Chapter 42: The Man Behind the Scenes
Li Qiang found a secluded corner where no one was paying attention. Magic is infused into the magic sigil of the left hand. With a wave of his right hand, a figure identical to Li Qiang appeared beside Li Qiang.
This Li Qiang's illusion came aside. He sat down in the corner and sighed, closed his eyes and recuperated.
Li Qiang, who was still hiding in the corner, looked at it and confirmed that there was no problem. The magic mark flashed again, and the whole person disappeared in place.
The tax collector collected all the taxes and put all the money into a money bag, holding the money bag in one hand. He yawned with one hand over his mouth.
He took out a pill from his pocket, threw it into his mouth, chewed it twice, and walked to the back of the hall with a hundred times more energy.
Walked through the gate guarded by several guards. Step up a staircase to the ground. He first threw the money into a box, covered it and locked it. Then he went to another room, picked up a quill, and wrote down the taxes collected for the day.
After the record was finished, the tax officer sighed and said, "Business has not been good lately, there is no way, they are all poor." Can't give us too much money."
The tax collector stood up and shook his head. The envelope was handed out through a dark compartment on the wall. Then he turned and left the hut, and locked the door and locked it.
Li Qiang came to another hut through the portal, and saw a masked man pick up a note and put it in a small piece of wood, and then tied it to the feet of a pigeon, Li Qiang knew that this should be a carrier pigeon,
Sure enough, the masked man threw the pigeon out through the window and looked at the carrier pigeon flying away, and the man nodded and closed the window. Proceed with his mission.
Li Qiang, who came to the ground, looked at the pigeons in the distance. The magic power poured into the left hand in a small amount of magic imprint, and a white light knife appeared in the left hand.
Li Qiang aimed at the pigeon with a knife, and instantly lost his trace in the air.
The pigeon was flying towards its destination, and then he felt a burst of light pass through his body, and the pigeon circled in the sky, found that he was fine, and then continued to fly towards his destination with some confusion.
In the blink of an eye, in the middle of the city, the dove landed in front of a delicate attic, stopped and flew down, and landed on the windowsill. After a while, the window was opened, and a butler-like man stuck his head out, took the pigeon in, pulled out the note, and read them carefully
A blue portal appeared faintly on the roof, and Li Qiang stepped in. Gently landed on the roof.
Lean down and listen to the movement inside the room. A person who looks like a housekeeper, after confirming that there is no problem with taxes. Picking up the note, he walked past the hut next to him and said to a man of thirty-five or sixteen. "My lord, this is the list of taxes for the black market today."
Lying on the bed, drinking wine, the middle-aged man sat up, took the note handed to him by the butler, and read them one by one.
After reading it, the man frowned, threw the note back to the butler and said, "The income is getting smaller and smaller now, and it seems that this inferior person really doesn't have much oil and water to dig up." Oh well, let's speed things up. Strive to open the market in Midtown within a month. ”
Waving his hand impatiently, the middle-aged man took out a cigar and lit it with some irritation. While smoking a cigarette, he was in the house. Walking back and forth, walking briskly.
As he walked, he muttered: "This money is not enough at all now, and at present only some small businessmen and illegitimate children who are not valued are willing to attach themselves to me, and this little property alone is not enough for me to obtain greater capital." ”
Halfway through, the man suddenly stopped, stood there and took a deep puff on his cigarette, then threw the cigar on the ground and put his right foot on it, grinding it hard.
The man threw a punch into the air with his right hand, and then said, "That's only the power of an adult."
Li Qiang slowly exited the man's room in a state of invisibility. One turned and jumped in front of the narrow-bottomed door to glance at the house number, Li Qiang nodded, then turned around and disappeared into the darkness.
Back at the barracks, Li Qiang saw that the other two had not yet appeared, so Li Qiang found a bed and sat on it. His mana rises.
After a while, Carl and Sain returned to the barracks together. Awaken Li Qiang, who is immersed in the truth,
The three of them gathered together in front of a map to summarize the day's gains, and the Knight of Cyne took out a piece of flesh and blood and put it on the table beside him, and then said:
"I found their factory, and this is a small part of the raw material in our factory, the meat that I cut. According to my observation, it should be a man-made demon organization, although I don't know who created it, but a mage with such strength is definitely an existence above the inhuman level. ”
Sain frowned. He took out a quill again, picked up a piece of paper, and said as he wrote:
"I roughly restored a prescription according to their process, a detailed prescription, they didn't have it there, it is estimated that there are only consuls and consuls who remember it with their brains and did not record it with a pen, so I observed for a while and roughly recorded it."
Finish writing the prescription. The second prince, Carl, snatched the prescription and observed it carefully, and after reading it, Carl threw it on the table like a prescription. Landing on the stool and saying:
"Aren't all these other recipes useless? What's the use of anything other than a flavour, that is. ”
Karl looked at the blurred flesh and said, "It's all a credit to this mass of flesh,"
The Cyne Knight nodded, then said, "We found out that they use blood. The more blood is fed to this mass of flesh with human blood, the more the flesh will expand itself. This is enough to prove that they are using the flesh and blood of ordinary people to support demons. Then use a small part of the demon's flesh and blood as raw materials to make the flame pill,"
The second prince, Karl, nodded, indicating that he understood. Then he said to the two of them, "After my investigation." It was possible to find out that 13 businessmen, large and small, were involved in this incident."
"And there can be seven or eight of them. The bastards of the nobility have dealings with the Black Light Order. It can be said that if it weren't for the faint traces of demons behind it. This kind of organization simply won't come into our sight,"
The Three Knights nodded and said, "Yes, I also found some arsenals and some factories for the production of magic materials, but they are relatively small, and the amount of production is not enough to supply the strength of an army. I don't know which little lord is doing so many small actions. ”
The second prince, Karl, turned his head to look at Li Qiang. There was a slight expectation in his eyes
Li Qiang took out a piece of parchment and put it on the parchment with his left hand, the brilliance of magic flashed on the magic imprint, and then a human face appeared on the parchment, and Li Qiang handed the parchment to the two
"This is the so-called mastermind that I found out, I tracked them down as a tax collector on the black market and found this person. This man lives in Midtown. The address is at No. 55 Taben Street, Midtown District. It seems that he may also be from a noble background, and there is a butler to serve him, but I don't know more specifically."
The second prince, Karl, looked in surprise at the mastermind behind the confirmed face. patted Li Qiang's shoulder very solemnly, and said to Li Qiang: "I really didn't misunderstand you." Okay, I'll investigate who he really is, if the results come out. We'll do it now. ”
"Yes," both replied at the same time.