Lumian didn't look back, didn't turn around, and still walked towards the stop sign of the public carriage.
He looked left and right as if he was casual, his eyes falling on the glass window of a café next to him.
He was seen in a dark jacket, and not too far from him was a man in a canvas bolero and a peaked cap.
After Lumian retracted his gaze, he suddenly quickened his pace, as if he was chasing the two-story public carriage that was about to leave the platform.
He was not surprised to feel that the man wearing the blue peaked hat trotted up.
The public carriage turned from static to the end of the street, and Lumian had no hope of "chasing" and suddenly stopped in place.
With the help of the window of the street shop, Lumian saw the man wearing a peaked hat braking in a bit of embarrassment without a trace, and turned halfway over, looking at the dance hall opposite.
Wei Shi nodded, Lumian wandered over the public horse stop sign, and walked all the way forward, turning into a secluded alley separated by a barricade.
The man wearing a peaked hat quickly followed and climbed over the low broken barricade, but Lumian's back could no longer be seen.
The target he was following seemed to have disappeared into the alley out of thin air.
Just as the man wearing the peaked hat tried to chase forward, Lumian, who had shrunk into the corner of the barricade, pounced like a tiger, pressed his hands on the opponent's shoulders, and pulled his body back towards his knees.
Bang!
Lumian hit the waist of a man in a peaked cap with his knees on his knees, causing his face to twist in pain, and his legs could no longer support himself.
With a plop, the man wearing a peaked hat fell to the ground, stirring up a lot of dust.
Lumian half-squatted down, grabbed the back of the stalker's head, and said in a low voice:
"Who asked you to follow me?"
"I didn't! I'm just taking shortcuts!" The man wearing a peaked hat quickly defended.
Lumian laughed, grabbed his head, and slammed it to the ground.
In the bang, the man wearing the peaked hat screamed in pain and got stuck in his throat, his forehead was blue and swollen, stained with blood.
"Who asked you to follow me?" Lumian repeated the question he had just asked.
The man wearing a peaked hat was very wronged:
"I didn't follow you! I don't even know you!"
"Okay." Lumian let go of his right hand.
In the next second, he used his palm as a knife and slashed heavily behind the stalker's ear.
The man with the peaked hat fainted without snorting.
Lumian immediately helped him up and thoughtfully lowered his hat to cover his closed eyes.
Then, like helping a drunken friend, he walked out of the alley calmly and turned to the street corner.
There is an entrance to the underworld.
The reason why Lumian was "waiting" for the stalker in the alley just now was because he thought that something could be transferred to the underground and the environment was "peaceful" enough.
…………
When the man in the peaked hat woke up, there was darkness in front of him, and there was only a glimmer of light in the distance, allowing the outline of the surrounding things to barely appear.
The clanging sound came to his ears through layers of obstacles, from far to near, and then quickly away.
As an aboriginal in the Honest Market area, he was no stranger to such scenes, suspecting that he had been taken underground, and the "street" next door was passing by the steam subway, and the faint light here came from there.
Lumian sat in the dark, looked at the man wearing the peaked hat, and said with a smile:
"You have two choices now, one is to tell me who asked you to follow me, and the other is to be taken deeper underground by me and buried there, you should know very well that many people go missing in Trier every day, not just you."
Seeing that the stalker fell silent and did not answer immediately, Lumian knew that his spiritual defense line had been shaken, so he added:
"And I will walk through the underground streets and move to other districts."
Seeing that Lumian had already considered the way back, he put on a posture of killing and silenced the corpse and fleeing, and then thinking of the ruthlessness and decisiveness of the other party when he asked before, the man wearing the peaked hat finally couldn't control the fear in his heart, and said almost collapsed:
"Yes, it's Baron Brignel!"
Baron Brignel? The leader of the Sava gang, Aosta. Trull's creditors? Why did he follow me, I met him in the apartment on White Coat Street last night without even saying a word...... Lumian was puzzled and confused when he heard it.
This made him sure that the man wearing the peaked hat was not lying, after all, if he really wanted to lie, it was impossible to pick this kind of mastermind behind the scenes that Lumian himself could not think of and could not understand at all.
Lumian frowned and asked:
"Why is he following me?"
"I don't know." The man wearing a peaked hat replied tremblingly, "He just asked me to follow you and see where you go."
Lumian thought for a few seconds and said:
"Where is Baron Brignel now?"
"If nothing else, he is usually in the Breeze Dance Hall on Market Avenue." The man wearing the peaked hat tried hard to see Lumian's face clearly, but failed because the light was too weak.
Breeze Ballroom? Lumian has a certain impression of the iconic buildings in the Honest Market area.
This is what he gained from "hanging out" yesterday.
Market Avenue refers to the main road from the honest market to the Suhit Steam Train Station, about two kilometers long, the breeze dance hall is close to the market area, and the statue at the door is quite distinctive, so people will not forget it when they see it.
After a while, Lumian curled the corners of his mouth and said to the stalker:
"Take me there, I want to talk to Baron Brignel."
The man wearing a peaked hat breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that his life was saved.
As for going to the Breeze Ballroom, who has the upper hand and who is "accidental" has nothing to do with him.
…………
The Breeze Ballroom is located on the bottom two floors of an earthy yellow building, with a café attached to the second floor and a lively dance hall on the first floor, but it had just opened and there were not many customers.
At its doorstep stands a white spherical statue of numerous skulls, which reads in Intis:
"They are sleeping here, waiting for happiness and hope to come." (Note 1)
Lumian glanced at it and followed the "Guide" around the statue to the entrance of the ballroom.
There stood two gangster thugs wearing white shirts and black coats, and they pressed their right hands to their waists at the same time and asked the man wearing the peaked hat:
"Missile, who is he?"
"He, he came to Baron Brignel." Missili replied with a slight stammer.
After receiving the suspicious and scrutinizing gaze of the two thugs, Lumian said with a calm face:
"Whether you see me or not is up to Baron Brignel, not you.
"Do you want to bear his anger?"
After hesitating for a moment, one of the thugs turned around and entered the ballroom.
While waiting, Lumian said to the stalker named Missili in a relaxed state:
"Why is there such a statue and such an inscription, which doesn't match the ballroom at all?"
Of course, that's cool.
Misiri glanced at Lumian with a smile on his face, and replied tremblingly:
"This was originally an annex cemetery of the Church of St. Robles, but later, when the bones were taken to the catacombs, the land was vacated, and later, this house was repaired.
"Although those bones have been purified, otherwise they are pure ashes, but after we Savoyard bought this place, we still felt too gloomy, so we had to find someone to get such a statue symbolizing death and an inscription representing the dead to appease the bones that may exist underground and have not been dug up."
According to this statement, wouldn't the people who usually dance here make noise about those bones, which is slightly equivalent to jumping around on top of their heads? Lumian was a little amused.
At this time, the thug just now came out and said to Lumian:
"Baron Brignel asked you to go to the café on the second floor."
"Okay." Lumian held his head high and his chest straight, and walked into the Breeze Ballroom.
The first thing that impressed him was the dance floor surrounded by railings and the half-height wooden stage in front of him for singing, followed by the messy seats around him and the smell of various perfumes and powders wafting in the air.
Misiri thought for a while, but still followed Lumian.
He felt that no matter what, he had to report to the baron in person, otherwise he might end up disappearing in the underworld.
Going up to the second floor, Lumian saw the "gentleman" he met last night.
He was in his thirties, wearing a black formal dress made of tweed, his brown hair seemed to be naturally slightly curly, his brown eyes had a confident smile, and his silhouette was quite profound.
Baron Brignel put down his coffee, picked up the peachwood pipe with the palm wearing the diamond ring and said:
"What do you want to drink?"
He was quite polite and polite.
Lumian glanced at the four gangster thugs who were pressing their hands to their waists at the same time, and said to Baron Brignel:
"Why did you send someone to follow me?"
Baron Brignel smiled and admitted frankly:
"I met you on White Coat Street last night, and today I found you near the chaotic street, and I felt that the more I looked at you, the more familiar you became, so I asked Missili to follow me and confirm what you wanted to do in the market area.
"You also went to find Aosta last night, right?"
"He wants to cheat me out of money." Lumian replied, and then asked, "Why do you think I look familiar?"
Baron Brignel took a puff of his pipe and said with a smile:
"In the eyes of experienced people like us, you can hardly be called disguise.
"When we start to doubt and make associations, it is natural to recognize you, Lumian. Lee, a wanted criminal worth 3,000 Felkin."
My bounty is only 3,000 Fairkin? Lumian's first reaction was doubt.
As the source of the time cycle in Kordu Village, how could the official bounty amount be lower than that of the priest and Mrs. Puaris?
"But just by providing your clues, you can get 500 Fairkin." Baron Brignel smiled and said, "Young man, what you need is a copy of "Men's Aesthetics", don't be ashamed, in Trier, it is a normal thing for men to wear makeup, which helps you cover up your true appearance."
This "gentleman" also hooked his eyeliner and flew powder.
Lumian smiled:
"Do you want to arrest me for a bounty?"
Note 1: Quoted from the inscription at the entrance of the Breeze Ballroom in Victorian Paris, I changed the statue. That dance hall was really built on the site of the cemetery, and it also used the stones left after the relocation of the cemetery.
ps: Ask for a double monthly pass~
(End of this chapter)