Chapter 441

Dengshi City, slum, lame dog pub.

The cold water season is the best time of the year. The refugees have been busy for more than half a year. They are finally well-off and have enough free time to find some fun for themselves. Shrewd tavern owners will use drinks, food, gambling games, delicate waitresses and rare enthusiasm to dry every fishy coin in the pockets of refugee customers.

Four tall strong men surrounded their arms and guarded the oak gate of the lame dog pub, staring at the passers-by with gloomy eyes. At their feet, several vicious dogs barked at people close to the tavern. Pedestrians on the street gave way and tried to avoid the gate of the tavern. When those real pleasure seekers saw this scene, they immediately turned around and chose to patronize other taverns.

Unknowingly, people thought that the owner of the tavern was in trouble and was suppressed by the gangs, so that he could not make a deal in the peak business season.

This kind of thing is very common. The prosperous pubs and hotels will always attract the envy of their peers, and this business is inextricably linked with the underground forces.

Lame dog tavern is different. It is the largest, best and most fair tavern in Dengshi slum. No villain dares to make trouble here. Because it is also the stronghold of the Dengshi thieves' Union.

The lame dog hotel does not do business in the last three days of February in the water season every year. Gang leaders of Dengshi City, large and small, gathered here to exchange information, discuss site allocation, and turn them over to the police station for worship. The topics they talked about involved theft, fraud, robbery, armed struggle, human trafficking and murder in Dengshi city. Naturally, outsiders should not be allowed to attend.

The tavern is very lively. Hundreds of vicious thugs crowded the hall on the first floor. They don't have to pay for the three days of food, drink and fun. The gang leader has paid off the offerings of the public security office and won't care about spending a little money to buy his confidant.

The smell of wine was accompanied by the smell of sweat, and the screams and laughter of the waitress were sandwiched in the man's laughter and scolding. Kaspar, the owner of the tavern, looked at the carnival crowd with a smile. The noisy environment made him ignore the cry of evil dogs outside the door until the heavy oak door was pushed open.

A tall and thin figure stood in the cold wind. He looks like a young man around the age of 20. His whole body is wrapped in metal scales. There are three crisscross huge scars on his face. He almost cut off the bridge of his nose, making his original handsome face look as miserable as a ghost. His eyes were as sharp as a cold blade that could cut people's throat. The place he pointed was silent, and the noisy tavern became as quiet as a cemetery.

The young man walked to the bar with a scabbard sword. The crowded crowd immediately separated a road. A young soldier in dark blue lock armor followed him. His boots stepped across the floor and left a string of deep to shallow blood footprints.

"Ghost face Knight!"

Some thug who attended a burglar party for the first time thought of something and couldn't help crying out. His companion suddenly stretched out his strong arm, rowed his hair, fiercely crashed into the wooden table, made a loud bang, and then skillfully stuffed the unconscious rash ghost under the table. The villains around seemed to see nothing and kept quiet in the tavern.

First, Lord Clark, the ghost face knight, doesn't like others to mention ghost faces. Second, he is really a knight.

This is the conclusion reached by the thieves in Dengshi city with six lives.

Kaspar, the owner of the tavern, smiled and poured two glasses of ale, handed it to Clark and his capable subordinate Ron, and said politely, "Sir, this is the new malt wine. It tastes very unique. Please try it."

Clark put his sword on the bar and took a sip of the wine glass. He only felt that the wine was bitter and spicy and difficult to swallow. He spat out his drink, looked at the white foam in the glass and said in a low voice, "it's hard to drink."

Soldier Ron drank the whole glass of ale in silence. Caspar noticed that Ron's fine iron lock armor had a large dark red blood stain, and the corners of his eyes twitched. If Ron's blood footprints on the floor are dog blood, the blood stains on his body must be human blood.

Knight Clark is specially responsible for eliminating the bandits and bandits led by the marquis in the police station. He has obviously just returned from his mission and is killing his chest at the moment. Kaspar smelled the sweet and greasy smell of blood. His scalp tightened for a while and explained in a low voice: "my Lord, purple cane wine has been out of stock for a month. We really don't have a better wine."

"Well, let Lucy and Jenny prepare hot water. I'll go back to my room and take a bath." Clark gave an order, picked up the long sword and took Ron to the second floor of the tavern.

About five months ago, the lame dog pub welcomed four uninvited guests, led by ghost face Clark. He rented three rooms with fireplaces, occupied two of the most beautiful waitresses, ate fish and meat every day, stayed for more than ten days, but refused to pay a copper sol. The tavern owner is fair in business, but he is not a good kind. In the face of customers who eat, drink and whore for nothing, he has many ways. When the waitress found out their origin and forty-eight kinsol wallets, Caspar decided to act according to the rules, leave the money bag, and then sell the people to the mine for hard labor.

That night, a dozen tough and strong gangsters broke into Clark's private room and were killed on the spot. Seeing that the situation was out of control, Kaspar quickly called the security soldiers outside to suppress it. Clark calmly took out a sheepskin document. The wolf like public security soldiers changed their attitude and respectfully invited them to the public security office.

The thieves' Union inquired about the news overnight. Caspar learned that Clark was a noble knight and was almost scared to death. He didn't expect that the next morning, Lord Clark came back and lived in his original room. Jenny and Lucy became his special maid. He took the lame dog pub here as his home and lived for nothing until now.

Caspar was puzzled. Shouldn't the knight master live in a villa in the noble district? At worst, you can also choose a hotel in the FengChen district. Why did Knight Clark stay in the slum? Caspar did not dare to ask, nor did the thieves' Union in Dengshi City, because Clark was already the security captain of the security office and specially led people to eliminate the bandit camp led by the marquis. Every time he went out for half a month, when he came back, he was always covered in blood, and Ron was the only one left of the four accompanying soldiers. The thieves' Union confirmed through relations that knight Clark personally killed at least 67 fierce thieves. Over time, the reputation of ghost faced Knights began to spread among the underground forces of Dengshi city.

Before going upstairs, Clark glanced at the trembling thug and despised him.

He believed that his strength was not lost to most of the first-class knights, but he was not arrogant enough to think that he could defeat 100 with one. In fact, many of these villains have excellent martial arts skills. If they rush forward regardless of life and death and make use of the narrow space, they may not be able to kill him as long as they are willing to sacrifice more than a dozen people. But in the face of knights, villains have no fighting spirit. Just like no amount of sheep can kill a lone wolf, they will only become prey under the wolf's claws.

Of course, the main reason why gangsters fear ghost faced knights is that he is under sheriff varmont. Any thieves' union must rely on the power of the police station to survive. In the eyes of the Dengshi Gang, the ghost faced knight can be regarded as his own.

The ghost knight is Todd. He managed to attract the attention of Sheriff vammon of Dengshi city and successfully sneaked into the sheriff's office. But Lord varmont did not put him in the city, but sent him out to do dirty work - to eliminate the free people's camp led by the marquis.

Free private land is actually a bandit camp. They steal the wild resources of the territory and rob and kill the refugees passing by. It can be called extremely vicious. However, free private land also has its own background. Just as the thieves' Union in the city obeys the orders of the public security office, the free people's bandits in the wild have a deep relationship with the urban defense army. Because they can help the urban defense army monitor the conditions in the wild, limit the range of activities of monsters, and rob caravans and passengers who don't go official.

Todd led the security soldiers to clean up the bandit camp, which was fiercely resisted. Three of the four secret law soldiers given to him by Viscount Randall died. He realized that the Sheriff of Dengshi city did not coordinate with the commander of the urban defense army at all, and he was involved in the internal struggle between the public security office and the urban defense army. Sheriff varmont could not think of a second possibility except to hand over the newcomer to take the blame. However, Todd didn't care about the sheriff's calculation. He lived in the den of thieves in Dengshi city for several months, and everything that should be investigated had been found out.

When Todd informed Barrett that he was ready to take in the net, he received a new order. Barrett asked him to stand still for the time being and explore the military mobilization of Dengshi City, road patrol in the territory, sentry defense deployment and the location of bandit camps,

The order made Todd both thrilled and excited. Count Ludwig's car happened to pass through Dengshi City, and Lord Randall is likely to be plotting a major event. Todd was thrilled to think that he could contribute to his master's great event. As for the question of being silenced by his master, he disdained to think about it. From the moment he took the golden potion, Todd put his life on the Randall family gambling table. He wanted his loyalty to bet on a brilliant future.

Once a real gambler has made a bet, he will no longer want to withdraw his bet.

After taking a hot bath and changing his clothes, Todd and Ron hurried to the police station.

Sheriff varmont received him at the first time. After hearing his mission report, Lord varmont asked kindly, "Clark, you have been living in a lower class hotel, which is not noble. Why not move to the trout hotel in the FengChen district? Or rent a small villa in the noble district. With your salary of 300 kinsol a year, you can afford to live in the villa."

Todd touched the scar on his face, smiled bitterly and said, "my Lord, I have no money..."

Varmont When dweimick first met Todd, he thought he was a wild knight. But Todd admitted that he was once the secret Knight of Duke Eriksson and is now a fugitive from the kingdom of dodo. He took four squires from the man horse hill to Dengshi City, hoping to take refuge with his companions in his youth and find a way out for himself. But he couldn't get in touch with his friends and had to stay in a lower class hotel for the time being. Later, vammon found his companion in Todd's mouth, Kerry, the clerk of the government office of Dengshi city. Kerry confirmed Todd's identity to vamon.

Considering that Todd's sword was superb and a senior knight who resonated with 11 elements, Lord valmon accepted him after getting the consent of Marquis de Wemmick, and forged his identity again and renamed him Clark.

Clark's obedience is very strong. He never gives a discount in executing the order to eliminate bandits. There is no complaint after the death of three squires. In addition, his strength is not weaker than that of the first-class knight. Wamon moved his mind to accept him.

The sheriff pondered for a moment and asked, "Clark, do you know how refugees, bandits and gang leaders hold power?"

Todd shook his head and said, "I haven't thought about it."

"The sheriff should think about it." "When 10 refugees are willing to kill for you, you can control 60 refugees. If 30 refugees obey your orders, you can control 300 bandits. All the gang leaders and bandit leaders have to do is to win over their minions."

"It's also easy to destroy them. As long as you kill the leader and a few minions, the gangs or bandits will naturally disintegrate." "We are not the same as aristocrats. We run a family. If the head of the family dies, he has an heir. The family still exists and power remains unchanged. Therefore, we pay attention to spouses, brothers and children."

"I know what you think." Vammon drew a false picture on his face and said, "save a sum of money to buy regenerative medicine. Please ask the priest to help you restore your noble face and then restore your reputation... A bottle of regenerative medicine is worth 16000 gold sol. I can't afford it. Can you afford it?"

"This..."

"If you have this money, you might as well buy energy potion and try to hit the knight level. But you still can't afford it." Varmont spread his hand, shook his head and said, "I can't help it."

Todd Mo was silent, unwilling in his eyes. Vammon smiled and said, "you ruined your appearance to escape the chase? You have recovered your appearance. Even the Marquis can't continue to protect you. How can you recover your reputation? As for the energy potion, you basically have no hope."

"What does your excellency mean?" Todd asked hesitantly.

"Just use Clark's identity and start all over again. You don't have to consider the appearance of the nobility." Waamun shook his head and asked, "are you surprised that I should send someone to wipe out the free people camp in the water season?"

"My Lord, I was born as a secret knight. I only know to obey orders without asking for reasons." Said Todd respectfully.

"I'm very satisfied with your attitude, but I still want to tell you why."

Vammon stood up, went to the window, looked at the street of Dengshi city and said slowly: "Since my grandfather, my family has been the Sheriff of Dengshi city. The soldiers of the sheriff's office are the children of my vassals. In recent months, we have destroyed three free people camps, three of your servants have died, and 37 of my soldiers have been killed and injured. I paid a huge price to obtain more fiefs."

"The mountains occupied by the exile bandits were useless, but now they are different. As long as my vassal built three streams and reservoirs, he can build three villages and expand my Lord's territory to 580 square kilometers. However, the exile bandits obey commander Malte. If I don't start first, the marquis will most likely canonize these lands to the Malte family."

"Speaking of it, you are the only outsider in the police station. However, you showed bravery in the battle and protected many security soldiers. They didn't say much about you in front of me." Vammon turned and said faintly, "you are loyal to me. I will give you a village and marry my niece to you. Although she is only an ordinary noble daughter, she will not dislike your appearance."

Todd half knelt on the ground and said excitedly, "I'd like to die for adults!"

Whether this scapegoat should be thrown out is not certain. How can he accept his loyalty so quickly?

Sheriff varmont came forward, pulled up Todd, laughed and said, "don't worry, swear allegiance to me... I have something for you to do."

"Your Excellency, just tell me."

"Before count Ludwig left, the Marquis of Wimbledon came to the border of the family. She took 300 guards and a large caravan of 600 people, and she also had more than a dozen barbarian followers. It is said that there was a barbarian crazy warrior of the golden order..." wamon shook his head and sighed: "The Marquis asked the family army to be on full alert, but the count of the golden finch was unwilling to meet the Marquis of Wimbledon and insisted on taking the first step. The guy malt refused to escort count Ludwig and said that the urban defense army would cooperate with the Marquis's military mobilization."

The sheriff sneered and said: "Don't I know what he's thinking? You scattered the bandits in three camps. Those refugees have no way to live. They either go to Denver for the winter or seize the nests of other bandits. Count Ludwig saw that the road led by the Marquis is not peaceful, and malt must take the opportunity to speak ill of the security office in the Marquis! If there is a trouble in Denver, it's also my responsibility."

Todd's heart pounded and asked calmly, "Sir, do you mean to let me escort count Ludwig?"

"You?" Varmont glanced at him and sneered, "your face is not good, and your identity is not enough... I'll take someone to escort the count of the golden finch myself!" Immediately, he patted todd on the shoulder and said, "the ghost faced knight is famous, and the bandit leaders of Dengshi city know you. I'll take most of the soldiers of the public security office, and the public security of Dengshi city will be handed over to you. If those bandits and bandits have an accident in Dengshi City, I only ask you!"

"Don't worry, my Lord! I will never let the security office be ashamed!" Todd made a solemn knightly salute and promised loudly.

Vammon nodded with satisfaction, waved and said, "I don't have many hands left for you. Go back to the lame dog tavern to prepare... It's going to rain. There can't be too many refugees in Dengshi city."

"Clark won't let adults down." Todd saluted and left.

He went out of the police station, looked up at the sky covered with lead clouds, and whispered a smile to the monkey militia Ron: "the freezing rain at dweimick's house doesn't seem to be small."