Volume 1 Chapter 98
Shogues Evan chewed on the unfamiliar name thoughtfully, and only looked up after a moment before asking.
"Who is it? What's the last name? What family do I mean?"
"There is no family with a surname, just an orphan, there is no grandiose, there has always been only this name. Carlos replied.
Orphans?Evan didn't feel very happy to hear the answer, it should be that this little guy named Xiugoth disguised himself and later got information, and then Carlos saw a flaw in a certain detail and was recognized.
The problem is that this person doesn't seem to be the mastermind, and maybe he's still just a guy who works for people, which means that new threads have popped up on the thread and have to keep digging.
Seeing that Ivan was lost in thought, Carlos stepped forward, slowly picked up the scattered coins one by one, stuffed them all back into the money bag on the small round table, tied a knot, and then held the money bag in his hand.
Shogges did get the information from him, and he didn't see through Shogoth's disguise. It's just that the object of the other party's investigation is Barton Semir, a second-order professional, which arouses Carlos's alarm, so he has an extra eye.
So after a certain transaction was completed, Carlos quietly followed him, and his nickname 'Nightfall' was not in vain, which revealed the mystery of the whole thing and the true identity of the person who came to collect information.
Sometimes knowing more things will make you die faster, but sometimes it can also save you from getting into trouble.
As for who Hugues was doing things for, what purpose he was trying to find out what Barton was, and so on, Carlos was not interested.
In fact, Shugues not only poached Barton Semir's information from him, but also some information about Ivan himself, but at this moment, facing Ivan Irvan, Carlos would definitely not say it, so as not to anger the other party.
Now that Patton's younger brother has come to the door and can sell Patton's information to Shogars, he can naturally sell Tigers's information to others.
There is nothing to sell, there is no betrayal, and interests have always taken precedence among thieves. What's more, the thief's style of acting has no discipline at all, eating two ends, or black eating black, are some customary tricks.
Of course, no matter what you want to do, you must divide people.
If the other party is strong and can't afford to provoke him, then Carlos will definitely pick up the tight-lipped discipline, but if the other party is just an orphan like Xiugus, then Carlos will naturally not get along with money.
Just as Carlos was holding up the money bag, he suddenly felt a phantom shadow pass through the corner of his eye, and before he could react concretely, a dagger had pierced his heart with precision.
"Well, 'Nightfall', your nickname is loud and you have a good way of doing things. But now that my brother is dead because of your intelligence, there are always people who have to walk the path of responsibility, and you are not the first and will not be the last. ”
Looking at Carlos, who was gradually falling to the ground, Evan who sat back in his chair wiped the dagger, and said this, if it weren't for the blood stains on the dagger, Ivan looked like he had sat there and never moved.
Almost at the moment when Ivan made his move, the leader of the Thieves Guild, Chains, bounced up from his seat with a shocked expression, he never thought that the situation that was tepid just now would suddenly appear to smash the table and kill him.
For a moment, a hideous anger appeared on the face of the chains, because someone had killed their own people on their own territory. Carlos may not be an important player in the Thieves' Guild, but at least he is a veteran thief and a good at gathering intelligence.
At the same time of anger, there was also a deep fear in the eyes of the chains. Ivan was definitely not a thief, but in the short moment just now, his second-order strength showed a speed far superior to that of Carlos, a veteran thief.
For the people of the Thieves Guild, they knew that the second order was definitely stronger than themselves, but they didn't know how strong it was, after all, there were not many second orders in the adjacent territories, and everyone didn't have much actual combat experience.
And after hearing what Ivan said, the chain quickly fell into shock again, and it seemed that a thunderbolt swept through his heart.
Second-Order Barton actually died, how did he die? For a moment, the chain even thought that it was not the old town mayor of the third order, Elton, who had personally intervened.
Naturally, the chains didn't know that after Barton suddenly disappeared, the group of mercenaries under his command also tried to find it.
But because the enemy in the shadows knew nothing, and the mercenaries were afraid of being implicated, all their actions were only carried out in secret, so the news of Barton's disappearance did not reveal the slightest rumor in the town.
All kinds of emotions swirled in his heart, so that after the chains bounced off his seat, he didn't move, but his expression was a little cloudy.
There were six people in the entire reception room, with Evan sitting in a chair and two of his men standing on either side. Carlos stood across from the round table, while Chains sat near the door, his newly promoted deacon of thieves standing beside him.
After the chain bounced up, the reacting thief deacon instantly opened the door and shouted into the aisle. A moment later, several thieves who were still in the guild immediately rushed in, and six or seven people showed their weapons one after another.
The atmosphere in the entire reception room was a little tense for a while, and the two groups fell into a confrontation situation.
Facing the thieves' guild crowd, Evan did not panic, he leaned back into the soft chair, crossed his legs, and then spread his hands in front of everyone.
"I'm sorry I killed your people, but you should have heard the whole thing. There is nothing wrong with reaching out to earn money, but since some things have caused the corresponding results, they will definitely not pass so casually. ”
"For Carlos, this may have been an ordinary intelligence peddling, but it is undeniable that he was the source of my brother's death, a powerful promoter, so he deserved this ending. ”
Ivan was clearly speaking to the chains, and his tone was neither a negotiation nor a compromise, but an explanation, or a statement of fact.
The chains were silent, their expressions calming down.
Although he has the character of a mad dog, he also has to divide people who barks, otherwise he will inevitably have his teeth broken.
Sitting in the position of the head of the Thieves' Guild requires him to grow.
In fact, the chain has indeed grown a lot during this time, otherwise he would not have endured it for a long time, until the critical moment when he pitted the fangs of the former president behind his back and drove away Deacon Freyr.
Seeing that the chains remained silent, a warm smile returned to Evan's face again.
"The current situation is that I am better than you, this is a fact on the surface, even if there are many of you, you can't overturn the scale. But I'm not here to bully, I'm actually very reasonable, I'm here to seek cooperation. What do you think? ”
The face and the steps were gone, and the final trade-off of the chains was not surprising, and he waved everyone away and returned to the table.
"How are you going to cooperate?" Chainchain smiled as his master deserved, and as for how angry he was in his heart, it was his own story.
"Carlos also said just now, the information is in the hands of a little guy named Xiugues. Although I can handle it myself on my side, it is said that this Shugux is still a member of your Thieves' Guild, so I think it would be better for your Guild to take action. ”
Ivan picked his chin at the money bag that had been picked up by his men and put back on the table.
"What outcome do you want?" Chains asked.
"Anyway, let's get someone here and ask them first, and it's not up to me to decide what the outcome is, at least I have to find out what the whole thing is like first. Evan concluded.
Leave the Thieves' Guild and head back to your hotel.
Everyone gathered in Evan's room, waiting for his arrangement.
Having worked together for a long time, they have a deep understanding of Evan's title of 'good strategy'. They knew very well that Evan would habitually set up some back-ups, or that he was very good at finding new breakthroughs in a complex and confusing matter.
Ivan was silent and lost in thought, twisting his beard with one hand and tapping his fingers on the arm of the chair with the other, pausing and then 'grabbing' continuously.
After a while, one of his men returned to the hotel with the information he had gathered.
"It was clear that Shogues was an ordinary orphan, and he had a very close friend, Saul Drake, who was a grave keeper. Both were orphans with little background, living together in a monastery until the age of fourteen, leaving the monastery and starting their lives in a small town. ”
"Grave keeper?Drake?" Ivan looked at him with some confusion.
"Oh, it's said that the surname Drake was picked up by the orphan from some tombstone. The subordinate added.
"Picked up?...... Hehe. Evan chuckled.
"Orphans...... Orphan...... Monastery. Ivan groaned and fell into thought again, he felt that he seemed to grasp something vaguely in his thoughts, and it was a little unspecific.
After a few moments, he finally raised his head again and commanded his subordinates:
"You go out again, get a list of the people who have died in the last few years in Grey Curtain Town, no, the last two years or something, that kind of thing should be more or less reported by the Guardian Corps. ”
After waiting for a while, the list of needed items was handed to Evan.
Ivan skimmed through the list, some of the names he knew, but many more he had never heard of.
The entire list is full of people with a little fame and a little status in Grey Curtain Town, and some notorious homeless people and small people who died unclaimed corpses could be left out.
After reading it once, he didn't find any clues, Ivan arched his eyebrows, returned to the beginning, and looked at it again in more detail.
Eventually, when he picked out the names Precia, Melissa, and Joster the Mad Dog, he finally smiled happily because he had found the invisible thread.
Add to that the name of his brother Barton Semir.
"Tsk, I didn't think that I was the only one left alive in the blink of an eye!" Ivan said in a slightly embarrassed tone, as if he was still a little sad.