732 Misfortunes Never Come Singly (1/2)
In Rentato, on a dark street.
Carrying something heavy, two small men were moving stealthily on the street. Suddenly, a couple of people jumped out and fiercely pushed them down to the ground.
Bang!
That heavy thing fell to the ground.
”Black dogs on Granlin Street!” the small man blurted out.
Then he got a crispy slap on his face because of what he just said. A man in uniform walked out of the darkness and squatted down in front of the man.
”I prefer policeman or sir.”
Since the headquarters of the Holm Police Agency was located on Granlin Street, the gangsters had been used to calling the agency Granlin Street.
The slap made the small man afraid. ”Yes, sir…”
He was told that the black dogs on Granlin Street had some kind of special alchemical item that could torture them with horrible paralysis and pain. So never be reckless in front of a cop.
”Caught right on spot… stealing the lid. You'll be sent to the court for your sentence and you will face the charge of endangering public security. If nothing else, you two will be spending the rest of your lives in the mines. Of course, if you two are willing to become some experiment subjects, you might be able to come back to Rentato after a year,” said the senior policeman while smacking the small man's face.
The small man was totally shocked. ”En… endangering public security…? Sir, we didn't mean it! We were… We did it just for money!”
The charge sounded very serious to him.
”I've told you jerks multiple times to listen to the radio to know the rules and laws. You don't know laws, you don't know rules, you're not even qualified to be a thief!” The senior officer stood up.
The charge of endangering public security came from the Parliament of Nobles and was suggested by Natasha. When they were discussing the regulations on aircraft and road safety, Natasha suggested that there should be a law preventing people from using aircraft or cars for murder.
”It was a lid! Only a lid!” The two thieves almost burst into tears. They could not imagine how it would be like laboring in the mines.
As for becoming a sorcerer's experiment subject, this option would never happen! That would be even more horrible than death!
The senior officer sneered, ”You stole the lid. You would make other people fall into the sewers. That's how you two endangered public security. Repent when you're in the mines!”
”No, please, sir! This is the last time! We wouldn't have done it if we knew it!” they two hurriedly begged.
”Sir! I've got… big information. Big!” one of them cried out loud.
They would do whatever they could do to save their lives!
The senior officer nodded with satisfaction and said to the other cop, ”Take them back for interrogation. Give me the confession first before submitting it.”
The two thieves were now in tears. After they left following the cop, one of his subordinates flattered him, ”Sir, good for you. They were scared to death! It was so easy for you to get a big piece of information!”
”It was their fault for not listening to the radio. Honestly speaking, I wish I could make them face the charge! Damn it! Lots of people this morning saw how I was tripped over!” said the senior angrily.
No wonder the leader was hobbling earlier today…
The senior officer had given the order, ”Put the lid back to where it was and lock it tight.”
And he could not help complaining, ”It's such a pain in the a*s… Why are we doing all these? We've got plenty of stuff to do. We shouldn't be the one doing it!”
After the rest of the several policemen put back the sewer lid, one of them said to the others, ”I wonder if anyone's down there… The lid went missing for at least a couple of minutes…”
”Impossible! It's already very late, and it was only a few minutes,” said his colleague lightheartedly. Then he pulled out a tube of apprentice-level alchemical potion and poured it into the edge between the lid and the ground. The potion would glue the lid tight in the cold night and gradually melt in the daytime.
Some sorcerers helped them with this potion.
The policemen then hurriedly went back to the office on Granlin Street. They needed some hot tea.
After a while, someone started knocking at the lid from below. However, the lid would not move because of the special glue.
In the dark sewer, the veins in Nasdell's head were pounding. He was furious, and he could not figure out why there was such a big hole in the middle of the street. What was wrong with this city? When he fell in the sewer, he still wasn't able to control his body very well from the paralysis. Now he was covered with blood down here, and somehow he could not even get out!
Fury, annoyance, and confusion were mixing in his guts. He wished that he could return to his werewolf form and punch the sewer lid away with a single strike!
However, he had to force himself to calm down. Once someone saw him as a werewolf, he would have great trouble in carrying out the task given by the prince.
He tried to take a deep breath, but the stink under here almost made him throw up.
”Nasdell, you gotta calm down. You shall never let the prince down. Don't act like those reckless idiots,” he said to himself while hobbling along the sewers.
After a while, an angry roar burst out again from down in the sewers, ”Damn it! It won't open!”
Nasdell totally had no idea why people in Rentato would do so.
After walking for a long distance, when Nasdell had reached his limit, he finally found a lid that was not glued.
He pushed open the lid and climbed out. The cold, fresh air never tasted so sweet to him in his life.