Volume 1 Crime and Punishment Chapter 59 Dancing Shoes

The carriage slowly slowed down and stopped in front of the familiar city of Maryland, the glorious city of Maryland in the past now looks dilapidated under the white moonlight, it is late at night, but the gate of Maryland is still wide open, the broken and dilapidated city wall is still burning with unextinguished flames, the blood of the guards has flowed from the city head to the ground, the huge city gate of Maryland has been almost completely broken, leaning obliquely against the city wall, the city gate is full of hideous holes, there is a hole straight through the center of the city gate symbolizes Corvo's huge bauhinia, the blooming bauhinia is now only a few petals。

It is not difficult to imagine what fierce battles broke out in this city not long ago, Maryland is the strongest city within a radius of 100 miles, the people who fled from Wilhorn must have chosen to stay here to rest, and the leader of the burial army must not let go of such a city with both attack and defense, looking at the dried blood stains on the city wall, the burial army should have passed here for some time.

The most common thing on this road is the fleeing refugees, the long line of families and mouths on the road is not spacious and does not dare to stop, as if the funeral army is chasing behind them, but the fact is that this is the case, every refugee's face is full of numbness after experiencing despair, whenever a refugee team sees the carriage of the three people going south, they will show a frightened expression, but despite this, they are just covering the eyes of young children, but no one has ever come forward to dissuade them.

The carriage stopped for a moment, and then headed towards the city of Maryland, when the carriage traveled through the black hole of the city wall, Luo Mu could even hear the sound of the horse's hooves and wheels crushing the liquid, Maryland, who had experienced such a cruel war, it was not difficult to imagine what the liquid on the ground of this passage was at this time.

The carriage walked out of the passage, it was still dark in front of him, Luo Mu raised his body slightly, and looked up, at this moment, Maryland was no longer prosperous, and the streets and houses that were very negative in the memory were full of devastation at this time, except for the crackling sound of the unextinguished flame burning, and the blood stains that could be seen everywhere on both sides of the road, and then there were one or two low wails of the wounded from unknown places.

Bank drove the carriage on, the three of them had planned to settle down here tonight, but Bank now looked at the ruined city in front of him and even doubted whether he could find a complete house for the three of them to rest for a while, the carriage walked on the moonlit street, and the sound of the horse's hooves and the bluestone pavement was particularly harsh in the night.

Suddenly, the carriage stopped, and Bank looked ahead with a smile on his face, and there were more than a dozen people in coarse cloth clothes standing on the road in front of him, all of whom had a white cloth towel around their necks and a rough mask on their faces, but what surprised Bank the most was that it was a woman standing in front of the dozen or so stout men.

It is not surprising that Bank is not surprised by their appearance, now that there is war raging in Corvo, it may be a good choice to take this opportunity to go up the mountain to become bandits, but judging from the dress of these people, this group of robbers is well-disciplined and has a uniform dress, it should not be a poor person who has been forced to leave the house halfway, and it should be a few days to see them stand skillfully in this business.

The woman at the head didn't say anything, and a big man next to her took two steps forward, waved the knife in his hand and said, "Leave the food and valuable items, and let you live" But a smile appeared on Bank's face, although Banker was the worst of the three, but that was only compared to Luo Mu and Miao Yun, two monsters, in Bank's field of vision, it didn't even take a minute for him to clean up these so-called robbers who were only stronger than ordinary people.

Luo Mu was too lazy to make a sound, he kept looking at the information from Igniz in the carriage, trying to find out Igniz's next move, and Miao Yun didn't want to leave Luo Mu a step, she wrapped her hands around Luo Mu's waist, put her head on Luo Mu's lap and slept soundly, and even saw a crystal saliva flowing from Miao Yun's mouth.

Banker let go of the reins, clasped his hands around him, and said mockingly, "You guys are really old-fashioned, what age are you still like this, robbers have to think about keeping pace with the times," the big man waved his knife and shouted, "What did you say?" With that, he shook his hand fiercely and was about to rush towards Bank, but the woman in charge reached out to stop the big man.

The woman observed Bank slightly for a moment and said, "The white scarf has a good reputation in this ten miles radius, looking at your appearance, it should be from afar, and it is understandable not to understand, I promise here, you leave food and coins behind, we will definitely not hurt a single hair of you" The woman's voice was very crisp, even though it was covered by the mask, it could still look extremely beautiful, Bank pouted helplessly, and stood up to teach these robbers a lesson, but Bank was just about to get out of the carriage, Luo Mu's voice suddenly came from the carriage, Luo Mu didn't know why his voice was extremely hoarse at the moment, and he also seemed to be deliberately saying "go" in a strange tone

Hearing this, Bank stopped, he looked back at the carriage a little strangely, but at this moment, the curtain of the carriage was open, and Bank couldn't see Luo Mu's face, he sat back with some disappointment, and muttered in a low voice, "I thought I could finally move my muscles and bones, and my body would fall apart every day when I sat here."

But what Bank didn't know was that Luo Mu had already thrown aside the information in his hand in the carriage, Luo Mu was trembling violently, every part of his body was tense, as if he had turned into steel, this strange behavior disturbed Miao Yun to wake up slowly, Miao Yun rubbed his eyes sleepily and looked at Luo Mu, and asked a little strangely, "What's wrong?" Even Ash was awakened by Luo Mu's nervous nerves, and poked his head out of his chest and glanced at Luo Mu strangely.

Luo Mu bit his lip tightly and did not answer, Bank's eyes outside the carriage lit up with a white light slightly, and several white bands of light visible to the naked eye scattered out from Bank's body, fluttering beside Bank, the big man who spoke just now exclaimed, "Soul Master?" The dozens of robbers took a big step back in unison, the strength of the Soul Master has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and no matter how powerful the robbers are, they dare not go to trouble the Soul Master.

Bank said with some disappointment, "Our boss let me go, count you lucky, get out of the way" More than a dozen robbers hurriedly dispersed to both sides, making way for the carriage, the carriage slowly walked forward, and the woman who was the leader also walked to the side with the dozen big men, just when the carriage passed in front of the woman, the curtain of the side window of the carriage slightly lifted a very small angle, Luo Mu glanced at the woman very quickly, and hurriedly put down the curtain.

The carriage quickly passed the gang of robbers and moved forward, but Miao Yun straightened up and looked at Luo Mu with a frown, the corners of Luo Mu's mouth were bitten by too much force, and a stream of blood remained along the corners of Luo Mu's mouth, but Miao Yun didn't ask much, took out the handkerchief on her body and wiped it for Luo Mu, and bent down to hug Luo Mu, but this time she couldn't sleep.

Bank drove the carriage around Maryland City for a full hour before finding a relatively intact house, except for the Golden Hall representing the Soul Master Guild in this huge Maryland City, almost all the houses were destroyed and dilapidated, of course, there was no one to be seen, and the three of them cleaned up in the house for a while before preparing to rest.

The three of them spread a mattress on the ground from other houses and were ready to rest, but Luo Mu did not lie down, he looked at Miao Yun and Bank and said, "I'll go out, don't come with me." Banker nodded, but Miao Yun glanced at Luo Mu and didn't make a sound, Luo Mu didn't explain much, his figure flashed away from the window, and Luo Mu's figure was no longer visible when he looked out of the window, but Miao Yun still looked out of the window steadily, but Bank rolled up the clothes on his body, and lay down with his back to Miao Yun, he seemed to know what Miao Yun was doing without looking, and said as if he said to himself, "Who hasn't had some secrets of the past?"

Luo Mu jumped on the dilapidated houses in Maryland, here he didn't need the night shadow to cover his figure, even if someone saw it, no one would have the spirit to pay more attention at this time, the wind in the air had already told Luo Mu the whereabouts of the group of robbers, Luo Mu went straight to the outside of Maryland City, just outside Maryland City in the vast woods of a place, two or three of the robbers were sleeping around a bonfire, and there was a swarthy hole next to the bonfire, it seemed that this was the so-called white turban's lair。

Luo Mu's figure suddenly appeared on a big tree at the entrance of the cave like a ghost, and the robbers under the tree had all taken off their masks at the moment, and they actually had a long scar on their faces, as if this was the mark of the so-called white scarf, these robbers did not hear any sound, and still whispered "Alas, it is really unlucky to meet the soul master today"

The other robber snorted angrily, but lowered his voice a little and said, "Since the boss died, Miss Claire became the leader, our harvest has become worse and worse" The other robber also said dissatisfiedly, "Yes, we can't eat enough, Miss Clare also gives food to those refugees, we are robbers, can we become a good hall now?" After speaking, the robber looked at the entrance of the cave as if he was a little afraid, and the robber who spoke first said helplessly. Alas, forget it, Miss Claire is a poor person too"

Luo Mu didn't listen anymore, his body shook and entered the entrance of the cave, the three people who were keeping vigil by the bonfire only felt a wind blowing the bonfire, but they didn't find anything unusual, the entrance to the cave was not big, it was divided into two floors, there were several stone houses on the first floor, and the robbers inside were already asleep with snoring.

Luo Mu slowly walked to the second layer of the cave, the second layer is much smaller than the first layer, it is only one-tenth the size, there are two rooms in the second layer, one room can see a lot of hoarded sacks, it seems that this is what those robbers said "harvest", and the other room now has a faint light.

Luo Mu walked to the edge of another room, his figure was still hidden in the dark, but the wind around his body could make Luo Mu clearly hear the steady breathing of the people in the house, and the people in the house were already asleep, Luo Mu showed his figure and walked towards the house, his steps were extremely light, for fear of disturbing the sleeping person, Claire has grown up, and her figure is concave and convex, and it is no longer the little girl in Luo Mu's impression who pesters him and rubs his hair all day long, Claire has gone to the mask at the moment, but Luo Mu can see from her slightly frowning brows that Claire is not dreaming of any sweet dreams。

But what made Luo Mu's heart feel like he was dripping blood the most was that Claire's face not only had an unconcealable color of wind and dust, but what made him even more shocked was that Claire also had a hideous scar on her face that crossed the bridge of her nose from her right eye to her lower jaw, the color of the scar was extremely dark, and it could be seen that it had been some years, and the scar made Claire's originally delicate face unrecognizable.

Luo Mu clenched his fists fiercely, and even his breath became unstable, and Claire's bedside was nothing but a pair of dancing shoes that could be seen to be some years old but still white.

Luo Mu didn't make a sound, he took out a pocket from his body, the pocket was heavy, it was actually filled with hundreds of gold coins, Luo Mu gently put the bag of gold coins on Claire's bedside table, and then Luo Mu hesitated slightly, but still took away the pair of dancing shoes, Luo Mu took out a note from his pocket and put it next to Claire, Luo Mu looked at Claire deeply, then turned around and walked out of the room, and never looked back.

I don't know how long it took, Claire woke up slowly, although in this crypt, but the long-term biological clock told her that it was early morning, she subconsciously looked at the head of the bed, but sat up suddenly, she immediately saw the note next to her, she picked up the note and was about to read it, but the bloody breath from the tip of her nose made her too late to look at the note, and she hurriedly got up and ran up to the floor, but as soon as she stood still, she screamed in shock, all the robbers who slept soundly last night were all in different places in their sleep, and everyone's face was cut beyond recognition.

Claire opened the note tremblingly and looked at it, and there was only one line on it: "Forget the past, get out of here"

Also in the early morning, hundreds of kilometers away from Maryland, outside the city of Shencheril, the army was overwhelmed, and the heavy breath oppressed as if the city walls would collapse at any time, and countless low-level demons from hell in the burial army were about to move with their mouths open, but they didn't dare to make more movements as if they were afraid of something, all the people in the funeral army were dressed in black, no one spoke, and the huge wind was howling, blowing the battle flag on the head of Shencheril City.

At this moment, the black army suddenly separated a line, and a person rode a white horse from the ten thousand people walking slowly, the white horse was incomparable, burning with miserable white flames all over his body, and what was even more frightening was that the white horse actually had a pair of red eyes, and a man and a horse walked to stand in front of the army, it was Ke Rui.

Ke Rui was dressed in white, his handsome face was not half bright, he held a hideous demon mask in his hand, Ke Rui looked up slightly at the towering city wall of Shen Che Lil, put the mask on his face, his voice was very flat but transmitted to the four armies

"Breaking the City"