Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 140: No Money for Robbery

It's been three days since I've been out. I look up, and the wilderness is endless.

Claude sighed, stamped his feet, and stepped the frozen snow out of the pit. After thinking about it, I decided to go back. I shouldn't have come to this Camida Swamp myself. Thought it would be easy to catch a few Niros crocodiles at this time, but forgot that in this cold weather, some Niros crocodiles can't get out of the mud.

You should check the habits of the Niros crocodiles and wonder if they will also hide in hibernation. Running to the Camida Swamp like this to hunt some crocodiles for money, I came for nothing and wandered here for three days without even noticing a ghost.

Shooting Jamie the Black Horse on the back of his horse, Jamie the Black Horse sniffled down and rubbed his long horse face on Claude's leather hat for a few moments, which was a way of showing his intimacy.

“Come on, let's go back. You've been so far this time.” Claude climbed onto the sled, pulled the reins off his horse's head, scolded Jamie the Black Horse and dragged the sled in the direction of White Deer Town.

The cold winds are fine without snow, the weather is clear, and occasionally the sun shines through the earth. It's mid-February, and in more than a dozen days, the snow will freeze all over the mountain, and there will be mud in the mountains and snow-capped streams flowing around. But that also means that spring will come, and the mountain wilderness will soon be dressed in green.

But spring is not a good time to go hunting. One winter survives. The animals are skinny and skinny, and even if they do, they can't afford it. So spring is not a hunting season, it's best to spend the end of autumn to the pre-winter days, in order to survive winter, whether it's carnivores or herbivores, eating fat, fat and shiny. At that time, all the prey caught could be sold at a good price.

Claude thought he was a little miserable, and as a passer, he had to earn money from hunting to buy magic materials to experiment with alchemy. Is there a passer more embarrassed than himself? Unfortunately, there is no way, who told themselves to cross into this different world, or a society that is very taboo about magic, so that they have to sneak around to learn magic...

Claude didn't want to talk about the bad things at home anymore, and his father came home to make his own decisions, but Mr. Morsan was still busy without his official duties, and he didn't know what he was busy with. Once in a while, however, Claude always felt that his father had changed a lot and that Mr. Morsan rarely spoke at home, but he kept smoking the pipe and hiding his face behind the smoke.

Mother is fit and takes care of the kitchen and housework while taking care of her brother, Little Book and Snow Dog. My sister Anna has started going to middle school and is happy to go to school every day. As for the Albert stuff, it's the same old thing, going home every day to sleep and eat, and treating it like a hotel. He was said to have returned to Sir Fox as a personal secretary and returned home to rejoice his parents with words.

Claude resumed his daily work at the woodland and went home every few days. On several occasions he tried to talk to his father about spending so much money for his family after his arrest, but he couldn't say anything, he couldn't open his mouth. Claude thinks that if he asks his father for the bill, he falls into the same kind of scum as Albert, all for his own family. Spend it if you spend it. Big deal. Find a way to earn some more...

It's just that Claude didn't expect him to have any valuable prey in the next half of the month, and the biggest prey was just a lame old coyote with many scars on his fur that couldn't afford to be thrown in the open market and sold only one polysilver taller.

Verricolo came to the woods once, when he came back with his father, Uncle Coobrick, hunting from Bai Lu, to bring Claude an antelope hind leg. After the cabin was full of food and drink, Véricolo heard Claude talk about his hunting experience and smiled and told Claude that it was only in the old woods of the mountains that he could meet beasts and deer herds if he wanted to catch good prey. The light wanders in the mountains around White Deer Town, and unless you're lucky, you won't find any big prey.

But Véricolo seriously warned Claude not to wander into the mountains alone. In fact, the beast is not a great threat to people, most afraid of being unfamiliar with the terrain and surrounding environment, lost in those mountain forests. And now that the snow is covered, it is impossible to accurately discern the situation under the snow accumulation. If you accidentally fall into those snow nests and can't climb out, it is called "Heaven should not scream," and a person can only be frozen to death inside.

Verricolo was right, Claude dismissed the idea of going hunting deep in the mountains. Beast, he really doesn't care, but accidentally falling into a snow hole in some gorge will have to be tortured. Claude didn't want to take that risk either.

But Claude remembered the Niles crocodile when he and his father said he was driving a sleigh straight across the Camida Marsh to White Eucalyptus. At this time, the entire Camida Swamp is covered in heavy snow, frozen and hard, and the sleigh can sweep across it at will. You can go to the deepest depths of the swamp and find the Niros crocodiles and send them out.

It's just that Claude thought beautifully but in vain, letting Jamie the Black Horse take a sleigh around the Camida Swamp for three days without seeing a single Niros crocodile. It was only then that the crocodile realized that it was also to be hibernated, and that he had no choice but to hang his head and return empty-handed.

The next evening I went back to the woodland, went back to the cabin to have a hot bath, got something hot to fill my stomach, Claude came to the cabin to stare at the alchemy magic array on the square table for half a day, and I was helpless.

Without the alchemy magic charm array, I wanted to get one. After finally getting a alchemy magic charm array, I couldn't afford expensive magic materials because of lack of money. This alchemy magic charm array can only be set up. How long has it been since the alchemy experiment? Claude, in retrospect, it's been more than a month. If it weren't for the father's accident that he had spent all the money around him, he might have done the trial firing test.

There were also 11 Sullivan coins that I had to exchange for a piece of magic material to buy for the experiment, but the Sullivan coins I bought myself at the underground acquisition point in Julian. Claude was reluctant to deal with this fat old man, and there was always a feeling of insecurity. Perhaps it was the first time that Claude subconsciously blacklisted Julian as a traitor, reluctant to make any further deals with him, that he had gone to that underground acquisition point to be so miserable by this fat old man.

Otherwise, the idea of playing the Black Snake Club should be reopened after so many days. Claude thought seriously about this idea, and now the military control of White Deer Town is continuing, and the county guard battalion is still guarding the town. While the White Deer Town Guard Battalion has been established, it is likely that it will have to wait until they have some combat capability before the county guard battalion can be withdrawn, in essence, in the military barracks for queues and basic training.

So now the Black Snake Club boss, Bidrill. Brunch should also be in the barracks with his fourth squadron, which consists mostly of Black Snake members. A squadron of more than fifty, basically the backbone of the Black Snake Club. At this time, it should be considered that the black snake will have the weakest defenses. Even if we encountered the situation the last time, we can teach them another harsh lesson. Daguang robbed the casino and left.

This is a big deal, Claude got excited, and now all you have to do is carefully arrange your way in and out of town, not be noticed, and choose the right time to go into town. Claude decided to leave directly from the forest, as ice walls were erected around the entrance to and exit from White Deer Town, leaving only the gate for the guards of the guard battalion. If you don't go into town, you won't be able to suspect yourself. The soldiers guarding the entrance to the street will testify to you and prove that you didn't go to town in the woods...

The weather is nice at night, isn't there a saying that it's dark killing night, the wind is high and the weather is on fire, tonight is a great time to go robbing, the stars and moon are not light, the sky is dark, it's hard to see the view from afar. Claude again wore a grey black robe, sneaking out of the cabin and down the hill.

There's plenty of snow on the ground, but it's freezing so hard that stepping on it doesn't leave a footprint. Just be careful when walking and don't get slipped. Down the hill, not far from the street gate, there was a pile of bonfires lit, but I didn't see a soldier standing guard at the gate, I thought it was likely to hide inside and burn the fire by the bonfire.

Claude shook his head, and it was simple common sense that you couldn't see the dark in the light, and you couldn't see the outside of town hiding by the campfire. There's no point in standing guard like this. If enemies really attack, they won't find out until they get there, but it's too late...

Claude, however, cautiously leaves the sight of the entrance door through the shade of the bushes by the road and walks along the edge of the town house towards the lake embankment. There's a steep slope, about six or seven meters high, where Claude can sneak off to the lake embankment with a feather technique.

About a half-hour walk, Claude has reached the end of the steep slope, below which is the lake embankment. Choosing this place to go into town is mainly because it is desolate and houses are scarce. There are still people fishing here when the weather is hot, but it will be almost ten o'clock, and the weather is cold, and no one wants to come over here and blow the wind.

Claude took a roll of fish wire out of his backpack, tied one to a grove tree on a steep slope, and tied the other to a lead fall, which Claude gently threw under the steep slope. You can use the plume technique when you get down, but you need to borrow it when you get back up the steep slope. Climbing ropes are the best, but a climbing rope hanging from a steep slope is noticeable and easy to spot. And the line was more hidden, and as long as Claude took a feather shot on him, he could easily climb up without his own weight.

After a quiet descent from the steep slope, Claude again chose to approach the utility pier from below the lake embankment, passing through the small woods and lakeside alleys he had grown familiar with, this time preparing to enter from the secret passage of the last casino, just wondering if that secret passage was still there.

Another half hour or so later, Claude was already standing outside that shack at the secret exit. Listening in a vertical ear, there was no sound in the shack, and he circled to the front door and found a crude big iron lock hanging on the old wooden door.

Turning to look at the alley, there was no movement, Claude applied a magical hand, followed by a precise control, stuffed the magical hand that had turned into a needle into an iron hole, then turned into a key shape, adjusted slightly, twisted slightly, “Pfft” sound, iron locked.

Flashing into the shack and hiding the wooden door, Claude found the exit of the secret passage under the impression, although the exit was also closed by a thick wooden door and locked inside. Pushed a few times, and the inside seemed to be switched off with a pin.

It's okay, a magical flying arrow broke a finger-sized hole in this thick wooden door. Then again, the magic hand, from this little hole, reached in and easily removed the insert pin inside, and the door opened.

Claude went into the secret passage, closed the door and put the pin back on, then put a bead of light in his hand and went in along the secret passage. Shortly after, he reached the small room under the bed, Claude extinguished the beads of light in his hand, climbed the wooden ladder against the wall, raised his ears again, listened to the movement above...