523. Stealthy footwork
This time, without arguing with Lann, Fauber automatically found a hotel.
She quickly packed up the small baggage she was carrying, and then helped Lan En slightly tidy up the straw bed covered with sheets.
It doesn't look like the lively and capable little girl before.
But Lan leaned against the door of the room, watching Fauber busy inside, and suddenly spoke.
"Are you still thinking about the boy you saw on the road?"
As soon as this sentence came out, Fu Bai, who was immersed in work in the room, suddenly froze his originally smooth and skillful movements.
She stiffened for a moment before turning her face towards Lan, who was leaning against the door.
If I tell you 'no,' will you be able to see through it all at once?"
The little girl's face was a little depressed.
Lann straightened up from the doorframe and walked into the room, looking at Fauber with an 'you should understand if I don't speak'.
"Okay, okay." Fauber covered his face helplessly and said in a sullen voice.
"That kid does make me a little concerned. Because he reminded me of when I first wandered to Kephalonia. ”
"Tired and hungry, my parents were taken by Poseidon to his coral palace, and I didn't know which would come first to the next meal or death until Kassandra brought me home begging down the street and fed me like a kitten."
The little girl's voice revealed memories and pain, and she had already suffered a lot in her short life.
"So." After a slight silence, Lan En was the first to speak. "What are you going to do? And about the boy, and the number of children in the city of Athens, who we have not seen, who are in the same situation as him? ”
"What?" Fauberger lifted his face from the palm of his hand and looked at Lan in astonishment.
"How? No, I can't do anything. I'm just one. A hillbilly girl from Kephalonia. ”
"Besides, you came to Athens to do something, didn't you? I can't add any extra hemp to you."
Fauber originally wanted to say, 'Cause trouble'.
But before she could finish, Lan En interrupted her with an emotionless complaint.
"Pull it down, what about the hammer you put here? Saying 'I can't do it' and 'I don't want to do it', the result must be that I will rush up when I see it, and I will see how strong your action is. ”
"Wait!" Fauberder seemed to hear something in Lan's tone, and her low expression was first puzzled, then surprised and delighted. "You mean you can help me?!"
"Don't even think about it." Lan ruthlessly rejected Fauber's teary-eyed eyes. "Tomorrow I will start teaching you [Hidden Footwork] and basic punches and feet, and you will find the trouble for yourself, and you will learn the ability to solve it yourself."
"Woohoo!" The little girl burst into cheers.
Kassandra was taken in by Marcos, and when she saw the wandering Fauber, she took the little girl in.
Fauber was taken in by Kassandra, and when she saw a child in Athens who was still struggling to survive, she wanted to help others.
It's a natural and beautiful kindness.
On the other hand, Lane also thinks of a great detective who is famous in his hometown world, and his Baker Street Orphan Scout Squad.
If the orphans wandering in the city can be gathered, they will be a group of high-quality intelligence gatherers.
Maybe about the 'Cult', about the 'Bloodline Worshippers', they can help with their own investigations.
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"It's a great place to train, but. . . How do I feel like I'm doing something to a cat pie? ”
Lann stood in the fisherman's quarter of Athens and muttered to himself, the second half of his sentence muffled by him, so that Fauber was looking at him with a puzzled look.
The Fisherman's Quarter, located in the middle of the city of Athens near the port of Piraeus, is named after a large shallow beach formed by the overflow of the sea, where people can catch fish as a supplement to their lives.
But because Athens was a large city, and because of the war, the consul Perikles also gathered the peasants and hunters outside Athens into the city, so that they were not ravaged by the Spartans.
As a result, the population of the city has swelled to more than 200,000, close to 300,000!
The sheer size of the population and the amount of household waste produced have made this already unclean water even dirtier and smellier.
As a result, the inhabitants had to install planks and slates on the water to isolate themselves from the stinking waters of the shoals. But as a result, the already modest building has become more crowded.
Some even share a wall with two households, and the narrowest street can only allow two people to cross sideways at the same time.
In the world of magic, the witchers of the cat school are very fond of this urban environment for apprenticeship.
They are also the only school of witchers to train apprentices in an urban environment.
On the side, Fauber was expectantly tying the laces of his sandals and shoelaces, and straightening his little leather wristbands.
"The roofs here are tiled, clay, stone, and there are no roofs at all, only a few wooden poles horizontally, all kinds of materials, all kinds of terrain, all kinds of situations."
Lan En clasped his hands on his chest and calmly recounted the training process he had formulated.
"I want you to run wild on this without any scruples, but you can't let the people living below find the clues, and then you will be considered to have completed the [Hidden Footwork]."
"Of course, if someone is caught jumping around on the roof of their house and wants to beat you up, then it is just a good time to practice their fists and feet, killing two birds with one stone."
As Lan En spoke blandly, the anticipation on Fauber's face froze and stiffened at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The witcher waved his hand at this: "Don't worry, it won't let you run wild at the beginning, you can start with a slow walk, running silently is just the ultimate goal." ”
Then Fauber's frozen face relaxed, and he breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Alright." Lan clapped his hands and said that the training was officially underway, "Now, climb up." ”
So the little girl jumped up lightly, and under the attainment of [Light Body Technique], she could already make the soles of her feet about one meter five off the ground by jumping high on the spot.
With a single reach, he hooked onto the edge of the wall made of clay mixed with gravel, and then flipped over.
Lan watched for a moment as Fauber cautiously stepped on the roof of someone else's house, avoiding the gaze of passers-by.
The first attempt made her step on the roof of a tiled house 'click'.
Thanks to the fact that the owner of the house seemed to have gone out to work, he was not immediately discovered.
And Fauber was also very self-aware, and quickly stepped on the top of the clay roof next to her, so that her steps were acceptable.
Seeing that the little girl's training was on track, Lan En turned and left the fisherman's quarter.
Fauber is training, but he has his own business to do.
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