Chapter 202 (1/2)
Nocturne, in Ilus, to be exact, is a famous thief in arlex.
According to popular rumors, she picked the nobles to steal the ill gotten money, then sold it on the black market and secretly gave it to the poor civilians. She is a very famous Xia thief.
However, for those nobles, Nocturne is a lingering shadow in their hearts. No one can tell who the next unlucky ghost will be. When Nocturne first became famous, they even signed a high-level task in the mercenary guild to reward the true identity of Nocturne, with a price of up to one million gold coins.
Countless mercenaries are crazy about it. However, it has been more than ten years since the night song became famous, but this task has not been completed. Up to now, the difficulty of the task has been automatically increased to nine stars, which is one level away from the impossible ten star task.
Over time, as the number of Nocturnes is less and less, this task fades out of people's sight, and the real identity of Nocturnes has become a legend.
In recent years, the nocturne has been shot several times, aiming at all the great nobles, at least the identity of the earl or above. Once, she was silent for a long time. Therefore, when she suddenly heard the name of the Nocturne, the civilians were very excited, and the nobles were all nervous.
The nobles who had gathered at the door to buy air conditioners and other products suddenly hurried into a carriage and retreated. They continued to stay here. What if they were stared at by night songs?
”In other words, it's a thief...”
Donne nodded slightly: ”we can check it ourselves. If there is anyone in it, I will bring it out to you. If there is no one in it, you can go by yourself.”
”We ask to go in and check!”
”Yes.”
Donne nodded: ”but any product here is worth tens of thousands of gold coins. I don't ask too much. If it is damaged, it will be compensated according to the price. Is there no problem?”
The raised steps suddenly retracted, and the guard captain pulled the corners of his mouth: ”well, we still won't go in.”
Are you kidding? If there's another big trouble in the task, where will they reason?
Donne said to Hilton, ”you entertain guests. I'll go in and have a look.”
”Lord?”
Hilton frowned slightly and whispered, ”can you say...”
Donne quietly pressed Elsa, then gave her the curious eliaser, turned and walked into the shop.
He went straight to the fourth floor, with a faint smile on his face: ”come out, do you need me to do it?”
No response.
Donne was not in a hurry and said to himself, ”I'm really strange. You can't hide in so many houses, but you can't hide in me... You know, just because of you, I just lost hundreds of thousands of gold coins at once. How many times do you think you have to steal it back?”
There is still no response.
Tang en shrugged: ”since you don't want to cooperate, I have to ask those guards to come up. Seriously, I still have a good impression of grand theft... When I was a child, I always dreamed of becoming a haunted thief to rob the rich and help the poor.”
”Rob the rich and help the poor? That's a good word.”
At the same time, a slender woman with short hair suddenly appeared from the blind area of Donne's vision. She was wearing a black night clothes with her mouth and nose covered. The special cloth would not produce static electricity and friction sound, but also help hide her breath.
But most importantly, Donne found that this was not her real face. Her real appearance and body shape were hidden by a very advanced magic equipment. Because it was not magic, Donne could not use detection to uncover the truth.
This is more similar to the constant deformation effect on her body, so Donne can't reverse transform her original appearance.
”Oh? Are you a nocturne?”
Donne looked at her with great interest: ”the famous night song is a woman.”
The sapphire blue eyes of the night song looked at Donne with a trace of discontent: ”do you discriminate against women?”
”No, I respect women very much, but...”
A strange smile appeared on Donne's face: ”I wonder why the guard knew that the night song was female? Is it... Collusion between officials and thieves?”
Donne had an idea. Just now, the captain of the guard used ”she” when talking about the night song. Although prandal also used hieroglyphic plane characters, unlike Chinese, the pronunciation of ”he” and ”she” is different.
The night song was stunned and said angrily, ”is my gender a secret? There are all kinds of things. It is rumored that I am an elf walking in the dark night. Do you believe it?”
Donne said without hesitation, ”I believe it.”
The night song was stunned.
”So that's why you use magic equipment to hide your shape? Are you an elf?”
Donne said happily, ”my wife is also an elf. We are relatives.”
”Are you stupid [beep]?”
The night song was stunned and couldn't help saying, ”I just said it casually. Just listen to it!”
”I see. That means you're not an elf.”
Donne breathed a sigh of relief: ”in that case, I don't have to worry about offending my dear.”
The night song was stunned when he heard the speech. Is his wife really an elf? Are you kidding... Elves haven't appeared for more than 100 years? They haven't appeared since the end of the second chaotic invasion war!
Not to mention intermarriage with humans!
”Anyway, thank you for your help.”
Nocturne breathed a sigh of relief and pulled down her mask.
Under the mask is a very beautiful and exquisite face, which is absolutely qualified to be called beauty.
Donne was very surprised: ”she's still a beautiful woman.”
”Thank you for your praise.”
She showed a grateful smile to Donne. Donne's face was immediately dull. With a proud smile in the heart of the night song, she was really fascinated by her beauty.
Then a shy night song whispered, ”I missed this time. Unexpectedly, those hateful nobles are ready. I'm afraid they have laid a snare. I've been forced to a dead end. Next, I have to hide for some time. If you can, Mr. Tang... What are you doing?”
Donne suddenly came over and the nocturne shrunk nervously.