Chapter 733: Searching
Two days from Perret in a campsite.
The moonlight shone through the crevices of the branches and leaves, and the crackling sound of the branches burning and breaking sounded in the red bonfire.
Several tents of various sizes were set up around the campfire, and the insects chirped silently in the clearing around the tents, and the power of magic enveloped the small camp.
In one of the dark purple tents, on a soft felt carpet, a beautiful black-haired girl lay flat on it.
She seemed very tired, even in her deep sleep, there were slight wrinkles between her eyebrows, and her weak and tired face made everyone who saw her can't help but want to soothe her troubles.
A gust of wind passed, and the shadows of the swaying treetops shook, and the shadows of the trees swayed, revealing a motionless irregular shadow that had been covered in shadows, only three steps away from the tent, vaguely like a huddled human figure.
The shadow flickered, and in an instant it was about to disappear into the shadow of the shade again, and the tree next to the campsite suddenly lit up with two golden eyes the size of oranges!
With a low roar, William flickered and appeared on the shadow, his front paw pressed the corner of the shadow, and the black shadow on the ground was pulled in the opposite direction like a substance, but it was fixed as if it were a substance, and the solidified black suddenly wrapped around William like water.
William couldn't remove the claw that was holding the black shadow down, and lifted his other free forelimb and big head, claw biting, fighting with the black shadow floating in the air in a vaguely humanoid form.
At the same time, several breaths in the tent fluctuated, and it was obvious that someone had been alarmed by this movement and was about to come out.
The black shadow didn't fight anymore, and suddenly snorted, and the part of the black shadow that was held down by William's claws was disconnected from the main body!
The black shadow swept away into the shade of the tree, and beneath William's large black paws appeared a pale man's palm, and blood was sprinkled on the ground with fresh and still body temperature.
William roared. Plunge into the shadowy woods.
The next second after William chased into the woods, Titi's figure appeared by the fire, and Lin An who came out of the woods on the other side appeared at the same time as him. And what poked her head out of Lin An's original tent was Athena's immature little face. With an angry look on his face, "Bastard William! ”
"Titi, catch up with William."
Before Lin An's words fell, Titi's figure had disappeared.
Shiryl and Johnham also appeared at the campfire at this time, looking in the direction that Titi was chasing, and then Salin, Andre, and Sidney appeared outside the tent at a speed that was not slow for the mage.
So when Anatoly came to his senses and appeared outside the tent, he found that he was already the last. Everyone else gathered around the campfire.
Anatoly was accustomed to this apparent disparity in efficiency, and walked over to the campfire to see Johnmu burying potatoes under the fire. "This is the first few, Master Lin."
"Fifteenth." Andre preemptively answered for Lin An.
"All of them came to Chong'an, and it seems that even if he was bound by the slave contract, the assassin leader had some of his cronies." Salin glanced at Anatoly meaningfully.
Anatoly looked embarrassed, "If I had known that Mage Lin had killed the Master Assassin by releasing the news." I will not follow Master Lin's orders to cause such trouble—well, Gustav knows that I have spread the news that Oginets' benefactor has been hunted down by the Assassins, and I am afraid that I will have to go back to repair the ancestral tomb this time. ”
"About that. In my letter, I will explain to Gustav that instead of waiting for the Assassins to come out with a cold sting, it is better to trap them out first. Lin An gave Salin a faint warning glance and said to Anatoly.
"After all, Master Lin had the foresight, if it weren't for you using your body as bait to trap those assassins and release the confessions you obtained, the Grand Duke might not have immediately searched the Assassin Brotherhood's secret stake station."
Anatoly's eyes showed a faint admiration, he admired Lin An's wisdom and the courage to put himself in danger, "Today's Xinying arraignment, Ryan was dug up three large garrisons in Shun Lì, and killed more than a dozen backbone members of this organization on the spot, but unfortunately they all committed suicide and did not survive. ”
"The confessions of those hooked fish are just a little time saved, and the station that is so easy to find and break down should not be their core." Lin An shook his head.
"That's right, the success of those assassins before can already show the horror of this assassin organization." Andre frowned, he was even more eager than Lin An to completely annihilate these snake-like hidden dangers as soon as possible.
"Fortunately, after taking precautions, although there has been no news of similar assassinations in the past few days, it means that the Holy See, the royal families and nobles of the two countries have reacted, and they will not let the Assassin Brotherhood go." It was John who spoke up.
His face was solemn, the knight's cross sword from the treasury of Oginets was across his knees, this was the most convenient place to draw the sword, and the assassins who had appeared one after another by Lin An's side in the past few days made him nervous.
"But it's been nearly five days, and it is estimated that Dandong has been turned over, and all the assassins found are corpses, and if this development continues, the possibility of us finding the headquarters of the Assassin Brotherhood is getting smaller and smaller." Salin glanced at Lin An.
"No way, that leader doesn't have anything on his body except assassination tools, and the other assassins basically have the same style, and the headquarters of the Assassin Brotherhood can only be found by the living."
The Master Assassin had died too decisively, and so cleanly, that it was as if he knew that he would have this day sooner or later, and of course, with his actions, it was inevitable.
Lin An sighed, "Judging from the actions of the leader of the Assassin Brotherhood after his death, their purpose is to disturb the Three Kingdoms and plunge the continent into flames, just to disturb Perre, it is not in their interests, this can be seen from the fact that some of their assassins are lurking in the Holy Empire and successfully assassinated, so they will definitely not leave a handle to prove that they accepted the employment of the Holy Empire before." ”
"Since it can't be found in that leader, then their headquarters is the most likely place, and holding this certificate is a great threat to the Holy Empire."
Lin An knew that the other companions were still worried about her putting herself in danger, and finally said, "As far as the current results are concerned, it is already beyond the upper limit I expected to attract fifteen assassins to assassinate, and it has not appeared in the past few days, and it will not survive in three months, and those who really survive will probably not dare to come forward again." ”
Seeing that the atmosphere was a little dull, Anatoly quickly changed the subject, "This is left by the assassin. He pointed to the palm that William had left on the ground.
"This time it's a shadow assassin, if it weren't for the accidental exposure and William's discovery, maybe he would have really lurked inside the tent."
Even with the Keeper and Kronos's Secret Treasure, there are still many secret techniques and secret methods in this world that Lin An has never heard of.
Just like the shadow assassin just now, except for the unnatural shadow that was a flaw, he didn't reveal any breath, and even William, who also had a talent for shadows, was almost confused.
William was so angry that he robbed Titi of what was supposed to be's job, and disappointed Athena, who had finally waited for the assassin to come to the door, and when William returned, he was afraid that he would have to be busy eliminating the anger of his friends.
When the potatoes that John had put in under the fire came out of the mushy aroma, Titi and William returned.
This time, Lin An was not disappointed, the assassin with such a strange shadow secret technique was one of the five people in the Assassin Brotherhood second only to the Assassin Master, and his strength had reached the peak of the Silver Sword Saint, if it weren't for Titi who was also good at walking through the shadows and happened to be restrained, Lin An might not have been relieved that the two of them would chase after him.
As always, this assassin's will has reached a rather terrifying level, enough to be immune to most spiritual spells below level four.
Moreover, they can become the henchmen of the assassin leader, and their strength is not low, Sidney's success rate in forcibly extracting souls is very low, and occasionally one or two succeed, and the memories obtained are also very broken.
"This one has also cultivated the Soul Secret Technique." Sidney plucked the fainting captive's eyelids, stared at it for a moment, and then said.
Many of the Assassin Brotherhood's Assassins practiced the Soul Technique, which was used exclusively for secrecy, as a corollary from Sidney's repeated failed soul extractions.
Lin An thought that this inference was very close to the facts, and that the Assassin Organization that had been active between the two countries for so long must have a set of secrecy, not to mention that judging from the counterattack of the Assassin Master before his death, their research in the soul field had also reached a high level.
Lin An thought for a moment and woke up the assassin.
"Two choices, within three days, you assassinate at will, or I will help you fulfill a wish in exchange for the location of your headquarters."
The Assassin considered it for a moment and chose the former.
Lin An let him go.
Attacked one after another for two days and two nights, Lin An really let him go after catching him every time, and even except for the first time when he was caught, her other companions did not help Lin An.
The target was very proud, but unfortunately, after the first defeat, he knew that he could not avenge the leader, and he could only make her regret it in his own way.
On the last day, the Assassins spent the entire day escaping hundreds of miles.
At such a distance, it was impossible for anyone to be watched, and even if they found him running away, the time difference between them would be enough for him to finish what he had to do.
Whistling to summon his pet Phantasmal Butterfly, the Assassin will record his last words and inform his companions to leave the headquarters immediately for the Butterfly to eat.
Watching the demon butterfly fly away, as soon as he turned around, he saw Lin An standing under a big tree not far behind him.
The black-armored swordsman beside her, who had captured him alive for the first time, jumped lightly and chased in the direction where the butterfly had flown away.
"Your desire to die is too obvious."
Lin An closed the assassin's eyes, which were still unwilling to open when he fainted, and Anatoly sighed, "This is a loyal warrior. ”
"Don't worry, he'll have a clean end, after that demon butterfly leads us to their organization's headquarters."
Three days later, a group of people who used natural perception and spells to track the demon butterfly alternately came to Dandong.
(To be continued)
ps:
It's late tonight, and Kavinka has to **qaq slightly
It's finally changed, good night everyone~