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... I open the door and discovered that the noise was not caused by one person, but the steps leading down to so many people Downstairs ... Perhaps I had better listen better ... ^ _ ^ "
Tolomeus pulled out from under the bed and having put away the weapons we follow this small crowd of people into the street and then to those that seem the basement of a house in the Chinese quarter.
seems that all around us the Chinese are making a grand procession, Luffy encounters the merchant with whom he did business a few hours before but not in the mood to talk as if they do not ignore it for ordering him to keep quiet.
We are in the basement of the Chinese quarter, and we realize that through a network of underground corridors, all the houses in the neighborhood of China are linked together. This place must be huge and well guarded by Chinese armed guards at every joint of the corridors, but groped Tolomeus really wants to sneak through the corridors. I proceed to follow the procession, looking down to try and not be recognized because they do not know what's going to happen.
arrive in a big underground room furnished with several rows of pews and an altar adorned with flowers. The guards are arranged the sides of the entrance and I with Luffy and Amir I settle on a bench in the middle of the room: I do not want to be too visible, nor be too far from what happens behind the altar.
People are visibly sad, mostly dressed in black and this makes me guess that we are going to attend a ceremony dedicated to the memory of Lau Mei. So it is: A few minutes later comes inside a small coffin containing the body of the elderly.
Seeing the corpse in the coffin they were surprised: The master Ramos has already returned the body of the victim without waiting for the investigation is finished?
Maybe it's a good way to keep the Chinese in the neighborhood and not blow up a riot, seeing what the old accounted for them, maybe there's something under but I will not be too suspicious: Tolomeus has not seen yet and I start to think that we will leave here running and dodging buckshot. As usual.
The ritual is performed by a monaco East, in a language unknown to us that I think is Chinese. I think I can manage to sneak out and take a look around, but the files are compact and tidy, there are movements seen that all Chinese are very careful from the discourse of Monaco. I give up the idea of \u200b\u200bleaving and I hope that Tolomeus has not got in trouble and maybe been able to infiltrate the hidden corridors, to discover something useful.
A touch on the shoulder, Akim of the hand: A brief suggests me not to talk, perhaps to avoid attracting attention to ourselves, then with the eyes indicates a point of the room, towards the altar, even Rify is watching them. I turn around and here in the front row I can see a girl that seems particularly close to the pain for the death of Lau Mei. Perhaps we are: It could be the missing link between the murder of Lau Mei and what is happening in the Chinese quarter.
Looking around again I think that in this big room there seems to be all Chinese working in the streets of the neighborhood and also all the people who live in the basement of the district. If there is an enemy of the Chinese, should now be here for a quiet square clean. But no, and also the ease with which we managed to get me seems suspicious: We will camouflage clothing from China and we are also armed and yet no one has stopped.
The ceremony ends and the coffin is brought out of the room, followed by the girl and another group of people. I thought I was immediately able to approach the girl but I can not do, people are willing to give information. All we can do is take the same route as before, with the same procession as before, and end up in the streets of China.
Tolomeus there. We go to our room at the tavern of the silver dragon, but it's not even there.
I go to bed thinking that if he done something big there we realized, and this disappearance was not to be construed as negative. The next morning we find it
Tolomeus sleeping outside the door. It seems exhausted but not injured, leave him room to sleep and go down to eat.
Lon Chu friendly innkeeper is always the same and now that we can pay it (thanks to the money that is betting against Tolomeus Akim!) Is even more happy to have us as guests.
ask about the funeral but is reluctant to talk. Then the twist: I ask for Lau Mei and who will take his place at the head of the Chinese Quarter and Lon Chu speaks with proud confidence when he says that Mei Lau is not dead, indeed it is a young girl who occasionally wanders through the Chinese quarter!
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