Chapter 5: Quinine Carrick (Seeking Investment)
PS: I've signed a contract, you can invest just a lot of money............
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Put it on the desk and check it carefully, the level of the linkage rod is very high, the surface is rough, and the polishing is not good, but the connection at the connection is flawless and fits perfectly.
Turning his gaze off the structure, he lay on the chair holding the hot water cup in both hands, squinting slightly.
"According to Ms. Ye Nifu, half a month ago the unlucky guy appeared, now half a month, the other party should go out a lot of distance, looking for someone in a strange environment is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, you have to find a person who is familiar with the environment to be your guide, and then follow the guide to follow the traces of the other party, the most important thing is that this guide must be a person you trust very much."
Someone you trust very much......
After thinking about it, there seems to be only one person who can meet this condition at present.
"Lensad ......"
Li Tong got up and put on a black cloak and went out.
The door to Rensad's cabin was closed, but there was a line of footprints on the steps that had not been seen when he had passed by.
I greeted an acquaintance from the town who passed by the door and knocked on the door.
"Rensad, I'm Ronin......"
Waited a long time and didn't get any response.
"Asleep?"
Looking around to make sure there was no one else, Li Tong muttered and stepped forward and pushed the door.
"Squeak"
The door was not bolted, and a gap slowly opened.
"I don't even tie the door, and I'm more nervous than myself."
After being stunned for a moment, he quickly got into the crack in the door, and then turned around and quickly closed the door, so as to avoid someone at the door from seeing himself trespassing into someone else's house without permission.
Turning around with his back against the door, Li Tongcai's soothing heart suddenly rose to his throat and held his breath.
The dim light that came in through the closed curtains darkened the environment, and a man sat in a chair in front of a desk not far away, unable to see his face in the dim light.
"It should be Rensad"
Li Tong, who came back to his senses and sorted out the situation, quickly adjusted his mentality.
"I'm sorry, I knocked on the door, you didn't answer, I'm worried about your safety...... So ......"
The person in the seat immediately interrupted.
"You know Renzade?"
Li Tong was stunned.
What this means is that the person sitting in the dim light is someone else, not Rensad, but a thief? Or maybe it's a robber, or maybe it's the guy who visited you last night? Anyway, it wasn't the man from last night, because the man's body profile wasn't so muscular in shape. ”
As he pondered, the man's voice rang out again.
"Lensad is gone."
As soon as he finished speaking, the room lit up, and the light source was the candle in the corner of the table in front of the man who was sitting.
A resolute face under the light, a pair of blue eyes sharper than a falcon, although sitting, he could still judge that he was more than one meter eight tall, and he was wearing leather armor made of animal skin, which was reinforced with some metal, the purpose of course was to increase the defensive power of the leather armor, and the animal skin boots on the edge of the table were covered with mud.
There were two swords on the table, their blades glowing coldly in the candlelight.
"Geralt the Witcher?" Li Tong subconsciously muttered in his mind.
There was a corpse lying on the ground beside it, its limbs twisted and posed in a strange shape, blood congealed on the ground, and its head was gone.
Staring at the corpse, Li Tong's back spine was cold, and he involuntarily stepped back, pressing against the door panel tightly, if it weren't for this door, he would definitely be able to go backwards and leave here at a speed of one hundred kilometers per hour.
Forward, turn, open the door, and rush out......
This sequence of movements is slightly calculated and takes about three seconds.
The other party got up, drew his sword, rushed over, and it took more than four seconds to pierce his chest.
Theoretically, he would have been able to rush out before he died.
But the premise is that the physical functions of both parties are the same, and at present, the physical functions of the other party are obviously several times stronger than their own, and there is also the interference of inner fear, which will also affect the efficiency of this series of actions.
So after a quick and comprehensive consideration, I can only stay where I am.
"I'm a good friend of Renzaard, I'm just coming to see ...... He ......"
The person sitting in the chair taps his fingers lightly on the desk, making a dull and rhythmic sound of "dong dong", and after a moment falls silent, a pin drop can be heard, and soon a low, powerful voice sounds.
"It seems that my waiting is not a waste of time, I have finally gained something, come and sit, I have something to know about Rensad, since you are his friend, you must know a lot."
Li Tong understood the meaning of the other party's words.
"This guy is sitting in the room silently, just waiting for the rabbit, waiting for the first person to come to the door, and now he has become this unlucky bastard."
Seeing that the other party got up and put another chair next to the desk in front of the desk, and then stretched out his hand to signal the past, Li Tong pursed his lips, his throat was dry, and he didn't move.
Subconsciously, he has already regarded this guy as an enemy of Rensad, because Rensad is not there, the old man of the Order Church who was sent to Rensad's side by himself last night has become a scapegoat, and he has been dismantled by this guy, and when he entered the door, he had already noticed the familiar black robe on the corpse, which was clearly the old man who visited him last night, and it should be his turn next.
"No, we have to make amends, and we must quickly clear up the relationship."
Li Tong thought so and spoke.
"Well, I don't know Renzaard very well, although I regard him as a friend, but he doesn't think so, now I'm just here to inform him to go to Ms. Yennifo to settle the arrears, by the way, he still owes me a sum of money, such a guy should have died a long time ago, rest assured, what happened here is as if nothing happened here, I didn't see anything."
The person at the desk had already pressed one hand on the hilt of a sword on the table, his eyes were sharp and unquestionable, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, revealing a strange smile.
"Don't worry, come and sit, it's just a simple question."
It seems that this will be remedied to no avail, and there seems to be no chance of escaping, Li Tong greeted the eighteenth generation ancestor in his heart, and then dragged his extremely reluctant body to the chair, and slowly sat down, revealing a harmless smile of humans and animals.
"What do you want to know, I will answer truthfully.
Fingers removed from the blade of the sword and sat down again, and the man nodded in satisfaction, his expression cold.
"How long have you known him?"
Of course, less time is better, Li Tong replied quickly.
"I've only been here for less than a month, so I'm not familiar with this place."
Looking at the other party's expression when he heard the answer, he didn't seem to doubt the authenticity, and he breathed a long sigh of relief.
Question continues!
"Did Rensad behave unusually?"
"Well, I don't know, I've known him for a short time."
"Has anyone visited him lately?"
It is not possible to provide all the useless information, which will arouse the suspicion of the other party, and it is worth a little bit to give him a better chance of survival, Li Tong thought for a while and lowered his voice.
"Someone came to me last night to inquire about his residence, and I pointed him out." As he answered, he glanced out of the corner of his eye at the torn corpse on the ground.
The head of the person on the opposite side was tilted towards the corpse on the ground.
"He wasn't very lucky, he was torn apart by Rensad last night."
Li Tong was stunned.
"Didn't this guy kill him?"
Frightened, he turned his head to look at the corpse on the ground, the tragic situation was embarrassing, at this time he was very close to the corpse, he saw more details, and his eyes suddenly stayed on the corpse's wound.
The wound of the corpse looks rough, it is not caused by a sharp weapon, it should be the effect of brute force, and laymen can see that it was not the guy in front of him who did it, is it really Rensad as the other party said, but what is the motive for the killing. ”
As if hearing a question in his mind, the man picked up a picture from the table.
"The mystery is in this picture."
The drawings of the hides in front of me were stained with blood and almost completely turned red, but the hides and the good water barrier of the ink played an important role, and the contents were still clearly visible.
It is clearly the picture that the deceased showed when he found him, the rubbings of the slate.
"Could it be because the deceased listened to his own words and asked Rensad for information on the power of the slate, but Rensad couldn't get it, and the deceased thought that Rensad didn't want to share the results, so he made threats, which led to an argument between the two, and finally Rensad lost his mind and killed the deceased."
Li Tong quickly thought about what had happened here, and at the same time, the other party's words also revealed some other information.
"Since the guy in front of him judged that it was related to the animal skin, he should also know what the content on the animal skin is, who is this guy?"
If you don't know the identity of the other party, you can't show that you also know this animal skin, otherwise all the lies told in front of him will be invalid, he pretended to be puzzled, reached out and took the animal skin, looked at it for a while, and handed it back.
"I can't see it, it's just a hide."
The man sitting at the desk was silent for a moment, rubbed his eyebrows, and stretched his fingers to the long sword placed on the table.
Li Tong watched the other party's movements and subconsciously leaned his body back, until he confirmed that he had no intention of killing, and only relieved after picking up the two swords and returning them to the scabbards on his back.
Returning the two swords to their scabbards, the atmosphere in the room was much more harmonious, at least the next conversation did not have to worry about the sword on the table stabbing into his heart at any time.
"By the way, I forgot to introduce myself, Quinine Carrick, bounty hunter."