Chapter 257 Rumors
Fad and the others left in disgrace, without even saying a harsh word.
Boya and the others were not surprised. After all, Lord Heilbu could prove that Izual was not a target that could be killed by ordinary professionals. Lord Heilbu, one of the only two heirs to the title, who dared not believe it?
But Lanwu felt that this matter seemed not that simple.
The noise made by Fad and the others was very loud. In addition, Boya's residence was only three streets away from the market. There is a curiosity factor in human genes. Therefore, there is never a shortage of people who eat melons in the world. With such a big noise here, he believed that it had spread to most of the Demon Fortress.
Carefully calculating, it has been more than a week since Heilbu returned to the Demon Fortress. Even if he was busy, he had already agreed to wait for him in the Demon Fortress, so it was impossible for him to go out suddenly again. Such a small thing happened in the Demon Fortress, how could he still be as unheard of as if he was hiding from the world?
Lan Wu suppressed this doubt in his heart and did not discuss it with Boya and others. After all, he is one of the only two title heirs in the Demon Fortress. Maybe he is really busy and is discussing the mutation of Izual with Archangel Tyrael.
This matter seems to have passed. But the spectators did not let it pass. For many years, under the improvement of generations of professional predecessors, although the Demon Fortress has no fixed laws, it has spontaneously formed a lot of unspoken rules. Among them, the crime of taking the spoils of everyone's cooperation is second only to malicious murder and robbery.
The spectators did not experience it personally, but everyone is not stupid. Just from the fact that Fad and others gave up in disgrace, we know that this matter is just a farce... No, it is a serious incident.
Blackmail.
This is also a big crime in the Demon Fortress. Let's not talk about it outside the fortress. No one is willing to be blackmailed. Put yourself in their shoes, no one wants to be forced to hand over the equipment and gold coins exchanged for life for nothing. For a time, everyone in the Demon Fortress was furious, looking for Fade and others who had come to blackmail Lan Wu. However, Fade and others obviously realized that they had found the wrong target for blackmail, and had already fled, waiting for time to calm down the storm before returning to the Demon Fortress.
But they underestimated the perseverance of the melon-eating crowd. None of the people who have survived in the Demon Fortress to this day are good at it. Of course, Boya may be excluded. If someone is blackmailed by a group of fraudsters today, it may be his turn tomorrow. This is intolerable. If this matter is not clear, how can you feel at ease to adventure in the Demon Fortress? It may even nourish a group of villains who rely on joining forces to blackmail others. The relatively stable atmosphere of the Demon Fortress in the past is bound to be fatally affected.
The anger of the melon-eating crowd was inevitably heard by Lan Wu and others. Boya was very sad. The first people to be denounced by others were his best friends Fade and others who had played with him since childhood, but eventually parted ways because of different ideas.
Lan Wu didn't know how to persuade them, so he had to keep silent about the incident and recover from his injuries. After half a week of recuperation, his injuries recovered smoothly, and he was able to simply pick up knives and forks. But he still couldn't use much strength. While recuperating, he felt more and more weird.
Half a week after the incident, Helbu still seemed to be missing, and there was no trace of him at all. Even the crowds who swept through most of the Demon Fortress couldn't find him, and even the other title heir seemed to have disappeared at the same time, and did not stand up to lead the Demon Fortress to purge the internal filth.
Gradually, the direction of public opinion in the Demon Fortress gradually changed. The former friends and relatives of Fad and others did not dare to stand up and speak for them before, for fear that they would be classified as one of the fraudsters by the angry crowds. Now that a few days have passed, and Helbu has not come forward to confirm, these people immediately became active and publicly cleaned up Fad and others.
For a time, rumors were rampant.
The spectators were not willing to stop. After all, it was about their own interests. How could they rest assured if they did not forcibly kill this evil trend? Maybe they would be the next victim. So the Demon Fortress was in chaos. The two sides argued endlessly, and the situation gradually became unclear.
Lan Wu shook his head and smiled bitterly when he learned that there were still people who were whitewashing for Fard and others. His most powerful witness was Helbu. But the old guy didn't know where he went, and he didn't come out to prove it. In addition to this powerful witness, there was no evidence to prove that Izuer and his servants were not killed by Fard and others and him.
Days passed, and Helbu and even Jamela, another title heir, did not appear in the public's sight. So Fard and others' whitewashers were very excited, and spared no effort to make a noise that Fard and others were secretly threatened by Lan Wu, and had to choose to swallow their anger and force people to build momentum for Fard and others.
As the saying goes, a lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth.
As time went on, most people forgot the scene when Fard and others came to blackmail Lan Wu. Misled by these public opinions, some people chose to wait and see, while others changed their positions and began to respond to the whitewashing party and speak up for Fad and others. In less than a week, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and the number of supporters who firmly believed that Fad and others were blackmailing was less than a quarter of the previous number.
The reversal of public opinion once again pushed Lan Wu to the forefront. Every day, many whitewashing parties came to harass Lan Wu, who was recuperating in the room, and all kinds of dirty words were thrown at him, even affecting Boya and others.
"I'll go out and explain it to them!" Boya was indignant.
"It's useless." Weina rolled her eyelids, curled up on the sofa and spat bubbles: "They have all been completely misled, believing that what those despicable guys in France and Germany said is the truth. Are you going out to argue with them? Unless You can split their heads open to see if there are any brains inside."
"But let them slander Lan Wu like this?" Boya regretted it very much. Lan Wu should not have chosen to remind those despicable guys in the first place. Damn this dirty and despicable guy.
"Don't worry about me." Lan Wu smiled casually and carefully moved his almost healed arms. This change in public opinion has been seen many times before on Earth. The people who eat melons are the people who eat melons, and it is normal to have an unsteady stance. Once irrefutable evidence emerges, public opinion will be one-sided again. He was already used to it, so how could he bother himself over such a trivial matter.
"My hands will be healed in two days. Then I will go talk to Lord Haierbu." Lan Wu moved his somewhat stiff shoulders and said with a smile: "If he still refuses to show up, then I will leave the group of demons. The fortress is ready.”
"How is that possible!" Boya was indignant and denied it flatly.
Lan Wu shrugged his shoulders and smiled without saying a word. This incident was not a big deal to him. Since so many people in the Demon Fortress choose to believe in Fa De and others, let them go. At worst, we can buy a batch of equipment and return to Rogge Camp. After all, the portal to Harrogath is controlled by the Archangel Tyrael. If you can't find Tyrell, then you can't go to Harrogath.
With a bang, the door was suddenly knocked open. Lan Wu and others were taken aback, and when they looked back, it was Taylor who rushed in like a storm.
"It's not good, Master Helb came forward. He denied that he had ever seen us."