Andre walked into the alley not far away, and within moments there was the sound of him cursing angrily, "Who the hell stole my sword!" Then there was another series of cursing and swearing.
Seeing Andre disappear into the mist of the long street, Charlotte didn't rush to close the door, but greeted Vivian, who had a small white face, and whispered, "Clean up the bloodstains on the doorway, including the ones that extend over the street outside."
"Uh-huh." Vivian nodded her head and mouthed a magic incantation, and the running water instantly cleaned the blood from the doorway and the street.
Charlotte came out with a broom and swept with a flurry of dust to cover the traces of cleaning magic.
"Come on in." Charlotte pulled Vivian through the door and then slammed it back shut.
Vivian's hands were cold, and her body still couldn't stop shaking.
"Don't be afraid, he's already gone, and besides, he didn't recognize you." Charlotte gently patted her shoulder in relief.
"He came to catch me ...." Vivian's eyes were slightly red, her right hand grasped the hem of her skirt, and her voice trembled as she said, "He said that he came back for me."
"Don't worry, he won't survive the night." Charlotte smiled faintly.
Vivian looked at him in disbelief, clearly Charlotte had just saved him.
"Walking at night in the Abyss is a big no-no, a severely injured man with a package on his back and no sharp weapon, he won't be able to walk more than three blocks." Charlotte explained.
Vivian was thoughtful, but still looked uneasy.
"Now we're on the same rope, and unfortunately, the guy named Karpas has his eye on both of us at the same time." Charlotte looked at Vivian and sighed, "If I'm not mistaken, the agent he found in the Abyss, Carol, is from the Judson family, one of the four great families of the Abyss, in other words, our next days are not going to be easy."
Vivian bit her lips lightly, thought seriously for a while, and looked up at Charlotte, "Then ... Then should we run away?"
"Running away is a good idea. However, where else do you think we can run to? A weak human who doesn't know magic, a little girl who only knows healing magic, leaving the abyss, where can we run to?" Charlotte asked with a serious expression.
"Father told me to run towards the abyss, saying that this is the most chaotic and safest place to run again ... I don't know where to run anymore." Vivian could no longer stop her tears from sobbing.
With the delicious dunking dumplings for dinner, she felt that life didn't seem so bad.
But Andre's arrival was like a headful of ice water drenching her head, pulling her back to hell.
Even though she had run into the abyss and endured so much suffering, she still couldn't escape from Karpas' pursuit.
Charlotte looked at Vivian who suddenly broke down, and suddenly had some pity for this girl.
At a young age, she suffered this kind of suffering one after another.
"Don't cry, at least the other party hasn't found you yet, compared to that, I, who opened the clinic, am the easier target for them to find." Charlotte pulled open a chair for Vivian to sit down, looked at her eyes and said with a serious expression, "But, from now on, we have to talk about it openly and honestly, why are you being hunted by the Karpas? Why are they persistent to you?"
From the moment she met Vivian, Charlotte had never asked her about her life, after all, everyone was allowed to have their own secrets.
But now it was different, they had the same enemy, and the other party had chased them to the abyss.
Vivian wiped her tears and quickly calmed herself down, looking at Charlotte in silence for a while, as if she had made up her mind, she said, "I'm Vivian. Bernice, my father is Frank. Bernice, was once the finance minister of the Reims Empire."
Top official second generation! Charlotte was a bit surprised, he knew that Vivian should be of noble origin, but having a finance minister father was still a bit out of his expectation.
However, the word once was crucial.
"My father and Cromwell have always been at odds, and had presided over an investigation into Cromwell's crimes of collaboration and corruption. Half a month ago, my father was wrongly accused by Cromwell of corruption and treasonous collaboration with the enemy, and was captured and imprisoned, and many members of the Bernice family were imprisoned as a result, and my father let me leave through the tunnels when the captors came to his door and fled to the abyss, so I became the only one who was spared." Vivian looked grim, her eyes slightly red.
Charlotte frowned slightly, puzzled, "If it's just a fight between political enemies, your father has already been imprisoned, and most of the family members have been captured, why is Cromwell persistently pursuing you? And to have his son personally lead the way?"
Vivian was silent for a while and said, "Because Cromwell's embezzlement of hundreds of thousands of gold coins from the treasury, his fornication with the orc tribes at the borders of the empire, and his large-scale killing of good people and cheating of military funds are all facts. The evidence was recorded by scouts in a booklet, and before he could submit it to the king, he was captured by Cromwell, and that booklet is now in my possession."
"If that's the case, why don't you give the pamphlet to the king? The farther away from the Imperial Capital means the farther away from the King, and the higher the risk of being addressed privately by Duke Cromwell." Charlotte looked at Vivian and mused, "And with your father's status, even if he is framed and arrested and imprisoned, he will inevitably need to undergo a tedious trial to be convicted, and in the process he should have the opportunity to pass the news
to the king, right?"
"My father, killed by Cromwell in the confusion in the name of arrest." Vivian blanched and clutched her skirts.
How dare this guy, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said he would kill him! Charlotte was astonished, it was evident that Cromwell's power in the Reims Empire was so great and his arrogance was so great.
No wonder Vivian's father told her to flee the empire and flee towards the abyss.
If she rashly submitted the manual, the chances of it reaching the king's hands were extremely slim, and she might even be sold backhandedly.
"That manual, may I have a look at it?" Charlotte said.
"I'll go get it." Vivian got up and went upstairs, and in a short while came downstairs with a small booklet wrapped in a gray cloth and handed it to Charlotte.
Charlotte opened the black cloth, a black-covered booklet with a few drops of dried blood staining the soft cowhide cover.
Flipping open the journal, Charlotte carefully flipped through the contents of the booklet, her face gradually becoming grave.
After about half an hour, Charlotte slowly closed the booklet.
"The crimes of this bastard duke are simply too numerous to mention!" Charlotte said indignantly.
The embezzlement of the treasury was done by colluding with the officials of the Ministry of Finance, the amount was huge, but it still belonged to the category of corruption.
However, in his border, by creating conflicts with the orc tribes, mass slaughtering border villages, intensifying the intensity of the conflicts and exaggerating the threat of the orc tribes, so as to achieve the purpose of cheating the huge amount of military expenses, the shamelessness of the means was outrageous!
In addition, he also in the midst of several major disasters, withholding disaster relief food, resulting in a large number of civilians were starved to death.
How much money Cromwell had embezzled from the treasury, the one whose heart ached was the king of the Reims Empire, and Charlotte didn't have any position to condemn.
But his massacre and plundering of civilians was something he was angry about as a human out of conscience.
The booklet exhaustively listed the exhaustive crimes that Cromwell had committed for more than thirty years, the time, place, and victims were all very clear, so it was evident that Vivian's father had indeed investigated them with great care.
Judging from Cromwell's persistent attitude towards Vivian, this booklet was bound to be able to inflict a certain amount of killing on him, otherwise he wouldn't need to be so nervous.
"Your task tonight is to hand copy this booklet once to me, it is very easy for bad people to snatch such an important thing without backup." Charlotte said as she looked at Vivian.
"Huh?" Vivian froze.
"The important thing is not this blood-stained booklet, but the contents of the booklet. If the contents of the booklet are true and verifiable, we only need to deliver it to the person who has the ability to bring down Cromwell, and it will be considered a mission accomplished." Charlotte explained.
"But who can bring down Cromwell? Even my father ..." Vivian bit her lip, in the Lance Empire, Cromwell had one hand in the sky, his power was desperately huge.
Charlotte was silent, a sitting minister of finance, said to kill, Cromwell's power was so great that it could be seen.
He even wondered if the king was also on his side?
If that was the case, then the existence of this booklet was meaningless.
There was very little information about the Reims Empire that Charlotte possessed, and there were only bits and pieces of information about the medical world in his original body's memories.
Useful information such as ''The King and Duke's Unspeakable Secrets'' and ''Cromwell's Power Distribution Map'' were not available at all.
Perhaps there was some information that could be obtained from Harry, who was very well informed.
But even if he knew this information, then who should he find to submit this booklet?
At his level, he couldn't even come into contact with those top classes.
Wait a minute!
Speaking of classes, Charlotte suddenly remembered the black stone that he had wrapped and stuffed into the corner of the cabinet.
The members of the Red Moon Organization might be able to provide him with some useful information!