Chapter 91: The Rebellion of the Royal Capital (2)
"Who are you, and why are you looking for me?"
Rickan looked at the person in front of him vigilantly, he was wearing a black cloak like Du Wei, but judging from his height and size, this person was not Du Wei.
"It's me!"
Rickan's eyes widened suddenly, and he quickly looked around, and then asked in a deep voice, "Du Wei, why are you here? Isn't it safer to go there in the Church of Death? What are you running out for?"
The black-cloaked man who had been identified by the Adventurers' Guild as looking for Rickan was Dewey, who was supposed to be in the Temple of Death, and Rickan didn't know why he suddenly appeared in front of him again, but Rickan knew that trouble might be coming again.
Rickan ...... I'm probably going to die!"
The first thing Du Wei said when he opened his mouth was 'I might be dying', and the hair on Rickan almost exploded.
"You're dying, so why are you coming to me?" said Rickan irritably, "Do you want to drag me into the water? If that's the case, believe it or not, I'll kill you here!"
"No, no, no, I definitely didn't mean that-"
Du Wei's voice stopped abruptly and he looked around, they were still in the Adventurers' Guild, and there were quite a few people sitting around.
He suddenly whispered, "This is not the place to talk, please, come with me!"
Rickan frowned, looked at the middle-aged bald man with pleading in his eyes, and let out a sigh of relief, "Only this once." β
"Of course. Du Wei nodded heavily, and said with a wry smile: "Only this once......"
After exiting the door, turning left and right, Rickan led Dewey to an alley, "Say, tell me anything, I'll take Merf to clean the sewers later." β
Rykan paused, he hadn't noticed the smell in the union just now, but after coming here, he smelled a faint smell of blood.
The rat adventurer frowned and asked, "Are you injured?"
Du Wei lifted the hem of his clothes, the white bandage wrapped around his waist, and the faint color of blood was reflected on it, and Ruikan, who saw this scene, suddenly felt a little more uneasy in his heart.
Du Wei put down his clothes, took a deep breath, and said, "I remember I told you that I work for His Majesty the King, right?"
"Why do you ask this?" Rickan kept glancing at the 'tall man' in front of him, and he began to wonder if he wasn't Dewey.
Du Wei did not answer Rickan's question, but said: "King Krylov III controlled the underground forces of Greenland through Boss Mott, and he controlled the whole of Greenland, but on the surface, Boss Mott was 'funded' by the Marquis of Elfaro...... Do you see what I mean?"
Rykan put his hand on the handle of the dagger and said with some irritation, "I don't understand what you're talking about, Dewey! If that's what you're talking about, then I'm going to leave now!"
Rickan was so angry that the roots of his teeth itched, and he grinned at his 'old friend', "These are so boring, I didn't come out with you to hear you say this - it's more fun to educate a newbie than to listen to you! Dewey, get out of the way, I'm leaving!"
"No, you can't go! Rickan, you can't go!"
Du Wei tried his best to keep his voice down, and he hissed in a low voice, "I am His Majesty's man, I am his underground intelligence officer, not the kind I made up! I was sent by him to spy on Mott, the vampire!"
Rickan glared at him, and said with the same gritted teeth: "But what does this have to do with me? You are his intelligence officer, but I am not! I still have my own life to live! I don't care who you are, it doesn't matter what Boss Mott is, I'm just a little adventurer!"
"No, Rickan, both I and you know very well - you are strong, careful, and responsible, and better suited for this position than I am!"
Du Wei gritted his teeth and said, "Don't you want to be a nobleman?"
Rickan was shocked and cried out, "What did you say?"
Both of them were startled by Rickan's shout, and they turned their heads to look out the alley, only to be relieved to see that no one was paying attention to the place.
"What do you say, become a noble?" asked Rykan in a deep voice.
This early in the morning, Du Wei is still talking in his sleep?
Du Wei took a deep breath and said with a pale face: "The kingdom will usher in a change, not only mages, but everyone can become nobles. Anyone can become a nobleβeven if you're a foreigner!"
Rickan was a little excited, but a little hesitant, so he kept pacing in place.
Rickan suddenly stopped, he looked at Du Wei with red eyes, gasped, and asked in a deep voice, "What do you want me to do?"
Du Wei's tense body finally relaxed, and he grinned and laughed silently.
After laughing for a while, Du Wei smiled, took out a letter and a ring, and said: "You take this ring, at seven o'clock tonight, remember, when the palace guards change at seven o'clock tonight, go to see the first guard on the left, and give him this letter, and tell him that it was a letter from his aunt, and that he will come to see you at about ten o'clock in the evening." If he doesn't take out the same ring, you can run right away! If it goes well, you will be able to see Your Majesty, and then you will tell Your Majesty that 'Mott has defected'!"
Rykan took the letter and the ring, and after a moment of silence, said, "Really, I have some suspicions that you're using me - I suspect you're using me as bait!"
Du Wei shook his head, "Believe it or not, I can't force it...... I could have escaped, but six of my men died, and this information has only reached me, and I don't want them to die in vain!"
Du Wei's words fell, and both of them fell silent, because neither of them knew how to face each other.
"I'm running out of time, can you hear about my past?"
β...... If you want. β
"Thank you. β
Du Wei leaned against the wall, took a cigarette from his belt bag, lit it gently, and then put it to his lips and took a puff.
Choking on the smoke and coughing twice, he smiled bitterly: "I can't drink, I can only rely on this to relieve stress when I am stressed, and sometimes I will patronize the business of those 'street ladies'." Originally, I thought that Mott was still working for His Majesty, so I thought that if I ran out and came back in a different capacity, I would be fine, and I had done this before. But it was because of this 'I thought' that my men lost their lives......"
"Some of them are alone, some have families, some have just gotten married, have just had their own children, and some are even ready to retire......"
His eyes stared blankly at the sky through the alley, the bright sunlight was only half a foot away from Du Wei's toes, but when he saw the sun, he shrank his feet in.
Du Wei retracted his gaze, sighed, and said, "But they are all dead." β
"Killed by the treacherous Mott!"
Du Wei's eyes suddenly turned red, "Mott doesn't know who we really are, but he knows about our existence. In these days, he captured eight people one after another, and those were the eight people he suspected the most, and then all eight of them died, and four of them were my men, and two of them were ambushed by Mott's men when they were delivering information to me...... I thought Mott wouldn't dare touch them!"
Rickan sighed, "I never knew you were an idealist. β
Du Wei stood up, patted his cloak, and pulled his hood back on, "Don't talk about it, go back to the union and sign a contract, but we have to treat 'me' as too treacherous, and try to make small moves in the contract and escape in embarrassment, so that at least some of your suspicions can be cleared." β
Before leaving the alley, Du Wei lowered his head and said in a deep voice, "Remember, Rickan, you only have this chance tonight. The 'key' will change once a month, and after tonight I'm going to die, Mott won't let me go, I'll give you some time before then, but I can't guarantee that I won't be able to hold out until seven o'clock in the evening......"
'The fate of the kingdom...... It's in your hands!'
This sentence was hidden in Du Wei's heart and did not say it until he died.