Chapter 24: The King's Shadow

Guiding the two to the Pope, Clark bowed and returned downstairs, standing outside the bell tower as a guard.

In the entire Maple Leaf Country, except for His Royal Highness the King and the Prince, I am afraid that only the Pope upstairs can make Clark, who is the third-in-command of Gaya, willing to be a doorman!

I originally thought that the Pope's conversation should not be too short, but I didn't expect that in just about five minutes, there was the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs.

And it was the Pope and Ma Shuoye who came down together!

Clark hurriedly turned to enter the door, and stood at the top of the staircase, quietly waiting for Lao Yu to help the Pope down the slightly crowded staircase.

Although the time of the conversation was unexpectedly short, Clark saw a touch of relaxation and emotion in Lao Yu's eyes!

Did the Pope promise them anything?

When the Pope stepped down the last flight of stairs, Clark bent down to take the left arm that was originally supported by Lao Yu, and Lao Yu, who was half a step behind, naturally took the small hand of Ma Shuo next to him.

At this time, the Pope, who was at the forefront, announced: "Brother Clark, the two travelers will stay in Gaya City for a month or two, and Mr. Yu hopes that you will find a teacher to teach the language of Xizhou for the children in your free time! In addition, I will grant two hundred thousand yuan in my name!

Clark was stunned when he heard this, 100,000 yuan? Ten big steamed buns are only one dollar, and the Pope wants to give 100,000 yuan?

As for the little things of the Xizhou language teacher, you can do it with just someone! But isn't this 100,000 too much?

The old Yu and the two who walked behind them seemed to have known in advance that there would be such a result, and they did not show any unusual emotions, and they didn't even say a word of excuse and thanks!

This made the doubts that Clark wanted to raise suddenly blocked in his throat! Reluctantly, he nodded reluctantly: "Yes, my lord! When I introduce Mr. Yu to the Grizzly Bear Camp, I will do it immediately!"

The Pope, who staggered to the door, looked up at the sky and muttered for a moment: "No, I'll take them there!

"Huh?" Clark was really frightened by the Pope's words this time, how long had he ever seen the Pope be so hands-on with people in Gaya's city from a soldier to a political officer?

Could it be that there is an illegitimate son or illegitimate grandson of an adult here?

Turning his head, he glanced at the slightly puzzled look of the old man behind him, and thought of the child's rather surprising answer last night! Clark took the order again and thought to himself, "With the wisdom shown by this child, maybe it really has a blood relationship with the Pope!"

On the northern border of the Kingdom of Jinwu, it is also the largest coastal tourist city, Luocheng.

Except for an artificially paved road in the west, the other three directions are surrounded by snow-capped mountains and forests on both sides, and the north is connected to the sea of ice! Passing through this dead sea full of large and small ice floes, there is the Beizhou continent that no one has ever successfully explored!

Fifty miles south of the city, there is a huge mountaintop hot spring with a diameter of one kilometer. The thick fog that constantly drifts up from the water with the wind condenses into endless ice crystals when it encounters the cold and biting air high in the sky!

Drift down into the mountainside, down the hill and further into the forest.

Hanging from the branches and leaves of conifers, or spreading through the gaps in the leaves. After being exposed to the sun, it reflects a diamond-like brilliance!

What is different from the past is that in this crystal clear forest today, a group of seven or eight black-robed people with no faces can be seen walking in the middle!

It wasn't until the foot of the Crystal Snow Mountain that it went around to the east, and as the pedestrian walked slowly in the forest, the overhead body was constantly covered with ice crystal snowflakes, making the figure of this group more and more blurred in the snowy forest!

Gradually, it was as if swallowed up by this boundless snow white! The whole team disappeared somewhere at the foot of the Crystal Snow Mountain.

The next moment, several black-robed people appeared in a cave that was all carved out of mountain rocks, and pulled down their hoods to reveal the faces of Hunter and the others who were still in Wanghai Town a few days ago!

Walking all the way to the cave, as the air around me became hotter and hotter, the snow and ice that had covered my body melted faster and faster.

"Tick tock" followed the sound of water dripping along the lower edge of the black robe, and with the uniform pace of several people, a deep and depressing atmosphere slowly emanated.

In less than two minutes, under the guidance of dim lights, several people crossed several forks in the road. I came to a room with thousands of square meters, bright lights, and carved stone statues of various monsters everywhere except for a limited number of corridors.

Some stand upright, some crawl, some have many legs, and some have wings. Hundreds of lifelike statues are like vivid guards, as if they are about to break through the shackles of the shell and come back to life in the next moment!

At the end of the corridor was the man who had led the demolition of the Ma family ancestral hall, and Hunter and his party came to the man's side and knelt on one knee without saying a word, waiting for the man's order or inquiry!

At this time, a man's low, slightly hoarse voice sounded in the hall: "Where is that little bastard of the Ma family?"

Hunter, who had never gotten up, bowed his head and replied: "Back to the master, they are now in the city of Gaya, and they have just been reported by the people left behind, and the Pope seems to be very concerned about the two targets!"

"Gray Mountain, Pope, is the current Maple Leaf King's father?" the man's tone of surprise and confusion sounded.

Heng nodded and said, "Yes master!"

After a slight groan, he spoke up again: "Master, since the Lord of the Golden Crow Country has stopped asking about the Ma family, are the subordinates and others not there?"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and waved it downward, meaning to kill the only remnant of the Ma family as soon as possible! When he was in Dongzhou, because the eyeliner of the sheriff and the lord of the country was everywhere on the surface, he could only do it quietly in the dark!

But now that he is in Xizhou, and the lord of the country and that damn Song Qingping can't intervene openly, Hunter also wants to deal with this only remnant as soon as possible!

The man snorted lightly and glanced at Hunter disdainfully: "Do you think you know about this Golden Crow Lord? No longer looking for it openly, it doesn't mean that there will be no more investigation in secret! I guess in the next step, the Lord of the Kingdom should send his shadow troops to investigate secretly!"

"Shadow troops?" Hunter frowned and recalled for a moment, and then took over with a frown: "The master is talking about the King's Shadow?"

"Well, and it will be deliberately revealed!" the man nodded in acknowledgment of Hunter's thoughts.

Then he got up and came to Hunter's side and continued: "So now we must focus on driving away, and temporarily let go of any opportunity that cannot be killed with one blow!

"Hmph!" the man snorted lightly again! Yu Zheng, this old fellow, still has two brushes under his hands! I don't want this noble lord of the Golden Crow Kingdom to eat the Ma family's descendants so easily!

After Hunter led the people behind him to bow their heads and caress their chests to receive the order, the man took out a blue-gray bottle in his arms and threw it into Hunter's arms: "Reward you black flies! Next, you should go back to Jinwu City and continue to try your best to get promoted and make a fortune! As for the development of the sea and Xizhou, leave it to the Larva and the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce to do!"

Hunter's hands holding the bottle trembled slightly, and it could be seen that he was trying his best to control his excitement, and once again knelt down on his knees and thanked him: "Master is merciful, my lord has eternal life!"

The others fell to their knees almost at the same time: "Master is merciful, my Lord has eternal life!"