Mercenaries and Adventurers

The shop of the algae head Parian is not far away. After counting the five local soldiers who followed, Kiel and his group of more than ten people walked through the crowded street and came to the street in the other direction of the center of the town.

The shops on this street are colorful, with various signboards. On the second-floor balcony of the shops, there are even young women in light clothes sitting lazily on wooden chairs and looking at the pedestrians on the street.

Mr. Pawei kept being called by the name of the woman in fancy clothes, which made him laugh out loud, looking very proud.

Shuizaotou's shop is at a corner of the street with less traffic. Seeing that no one cares about it, I can barely understand why that guy cooperates with the tavern owners like Scar Parry. Obviously, the other party runs this kind of shop. On the other hand, it is not the opponent of other red houses at all.

Pawei looked at the red house with the door closed, and said in a mocking tone: "Look at this dilapidated house. The paint on the signboard is all peeled off. Although it is daytime, one or two girls who are attracting guests No, it’s a failure, no wonder I don’t have any impression of this place.”

Kiel shrugged, he wasn't interested in it, he wasn't in the mood to listen to the young and powerful Master Pavey bragging about it.

"The door is closed, but there may not be anyone inside. Mr. Pawei, can we go in and search?" Keel asked.

Nodding, Pawei greeted several local soldiers who came to follow him: "Of course, this guy ordered his men to steal the property of merchants. Solicit business in the tavern."

He narrowed his eyes: "I didn't tell some people. Of course, I'm not responsible for this, but I can't ignore it when I see it."

With a wave of their hands, several soldiers immediately rushed up to smash the door.

Keir said to his own people: "The store should have a back door, who will follow me to block it?"

The baron's personal guard stood up, "I'll come, Zambirus, you follow."

"Okay." Zambirus, the town guard, agreed.

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You can't see the back door from the front of the shop, they are all next to each other. If you want to go around to the back door, you have to go in a small path at the end of the street.

Keel had already seen this when he passed other streets just now, so when he set off with the other two, he immediately walked to the end of the street, and then got into a narrow and inconspicuous alley.

The environment here is very bad. Not only is the ground full of filth, but also some strange mice the size of rabbits are actually eating some weeds that grow on the filth in broad daylight.

"What?" Keel was a little surprised that the mouse was so big.

Zambirus made a guess: "It should be grass rats. You see, they are not afraid of people, and they only eat weeds."

Bypassing the big rats that the family came out to graze, Keel led the two of them deep into the alley behind the street shop.

Calculating the approximate walking distance, Keel found the back door of the red house when he heard the sound of soldiers hitting the shop door with their shoulders on the other side of the house.

"Xu, keep your voice down. Let's hide."

Keel took the two of them to hide in the back alley full of sundries, empty boxes and twisted structures, and just poked his head out quietly to observe the back door of that place.

At the front door of the red house.

Several soldiers took turns hitting the solid wooden door with their shoulders. When the door was loose, the three soldiers showed their flying feet and kicked open the closed door.

Pawei fanned the dust in disgust, and swept the signboard on the door.

Lost shoes.

This is the name of this red house.

"What the **** name. Really. Don't look at it, don't look at it, what's there to see." Pawei waved his hand to the soldiers to go in after he drove away the crowd watching.

Kayan, another young town guard staying here, also rushed in with the local soldiers.

As Keel expected, the closed door does not mean that there is no one in the house, on the contrary, there are quite a few people inside.

The inside of the house was similar to other red houses, all of which were narrow and poorly lit. Under the ambiguous candlelight, the local soldiers rushed into the hall of the house, scaring several thugs in the hall to jump up.

"Don't move! Get down, get down!"

The soldiers roared loudly, and the short wooden sticks used by security in their hands directly greeted several strong thugs.

But the thugs were not law-abiding guys. Amid the screams of the girls who were watching, they also brandished iron-clad short sticks and fought with the soldiers.

While fighting back, he yelled loudly: "Boss, go away! These guys must be here to catch you!"

Beside the fence on the second floor of the hall of the house, a tall and thin middle-aged man rushed directly and quickly into the stairs deep in the house like a weasel, and disappeared immediately.

As soon as his figure disappeared, the thugs in the hall immediately dropped the sticks in their hands, squatted on the ground obediently, covering their heads with their hands, and after being hit hard by the soldiers a few times, they immediately begged for mercy and surrendered.

The local soldiers also knew what these thugs were like, and they were meant to eat this bowl of food, so it was enough to delay them for a while, and there was no need to fight with all their might.

So when the thugs surrendered, the soldiers kicked them again in anger, and then scolded the other women not to scream. One soldier went out to report to Pavey to take the place, while the others stood guard.

But the guard Kayan watched the shop owner flee into a staircase inside the house, and he immediately chased after him.

However, this place seems small, but the terrain is very complicated. There are four passages around the hall, which lead to different parts of the house. Instead, there are no stairs directly connected to the second floor of the hall.

Kayan chose an aisle to chase, but after pushing open the hidden wooden door, it was indeed a small kitchen?

There was no one in the kitchen, and there was another door here that led to nowhere.

He turned around and went back to the hall to try another aisle, but when he opened the door, it turned out to be a downward staircase. Try to go down the stairs. Apart from a few shelves of wine barrels, there is a small self-made prison.

There was no one in the prison except for some dirty hay.

Kayan didn't believe in evil, and returned to the hall again, just in time to bump into the rest of the people who came in.

"Did you find that person?" the clerk asked.

Kayan was so embarrassed that he didn't know what to say, but the local soldier next to him laughed and said that he failed to find the way to the second floor after going back and forth twice.

The soldier kicked a thug squatting on the ground: "How do you get to the second floor? Where did your boss go?"

The thug obediently pointed to a passage that Kayan didn't take: "There, go in and turn left and then go up the stairs. Boss? I don't know."

Seeing that the thug was stubborn, the soldier kicked again.

As for the back door, since the soldiers on the street side of the shop broke open the door and broke in, Keir, Rubis, and Zambirus hid nervously and carefully observed the back door of the shop not far away.

Generally speaking, this kind of remote back door can already be used as an escape channel to escape from capture, and it is not some professional guys, it is unlikely to set up a more secret escape route in the house.

"Be careful, that person might escape from the roof of the house." Keel remembered that when he was fighting in Pine Needle Town, some thugs from the Scar Chamber of Commerce tried to attack the militia from the top of the connected shops.

"Impossible, he was running on the roof in broad daylight, afraid that the whole town wouldn't know?" Lubis retorted.

When Keir thought about it, he was right, he was thinking too much.

Although the opponent's men were involved in a murder case, they did not kill themselves. Even if what he did violated the local rules, it was not a big deal.

It was not worth the risk of falling off the roof to escape.

While he was thinking, there was a knock at the back door of the red house.

The three of Kiel held their breath, shrunk their heads and eyesight, so as not to attract attention.

There was a sound inside the back door, and then a gap opened. Keel could see clearly, in the dark crack of the door, one eye was looking out nervously.

The messy and smelly back alley was as quiet as death, except for a family of grass rats not far away, squeaking and picking up weeds on the dirt.

After waiting for a while, as if afraid of being chased by someone behind him, the back door of the red house suddenly opened, and a tall, thin middle-aged man rushed out quickly.

After he came out, the first step was to close the wooden door behind him tightly, and then quickly moved a few wooden boxes filled with unknown things from the back door, and pushed them against the back door hard, making it difficult for the people inside. Open here and come out.

Then he breathed a sigh of relief, but was immediately suffocated by the unpleasant stench in the back alley. Cursing and whispering something in his mouth: "Damn it, why does it smell so bad in here. Ugh~"

"Go out first to avoid the limelight."

As soon as the man finished speaking, Keel rushed out, grabbed the man by the neck unexpectedly, and slammed him against the wall of the house.

Boom.

"You're not going anywhere!" Keel said, looking the man in the eye.

-

'Lost Shoes' Red House Hall.

The specially made candles with insufficient brightness were replaced, and the re-lit oil lamps illuminated the room clearly.

Mr. Pawei sat on a spacious leather chair and looked at the interior decoration of this bleak red house with some interest.

But he soon lost interest. Obviously, there is a reason why this red house is doing poorly.

So he looked at the girls here again.

But the girls under Shuizatou Parian came to this business because of poverty, not to mention their beauty, at least they often didn't have enough to eat, which caused their physical complexion to deteriorate too much.

He's completely lost interest in this place.

As he expected, from a passage that didn't know where it led, Keir escorted the boss here, followed by two other Kendalls.

Guard Kayan pouted and turned his head away.

Keel saw that the situation in the hall had been settled, the thugs were squatting at the corner of the hall wall with their hands tied behind their backs, while all the girls here were squatting obediently together, chatting in low voices.

They were not afraid that Master Pawei and the local soldiers would do anything to them, but they were worried that the boss made a mistake, which would cause them to lose their 'jobs' once again, who were already poor.

Keir escorted the tall, thin middle-aged man to the middle of the hall, kicked the man behind his knees, and made him kneel on the ground.

"Look, is this your boss, the algae head Parian?"

Kiel asked a few thugs who secretly turned their heads to look here.

The thugs didn't expect that the boss, who had always been shrewd and slick, was arrested after they dragged the soldiers who came to the door.

And looking at the clothes of these visitors, it is obvious that they are not locals, and they are not easy to mess with.

I don't know where the boss got into trouble again, but these unprofessional thugs don't want to get involved.

"It's our head. Parian Vedel." Several thugs said in unison.

But as soon as the words fell, Mr. Pawei, who was sitting, suddenly got up, and slapped Shuizaotou's face with a slap.

"Just you, dare to call yourself the name Vedel? What a despicable thing!" Mr. Pawei scolded angrily.

The algae head that was slapped on the face also looked embarrassed. When he saw the lord's nephew, Master Pawei, he realized that as long as he mentioned his name, this slap would probably be indispensable, and he might get another one. Beat.

But obviously because of the presence of Kendall from other provinces, Mr. Pawei still restrained himself, but after slapping this guy, he angrily restarted.

"Remember, don't mention this person's name to me. Don't dare to impersonate the earl's surname!"

Kiel and the others looked at each other and laughed softly. The local soldiers, thugs, and girls all pressed their lips together tightly.

With a light cough, Kiel continued to ask: "Since you are the leader here, then I will ask directly."

He turned the algae head Parian's head around and looked into his eyes: "Do you know what happened at the Burning Grassland Tavern last night?"

Swallowing, the algae head Parian nodded: "I know."

"If I'm not mistaken, you were in that tavern last night?"

"Yes. My subordinates and I will bring a few girls to wait for customers in several taverns every night. They wait in one place of the tavern, and I or some of my subordinates will approach the drinkers and ask them if they need service."

Mr. Pawei snorted coldly, and interrupted the question: "I remember that there were rules in the town. People like you can only do business in this area, right? At most, people who solicit business can't go outside the street?"

"Yes, yes." Shuizao lowered his head nervously, and quietly looked at the sitting Mr. Pawei, the confidant of the local knight lord.

"Then you didn't take the rules to heart?"

"No, no. The business is really difficult. I am willing to pay the fine, no matter how much it is." Shui Zaotou replied nervously.

Hearing the fine, Mr. Pawei sat back in satisfaction and raised his hand to signal Keir to continue.

Keir nodded. He is investigating the case of the murder of the businessman, and he has to take care of some problems that have been discovered.

Mutual respect is the basis of cooperation.

"Going back to what you just said, tell me, what happened last night? I want to listen to it and see if I told it to other people, and what we found is consistent."

Keel looked into the other's eyes.

"Yes, yes. Last night was very ordinary. An ordinary day." He glanced at Orobi, the businessman in Kiel's group: "But there are some foreign merchants here. I heard that there is a large wave of people from the north outside the town. The provincials feel that they can make a fortune tonight."

"Theft?"

"No, no. How dare I! Wronged."

Keir smiled: "But that's not what Scar Parry said? He seems to be dissatisfied with suppressing the little trouble you caused every time?"

"Actually, it's not a lot. It's just that the service fee for customers is slightly more expensive than other places."

Mr. Pawei next to him was already flushed with anger. He didn't know whether it was because of the poor air circulation here or because of the high temperature.

Kiel chuckled, he didn't care about these little things, but this algae head was obviously a man in his 30s and 40s, and he dared to be so naughty and slippery under such circumstances.

It seems that it is not honest.

Kiel looked up at Mr. Pawei and didn't speak, but Mr. Pawei, who was relatively young and familiar with these things, knew what Kiel was going to do. He also had a crush on the guy's slickness.

So, Mr. Pawei closed his eyes and slightly raised his head.

The guy who was still arguing that he ordered his girls to steal money while the drinkers were drinking too much didn't see the exchange of expressions between the two of them.

Keel smiled, and covered the mouth of the algae head Parian, who was rambling about justifying his behavior.

He said to the two guards, "Get a pot of clean water here."

The Zamberus guards were about to find the kettle according to Keir's words, but Kayan reached out and stopped him: "I know where it is, let me get it."

The young guard came to the back kitchen where he had just been, and quickly dug out a clay pot filled with water.

"Will this work?" he asked Keel back in the lobby.

Keir looked at the size of the clay pot, nodded in satisfaction, and reached out to take it.

The algae-headed Parian had his hands tied behind his back, and was pressed on his back by Keir on a low table in the hall.

Keel covered the opponent's mouth with one hand, and clasped the edge of the clay pot with the other hand, lifted the pot and poured it gently.

Small puffs of clean water splashed onto the face of the terrified algae head Parian. Because of panic, he closed his eyes tightly, and wanted to hold his breath, but he was so nervous that he had to inhale hard through his nose after his mouth was covered.

But he couldn't do it, the clear water choked him to death.

Parian wanted to exclaim, but his mouth was tightly covered by Kiel, unable to open or close, and the gloves made of hard cowhide pressed **** his mouth~www.readwn.com~ He opened his mouth wide He opened his eyes and wanted to call for help, but the thugs just squatted in the corner trembling slightly and secretly knocked here, their teeth chattering.

The girls on the other side didn't think what Kiel was doing at first, but soon they saw the algae-headed Parian twitching all over the body under the control of the low table, which frightened them.

"Ohh Ohh ohh-"

The kettle was tipped over, and little by little water was poured on the man's face. Keel didn't let go of his left hand until he had poured a whole pot of water.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough. Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough." A series of coughing and urgent breathing came from the mouth of the overturned algae head. His eyes were wide open and he wanted to move his body away from the young man.

The people in the room did not speak, and they all watched Kirschwei quietly. Mr. Pawei showed a curious look on his face, while Lubis, the baron's personal guard, was indifferent. The clerk was embarrassed and didn't know whether to Record this paragraph in the book in your hand.

The businessman Oulobi had a very ugly face, swallowing and spitting nervously, as if he wanted to get to know Kiel, a young man who was only about seventeen years old.

The two guards raised their eyebrows. They thought Kiel would use a more direct method, but this is fine. They are very demeanor of their town guards investigating and interrogating prisoners, and they are considered their own.

Several local soldiers stroked their throats uncomfortably, wondering what they were thinking.

But the thugs with the algae heads huddled their heads tightly against their chests, not daring to look at their bosses at all.

The women hugged each other in fear, one by one, whimpering. Somebody thought that the waterboarding just now was used on them.