Chapter 265: A Long-Awaited Clue
After leaving the rat's nest "Disney", the greenskins first walked in the dark and damp tunnels for four or five days, and then through the original excavation team of the "Clan of Kerx", the large hole that has now been reinforced and widened, entered the underground tunnel dug by the dwarves.
Once inside, the narrow and dark environment is gone, replaced by a wide and flat road.
Although they are about the same size, the dwarf stacks that live in the mountains are not as good as the nezumen, whose only advantage may be speed, but the quality is not at all on the same level.
It's like one is a knock-off on a bad street, and the other is a work of art that can be passed down for a hundred years, and it's not a little bit worse.
Let's just say that this tunnel extending from the "Iron Furnace Castle" is wide enough to accommodate four or five horses walking side by side, and the height is even five meters, and even the tallest black orc lord in the team can hold his head high and stride forward.
If space is the most basic piece of hardware, then ventilation and lighting are the icing on the cake, and Urzago, the "Green Prophet" who is here for the first time, is amazed and his eyes light up.
The dry air in the tunnel comes from the ventilation facilities designed and installed in advance by the builders, and it is still working well after 100 years, so that it does not smell cold and rotten from beginning to end like the rat lair.
As for the faint light, it comes from the gem at the top of the tunnel, one every ten meters, which is constantly blooming with soft fluorescence.
These "glitter stones" were dug by the Stone Command Boys from the Valley of the Dead Tombs, and he embedded some of them on the top of the tunnel connecting the two important strongholds of the territory.
Although the light is far from bright due to the distance between the stones due to the limited number, at least the minimum visibility is guaranteed, which is much better than using torches alone.
Good air and a faint light weren't necessary, but they made the entire tunnel a notch higher than the previous nezumi tunnel, and the whole team traveled much faster than before.
But at this time, the leader of the entire team, the black orc lord walking in the middle of the team, did not walk as neatly as usual, and his face also had a serious look.
Since leaving "Disney", there has only been one thing on the stone mind, all because of a passage from the engineer Pesti Calamity before leaving.
"Chief, this time I went to the lair of the Moldkin clan, and the rats of the Aishin clan in the lair said that the little bell and the two human magicians have not been found yet, but, but there is another clue, the clue has been found."
"The symbol you gave me, that symbol has come to fruition, is a sign of a human sect that believes in chaos, this sect is mainly active in the human empire, and its scope of activity is centered on the current capital of the empire, Aldolph."
"The gutter runner in the Aldolph sewers recognized this symbol, it was of this sect, and this sect was called ...... Wheel of Shattering. ”
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The Shattered Wheel? It's a familiar name, but I can't remember it, no matter what, I finally have a clue!
Since the little bell was taken away, Shi has not given up his determination to find her, and immediately asked the people of the "Forgiveness Mercenary Group" in "Fetenburg" to search for the territory of the border prince through their own intelligence network, but there is no news.
Although the "Forgiveness Mercenary Group" is now one of the top ten mercenary groups in the Land of Chaos, in such a place where various forces are intertwined, and there are various green-skinned tribes, beastmen battle groups, nezumi clans and other alien creatures roaming in the endless wilderness, it is difficult to find a human girl.
What's more, with the strength of the two intermediate magicians on the other side, it is very likely that they have left here for such a long time, and the ghost knows where they went.
There was no clue to the stone side other than their names and appearances, and even if he later launched the "Brotherhood of Gundred" in the "Rabid Dog Trail" to ask these bandits to keep an eye on every caravan from west to east, he did not gain anything.
During this time, Stone experienced anxiety and anger at the beginning, then confusion and regret in the middle, and finally had to force himself to calm down and continue to wait for news.
Fortunately, he didn't give up from beginning to end, and even found another way to think of a completely different path.
That is through his own vassal nezumi clan, proposed by Pace, using the ready-made intelligence network of the Skaven Empire to find all the clues about Little Bell.
Unlike the "Forgiveness Mercenary Regiment", which has just covered the border princes' territory, the rat people have built up a huge, tight, and terrifying intelligence network throughout the Old World and even the entire continent with their continuous external expansion for thousands of years.
And the one who controls this network is the "Aixin Clan", one of the four major clans of the rat people today.
After returning from the Far East hundreds of years ago after learning all kinds of mysterious martial arts, the Gutter Runners of the "Ashin Clan" who are good at espionage and assassination are undoubtedly the best intelligence talents.
They shuttle through the dark and gloomy corners and dark sewers of major cities all year round, obtain a huge amount of information through various means, and then send it to the most prosperous nezumi lair nearby, and the middle leaders of the clan are concentrated.
After the initial screening, the core information will be sent to the lair of the "Ethin Clan" without anyone knowing the specific location as soon as possible, and will be sorted and analyzed by more professional assassins, and finally the patriarch will decide whether to send it to the honorable gray prophets of the "Skaven Demon Capital".
As for other information that is not so important to the nezumi, it can be circulated in the various lairs of the Underground Empire, and this information, like the assassination business, also brings great wealth to the "Aishin Clan", allowing them to stand at the very top of the pyramid of the Nezumi Empire.
The reason why the business of the "Ashin Clan" is so big is because they don't pay much attention to whether it is assassination or buying and selling information, they only believe in three rules:
First, do not refuse any request, second, do not exclude any work, and third, the highest bidder wins.
How could the stone, which had heard about this in his previous life, not be used in such a good channel, he hurriedly found Pesti and asked him to take the dimensional stone enough to buy ten female rats to the rat lair to find the people of the "Aishin Clan" and ask them to buy information.
Then Pesti was really in the lair of the "Grinning Clan", and the "Humpback Mountain" got in touch with this gang of intelligence dealers, and they really did the same as the rumors, received the task, offered a high price, and accepted a lot of deposits, and did not ask anything else, but just asked Pesti to go back and wait for news.
It turns out that you still have to find a professional to do things, and sure enough, there is news, although it is not directly related to the little bell. But at least there was a little clue, and it was enough to make the stone ecstatic.
Of course, before that, he still beat up the rat warlock who was obsessed with the dimensional stone experiment and almost forgot this extremely important news.
After calming down, after some careful consideration, Stone asked Pesti to immediately go back to the people of the "Aishin Clan", and asked them to temporarily narrow down the search for the three humans to the Empire, no, directly to Aldolph City!
If memory serves, that bitch-bred Light Mage is a native of Lady Aldo!