It turns out that Grivo is indeed the head snake in the shield area, even at night, even if he has difficulty moving, even if the shield area is a labyrinth of ruins with few people, but the veteran still finds a path after path with infall, and finds a way out in all directions.

In the moonlight, Tails quietly bowed his head and followed him, pretending to be a wheelchair pusher for Grivo, watching Grivoy walk through the streets and alleys without hindrance, climbing over walls and even gesturing with different people living in various corners as if he were in his own backyard.

Tails kicked away a pebble at his feet, patted the dust off his body, and sighed slightly: he hadn't felt like this in a long time.

In particular, the shield area had become this bleak scene, which reminded him of the days long ago, when he was begging in the stinky ditches and alleys of Eternal Star City.

It wasn't until they came to a brick-and-stone bungalow that Grivo coughed and knocked on the door four times, two fast and two slow.

Tails was shocked to hear a crackling noise coming from the room.

Like someone fell out of bed?

There was footsteps behind the door, followed by an impatient female voice.

"For Haoyue's sake!"

"If you want to buy something, you can't ...... tomorrow morning"

Grivo, who was in a wheelchair, spoke in a dull voice:

"Kez, it's me. ”

The sound behind the door stopped.

As the wooden door opened, a sleepy-eyed face appeared in front of them.

It was a woman in her thirties, with long messy hair, looking condescendingly at Grivo, thinly dressed, her eyes misty, and the spring light looming on her chest.

She looked like she had just woken up, and looked at the two people in front of the door for some reason.

Tails politely looked away from her chest, which she couldn't hide, pressed the "who is she" doubt, and looked at Grivo.

Grivoy snorted coldly: "Tell me, Kez, you didn't drink...... Otherwise I'll have to wake you up. ”

He forgot to glance inside the room: "It's best not to have a girl who comes to you to 'measure'." ”

"I don't know who whom," the woman at the door rubbed her eyes, "It's not my fault that I'm popular with women, after all, I'm one of the few in the shield area...... Wait a minute. ”

After seeing the person in front of her clearly, the woman's face changed.

Her hand behind the door drooped, followed by the sound of metal falling to the ground.

"You're hurt......"

"I have a bad premonition, cripple—like we first met," the woman named Kez made a dejected face, but her gaze shifted to Grivo's wound wrapped in the cloth band, and her brow furrowed:

"Targeted again?"

Grivo nodded grimly.

"It's still the idiots in the bazaar in the Sword District. ”

The veteran nodded his wound and said disdainfully: "This time, they also brought the real guy." ”

Kez pressed against the door frame and scraped his face with the palm of his hand, as if to scrape away the sleepiness.

"Got it, I'll help you sew it," she sighed, looked around carefully, and her face was annoyed: "Longxiao City is in chaos like this, they still have the leisure to mess with you...... Fuck it. ”

Tails looked curiously at the foul-mouthed, seductively messy woman, contemplating her relationship with Grivo.

"And you, cripple, I've said it a hundred times, and now it's not as good as it was in the past," Ketz raised his head, looking helpless, and said bitterly: "Don't travel alone at night, at least bring ......"

"Hey," Grivo interrupted, his eyes glazed over:

"I've taken care of it – a little lesson for them. ”

Kez looked at Grivo's expression, annoyed and slightly frozen.

She asked tentatively:

"Your 'little lesson'?"

Grivo did not answer.

Tails remembered the slaughterhouse he had just seen, and winked helplessly at the corner where no one could see.

Oh, yes.

Small lessons.

Kezi seemed to understand what the other party meant, and then narrowed his eyes: "I understand." ”

"That's the start of the war. ”

"Never die. ”

Her face became solemn, and she looked down and pondered: "I'll go to Fallon right away, although the city is under martial law, but I think we can bring in a hundred good hands before dawn, and fifty more after dawn...... We can fight back against a ...... that we were caught off guard."

Tails' heart moved: What?

This woman also ...... "come out to mix"?

Grivo coughed and interjected, "Until then, I have something else. ”

"They wouldn't have thought that we would fight back so quickly, the patrol is busy ......" Kez muttered to himself about the gang fight, and was slightly stunned when he heard Grivo's words, and raised his eyes: "Something else?"

It was then that Kez noticed the boy behind Grivo.

She subconsciously tightened the thin clothes on her chest, looked at the nine-pointed star emblem on Tails' shoulder, and frowned suspiciously: "Wait, who is this kid? is a nobleman?"

"Him?"

"Meet Kez, Tyers," Grivo turned his head to look at Tails, and leisurely extended his hand to Kez, "the unluckiest tailor in the Northlands—the part-time doctor." ”

The veteran pointed to an ugly scar on his arm and sneered:

"The specialty is stitching. ”

Tails smiled awkwardly at Kez, "Hey, hello." ”

As a tailor and doctor, she was full of suspicion: "Okay?"

Grivo turned his head and sneered at himself, "Don't guess - he's the prince." ”

Kezi didn't react, and wondered, "Which prince?"

Grivo snorted.

"Which prince could it be?"

The man in the wheelchair grinned: "Where to go......"

"The ...... who is unlucky wherever you are"

"Prince of the Stars. ”

Tails coughed under his breath, pretending not to hear.

The next moment, the prince saw unsurprisingly: the doubt on Ketz's face turned to shock, and he froze in place.

————

In the room, Tails sat in a chair, nibbling on the unpalatable rye bread that had been left in his hand for about a quarter, and looked at the same simple and dilapidated house:

A bare wooden table, with lots of cloth piled on it, and cheap spice boxes for women, and many clothes hanging from the ceiling, on the floor, on the table, on the bed, cloth, and clothes piled everywhere, even underwear.

Needles and scissors, measuring tapes and coils are everywhere, and there is a mirror with three cracks in the wall, and a saw in the corner.

Behind the door sat a saber of hideous style - Tails knew what the metallic sound was when the woman let go.

Tails picked up the wooden bowl, took a sip of the smelly water, and looked at Ketz.

The identity of this woman is already unmistakable: a tailor.

Tails sighed secretly: But...... Doctor?

Sewing with one hand and sewing people with the other?

Heal and save people, tailor-made - he looked at the hideous saber behind the door - and maybe part-time gang conflict?

The prince glanced around at the style of clothing that he did not dare to flatter—and, what did the tailor want to saw?

With the most evil imagination, Tails sneered: No wonder the poor are like this.

On the other side of the room, dressed Kertz sat on a wooden bed supported by bricks with a broken leg, arguing in a low voice with Grivoy in front of him, but it couldn't hide from Tails' ears.

"Are you crazy?"

Ketz brushed aside a long ladies' coarse cloth skirt hanging on top of his head, and looked anxiously at the calm Grivo:

"It's not just westbound boulevard...... From the city gates, city heads, city walls, city gates between districts, to the bifurcated streets in key locations, they set up cards almost everywhere, and the patrols took the reward, worked overtime, night and day, and never relaxed. ”

"It is said that even a place as far away as the crossing of the Twilight River is no exception. ”

Grivo's eyes narrowed slightly: "Yes." ”

Kertz exhaled and unconsciously glanced at Tails, who was still eating.

"For decades, apart from the collection of taxes, neither the shield nor the hammer district cared about it, and even a murder could not work the big men," the seamstress snapped her fingers and told Grivo about the stakes:

"But today, not only the patrol, but even those white-edged guards have come to the door, not to mention the places where the spear area and the bow area are closely related to the nobles and riches, even in our hammer district, dozens of homes on the crazy street have been searched, and even the bottom of the dancing girl's panties has been spared, until ten o'clock in the evening, and I heard that it will continue in the morning. ”

Kez slapped him hard, hooked one leg very indecently, pushed his chest on top of his whim, and let the other leg sway freely under the bed.

She gritted her teeth, not seeing the slightest sense of weakness in the woman: "This is a big event, Grivo, an absolute big event, comparable to the ...... six years ago"

Grivo gave a sarcastic smile.

Tails took a bite of the bread and somehow remembered Lady Ginny from a long time ago.

In contrast, the seamstress in front of her was obviously much rude, but she had the same unpretentious sense of neatness as Jenny.

But......

With the trickiness of Tails' identity, since Grivo can bring himself to her without hesitation......

On the other side, Kez exhaled painfully, "During the day, you heard how the Meteorites threatened us, but not just us. ”

She stretched out her finger in a thoughtful voice, trying to make the other party understand the seriousness of the matter: "Spear area, sword area, bow area, almost every land snake or person with prestige in the territory has been greeted, if anyone is implicated in it, it is the enemy of Longxiao City." ”

Grivo sneered: "They, those doglegs can also represent Longxiao City?"

"No, you don't know, the Order Department has also released words through several order officers......" Ketz cleared his throat and glanced over to see that Tails was still eating and drinking on his own, seemingly unaware of them.

Only then did she lower her voice and say:

"They said that whoever had news of the prince and the whereabouts of the prince would get the friendship of the Order Hall and the patrols—the kind that can turn a blind eye to murder in the streets—and even get three thousand gold coins if they help them find the prince. ”

Kez gritted his teeth, his facial features tangled, and he stretched out three fingers tremblingly.

At that moment, the motionless Grevo was finally moved, and his only remaining eyes were bigger than pigeon eggs!

Tails frowned slightly.

Grivo looked up suddenly: "Three, three thousand?"

The seamstress smashed her mouth and gestured in the direction of Tails, and a hint of greed and charm inadvertently flowed from her sparkling eyes:

"Thinking about taking a look?"

After a second, Grivo desperately retracted his jaw, which was about to fall to the ground, and coughed unnaturally.

"Hmph," said the old soldier, awe-inspiringly.

"Do I look like a money junkie, like one of those villains who are tempted by a few gold coins?"

Ketz's smile fell, and she looked at him with a complicated expression.

Grivo was a little embarrassed by the woman's eyes, turned his face away, and said solemnly: "We're going to send him out, that's all." ”

Hearing this, Tails grinded his lips with his upper teeth, feeling strange.

Kez let out a sigh of relief, a look of pity and hesitation on his face that went back and forth.

Both were silent for a moment, and Tails took the opportunity to force himself to swallow the last bite of unpalatable bread.

"They're going to get suspicious of coming here very quickly. ”

The seamstress sat down on her bed and folded her arms worriedly: "Although the shield area is not easy to search, it will come sooner or later...... Ruined and disorganized, is there a better hiding place than this?"

Grivo raised his head, his eyebrows tangled: "So we have to send him out as soon as possible." ”

Kezi sighed when he heard this: "This is a deal that will cost the entire shield and hammer districts, you better have a good reason." ”

Grivo was silent for a few seconds.

"I want to send him out. ”

He said lightly: "That's the reason. ”

Ketz was slightly stunned.

The woman's expression was heavy, and she looked at Grivo silently.

Griveo sat in his wheelchair and pursed his lips.

"God," after a while, Ketz covered his face in pain and lay down on the bed, "I'll be put on the gallows by you sooner or later, cripple." ”

"yes, the work of the gallows," Grivo snorted coldly, "and what are you doing?"

Kez pulled the quilt over, trembling slightly in an exaggerated manner, and let out a weak cry.

Tails quietly raised his eyes, observing the exit from the room.

Three seconds later.

"Forget it," said Ketz, who lifted the quilt and sat up with difficulty, stretched out his finger in resentment, and pointed at Grivo with a trembling voice: "I'll tell you, dead lame......"

"From now on......"

The poor seamstress had a sad look on her face, as if her life had ended:

"I'm really in love with the gallows!"

————

"What's the use of here, change your ugly clothes first," Ketz looked at Tails in front of him with disgust, looking at his gray face combined with gorgeous clothes and accessories, "It's telling everyone that you're that damn prince." ”

Tails shrugged his shoulders, ignoring the other man's malice, and moved away from a strange women's summer dress, grabbing a set of shabby and ugly linen clothes.

He took off the intricate leather belt and replaced it with the most rudimentary and cheap coarse cloth belt, kicked off the lizardskin boots, put on a linen garment that he had not touched for a long time, and took a pair of scissors and cut his hair into a bird's nest.

Not only that, but Tails also wrapped the dagger with the words "The king does not respect blood" around and around the inferior black cloth until he could not see his true face, and then flattened the map of the Fuxing Palace, stuffed it into the middle layer of his clothes with the black cloth, and prepared to use his rotten needle and thread to sew it as hard as he could.

As for the Blood Fang Bracelet left to him by the Queen of Night, he simply put it on his wrist and disguised it as an animal tooth ornament.

Finally, Tails finished changing his costume according to the standards of the beggar era.

He walked over to the mirror and saw a strange teenager inside.

Tails nodded in satisfaction, feeling that he looked like a normal suburban guy.

"How? Will this work?"

However, when Tails turned his head to look at Grivo and Kez, who were groaning......

"Alas," Grivo, who was in a wheelchair, sighed and propped his forehead:

"Is there any way to improve it?"

Tails was stunned.

"Of course," Kertz looked at the coarse linen Tails, his angular face full of sorrow, "I have a way to make sure that even his mother doesn't recognize him." ”

Grivo's eyes lit up.

But Ketz pointed to the saber behind the door, and her next sentence darkened the veteran's eyes again:

"Take this, cut off his whole face. ”

Tails opened his mouth: "Huh?"

In Tails' stunned gaze, Ketz sighed and shook his head, and looked at Tails with his arms crossed: "His skin is too tender and too white, and he looks like a pampered nobleman, and his height is not as good as a normal Northland guy...... Whatever you wear will be recognized. ”

The woman shook her head bitterly: "Fooling out of the city or something......"

All three sighed at the same time.

"The dung truck," Grivoy said with a frown, something that surprised Tails, "call 'Shitman' Anger, hide him in the manure that is carried out every day, and follow the cart out of town." ”

Manure trucks?

Hide in......

What?

Tails' eyebrows jumped: "Wait, ...... you say"

Grivori ignored him: "Just find a reed or woodpole so he can breathe......"

But thankfully, Kez's listless next sentence made him soften his color a little.

"No, Ange was locked up again today. ”

Grivo's color tightened, but he then gritted his teeth and said:

"Then look for Fallon, they have to carry the manure. ”

"Gotta stuff him in!"

Tails' face turned very unsightly again.

But Kez shook his head again.

"Do you know how the 'man' got in?"

The seamstress spread her hands: "When Anger drove out of the city for the sixth time today, the patrol at the city gate pinched his nose and stabbed barrel after barrel with his sword, and found ten packs of smuggled crystals hidden in his excrement. ”

It took Grevo a few seconds to digest the message of this sentence.

"How did they ......?"

He first glared in surprise, then slapped his thigh angrily: "." ”

Kezi scratched his chest indifferently and shook his head: "Hide the dung truck and go out of the city directly? ”

"It's a pity. Tails sighed with feigned regret and secretly patted himself on the chest.

As if reading his mind, Kez squinted at him and snorted disdainfully.

Tails smiled embarrassedly, raised his hand, and changed the subject, "There's no other way?"

Both the wheelchair and the tailor groaned and fell silent.

In a matter of seconds, Grivo's face turned from blue to white, and then from white to red.

Finally, Grivoy punched the table!

"There is no choice," the veteran said decisively, "take the black path." ”

Tails wondered: Black Path?

Ketz's eyes widened:

"Again?"

The seamstress shook her head resolutely: "No, half of the broken tunnel has collapsed...... Remember last time, we almost died in it for three hundred gold coins......"

"There's only one way," Grivo interrupted with a determined look in his eyes, "There's no other way." ”

Kez looked at him solemnly.

After a moment, her eyes softened and she turned away.

"I understand, I'm going to find someone. ”

But Ketts turned halfway and frowned again:

"Here's the problem: from today, the patrol has also set up sentry posts in the shield area. ”

Grivo's eyes sharpened: "Where?"

Ketz looked embarrassed: "It's not far from the Black Path, and we can't avoid it—it's said to be the place where King Nunn died, and it feels like it's going to be under strict surveillance. ”

Tails clearly saw that Grivo's face changed sharply:

"it, those cubs dare to reach out to the shield after collecting oil and water......"

Kez shrugged his shoulders and scratched his neck: "'White Pig' Peak is in charge of that sentry post, I gave him six copper coins, and he told me the truth: the Order Hall doesn't want to come either, no one wants to break the tacit understanding, but this is the order of Nicolai the Starbreaker." ”

Grivo was stunned: "Who?"

Kezi smiled ugly, with a helpless look: "You rejected him in front of so many people during the day, and called him a 'star', remember—if it weren't for the fact that he owes you a favor, that madman would have caught you a long time ago." ”

"I guess...... This is the retribution for your bad mouth?"

Grivo slapped his thigh angrily:

"Fuck the starfucker! disgusting dead face, shameless doglegs, he deserves to lick his balls for the rest of his life and won't be promoted to knighthood!"

Kez folded his arms and pushed the majesty of her chest upward, then pressed his arms comfortably to his ribs and looked at Grivoy like a child.

Tails frowned and listened to them talking disrespectfully behind their backs, one of the famous five generals, the captain of the Grand Duke's personal guard of Longxiao City, His Excellency Lord Nicolais, and nodded thoughtfully.

After a few seconds, Grivo, who had regained his composure, muttered:

"Can we buy Peak, I remember he's from the Shield District?"

Ketz shook his head and said, "There are still a dozen people under Peak, three thousand gold coins, I can guarantee that they remember the portrait of the prince more than their own mother-in-law - not everyone dreams of going to the gallows like me." ”

She glanced at Grivoy with disdain, "Not everyone treats money like you ......"

"Dung, by the way," Grivo jerked his head up, "get through the dung truck?"

Tails felt a pang in his heart again.

"Can't you put something other than in your head?"

Kétz looked at Grivoy with a look of disdain, and saved the frightened prince from the fate of hiding and urine:

"Do you believe that you drive a dung truck to collect manure on the edge of an uninhabited cliff?"

Grivo lowered his head again and sighed deeply.

"Is there any way to get past and get close to the Black Path?"

Tails' face darkened.

No way.

If that doesn't work......

Right now.

Bang!

Grivoy slapped the table.

"Kez ......"

The man in the wheelchair scratched his chin: "You just said ...... This guy's skin is too white, too short in height or something......"

Kezi was stunned: "Huh?"

Tails also looked puzzled.

The next moment, Grivo's eyes lit up, he looked up and reached out, subconsciously patted Kez, and inadvertently patted her breasts.

The puzzled Kezi seemed to be accustomed to it, without the slightest resentment of being violated, she followed the other party's gaze to the ceiling, and then froze.

Following the eyes of the two, Tails, who didn't know why, also slowly raised his head and looked at the top of his head.

That......

Is that......

Tails was shocked in his heart, and his face turned pale!

An ominous premonition suddenly hit my heart.

He squeezed out a desperate smile, looked at the two Northlanders, and twitched his face: "Mr. Grivo, Ms. Kez, you ...... What are you thinking?"

The next moment, Grivoy and Kezziqi lowered their heads and turned to Tails.

The man and the woman smiled weirdly together.

"Does it work?" said Grivo with a sneer.

"We'll know. "This is Ketz with a satisfied expression.

The atmosphere in the room changed.

Tails' heart was beating faster and faster.

For the first time, he somewhat regretted escaping Valhalla.

This......

This, this, this......

"My dear, respectful, beautiful prince," the seamstress reached out and tore off the top of her head, picked up a pair of scissors, and "clicked" the scissors, and smiled maliciously: "The dung truck or this ......"

"Which one do you choose?"

Time seemed to stand still for a long time.

Tails stared blankly at the clothes in Kez's hands.

That......

Is that......

He blinked, his eyes fixed on Kez's hand, and he felt trembling all over.

The sin of the prison river, which can only appear at the moment of life and death in the body, frantically surged up to the limbs.

I saw the hand of the seamstress Kertz.

That's a ......

Crumpled ......

Women's maxi dresses.

(End of chapter)