The clouds broke through the sunrise, the fog of the early morning was broken by the golden light of ten thousand ways, and the melodious morning bell came from afar.

Hannibal opened his eyes on time, as every day.

In front of the clear bust mirror, he applied a sallow potion to his face, slightly modified the angle of the eyebrows, and the original two mustaches on his lips were gone, replaced by a neatly built short hair at the chin.

Changing into a thin leather armor, coupled with the figure that has become more and more upright and generous since he began to cultivate his fighting spirit for most of the year, and with a somewhat sharp and fierce gaze, anyone will feel that this is a mercenary with a good background, even if he is familiar with Hannibal, it is difficult to associate this person in the mirror with the butler Hannibal at first glance.

"A silver-plated mirror, which in Merlin would probably cost hundreds of gold coins to buy—if it weren't for the unstable times, Miss Jianyi could have made some investments in Perret or Fito."

Hannibal habitually looked at himself in the mirror, and this attention to detail revealed his years of housekeeping cultivation.

Leaving his residence, some neighbors along the road greeted him and asked him to come here and change his pseudonym "Watson", to which Hannibal responded one by one.

Although he has only lived for less than half a month, he has already figured out an area near his residence, of course, being able to get acquainted so quickly is also related to the fact that he introduced himself as a mercenary who was about to be accepted as a knight by the nobles, and he was generous.

When he came to the hall of the Mercenary Association, the clerk, who had already been familiar with him, saw Hannibal and directly pointed to the neat stack of tissue paper books on the counter and asked him to take it himself.

Hannibal grabbed a copy, ordered breakfast and sat down, taking a quick look at the list of tasks for the latest release.

Suddenly, his gaze fixed on a certain line, and after a short pause, he continued to look at it, and left without doing anything as before.

There are not many mercenaries like him.

The Mercenary Association is a distribution center for a lot of news, and many mercenaries come to the Association. It's not for the sake of getting tasks, it's just out of inertia that they make collecting information and checking task lists a necessity in their daily activities.

The task information of that task. The meeting place was public, in private room 14 at a bar called Spirits Red Lips in the outer city.

But. If you find the private room normally, you will find that the private room has not been booked at all.

Generally, when a mercenary encounters such a mission with false information, he will happily go directly to the mercenary association to receive a returned credit deposit, and get the compensation from the mission publisher in the association, while Hannibal directly knocks on the fifteenth box opposite box fourteen.

"Come in."

Hearing a familiar voice, Hannibal closed the door and did not look at anyone. Kneeling down on one knee and bowing, "Miss, your faithful butler Hannibal is here." ”

Having finally met his belated host, Hannibal naturally made a series of arrangements for his early arrival. 1510 sued Sù Lin An.

An hour later, a horse-drawn carriage driving from the outer city into the inner city stopped in front of a small villa near the business district of the inner city.

Stepping down from the carriage, through the black iron gate covered with rose vines, you can vaguely see a delicate small garden and a two-story villa with gray walls and blue tiles in the middle.

The villa consists of a main building, two annexes and a podium in between. More than 20 round-arched windows and terraces are scattered under the sloping triangular roof, and the building is unique and eye-catching.

"Bernice and they were placed here by you?"

"Miss Bernice and Miss Lydia accidentally helped a viscount at the opera house, and because Miss Bernice was disguised as a foreign nobleman who had come to spend the summer, she was recommended by the young lady's father to study at a private women's ceremonial school. Occasionally, they would invite classmates in the villa. Held a reading club or afternoon tea, but due to the situation in the imperial capital in recent days, such activities have not been held again, and they should all be in the villa now. ”

"Etiquette Academy?" What surprised me was John, who followed Lin An out today.

"Yes, this kind of organization came from the Holy Empire, originally a church organization used to teach the common people some knowledge, in Perret originally only the mission would run this kind of non-profit civilian organization, but somehow it spread to the upper echelons...... In recent years, Perret has become popular as a school for teaching etiquette and increasing social life, and Miss Bernice and her sisters attended a well-known women's college with a student body consisting mainly of wealthy merchants and some of the lower aristocracy......"

Hannibal thought that Lin An and John did not understand the significance of such a new institution, and quickly explained.

Of course, it is impossible for Lin An not to understand the usefulness of the school, she is just surprised by the social change and civilization of Perret.

In just a few days in Dandong, Lin An only felt the turmoil and precariousness of the upper class's rule, but he had not had the opportunity to see the rich, enlightened, fashionable and romantic nature of Perre's famous mainland.

"The children of the aristocracy and the rich merchants went to school together? Has Perret's class gap faded to such an extent?! ”

"It is said that many of the mainstream of the upper class are still dismissive of this and quite resistant, but some schools have already received the support of many new aristocrats, and some of the talents and knowledge they teach, it is said that the level of some of the teachers in them, and even the master scholars who specialize in royal advisors have a lot of praise, and from the feedback from Bernice and their return, these schools are also quite worthy of their learning,"

Hannibal explained, and then hurriedly said, "But this is just Hannibal's own opinion, and if Miss thinks it is not suitable, she can let Bernice and her drop out of school at any time." ”

"No, no, you're doing well, Hannibal, even better than I expected."

The school's access to information is much less difficult than other channels, and it is not easy to arouse suspicion, and it is easy to reach the upper echelons.

If they are willing, it will be easy for them to make connections and gain the favor of noble children, and after having the school as a platform that can widely contact aristocratic families, the effect is better than she expected.

Lin An also did not enter the villa.

I didn't know before, but now there has been a reminder from Anatoly, and Lin An already has some understanding of Dandong's intelligence efficiency.

Bernice's appearance out of thin air may attract the attention of those who care about it, so Lin Jia became a tourist interested in the architectural features, and only lingered outside the door for a while before leaving.

Since he didn't know how long he would stay in Dandong, Lin An also rented a villa in a wealthy merchant settlement in the outer city. It's about the same size as Bernice and the others, but the outtown is a little more crowded and less noticeable.

Hannibal met Salin and Anatoly at the dacha.

Sidney has a permanent residence. Closing the door and ignoring the others, Titi went out of the city to find a place to practice. The Andrei siblings took Athena to the market, and William was dragged by Athena and followed him in the form of a puppy.

So only Salin was left to accompany Anatoly at the villa, and Salin was quite happy about it, and when Lin An returned, he saw that the two had a good conversation.

Hannibal already knew Anatoly's origin on the road, and Anatoly also knew that Lin An went to find the housekeeper who arrived first, and Hannibal saw that Lin An had no intention of avoiding taboos. In front of Anatoly, he recounted some of the information he had collected over the past half a month.

Most of them are rumors from the wealthy merchant class, but there are also some news from aristocratic circles, most of which are similar to those of Anatoly and Lin'an.

But Lin An's intentions. It's just a verification, if a qiē source of information can only rely on Anatoly and Ryan's side, it will be too close to the earbuds to listen, and it is also very unsafe.

Anatoly also knew Lin An's intention to let Hannibal report the information in person, but he was secretly surprised by Lin An's ability as a housekeeper.

In just half a month, I was able to listen to and collect so much news. Although it still can't be compared with the intelligence line that Ryan has been operating for many years, in terms of efficiency, he is already better than many professional intelligence people, and he also realizes from Hannibal's approach that the school is a new but still temporarily blank source of intelligence.

"Say so. The assassination of the six princes can't be hidden? Lin An curled his fingers against his chin.

"It's seven, the urgent news of the high pot fort came, the eldest prince Aubrey was also assassinated on the same day, and he died on the spot, Phoebe II's condition worsened, as long as the prince Jupiter returns, he will basically preside over the overall situation." Anatoly added, "And it is now known that Prince Bazel and Princess Juliet of the Holy Empire were also assassinated, and there is no clear position between the Holy See and the royal family." ”

"Now that the news is about to spread to the lower levels, although the attitude of civilians is generally not easy to influence the decision-making of the upper levels, Perre, a country with a large number of elite mercenaries, is different."

Lin An's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, and the gradual understanding of Pere during this period of time made her discover many differences between Perre's country and traditional feudal countries like Merlin, most of which are represented by mercenaries and merchants.

"The Pere royal family is very dangerous at the moment, but this royal family has always had a prosperous descendant, but now the descendants can't react, and the foundation of the rule has not been shaken, if they have the heart...... Just see which way the fire will burn! ”

……

Two days later, the outer city of Dandong.

The buildings on both sides of the empty city gate street were crowded with people who had come to greet the Merlin envoys and Prince Jupiter, and wealthy merchants even spent a lot of money to set up boxes facing the street.

The people who had been chosen by the city guards to greet them were neatly clustered on the edge of the street with flowers in hand, and the empty street was spotless, and the scarlet carpet and the guards standing on either side of the carpet with halberds continued from the gates to the palace in the inner city.

"The news of the assassination of the six princes has finally been spread, and now most of the mercenaries and some civilians in Dandong already know the news."

In a box on the street, Lin An stood by the window, watching the procession slowly entering through the city gate.

The leader Lancet wore a long cloak of falling to the ground, rode with Jupiter, raised his hand and waved to the crowd of flowers around him, behind him were the deputy envoy Charles and others, as well as the carriage of the princess and princesses, but the two half-step legends and the three masters of Peret did not appear.

At this moment, several eggs and tomatoes flew out of the crowd of flowers and smashed on the scarlet carpet at the front of the procession, while someone in the crowd shouted:

"Merlin Bear, who murdered the prince of Aubrey, get out of !!"

(To be continued)

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