Volume 4 The Reign of Chaos 27 The Labyrinth of the Old Town

Shore's home is right up front, and the guy lives in a rather modest place.

The old town was severely destroyed by the orcs, and the ruins of this area have not been completely cleared so far, and some of the houses in the backyard have not been well repaired.

The houses on both sides of the main street were well repaired, and the traces of the fire after being painted were covered under the mortar.

Many of the inhabitants of the Old Town died in the war, and countless more escaped Stormwind and were exiled to other places. Once the new city was built, the laborers who came to Stormwind from other places were promised that they could apply for housing in the city as long as they participated in the construction of the city, although this was not the case. Applying does not necessarily mean that you will be able to apply, and the place you apply for is not exactly what you want.

The expansion of Stormwind was to open the perimeter of the old city and dig ditches within the city, using ditches to divide many areas, some of which were not intended for civilians, such as a large ...... It was a large piece, and it was given to the mages of Dalaran. If the mages need to build the mage tower, the assembly square, and even the plantation of herbs there, and even build a tavern there for their drinking, I have been to that tavern once and will never go again, not that it is not bad but that there are too few people in that place, and the mage area where there are few people makes you feel that this place is not more comfortable than the barren mountains and mountains, how big do you think that place is!

An area was to be carved out for the dwarves, of course to the north of the city, where an underground tunnel was to be excavated from Stormwind to Ironforge Keep. Truth be told, if your impression of the size of the land is limited to the drawings, the map, or the size of your house, you don't know how surprised I was when I learned of the dwarves' plan, which seemed to me to be an earth-shattering magic that would have to be accomplished unless the creation gods or some kind of magic or something.

Construction is still ongoing, and it is said that it will be soon!

I hope it will succeed, but I don't know if it's about to be completed or if it's about to give up.

Dwarves have appeared in Stormwind, a large number of dwarves. This was rarely seen before the Orc invasion, and even if there were dwarves, they were mostly found in Shining Gold or some backcountry place, they were better at digging than doing business with people, and of course their winemaking skills and drinking skills were unmatched by humans.

In addition to making a face in the commercial area, a small number of blacksmiths in Stormwind must also build a workshop for themselves in the dwarf area as much as possible, the face of the business area is for outsiders to see, and the workshop in the dwarf area is the place where they can work.

It is also because of the arrival of dwarves that the skills of craftsmen in the city have been greatly improved. No matter how you get the recipe and technology, it's much better than before.

I never visited the guy I met in the Wild West named Jordan Stilwell, but I reckon he'd come and learn if he had heard that the dwarves had a forge in Stormwind.

The church also wanted land, and on the basis of the original cathedral, a piece of land was squeezed out between the mages and the dwarves as the enclosure of the church. Of course, the land of the church was not only occupied by monks, priests and apprentices, but also schools, kindergartens, and orphanages. These children will be closer to the Light.

It's just that I'm starting to dislike Benedictas more and more, this guy has become more and more perverse since he returned to the Stormwind Kingdom, as one of the few people in the Stormwind Kingdom who can master the power of the Light, especially in the church, his position is unshakable, and after Alonsos Fao and the Knights of the Silver Hand left Stormwind City, he simply showed his mana everywhere to expand his influence that he already had.

And the healing power of the Holy Light was really felt by the people of Stormstorm from Benedictas, and the knights from the north just showed people that they didn't have that much time to mix in the civilian pile, and their duty was to fight.

The church will also open a small number of areas to serve as the offices of the interior department, such as the office of Mr. Barons Alexton, which is still on the church's grounds.

There are three remaining areas, one is the original west gate of Stormwind City and the area outside the west gate, and most of the last place where a large number of farmers and workers settled after pouring into Stormwind City is also near the west gate. Originally, the commercial area near the south gate of Stormwind City is now well planned, and the people living there are all businessmen, although there are also mixed fish and dragons, but the land here is the most valuable, and it is also a place where rich and noble people gather.

The last is the old town where Mr. Shore is located, which was built when King Fadil was alive and retains some of its original appearance, although King Lane later ordered the area to be renovated, but the slums that had disappeared due to the war flourished again in just two or three years after the craftsmen had built the new Stormwind City.

In fact, there are more beggars again.

It stands to reason that as long as you participate in the construction of Stormwind City, you can get a house, but people are different from chickens, ducks, geese, cats, dogs, pigs, and all kinds of people have them. Some people just want to take the opportunity to mix houses in Stormwind City, but this kind of person often can't keep the house. Some people are not honest people in the first place, and many of those who are lucky enough to get a house because they are lazy end up selling their houses to others. And these people eat, drink, and squander their money, and naturally live in slums.

The landlord was not only ruthless but also calculating, so soon part of the house was in the hands of some rich people. Although this brain-wielding creature has experienced war, he has quickly gathered wealth in a short period of time.

Honest people who are willing to endure hardships and stand hard work are tired and tired to live to death, and in the end they can only get a place in a very poor position, and labor does not change their fate in essence, they still have nothing.

There are also some people who are the ones I just mentioned, who are born poor and have a very good set of skills.

When I found Shore's house, I couldn't tell anything unusual about it from the outside, but when I entered it, I realized that it was very similar to what I had seen in Lordaeron.

At first, I wanted to knock on the door, but as an assassin, I was obviously not professional enough to deal with a group of people who were engaged in intelligence assassination.

I chose to observe first. After all, I still remember the experience of being deceived once!

I searched around the house for a long time, and one of the things that made me suspicious was a street stand diagonally across the street from the house, and then the three-story building behind the street stand, which was the tallest building in the area.

Some of the surrounding houses are occupied, but many more seem uninhabited. In order to avoid being noticed on the street where there were not many people, I walked through it and turned into the alley next to it.

Unfortunately, shortly after I walked into the alley next to the house, I noticed a tail coming up behind me.

I looked back at him, and the seventeen or eighteen-year-old didn't dodge, he just looked at me straight at me. "What do you want to do?" I said to him.

But the guy didn't answer, just looked at me. "Where are you going?"

"Does it have anything to do with you?"

"You shouldn't be here." The boy said, "You'd better get out of here." ”

"Why?"

When he saw that I was not moving, he reached out and whistled. When he finished blowing, he turned around and walked away. I was alarmed, but I didn't hear anything unusual.

But I was about to climb up the wall and go to the courtyard to take a look, when the door opened in the alley next to me. This was followed by the footsteps of several people.

Three guys in coarse shirts appeared in front of me. You don't need to ask, you can tell that the person who is coming is not good when you look at this look. There seemed to be a number of Shore's men lurking around the house.

The three men didn't talk, but lunged straight at me. Seeing this, I took a few steps backwards and slapped the fist of the first person who rushed up, flew up and kicked directly at the knee of his right leg that had just stepped forward, and this guy stumbled and fell directly to the side.

As soon as I lowered my head and dodged the fist of the guy rushing up from the right, and as soon as I turned around, my left arm elbow hit the guy's right diagonal rib, and the guy fell to the ground in an instant.

The third guy jerked his arms around my neck from behind, but the choke was useless. This guy is obviously not a master of fighting, either.

I reached back with my left hand and grabbed his hair, and the fingers of my right hand poked straight into his eyes. The feeling of a fingernail cap digging into your eyes is very strange, especially when your fingers are caught in the eyelids...... Wonderful.

The guy let go, but the result was that his right diagonal rib was hit hard by my elbow that I pushed backwards. In an instant, he curled up on the ground with his eyes covered.

The guy I kicked to the ground at first pulled a dagger out of his waist, and since the knife was flashed, I couldn't be polite to him.

This guy's wrist was broken by me, and of course he doesn't feel pain now, he's been knocked unconscious by me. There is no need to ask anything about those two guys, there is nothing to ask about this situation, since the kid can whistle and call people, the two guys must be the same when they wake up.

I was thinking about whether or not to tie him up when I saw the kid just now. When he saw me looking at him, he turned and ran. I'll chase after it.

I watched as the kid entered the house, and I chased after him, and I couldn't do much more, so I flew up and kicked the door open.

The sight of the house was familiar to me, and yes, there was a house like this in the slums of Lordaeron's time.

But the room was not empty, but two women were doing needlework. The loud noise of the door that I kicked open startled the two women.

My eyes were catching everything moving in the room, but there was no child.

"What about the kid!" I yelled.

The two women just looked at me in surprise, and they didn't talk. Judging by the expressions on their faces, they seemed to be ignorant of what had just happened outside, and they were completely unaware of their situation.

I glanced at the stairs next to me, and when I rushed in, there seemed to be no movement upstairs, which meant that the kid had run to the back!

I hurried to the back of the house, and sure enough, the kid ran through a door at the back of the house.

How do you know, you ask me? The door is open! If it were you, would you believe that the kid ran from here or would you go back to the house and check it out?

I'll chase it out.

Hmph, put away the clever ideas of your walnut-sized brain. What if the kid opened the door to deceive you, but he was actually hiding in front of the door?

Faced with an alley with three forks more than ten meters away from the back door, will you hide at the door or choose the three alleys that make people more confused?

When I stood at that crossroads, I was not only surprised, but also a little afraid.

It is said that the three caves of the cunning rabbit, it is simply strange that this place can be built like this, let alone in Stormwind City, such a building is built under the eyes of the king!

The two-storey building along the street in front is a cover, not to mention what will be behind it, but this alley is closely connected to this small building, and I look at the alleys in these three directions and feel that the alleys in these three directions are all closed-loop!

It's like a labyrinth!

I chose the right-hand side, it's habit.

But when you walk in, you find that there are forks in the alley! It wasn't a turn, and I was a little confused, so I stood there and remembered how many times I turned when I came in.

Facing the crossroads ahead, I pulled out the dagger from my waist and pressed it against the wall. I walked forward, and the dagger left a mark on the wall until I came to a door. I leaned on the door and looked inside, but I couldn't see what was going on inside through the narrow gap.

So I gritted my teeth and kicked directly towards the door. I kicked the door to pieces. The deadbolt inside the door is still well tied behind the door.

I took the deadbolt off the door and walked into the small courtyard, which was only about five meters square. There was some firewood piled up in the small courtyard, and there was a water tank in the corner. This yard should have been unattended for a long time, and the ground is covered with grass, but why is no one living in this house?

Walking to the door of the house, I looked through the window and inside, the ground was covered with weeds, and that was it.

I took a slow, deep breath, my ears catching up on everything around me. Putting the dagger back on my waist, I chose to go to the room.

Standing high and looking far, this sentence is always the truth. Short-sightedness is because you don't stand high enough! Still stuck in such a small place.

I gasped as I went up to the roof and straightened up.

Shore, this birdman is really not simple!

Walking from below for a while will never find a way out, I can't fully figure out what is going on here when I stand on the roof, it is almost impossible to figure out what this place is like in a short time by simply groping slowly from below!

I turned my head to look around, and there was only the last three-story building left in the area, except for the small two-story building I had passed when I came. The three-story building was completely surrounded by dense houses.

And the reason why I only saw the two-story building when I stepped into the old town was that a very tall, long ...... was built on the outskirts of the area. Wall!

It was impossible to see the inside of the area from outside the high wall, and through the wall, the houses on both sides and the street that was not very wide, made it impossible to see the surrounded house in the distance.

Even the houses on both sides of the street have specially erected sheds to narrow the sky that can be seen from the already small street.

The only three-storey building in the old town is hidden in the house.

It's so much better than the slums of Lordaeron, and it would have been so hard to find out the secret if you hadn't gone up to the roof and walked all underneath! And want to find a place to live...... Let's find a way out of this labyrinthine alley first.

But what's interesting is that this place actually exists in Stormwind, and as the king, I only know that there is such a place, and it is still like this!

What the hell does this Shore want to do!

Hiss...... Does Lord Youngden, who was killed in this matter, know about this?

And...... The original old town was transformed into this bird-like and used as a construction party...... Is this what the Masonry Brotherhood does?

The thought sent a chill down my shoulders.

And when I wandered around the roof for a while, I realized something even more terrifying! There are a lot of abandoned courtyards! And this kind of small courtyard is not connected to the street outside! In other words, this place is completely Tibetan!

If it is true that only about 20 people were caught from the slums as Danya said, then so many small courtyards, not to mention hiding about 20 people, it is enough to hide 200 people! But it's so deserted and empty.

So what was it built for?

Narrow alleys abound, and there are not a few alleys where it is difficult for two people to walk side by side, and the twists and turns of the houses that are connected or not connected make this place easy to get dizzy.

In this way, if you don't find out that the endless wall is actually cleverly enclosed in these houses, it is impossible to figure out what is going on here in a short time.

Each enclosed area resembles a uniquely shaped building block, which is surrounded by smaller townhouses, corner houses, and a separate two-house house.

The king must not know that he has built such a building area in Stormwind City, no one has exposed it yet, or it is terrible to imagine it, if he really wants to hide some people in the city, it is too simple. But the masonry fraternity who built this place didn't hide here.

What scares me even more is that this place has become Shore's private domain.

In other words, whether the people here all listen to Shore or not, simply saying that the function of this kind of place has already shown that Shore is not a simple guy, and to be able to build such a place, if the architectural planning drawings are not blind, he must be! You'll definitely see the problem!

If you don't see the problem, it means that the construction party must have done something in the later construction.

I don't think Edwin would be unaware of this kind of thing.

So this Shore ...... What kind of guy is he?

I walked slowly from the roof, trying not to make a noise, because there were real people in the streets of the alley below.

As I walked, I pondered, Xiao Er should have become the actual controller of MI7 by now, and when I saw these in front of me, I had reason to suspect that he killed Yang Deng.

But when it comes to why I did it, I can only guess.

I've always had the courage to feel that killing Yang Deng didn't look like the Brotherhood was doing. The official has not given much explanation as to why the Brotherhood killed Yang Deng, and I can't think of a reason why the Brotherhood must kill Yang Deng.

If it weren't for the Brotherhood, then the only person most likely to kill his boss at the moment would be Shore.

I continue to think about it along this line, and the result that I may think of is who will be the biggest beneficiary after Yang Deng's death.

At the moment, it was Shore, who became the king's third eye, the king's invisible hand.

But I always felt that it was not so simple, and it was not Shore who spoke at the Imperial Council, but Katrana and Barons.

Barons ......

He's the minister of the city administration, the chief minister, does he know what's going on? Or...... Could it be him?

But he ...... What good is it for him to plot to kill Yang Deng? Yang Deng does not live here, this place has been Shore's since the day it was built, and it is destined to be Shore's world! Yang Deng may have been involved in this......

That means it's possible...... Shore and Barlons know each other!

They are...... Cognitive!

If this is true...... So...... Something seems to make sense. But...... What's going on with Katrana?

I walked towards the three-story building, which was actually very worried, because it was completely out of the crowd, and it overlooked all the surrounding areas. I'm so worried that someone upstairs will see me.

However, it is interesting to note that there are many wooden poles that are taller than houses standing in the air. I didn't notice anything unusual at the top of the pole. But this thing is a bit of a statement.

Seeing that it was already quite close, I jumped off the room. The direction is that direction, with the direction on my right hand as the axis, no matter how I turn, I think I will probably not find the wrong one.

Either say professional things and professional people do it, I'm right!

I found Shore's abode.

It's a bit hard to meet him in this part of the city! Want to assassinate him...... I guess it's not a simple matter. Before I could touch the wall of the courtyard, I felt that someone was already staring at me behind me.

Outside the courtyard sat some scrawny beggars on the street, and these guys who hadn't eaten a full meal for an unknown amount of time cast a wary look in their eyes.

A couple of not-so-skinny guys stood up. But looking at their posture, it's clear that they didn't come to me to beg. These guys don't have any fighting power in my eyes, and I'm a little worried that I'm going to kick them to death in a real fight.

Although this group of guys is not dominant in size, they are obviously not good at looking at their eyes.

I looked around, and they came up.