Chapter 80: Muddy Waters and Fish (I)

"Just like you."

After hearing Arroyo's answer, Arno was stunned for a moment, then pursed the corners of his mouth knowingly, then turned his eyes to look at Raymond and Tina, and asked casually, "What about them?" ”

"Now it's my servant." Arroyo also has her eyes on the half-fairy girl and the future Juggernaut.

"Including this child?"

"You can be her too."

"Then you're an interesting nobleman, my lord."

When the words fell, Arno couldn't help but sneer and tease Arroyo casually.

The thief youth and the suspected member of the Brotherhood were talking and laughing, but Raymond felt as if he was an outsider, and the words that these two people said, such as the phrase "the same as you", he was stunned to hear it, as if he had been inadvertently carried into a labyrinth of topics, and suddenly couldn't help but gently pat the table, attracting the attention of the two to himself, and then asked aloud: "Can you make it clearer?" I... I didn't understand anything. ”

With that, he put his hands on the table, his eyes wandering from side to side on Arroyo and Arno's faces, and suddenly he felt that his companion and the stranger had suddenly become mysterious.

Arroyo looked at Raymond, and of course guessed that his grumpy and not-so-minded companion didn't understand the little code words he had used to communicate with Arno.

Arno Altaïr was a high-ranking member of the Brotherhood of Thieves, no more powerful than some of the Order's most sophisticated Assassins and Shadow Squires, but he was better at mastermind than anyone else in the Brotherhood, and had a knack for forgery.

Thus, Arroyo's reply that he is "just like you" has in fact implied Arno that his nobility and part of the clerical power that he had stolen from the church were in fact false. It's just that it can be used in a high-sounding manner before it is found and exposed.

At this moment, Locke returned from the bar of the tavern to the table of the crowd, and the maid of the shop followed Locke with a tray and added a wooden glass full of ale to the table.

Arno took a sip from his glass.

Swallowing the wine in his mouth with a gully of enjoyment, he then put down the glass in his hand, which looked like a small wooden barrel, turned his head to Arroyo and asked, "What did you come to Boengus with you?" ”

"It's just a drop-by." The thief youth shrugged, "What about you?" ”

"I'm going to wade into this muddy water."

"Muddy waters?"

"That's right." Arno lifted one elbow to the table and supported the side of his face with the back of his hand, "The water in Boniguez is muddy. You're probably sensing something in the atmosphere around you, and that's why I'm here. ”

As the words fell, Arno moved his eyes left and right, swept his gaze over Locke, Raymond, and Tina's faces in turn, and after two seconds, he refocused his gaze on Arroyo's eyes, as if asking: Are these people reliable?

Raymond was even more bewildered by Arno's gaze sweeping his face, but Arroyo understood what Arno meant, and nodded solemnly at him, indicating that his companions could be trusted.

"So. This whole thing has to start with our old adversary. Receiving an affirmative answer from Arroyo's reaction, Arno then retracted the slack expression on his face, "You and your followers know the Nightborn, right?" ”

"Those killers are in the city?!" Arroyo was immediately stunned.

On the coast of the St. Flon Sea in the Fourth Age of Ferdia. The two most influential bandit organizations active in the human kingdom are the Brotherhood and the Night Descent.

As Fein recalled some time ago when Hurenger learned that Arroyo was a member of the Brotherhood, the Brotherhood's faction was biased towards "chaos and goodness", while the Nightspawn was biased towards "chaos and evil". The members of the Brotherhood are mostly civilians who are eager for change and rely on each other to come together, while the thieves who join the Night-Descent are full of twisted resentment towards the social environment around them. It is hoped that the existing order will be overthrown one day in order to establish a paradise that is perfectly fit for their survival.

Influenced by the ideas of their respective groups, there is a clear contrast between the styles of the two Thieves' Guild organizations. Even if the Brotherhood is involved in shady dealings in the shadows, the thieves of the Brotherhood are measured and know what they can try to ask for, and what is their bottom line.

The Nightborn, the thieves of this group, don't think about it at all. When night falls, these insanely terrifying and dangerous men hide their daggers and daggers in their sleeves and begin a new night of slaughter, convinced that a deity known as the Night Mother is always watching behind their backs and supporting their actions.

To put it simply, it's the same organization that lives in the dark, and the Brotherhood is only limited to selling drugs at best, while the Night Spawn is completely revenge on society, even if they kill innocent people who have no grievances with them, they don't feel guilty, and even feel that "this must be the will of the Night Mother", and they will be proud that they have "purified another dirt in the world", and then they will be complacent after the knife and clothes are stained with the smell of blood, chanting their slogans before and after killing, As everyone knows, his crazy behavior is only a difference between fifty steps and a hundred steps compared to the notorious Demon Shepherd's Sect.

Therefore, when Arno's mouth heard the word "Nightborn", Arroyo was naturally taken aback, but he quickly realized his gaffe, immediately clenched his fist in front of his mouth and coughed, then turned his head sideways to look around, and then made sure that his voice just now did not attract the attention of the idle people before lowering his voice again, and continued to look at Arno and ask, "Huh...... I mean, the Nightborns are in the city, too? ”

"Of course — that's why I said it's a muddy water." Arno nodded solemnly.

"But why?" After one of the questions in his mind was answered, the next question was thrown to Arno from the mouth of the thief youth, "What are the Nightborns doing in Boniguez?" Who are the killers targeting this time? ”

The next second the question came out, Arroyo didn't get a reply from Arno's mouth, and a conjecture of his own suddenly popped up in his mind.

"Could it be...... The target they found this time was Baron Singler? His eyes widened at the thought of Boenigs' most conspicuous figure, and he watched Arno make up his conjecture. (To be continued.) )