Whispering Verse

Instead of looking for a taxi at the street corner, Miss Louisa took Shade for two streets, and then suddenly turned into an unnoticeable alley beside the road. After walking some distance in the alley, she actually took out her key and opened the door of one of the houses in the alley.

"Shadow, we can't have just one hiding place, right?"

As she pushed the door open, she smiled and said to Shade:

"I bet that Anat, Priest August, and the doctor also have similar second hiding places, which can also be used to hide sensitive items that are not commonly used."

This "safe house"-like house was not rented, but was bought at a low price by Miss Louisa through family connections. Although the price is not bad, the living conditions here are very poor. Miss Louisa does not regard this place as her own house, but only as a temporary warehouse.

According to her, Shade was the second person besides herself to know of the location.

"Should I be honored?"

After entering the low house, Shade asked while looking at the furnishings disguised as an ordinary poor family. Miss Louisa had entered the small basement under the house through the trap door under the bed. In addition to the trap door, there was a small opening in the basement that could be crawled into the city's sewer pipes, but she would not use it easily.

Not because I was worried about the secret passage being discovered, but because the smell there was unbearable.

The voice coming from the underground was a little dull:

"Not only did you tell me your secret, you even lent me the valuable [Eternal Youth Leaf]. What else can't I tell you? So far, except for Lesia and Shade, you are my The most trusted person."

As she spoke, she climbed out from under the trap door and handed Shade a set of very thick black robes and a mask:

"There may be danger in the area for a while, so it's better for us to be cautious."

As he spoke, he also changed into a robe. In order to stuff the long blond hair into the hood, he had to stretch his hands to tie it up.

When Miss Louisa was adjusting her collar and preparing to put on her hood, Shade noticed that she had clamped the leaves with silver pieces and hung them around her neck. Shade's leaves were sandwiched in the cover of his pocket watch. Although he can no longer use the pocket watch now, it is still a good decoration.

Leaving Miss Louisa's safe house, they walked one block eastward before finding an idle taxi at the intersection. The two men were dressed very strangely in robes and hoods, but the coachman only hesitated for a moment, explaining that he would not leave the city limits or go to a remote place, and then let them get on the bus.

It seems that people who dare to solicit business at night always have some extraordinary knowledge.

The carriage traveled for nearly an hour in the quiet night and arrived at the northern edge of Tobesk City. Then Miss Louisa took Shade along the crooked road, passing through the densely packed low-rise shacks and double-storey simple houses in the suburbs, stepping on the mud and smelling all kinds of weird smells, and kept walking away from the city. Head towards the city.

There are no gas street lights here, not even the light of many candles.

This is a village on the northern outskirts of the city, and it is the temporary residence of the huge foreign population attracted by this foggy city. In the early days of the steam industrial revolution in this world, only a few poor families originally lived here temporarily. Later, settlements of this size gradually formed and turned into alternative villages attached to the periphery of the city.

However, this situation only occurs in Beicheng. Not only because Beicheng is the lower city in the traditional sense, but also because the vast plains to the north of the city are the best farming areas and pastures in the Tobesk region.

Manpower is always needed here, and the suburban villages and towns between the open plains in the north of the city and the city seem to have naturally existed for this prosperous steam city.

Avoiding the drunken man who was holding on to the mud wall and vomiting, bypassing the boy who was urinating in front of his door, and then using his eyes to intimidate the black wolfdog who wanted to growl at the stranger, Shade followed Miss Louisa through the seemingly empty space. A small suburban village two centuries behind the city.

There is no exact edge to the village, just that the houses are gradually sparse, meaning that they are moving away from human settlements.

Further away is a small forest. It only took less than five minutes to follow the forest path through the forest. Then a gravel path appeared in front of me and connected it. I walked a few hundred steps further along the path and finally arrived. I saw the destination of this trip, a cemetery located in the northern suburbs of the city.

This is not a city public cemetery. The city public cemetery is under the unified jurisdiction of the [Church of Nature and Evil Thoughts] and the city hall. Shade's boss, Mr. Anlos, almost got this leisurely job.

This belongs to people who live in or outside the city but are not eligible to be buried in public cemeteries.

Although graves in Tobesk Public Cemetery are cheap, there are always people in the world who cannot afford those prices. As a result, some cemeteries have appeared on the outskirts of the city where poor people can be buried. As for safety and environment, they are not things that poor people can consider.

There is no fog like that in the city on the outskirts of the city. The cemetery located by the forest is very clear under the light of March, and it can even be said to be a bit mysterious.

Miss Louisa slowed down her pace, walked side by side with Shade, and whispered to him:

"The man we are going to visit, usually called Mr. Copus, is the largest provider of corpse-like materials in the Tobesk area. But this man is the gravekeeper here and has a very weird temper. Whether it is or not Regular customers, any ring warlock who enters the cemetery he manages after the sun goes down will be treated unfriendly by him, but he only receives guests after the sun goes down. So follow me for a while, and don't use Silver Moon's thaumaturgy. , I will just deal with any danger."

"Is he an illegal character?"

Shade whispered again and heard that the sound of his shoes stepping on the dead branches on the gravel path seemed to spread far away.

"Although this person has a bit of a weird personality, he usually hides in the cemetery to do his own research. He is not worthy of any wanted notice from the Zhengshen Church. Moreover, most of them are unfriendly to visitors who come at night. Just a warning."

The blonde replied.

"So where did those corpse materials come from? It can't be..."

Shade quietly pointed forward.

"At least it wasn't dug out of this cemetery. No gravekeeper would be stupid enough to steal a body from a place under his jurisdiction. As for where it came from... Detective, I can't answer that question."

"Detective" is used instead of "Shadow" because the two are already close to the cemetery.

Shade shut his mouth and followed Miss Louisa silently.

He understood that the source of corpse-like materials could not be legal in the era when this order was established. As for whether it was digging, buying, or other methods, he couldn't guess, and he couldn't guess it at all, so he simply didn't worry about it.