Chapter 169 Extra 9
1. Inheritance
The two quarreled all the way and met Bishop Cassius on the way. The three of them decided to drive all the living dead to the cemetery and catch them all in one fell swoop when the living dead lost their ability to move at dawn.
Samuel: "This one catches everything..."
"Yes," Bishop Cassius replied with a smile, "We need to wait until they transform back into normal bodies and then strip the gold out—before His Holiness the Son returns."
Samuel was a little hesitant: "Or I should go back to the reception..."
He didn't want to touch those bodies, never.
Arnold said that the first thing the zombies would do after getting the gold was to eat it, and Samuel really couldn't do it by performing a dissection on the old corpses in the mountain village.
Bishop Cassius sighed, "But there is no other way."
Arnold was sneaky, and just when Bishop Cassius said he couldn't do it, he jumped out and said, "I should be able to do it. I can use the teleportation array to retrieve objects from the air."
Samuel's eyes lit up. Yes, his and Bishop Cassius's magic system was not good, but Arnold's was.
So the action plan was decided: the clergy continued to patrol, purposefully driving the living dead to the cemetery, Samuel and Arnold went to the cemetery first to meet them, and then recovered the gold at dawn.
Everyone should take their place and do their own thing.
Samuel grumbled as he walked, "So we're back to square one - recovering the stolen gold."
Samuel felt sad about the hellish difficulty on his side. Compared with Garcia, his side was really hellish.
There has never been a single leisurely day.
He experienced a tragic ending, a resurrection, a funeral, troubles with vicious relatives, dealing with clergy, a resurrection of his deceased stepson, an investigation into a stolen gold case, and a witness to a carnival of the living dead...
Now we have to collect the bodies.
Even the dungeon games are not this intense.
If these are his main business plots, then the emotional side plots are even more outrageous: being forced to marry an old man with one foot in the grave, the old man's death, and being forced to fall in love with his stepson, a ghost, and a lingering love affair...
When they reached the cemetery, Samuel suddenly said, "If I arrest all your relatives, will you be alright?"
"No problem," Arnold said. "They've done too many wrong things to deserve death."
“But it did a good thing.”
"What good news?"
"They're quite good at amassing wealth. After this liquidation, most of the property will be returned to you, Arnold. You'll be the richest man in town."
Even the richest man on the continent.
"It doesn't matter. I don't care about that."
Arnold only needs the nugget of gold in his body.
As long as the nugget is there, he can maintain his current appearance, and his heart is with Samuel. The alchemist's heart exceeds the normal lifespan of humans, not to mention that Samuel was kept at the moment before death by Bishop Cassius's divine power.
They both have very long lives ahead of them.
They will be together for a long time.
Arnold cares about this.
"Samuel," Arnold said, "I want to marry you, too."
"I declined. I'm still traumatized by the horrible marriage in your family." Samuel said lazily.
He wandered around among the dirt pits on the ground and finally found Arnold's tombstone - it had been broken in half by someone.
【Your heart is as strong as gold. 】
Looking at the epitaph, Samuel thought that Arnold now truly had a heart of gold.
He is the living dead and will never die again. He is truly indestructible.
"But I won't stay in the shadows forever." Arnold frowned. "I mean, other people will always know of my existence. Do I have to keep calling you stepmother?"
Samuel curled his lips into a smile.
He didn't tell Arnold that he couldn't find the marriage certificate in the governor's office that morning. He asked the housekeeper and the captain of the guard, and the answer he got was that the original person and Mr. Hermann had never obtained a marriage certificate, and they were not legally in a marriage relationship.
The wedding ceremony did not take place, there was no de facto marriage, and in fact he was not considered the thirteenth mistress at all.
Naturally, there is no ethical relationship between him and Arnold.
But Arnold seems to be particularly concerned about this...
Samuel decided to tease him.
He jumped onto Arnold's coffin, looked down at the pouting red-haired puppy, and said, "Arnold, you can't treat me badly just because your father is dead. I'm your stepmother. When you inherit the property, you must respect me well."
Arnold suddenly looked up at Samuel.
They stared at each other in silence for a few seconds, and finally Samuel burst out laughing, and Arnold realized that he had been tricked.
The unconvinced red-haired puppy became angry and came up with a bad idea.
He also jumped onto the coffin, hugged Samuel, and rubbed his big head against his chest.
Said: "Then you must first fulfill your responsibility of raising the puppy and feed it milk."
He knew that Samuel especially liked to call him puppy.
After saying that, he took out the button of the magic robe with one mouthful and tugged at it suggestively.
Samuel was startled and immediately reached out to push his head.
"Let go!" Samuel's ears flushed red. "I'm not going to fight with you anymore. Let me tell you, actually..."
"Mother..." Arnold called him in a deliberately sticky tone.
Samuel got angry and said, "Don't call me mother! Who is your mother?"
"Mother, father is dead, and I will inherit everything from him, including you."
“You! Ugh…”
They tested their love for each other in an empty cemetery, unaware that He and His wife were peeking at them from the void.
Arnold was much taller than Samuel. He put his arms around Samuel's waist, pressed down and kissed him forcefully!
And after a brief resistance, Samuel hooked his arm around the man's neck and slowly responded!
At the same time, the terrifying black lines on Samuel's body suddenly flashed with golden light and slowly flowed towards the undead young man who was kissing him affectionately!
The black-haired beauty's purple eyes were slightly closed, and he couldn't see what he looked like now.
But these wonderful changes were seen by Arnold who secretly opened his eyes while kissing.
He thought that even based on this, Samuel could not refuse him.
However, he never felt that those black lines affected Samuel's beauty. In fact, these black lines made him never regard Samuel as the same person as the real great magician before.
They were some kind of marks, marks that had some connection to me. This thought made Arnold jump with joy.
I couldn't help but get my hands dirty.
As a young man of only twenty years old, Arnold was a little shy as befitted his age. When Samuel moaned as he bit his lips, he slid open the lid of the coffin and pulled Samuel in.
He thought he could have a romantic night before dawn.
But I didn't expect to be slapped.
"Are you sick?" Samuel said with a dark face. "Coffin! What bad luck! I'm leaving now. Go take care of yourself."
As he said this, he turned the gold bracelet on his wrist and flashed back home.
The stiff red-haired puppy stared at the coffin lid, not daring to follow him.
——When it gets light, he still has to clean up the mess with Bishop Cassius.
2. Send off guests
The next day, in the small restaurant.
Garcia suddenly asked, "These black lines are back again? I thought you didn't need me to treat you anymore."
Samuel stiffened.
He glanced calmly at the man next to Garcia.
He was sure that he and Arnold were the only two people in the cemetery last night. Could it be the "little eyeball" that Arnold mentioned?
"Sure enough, I can't hide it from you." Samuel had to admit, "Since you already know, then I think I must show my sincerity."
Samuel blatantly bribed Garcia with ten tons of gold.
Saved Arnold's life.
Samuel felt that money was really the best thing in the world.
3. Daily
After Garcia and the other two left, that night, apart from the special existence Arnold, no other zombies appeared.
They returned to peace.
It was a rare Christmas Eve, and the next morning, the Golden Town became lively again.
It was also at this time that Samuel first felt the prosperity of this so-called first town under the capital.
Arnold didn't come back until near noon yesterday. To commend him for his hard work, the two of them spent the afternoon in the laboratory tinkering with magic instruments together.
Samuel made a black umbrella for Arnold so that he could go out during the day.
Then early this morning, he took Arnold to the security office.
The courtyard of the guard office was filled with gold jewelry.
These were taken out of the living dead yesterday morning and sent here by Arnold and Bishop Cassius.
Today, a lost and found service will be held here for those who have been attacked by the zombies and had their jewelry stolen.
When Samuel and Arnold arrived, the guards had already returned most of the gold to their original owners based on the alarm report at the time.
For sporadic cases, those who come to collect the gold are required to provide documents to prove that the gold is theirs.
Seeing their jubilant expressions, Samuel felt that it was right not to let the captain of the guard announce the specific details - taking it out from the stomach of a corpse was too disgusting.
When the two appeared, the noisy crowd fell silent for a moment, with some people whispering to each other, until a magician who had talked to Samuel last time and was asked by Bishop Cassius to make potions the day before yesterday came over and expressed his gratitude to the two.
He especially thanked Arnold and expressed his sympathy for his tragic experience. After that, people came over one after another. It was obvious that they were a little afraid of Arnold, but they also seemed to have accepted the fact that Arnold would continue to live in the town as a living dead.
Samuel and Arnold looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.
Samuel had originally prepared a lot of plans and came here specifically to help Arnold get to the bottom of the truth, but it seems that they are no longer useful?
Someone did something in advance.
Samuel thought thoughtfully.
4. Gossip
"Have you heard? The Senate has sent someone over to appoint a new consul."
"I heard—your news is not new. Who else could the new consul be except His Excellency Samuel?"
"Okay, then you know that one? The one about Sir Samuel and his stepson?"
"Of course I know: The current version is that Sir Samuel and Arnold had already fallen in love with each other years ago, but it was the evil previous governor Hermann who stole their love and even killed his own son... But in the end, they still got together. Congratulations! With them around, Golden Town will be more peaceful."
"Why did I hear there was also Bishop Cassius?"
"That's just something someone said to discredit Sir Samuel. There was no Bishop Cassius at all. Listen to me..."
…
The clergy in plain clothes paid their bills and passed by them.
This story really has nothing to do with me, Cassius thought.
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