This is not a short blunderbuss with a lighted matchlock. To be precise, it is five matchlock guns of different lengths. And it is not a very common standard matchlock gun, but a strangely modified matchlock gun, even
The same goes for the short matchlock gun that was pressed against the thin man's chest. It had three barrels, which reminded Claude of Uncle Osker's double-barreled matchlock shotgun. The only thing that was the same was that the five barrels on the matchlock guns were the same.
The match ropes are all lit, and the sparks are bright and dazzling...
It seems that this matchlock is also specially made. It burns extremely slowly and the flame is very stable. Claude raised his head and carefully looked at the five men in black who entered the dead end with matchlock guns. They were wearing a bat style.
The black silk burqa, even in such a hot weather, still covered the head of the burqa, adding a sense of mystery and terror to them.
Footsteps sounded, and another person followed the five armed with matchlock guns and turned into a dead end. Claude was stunned, because he knew this person, he was a clerk in the store of Dangro Mining Company, and he seemed to be named Yi
Wago. Could it be said that the Dangro Mining Company has secretly colluded with the underworld gangs in Baimu City to make money and make plans of its own?
The clerk named Ivago came in and pointed his finger at Claude: "It's him."
All five matchlock guns were aimed at Claude at once, and the man in black who had pointed the musket against the thin man's chest pressed him on the thin man's face: "Get out of the way!"
The thin man and the remaining big man huddled in the corner shivering consciously, holding their heads in their hands, as if they wanted to squeeze their bodies into the cracks in the rocks in the corner.
"You'd better not move. Don't think that it's just our five muskets pointing at you. If you look up at the surrounding walls, you will find that there are at least a dozen muskets also aimed at you. I hope you can understand yourself.
We are in such a situation, don't resist unnecessarily. Of course, if you are willing to tell me where your companion is, I think we will get along more harmoniously?" The leader of the men in black looked at Claude and said.
Claude looked confused. This is definitely the most powerful gang he has ever seen. When will these underground gangs be able to openly run rampant in the city with matchlock guns? Aren't they afraid of being attacked?
Report? This is Limassoa County, a major mineral county in the Kingdom. If the higher-ups knew that there was an underground gang organization armed with modified matchlock guns in Shiromu City, the consequences would be very serious.
From the general manager to the officer in charge of the security battalion to the officer in charge of the patrol bureau, no one can escape if they pull out the carrot and bring out the mud. Generally speaking, you can ignore the small troubles of underground gang organizations. Anyway, these people live in the darkness.
Rats cannot be eradicated completely, as long as the scale and impact can be controlled.
But if an underground gang openly carries a matchlock gun or modified one and runs rampant on the streets, it is simply provoking the rule and dignity of the kingdom. In such a situation, the only way is to resolutely eradicate it, and even hold those local officials accountable.
A major purge from top to bottom and a major earthquake in the officialdom are inevitable.
But now that he was under the eaves, he had to lower his head. Being pointed at by more than a dozen matchlock guns, Claude had to give in: "I have no companions, only the coachman who sent me to report is still waiting for me back in the tavern.
.If you want money, I can give it to you, but don’t involve irrelevant people..."
"You want money? Do you think we are here to rob you of your money?" The leading man in black has black lines all over his face, and he is being regarded as a robber. It is really unreasonable!
"Except for the fact that I took out money at the National Bank and brought this clerk with me to let him see the balance in my account book, I really can't think of anything in me that warrants such a big fanfare for you to use a dozen muskets to deal with me..."
Claude shrugged.
"Fart, do you think we are just trying to get your little money?" The leader of the men in black was furious.
Claude was also stunned: "More than a thousand gold crowns is small money? You have a really big appetite."
"More than a thousand... uh? Gold Crown, where did you get so many gold coins from our kingdom?" The man in black was led by Daqi. More than a thousand gold crowns is a huge sum of money. The problem is that the young man to be arrested is through
How did you get so much gold crown from the kingdom, and also have an account book from the National Bank? This is somewhat different from the information obtained...
"This is my own money. It's legal income. Isn't it recorded in the National Bank?" Claude also felt strange. Why did he ask where his money came from during the robbery?
"Impossible, we got the news as soon as you entered the country. You have been hiding in Tibet to escape our pursuit. Where do you have time to make money?" the leader of the men in black retorted.
"Entry? No, what are we hiding from? We were inspected along the way, and our passes were stamped. Why are you chasing us..." Claude was also wondering, do you need an entry certificate when crossing a county or a city?
Uncle Osker didn't say anything, and the administrative center didn't issue this certificate either...
The two of them talked nonchalantly for a long time, and then they suddenly realized that something seemed to be wrong.
At this time, a person next to the leading man in black said: "Captain, there is no magic reaction here."
"What?" The leading man in black looked at Claude, then at the thin man huddled in the corner and the remaining big man, then at the three wounded men lying on the ground, and waved his hand: "Go and take a look.
What happened to those three on the ground? Why did they fall?"
"Yes." The man in black came over with the strange matchlock gun in his hand. Claude obediently and slowly moved himself two steps to the side so as not to block his approach, and at the same time expressed that he had no resistance.
I mean. After all, there are about a dozen muskets pointed at me on the other side of the wall, so there is no need to make any plans to capture hostages and escape.
The man in black was very satisfied with Claude's knowledge. He came over and knelt down, and quickly checked the injuries of the three bastards: "Captain, two are seriously injured, one is hit hard on the face, and the bridge of the nose is broken."
The bone was collapsed, the other heart was hit, the sternum was slightly cracked, and I fainted from the pain. As for this one, I lost my breath after the fall, and was slightly injured."
The leading man in black listened to the report of his subordinates and looked at Claude: "Who are you, what is your name, where are you from, and where are you going?"
"My name is Claude Field. I am a civilian from White Deer City. I have received a recruitment order from the Blue Feather Legion, so I have to report to Cafilezite County. Today I am passing through Whitewood City and I want to stay here." Old Claude
Answer honestly. With so many muskets aimed at you, you have to pretend to be honest first.
"Conscription order?" The leader of the men in black really didn't expect Claude's answer to be this. If it was true, he would have caused a big misunderstanding today: "Take out your conscription order and pass and let me check it.
.”
"Aren't you a gangster? What do you want to do to check this?"
"Who, who said we are from the underworld!" The leading man in black was furious: "We are the special service team of the royal capital! Show him the number plate..."
"Yes, Captain." The man in black, who had just come over to check the injuries of the three bastards on the ground, took out a silver medal and showed it in front of Claude.
The words engraved on the silver medal were the Special Public Safety and Security Inspection Office of the Kingdom of Overas. The man in black turned over the back and showed it to Claude. On the back was Special Service Team No. 2103.
It seemed that he had heard of the Public Security and Security Inspection Office of the Kingdom of Overas somewhere. Claude thought about it and suddenly realized: "I understand, you are members of the special department."
The leading man in black looked sharply: "How did you know about our special department?"
"My teacher said it."
"Who is your teacher?"
"She is Madam Maria, my pharmacy teacher." Claude replied, then took out the conscription order, pass and his ID from the backpack behind him and handed them to the man in black in front of him.
"I'm sorry, I really thought you were an underground gang just now. I thought the clerk was your spy. I attracted you here because I exposed my wealth when I bought things in the store." Claude apologized sincerely.
: "Just like those little gangsters just now, they used knives to hold me here and forced me to use all the money I had on me to buy this box of so-called top-quality white root powder on the ground. I taught them a lesson, and you came in
Oh, I thought the gangsters in Baimu City were so arrogant, roaming the streets with matchlock guns before it got dark..."
The man in black who handed Claude's conscription pass and identification documents to the captain felt the same way after hearing what Claude said: "I have told you not to wear such weird clothes, lest you be caught.
People misunderstood. Look, now he regards us as members of the underground gang. Captain, you still say that you are proud to wear this. Others will be scared when they see it, so they regard these strange clothes as the uniforms of our special service team..."
The captain couldn't laugh or cry: "Shut up!"
The man in black obviously didn't take the captain's words to heart. He turned back and squatted down to twist a little of the white root powder in the small paper box on the ground: "Ha, this is the best white root powder? This is obviously worthless talc.
So pink..."
At this time, the captain had already finished checking the documents in his hand: "Sorry, we misunderstood. The person we are looking for is not you, everyone can take back the muskets."
There was a sound, and the dozen matchlock guns exposed on the wall were gone. People on the other side heard the sound and were getting off ladders or other stepping objects. Some of them jumped directly from the wall, making a loud landing sound.
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Without a dozen muskets pointed at him, Claude suddenly felt relaxed: "It's okay, I'm just a little curious why you came to me?"
"Because you bought ten boxes of the highest quality white root powder in their store." The leading man in black handed the documents in his hand back to Claude: "We are looking for two magicians from Shigros Island.
, an old one and a young one, they disappeared here after entering the kingdom. We suspected that they came to Baimu City to obtain some relatively precious magic materials, so we notified those shops that any abnormal situation must be reported to us immediately.
"The leader of the men in black said: "It's just that I'm a little strange. Since you are going to be drafted into the army, why did you buy ten boxes of the most expensive white root powder of the highest quality and send it back?"
It turned out that the ten boxes of triple-A grade white root powder were the cause of the trouble, so much so that the special service team regarded him as a magician to be hunted. Claude also did not expect that his whim of giving a gift to Madam Maria would lead to this.
There was a misunderstanding, so he had to explain it honestly.
"Because we can't buy good white root powder there, and the poorest quality ones are sold at very high prices. At that time, I kept failing when doing pharmaceutical experiments in the forest farm's pharmaceutical laboratory. I always thought it was because I was not skilled in the techniques. Now,
When I arrived at Baimucheng and saw the samples displayed in the store of Dangro Mining Company, I realized that it was all because I used the lowest quality white root powder.
Although I am going to join the army now, Mrs. Maria will still go to the forest farm for summer vacation in September. Then she will definitely stay in the pharmaceutical laboratory to do pharmaceutical testing. I happened to pass by here and saw the best quality buttercup.
I am a fan, and I am not short of money, so I want to buy some gifts for my wife as a gift to thank her for taking care of our family."
"You said that Lady Maria is Baroness Maria Fon Norman of the Royal Capital, right?" asked the leader of the men in black.
"Yes, you know her too?"
"Haha, of course I know her and have interacted with her several times. She doesn't have a very good temper and doesn't like people from special departments like us. But I still have a question. Since she is your pharmacy teacher, why would you let her
Are you drafted into the army?"
Claude smiled bitterly: "I only studied with her for a while last year and then she returned to the royal capital. This year, White Deer Town was upgraded to a city, and Viscount Felidos came to serve as the general manager. Madam asked him to take care of me, a student.
, and he thought that the best way to take care of me was to send me to serve as a soldier, so he wrote me a letter of recommendation, and then I received a recruitment order from the Blue Feather Legion..."
The leader of the men in black couldn't help but smile: "I know Viscount Felidos, he is indeed such a person. Okay, you can go, what are you going to do with these five gangsters? There was a patrolman who said it was them just now
My second uncle wanted to come in to look for them, but we detained him."
Claude scratched his hair: "I don't know how to deal with them. Anyway, I have taught them a lesson. I ask you to deal with them and throw them into a labor camp for a few years."
The thin man in the corner suddenly jumped in front of them: "I, I know where those two magicians are..."