Pale Emblem

Chapter 110 The Secret Underground

In the middle of the night, Victor and his party returned to the rental house under the "escort" of several guards.Maddie opened the copper lock with the key, pushed the door and walked into the square living room.Immediately afterwards, Victor took Ruth and Jessica into the house.Harvey was at the end. He glanced back at the guards in Water Snake Town who were standing not far away, and then slammed the wooden door shut, making a bang in the silent alley.

Nobody likes being watched.Harvey came to the window and found that the guards were still standing around the rented house, and said angrily: "What does the death of the mayor have to do with us? These idiots didn't go to catch that Ethaniel, but they stared at him. Follow us!"

Maddie picked up the flint and lit the candle on the table, letting the dim light illuminate the living room, and said without looking back: "I think the mayor was killed, and the white-haired boy is also suspected... He and Ethaniel butler, and The mayor's wife Christine may be an accomplice. Because his behavior is too strange, it seems that he deliberately keeps all the guests at the party in the small garden, so that we cannot go to the mayor of Middleton... I noticed when Rhine appeared. , Ethaniel, the mayor and housekeeper, was just about to leave. Rhine stared at Ethaniel's back... If it's not a coincidence, Rhine should know Ethaniel, but they didn't say hello to each other, pretending to be strangers."

"Also, Rhine first used the information of the wolf shepherd girl to seduce everyone's appetite and stop the guests who wanted to leave. Then, he molested the beautiful slave girl of the mayor's house in front of everyone to distract others' attention. As a result, He didn't reveal the information about the wolf shepherd girl at all, and the mayor of Middleton died..."

"Someone came in." Victor suddenly interrupted Maddie, who was babbling.

Maddie followed Victor's gaze and moved his gaze to the closet against the wall. He walked over with a candle and found a clear palm print on the surface of the closet.

The palm print is slender and small, and looks like a child's left hand print.Maddie made a virtual gesture with his left hand, and his expression gradually became weird.

With his rich scout experience, he speculated that the owner of the handprint was 1.3 meters tall and about 10 years old.However, the position of the handprint was only one meter away from the stone brick floor. The owner of the handprint should be holding the closet with his left hand, keeping his body and the closet at a distance.

If he (she) wants to take the contents of the closet, he or she can take it directly at a height of about one meter. There is no need to hold the closet with his left hand and leave his own handprint.

In other words, the thief deliberately pressed his left palm on the closet?

Harvey also walked over to the closet, looking down for footprints on the floor or something.Victor crossed his legs, sat on the chair and said, "Don't look for it. Except for the fingerprint, the thief left no traces in the living room."

Maddie thought for a while, stimulated the secret blood ability of the secret hunter, obtained the keen senses comparable to the beasts, and smelled a familiar smell at the handprint.

This extraordinary ability is the difference between a professional and an ordinary half-elf.

Maddie turned her head and said in surprise, "It seems to be Stephanie, the tailor's assistant... I thought about taking her as a disciple, but she's actually a thief?"

Harvey said sternly: "Stephanie, I remember you said she has a rare talent for agility. Now it seems that she is more than a thief, right?"

Maddie shook his head in disappointment, and then said, "Check it out quickly to see what's missing in the house."

He and Harvey checked upstairs and downstairs carefully, returned to the living room, and reported to Victor: "Nothing was lost, but Stephanie took 10 silver coins and 23 copper coins, and the rest of the change was still there. The place. She didn't take it."

Victor and the others went to an open-air party together, taking all the most valuable things with them, leaving only inconvenient tools for refining medicine, raw materials for medicinal materials, and about 60 gold towers of change in the rented house.

More than 60 gold towers are said to be small change, which is also a huge sum for ordinary adventurers.Stephanie's burglary only stole 10 silver coins and 23 copper coins, but the rest of the money was left untouched?
Harvey and Maddie were confused, but they clearly sensed that there was something weird going on these days.

"My lord, I have a bad feeling."

Maddie said uneasily: "The caravan steward, the thief leader, the tailor, the little girl, the leader of the Adventurer's Guild, and the mayor of Middleton in Water Snake Town. They seem to be working together to set traps for us... "

"The mayor is dead, killed by someone," Harvey interjected.

"Yes, the mayor we saw was a corpse." Maddie turned to Harvey and asked: "But, are you sure that the body is the mayor of Middleton?"

Harvey froze for a moment, then whispered after a while, "Then you can't be sure that the corpse is not the mayor."

"Well, that's right, but why do we have to prove that the deceased is Middleton? We don't know the whole town of Water Snake."

"Ah? The whole town is against us? This is too exaggerated..." Harvey said with a face full of surprise, but his voice was weaker, and he was a little lacking in confidence.

Maddie sighed and said: "I also think it's incredible, but let's think about it, we borrowed the carriage of the Iron Rhino Caravan to sneak into Water Snake Town, and the caravan guys immediately sold our news to the Thieves Guild; you hired a tailor to make clothes, tailor Bring a thief to the door; the iron rhino caravan steward invited us to the mayor's open-air party, and the thief slipped into the house while we were out; the thief didn't take anything but a small amount of silver coins, and left a handprint on purpose?"

"Not to mention that we ran to the party, but the mayor died... The mayor's wife that the adults wanted to meet disappeared?"

He paused for a while, and then added: "What the lord wanted to do was not done, but our home was visited by thieves."

Victor raised his eyebrows and asked, "What does this mean?"

McGrady replied with a proper attitude: "I think it can explain two issues. First, we have completely and thoroughly exposed that Water Snake Town reminds me of Braun Town, the location is relatively remote, the residents of the town are not many, and everyone knows each other. , even if there is a transit business trip, it is basically an old face familiar to the townspeople. And we are strangers who broke into the town of water snake. But the town of water snake is better informed than the town of Braun... I think back now, why did Lena want to forget the memory of Will Tok is hiding in Braun Town? Isn't it because Braang Town is remote, the news is blocked, and there are tower caves and Hemer people's shelter?"

".Lina may think that if Lord Victor is hiding in the heart of the Union, it will be exposed."

"Do you remember what Lena looked like?" Maddie tilted her head and asked Harvey, without waiting for the other person to answer, and then said: "Lina has an ordinary appearance, a gentle and well-mannered speech, and a noble temperament. Bartom said that she put on makeup and concealed My true self... well, we, and Cole are a bunch of uninformed country bumpkins, always thinking that Cole's disguise is exquisite and can make a face for Lord Victor. But who knows that the highland name has not been better mastered At least Lina understands disguise, but she didn't give it to adults. She must think that no matter what kind of disguise is ineffective for adults, because adults are very conspicuous, very conspicuous..."

Having said that, Maddie gestured his height, meaning that Victor's perfect figure was the most conspicuous sign.

"White-haired Rhine said that Lord Victor was a fugitive from the Nightingale family, and everyone else thought the same. The worst thing is that Lord Victor is indeed of noble birth and has terrible enemies. Even if the Lord's background has nothing to do with the Nightingale family. , and can't stand the careful investigation of the city-state council!"

"Then, the second problem is that we are stuck in Water Snake Town!"

"The captain of the guard kept saying that he wanted to investigate the robbers and spies, and ordered the entire Water Snake Town to be sealed off, waiting for reinforcements from the Fallen Leaf City... Hmph, his excuse is exactly the same as the reason for Mayor Middleton to invite us to the party." Maddie sneered, then fell silent. speechless.

Since he lost his self-protection strength, the chief scout of Braun Town has changed his habit of talking and become careful and cautious.He didn't speak to Ruth or Jessica at the open-air party.Ruth and Jessica are stupid, and Maddie is always watching and thinking.

Therefore, McGrady may be more accurate in judging the situation than Victor and Harvey.

The mayor's cause of death, the robbers' spies, and these messy things have nothing to do with them, but it is a fact that they are trapped in Water Snake Town, waiting for the investigation of the reinforcements from Leaf City.

Maddie hopes that Victor will make up his mind soon, whether it is to escape from Water Snake Town, or to sit still.

It's a pity that Victor's mind is not on this now.

"I'm going to bed. Arrange for Ruth and Jessica, and you can rest too. If there's anything else, we'll talk about it tomorrow." Victor left Maddie and Harvey, who were looking at each other, and Ruth and Jess who were in a daze. Ka, get up and go upstairs, enter the bedroom on the second floor, run the golden toad secret shape, and soon enter the sleep state.

In an instant, Victor reappeared in the small garden of the mayor's mansion.There are green trees here, the wooden frame is full of wisteria, and there is a long table under the vines, which is filled with fruit stuffed with well water, several plates of fresh fruit, and kebabs with the aroma of oil.

Victor picked up a plump peacock from the table and took a bite in his mouth, only to feel that the flesh was crunchy and sweet and the juice was rich.It tastes and tastes the same as the real peach.

The evolution function of the Dream Arena completely replicates the environment of the mayor's mansion, which is inaccurate.At least the sky is still shrouded in deep darkness, without the sun and the moon, but the small garden remains visible light.

The so-called "light source" is actually a unique presentation of wind element perception.

Everything the wind element perceives is visible, touchable, sniffable, and familiar to Victor's field of vision.

Apart from Victor, Nuoda's mansion and courtyard have no other living creatures, not even the most common mosquitoes and flies.The vitality brought by trees and flowers seems false and strange.But these won't cause any hindrance to Victor. He left the garden and walked straight into the largest two-story villa in the mayor's mansion.

This brick-and-wood building is similar in layout to the mayor's mansion in Braun Town. The first floor is the large living room, servant's room, kitchen, and a basement for storing supplies; the second floor is the mayor's living room and study , a small living room, and three guest rooms.

Middleton died in the living room on the second floor, if that was really Middleton... It doesn't matter if it isn't, Victor is the only living person in the whole villa, and he can always find valuable clues here.

The contents of the house are meaningless, the information is what matters.

Victor found all the books, account books, and letters in the room, and flipped through them.The content of these written records is complex and complicated, and it is necessary to summarize and compare to extract useful information.But that's okay, Victor has plenty of time to do the job.He sleeps for 10 hours and gets 150 hours of evolution time in the Dream Arena.

However, Victor is more interested in another place. He will find books and letterheads and browse through it. If he does not find any content that needs special attention, he will leave the villa and come to a barn on the east side of the courtyard.

There was an entrance to the basement in the corner of the barn, but it was firmly blocked by a strong iron grid.

Victor took out a large number of keys found in the villa, tried several times, and finally succeeded in unlocking the iron lock and entering the basement.

This basement is full of junk, old wooden barrels, broken hoes, dusty ropes... huddled on top of each other, there is no place to stay.The air was still cloudy and stuffy. It should have been a long time when no one came in to clean it. It was a utility room used to store used tools.

Victor stepped on the debris, walked to a wall in the basement with a clear purpose, and pushed down the heavy closet with brute force. A hole was immediately exposed behind it, and the cold wind poured out of the hole and poured into the cramped ground. room.

Victor's spirit was lifted, and he thought to himself: Thanks to the white-haired Rhine, I don't know if he has the ability to discover this secret door.

After the death of the mayor of Middleton, the bounty hunter Rhine wandered around the mayor's mansion, as if looking for something.Victor followed Rhine and stayed in multiple locations for more than 5 minutes. The evolution function of the Dream Arena constantly recreated the space environment with a radius of 180 meters according to the perception of the wind element.

Victor didn't know there was such a secret space in the mayor's mansion before he went to sleep.As soon as he entered the Dream Arena, he received the environmental information perceived by the wind element in his mind.

The secret door hidden in the basement was naturally mastered by him.

After getting into the secret door and following the artificially excavated rock steps, Victor walked down a dozen meters, only to feel that the surrounding environment suddenly became brighter, and it turned out to be a natural underground cave.The stalactites are like long swords, hanging or standing; some are like melons, fruits and wild beasts; some are like waterfalls and clouds.

Victor seems to be in a strange, magnificent and fantastic country.

Although the scenery of the underground cave is beautiful, its internal environment is extraordinarily complicated, which is a super-large underground labyrinth.

Who would have thought that there would be such an underground labyrinth under Water Snake Town?
The evolution of the dream arena is a god-like ability.Even so, the wind element perception did not completely reproduce the internal environment of the underground cave.The dense darkness that Victor can see is the perceived boundary, even if he lights a torch, it is impossible to illuminate it, unless he wakes up, finds different location nodes in Water Snake Town, stays for more than 5 minutes, and can expand the wind element perception scope.

However, Victor could hear the rushing sound of the underground river and felt the flow of air, indicating that the underground cave must have many exits connected to the outside world.

The area of ​​the karst cave is beyond imagination. With water and air, large-scale life can be nurtured, and there must be unpredictable dangers.

How could the Middletons dare to open up underground caves with dozens of private guards under their hands?
They don't have the ability to perceive the wind element, how many lives have to be sacrificed to explore the dangerous underground world?
Why did the Middletons sneak up on the underworld?

The artificially excavated step passage extends forward, and there are cleverly designed traps on both sides of the passage with the help of the complex environment.

There is no doubt that the secrets of the Middletons are on the other side of the passage, and their secrets will be invisible to Victor.

(End of this chapter)