The Amber Sword - 891. Chapter 891 Act 49, Two Letters IV

There was a little silence between the two, as if they were thinking about such a proposition in their hearts.

After a while, Brando asked, “Antitina, do you know what your father did before?”

The lady of the staff shook her head slightly: “I don’t know very clearly. Since the day I am sensible, my life is still peaceful and generous, and it is no different from other families of our class. In Braggs, my father has several properties, and his source of life lies in him. It was stable before the last period of disappearance. I only know that my father had a hard time when he was young, but neither father nor mother told me about the details.”

Brando pursed his lips lightly.

He was thinking about a few things, what exactly is the “picture of the truth and fragmentary riddles finally formed” in the letter, what have they experienced with their grandfather, and who is the princess referred to in the letter? ——He was sure that it would definitely not be Princess Griffin. Neither she nor Haruze were born at that time. In the end, why do these trivial cultists have such a letter in their hands, everything will work together, and it is unlikely that Magske and Tester will give such an important thing to a group of people to deal with it.

These desperadoes put this envelope in the cover of the “Code of All Things” so carefully, obviously they understand the value of this letter.

“Antitina,” Brando raised the letter paper: “Do you think it is possible for them to find a way to read the content of this letter.”

He was referring to the cultists. Antitina glanced at that side and shook her head decisively and surely: “They can’t see it. It’s my father’s family that can show this letter. method.”

“Right,” Brando suddenly remembered: “How did you recognize this letter?”

Antitina was taken aback, and then replied: “Because my father’s letter has a special mark, which can be hidden from them, but not from me.”

“But you haven’t read this parchment before, haven’t you?” Brando was puzzled.

Antitina opened her mouth and stunned for a moment before repliing: “Lord, Diane told me that these people broke into my house and found my father’s old house in Juan District. I was already there. I doubt it. I think they probably got the news about my father’s inheritance from some sources, and that letter may have reached them too, but they may not be able to read the letter, otherwise they won’t be wasting their efforts. NS.”

Brando put his hand on the parchment and was attracted by Antitina’s words: “You said they were in vain. You knew that your father’s inheritance was not there. By the way, you said that your parents lived first. where?”

“In the Old Town, Squirrelman Street—”

Brando and Antitina discussed while Freya and Phoenix assisted the patrol cavalry to monitor the restless cultists. After tossing all night, the sky on the east quickly turned white, and Tadisha sank into the horizon. After that, a new day has arrived.

The patrol cavalry cleared the hunter camp before dawn. Eugene thanked Brando again and again when he left. The patrol cavalry captain was extremely complimented, as if compared with this little merit, he could have a relationship with the Lord Earl. Is the important thing.

Brando didn’t reveal him, but thanked him sincerely. The two people separated outside the forest. The young people who inspected the cavalry had a good impression of this unassuming Lord Earl. They repeatedly told him that he must visit when these desperadoes were hanged. Brando didn’t understand how these people treated him. Hanging is so interested, as if it was not a murder but some kind of entertainment. Ou Jin also promised to persuade the House of Nobles to issue him a bronze Starflame Medal, but the Starflame Medal has been rampant since the Ansen era, unlike the candles that only the royal family and the Temple of Flame are eligible to issue. The fire medal is so precious.

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The old town of Squirrel Street was completely remodeled after the Howling Years and was incorporated into the public cemetery. It is not too far from Antitina’s residence on Gravedigger Street, just through that one. The street facing the underground tomb is sparsely populated and cold in the daytime. The cemetery is located behind a temple belonging to the god of death. The temple is quietly located at the junction of Squirrel Street and Gravedigger Street. Brando asked Dean to buy the monks in the temple before agreeing to let them Entering the public cemetery to take a look, the old monk in taupe robes led them through large and small corridors supported by countless arches, and then through a small door to the back of the temple, through a forest After that, it entered the scope of the public cemetery.

Here is a quiet place surrounded by trees. There are many unknown or famous tombstones in the open space between the canopy and arches, surrounded by several stone paths, leading to the misty and unknown depths of the woodland.

“He isn’t worried about us?” Freya couldn’t help asking in surprise when she saw the old monk return to the temple and close the door.

“He is timid himself. I heard that there are many legends about this cemetery. I heard that there are many strange things wandering in the woods. Every year, people are killed in this neighborhood.” Little Phoenix was quite surprised. Replied disdainfully.

“It’s not so scary, it’s just to deceive outsiders, because some people want to use this coat to do illegal activities here-murder, secret transactions, and whispers in the forest are all conspiracies and poisonous tricks. In fact, these old monks know best. People,” Hearing what little Phoenix said, Diane smiled and replied: “Anyway, as long as someone pays, he doesn’t care what we are going to do.”

“But they are not afraid…?” Even though they had seen a lot, Freya still couldn’t believe it.

“These are all open secrets. Tomb robbery and corpses are sold. There are even necromancers who secretly buy corpses from monks as research materials. There is a huge underground black market. How can those monks not know?”

Freya let out a sigh of relief, somewhat disgusted: “It’s really blasphemous.”

“Necromancers also believe in Martha, don’t they?” Dean replied indifferently.

Freya frowned and glanced at him. The boy realized that he seemed to have said something wrong, and hurriedly added: “Those monks are inextricably linked to the Temple of Flame, and even the nobles are unwilling to provoke them. Besides, the nobles have family tombs, and they don’t want to intervene, what can we do. Those necromancers are mostly members of the gray realm, and most people don’t dare to offend them.”

Freya knew that he was telling the truth. Although she was not willing to listen, she just frowned and did not speak. She clenched her teeth tightly, making people worry that if the old monk appeared in front of her again, she would be asked to pull it out. The sword pierced the heart.

There was no expression on Brando’s face. What Dean said was something he was accustomed to, but if there is no danger in this cemetery, it is not at all. How can a normal place be like here with fog in the daytime? Gloomy, with visibility no more than ten meters? Surrounded by trees, it seemed that the sun couldn’t penetrate it. It was just after noon, but the cemetery seemed to be very late in the evening-and it was still cloudy. The supernatural mystery comes from the underground. There is a larger cemetery, the underground public cemetery of Braggs, which is perilous, full of corpses and moving skeletons. Since the Year of Howling, not many people have dared to enter underneath. .

But that is not their purpose today. He asked Antitina next to him: “Antitina, are you sure you are here?”

The temperature in the cemetery dropped abruptly by several degrees than outside. Antitina’s face was a little blue with cold. She pressed her shawl and replied in a low voice: “The residential area nearby was demolished 20 years ago. It was designated as a cemetery, but I heard that my parents rented the house and they luckily kept it. There is a grave guard who lives there.”

“There are still grave guards here?” Freya was slightly surprised, she thought this place was lawless at all.

“At least in name,” Antitina is a local after all. She has heard more or less of what Diane said, but she didn’t want to speak. She frowned and said: “I heard He helped those tomb robbers to transport the corpses out, running this shady industry.”

“Industry.” Freya almost fainted.

Brando heard her teeth clenching loudly.

It didn’t take long for them to find the house where the tomb guard lived. Antitina still kept the direction in her memory, and Dean could actually find the place—they passed through the dense forest and the forest. Tombstone, a two-story independent wooden house appeared in the fog, standing alone in the depths of the forest. Di contacted the tomb-keeper in the morning. Naturally, the tomb-keeper didn’t know Brando’s identity, but he heard that a nobleman came, thinking that he had encountered a big deal, and he had already waited respectfully in front of him.

The guardian of the tomb is called Lao Huatou. The real name has long been forgotten, like a bone buried in the ground. He looks exactly in line with the image of this kind of profession in Brando’s mind. A living corpse-hunched over and crouched, it is similar to the weird Quasimodo in Notre-Dame de Paris, except that the latter has a noble mind, and the former has only a stomach full of bad water; it is difficult to see him At age, his face is full of folds, but his eyes are still alive, as if the gloomy thoughts are constantly turning, the top of his head has fallen, and there are still a few sparse hairs standing lazily upright, as if it were the woods in the mist. Reduce and reproduce.

Freya looked at this guy coldly, but Brando was too lazy to embarrass such a small person. In fact, sometimes these shady industries may not be what these people are willing to do. He understands that everyone is more or less lost. In some era, the fault should not be counted on a certain person, otherwise it is pure venting. However, this does not mean that he is willing to deal with this kind of people too much. He glanced at this guy, and even owed his greetings, and directly asked: “What are our requirements? You already know, right?”

The tomb guard hurriedly nodded and bowed his waist and handed a bunch of keys to Brando respectfully. This was explained by Di An early. Although he didn’t know what this young nobleman wanted to borrow his house for, he at least knew Di An. , The boy gave him a large sum of money—the money naturally couldn’t be Dean’s. He knows very well that you can’t ask more about anything in this place. Who knows what this nobleman wants to do? The more he knows, the more dangerous it is. Besides, the nobles have some weird habits. He quietly glanced at Bran. The two beautiful and flowery girls behind Duo had some shameful thoughts in their hearts, but they didn’t show them at all on the surface.

For him, just get the money.

Freya watched the tomb guard leave far away and dived into the mist, her hands clenched and loosened several times without knowing that the guy’s greedy and filthy gaze at her thought she didn’t. I saw that she almost couldn’t help having a seizure several times, but after all, she was not the little girl who had just walked out of Buche and had nothing to do with the world, she could bear it for life. Brando glanced at her and Antitina apologetically, and the suffocation in the hearts of the two ladies disappeared naturally.

The three entered the house-Diane and Little Phoenix consciously guarded the outside. In fact, Brando didn’t need to shy away from Little Phoenix, but the latter knew that he needed to stay and watch the boy. This was also Brando’s advance. The one who told him-Antitina first entered each room and took a look, as if to find traces of her parents’ lives in this old room, but she was destined to be disappointed, inside the room Stacked with coffins, and filled with a disgusting smell, the lady of the staff went from downstairs to upstairs, and then back to the living room, her face was very ugly, almost nauseous.

“Is this here?” Brando looked at her expression and couldn’t help asking with concern.

Antitina nodded silently.

“Can you confirm where it is?”

“Behind the house, there is a black pine tree. If I remember correctly, it should be under the tree. There is a small pool there, so it should not be marked as a cemetery. I remember my father once told me about it. “Antitina recalled and replied: “He and his mother met at the ball in Baden. The first date was in this place…” She looked at this place with disgust, “Of course, it was still here at that time.” In a residential area, you can see the Butchi River not far away.”

“Then let’s go to the yard quickly,” Freya replied with a frown, “I really don’t want to stay here for a moment, it’s damn, this guy actually messed up the place where Antitina’s parents used to live. It’s like this—the miasma!”

Brando couldn’t help but smile. This is probably the so-called hatred and transitiveness. In his opinion, this house is actually not a big deal-shouldn’t it be like this for the tombkeeper’s house? The stench is nothing but The stale smell and the smell of the corpse are nothing more. Although the tombkeeper is not hopeful, but he was condemned for this matter, and he was a bit unreasonable. But he dared not say this in front of the two ladies, because he saw Antitina glance at Freya with a grateful look.

It seems that since they cried into a ball in front of their mother, the relationship between the two has gotten better.

Just like the traditional structure of the house in the Braggs area, the kitchen leads to the back door, and Antitina leads them to the back yard. Sure enough, there is a tall black pine behind the house, but the pond in memory has dried up. The cemetery guard did not have the idea of turning his backyard into a cemetery, and no one in the yard has ever moved. But Antitina was not sure where his father’s inheritance was buried under the black pine tree, so Brando and Freya could only dig a circle under the tree. Fortunately, there are The two of them also have endless strength.

In the first hour or two, they had nothing to gain. Antitina’s father seemed to have buried things extremely deep-or they guessed wrong, the things were not here at all-or they had been dug away, anyway. The pits are dug deeper and deeper, and the imaginable things are missing. But when Freya was digging about two or three meters deep in a certain direction, she suddenly felt something hard on the shovel with a ding sound. She immediately realized that she might have found something, and quickly stopped and took the place. A look at the soil layer, it turned out that buried under the soil was a rusty iron box.

The box was not too big, about the size of a suitcase, Freya hurriedly called Brando and Antitina, and the three of them worked together to dig out the box from under the soil. After they cleaned the box, the front of the box showed an emblem embossed on the surface of the box. The shield-shaped emblem was divided into four grids. There was a crescent on each of the two interlaced grids. Brando saw this emblem. Can’t help but let out a soft hey. The crescent is the symbol of Eruin, the emblem of the royal family of Westfah is a crescent emblem embedded in the full moon on the shield, and the emblem of the Corcovado family is derived from the emblem of the royal family of Westfah-the shield There are three oblique crescents on the emblem, but all crescents on the family crest are more or less inextricably linked to the blood of the royal family.

Brando couldn’t help but glance at Antitina. He didn’t expect her family to have at least some collateral relationship with the royal family, but his heraldry knowledge was scarce enough, otherwise he would probably recognize that it was that one. The offspring of a prince.

“My father is a noble from Westfah, Lord Lord…” Antitina had to explain quietly.

Brando suddenly felt that the nobles of Westfah had more or less contact with the royal family, which is not surprising. But this doubt only flashed in his mind. He quickly abandoned the idea and glanced at Antitina. At least for now, the most suitable person to open this box is undoubtedly this noble lady. .

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