Path of Light.

Chapter 20 20. Thieves
The elf thief is hiding in an alley in the lower city. The exit of the alley is the only way from the upper city to the seaside pier.

It's not that there's only one street from Uptown to Castleton Pier, but it's much closer to walk from this street.

His alley is a narrow alley between two rows of small buildings. This alley is not wide, and there are some useless construction waste piled in it, including wood, bricks and tiles, and some discarded wooden furniture. The narrow space seems more crowded.

The clouds in the sky turned into fish scales, gusts of wind blew in, and the air was filled with salty, wet and cold sea breeze.

He pulled half of the cloak on his body, the weather was not very good, it looked like it was going to rain.

It's been raining lately.

In Castletown, these half-length capes are very popular in the lower town, mainly because they are convenient.

The elves who were chasing the sea would wear this kind of cloak when it rained... even their buttocks.

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It will not affect walking or doing some outdoor work, such as catching the sea and handling on the pier.

The only downside is that the pants get wet.

The elf thief put the dagger at his waist into his bosom.

The rain on the seaside is very corrosive to this kind of ironware. If you don't use oil to maintain it as soon as possible after being exposed to the rain, the dagger will rust soon.

This dagger is one of the most important paraphernalia of an elf thief.

He chose this alley to ambush the young human being, mainly because there was a retreat beside the alley, even if his plan failed, he could still get into the alley and escape.

Speaking of his plan, this is what the elf thief planned.

When the human kid ran down the long street, the elf thief was going to rush out of the alley while he was not paying attention, snatch the books in his hand, and rush into the alley opposite.

If that human kid still has a little bit of blood, he will catch up.

The elf thief planned to lead him into the opposite alley. It was a back street, and it was a dead end. This alley was full of back doors of some shops, and there were usually some household garbage piled up there. Even in the daytime, there were no people, so it was an excellent place hands-on place.

As long as he can avoid the sight of that human kid for a few seconds, he can hide himself again.

When the human kid walked in, he went around behind the kid, drew his dagger and cut his throat,

Then he could run to the countryside overnight to avoid the limelight and kill the witness, and no one would know who stole the Holy Grail.

While waiting for that human kid, the sky unexpectedly started to rain.

The elf thief was a little worried that the human boy would go to shelter from the rain, so he covered his greasy head with the hood of his cloak.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the elf thief stood shivering in the rain.

I thought that the child would not come, and was about to find a place to shelter from the rain, so he will come back at another time...

I saw the boy running from the rain curtain.

The elf thief suddenly became nervous. Even though it was raining, he didn't know whether it was rain or sweat in his palm.

Just as he was about to rush out, another carriage rushed out of the rain, which made the elf thief hesitate. Then he found that the carriage was parked on the side of the street opposite the entrance of the alley, completely blocking his route of attacking the human boy. blocked.

The elf thief wiped the rainwater off his face, and just as soon as he cursed bad luck, he saw a few young silver moon elves jumping out of the carriage.

He was taken aback, and subconsciously wanted to run, but found that none of the elves looked at him.

The elf thief immediately retreated into the alley.

He sneaked through the cracks in the bricks, and saw those silver moon elves chasing after the human boy, the human boy stopped instantly, then suddenly turned in a different direction, and got into a dead-end alley ahead of time.

The elf thief stood foolishly in the rain, only to find that his plan had failed again.

……

It's still raining...

Roy was running hard on the street, and there was no one in the alley. Seeing that the alley was full of sundries, Roy got in at one end.

The young elf in the cloak followed Roy into the alley.

Because of the rain, the smell of corruption in the alley has been diluted a lot.

Steve took off the rain hood on his head, which opened up his vision, and at the same time, he saw the terrible environment around him more clearly.

"You can't run away..."

he said fiercely.

There is a lot of rubbish in the alley, there are back doors of some shops everywhere, and some domestic garbage is piled up next to the back door. The garbage has a rotten smell, and some garbage dumps and even sewage flow across.

Such a bad environment is like the end of hell for a few young elves who are usually pampered...

Because of the rain, there was a layer of water on the ground, and some rotten fruit peels were floating on the water, making the street even more messy.

Steve stepped forward, and the heel of his finely crafted lambskin boots landed on a fruit stone. The bad touch made Steve feel sick in his stomach.

The young elves chased along the alley for tens of meters, but were forced to stop by the terrible environment here.

Seeing that his friends were unwilling to go inside again, Steve could only raise his hand angrily, and stopped this chase.

……

Roy ran to the end of the alley, only to realize that this alley was the same as life and death.

But at this time, he couldn't go back the same way. Although he couldn't see the shadows of those elves behind him, God knows where they were hiding.

At this time, he didn't know where to go.

While hesitating in place, he suddenly saw a door not far away being pushed open.

A store clerk came out with a box of household garbage.

Roy didn't care what kind of shop it was, he rushed forward a few steps, and then went straight into the shop.

Wet all over, he rashly rushed in along the narrow passage, frightened the shop assistant overturned the trash box in his hand, and almost fell to the ground.

Roy rushed into the shop, only to find that it was a tea restaurant.

Elven cities don't really have restaurants, because they just eat some fruit and fish.

For elves, the food is dull and bland.

So in Castletown, this style of tea restaurant became popular, and the set meal with tea and various fruits in the restaurant became the favorite of young elves.

However, due to the rain in this tea restaurant, there were almost no people in the restaurant, but a few elves were sheltering from the rain under the eaves at the entrance.

It looked like they had no intention of walking in for tea.

Roy rushed in from behind...

The guys in the store thought they had met a thief. The waiters in the store heard a yell, and then saw someone running in wet.

"Hey! How did you come in? What do you want?"

An elf waitress asked Roy.

"Is it a thief, stop him, don't let him run away..."

The other waiters in the store responded immediately.

How could Roy let them stop him, and he didn't steal anything. He had two books wrapped in oiled paper in his hand, and he shouted loudly: "Excuse me, excuse me...I'm not a thief, I'm a student of the Elf Academy , just went astray, borrowed, borrowed..."

When Roy shouted like this, the waiters in the shop hesitated.

He hadn't seen him holding anything at first, and he was wet and embarrassed, so no one was willing to make things difficult for him.

Roy ran all the way to the front door and got out. Roy pushed open the front door of the shop without hesitation, and rushed into the rain again.

This is no longer the street just now, and naturally the carriage parked in the rain was nowhere to be seen.

He didn't stop until he reached the street corner.

Turning around and looking in the direction of each street, he was relieved to see that the group of young elves did not catch up.

He quickly left the street.

I was still complaining in my heart: Sure enough, you can't just agree to strike up a conversation with others, even if you are in the academy, this kind of strike-up will not do any good.

He didn't even know that he escaped a murder planned by an elf thief...

Roy, who was running in the rain, stopped suddenly. Some rainwater got into his eyes, which made him feel astringent. He wiped the rainwater off his face, but the water from his hair was still dripping down.

Roy suddenly thought:
'How could I have forgotten that the tavern has always been the house of thieves, and that waitress, Lucy, didn't even listen to her detailed description, and said that she could remember the appearance of the thieves at all... There is definitely a problem. '

It is estimated that there is no news from that tavern.

In fact, you can also ask other taverns, but you usually need to pay for information in taverns, and the worst thing is to buy someone a drink...

Roy thought that the temple would give him a salary of four baekiles a week, and it would be okay to take out a few Kohlers to inquire about some news.

But since I'm going to another tavern to inquire about the thief, I might as well ask Sabrina to help me draw a portrait, which is also easy to inquire about.

Anyway, she was going to paint the portraits of the escaped crew at night.

Yes, just do it!

Unexpectedly, the troubles that had troubled him for two days were solved while running in the rain.

It seems that exercise can make the brain run at full speed is still well-founded...

Thinking of this, Roy continued to run in the rain.

In the rain curtain in the distance, the blurred shadow of the Statue of Liberty can already be seen.

The outline of the port terminal also gradually appeared.

It's just that the sea and the clouds in the sky in the distance are still gray, and the boundary line cannot be seen.

In the sea not far away, there are still some ships waiting to dock.

(End of this chapter)