Volume 4: Compromise and Struggle Chapter 39: Breaking the Plan

After a lot of ambiguous and vague "nonsense", the show finally began to be officially staged without pulling the curtain. Ed, who was already almost a dead man on the side, couldn't help but raise some of his spirits at this time, and his eyes were a little wider, and he looked at the two people in front of him.

Pierce and Titheβ€”they're so close now that their noses are about to touch. Tithe's gaze at Pierce was similar to that of the frozen desert.

"What do I think," she said, "it's none of your business. ”

"Of course, of course." Pierce smiled and nodded bitterly, "It was meant to be that way - but now it's different." If you've been in retreat, then of course there's no reason for us to bother you. But now you have taken the initiative to jump from the world over there, and you have jumped back to this world that you are more familiar with, and you have jumped in front of us, and this is what is about us. Isn't it? ”

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"Let's get down to business." Pierce straightened up, "A.R.X can let this girl go, but only if there are conditions. She is yours - you are ours. ”

"What did you say?" Shilo's squinted eyes opened, as if he had heard something incredible.

"I think you should have heard what I just said," said Pierce, "and I think you should understand what I mean." ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ So, so that's the case? ”

"What?"

"So that's what you're for," Tiji looked at Pierce without blinking, "your goal from the beginning wasn't gold at all, it wasn't Susan at all...... It's 'me'?! ”

The look on his face was like never before. Her eyes widened, and an aura of extreme danger emanated from her body.

However, Pierce, on the other hand, frowned and looked at Tilo suspiciously. Then he turned to look at Ed, and saw that the detective was looking at them motionless like a stone counting cars on the side of the road. He was expressionless, impassive, and couldn't see anything.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Pierce sensed that it was a very serious mistake to try to get a breakthrough from Ed. He turned his head back and said to the tithe, "I'm just doing what I was given orders from above and saying what they want me to tell you." ”

"Yes, is that so?" Shi Yiluo lowered his head slightly, his silver-black pupils flickered with a faint light, the corners of his mouth were cold arcs, and his eyes were like knives, "You're trying to tell me that you're just a dog of your organization, just loosened and released to hunt down prey, right?" ”

The words were prickly, but it didn't make a difference to Pierce. He nodded calmly and shrugged his shoulders. "You can say that if you want."

He would have laughed at what he was saying, but the only thing that was amused was Ed's imaginary dancing little figure - he was hanging upside down from the ceiling in a circle - and other than that, the funny joke didn't help. Among them, tithes in particular do not feel useful.

"You just mentioned Miss Kushigin," said Shilo, "and you're right, she was my teacher at the Black Table. I'm grateful to this guy, I had a little trouble when I left the black table, and it was the teacher who helped me. It saved me a lot of things, I had to kill her, and I'm glad I didn't have to...... She has played a key role today. ”

"Did you see her today?" Pierce reacted immediately, and Shiji was talking about something.

"I asked her for a favor to help investigate something related to your goddamn gold coins."

"I doubt it. The Underground World has the rules of the Underground World, and you have been removed from the Black Table, and there is no way to use the Black Table's resources again. ”

"I still have some privileges at the black table that allow me to meet her. And then it's much easier, as long as you are willing to pay the same price, there is nothing in this world that cannot be done. ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ So, what did she help you find? ”

There was a hint of genuine curiosity on Pierce's face. He knew exactly what his mission was, but he had only heard about the initial trigger for his mission, which was about the Alpha Buhoda Gold Coins in the organization. He knew that there was such a batch of gold coins in the organization, and he also knew that the reason why the organization chased Tilo and Susan, the fifteen-year-old girl who was protected by Tilo, was this gold coin. But the restβ€”as he said, he just did what he was told, and read the lines to the tithes according to the script laid out for him above. Of course, the fine-tuning must be done at the right time. It's not something that needs to be reminded of it.

"Teacher Kong Shiyin has found out a little bit about her relationship in the 'owl', and found out the true whereabouts of the Alpha Buhoda gold coins in your organization - they were sold to the god star three months ago!"

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"You're hunting us for a reason that doesn't exist at all, going after Susan." The murderous aura on Shilo's body was almost condensed into substance, and the corners of his hideous mouth furrowed, revealing the sharp canine fangs inside, "Originally, I thought it might be something wrong inside A.R.X...... But now I understand that your target has been me from the beginning! ”

Tithes forward, Pierce back. He leaned forward and leaned back, avoiding the approaching eyes of Tilo, as if he was afraid that the woman would suddenly open her mouth to bite him. He sat up straight, his mouth slightly open, his frown slowly loosening, then furrowing again, his eyes flickering, as if he was thinking about something quickly. He turned his head to look at the ponytailed girl sitting quietly on the couch behind him like wet sand, his eyes narrowed, and his open mouth was suddenly tightly closed.

He seemed to have figured something out of nowhere. And this thing is completely upending all the damn things now!

At the same time, Ed on the side also figured out some things. "Alpha Khoda Gold has already been sold", "A.R.X is chasing Tilo and Susan for a non-existent reason", "Their real purpose is not gold or Susan, but Tithe" - all the information obtained in less than half a minute has basically answered most of Ed's doubts, giving him a rough and complete guess about the cause and effect of the whole thing.

What is the connection between A.R.X, the top dark organization in the underworld, and Tails and Holly, two poor poisonous insects at the bottom of society? This question should be changed, and it should be replaced by what is the connection between Tails and Holly, two poor and insignificant insects at the bottom of society, and A.R.X, the top dark organization in the underworld, and Tire, the former top hired killer in the dark world?

The question is now clear, and the connection is now clear. If the cause of all this is that A.R.X wants to make an arrangement to get the tithe, the person he has buried himself, into his own hands, and they set up a bureau in order to use the special relationship between tithe and Susan to calculate and control the tithing, then everything makes sense. Merely......

"It's too much," Ed didn't know what to say, "which genius came up with this plan?" ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ I think I already know who it is. Pierce answered Ed's question, and it looked as if he was thinking the same thing as Ed, the awkward, quirky smile on his lips like an uncle watching his niece secretly learn to dig holes and bury bones in the lawn, "It's funny, it's very funny." I feel like I might have been tricked. ”

"Oh, what do you think?" Ed twisted and sat down against the wall, his legs curled up, and he turned into a ball under the windowsill. Then he raised his eyebrows defiantly at Pierce, "You're going to be tricked again." ”

"What?"

"Nice to meet you - goodbye!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ed bounced off the ground. Even though his hands and feet were tied, it didn't affect his bounce. Under the watchful eyes of Pierce and everyone in the room except tithe, he did a perfect somersault - jumping backwards out of the window.

"Hey!"

Pierce let out an exclamation and bounced straight out of his chair. The remaining three of his men were also dumbfounded, standing in place staring straight in the direction of the window where Ed's figure had disappeared.

Only one person seized this fleeting opportunity at this time, revealing his fangs that he had never really revealed-

The moment he got up, Pierce regretted it. He reacted almost immediately, realizing that something was wrong, but it was too late. With the sound of knitting disintegrating, Tiji broke the rope that bound his hands with the strength of his arm, and at the same time as Pierce exposed his front door, he also got up, grabbed Pierce's neck with one hand, lifted Pierce up, and then punched him in the face.

It turned out that in the previous fight with Eddard, Tiper still kept his hand, and Pierce, who had been fighting with Ed in melee ability, was directly knocked out by Tire's punch, and hit the button man who was guarding next to Susan. Both of them fell to the ground.

The other two buttonmen reacted and immediately rushed to the tithe. But though his feet were still tied together, Tilo's hands were free. She grabbed one of the buttonmen by the collar and threw him out the window in a panicked scream, then turned around and grabbed the other buttonman's head, snapping his neck neatly.

Unlike Eddard, Tilo has no scruples about killing!