Shadow Covenant

Chapter 97 "Finding"

The distance from the wine estate to the Viscount Vermeer's mansion is not too far, but for Angelina who heard the news, every second of sitting in the carriage was an incomparable torment for the distance of less than two kilometers.

She looked at the scenery outside the window of the carriage, the lush garden made of bright flowers and plants, the exquisite and architecturally aesthetic noble mansion, she was indifferent to all of these, all she could see at the moment was the gloomy sky that occupied less than one-tenth of the space.

Same as her heart.

Although as a child who grew up in a slum and an orphanage, her emotions in the face of life and death are often much weaker than those of the nobles in the greenhouse. Since receiving the news from Woody to her, she has not left a single drop of pain. Tears, just calmly begging him to help her prepare a carriage, but a thick layer of haze was inevitably buried in her heart, but the light in her heart never disappeared.

She wanted to go to the scene to see where they disappeared last. Angelina never thought of giving up until the last moment, or before she saw their bodies.

The sound of horseshoes continued, and mansions were quickly left behind.

The monk girl's eyes are out of focus, but this is understandable to Woody who is sitting on the other side of the carriage.

He was just a little curious now. Logically speaking, even if Viscount Vermeer was pretending to be a drow, why would he run away with a bunch of children who could only be dragged down? Killing him on the spot is more in line with the drow's always fierce style.

Unless it is a special slave hunting team, but this conflicts with his disguised identity...

No matter, where to look first.

I have to say that what happened in the past few days really troubled him who didn't have much clear understanding of the events in the southern region. Fortunately, he quickly adjusted himself. Woody does not change his expression when facing anything, and faces and accepts it calmly.

"Master, here we are."

Following the driver's reminder, the black carriage imprinted with the Edith family emblem stopped quickly, and noble guards appeared on the street outside the window.

Angelina in the carriage got up faster than Woody imagined. She pursed her lips and stepped out of the carriage with extra firmness. Gone.

The two soon arrived in front of Viscount Vermeer's mansion. In front of the gate, there were already several noble guards guarding the thick iron fence and the gate with the pattern of a lion.

After explaining the purpose of coming, Woody relied on the noble status of the Edith family. The guards at the gate did not make things difficult for them, but just told them not to enter the mansion. The place where they disappeared was in Viscount Vermeer's garden.

When Woody and Angelina walked around the flower garden and came to the open space in the garden where the nobles used to gather on weekdays, they were immediately shocked by the scene in front of them, because the original green lawn disappeared, leaving only a 20-meter radius The huge deep pit in the radius, and the cracks caused by the deep pit spread to the corners of the main mansion, looking precarious.

It turned out that the so-called disappearance was the result of falling into the ground together with this suddenly appeared deep pit, and the confusion ahead was immediately resolved.

Woody understood.

At this time, there was already a group of people gathered at the edge of the deep pit, and the group was clearly divided.

The crowd on the right is mostly elegant nobles, both men and women, from the noble lady wearing a white lace skirt and a white velvet-trimmed lady hat, to the Vermeer family knight in beautiful armor, all in the same place , face or sorrow and anxiety.

On the right hand side are bare-chested hard laborers, who are carrying loads full of soil, and are filling the deep pit with spoonfuls of soil, but the most eye-catching one is a middle-aged man in a long robe. Standing in the middle of the two groups of people, and also the human being closest to the edge of the pit, Woody could only see his back, and that big bony hand holding a curved stick with a transparent gem on the top. Staff, the top of the staff is shining with mysterious colors at this moment.

Angelina, who had a keen sense, was already one step ahead, and hurried forward to ask a waiter who had just left the garden with an empty tray and headed for the mansion.

"May I ask if you know where the group of children from the poorhouse went?"

"One of the girls was about nine years old, with blond hair and a baby-faced face, and there was a younger one, and a brown-haired, chestnut-eyed, clever-looking boy..."

Angelina described the appearance of Lin and others in detail. She never gave up hope, but from the eyes of the servant of the Vermeer family in front of her, she still got the result that she was least willing to guess.

"Ma'am, they..."

"...they what?"

Looking at the servant's hesitant face, Angelina couldn't help following his eyes, and noticed the deep pit that was being filled not far away.

But before the servant could tell, a cursing voice came from the other side.

"Didn't you tell them, don't let people in indiscriminately, what a bunch of trash! Get her out!"

Obviously, some nobles had noticed Angelina's arrival, and Vann Vermeer was the first to see it.

He is also the consul responsible for the security of the estate.

Moreover, due to the accident in the relief home, many people have come to this mansion, and among them, a group of unscrupulous people tried to ask for a lot of compensation through this incident. A group of children who are orphans have at least three pairs of parents and relatives at a time.

Therefore, when he heard Angelina's words, he was so impatient that he had already started to curse.

"Get out, this is not the place for you! There are no girls and boys of yours here!"

"Although I don't know how you got in, I have already given the money to Old Mande, so you should go to him!"

However, after seeing Angelina's face, his tone became slightly better, but he was still stern. Old Mande was the director of the poorhouse, and he handled all the affairs of the poorhouse.

"No, I'm not here to ask for money, I'm looking for my younger siblings! This is where they last appeared, did you see a girl about nine years old with blond hair..."

Angelina shook her head, pursed her lips and said, but her words were forceful without showing any weakness.

But for Fan En, her persistence and emotion are just another way to threaten her with emotion to increase her bargaining chips.

Therefore he loathed the Tao even more.

"Go away! There is no one you are looking for here! Greedy maggots! Don't stay here to hinder order."

Fann cursed angrily, the Viscount's death has turned the huge Vermeer manor into a headless chicken, and now all the guys with the Vermeer surname covet this manor and its property.

If he didn't handle it well, he would soon be labeled incompetent by other malicious fellows, and then he would take some money and leave like other down-and-out nobles.

In the end, either become a businessman running around for a living, or squander all the money, and soon become an unrecognizable vagabond in the gutter.

This is not the life he wants to live, what to do with his life and his lovers!
Therefore, he must not reveal the grounds for their attacks, so that he can get his share of the inheritance.

In the distance, other nobles had already noticed the outsider. After casting their eyes here, they found something strange and rushed over.

After Fann noticed it, he became more and more anxious, and without waiting for Angelina's reply, he directly ordered the servants of the manor who were available around him to arrest her.

Soon, a small group of manor servants obeyed the orders and began to surround Angelina. When he gave these orders, his eyes were full of the shamelessness of the lower city pariah in front of him.

As for the man on the other side of the road not far behind her, he was subconsciously classified as a nobleman who came to the manor to mourn.

After all, today's Woody is wearing an exquisite aristocratic dress. The clean and tidy patterned bow tie covers his strong muscular contours. Coupled with those golden eyes and rare black long hair, it gives people a sense of A kind of exotic beauty.

After Angelina received the news, she didn't have time to change her clothes. She still wore the linen short-sleeves and shorts she wore during training. Except for her physical fitness, there was nothing commendable about it. Maybe he would think about changing it at ordinary times. Change the taste, but at this time, the priority of the lower body is far less than status, power, and money.

"Wait! Don't move!"

However, it wasn't long before Fann gave the order. An impressive order prevented the surrounding attendants from encircling him. The voice did not come from the front, but from his back, which made Fann look behind him a little puzzled.

The person who spoke was a middle-aged man with thin cheeks and a particularly pointed chin. He was very familiar with one of the current speakers of the Vermeer family, Fette Vermeer.

"Old Feite! What do you want!"

Fann's voice was distorted and hurried, and he didn't understand why Feite wanted to stop him.

But Fate didn't answer, didn't look at Fann, walked straight past him, didn't look at Angelina, but looked at Woody, adjusted his monocle, and then took off his hat to greet him.

"Happy morning, Lord Woody, I welcome you on behalf of the Vermeer estate."

At this moment, Fann and the other manor servants who originally wanted to do something realized that the young noble not far away was with the girl in front of them.

Fann, who fell into an ice cave, also judged the identity of the young nobleman in front of him from Woody's clothing and the address in Fett's mouth.

The gilded Cuban Viallo text on the cuffs represents his family.

— "Edith"

In the whole of Palermo, there is only one Edith family.

Coupled with the long black hair of the young nobleman in front of him, which is very different from the blond hair of the Edith family, it is not difficult for others to think of the person who lives in the wine estate from the Aleister family. Both died, came to Palermo at the age of ten to live in his aunt's house, the lucky one who caused a sensation in the Palermo aristocratic circle with a legend two days ago.

— "Woody Alester."

Perhaps a few days ago, they could have ignored them, but after experiencing the several members of the Vermeer family who witnessed the expedition ceremony last night, they naturally understood the significance of the mysterious man behind the Edith family that even the count should be in awe of.

What's more, the occurrence of the drow incident of the Vermeer family and the death of the viscount have made the political status of the whole family in the aristocratic circle much worse than before. Mainly.

"Mr. Feite, I am just here with my friend to investigate a missing incident. Her younger brother and sister disappeared in that garden benefit performance. I want to know their current whereabouts and the results of your investigation."

He briefly described his needs.

The most important thing for him now is to find the traces of those children, and the same is true for Angelina. She continued to describe the appearance of Lin and the others to the middle-aged nobleman.

But all he got in exchange was the slightly sad look of the nobleman in front of him.

"I'm very sorry, ma'am, it's the Vermeer family that failed to protect your younger brothers and sisters. They have fallen into the deep pit in the garden. I also sent several waves of people to investigate, but in the end they found nothing."

"However, ma'am, please rest assured that the Vermeer family will give you a satisfactory answer."

"Wait until Master Kamia communicates with the Earth Elemental Plane, and fill this deep pit with soil."

"must……"

But Feite found that before he finished his words, the girl in front of him walked directly to the deep pit. He subconsciously looked in Woody's direction, only to find that the young nobleman was also approaching the deep pit with her. Only the girl's whispering words remained.

"Thank you."

"But you don't need a satisfactory answer, I will find it myself!"

"Please help me to communicate, we need to take up some of your time, don't mind filling in the hole later!"

As for the last sentence, it was the plan that the young nobleman told him when he passed by him. Fate could only sigh and step forward to discuss with the mage who was carrying out the ceremony and communicating with the elemental plane. .

As for the aristocratic consul who stood there blankly and wanted to drive away Angelina, no one cared about his appearance, and even his name was forgotten.

……

Because of the nobility, the caster had already been informed of the purpose of Woody and others' arrival, so he gave up his plan to communicate with the earth elemental plane.

However, he still said fiercely that he should not waste too much time. After all, the time of a mage is precious. If it is not for enough gold coins, he would not be bothered to be a porter of the earth elemental plane here.

Woody and Angelina had already walked to the edge of the deep pit under the eyes of everyone.

The deep pit is not as deep as imagined, and it is about ten meters above the surface. However, there are piles of rocks in it, the terrain is rough, and there are long and narrow passages dug by unknown creatures on the exposed rock walls.

Woody recognized at a glance that this was likely to be a tunnel dug by the typical insect creature "vibrating worm" in the Underdark.

Because only this kind of excavation method relies on devouring soil to move forward, it is possible to dig and form an underground tunnel for people to pass through. Moreover, he has seen the traces of this kind of creature in the previous life. Not far from ten.

Naturally, Angelina wouldn't lament on the edge, she just wanted to reach the ground quickly and start searching for her younger siblings.

Live to see people, die to see corpses.

Woody also followed her down naturally, but he reached the bottom of the pit, and didn't use his perception to search piece by piece like Angelina.

Instead, in the shadow of no one watching, the whole person merged into the mud.

——"Thor stone practice."

　4200 words.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)