As the largest material turnover field for the western border guards of the Desik Empire, Tarim, a small city that had just been built, gradually prospered with the tilt of Desik's military strength. In addition to the large amount of supplies of the border guards will be turned around here, many traders, whether it is Desik or Shangmeng, also like to come to this border town to do business.

In just over a year, this gradually thriving small city has become the most important military center in the western border, and even Western generals often camp here.

Green and Setty, following the commander of the border regiment, hurried outside the city of Tarim. A year ago, the newly built Tarim City was still a small place where military tents were connected one after another, and even in the open air, mountains of supplies were piled up. Later, some sporadic and nimble traders went to Tarim City to trade some surplus military supplies with daily necessities and rare soldiers. So much so that now, there is a lot of noise outside Tarim City, rows of vendors' tents are connected, and there are Desik soldiers standing guard in the middle of the city.

The Western General is not in the Western Frontier at the moment, he is in White Rock City to attend the Desik Military Joint Council meeting, and the current border presiding over the major affairs is a battalion general under the Western General, this silver wolf head, named Alvin, has always served in the Western Frontier Army, and knows the situation in the entire Western Frontier well.

When he heard about Green and Setty's intentions, he looked a little angry. "Our crown prince was assassinated in Manning, and you were not able to catch the assassins and let them run across the border?"

Grimm smiled, "Those assassins are indeed very powerful. Our entire group of hunters of the Adventurers' Association have been hunting them down, and they have only found a few traces on the other side of the Grand Canyon, the Assassins have long since escaped the border. ”

"Then you say, how can you be sure that they are still near the border, and if you want me to say, they must have gone away long ago!" Alvin continued to be indignant.

Fortunately, at this time, Setie was also beside her, and she stopped Green and motioned for her to come, "This general." ”

Alvin didn't dare to slack off, after all, Setie was a court magician from San Jose, and she was also a very attractive woman, looking at the bulging ball on Setie's chest and her blond hair, the camp general's tone became much softer, "Venerable Mage, it's not that I don't cooperate, I really don't know where to start?"

"You know," Alvin continued, "here, we have so many frontier regiments, tens of thousands of soldiers scattered in hundreds of fortresses, large and small, and the western border is not like White Rock City, there are not so many cities and villages, most of them are wilderness (Note 1), and you don't have any more clues." ”

Green and Setie discussed in a low voice, but Setie explained: "General, we don't ask for much, first, there will be hunters from the hunter regiment crossing the border in the future, please make it convenient for the general." The second is to give us the right to act freely, and we will investigate it ourselves. The third is to ask the general to intensify the interrogation of outsiders to prevent them from blending into ordinary caravans. ”

Alvin thought for a moment and nodded, "There is no problem with this, but please also restrain the actions of the members of the Hunter Regiment, don't look at what you shouldn't see, don't ask what you shouldn't ask." In addition, I am afraid that the caravan inspection will not work well, after all, my soldiers will not know every trader who comes and goes. Also, you still haven't answered my question, how can you be sure that the Assassins are still in the West?"

At this time, Green stepped forward and motioned for Alvin to come over, "The latest clues of our adventurer's guild show that there will be a group of people from their organization who will connect in the Desik West Realm, and the reliability of the clues is very high, but we have not found out the specific time and place yet." ”

Alvin took a step back and looked at Green carefully for a while, thinking in his heart that it seemed that you already had an informant, but he said, "Restrain your subordinates, for ten days, I can't let you investigate the case in my territory without restrictions." I will also help you pay attention to the vendors, but there is no guarantee of results. ”

The camp general Alvin's offer was fair, and Green and Setie looked at each other and agreed. "Also, Master Magician, don't blame me for not warning you, it's better not for me to find out that you're using magic that you shouldn't use here, and when the time comes, it's not good to cause a diplomatic incident. At the end of the day, Alvin threatened Setie.

After negotiating with Alvin, Green and Setie hurried to the Westside Bridge, where Green's group of hunters was about to converge. Looking at the two departing fast horses, Alvin, who was still calm and calm just now, rubbed his forehead with a headache, "What an eventful season! General, come back quickly." ”

The camp of the camp general, in the center of Tarim City, the largest "big tent". Different from the White Rock City, the big tents here are all black, and the entire Tarim City, from a distance, is a large area of black pressing. At this moment, two men in black walked through the big tent to the side of the battalion general.

Alvin didn't raise his head, "Why are you so careless, the hunters of the Adventurers' Guild are coming so fast." ”

Both black-clad men wore black burqas with their heads hidden in pointed hoods, one with his hands in his sleeves and the other carrying a longbow behind his back. The man with the bow on his back couldn't help but speak, "The people of the hunter group are like a vicious dog with a bone in its mouth, and it is difficult to entangle. ”

The other man in black was much calmer, "No way, the organization has designated us to pick up Captain Anna here, Captain Anna's task is more important, before that, we can only keep a low profile." Fortunately, thanks to the generals, they will protect us. ”

Looking at the other party's smiling expression, Alvin felt irritable. There is no way, before leaving, the Western general asked himself to take care of these two "friends", and he had to deal with it carefully, even if he knew that they were the murderers of Crown Prince Ferdinand.

Green and Setty, together with Setty, quickly rushed to the vicinity of the Westland Bridge, and more than twenty hunters from the Hunter Regiment happened to arrive at the bridgehead. With Green and the others came back, it was still the commander of the border guard regiment, he waved his hand, signaled the surrounding soldiers to let him go, and then handed Green a bag, "There are thirty identification tags in here, with these signs, the Desik soldiers in the west will not embarrass you, provided that you don't do anything out of line!"

Green took the bag and threw it to one of the hunters who stepped forward, "Divide it among everyone", and then turned back to the border commander, "Thank you very much for your assistance!"

Who knows that the commander of the border regiment does not appreciate it, "I am just doing my job, and at the same time, the task that the battalion general gave me is to accompany you these days, after all, this is the border of Desik, understand?"

"Naturally, in fact, I don't have enough men!" Green looked back at his hunters, "Besides, finding the assassin who assassinated your Crown Prince Desik as soon as possible is also a common goal for both of us." ”

The regimental commander nodded, "Indeed, I will assign you another thirty soldiers to accompany us." So, first of all, where to start?"

Green pondered for a moment, then shouted "Buniel, what's the situation now?"

A young hunter, riding a tall horse, came to Grimm's side, "Chief Lord, we followed the clues, the assassins finally disappeared on the other side of the Westland Bridge, and we have reason to suspect that they have infiltrated the caravan of the merchant alliance and headed for Tarim City. ”

"Can you tell me something I don't know!" Green patted his head.

The young hunter named Bunier blushed, "I'm sorry, Chief. The informant's clue was that the Assassins would stop nearby to meet their companions from the south after completing the assassination mission. We were ready to scatter, half of the brothers searched along the border, and half of the men went to Tarim City to inspect the caravan. ”

The head of the border guard next to "poof" couldn't hold back for a moment, and Green also glared at Bunier dissatisfied, "What do you know, there are so many vendors outside Tarim City, you guys are a fart." Then he turned to Mage Sytie, "Setty, what do you have to do?"

Mage Setie thought for a moment, "The enemy is in the dark, I'm in the open, in the open, in the dark?" Setie didn't finish speaking, Green had already understood what he meant, he nodded, "There are two hunters in the regiment, I saw them when I broke through at this moment that day, you can let them go to Tarim City to recognize people with great fanfare, and we are secretly hiding in the shadows? ”

"Green, you said that the informant said that the other party was going to pick up the people from the south, but there is no other place to go there, and it is not the border!" asked Setie suddenly worriedly.

Green looked to the south, "Who said it's not the border, it's the Misty Forest over there!"

"But who are they going to pick up from the Misty Forest?"

Green shook his head, "I don't know, the identity of the informant is very hidden, and the news that came this time is very simple, we can only agree with him." ”

"That's—" Setie didn't say anything, she didn't think she was very mature in her thoughts.

"That, Lord Chief, that..." Suddenly, a submissive voice came from behind him, and Green looked back to see that it was Bunier, "What's the matter, tell me quickly!"

"Lord Chief," Bunier handed over a cloth bag, "This is a picture of an assassin sent out by the Guild, and we only got our hands on it not long ago." It's that, that..."

Without saying a word, Green snatched the cloth bag and pulled out a few pieces of parchment, on which they depicted the figures of four men in black, one woman and three men, two with longbows on their backs, although they were not clear, but they could distinguish the human form.

"I'll go, such a good thing, what did you do the other day?" Green dissatisfied.

"No, Chief, we can't draw the Assassin, even though some of us have seen the Assassin look like. This one was painted by a wounded axe-wielder in the Manning Guard, who was a painting enthusiast. On the day of the assassination, he was seriously wounded and lay in bed for dozens of days before he got up and drew these four pictures. As soon as the guild got his picture, they sent a fast horse to us. ”

"It looks like a hundred witnesses can't compare to one who can draw." ”

"No matter", Green waved his hand, "Let's go, check the people according to the map, even if you can't find people, you should be able to find the witnesses in the caravan!"

"That's right, let's go!" said Setty, who slapped his horse and headed back towards Tarim City.

Note 1: The Desik West Territory is almost all barren wasteland, the kind of land that is large plains but barren enough to grow only some low moss, except for the army fortress and Tarim City, there is almost no place to hide people.