The Last Gentleman

  Chapter 438 Ears and intelligence

  The identity gifted by the original deceased is extremely useful,

  Even if Yi Chen is an outsider with various attributes that do not belong to death mixed in his body, he will not be affected at all. During the period of living in the [Black Funeral House], he quickly became one with the dead in the hotel.

  He also often took out ancient coins to book the venue, constantly checking the favorability of this group of dead, and visited various neighborhoods on weekdays to learn about the hierarchy, internal relationships, and the status of the knights among the dead.

   It only took a week to figure out the 'ecosystem' of the entire original tomb

  The first point is also the conclusion drawn from the first visit to the original tomb. At first, the deceased basically didn’t care about the original tomb. No matter how big or small, they don't intervene, the only thing they care about is the formulation of the "Law of Death". Anyone who seriously violates the law of death will be marked by the original deceased, and real death will usher in within three days.

  Due to the delegation of power by the deceased at first, the real management of the original tomb actually fell into the hands of the Knights, and the active head of the Plague Knights had the first say.

  The second point is the division of status hierarchy.

  This fact was first proposed by the Knights. After the initial consent of the deceased, it began to be widely used. The identity of the dead people is divided according to their "strength level", and the ratio of upper, middle and lower dead people is about 1:3:6.

  Identities will not affect their residence rights in the original tomb, but they can limit their activity area and available resources.

   Only dead people who have reached a higher level are eligible to sign up for the recruit assessment of the Plague Knights.

  In addition, if the lower-level dead people stagnate for a long time, they will compete with outstanding talents recommended by the other six cemeteries every month for selection. Once they fail, they will be exchanged to other cemeteries.

  Through the so-called status hierarchy system to screen talents and strengthen the strength of the Knights.

  But according to the gossip that Yi Chen inquired about, the overall strength of the Knights has not changed much in the past few decades and hundreds of years, and has even declined.

   Obviously, there must be something wrong within the Knights.

Yi Chen didn't ask the black wolf Berna, because during this period of time he had to completely cut off the contact with Berna, even if there was even the slightest breath of the black wolf on his body, he would be noticed by 'Miss Weiwei', and he had to use a new identity to communicate with the other party. talk about it.

   Two weeks later, Yi Chen also felt that his favorability was about the same, so he asked the innkeeper at the bar.

   "Mr. Said, can I ask you one thing?"

The boss at the bar was serving another customer. After closing his eyeballs and making a glass of drink called "Sayyid's Eye", he turned around and walked towards Yi Chen, and plugged the spare eyeballs in the bar. Enter the hollow of the eye socket, ferment the agarwood, and after five minutes, the eyeball can be used to make the next glass of wine.

   "What's the matter, Mr. William?"

   "Do you know a female knight who was punished to guard the elevator?"

   "You must be talking about Ms. Vivienne West. It's just that I don't know much about her as a small innkeeper."

  Although the boss likes William very much, he resolutely avoids talking about the Knights.

   At this moment, a guest who ordered a cocktail just now suddenly turned his rotting face and made a sound through the white maggots in his mouth.

   "It is almost impossible to inquire about this kind of "high-level information" in an ordinary area like ours. If this information is important to you, you can try to find 'Mr. Ossicle'.

  As long as you can give a suitable price, Mr. Ossicle can find out even the inner secrets of the Knight Order.

   But please be careful, many of the deceased who went to see Mr. Ossicle are now staying behind closed doors, not knowing what happened. "

   "Mr. Ossicle, where can I find him?"

   "He may be seen in the darkest corners of the second and third floors. In short, once you find someone very inconspicuous, then you probably found the right person."

   "Thank you."

  Yi Chen didn't ask any more questions, and got up to set off.

  Using the overall vision given by the little grape to search the so-called dark corners, he found a dead body covered in a cloak sitting cross-legged in a corner where a large number of giant tombstones were piled up.

  The exposed hands are skeletons, and they are completely quiet, not even the surrounding deadly plague shows any sign of flow.

  Through the vision of ashes, it can even be discovered that the plague released by this person actually forms the shape of two huge ears in the air, and any small sound fluctuations will be captured immediately.

   "Hello, my name is William Behrens, is this Mr. Ossicle? I want to inquire about something."

  When Yi Chen walked slowly to the other party and introduced himself, the person in front of him slowly raised his head, and the face exposed under the hood made people very uncomfortable.

  An old face full of wrinkled skin, pierced by tiny iron hooks and covered with various ears. These ears come from different dead people, with different degrees of decay, sizes, and even shapes.

Not only that,

  This person's clothing room still has some 'different ears', which come from a few special customers.

  The eyes used to stare at Yi Chen are also cochlear-shaped, and the first thing they look at is Yi Chen's ears, and the ear-shaped tongue can't help licking his lips.

   "Human ears... are really rare. What do you want to inquire about?"

   "I want to inquire about Vivienne West's work schedule, daily whereabouts, and where she usually goes after get off work."

   "Dead Words Knight? Information like this is very expensive." Bone made the number '3' in the palm of his hand, "Thirty thousand, I will get personal information about Ms. Vivienne within a day."

   "So expensive?"

   "Otherwise, at any rate, the other party is also a well-known and dangerous person among the Plague Knights. I have to use a lot of connections to get her information.

   But well~ If you don’t have enough money, you can use your ears to pay. Cut off one of your ears, and I will waive all the fees. "

  Ear, for Yi Chen at this stage, no matter how much is cut off, it can be regenerated. But looking at the other party's weird expression, the so-called 'ear cutting' must not be so simple.

   "How to cut?"

   "Let me cut off your ear myself..."

   "The concept of 'ear' will be erased, and it will never grow again, right?"

"Hee hee~ Of course, what I need is the concept of your ears, otherwise, how could it be that your external flesh is worth 30,000 yuan. Don't worry, I will not destroy your auditory system, just lose one ear That's all."

   "Sorry, I can't accept such an offer."

  Physical integrity, this is Yi Chen's bottom line as a person.

   Just as Yi Chen turned to leave, a whisper came: "How about it~ Let me touch your ear, how about I give you a 20% discount?"

   "Yes, but you must not do anything other than touch your ears."

   "Don't worry, if I didn't keep my promise, I would have been kicked out of here long ago."

  As Yi Chen sat cross-legged in front of this person, his two bony palms touched delicately like appreciating treasures, from the earlobe to the helix, from the scaphoid to the tragus, from the outer ear to the inner ear.

   This touch lasted for a full three hours, until the other party's body twitched and relaxed before finally letting go.

   "Ah~ It's really intoxicating! The perfect human ear between life and death, I really want to have it~ It's a pity that the dead seem to be very interested in you at first, once you become incomplete, the boss may hold me accountable.

  At this time tomorrow, also meet here, and I will give you what you want. "

  When Yi Chen stood up, his entire right ear was swollen and turned white.

  『What is the background of this person... It feels completely different from ordinary dead. 』

  Maybe it's been touched for too long, even dreaming of being touched in the ear at night.

   As a result, when Yi Chen woke up the next day, he found that Shisan was kneeling beside the bed rubbing his ears.

  Because he noticed the discomfort in the teacher's ears, Shisan used candlelight to disperse the residual plague and gave him a massage all night.

  Go to the fixed place the next day,

  Yi Chen obtained detailed information by paying six thousand ancient coins,

  Here is not only Vivian's work schedule, the distribution probability time map of the daily activity area, but also some of her personal information and the positioning information of the Knights.

   "Remember, read and destroy this information as soon as possible. If the information leaks and implicates me... I will take your ears and all your hearing at all costs."

   Here in Hunan, the temperature difference between day and night is too big. I have a cold and my tonsils are inflamed. I didn’t have a chance to take Xiao Afei out to play. I took the medicine and rested at home. It will be changed this weekend.

  (end of this chapter)