Chapter 2 30: The outstretched hand
Merlin was curious to walk into the interior of the casino, he had never been in such a place before, everything in front of him radiated a golden light, whether it was the card table, or the slot machines with jeweled levers, and even every table and every chair emitted a psychedelic golden light. It's as if you can get rich by stealing anything in this casino and selling it.
The little boy reached out and touched the surface of the slot machine that happened to pass by, trying to see what it was. There were three glass frames, neither wide nor narrow, with figures of unknown meaning on them, some rubies, some berries, and some strange objects he had never seen before.
How exactly does this work? He didn't know, and he didn't want to know. Because his goal now is not to sit in front of the slot machine and play special games, but to find the person in charge of this casino.
"Underage kids can't go to the casino to play, if you know each other, get out now, don't bother Lao Tzu to sleep here." A big hand grabbed Merlin's head and turned him around stiffly, "Hah—isn't it still open?" Why did a child come in all of a sudden......"
A man with a scruffy beard and short black hair, that was Merlin's first impression of him. The man's raunchy image is incompatible with the graceful and luxurious atmosphere of the casino, and it is he who is clearly the person in charge of the casino.
"Mr. Anthony asked me to come to you and say that I can be protected from you." Merlin's eyes widened as he looked at the man with few pieces of cloth on his body, "My dad is here to be the punisher. ”
The man bent over and yawned heavily, and he wore a white vest on his upper body, barely able to cover his chest, and the rest of the muscles were so grandly exposed. In the eyes of aesthetically normal women, these well-defined abs may be synonymous with evil, because they will hold their eyes so firmly that they can't take them off. His lower body was a crumpled light blue shorts, and he wore nothing on his feet. In other words, this man walked barefoot in the middle of such a stunning casino......
"So the fat man brought you here?" The man frowned as he scratched his head with his right hand, "When I'm specifically taking children?" Moreover, the children who took her back then ......"
He finally sighed, looked at Merlin's face, and stroked the hand on his head that gradually lightened.
"Come with me, and I'll keep you safe for a month or two," the bearded man pulled Merlin deeper into the country, "but you have to be my assistant, and the job isn't difficult." And you can also see a lot of fun things, and you can also meet a lot of fun people. About my name, you will know tomorrow. ”
"Hmm." Merlin nodded, "Then what do you want me to do?" ”
"Pretty good." The man raised his eyebrows slightly, and picked up a sharp sword that had not been placed next to the slot machine before, "Just serve tea and water, it's not difficult." ”
"Is there anything fun about that?"
"Fun?" He snorted and laughed, "It's all fun, but it's nothing really fun, I advise you not to touch everything here, you can't afford to play it now." Of course, if you mess with anything and ask your father to pay off the debt for the rest of your life, I won't object to it anyway. ”
Merlin had only seen a small part of the casino's interior, but now he looked around and found more shiny machines, but he didn't know how to operate them. There's even a super big roulette wheel, and the track laid on it blooms with a cold flower, which makes him a little messy to look at.
"Oh...... I know. Merlin blinked, "And where do I live every day?" ”
"I'm too lazy to open another room for you, so I'll just sleep in my room, there are two beds anyway." The man glanced at Merlin's little brain melon boringly, "If something happens, I can save the scene in time." ”
The two walked through the hallway of the casino and walked out through a small inconspicuous door. Everything pales in comparison to the environment inside the casino, which resembles a room rented out by a mercenary rally, and is even covered in a thick layer of dust.
"Hasn't anyone lived here for a long time?" The light above Merlin's head looked dirty, and he always felt that shining on people would make him dirty, "It looks so dirty." ”
"Well, I'll clean up my room." He was suddenly stunned for a moment, and said rather embarrassedly, "My room is a little messy, let me tidy up before you go in." ”
Merlin pushed open the door and the room directly opposite was the man's quarters, and he could clearly feel that the "one" on the door number was much cleaner than the number on the other doors. But as soon as the man pushed the door open, Merlin felt that the environment here was even dirtier than the outside—littered bedding and clothes, parchment paper was scattered all over the floor, and he even saw a small stack of cockroach corpses piled on the wooden table next to him!
"Haha...... Hahaha! The man sneered and waved his hand casually, only to see a dappled light popping out of his fingers, and everything in the room began to move.
The window popped open, and the cockroach on the table was instantly sent out of the window by the light. Even so, Merlin probably wouldn't have taken the initiative to touch that place. One by one, the remaining clothes on the bed floated up, quickly ironed out by the warm ribbon of light in the air, and tucked into a closet in the corner. Although it was only a moment to open and close the door, Merlin could see that a corner of the wardrobe seemed to have the intoxicating golden light from before and inside the casino.
What kind of clothes would sparkle like this? Merlin couldn't imagine what the man in front of him would look like if he wore this kind of clothes, anyway, he had already seen his raunchy appearance, and no matter how glamorous he was, he would still be a raunchy, sloppy man in front of him.
"Well, there's nothing to eat here, and someone should bring you food at dinner, so it's time to eat. If you have a good rest today, you may be a little tired tomorrow. The man yawned and didn't seem to wake up, "I also have a job, and I can't take care of you all the time, so you have to be careful." ”
"I see. What is your job, sir? Merlin was a little curious.
The man thought for a moment and said seriously: "It's to take all the money of all the people who come in to yourself!" ”
"I don't believe it's bad to rob!"
"I'm winning from them, okay!" The man laughed, "I have to rest for a while, don't disturb me, you can do whatever you like, just don't go out from here." ”
In fact, Merlin was not given much room to move. The little boy simply lay down on the soft bed and began to take a nap, he had not been able to sleep well for the past few days, and he was indeed a little tired. The man who said he was going to rest for a while was lying on the bed with his eyes open, thinking about something.
What is the secret in [Paradise of Thieves] that would make him go to great lengths to do such a seemingly meaningless thing? He could have waited a few more years to complete the cultivation of the latest batch of substitute punishers before opening Paradise Lost...... Could it be that something is going to happen in advance? Or is there something wrong with something that he wants to try to recognise?
The boy's closed eyes suddenly opened, the muscles on his face tensed, and he looked around cautiously, and the milky white of his eyes appeared again. This time, instead of using the power of [Didamour Pupil] to look back at the past, he used it to look down on the present.
He did this because of the nightmare in the sea of disbelief screaming: "That power of fate is here again...... What's going on? Marquez, you get up and take a look, didn't you get rid of them? ”
Merlin's perspective turned a milky white in line with his pupils, and what he saw was rapidly elongating, and the dim scene of the room began to blur and fade. For a moment, he felt as if he had been out of his body, slowly rising above the town, knowing everything that was happening in the world from an omniscient perspective.
"If you look at it this way, the soul will definitely not be able to bear it, and concentrate on one focus." Nightmare instructed, "Look near the gate of the town. ”
Merlin just thought about it, and what he saw began to change rapidly, from the entire town to an area around it. The nightmare senses the power of fate, and the source of that power is either the stone statue or the damned preacher.
He saw it. It was the smelly, long marching procession, led by the man in a black robe with a necklace around his neck. They had come from town to town, and at the speed at which they were traveling, it was estimated that it would be another day before they could reach it.
Walk for a day...... It was the first day of the official opening of Paradise Lost. That's too much of a coincidence, isn't it? Do they want to come to such a place, and if not, what is their purpose?
Not far from the missionary procession, he saw another familiar figure.
It's the toy merchant who calls himself Laurent. He left the group on the day he arrived at the place where the orc prisoners were executed, and Merlin didn't know where he was going. And now, he was following the end of the group, seemingly pretending to be one of the cultists, and following them as if nothing had happened.
If nothing is wrong, this toy dealer will actually come to this place of right and wrong tomorrow...... Selling toys?
By the way, did those orcs run out? Merlin began to search for traces of the escaped orcs, but could not find them. They must have fled......
Hopefully they can escape to the Orc Special Zone, Sheldon was previously the head of the Orc Management Division, and he can also hear something by the way. Anyway, he knew that as long as they escaped to the Orc Special Zone, then even if the king himself went to arrest them, these prisoners would not be caught.