Without looking for a taxi at the street corner, Miss Louisa walked two streets with Shade, and then suddenly turned into an invisible alley beside the road. After walking for some distance in the alley, she actually took out the key and opened the door.
He walked into the door of one of the houses in the alley.
"Shadow, we can't have just one hiding place, right?"
As she pushed the door open, she smiled and said to Shade:
"I bet that Anat, Priest August and the doctor also have similar second hiding places, which can also be used to hide sensitive items that are not commonly used."
This "safe house"-like house was not rented, but was bought at a low price by Miss Louisa through her family connections. Although the price was not bad, the living conditions here were very poor, and Miss Louisa did not take it seriously.
I regard this place as my own house and only as a temporary warehouse.
According to her, besides herself, Shade was the second person who knew about this location.
"Should I be honored?"
After entering the low-rise house, Shade asked while looking at the furnishings disguised as ordinary poor households. Miss Louisa had already entered the small basement under the house through the trap door under the bed. Except for the trap door
In addition, there is a small hole in the basement through which one can crawl and enter the city's sewer pipes, but she will not use it easily.
Not because I was worried about the secret passage being discovered, but because the smell there was really unbearable.
The voice coming from the underground was a little dull:
"Not only did you tell me your secret, you even lent me the valuable [Eternal Youth Leaf]. What else can't I tell you? So far, except for Lesia and Shade, you are my
The person you trust most.”
As she spoke, she climbed out from under the trap door and handed Shade a set of very thick black robes and a mask:
"There may be danger in the area for a while, so it's better for us to be cautious."
As he spoke, he also put on his robe. In order to stuff his long golden hair into the hood, he struggled to tie up his hair.
When Miss Louisa was adjusting her collar and preparing to put on her hood, Shade noticed that she had clamped a leaf with a piece of silver and hung it in her neck. Shade's leaf was caught in the cover of her pocket watch.
, although he can no longer use the pocket watch, it is still a good decoration.
Leaving Miss Louisa's safe house, they walked one block eastward before finding an idle taxi at the intersection. The two of them were dressed quite strangely in robes and hoods, but the driver only hesitated for a moment.
, explained that he would not leave the city limits or go to remote places, and then let them get on the bus.
It seems that people who dare to solicit business at night always have some extraordinary knowledge.
The carriage traveled for nearly an hour in the quiet night and arrived at the northern edge of Tobesk City. Then Miss Louisa took Shad along the crooked road and passed through the densely packed low-rise buildings on the outskirts of the city.
houses and double-storey simple houses, stepping on the mud and smelling various weird smells, and kept moving away from the city.
There are no gas street lights here, and there is not even much light from candles.
This is a village on the northern outskirts of the city, and it is the temporary residence of the huge foreign population attracted by this foggy city. In the early days of the steam industrial revolution in this world, only a few poor families originally lived here temporarily, and later gradually formed such a
Large-scale settlements have turned into alternative villages attached to the periphery of the city.
However, this situation only occurs in Beicheng. Not only because Beicheng is the lower city in the traditional sense, but also because the vast plains in the north of the city are the best farming areas and pastures in the Tobesk region.
Manpower is always needed here, and the suburban villages and towns between the open plains in the north of the city and the city seem to have naturally existed for this prosperous steam city.
Avoiding the drunken man who was holding on to the mud wall and vomiting, bypassing the boy who was urinating in front of his door, and then using his eyes to intimidate the black wolfdog who wanted to growl at the stranger, Shade followed Miss Louisa through the seemingly empty space.
A small suburban village two centuries behind the city.
There is no exact edge of the village, but the houses are gradually sparse, which means that they are moving away from human settlements.
Further away was a small forest. It only took less than five minutes to follow the forest path through the woodland. Then a gravel path appeared in front of me connecting it. I walked a few hundred steps further along the path, and finally
I saw the destination of this trip, a cemetery located in the northern suburbs of the city.
This place does not belong to the city's public cemetery. The city's public cemetery is under the unified jurisdiction of the [Church of Nature and Evil Thoughts] and the city hall. Shade's boss, Mr. Anlos, almost got this leisurely job.
This belongs to people who live in or outside the city but are not eligible to be buried in public cemeteries.
Although the price of graves in the Tobesk Public Cemetery is low, there are always people in the world who cannot afford that price. As a result, some cemeteries have appeared on the outskirts of the city that allow poor people to be buried. As for safety and environment, it is not
Something that poor people can think about.
There is no fog like that in the city on the outskirts of the city. The cemetery located by the forest is very clear under the light of March, and it can even be said to be a bit magical.
Miss Louisa slowed down her pace, walked side by side with Shade, and whispered to him:
"The person we are going to visit, usually called Mr. Copus, is the largest provider of corpse-like materials in the Tobesk area. But this man is the gravekeeper here and has a very weird temper. Whether it is or not
Regular customers, any ring warlock who enters the cemetery he manages after the sun goes down will be treated unfriendly by him, but he only receives guests after the sun goes down. So follow me for a while, and don't use Silver Moon's thaumaturgy.
, I will just deal with any danger."
"Is he an illegal character?"
Shade whispered again and heard that the sound of his shoes stepping on the dead branches on the gravel path seemed to spread far away.
"Although this person has a bit of an eccentric personality, he usually hides in the cemetery to do his own research. Any wanted notice from the Zhengshen Church will not match him. Moreover, most of them are unfriendly to visitors who come at night.
Just a warning."
The blonde girl replied.
"So where did those body materials come from? It can't be..."
Shade quietly pointed forward.
"At least it wasn't dug out of this cemetery. No gravekeeper would be stupid enough to steal a corpse from a place under his own jurisdiction. As for where it came from... Detective, I can't answer this question."
"Detective" is used instead of "Shadow" because the two are already close to the cemetery.
Shade shut his mouth and followed Miss Louisa silently.
He understood that the source of corpse-like materials could not be legal in an era when this kind of order was established. As for whether it was dug up, purchased, or other means, he could not guess, and he could not guess it at all, so he simply did not worry about it.