30 Ghost in the Shadow (1/2)

Chapter 30: Ghost in the Shadow

Translator: winniethepooh, Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion

A strong stench of death came out from Andre’s rotten face. A face on which Lucien could still tell his great fear and pain before he died.

“The gangsters under Aaron are acting weird recently…Does it have anything to do with Andre’s death?” Lucien had absolutely no clue.

Wrapping his hand with a piece of cloth, Lucien pressed Andre’s body hard back into the water. This time the body did not hook on the iron net. It was washed away directly into the Belem River and disappeared.

Lucien stood up and set off for the surface, but to avoid the beggars, he did not take the same route. According to the map he drew in his spirit library, he took another direction about twenty meters away from the place where the beggars gathered. If the map was correct, Lucien would pass by the ruins of the witch’s chamber and come back to the ground from the same entrance through which he came down earlier.

Several meters away from the corner, Lucien heard the sound of some heavy footsteps and suddenly stopped. The footsteps echoed in the sewers, loud and clear. It sounded like there were a bunch of people approaching, and some of them must be pretty big.

Lucien looked around calmly. Soon he found there was a hole in the wall, big enough for someone to hide. Lucien hid himself in the hole, with his back against the wall.

A while later, those guys walked directly past him, turning around a corner a few steps ahead. In such a dark place, they would not notice Lucien hiding a in the hole without a careful check.

“Throw these bodies into the river. Hurry up.” It was a low voice from a man. However, he was speaking indistinctly, as if he missed some front teeth.

Lucien felt he had heard this voice somewhere before, but could not remember where.

“Why did it take you guys so long. Remember, don’t screw up the whole plan.” It was the old man’s voice.

After a few seconds of silence, the first man answered with slight fear.

“Sorry… But within ten days, we promise it will be enough… at any cost, like Aaron said.”

Aaron… Rosan Aaron?

Now Lucien finally recognized the first voice. It was Jackson, the guy who smashed Lucien’s shack, and also because of Lucien, Jackson could not even speak clearly now.

From their conversations, Lucien’s guess was that the Aaron gang was by no means a victim of the heresy, but an accomplice, and probably Andre was killed because of his disobedience.

The old man’s voice was very unpleasant. “Please tell Mr. Aaron… and the other guy, that as long as you continuously spare no efforts in helping us grow, you will all receive huge rewards. I know that, in your eyes, I’m only a dying, useless old man, which is true, but we are just tiny worms on the ground. Our priests are already powerful enough to beat their bishop. We wouldn’t need any of your help were it not for maintaining that… thing.”

“I will.” Jackson answered in a low mood.

“But… Jackson, I don’t think we can meet their requirement…” Another voice came, trembling, “We gotta make sure that those are people that no one would care about. Homeless guys are ideal, but we cannot find any of them down here, other than his people…”

“That’s true, Jackson. It’s too difficult to find fifty of them within ten days.” Someone else agreed.

The old man laughed, “The rest of them are at the bottom of the Belem River. Eels in the river will clean them up for us.”

“Skar, Aaron told us to make it at any cost. We don’t necessarily have to focus on homeless guys. If they are just the poor… Aaron will be able to handle this.” A cold smile appeared on Jackson’s face.

“You have any target already, Jackson?” Skar was a bit surprised.

“Yes, I do.” Jackson’s face turned hideous, “They gotta pay the price… the two little bastards, and their families.”