A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

When Fataya walked out of the dilapidated cabin, she looked up.The slums are full of tattered cloth and baffles in disorder, the sun cannot shine here, and the whole place looks very dark.

It's really bad to stay in this kind of place for a long time.

She thought, and then found that the child hadn't come out yet. Turning her head, the child was putting the large piece of malachite into a bag, and it seemed that he was going to take it away.

The young man stood by and watched, his lips twitched a bit, but he didn't say anything after all, and lowered his head with a dejected look on his face.

"The kid did it to protect you."

Fataya stood at the door and said, "Even if such a valuable thing is left here, if those people see it when they come again, you and your mother will die."

"...I know." The boy bowed his head deeply and said, "I'm really sorry."

Garlan glanced at him and said, "It's agreed, your mother recovers, and you can go to the City Guard Department by yourself."

After speaking, he took the small bag and ran to Fataya's side, and handed it to her.

"Sister, here you are, hold it for me."

Fataya hummed, patted his head, and took the bag containing the malachite fragments.Then, she took the child by one hand and left the dilapidated house where the wooden fence was almost smashed.

After walking not far, Fataya couldn't help asking.

"Aren't you afraid that he will run away?"

Garlan shook his head.

"His mother's illness is very serious. He can risk his life to steal things for his mother, so he will definitely not leave his mother and run away."

"That's right."

The female knight nodded.

The child held by her lowered his head in thought, then raised his head and looked around. In the shadowed slums, his pair of golden eyes were particularly bright.

Then, Garlan raised his head and grabbed Fataya's hand.

"big sister."

The child's voice was soft and sweet, and the female knight crouched in front of him with a smile on her face.

"Huh? What's the matter? Are you hungry? Big sister will take you to eat delicious food~"

"Do you have time right now?"

"Yes, of course~"

"Then why don't you walk here with me?"

"what?"

"I want to ask more to see if other people are in the same situation."

"Huh? But..."

"Can't you?"

The child's beautiful big eyes like amber gems looked at her flickeringly, with an expectant expression on his face, that look was so lethal that Fataya couldn't bear it.

She sighed.

"What's your name?"

"Gal."

"Gal, do you think they are pitiful and want to help them?"

"Yeah." Garlan nodded, "King Kamos...uh..." He almost uttered the word 'brother', but he choked up a bit before continuing.

"The order was clearly issued to help the poor, but the result made them suffer even more. It must be because some people did something wrong." He said, "If something is wrong, we must find a way to correct it."

"Gal, you are a good boy."

Fataya said, and patted Garlan's head, "But you are still young, and you don't know how powerful those who have done wrong things are. Even if you know the facts, you can't do anything."

Just like her, even if she knew, there was nothing she could do about it.

What's more...

"Besides, those people are nothing but pariahs."

The female knight said, with an understatement, as a matter of course.

If slaves, as the private property of the nobles, can still be protected by the nobles, then no one among the untouchables will care about their lives.

The untouchables are the humble existence in this country, as low as weeds.

Born with sin, they were punished by the gods to be born as pariahs.

Garlan smiled, his eyes curved like crescent moons, making the child's face with baby fat even more cute.

"It's very interesting."

He smiled and said, "I've never met a pariah before, big sister, can you play here with me a little longer? I don't dare to play here alone."

The child tilted his head to look at her, grabbed her hand and shook it slightly, as if he was acting like a baby.

The appearance of looking at her with her little head up and her big eyes wide open, and the little hand holding her, are so cute, it made Fataya's heart soften all of a sudden.

Who could resist such a cute kid acting like a baby?

Forget it.

she thinks.

What do children know, probably because they have never encountered such a thrilling and exciting thing and just think it is fun. They have never met untouchables and are a little curious about their lives, so just go shopping with him.

Thinking of this, Fataya nodded.

Next, she was dragged by the child, wandering left and right in the slums.Garlan was running around like a young deer, leading her into those poor-looking or broken-down houses from time to time, looking at her curiously. People in the house ask this and that.

Most of the impoverished pariahs are cowardly and cowardly people. Seeing that Garlan was accompanied by a city gate guard, they were all terrified. Garlan would say whatever he asked, honestly, and dared not speak out. , dare not have the slightest concealment.

It didn't take long for Garlan to inquire about some important matters.

Sometimes Fataya couldn't help asking a few more questions when she was beside her. Although she felt that these were untouchables, the tragic experience of these people still aroused her natural sympathy as a woman.

She couldn't help sighing when she thought of what would happen to these untouchables in the future.

Although the untouchables live in distress and hardship, they are still free anyway.Once this place is reformed, those powerful people will order thugs to come over to press for debts. I am afraid that all the untouchables here will have their families ruined and become slaves whose life and death are controlled by others.

The female knight, who was feeling emotional in her heart, did not notice the thoughtful expression of the child who was being held by her as she walked.

I need to collect more information before I can go back and tell Brother Wang.

Garlan thought so.

Fataya also didn't notice that her and Garlan's inquiring behavior also fell into the eyes of some caring people.

In a dark corner, the tall man who broke into the boy's house not long ago stared at Fataya with cold eyes like a lizard.

Naturally, he didn't care about that child. From his point of view, the female knight was in charge of this matter. She asked around and didn't know what she wanted to do.

"Go, report to the master that the female knight Fataya has been inquiring about the slums."

After the man finished speaking, a strong man behind him nodded, turned around and left quickly.

Soon, the news reached Kabei Qianxing. Of course, the real powerful people behind the scenes will not show up easily.Therefore, a lower-ranking nobleman who was the front-screen controller of Kabei Qianxing and also a distant relative of the chief secretary was furious when he received the news.

"Who doesn't have eyes and dares to fight against us?"

One must know that not only the Chief Secretary participated in this feast, but also several extremely powerful beings in the royal city.

They intertwined into a spider web, deceived the upper and lower, joined hands to block the sight of Wang and the people around Wang, and wanted to eat this piece of fat together.

A small city gate guard dared to meddle in this kind of nosy matter - he really had the guts of a bear!

You have to teach that woman a hard lesson!

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It was already approaching evening, and the slums were extremely dark even at noon, and at this time, it seemed even darker.

The winding path is like an open spider web, very cold, and the end of each place is blurred, and only endless darkness can be seen.

The skinny pariah huddled silently in the corner, and some ruffians made noise here without restraint, bullying those timid guys if they had nothing to do.

At this time, a black boot stepped into the muddy road.

The black-haired boy looked around, and there was a faint smell of garbage piled up in the air.

"...It's such a familiar smell."

Heymos muttered to himself in a low voice.

This smell, this place, this atmosphere of a place where garbage gathers, like a stinking gutter where only rats and bedbugs gather, exuding a rotten and foul smell.

He grew up in this stinky ditch, and now, he's back here again.

However, that child is not suitable to stay in such a dirty place.

Heymos thought.

He had to find Garlan as soon as possible.

Just when he found out that Garlan was missing, the little fat man who wanted to ask the lady officer or the knight for help also ran back, and the two ran into each other.The little fat man who was stared at by Heymos was frightened to death, and quickly told everything.Heymos didn't say anything, and decided to come out and find Garlan himself.

In order to prevent Garlan from being found out and punished for sneaking out of the palace, he also asked the little fat man to continue lying on the bed pretending to be Garlan.

Therefore, he had to bring Garlan back before dinner.

Thinking of this, the young man cast his eyes on a few little ruffians who were laughing not far away.

In the stinky gutter, the most well-informed are naturally the rats who live here.

Those ruffian young men who didn't look like a good guy at first glance were already looking at this stranger who suddenly entered the slum. It is full of greed and calculation.

Seeing the boy's eyes looking towards them, they no longer concealed it, and walked towards the fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered in their eyes with a smile.

"Little guy, this is not a place for young masters like you to spend time with each other."

The leader laughed and said, "Come on, get to know each other, this is my territory, little brother, if you pay enough protection money for me, I will let you go, otherwise..."

He hecked twice, and several people around him who also showed malicious smiles had already surrounded Heymos.

"Give me the purse, and this, this."

The man pointed to Heymos' golden yellow fluorite earrings and the beautifully carved sterling silver armband on his arm, and signaled his companions to peel off these valuable ornaments.Although it is not a very expensive thing, it can still be exchanged for some money and things for them to have fun for a while.

"Oh, young master, if you don't want to suffer, you'd better listen to our boss obediently."

The person standing on the left side of Heymos smiled strangely, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he grabbed him.

Before the man's outstretched hand touched Heymos, he was caught.

"Hey, you little brat, why do you still want to resist?"

Seeing that the young man dared to resist, the leader was furious, and he wanted to threaten the young man a few words, when he suddenly heard a miserable scream from his companion.

Accompanied by the scream, there was a cracking sound of broken bones.

The boy who looked no more than thirteen or fourteen years old actually crushed his companion's wrist with his hand in front of them.

Everyone was shocked, and then angry.

"You fucking dare to fight back!"

"I'll kill you—"

They waved their fists and rushed towards the young man.

At this moment, the boy raised his eyes, and his golden red eyes gave the leading young man a faint look.

The man was shocked, and he suddenly yelled.

"stop!"

He stopped his companion who was about to make a move, then bent down and smiled and said to Heymos: "Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding, I don't know that you are one of us, sir, otherwise we would not dare to make such a move." Something to do."

"I want you to help me find out if a female city guard brought a child here this afternoon, and where are they now?"

The young man said that no matter when the young man acted viciously at the beginning, or when he acted servilely now, his expression was indifferent, without any emotion.

After speaking, he threw a silver coin to the leader.

"This is a deposit. I'll give you the rest after I find someone."

"No problem, wrap it on our brothers, and I'll find it for you right away!"

The man said with a smile, clutching the silver in his hands, he was greatly relieved to see the young man stepping away from here quickly.

But his companion was not convinced.

"Boss, what are you talking about, your own people?"

"Yeah, why let that kid go, he's a fat sheep."

"My hands were broken by that brat—"

"Okay, it's just a broken hand. It's good to save your life."

Interrupting the complaints of his companions, the man said in a low voice, "That brat... don't underestimate him, his eyes... his eyes..."

He paused, remembering the way the boy looked at him just now, like the cold vertical pupils of a poisonous snake lurking in the dark.

Just one glance is chilling.

Those are the eyes that only those who have survived in the dark world will have, and they cannot be provoked by little rascals and hooligans like them.

"...Damn it, you have provoked an evil star." He slapped his companion away with a irritated slap, and said, "Hurry up and find someone, contact more people, go find someone."

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Although he felt that the collection was not enough, but looking at the sky, Garlan could only drag the female knight away with regret.

After all, if there is any further delay, the matter of his sneaking away will be exposed, and the palace will probably be in chaos.I just hope that Tal can help him hide it well before he goes back.

Then, he began to ponder again.

How to get rid of this female knight who said she would send him back is another big problem.

While thinking about it, he followed the female knight back to the entrance where he had just come from. The tied horse was still standing there obediently, when he saw the owner come over and snort.

Fataya touched the horse's neck, untied the rein, and was about to turn around and hug Garlan onto the horse's back, when suddenly there was a sound of hoofbeats, and a group of people rushed from the front and surrounded her.

The leader was a young man riding a horse, with high eyebrows and eyes, and when looking at people, he seemed to always look down from top to bottom, his chin was slightly raised, with a domineering aura.

The dress is gorgeous, with a golden waist ornament around the waist, and a delicately embroidered fringed shawl outside.

"Fataya." He unceremoniously pointed at the female knight with a riding whip embroidered with gold patterns, and shouted her name, "What are you doing here?"

"Gore." Fataya frowned and replied, "You have no right to control where I go, right?"

Gore sneered.

"Of course I'm not interested in where you go, but if you want to cause me trouble and cut off my money, I will naturally have to take care of it."

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing one's parents.

The several major forces above have joined forces to cover up the slum affairs. If they are exposed, their financial resources will be cut off.

Therefore, they will absolutely not allow any possibility of this matter being leaked.

"Fataya, because we have known each other for so long, I warn you, don't meddle in your own business, or you will find yourself dead."

"Gore, you're just a small character."

The female knight said angrily.

This Gore is a low-level nobleman similar to her family, and he dared to put on such a domineering look in front of her.

"Doing such a dirty thing, are you afraid that others will say it?"

"Humph, don't you know that adult is standing behind my little character?"

Gore sneered, "Do you have the guts to offend that lord?"

Fataya's face was ugly, but she didn't refute it.

So Gore laughed even more wildly. Ever since his parents took refuge in that lord to work for him, not to mention ordinary nobles, even nobles with some status dared not easily offend their family.

Being held high by everyone, his mentality has already swelled infinitely, and naturally he will not put Fataya, who is a mere city gate guard, in his eyes.

"Fataya, I came here today to teach you a lesson. You'd better be sensible and guard your city gates. It's best not to worry about irrelevant things. Otherwise, next time it won't be a matter that can be solved with a beating. .”

Gore finished speaking threateningly, and then waved the horsewhip in his hand.

"Come on, give her a good lesson." He said coldly, "I will bear all the consequences!"

The group of family guards he brought rushed forward one after another, and the first one stabbed Fataya with a single shot.

Fataya's expression changed suddenly, and he raised his hand and pulled out the two short barrels on his back. With a click, the two short barrels joined together to form a silver gun.

With a bang, she held back the long spear that was rushing at her, and then swung the guard with her backhand, picking the guard off the horse in one fell swoop.

She danced her silver spear like water, and instantly drove back three or four cavalrymen.

Being able to secure the position of the city gate guard as a woman, the female knight's martial arts are naturally very powerful.But two fists are no match for four hands, being besieged by everyone is already very difficult, and she still has to protect the children around her, so she can't use her hands and feet for a while.

On the opposite side, Gore sat on a horse and looked at Fataya's embarrassed look triumphantly, feeling extremely good.He has long disliked this woman, women should serve men honestly, what kind of martial arts do they learn?Tsk, he even got the official position of general.

Garlan, who was guarded by Fataya, was in a terrible mood. The young man in front of him was probably one of the lackeys behind the scenes.

This guy is going to jump out at this time, he must not be able to go back in time.

Wait for me.

thought the little prince sadly.

When I go back, I will ask Brother Wang to arrest you.

Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly saw a long spear slanted towards the female knight's thigh from the corner of his eye.

However, the female knight was biting her teeth against the two people in front, and had no time to take care of this side.

Seeing that the point of the spear was about to pierce Fataya's thigh, Garlan pulled out the dagger hidden in his boots.

With a clang, the tip of the gun slammed into the blade of the snow-white dagger, sparking a series of sparks.

Garlan only felt that his arms were numb from the shock. If he hadn't used the unloading technique that Ximuer taught him, he would definitely not be able to block the blow with the strength of a child.

However, just as he breathed a sigh of relief, the man on the horse saw that his gun had been stopped by a child, and suddenly became angry from embarrassment. He raised his spear and swung it vigorously at Garlan.

Although it was not the end of the gun point, the gun barrel was drawn heavily on Garlan's body, and the small body was instantly sent flying, hitting the wall behind.

"Gal!"

The female knight was so angry that she lost control and cursed.

"A man as big as your mother actually attacked a child! Was his face bitten by a dog?"

She tried her best to get a blow from the person next to her, and stabbed the person's thigh fiercely with her backhand, causing blood to splatter everywhere.

Then, she slammed the people around her away, rushed over to pick Garlan up, quickly got on the horse, and got hit a few more times, but still kept her head down tightly to protect the child in her arms, just like that rushed out from the crowd.

"Follow me all—"

Gore shouted, pulling the rein and being the first to catch up.

"I must let her know the fate of offending me today."

The fight at the entrance of the slum finally stopped, and the people around had already hid far away, trembling, not daring to approach.

In the far corner, a big dirty boy watched the group of people go away, and immediately turned his head and quickly got into the alley, intending to report the news.

Found it, the female knight with a blond child.

He thought happily.

That bonus belongs to him.