Do not confiscate my citizenship

Chapter 750: Lanqi's Night Tour of the Capital
"Mr. Barton Hall, I'd like to trouble you to help keep the vampire viscount. I will try my best to avoid contact with your Blildah Mafia in the near future. I have reached an agreement with Ifatia that she can interrogate the vampire viscount at will."

Lanqi quickly followed Patton and stepped into the winding passage leading to the ground again.

Talia walked silently beside Ranchi.

Pretending to have no particularly high intelligence, it was just a simple, beautiful and powerful summoned creature that was controlled and commanded by him.

"take care."

Patton understood Landry's thinking.

The disappearance of a vampire viscount will inevitably make the vampires realize that their plan to kill Elsa has failed.

Landry then openly brought Elsa back to St. Clement's Monastery from the Mafia territory.

At that time, the blame will naturally be directed at Professor Landry.

As for his mafia boss Patton, he was not supposed to appear today.

Although Professor Landry may attract the hatred of the vampires for protecting Elsa, it is natural for him to protect his sister. He now has a great reputation in Blildah. Judging from the vampires' action patterns and style, they still need to abide by Blildah's rules.

Considering the cost, the vampires may not try to touch him again.

If the vampires really wanted to overturn the table and use force to deal with a small professor like Landry, regardless of success or failure, they would run the risk of being discovered from the dark and losing everything, and be forced to retreat.

The dim light above their heads flickered, stretching their figures out.

The walls made of magic-forbidden steel exude a cold metallic luster, isolating all noise from the outside world. Only the sound of footsteps is particularly obvious.

After turning the last corner, the magic helicopter leading to the Hasser Building, the headquarters of the ground mafia, appeared in front of us again.

"Before I send you away, is there anything I can do for you?"

Barton stopped and suddenly turned around to speak.

The request he received from Ifatia was to help Landry.

"I heard from Ifatia that you, Mr. Barton, are very familiar with the talented imperial craftswoman Abigail. We may not see each other for a while, so I would like to ask you to introduce her to me first."

Lanqi nodded and asked bluntly.

"Abigail..."

Patton thought about it.
"It's not easy to see her. Her principle is not to easily step out of her own safe area."

He answered the professor confidently, and the conversation echoed in the empty corridor.

When Barton brought Landry here, he discovered that he was very interested in the palace's spatial barrier.

Even without observing these, it is easy to understand why Professor Landry wanted to find Abigail.

As the only space magic craftsman in the empire, Abigail's status in the empire's magic engineering community is like that of an emperor. Even if she does not need to do any academic research, her say is extremely high.

However, the imperial military is currently unable to hire her, the royal craftsman.

If Professor Landry can convince her, then in the eyes of the Imperial Military, the value of Professor Landry's team will be coupled with the value of Abigail.

"I guess so."

Lanci sighed and smiled.

It can be seen from Abigail's work, this underground palace, that Abigail pays great attention to safety and secrecy.

Some magic craftsmen may reach a very high rank by following the Shadow World elites as special assistants, but they themselves will not study frontal combat too much.

Abigail's own combat capability might be quite fragile, but if she were in an area that she had carefully arranged, the nature of the situation would be completely different.

"..."

Patton's hand was on the button to start the magic elevator, and his brief silence made the underground passage quiet again.

As a mafia leader, he couldn't leave the area casually, otherwise it would attract too much attention. Many people in the empire were watching him. Even if he changed his identity and went to the Brillda Opera House, his whereabouts would be easily deduced.

He must not let the vampires find out that he had contact with Professor Landry tonight.

It was impossible for him to take Professor Landry directly to find Abigail.

"Can we use communication magic to contact Miss Abigail?"

Lanci asked tentatively.

He felt that Barton did not trust communication magic because Barton said that there was a risk of being monitored if used within the Empire.

What Patton feared was perhaps not the means of investigation, but the means of divination. Without a specific shielding method, it would be hard to defend against.

"……not very convenient."

Barton hesitated for a moment and opened the door of the magic elevator.

"That's okay."

Lanqi brought Talia and followed Barton into the silver-white anti-magic steel elevator compartment.

Seeing Patton's reaction, he guessed that Patton might really have a solution, but after weighing the risks, Patton might still think it cannot be used.

Lanci would not make things difficult for Patton, because Patton was already a very sincere and honest person, and the head of the Mafia must have his principles and difficulties.

With a loud "creak", the helicopter slowly ascended and the air around it gradually became warm.

"I'll contact her for you later and make an appointment for you to meet her."

Barton suggested to Lanci and Talia.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Barton, but I also need to arrange a follow-up time."

Lanqi calculated that his schedule was already full, and if he wanted to meet Abigail, he would have to postpone some of his agenda.

"or……"

Patton thought about it and continued.

"Or what?"

Seeing that Patton was still hesitating, Lanqi asked him softly.

"You guys just go find her, try to contact her, and tell her that someone you know introduced you to her, and then it will be easy."

Patton gave another most reliable solution.
"As long as Abigail can give you a chance to talk alone, you can tell her that I introduced you. She will at least give me some face, but how to convince her to help you depends on you."

This way, there is no risk and Professor Landry can meet Abigail as soon as possible. The process is also quite natural and the vampires will not notice the relationship between the three parties.

After seeing that Landry could even convince his boss Ifatia, Barton no longer questioned Landry's negotiation ability, nor did he need to worry about Landry's safety.

"Can we go find her tonight? Do you know where she is tonight?"

Talia's face immediately showed anticipation.

She knew that if she went to see Abigail later, Lanqi's already busy schedule would become even more crowded. She still hoped that Lanqi could get enough rest and not overwork. "Yes, she lives upstairs in the Brillda Opera House, or rather, the entire top floor belongs to her. She is also a famous director in charge of literary and artistic work."

Barton raised his hand from his coat and used his finger to roughly trace the direction of Brillda's map in the air in front of him, indicating to Landry and his team the safe route from the Mafia territory to the Brillda Opera House.

He believed that Professor Landry must know about this famous opera house in the empire.

Located in the central area of ​​Manhot, Bryda, on Broadway 33rd Street, it is adjacent to famous art institutions such as the Bryda Voice Orchestra and the Bryda Royal Dance Company.

It was founded during the period of the Cyrus Empire, the predecessor of Crete, and the current building was completed in 1662. It has about 3800 seats and has a performance season from September to May of the following year, presenting a variety of classical and contemporary operas and inviting the world's top actors, singers and conductors.

October is a good time now.

In recent years, the Brillda Opera House has begun to perform live on Crane Radio, and has a large audience across the country and even in the southern continent before the war.

Today, this historic theater was bought and taken over by Abigail with a huge sum of money. At the same time, she is able to live upstairs in the theater thanks to her unique and noble status.

“You’re really rich.”

Lanqi imagined that even Hugh would not buy the entire Ikerite Opera House out of thin air.

Perhaps only Duke Miguel had the financial resources and the face to make the city government willing to sell the opera house to him.

"Why, are you envious of others? If I work hard, I can also make a lot of money with the Magic Craftsman License."

Talia snorted.

She is no longer an unemployed vagrant with no household registration, but a 25-year-old perfect unmarried woman with the status of a platinum-level card maker and a successful career. Even if the leaders of Nanwantina find out that there is something wrong with her household registration, they will still beg her to settle down in Nanwantina.

If Lanqi has financial troubles at that time, just call her a rich woman and she might be willing to take care of this apprentice for a few more years.

Noe Wilford must have wished she could have taught Lanci more.

"Then why don't I just go to Hyperion?"

Lanci raised a question.

Hyperion is not only rich, but also younger.

"..."

The air suddenly became deathly silent.

Talia seemed unable to answer this question.

"You...you don't understand the advantages of slightly older women! Don't you always talk about charm? Do girls younger than you have the kind of charm you like? I...I don't really care. Really, what you like has nothing to do with me. It's just that I have a friend. Yes, I'm talking about Antanas, Sinora, Artemis, Ifatia and the others. Which one of them is not older than you? If they notice your thoughts, they will definitely be defeated..."

Her tone became a little hurried. She resisted the urge to hold him down and argue with him, and instead read a long speech to him in her mind.

"...Then I'll find a woman who's both rich and older."

Lanci responded speechlessly.

"Of course, that's right, classy."

Talia proudly tossed her hair, looking refreshed in an instant, and praised Lanqi.

"Meow……"

The cat boss on the ground couldn't hear what Lanqi and Talia were secretly talking about, but it could probably guess that the third place winner was opening champagne.

"If you book tickets for tonight's opera in advance, you can go into the opera house."

Barton was halfway through explaining the map to Lanqi when he paused again, his face showing some difficulty.
"Maybe I'll have a chance to see Abigail more directly as she's the director supervising the scene. Otherwise, I'll have to find a way to sneak in... but that ticket is hard to buy."

Patton said in a deep voice.

The recently staged opera version of "Romance of the Holy War" has received rave reviews. Three shifts of actors have taken turns to perform, and tickets have been scheduled as much as possible, but it is still hard to get a ticket.

I heard that Abigail's strict selection and high-intensity rehearsals almost made some actors collapse from exhaustion before she managed to achieve a result that satisfied her. Correspondingly, her performance was well received.

If Patton had known this earlier, he would have certainly prepared tickets for Landry. But now that the show is almost about to start, it will be difficult for him to get tickets.

"Also, Professor Landry, you'd better bring a companion with you and go to the opera like a normal date. Otherwise, it will be too obvious that you are going to see Abigail for the purpose of magic engineering, and she will be very unhappy."

Patton added that it was becoming increasingly difficult.

"Abigail is a genius whose interests and talents are different. She has her own biases. She actually likes opera. Magical engineering is just a natural talent, which she doesn't value. Therefore, she is used to hating those who flatter her because of her magic engineering and don't pay attention to her main profession at all."

Professor Landry's identity is quite sensitive. He went directly to see Abigail. His purpose was very clear. He might not even have the opportunity to be alone with her. If he told her about Barton's relationship, he would be turned away.

Barton believed that Landry understood what he meant - to show respect for the play choreographed by Abigail, watch it carefully with an appreciative attitude, and then discuss other things with Abigail, instead of just ignoring the play and going straight to the topic of magic engineering, which would make Abigail's favorability very bad.

"Ah? Is the opera called 'The Romance of the Holy War'?"

Lanqi and Talia looked at each other, and without having time to think about other things Patton said, they asked Patton in surprise.

"Yeah, did you happen to buy a ticket?"

Barton raised his eyes and asked.

As long as this problem can be solved, everything else will be easy.

"Perhaps there is."

Lanqi remembered that when Elsa came to see her brother this afternoon, she asked him if he had time to watch this play in the evening, and the venue happened to be the Brillda Opera House.

Elsa and Ursula are definitely not in the mood to watch the opera tonight. They need to go back to the safety of St. Clement's Monastery, otherwise no one will go to see the opera with their tickets.

I’ve bought them all.

Lanqi raised his wrist and looked at his watch.

It's only about seven o'clock in the evening.

The play starts at eight o'clock.

There's still time after sending Elsa and Ursula back to St. Clement's Abbey!
"Want to go to the play?"

Lanqi asked Talia tentatively.

It's a good opportunity for Talia to use the new identity that Nigel arranged for her.

This way, he won't completely disrupt his work plans for next week, and he can also finish an important task ahead of time!
But he was worried that Talia might not be able to accept the content of the opera performance, which would bring up some awkward memories between the two of them.

"just go."

Talia's cheeks flushed slightly, she tilted her head with her chin raised, folded her arms and spoke proudly.

It's not like she hasn't dated Lanqi before, so there's nothing to be afraid of.

As long as Lanqi could sit still, she could sit still too.

(End of this chapter)