Chapter Seventy-Seven: Luo Yaling's Assassination (I)
Noah's Duchy of Loya, Loa City.
There is still a full day before the time when Lord Roa rebelled as Will said, but there is no sign of war breaking out in Roa City now. When Ron passed through the city gates, the guards at the gate only symbolically checked and let them through.
The streets of Loya were much wider than those of Bol, with wooden and stone-brick buildings on both sides of the gravel road, and at night it was already falling, and there were lighting facilities on both sides of the road, in addition to torches, metal iron frames, and the crackling and cracking of firewood, and vendors who had set up tents and shouted on both sides of the street. Soldiers in Noah's uniforms patrolled the streets, and when they saw Will's uniform, the guards looked at each other in surprise.
Ron couldn't help but sigh a little in his heart, if there was no war, if there was no invasion by the Beru, the night in Boer City would be as harmonious as this.
If Lord Roya really wants to rebel, the harmonious life of the civilians of Roya will probably become history.
"Big brother, there's Ginny's Tavern in front of you. ”
Ron didn't have the heart to enjoy the scenery along the way, and after all, this was the first time she had truly experienced the night view of a small town in this world since she traveled to another world. In fact, without Will reminding him, Ron had already seen Ginny's Tavern, which was located just off the main official road not far from the city gate, and turned to the right along a branching alley, and a huge mug wooden board sign hung next to the window on the second floor of the tavern. The bar's blinds glow a dark red.
"Let's go, go inside. Ron whispered, "Last time you said their code was pineapple wine?"
"That's right, just ask the teller at the bar. Will lowered his voice, "I don't know if the proprietress Ginny is still in the store this time." ”
"Squeak—"
Ron pushed open the wooden door of the bar and walked in, and there were many customers in the spacious hall, with long square wine tables and many chatting customers sitting facing each other. In the corner of the bar near the front desk, some troubadours dressed in Noah's local customs are leisurely playing with the instruments in their hands, the clear sound echoes in the bar, the iron chandelier hanging from the ceiling, and the flame of candles illuminates the whole bar.
Ron walked straight to the counter, where a middle-aged woman with a headscarf was wiping her wine glass with a damp cotton cloth.
"Hello, do you have pineapple wine?"
Ron lightly tapped the table on the counter and coughed.
"What do you want?" The middle-aged woman glanced at Ron in surprise, "We don't have pineapple wine here." ”
Ron's eyes blinked, and he glanced back at Will, who also had an embarrassed look on his face.
"What's the matter with you?" Ron pulled Will to sit on a small round stool in the corner of the bar, "It can't be a lie here, is it? What you heard the other day, is it really pineapple wine?"
Will nodded and said in a low voice, "That's right, Officer Planck is indeed talking about pineapple wine." ”
Ron's brow furrowed tightly, Ginny's Tavern, this is the only place where they can contact Ginny and Planck, if they can't be contacted, wouldn't it be pointless to come all the way to Royaling?
"Brother Ron, what do we do now?" Will asked nervously.
"Are you going to the barracks?" Ron's brain was spinning rapidly, since he was here, there was no reason to go back. Ginny is in the bar, so this Planck can only be found in the barracks.
Ron suddenly got up and walked back to the front of the bar: "May I ask if Miss Ginny, the owner of the bar, is here?"
"No, the owner wasn't in the bar for the past two days. The middle-aged woman didn't look up at Ron, still keeping her head down and busy with her work.
Ron took a deep breath, the situation in front of him was really out of his control, he came to Luo Ya Ling for the first time, and he didn't even have a map of Luo Ya Ling in his hand.
Will realized the seriousness of the matter at this time, and followed Ron, and the two of them pushed open the door and prepared to leave the bar.
As soon as he took the first step out of the bar, Ron collided with the person who was walking briskly in front of him, and the huge force suddenly made Ron sit down at the door of the bar again. The plump touch of the force is clearly a woman.
"Knight Ginny, is that you?"
Will's voice of surprise rang out behind Ron.
"Brother Will?"
Ron got up from the ground with a grunt, the woman in front of him was wearing a black cloak all over her body, and her face was covered with a layer of black gauze, if it weren't for the shrill voice, Ron would even think it was a man.
"I guess it's about the same time as you agreed, save me back to the bar and take a look, this brother, I'm sorry, I left a little in a hurry just now. Ginny looked around, and there were no patrolling guards in the alley where the bar was located, so she quickly pulled up her veil and whispered, "Planck is waiting for us in another place, the bar is crowded here, it's not a place to talk about things, you come with me." ”
Ron and Will looked at each other, nodded their heads, and walked out of the alleyway after the female knight.
Ginny's footsteps were fast, striding down the streets, and Ron and Will had to pick up speed to keep up with Ginny. As the main road deepened, there were many more narrow lanes on both sides of the road, and Ginny turned into the laneway, and there was no such density of light sources as on the street, and many corners of the roadway were swallowed up by darkness.
The hoarse cries of the wildcats echoed through the alleyways, and Ron could even see the green eyes twinkling between the mezzanine floors of the house.
The drunken man threw up against the wall, and then his body went limp, sliding against the wall into the slimy vomit under his feet, and his body was paralyzed like mud, and as the three of Ron walked through the alleyway, there were even some bearded men leaning against the wall on both sides of the cold stone road, their eyes staring at them like poisonous snakes, until they disappeared at the end of the alleyway.
The moaning of a woman could be faintly heard in some of the dry air, but Ginny never stopped.
"Where there is light, there must be darkness, and these people, even the lords, turn a blind eye. Ginny's voice sounded under the veil: "In the Deathfjord, it would be nice for these civilians to have a place to hide from the war. Our destination is almost there. ”
At the end of the alleyway, there was a building with an ambiguous red light, and Ron could even see scantily clad women on either side of the road.
"Is this a brothel?" Ron asked in a deep voice.
"That's right, Planck, it's waiting for us inside. ”