Chapter 37 The Partition Wall Has Ears
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The unfamiliar word "magic surge" would not be a surprise to Avi, after all, the person who said it was Ben Nicot, the former heir to magic, and since it was Ben Nicot's spirit body, there must be something to try to understand!
"I'm going down to this strange place now, does Mr. Bennicott have any good advice?"
"Oh, my advice is to do what you want to do, but do what you have to do first, or you'll suffer. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
Felisty shook Avi's shoulder, she thought that Avi was frightened by the secret passage that suddenly appeared in front of her, but she didn't know that Avi would be in a daze when communicating with Ben Nicot.
"Let's go down. Felisti had pushed the door open, and behind it a staircase leading to the underground. Avi saw torches and oil lamps hanging all over the passage, and if he guessed correctly, the secret building beneath the orphanage must be guarded.
In order to avoid being discovered, the two of them closed the door as soon as they dodged into the passageway, and walked softer and like snails against the wall into the depths of the earth.
This section of underpass first descends steeply, then a fork in the road. The left passage is not very bright, while the front passage is just as brightly lit as the previous one. Avi suggested that he should continue walking, and even if he was unfortunate enough to encounter the guards, he could immediately turn around and run away so as not to lose his way in the darkness.
The two of them made their way to the camp step by step, and the frontal passage occasionally had some corners with small turns, which just provided the two of them with a barrier to hide themselves. After walking forward for about five minutes, they began to faintly hear the sound of someone talking.
"Stop," Felistie walked in front while Avi watched behind, "wait for me to see." The red-haired girl poked her head around the corner and stole a glance at the passage behind. At the end of the passage was about thirty meters from the corner where the two men were, and at the end there were two rooms, one of which had an open door and the sound of a man speaking from inside, but Felisty was so far away from the room that only a few indistinct words could be heard.
"Shall we walk over?" Avi stuck his head out as well, sneaking behind Felisty and looking at the two rooms.
"If we still don't hear clearly, we're going to have to walk over," Felisty pushed Avi back and dodged back into the corner, "Even if we have another chance to dive in again, this time it shouldn't be empty-handed." Counting the time for Michelle to rescue Adie, there should be about twenty minutes left for us now, so let's think about how to get more useful information first. β
Felisty had a point, and Avi immediately followed behind Felisty, moving from behind the corner and slowly approaching the open room. Avi tried to get the dagger in her hand, but Felisty shoved back the dagger that was a token of the two-color blade mercenary group, and she gestured that she could handle it herself, even if something happened.
Both of them pressed their feet to the floor, approaching the room without making a sound. They stood on the side of the door, half-crouched on the ground, listening to the conversation in the room.
A man with a knotted tongue and lips that seemed to be sewn up said, "Now is the only time to feel at ease, thank you for the wine you brought, without them, maybe I would have kept vigil until dawn tonight." β
Another person with a thick voice and a natural and calm tone said: "The night shift is a difficult errand in the first place, and today is the weekend, and the staff in the orphanage is much less, so you need to be more vigilant." β
"What's there to watch out for! Isn't it just a bunch of imps, could it be that after that incident I was asked to keep an eye on this passage until I die?!" the drunken doorman was obviously a little indignant, and immediately after saying this, he poured some liquid, which both Avi and Felistie could guess was spirits.
Another man who didn't seem to have drunk continued: "That incident has alarmed officials who are even more senior than the dean, but I know very well that the responsibility for that escape is definitely not on the orphanage, nor on you and the other gardeners and guards, the problem is actually with that person. β
"That person is the owner of this underground structure, we are just the servants of him, even if something bad happens, we will only be scapegoats, and guys like Archibald and Evan will never blame him!" Avi and Felisty immediately exchanged glances when the drunken janitor mentioned the names of the dean and Evan. Avi remembered the little thing that Evan and the Dean had said that day when he had traveled with Stitch that day, and now it seemed that those two men were clearly the ones who knew the secret.
"But then again, shouldn't all the failed 'devotees' have been disposed of, and why did that escape happen?" the person who asked the question seemed to know less about the situation than the drunken janitor, and more like he was talking to the other party, "As far as I know, in addition to one monster and one 'listener' who escaped, there were two other orphans who had just been sent in and escaped, and it stands to reason that they would not have been able to escape from here unless it was a long-planned plan." β
Listener?Avi's first reaction when he heard the word was to think of something else. He had heard rumors about life weapons on the mainland -- those who possessed life weapons and could exert the power contained in them must be "resonators." Is this listener the same as the resonator? After all, what those people are discussing is something related to artificial life weapons.
I heard the drunken doorman slam the bottle on the table, "It wouldn't be a big deal if there were only a few imps, but that monster actually colluded with the imps, and they took away two half-finished products! One of them is the result of 'short hair'! If I had to choose again, I would definitely hold the listener's leg and prevent him from escaping from here with those two half-finished products!"
Hearing this, Avi couldn't help but touch the black-bladed short knife behind his back, which was most likely one of the half-finished products that the other party said. And the monster that the other party is talking about, could it be that it was chased by the soldiers of the Kingdom of Salins and hid in Wolfgang in the forest area of the Papal States?
"Don't blame yourself too much, but I've heard that since that time, even the river leading to the orphanage has been blocked?"
"That's right, after that time, Archibald was furious with all the gardeners and guards, and he also removed a group of people, but luckily I didn't lose my job..."He paused, and then there was a sound of "grunt, grunt", "The river that led to the outside of the city was cut off, after all, the escaped ones swam out of there, and now even if they turn into fish, they can't escape from there!"
The other was silent for a moment before continuing: "I heard that he has finished a new finished product, I wonder if it's true?"
"You seem to have a lot of questions today!"
"Ahh I'm just asking, you know I haven't been back to work in the orphanage for a while, and if I don't know a little bit more about what happened before, my work won't be easy to carry out. β
"That's right, he's done a new finished product, and I heard that the bandit leader who owns one of the half-finished products has been caught, and the boss plans to take in more orphans, and then select more 'devotees' to come in here and do more research for him, it seems that you have to be busy. β
"Being busy isn't necessarily a bad thing, okay, you can rest first, I'm almost going back to sleep." β
Hearing this, Avi and Felisty immediately pushed open the door of the other room and dodged in. Just now, Felisti had secretly pushed open the unlocked wooden door, and there was no sound coming from inside, it was an empty room.
"Let's wait for him to leave before we make plans?!" Avi looked out through the crack in the doorway, and a man with glasses was slowly walking out of the aisle, and the other person was supposed to be the guy who was pouring wine and talking to the doorman just now.
"Now is the time to find out the secrets!" the red-haired girl whispered into Avi's ear, "Kill that drunken doorman!"