Uncle Peg stood at the door of his stone house wearing an old sheepskin coat, watching a figure in the distance holding a burning fire stick approaching the pier from the gravel beach by the lake.
"Claude, is that you?" Uncle Peg shouted.
The figure climbed up the pier of the pier with some difficulty: "It's me, Uncle Peg."
"Didn't you find Ike's boat? What's wrong with you?" Uncle Peg asked.
Claude's walking posture was a little staggering: "Don't mention it, I went around a lot and didn't find Ike and Vero, and I don't know where they took the boat. I had no luck when I came back.
Sora even fell down..."
"Are you okay?" Uncle Peg could vaguely see some dirt on Claude's body through the light of the fire stick. It seemed that the fall was strong enough.
"I'm fine, Uncle Peg." Claude walked to the carriage parked at the dock. When he got there, he unloaded his backpack on the carriage. Then he climbed into the carriage and sat in the driving seat, driving the black horse.
Come to the dock gate.
"Uncle Peg, thank you for waiting for me for such a long time. It's a pity that I couldn't find Ike and Willow. Tomorrow is Sunday, and they may not come back until the afternoon. Then you can just tell them that I have been here. Now I
Go back and take a hot bath first. You are covered in mud and very dirty. In two days I will catch a rabbit at the forest farm and give it to uncle to drink with you." Claude said very politely.
"It's okay, I will tell Ike and Vero. Be careful on your way back and don't drive the carriage too fast." Uncle Peg opened the gate of the dock.
After saying goodbye to Uncle Peg, Claude drove the carriage back to the forest farm. The journey was smooth. After returning to the forest farm, he unloaded the carriage, drove the black horse Jamie back to the stable, and added horse feed to its trough.
He Shui. Then he said hello to Sioli who came out of the shed when he heard the noise in the chicken farm in the forest next to the mountain. After asking if anything happened at the chicken farm at night, he went to the chicken farm with his backpack on his back.
Walk to the small wooden house where you live.
After returning to the cabin, Claude lit the oil lamp, took out all the magic materials in his backpack and put them away. Then he hung the hunting crossbow that the bearded man used to ambush him on the wall, and then found a bottle of healing potion.
Apply it on the wounds on the body. After doing all this, Claude took another dark robe from the closet and put it on, hung the captured dagger on his waist, and pulled the magic hand crossbow.
String the arrow and tie it to your right arm.
Finally, Claude picked up two bottles of kale, which he bought in the pharmacy laboratory to distill alcohol for experiments. He bought a box of twelve bottles in total, and seven bottles have been used. Combine these two bottles of kale.
Lanjiu put it into the empty backpack, put the backpack on his back, blew out the oil lamp, quietly opened the door, and walked out of the cabin. With the help of the shadows of the house and trees, Claude quietly left again
After arriving at the forest farm, we walked down the mountain.
There are still many things to do tonight, I have to hurry up, there are still things to be busy with... Looking at the silver moon in the sky, half of its body covered by clouds, Claude sighed and continued on his way silently.
It only takes about forty minutes to drive a carriage from the forest farm to the private dock of Ericson's house. But it takes more than two hours to walk there. However, it is almost midnight, and there are no people on the street.
Nothing, Claude didn't need to worry about meeting someone who knew him. He could move quickly along the road, as long as he was careful to avoid the night patrols.
It was about one o'clock in the evening when we arrived at Erikson's private dock. Claude had no intention of going in, but turned a corner, walked from the alley next to the dock to the lakeside, and descended to the gravel beside the lake.
On the beach, follow the old path again along the lake embankment.
About ten minutes later, Claude once again came to the grove where he was ambushed by the bearded man. At this time, Claude picked up the magic hand crossbow, cautiously approached the grove, and raised his ears to listen to what was going on around him.
After a while, after confirming that there was nothing unusual around him, Claude relaxed. He walked through the woods and came to the lake embankment here. He looked around again and found that there was no movement. Claude slowly climbed down.
Across the lake embankment.
The body of the bearded man with beards was hidden under the lake embankment. It was also covered with the blood-stained burqa that Claude took off. He picked up his burqa, folded it, and put it aside first. Claude
Then he cast a Feather Falling Technique on the corpse of the beardless man, and then grabbed the clothes on the corpse. The corpse was lifted up as lightly as a feather, and Claude just carried the corpse under the lake embankment.
Walking quickly in the shadows...
There is no way, the body of this bearded man must not be found by the lake, not even in the woods. What Claude is most worried about is that after the body is found, the patrol team starts to search for clues, so he will walk along the lake this night
The search for Ike and Vero's fishing boat will spread to their ears. Although it is possible that the patrol team will not regard him as a suspect because of his father's relationship, it is a suspicion after all, and Claude does not want to have any suspicious eyes.
Hold yourself.
This body must be disposed of.
Although Claude can call the police and report that someone was blocking the road and robbing him and he killed him in self-defense, he needs to make it clear why he went to this grove at night. In addition, Julian will definitely know his identity as soon as the news comes out, and Claude will
This is what Germany is most taboo about. Who knows if this fat old man Julian, who blocked the road to rob and ambush him, was secretly instructed by Julian? Even if not, this fat old man's big mouth is very likely to leak his identity.
, then I will never have peace in the future.
For Claude, he doesn't have the ability to destroy corpses and eliminate traces, but he can still blame others. In slums and public dock areas, making a person disappear without a trace can do this.
There are many people involved, and Claude is going to let one of them help him deal with the body. As for whether the other party is happy or not, Claude doesn't care.
The Mermaid Tavern in the dock area is an L-shaped three-story stone and wood structure building. The longer building is for hotel rooms, the shorter one is for the tavern on the first and second floors, and the third floor is the residence of the owner and his family.
Although Claude has never been to the Mermaid Tavern, he has heard from Ericson that the tavern owner Eric Sim is also a powerful figure in the underground underworld in White Deer Town. It is said that he was a
The captain of an ocean-going whaling ship also engaged in piracy at sea. Later, he lost a foot and came back to open a mermaid tavern.
The building used as a hotel by the manager of the Mermaid Tavern is located on the stone embankment by the lake. Claude can walk along the lake embankment to the bottom of the building. Since he is walking on the gravel under the lake embankment,
It is difficult for people to detect movement. On the contrary, if someone is passing by on the lake embankment, Claude can immediately hear the sound of walking and hide in a dark place without being noticed.
It's just that it takes about twenty minutes to walk all the way to the Mermaid Tavern, especially since Claude is carrying the corpse of a 1.8-meter-tall burly man. In addition, although the Feather Falling Technique is easier to use, it can transform the corpse into a
It must be as light as a feather, and the time it can maintain the effect of the spell is too short, only two minutes.
Claude had already cast seven Feather Fall spells, almost consuming all his magic power. In the end, he had no choice but to carry the body on his back for a while before arriving at the stone embankment below the Mermaid Tavern.
The long hotel building of the Mermaid Tavern has only two passages, one is inside the tavern. For example, a new guest can register at the tavern counter and pay the accommodation deposit. After getting the room key, they can go directly from the tavern.
The passage goes to the building next to it. There is also a passage at the other end of the building, but there is a gatekeeper guarding it, and there is someone on duty 24 hours a day.
Claude walked around the Mermaid Tavern twice, carefully looking at the topography and passages of the building. It was around two or three o'clock in the middle of the night, and all the people drinking in the tavern had dispersed, but there were still two people lying on one of the tables.
A drunkard was sleeping. There was also a waiter at the counter of the tavern. He was probably on duty. He ignored the two drunkards sleeping on the table and was minding his own business at the counter.
Claude didn't want to pass by the tavern. Although there were few people at this time, the tavern was relatively bright. There were four large oil lamps lit in the lobby. Under such circumstances, it would be easy for people to see his appearance clearly when entering.
Go around to the passage at the back of the building. Although there are oil lamps in the concierge, the passage is relatively dark. Perhaps someone pretending to be drunk can easily fool him through. Claude thought for a while, returned to the body, and took off his clothes.
He checked the burqa, trousers and shoes of the bearded man, then grabbed the lake mud from the ground and smeared it on the dark burqa that was full of the smell of blood.
It wasn't until all the blood stains on the burqa and trousers were smeared by the lake mud that the smell of blood could no longer be smelled. Then Claude put on the burqa and trousers of the bearded man outside his own clothes, and then walked out from there.
He took out two bottles of kale from his backpack, opened one and poured it directly on himself, and also sprinkled half of the bottle on the outer robe.
Claude took out a black charcoal pen from his backpack and painted it on his face to look like the beard of a bearded man. Claude did not expect to dress up as a bearded man, he just wanted to
There is only one similarity that makes people think that he is a burly man with a beard and beard.
Finally, Claude opened the remaining bottle of kale, poured a small half of the bottle on the ground, and then climbed up the stone embankment. After seeing that there was no one around and there was no abnormality, he began to act like a drunkard.
Holding the kale, muttering about another bottle, a toast, etc., he walked toward the passageway at the back of the building with sloppy steps.
An iron door had been closed at the entrance of the passage. Claude leaned against the iron door and slapped it twice, shouting vaguely, "Open the door!"
A big man walked out of the concierge: "Who are you?"
Claude picked up the wine bottle and held it in front of him, pretending to drink, and said vaguely: "Oh, oh, you need the key to open the door, right..."
He took out the copper key with the number 219 engraved on it from his pocket and handed it over, "Here, give you the key, open the door."
The big man looked at the numbers on the key and laughed: "It turns out to be Mr. Edmig. Why did you come back just now and be so drunk? Wait a minute, I will open the door for you. This is the door in your hand."
The key above is not the key to this iron door."
Claude pretended to be choked by wine, lowered his head and coughed hoarsely, covering his face with his hands. With the hood on top of his burqa blocking it, as long as the big man didn't see him in front of him, he wouldn't be able to find out who he was.
Counterfeit.
The big man opened the iron door and saw Claude lowering his head and coughing violently. He asked with concern: "Mr. Edmig, do you need me to take you upstairs?"
Claude lowered his head and replied hoarsely: "I, I'm not drunk, have another bottle, you, you drink too..."
He gave the wine bottle cork in his hand to the big man. When he lowered his head and saw that there was still more than half a bottle of kale, he was immediately happy: "Then go up by yourself, Mr. Edmig."
At this time, he was too lazy to send people upstairs, lest Mr. Edmigue wake up and get his wine back. Seeing Claude staggering towards the stairs, he closed the iron door and went back to the concierge.
A bottle of kale will make this night's shift much better.
Claude deliberately stumbled up to the second floor. There was no one wandering around in the long passage. However, the sounds of men and women making love and the murmurs of women could be heard from several guest rooms on both sides of the passage. This guest room
The soundproofing seems to be a bit poor...
After finding the door marked with door number 219, Claude took out the key and opened it. He turned around and looked at the passages on both sides. No one was there. Claude ducked into the guest room.