Chapter 734 The house leak coincides with the overnight rain (the third watch)
Lentat, in a dark street.
Two sneaky little men were moving quickly carrying a heavy object, and suddenly, several figures popped out from the corner, and one grabbed one hand and pressed them to the ground.
Pawn! The heavy thing made a crisp sound when it fell to the ground.
"The black dog on Granling Street!" One of the little men blurted out in shock and anger.
He was slapped hard in the face, and a man in a black straight uniform came out of the darkness and bent down in front of him: "Please call us Mr. Police."
Since the headquarters of the Holm Kingdom Police Department is located in Granling Street in the administrative district, gang members, small gang criminals, and some citizens use Granling Street as the colloquial name of the police department.
This slap woke up the little man and made him say fearfully: "Yes, Mr. Police."
I heard that the black dog on Granling Street has a unique apprentice-level alchemy item, which is like an electric shock when hit by it, causing long-lasting paralysis and pain, life is worse than death, so never be strong when facing this group of black dogs.
"Your crime of stealing manhole covers has been caught red-handed, the evidence is conclusive, and you will be sent to the municipal court for trial, well, 'the crime of endangering public safety by dangerous means', if nothing else, you will spend a happy second half of your life in the mine, of course, if you are willing to be an experimental object of Mr. Magician, then maybe you will be able to return to Rentat in a year." The senior detective patted the little thief's face.
The little thief was stunned: "The crime of endangering public safety by dangerous methods...... Mr. Police, what is this crime, I, we just steal manhole covers and sell money!"
This long list of names is terrifying to hear, and it is clearly a serious crime.
"Hey, I've long told you bastards, pay attention to radio stations like 'Voice of the Kingdom of Holm', pay attention to the latest regulations, 'endangering public safety by dangerous means' is a crime added to the Kingdom's Code last month, specifically what it means...... In this era, thieves who don't know how to listen to the radio will be eliminated sooner or later!" The senior detective stood up straight and said.
This is a crime specifically raised by Natasha when the House of Lords discusses the "Aircraft Management Regulations" and "Road Safety Regulations", so as not to prevent someone from deliberately using aircraft disasters or car accidents to achieve the purpose of murder.
"I, we just steal manhole covers......" The two small thieves looked like they were about to cry, what a terrible sight it was to go to the mine to spend the rest of their lives.
As for reducing crimes by becoming magicians' experimental items, they never thought about it, it might be more terrifying than death!
The senior police detective snorted: "You stole the manhole cover and let a large number of citizens fall into it, causing trauma.
"No, Mr. Police, please spare us, if we knew about this crime, we wouldn't dare to do such a thing."
"Mr. Police, I, I have important information!"
The two small thieves scrambled to get to the ground.
The senior detective nodded in satisfaction and ordered the surrounding police: "Take them back for a good interrogation, and give me the recorded confession first."
Seeing the two small thieves being escorted away crying bitterly, a policeman next to him said flatteringly: "Boss, you are so powerful, just scare them and deceive them with major information."
"Who told them not to listen to the radio, to be honest, I really want to put this charge on them, XX, let me fall in public this morning!" The senior police detective said angrily.
No wonder the leader limped today, it turned out that he almost fell into the sewer...... The policeman thought without daring to answer.
The senior detective ordered the other policemen: "Put the manhole cover back in place and find something to lock it up, so that it will not be stolen before dawn. There are not enough manpower at all! Do you want to follow other cases? This kind of thing should be maintained by a special department."
At this time, one of them had a whim: "Did someone fall down when we rounded up those two thieves just now?"
"How is it possible, it's already late at night! And we haven't stared here for a few minutes." The policeman, who had previously flattered the senior detective, said without worry at all, and then took out a bottle of specially prepared apprentice-grade alchemy potion and poured it into the gap in the manhole cover, so that the manhole cover would stick firmly in the cold tonight until it slowly melted and disappeared during the day.
This is their method of temporarily dealing with similar events, specifically looking for methods created by magicians.
After doing all this, the policemen who rushed back to the warm Granling Street quickly left.
It didn't take long for the manhole cover to suddenly make a "dong", "dong", "bang" sound, but with the help of a special alchemical potion, the manhole cover did not move at all.
In the dark sir, Nasdel intuitively rushed to his head with a wave of blood, what happened to this Rentat? Dig a hole in the middle of the street properly? I fell so much that my body was not very controlled, and I was covered in blood!
Annoyance, aggrievance, and astonishment surged in his heart, making him want to immediately transform into a werewolf and punch the manhole cover away.
"Calm, calm, I can't expose my identity as a werewolf, so as not to be unable to complete His Excellency's mission." Nasdol said to himself in his heart over and over again.
Finally, he controlled his anger, and then took a deep breath in satisfaction, only to be almost vomited by the foul smell.
"I am a calm and wise werewolf valued by His Excellency the Prince, and I must not be like other reckless guys!" It said to itself again, and then staggered towards the other direction of the sewer, relying on the werewolf's powerful self-healing ability.
After walking for a while, a roar erupted in the sewer again: "Bastard, it's stuck here too!"
"Damn it, what the hell do the people of Rentat think!"
After walking a long distance, when Nasdel felt that he could not control himself, the manhole cover above showed no signs of sticking.
He pushed open the manhole cover, climbed out, and took a deep breath of fresh and cold air, only to feel that this was the most delicious thing he had ever encountered in his life.
Even an adult werewolf would inevitably be physically and mentally exhausted after experiencing this series of things, so he walked to the outside of a house next to him that looked abandoned, sat down with his back against the wall, and breathed heavily while recovering from his physical trauma.
The injury he had healed from falling into the sewer had healed, but after being electrocuted, the pain that seemed to come from the bone marrow made his body quite sluggish, and he could only wait for the sequelae to slowly disappear.
"Rentat's changes have a good side and a very dangerous side: lightning magic circles are arranged everywhere without safety protection, and they are dug in the middle of the avenue at will......" Nasdol is still unwilling to admit that he does not have the common sense of "safe use of electricity", thinking that the magicians' actions are too risky and aggressive.
The night was deep and quiet, Nasdr felt that his mood was gradually calming down, and his injuries were recovering quickly: "But these encounters are just episodes, I have escaped the danger, and everything will be fine again."
The thought in his heart had just emerged, and his keen intuition from racial talent made him aware of the great danger, and he rushed forward without thinking.
However, his body had not fully recovered, and the aftereffects of the electric shock were still affecting him, and his movements slowed down a little.
Rumble!
The abandoned house behind him exploded violently and completely collapsed.
"Are the people of Rentat crazy? Their own houses were blown up without warning?"
Nasdol didn't expect that the house behind him would suddenly explode, if it was against him, he should have been aware of it a long time ago!
Boom!
The shockwave hit Nasdol hard, and walls, stone bricks, dust and other things scattered and "submerged" the vicinity!
"Why, why ......?"
At the entrance to the street on the other side of the house, a group of people watched the explosion.
"Director, the new alchemy explosives provided by the magicians are very effective." Watching the houses collapse one by one, a brown-haired ordinary man excitedly said to the middle-aged man in front of him.
"It's good, without our demolition work, I believe we will soon be able to widen the streets here and establish a new civilian area in the comfort of Rentat." The supervisor who was directing the demolition work nodded in satisfaction, and it was not in vain that the boss went to Alinge to buy a new type of alchemy explosives and asked a magician who specializes in explosions in the elemental system to point out the placement.
The ordinary person next to him saw that the supervisor was in a good mood, so he casually asked his curiosity: "Supervisor, why do we come to demolish it in the middle of the night, are we not afraid of disturbing the sleeping of the nearby citizens?"
"Then block the passage of this road during the day? This is the street leading directly to the city gate, and I don't know how many goods enter the market area from here! Is it the rich people or the ordinary citizens who are important? Hurry up and get those lazy guys moving, and clear the streets before dawn!" The supervisor ordered loudly.
A large group of workers began to work, and the ordinary man looked around a little worriedly: "Supervisor, I didn't check if there was anyone inside before the explosion just now......"
"How can there be anyone? It is blocked on all sides, and a magic crystal lamp is used as a warning sign, who wouldn't have long eyes to break in? And all intersections are watched by our people, unless he can fly or drill the ground!" The supervisor said angrily.
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In the early morning, Ali left the rented house, walked through a bustling street, and walked towards the aristocratic area.
"Last night's demolition explosion was terrifying......" he sighed as he walked.
The demolition work was posted in advance and various notices were made, so he knew very well what the explosion was about last night.
Near the entrance of the aristocratic quarter was a monastery, but it had been converted into a school, and from time to time there was a loud sound of reading, and exquisite and gorgeous carriages continued to drive from far away in the aristocratic quarter and drove directly into the school.
"Jane ...... from the second grade of general education at Mills School on Qining Street in the noble district of Rentat" Ali looked at the school from a distance, silently reciting the communication method of the pen pal.
In the second year of the establishment of the General School, the nobles decided to emulate it and establish a special aristocratic school, not to let their children of noble blood mix with ordinary people - whether they wanted to or not, they had to admit that this way of learning together stimulated their children's enthusiasm for learning more than the previous separate home education, and that this environment helped to build connections from an early age, and to have a considerable social circle before reaching adulthood.
Ali watched the aristocratic carriages and alchemy cars drive into the school, and watched the aircraft of different shapes flying in the sky (there are models, ship types, airships are miniature, etc.), and he deeply felt a gap and an invisible wall.
He sighed and turned away like many days before, his heart was filled with mixed emotions, including low self-esteem, dissatisfaction, frustration, pain like being pricked by needles and the strong desire that came from it.
As he walked, he walked to the vicinity of the demolition block last night and heard a strange whimper.
"Huh?" Ali followed the sound and found a big dog lying in the grass, its eyes closed, its silver-gray fur full of blood and dust.
"This dog really looks like a wolf......" Ali sighed, he knew from the book that there was indeed a dog that looked very much like a wolf.
With kindness, Ali walked over and found that the dog had many scars on his body, so he smiled and said: "Fortunately, you met me."
He worked temporarily in the hospital of the Magic Council during this time and learned to bandage, so he took the big sleeping and moaning dog home with difficulty, wrapping it like a mummy.
After a while, he saw the big dog wake up, staring straight ahead with blank eyes, and two lines of cloudy tears flowed out.
"Crying, crying?" Ali was the first time he had encountered this kind of thing, so he comforted him like a human: "It will get better, hehe, don't thank me, don't be moved, we will all get better in Rentat."
Hearing the word Rentat, the big dog cried even harder.
(End of this chapter)