Chapter 2540 Looking for Someone
Subcontinent, Fish Sauce Island.
Yu is the most important island in the Yusu Islands, and the Aogu Kingdom and the Sugajung Kingdom are the two most important countries on the Yusu Islands.
Ayer City is one of the four most important cities in the Sujajon Kingdom besides the capital, and Maur is one of the many newsboys in the city. Maur did not sell newspapers today. He accepted a good job yesterday. Someone promised him a generous reward, 1 gold coin plus 20 silver coins per day, and asked him to find someone, to be precise, find the person in the photo. clues, it would be even better if they really find me.
He was not the only one who received this good job together. Many of his companions had their photos sent by the mysterious thin man. They didn't believe it at first. Selling newspapers for a day rarely earned as much as 20 silver coins. They didn't believe it until the man carried two large baskets from a sarcophagus, and the baskets were full of silver coins.
Maur and his fellow newspaper sellers all got 20 silver coins, and the mysterious boss was actually willing to pay first. They had been selling newspapers and flowers for so long, and they had never seen anyone pay first and then work. The friends were very happy and worked hard to find people to inquire according to the area designated for selling newspapers in the past.
Of course Maoer is not far behind, because the mysterious man said that whoever can find the people or clues in the photos will receive a reward of 10,000 to 100 gold coins.
Oh my god, if you find a person, you can get 10,000 gold coins. Even if there is only a very small piece of news, you can get at least 100 gold coins. The monthly salary of a fourth-class official in his hometown, Leibshire, was less than 100 gold. If he could get 10,000 gold coins, or even 1,000 gold coins, he could build a small house in Deng Town, take his blind mother and brother out of the garbage dump, live in a dry and warm house, and open a small mill of his own. , you can live a good life in the future.
Maoer longed for such a day, hoping to be able to live happily and go to school like most ordinary people.
Seven days, seven days later, the silver coins in the two large baskets were all gone, and the mysterious thin boss picked up his sarcophagus and left. Although he didn't find out anything about the people in the photo, he still brought a bag of gold coins and gave one to everyone.
Seeing the man carrying the coffin walking away in the alley, Maur suddenly chased after him. This was a life-changing opportunity. He could not lose the possibility of getting 10,000 gold coins. Even if the possibility was slim, he would use all his strength to seize it. . If he loses this opportunity, he may be like the vast majority of beggars in this city, growing up alone and spending his whole life alone.
“I have been to more than a dozen counties. I have been to more than half of the counties in Sujiaqiong. I have also been to the Principality of Bolong. Can you take me with you? I can go to every place very quickly. Gather the local orphans and beggars and mobilize them. I won’t charge you when they don’t work.”
The mourner looked at him, seeing the sincere eyes and eager mood of the young man, and he clicked. He nodded and said, "Just be my guide." He continued walking forward.
When he was about to leave the city, Maur couldn't help but asked out of curiosity: "Are we just going to keep walking? You have so much money, why don't you hire a car? Besides, carrying such a big bag on your back Aren’t you tired of the stone coffin?”
The mourner stopped.
Maoer covered his mouth, raised his head and whispered: "Am I too talkative? I'm used to selling newspapers. I always have to talk to others. If I don't chat for a while, they won't buy..."
< br>The mourner took off the white cloth from his waist He took out ten gold coins from the money bag and put it in his hand: "Go and hire a car."
Maur's mouth turned 'O' when he saw the ten gold coins in his hand, and he responded with a smile. He heard the sound and ran to hire a car.
The cart was quickly hired, and it was pulled by an ox. However, the mourner did not get on the cart, and instead let Maul sit in the cart.
“Aren’t you coming up?” Maoer looked at him.
"I prefer walking." The mourner walked forward and said without looking back: "Walk quickly, don't delay."
Maur really couldn't understand this strange coffin-carrying man, so he hurried The car quickly caught up with him: "I've never been able to catch up with a car, so I'm not very good at it."< br>
"After a while, you will get it."
"Oh, I'm over you."
The mourner walked silently behind, his pace seemed slow, But no matter how fast the car in front was running, he always maintained the same distance.
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Nearly two months have passed, from last winter to this spring. Under the guidance of Maur, the mourners went from one place to the next.
As Maur himself said, he has been to many places. Although he only stayed in some villages and towns for a short time in the past, he has been wandering for a long time and can quickly become familiar with and adapt to completely unfamiliar places, and Find local homeless people quickly.
On this day, the mourners and Mauer arrived at a new place. Even though it was already evening, Mauer still diligently searched for the local homeless people. After distributing photos and coins, he Thinking it was still early, I went to town to inquire.
There was a beast troupe performing in the town. Many people in the town gathered at the open air venue in the north of the town to watch the performance. He looked for people here to inquire and found that several beggars and children had come here to perform. I asked people about the photos. He also took the photo and joined the questioning team, but most of them impatiently told them to stay away. As he asked, Maoer noticed that an old ticket collector from the Beast Theater took the photo handed over by the beggar and looked at it for a long time.
The beggar asked: "Do you know him?"
The old ticket collector came to his senses and returned the photo and replied: "I don't know him."
There are many similar people in the world. , if you want to identify a person from a photo, you will inevitably have to look at it several times. The beggar left disappointed, but Maoer was not disappointed. He was used to it. However, he soon discovered that the old ticket collector was standing there in a daze, and disappeared into the crowd after two or three minutes.
Maur is a good observer of words and expressions. He could tell that the old ticket inspector was in something wrong after seeing the photo, which made him a little suspicious. He followed quietly, his small stature making it easy to squeeze through the crowd. He followed until he walked to the warehouse area outside the venue. There were many vacant warehouses here, where the members of the Beast Troupe and their monsters lived.
The old ticket inspector entered a warehouse. Maur wanted to get closer, but found that there was a vicious dog guarding the door. He went around to the back of the warehouse, climbed the wall and came to a lighted window on the second floor.
The sound insulation effect of the warehouse is very poor, and there are no magic mechanisms to prevent it. Maoer leaned against the window and saw the people in the room. Sure enough, there was the old ticket inspector and a person who seemed to be in charge. . They were whispering something, but Maur couldn't hear clearly, so he risked putting his ear against the window to listen. As a result, this movement attracted the attention of the people in the room.
“Who!?”
Maoer was so frightened that he let go, fell from the second floor, and ran away. But where he could run, he was quickly blocked by people chasing him from the warehouse.
"Boy, what are you doing?" The man in charge walked up to Maur angrily, scaring him so much that he sat down on the grass.
"I, I, I, I..." In the past, when he was caught stealing, he would always argue that he was not a thief, but now he wanted these people to think that he was here to steal, which would make his words worse.
The old ticket inspector was one-eyed, with a gray artificial eye and a real eye staring at him at the same time, which made Maur even more furious. Fortunately, the man said: "I'm afraid you're not here to steal anything, are you?"
Maoer nodded quickly, shook his head hurriedly, and nodded again.
The manager smiled: "This kid must have been so frightened that he was shaking his head and nodding. He didn't even know what he was doing."
Maoer looked timid and frightened. The shabby clothes really looked like someone who had been caught stealing.
The old ticket inspector searched his body: "I didn't steal anything."
The manager said: "He is also a poor man. If he didn't steal anything, let him go."
Maoer thanked him repeatedly and quickly got up to leave.
“Wait a minute.” The person in charge suddenly felt that something was wrong. He was lying behind their windows to steal things and eavesdropping. Thinking that the old ticket inspector had just said that there were many people looking for people with photos, he immediately became alert. : "You are here to find the person in the photo!"
Maoer was so excited that he ran away again and was caught by the person in charge again. This time Maur hurriedly shouted for help, which confirmed the steward's suspicion.
The old ticket inspector was surprised and said: "We are really looking for that person. What should we do?"
The steward thought for a while, threw Maoer to him and said: "I want to find out who is looking for the person in the photo. , and then kill him.”
“Ah, killing, isn’t it?”
"What are you afraid of? Looking at him like this, you can tell that he is a wild child. Kill him and feed him random monsters. Who knows that he died here with us?"
Maoer When I heard that I was going to be killed, I was almost scared out of my mind, but my mouth was covered and I couldn't scream.
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(End of this chapter)