Due to the arrival of the Assassins, the fortress was filled with patrolling soldiers, and every corner of the fortress was illuminated with torches held high, making it much more difficult to return to their quarters than to come out.

Lin An had to give up the method of using stealth stealth spells to go back, and instead used disguise to blend into the crowd, combined with spiritual spells such as humanoid creature charm, which was enough to deal with most unexpected situations.

The fortress was very decisive, but the inside of the fortress was not quiet, the soldiers patrolling everywhere were one after another, and there were checkpoints everywhere, and some law enforcement teams in black armor were entering and exiting the various entrances and exits of the inner fort, as if they were searching for something from room to room, and the shouts were endless.

Outside the southern cloister of the inner fort where the mages gathered, many mages gathered in twos and threes to talk about what happened tonight.

“…… Sending a group of soldiers to our door to interrogate one by one, even if there is a search warrant, is too rude and offensive! Look, when they knocked on the door later, no one was fooled anymore and just ate the closed door! ”

“…… You know what, I've heard that General Karim was seriously wounded on the spot, and the injuries were fatal! And it seems that something very important has been stolen from the fortress, I'm afraid the matter is not small, otherwise the attitude of the great knight commander who is temporarily acting in command will be so tough? I see, ......"

“…… What is that thing? Hey man, go on! ……”

Lin An turned into an inconspicuous mage attendant, and hurried through the corridor with low eyebrows, observing the people standing in the corridor.

If there is really an inside line as they guessed, the identity of that inside line is most likely a mage.

After all, except for the mage who can fly, no one has a certain guarantee that they will survive the catastrophe of the avalanche, and although the other party is willing to do such a thing for some reason, it should not be a dead man.

Moreover, if the other party wants to determine who Salin's helper in the team is. It's definitely not going to be closed.

But listening carefully to the conversation in the corridor, Lin An found no suspicious objects.

Maybe it's because of the assassination in the middle of the night, and the next day is about to leave, most of the people in the corridor are a little high-pitched and excited, some are a little concerned and nervous, and some are stuck in the sadness of relying on others. It is also difficult to find out what is suspicious from so many complex situations.

The corridor is not long, and the top of the corridor is lit with a large fluorite inlaid fluorite lamp, which illuminates the expression on everyone's face. Lin An's disguised attendants bowed their heads all the way to avoid mages and apprentices with higher status than him. He bowed silently with a bowed brow, and no one noticed a small squire.

Quietly turned a corner, the voice behind him suddenly became much quieter, Lin An's perception confirmed that no one was tracking behind him, and gently knocked on his door.

Come open the door. It turned out to be Ludwig in a white shirt with a wide collar and open chest.

The linen shirt on his upper body is very thin, the neckline is very loose, and if you look closely, you can see the tight bandages tied around the waist and abdomen under the shirt, and the tight muscles under the sub-demon shirt, which is lazy and sexy.

Ludwig's black hair was slightly messy, and his wide neckline was a little crooked. There were some subtle folds in his shirt, as if he had just fallen asleep, and his blue eyes looked down at the uninvited guest outside the door with anger and impatience. Contacting all the people in this room, everyone who came could not help but think about it, if she wasn't right in front of him.

As soon as she showed a strange expression of crying and laughing, Ludwig had already recognized Lin An from the details of the micro-expression, pulled her in, and closed the door with his backhand. The mellow voice asked in a deep voice:

"Ann?"

"It's me."

Lin An replied affirmatively, and at the same time, his mental strength moved. The figure and face slowly changed into the familiar appearance of Lu Dwig. But before Ludwig could say a second sentence, she noticed the presence of the second person in the room, and looked over his shoulder to the person sitting in the room.

Sidney, dressed in a white robe, sat there expressionlessly, with a thick book floating in front of him, his gaze had just been removed from the page, and his silver-white eyes were looking at Lin An.

"You two, why are you in my room?"

"Now it's up to you to explain why you sneaked out in the middle of the night!" Ludwig frowned, did not answer the question, and stared at Lin An with deep blue eyes for a moment.

Sidney calmly replied, "When there is movement on the north side, I came to you, and when I found you absent, I asked him to come and deal with those people." ”

Lin An'an immediately knew the reason why Ludwig was dressed in her room like this, although it was indeed a good way to deal with the people who came to the door, and with her reputation and gender, it was enough to deal with the soldiers if she didn't come forward to deal with it herself.

After all, in everyone's perception, no woman would be willing to come out in the middle of the night to deal with a group of strange men, which is simply an insult to women's reputation.

And judging from the previous conversations in the corridor, not every mage showed up to deal with those soldiers, with the status of a mage and his consistent arrogance, there was every reason to ignore the orders of the military, which was the consistent privilege of the mages accompanying the army.

However, in this way, I am afraid it will not reduce the suspicion of her on the insider.

However, Lin An could not appear again, otherwise it would inevitably appear to be cover-up, after all, in terms of time, this time was just enough for the people who had a secret meeting with Salin to return to their residences.

Lin An wasn't sure if the inner line had set a target, after all, the scope of his suspicions was not limited to mages, but he should have at least greatly narrowed the scope of his suspicions by taking advantage of tonight's incident.

"Someone came looking for me? Who is it? Lin An narrowed his eyes.

"The soldiers sent by the fortress, they have knocked on every door, including ours." Ludwig saw that Lin An avoided answering his question, his blue eyes deepened, but he did not continue to ask, and at this time inserted the conversation between Lin An and Sidney.

Lin An's eyes flashed slightly, thinking of the sporadic words he had heard in the corridor before, "Could it be that apart from General Karim's serious stabbing wound, what else was lost?" ”

"The target of the assassins seems to have been the lost item in the first place, but when they invaded General Karim's residence to look for it, General Karim, who happened to be awakened, had to burst out after revealing his whereabouts,"

Sidney knew a lot of things, and should have gone out to inquire about the situation during the search just now. "As for the stolen item, the Assassins did not find the target, and General Karim only discovered that it had been stolen after the Assassins left, so he ordered the entire fortress to be searched."

It is no wonder that the fortress did not send too many pursuers later, firstly, it could not catch up, and secondly, it was probably suspected that there was an inner line lurking in the fortress, so it closed the entry and exit and carried out a search.

Lin An originally thought that the people of the Tower of Dolan and the Merlin antagonists who cooperated with them behind their backs should be targeted by her and Salin tonight, but he didn't expect that the two of them were just the targets of blame by the way. The real target of that inner line is probably what the fortress is searching for.

And if nothing else, that thing. The inside line may have been successful, but it just didn't have time to inform the person who answered outside, or something happened.

"Who gave the order to search the entire fortress?" Lin An asked.

"General Karim is seriously injured and unconscious, if nothing else. Now it should be his deputy, Grand Knight Griffondor, who will take over the command. "Ludwig is well aware of the army's emergency response mechanisms.

"The importance of such stolen items is known to quite a few people in the upper echelons of the fortress, so it's no wonder that the news will be exposed and coveted," Lin An said to himself. "I wonder what that thing is? How did the upper layers of the fortress make sure that things were still in the fortress? ”

Judging by the decision of the fortress to block the fortress without pursuing it, they are afraid that there is some way to be sure that something is still in the fortress.

And if Lin An's above questions can be clarified, then follow this clue to associate. It is not difficult to find out the identity of the insider.

Since it was deduced that the inside line did not contact the receiver in time, and he was likely to arouse suspicion again, in order to avoid being targeted by a hidden inheritance, Lin An had to solve the other party before the other party passed on the things and news.

But this is a very short time. Because when they wait for the dawn, they must set out. This was an urging from the rear, and even the fortress could not stop it, which is why they were so anxious to order a search overnight on the spot, regardless of the dissatisfaction of their people.

After leaving this fortress, there may be many ways for the inside line to spread the news of him.

And because of this news, Lin An is likely to cause a hidden hostility, especially when the other party knows that she and Salin are likely to link the Tower of Dolan to the Avalanche Insider, and even deduce their hostile attitude towards Merlin, even more so to get rid of them!

Ludwig and Sidney saw that Lin An had just come in, and before they had time to sit down, they asked about the situation in the fortress one after another, although from her tone, it could be deduced that she was not a person who stole lost property and assassins, but judging from Lin An's solemn attitude, she was already deeply involved in this whirlpool.

Sidney was nothing, he was used to the many secrets and inexplicable actions of Lin An, while Ludwig had a much more complicated mood.

He thought that he had accepted Lin An as the other side of the "Purple Rose", but when he really saw the other side of her exposed in front of him, he felt more strange and unapproachable than he felt fresh and mysterious.

This made Ludwig faintly irritated.

Although he was focused on Lin An on the surface and answered Lin An's inquiries at any time, in fact, the feeling that Lin An was getting farther and farther away from him and his mood was anxious and he couldn't grasp it had already made him a little absent-minded.

Lin An didn't notice Ludwig's strangeness in time, she was not a mechanical radar after all, she received the feelings of everyone around her at any time, especially when her mind was focused on the other side, she was not so sensitive to her lover's feelings.

"By the way, apart from the soldiers who came to the door to search, is there anyone else who seems to be particularly active?" Lin An thought for a while, and added, "Especially when I was cultivating in the past few days, I also seemed to be very active and often came and went!" ”

"You mean, one of us?" Sidney asked.

"Well, the point is that the mages in our batch, who have a lot of contact with people and can get a lot of information inside the fortress." Lin An narrowed the scope further.

is active now in order to find out who she has a relationship with Salin, and to inquire about the follow-up; The activity of the previous few days was for stepping on the point and committing theft.

In short, since the inside line has been lurking for a long time, and has been planning a series of avalanches, thefts, assassinations, and blame with the receivers of the Tower of Dolan, all kinds of things are extremely complicated, one link after another, and a lot of information is required to plan accurately, so in normal times, when the other party inquires about information, it is impossible not to reveal even a clue.

"The most active of us mages?" Sidney thought for a moment and said, "There are several. ”

"Who is it?"

While Sidney spoke, Lin An had also been delineating suspicious objects in her mind, but since most of her energy was focused on John's and the guards, and their wards were not too close to the mages' residences, Lin An didn't notice at all that any of their mages had been unusually in the past few days.

"There are three people who have the most contact with people, and they can get the most information," Sidney replied succinctly, "James, Ravia, and Krum." ”