Wei Xian, a dignified guild leader, almost died of overwork due to running around for the guild. Not only did his subordinates not comfort him, but they even started to get angry when they met him.
I was very angry, very angry.
But what's the use of being angry? You have to endure the crying of your subordinates.
Vician waved to the people nearby to call Alice and Caschia, saying that he had something to discuss with them.
After a while, Alice and Caschia arrived. As soon as they opened the door, they saw Vician sitting behind the desk with his chin in his hands and a serious look on his face.
Alice's heart skipped a beat. She and Caschia exchanged glances, and they both saw confusion in each other's eyes.
"what happened?"
"What trouble did he get into again?"
This was what Alice and Caschia expressed in silence. Vician stood up from his chair and walked around the table with his hands behind his back.Finally, he stopped in front of the two of them and spoke.
"Ladies and gentlemen. I have good news for you."
It was said that there was good news, but Wei Xi'an's expression definitely didn't look like something good had happened to him.
"We! We are wanted!"
Vician took out his hands from behind. In his hands were three wanted posters, with his, Alice's, and Caschia's faces printed on them.
"This joke is not funny, Vishian."
Alice looked at Vician with complicated eyes, expecting him to say it was just a joke, but the other party tilted his head to one side helplessly.
"The count did it, don't look at me, I didn't do anything."
"Then what did you go out for last night?"
Caschia wanted to get the reason for being wanted from Vician, he pressed.
"I went to run circles with the guards, and I won. They became angry and issued a wanted order."
"I can understand your point, but what about Alice? There is no reason for her to be wanted."
"She left with us earlier, so..."
From the conversation between the two, Alice finally knew why she was wanted on the wanted list together. Visian rescued her from the prison, but even if no one helped her, she would probably be on the wanted list after she escaped from the prison. On the wanted list.
Although why the count had the right to issue a wanted warrant, Alice had a guess.Too much "power" is the only explanation for the whole incident.
Alice told the other two people not to care about herself, but she also wanted to know where Vician went alone last night and would only come back early this morning with a wanted order.
Weisian sat down at the desk and explained everything he had experienced from last night to this morning:
After he left the guild last night, he went to the upper city to wander around. Unexpectedly, when he was about to return to the lower city, he was patted on the back by someone.
A guard stood behind him, and when Vishian turned his face to him, he began to call out to his companions.Visian immediately understood what the guard wanted to do, and he covered the guard's mouth and put him down.
But before Visian could lift the unconscious guard and throw him into the sewer, reinforcements called by the guard arrived at the scene.
The guards immediately started chasing Vician, who had to run a marathon with the group late at night.Visian was chased almost around the imperial capital. At the end, he climbed up the bell tower and barely escaped the guards.
He spent the night in the clock tower. This morning before dawn, he walked down the clock tower. The lack of guards waiting made him feel at ease. However, this peace of mind disappeared without a trace soon. trace.
While passing by a certain street, Vician, who was chewing an apple, noticed that someone was pasting something on the wall of the corridor. He lowered his hood and sneaked over there, intending to take a look.
Thanks to him noticing this person, otherwise when they went out again, they would not only be greeted by guards, but also a group of people waiting for the bounty.
"So, that's how it is."
The three people looked at each other, all waiting for the other party to come up with a reasonable solution.
"Is there no way to get them to withdraw the wanted order?"
Alice asked, if she could not lift the wanted order, she would not be able to leave the imperial capital and continue her mission, let alone her future adventures.
"Once a wanted order is issued, even if it is withdrawn, the count's guards will still search us as usual."
Weisian was uncharacteristically silent. He lowered his head and thought about how to solve this problem. Several ideas came to his mind and were rejected one by one.
On the other side, Alice and Caschia started a debate on "possible ways to withdraw the wanted order", but were interrupted by Vician when they got to the key point.
After much thought, Visian finally came to the best conclusion. He suggested that he simply go to the Earl's Palace to find evidence of the crime, and then put pressure on the king.This is a practical solution that is dangerous but very quick.
And there are basically no worries.
"What does this have to do with the king?"
Alice was an outsider in this imperial capital. She didn't know why Vician proposed such a plan, and she didn't understand why Caschia didn't refute it.
And the most incredible thing is that she actually agreed to this action.
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At night, Alice and her party put on dark clothes and arrived in front of Albert's Earl's Mansion.The guards in front of the Earl's Palace have been knocked down by members of the Thieves' Guild, and the road leading to the mansion has been cleared.
"go!"
Wei Xi'an gave the order. He left the rest of the people and asked them to be responsible for providing backup outside, and then took Alice and the two of them to set off.
Some of the servants in the Earl's Mansion were still awake, and several windows on the third floor were still lit with lights.Wei Xi'an walked to the door, and after confirming that no one passed by, he quickly opened the door.
Alice ducked in and Caschia agreed.
The three of them were not in a hurry to go up to the second floor. Visian had previously told them during the war meeting that there was a secret door in the Earl's Mansion that led directly to the study on the third floor.
The secret door was located somewhere in the kitchen, where their destination was.
The road to the kitchen is not easy to walk. Probably for insurance, the count has arranged more guards than usual in the house. Basically, a guard will appear at every corner.
But this did not trouble Vician and Caschia.
In the room to their left, several guards had been knocked unconscious and thrown in.
Along the way, after constantly avoiding the patrolling guards, the three people who closed the kitchen door finally got a breather. They were almost discovered by the guards. Alice accidentally touched a decorative vase. When the vase was hanging on the high platform, She reluctantly put the vase back before it almost fell.
In short, they arrived at the kitchen without any danger, and they quickly found the secret door.
"Who goes up first? Me again?"
Weisian already knew the answer before he asked this question. Anyway, he was the one exploring the road every time, and he was almost used to it.He walked up the steps behind the secret door. The steps kept spiraling upward. After walking for a few minutes, Visian reached the end.
There was a door in front of him. He pushed it and found that the door was unlocked. He waved to the bottom of the steps and asked Alice and the others to come over.
The secret door made a scraping sound on the floor, and the three of them walked out. The study in the Earl's Mansion was right in front of them.After confirming that there was no one else in the study, they began the second round of searching non-stop. Alice rummaged through the bookshelf, and after a while she found an unusual book on the shelf.
"Theories of Magic: Light and Darkness"
Alice also had this book, but hers was not as thick as this one. Out of curiosity, she picked up the book and planned to open it.She opened the book from the middle, and the contents of the book were exposed.
The middle of the book was hollowed out, and a small silver box was placed inside.Alice immediately told the others about the discovery, and after Vician confirmed it was safe, she opened the box.
What is in the box is not a key, but a stack of letters, all of which have only one sender: "The Wrist of Thieves".
"Look, they are indeed in cahoots."
"Take this back first, we may need it."
This is one of the strong evidences that the count has colluded with the "Thieves' Hand", and Vician asks Alice to keep these letters.
"Let's see what's there. The count won't put the treasure directly in the bedroom."
The three of them continued rummaging in response, and sure enough they found it under a certain floor. Unfortunately, this treasure was also hidden in a box.
This box is so easy to unlock. It has a wire connected to a mechanism under the floor. Once the box is taken away directly, the mechanism will activate and make a screeching sound.Everyone is at their wits end with this guy and they need a special key to open it.
As for where the key is?
The three of them turned their attention to the next door, where the count's bedroom was. They looked for the study, but there was no key in the study.If we were to say where the key was most likely to be, it would probably only be with the earl.
"Do we have to go?"
Alice asked, and the other two nodded solemnly. This was the only chance to take the treasure, and no one gave up just thinking about it here.
It is related to their future life safety issues.
"Come on."
Vician patted Alice on the shoulder, trying to comfort the helpless girl with these words.
Alice nodded heavily. Now that she had boarded the pirate ship, she had to withdraw her wanted order to block her future life.
——TBC——
Chapter 12: Battle of Earl's Court
Count Albert's room is next to the study, and Alice is planning to sneak in with her companions to find the key.
This was something she never thought she would do. In the past 15 years, he had been the most well-behaved student in the academy, and she was naturally isolated from anything dangerous.
However, just a few days after she left the academy and embarked on an adventure because of her mission, Alice found that the things she experienced were becoming more and more deviated from common sense.
Will any ordinary person be hated by the nobles for helping the caravan?
No.
Would any ordinary person find themselves wanted the day after escaping from prison?
No.
Will ordinary people come to other people's houses at night with a group of thieves to steal things?
No more, okay!
But that's what Alice did now. She wore dark night clothes, sneaked into the owner's bedroom, and discussed with her companions how to get the key to the treasure box.
"What should I do? The key is around his neck."
Why on earth would anyone who owns a treasure choose to hang the key around their neck?
It's hard to get started, not to mention that Earl Albert is bloated, and the fat on his neck piles up after he lies down. The layered look is reminiscent of slime, although this look is better than Slime. Mu was even more disgusted.
None of the three people present wanted to put their hands into the oily folds.
The three of them were jostling each other in the bedroom, and Alice suggested an ancient duel - guessing games - to choose the one who would make the move.
They started guessing and changed the outcome from one round to a best-of-three round.
The hands of the clock were constantly moving forward, and the count's turning over on the bed made the whole bed scream.
Everyone stopped moving at this moment, for fear that the count would wake up from his sleep.
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