Pale Emblem

Chapter 99
The night was getting darker, and the small room was pitch black, and from time to time there were children's teeth grinding and babbling in their sleep.They are still at the age of snooze, everyone slept very deeply, and could sleep until dawn without being woken up easily.

Stephanie lay on her side on her little bed with her back to the wooden door, counting silently in her heart.

Five, four, three, two, one... here comes.

The door was pushed open from the outside, and the light of the lantern shone into the room after the door lock turned gently.After a while, the room returned to darkness.

The "parent" who was patrolling at night locked the door again, and the sound of his footsteps gradually drifted away.As usual, this is the last inspection tonight. When the "parents" open the door again, it will be the next morning, which is almost four hours from now.

Stephanie got up quietly, made a dummy figure on the bed with clothes, and covered it with a blanket, as if she was still sleeping on the bed.

Then, she put on clothes and trousers that were easy to move, leaned against the wall, and climbed up with her bare hands.At this moment, the little girl is like a light gecko, sticking to the smooth and straight wall tightly, and swimming up effortlessly.Soon, she climbed to the ventilation window eight meters above the ground.

The vent was so small that it was only big enough for Stephanie to stick her head out.She tried it a little, first sticking one arm out of the window, sucking the outside wall with her palm in reverse, and then pulling it hard, the whole person seemed to have no bones and smoothly slid from the ventilation window to the outside.

The empty outdoor was filled with an air of freedom, and Stephanie couldn't help but take a deep breath.After all, she is just an 11-year-old girl who usually suppresses her emotions and pretends to be like other children. She has extraordinary abilities and does not dare to reveal them. In fact, she is very depressed.

Tonight, stepping out of the nest under the noses of the "parents" without disturbing anyone, Stephanie felt a rare joy.

Of course, she didn't forget why she ventured out to escape.

Bobby and Pym had left the den, and Stephanie climbed up the roof and followed them quietly.She bit Bobby's hand before, which is equivalent to making a special mark on the other party, just like the spider spit out a silk thread that is imperceptible to the naked eye to stick to the prey. As long as the silk thread is continuous, the spider can always perceive the position and status of the prey.The closer the distance to each other, the clearer the perception, and even "hear" the voice of the other party.

Stephanie didn't want to assassinate Bobby, nor did she have the ability.However, she must know if Bobby will reveal his details to the old man.Although Bobby is her cousin, Stephanie is actually not impressed by this "brother".

Bobby was not three years old when she was sold to Goldfinger by her stepfather.

Stephanie always felt that Bobby should be closer to the "family" that raised him.If Bobby confided her status as an orphan on Island Street to the "big parents", she must leave Water Snake immediately, without delay.

Stephanie actually didn't want to implicate innocent friends.

Stephanie leaped silently between the roofs, always keeping a distance of more than 200 meters from the target.Pym and Bobby had absolutely no idea that someone could follow them silently, out of sight.

The two walked through the intricate alleys, avoiding the drunks and patrolling night watchmen, and it didn't take long for them to leave the streets and come to the east side of Water Snake Town.The architectural layout here is relatively sparse, and the houses are styled in style, with gardens, barns, villas, and barracks, which are the living quarters of the mayor, officials and guard soldiers.

Bobby and old Pym came for severance, which was not a small sum.And gangs of thieves can't put all the gold in their lair.But Bobby never thought that the "big head" would set up the gold spot in the eastern district of Water Snake Town, hiding it under the mayor's eyelids.

The buildings in the East District are relatively empty, and it is not so easy for the two thieves to hide their tracks.A team of heavily armed patrolling soldiers spotted them.Old man Pym took the initiative to walk over and negotiated with the patrol soldiers in a low voice.

Bobby couldn't hear what they were talking about, but the patrolling soldier just glanced at him and left the scene with his men.

"Don't be stunned, come here."

Pym turned around and beckoned Bobby to follow him, saying as he walked, "I'll bring you to meet someone... a professional physician."

"Doctor?" Bobby looked around and asked alertly, "Old man, didn't you bring me here to get the gold?"

"Golden, hehe." Pym smiled slightly mockingly: "Bobby, how did I teach you to be an idiot? You said to yourself, have you earned 1000 gold towers for your family over the years?"

Bobby muttered unconvincingly: "There must be!"

"Okay, even if the money you handed over to your family is 1000 gold pagodas, you don't usually need to eat? You don't need to wear clothes? You don't need to spend money when you are sick? Your younger brothers and sisters don't need to spend money? Also, your subordinates cooperate with you to make money. It's all on your head, they don't have a share?"

"Why are you so embarrassed to ask me for a severance payment of 1000 gold towers?"

"But... you clearly agreed." Bobby said with a guilty conscience.

"Promise a fart!"

The old man Pym scolded: "You are a poor thing, you don't even know that you have been deceived! You told me that you need 1000 gold towers to buy the secret medicine of awakening, who do you buy it from? Who will sell it to you?! "

"I've checked it out, the adventurer you know is just bragging with you. If you really buy 1000 gold towers from him to buy an awakening elixir, you'll be dead!"

Adventurers are armed and fierce, and of course they are worshipped by the commoners.But if anyone thinks that adventurers who are accustomed to licking blood with a knife are good people, then he is very wrong.

Adventurers generally do not bully commoners, because they are generally richer than commoners.On the other hand, the Adventurer's Guild has been safeguarding the legitimate interests of adventurers.Assuming there is no Adventurer's Guild, the large and small adventure groups are bandits that rob houses.

Bobby wants to use the 1000 gold tower to make a deal with the adventurer, which is purely suicide.As long as the adventurer deceived him out of the town, pinching him to death would be like pinching an ant to death. How could it be possible to sell a set of agile awakening elixir at a low price?
The quality of the awakening elixir is different, and the price is also different.The better the quality of the secret medicine, the greater the chance of successful awakening, and the price is naturally expensive.However, the Awakening Elixir is an opportunity that can change fate. If half-elf civilians want to change their fate, it is impossible to do so without paying a high price.

At this time, buying the Awakening Elixir is no longer a matter of price. You have to be desperate to seize an opportunity to change your destiny.

The Earth Temple publicly sells the awakening elixir of the bow warrior pathway, which is of average quality and costs 3000 gold towers.If someone can take out 3000 gold towers, then he probably doesn't need the secret medicine provided by the Earth Temple.He should be able to get better quality, or even cheaper awakening elixir.

The more powerful the richer, the poorer the poorer.

If the poor want to change their destiny and cross the class, the price he needs to pay is more than 3000 gold pagodas?
Adventurers collect rare resources, which happen to be what the earth temples, wealthy families, or highland nobles want.The premise is that you dare to go wild and have good luck.Your adventure group will help you awaken your expertise and become an awakener.But this is just the beginning, you have to continue to work for the adventure group and earn more resources.

In other words, it's not enough for a half-elf commoner to spend money on secret medicines, he has to put the rest of his life on the line, and the professional class will open the door to him.

Bobby plans to spend 1000 gold towers to buy a set of awakening elixir, how could it be his turn for such a cheap thing?

Simply naive!
Goldfinger specializes in stealing and defrauding. The little thief that Pym raised was actually deceived. The more he thought about it, the more angry he became. Instead, he said to Bobby pleasantly:
"Awakening elixir is something that people with access to can get without spending money; people without access may not be able to buy the right one for any amount of money. If you follow the career path of a thug, we have access to it. I will pay 300 Jinta, the Uttar Pradesh Brotherhood is responsible for paying the rest of the money and sending you to the Earth Temple Awakening Specialty. If you can successfully awaken, you must do something for the Uttar Pradesh Brotherhood. You will sublimate your traits in the future and become a thug professional by the Brotherhood. Responsible."

Bobby sighed and said: "Old man, you know that I was born in Daojie, and now I just want to run as far as possible, so how dare you go to work in the Beibang Brotherhood?"

Pym was silent for a while, and then said, "I'll take you to see a professional doctor now, you don't need to worry about other things, just follow my arrangements. If she doesn't like you, you can leave Water Snake Town tonight and be at ease. An ordinary person... I raised you, taught you how to make a living, and gave you a hundred golden pagodas, you will not starve to death anywhere you go."

Bobby was raised by Pym and wasn't sufficiently wary of the big parent.According to his understanding, old Pym didn't need to make such trouble if he wanted to kill himself.It seems that old man Pym is indeed giving himself a chance to change his fate.

He asked nervously, "Old man, what should I do if the professional physician sees me?"

With a straight face, Pym led the curly-haired boy to the edge of a barn.He opened a slanted wooden cellar door and said, "If she can fancy you, what else can you do other than repay your life? The lord is inside, you can go in."

The soft, bright candlelight in the cellar seemed to beckon to Bobby.He swallowed quietly and stepped into the stairs leading to the cellar.

This cellar is luxuriously decorated, and it is definitely not used to store mud gourds. The floor and walls are all paved with smooth mulberry boards, and several crystal wall lamps are also installed.In the bright light, Pym saw two half-elves, a man and a woman, sitting at the wooden table in the middle of the cellar.

The male half-elf in his 30s has handsome features, brown hair and brown eyes, and a well-groomed mustache around his mouth. He looks mature and confident, full of the elegant and charming charm of a superior.

Half-elf women have an eye-catching beauty. Her skin is fair and tender with a soft luster, her nose is high, her red lips are delicate, her bright blonde hair is lazily draped over her shoulders, and her dazzling eyes are pure and pure. The Topaz Orb, marking her highland half-elf status.

Bobby exclaimed, "Mrs Christine, Lord Mayor?!"

The wife of the mayor of Middleton, Christine, is the number one beauty in Water Snake Town. Although she is usually a reclusive woman and rarely appears in public, her reputation is greater than that of the mayor, not only because of her beautiful appearance, but also because of her beauty. Mainly because she has highland half-elf blood.

Residents of Water Snake Town believe that Middleton can be the mayor of Water Snake Town thanks to his wife's efforts.

For Dissa Half-Elves, to judge whether a person is noble or not, the first thing to look at is his appearance.Therefore, it is easy for the town residents to draw a conclusion: Mrs. Christine is married to Middleton, and the mayor of Middleton has climbed up to Mrs. Christine.

Middleton was used to being despised by the inferior townspeople in front of his wife. He looked at the overwhelmed curly-haired boy and asked his wife gently, "Madam, is this child to your liking?"

Christine's beautiful eyes turned, her red lips were lightly opened, and a pair of snow-white slender canines stretched out, which complemented each other with bright blood-like lips, and there was a fatal charm.She raised her slender white hands, covering her delicate red lips and long snow-white teeth, and smiled sweetly:

"It's okay."

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Stephanie hid in the shadow of the haystack and covered her mouth tightly.

Bobby is dead.

The brother who helped her when she was in distress died.

Old Pym, who has always been kind to others, obviously brought him here to get the severance payment, but he tricked him into the cellar.

There is a legendary vampire in the cellar that killed Bobby.

Stephanie could even sense that when the vampire pierced Bobby's neck with his long fangs, Bobby's whole body twitched uncontrollably, his trembling eyeballs turned upward, and blood gurgled out.Slowly, even his muscle twitches disappeared, and his weakened heart stopped beating completely.

The mayor's wife Christine is a vampire?
Mayor Middleton, and old Pym as her accomplice?
They conspired to kill Bobby, the big curly-haired boy who taught her the art of pickpocketing and helped her gain a foothold in the den of thieves?

Tears rolled in the eyes of the little girl. She felt sadness, horror, and a kind of anger that she couldn't understand. It was as if the superiors were robbed of their prey by the inferiors, and they wanted to tear the idiots who offended them into pieces. Fragment of fury.

The spider mark on the palm of the hand was hot, and Stephanie was deeply panicked by all this. She had to cover her mouth hard to prevent the screams that were pressed in her throat from suddenly coming out.

However, Bobby does die, and the connection between Spidermark and him is forced to break.Stephanie was finally able to control her emotions.After a short rest, she quietly ran into the alley in the West District with the help of the shadow of the building, and her figure quickly blended into the quiet night.

Old man Pym stood alone outside the cellar door until the mayor and his wife came out of the cellar. He froze in his heart, hiding his complicated emotions, took the initiative to meet him, bowed and said, "Master, Madam..."

Middleton nodded indifferently, while Christine was pale and desolate, her pair of plain hands twisted together restlessly, and her body was half leaning on her husband's arms, weak as if she had no strength.

The mayor wrapped his wife's slender waist with one hand and supported her arm with the other, and said to the old thief, "This time, you did a good job. I will find someone to dispose of the corpse inside, you don't need to worry about it."

Pym lowered his head and said humbly, "Master, the Uttar Pradesh Brotherhood hasn't received any newcomers from Water Snake Town for nearly a year. They may suspect me."

Christine raised her charming face and said bitterly and reproachfully: "My dear, it's all my fault... I couldn't control myself at all and did terrible things."

Middleton quickly and softly comforted: "My dear, you are not wrong, you are just sick... Moreover, those people are all thieves and thieves who deserved... Besides, this is not your intention."

Because there was an unsightly old thief next to him, Middleton resisted the urge to kiss his sweet wife and said, "The Thieves Guild is not troublesome, but you can't have anything to do with Daojie, otherwise I won't be able to protect you, and I will be implicated by you. Do you still have the Island Street fugitives under your command?"

Pym quickly shook his head and said: "Master, as far as I know, Bobby is the only Island Street orphan under my command. As for the others, even if they are related to the Island Street fugitives, it is impossible to find out. Because when they were very young Just follow me, don't even remember where I came from. I guarantee my people have nothing to do with the Island Street riots."

"Well, Bobby can't actually escape. His stepfather was a member of the Island Street gang and was executed last year. The North Bang Brotherhood found out Bobby's origin and called him to die... If he doesn't die, all of us Everyone will suffer. Only Bobby's bad luck is to blame, but the real culprit is the female gangster Bertina! She killed hundreds of people!"

The old thief was obviously trying to excuse Mrs. Christine, and the mayor gave him an admiring wink and said, "It is the consensus of the sixteen pillars to clear the female gangster Bertina's accomplices. Sir, of course, does not dare to be careless. Before the tide of this matter subsides, please give me some wisdom. I can tell you clearly that in order to prove their innocence, the folk sects in each city-state must actively participate in the elimination of the female bandit Bertina's associates. They don't tell you evidence when they do things, and 'gold fingers' like you are especially easy to be targeted by them."

Pym said respectfully: "We all depend on the protection of our master."

Middleton nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Go back. When I send someone to clean up the body of the Island Street fugitive, you can come and send the token to the Red Sir. As long as the Red Sir can deliver, he will not look for you. Trouble."

"Yes, I'll retire first."

"Wait!" The mayor's wife suddenly stopped Pym, who was about to leave, and said to her husband, "My dear, I..." She bit her red lips, and after a moment of hesitation, she said timidly, "I just got Some memories of the fugitive, he recalled his relatives before his death, his parents and the uncle and aunt who adopted him are dead, but he still has a sister, in the 'Goldfinger' lair, called Stephanie. "

"what?!"

Middleton's eyes were fierce, and he said coldly: "I remember that Stephanie is your favorite student. I asked you to find out the details of those five strangers. Is this Stephanie you recommended to me? "

"Pfft", old man Pym knelt down straight, and defended with a pale face: "Bobby is dead, no one knows about Stephanie's life experience..."

"But she knows it herself." Christine said innocently: "Besides, she has experienced the riots on the island street caused by the female bandit Bertina, and she missed the net."

Pym's face was covered with cold sweat, and he said in a dejected tone: "Master, ma'am, please rest assured. I know what to do..."

"Don't worry." The mayor seemed to have other ideas. After a moment of indulgence, he said, "You should ask Stephanie to check the details of the five strangers first. I will create opportunities for you, but Stephanie can't steal it. Take their belongings so they don't notice. When this is over, you can bring Stephanie here."

"No! Don't bring her here, I don't want to do this, you can handle it yourself." Christine covered her face with her hands, her voice choked.Of course she wasn't sympathizing with a thief, she was pitying herself.

This beautiful-looking, weak-tempered vampire is a lunatic, and she doesn't seem to be able to accept her true identity unless she needs to eat.

Of course, Christine has been working hard to control the number of times she eats, and usually behaves normally.The mayor of Middleton also didn't want too many dead in the town.

Pym probably understood what the mayor meant. The little thief who sneaked into the five outsider's rooms might need to be silenced afterwards, so this matter was left to the damned orphans of Island Street.

The old thief wondered why the mayor thought that those who investigated the details of the outsiders needed to be silenced. Could it be that the five outsiders had special abilities to track down the thieves who had sneaked into the room?
Pym thought for a while and asked, "Master, you won't let my subordinates steal strangers' belongings, so do you have any specific clues to investigate?"

Middleton frowned and said: "Help me pay attention to three things, mithril weapons, stones with strange runes engraved, and a type of emblem."

"...The pattern on it is a silver-white tower."

(End of this chapter)