Secret: The Witch's House Traitor

"Thirty years to the east of the river, thirty years to the west of the river, don't bully young people into poverty!"

Lin Nuo snorted heavily at the companies behind him. He made an indignant gesture of frustration and chose to leave without any reluctance.

Now that I have a legitimate excuse to be at the dock, I don't have to make the painful walk back.

He found a carriage and sat comfortably back in Tingen.

Olsna Street.

After Lin Nuo approached, the sharp-eyed servant hurried forward and led Lin Nuo through the garden and into the second-floor western-style building.

In the living room on the first floor, Mrs. Sharon sat on the soft sofa and elegantly enjoyed black tea and snacks.

"What have you been busy with lately? Why haven't you come to see me?"

Her eyes lit up when she saw Lin Nuo. After instructing the maid to make tea for Lin Nuo, she waved her hand to signal the maids to leave.

"You should be careful recently. The Church of the Night Backlund Saint Samuel Cathedral may send Red Gloves to Tingen City to search for information about me."

Lin Nuo picked up a few milk biscuits to fill his stomach, then said to Mrs. Sharon.

"You killed the Conservative MP? That wouldn't alarm the Red Gloves, would it?"

Mrs. Sharon was surprised when she heard this, and her eyes, as pure as a deer, became weird.

"No, I just stole a Level 2 seal from the Church of Evernight."

Lin Nuo picked up the black tea, took a sip and said calmly.

"What? You stole the Level 2 Seal from the Church of Evernight?"

"So what are you going to do next? Do you need me to arrange for you to leave Tingen City?"

Mrs. Sharon sat up straight, her brown hair cascading down her back like a waterfall.

"No, you just need to help me find a job in the factory area."

"By the way, remember to remind Triss to expand the range of her harvesting lives recently. It's better to avoid attracting other people's attention even if it's more difficult."

Lin Nuo put down the teacup, tapped the edge of the table lightly and smiled.

"Don't worry, even the Red Gloves will prioritize checking out the rats in the sewers, such as the Aurora Society, the Psychological Alchemy Society, the Secret Society, etc."

Chapter 23: Downtown Tieshi Street

"Aren't you and your Gnosis Society also dirty rats in the eyes of the Orthodox Church?"

Madam Sharon gave Lin Nuo a charming look and smiled with her hands covering her mouth.

Since Lin Nuo has made up her mind, she will no longer try to persuade him to leave Tingen.

Moreover, Backlund would not necessarily send reinforcements right away. After all, there were already nearly 10 Nighthawks in Tingen City, and he had to give his colleagues some chances to make amends.

"Who said that? We are cute hamsters, much cleaner and more respectable than them!"

Lin Nuo shook his head. If the Witch Church did not have the risk of men turning into women, then it would really be a good supernatural organization.

Putting aside the fact that the Witch Church likes to force men to take witch potions, the atmosphere within the church is actually very good.

"What are you going to do about John Maynard, the Conservative MP?"

"Do you need my help in getting rid of him? I can make sure his death is as natural as possible!"

Madam Sharon raised her white neck like a swan and said with a confident smile.

"No need. Triss lost the bet with me. She is just an ordinary person. When she completes the curse ritual, we can just make another paper figure."

"It's better for us to stay still now. After all, you are a well-known figure in Tingen City. As long as you don't reveal obvious flaws, the Nighthawks won't bother you."

Lin Nuo waved his hand to Madam Sharon, then stood up and left the courtyard.

Instead of taking a public carriage, he walked leisurely all the way to Lower Iron Cross Street.

This is the slum of Tingen City. Hiding in the corners on the roadside are ragged children, their arms and legs are as thin as matchsticks.

The air was filled with a mixture of unpleasant odors: urine, sweat, mildew, and the burnt smell of matches.

Lin Nuo had changed into a rather simple set of clothes, but his handsome appearance and clean clothes still seemed so out of place with the surrounding environment.

However, his final destination is not here.

After Lin Nuo avoided three thieves and sent away a group of hooligans who wanted to rob him, he crossed the lower Iron Cross Street and came to a slightly tidier neighborhood.

"Just find a family that is in urgent need of help, and then give them some insignificant money to help them through the difficult times, and by the way, temporarily store some extraordinary items in their home..."

He took a penny from his pocket and threw it into the air, then used the first divination method to confirm his destination, and finally walked towards an alley on the left.

"Dong dong!"

Lin Nuo knocked on the door gently.

No one in the house responded, but Lin Nuo saw a somewhat fearful gaze looking at him.

"Hello? Open the door, please."

Lin Nuo asked again. His voice was as gentle as the spring breeze in March, and full of vitality.

Hearing Lin Nuo's voice, a woman in her twenties walked out of the house. She walked to the door and asked Lin Nuo in a low voice.

"Sir, how can I help you?"

"I want to make a deal with you."

Lin Nuo looked the woman up and down. She was wearing a loose coarse cloth skirt and her face was covered with thick coal dust, but she had a pair of beautiful eyes.

"Well..."

"can!"

The woman gritted her teeth and hesitated for a moment, but she finally sighed and opened the door as if she had accepted her fate.

Lin Nuo followed the woman into the house. It was a simple single room with a single bed against the wall. In the middle of the room there were some paste, cardboard and other items.

"This is?"

Lin Nuo asked curiously as he looked at the half-baked matchbox on the table and the three baskets full of matchboxes in the corner.

"My job is to get 2.25 pence for a basket of matchboxes."

"One time, 12...5 soli. If you can't accept it, forget it!"

Anna looked up at Lin Nuo. His silver hair was noble and elegant, which was so out of tune with the simple and crude environment around him.

"This is not important, we can talk about it later."

Lin Nuo walked past the stove, toilet and a small amount of wood piled on both sides of the door. He sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Anna casually and said.

"Sir, I won't let you suffer any loss. This is already... a friendly price!"

Anna glared at Lin Nuo with some dissatisfaction. She took a basin of clean water and washed off the coal dust on her face, revealing a beautiful and refined face.

She took off the loose coarse linen skirt slowly and awkwardly, and stood in front of Lin Nuo with extremely stiff movements.

"I now believe it is a friendship price."

"You don't look like someone who lives on the lower streets of the Iron Cross all year round."

Lin Nuo looked at the somewhat nervous Anna and smiled. He really liked her long, smooth black hair.

But, he seems to be here to do good things, right?

"This place isn't really suitable for a beautiful woman like you to live in. I encountered some gang members who were shouting and yelling on the way here."

"What? The gang? They came here so soon?"

When Anna heard Lin Nuo's teasing, the blush on her face suddenly disappeared and turned pale.

"Sir, I think you should leave. I'm really sorry about this..."

Anna bowed apologetically to Lin Nuo, then walked to the corner of the room and picked up a pair of black scissors.

"No way? Although robbery does make money quickly, it is illegal!"

Lin Nuo watched the timidity on Anna's face gradually disappear as if she had made some kind of determination. He tilted his head and said with interest.

"Sir, you'd better leave quickly, otherwise those debt collectors might implicate you."

Anna said to Lin Nuo seriously.

"My father borrowed a large sum of money a few months ago to buy a ship and went to the southern continent to open up a trade route. Unfortunately, the ship encountered Nast, the King of the Five Seas, on the way back, and suffered a large loss of property."

"However, the misfortune that befell the Clover was far from over. During the subsequent voyage, a violent conflict broke out between the passengers and crew of the Clover, and a bloody battle broke out between the two sides."

"My father died in this chaos, and my mother died of illness because she couldn't bear the cruel reality and the huge compensation she would have to face later..."

As Anna spoke, her eyes became somewhat melancholy, and as her mood became lower, the woman clenched the scissors in her hand tighter and tighter.

"So you are the only one left in your family now? And you fled to downtown to avoid debt?"

As Lin Nuo listened to Anna's story, his eyes became increasingly strange.

Clover?

Such a familiar name...

This seems to be the ship that Triss destroyed?

"I originally had a fiancé, and he sailed with my father..."

Anna's eyes became even more melancholy as she spoke.

"He's dead too?"

Lin Nuo felt a little guilty, so he turned his head and asked casually.

"I was very worried about his safety, so I went to the Fortune Teller Club to ask Mr. Moretti to help me predict his whereabouts!"

"Mr. Moretti's divination was very accurate. My fiancé did come back alive, but he didn't tell me that he would ask me to cancel the engagement after he came back!"

The more Anna spoke, the more grief-stricken she became. If she hadn't been provoked by her fiancé, she might have gone to the goddess' kingdom with her mother to look for her father.

But it's not too late...

Chapter 24 Maid

Mr. Moretti?

Lin Nuo blinked, sat up straight and asked Anna.

"Ma'am, are you talking about Mr. Klein Moretti?"

"My name is Anna. Do you know Mr. Moretti as well?"

"His divination ability is very embarrassing. He said in person that my fiancé will come back safely, and that as long as I wait patiently, good luck will surely come..."

"I waited patiently at home, but misfortunes kept coming one after another. Even though I hid in the lower streets, I still couldn't find peace..."

"If I had tipped that gentleman more, would he have given me a clear deadline?"

Anna said with some complexity, and she raised the scissors in her hand and pointed them at her neck.

"what do you want to do?"

When Lin Nuo saw Anna's action, he quickly stepped forward and grabbed her arm.

I can understand that you want to commit suicide, but can you at least wait until I leave?

"I didn't want to live in the first place. Do you know how painful it is to hide in the lower streets every day?"

"There's always a lot of noise here at night. I can't sleep all night long."

"Every time I went out to buy food, I was worried about being kidnapped. I couldn't find a job outside, so I could only hide in the house and make matchboxes every day."

"I could only exchange a basket of matchboxes for 2.25 pence. At first, I couldn't even finish a basket in a whole day. If I hadn't saved a few pence, I would have almost starved to death in this shabby house."

Anna looked at Lin Nuo who was holding her wrist. She lowered her head and tears flowed down her cheeks.

"I wanted to experience that feeling before I died..."

"Now that the debt collectors are here, I can't run away, and I don't want to run away! Rather than fall into their hands..."

Lin Nuo listened to Anna's suppressed and choked cry, and there was no extra emotion in his heart. He didn't even feel any sympathy.

Except for the initial embarrassment and unnaturalness because the other party was harmed by Triss, his eyes have always been calm and without any ripples.