British 1986

"Okay, I will ask someone to give you his information in a while. You can go get the information and arrange the rest by yourself. I only have one request. Take your time, don't do it so deliberately, and try to hide it. This matter has nothing to do with us, all faults must be attributed to the Russell family, do you understand?"

"I understand, I understand. Then young master, am I going to get someone right now?"

With the sound of water, Old Carl stood up from the pool as if he couldn't wait. He held a towel in a somewhat funny manner and saluted Allen. When Allen nodded in agreement, Old Carl grinned widely. , then walked out of the pool, waved to the servant on duty at the bathroom door: "Clean it for me, you go find someone to find me a set of old clothes, please"

In the dark dungeon, in a space more than three meters high, there is only a finger-sized light source on the top of the house. The cold light emits a weak light, so that it can be seen in this small "cell" of a few square meters. Clear things around you.

Leipzig was curled up on the bed with his eyes blank, his hands and feet were shackled, the floor was clean, there was no cutlery on the stainless steel dinner plate, only a pile of cold rice, and another pile of rice. It looked like a sauce with mashed potatoes or something.

He didn't eat anything. He had been locked up here for a long time. On the way here, he stared at the scenery outside the car window, which took him all the way from Swansea to Carmarthen.

As for Allen, who threatened to send him to the sea to feed the fish in front of Count Russell, why he didn't kill him but locked him up here again, Leipzig didn't know, and he didn't want to know.

Just look at the cell in front of you. It has a high-rise design. Even if you stand on the bed, you can't touch the roof.

There was no window in the entire cell, just a small exhaust fan.

Moreover, the exhaust fan was specially designed and covered with a layer of iron mesh. It was placed in the upper right corner of the room. With his ability, he couldn't touch it anyway.

The door to the room.

When he arrived in Leipzig, he noticed that the door of each cell was a one-piece steel door, almost an inch thick.

This is a single room. With such a thick door, it can block not only bullets, but also artillery shells.

There is only a long, flat window in the door that can be opened, from which meals can be delivered inside.

The entire prison building is constructed with extremely standardized facilities.

and

When I came to Leipzig, I could clearly see that this was the underground of a manor, and the exterior of the manor looked very new!

If he guessed correctly, this should be the newly built manor built by the Earl of Carmarthen.

Who would be a serious person who would build a prison cell underground in his own manor?

How many years ago was this method used?

And it was built so professionally.

Just observing these details, Leipzig was already heartbroken. He still didn't know why he was caught and why Count Russell didn't save him.

Could it be that there was some conflict between the Russell family and the Hill family, so he was implicated?

Just as he was thinking about these trivial matters, there was a sudden sound of a key opening the door. Leipzig was so excited that he leaned back and sat on the bed as close to the wall as possible. Unknown fear swept through his body. He didn't know who was coming and who was going to come. What are you doing? He is in a panic anyway.

"Hahaha Leipzig, do you still recognize me?"

As the cell door opened, a middle-aged and elderly man with a short but stout figure, wearing a greasy overalls, walked in. The young man followed behind him. He glanced at Leipzig, turned around, closed the door and went out again.

Suddenly there was another person in the whole cell, and he was dressed like this, and he asked himself if he recognized him.

Leipzig subconsciously moved to the side of the bed, squinting his eyes and trying his best to take in the appearance of the person coming.

This person

He has a very obvious big mouth, a somewhat flat nose, and when he squints his eyes, he looks a little calm and imposing. Although the clothes he is wearing are a bit old and dirty, they are extremely inconsistent with the temperament he exudes. That's it. With his outfit and appearance, Leipzig looks more and more familiar.

"Are you the owner of the car repair shop?"

"Hahaha, you actually still remember me? Not bad, not bad. I never thought that one day I would see you again."

Old Karl smiled happily when he saw that Leipzig recognized him. He threw the information at the end of the bed, sat on the edge of the bed and twisted and said, "Since everyone knows each other, it's easy. I need you to cooperate with me to do something." What about you? Cooperate honestly and I will take you away tomorrow."

"what do you want to do?"

Leipzig glanced at the information carelessly dropped by Karl Lao. Although he could not see clearly, the identity of the owner of the garage in front of him was definitely not simple.

He vaguely remembered that when the Russell family first moved to Swansea, there was a car repair shop not far from the Russell family's house. The car repair skills were pretty good, but the labor costs were very expensive. My home was not far away. At that time, Leipzig also arranged for people to repair the car several times, and I was somewhat impressed by this short and stocky garage owner.

But then, a few years ago, the garage suddenly stopped working, and the guys all left, leaving the garage vacant.

Thinking of this, Leipzig became vigilant again, squinted at Old Karl and asked: "Who are you?"

"Hahaha, it's somewhat useful."

Old Karl patted Leipzig's shoulder and stood up with a serious look on his face. Although he was wearing tattered clothes, when he became serious, his aura was even stronger than when he first came in.

"Formal introduction, my name is Carl. I used to be the owner of the car repair shop you mentioned. I was ordered by the old earl to monitor Swansea. Before I came to Swansea from your house, I started repairing there. Depot, after your family moved to Swansea, I watched your family develop step by step until now. I am now the housekeeper of the Hill family. By the way, I was given a title by the young master a few years ago, hahaha .”

Looking at the shocked Leipzig, Karl Lao was extremely satisfied.

Since he gained an identity, his status has increased and he no longer has to be the boss of the car repair shop.

Although whether he was in Great Britain or after going to the United States, he had a knighthood and others looked up to him, but this feeling was never complete.

Most of the reasons are because, after a person has been hidden for a long time, he lacks exposure and the sense of identity that transforms from one identity to another.

People outside only know that he is the old butler of the Hill family. He was given a title because of his loyalty. As for what he has done before, no one knows.

Old Carl lacked the feeling of exposing his identity in front of old acquaintances and then shocking them.

There are some things that he wants to keep in his stomach forever and cannot speak openly to the outside world, but now, there is nothing to hide about Leipzig in front of him. After all, he will have to "work" in his name later.

"you you you"

You don’t know if you don’t ask, but when old Karl really finished speaking, Leipzig was not happy at all, and his body even trembled slightly subconsciously.

He has limited knowledge, but he has heard some dirty things, and some things are too high-end. People at his level cannot usually see them, and they are not accessible to his "world".

But now he listened to Old Karl's few introductions.

"On the order of the old earl, we went to Swansea to monitor", "Since before your family moved to Swansea" and other words, you can hear a lot of things. These things made him feel cold all over. Just thinking about it What he or Earl Russell thought was a secret was actually already known to others.

turn out to be

Did he open a garage in Swansea just to do these things?

Still working for decades!

When I think of the car repair shop not far from the Russell family's ancestral home, I have been monitoring their family.

The means of the Hill family.

As expected, these old nobles are not comparable to the "new" nobles like the Russell family, which only have a history of one or two hundred years.

"Stop talking? Very good I will let you beg me."

Old Karl looked at Leipzig who was staying there after he introduced himself, turned around, opened the door, and whispered a few words to the bodyguard who had been waiting outside.

Allen's old manor, also known as Hill Manor, was converted from an ancient battle fort.

To put it bluntly, these ancient battle forts had a standard circle of tall stone walls on the outermost perimeter, with watchtowers on the walls. Their main functions were defense, surveillance, and troop garrisoning.

The architecture inside is relatively simple and practical.

They are all three- or four-story stone buildings, mainly to reduce the height of the building and accommodate as many people as possible. If they are built too high, it will be difficult to repair if the trebuchet throws a big stone.

The buildings built back then were purely for combat needs. The first floor was the commander's combat conference room, canteen and other halls, and the rooms above were for people to live in.

There are basements underground, but those basements were used to store food or weapons.

Later, after such a battle fortress was remodeled, the overall appearance of the building remained unchanged, and the basement was converted into a warehouse, where successive counts stored some weapons.

In the early days, black powder and the like, even if they were filled with basements, would not pose much of a threat to the ground-level buildings directly above them even if they exploded.

But these later weapons were a bit dangerous. With the development of science and technology, the weapons became more and more powerful. Whether it was yellow gunpowder or something more powerful than this, if these things were stored in the basement, they would pose a threat to the manor. It's much bigger.

That is to say, the management has been strict and the protection measures have been good over the years, but no matter how they are done, the old manor has always been a large powder keg, and it is still built directly above the powder keg.

When Allen goes to bed every night, he actually has a certain probability of "ascending to heaven".

That is to say, the old earl is too courageous to care about this.

But Allen cares

Ever since that time he went to the basement and saw the weapons stored there, although he didn't say anything on the surface, his mood to build a new manor became even more urgent.

Now that the new manor is built, the basement must be standard.

The new basement also cost a lot of money and was specially designed.

Theoretically speaking, in general buildings, basements are built directly below the above-ground buildings.

But not so in the basement of New Manor.

On both sides of the manor, there is a two-lane underground passage about three meters high, which leads directly to the basement.

These two are said to be basements, but they are actually giant underground frame buildings made of reinforced concrete.

The two passages each extend underground on both sides of the manor.

The underground warehouse extending to the west of the manor is the new weapons depot planned by Allen.

Directly above this warehouse is beyond the scope of the manor. Above it is a protected area, specially designed to store the family's old weapons, as well as new weapons that will be added in the future. Even if something goes wrong, it will not be punished. What impact does the building on the ground have? Safety is greatly increased.

The basement on the east side is used as a general warehouse to store some old antiques and objects. A professional dungeon is also built on the second underground floor.

How could the Hill family's new manor not include a standard building like a dungeon?

As for the underground directly below the main building of the manor, there is another dedicated underground parking lot.

There are a total of three unconnected underground passages, divided into three functional areas. The weapons warehouse on the left has the most guards, and a special concierge has been built to guard it.

After coming out of the dungeon, Old Carl called for help. Seven or eight ordinary black cars, followed by two small buses, went all the way south. By the time they arrived at the suburbs of Llanelli, it was already past one o'clock in the evening.

On the edge of the sea cliff, which is about three or four meters high, the waves below can no longer be seen clearly. Under the night, all you can hear is the sound of the waves, the slightly fishy sea breeze, and accompanied by the sound of the wind, a large group of people are standing on the sea cliff. side.

Leipzig was tremblingly dragged out of the car by the bodyguards and pulled to the side of Karl Lao.

"Look who those are!"

Old Karl pointed to a dozen people not far away who had their hands and feet trapped, their mouths gagged, and their eyes blindfolded.

These people were dressed in various colors and stood shivering, including several children.

"Well"

Leipzig recognized at a glance that those were his family members. When he was arrested, he was still in the company. He always thought that Allen was lying to him when he said that his family members were arrested. Until this moment, he saw the whole family neatly arranged. Yes, even my daughter who is still working out of town is here.

Leipzig looked at Old Karl in despair and said: "What on earth do you want to do? I will give you whatever you want and let my family go!"

"Haha. Doesn't this mean he can talk? Block his mouth."

"Hmm."

Leipzig felt like a ball of cloth was stuffed in his mouth, whining and unable to speak. He struggled and tried to throw himself on Old Karl, but the bodyguard behind him could control him with one hand.

"Pull that old one, that old woman, over here."

Old Karl took a look at Leipzig's family and picked the one who looked the oldest. Looking at the information, it seemed that this was the third wife Leipzig found twenty years ago. She was more than twenty years younger than Leipzig, and now she is already over fifty. .

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Because her eyes and mouth were covered and blocked, the person who was captured couldn't see anything, but she could hear the conversation just now and knew that they were trying to arrest her. She couldn't speak and could only whine in vain. struggle.

Leipzig watched the bodyguards in black dragging his wife to Old Karl, shaking with anger, but there was nothing he could do.

"See clearly, this is a little lesson for you for not cooperating."

Old Karl took out a short knife and smiled at Leipzig.