Chapter 370 The twists and turns of the clues
This so-called wandering city does not have the traces of large-scale industrial production I imagined. On the contrary, the first impression this place gives me is that it represents dirty and messy shanty towns, and this place is different from the shanty towns that are living in the slums in modern cities. At least there is a house building in modern shanty towns, which is just rows of tents and temporary housing built with wooden boards.
"This place is a Wanderer's City? Are you sure this is not a beggar's nest?"
"It does not look good, but the technical strength of this place is still a little bit."
"Let's go and have a look first!"
Although the eldest lady said it was very confident, just based on the first impression this place gave me, I really couldn't have a good impression of it. In this dirty and messy environment, even if someone has the talent in this area, it is impossible to invent anything, because when life cannot be solved by food and clothing, the first thing people think about is how to solve food and clothing, and then they can have the energy to consider other things.
Although I have no hope for the existence of the researcher mentioned by the eldest lady, since I have come, I still have to meet again.
Following the young lady from the place where we are, we went down the stairs dug out from the rock wall to the bottom of the hole. As soon as the bottom of my feet fell to the ground, I found that it was water all under my feet. I looked down in surprise and found that it was not because I felt something was wrong, but because there was really no sewage from the feet under my feet.
The eldest lady also noticed that my eyes were on the ground, so she explained: "There is no sewage system in this place, so whenever it rains outside, water will begin to accumulate in two days, but the ground will slowly seep itself in water, so it is not always like this."
I nodded and didn't go into it. Anyway, I didn't live here for a long time. I followed the young lady and walked forward. Both sides of the road were covered with gray tents like I saw on the ground. These tents were not placed directly on the ground, but were built with gravel below, and then a layer of wooden boards was poured on it. The tent was built on the wooden boards. This design simply solved the problem of sewage. Because tents cannot have much waterproof effect, laying them directly on the ground is equivalent to sleeping in the water. Of course, even if they are mounted, they may not be too dry. This kind of underground cave itself cannot be ventilated. There are so many people and the ground is full of water, so the environment can be imagined.
After about five hundred meters of water flowing forward, we finally saw a house that is a luxury house in the Wanderer City. The main reason for this luxury house is that it is not made of wood or canvas, but a real cave.
In fact, this is a huge stone pillar. It is one of the support points supporting this huge cave, but its interior is not completely solid, but a large hole. Now the hole has been slightly decorated with wood, and then it has become several rooms of different sizes. Of course, these rooms are very simple, and the hole has no door, only a gray and wet cloth curtain that almost grows mushrooms block the entrance.
Although the decoration of this cave is bad, it does not affect its luxury in this Wanderer City. After all, compared with the tents and wooden houses built in dirty water, this cave is more than one meter high from the ground. The entrance that requires steps built by wood to reach has already distinguished the room from many tents and board houses. At least this cave is one of the few places here that are not particularly humid.
The young lady walked to the door of the cave first in front, and then walked up directly, but when it was my turn, something went wrong. I had just walked on two steps and stepped on the third step. As soon as I tried hard, I heard a click. Then I felt my body start to fall. Fortunately, the third step was not high, so I almost stood directly in the water.
The young lady in front was shocked by the sound. When she turned around, she laughed when she saw me standing in the water in surprise. "Hahaha, I didn't expect you to be defeated too!"
"This place is indeed incompatible with my horoscope!" As I said, I reached out and pulled the broken pieces of wood in front of me to the side. Then I looked up at the lady standing at the entrance of the cave and said, "Please step back a little."
The young lady reacted and quickly retreated, and I jumped up as soon as I pressed the entrance of the cave. The inside of the cave was indeed much better than that outside. At least it was dry and bright, and compared with the environment outside, which seemed like a pile of dead people, it was simply two worlds.
When I entered the room, there were already three people standing inside. The two remaining except the eldest lady had a very sharp contrast. One of them was obviously a dark elf. The dark elf was at least 1.9 meters tall, probably close to two meters, and was wearing leather armor comparable to a bikini. However, it seemed that this thing had been a long time ago, and it was really unimaginable how much defense it had. At least I think this thing might not be as strong as a set of linen clothes. It would be a blessing to be able to hang it there without disintegrating it yourself.
Of course, although the leather armor is a little bit rotten, the owner of the leather armor is completely different from this body. The dark elf has the standard characteristics of an elf - beautiful. Most of the height of a 1.9 meters tall is the length of the legs. And considering that the leather armor covers such a small area, this proportion is definitely not caused by visual errors caused by the clothing, but is really long legs and short.
In addition to these strong and powerful long legs, the figure of this dark elf is also standard for the dark elf. Compared with most white elfs configured on washboards, the figure of the dark elf is basically inherited by the devil. The s curve is absolutely exaggerated to make you feel that this must be an artificial product.
However, although the figure in front of him is very exaggerated and his skin is very tight, her appearance looks like she is thirty-seven or eight years old. Of course, it is not that she looks old. On the contrary, this person looks like a type that should be much older than her appearance. Although at first glance, you will think that this person should be thirty-seven or eight years old, but in fact, everyone knows that she must be more than this age. In fact, based on my understanding of the dark elf race, she looks like a dark elf of thirty-seven or eight, and she is basically a super old man among the elves.
The large branch of elves are long-lived species. The lifespan is much longer than that of humans. Generally speaking, even elves who are seventy or eight hundred years old look about thirty years old, while elves who are seventy or eight hundred are actually considered middle-aged and elderly. Even elves who die of old age look only in their early thirties. As for the feeling that they look like they are almost forty years old, this kind of elves are equivalent to the kind of centenarians among humans, and are beyond the average range.
In addition to this tall dark elf, the other one on the scene was a dwarf. Of course, this is not the kind of dwarf on the ground, because normal dwarfs are born blacksmiths and warriors, and they are not distinguished from men, women, old and young. Fighting in the game, the blacksmith industry is quite popular, and warriors are also very important professions, so dwarfs are usually easy to mix. This guy can get through to live in the Wanderer City, of course, it is impossible to be an ordinary dwarf. In fact, this is a gray dwarf, which is like a fallen angel. The part of dwarfs abandoned by the Light Clan and inspired by the Dark Clan. Of course, these guys are not set in the game as evil camps, because there is no distinction between good and evil in the Dark Temple and the Temple of Light in the game, but the attributes are different.
Although this gray dwarf looks very fierce, this guy is actually similar to an ordinary dwarf. At most, he has a slightly bigger temper and has a bad behavior.
Of course, inherited the common characteristics of the dwarf, this guy is only one meter and two meters tall. He feels like a wine barrel. However, this guy is not holding an iron hammer now, and he doesn't seem to have a blacksmith on his body. I guess he is a professional warrior.
These two obviously knew the eldest lady, so they stood there without any reaction, but they didn't hurriedly bowed their heads and saluted until I appeared here.
"Dear sir, how could you condescend to appear in places like us?" The speaker was the dark elves. Dwarves were not good at speaking.
"Do you know me?"
"No, I have never seen an adult, but you have a death mark on your equipment, which is something that the God of the Underworld can accomplish. An existence that communicates with the gods is an existence that can only be looked up to for us. So I am curious about the purpose of your coming here."
"You are aware of the goods." I said and looked directly at the eldest lady.
The eldest lady seemed to have reacted and said, "This is President Zi Ri, the president of the Frost Rose Alliance. You should have heard of it?"
"Frost Rose Alliance?" This time it was replaced by the gray dwarf and shouted. "Are you really the president of the Frost Rose Alliance?"
I nodded and asked, "Does anyone here dare to pretend to be me?"
"Unless he feels he has lived enough." The dark elf next to him quickly answered and asked, "But since you are the president of the Frost Rose Alliance, your identity should be much more noble than I thought. Why do you come to a place like us?"
"He came for the drawing I took before."
As soon as I heard the eldest lady's explanation, I immediately heard a sound of heavy objects falling to the ground in the room, followed by the sound of the wooden board moving. Before I could figure out what was going on, the dwarf and dark elf next to me were already kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy loudly.
"I said, what are you doing?" I really don't know what's going on, and I didn't want to do anything? Why did the two people react when they mentioned the drawings?
I was still confused, but the eldest lady reacted first and rushed directly to the room inside. I didn't know what she was going to do, so I didn't keep up, but I soon heard a burst of crying, followed by footsteps getting closer and closer. Soon I saw the eldest lady walking in with a green creature that was only one meter tall and smaller than the dwarf in one hand.
The creature brought back by the eldest lady should actually be a goblin, but he is not a normal goblin, but a big goblin. The height of an ordinary goblin cannot grow to one meter tall. Although this height is already very short for humans, in fact, one meter tall is an exceeding the standard height for the goblin race. The normal goblin is actually only sixty to eighty cm tall. If it can grow to ninety cm, then the basketball players among humans are almost the same. It is a super-level performance, and this one meter tall is definitely a race problem. After all, there is no one among humans who grows to three meters, right?
After slipping the big goblin in, the lady put it directly on the ground and explained to him: "Don't run away! We are not here to settle the score with you."
"Aren't you here to settle the score with me?" The goblin stopped immediately after being put down and then looked at the lady uncertainly and confirmed.
After hearing the other party's words, the eldest lady said to me directly: "When he gave me the scroll, he said that this thing was something he had finally studied. As a result, you also know that it was actually a fake drawing, and it was useless at all. I guess he knew that after we found it, he thought it was us who came to settle the score, so he was ready to run away."
After listening to it, I finally understood the reason for the chaos here. After a long time, it turned out that these three people were basically selling fakes, but the lady suddenly came to the door. This was equivalent to the person who bought the fakes. However, because the lady's account in the game was an ordinary warrior, with a high level and a strong strength, she was not afraid at all. However, when she heard that I, the president of the Frost Rose Alliance, had also come, the other party was immediately shocked.
Even if the scammer finds someone after he cheats someone, even if he is found by the victim, he may not be afraid, but he may not be afraid. Some gangs even commit crimes more arrogant than the victim. But what if the scammer finds that the person he cheated on him is the director of the Public Security Bureau?
Just because I was worried that I would kill them, these guys were scared to death. The big goblin in the room inside didn't come out, so after hearing my identity, he started to run away. As for the two outside, he knew that they couldn't escape in front of me, of course he could only beg for mercy quickly.
After understanding the causes and consequences, I smiled and explained, "Don't be afraid, I'm not here to trouble you. Although the scroll you gave her is fake, it can't be made at all. But the thing itself has certain value, so it cannot be considered a complete deception."
"Oh. So that's how it is!" The big goblin patted his heart and got up from the ground and said, "Then let me introduce it. I am the king of technology in this wandering city, and it is all here..."
"Okay, don't talk about your name." The eldest lady interrupted the other party directly and said, "We came here to find you, not to listen to your bragging. Now tell me, did you design the drawing? I can warn you. This is President Zi Ri of the Frost Rose Alliance, and you know his strength. It's no more than crushing an ant to death. So if you dare to talk to us, you know the consequences."
The eldest lady's words were indeed quite effective. After hearing the other person's words, the big goblin changed his attitude and said seriously: "Actually, I stolen that thing from someone else!"
"It's true!" The eldest lady asked after sighing, "Do you know where the owner of this thing is?"
"Of course." The earthling nodded and looked at me. Then he stretched out a paw and rubbed it. "Sir, you won't let us work in vain, are you?"
I directly reached out and took out a purse from my body and threw it over. I have many purse bags from a generation of 100 crystal coins, just to deal with this kind of time. "Either lead the way or die."
Under the dual effects of the wallet and the guillotine, the big goblin began to cooperate with our actions very wisely. The other party directly asked the female dark elf to lead us and then took us to a tent in the city. This place was opposite to the direction we came from at the beginning, and the terrain was a little higher, and there was no water accumulation on the ground, but it was still very messy.
Of course, our outside of the tent here attracted a lot of attention, but just like when I went to the goblin's cave before, all the people living in the Wanderer City dared to look from afar and didn't dare to get close to us at all. Our existence here is really too eye-catching, and of course, as the person here, he did not dare to get close to us randomly.
When we stopped in front of the tent, a woman watching the fun suddenly changed in the crowd not far away, and then she began to squeeze here desperately. Because others were watching from a distance, only she pushed forward, I saw her at first sight, but I didn't say anything, but waited for her reaction.
The dark elf leading the way did not notice the woman, but directly lifted the curtain outside the tent. The tent was only five or six square meters, which was quite large for the tent, but it was quite narrow for the living point. There was only a small amount of tent with a pile of messy rags at the entrance of the tent, and the inside was two floors on both sides, and there was a low table with wood nails in the middle aisle. It was obviously made by myself.
The dark elf opened the curtain and looked inside, then saw two children, one boy and one girl, the boy was about eight years old, and the girl was only about six years old.
After seeing this child, the dark elf immediately asked, "Where is your parents?"
The two children were going to answer after seeing the dark elves, but after seeing me through the gap beside the dark elves, they suddenly burst into tears. Of course, the tent could not have any sound insulation effect. As soon as the two children cried, the woman over there rushed over even more desperately. She ran past us and rushed to the door of the tent, and then blocked the door and looked at us crying: "What are you going to do? We don't owe you money!"
"What's going on?" I asked looking at the female elf.
The dark elf quickly explained: "Their family owed us money before, and then the drawing was paid to us. This woman probably thought we were here to ask for money again." After the dark elf said that, she turned to the woman and said: "Don't be nervous, have you paid off our debts with that thing? We even paid back the loan note to you, how can we ask you for money? I came in and brought these two adults over to have something to ask you for information."
When the woman heard that she was just asking about things, she immediately wiped away the tears on her face, then turned around and comforted the child. It took a few minutes to make the child stop crying before running out to apologize to us first, and then said, "The family is too small. I won't invite a few adults in. That, I don't know what I can help?"
I didn't waste my time, and asked directly: "Where did the scroll you used to pay off your debts come from? If you can provide useful information, this is yours." As I said, I took out a bag that was the same as before.
The woman obviously had never seen such a large amount of money. After seeing the crystal coins in the bag, she even straightened her eyes. But she quickly reacted and looked at me with some trepidation and said, "That... sir, I'm really sorry. I really don't know where this thing came from." When I heard this, I thought the clue was about to be broken. Unexpectedly, the other party suddenly continued, "When my husband and I got married, this thing was already with my husband, and I had never asked how it came from. In fact, there was magic on that thing. My husband and I couldn't open it at all, but we just thought that since this thing had magic, it must be valuable, so we had been hiding at home as an emergency money. I couldn't pay back the debt before, so we used it to pay off the debt."
"That is to say, although you don't know, your husband may know the origin?"
"Yes." The woman nodded.
After receiving the affirmative answer, I nodded immediately and said, "So where is your husband now?"
As soon as he said this, the woman lowered her head, then paused for a moment before saying, "My husband has passed away almost a year."
"What did you say?" This time the lady next to her couldn't help it. I heard that her husband knew that we all thought there was hope, but now there was such a magical turning point, which really made us feel a little unacceptable.
After the woman finished speaking, the woman continued: "My husband borrowed money from them to buy medicine because he was sick. After that, the condition was not good and it became worse. In the end, we really had no money, so we could only use the scroll to repay the debt and exchange it for a little more money, but in the end my husband's illness was not cured, and then my husband..." The woman choked up when she said this.
When I saw that this woman was about to cry, I quickly interrupted her emotional outburst. "Stop, don't cry for now."
The woman looked up at me in shock, not knowing what I meant.
I looked at the woman and asked, "When was your husband's death? Is it a year since now?"
"Specific...why are you asking about this?"
"Just tell me if there is one year."
Although I was puzzled about what I asked about this, the other party still replied: "No."
"That's good." I said and asked again: "Did your husband's body be buried or cremated after he died of illness?"
"Buried."
"Do you remember the location?"
"Of course, we will go to worship in the future!"
"Okay, come with us." I said as I was about to take the woman away, but the other party was stunned. I suddenly reacted and threw the purse to the other party. "Take your child with you. Go and help me with your business. I will give you a house in Aisinger and arrange a job for you. The money will also be yours. Don't bring the things in this place, as you won't be able to use them anyway."
The woman was shocked by my words and her chin fell off directly. After that, she was completely dragged away by me and the dark elf, and her two children were led by the eldest lady in one hand.
Although I don’t know what I’m going to do, the eldest lady just needs to follow me, and the dark elf dared not ask any questions. Anyway, she would do whatever I said.
We took the family of three out of the Wanderer City, and under the guidance of that woman, we quickly found a mass grave. Although this was also a mass grave, it was much smaller than the one I went to last time, and there was not so much coldness in this place, obviously it was not the kind of place where the undead were crawling all over the ground.
Although there is not so much coldness, this is a mass grave after all. It was already dusk when we arrived here, so it looked a little gloomy. But I was not afraid of it at all. The eldest lady seemed a little scared, but she kept holding on.
The dark elf was obviously very adaptable to the night environment. The two children were the most afraid. In the end, I had to use hypnosis spells to calm them down. For this reason, the woman almost fought hard with me, but fortunately she explained it clearly.
With the woman's identification, we finally saw his husband's cemetery. It was actually a pile of yellow earth, with a wooden sign in front of it. What kind of cemetery do you expect to build if you live in the Wanderer City? It would be nice not to throw the body directly.
“Is it just here?”
The woman looked at the grave and was a little dazed, but nodded.
After the other party confirmed, I summoned Lucky without saying a word. The woman next to me fainted at first sight after seeing Lucky. The dark elf also sat backwards on the ground, but fortunately she didn't faint.
I didn't care about these two NPCs at all, and pointed to the grave and said to Lucky: "Dig it out, be careful not to hurt the corpse inside."
Lucky nodded and went down, shoveling the entire grave, and then put all the soil in his claws on the ground next to him.
Seeing this, the young lady next to her understood what I was going to do. She looked at me in surprise and asked, "You are not going to resurrect him, are you?"
"It's not a troublesome thing, why not?" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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