Chapter 24: The Key (Asking for a Monthly Pass for the Last Three Days)
Franka finished the magic mirror divination, looked at Jana's answer just now, and began to interpret: "Jana, that sentence is normally dangerous, but it is within the range of what we can bear, be careful, there should be no problem." ”
Jian Na was slightly surprised and said: "I thought that the divination results would be very clear, who knows, just one sentence will have to correspond to such a long list of interpretations, this is very clear." ”
Franka smiled and emphasized: "If you go to the divination club in the memorial parish and find those amateurs, they will be more relevant, so that they can make an interpretation in their favor after the results are available, have you not found someone to do divination before?" ”
Jane nodded calmly, it costs a lot of money to do a divination.
Franka's eyes rolled slightly, as if she was thinking, and said: "You can subscribe to "Psychics", "Lotus", "Upanishads", and "The Veil of Secrets", one of these magazines, although they all have a lot of problems and errors in specific applications, but a lot of basic knowledge about the occult is still quite good. ”
"Ah yes, Charles buys these magazines a lot, you can go, uh, I'll borrow them for you."
"Okay." Jane had only heard of those occult magazines before, and had never bought them.
After obtaining a fairly good divination result, the two of them, who had inspected the route and environment during the day, soon arrived at the deep valley under the cover of night.
At the entrance to the quarry, the janitor, in his forties, was cowered in a rock-natural hut, with his back against the mountain wall, covered with dirty, old, thin felt cloth, tilting his head, and sleeping soundly.
In the dark shadow on his side, a slender and smooth palm suddenly stretched out, covering his mouth with a white handkerchief.
The janitor didn't struggle, just a few seconds from a deep sleep, into a coma, wearing a black hooded Franca, out of the shadows, sighed: "The effect of the drug of the Blessing Society is really good, so I saved a lot of trouble." ”
For this operation, she specifically sought out Lumian and borrowed the bottle of ecstasy obtained from Rentas.
"Isn't it good to just knock you out?" Jaanna said she couldn't understand it.
"It's not impossible." Franka casually explained: "But that will leave traces, you can't do a good job of disguising him as if he is still asleep, and this mission has a lot of bounty hunters, and private investigators are involved, it should be more than us who are eyeing this quarry, if there is a better way, when dealing with the details, it is better to be careful than to leave hidden dangers." ”
Jana, who had lived in the botanical garden and market area for many years, probably understood what Franca meant, and asked rhetorically while thinking about it: "Are you worried that in the dead of night, those bounty hunters and private investigators will have bad thoughts when they find out about us and enter the quarry first?" ”
Franka nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, many bounty hunters and private investigators will seamlessly switch to robbers, robbers, and murderers depending on the time, environment, and surrounding situation. ”
"They are all taking risks to make money, not to uphold justice, since there are no clues in this task for the time being, and the current environment is suitable, by the way, grab their peers, and kill people, which is very in line with their network, anyway, here, no one else, of course, with our strength, there is no need to be afraid, those bounty hunters and private detectives, but what if they make similar mistakes in other things or more dangerous situations? So, from the very beginning, make it a habit. ”
What Franca didn't say was that as a woman, there is a high probability that she will suffer more.
Jane nodded slowly, agreeing with the reason, she had seen a criminal who killed an old man who lived alone for 5 Feldin.
Franka immediately smiled and teased: "Do you want me to knock him out directly, do you want to retaliate for him asking you in the morning if you want to take over the business?" ”
", am I that stingy?" Jane couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth.
Whether it was the years when she helped her mother do chores, or the time when she went to the local singer in the market area, she was asked if she wanted to take over the street girl's business so many times that she was numb, and she would be a little angry, but not much.
In order to prove her open-mindedness, Jaina exhaled and said, "Your use of that kind of drug against others will remind me of what happened to me." ”
She was also stunned and almost became a victim of disappearance, but luckily she met Lumian.
Franka snorted: "I can understand your feelings, but since you have embarked on the path of God and plan to become stronger, after that, you will inevitably have to use various means to deal with the enemy, and you can't give up because you are a little repulsed in your heart, a better choice." ”
Janena knew that Franca had a point, but she couldn't help but ask, "Can't an extraordinary person live an ordinary and quiet life without getting involved in all kinds of strife and battles on the premise of protecting his family and friends?" ”
"In the past, it was possible, but now it's hard to get harder and harder until there's no possibility." Franka said with a sigh.
Jane Na was silent for a moment and said, "In the future, in the future in the long future, can it be realistic?" ”
Franca glanced at the sleeping janitor and said, "The big man told me that a similar life would have to wait until the end of the Fifth Age, the beginning of the Sixth Age, and if there is still a Sixth Age, endure the Sixth Age." ”
Jian Na thought about this for a moment, and suddenly, laughed at herself: "Actually, I also know that kind of life, just a dream, it is impossible to achieve, at least, for me, it is impossible to achieve, with extraordinary ability, after completing another assassination, and then encountering unfair things, and seeing my family and friends, become unlucky, I will definitely want to use it, extraordinary ability to do something to solve those problems that the law and the police can't solve." ”
"That's right." Franka bowed her head slightly.
She was able to digest Assassin and Instigator potions, not by dressing up like this, nor by helping her friends in an instigated way.
The two didn't talk any further, Franka bent down and picked up the brass-colored keys from the janitor, just look at one door, why are there so many keys? His family? Franka grunted as she walked out of the hut.
Walk to the door of the deep valley quarry and try the keys one by one.
At the end of the trial, she was shocked and suspicious and said to herself that it was not right.
Isn't that right? Jaina didn't expect that there would be such a possibility, there was no key to open the entrance to the deep valley quarry, so what kind of door did it see.
Half teaching, half thinking, "Maybe this set of keys is a ghost, and the real key is hidden somewhere else." ”
She then said to Jane, "You search the surroundings, and I'll take a look at the janitor." ”
Jane had no objection, relying on her dark vision, starting from the hut and gradually searching the nearby grass and rock peaks.
Franka crouched down next to the janitor again, groping his body from top to bottom.
When she reached the crotch, she flexed her fingers, flicked them heavily, and whispered with a sneer: "Jaanna is not stingy, I am stingy." ”
After the search, the two met at the heavy wooden door, and shook their heads at the same time, indicating that there was no gain.
Franka sighed and said, "This quarry is really a bit of a problem, that guy is really a janitor, only responsible for guarding the door, and he can't open the door." ”
"Do you want to go in?" Jaanna hesitated and asked, "I'll try again." ”
Franka reached for her right hand at the brass lock embedded in the heavy wooden door, and a dense layer of hoarfrost emerged from her palm, poured into the keyhole, filling it up, and the hoarfrost continued to accumulate and fold until it finally turned into ice.
Franka used her ability to pull out the ice cube and get a transparent key, how else can she do this?
Jane was amazed and yearning.
Sensing her gaze, Franka said with a hint of meaning, "I have a friend, I really have a friend who is very good at picking locks, and we discussed how to use the witch's power to pick locks. ”
Once the ice cube was firmer, Franka inserted it back into the keyhole and twisted it gently.
The heavy wooden door opened in Kacha's voice, and Franka withdrew the ice key, letting it melt away, erasing all traces.
Before entering the quarry of the deep valley, the witch hung the brass keys back on the janitor's waist and adjusted his posture to make him look more like he was asleep.
With all this done, Franka took out the money pouch full of coins and took out a thick, iron-colored ring covered with tiny spikes.
"Day, this is the Ring of Punishment I mentioned earlier, and you will wear it today! I have already talked about how to use it and what are the contraindications, but there is only one thing you need to remember, you can't use it more than three times in an hour, and when the action is over, take it off and put it back in this coin purse. ”
"Okay." Jaina stretched out her left hand and let Franka put the iron-colored ring on her middle finger in a skin-to-skin contact.
Franka was inexplicably happy, pulled her hood, pushed open the wooden door, and walked into the deep valley quarry, and when Jaina followed, she closed the wooden door with her backhand, keeping it locked.
As a result, it is almost impossible to find out from the outside world that anyone has entered the quarry.
Franka and Jana, both Assassins with dark vision, were not equipped with carbide lamps, but they could easily see the scene behind the door: it was a very dilapidated tunnel, surrounded by moss, and crisscrossed by cracks in the rock walls above, as if a piece could fall at any moment.
Shortly along the tunnel, there was no essential difference between a cavern and the underground ones.
Janena and Franka searched carefully for nearly thirty minutes, turning around the already small collapsed area, and found no suspicious details.
"I think there's a big problem here." Returning closer to the tunnel, Franka whispered.
The more there is no anomaly, the more the janitor doesn't have a door key, which seems weird.
Jane Na thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it's just that someone is afraid that someone will break into here and the mine will collapse, so they will simply take the key, and the duty of the janitor is only to intercept it, not to open the door." ”
Franka was about to say something when she suddenly heard a voice from Kacha, which was the sound of the gate of the deep valley quarry being opened, and after Franka and Janna looked at each other, they immediately hid in a hidden place not far from the exit of the tunnel.
The quarry gate slowly opened, and a little blue calcium carbide light shone in, dispelling the darkness inside the tunnel.
Franka and Jane peeked over and saw a man in a gray robe, with a white apron that ancient stonemasons used to tie around his waist, and a hood hanging from the back of his neck.
This is the standard dress for ascetics or monks of the Church of the God of Steam and Machines.
The monk carried a glowing calcium carbide lamp, short black hair, and a large number of iron-gray gears, screws, and bullet yellow around his left eye, which together supported an emerald crystal prosthetic eye.