Chapter 850 White River Valley Vineyard (please subscribe)
"Is this a wine cellar? It's already winter, so there shouldn't be many people coming to the wine cellar. Moreover, I remember that there are indeed many wineries near Huntington, which is a good sign."
Shade thought silently in his heart, lit up the light on his fingertips and looked around more carefully.
This is not a place like Coldwater Port and Midhill Castle, where almost no one appears, but a building with an owner like St. Teresa Square. But it seems that the owner here has no idea about the hidden wall, let alone
Someone will appear from here.
Out of caution, Shade still used [Echoes of the Past] to listen, but many attempts yielded no results, which meant that no humans had spoken nearby in the past 48 hours.
Knowing this, Shade felt more at ease, and the wineries around Huntington were usually not too far from the city. If this was really near the city of red wine, there was still a possibility of being discovered even if he went in and out of here.
But at least he was sure that he was not far from his destination:
"That golden lucky rabbit's foot is really lucky, but I'm probably going to dream about a lot of rabbits tonight. I don't know if they will like the silver moon in my dream."
He thought in his mind, and then calculated the possibility of buying the wine cellar and the buildings on the ground. But then he thought that he was from Delarian and wanted to buy property in a foreign land.
, even if he has enough cash in hand and the owner here is willing to sell, he may still need to find a trustworthy agent locally.
He used the door key to open the chain on the fence door. After carefully pushing the door and walking out, he found a sloping corridor outside in the dark. The room he walked out of was at the deepest point. There were only four rooms on both sides of the corridor.
In other words, there are actually four wine cellars here. Based on the area and the number of wine barrels that Shade saw just now, this should be considered a small-scale winery.
Even if a foreigner doesn't know much about the brewing industry in this world, he still knows that if he is willing to spend all his savings of 10,000 pounds, there is still hope to buy it:
"However, we still need to find out where I appeared."
The sloping underground corridor is not long. The ground is a dirt road paved with gravel to increase friction. The surrounding walls are not flat. It seems that they have not been processed since they were excavated. However, the wine cellar does not need to be smoothed deliberately.
wall.
At the end of the dark corridor, there was a closed iron door. Shade held his breath and listened to the door for a while. He didn't hear any sound. Then he carefully applied the witch's eye shadow, put on his mask, and opened the door.
He unlocked the door and walked out.
The door is not outside, but a horizontal corridor. Compared with the dryness in the wine cellar, it is a little damp. Opposite the iron door of the wine cellar, there is another wooden door on the wall of the corridor, and sunlight can be seen through the crack of the door.
It means that that is the exit. And the end of the corridor extending to the left and right seems to lead to other warehouses.
There is still no one here. It looks like a warehouse in a countryman's yard. It is a bit dilapidated, but there are also signs of regular use.
The gas lamp hanging on the wall was not lit, and a piece of paper was posted under the dirty gas lamp. Shade looked through the light from the crack of the door and saw that it was written in Kasenlic language——
[Precautions for working in the White River Valley Vineyard]
【Don't steal】
[Please make sure to wear clothes in any season]
[The wine cellar door is not allowed to be opened at will]
[No unauthorized entry into the warehouse without permission]
[All vineyard properties belong to the glorious Angevin family]
"The cellar door is not allowed to be opened at will" is written in small words, which roughly explains the impact of air circulation on grape fermentation.
“White River Valley Vineyard?”
Shade was very sure that he had never heard of this name, but the "Anjou family" was the royal family of Carsenlic, which meant that this vineyard was the property of the king. But judging from the general appearance of this countryside,
It should be an industry that is not taken seriously.
Looking at those Kassenlick words again, Shade thought of his poor "foreign language" skills, and was a little worried about communication problems in the future when he met people:
"Yes, after I return, I will find a qualified foreign language teacher in Tobesk and learn the Kasenlik language systematically."
He knows some of this language himself, and his strong mental power makes his memory and understanding very strong, so it is not difficult to learn this language.
Outside this horizontal corridor is the outdoors. Shade still carefully listened for any sounds outside. Unexpectedly, just as he approached the wooden door that seemed to be able to be kicked open, he heard the vague sound of Kassenrik.
Words, floating from afar:
"Remember to wash away the blood from the head and legs. The price will still be the same as before."
"Um?"
Shade frowned, suspecting that he heard wrongly, so he listened more carefully:
"Trash. Yes, deal with it all at once and don't let others see it. Remember to keep the blood and swallow it yourself in winter."
"What happened to me?"
As I was thinking about it, the conversation outside stopped. Then the sound of horse whips and wheels came closer until they stopped outside the door.
At this time, Shade had returned behind the iron door leading to the wine cellar and heard the sound of the wooden door outside being opened. In order to prevent the outside air from affecting the wine making in the wine cellar, there was no gap in the iron door through which one could peek outside.
, Shade could only hear a man instructing several other people to carry some heavy items. From their exchanges, it could be heard that the left and right sides of the corridor outside were the warehouses of this vineyard.
The moving work was quickly over, and after everyone left, Shade came out of the wine cellar again. Even without using [Echo of Blood], he could already detect the smell of blood in the air:
"I won't come across the scene of murder and corpse dumping, right?"
He hesitated and walked towards the warehouse at the other end of the corridor to take a look and confirm what was just transported in. But just after taking two steps, the door of the warehouse at the end of the corridor was pushed open, revealing an old man with a bat symbol suspended above his head.
, walked out of the warehouse with hands behind his back.
The latter raised his head and saw Shade through the light of the weak candle in his hand, and was also stunned:
"Um?"
Before Shade could judge what to do next, the old man took a step back in horror, almost losing his grip on the candle in his hand. He gasped for air, and then shouted loudly in Kasenlik with a heavy accent:
"Come quickly! There's a thief! There's a thief in the warehouse!"
This was the first time that Shade broke into someone else's home and was discovered, but at this time he could not allow him to think about it any more. The door from the corridor to the yard outside was pushed open, and in the sunlight that poured into the gloomy and damp corridor.
, a middle-aged man dressed as a coachman appeared behind Shade. And above his head, there was also a pattern of a small bat suspended.
"Where did so many vampires come from?"
The new vampires who appeared were also quite surprised that there was a masked stranger here. He looked very strong, but he did not pounce on Shade or use the power of vampires to deal with him. The man seemed to be frightened.
He also grabbed the door and took a step back, then shouted in panic:
"Sir, come quickly, there is really a thief! There is a thief in the warehouse!"
Although his Kasenric wasn't up to par with the standards of the foreigners Shade met in Delarion, at least he didn't have a heavy accent.
Seeing Shade looking at him, the sturdy man in a shirt immediately emphasized:
"Don't pull out a gun! You have to think clearly that there is a difference between a burglary and a robber! You look very young, so don't go down the wrong path. If you have any difficulties, you can speak up, but don't be impulsive."