Chapter 1486 The Mayor's Curse

Dashu Town is a temporary town built by refugees who migrated to the Kingdom of Teresa in the early years. It was abandoned several times in the middle, and later it was reopened because a shortcut to climb the mountain started from here. After so many years of development, it has become A small town.

Although Big Tree Town nominally belongs to the Kingdom of Aden on the south side of the High Wall Mountain Range, in fact it is controlled by the Kingdom of Teresa, and even the guards in the town are the army of the Kingdom of Theresa. Appointed by the Kingdom of Dian, but the mayor has no real power, only a manager in name.

Just like other kingdoms and principalities around the High Wall Mountains, the Kingdom of Aden is also a subordinate country of the Kingdom of Theresa, and the control of the Kingdom of Teresa over these subordinate countries, let alone the jurisdiction of a border town, It is not difficult to completely annex these dependent countries. After all, most of the troops and officials of these dependent countries are concerned with the mercenaries of the Kingdom of Teresa and the scholars of the academic city.

Although the mayor of Dashu Town is just a fig leaf and a disguise, the Kingdom of Teresa also attaches great importance to this layer of disguise, so the previous mayors of Dashu Town are treated extremely preferentially, and the salary alone is close to that of a province. Not to mention other piecemeal income such as caravan tax.

And more importantly, Dashu Town controls a shortcut to enter Teresa Kingdom. Although the road is rugged, it can shorten the passage time by ten days or half a month, which makes most caravans in a hurry choose to take this route. shortcut.

It’s just that in order for the road to travel smoothly, the Kingdom of Teresa has made some arrangements for the caravans traveling to and from this shortcut, setting a queue quota, and the caravans need to queue up according to the arrival time, but as the mayor of Dashu Town, Even though he has no real power, he still has a few places to jump in the queue, which makes him indirectly able to help some caravans gain a lot of benefits.

Because of these visible and invisible benefits, for the officials of the Kingdom of Aden, the mayor of Dashu Town is definitely a fat vacancy, so that every time the position becomes vacant, it will cause the various forces of the Kingdom of Aden to protest. scramble.

However, this situation has undergone some strange changes in the election of the mayors of Dashu Town. However, the results could not be given for a long time. Several candidates who had been selected each found an excuse to resign from the position, and even one of them simply gave up the official position of the kingdom in order to resign.

The reason for such a strange situation is entirely because the recent mayors of Dashu Town did not resign safely after their terms of office expired. Not only the mayor died, but the mayor's family also died one after another after the death of the mayor, and the reasons for their deaths were very strange, they died naturally in their sleep.

So far, neither the investigation team of the Kingdom of Teresa nor the relevant departments of the church have found any clues. The deaths of all the mayors of Dashu Town look like suicides, and the mayor of Dashu Town also has No trace of extraordinary power was found, and there was no trace of the death of their family members. Even if their family members were transferred to the holy churches of the Church of Justice, the Church of the Spirit of Knowledge, etc., and protected with divine magic, they still could not stop them. The result of them dying in their sleep.

Therefore, the current position of mayor of Dashu Town is equivalent to a death notice. Once you take that position, not only will you die, but your family members will also be unable to escape. The mayor of Tree Town has been vacant for two consecutive months.

Fortunately, the mayor of Dashu Town is only a vacant post with no real power. The operation of Dashu Town will not be suspended due to the absence of a mayor. For the townspeople and caravans in Dashu Town, they are just too many An after-dinner conversation.

After the exchange team led by Delkan came to Dashu Town, they heard the rumor about the curse of the mayor of Dashu Town from the management population of the dormitory set up in the school city where they lived that night, including Delkan himself and the leader of the team. Instructors and exchange students were all curious about this rumor, so that night, these curious apprentices and instructors decided to take advantage of the time of waiting for the passage to participate in the investigation, which was regarded as a social practice in the school city. .

Because of the arrival of the first snow, the shortcut in Dashu Town was temporarily closed for safety reasons, and both Dashu Town and Hongmu Town at the other end of the shortcut sent special personnel into the mountain to check the road conditions. Only when these people reported the situation , and the weather does not deteriorate further, the caravans and other people stuck at both ends can pass through, otherwise, they have to take a long detour, or take the risk of climbing the mountain in the snow.

Delkan's communication team does not plan to take a detour, even if the mountain is blocked by heavy snow, it will not only increase the time and distance, but even if they enter the Kingdom of Teresa, they still need to climb several snow-capped mountains , to be able to reach the academic city, and if you go through this shortcut, you can go directly to the mountainous area where the academic city is located, without having to climb additional snow mountains.

Therefore, on the day they arrived in Dashu Town, Delkan and the instructors of the exchange team had already decided that if the road was not opened again, then they would simply spend the winter in Dashu Town and wait for the next spring before leaving. The town survived the winter, and the administrator of the Xuecheng dormitory just gave a good goal to pass the time, investigating the cause of the death of the mayor of Dashu Town.

Therefore, Delkan and other scholars in the school city did not just investigate the mystery of the curse of the mayor of Dashu Town just to satisfy their own curiosity, but more to pass the waiting time.

As for the safety of investigating this matter, they have also considered it. Although the real death of Dashu Town and his family members is very strange, the official investigation team, church forces and civil society involved in the investigation of the curse of the mayor of Dashu Town None of the people encountered any danger, so they speculated that even if there was a death curse, it would only be the mayor of Dashu Town, and it would not cause harm to others.

On the second day after the decision was made, the mentors of the exchange team asked the apprentices to inquire about information about the curse of the mayor of Dashu Town in Dashu Town, and these mentors went to the mayor's mansion to investigate.

When they came to the mayor's mansion, they entered the mansion without encountering any obstacles. It's not that there is no one guarding here, but that the guards have already regarded the unoccupied mayor's mansion as a cash cow. The mayor cursed that anyone who was curious could pay a clover coin to visit and investigate, so before the scholars from these exchange teams came to the mayor's mansion, everyone else in the town had visited the mansion.

Although they know that even if there are clues in the mansion, they may be destroyed because of the large number of people visiting, but the scholars still maintain a rigorous attitude, choose to enter the mansion to check the situation, and collect any useful clues as much as possible.

After entering the mansion, the scholars began to check the conditions of each room in the mansion according to their expertise, especially the mayor's office, bedroom and study room, and Delkan himself was not good at investigating things, he was better at mysticism, so he specialized Look for the seemingly ordinary decorative patterns in the mansion to investigate, and see if there are any runes with mysterious power hidden in them.

Soon, Delkan's investigation shifted to the mayor's study, but when he came to the study, he found that there were other people in the room.

Because he knew in advance that plain paper only cost one clover coin to enter the mayor's mansion, so Delkan was not surprised to see other people here, and he also knew the two people in the study.

"Mr. Leo, Ms. Sylvia, are you also interested in the fact that the mayor is cursed?" After seeing the appearance of the two people in the study, Delkan walked forward with great enthusiasm and took the initiative to say hello .

Others who know Delkan will definitely be very surprised by Delkan's current attitude. In the eyes of others, Delkan is definitely a taciturn guy. No emotion, let alone enthusiasm, but now he showed such obvious enthusiasm to two strangers who had only known each other for a few days, it was a bit inconceivable.

However, for other colleagues who are also the mentors of the exchange team, Delkan's current attitude is reasonable, because they all think that the two people in the mayor's study are definitely worthy of Delkan's enthusiastic treatment. , I even feel that enthusiasm is not enough, and it is correct to show some respect.

The two people in the study met a few days ago in a small town on the road. The caravan they belonged to, like other caravans going to the Kingdom of Teresa, chose to go on the road together with the exchange team in the school city, because the exchange There is enough force in the ranks to protect them from bandits.

In order to broaden the thinking and horizons of the apprentices, the instructors of the exchange team usually take the exchange students to the various caravans behind for academic exchanges after the team camps. Ask all kinds of questions to make it difficult for students, let these students know that knowledge is not only recorded in books, but also recorded in life, so from the beginning they never thought that someone in the caravan would ask any formal questions .

However, accidents often happen inadvertently. After a series of weird questions, two people suddenly raised more than a dozen related and irrelevant subjects such as medicine, anatomy, political science, theology, etc. Its level of knowledge covers almost all the disciplines set up in the school city, and those questions are not ordinary questions, each question involves very advanced academic knowledge, let alone students, even the students who follow Teachers may not be able to answer.

As a result, a mind-opening course for apprentices turned into a knowledge exchange meeting, and then it became the lecture time of the two people, from apprentices to tutors became students attending the class.

Therefore, in just a few days, the knowledge of these two people has completely convinced these tutors in the Academy City. In the eyes of Delkan and others, the status of the two is almost equal to that of the main subject tutors in the Academy City, and even comparable to that of the university. Mentors, especially when they learned that the two of them were also planning to go to Academic City, they felt that once they joined Academic City, it would be almost no difficulty to become great mentors, so they showed their respect in advance Also very normal.

On the other hand, Leo and Sylvia were a little surprised that they were able to gain the recognition and respect of their tutors in the Academic City in such a short period of time. What method can make these scholars confide in their hearts, but I didn't expect that just convincing them academically would have reached or even exceeded the set goal.

After leaving Cape West Port, Leo and Sylvia went north all the way. Although they passed through several war-torn and famine-shrouded countries in the middle, they didn't meet them because they were traveling with a caravan. What twists and turns, I came to the Kingdom of Aden, a subsidiary country of the Kingdom of Teresa, and happened to meet the exchange team of the Academic City who was bringing the exchange students back to China, so that they could communicate with the people of the Academic City in advance, Learn a little about the City of Academics.

During this process, Sylvia did not disclose her surname. After all, the surname Belmont has some special objections in the Kingdom of Teresa. Once her surname is revealed, it will inevitably attract some unnecessary attention, and Sylvia He is not in a hurry to contact the Belmont family in the Kingdom of Teresa, and will consider the next step after learning about the situation of the Belmont family.

In the process of communicating with the scholars in these learning cities, they found that it is very simple to quickly become friends with these scholars, that is, to get their approval directly at the knowledge level. They will answer the questions without hesitation, and even take the initiative to reveal the content that they did not ask, giving people a feeling that they have no heart.

However, if someone really thinks that these scholars are naive and innocent, they may not even know that this person was eventually sold out by these seemingly innocent scholars.

When Leo and Sylvia communicated with these scholars, they could clearly feel that these scholars were constantly probing the details of the two while answering their inquiries, and their probing methods were very subtle. I just mentioned a little bit inadvertently, and at the same time cooperate with each other. Under such circumstances, it is easy for ordinary people to disclose some of their own information. Obviously, these scholars should have received espionage training such as interrogation and interrogation.

Since these scholars are performing hard in front of themselves, Leo and Sylvia naturally cooperate fully. They are like two ordinary traveling scholars, revealing some information in a few words during the conversation, and these information are They have been prepared before, and it is also what these scholars want to know.

In exchange, they also learned a lot of information about Teresa Kingdom, Academic City, and the Belmont family from these scholars, but these information are obviously much more real and detailed than the false information they gave. .