The distance from the wine estate to Viscount Vermeer's residence was not that far, but the distance of less than two kilometers was extremely painful for Angelina, who heard the news, and every second she sat in the carriage.
She looked at the scenery outside the carriage window, the lush gardens made of bright flowers and plants, and the aristocratic mansions with exquisite architectural aesthetics. She was indifferent to these. All she could see at the moment was the gloomy sky that occupied less than one-tenth of the place.
Just like her heart.
Although as a child who grew up in a slum and an orphanage, her emotions when faced with life and death are often much lighter than those of nobles in the greenhouse. From the time she received the news that Woody told her to this day, she has not left a single drop of pain.
Tears, she just asked him calmly to help her prepare a carriage, but a thick layer of haze was inevitably buried in her heart, but the light in her heart never disappeared.
She wanted to go to the scene and see where they last disappeared. Angelena never thought of giving up until the last moment, or before she saw their bodies.
The sound of horse hooves continued, and the mansions were quickly left behind.
The monk girl's eyes were unfocused, but this was understandable to Woody sitting at the other end of the carriage.
He is just a little curious now. Logically speaking, even if Viscount Vermeer is pretending to be a drow, why should he run away with a bunch of children who can only be a drag? Killing him directly on the spot is more in line with the drow's always fierce style.
Unless it is a specialized slave-catching team, but this conflicts with his disguised identity...
No matter what, let’s go look somewhere first.
It has to be said that what happened in the past few days really troubled him, who did not have much clear understanding of the events in the southern region. Fortunately, he quickly adjusted it. His inner strength gradually strengthened in countless battles in the past was enough to make him
Woody never changes his face when facing anything, and faces and accepts it calmly.
"Master, we're here."
Following the coachman's reminder, the black carriage branded with the emblem of the Edith family quickly stopped, and noble guards appeared on the street outside the carriage window.
Angelina in the carriage got up faster than Woody expected. She pursed her lips and stepped out of the carriage with extra firm steps. Woody followed him out of the carriage without saying anything, but with a look of appreciation in his eyes.
Flash away.
The two of them soon arrived in front of Viscount Vermeer's mansion. There were already several noble guards in front of the door, guarding the thick iron fence and the gate with the pattern of a lion.
After explaining his purpose, Woody relied on his status as a noble of the Edith family. The guard at the door did not embarrass them, but only told them not to enter the mansion. The place where he disappeared was in the open space in the garden of Viscount Vermeer.
When Woody and Angelina walked around the flowerbed and came to the garden space used by the nobles for daily gatherings, they were immediately shocked by the scene in front of them, because the original green lawn was completely gone, leaving only a radius of 20
There is a huge deep pit with a radius of 1.5 meters, and the cracks caused by the deep pit have spread to the corners of the main mansion, making it look precarious.
It turned out that the so-called disappearance was caused by falling to the ground together with the sudden appearance of the deep pit, and the previous confusion was immediately solved.
Woody knew it in his heart.
At this time, a group of people had gathered at the edge of the pit, and the groups were clearly differentiated.
Most of the people on the right are elegant nobles, both men and women. From the aristocratic lady wearing a white lace skirt and a white velvet-trimmed lady's hat, to the knight of the Vermeer family in beautiful armor, they are all in the same place.
, the face may be sad and anxious.
On the right are shirtless hard workers, who are carrying loaders full of soil and filling the deep pits with spoonfuls of soil. But the most eye-catching one among them is a middle-aged man in a robe.
Standing in the middle of the two groups, he was also the human closest to the edge of the pit. Woody could only see his back, and the thin and powerful hand holding a curved staff with a transparent gem on the top.
The staff, the top of the staff is shining with mysterious colors at this moment.
Angelina, who had a keen sense, was already one step ahead and quickly stepped forward to ask a waiter who had just left the garden with an empty tray and headed to the mansion.
"Excuse me, do you know where the children from the workhouse have gone?"
"There is a girl who is about nine years old, with blond hair, and a babyish face. There is also a slightly smaller one, and a boy with brown hair, chestnut eyes, who looks very smart..."
Angelena described the appearance of Lin and others in detail. She never gave up hope, but from the eyes of the servant of the Vermeer family in front of her, she still got the result that she least wanted to guess.
"Madam, they..."
"…them what?"
Looking at the hesitant face of the servant, Angelena couldn't help but follow his eyes and noticed the deep pit being filled with earth not far away.
But before the servant could tell him, a cursing voice came from the other side.
"Didn't you tell them not to let people in randomly? They are a bunch of trash! Get her out quickly!"
Obviously, some nobles have noticed Angelena's arrival, and Vann Vermeer was the first to see it.
He is also the consul responsible for security at the estate.
Moreover, due to the accident in the workhouse, many people have come to this mansion, including a group of unscrupulous people with ill intentions who tried to use this incident to ask for a large amount of compensation. Originally,
A group of orphaned children had at least three more pairs of parents and relatives at one time.
So when he heard Angelena's words, he was so impatient that he started to curse.
"Get out quickly, this is not the place you should be! There are no girls and boys of yours here!"
"Although I don't know how you got in, I have already given the money to Old Mande. You go to him!"
However, after seeing Angelina's face, her tone became slightly better, but still stern. Old Mande was the director of the almshouse, and all affairs of the almshouse were handled by him.
"No, I'm not here to ask for money. I'm looking for my brothers and sisters! This is where they last appeared. Did you see a girl about nine years old with blond hair..."
Angelina shook her head, pursed her lips and said, but her words were sonorous and powerful, showing no signs of weakness.
But for Vann, her persistence and emotion are just another way to use emotion to increase her bargaining chip.
Therefore he was even more disgusted.
"Get out! There is no one you are looking for here! Greedy maggots! Don't stay here and disturb order."
Vann cursed angrily. The death of the Viscount has turned the huge Vermeer Manor into a headless fly. Now all the guys with the Vermeer surname are coveting this manor and its properties.
If he doesn't handle it well, he will soon be labeled as incompetent by other malicious members of his clan, and then he will just like other down-and-out nobles, take some money and leave.
In the end, he either becomes a businessman running around for a living, or he squanders all his money and soon becomes a homeless man in the gutter that no one can recognize.
This is not the life he wants to live, what to do with his life and his lovers!
Therefore, he must not expose anything for them to criticize, so that he can get his true share in the division of inheritance.
Valley abandoned
Other nobles in the distance had already noticed the outsider. After casting their eyes here, they noticed something strange and rushed over.
After Fan En noticed it, he became more and more anxious. Without waiting for Angelena's reply, he directly ordered the available manor servants around him to arrest her.
Soon, a small group of manors obeyed the order and began to surround Angelena. When issuing these orders, his eyes were filled with the shameless look of the untouchable in the lower city before him.
As for the man on the other side of the road not far behind her, he subconsciously classified him as a nobleman who came to the manor to express his condolences.
After all, Woody today is wearing an exquisite aristocratic dress. The clean and tidy patterned bow tie covers his strong muscle outline. Coupled with his golden eyes and rare long black hair, he gives people a charming look.
The beauty of an exotic hybrid.
After Angelina received the news, she didn't have time to change her clothes. She was still wearing the linen shorts and shorts she wore during training. Apart from her physical fitness, there was nothing commendable about her. Maybe he would think of changing her clothes at ordinary times.
Change the taste, but at this time, the priority of the lower body is far less than status and power, as well as money.
"Wait! Don't move!"
However, not long after Fann gave the order, a loud command stopped the surrounding attendants from surrounding him. The sound did not come from the front, but from his back, which made Fann look behind him in confusion.
The speaker was a middle-aged man with thin cheeks and a particularly pointed chin. He was very familiar with Fit Vermeer, one of the current speakers of the Vermeer family.
"Old Feite! What do you want to do!"
Fann's voice was a little distorted and urgent. He didn't understand why Fate wanted to stop him.
But Fit ignored him and walked straight past Vann without even looking at him. He didn't look at Angelina either. Instead, he looked at Woody, adjusted his monocle, and then took off his hat to greet him.
"Have a good morning, Mr. Woody. On behalf of the Vermeer Manor, I welcome you."
At this time, Fann and other manor servants who had originally wanted to take action realized that the young nobleman not far away was in the same group as the girl in front of him.
Vann, who was suddenly stunned, also judged the identity of the young nobleman in front of him from Woody's clothes and the name Fate said.
The gilded Cuban Viallo text on the cuffs represents his family.
——"Edith"
In the whole of Palermo, there is only one Edith family.
Coupled with the fact that the young noble in front of him has long black hair that is very different from the long golden hair of the Edith family, and combined with Fite's name, it is not difficult for others to think of the man whose parents are from the Aleister family who lives in the wine estate.
Both of his parents died. He came to Palermo to live with his aunt at the age of ten. He was a lucky man who shocked the aristocratic circle of Palermo with his legendary events in the past two days.
——"Woody Aleister."
Perhaps they could have ignored it a few days ago, but after experiencing the expedition ceremony last night and witnessing several members of the Vermeer family, they naturally understood the significance of the mysterious person appearing behind the Edith family, even the earl.
What's more, the occurrence of the Vermeer family's Zall incident and the death of the Viscount have made the entire family's political status in the aristocratic circle far worse than before. Now facing the rising aristocratic star, even if they are not eager to take sides, they will naturally respond in a gentle manner.
Lord.
"Mr. Fit, I just came with my friend to investigate a missing incident. Her younger brother and sister disappeared during the garden benefit performance. I want to know their current whereabouts and the results of your investigation."
He briefly described his needs.
The most important thing for him now is to find the traces of those children, and the same goes for Angelina. She continued to describe Lin's appearance to the middle-aged noble.
But all he got in exchange was the slightly sad look of the nobleman in front of him.
"I'm very sorry, ma'am. It's the Vermeer family who failed to protect your younger brothers and sisters. Now they have fallen into the pit in the garden. I also sent several waves of people down to investigate, but in the end nothing was found."
"However, madam, please rest assured that the Vermeer family will give you a satisfactory answer."
"Wait until Master Kamiya finishes communicating with the elemental plane of earth and fill this deep pit with soil."
"must……"
But Fit found that before he finished speaking, the girl in front of him walked directly towards the pit. He subconsciously looked at Woody's direction, only to find that the young nobleman was also approaching the pit with her, and the air
Only the girl's whispering words remained.
"Thank you."
"But I don't need your satisfactory answer, I will find it myself!"
"Please help us communicate. We need to take up some of your time. Don't mind filling in the holes later!"
As for the last sentence, it was the plan that the young noble told him when he passed by. Fite could only sigh and quickly stepped forward to discuss with the mage who was launching a ceremony to communicate with the elemental plane.
.
As for the noble consul who was standing there blankly, originally trying to drive Angelina away, no one cared about his appearance, and even his name was forgotten.
…
Because of the nobles, the spellcaster had already been informed of the purpose of Woody and others' arrival, and gave up the plan to communicate with the earth elemental plane.
However, he still expressed fiercely that he could not waste too much time. After all, the mage's time was precious. If it were not for the sake of enough gold coins, he would not bother to be a porter of the earth elemental plane here.
Woody and Angelina had already reached the edge of the pit in full view of everyone.
The pit is not as deep as expected, only about ten meters above the surface. However, there are piles of rocks in it, the terrain is rugged, and there are long and narrow passages dug by unknown creatures on the exposed rock walls.
Woody recognized at a glance that this was probably a tunnel dug by the "trembling worm", a typical insect creature in the Underdark.
Because only creatures that rely on swallowing soil to move forward can dig and form underground tunnels that can be passed by people. Moreover, he has seen the traces of this kind of creature in the previous life countless times.
Not far away from ten.
Naturally, Angelina would not lament the autumn at the edge. Now she just wanted to reach the ground quickly and then start searching for her younger brothers and sisters.
You want to see people alive, and you want to see corpses when dead.
Woody naturally followed her down, but when he reached the bottom of the pit, he did not search for it piece by piece like Angelina.
Instead, in the shadow where no one is watching, the whole person blends into the soil.
