Act 49 2 Letters IV

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 don't know very well. Ever since I was 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 period 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 yet at that time. Finally, why do these insignificant cultists have such a letter in their hands? The Oneness of All Things acts strictly, and it is unlikely that McGask and Test will hand over such important things to a group of minions.

These desperadoes sealed this letter so carefully 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 display the words is my father's family's unique one." method."

"By the way," Brando suddenly remembered: "How did you recognize this letter?"

Antitina was startled, 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 while 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 to them in this way, but they may not be able to understand the letter, otherwise their efforts would not be in vain. ”

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 patrolling cavalry cleared the hunter camp before dawn. Before leaving, Eugen thanked Brando repeatedly. The captain of the patrolling cavalry was extremely complimentary, as if compared with this small credit, he could have 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 had a good impression of the arrogant count and repeatedly told him that he must visit when these desperadoes were hanged. Brando didn't understand how these people treated him. He was so interested in hanging, as if it was not a killing but some kind of entertainment program. Eugen also promised to persuade the House of Nobles to issue him a bronze Starfire Medal, but the Starfire Medal has been widespread since the Anson era, unlike the Candlestick which only the royal family and the Temple of Fire are qualified to issue. The Fire Medal is so precious.

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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 large underground tomb, the street is sparsely populated and chilly even in the daytime. The cemetery is located behind a temple belonging to the God of Death. The temple is quietly located at the junction of Squirrel Street and Gravedigger Street. Brando asked Dean to bribe the monks in the temple before agreeing to let them Entering the public cemetery to take a look, the old monk wearing a gray-brown monk's robe led them through large and small corridors supported by countless arch beams, and then came to the back of the temple through a small door, passing through a After the forest, you enter the scope of the public cemetery.

This is a quiet place surrounded by trees. Many unknown or famous tombstones are erected 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. 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 conspiracy and poisonous tricks. In fact, these old monks are the most powerful. People who know clearly." After hearing what little Phoenix said, Dean smiled and replied: "Anyway, as long as someone pays the money, he doesn't care what we are going 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. Most of those necromancers are members of the gray realm, 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 were all commonplace things for him. However, it is not necessarily true that there is no danger in this cemetery. How can a normal place be like this place with mist and mist in broad daylight? It's dark and the visibility is no more than ten meters? Surrounded by tree-lined trees, it seemed as if the sun could not penetrate. It was just after noon, but in the cemetery it seemed to be ten o'clock in the evening - and it was still dark. The supernatural mystery comes from underground, where there is a larger cemetery, the underground public crypt of Braggs, which is full of dangers, full of corpses 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 the house my parents originally rented was lucky enough to be preserved, and there was a gravekeeper living there."

"There are actually gravekeepers here?" Freya was slightly surprised. She thought this place was completely lawless.

"At least in name only," Antitina is from the local area 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. From the tombstone, I saw a two-story wooden house emerging from the mist, standing alone deep in the forest. Di'an had already contacted the tombkeeper. Naturally, the tombkeeper didn't know Brando's identity, but when he heard that a nobleman was coming, he thought he had encountered a big deal and was already waiting respectfully in front.

The gravekeeper is called Old Slippery, and his real name has long been forgotten. Like a skeleton buried in the ground, he looks exactly like the image of this type of 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 only 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 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 understood that everyone in this world is more or less lost. In this era, the blame should not be placed on a certain person, otherwise it would be pure venting of anger. However, this does not mean that he is willing to deal with this kind of person too much. He glanced at this guy, and without even bothering to greet him, he asked directly: "You already know what our requirements are, 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 too much about anything in this place. Who knew what this noble wanted to do? The more he knew, the more dangerous he would be. Besides, the nobles all had some weird habits. He glanced at Bran quietly. The two beautiful girls behind them had some shameful thoughts in their hearts, but they didn't show it at all on the surface.

For him, it's all about getting 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 had an attack several times, but after all, she was no longer the little girl who had just walked out of Butchi and was not interested in worldly affairs, so she endured it. Brando glanced at her and Antitina apologetically, and the suffocation in the two ladies' hearts naturally disappeared.

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 asking 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 their first date was at this place..." She looked at this place with some disgust: "Of course, at that time, this place was still 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 was nothing more than the smell of staleness and the stench of corpses. Although the tomb keeper was undesirable, being condemned for this matter was a bit of an unreasonable disaster. But he didn't dare to say this in front of the two ladies, because he saw Antitina glance at Freya with clear 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, so The gravekeeper has no idea of ​​turning his backyard into a cemetery, and no one has 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. Fortunately, there was something in the tombkeeper's house. shovel, the two of them also have endless strength.

For the first hour or two, they found nothing. Antitina's father seemed to have buried the things very deep - or they had guessed wrong, and the things were not here at all - or maybe they had been dug away. In short, The hole is dug deeper and deeper, and everything imaginable is nowhere to be seen. But when Freya dug about two or three meters deep in a certain direction, she suddenly felt the shovel hit something hard. She immediately realized that she might have found something, and quickly stopped and dug out the dirt in that place. When the soil was peeled back, it turned out 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 up the box, a emblem embossed on the box surface was revealed on the front of the box. The shield-shaped emblem was divided into four grids, and there was a crescent on each of the two staggered grids. Brando was stunned when he saw this emblem. Couldn't help but let out a slight sigh. The crescent is the symbol of Eruin. The emblem of the royal family of Sifah is a crescent emblem embedded in a full moon on the shield. The emblem of the Corcova family is derived from the emblem of the royal family of Sifah - the shield. There are three crescents arranged diagonally on the emblem. 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 this. 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. He quickly put aside this idea 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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