Chapter 161 Strange Death
Zhao Zhenzhen followed the pattern of action for five consecutive days in the alien world and approached the slums outside the north city gate after dark.
Looking around, all I could see were slums with low, densely packed shanties. As usual, after nightfall, it became deserted, with no lights or human activity to be seen.
Zhao Zhenzhen was still some distance away from the shed when she felt something was wrong for no reason.
She didn't see anyone, but she could vaguely feel that there were many people hiding deep in the shed, where she couldn't see.
This slum area was already densely populated, but what was different from the past was that these people seemed to be very aggressive towards her.
"……?"
This strange feeling made Zhao Zhenzhen a little confused.
As a materialist fighter for appraisal, Zhao Zhenzhen never believed in things like the sixth sense; in her opinion, the so-called intuition was an instinctive reaction after accumulated experience - but she had always been working in a political position, and she was good at ideological construction and disciplinary protection, but she didn't have the experience in combat?
Although confused, Zhao Zhenzhen did not stop her actions... She was here to "die" in the first place, and she has been squatting here for more than three days (Earth time). It is time for the "Von Alphonse" pseudonym to bow out and step down.
Zhao Zhenzhen, who faced death so frankly, was stopped after taking only a few steps.
Three young men, as thin as sticks and dressed in shabby clothes, peered out from the dilapidated hay warehouse stealthily, waved their arms at her nervously, and made gibberish sounds, as if they wanted to call her over.
If a player encountered this situation, he might shout out in surprise, "What the hell, a hidden mission?!" and then run over happily... Zhao Zhenzhen would definitely not do this.
These young men were obviously residents of the slum. They probably knew there was an ambush and came here to warn us.
Zhao Zhenzhen didn't care about being ambushed. She just made a "hush" gesture in the direction of the three young men and continued to move forward.
The three people squatting in the hay warehouse were extremely anxious and tried their best to make hand gestures, but they could only watch the other party get deeper and deeper into danger...
The first to take action were the gang members.
The quality of these gang members is mixed, and they have little discipline. They say they are setting up ambushes secretly, but in fact they have little awareness of concealing their whereabouts... They simply drove away some residents living in the shacks on the outskirts, occupied other people's homes, and squatted inside waiting for people to come.
When the "salt thief" entered the slum and reached the entrance of the alley, these guys couldn't help but jump out.
Faced with the dozens of big men who suddenly rushed out... Zhao Zhenzhen calmly put down her backpack.
The backpack was filled with eighty 100-gram bags of salt, with a total weight of sixteen pounds, which was not heavy; but the undead had limited strength, and with these sixteen pounds of salt they would be less flexible.
Throwing a backpack of salt aside, Zhao Zhenzhen turned around and ran without hesitation.
Not to mention that she herself is not proficient in fighting, even if she is proficient, she can't fight dozens of people at once!
Besides, these people don’t look like they are from the church, so there’s no point in giving their heads away for nothing!
The gang members loved the chance of escaping without a fight, so they chased after him screaming and howling.
Someone picked up the backpack, opened it, took a look, and shouted in surprise, "It's all salt." The gang members chased after it even more excitedly...
"Catch him!"
"Don't let him get away!"
"Be careful not to kill him. If we can't get the salt he's hiding, Boss will get mad!"
Zhao Zhenzhen didn't understand what these natives were shouting, but the current situation was easy to analyze - it was normal for the gossipy residents in the slums to leak the news that someone had sent salt to others, which attracted flies.
Not to mention this alien world with a chaotic social order, in the country of China on Earth, 20 or 30 years ago, when grassroots management was improper and the public power did not fully penetrate into all aspects of society, the advice of the elders to young people to "don't show off your wealth" was a bloody lesson - not only were there car robbers and road robbers in the wilderness, but in big cities, every month there were a few women wearing gold earrings who were robbed while shopping and even had their earlobes torn off, and then they went to the police station crying to report the case.
Zhao Zhenzhen's disguised phantom looked burly and bulky, but her real body was just a skeleton weighing a little over 30 kilograms, so she had no problem getting rid of this group of bad guys.
However, if I run away now, it will not be so easy to be found by people from the church when I turn around.
"If street thugs can come here, there's no reason why the church wouldn't get wind of it... No rush, let's wait and see."
Having made up her mind, Zhao Zhenzhen pretended to be clumsy and panic-stricken, running around in the huge shantytown.
The night watchman, who was calmer than the gang members and whose hiding place was more secretive, watched with great annoyance as "Von Alphonse" was chased by a large group of gang members...
“This guy can even deal with Sealed Objects, but he can’t even deal with this kind of street thug?” Night Watchman A said in confusion.
"Is this guy just a show-off? He only looks presentable on the outside?" Night Watchman B guessed.
"Uh... this guy is quite agile, which doesn't match his body size at all." Night Watchman C said with a twitch of his mouth.
"Okay, stop talking nonsense." The captain of the Night Watch said with a frown on his forehead, "We can't let Feng fall into the hands of those thugs. Let's do it."
The bounty order issued by the Gold Coin Church against "Von Alphonse" was not entirely out of anger - this guy's ability to contain the Sealed Object overnight was still amazing, and it would be a good choice to use him for his own purposes after a few admonitions. As long as they could control people, the church had 10,000 ways to train any disobedient troublemaker into the most devout priest.
Taking advantage of the friendship of the gang members and confirming that "Von Alphonse" himself was not much of a threat, the four night watchmen immediately took action and surrounded Zhao Zhenzhen who was fleeing with her head in her hands.
When Zhao Zhenzhen climbed over the garbage mountain that had not been cleaned for who knows how many years, the captain of the night watch and a team member surrounded her from both sides at the same time.
The other two night watchmen quickly cut off Zhao Zhenzhen's retreat. One of them took out a church badge and turned to the street thugs who were chasing him, shouting, "Stop right there! Don't disturb the church!"
The thugs who were chasing fanatically slammed on the brakes. When they saw the iconic attire of the night watchmen, their boiling blood cooled down. Then they saw the church badge that the night watchmen took out and calmed down instantly.
Street thugs know best who they can and cannot mess with.
At this time, Zhao Zhenzhen, who was trapped in the encirclement, also saw clearly what the person blocking her was dressed like.
To be on the safe side, she also used an identification technique.
After confirming that the target was correct, Zhao Zhenzhen immediately pulled out a steel knife and slashed at the captain of the Night Watch who was identified as having the highest rank.
"You don't know how to live or die!" The captain of the night watch didn't expect that this guy, who couldn't even deal with the thugs, dared to attack him. He became furious and slashed at Zhao Zhenzhen's shoulder with a knife.
The captain of the Night Watch hoped to catch this guy and give him a lecture for working for the church, so he chose the least lethal place to attack. However... Under the level system designed by Yang Qiu, this guy was definitely a BOSS-level "level six monster". The blow from the captain of the Night Watch would never be fatal to an ordinary person, but to Zhao Zhenzhen, who was only level three and didn't even wear armor, it was fatal damage - directly exceeding the damage limit of Zhao Zhenzhen's game character, and her health bar was emptied.
Zhao Zhenzhen showed a relieved expression and disappeared on the spot turning into white light.
Night Watch Captain: “???”
Night Watchman ABC: “???”
A bunch of street thugs: “????”
The slum residents who were hiding in their homes and watching, and John and his two companions who were cautiously approaching the area, all dropped their jaws.
The captain of the Night Watch put away his sword tremblingly, looked down at the slightly bent blade, and then looked at his team members in confusion.
His teammates all looked at him with different expressions.
The night watchman A, who was closest to him, vigilantly and quietly took a half step back, then another half step back.
Night Watchmen B and C also quietly distanced themselves from the captain.
Being able to chop a living person into pieces and make them disappear in white light... is not something that can be accomplished by normal strength!
The captain of the Night Watch was also very clear about the situation. He was sweating profusely. "This... I don't know. I don't know why this happened. You all saw it. I just wanted to stop Feng's resistance. I didn't attack his vital points at all!"
"Von? Von Alphonse?" A thug heard the explanation of the night watch captain and shouted without thinking, "The salt thief in the slums is Von Alphonse who is wanted by the church?"
"No wonder the Night Watchmen came here—"
"Hey, hey, this is not right. What ability can kill a person with just one blow? Are they really the Night Watch?" A thug screamed in fear.
This reminded the gangsters that they were not as cautious as the Night Watchmen ABC, and they immediately scattered with strange cries...
Night watchmen ABC, who were unable to escape on the spot, slowly approached and confronted the captain vigilantly.
Night Watch Captain: “…”
The captain of the Night Watch had a look of despair on his face - if he hadn't been the one who killed the man with a single blow, he would have also thought the person who did this was very suspicious!
"Collect the team... go back and report the situation." The captain of the Night Watch said firmly, "There is something wrong with von Alphonse. I reasonably suspect that this guy is not a normal person. He may be some strange monster or a haunted spirit."
Night Watchmen ABC said nothing and just looked at the Night Watch Captain silently.
The monster or spirit opened a photo studio in the city to cheat women out of their money, took on the mission of a night watchman to collect sealed objects, and even went to the slums to deliver salt to the poor... If you tell anyone about this, even a three-year-old child would say it was a lie.
The captain of the Night Watch yelled in frustration, "What are you looking at? It can only be von Alphonse's problem! It can't be my problem!"
Night watchman ABC turned pale and quickly lowered his head.
The night watchman's carriage drove out of the slums in disgrace, and the residents who had been hiding everywhere came out in a daze.
"Mr. Yan was killed by the church..."
"Mr. Salt's name is von Alphonse..."
"Oh my god, how did Mr. Yan offend the church to deserve such a punishment—!"
The next day, rumors about the church night watchman killing Mr. Salt von Alphonse spread like wildfire in the slums outside the city, the mule and horse market, the south city area outside the city, St. Joseph Street, Mary Street Market and other places where gang thugs and working poor people were active.
Because the Church of Gold Coins had not blocked the news when it sent people to hunt down Von Alphonse, the owner of the Perfect Dream Photo Studio, many of the wealthy and idle people in the city vaguely knew that this person was an exorcist; plus, casual players who had chosen the makeup skill points not only helped the middle-class women in the city to put on makeup, but also went to St. Joseph Street to put on makeup for men and women who spent the night, and they had gained quite a reputation - so as the rumor spread, Von Alphonse's "personality" gradually became fuller...
The feud between "Von Alphonse" and the Gold Coin Church gradually developed in the direction of fantasy, and within a few days, it turned into the romantic rumor that the people loved to hear about - the captain of the Night Watch who killed Von had a fairly beautiful daughter, and Von once ran a photo studio specializing in serving middle-class ladies, so it was normal for them to be dragged together.
No matter which world people are from, they will never complain about the grandness of a funeral.
While the Gold Coin Church was getting mad about this shitty thing and didn't even know where to vent its anger, the church of the Fiery Sun Church on St. Joseph Street received... a letter of challenge from Charlie Rex, Lord of Westham.
The efficiency of the Fiery Sun Church is different from that of the Bartles family. The church noticed something was wrong just two days after Ben Ham Walton, the leader of the Knights of the Inquisition, lost contact.
On the third day after Captain Walton lost contact, the white-robed priest of the Church of the Fiery Sun urgently summoned all the non-commissioned officers of the Walton Regiment to inform them of the situation and support a deputy captain whose seniority was second only to Captain Walton to temporarily take over the post of captain. He also asked the Innadri City Hall for the topographic map of Westram and began to prepare an action plan to recapture the captain and six elite scouts.
At the same time, the Blazing Sun Church also spent money to buy off a large number of criminals in the city who valued money over their lives, and sent them to Westram in an endless stream to gather intelligence for them...
Westham's reaction was also very decisive. After capturing several batches of amateur spies from Innadri, he readily sent a letter of challenge to the Knights Templar to which Walton belonged.
Charlie Rex, as a follower of the black magician Yang, demanded that the Knights of the Inquisition, to which Walton belonged, be held accountable for destroying the peace agreement between the two parties. He also stated in an extremely tough attitude that a simple apology was not enough to quell the anger of being breached without reason - the agreement must be resolved by fighting, and the defeated party must pay a high amount of compensation.
