Chapter 12: Breeze Ballroom (Asking for Double Commuter Pass)
Lumian didn't look back, didn't turn around, and still walked towards the stop sign of the public carriage.
He looked casually to the left and right, his gaze falling on the glass window of a nearby café.
There he was seen in a dark jacket, and not too far away was a man in a canvas tunic and a peaked cap.
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As Lumien retracted his gaze, he suddenly quickened his pace, as if he were about to chase the two-story carriage that was about to leave the platform.
Not surprisingly, he felt the man in the blue cap trot.
The carriage turned from the static to the end of the street, and Lumian "chased" hopelessly, and suddenly stopped where it was.
Leaning through the window of the street shop, Lumian saw the man in the cap stop in a bit of embarrassment, and half-turned to look at the dance hall opposite.
Nodding imperceptibly, Lumian wandered past the bus stop sign and walked on, into a secluded alley cut off by barricades.
The man in the cap hurried to follow, climbing over the low, dilapidated barricade, but Lumian's back was no longer visible.
The target he was following disappeared into the alley as if out of thin air.
Just as the man in the cap tried to chase forward, Lumian, who had cowered into the corner of the barricade, pounced like a tiger, pressed his hands on his shoulders, and pulled his body back to his knees.
Bang!
Lumian's knee hit the waist of a man in a peaked cap, and the pain made his face twist and his legs could no longer support him.
With a thud, the man in the cap fell to the ground, stirring up a lot of dust.
Lumian half-crouched down, grabbed the back of the stalker's head, and said in a low voice, "Who told you to follow me?" ”
"I didn't! I'm just taking a shortcut! The man in the cap pleaded out.
Lumian laughed, grabbed his head, and slammed it into the ground.
In the thud, the man in the cap screamed in pain and got stuck in his throat, his forehead was blue and swollen, stained with blood.
"Who told you to stalk me?" Lumian repeats the question.
The man in the cap was very wronged
"I'm not following you! I don't even know you! ”
"Okay." Lumian let go of his right hand.
In the next second, he used his palm as a knife and slashed hard behind the stalker's ear.
The man with the cap fainted without even snorting.
Lumian then lifted him up and thoughtfully lowered his hat to cover his closed eyes.
Then, like a drunken friend, he walked out of the alley and turned the corner.
There is an entrance to the underworld.
The reason why Lumian "waited" the stalker in the alley just now was to wait for something to move underground, and the environment was "peaceful" enough.
When the man in the cap woke up, it was dark in front of him, and only a little light shimmered in the distance, making the outline of the things around him barely appear.
The clanging sound reached his ears through layers of barriers, from far to near, and then quickly away.
As a native of the Honest People Market District, he was no stranger to such scenes, suspecting that he had been taken underground, and that the faint light here came from where the faint light came from in the "street" next door.
Seeing that the stalker fell silent and did not answer immediately, Lumian knew that his mental defenses had been shaken, so he added
"And I'll go through the streets underground and move to other districts."
"Yes, it's Baron Brienelle!"
This made him sure that the man in the cap was not lying, after all, if he really wanted to lie, it was impossible to pick this kind of mastermind behind the scenes that Lumian himself could not even think of and completely incomprehensible.
Lumian frowned and asked:
"Why is he following me?"
"I don't know." The man in the cap replied tremblingly, "He just asked me to follow you and see where you went." ’
Lumien thought for a few seconds and said:
"Where is Baron Brignier now?"
"If nothing else, he's usually in the Breeze Ballroom on Market Avenue." The man in the cap struggled to see Lumian's face clearly, but failed because the light was too dim.
Breeze Ballroom?
Lumien has a certain impression of the iconic buildings in the Candid Market area.
This is the harvest of his "hanging out" everywhere yesterday.
Market Avenue refers to the main road from the Honest Man's Market to the Suhit Steam Train Station, which is about two kilometers long, and the Breeze Ballroom is close to the market area, and the statue at the entrance is quite distinctive, so that people will not forget it when they see it.
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After a few moments, Lumian curled the corners of his mouth and said to the stalker:
"Take me there, I'd like to talk to Baron Briniere."
The man in the cap breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that his life had been saved.
As for getting to the Breeze Ballroom, who has the upper hand and who was "accidental" has nothing to do with him.
The Breeze Ballroom is located on the bottom two floors of an earthy building, with an attached café on the second floor and a lively ballroom on the first floor, but it has just opened its doors and there are no customers.
At its doorway stands a white spherical statue of numerous skulls, on which is written in the Indisian language: "Here they sleep, waiting for happiness and hope." (Note 1)
Lumian glanced at it, followed the "Leader" around the statue, and came to the door of the ballroom.
There stood two gangsters in white shirts and black jackets, who pressed their right hands to their waists at the same time and asked the man in the cap, "Missili, who is he?" ”
"He, he's coming to Baron Brignier." Missili replied with a slight stammer.
"It is up to Baron Brienel to decide whether or not to see me, not you.
"Do you want to bear his wrath?"
After a moment's hesitation, one of the thugs turned and entered the ballroom.
While waiting, Lumian said to the stalker named Missili rather relaxedly:
Why is there such an inscription on such a statue, which does not match the ballroom at all? ”
Of course, that's cool.
Missiri looked at Lumien, who was smiling, and replied with a shudder: "This was originally the attached cemetery of the church of St. Robles, but later, when the bones were brought to the catacombs, the land was vacated, and later, the house was repaired.
"The bones are purified, or they're ashes. But when we bought it, the Savoyards still felt that it was too eerie, so we had to find someone to get such a statue of death and an inscription representing the deceased, to appease the bones that might exist in the ground and had not been dug up.
Lumian was amused.
At this moment, the thug just now walked out and said to Lumien
"Baron Briniere told you to go to the café on the second floor."
"Okay." With his head held high and his chest puffed out, Lumien stepped into the Breeze Ballroom.
The first thing that struck him was the balustraded dance floor and the half-height wooden platform in front of him for singing, followed by the messy seats around him and the smell of perfume and fat powder wafting through the air.
Missiri thought about it, but still followed behind Lumian.
He felt that no matter what, he had to report to the baron in person, otherwise he might also end up missing in the underworld.
Going up to the second floor, Lumien saw the "gentleman" he had met last night.
He was in his thirties, dressed in a black suit made of tweed, with brown hair that seemed to be naturally curly, brown eyes with a confident smile, and deep contours.
Baron Brinell put down his coffee, picked up his mahogany pipe in the palm of his diamond ring and said:
"What do you want to drink?"
He behaved quite politely and politely.
Lumian glanced at the four gangsters who had pressed their hands to their waists at the same time, and said to Baron Brinnel
"Why did you send someone to follow me?"
Baron Brinnel smiled and admitted frankly:
"I met you last night in White Coat Street, and today I found you near the street and I think you are more and more familiar, so I asked Missili to follow and confirm what you want to do in the market area.
"You went to Aosta last night, right?"
"He wants to scam me out of money." Lumian replied, and instead asked, "Why do you think I'm familiar?" ”
"In the eyes of experienced people like us, you can hardly be called a disguise.
"When we start to doubt and associate, it's natural to recognize you, Lumian. Lee, a wanted criminal worth 3,000 Filkin. ”
My bounty is only 3,000 Filkin? Lumien's first reaction was confusion.
As the source of the time loop in the village of Cordu, how could the official bounty amount be lower than that of Father Benparish and Lady Pualis?
"But you can get 500 Felkin just by providing your leads." Baron Brinnel smiled, "Young man, what you need is a copy of Men's Aesthetics, don't be ashamed, in Trier, it is a normal thing for men to wear makeup, which helps you hide your true looks." ”
This "gentleman" also hooked his eyes and puffed on the powder.
Lumien smiled:
"You're trying to get me in exchange for a bounty?"
Note 1: Quoted from the inscription at the entrance of the Victorian Parisian Breeze Ballroom, I changed the statue. The dance hall was built on the site of the cemetery, and the stones left behind after the relocation of the cemetery were used.
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PS: Ask for a double monthly pass~