Chapter 161: Twists and Turns
Soon, Sophie took Ryan and them to the backyard, Sophie took out the key, opened the door of the cellar, and then walked in, and after a while, the sound of the wooden door being pushed came from inside, and then Bud's voice came out: "Ah, finally someone came to the rescue...... Hey, what's that for you?"
Vivian stood outside and said angrily: "Come out, it's really useless, and you are actually locked in by others."
"Ah, my prayer is valid, just now I was begging the Supreme God of Light to send my favorite woman to save me, but I didn't expect it to ......" Bard immediately gushed after hearing Vivien's words, but his words were interrupted by Julia's words: "Mr. Bard, weren't you still scolding the God of Light just now for only hiding and coaxing the world?"
"Well, I'm, I'm not trying to get the attention of the God of Light, in fact I've always been very religious. Bud said as he stepped out, and behind him, Julia and Sophie.
When all three of them came out, Bud greedily took a breath of the air outside, pointed at Sophie and said to Vivien, "Great, how did you make her so obedient to let us out?
"Idiot!" Vivien spat out these two words and didn't bother Budd, and Sophie, in order to clear her name, talked in front of Bud, "Where do I have a secret room here? Where did you hear that? How could I dig such a large space in this underground and I have nothing to hide." ”
"You're talking nonsense, I've got information, but you're shielding the fugitives and hiding them in your secret room. Bard pointed at Sophie and said, "Maybe you're secretly killing all the fugitives so you can keep their money for yourself." ”
Sophie didn't bother with Bud, but turned her head to Ryan and said to him: "I think you should understand that this is just a rumor, how dare I do such a ostentatious thing? Although this kind of thing is easy to make a profit, it is not small that it may be discovered by others, and I can't hide it, how can I be involved? Besides, what good can I do myself if I let those fugitives hide here? For money? Hmph, if I really do it for that, I ...... Do I need to be a hostess here?"
Ryan didn't know if what Sophie said was true, but Sophie's rebuttal of Bard's words was well-founded, since she had escaped from some mysterious organization, she should normally be incognito, and opening a bar in a crowded place in Mori was a good cover. And Ryan believes that with Sophie's appearance, if he is really greedy for wealth, it is really better to marry a rich man or nobleman than to shield those fugitives, and if he finds an opportunity to make her man die inexplicably in a few years, Ryan believes that Suphie's means can definitely inherit that large amount of property, isn't it much better than the current appearance of the business?
It's just that whether it's Bud or Sophie, Ryan is meeting for the first time tonight, and he doesn't know their temperament, so he is naturally reluctant to take the initiative to favor which side, so Ryan's choice is to let Sophie and Bud confront each other, so he spoke: "Since you are all here, let's make this matter clear from beginning to end." Well, Bard, how did you find out that Sophie's 'Mori Spring' had that fugitive?"
Bud hesitated for a long time, and finally said it, it turned out that he tracked all the way at the beginning, but he didn't lose it, but then the money on his body was inexplicably stolen, and as a result, he had no money to pay the bill after eating, so he had to negotiate with the owner of the small hotel for a long time, and finally Bud had to sell the equipment on his body to pay the bill.
Selling his belongings certainly made Bard have a lot of money, but it delayed him for at least half a day, and Gadir's traces disappeared after coming to Mori, there were too many caravans and mercenaries passing here, and Bard had no choice but to choose the most primitive way, that is, to spend money to buy news.
When Sophie asked where Bud bought the news, Bud had to slowly describe to her what the two obscene men looked like, and Sophie was very angry after listening to Bud's description, she said hatefully: "It's these two bastards, the other night, the two of them got drunk and wanted to sneak in to take advantage of me, but I beat them out with a wooden stick, I didn't expect them to be so despicable!"
Now, it seems that the whole context of the matter is clear, the two lewd men did not succeed, so they naturally wanted to repay Faye, and their choice was to sell a false information to Bud and let Bud come to the door to find Sophie's trouble, and as a result, there was Ryan and their encounter in "Maury Spring". And Bud buried his head in his chest and couldn't lift it up again, he was actually deceived by the same person in the same place twice in a row today, is there anything more humiliating than this?
Seeing that the night is getting thicker, but tonight's adventure is gradually reaching a climax, which makes Vivien more and more energetic, and Ryan also knows that if he goes back at this time anyway, he will inevitably be complained by Adams, and even if he goes back now, he won't be able to sleep for a few hours before dawn, so it is better to accompany Vivian to have fun here.
The addresses of the two lewd men are not far from here, but there is no one in the mess in the house, Bud sighed helplessly, it seems that the other party is hiding out, and he can't stay here all the time waiting for those two guys to come back, right? It seems that there is no way to avenge his revenge.
Sophie, on the other hand, lit a candle and carefully searched the whole room, even if it was a very inconspicuous thing, she would look at it several times, which made Bard very incomprehensible, and muttered, "Can you still see those two guys if you look at it again?"
Sophie still lowered her head and looked carefully, as if she hadn't heard Bud's words, and after a while, she suddenly stood up with a pair of shoes, and Bud immediately sneered, "What are you doing with that?
Sophie still didn't bother him, because Sophie knew that her group tonight was actually in charge of Ryan, and even her own life was in the hands of the other party, so she pointed to the pair of shoes that were already very worn out and said to Ryan: "It's covered with reddish-brown dirt." As far as I know, the only place near the town of Murray that has this kind of dirt is the one on the east side. ”
"The key problem is that the woods are far from the north-south traffic road, the terrain is relatively remote, and there is no production, and the locals don't usually go there, and this guy has been there, and the dirt on his shoes doesn't seem to have dried yet, and he should have stepped on it in a few days. Sophie recounted her findings and said to Ryan, "Shall we go over there?"
Ryan was very surprised by Sophie's carefulness, although he didn't understand this, but he also knew that Sophie must have undergone this training, it seems that what she said before about defecting from a certain organization should be true, because skills such as tracking like this are no longer something that ordinary mercenaries can learn, and usually training such people is some powerful organization.
Ryan and his party walked for more than 30 minutes to the edge of the woods east of the town of Mori, which was really secluded, only occasionally heard a "squeak" cry, probably some little guy who came out late at night to look for food, Bud looked at the lush woods in front of him, tilted his head and said to Sophie, "Who knows if someone made this on purpose?"
Sophie didn't answer Bard's question, and in fact didn't need to answer it, for there was a frightened cry from the depths of the woods, and that voice was indeed from the lewd man who had told Bard the false news. The target was in front of him, and everyone naturally rushed in together, Ryan pulled Vivien a step behind, and quietly blessed the three of them with several protective magics, all of which were seen by Sophie, but she still followed behind Bard as if nothing happened.
The cry in the depths of the woods was already very faint, if it weren't for everyone outside the woods, I am afraid that they would not be able to hear it even a little farther away, but fortunately the whole forest was not very large, and Bard rushed forward with the source of the sound, and it only took 2 minutes to come to a small clearing in the forest.
Mai Ya stepped on the lap of the lewd man who couldn't stop begging him, he opened his mouth slightly, and began to absorb the life essence of the other party from the prey under his feet, a pale green light poured out from the face of the lewd man on the ground, and slowly transmitted to Mai Ya's mouth, making Mai Ya's face, whose hair had completely turned dark black, show an indescribable expression of enjoyment.
There was a rush of footsteps, and it seemed that a new prey had been sent to the door by itself, Mai Ya slightly suppressed her excitement, and slightly opened her eyes, which had turned from blue to blood red, and saw Bard at a glance. Maia nodded with satisfaction, a character like Bud, the soul is much stronger than the obscene man who fools around all day long, he was about to pounce on Bud, but he saw a large number of people running up behind Bud, roughly counting, there were as many as 6.
Maia's soul has fallen under the temptation of Susan, the soul of the dead soul in his body, and now he is no longer the priest who hoped to change the fate of poor civilians, but has become a shadow priest who enjoys the soul of a human and a woman's body all day long, and his power is no longer the various life-saving magic obtained through his devotion to the god of light, but has become evil shadow magic, such as the "soul devouring" just now.
Ryan and Maiya originally knew each other, but now that Ryan was wearing a magic mask, Maiya naturally couldn't recognize Ryan, and Maier's brown-red hair had long since turned black with a little brown, and the big blue eyes had also turned blood red, plus Ryan had always thought that Maiya had died in the Rapids, so he naturally didn't think about it. As a result, Ryan failed to recognize Maier, and neither did Maia and Susan inside him.