"Eric, do you think they're up to the task?" John asked about a knight in bright armor who looked like a faint golden glow shining around his body around a nondescript corner of Oni City around the corner after watching the criminals rush into the sewers at his feet.
And the knight named Eric just tilted his head and said with great contempt: "Just them, except for the bastard Rhett, the others will cause a little trouble for that guy at most." "
"Oh, I don't think so, that person doesn't look like Oni City, even if he has been in the sewers for the past two days, I'm afraid he can't figure out the complicated network, and the group of people who just went down, but a few of them are experts, and they seem to be in the sewers as if they were in their own homes. "
John smiled and continued: "And their real task is only to lock the position of that person, the weapons just issued to them have been attached to the magic mark of Lord Zecil, once they are handed over, Lord Zecier can lock his position, and then it will be time for you to go out!"
"Cut, just a thief, deserves to let me do it!Count Haniret is really, is the sewer a place for a noble Lord of the Dawn like me to go?" Erik looked extremely dissatisfied, and he kept clapping his hand on his chest, as if he had been greatly injust.
"Who's to say it isn't, but this time even Master Jersey has been invited, and the Earl's lost thing is probably more than just a collector's item. "
"I think so, is it enough to use such a big battle with just a broken jewelry box? I don't know what secret there is, which makes the Earl so shaken, and blocks the news. "
"Could it have something to do with cults? In the past two years, Lord Earl has somehow been very fond of collecting strange things, and I heard that he also summoned two travelers from the East, those evil devil believers, all of whom should be burned to death, and Lord Count actually met with them!"
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John also reacted, because of the slap yesterday, he was really a little confused, and he dared to say such a thing, he looked at Eric with some fear, and asked carefully: "You won't say it, will you?"
"Don't worry, we're old friends, and I don't want to be involved in this kind of thing, I swear in the name of the Lord of the Dawn that I won't say it, so it's okay, right?"
Hearing Eric's promise in the name of the god he believed in, John was relieved, but he didn't want to say anything more, for fear that the wall would have ears and he might be heard by that person.
And while John was talking to the knight named Eric, Austin and his party, who were driven into the sewers with a difficult mission, also encountered their first problem.
Oni City has been built for more than 300 years, although the scale has been small, the population has remained between one and twenty thousand, but its sewers have undergone several rests and expansions, and it is also extremely complex, often in a forked place, there are three or five branch roads. Austin and the others encountered this kind of problem, they were thirty-five people, they couldn't be together all the time, right? The footsteps of so many people, as long as the thief was not deaf, knew that someone was coming from a few hundred meters away.
Besides, the sewers are so big, and it takes a few days to walk together, and if the thieves want to play hide and seek with them, the game will go on forever. And each person has a limited amount of food and water, at most enough to eat for two days, if you can't find each other, then you have to try whether the fat rats in the sewers are really as delicious as the legend.
But if you go separately, the danger factor will be greater, and the thief is a fifth-level professional, and in the face of six or seven people, he can easily wipe them all out.
Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, they don't speak, except for the occasional squeak of rats scurrying by, the sewers are silent until the gasps of everyone.
Austin glanced at her eldest brother Ritter, who felt his gaze and shook his head slightly, suggesting that he wait and see.
I don't know how long it took, and finally someone who couldn't stand this oppressive atmosphere spoke: "I think so, let's see it this way, we thirty-five people, simply divide into five teams, one team of seven, so no more, no less, right now it is exactly five forks in the road, just like this team to search one by one, each with their ability and luck?"
The man who spoke was called Kaman, a rapist who was very powerful. Austen knew him, and he was also a notorious man in Oni City, and the women who did it, for fear of his retribution, usually put up with it, and did not dare to sue him, as if they had been bitten by a dog.
But he often walked by the river without getting his shoes wet, and at last a fierce women sued him, and persuaded a large number of sisters to testify, and the noise was so loud that it alarmed several nobles in the city, and Carman was planted, but he was willing to give up his money, and spent money to bribe the judge, and was sentenced to only ten years in prison. Originally, a crime like him was to be sent to the mine to be a slave for life!
In short, Kaman can be regarded as the number one person in this group of criminals, and when he said this, naturally a few people expressed support, and at first glance, he was the first to look at him. As for the others, they did not object, but some people raised questions: How do you divide these people? Who is in a group with whom? Karman is also self-aware, knowing that he can't be such a master, he simply named six people, including the ones who just expressed support, and then said: "I don't care how you divide them, the six of them will go with me!"
Since someone took the lead, a few people in the crowd with a certain strength also stood up and expressed their willingness to lead a team. At this time, Ritter, who was the most powerful of all people, naturally became the object of others' attachment, and a few discerning people hurriedly ran over to surround him, looking like he was willing to be a dog's leg.
As the first person to hug Ritter's thigh, Austin spoke on behalf of Ritter: "Stand backwards for me, you, it's you, why are you so close! Stand backwards for me! If you want to follow Big Brother Rhett, you must first report your ability, so that Big Brother Rhett can choose." "
Ritter nodded approvingly at Austin's behavior, and finally spoke:
"Brothers, I'm not talented, but I'm also a third-level knight, although I can't deal with that thief, but follow me, there's always a little more hope, isn't it?"
As he spoke, Ritter stomped his foot, and when he lifted his foot, there was already a two-minute thick footprint on the bluestone floor in the sewer.
When everyone saw that he had achieved this level with brute force alone, they all gasped, if this kicked a person, wouldn't it be that the bones would fall apart?
Seeing that everyone was stunned by his own hand, Ritter continued with satisfaction: "Didn't Karman just say that he wanted a team of seven people? I am also very supportive, in addition to me and him, there are still five people in my team, but I will not just take a cat or dog to drag me back, if any of you want to go with me, just like he said, report your ability!"
The 'he' in Ritter's mouth is naturally Austen, this gangster heard that the eldest brother clearly said that he would take him away, and he was immediately very moved, it was a matter of life and death, Ritter didn't kick him out because of his poor ability, and it really moved him from the bottom of his heart.
Because Rhett showed amazing strength, even those who wanted to lead a team by themselves started to join, and after someone took the lead in breaking up the team that had just been formed and squeezed over to sign up to join, they all learned well. Of course, Carman, who pulled up the team at the beginning, naturally couldn't follow suit because of his face, so he could only watch with a blushing face as other people who hadn't formed a team and posted to Ritter like dogs.
Finally, after layers of screening, Ritter selected five other teammates, a second-level warrior named Ral, a first-class thief named Karen, an old hunter named Bernard, who is very good at tracking, a thief named Mandington who is said to have been hiding in the sewers for two months, and a gangster Pete who has no special abilities like Austen.
After the team was formed, Ritter didn't stay long, and walked in with a group of people who chose a fork in the road at random, leaving the rest of the group to toss by themselves.
After walking far away and no longer hearing the voices of the group of people behind him, Ritter stopped and asked Mandington, who was most familiar with the sewers of Oni City, "Is it true that you say you are familiar with every place here where people may be hidden?"
Mandington, who was asked, was an extremely thin man, like a standing mouse, touched the sparse beard on his chin and replied: "That's right, in those days, in order to avoid pursuit, I ate and drank all in it, and waited for two months before I dared to return to the surface." I dare say I'm the most sewer-savvy person here!"
Two months? In this stinking place, full of feces and garbage? Austin could hardly imagine how this man named Mandington had survived, what was he eating here?
"That's good, you take us to a hidden enough place to hide first, let the others go find the thief's bad luck first, and we'll just wait. Ritter was pleased with the confidence that came out of Mandington's mouth, which gave him a little more confidence in surviving the incident.