After tidying up, Ark put on his newly purchased stainless steel armor, holding a new thick round shield of stainless steel in his hand, and the warhammer was replaced by a new stainless steel mace, this equipment matched his height of 2 meters, and looked as thick as a humanoid tank.

Gridan is also a completely new piece of equipment.

For ease of movement, Link also changed into a set of light leather armor.

Then the three of them set off and headed for the market east of Riverdale.

The town is not big, the radius is only more than a mile, but because it is close to the royal capital hot spring city, and the king's road just passes here, there are a lot of pedestrians coming and going, and there are everyone, so the three of Link are not very conspicuous.

After walking for about five or six minutes, the three of them arrived at the entrance of the town market.

Because there is a lot of livestock trading in the market, farmers in the Gwent Forest will come here to buy or sell cattle and sheep and other livestock, these things are quite valuable, and the livestock will run around, so the outside of the market is surrounded by a wooden fence, at the entrance of the market, there are two small town militia guards, and there are militia patrols in the market, which is to prevent riots.

As a mercenary, Ark will of course deal well with the militia, and when he walked up to a militiaman, Ark handed over a silver coin without a trace, and said with a smile on his face: "John, has anything happened in the market recently?" ”

For the sake of the love of the silver coin, John had a good attitude, he shook his head and said, "No, today's market is in good order, and there is no quarrel." ”

"Oh, that's it. Have you seen Lucy? Ark asked again.

Lucy is beautiful, has a good figure, and as a mercenary, for the convenience of fighting, she likes to wear leather armor, and the leather armor shows her figure very well, so she is very popular in Riverdale Town, and is the dream lover of many bachelors, and the townspeople know about her existence, even if they haven't seen it, they have heard of it.

Of course, John knew Lucy, in fact, he was one of Lucy's suitors, and of course, Lucy always didn't mince words about him.

He shook his head: "I haven't seen it, she didn't come to the market today at all, otherwise I would definitely not know!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the brows of Ark, Gridan and Link furrowed at the same time, it seemed that something was really wrong!

Seeing the appearance of the three of them, John suddenly asked nervously, "Why, isn't Lucy with you?" ”

His appearance, in the eyes of Ark and Gridan, was just a suitor's concern for his goals, but in Link's eyes, he saw more news.

This John did look a little nervous, but when he spoke, his eyes were a little suspicious, and he seemed to know something inside.

Link immediately walked up and flipped his hand, and the two gold coins were sandwiched between his fingers, revealing a glimmer of golden light, and at the same time, Link adjusted his position to block the view of the others, making sure that only John could see the gold coins.

He asked softly, "Tell me what you know, and the two gold coins will be yours, John." ”

Seeing that John was still a little hesitant, Link quickly added, "Do you know why Lucy doesn't like you?" ”

"Why?" John asked instinctively.

Link had a mocking smile on his face, "She told me that you just can't be relied on and can't give her a sense of security." I originally thought it was just an excuse, but I didn't expect it to be true, at this time, you are still thinking about your own safety, why are you pursuing her like this? ”

When Link was so agitated, John's face immediately turned red, and he said angrily, "Who said I only think about myself? Do you know who you guys messed with? ”

"Who?"

"I can't say!" John held back at the last minute.

Link shook his hand, five gold coins appeared, the golden light was very dazzling, John swallowed his saliva, this money was worth most of his income for half a year, glanced left and right, and saw that no one paid attention to him, he finally whispered: "If something really happened to Lucy, it can only be done by the Syndicate, and that's all I have." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he stared at the gold coin in Link's hand.

Yes, he likes Lucy, but Lucy doesn't like him, and she also provokes the Syndicate, then she is already a dead man, and in John's eyes, a dead man is far less important than gold coins.

Link tossed the gold coins over, then said to Ark and Gridan, "Let's go, there's no more news to be found in the bazaar." ”

Since it was the Syndicate's work, then their methods must be very secretive, and the flow of people in the bazaar is so large that they can't even track the smell, even if they use low-level tracking magic, it won't come in handy.

Of course he knew the Syndicate, if the Dark Brotherhood was the largest underground force in the western part of the Gwent Forest, then the Syndicate was a giant gang of thieves all over the entire Terran world, they originated in the Southern Free Business Alliance, and after more than a thousand years of diffusion, they have now spread throughout the entire Terran world.

Naturally, there are also their subdivisions in the Gwent Forest, which occupy the entire southern part of the forest.

Compared to the two, the Dark Brotherhood is a serpent, and the Syndicate is a raptor in the underworld. It's not that the Raptors are not the river, although the Terran countries have repeatedly cleared the syndicate forces, but soon after, the syndicates will re-emerge, and then soon flourish.

They are as tenacious as weeds that can't be burned and hoeed.

Link also knew that the reason why the syndicate organization could not be eliminated like scabies was because behind this organization, there was a legendary powerhouse with an almost immortal life.

He is a walker in the shadows, a great grandmaster-level thief, one of the underground kings of the Pheroman Continent, and the founder of the first generation of syndicate organizations - Morpheus!

This man has the power of the pinnacle of legends, and has already touched some of the mysteries of the divine realm. In the game of his previous life, in order to ignite the divine fire, he finally cooperated with the dark gods, making the entire syndicate a big cancer in the glorious world.

Because of this, Morpheus became the final boss of the game's first team dungeon, and Link's guild also won the first kill of this boss that year.

Thinking back to the thrilling battle in the game in his previous life, Link whispered in his heart: "Morpheus, now you have begun to walk on that dark path, right?" ”

Of course, the syndicate organization in Gwent Forest is just a branch, and Link naturally won't run into the big boss of Morpheus, but this is also very tricky.

He had to think about it.

Obviously, Ark and Gridan also knew about the Syndicate, and on the way back, they were both silent, not that they would give up on rescuing Lucy, they would never give up doing so, but in the face of this behemoth, they didn't know how to save it.

After walking for a few minutes, Link had a rough idea of the whole thing in his mind.

First of all, what is the purpose of a syndicate?

Gold? This should be one of the other party's goals, although the syndicate should not be short of money, but no one will think that they have a lot of money.

Then it should be Tarouvis's demonic rune.

This demonization rune is a key part of helping the demon Taruvis get out of the enchantment plan, and it was lost by Werther, and the dark forces behind it must find it back, at this time, Morpheus has cooperated with the dark gods, and the syndicate has naturally become a lackey of the dark forces.

'Demonic runes should be the Syndicate's biggest goal. Link made this judgment, so that Lucy should not be in danger of life until the final location of the demonic rune was determined.

However, before that, the Syndicate would definitely torture and interrogate her, as long as she couldn't help but say that the demonization rune was here with Link, then Lucy would be killed, and Link would be in great trouble.

At this time, whether Lucy said it or not, Link would not blame her, because if he was in a similar predicament, he would definitely not hesitate to tell the secret in his heart when his body was tortured by terror.

The most important thing now is to identify Lucy's location as soon as possible and rescue Lucy.

Thoughts swirled around in his mind, and when the three of them reached the door of the Riverdale Inn, Link already had a rough plan, and he asked the silent Ark beside him, "How do I find the syndicate's messenger in Riverdale?" ”

There is no such thing as an absolutely closed organization, and each organization will set up an external messenger, which is mainly to prevent unnecessary losses caused by poor information communication between various organizations.

As a mercenary, Ark's understanding of the underground world is far beyond Link's, and when he comes to Gwent Forest to eat, he naturally has to worship the mountain first, what can be touched and what cannot be touched, he has the bottom in his heart, and the syndicate power belongs to the one that must not be touched.

He immediately said, "They should be found in the casinos in Riverdale." ”

"Then go to the casino!"