Half an hour later, Erica walked out of the VIP hotel dejectedly with Diana, who was still sulking.

It seemed that she did not get a satisfactory price in the end, but Erica agreed anyway. It was already lunch time, and Erica, who was empty, did not seem to intend to stay in the VIP hotel to eat, so

So I took Diana and planned to go around the city.

"You seem a little dissatisfied with this? Why?" Erica asked suddenly as she walked along the bustling streets with Diana.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier that Chris wanted to hire you?" Diana said without raising her head.

"Oh... Regarding this matter, this is actually my proposal, because I was short of money, and Chris was not so willing to agree at the time..." Erica directly put her arm around Diana's shoulders and said:

"Besides, look at her stingy look just now, I really think she wants to break the contract..."

"...I don't like this approach at all..." Diana said gloomily: "And...you shouldn't hide it from me..."

"Don't worry, it's just a purely monetary transaction, there is no use of friendship..." Erica continued to talk back and forth nonchalantly for a long time before the other party reluctantly gave up her doubts. Then Erica pointed to the noisy crowd in front and said

: "I remember that the tavern we dined at last time is nearby... hmm? Why is this place so messy?"

Attracted by curiosity, Erica pulled Diana towards the dense crowd in front. However, both of them were wearing traveling cloaks, so the people around them were not attracted by their cross-dressing, but they waited until they finally squeezed in.

After going there, I saw a large group of city guards driving a large number of shackled prisoners towards the east gate.

From the conversations around her, Erica briefly learned that these ragged prisoners seemed to be moved to a convoy near the east gate, and then sent to Envar to work as laborers. Erica felt dull for a moment.

Rika was very disappointed and planned to turn around and leave, but the moment she turned around, she suddenly heard some commotion among the prisoners behind her. Stimulated by the sound of whips and swords being unsheathed, Erica subconsciously

He pulled out the pistol from his holster and quickly pointed at the source of the footsteps approaching quickly behind him.

"Sir! Uh no, madam! Please help me!" A rude cry for help instantly made Erica react and quickly put away the pistol.

After a large number of onlookers dispersed, Erica saw the prisoner who was holding on to his boots and was being beaten severely by the guards.

Erica originally seemed to be able to break free, but to her surprise, she found that the opponent was really strong, so she had no choice but to persuade the surrounding guards. Fortunately, these guards had seen Erica.

Diana and the guards who had never seen them were also shocked by the elf face looming under Diana's cloak. After all, the contract with Meryl Gil had just been completed, and the elves here were on the same level as the nobles.

Distinguished guest.

"Can you let go first?" Erica shook her feet dissatisfied and asked: "And... who are you?"

The prisoner holding Erica's boots raised his head and looked at Erica in embarrassment. Although Erica saw indescribable hope in the other person's eyes, to be honest, she did not recognize this person in her impression.

Moreover, since I came here, I have only known a few people, and none of them are prisoners.

"Who...are you?" Erica was confused as she rummaged through her memory for a long time, but she still couldn't remember the face of this person.

"People from the Thieves Guild..." Diana looked at the prisoner's face and thought for a while before saying, "I remember your name is Daryl... right?"

"Ah! Yes! It's me!" After discovering that someone still remembered him, the prisoner Daryl was so excited that he lost control of himself.

When he seemed to want to crawl directly in front of Diana, Erica stepped on the shackles on his hands and fell directly to the ground. However, Diana signaled Erica, who had already drawn the gun, to put it away.

Weapon, after all, there are many people watching here, so she is not willing to make the matter too big.

"He was the one who risked his life to report the news. If it hadn't been for him, Liz would have..." Diana whispered in Erica's ear.

After Diana said this, Erica instantly recalled the incident when Liz was kidnapped. In her opinion, this embarrassed thief was actually Liz's savior, although it was also him.

He led someone to kidnap Liz from the hotel, but Liz later came to excuse him.

"I remember Chris said that he didn't give you any trouble after you recovered from your injuries. He just locked him up for a while and then let him out." Erica looked at the guards around her and asked, "What crime did he commit? Why did he do it again?"

Being imprisoned?"

Although the guards did not dare to embarrass Erica, they did not know whether they should casually talk about the prison issue to an outsider, so everyone stayed there in embarrassment and became at a loss. After seeing everyone like this

Erica looked at Daryl and planned to learn the reason from him, but surprisingly, Daryl hesitated and couldn't explain the reason after seeing this. And just when Erica was about to turn around and leave.

While he was leaving, a group of city guards squeezed in from the crowd.

"What happened?!" The leading city guard leader nervously looked around with the sword at his waist and said to the guards escorting the prisoners: "Why haven't you left the city yet?"

When the guard saw the other party, he walked up as if he had seen a life-saving straw and explained the reason. After hearing this, the other party turned his unclear eyes to Erica and the two.

"This distinguished lady, do you plan to release this death row prisoner?" the city guard leader asked kindly.

"Bail? Can I still be released on bail?" Erica looked at Diana in surprise. After getting the other party's confirmation, she asked the leader of the city guard: "This man should have been released before. How did he become a prisoner again?"

On death row?"

The leader of the city guard seemed to only know that this group of prisoners should all be death row prisoners, but he did not know the crime of this prisoner, so he looked at the guard. The other party hesitated again for a while before helplessly replying: "He was the first few

Tian killed a noble lady...and was caught on the spot..."

"I'm trying to protect myself!" Daryl shouted excitedly when he heard the guard describe his guilt: "That bitch is a cultist!"

Daryl's words immediately shocked everyone, and Erica and Diana instantly became alert. After a brief exchange, Erica couldn't help but pull out a dagger and neatly cut off the linen tied to Daryl's shackles.

He grabbed the rope and dragged him towards a nearby street corner. Although the guards and city guards wanted to stop him, they were afraid of the warning from Diana, an elf, and did not dare to move forward casually.

After arriving at a deserted street corner, Diana quickly released "Sound Isolation" to establish a safe area. Then Erica looked evil and held up Daryl's head with a dagger to make him tell him what happened.

The whole story.

This happened while everyone was heading to the ruins of Envar. Daryl did not return to Lavender after he recovered from his injuries and was released, because he learned about the destruction of the Moraka Brotherhood from the chatter of the guards.

Things happened. Daryl, who had nowhere to go, had to temporarily stay in the city of Wilsk, because he still had a lover here, the noble lady who he killed.

Speaking of which, the other party said she was a noble, but in fact she was just the wife of a Lord landowner. She did not enjoy the treatment of a nobleman at all. And Daryl took advantage of the time when the other party's husband went out to do business and had been having sex with his lover at the other party's home.

He fooled around until one day, Daryl accidentally discovered that this woman who looked like an ordinary slut planned to secretly drug him.

That medicine was the small pill known as the "magic medicine" distributed by the Thieves Guild. After Daryl's previous encounters with monsters and gradually understanding the general situation of the guild's collapse, he became interested in this kind of medicine that can transform people into monsters.

The pill that turned into a monster caused extreme fear. In anger, Daryl confronted his lover face to face, but he did not expect that the other party actually said that this was just a kind of "fun" called red pill that was recently popular in aristocratic circles.

Medicine, and this was a treasure that her husband had recently spent a lot of money to take from a noble banquet in the central area.

Daryl, who was overwhelmed with anger and fear, naturally refused to listen to the other party's explanation, thinking that he had identified this thing as the devilish magic medicine distributed by the Thieves Guild, and then the two of them continued to quarrel.

Unfortunately, Daryl accidentally killed his mistress. Then, in a daze, he collapsed on the spot holding the body of his mistress. In the end, he was caught on the spot by Lord Lord, who happened to come back. What happened next?

It was under the control of Mr. Lord, who lost his beloved wife, that Daryl became a death row prisoner as a matter of course. However, after being stimulated by this incident, he somehow determined that his mistress was a member of the cult.

member, whose purpose is to kill him and silence him.

Erica and Erica both looked serious after listening to each other's story, because if Daryl's words were true, then the matter might become very serious. As for whether Daryl's mistress is a cult or not,

In fact, there is no way to verify the identity of the middleman, and Daryl's thinking this way is not because he has delusions of persecution. After all, he is one of the few remaining members of the Moraka Brotherhood, so there is the hidden cult group Stars.

It is indeed reasonable for his family members to want to kill him and silence him.

"Chris... no, the Principality of Michael is in danger..." Erica said seriously: "We need to help a bunch of Chris."

"Alas... this matter is not an issue that we can intervene at will. After all, this matter involves the aristocratic circle of the principality..." Diana made it clear and righteous: "We... are outsiders."

"I know..." Erica gritted her teeth anxiously and then looked in the direction of the city hall and said, "But at least we can help Chris. Don't you want to see her relatives and her friends suddenly become

Dirty, ugly flesh-and-blood monster?”

"Of course I don't want to..." Diana thought for a moment and then said: "Let me go and report to Chris first. You stay here and keep an eye on this person."

"Why?" Erica glanced at Daryl who was squatting at the wall like mud and said in confusion: "Can't you take him with you? He should be a key witness..."

"That's why I can't go." Diana opened her cloak and checked the firearms and blades on her body while saying warily: "Look outside, what just happened was seen by almost everyone in the street.

Isn't it obvious that there is a problem if we suddenly take him to the city hall? If there is a cult lurking here..."

"Okay...I understand." Erica curled her lips dissatisfied and pointed to the walkie-talkie on Diana's belt and said, "I'll stay here and watch him...but...you have to keep the radio open.

"

Diana was stunned for a moment, then smiled in front of Erica and turned on the intercom. Then she obediently turned sideways to show the other person before tightening her cloak again and giving Erica a gentle kiss.

.

"Don't worry, I'll be right back." After saying that, Diana jumped up on the wall at the end and ran quickly towards the city hall.

Erica, who stayed where she was, reluctantly watched the other person disappear from sight before retracting her gaze. At the same time, she hurriedly turned on the walkie-talkie to try to communicate, but just when she was about to have a conversation, suddenly there was a burst of sound from the exit at the corner of the street.

There was a sound of footsteps. Erica quickly put away the walkie-talkie and quietly pulled out the Glock 37 from the holster and hid it behind her, but at the same time she turned to look at Dali who was still slumped under the wall.

Well, it seems that this guy was deeply hit just after his scar was revealed again. Such a listless appearance will definitely make Erica feel extremely troubled if she encounters an enemy unfortunately.

Of course, this is just speculation, but considering what Diana just said, and then listening to the chaotic sounds outside the street, Erica still felt that it was appropriate not to let him show up in public, so she hurriedly untied her cloak

Throw it on Daryl to cover it up. Although this is a bit self-deceiving, it is better than doing nothing.

After covering Daryl, footsteps appeared in front of Erica at the intersection of the street. As expected, it was the group of guards, the city guard leader... and a very familiar guy.

The newcomer is the former city guard Mark Zebb, who has had many contacts with Erica. At this moment, he is wearing a brand new metal breastplate. It seems that he has been promoted, but Erica

The stuck soldier doesn't know the specific position of the opponent.

"God...Ms. Erica...you..." Mark looked at Erica who was holding one hand behind her back as a warning, and then at the figure behind her whose appearance was covered by a cloak.

Immediately he felt that the matter seemed to be getting serious. However, he did not intend to embarrass Erica, because he knew that the other party would not intercept a death row prisoner for no reason just to embarrass the guards of Wilsk City. After all, he

Now we also know about the personal friendship between the other party and Kris Michael.

"I'm sorry, Zeb...Captain?" Erica said first.

"Uh... no, thanks to you, I was promoted to the city defense commander of Welsk City not long ago..." Mark quickly said his position. However, this position does not have a formal title.
To be continued...