"Okay, I'll have someone give you his information in a moment. You take the information and arrest him. You can arrange the rest yourself. I only have one request, take your time, don't do it so deliberately, and try to hide it. This matter must have nothing to do with us, and all the faults are attributed to the Russell family, understand?"

"I understand, I understand. Then Master... shall I go get him now?"

With the sound of water splashing, Old Carl stood up from the pool as if he couldn't wait any longer. He took the towel and saluted to Alan in a funny way. Seeing Alan nod in agreement, Old Carl grinned and walked out of the pool. He waved to the servant on duty at the bathroom door and said, "Wipe it for me. Go find someone to find me a set of old clothes. I need..."

…

In the dark dungeon, there is a space more than three meters high. There is only a finger-sized light source on the top of the house. The cold light emits a faint light, so that you can still see the surrounding things clearly in this small "cell" of a few square meters.

Leipzig was huddled in bed with lifeless eyes, shackles on his hands and feet. The floor was clean, and there was no cutlery on the stainless steel plate, only a lump of cold rice and another lump of what looked like sauce and mashed potatoes.

He didn't eat anything as he had been locked up here for a long time. On the way here, he stared at the scenery outside the car window, which took him all the way from Swansea to Carmarthen.

As for why Allen, who threatened to send Earl Russell to the sea to feed the fish in front of him, did not kill him but locked him up here again, Leipzig did not know and did not want to know.

Just look at the cell in front of you. It has a high-rise design and you can't touch the roof even if you stand at the top.

There was not a single window in the entire cell, only a small exhaust fan.

Moreover, the exhaust fan was specially designed and covered with a layer of iron mesh. It was placed in the upper right corner of the room. With his ability, he couldn't touch it anyway.

The door to the room...

When Leipzig arrived, he noticed that the door of each cell was a one-piece steel plate door, about an inch thick...

This is a single room. The door is so thick that it can block not only bullets but also artillery shells.

There was only a long, flat window in the door that could be opened, through which food could be brought in.

The facilities in the entire prison are built in a very standardized manner.

and……

When we came to Leipzig, we could see it clearly. This is the basement of a manor, and the exterior of the manor looks very new!

If he guessed correctly, this should be the new manor built by the Earl of Carmarthen.

Who in a decent family would build a prison cell under their own manor?

This was done many years ago?

And it was built so professionally...

Just from observing these details, Leipzig has already lost heart. He still doesn't know why he was arrested and why Count Russell didn't save him.

Could it be that... there was some conflict between the Russell family and the Hill family, which implicated me?

While he was thinking about these trivial matters, there was a sound of a key opening the door suddenly. Leipzig was startled and tried to lean back, sitting as close to the wall as possible. The fear of the unknown swept over his body. He didn't know who the visitor was or what he was going to do. Anyway, he was very panicked.

…

"Hahaha... Leipzig, do you still recognize me?"

As the cell door opened, a middle-aged man who was a bit short and stocky but very strong, wearing a greasy work suit, walked in. The young man followed behind him. He glanced at Leipzig, turned around, closed the door and went out again.

There was suddenly another person in the cell, dressed like this. I asked myself if I knew him.

Leipzig subconsciously moved to the bedside, squinting his eyes and trying to look at the person's appearance.

This person...

He has a very obvious big mouth and a slightly flat nose. When he squints, he looks very imposing and intimidating. Although the clothes he wears are a bit old and dirty, they are totally inconsistent with the temperament he exudes. With this outfit and this appearance, Leipzig looks more and more familiar.

"You are...the owner of...the garage?"

"Hahaha, you still remember me? Not bad, not bad... I never thought that I would see you again one day."

Seeing that Leipzig recognized him, Old Karl smiled happily, threw the information at the end of the bed, sat on the bed and said, "Since we all know each other, it will be easy. I need you to cooperate with me to do something. You... just cooperate honestly, and I will take you away tomorrow."

"what do you want to do?"

Leipzig glanced at the information that old Karl casually dropped. Although he couldn't see it clearly, he knew that the owner of the repair shop in front of him must be someone extraordinary since he could come here.

He vaguely remembered that when the Russell family first moved to Swansea, there was a car repair shop not far from the Russell family's residence. The car repair technology was okay, but the labor cost was very expensive. Because it was not far from their home, Leipzig arranged people to repair cars there several times. He had some impression of this short and strong owner of the car repair shop.

But then, a few years ago, the repair shop suddenly closed down, the guys left, and the repair shop was left vacant.

Thinking of this, Leipzig became alert again, squinted his eyes and looked at old Karl and asked: "Who are you?"

…

"Hahaha, it's still somewhat useful."

Old Karl patted Leipzig's shoulder and stood up with a serious face. Although he was dressed in rags, when he became serious, his imposing manner was even more imposing than when he first came in.

"Formally introduce myself. My name is Carl. I used to be the owner of the car repair shop you mentioned. I was ordered by the old earl to monitor Swansea... Before your family came to Swansea, I ran a car repair shop there. After your family moved to Swansea, I watched your family develop step by step to the present. I am now the external steward of the Hill family. By the way... a few years ago, the young master bestowed a title on me, hahahaha."

Looking at the shocked Leipzig, old Karl felt extremely satisfied.

Since he got his status, his position has increased and he no longer has to be the boss of that car repair shop.

Although he had a title and was looked up to by others both in Great Britain and in America, this feeling was never complete.

Most of the reasons are because a person has been hiding for too long, he lacks exposure and the sense of identity that comes from transforming from one identity to another.

People outside only knew that he was the old butler of the Hill family, who was granted the title because of his loyalty. As for what he had done before, no one knew.

Old Carl lacked the feeling of revealing his identity in front of old acquaintances and shocking them.

There are some things that he has to keep to himself forever and cannot say publicly, but now... there is nothing to hide from Leipzig. After all, they will have to "work" in his name in the future.

…

“You, you, you…”

You don't know until you ask, but when old Karl really finished speaking, Leipzig was not happy at all, and even... his body was shaking slightly subconsciously.

His knowledge is limited, but he has heard some dirty things. Some things are too high-end and people at his level would never see them on a normal basis. Those are not things that his "world" can access.

But now... he listened to Old Carl's introduction.

From the words "going to Swansea to monitor under the orders of the old earl", "being here since before your family moved to Swansea", etc., one can tell a lot of things. These things make him feel cold all over, when he thinks that things that he or Earl Russell thought were secrets were actually known to others for a long time.

turn out to be……

Is this what he does when he opens a garage in Swansea?

Or I have been doing it for decades!

When I think of the car repair shop not far from the Russell family's ancestral home, it has been monitoring their family...

The Hill family's methods...

These old-established aristocrats are indeed not comparable to the "new" aristocrats like the Russell family, which has only a history of one or two hundred years.

…

"No more words? Very good... I'll make you beg me."

Old Karl looked at Leipzig who stayed there after he introduced himself, turned around, opened the door, and whispered a few words to the bodyguard who had been waiting outside.

Allen's old manor, also known as Hill Manor, was converted from an ancient war fortress.

To put it simply, these ancient war fortresses are essentially a circle of standard tall stone walls on the outside with watchtowers on top. Their main functions are defense, surveillance, and garrisoning troops.

The buildings inside are relatively simple and practical.

They are all three or four-story stone buildings, which are mainly built to reduce the height and accommodate as many people as possible. If they are built too high, they will be difficult to repair if they are destroyed by catapults and large stones.

The building was built at that time purely for combat needs. The first floor was the commander's combat meeting room, canteen and other halls, and the upper floors were rooms for people to live in.

And underground... there are basements, but the basements back then were used to store food or weapons.

Later, when such battle forts were modified, the overall appearance of the building remained unchanged, but the basement was converted into a warehouse, where successive earls stored some weapons.

Early black powder and the like, even if it filled a basement and exploded, would not pose much threat to the ground buildings above.

But these later weapons became somewhat dangerous. With the development of technology, weapons became more and more powerful. Whether it was gunpowder or something more powerful, if these things were stored in the basement, they would pose a much greater threat to the manor.

That is to say, the management has been strict and the protection measures have been good over the years, but no matter what is done, the old manor has always been a large powder keg, and it is built right on top of a powder keg.

Every night when Alan goes to sleep, there is actually a certain probability of "ascending to heaven".

In other words, the old earl is brave and doesn't care about these things.

But Alan cares...

Ever since he went to the basement and saw the weapons stored there, although he didn't say anything on the surface, his desire to build a new manor became more urgent.

…

Now... the new manor has been built, and a basement is definitely standard.

The new basement also cost a lot of money and had a special design.

Theoretically, in general buildings, basements are built directly below the above-ground buildings.

But this is not the case in the basement of Newgrange.

On both sides of the manor, there is a double carriageway and an underground passage about three meters high, leading directly to the basement.

These two are said to be basements, but in fact they are giant underground frame buildings made of reinforced concrete.

The two passages extend underground on both sides of the manor.

This underground warehouse extending to the west of the manor is the new arsenal planned by Allen.

Directly above this warehouse, which is out of the scope of the manor, is a protection zone specially designed to store the family's old weapons and new weapons that will be added in the future. Even if something really goes wrong, it will not cause any impact on the buildings on the ground, and safety is greatly increased.

The basement on the east side is used as an ordinary warehouse to store old antiques and old objects. A professional dungeon is also built on the second underground floor.

How could the Hill family’s new manor be without a standard building like a dungeon?

As for the underground directly beneath the main building of the manor, there is another dedicated underground parking lot.

There are a total of three unconnected underground passages, divided into three functional areas. The weapons warehouse on the left has the largest guard force and a special gatehouse is built to guard it.

…

After coming out of the dungeon, old Carl called for seven or eight ordinary black cars, followed by two small buses, and headed south. By the time they arrived at the outskirts of Llanelli, it was already past one o'clock in the morning.

…

At the edge of the cliff, which was about three or four meters high, the waves below could no longer be seen clearly. In the night, one could only hear the sound of the waves and the slightly fishy sea breeze. Along with the sound of the wind, a large group of people stood on the edge of the cliff.

Leipzig was dragged out of the car by the bodyguards and taken to old Karl.

"Look who those are!"

Old Carl pointed to a dozen people not far away who had their hands and feet tied, their mouths gagged and their eyes blindfolded.

These people were dressed in various clothes and stood there shivering, including a few children.

“Hmm…”

Leipzig recognized at a glance that those were his family members. He was still in the company when he was arrested. He always thought that Allen was lying about arresting his family members until this moment, when he saw his whole family gathered together, even his daughter who was working out of town was there.

Leipzig looked at old Karl in despair and said, "What on earth do you want to do? I'll give you whatever you want, but let my family go!"

"Haha... Can't he talk? Shut up his mouth."

“Hmm…Hmm…”

Leipzig felt like a ball of cloth was stuffed in his mouth. He was whimpering and unable to speak. He struggled to throw himself on old Karl, but the bodyguard behind him controlled him with one hand.

…

"Bring the old one over here, the old woman."

Old Karl took a look at Leipzig's family and picked out the one who looked the oldest. Looking at the information, it seemed that this was Leipzig's third wife twenty years ago. She was more than twenty years younger than Leipzig, and now... she was in her fifties.

“Wuwuwu…”

Because her eyes and mouth were covered, the person who was captured could not see a thing, but she could hear the conversation just now and knew that they were going to capture her. She could not speak and could only whimper and struggle in vain.

Leipzig watched the black-clad bodyguards dragging his wife to old Karl, and he was shaking with anger, but there was nothing he could do.

"Look carefully, this is a small lesson for your non-cooperation."

Old Karl took out a dagger and smiled at Leipzig.