Chapter 22: Sheep
The next day, the sun drove away the lead-gray clouds over the city of Carmor, and the cold wind came to a halt as it climbed over the high black walls of Carmor. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThere are more people on the street, and the faces of people in winter clothes are a little more cheerful than before. Dressed in a cape, linen pullover, and breeches, Arcanis walked the streets, his clothes cheap and thin, but better than clean.
She passed a woman in a winter dress with a scarf around her neck. Keen ears heard the woman muttering in a low voice, "It's a refugee again." ”
This was not an isolated case, the white-haired girl walking down the street could feel the unfriendly atmosphere, and the townspeople all glanced at this strange person consciously or unconsciously, and Arcanis felt like a skinny gray sheep who had sneaked into the circle of fat white sheep. And the fat sheep are trying to drive her back to where she should be, the slums, with a dissatisfied attitude.
"Aina, here. ”
Elena raised her hand in front of a restaurant, wearing a sapphire ring on her index finger. The gemstone is not large or clear enough, but it shines with a fascinating brilliance in the hard-to-see sunlight of Carmor.
The white-haired girl smiled and walked towards her, but someone was faster than her and bumped her shoulder. Arcarnes staggered in feign, and then Elena's exclamation rang in his ears.
"My ring!"
The blue wolf jerked his head up, and his harmless blue eyes immediately became alert, only to see a lean man snatch Elena's ring and quickly burrow into the crowd. She immediately chased after her, and the surrounding citizens panicked to get out of the way, and many people heard Elena's cries for help, but none of them helped.
Ran across the street and into an alley.
The blue wolf chased after him, his eyes narrowed slightly, as if he felt her cold gaze. He turned his face sideways, and the panic on his face suddenly disappeared for the most part. Anyone who sees a thin woman who is chasing him will not take him to heart, this is the biggest mistake he has made.
He immediately slowed his pace, bent down and quickly grabbed a large pebble from the ground, turned and threw it at Arcanis's front door. She shook her head, easily dodged, and a cry of "Wow!" reached Arcanis's ears, and I don't know which innocent person was smashed.
The thief pulled out a dagger directly from his waist and shouted with red eyes:
"Damn, stop for Lao Tzu, outsider!"
Arcanis didn't say a word, but rushed towards him without stopping.
The thief didn't hesitate to plunge straight into her heart, and the blue wolf simply dodged sideways, raised his knee, and slammed into his stomach. The thief was so pained that he couldn't cry out, he clutched his stomach, and the dagger fell to the ground, and he fell to the ground.
The blue wolf picked up the dagger,
"Lie down and wait for the vigilantes to throw you in jail. ”
As soon as she finished speaking,
A command sounded like thunder in the alley.
"Stop!
"Oh, they're finally here. Arcanis turned to look, only to see three powerful crossbows pointed at her chest.
"Lay down your arms! If you don't want to die here like a wild dog!"
"You misunderstand that he is the thief. ”
"Whoosh!"
A bolt plunged deep into the wall behind Arkanis.
The white-haired girl obediently threw down her dagger, and she had no doubt that the three security guards in front of her, dressed in blue leather, would shoot herself to death on the spot.
"She robbed me!"
The thief who was huddled on the ground immediately cried out, "This outsider has robbed me." ”
"Hey, hey, he snatched my friend's ring, and you wear it on his finger. ”
"This was meant to be my ring. ”
He rolled over and pleaded with the sapphire ring on his index finger, and Arcarnes noticed that the guy had a bitter face, like a malnourished wild dog, about forty years old. The thinning and greasy hair on the top of his head was like weeds in a pile of rubble, and his beard was thin.
"Dear gentlemen, I was a sincere glassworker in the city of Carmor. "Refugee taxes are getting higher and higher, and I pay them without complaint, but they take away my job, my family loses my only source of income, my children go hungry, and my wife leaves home." He also tried to snatch the ring that my grandmother had given me. ”
"Squat in the corner, you wild dog on the side of the street!"
They approached and surrounded Arkanis yelling, one of them giving her a hard shove on the shoulder. Her Huberian accent told her that she was indeed an out-of-tlander.
"Hurry up and get out of this city, damn refugee. ”
A little spit flew into Arcanis's face, and she wiped it, pointing at the little citizen who had been hit by the stone earlier.
"He can testify to me, I have been chasing this thief, and he has been stoned. ”
The little citizen she pointed at was full of panic, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, I haven't seen anything, the flowers on the street side of Carmore are too charming." While admiring it, I don't know where the stone came from and hit my forehead. ”
"She didn't get it at first, so she became angry and chased after me. "She greatly underestimates the importance of this sapphire ring to me, just as she underestimates your cleverness." ”
Three pairs of eyes looked angrily at the white-haired woman.
"Obediently follow us to the security office!"
"But..."
One of them lifted his foot and kicked her so hard that Arcanis noticed that the sky above him had suddenly turned into a slightly gray slate. The scene with the limestone slab was so violent that the wolf's teeth rattled like dice in a cup.
You're playing as a refugee from Hubelion with a bit of martial arts skills!," she said to herself, desperately trying to suppress her impulse.
She lay on the ground gritting her teeth and stared at the three of them angrily.
"Cuff her!"
One hand held down one of her wrists, and a cold handcuff cuffed.
Arcanis struggled, "No! you can't do that!"
Another hand grabbed her white hair, "Do you still have a hard mouth, outsider, you will have to cry out with regret later!"
"You lunatics!"
"What are you doing!"
Elena's breathless voice rang out, "Oh my God, how did you grab my friend and let go of the thief who stole my ring?"
The hand that grabbed her hair let go, and she fell to the ground, and the three vigilantes looked at Elena with a pure Camor accent.
"Is this your friend?"
"It's true. She came over angrily, her brown hair flapping angrily on her back, "Gentlemen, which police district are you? How did you cuff my friend? He snatched my ring, and she was the only weak woman who chased after me." ”
The blue wolf stood up,
"You have to know Elena, there is always a group of people in the world who are half-blind the day after tomorrow. What is more terrifying about them than blind people is that they think they can see clearly even though they are black and white. ”
"Gentlemen!" the thief snapped back, "they're all in the same group, and God knows where she came from to say my grandmother's ring was hers." ”
One of the vigilantes whistled, and they looked guiltless.
"In that case, the three of you go to the guard and tell me who is a thief and who is a good person, and you will not be wronged. ”
"You—" Elena was furious, rummaging through her small satchel for something.
"Hmph. Arcanis patted the dust off his body, "Even a fool can see the truth. If the ring is worn for a long time, there will be a white circle on her finger, look at her index finger, and then look at his hand. ”
As he spoke, the wolf suddenly kicked him in the stomach, and then quickly pulled out the ring in his hand, and there was not a single white circle on his rough hand. And Elena has a distinct white circle on her index finger.
The three members of the vigilante looked at each other, they lowered their crossbows, and kicked the thief on the ground.
"Cunning thief!"
They kicked and kicked until Elena said, "You owe me an apology to a friend who obeyed the law and acted bravely, but you were treated as a thief and almost put in jail." ”
"Oh?"
One of them stopped and looked at Elena with a squint.
"I don't think the matter is clear yet, let's go to the bureau to interrogate together. He said, "We little soldiers, because we are not smart enough, have a very difficult and hard life, so we have to show the sheriff." ”
The memory of his previous life made Arcanis subconsciously put his hand on his waist and took out the bribe coin.
"That's just right. She pulled out a purple card from her satchel, "I hope your sheriff remembers the person who had a relationship at the banquet." Hopefully, he wouldn't be annoyed that his subordinates were going to destroy a good elemental worker. ”
When they saw the purple card, their faces changed.
The purple card in Elena's hand is a work card, proving that she is very skilled in elemental skills. Imperial bureaucrats like to issue certificates to important people, such as what can launch fireballs, excellent talent certificates, and so on.
Mastering the elements already has a superior status in the Ruofia Empire. Although Elena herself does not know any elemental spells, she can be regarded as the kind of person who can cause them a lot of trouble for the three ordinary vigilantes in front of her.
"Yes, I'm sorry. ”
A fierce-looking vigilante teammate took the lead and said hastily.
Before Arcarnes could speak, Elena said, "Are you going to sleep the child? ”
They held their breath, but considering their work, they bent down in unison to the white-haired girl and shouted, "I'm sorry." ”
Arcanis waved his hand at an angry Elena, indicating that it was okay. She finally experienced the class composition of the empire today, and she knew that this was the case, so she brought out her work card, so she was also a person who could pour elements into elemental gems, and she could be regarded as one in a thousand.
The white-haired girl handed the ring back to Elena, who patted her on the dust on her shoulder,
"I'm so sorry for this kind of. ”
"It's okay, it's okay. ”
The blue wolf smiled, and three small, stiff leather pouches lay quietly in her pockets, all filled with coins.
"The people of Camor City seem to be more indifferent. They walked, Arcanis said.
"Well, forgive them, A. "It's not a good year, there are a lot of refugees, so there's a tax, and a lot of people resent the outsiders for taking their jobs." ”
"No wonder they looked at me like a flock of fat sheep eating grass, and looked warily at a grey sheep that had entered the sheepfold, fearing that it would rob them of the grass in their mouths. ”