Chapter 8 Remuneration (Commuter Pass Plus Update)
Aosta struggled to squeeze out a smile: "I didn't lie to you, there really is the Samaritan Woman Spring!" ”
Aosta didn't know how to answer for a while, so he could only smile and nod: "Trust me, believe me......"
Suddenly, he looked behind Lumien, and his eyes instantly straightened, as if he had seen something terrifying.
Lumian "subconsciously" turned around and looked at the door, but it was empty.
Taking advantage of this, Aosta, short of his body, passed past him and ran wildly towards the open door.
Thump!
Aosta tripped over Lumian's outstretched right foot and fell to the ground, the bridge of his nose turned blue, and his thin face swollen.
Lumien slowly closed the door, pulled over a chair and sat down, looked down at Aosta who was lying on the ground and pretended to be dead, and said, "You don't want to tell me that you are very inspired, and you just 'saw' some strange creature behind me, and you rushed to the door to help me deal with it?" ”
Aosta was stunned for a moment, turned over and stood up, and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, that's it!" ”
Lumian smiled and looked at the rectangular wooden table against the wall.
There were silver daggers, white candles, several vials with different liquids or empty ones, two pieces of parchment, and boxes that smelled of herbs.
There is a certain knowledge of the occult...... Lumian retracted his gaze and said to the apprehensive Aosta, "Who was that guy with the pipe just now?" ”
"Baron Brienel!" Aosta hurriedly replied, "He's the leader of the Savoyard gang in the market district. ”
Sava is the name of an inland province of the Republic of Intis, next to the provinces of Upper Honachis and Lower Honakis.
"Baron? And now the baron? Lumian asked amusefully.
Since the death of Russell the Great and the establishment of the Republic, titles of nobility have disappeared from everyday life.
Esta said fearfully, "That's his own nickname, maybe he had such a title in his ancestors." ”
Lumian leaned back in his chair and asked in a rather relaxed manner, "Why did he look for you, you owe them money?" ”
Seeing Lumian's harmless appearance chatting with his friends, Aosta was scared and scared, and his heart was still a little relaxed.
"I borrowed 3,000 filkins from a loan shark merchant to buy, buy, buy an item, and the merchant later resold the money to Brinnel.
"I paid back at least 3,000 Filkin, but he told me I had 2,000 interest!"
"If you delay for another two or three months, you will owe not 2,000, but 4,000." Lumian managed to see Aosta's expression collapse, and he no longer had the chattering temperament he had before.
He then lowered his voice and said in a demagogic tone, "If it were me, I would find a way to trick Brinnel and them into the ground, into a quarry hollow, and then, collapse the stone layer above, and let them sleep there forever."
"If there are no creditors, there will be no debts."
The more Aosta listened, the more panicked he became, and he looked at Lumian as if he were looking at a devil.
He suspected that the other party was planning to do this, but the name of the target in the plan was not Briniere, but Ostatrul!
"This is murder! It's a crime! Aosta shouted in horror.
"Be quiet, you don't want to lose the ability to speak forever, do you?"
Lumian reminded the other party with a smile, "You also know that this is a crime, huh?" Did the detectives tell you that fraud is also a crime? “
Aosta couldn't find the right words to respond to.
Lumian stood up and patted the dust off his gloves: "Just kidding, I was testing your character just now. ”
"What?" Aosta was at a loss.
Being forced to trust is also trust!
Lumian, of course, would not tell him that the real reason for saying those words just now was to create a cold and bloodthirsty image of terror in his heart, which would help in the "exchange" afterwards.
Being forced to trust is also trust!
"Congratulations, you have passed my test, which proves that you are not the kind of criminal who has no bottom line." Lumian smiled and stretched his arms.
He Huo Ran brought the topic back on track: "What are you borrowing so much money for?" ”
He then looked around, and as he looked around, he added, "There doesn't seem to be anything of value here......
Aosta subconsciously opened his mouth, wanting to make up a lie on the spot, but in an instant, Jiu remembered what the other party had just said.
He shuddered and said, "You, do you know potions?" ”
"You're really extraordinary, aren't you?" Lumian laughed.
Seeing that he knew about the Extraordinaries and the Potion, Aosta breathed a sigh of relief, glad that he hadn't lied just now.
The story he wanted to make up was full of holes in front of the truly extraordinary, and in that case, he might have to "sleep" somewhere in underground Trier tonight.
Aosta took two deep breaths and said, "A few months ago, I borrowed 3,000 filkins from loan sharks in order to buy the main materials for potions, plus the 4,000 filkins I saved, and I successfully went from an ordinary person to an extraordinary person. ”
"Which sequence are you from? Why can't even a few gangsters deal with it? Lumian asked in a deliberately suspicious tone.
Aosta looked helpless: "I'm the 'secret prayer person' of Sequence 9. ”
"Doesn't sound weak." Lumian judged only from the name of the potion.
Aosta said with grief and chagrin: I also think that the "secret prayer person" should be very powerful, and the seller also said that it can give me insight into the reality of the world.
"As a result, in addition to improving my inspiration, that is, giving some impractical ritual knowledge and ritual magic, I can now scare myself half to death except for occasionally detecting the existence of mysterious things, and I can't even beat a gang member!"
"Ritual magic should be useful." Lumian said in the tone of a passerby.
Aosta had an expression on his face that was about to cry: "I have common sense in the occult, I am a believer in the 'Eternal Sun', how can I pray to an unknown existence?" That's dangerous!
"Hey, there are some honorific names in the knowledge that comes with the potion, but they all belong to the secret existence, and it is terrible to hear it, what depraved nature, what real volume, what kind of fateful gaze, I don't dare to pray at all!"
He stole a glance at Lumian, pretending to grit his teeth: "But I thought about it, if Baron Briniere's men come to force me again, I will pray to the Hidden Being for power!" ”
He was clearly referring to Baron Brienel, but in fact he was warning Lumian not to push himself to a dead end.
Lumian looked at his worried face and agreed, "It's a good choice.
"Baron Brienel, they despise an extraordinary person too much, and if it were me, I wouldn't give you a chance to go to a dead end."
Speaking of this, he smiled at Aosta: "Before that, you were dead. ”
Aosta opened his mouth and closed it, his expression more ugly than crying.
"You seem to have moved a few times, only to be found by Baron Brignier, and I suspect that he or the Savoyard have a real extraordinary."
Aosta was shocked to hear this.
Lumian picked up the silver dagger on the table and said to Aosta as he played with it, "I can give you 100 Filkin as payment." ”
"Huh?" Once again, Aosta was at a loss.
He found that he couldn't keep up with the other person's train of thought.
"You, do you still want the water of the Samaritan Woman's Spring?" He asked tentatively.
Lumien smiled: "You tell me, is there really one?" ”
Looking at the other party's smiling eyes, Aosta muttered for a few seconds and said, "I'm not sure." ”
Lumian nodded with satisfaction: "What I want is to take me to the party you just mentioned, the party where you bought the main materials for potions, and the reward is 100 Feldin." “
Lumian made this request partly because Lady "The Magician" might have had something to do with the gathering involving extraordinary materials, and partly because he himself needed a similar gathering to gather weapons, materials, seals, and occult knowledge.
Aosta swallowed hard: "I, I can try, but only with the consent of the party convener. ”
"No problem." Lumian took out a gold coin and motioned for Aosta to come over, "This gold Louis is your reward for helping to ask, and the remaining 80 Felkin will be given to you when I can attend the party." ”
Aosta didn't expect that the development that was beaten up turned into a commission to collect money, and he was a little stunned for a while.
After a few seconds, he cautiously came to the wooden table, took the gold louis worth 20 fils, and said to Lumien: "I'm not sure when he will give me an answer, but no later than next Wednesday."
"I'm near the catacombs during the day, and I sleep here at night, and you can come to me at any time."
Lumian nodded with a smile as he lifted the silver dagger he was playing with and slammed it into Aosta's shoulder.
With the blood pouring out, Aosta took two steps back in terror, leaned against the wall, and shouted, "Don't kill me!"
"I'm not lying!"
Lumian picked up a glass vial on the wooden table and walked towards Aosta with a smile: "Don't worry, I'm going to kill you a long time ago."
Lumian said as he brought the empty glass vial to Esta's wound, letting the blood seep in.
In the process, he smiled at Aosta, "You have enough occult knowledge to know what blood means in other people's hands, don't lie to me." ”
"Cursed ......" Aosta didn't know whether to be glad that he didn't die on the spot, or to despair that the blood had fallen into the hands of this guy who was even more dangerous than Baron Brinell.
Lumian didn't say much, tightened the cap, pulled a strip of cloth through the room, threw it to Aosta, and said, "Bandage your wounds yourself." ”
He doesn't have a supernatural skill in curses, but he can test if expired blood can trigger Fallen Mercury's ability to exchange fate.
It doesn't matter if he can't, just convince Aosta that he's going to curse.
Glancing at Aosta, who was trying to stop the bleeding, Lumian casually asked, "What are you going to do with Baron Briniere?" ”
"With this gold louis, and a little money I have saved, they should be able to settle down for a week." Aosta smiled bitterly, "Forcing the debtors to death, they can't get a single Kope." ”