A Tale of Strategies For the Throne - 28. Chapter 28

Things are a bit bad.

Sitting at the foot of the cracked stone wall, Garlan thought.

The original plan was to be taken away, and then to make some marks along the way so that the cavalry could keep up from a distance in secret. But the arrangements were all outside the city of Venar, who knew that those’thieves’ were already bold enough to rush into the city.

Although he knew that on the way to the town of Ayr, two cavalry disguised and followed far behind, but when the incident happened suddenly, these thieves acted very quickly, and he was knocked out and could not leave a clue. , I’m afraid those cavalry will be difficult to track.

Moreover, Garlan himself was still at a loss as to where it was now.

He thought about it, got up, walked to the rusty iron railing, and looked outside while holding the railing.

The gap between the iron bars is not big, but the other person is small, and he can still get his head out.

So, in the dark dungeon, I saw a small fluffy golden head coming out of the iron fence, looking left and right with a pair of big eyes open, like a little squirrel sticking its head out of the hole.

He looked at the children who seemed to be asleep huddled in different dungeons, and counted them in his heart one by one.

Well, probably less than twenty.

Garlan, who drilled his head out and watched for a long time, came to a conclusion.

There are no more than twenty children in this dungeon.

As a result, the number will not match. It is said that the number of missing and kidnapped children is almost 60 or 70, and the number here is not even one-third.

Then, there are only two possibilities.

The first one is that the kid who was caught in the front has already been sold.

The second type is that this is only a temporary transfer station, and all the children here have to be sent to the actual imprisonment place.

According to the little girl named Kerry, the children here were all caught in the last four or five days, so the second possibility should be more reliable.

So what he has to do now is to first find out where he is, and then wait for the’thief’ to send himself and the group of children to the place of imprisonment.

Thinking about this, Gallan retracted the little head that had drilled out, planning to go back and squat, and honestly wait for the opportunity.

However, when he walked back along the way, he inadvertently didn’t notice a child who was sleeping in the corner and kicked the child. Not only did he trip over and almost fell, he also kicked the child. I have to roll over half of my body.

“Ah, sorry–”

Gallan hurriedly stretched out his hand to apologize, but when he leaned over, he found that the kid who had been kicked over was not awake, still sleeping very deep, and had no reaction at all.

He suddenly felt a little strange in his heart.

Walking quickly back under the stone wall with an oil lamp hung, he saw that the old man and the little girl were sleeping, then turned his head and found that everyone else was also asleep.

………Something is wrong.

Garlan remembered that when he looked around just now, all the children were asleep.

He thought at first that everyone was asleep just because it was getting late. But think about it, even if it is late, there will always be one or two children who are too scared to sleep, right?

He squatted down and stretched out his hand to gently push Kerry, who was next to the old man.

“Wake up.”

He yelled softly, seeing that the other party didn’t respond, his hand began to force Kerry’s body with gravity.

But the little girl didn’t know what was going on, she slept so hard that she couldn’t wake up no matter how she pushed.

Gallan tried to push the old man again. It is reasonable to say that the old man sleeps very lightly and is very alert. He should wake up easily, but the old man, like Kli, completely fell asleep. If they weren’t still breathing, Garlan would even think that they were actually dead.

what happened?

Obviously all of them were still very energetic before eating. Some children were still crying, but now they all fell asleep all at once?

And he alone has nothing to do?

…

Wait a minute,’before eating’?

By the way, that bowl of gruel—

Among all the people here, he is the only one who did not eat that bowl of porridge!

He suddenly figured it out.

Those’thieves’ must have added drugs to the food to make these children fall asleep, and they want to make all the children fall asleep, probably for the purpose of avoiding these children being noisy on the way when they are being transported out.

In this way, the next thing they must do is to…

Just thinking of this, Gallan clicked, and not far away came the sound of the iron door opening.

Without saying anything, he fell to Klee’s side, closed his eyes and pretended to fall asleep like other children.

There was heavy footsteps, noisy and messy, as if many people were rushing into this narrow dungeon corridor. Immediately afterwards, he heard the crisp sound of keys hitting each other, and then the creaking of the iron fence door being opened one after another.

Someone was giving orders in a low voice, yelling, hurry, hurry.

After a short while, with a squeak, Garlan heard that the iron gate of the dungeon he was in was opened, and several people walked in quickly. One of them stretched out his hand, and rudely carried himself and Kerry on his shoulders one by one.

He closed his eyes and could hear the person carrying him whispering to the side.

“What about this old guy? Leave it here, or just throw it in the sewer later?”

A voice answered quickly.

“Take it away together. It’s best not to leave anyone here, and throw it in the sewer… No, let’s take it together. A bunch of little ghosts over there are annoying. Throw this old guy over and take care of the little ghosts.”

The conversation was over, and the man went out carrying him.

Garlan lay on the man’s shoulders, his head hung on the man’s back, and slightly opened his eyes. He saw a dozen tall men in the dungeon, one carrying one or two children and walking out quickly.

After going out of the prison door, there is a spiral stone step, which is also extremely dilapidated. Except for the middle part that is often trampled on, other places are covered with moss.

In the gloomy dungeon, those’thieves’ were rushing on their way, no one noticed, and no one would have thought that a child pretending to sleep was secretly observing them.

When the spiral stone steps reached the head, the leading man pushed the heavy stones away from his head and drilled out of the ground, and the others filed out.

Feeling the moonlight shining down, Garlan hurriedly closed his eyes, leaving only a very small slit, which was hidden by the thick eyelashes. With the corner of his eye, he secretly glanced at Kerry on the other side, and saw that she was still asleep, and smashed her mouth. He didn’t know what he was dreaming about, but there was saliva from the corner of her mouth. , Flowed backwards to her eyes.

The corner of Gallan’s eyes twitched, and he stopped looking at her.

The man carrying him hurried all the way, and Gallan didn’t dare to look up, so he could only see the road under the man’s feet.

The ground was very flat, it was paved with large blocks of bluestone slabs, and there were beautiful lines. Gallan guessed that this place should be quite a luxurious building.

After walking for a while, he was suddenly thrown down, and his whole body fell heavily on the stone ground. The pain was so painful that he almost yelled out, and desperately resisted it.

Because he was facing up when he was thrown on the ground, he took the opportunity to squint and close it quickly.

At this look, he suddenly set off a huge wave in his heart.

In the moonlight, he saw a tall and majestic building that looked like a few squares neatly stacked one after another, standing high up not far away.

Constable!

When he entered Venar City with Brother Camos last time, he saw this magnificent building in the center of the city’s noble area from a distance.

This is actually the administrative office in the center of Wiener City!

The hideout of the so-called’thief’ who attacked the people of Venar City is actually the place that should have guarded the people of Venar City——

While Garlan’s heart was tumbling endlessly, he was picked up and carried on his shoulders by the man.

The man still had leather armor on his shoulders, which was so hard that his stomach hurts.

He was thankful that he hadn’t drank that bowl of porridge not long ago. Otherwise, if he was awake and pressed against his stomach, I am afraid that this spoiled body would be uncomfortable now.

He resisted the uncomfortable feeling, and gently flicked the cuff on his wrist with his finger.

It was a black cloth wristband embroidered with blue river runes. This kind of amulet to pray for children’s health is very common, so no one takes it seriously. And now, when Gallan gently flicked it with his finger, two or three small black beads rolled out of the gap in the cloth talisman and fell to the ground.

Those little black beads are almost like grains of sand, very inconspicuous.

Before Garland was ready to do this, he had agreed with Brother Wang and the others about two plans.

The first is that after he was arrested, Brother Wang and the others followed and found a place to catch them all.

In the second case, if there is an accident and Brother Wang and the others are thrown away, then he will leave a clue so that Brother Wang and the others can find it.

“Hurry up.”

This group of people are waiting here because they have to join the other two groups.

The other two groups were smaller in number, but they also brought a dozen children.

Then, after the group of’thieves’ converged, they carried the child and swiftly got into a gate.

The road behind the gate was a slope, leading to the underground obliquely, and Garland smelled an unnoticeable stench.

He suddenly understood in his heart.

The sewer, which is a large sewer constructed under the city of Wiener.

Under every large city in Aaron Landis close to a flooded river, an equally huge sewer will be built, crisscrossing like a net.

The specifications and standards of these urban sewers are strictly regulated by the state. They are very wide and must be able to drive at least one carriage. Moreover, there are usually roads near the sewer walls for sewer maintenance personnel to walk on.

Garlan thought.

No wonder the spies hidden in the city couldn’t find any clues. It turns out that these children were sneaked out of the city directly from the sewer of the Executive Office.

I don’t know how long I have been walking in the maze of sewers. Anyway, every once in a while, Gallan secretly touched the cloth talisman on his wrist and dropped some small black sand.

After stepping out of the sewer, it was another long cave. He estimated that he had already left the city. This cave was also dug out by man.

Galan estimated that after walking for almost half a night, the group of people finally got out of the ground.

The bright moon shone, and the shadow shrank under the feet of people. As expected, it was almost midnight.

With a bang, he was heavily thrown into a wooden cart, and his shoulder was dullly hurt by the hard wooden bottom.

The child closed his eyes and gritted his teeth bitterly.

The guy who lost me twice, I remember you!

You wait, wait for me—

In his heart, he wrote down the man who threw himself rudely around on the notebook, and Garlan, who was lying in the car, slightly opened his eyes.

There is a thick wooden railing in front of me. This car body is like a large wooden cage. All 20 or 30 children, including myself, were thrown in. The front of the car vaguely heard the low neigh of a horse. Look. There is a horse pulling this car.

With the creaking sound of wooden wheels pressing on the ground, the carriage moved all the way.

Garlan only vaguely saw that this was a valley in the deep mountains, surrounded by mountains and dense forests, and it looked very hidden. But he didn’t know exactly where it was, so he could only continue to sprinkle small black beads secretly along the way.

The carriage drove for a while, and the front suddenly widened. Instead of dense woods, many huge black rocks appeared.

Those pitch-black huge rocks are unclear whether they are natural or man-made. They are densely packed with small holes, illuminated by the moonlight in the sky, the light and shadow are staggered, the strange rocks are rugged, and the wind blows and screams, giving people a kind of Very strange feeling.

The wagon wheels were still creaking, and Garland heard a sound.

An extremely weird voice, like singing, but also like shouting.

The voice was not unpleasant, it was a deep and ancient accent, and it seemed to permeate people’s hearts.

But I don’t know why, he felt a very uncomfortable feeling when he listened to that voice, as if something was about to move in his body, trying to tear something out.

The child lying on the carriage plank opened his eyes secretly.

The red flame lit his face.

He saw the place in front of him, surrounded by countless undulating pitch-black rocks, a place surrounded by several erect pitch-black slabs, and a huge bonfire was burning.

Under the bonfire is a huge black cyan stone slab, carved with mysterious lines, like patterns and ancient patterns.

A man in a black and cyan robe stood by the campfire, and he made the strange sound.

And beside, there are many people around.

The people next to them were all kneeling on the ground, everyone was terribly quiet, no one made a sound, and the flames reflected the extremely pious faces of those people.

A child stood barefoot on one end of the black cyan slate, and the blazing fire reflected the child’s sluggish, dull face.

The child’s brown-skinned neck and forearms are painted densely with mysterious patterns with bright red paint.

The moon was already in the middle, and it was at midnight when the weird sound stopped.

The man in the black-cyan robe stepped forward, cut the child’s two wrists, and let the blood drip onto the black-cyan slate on the ground.

The child whose wrist had been slit still stood sluggishly on the spot, motionless as if he had lost his mind.

Soon after, Gallan saw it.

Amidst the sudden screams of people kneeling around, the man in the black cyan robe opened his arms to the sky and shouted, and then cut the child’s throat with a knife.

The blood flowing out of the blood-red rune on the neck and forearm of the child who stood still, became more and more bright red, as if it was about to burn in the light of the fire.

Then, the bright red blood ticked down on the black cyan slate, blended into the twists and turns, and dyed the lines a little blood red.

The bonfire was burning fiercely, as if it had dyed the original bright moonlight of the sky with a hint of blood red.

Garlan in the wooden cage suddenly closed her eyes.

He held his breath, his fingers clenched hard, and his fingertips pinched deep marks in his palm.

Black and cyan robe…

Also, when that person stretched out his hand to the sky, the blood-red weird rune on his arm…

All things teach.

A cult that stirred up and spread the theory of subjugation in the country during the most difficult period of Aaron Landis, bewitched people to commit suicide, disturbed people’s minds, and almost caused Aaron Landis to really subdue the country.

In the past, King Camos, who returned after being repulsed from an enemy country, used iron and blood to ruthlessly wiped out a cult that remained unrelenting.

A few years later, when Aaron Landis had just calmed down at this moment, it revived again.

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La la la~~No one guessed~~~

And, I saw several friends saying that Garlan is like a cat, but…not…the reference I gave Garlan is actually—

Please Baidu [Fat Chiu Silver Throated Long-tailed Tit].