Dawn of the Grey Tower
Chapter 131
The riot caused by cheese quickly attracted the patrolling soldiers of the royal city. After all, this street is a relatively busy area in the royal city. It is impossible to ignore such vicious incidents as injuries and falls. And in those who heard the news came to the soldiers are still wondering why the injured people are these local famous hooligans, cheese has quietly disappeared in the crowd. And the one who disappeared with the mage was the kid who wanted to steal the cheese purse.
"Come on, what''s your name?" This is the back lane of a restaurant, and no one usually walks into this smelly place, except that the kitchen staff will transport food ingredients into the restaurant in the morning and dump the accumulated garbage of the day into the carriage at night. Cheese took the child here. He knew that such a pickpocket must be proficient in all the changes in the street. So the mage felt that instead of asking for information through a few words, he might as well ask him directly.
The child is clearly still in shock. He didn''t really understand how cheese did what he had just done, and in this small world of children, he could only find a way to understand these things.
"You You can do magic! Don''t eat my brain! Let me go! Help! There''s a wizard here Exclaimed the child in horror, and at the same time he was waving his limbs like a drowning mouse. At the same time, his call for help was not able to reach out of the alley because of the small arrangement of cheese. And in other words, most of the voices from this dark alley, even if they are actually heard, will choose to ignore them.
"Hey, listen boy, be quiet!" The child''s resistance is so strong that cheese, who is still in a weak state, can''t suppress it. After all, the mage is not good at physical quality. However, although he wanted to reduce the frequency of casting as much as possible to prevent being discovered, the opponent''s resistance was so fierce that the mage had to raise his left hand in silence at the child. With the movement of cheese, the invisible force pressed the child against the wall, probably for the sake of preserving the strength. Although this force made the child unable to leave the wall, it did not force his limbs down.
Under the sudden force of terror, the child finally stopped struggling. Maybe it was because he finally realized the gap between himself and the mage, or maybe it was just because he simply had no strength. Cheese noticed that although the clothes on the child''s body were not thin, they were basically made of all kinds of clothes that didn''t fit the body, and his limbs, which stretched out his clothes, were very slim, and even the blood vessels on his arm could be clearly seen. If it wasn''t for the muscles of survival, cheese would even think that the child was some kind of skeleton undead in human skin.
"Well, now we can have a good talk." Cheese went up to the child and looked down at the thief who was fixed on the wall and could not resist. He opened his right hand and lay a silver coin in the palm of the mage''s palm. The special luster of precious metal attracted the child''s attention in an instant. "Listen, kid, I''ll ask you and tell me what I want to know. This silver coin is yours. Do you understand? "
The child looked at the silver coin in the master''s hand and swallowed his saliva. He nodded. In this child''s opinion, even if cheese is a cannibal devil, the money in his hand can make him live, especially when he has messed up so many things today.
Seeing the child nodding his head, cheese''s face showed a faint smile. He did not hate this little guy who tried to steal him. People in this world can only choose those means which are despised by others for their own survival. But it''s not their fault, it''s that they don''t have a chance to choose.
"Well, listen up, I ask you, is there anything important happening in the city of king recently?" Asked the cheese.
The child who was pressed on the wall frowned when he heard the question. His expression told the mage that he was trying to think about those things that could be classified as "major events". Then cheese realized that his own problems were too vague for the child, and the other party''s attention angle was different from that of himself. He could not get the answer he wanted by asking in such a general way Case. So the mage changed his problem.
"What is the most discussed thing in the king''s city recently?" Compared with the question just now, cheese believes that this one will be easier to answer. Thieves like this must always be the role of watching and listening to all directions. Even if they are not interested, they will also pay attention to the information in people''s mouth.
"Plague! A plague that will turn man into a monster Sure enough, this time the child did not want to answer. Looking at the expression on his face, he was obviously confident in his answer.
"Tell me something specific, something you know but no one else knows." Cheese said that he had found the right direction for his problems, and then he just had to guide the child to say what he knew.
"Well I don''t know much about plague. Those people are just saying that the plague is spreading faster and faster, and it will turn people into monsters like mice. So a lot of rich people are planning to move further south. " Said the child. There was some doubt in his tone. It seemed that he was not very sure of his answer."And you? What do you think of the plague in their mouths Cheese noticed that there was no fear in the child''s eyes when he talked about the plague, which was incredible, because in fact, once an infectious disease appeared, the first and most seriously affected groups must be people like him.
"Me? In fact, I''m not afraid of those things. Our boss said that he can get an antidote to prevent the plague. As long as I gather enough money to buy the antidote, I''m not afraid of it! " The child replied. Hearing the other party''s answer, cheese''s first reaction is that this is a fraud.
"Antidote? How can you be sure that what he gave you must be an antidote? Maybe he was just lying to you? " Asked the cheese. The person who will be called the boss by this kind of thief will not be a big man. At most, he is the rogue leader of some forces in the city. Will such a person have the antidote to rat plague? The mage didn''t believe it at all. So he asked this question just to wonder why children who grew up on the street like this think that what the boss said must be true.
"The boss will never cheat us!" As a result, the child said firmly that there was no hesitation in his eyes. It seems that he has absolute trust in the boss in his mouth, "the boss said that if there is an antidote, there must be an antidote! As long as I get enough money to buy the antidote, I will... " Then the child looked at the silver coin in the cheese''s hand.
"Hehe, isn''t it?" Cheese noticed the other side''s eyes. He gently flicked the silver coin with his thumb. The silver coin kept rolling in the air, and finally fell back into the master''s hand. "How many antidotes can I buy from this silver coin in my hand?"
The child''s eyes turned and seemed to be calculating the proportion of coins in his head. After a while, he said in a slightly hesitant tone.
"Probably Five. "
Hearing the other party''s answer, cheese almost laughed on the spot. Because in the eyes of the mage, this is an incredible price. It is absolutely a terrible figure to know that when the count of Saron led the cheese to suppress the spread of the plague, the materials he spent were calculated with money. If the gray tower had not had its own access to these materials, cheese would not have been able to obtain such a large number of materials. What''s more, it also included dragon blood, which only existed in legend for pharmacists. And now the child actually said that a silver coin can get five antidotes to the plague. Cheese felt that he really did not know whether to laugh at the ignorance of the other side or to feel helpless for the poor methods of the people who spread the lie.
The expression of cheese was obviously written on his face with the words of disbelief. The child was not happy when he saw the expression of the mage. In the eyes of such a child, maybe cheese could bully and humiliate himself at will, but the mage was suspicious of his worshipping object. This is simply unacceptable.
"Our boss got the antidote from the Pharmacist Association! That must be true! " The thief said angrily. And his words made the cheese look on his face.
"As you mentioned, these antidotes come from the pharmacists'' Association?"
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