The Wizard's Secret Journey

Chapter 18 Cut off the beard
The alley on Baiquan Street.

"Sir, I heard it with my own ears, and everyone should have heard it. Someone was shouting something like murder, murder."

"Yes, someone is shouting."

The armored patrol captain frowned and asked, "So, where are the people?"

The crowd is still gathering here, but the culprit has quietly gone away.

Another street.

Bathory walked along the road wearing a hood, with Chidi rubbing his wrist beside him.

The two remained silent, both looking unhappy.

After walking in silence for a while, Qidi explained:
"Boss... I swear I was holding the sword tightly, but that guy had so much brute strength that I felt my wrist break with just that one blow!"

"I saw it, and I don't blame you." Bathory nodded. It was because he saw the boy easily deal with Chidi that he decisively chose to admit defeat and escape.

"Besides, Boss, the guy was on the roof at first... It's so high up, I don't know how he got up there by himself?" Qidi was a little frightened and couldn't help but trembled as he asked.

"You said, these kids are all from the school after all, they won't have any extraordinary powers, right, Boss?"

“What nonsense!
"We tried, they're just a bunch of wimpy, cowardly fools!"

Bathory shouted angrily, but he was feeling uneasy in his heart. He looked around suspiciously, especially at the roof behind him.

There were a lot of people on the street, and the roof was empty... He couldn't find anything.

Bathory withdrew his gaze, pulled his hood down further, and continued forward with Chidi.

Not far behind them, Lin En walked out slowly from behind the house with a long sword on his back and followed them slowly.

A few minutes later, Bathory and the other man turned into a small road.

Lin En quickened his pace, but when he approached the intersection, he suddenly stopped, leaned against the wall, and listened to the noise coming from the path.

"You two made it difficult for me to find you."

A familiar male voice came from the path.

"Is this... the voice of Ellison, the leader of the Iron Claw Gang?"

Lin En looked puzzled, 'Why is he here? '

In the path.

When Bathory saw Ellison, his expression suddenly changed. He quickly put on a smile and pretended to be confused and said:
"What are you talking about? We have never been hiding from adults."

Ellison took a puff of his cigarette, smiled, and was about to say something when he saw Bathory yelling at Chidi, "Run!"

Then the two of them turned around and ran behind them.

There was a hint of displeasure in Ellison's eyes, but he didn't make any move and just smoked.

After a moment, Bathory and the other man stopped.

In front of the two men, two men with the same iron claw tattoos walked out with a grin.

"Sir, please spare us, please spare us, we shouldn't have gone..." Bathory turned around, pulled Qidi to kneel down, and begged.

Ellison raised his hand to signal them to shut up, then smiled and said, "Take us to your nearest place. I have something I want to ask you."

Bathory seemed to understand something, his heart sank, and he continued to beg:
"My Lord, I swear... I swear that gold royal was all our savings. We don't have any more money."

"Really?" Ellison walked slowly closer with a gentle expression, and then suddenly pressed the lit cigarette in his hand against Bathory's face.

“Ah—mm…mm…”

Bathory screamed, but it was only a brief scream before the man behind him skillfully grabbed his throat and covered his mouth, so he could only let out a few suppressed groans.

Ellison had a sneer on his face and the cigarette butt in his hand continued to spin.

Bits of cigarette ash fell, and the aroma of meat wafted faintly from the point of contact.

Ellison didn't release his fingers until Bathory's eyes were red and filled with tears and he had lost the strength to struggle.

The cigarette butt fell down his cheek due to gravity, revealing a blurry black and red wound on Bathory's cheekbone.

"Now, can you take us there?" Ellison smiled.

Bathory nodded repeatedly. The man behind him let go of his hand, raised his leg and kicked him, saying coldly: "Lead the way!"

Bathory and Chidi walked ahead resignedly.

Compared to these vicious gang members, they are just two docile sheep.

Bathory covered his face and lowered his head, but a hint of anger seemed to be rising in the depths of his cowering eyes.

The few of them quickly walked away along the path.

Lynn walked out from behind the wall, frowning, and followed quietly.

Ten minutes later.

Bathory led them through a busy street and into a wooden house.

Ellison followed him in.

The man walking at the end turned around and looked around warily, then closed the door.

Lin En mixed in the crowd and watched the scene.

Instead of getting closer, he went to a secluded corner and waited patiently.

……

in the wooden house.

Ellison looked around and chuckled:

"This place is really nice. It should earn at least dozens of silver wolves a month, right?"

This place is completely different from the simple shack. Not only is it fully furnished and much larger in size, but the floor is also covered with wooden boards instead of mud.

Bathory and Chidi smiled awkwardly and did not answer.

Ellison didn't care. He sat down on the sofa and asked:

"Now can you tell me how you suddenly became so rich?"

"We..." Bathory wanted to get away with it, but Ellison calmly lit a new cigarette and took a puff.

The lit dark red cigarette butt made Bathory's cheek twitch subconsciously. He hesitated for a moment, then honestly began to explain what had happened during this period.

……

"So, you can make so much money by blackmailing those kids who were eliminated from the school?" Ellison raised his eyebrows after hearing this.

"Yes, sir, they are generally very timid and cannot stand being frightened. They are easily taken advantage of and have great wealth."

Ellison looked at Bathory and the other man, feeling emotional.

Ignorance is truly bliss.

As if he had thought of something, he suddenly asked again: "How do you know these children exist?"

Although the school eliminates a group of prospective apprentices every year, most ordinary people in Cuilin City know nothing about it. Even some minor gangs are not aware of it.

Even though Cuilin City has never hidden the existence of wizards, there is always a thick barrier between the supernatural world and ordinary people.

"How do we know... Sir, we were just lucky one day and happened to rob a eliminated teenager. We only wanted to ask him for a few Silver Wolf Flowers, but he gave us several Gold Dragons instead.

"So we questioned him just like you are questioning us now... and then we continued to blackmail other eliminated people."

"Is that all?" Ellison asked. He always felt that this was too much of a coincidence.

"That's all." Bathory nodded.

But at this time, Qidi next to him recalled carefully and suddenly said,

“We were supposed to go somewhere else that day.

“But when I passed a certain intersection, I heard someone say that he had recently targeted a wealthy young man in the area of ​​Red Mud Lane.

"So we changed our route, thinking we could try to intercept him... Unexpectedly, we actually ran into the boy in the end."

(End of this chapter)