Chapter 337 Barrier Safe House
After Levi left Huck's house, Huck didn't sleep all night.
The next day, he skipped work and did not go to the city to sweep the damn streets again. Instead, he stayed at home waiting for news.
He knew very well what Levi would do after getting Descente's position, so the result would only appear today. What the outcome would be for his entire family would soon be revealed.
Today, no one in Huck's family went out all day, and the four members of the family stayed in the cabin.
Around 10 o'clock in the morning, an illusory figure appeared in front of Hake's family.
Seeing the shadow of the Twilight Saint, even though they had come into contact with him yesterday, Huck and his father still behaved very solemnly and piously.
627 didn't say any unnecessary words and directly conveyed what Levi asked her to convey.
"At 10:20, the tax collector of the agricultural district will come to visit and invite you to leave. You don't need to bring anything except some necessary things. Follow him, and he will take you to the Xinlan station and take the train to Iris."
"Being on the train means your family is safe. After arriving at Iris, someone will contact you and make follow-up arrangements for you. You will have a new job and a new home there."
627's words brought a look of surprise to Huck's face.
He was always worried and irritated because he didn't want his family to be implicated and end up in a dead end.
And now, such an arrangement is equivalent to rescuing them from Xinlan. As long as they leave this city, no matter where they go, it will not be a problem for the family to survive.
Huck's father also let out a sigh of relief, but the sadness between his brows did not disappear.
His family for three generations were all born and raised in Xinlan and have never left this city in their lives. Now that he suddenly has to leave, he can't help but feel a sense of loss and confusion about the future.
But Huck's father now knew that they had no choice.
It was a blessing in disguise that he could escape from Shinran alive. He had no extravagant expectations about what life would be like after he left.
Soon, the Hake family packed up their limited luggage, and the tax collector, who usually acted like a local tyrant in the agricultural area, came as promised.
They got into the tax collector's car, and he took them to the station to get tickets for the next train to Iris, and then boarded the train at noon.
Before getting on the bus, the tax officer gave them a suitcase of cash!
The Hake family had never seen so much money in their lives!
Especially since the money was given to them by the tax collector who was like a Pi Xiu, always taking in money but never spending it out!
However, just as they boarded the train carriage that was specially reserved to accommodate their family.
Huck was suddenly shocked to find that there was an unconscious person sitting in the last row of seats in the carriage!
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The Grand Duke's Palace suddenly became busy and tense on this day.
This morning, the usually mild-tempered Grand Duke Stuart, for some unknown reason, punished more than a dozen people at once and sank them all into the underground river on the outskirts of Xinlan!
Then his personal secretary was also dismissed and replaced by someone else. After that, everyone was assigned the task of keeping a close eye on two groups of people in the city.
From this day on, the atmosphere in Shinran became a little weird.
Even ordinary citizens can feel that there are more people on the streets who seem strangers on weekdays.
Just as Grand Duke Stuart had guessed, the people brought by Sherlock encountered those from Green Day in the city!
They were targeting the same prey and had a common goal in this city, and after both sides got to know each other, the smell of gunpowder began to spread throughout the city.
For the next three days, fights and injuries of varying sizes occurred all over Xinlan.
The Xinlan Police Station was extremely troubled by this, because the people who did these things were obviously not ordinary people. The police station directly under the Council of Elders could only handle some ordinary cases and crimes, and matters involving scientists could generally only be handled by people from the Grand Duke's Palace.
However, under the order of Grand Duke Stuart, the people in the Grand Duke's Palace only monitored the two groups and did not interfere in the dispute between them or try to stop it.
This affected many high-ranking and powerful people in the Xinlan city area, because those people basically only caused trouble in the aristocratic district, and those affected were all people with wealth and power in the city.
And just when the troubles caused by the West District Alliance and Green Day in the city seemed to be getting more and more intense and out of control, those people who were sent out from the Grand Duke's Palace, under the tremendous pressure of more than a dozen of their colleagues who were thrown into the river to feed the fish for incompetence, actually found some very valuable gains!
Whether it is the people brought by Sherlock or Green Day, they seem to have been fighting for something around the city, but in fact, the people scattered in the city are all small characters fighting petty battles. These people have arranged the truly powerful people to the outer barriers. While they are wary of each other, they don't know what they are looking for.
After receiving the news, Grand Duke Stuart immediately guessed that this was a tacit understanding between the Western District Alliance and Green Day.
They all knew that whoever could find the Grand Duke's "parents" first would have absolute initiative.
But such initiative cannot fall into the hands of Grand Duke Stuart himself. At least before the situation becomes clear, no one wants the Stuart family to find someone first.
Therefore, they deliberately created an illusion in the urban area, trying to attract Xinlan's attention to it. The real manpower was all distributed near the barrier. Obviously, that was the most likely place to hide people.
As soon as he received the news, Archduke Stuart figured things out.
What the alliance and Green Day want to stop is exactly what he needs to do most.
It didn't matter how those rumors spread, but it would be a different story once those two idiots were caught and someone had actual evidence.
No matter who finds the person, they can use this to force him to surrender. But if he finds the person first, it means that he has the initiative. Neither the Alliance nor Green Day can threaten him. He can choose to take a more appropriate time to determine his position and stand on the side. At the same time, he has no worries and is not afraid of giving others a handle. So, after confirming that the person must be hiding in the southeast corner of the barrier, Grand Duke Stuart walked out of the Grand Duke's Palace without alerting anyone, came to the vicinity of the barrier, and began to search by himself.
He took over almost everything of the Stuart family, but there were still some core secrets that he could never obtain.
The safe house hidden on the barrier was one of them. He had no clue what was hidden behind the barrier. Even if he had turned over all the files of the Stuart family, he could not find it.
Just as the Grand Duke had been wandering around the fortress for many days without any results, he couldn't help feeling annoyed.
Big moves are happening between the league and Green Day!
The spy from the Grand Duke's Palace, who had been keeping an eye on those people, reported the news to Grand Duke Stuart.
Just the night before, the Duke Green and his son of the alliance used some unknown method to open a stone door in front of a stone wall and captured the young man wanted by Xinlan from inside!
That scene happened to be discovered by the Green Day people on the spot. The two sides fought fiercely in front of the barrier. The Duke and his son were particularly brave. The Green Day side suffered heavy casualties. Although the people were not captured by Green Day, they did not fall into the hands of the alliance either.
The Shinran School student named Descente, who disappeared along with the Grand Duke's "parents", took advantage of the chaos to escape!
Just when he escaped from the chaos, the people from the Grand Duke's Mansion who had been watching in secret targeted him, but the orders given to them by the Grand Duke never included arresting people, so these people only helped in secret, helping this young man with only first-level strength to successfully get rid of the two groups of people who reacted late, and finally escaped into a factory near the barrier and hid there.
After doing all this, the news also reached the hands of Grand Duke Stuart.
He deliberately ordered his men not to arrest anyone.
Regarding that secret that should not be exposed to the public, of course, the fewer people who know about it, the better. Especially those key witnesses, it would be best not to contact anyone and leave it all to him to resolve personally.
After learning the specific hiding place of Descente, Grand Duke Stuart came to the staff dormitory of the factory that evening.
Descente was hiding in one of the abandoned warehouses. The Grand Duke did not hesitate or procrastinate at all. In the current Shinran, he was the only chosen one and the strongest existence.
If the person had not been found yet, he would still be somewhat wary of those two forces. But now that the key figure among them was about to fall into his hands, the person he should really be wary of should naturally be someone else!
He suddenly pushed open the iron door of the warehouse. With a "bang", the faint light from outside pierced the darkness in the room.
In the corner of the room which was cluttered with all kinds of debris, there was a ragged, pale-faced young man who looked like a homeless person. He was curled up in the corner, looking at the Grand Duke standing in front of the door with a helpless and desperate look on his face!
When he saw the face that was exactly the same as the one on the wanted poster, Grand Duke Stuart finally smiled.
There was a hint of coldness mixed with a ferocious smile.
There was no sign of his movement. The next moment, the ground under his feet seemed to have turned into an elevator and slid up from where Descente was.
The Archduke's body did not move, but Descente, who was shivering in the corner, was carried by the sliding ground in an instant and sent in front of Archduke Stuart!
This young man, who had studied in the Xinlan School for five years, obviously recognized the face that had appeared countless times in newspapers and on television news, and knew who the big man standing in front of him was.
His face turned even paler, like a piece of paper, looking bloodless, and his eyes were full of fear.
The Grand Duke grabbed him by the collar and spoke in a low, yet cold voice like the devil from hell.
"Desante, you are a pariah from the farming community! It is because of my grace that you are able to go to school and open your eyes to see things that you could never have imagined in your life before, and this is how you repay me?"
Descente's whole body was shaking. He looked like he was scared to tears, and even his teeth were chattering.
"This, this is not our fault! The school wronged us! They are the ones who don't want to give us a chance to live! We can only fight to the death!"
"Then have you never thought about your family?" The Grand Duke's voice was very soft and slow, but it made people tense up. "After doing such a thing, do you think your parents, relatives and friends can still survive in Xinlan?"
Descente's spirit seemed to have collapsed. His eyes were dull, as if he had fallen into complete despair. Apart from his rapid breathing, he made no other sound, like a body without a soul.
"You can't escape the death penalty, but I can give your family a chance to live. It depends on whether you are willing to seize it."
Grand Duke Stuart's suppressed voice, those words like the devil's whisper rang in Descente's ears.
The next second, Descente's pupils dilated, and his whole body trembled as if he had grasped the last straw, and then he screamed.
"Please! Please let them go! I'm willing to do anything! Anything!!"
Archduke Stuart was very satisfied with his answer.
Although scientists with the power to control minds are rare, the Grand Duke does have some under his command. Just as he doesn't want his subordinates to have any contact with these people, he also doesn't want anyone to know the secret in this young man's mind.
And with his identity and strength, forcing a first-level person would be easier than crushing an ant to death.
"Since you have already realized this, let's go and take me to find those greedy fools!"
The moment he finished speaking, Grand Duke Stuart and Descente in his hand disappeared from the factory. A few seconds later, they reappeared at the edge of the barrier.
Descente was limping, as if he had been injured in the previous melee between the Alliance and Green Day. He walked in front and led the way. The Archduke followed behind him, and it didn't take long for the two of them to arrive in front of the stone wall with the ginkgo tree family emblem.
When he saw the emblem, a sarcastic sneer appeared on Grand Duke Stuart's face.
Then, with trembling hands, Descente removed the protruding stone, revealing the button for opening the door. At this time, the Grand Duke could not wait to press his palm on the button!
The stone door slid open to one side with a "boom", and the Grand Duke named Stuart finally discovered the Stuart family's last-ditch safe house!
(End of this chapter)
