Man in the old days, Lord of the Seven Sins

Chapter 28 Eat it and you will feel better

In a dim room.

Rhodes lit the kerosene lamp, and he glanced at Martin, who was staring at his beak mask with curiosity and fear.

After seeing him looking at him, even the pupils kept shrinking.

Rhodes took a wormwood from the medicine box and handed it to Martin.

"Eat it and you'll feel better."

"Thank you."

Martin chewed the wormwood, and Rhodes sat on a chair beside him and began to play with the scalpel.

As a supporting role in the detective playing game, he quite naturally gave up the protagonist's position to Margaret.

"Tell me what you know."

It was Margaret who spoke, holding a notebook and looking at Martin with pity.

"Sorry, but I really don't know what to do." Martin inserted his hands into his hair, his pupils shrinking continuously.

"I shouldn't have lied to you, I'm sorry." Martin looked at John who sat by the window and looked out of the window from time to time, especially when John looked at himself with an angry expression, there was a hint of guilt in his eyes.

"You bastard, do you know how much trouble you've caused us?" John swore.

He originally thought that he had done a great thing and could be praised by Lord Rhodes, but the development of the matter did not go as he expected, and instead caused a lot of accidents.

A group of fishermen surrounded the hotel.

If Miss Margaret's money hadn't made the innkeeper lock the door, they might have faced the rioting fishermen now.

"Don't worry, you just need to tell us what you know, and we will handle the rest." Margaret whispered.

"Thank you very much for your help, but there are some things that I must be responsible for my actions." Martin whispered, with a trace of rejoicing in his eyes, and he habitually began to disguise himself.

He has always been a hypocrite.

He ramblingly began to tell the story he made up.

"I'm just an ordinary fisherman, fishing for a living, but those villains want to open their own fishing grounds, stop ordinary people from fishing, and if you want to fish, you have to pay, you know, because Regarding the money, I didn't pay the money, and I have been subjected to their rough treatment. In the end, they even wanted to kill me. I beat one of them, and they chased me. I fled here, and finally met Mr. John .”

After listening to Martin's story, Margaret remained silent.

She often sees this kind of fight between ordinary people for a little benefit in the teacher's articles. Perhaps, she can help the two parties to conduct a friendly mediation.

John opened his mouth, and the last words he wanted to comfort were retracted in the movement of Martin covering his face.

Rhode glanced at Martin, then looked out the window, and suddenly said:

"They rushed in."

Noisy noises came from the stairs outside the house.

Martin wiped his eyes and stood up with a serious face.

"They are coming for me, don't worry, I will lead them away!"

A yellow ball of light marked with sloth floated from Martin's body and poured into Rhodes' body.

Rhode stood up and kicked Martin to the ground from behind.

"A false mask cannot hide the darkness in your heart."

He ruthlessly refuted Martin's self-impressive hypocrisy.

"Your inconsistent behavior makes me doubt everything about you, this is just what you planned, you idiot, your acting skills still need to be improved.

Of course, you can argue with me, but there are some things that you know better than me. You know what you need, and you just want us to help you.

But why would you resort to self-deceptive hypocrisy instead? "

Rhodes grabbed Martin's hair and dragged him to the door.

"You have two choices now, explain the matter clearly, or be thrown out by me and face the group of fishermen who are looking for you."

At this moment, facing Rhodes' indifferent words.

For the first time Martin felt fear.

His cleverness was rendered useless by the opponent's straightforward brutality.

He looked at the seemingly kind lady with distressed eyes.

Margaret covered her mouth and looked at the back of Mr. Plague Doctor. She once again felt the strong malice from the old London society.

Thinking about it carefully, since Martin took the initiative to find John, he should have already planned it.

He lied.

This is dishonest behavior.

Margaret was displeased by Martin's performance, he was a hypocrite who pretended to be smart.

She ignored Martin's plea for help and fell silent.

John's face was flushed, Martin's words made him feel like he stepped on cow dung.

He who has always boasted of his wisdom actually unknowingly showed compassion for this bastard named Martin.

Oh, what an idiot I am.

Seeing that there was no hope for help, Martin had to shout: "I can tell the truth, but you must put me down, and my hair will be torn off by you."

What awaited Martin was the sound of the door opening.

At this moment, Martin was really scared.

"No, no, no, don't, don't throw me to them, if they catch me, I will die!"

Rhodes glanced at Martin.

throw him on the ground.

"You only have one chance, I'll give you 5 minutes to reorganize the language, if you want to make up a story, make it up to the truth, don't let me find a flaw.

John, look at him. If you let him run away, I think Miss Margaret will suggest that Director Joseph cancel your bonus and performance this year. "

Bang!
The door is closed.

Rhodes stood in the corridor.

I watched the group of fishermen who looked similar to Kano kicking the doors in the corridor, looking for Martin.

"Are you looking for someone?"

Rhode's voice attracted the attention of the group of people. They turned their heads at the same time, and the leader at the head came over. He looked at the strange man wearing a bird's beak mask with weird eyes.

Of course, Rhodes was also watching them.

He felt that the eyes of this group of people were full of a feeling of mental retardation.

"How do you know?" The tone was almost the same as that of Kano.

Rhodes pointed to the kicked open door and shrugged.

"I just saw a person sneaking towards the toilet over there, probably the person you are looking for."

Rhodes' hand pointed to the toilet at the end of the corridor.

"You better not lie to me."

The leader's pale eyes stared at Rhodes, as if he wanted to imprint the beak mask on his face.

"Of course, I can be sure that before you came up, that man ran to the toilet, and he looked like he was about to run away."

"Come on!"

A group of fishermen ran to the toilet at the end of the corridor.

The leader turned around, also about to leave, but one hand grabbed his clothes.

Five green 5-kroner notes were handed over.

"My lord, you know, my girlfriend and I are doing something in the room, she doesn't want to be disturbed, I hope you can do me a favor."

A greedy look appeared on the leader's face.

"Maybe, we should talk, these are not enough."

The leader pointed to the door of the empty room that was open to the side.

"Of course, that's what I thought too."

The two walked into the room one after the other.

Bang!
A muffled sound soon came from behind the door.

Rhodes opened the door and walked out.

"Hey, a few people, your leader has fainted." Rhodes waved the banknotes, attracting a group of people into the room.

Batch after batch.

Rhodes harvested a batch of sinful power marked with green greedy light spheres.

He borrowed a few bundles of hemp rope from the innkeeper and tied the group of people who had been knocked unconscious in the room. The group of people will then notify the nearby sheriff to come and deal with them.

He went back to his room.

Martin sat in a chair, pale and frightened.

John stood at the window with a dazed look on his face.

Margaret's eyes were solemn, and she handed Rhodes her notebook, which recorded everything Martin explained.

(End of this chapter)