There was a bit of silence between the two of them, as if they were thinking about such a proposition in their hearts.
After a moment, Brando asked: "Antitina, do you know what your father did before?"
The staff lady shook her head slightly: "I'm not sure. Ever since I became sensible, my life has been quite peaceful and comfortable, just like other families of our class. In Prague, my father has several properties, and his source of income comes from him.
The last period before his disappearance was relatively stable. I only know that my father had a difficult time when he was young, but neither my father nor my mother told me the details."
Brando pursed his lips slightly.
He was thinking about several things, what exactly was the "picture of the truth and fragmentary riddles that finally formed" that the letter referred to, what had happened to them and his grandfather, and who was the princess referred to in the letter?
——He was sure that it couldn't be Princess Griffin. Neither she nor Haruze were born at that time. Finally, why do these insignificant cultists have such a letter in their hands?
, Magsk and Test are unlikely to leave such an important thing to a group of minions.
These desperadoes so carefully sealed this letter into the cover of the "Code of Everything", obviously understanding the value of this letter.
"Antitina," Brando raised the letter: "Do you think it is possible for them to find a way to see the content of this letter."
Of course he was referring to the cultists. Antitina glanced over there and shook her head decisively and affirmatively: "They can't possibly see that the person who can make this letter show the text is my father's family's unique one."
method."
"By the way," Brando suddenly remembered: "How did you recognize this letter?"
Antitina was startled, and then replied: "Because there is a special mark on my father's letter. This mark can be hidden from them, but not from me."
"But you haven't seen this parchment before, have you?" Brando was a little confused.
Antitina opened her mouth and was stunned for a moment before replying: "Lord, Dean told me earlier that these people broke into my home and found my father's old house in Huan District. I had already
I'm suspicious. I think they probably got the information about my father's inheritance from some channels, and the letter may have gotten into their hands in this way, but they may not be able to understand the letter, otherwise their efforts would not be in vain.
Already."
Brando pressed his hand on the parchment and was attracted by Antitina's words: "You said they were in vain. You knew your father's inheritance was not there. By the way, you said before that your parents first lived there.
where?"
"In the Old Town, Squirrel Street—"
While Brando and Antitina were discussing, Freya and Little Phoenix assisted the patrol cavalry to monitor the restless cultists. After a night of tossing, the eastern sky soon turned white, and Tadisha sank into the horizon.
After that, a new day has arrived.
The patrol cavalry cleared the hunter camp before dawn. Before leaving, Oujin thanked Brando repeatedly. The captain of the patrol cavalry was extremely complimentary, as if compared with this small credit, he could establish a relationship with the Earl.
That's the important thing.
Brando did not expose him, but thanked him sincerely. The two parties separated outside the forest. The young men patrolling the cavalry were quite impressed by the Earl who had no airs, and repeatedly told him that these desperadoes must be hanged.
When he went to visit, Brando didn't understand why these people were so interested in hanging, as if it was not murder but some kind of entertainment show. Eugene also promised to persuade the House of Lords to issue him a bronze Star Flame Medal.
However, things like the Starfire Medal have become widespread since the Ansem era, and are not as valuable as the Candlelight Medal, which only the royal family and the Temple of Fire are qualified to issue.
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The old city of Squirrel Street has been completely renovated after the Year of Howling, and has been incorporated into the public cemetery. It is not too far from Antitina's residence on Gravedigger Street, but you have to cross the
Facing the underground crypt, there are sparsely populated and cold streets even during the day. The cemetery is located behind a temple belonging to the God of Death, which is quietly located at the junction of Squirrel Street and Gravedigger Street.
, Brando asked Dean to bribe the monks in the temple, and then agreed to let them enter the public cemetery to take a look. The old monk wearing a gray-brown monk's robe led them through large and small temples supported by countless arch beams.
corridor, then through a small door to the back of the temple, and after passing through a forest, entered the scope of the public cemetery.
This is a quiet place surrounded by trees. There are many unknown or famous tombstones in the open space between the tree crown arches. Several stone paths surround it, leading to the misty and unknown depths of the forest.
"He's not worried about us?" Freya couldn't help but asked in surprise when she saw the old monk returning to the temple and closing the door.
"He is timid. I heard that there are many legends about this cemetery. I heard that there are many strange things wandering in the woods, and people are killed near here every year." Little Phoenix was quite impressed.
He replied disdainfully.
"It's not that scary. It's just to deceive outsiders, because some people want to use this coat to do illegal things here - murder, secret transactions, and whispers in the forest are all conspiracies and poisonous schemes. In fact, these old monks know best.
After hearing what Little Phoenix said, Dean smiled and replied: "Anyway, as long as someone pays the money, he doesn't care what we want to do."
"But they're not afraid...?" Even though she had seen a lot, Freya still couldn't believe it.
"These are all open secrets. Tomb robbing and corpse selling. There are even necromancers who secretly buy corpses from certain monks as research materials. There is a huge underground black market here. How can those monks not know about it?"
Freya let out a breath of disgust, "It's really blasphemous."
"Necromancers also believe in Martha, don't they?" Dean replied nonchalantly.
Freya frowned and glanced at him. The young man realized that he seemed to have said the wrong thing and quickly added: "Those monks are inextricably linked to the Temple of Fire. Even the nobles are not willing to provoke them.
Besides, the nobles have family tombs, and they are unwilling to interfere, so what can we do. Those necromancers are mostly members of the gray field, and ordinary people dare not offend them."
Freya knew that what he said was the truth. Although she was not willing to listen, she just frowned and did not speak. She gritted her teeth tightly, making people worry that if the old monk appeared in front of her again, he would ask her to pull it out.
The sword stabbed me to the core.
There was no expression on Brando's face. What Dean said was all commonplace for him. However, it is not necessarily true that there is no danger in this cemetery. How can a normal place be filled with fog like this in broad daylight?
The atmosphere was so gloomy that the visibility did not exceed ten meters. Surrounded by trees, it seemed as if the sun could not penetrate. It was just after noon, but the cemetery seemed to be ten o'clock in the evening - and it was still cloudy. The supernatural mystery came from
Underground, there is a larger cemetery there, the underground public crypt of Braggs, which is full of dangers and full of zombies and moving skeletons. Since the Year of Howling, not many people have dared to enter it.
But that was not their purpose today. He asked Antitina beside him: "Antitina, are you sure you are in here?"
The temperature in the cemetery suddenly dropped several degrees compared to the outside. Antitina's face turned blue from the cold. She pressed her shawl and replied in a low voice: "The residential areas nearby were demolished twenty years ago.
Yes, it was designated as a cemetery, but I heard that my parents were lucky enough to keep the house they originally rented, and there was a gravekeeper living there."
"There are actually tombkeepers here?" Freya was slightly surprised. She thought this place was completely lawless.
"At least in name." Antitina is a local after all. In fact, she has heard more or less what Dean said, but she is unwilling to speak. She frowned and said: "I heard
He helped the tomb robbers transport the corpses and ran this shady industry."
"Industry." Freya almost fainted from anger.
Brando heard her gritting her teeth.
Not long after walking, they found the house where the tombkeeper lived. Antitina still retained the direction in her memory, and Dean could actually find that place - they passed through the lush forest and the dense trees.
Looking at the tombstone, he saw a two-story independent wooden house appearing in the mist, standing alone in the depths of the forest. Dean had already contacted the tombkeeper, and the tombkeeper naturally did not know Brando's identity.
But when I heard that a nobleman was coming, he thought he had encountered a big deal, so he was waiting respectfully in front of him.
The gravekeeper is called Lao Huatou. His real name has long been forgotten. He looks like a skeleton buried in the ground. He looks exactly like the image of this profession in Brando's mind. It makes people think that he has met a man.
The living corpse monster - stooped and rickety, is similar to Quasimodo, the weirdo in Notre Dame de Paris, except that the latter has a noble soul, while the former is full of evil; it is difficult to see him.
At his age, his face is full of wrinkles, but his eyes are still vivid, as if he is always thinking about dark thoughts. The top of his head has gone bald, and there are still a few sparse hairs standing up lazily, as if they belong to the forest in the mist.
Reduce and reproduce.
Freya looked at this guy coldly, but Brando was too lazy to embarrass such a small person. In fact, sometimes these shameful industries may not be what these people are willing to do. He understands that everyone in this world is more or less lost.
In such an era, the blame should not be placed on a certain person, otherwise it would be pure venting of anger. But this does not mean that he is willing to deal with this kind of person too much. He glanced at this guy and did not even think about greetings.
Qi Feng asked directly: "You already know what requirements we have, right?"
The tombkeeper hurriedly nodded and bowed and respectfully handed Brando a bunch of keys. This was what Dean had already told him. Although he didn't know what the young noble wanted to use his house for, he at least knew Dean.
, the young man gave him a large sum of money - of course that money could not belong to Dean. He knew very well that he could not ask more about anything in this place. Who knew what this noble wanted to do? The better he knew, the more he would know.
More means danger, not to mention the nobles all have some weird habits. He quietly glanced at the two beautiful girls behind Brando, and had some shameful thoughts in his heart, but he didn't show it at all on the surface.
come out.
For him, all he needs to do is get the money.
Freya watched the tombkeeper leave in the distance and got into the mist. She clenched and unclenched her hands several times. The guy looked at her with such greedy and filthy eyes that he thought she was innocent.
I saw that she almost couldn't help but have an attack several times, but after all, she was no longer the little girl who had just walked out of Buqi and was indifferent to the world, so she endured it. Brando looked at her and An apologetically.
With one look at Titina, the sullenness in the two ladies' hearts disappeared naturally.
The three of them entered the house - Dean and Little Phoenix consciously stayed outside. In fact, Brando didn't need to avoid Little Phoenix, but the latter knew that he needed to stay and watch the boy. This was what Brando had done beforehand.
Antitina, who had warned him, first entered each room and took a look one by one, as if she wanted to find traces of her parents' past life in this ancient house. However, she was destined to be disappointed.
There were piles of coffins, and there was a disgusting smell. The staff lady went from downstairs to upstairs, and then back to the living room. Her face was very ugly, and she almost felt sick.
"Is it here?" Brando looked at her face and couldn't help but asked with concern.
Antitina nodded silently.
"Can you confirm where it is?"
"Behind the house, there is a black pine tree. If I remember correctly, it should be under the tree. There is a small pool there, so it should not be designated as a cemetery. I remember my father once told me.
" Antitina recalled and replied: "He and his mother met at a ball in Baden, and they had their first date at this place..." She looked at this place with some disgust: "Of course, this place was still here at that time.
In a residential area, you can see the Butchi River not far away.”
"Then let's go to the yard quickly," Freya replied with a frown: "I really don't want to stay here any longer. It's so damned. This guy actually destroyed the place where Antitina's parents used to live.
It’s like this—a smoky mess!”
Brando couldn't help but smile bitterly after hearing this. This is probably the so-called transitive hatred. In his opinion, this house is not a big deal - the tombkeeper's house, shouldn't it be like this? The stench is just...
It's just the smell of staleness and the stench of corpses. Although the tombkeeper is undesirable, he was condemned for this matter and suffered an unreasonable disaster. But he did not dare to say this in front of the two ladies, because he
I saw Antitina glance at Freya with obvious gratitude.
It seems that ever since they cried together in front of their mother, the relationship between the two has become better and better.
Just like the traditional structure of a house in Prague, the kitchen leads to the back door. Antitina took them to the yard at the back. Sure enough, there was a tall black pine behind the house, but the pond in her memory had dried up.
The gravekeeper had no idea of turning his backyard into a cemetery, and no one had touched the yard. But Antitina was not sure where his father's inheritance was buried under the black pine tree, so Brando and
Freya could only dig a circle under the tree, but fortunately there was a shovel in the gravekeeper's house, and the two of them had endless energy.
For the first hour or two, they didn't get anything at all. Antitina's father seemed to have buried the things very deep - or they guessed wrong, the things weren't there at all - or maybe they had been dug away. In short,
The pit was dug deeper and deeper, and the things that could be imagined were nowhere to be seen. But when Freya dug about two or three meters deep in a certain direction, she suddenly felt a ding sound as the shovel hit something hard. She
Immediately realizing what he might have discovered, he quickly stopped and took a look at the soil in that area, and sure enough, he discovered that buried under the soil was a rusty iron box.
The box was not too big, only about the size of a suitcase. Freya quickly called Brando and Antitina, and the three of them worked together to dig the box out from under the soil. After they cleaned the box
, the front of the box revealed an emblem embossed on the surface of the box. The shield-shaped emblem was divided into four grids, with a crescent moon on each of the two staggered grids. Brando couldn't help but gently caress when he saw this emblem.
The ground groaned. The crescent moon is the symbol of Eruin. The emblem of the royal family of Sifah is the crescent emblem embedded in the full moon on the shield. The emblem of the Corcova family is derived from the royal family of Sifah.
The emblem of the family - three diagonal crescents on the coat of arms. Any family emblem with crescents on it is more or less inextricably linked to the bloodline of the royal family.
Brando couldn't help but glance at Antitina. He didn't expect that her family had at least some side relationship with the royal family. However, his knowledge of heraldry was quite lacking, otherwise he would probably be able to recognize that this was the family.
Descendants of a royal family.
"My father is a noble from Sifah, Lord..." Antitina had to explain in a low voice.
Brando suddenly realized that it was not surprising that the nobles of Sifah had more or less connections with the royal family. But this doubt only flashed through his mind, and he quickly put it aside.
I thought and glanced at Antitina. At least for now, the person most suitable to open this box is undoubtedly this noble lady.
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