On the main road leading to the city gate in the southeast of the imperial capital, an ordinary horse-drawn carriage slowly moved along with the crowded flow of people.

Driving were two men who looked to be in their thirties, with faintly yellow faces and yellowed clothes with many patches, showing that their lives were not rich or even poor.

But compared with the crowd around the carriage that looked a little numb to life, there was a joy and excitement on the faces of the two men who could not hide it, and they were talking with great interest.

Not far in front of the carriage and not far behind it, there were several cars that were luxurious enough to compare with this ordinary carriage.

In addition to setting off this ordinary carriage more ordinary, these cars, which are exclusive to the nobles at first glance, also faintly form a convoy to guard this ordinary carriage in it.

In a luxury car dragged by four horses at the head of the convoy, Tu Gang, who was wearing black combat armor, was engrossed in alerting the surrounding situation through the side window of the car.

Obviously, Tu Gang did not immediately set off to find his brother Tu Duo as Lu Fan had ordered.

Not to mention that his brother Tuduo will not commit suicide in three or four days, before that, Tugang must also put the current supreme consul of the Karui Empire, the most trusted state secretary of His Majesty the Emperor of the Karui Empire, and the first princess of the future Karui Empire...... Well, it was Tugang's sister who thought he thought was the first princess, Lord Winnie Felicia, who was safely escorted out of the imperial capital.

Covert escorts, to be precise.

Winnie Felice is a very principled person, otherwise she would not be valued by Lu Fan.

So in the matter of picking up her sister, Winnie Felicius just asked the intelligence officers of the Karui Empire to send a letter, and the rest of the guards responsible for road security were mercenaries from the Karui Empire hired at her own expense.

In short, Winnie Felice didn't alarm too many people in this matter, and even Lu Fan didn't know.

And Tu Gang was chatting and bragging with an intelligence officer at the communication station last night when he accidentally learned about this matter.

Originally, Tu Gang wanted to report it to Lu Fan.

But as soon as Tugang entered the door, he was scolded by Lu Fan with his head and face, and then he was fiercely intimidated, and he forgot about it in a daze.

Second, although Tu Gang sometimes makes a bit of a mistake, he still has something in terms of human sophistication, and there must be a reason why his own consul doesn't want His Majesty the Emperor to know about it.

What is the specific reason, Yi Tu Gang's IQ is probably no more than fifty, and he definitely can't figure it out, but after thinking about it, Tu Gang, who still has a little bit of emotional intelligence, didn't think about reporting this matter to Lu Fan anymore.

Although he didn't report it to Lu Fan to know, Tu Gang felt that since he knew about it, he had to do something, right?

It just so happened that Lu Fan asked Tugang to return to China to spread the news.

Tu Gang instantly thought, why don't you bring some people to escort the sister of your own consul back?

After all, whether in terms of strength or loyalty, compared to those mercenaries who sell their lives when they give money, Tu Gang feels that his own people are more reliable, and by the way, he can also sell his own consul a favor.

Now that he feels that his status is getting lower and lower in the heart of His Majesty the Emperor, Tu Gang feels that this favor is still very important and important, so important that it is likely to save his life at some time in the future.

In short, it's a multiple-killing thing.

Thinking of this, Tu Gang quickly arranged for people to take on the task of guarding, and considering the feelings of his own consul, he decided that it would be better to be protected by those mercenaries on the surface, and he and his subordinates would be responsible for the covert protection.

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In the field of vision through the side window, the tall city gate was already in sight, but Tu Gang's heart gradually filled with an inexplicable sense of crisis.

Yi Tugang learned about the situation in the past two days, because of the anger of His Majesty the Emperor, as well as the subsequent fanning of those intelligence officers, which led to a large number of residents of the imperial capital.

Although the imperial officials were willing to stop it, because there were not only civilians but also a large number of powerful people among the residents who fled, I heard that there were even figures such as the brother-in-law of the imperial minister Onesto, so it was simply powerless to stop it, and in the end it could only be resigned.

In addition, the Imperial authorities devoted most of the remaining security forces to the investigation of the cause of the tragedy.

Therefore, in the past two days, the imperial official's investigation of the people entering the imperial capital was completely useless, and sometimes there were even only three or four soldiers on duty at a huge city gate.

However, now, whether it is from the slow progress of the surrounding crowd, or the city gate that is obviously guarded by many soldiers not far away, it shows that the investigation is completely different from the previous sudden increase.

"Could it be that the upper echelons of the empire are finally going to start restricting the exodus? …… Also, if you continue to escape like this, the imperial capital will soon become a ghost town. As if he had found an explanation for the anomaly in front of him, Tu Gang's nerves, which had been inexplicably tense just now, were slightly soothed.

Despite this, the indescribable sense of crisis in Tu Gang's heart still lingers, like a thick dark cloud before a storm, silently but heavily pressing on his heart......

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At the same time, there is a street-facing shop on the third floor near the city gate.

In the room with the window facing the main road, the original owner of the shop, along with his wife and children, had fallen into a coma, and was randomly stacked in a corner of the room.

In addition to the original owner of the shop and his wife and children, who did not know his life or death, in a room of more than forty square meters, there was also a team of adventurers belonging to the lower branch of the B75 low-level space of the metal tide guild, a large commercial organization in the middle space of B75.

That is, a team of five-person adventurers led by the red-haired royal sister.

At this time, except for the captain red-haired royal sister and the black-haired young man with a mechanical structure on his left eye, the other three members of the team were constantly pulling out some sci-fi parts from their watches, and then assembling them into some equipment and weapons that were not obvious at first glance.

The red-haired lady who was the captain was wearing a pair of silver tactical eyepieces and the black-haired young man with a mechanical prosthetic eye, observing the convoy and people on the main road below through the window.

Looking at the two luxury convoys moving with the flow of people not far away and the ordinary carriage that seemed to be inadvertently in the middle of the two convoys, the rich team combat experience accumulated over the long period made the red-haired royal sister instantly recognize the escort behavior that Tu Gang thought was hidden.

"Captain, it seems that Oka and those cubs are here for this group." The prosthetic-eyed young man, who also saw the clues, couldn't help but say to the red-haired royal sister.

"Hmm." The red-haired royal sister nodded slightly.

"But captain, the armor worn by the two guys in front and behind is something, it is not ordinary at first glance, it is at least B-level equipment by visual inspection, and it obviously does not match the scientific and technological background of this plane."

Obviously, the prosthetic-eyed young man's mechanical eyeball has a certain ability to see, and he saw Tu Gang and another Lu Fan's personal guard hidden in the carriage.

The red-haired royal sister frowned slightly when she heard this, and after thinking for a while, she asked, "Do you have a watch?" ”

The prosthetic-eyed young man shrugged his shoulders a little helplessly: "I wouldn't be surprised if there is, the key is no." I think those two guys might be indigenous followers of some cub harvest. ”

Then, I don't know what came to mind, and the prosthetic-eyed youth then added: "Of course, it is also possible that he simply found a few indigenous subordinates. ”

"Follower ......" the red-haired lady fell into thought again.

Adventurers want to collect followers, but they can't just accept them, there are certain requirements and restrictions, and as a vulnerable group in the space, human beings or ordinary humans can be said to be the most worthless kind of followers, except for some budding newcomers, no adventurer will want to accept them.

Later, perhaps thinking that this question was a little irrelevant to the current situation, the red-haired royal sister stopped thinking and turned to the prosthetic-eyed young man beside her and asked, "Where do you think this group of people are?" ”

The prosthetic-eyed young man touched his chin and thought for a while and said, "Hmm...... First of all, it's definitely not from our side, and then look at that Oka is obviously bringing people to block this group of people, so it can't be from the empire's side. ”

Speaking of this, the prosthetic-eyed young man shrugged his shoulders again: "Then isn't the rest very certain?" ”

"Karui Empire...... while muttering these words, the red-haired royal sister once again turned her gaze to the convoy that was getting closer and closer not far away.