The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 246 Signs
In a damp corner of West Kumbu City, Gillette, a boy who had been starving for a day, leaned against a moldy wooden wall, staring blankly at the cold rainwater. Like all orphans, Gillette didn’t like the rainy season and winter. Winter is the most difficult death season for every homeless orphan. Every year, many orphans lose their poor young lives because of hunger and cold.

The rainy season also makes the teenager scratch his head, because the streets of Xikangbu are always deserted at this time, and all the silly "fat sheep" from other places have disappeared, and Gillette can't start working as usual .Fortunately, Gillette was well prepared this year. Before the rainy season, he prepared a lot of dry and hard black bread. Although the black bread, which was harder than a stone, was unpalatable, it made him survive most of the rainy season. .However, the long rainy season has almost exhausted Gillette's storage, and he ate the last bit of moldy black bread crumbs just yesterday evening.

Originally, Gillette planned to go to the bakery to steal some food today, but on the way, he encountered a big purchase at the Chipped Cup Hotel, which gave Gillette a better choice.After all, being scolded by old Kobbis from the Cutaway Cup Hotel is more cost-effective than being chased and beaten by Dom from the bakery, not to mention that there is a poor little moron hiding in the hotel kitchen.

It was not the first time for Gillette to go to the hotel kitchen, but this time he had to stop before he approached the hotel, and hid in a secluded street corner.

Perhaps it is caused by the inferiority of human beings. Basically every human city has its dark side, and Xikangbu is no exception.There are also several vicious gang forces in this small human trading city, and every ancient crime of kidnapping, extortion, threats, and assassination has their shadows.To some, the new traveler at the Cutaway Cup Inn was a delicious prey. Look at the loafers who wandered in the rain near the hotel. Gillette still remembered their fierceness in the past.

But this time these murderers seem to have met their opponents. When Gillette ran near the hotel, he saw a big red-haired man in front of the attic window of the hotel, making a gesture to these malicious scumbags. provocative gesture.This is the first time that Gillette has seen such an arrogant outsider. The so-called "a strong dragon does not overwhelm a local snake", no matter how powerful a ranger (a collective name for wandering warriors) or a mysterious nameless mage in Faerun will not easily offend the locals native forces, because that would be very unwise.

Sure enough, as Gillette expected, the provoked wolves quickly launched a counterattack, and several sneaky figures sneaked into the hotel without any sound, and there was a long silence after that.Gillette went to hide and didn't dare to vent his breath. He knew that something terrible would happen next.Sure enough, when the dizziness of the hungry teenagers was unsustainable, the sound of fighting and roaring came from the hotel.However, the ending later on was somewhat beyond Gillette's expectations. It was the "local snakes" of Xi Kangbu who left in embarrassment in the end, and it seemed that they had suffered a lot.

But none of this had anything to do with Gillette. He was just a little worried about the little guy in the kitchen, and secretly prayed that these guys wouldn't spread the conflict to little Mollie.Gillette knew that there was a small side door near the stables at the back of the hotel, and he would sneak in there every time to get some extra black bread under the cover of the timid crybaby.

Only this time, after Gillette pushed open the side door, he found that what greeted him by the side of the stable was the corpse of a dead man. The man died in a very tragic way, and his chest seemed to be crushed by something terrible. Gillette Seen a similar scar long ago, on a hapless mercenary whose sternum was crushed by a hardwood club from a hill giant
Dead people were a common occurrence for street-street teenage orphans like Gillette, who were courageous—or for most people in Faerûn.Similarly, it is commonplace for people to make money from the dead, and it is a very loving thing. Gillette quickly searched the dead body all over the body very skillfully, but the result was a bit unsatisfactory. This is a poor ghost. He didn't even have a Taoer on him.On the neck of the dead body was a small pendant in the shape of a "flaming dagger", which might be worth some money, but Gillette didn't dare to touch it. He didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble for himself, especially if the trouble might Let him die.

Gillette looked at the dead body again, and found that the boots on the other party's feet were not bad. He took off the dead body's boots and gestured on his muddy bare feet.Although the boots were a bit dirty, smelly, and a bit big, they looked pretty solid. Gillette washed his dirty feet in the sink next to the stable, and then happily put the boots on for a try. After walking a few steps, it felt really good, more comfortable than stepping on barley stalks. Gillette was very satisfied with his harvest.The next step is to solve the problem of his own hunger. Gillette carefully looked at the movement around him, and slipped into the kitchen with ease.
Yasuna came back a bit late, and the terrible thing was that she was stained with a lot of blood, the smell of blood was all over her body, and her face was extremely ugly. The little Moli who went out with her was even more frightened and almost said no. Speak up.William's head was a little dazed, because Harvey, the city guard, didn't show up, could it be that this girl went crazy for a while? William didn't have the heart to think about it, he asked hesitantly: "Yasuna, what happened? "

Yasuna's face was livid, and she seemed to have been greatly irritated, she muttered a little uneasy: "A very bad thing happened to me."

"What happened?" William asked.

Yasuna shook her head and said, "I don't know, the magic power seems to have become very unstable and much weaker, and I don't know what's going on." The female frost giant seemed terrified, She couldn't be sure what this meant, after all, it might be a terrible omen with no borders for her.

"Then what's going on with your body?" William asked, pointing to the blood on Yasuna's body.

Yasuna replied: "A group of humans tried to attack me on the way, but I killed them all in the end. A group of reptiles." Yasuna wanted to say "reptilians", but suddenly remembered the person next to her. The powerful and terrifying man is also a human being, so she shut up and couldn't continue speaking.

William nodded, and then asked, "What about City Guard Harvey? Have you seen him?"

Yasuna said: "I see it. But he is busy cleaning up the corpses on the street at this time, and he won't be here for a while—"

(End of this chapter)