Chapter 370: Twists and Turns of Clues

There are no traces of large-scale industrial production in this so-called homeless city as I imagined. On the contrary, the first impression this place gave me was that it represented a dirty and messy shanty town, and this place is different from the modern city. The shantytowns where the poor live are different. After all, there are still some housing buildings in modern shantytowns. This place is nothing more than rows of tents and temporary housing built with wooden boards.

"This place is a homeless city? Are you sure this isn't a beggar's den?"

"It certainly doesn't look like it, but this place still has a little bit of technical strength."

"Let's go take a look first and then talk!"

Although the eldest lady said it with confidence, based on the first impression this place gave me, I really can't have a good impression of this place. In such a dirty and messy environment, even if someone is talented in this area, it is impossible to invent anything, because when people cannot solve the problem of food and clothing, the first thing people think of is how to solve the problem of food and clothing, and then they can have food and clothing. Have the energy to think about other things.

Although I no longer have any hope in the existence of the researcher that the eldest lady mentioned, but since I am here, I still have to meet him.

Following the eldest lady from where we were, we went down the stairs dug out of the rock wall to the bottom of the cave. As soon as my feet landed, I discovered that there was water all under my feet. I looked down in surprise and found that it was not that I felt wrong, but that there was really sewage under my feet.

The eldest lady also noticed my gaze on the ground, so she explained: "There is no sewage system here, so as long as it rains outside, water will start to accumulate in here in two days, but the ground will slowly seep into the water, so It’s not always like this.”

I nodded without delving into it. Anyway, I won’t live here forever. Following the eldest lady, I walked all the way forward. On both sides of the road were the same gray tents I saw above. These tents were not placed directly on the ground, but were raised to a certain height with gravel below. A layer of wooden boards was thrown on top, and the tent was built on the wooden boards. This design simply solves the problem of sewage. Because a tent cannot have much waterproofing effect, laying it directly on the ground is equivalent to sleeping in water. Of course, even if it is set up, it may not be very dry. This kind of underground cave itself cannot be well ventilated. With so many people and the ground full of water, the environment can be imagined.

After walking through the water for about five hundred meters, we finally saw a house that could be called a mansion in the homeless city. The reason why I say this is because of the mansion. The main reason is that it is not made of wood or canvas, but a real cave.

In fact, this is a huge stone pillar, which itself is one of the supporting points supporting this huge cave. However, its interior is not completely solid, but has a large void. Now this hollow has been slightly decorated with wood. Then it turned into several rooms of different sizes. Of course, these rooms are very simple, and there is no door to this cave. There is only a gray and damp, almost mushroom-like cloth curtain blocking the entrance.

Although the decoration of this cave is terrible. But this does not affect its luxury in this homeless city. After all, it is compared with those tents and wooden houses built in dirty water. This cave is more than one meter high from the ground. The entrance that requires wooden steps to go up has already distinguished this room from the many tents and board houses. At least this cave room is one of the few places here that is not particularly humid. one.

The eldest lady walked to the door of the cave one step ahead of me, and then walked directly up. But something went wrong when it was my turn. I just walked up two steps and stepped on the third step. I heard a click as soon as I exerted my foot, and then I felt my body starting to fall. Fortunately, the third step was not high, so I almost stood directly. In the water.

The young lady in front was startled by the sound. When she turned around and saw me standing in the water in surprise, she started laughing. "Hahahaha, I didn't expect you to be deflated sometimes!"

"This place really doesn't suit me!" As I said this, I stretched out my hand to push aside all the pieces of wood that were in the way. Then I looked up at the young lady standing at the entrance of the cave and said, "Please step back."

The eldest lady reacted and quickly stepped back, while I pressed the hole and jumped up. The inside of this cave is indeed much better than the outside. At least it is dry and bright. Compared with the environment outside that looks like a pile of dead people, it is a completely different world.

When I entered the room, there were already three people standing inside. Except for the eldest lady, the figure contrast between the remaining two was quite sharp. One of them was obviously a dark elf. This dark elf is at least 1.9 meters tall, maybe close to 2 meters tall. He is wearing leather armor that is comparable to a bikini, but it looks like it is very old. It is hard to imagine how much defense power it still has, at least. I think this thing may not be as strong as a set of linen clothes. It's lucky that it can hang there without falling apart.

Of course, although the leather armor is a bit rotten, the owner of the leather armor is completely unlike this being that can be put together. That dark elf has the standard characteristic of an elf—beautiful. More than half of the height of over 1.9 meters is the length of the legs, and considering that the leather armor covers such a small area, this ratio is definitely not caused by visual errors caused by clothing, but because the legs are really long and the body is short.

In addition to these strong and long legs, this dark elf's figure is also the standard configuration of a dark elf. Compared with most white elves with washboard configurations, the figure of the dark elf is basically inherited from the devil. The S-curve is absolutely exaggerated to the point that you feel it must be an artificial product.

However, although the figure in front of me is very exaggerated and her skin is very tight, her face looks like she is thirty-seven or eighteen years old. Of course, it’s not that she looks older. On the contrary, this person looks like the type whose actual age should be much older than her appearance. Although at first glance, you would think that this person should be around thirty-seven or close to forty. Years old, but in fact everyone knows that she must be more than this age. In fact, based on my understanding of the dark elf race, he looks like a thirty-seven-year-old dark elf, which means he is basically a super old man among elves.

The large branch of elves are all long-lived species. The lifespan is much longer than that of humans. Generally speaking, even elves who are seven or eight hundred years old look like they are about thirty years old. For elves, seven or eight hundred years old is actually considered middle-aged and old, and even those who die of old age Most of the elves look to be in their early thirties. As for looking like I'm almost forty years old. This kind of elf is equivalent to a centenarian among humans, a being that is beyond the average range.

Apart from this tall dark elf, the other person present was a dwarf. This is certainly not the kind of dwarf on the ground, because normal dwarves are all born blacksmiths and warriors, and they are regardless of gender. There are constant battles in the game. The blacksmith profession is very popular, and the warrior is also a very important profession. So dwarves are usually easy to get along with. Of course, this guy can't be an ordinary dwarf if he can live in the homeless city. In fact, this is a gray dwarf, that is, the dwarves who, like the fallen angels, were abandoned by the light camp and inspired by the dark camp. Of course, there is no setting in the game that these guys are evil. Because there is no distinction between good and evil in the Dark Temple and the Light Temple in the game, they just have different attributes.

Although this gray dwarf looks very fierce, in fact this guy is similar to an ordinary dwarf. At most, he has a slightly bigger temper. In addition, the behavior is a bit bad.

Of course, the common characteristics of dwarves are inherited. This guy is only 1.2 meters tall and feels like a wine barrel. But this man is not holding a hammer now, and he doesn't seem to have any blacksmith feel about him. I guess he is a professional warrior.

These two people obviously know the eldest lady. So I stood there without any reaction before, but it wasn't until I appeared here that the two people hurriedly bowed their heads and saluted.

"Dear Sir, why do you condescend to appear in a place like ours?" The person who spoke was a dark elf, and dwarves were not good at talking.

"you know me?"

"No, I have never seen you, sir, but the equipment on your body has the mark of death. This is something that can only be accomplished by the god of Hades. A being who communicates with the gods, for beings like us, that is what we can only look up to. existence, so I’m curious about your purpose of coming here.”

"You know the goods." I said and looked directly at the eldest lady.

The eldest lady seemed to have just reacted and said: "This is President Ziri, the president of the Frost Rose Alliance. You should have heard of it, right?"

"Frost Rose Alliance?" This time it was the gray dwarf who called out. "Are you really the president of the Frost Rose Alliance?"

I nodded and asked, "Does anyone here dare to impersonate me?"

"Unless he feels that he has lived enough." The dark elf next to him quickly answered, and then asked: "But since you are the president of the Frost Rose Alliance, your status should be much more noble than I imagined. You are like this Why do existences come to a place like ours?"

"He came here for the drawing I took away before."

As soon as I heard the eldest lady's explanation, I immediately heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground from the room inside, followed by the sound of wooden boards moving. Before I could figure out what was going on, the dwarf and dark elf next to me were already kneeling on the ground and begging loudly for mercy.

"I said, what are you doing?" I really didn't know what was going on, and I didn't want to do anything. Why do these two react like this when the drawings are mentioned?

I was still confused, but the eldest lady reacted first and rushed directly to the inner room. I didn’t know what she was going to do, so I didn’t follow her, but soon I heard a cry, and then Footsteps were getting closer and closer, and soon I saw the eldest lady walking in with a green creature that was only one meter tall, a little shorter than a dwarf, in one hand.

The creature brought back by the eldest lady should actually be a goblin, but he is not a normal goblin, but a hobgoblin. It is impossible for an ordinary goblin to grow to a height of one meter. Although this height is already very short for humans, in fact, for the goblin race, one meter is too high. The normal height of goblins is actually only 60 to 80 centimeters. Those who can grow to 90 centimeters are almost the same as those human basketball players. They are super-level performers. And this one-meter-tall one is definitely a racial problem. After all, I haven’t heard of anyone growing up to three meters among humans, right?

After sneaking the earth spirit in, the eldest lady put him directly on the ground, and then explained to him: "Don't run away! We are not here to settle accounts with you."

"Aren't you here to settle accounts with me?" The goblin stopped immediately after hearing such words after being put down, and then looked at the eldest lady uncertainly to confirm.

After listening to the other party's words, the eldest lady said directly to me: "When he gave me the scroll before, he said that this thing was something he had to research and complete with great difficulty. As you know, it was actually a fake drawing and there was no such thing. Use. I guess he knew we were here and thought we were here to settle a score, so he was ready to run away."

After listening to this, I finally understood the reason why there was a lot of confusion here. After a long time, it turned out that these three people were basically selling fake goods, but the eldest lady suddenly came to the door. This is equivalent to someone who bought a fake product getting it back. However, because the eldest lady's account character in the game is just an ordinary warrior, her level is not very high, and her strength is not particularly strong, so people are not afraid at all. However, when they heard that I, the president of the Frost Rose Alliance, was also here, they were immediately frightened.

After the liar has deceived someone, even if he is found by the victim, he may feel guilty. But it's not necessarily that scary. Some gangs may even commit crimes more arrogantly than the victims. But what if the scammer found out that the person he was scamming was the director of the Public Security Bureau?

Just because they were worried about being killed by me, these guys were scared to death. The big goblin in the room didn't come out, so he immediately started to run away after hearing my identity. As for the two people outside, they knew they couldn't run away in front of me, so of course they had no choice but to quickly beg for mercy.

After understanding the cause and effect, I smiled and explained: "Don't be afraid, I'm not here to cause trouble for you. Although the thing on the scroll you gave her is fake and cannot be made at all, the thing itself still has a certain It’s valuable. So it can’t be considered a complete lie.”

"Oh, so that's it!" The hobgoblin patted his heart and got up from the ground and said, "Then let me introduce you, I am the king of technology in this wandering city, and I am the leader of all... "

"Okay. Don't mention that name of yours." The eldest lady directly interrupted the other party and said: "We are here to talk to you about something, not to listen to your bragging. Now tell me, did you design that drawing? ? Let me warn you, this is President Ziri of the Frost Rose Alliance, and you know his strength. Crushing you to death is no more expensive than crushing an ant to death. So if you dare to talk nonsense to us, you Know the consequences.”

The eldest lady's words were indeed quite effective. After hearing what the other party said, the hobgoblin's attitude changed and he said seriously: "Actually, I stole that thing from someone else!"

"As expected!" After the eldest lady sighed, she asked, "Do you know where the owner of this thing is?"

"Of course." The hobgoblin nodded and looked towards me, then stretched out a paw and rubbed it. "My lord, you won't let us work in vain, will you?"

I directly reached out and took out a money bag and threw it over. I have a lot of these one-hundred-crystal-coin money bags with me, just for times like this. "Lead the way or die."

Under the dual effects of the money bag and the guillotine, the hobgoblin very wisely began to cooperate with our actions. The other party directly asked the female dark elf to lead us, and then took us to a tent in the city. This place is opposite to the direction we came from in the first place, and the terrain is slightly higher. There is no water on the ground, but it is still very messy.

Our tent here certainly attracted a lot of people's attention, but just like the goblin cave I went to before, all the people living in the wanderer city only dared to look at it from a distance. They don't dare to approach us. Our presence here is really conspicuous, and as people here, of course we don’t dare to approach them randomly.

When we stopped in front of the tent, a woman watching the excitement in the crowd not far away suddenly changed her expression, and then she began to squeeze in hard. Because everyone else was watching from a distance, only she squeezed forward, so I saw her at first sight, but I didn't say anything, but waited for her reaction.

The dark elf leading the way did not notice the woman, but directly opened the curtain outside the tent. The inside of the tent is only five or six square meters, which is large for a tent, but quite narrow for a residential area. There was a pile of messy rags piled up at the entrance of the tent, which was only this small. Inside, there were two bunks on both sides, and a low table nailed out of wood in the middle aisle. Apparently I did it myself.

The dark elf opened the curtain and took a look inside, and then saw two children, a boy and a girl. The boy was about eight years old, and the girl was only about six years old.

After seeing the child, the dark elf immediately asked: "Where are your parents?"

The two children were about to answer after seeing the dark elf, but when they saw me through the gap beside the dark elf, they suddenly started crying in fear. Of course, the tent cannot have any sound insulation effect. As soon as the two children started crying, the woman over there immediately rushed over even harder. She ran directly past us and rushed to the tent door. Then she blocked the door and looked at us crying: "What are you going to do? We don't owe you any money!"

"What's going on?" I looked at the female elf and asked.

The dark elf quickly explained: "Their family owed us money before, and then the blueprint was given to us to pay off the debt. This woman probably thought we were here to ask for money again." After the dark elf finished speaking, he turned to the woman and said: " Don't be nervous. Didn't you use that thing to pay off our debt? We even paid you the IOU, so how can we ask for money from you? I came in and brought these two adults over because I have something to ask you about. one time."

When the woman heard that she was just asking about something, she immediately wiped away the tears on her face, then quickly turned around to comfort the child. After spending a few minutes to make the child stop crying, he ran out and apologized to us first, and then said: "The house is too small, so I won't invite a few adults in. Well, I wonder if there is anything I can do to help?"

I didn't waste time and asked directly: "Where did the scroll you used to pay off the debt come from? If you can provide useful information, this is yours." I said and took out a previous scroll. Same bag.

The woman had obviously never seen such a large amount of money. Her eyes were straightened when she saw the crystal coins in the bag, but she quickly reacted, then looked at me and said with some anxiety: "That... sir . I'm really sorry. I really don't know where this thing came from." When I heard this, I thought the clue was about to be lost. Unexpectedly, the other party suddenly continued: "This thing came from when my husband and I got married. It's already at my husband's place. I didn't ask where it came from. In fact, the thing has magic on it, and my husband and I can't open it at all, but we just feel that since this thing has magic, it must be valuable. .So I had been hiding money at home as emergency money. I couldn’t afford to pay off the previous debts, so I used it to pay off the debts.”

"In other words, although you don't know, your husband may know the origin?"

"Yes." The woman nodded.

After getting the affirmative answer, I immediately nodded and said, "So where is your husband now?"

As soon as she said this, the woman's head lowered, and then she paused for a moment before saying, "My husband has been dead for almost a year."

"What did you say?" This time the eldest lady next to her couldn't hold it back. We all thought there was hope when we heard that her husband knew about it, but now there is such a wonderful turn of events, which is really hard for us to accept.

After the woman finished speaking, she continued: "My husband borrowed money from them to buy medicine because he was sick. After that, his condition continued to get worse and became more and more serious. In the end, we really had no money, so we could only give the scroll I used it to pay off the debt and exchange for a little more money, but in the end my husband's disease was still not cured, and then my husband..." The woman choked up after saying this.

When I saw that this woman was about to cry, I quickly interrupted her emotional outburst. "Stop it, don't cry yet."

The woman looked up at me in shock, not knowing what I meant.

I looked at the woman and asked, "When exactly did your husband die? Was it a year ago?"

"Specifically...why do you ask this?"

"Just tell me if it will take a year."

Although he was confused as to why I asked this, the other party still replied: "No."

"That's good." I said and asked: "After your husband died of illness, was his body buried or cremated?"

"Buried."

"Do you remember the location?"

"Of course, we will go to worship in the future!"

"Okay, you come with us." I said and was about to take the woman away, but the other woman was stunned for a moment. I suddenly reacted and threw the money bag directly to the other party. "Take your children with you. You go and help me with things. I will give you a house in Essinger and arrange a job for you. The money will also be yours. Don't bring anything from this place. Anyway, It won’t be needed in the future.”

The woman's jaw dropped in shock at my words. After that, she was completely dragged away by me and the dark elf, and her two children were led out one by one by the eldest lady.

Although she doesn't know what I want to do, the eldest lady knows that just follow me, and the dark elf doesn't dare to ask any questions. Anyway, she knows that she will do whatever I say.

We dragged the family of three out of the homeless city, and under the guidance of the woman, we quickly found a mass grave. Although this is also a mass grave, it is much smaller than the one the Tsar guy and I went to last time, and this place does not have so much cold air. It is obviously not the kind of place where the undead crawl on the ground.

Although there is not so much cold air, this is a mass grave after all. It was already dusk when we got here, so it looked a bit more eerie. But I am not afraid of this at all. The eldest lady seems to be a little scared, but she keeps holding on.

The dark elves are obviously well adapted to the night environment, and the two children were the most afraid. In the end, I had to use hypnosis on them to calm them down. For this reason, the woman almost fought me to death, but fortunately I explained clearly.

With the woman's identification, we finally saw his husband's grave. This is actually a pile of loess with a wooden sign stuck in front. What kind of cemetery do you expect people who live in homeless cities to build? It would have been nice not to dump the body directly.

"Is this right here?"

The woman looked a little dazed looking at the grave bag, but she still nodded.

After the other party confirmed, I just snapped my fingers and summoned Lucky without saying a word. The woman next to me fainted at the first sight when she saw Lucky. The dark elf also sat back on the ground, but fortunately she didn't faint. past.

I didn't care about these two NPCs at all. I pointed at the grave and said to Lucky: "Dig it out completely. Be careful not to hurt the corpse inside."

Lucky nodded and shoveled the entire grave with his paw, and then placed all the soil in his paw on the ground next to him.

Seeing that the eldest lady next to me understood what I was going to do, she looked at me in surprise and asked, "Are you going to resurrect him?"

"It's not a troublesome thing, why not?" (To be continued ~^~)