Chapter 734: First Move
The headquarters of the Assassin Brotherhood once gave everyone an interpretation of what it means to say that "the most dangerous place is the safest place".
"The butterfly flew into the outer city."
"Great, it turns out that the headquarters of the Assassin Brotherhood is right under the noses of the royal family of Perre, and if they knew the answer, their expressions would be wonderful." Andrei muttered.
"Do you want to follow up, Ann?" Saleen asked.
Lin An knew the reason why he asked, she looked up at the center of this Xiongcheng, where ordinary people could not see the sky above the palace, there was a forbidden demon lock that could not be seen but was real.
Its effect is similar to Pompey's energy prohibition array, but it is much more stringent, but all magic, magic, fighting energy and other extraordinary powers can not be cast even after entering the range of Dandong, after the owner enters its range, once the owner attempts to use the power, the power leaving the body will escape outward and be absorbed by the forbidden demon lock, thus becoming the energy source of the peripheral energy shield of the Perley Imperial Capital.
"You all buy a copy of the Temporary Rune." Lin An thought for a while.
The temporary residence rune, in fact, is equivalent to the minimum authority of the forbidden magic lock, and the rune is worn close to the body, which can allow those who have the ability to enter the city to use the power below the official profession and have the basic ability to protect themselves.
This kind of temporary residence rune can be purchased at the city gate, which is equivalent to the entrance fee, and the purchase must be accompanied by proof of identity and basic information.
The reason why Dandong did this, in addition to increasing taxes, was mainly to manage the mobile mercenaries and capable people in the city, after all, in terms of the floating population of the capable people, even Merlin was not as good as Dandong, which was famous for its mercenaries and commercial prosperity.
With an average daily floating population of over one million people, the average daily floating population is one-third of the permanent population, and maintaining law and order in the city is a headache for any administrator.
Runes with higher authority cannot be bought at the city gates, and only those who have lived in Dandong for more than five years can apply for a higher level of permanent residence certificate and have higher-level runes. Able to use spells and other supernatural powers below level 2.
The law level of the forbidden demon lock still couldn't suppress the natural divine power, Lin An, Titi and William didn't need to buy runes, and William blended into the shadows and followed the demon butterfly all the time. Lin An and Titi followed them not far away.
Andre and the others, who bought the temporary residence runes, are afraid that they will have to wait for a while before they can enter, and the mercenary team lined up outside the city gate to buy runes. It's not much shorter than the ranks of civilians entering the city, and even if the mage can get special treatment, the process will take some time.
After the demon butterfly enters the outer city of Dandong, it can no longer be invisible, but its own talent allows it to blend into the surrounding environment like a chameleon.
Judging by its flight path to avoid all the busy neighborhoods and the way it can automatically avoid pedestrians, you know that it is very familiar with the urban area of Dandong. Dandong has a humid climate, and many houses in the city are planted with flowers and trees inside and outside, and a butterfly with an inconspicuous appearance is indeed more suitable than the eagle and the flying pigeon to be a messenger medium for secret organizations.
"Entered the inner city...... William flew to the aristocratic quarter. "Titi communicates with Lin An in spirit.
"Wonderful. I am amazed by the imagination of the founders of the Brotherhood of Assassins! ”
Lin An, who followed behind, became more and more surprised, the surprise of the Assassin Brotherhood was really endless, and the final destination that the Demon Butterfly arrived at was a large theater with a long history and classical architecture.
I wonder how the Peret nobles would have felt when they learned that beneath the theater, where they often came to watch opera performances, was the lair of the Assassin Order.
The stabbing of several princes was not in a public place witnessed by a large number of people. Although this news has long been spread in the upper class, in order not to cause panic, it has not been announced to the public, and most of the middle and lower class civilians are not aware of the drastic changes in the ruling class, but the business of the major theaters, especially the aristocratic theaters. There is no doubt that it is a lot deserted, and now the nobles of Dandong are not even closed unless necessary.
Therefore, when Lin An chased Titi to the outside of this grand theater, the gate that had been crowded with carriages in the past was empty, and the gilded gate was closed, and the door sign was hung up.
The butterfly flew over the wall and came to rest on a laurel branch outside a row of verandahs in the backyard of the Grand Theater.
This time, instead of hiding itself by the change of color of its wings, as it had done before when it was tired of flying and resting on the branches, it turned into a conspicuous fiery red, stopped on the branches and flicked its wings three times and two times quickly, and after a while, it repeated again.
But no one showed up for a long time, and the butterfly repeated the action without feeling.
"It seems to be a kind of code, it seems that the entrance is nearby, where this laurel branch can be directly observed."
Lin An and Titi came out of the hiding place, and the magic butterfly didn't realize that the other party had a bad intention until Titi got closer, and wanted to fly away, but was easily pinched by Titi's hand, and the psychedelic poison powder on the magic butterfly's wings didn't work on Titi at all.
Lin An communicated with Laurel for a moment, and soon found the entrance under a broken manger in the porch.
The entrance under the manger was opened, and as the two jumped down, the door to a nobleman's box in the Grand Theater was opened.
A brightly dressed young man who did not look vulgar and obtrusive came out of it, suddenly sighed, and looked in the direction of the backyard of the theater as if he had noticed something.
Unbeknownst to Lin An, their whereabouts had been discovered, leaving William at the entrance to answer her, and she and drove straight in.
The lair of the Assassin Order, located underground in the Grand Theater, did not have any traps, which was not what Lin An expected.
The Assassin Brotherhood built its lair in Dandong, and if it was discovered, no matter what traps it was, it would be nothing more than being able to drag a few more people to accompany the burial, and due to the storage of the forbidden demon lock, it was still a question whether small traps could kill the dead, and if it was too complicated and large, it would be difficult to avoid people's eyes.
After all, the theater where people come and go on the ground and the eyes and eyes of the dark world that is said to be all over Dandong are not to be seen, it is better to build the nest into a labyrinthine layout in front of you, which can delay time more at a critical time and give internal members a chance to escape.
However, it was too quiet along the way.
No one came out to stop them, and by chance they found a few rooms and conference rooms and other places, and the building was empty, and some daily necessities and furnishings were scattered in place, as if the original owner didn't have time to clean them up before leaving, and left them in place at will.
Titi also found a small storeroom, which was mostly made of some raw metal materials, and the small storeroom was connected to a casting room, and a simple room next to it was supposed to be the residence of the owner of the foundry.
The bed in the accommodation is only a sheet, and the room is not popular. Only the white-washed sheets showed that it had been inhabited, and most of the rooms along the way were as simple as this one, as if they were ascetics' quarters.
"We're a step too late." She was disappointed, "They should have evacuated first." ”
Purple eyes shimmered. Titi seemed to think for a moment, and suddenly let go of the magic butterfly in his hand, and as soon as the demon butterfly was free, he couldn't wait to stir his wings and fly deeper.
Lin An's eyes lit up, and he followed closely with Titi, and the demon butterfly flew fast under their chase. Take them along the myriad wrong paths and fly in a certain direction.
Coming to an inconspicuous door, the demon butterfly flashed in along the slightly open door, but Titi suddenly grabbed Lin An behind him, and Lin An also stopped as if he were aware of it.
"There are dead people." said.
Lin An nodded slightly. Her life force was also sensitive to death, sensing the difference between the inside of the door and the room they had passed by, but there was no intuitive warning of danger.
The hilt of the sword was pointed at the door, and Titi stood in front of Lin An, and the door opened to them:
More than twenty long tables. Twenty-five bodies lay flat on it.
They were men and women, mostly in mercenary costumes, and a few even wore opera singer costumes and heavy makeup, but their eyes were closed and their hands folded in front of their abdomen. His face before death was very calm.
"All members of the Assassin Brotherhood."
Lin An inspected these corpses, these twenty-five corpses had their fingers, elbows, wrists and other parts of the joints smoothed, there were traces of physical arts, except for a few two or three, all of them had jaw thinning surgery, their faces were flat, their bodies were medium and there were no obvious features, and they could easily become another person with only makeup and other external modifications.
These characteristics were similar to most of the fifteen assassins that Lin An had captured before.
"When you've been dead for more than a spell, your soul escapes a lot." Titi sniffed in the air and said.
"The remnants of the party who haven't been searched for should all be here." Lin An estimated the number.
This undoubtedly overturned Lin An's previous conclusion that these assassins had not evacuated, but that someone had come to your land before her, and it was likely that they had left first.
The deceased had different faces and clothes, but there was no pain in his face, and he did not commit suicide by poisoning.
Lin An dissected the corpse and opened the cranial cavity of the deceased, only to find the cause of death:
The brains in the cranial cavity completely turned into a mixture of cerebral plasma and blood water, and all the corpses were the same, as if they were dying in an instant and suffering a huge external force, and they died in an instant.
In a certain way, this can be considered merciful, because the deceased did not feel pain at the moment of death.
There was no surprise or fear on the face of the deceased, and it also showed the ease with which the murderer killed, and even the most elite assassins did not notice his arrival, which meant that the murderer had an overwhelming disparity in strength to these assassins.
The two raised their guard and continued their search.
However, the place where the transaction records were stored and the private room of the leader of the organization were not found, and two more vaults were found, this time real vaults, which were stacked with hundreds of large wooden chests:
A vault of wooden chests filled with gold coins from all over the world, with Pereginsephine being the most trafficked; In the other vault, there were chests full of gold and silver bars.
Lin An was still in the vault where the gold bars were kept, and found a camphor wooden box that was only one-tenth the size of a wooden box, which was full of bearer large-denomination gold bills from the Fisso Bank.
As the two approached, the faint golden light of the Guardian Ring shone on the chests, and the surface of the chests immediately revealed a faint yellow-green color.
"Toxic...... It is a plant-based poison. ”
After inspecting it, Lin An easily released the magic technique to neutralize and remove the poison above, and then emptied the two vaults.
But getting these hundreds of millions of gold and silver, Lin An was not happy at all.
But the other party did not alarm the people on the ground, and such a huge amount of wealth remained in place, untouched, I am afraid that it is not Perley's side, but it has the high authority of the forbidden demon lock, then it is very likely that this foreign invader has the same purpose as them.
The other party came and left first, and there was a living confession for his interrogation, Lin An and the two were a step slower, and the possibility of finding the transaction certificate they were looking for here was already very slim.
"It would be nice if I could cast the spell normally."
In many ways, there are indeed places that cannot be reached by divine magic, and zero-level spells are just tricks, even if they are only first-level spells, if they can be released, Lin An will not be so restrained.
"Ann, this way!"
found another warehouse, which stored finished medicines, most of which were poisons, Lin An was still distinguishing, but Titi picked up a drawing from the ground in the corner of the cabinet.
Lin An looked at it, and clearly marked the directions of several warehouses they found, and then compared the paths they walked, none of them matched, this was obviously the internal map of this headquarters.
"Hey, there are actually seven or eight exits here, and the person may have left through these exits!" Lin An's eyes lit up.
(To be continued)
ps:
Ten o'clock two.
I flipped through the backstage today.,I accidentally found that the number of words occupied by the 719 chapter announcement was exceeded.,It cost everyone an extra 500 words of subscription.,Sorry.,I didn't notice it before.,Today's chapter is more than 49 crosses to make up.。