ACT005: Leaping over the city walls
When the relatives of the Duke Baker family were like sharks that smelled blood, they flocked to the gate of the Duke's mansion to "seek an explanation", in a remote alley in the city, the manhole cover on the ground suddenly was pushed up, revealing two stained faces. After confirming that there was no one around, two figures, one big and one small, emerged from the sewer and hid in an empty room without a man.
"Huh~! Finally it was done. I thought I would be smoked to death there." He breathed the fresh air outside in his mouth, and Kabbal tried hard to expel all the stench deposited in his lungs. Because his "altitude" was not high enough, he sucked more harmful gases in the sewer than Weiss. He was feeling uncomfortable now and his stomach was already vomiting underneath.
"Come on! Change this and rest for a while, and we will leave the city in the middle of the night."
Weiss searched through the boxes and cabinets for a long time and found that the family had moved away for a while. Nothing was left except for a few sets of torn old clothes. These sets of torn clothes seemed to be left by the moving workers, and the fabric was already hard, but the two of them now had a sewer smell on them. If they wore this, they would look like a beggar.
"I really want to take a shower quickly. This smell is so stinky that it can smell for two miles!"
"Let's talk about it after leaving the city."
Sitting on the ground in the room, Weiss felt tired and hungry, but he didn't dare to rest. Not to mention that the guards and "chess pieces" in the city could react at any time. Just sitting opposite him was an unknown number if the old goblin named Kabbalah was trustworthy!
Although the two formed an alliance for a while, they actually could not believe in each other. They cooperated until they left the city, and then they immediately parted ways. Weiss was about to go west to the Langson Republic of West Yanzhou, while Kabbal was going north and took a boat back to his old home, Zhongpanzhou, where the land belonged to dwarves and goblins.
According to the plan agreed by the two, Wies and Kabbala will have to wait until the second midnight to leave the city. Although Baker City has a tall city wall, that thing can block ordinary people. It is only a very simple thing for Kabbala to fly out. But if she is accidentally discovered, it is also very easy for the garrison officer with the "Stocker" piece to shoot him down. Therefore, the most urgent task at present is to let Wies master the skills of controlling power and increase their "hidden coefficient".
Weiss is currently in a stage that every novice who obtains chess pieces will go through. Because the powerful power he just got is still unable to use, he is in an excited "explosion" state. This makes Weiss like a beacon in the dark, emitting a strong "existence"! If you just go out like this, I believe that if you take a few steps, they will be discovered by the chess piece owners in the city guards and captured them, so Kabbal must help Weiss learn to control himself as soon as possible.
However, what surprised Kabbala was that Weis had a very high understanding! He only told the other party as a person who had experienced it to relax and restore his normal mind. Weis actually took only a few deep breaths to completely calm himself down.
"I have to admit that your kid's understanding is really good. If it were someone else, he would not be able to calm down for ten days or half a month. Some of them were too excited and even had difficulty sleeping."
"I am so happy when I am having fun when I am having fun. I haven't had fun here for a long time, so I've been locked up in prison and almost killed me. Do you think I'm calm?"
“…”
In any case, Weiss's problem was successfully resolved, and the two of them waited quietly in the empty house until the second half of the night before starting to act. At this time, 6 hours had passed since the explosion, and the city entered a curfew due to martial law. Apart from the patrolling guards, there was no trace of others on the street.
Wies and Kabbala first climbed up to the roof of a high-rise building and observed the situation around them. They found that a large group of people in the city were searching houses from house to house. Whether it was the city guards spontaneously robbing or the Duke's Mansion issued a search warrant, this was not good news for them.
"Master of pit digging, is there any way to quietly leave the city?"
"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. I can feel the spiritual sense of the four 'warlocks' now. They are not my opponents when fighting alone, but if they go together... I'll be a little unbearable!"
"Hey! Didn't they say that experts can be 1V5? You can't do it if you only have 3 people!?"
"Who is really a master who can make money from this countryside where birds don't shit?"
“…You are still honest.”
"I just think you are praising me."
The two of them carefully touched the southwest corner of the city wall along the roof. In order not to attract the attention of the guards and the warlocks who didn't know where they were, Kabala didn't even dare to use the simplest aerial technique. He could only rely on his agile Vis to jump around on the roof with him on his back. However, when he reached the other side of the city wall, he had to rely on his flying technique to lead Vis to jump out of the city.
One hour ago, the City Guard Engineer Corps finally dug out the bodies of the three of the Duke's family from the ruins under the Duke's Mansion, and nine chess piece owners died with them. Although these people are powerful, they are only "super mortals". Hundreds of tons of gravel cannot kill them, but they can suffocate.
After digging open the basement, the old housekeeper, who was a few insiders, found that not only did the young man they caught were missing in the corpse, but even the goblin magician specially invited by the Duke from other places was gone. At the same time, the "warlocks" who arrived also discovered that in addition to the magic element rushing at the scene, there were also traces of digging with earth magic.
"In other words, those two people are likely to be alive?"
"Yes."
On the surface, he nodded calmly, but the housekeeper was ecstatic because there was finally a "scapegoat"! If it weren't for these two people, the relatives of the Duke's family might have made him apologize for death, but now they can completely shift the blame to the two survivors.
However, just as he was thinking about how to arrange for these two people for the crimes, two loud noises suddenly came from the southwest direction. The butler's eyes turned, and he thought that the two wanted to escape, so he hurried out to dig the pit and reached out to the southwest corner where the flames were soaring outside.
"The thief who murdered the Duke is there!"
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With the chaos caused by several "big fireballs" of Kabbala, the two successfully fled outside the city. Kabbala carried Weiss westward and went to Linguo's territory before she dared to stop and take a breath.
"This is the Duchy of White Deer, and the guys behind him should not dare to chase after him rashly."
The two who escaped from danger found a stream to clean the stains and stench on their bodies. After changing into the clothes that came "smooth" from the clothes rail of a family before leaving the city, the two finally looked like human beings again.
"I said, boy, did you do it on purpose?"
"What was intentional? I don't understand what you are saying?" Weiss turned his head and pretended to be stupid.
"Why are you wearing normal clothes, but mine is a fucking children's outfit!?"
Tugging the children's pajamas with pink lace at the collar on his body, Kabbal looked at Weis who was "pretending to be innocent", but the other party just walked up to him, patted his shiny big bald head, and said in a very helpless tone.
"Master, I'm giving you this piece, and you can't wear it even if you do!"
Kabbala, who is only over 1 meter tall, stands in front of Weiss who is 1.7 meters tall, which means he can look straight at the other person's belly button! His figure is in the human country and he wants to find clothes that can be worn in a fitting way, so there is no other choice except for children's clothing.
Fortunately, Weiss was not sincere in trying to fool him, so in addition to this pajama, he also made him a small cloak, wearing the clothes that could cover the inside. If he wrapped it tightly, it would not make people laugh.
After escaping here, the cooperation between the two basically came to an end. Westbon wanted to ask Kabbalah if she was interested in "grouping" with him and making a career together, but the other party had long been loyal to a dwarf "White King", which is a very common phenomenon among goblins who are vassals of the dwarfs.
Before parting ways, Kabbalah thought that Weis had no penny on her body, so she rarely showed kindness. She flipped through her wallet, pinched five copper coins from it with a painful expression like cutting her flesh, and then handed it to Weis tremblingly.
"Boy, you can use this money as a waste."
"...Master, you should keep this huge amount of money for investment in real estate by yourself!" After looking at the copper coins handed over by the other party with contempt, Weis curled his lips and refused the other party's "sponsorship", then touched a bag of "hard" things in his arms, feeling very at ease.
While the two of them were still buried in the ruins, Kabbal's excavation technique once dug the duke's body. Although Weiss did not whip the corpse to vent his anger, he took away the other party's wallet. Because he knew that once he went out, he would embark on an escape journey soon, and it would definitely not be possible without money on him.
Chapter completed!