Chapter 33: The Watcher
When Ao Zongheng returned to the ground again, it was already Fire Five.
This place is a small bazaar, the royal capital has a population of tens of thousands, covering a vast area, naturally it is impossible to meet the needs of the whole village and the whole town like those villages and towns. In the royal capital, there is certainly one big bazaar, and there are many small bazaars like this.
Another major difference between a city market and a small village market is that the market in a small village is generally only open in the morning, after all, most people there are farmers, and in the city in addition to the agricultural population, there are many non-agricultural people, so the city market is generally divided into two markets, morning and afternoon, and some even do not have a lunch break.
The people in the bazaar are always busy, and no one pays much attention to this guy who wears a wide curly hat on his head, a small vest on his upper body, and thin pants and half-legged boots on his lower body, which is so out of place with most people in the bazaar.
Ao Zongheng is in a good mood, he didn't have a clue when he entered the city yesterday, and it has been going so smoothly in less than a day, although the old fish is quite unhappy with the surprise attack of Ao Zongheng, but in the end he still agreed to help, and what is more convenient is that the old fish can directly tell Ao Zongheng the location of the two God of War lists without even investigating, he explained that this is because although the demigod list is important, it is useless to the vast majority of ordinary people, so it is not like the painting of Monsantoro Maharaja Zang Pang Qi, which often changes the storage location and anti-theft means。
Lao Yu told Ao Zongheng the location of the two God of War lists, but at the same time recommended the idea of Ao Zongheng to fight the royal family, the reason is that the place of the Ministry of Justice is smaller than the palace, although there are not so many armed guards in the palace, but the guard force of the Ministry of Justice is only stronger than the palace, not weaker, and there are robed mages at any time, throughout the history of the kingdom, there are only two or three cases of successful theft from the Ministry of Law, and even if they succeed, they can't escape the pursuit of the Ministry of Justice afterwards.
Which one to choose, Ao Zongheng hasn't thought about it yet, he has never been a person who is afraid of difficulties, how can he be frightened by a few words from the old fish. What he wanted was to survey the periphery of the scene, but he didn't have the right identity to enter the royal city and the palace city openly, so he could only sneak in - it was definitely not suitable for this thing at noon.
In this way, he walked two streets slowly, and at a crossroads, Ao Zongheng suddenly felt that he was being targeted.
Most of the people who live in the upper city do not work in agriculture, so even at noon, there are many people walking through the streets. Everyone looks quite normal, but arrogance is sure that he is being targeted.
Arrogant didn't look back, but he had locked onto the porter who looked like he was waiting for life thirty paces away. The man kept his eyes on him, but did not release any obvious hostility.
"Is it the old fish's person?" this was the first thought of Ao Zong, after all, he had only been in the city for a day, and it was impossible for anyone else to stare at him except the old fish.
He continued to walk quietly, regardless of whether the other party was an old fish man or not, he wanted to see how capable the other party was and what his intentions were.
In this way, he walked through a few more alleys, and the people who were staring at him at this time had changed from the porter at the beginning to three other people—a street peddler thirty paces behind him, a young man dressed on the opposite side of the street, twenty paces behind him, and a woman who had just come out of the bazaar, waiting at the corner of the alley more than twenty feet in front of him.
The opponent's manpower in the royal capital is really terrifyingly abundant, if it weren't for the arrogant and cheating global keen sense of qi, at most two stalkers would be able to be found, and this is still in the case of the other party not changing people halfway. Despite this, Ao Zongheng still walked unhurriedly and deliberately to a place with few people, and he had no intention of continuing this boring game, so he deliberately created a chance for the other party to be alone.
The Ring Path is a cul-de-sac near the Second City Wall, the end of which is cut off by a rich compound, but a few years ago the residents of this area contracted a terrible infectious disease, and most of them died in just half a month, even the rich man himself died, and the rest fled far away, and no one wants to move here until today.
Arrogant rests on the stone bench on the side of the road, whether you want to kill or kidnap, this deserted street is the best place to start.
There were still three people who followed him, but none of these three were the same three people as before—they had exchanged with their accomplices along the way. The three of them hid in the corner about fifty paces away from him and peeped, but none of them seemed to have any intention of approaching, neither intending to kill nor take people captive, but only wanted to continue to keep watch.
However, the patience of arrogant is generally not used on these people.
Pudo huddled in the corner of a small alley next to the compound and waited for the man to come out, and if the man chose to turn back instead of taking the alley, then he would have to trot all the way to the next intersection, maybe the Third Marais Ring Road, or Lao Cui Lane continued to wait.
Of course, he wouldn't keep his eyes on the alley, it would be too easy for the other party to spot, and every once in a while he would glance at a small eye, he was sure that the other party would not be able to get out of the three of them in this short period of time.
However, when he looked around again, the man was gone. He subconsciously threw himself into the alley from his hiding place, he wanted to find the man, even if he was discovered by the other party, it was better than following the lost person.
Then he lost consciousness.
When Pudo woke up again, he found that his eyes had been blindfolded, his hands and feet were tied, and he had been thrown into a burlap bag, but other than that, he did not seem to be injured.
"Who are you and why are you following me?" the man next to him seemed to be able to see through the sack and know that he had woken up.
Pu Duo didn't speak—he was also a trained person, so how could he explain it easily, let's see if he could get through it first.
Suddenly, he felt a little itchy in his body, first with a vest, then to his entire back, buttocks, and armpits...... There is no place in the whole body that does not feel itchy, but his hands and feet are tied, he can't even scratch it, and he itches so much that he wants to hit his head against the wall, and he is dead.
"Who are you, and why are you following me?" the man repeated.
This time, Pudo couldn't be silent anymore, as long as he could not itch, he would not hesitate to let him die.
"I... We are, none, people who have no mouth, please, please let me first, I'll stop, stop the itch, okay?"
Pu Duo didn't dare to breathe a sigh of relief, the other party's methods were so weird, it was likely to be a mage, thinking of this, he immediately confessed: "Master Mage, we are the feet of the mouthless, and we have been ordered by our superiors to monitor your whereabouts. ”
"What's the Mouthless? Why are you spying on me?"
Pu Duo was stunned, this person didn't even know what the mouthless person was, it must be a mage from other countries, I'm afraid it was still quite a distant country. But where he dares to care, he just patiently explains them one by one.
Only then did he know that he thought that no one had noticed that he had entered the city, but in fact, he had already attracted the attention of the royal intelligence organization.
After all, the king of a country is the king of a country, and the monitoring and control in the territory alone is by no means beyond the reach of those vassals. However, although the other party is powerful, he still mistook his identity, and although the evil dog attracted the attention of the other party, it also played a good role in disguising his identity, directly misleading the people who had no mouth. But this is not to blame the people who have no mouth, after all, the fact that mortals can ride a horse is unprecedented in history, and no one would believe that the person who rides a horse is not even a mage, not to mention that this is still an evolved horse?
Being targeted by the intelligence department is definitely not a good thing, but if you are misunderstood by the intelligence department, it is not necessarily a bad thing.
Pu Duo is not a high level among the mouthless, with a small foot, but he has done a lot of similar surveillance work, so he can also guess the above idea - the reason why the mouthless person wants to track and monitor the arrogant is mainly to find out whether this is a mage from the legal management department, and the mouthless person can't let a mage from the legal management department of another country of unknown origin secretly act in the royal capital - after all, the destructive power of a high-level mage is too great, and it is only a defensive security measure, and there is no special malice.
Arrogant felt that he could take advantage of this misunderstanding of the mouthless.
"Go back and tell your Shangguan that this mage has come to Sasarama to have some personal affairs with his friends in the legal branch of the Lorenmagaga Kingdom, and he will leave in a few days, I have no interest in your worldly affairs, don't send people to inquire about and spy on this mage, otherwise I can't guarantee that your people won't suddenly disappear while walking." ”
He didn't wait for Pu Duo to express his position, so he cut the sack and the rope tied to Pu Duo's hand in the air, and by the time Pu Duo untied his body and got out of the sack, Ao Zongheng had already disappeared without a trace.
Those who have no mouth have orders in the four cities of the royal capital - palace one king, two up and down three, a total of nine orders, of which the palace city order is mainly for the king's call at any time, the real daily center in the two orders of the royal city, the six orders in the upper and lower cities are mainly to command the hands and feet of all levels, and the six orders have their own jurisdictions, all of which are at the same level, and there is no subordinate relationship.
Pu Duo himself is from the second institute in Shangcheng, and the one who followed and monitored Ao Zongheng with him just now has two and one of the three institutes - these two people don't know whether they are alive or dead now, but he can't control it, so hurry up and report Ao Zongheng's words to his boss, and let the boss make up his mind is the right way.
Of course, there is also a hierarchy within the order, although Pu Duo thinks that the matter of this foreign mage is also quite urgent, but others don't think so - how many things are going on in the royal capital every day, everyone says that their own affairs are urgent, and you give me rules to line up. So by the time he saw Director Ling, it was almost Feng Wu.
After listening to his report, Director Ling only gave one sentence.
"Fuck you, this kind of thing is only reported now! The gate of the royal city is going to be closed. ”
Pu Duo was very aggrieved, but he couldn't explain it, because the commander had already stood up and walked out with a curse.
"Hurry up and report the horse, I will go to the royal city immediately, then who, you, you yourself will follow. ”