Devil's Bible

Chapter 87 Prison Break and Old Bones Tavern

After Naims finished eating lunch in the church cafeteria, he heard the news of a prison break.

Without a doubt, the escapee was Xixi.

After this incident, Xixi was immediately placed on the wanted list.

Then the Dartmanley family's butler provided information that Cecilia had used the family's connections to escape to the slums of the South District.

Subsequently, the Dartmanley family released a statement saying that the prison break was entirely Miss Sissi's personal act and had nothing to do with the family.

However, the paladins who went to capture her spent the entire afternoon without finding Cecilia's whereabouts.

"Lord Nair, are we sending men to raid the White-tailed Fox's encampment? This is very unusual; a noble lady wouldn't possess such exceptional stealth skills," Kru said from the side. "So, it's highly likely that the White-tailed Fox helped conceal them..."

“No need. Xixi’s escape may seem like a provocation, but it’s too stupid to do so.”

“The Dartmenleys wouldn’t be that stupid.” Nems knew that the Dartmenley family might be cruel, arrogant, or corrupt, but they would never be stupid in certain matters.

"Judging from this situation, Cecilia is more likely a special experimental subject." Nems knew that Nair had never known she had such a younger sister.

Based on the other person's age, we can actually deduce a lot of information.

The bloodline experiment began when Niall was seven or eight years old, and then twelve years later, when Niall turned twenty, he unexpectedly discovered the truth.

After reporting the bloodline experiments, Nair went to the village of Dorsal Fins and stayed there for eight years.

Nair is currently twenty-eight years old, while Cecilia looks like she is eighteen or nineteen.

In other words, when Niall was eight years old, Cecilia had just become pregnant when the bloodline experiment began.

It can be basically confirmed that Cecilia was a product of an experiment.

His eccentric personality was definitely cultivated by the Dartmanley family from a young age.

In this world, apart from those family members who lack talent and are deliberately spoiled, every family attaches great importance to the cultivation of their offspring.

Any family member who can move freely outside the home may not be exceptionally intelligent, but they are certainly not stupid.

This is completely different from Cecilia.

“In essence, Cecilia and her proxies are on the same level, or even lower.”

"After all, in the past, such disgusting acts of suddenly appearing in front of people were always carried out by white gloves sending out some money-grubbing scum or worthless cowards."

As dusk slowly descends and the light fades, it gives one the feeling that everything has come to an end.

Nemes stood up, pushed open the door, and prepared to go back to rest.

Then they noticed a small dot flying over from mid-air at a fairly good speed.

As it flies closer, you can see the structure of this thing.

"A construct?" It was a bird whose body was mostly made of wood.

The bird's two eyes are two rubies.

"Lord Nair?" Kru asked Naims, then began chanting incantations, preparing to unleash a spell.

“No hostility.” Nemus allowed the bird to approach, and the constructed bird disintegrated after flying to a certain distance.

Inside his body, a piece of paper floated to Nemus's front.

"Mr. Nair, tonight at eight o'clock, Old Bones Tavern, to discuss business. Sincere offer has been made."

By the time Nemes finished reading the contents of the paper, Poole had already picked up the two rubies that had rolled to the side. He could vaguely feel the Deep Well Blood within his body resonating with the two rubies.

“Whale Blood Diamonds.” Nemus glanced at them and immediately recognized what they were. Two whale blood diamonds, each the size of a little finger, would require a large amount of deep well water to be extracted using alchemy.

Or perhaps someone is bold enough to cut through the whale's skin and obtain the real blood of the floating whale, using that blood to refine whale blood diamonds; that would be much easier.

“It seems someone has already investigated your background.” Nemes told Poole to keep the whale blood diamond; currently, only Poole could use it.

The person sending the letter is essentially using it to convey their own abilities.

“But that’s not surprising. You didn’t hide your background, so it’s normal that others would be able to find out.” Nemus roughly knew who was behind it all.

"It seems that the order to arrest that group of people had an effect."

In the morning, Nemus issued an order for the paladins to arrest those involved in the contraband trade.

Several wealthy businessmen and members of the nobility have already been arrested.

Even after Xibin fled, they couldn't resist secretly contacting people to find and sell contraband.

Most of the contraband traded by these people is related to floating whales.

The floating whales are so big that each family member can eat a small amount without the whale noticing.

So everyone is doing it, and naturally some people are benefiting from it.

Nemes sent someone to fetch the list of those to be arrested. Some of the nobles had already confessed and were willing to pay money to avoid trouble.

This was a privilege reserved for the nobility.

If it is just the purchase of prohibited items, the crime is not serious and can be redeemed with money.

"Most of them are cultivation supplies."

"A small portion consists of resources similar to whale skin ore."

"They even smuggle whale dung?!"

"Based on this, we can roughly pinpoint who it is."

Among those arrested, most of the buyers confessed, while the sellers remained tight-lipped, all claiming they were innocent.

Only one of the sellers made the offer.

"Darth Ruved, after capturing the buyer and obtaining the seller's information, went to search the location as usual, assuming he had moved, but unexpectedly he was still in the same place..."

“Interesting!” Nemes put the notes aside and crossed his arms. “It seems the message to arrest these people has been received.”

“Smuggling whale dung fragments would probably only get him three months in prison. If he pays enough bail, he might not even have to spend a single day in jail.”

The town of Baiwei is inhabited by dung beetles, so there are always a lot of dung balls being pushed out in that area. Naturally, some fragments are left on the road, and when the wind blows, they will drift to other places. The church has no way to supervise these fragments.

So some merchants secretly collected them and then sold them.

This thing is illegal in a way, but it's really just a way to make a living through hard work. Unless you run into it head-on, almost no paladin is willing to get involved.

When Nemes arrived at the prison, he bumped into a merchant dressed in a magnificent robe. The merchant was not tall and was slightly bald. It was Darth Ruved, whose steward had paid the bail and was about to leave.

He noticed Nemus's arrival, gave Nemus a slight bow, and then asked the butler who had come to greet him—a scarred man who looked more like a bandit.

"Have you reserved your seats?"

"Sir, it's booked. Eight o'clock, Old Bones Tavern."

　The character Darth Ruved is from the "Extra Building" section, provided by reader "Evil Dragon Roar Ah Wu Super Fierce".

　　
　
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