Alien Knights

Chapter 429: Stage in the dark

The wheels of the carriage pressed over the moist soil, and the Golden Skylark Troupe's motorcade finally came to the gate of Guyan City.

Looking at the restless and horrified eyes of the pedestrians passing through the city gates, Barbara frowned and said to Randall: "I originally thought that we would receive a grand welcome. It seems that art is not welcome here. "

"This has nothing to do with art." Randall looked at the polished gun tip of the city gate guard, stroked his chin and said, "There is something wrong."

With doubts, the convoy of the troupe slowly drove into this city built on the rocks.

Guyan City was also called Wangxia City during the Taylor Period thousands of years ago. It is a city built on a high mountain and a natural barrier separating the world from the north and the south. There are no flat roads in the city, but rugged slopes and winding paths. Even so, the residents of the city have lived here for generations, and have long been accustomed to the days on the ridge. Few people plan to leave the city.

Sending the Golden Skylark Theatre to the upper square of Lonely Rock City, the Knight Commander Horn rode a horse to find the head of the Theatre Company, and said to him: "Half of the mission assigned to me by the Knights has been completed, and I have sent you safely. Here. But because this is the territory of another country, I can’t lead my troops to protect you. So, during the next few days, most of the troops will stay in the barracks at the foot of the mountain, and a small number of elites will stay to protect you. When you are going to return, you can send someone to tell me."

After having a few more conversations with the troupe director, Horn came to Randall, first took out a coin-sized silver badge in the shape of an umbrella from his arms, then put it into the latter's hand, and whispered: " Before leaving, Lord Cumberland specifically confessed to me that he must fully cooperate with you to complete the task. If anything happens, bring this badge and you know where to find me."

Randall nodded and put the badge in his arms. Just about to speak, a rush of horseshoes attracted the attention of him and Horsen.

A dozen cavalrymen, riding a mountain pony peculiar to Guyan City, with a paint tube hung on their chest and a horn pinned to their waist, whizzed out from the gate of the inner city and rushed to the gate of the outer city.

Randall and Horn exchanged glances, the former whispered: "Something is really wrong..."

After bidding farewell to the Knight Commander Horn, the members of the Golden Skylark Troupe found a hotel in Lone Rock City and took a rest for the night. In the morning of the next day, everyone, as usual, began to set up the stage on the square in the city, set up the set, and each prepared for the performance tonight.

As for Randall, he took a few partners, disguised as troupe personnel, and walked through the streets. While distributing flyers for the troupe’s performances, he learned about the religious situation in the city of Guyan.

To his surprise, the residents of the city talked about more things, which turned out to be war.

"I heard people say that the army of the Southern Empire is coming."

An honest-looking cobbler took the flyer that Randall handed over, and cautiously said to him: "I heard that there are thousands of invaders."

The cobbler's wife, a fat woman with a small mouth and small eyes, knocked her husband on the head with a large wooden scoop in her hand, and said angrily: "Every year, the southerners are coming! But the result! Years are all lies!"

The cobbler touched the top of his head, swallowed the retort, and shrank his head angrily.

The fat woman picked up the flyer, her eyes lit up, and pointed to the beautiful woman on the paper and said: "This is the legendary actor-Miss Barbara in Twilight?!"

Randall nodded: "Today is the first performance of Golden Skylark Troupe in Guyan City. As long as you go early enough, we will give the first 100 spectators a good position and save half of the tickets. …"

The fat woman looked at the flyer over and over again, and couldn't help but said, "My sister has been to Muxicheng, and she showed me everything there more than once when she came back. One of them is the Golden Skylark Theater... this Okay..."

Randall glanced at the fat woman in front of him, then at the cobbler beside her, raised the brim of his hat, saluted, and started walking towards the next house.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, fires and oil lamps were lit on the small square of Guyan City. Hundreds of citizens rushed to the venue early, and under the arrangement of the staff, they sat in the auditorium built by wooden steps.

Facing a palm-sized mirror, Barbara, who was busy adjusting her makeup, glanced at Randall at the door, and pretended to say casually: "You should really look in the mirror. Your current expression doesn't look like a Bodyguard, it's like a debtor."

Randall looked at Barbara in the dressing room and said in a low voice, "I went around the city this afternoon and all I got was bad news."

"Southern invasion?" Barbara took mountain birch and made small wooden strips, lightly dipped a little bright powder on her brows and feet: "I've heard about those things a long time ago. Every year, Guyan City rumored the southern invasion. But in fact, every time to the end it turns out to be a rumor."

Randall sighed, "I hope this time I'm so worried."

Barbara, in full costume, listened to the voice of the people on the stage, carefully put the mirror in her hand into the box, locked it and walked to Randall with a smile: "I saw the guests tonight, There have been many nobles in the city. Maybe you don’t know, even the young queen who loves the liveliness in the palace came here in disguise. Through tonight’s performance, as long as we can successfully enter the upper social circle, we The task can be completed very quickly..."

Randall hugged Barbara and gently kissed the latter's forehead: "I hope so."

Barbara smiled and pushed Randall away: "Don't mess up my makeup."

The performances on the square were in full swing, and the applause and laughter of the audience drifted into the distance with the mountain breeze.

On the mountain wall of Guyan City, two figures stood still, with different expressions.

Lying on a crumbling old tree on a cliff, the werewolf Aldenan put his two paws under his head, while looking at the starry sky above his head, he raised his legs and said, "Have you seen enough?"

A dull voice came from under the tree: "Shut up."

Aldenan said in a helpless tone: "I feel sad for you. Of course, just because of your sadness, I have become a foil for tragedy."

Orc Carroll dressed in a large linen cloak, hiding on the cliff platform, quietly watching the joyful ocean below, without saying a word.

"Some people say that UU reading www.uukanshu.com loves a person, is to fulfill her everything." Aldenan barked his teeth and smiled: "If you want me to say, this kind of remark is completely the self-comfort of the loser. If you like it. What, how can you know how the other person feels if you don't have it before?"

Carol remained expressionless, and said again: "Shut up."

Rising from the branch, the werewolf's light body turned over and fell silently to the ground.

He first walked to Carroll's side, then looked at the performance by the troupe at the foot of the mountain, and finally said: "Originally, when we were at the border, we could just catch two people and go back for business. But since you saw this convoy, we Just followed them for half a month!"

Aldenan approached Carroll and said softly, "The time has come to make a decision. Either you take her away! Or we leave!"

Carol pushed away the werewolf beside him, and shouted in a low voice, "I said it! Shut up!"

"coward!"

Aldenan jumped up to the treetop again, and said in a disdainful tone: "Even if you have power, your mind still stays in the environment of the weak, like..."

The werewolf suddenly interrupted his speech, stood up abruptly on the treetops, and while looking into the distance outside the city, he whispered: "Hey, hello! Carol!"

Carol shook his body irritably, and said to the top of his head, "Leave me alone!"

Aldenan turned over and jumped off the branch, a jump came to the orc, grabbed the opponent's chin, and forced him to look up into the darkness outside the city.

"Open your eyes and see! What is that?!"

Listening to Aldenan's roar, Carroll, who was originally annoyed, looked at the sight and couldn't help but widen his eyes in astonishment.

In the mountains south of Guyan City, a "fire snake" made up of torches was quickly attacking the city gate at the foot of the mountain.