We didn't encounter a single enemy on the way from the outer gates of the castle to the central garden, but the atmosphere of terror was still suffocating.

Along the way, Virgo made several phone calls to the rest of the Brotherhood elders, asking them to lead a crowd to reinforcements.

When we walked to the statue of Kolynev in the middle of the garden, we saw several bodyguards of the Brotherhood lying in front of the door, all of whom had been shot and died. But we still don't see the one of the black thorns.

"Did you think those bastards have already withdrawn?" Zheng Tian tugged at the corner of my clothes and asked timidly.

If the Black Thorns have evacuated and proven that their mission to steal the Soul Map was successful, it will make things even trickier.

"I don't know, let's look for the painting first." I glanced at the second floor of the castle with black smoke and said.

Upon entering the hall of the castle, it was a tragic scene inside: the elegant furniture had been smashed, the floor of the hall was covered with blood, and the corpses of maids and servants were on the stairs, in the corridors, and under the tables and chairs.

I glanced and found no body of the fat bear.

I immediately walked into the room where the fat bear lived, and it was a mess, but there was still no sign of him.

"That fat man is very shrewd, eighty percent of them saw that the momentum was not good, and one person slipped away first." Zheng Tian guessed.

Looking at the corpses of the faithful servants, Daria's eyes were already red.

Holding back tears, she walked up to the second floor with her gun in hand.

After entering the study, I found that the cupboard in the study had been opened, and the locked "Soul Map" inside was gone.

The table and sofa in the study were all on fire, and billowing black smoke was emitting, and Yang Wen and Virgo immediately stepped forward to extinguish the flames.

"It's over." I looked at the empty cupboards with vacant eyes, and we were still a step too late.

Daria collapsed on the blackened couch in despair, looking depressed.

Zheng Tian walked up to me and whispered: "Chengzi, you see this painting is gone, should we withdraw first......

I glanced at him before I could say anything, Zheng Tian continued: "I think we should not get involved in this troubled water. The purpose of our coming to Russia is to find your Uncle Dao and Dean Wei, and I didn't want to get involved in Lao Maozi's gangster struggle at all. ”

Wei Yin replied sharply: "If you want to go, you go alone, Daria is our friend, she is facing a hurdle now, we can't leave her alone." ”

Zheng Tian frowned and whispered, "What friends, didn't you only know yesterday?" I don't think we can die here with her for no apparent reason! ”

"I'm still the same sentence, you have to go by yourself." Wei Yin said coldly.

Seeing that she was so stubborn, Zheng Tian persuaded again: "That Virgo has already called just now, and the people from their brotherhood will be coming over soon, we can't help here, it's better to spend time looking for someone, don't you want to see your father?" ”

Wei Yin crossed her arms with an annoyed expression and did not reply.

I glanced at Daria, who was helpless on the sofa, and patted Zheng Tian on the shoulder: "Uncle Dao and Dean Wei have been involved in the matter of the Brotherhood, and if we want to find them, we must continue to follow up on the situation here." ”

As soon as I finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of a vase falling to the ground outside the door, and we immediately became vigilant.

There are people outside the door.

I walked to the door with my gun in hand, kicked it open, and pointed it at the man outside the door.

The man had his back to me, wrapped in a white sheet, and he couldn't see clearly.

"Turn around!" I scolded.

The man heard my voice, craned his neck, and turned his head.

Fat Bear!?

"Four-Eyed Boy, you're finally here!" When the fat bear saw me, he was overjoyed.

I glanced down the hallway and said to him cautiously, "Come in and talk." ”

The fat bear glanced sideways at the room and pulled me aside in a panic: "That Virgo is still inside!" ”?

I replied, "It's likely that something went wrong with our earlier assumptions, that Virgo wasn't the inner ghost of the Brotherhood, and that the inner ghost was still in the castle. ”

At this time, Wei Yin and Zheng Tian also walked out, they were very happy to see that the fat bear was still alive, but the fat bear's expression was very strange, he pushed the three of us to the staircase, and whispered: "You have all been deceived, Virgo is the inner ghost, and there is more than one inner ghost!" ”

I asked Fat Bear how he knew, and Fat Bear said mysteriously, "Follow me up to the third floor and show you someone." ”

Wei Yin looked at Dalia sitting in the study, and hesitated: "Is it really okay for us to leave like this without saying hello?" ”

Fat Bear said urgently: "Don't let Virgo find out, we'll come back later to save that foreign girl." ”

Then he led us into a very hidden storage room on the third floor, where a man sat and was writing letters with a pen quickly.

When the man saw us coming, he turned his head and looked at us with a haggard expression.

It's the butler Ivan.

I looked at the fat bear, then at Ivan, and asked him what was going on here.

The fat bear sighed and said, "Not long after you left this afternoon, the Black Thorn Killer came. There were a lot of them, and all the bodyguards guarding the door were killed, and Ivan tried to activate the castle's defense system, but found that the system had been tampered with again, and all of them had been paralyzed. Those black thorny bastards seemed to know in advance that the castle system was paralyzed, and they killed it with AK47, that guy, it's like a massacre! ”

"The defense system has been tampered with again?" I was surprised.

"Yes, after they entered the castle, I tried to escape but couldn't, but fortunately Ivan knew about this secret storeroom. He brought me in and hid me. The two of us analyzed it, Virgo has been imprisoned and has no chance to do anything, and the only one who has the opportunity to tamper with the defense system of the castle is the captain of the guard, Sergei! ”

I frowned: "You mean, Sergei is an inner ghost?" ”

Fat Bear added: "Virgo too, they are all in the same group. Ivan said he had seen the two men last night and had been talking for a long time. ”

Zheng Tian said with a bitter face: "We are being tricked around!" ”

I think about it for a moment that it was Sergei who was looking up the authorization record at the meeting today, if he inadvertently did something to us......

No wonder the authorization record is empty!!

By the way, and today's explosion...... The black bag was Sergei's, and only he had the opportunity to drop the bomb, and he was the captain of the guard, and there was a way to fool the security system of the conference building and bring the bomb into the venue......

"What do you want to do with the four-eyed boy, you don't talk for a long time!" The fat bear patted me and asked.

I came back to my senses and remembered that the fat bear had not yet known about the explosion in the conference building today, so I told them about this horrific incident, and the fat bear looked surprised, but Ivan thought it was reasonable, and he took out a translator from the drawer and said to us:

"Yesterday I put the documents proving Virgo's financial abnormalities in the briefcase, and handed them directly to Sergei, and later I accidentally found out that Sergei had quietly put something in the bag, I didn't care at the time, and now it seems that the bomb was put in at that time."

I closed my eyes, and I didn't expect that there were two inner ghosts in the upper echelons of this brotherhood.

"Isn't Daria dangerous now? Virgo was right next to her. Wei Yin asked anxiously.

Ivan shook his head: "Not for the time being, the people of Black Thorns haven't gotten the Soul Map yet, and they still need to use Dalia at this time." ”

I was surprised: "Why, the secret painting that disappeared in the study was not snatched by the Black Thorn Man?" ”

Ivan said with a complicated expression: "Yes, before the arrival of the Black Thorn Man, the secret painting was gone. ”

(End of chapter)