() Unexpectedly, it turned out that these horse thieves still had a backstage behind the scenes, and after reading the contents of the letter, Lei couldn't help but sigh

Regardless of whether they have a backstage or not, they must no longer allow this gang of robbers to run rampant on the territory of the Pole Kingdom, and at this moment, Sophia is thinking of her country and people

But what is the 'fish that slipped through the net' in the letter, Cassius noticed a detail, and it seems that they have also kidnapped some people

Anyway, these horse thieves can't do any good things, so let's go and raid their lair and rescue them by the way

Well, the other three companions nodded in agreement

The four of them continued to follow the tulip bee to trace the trajectory of the horse thief who had been hit by the arrow, and after walking for more than twenty kilometers, they found the arrow fired by Joika at a mound, which was buried in the dirt and was still stained with blood on the chain when it was first dug up

It's just that although this horse thief is cautious enough, but when he meets Joika, he can only make himself unlucky

Sophia and the four of them followed the tulip bee around the wilderness, but they saw that the wounded horse thief had done a lot of work to try to get rid of the tail that might be following him, and still did this greatly delayed his return to the base camp, and the later he returned, the less time the other horse thieves who remained in the base camp had time to deal with it

All morning and noon, Sophia and the four of them had been circling in the wilderness, but now they were confident that they had gone forward with purpose, and not blindly wandering around, compared to the days before, wandering aimlessly

Finally, in the afternoon, they finally tracked the end of the tulip bee's flight

The place was no longer a wilderness, but a small town near the wilderness, where Tulip Bees hovered in front of a dilapidated monastery on the outskirts of the town

This was where the gang of horse thieves hid, how could it be that Sophia looked at the dilapidated monastery and the ascetics who walked around, dressed in plain clothes, and looked very pious, and she felt a little incredulous

How could it be impossible, if the horse thief was disguised in a monastery, Joyka next to him said that he understood that Sophia, as a priest of the Holy Light Cult and had spent her girlhood in such a civilian monastery, naturally had a good impression of this kind of church place at the bottom of society, but he, Joyka, was different, he never believed in any god, he would only make the most objective analysis based on his years of experience as a bounty hunter

If this place is the hiding place of the horse thieves, as you said, then why don't the horse thieves renovate the monastery with so much wealth, you see that the outer walls are all broken, Sophia retorted

It is precisely because of the most unlikely places that people tend to ignore it the most, and it would be strange if these poor monks suddenly had the money to renovate the monastery without arousing suspicion, and besides, from the content of the letter, it is surmised that these horse thieves have a backstage, if this is the case, the abbey has become a temporary base for those horse thieves to use in the background, and perhaps Joyka will analyze the problem from the perspective of understanding and respond to Sophia

But that's just your guess, and you don't have any proof that this monastery is a hiding place for horse thieves, and Sophia is still not convinced

I've been a bounty hunter for many years, and it turns out that my judgments are mostly correct

But......

Well, Ray interrupted the argument between Joyka and Sophia, to know if this was a horse thief's lair, and went in to see, and as he spoke, Ray walked towards the monastery

Joyka grabbed him: Don't be impulsive, let's wait until the evening to investigate

At night, Ray looked at Joyka, didn't you say that it was more convenient to track during the day

Yes, of course, it is convenient during the day, but if you want to enter some places to get information, it is better to have a meal at night, and Joyka said that this is basic bounty hunter common sense, and I will explain to you later that it is not early now, and it will soon be evening, so we can go to the town first, or we can get unexpected information

With that, Joyka and Sophia walked into the town, where they found a small tavern, and they sat down at the bar and ordered a glass of mulled wine for everyone except Sophia

The bartender asks you something, and Joika says to the busy bartender as he tosses a silver coin

I must know what the guest wants to know, and when he saw the coin, the bartender immediately stopped what he was doing, came to Joyka's side, and said with a smile

Well, I inquired about the monastery outside town......

After talking to the bartender, Joyka got the information he wanted to know, the dilapidated monastery on the outskirts of the town had existed a long time ago, it was built by a group of ascetics a hundred years ago, but after the death of those ascetics, the monastery has been vacant, the people in the town have no money, so no one has to repair it, the townspeople want to worship, it is a big deal, walk more than ten kilometers to the official church in the city, but just about five years ago, a group of about 50 people suddenly came from out of town, The ascetics of mysterious identity came to the monastery and simply rebuilt the facilities inside and settled in the monastery

No one knows how this monastery, which can only accommodate more than 10 people at most, is crammed into more than 50 people, this group of ascetics almost never comes into contact with the inhabitants of the town, they generally go deep and simple, rarely go outside the monastery, and they do not welcome the inhabitants of the town to pray in the monastery, and live in almost isolation, as for where the living expenses of this group of ascetics come from, it has always been a mystery of this town, but in the last two months this group of ascetics seems to go out very frequently, they almost always leave en masse at night, run into the wilderness, and then two or three days later one night they will return to the monastery en masse, and after two or three more they will leave the mysterious and uninhabited peopleKnow where these monks go and what they do

After coming out of the tavern, it was already late, and the four of them walked through the night streets of the town

From the information the bartender received, there was an 80% chance that the group of ascetics was the group of horse thieves, Joyka said

Cassius agreed: yes, it is indeed suspicious in terms of the number of people and the time of the event

But how do you explain that if the monks were really horse thieves, where were their horses hidden, and that there were not so many horses hidden in this monastery, Sophia asked

So we'll have to check it out tonight to solve all the mysteries Joyka said.