon this family and become a lowly blood servant serving the Immortals!" β
Lan Shuying glanced over at the bat, and the two non-human creatures nodded to each other in a friendly greeting.
She muttered, "There seems to be something else to this matter. β
Vito reminisced more under her guidance.
"Jasmine was very fond of talking to Mr. Wizard, because he was a man of few words, had a gentle temper, and would listen carefully to what she had to say, and he also made her an ice sculpture, which I saw once, and it was made from the portrait of her deceased mother, which she cherished."
"You don't know how disgusting that bastard is, I guess he's believed Jasmine, but he doesn't want to admit he's wrong, so he's desperate to discredit that Mr. Wizard! The more Jasmine defended, the more he had to beat her until she shut up, and by the time we went to stop him, Jasmine was already very badly injured......"
"It didn't take long for her to die...... Then Gordon was captured, I don't know what happened next, I heard from several adventurers that several wizards broke into Gordon's cell that day, and the next day I heard that Gordon had died violently. β
At the end, Vito curled the corners of his mouth, and the smile with malice on his still immature face seemed so abrupt that it seemed normalβhis friend had finally received justice after his death.
Lan Shuying said: "Sounds like a happy ending. I wonder where this Gordon is buried. β
Vito's smile froze slightly, and he hesitated, "You want to grab that corpse too?" β
"Also?"
"That's it...... The wizard Mr. Jasmine knew, he was going to buy Gordon's body back for experiments, and a necromancer wanted it too, and they said that there was a duel, and whoever won would be the one who would. β
Vito pointed out to her an address, the gladiatorial arena built on the outer edge of Haicheng, and if she set off at this time, it would probably not be over by the time she got there.
Lan Shuying actually understands the wizard's approach very well.
Think about it from another perspective, if she had met a cute child who was beaten to death for defending her reputation, she would have gone even further.
But what she didn't understand was, why did that necromancer fight?
Could it be ...... Is there really something strange about Gordon that they discovered at the same time?
Thinking of the lazy evil thought that hadn't arrived yet, Lan Shuying quickly said goodbye to Vito, saying that he didn't bring any pay today, and he would make up for it next time!
Vito felt that the coldness was moving away, and as soon as he breathed a sigh of relief, he heard her last sentence, and suddenly his eyes darkened:
Still...... And next time?!
After the bone bird left, the passing bat thought for a moment, and between the thin child down there and going to the gladiatorial arena to see the excitement, he quickly chose the latter.
Vito didn't know from beginning to end that what really kept him on the brink of death was not a mysterious visitor, but a melon-eating passerby who stopped by chance.
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Bone birds and bats arrive at the gladiatorial arena one after the other.
As Vito said, when she arrived, the fight was just coming to an end.
The audience is not very large, and it is easy to distinguish between the two sides.
Because the side that supports necromancers often has undead minions with them, and they don't pay much attention to dressing up themselves. Not combing her hair is already very polite, and Lan Shuying also saw a shirtless person writing hard in a notebook.
She leaned over and glanced at it, writing about the technique of seamless body joining. The point is that the "limbs" here refer to the kind that has no breath of life.
The pillars of light on the stage were two handsome men who were well-dressed, their faces were pale, and they were panting slightly with their staffs. Even the panting is very rhythmic and angled, and the corners of his lips are slightly raised, pursuing the best facial advantage......
It doesn't look like it's here to fight.
It's more like a beauty pageant.
If it weren't for Brian's passive perception, she might not have been able to tell which was a wizard and which was a necromancer.
In addition, both of them are now a bit "kidney deficient". The magic has bottomed out, and they are struggling to recover.
Therefore, whoever wins and who loses depends on which one recovers faster.
She searched the arena and found a coffin not far from the stage, guarded by several gladiatorial wrestlers. With this special emphasis on important bets, it's easy to overlook the fact that:
It was just the corpse of scum.
At the same time, that's what she's here for.
"Two rookie ......"
A magnetic whisper came from the side.
Lan Shuying turned her head and saw the bat again.
The bat nodded at her, and with the glow of a gorgeous black feather, it turned into a handsome young man taking off his hat.
Lan Shuying looked at him, and then at the wizard on the stage, and suddenly felt that Gordon's judgment didn't seem to be wrong - whether it was a vampire or a wizard, he particularly pursued a sense of ritual in his attire.
The trench coats, blouses, trousers, boots, cufflinks, rings, and even the jewelry they wore were clearly rough stones cut out of the same mine.
Exquisite to this extent, the appearance is also comparable, it is really difficult to distinguish.
"Let me guess whose house you belong to, Morey, Bentham, Bancrof? Well, your bones are too unpolished......" The vampire was offended by his overly sensitive sense of smell as he reached for his handkerchief in protest.
Lan Shuying rolled her eyes silently.
The parrot corpse she found casually, it would be good if it could be used after a simple treatment, thinking it was to make handicrafts?
However, the few surnames he just mentioned, Lan Shuying had heard of a little, were all big families in the undead camp.
Strictly speaking, Brian is also considered a "son of a family", but his family has always been deviant and absurd, and can be so angry that the Lich Emperor wants to kick them out of the camp.
Lan Shuying didn't plan to reveal her surname.
This vampire is inexplicably a little self-cooked.
He pointed to the table: "You also bet?" Although everyone is undead, I don't think the one who plays with corpses is good, and the Snow Queen doesn't like men with smells...... Wizards are fine, they usually pay attention to manners, only a little worse than our people. β
Lan Shuying shook her head and said, "I don't know them. β
Ha, the vampire glared at her, as if to say, then what are you here to make a fuss about?
"I'm here to see the corpse......"
The vampire was even more surprised, and his eyes almost said that you were stupid?
Lan Shuying continued slowly: "...... See why it can get the two of them fighting. β
"Poof."
As soon as these words came out, the vampire immediately understood.
"Also, there are several kinds of viewers who are here today, one is to watch the fun, such as me. One is to help, such as...... Oh, those wizards, they're very united on the inside. There is another kind, which was tricked. β
He pointed at Lan Shuying: "Yes, it's you." β
Lan Shuying: "...... How? β
"Ha, you people who play with corpses, you just can't hear this kind of news, don't you think...... Oh! It must be a good thing to get the two of them into this trouble? β
Lan Shuying didn't say a word, watching the self-cooked vampire continue to show off knowledge:
"I'm telling you, they're both chasing the new queen of Snow Country, and they're originally rivals. What's more, they are also a pair of cousins! Since childhood, the two families have been comparing with each other, and they have long been compared to each other! β
Lan Shuying hesitated: "Other people's children? β
The vampire smiles you know a lot.
So she instantly understood that the point was not how Gordon's body was, but because the wizard wanted it, and his cousin would definitely grab it when he heard about it.
What others look at is always fragrant.
Even if it's essentially a lump of poop.
The vampire hid his laughter.
"Let them fight, good things don't happen often. That guy knew that there weren't many people who supported him, so he deliberately put out a message about how good that corpse was. I was there at the beginning of the duel, and the smell of corpses was all over the room, tsk...... But ah, after reading the bets, they are about to explode, wait, the corpses will not escape the group beating. β
Lan Shuying made up for that picture, feeling that a certain necromancer was missing some love from his peers.