readx; The place of conversation was placed in the tavern next to the inn, where Erwin had entertained Rex last night, but this morning he had to sit with this group of people who had a holiday with Rex, and the wonder and helplessness of life were revealed at this moment. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In fact, if it weren't for the strange appearance that Rex showed last night, his face was pale and his expression was detached, then Erwin probably wouldn't have said a word to Lydia, a royal sister in her early thirties, today.

After all, a demon hunter knight from the Punishment Academy, a subordinate institution of the Titan Holy See, could be a murderer, although it is not as ridiculous as Erwin crossing into this world, but it is not far behind.

Even Susan, who doesn't have a good impression of Rex, understands that his identity as a demon hunter is absolutely impossible to become a murderer.

So the two of them planned to talk to Lydia, initially with the idea that there must be some misunderstanding in it.

The two sides sat down in the tavern, and the young hostess had already seen the scene of the two sides rattling outside, but now he didn't even dare to come up and ask, hiding behind the counter and poking out half of his head to peep.

Naturally, more than twenty people could not all come in, and Delia was on her side, in addition to herself, she followed two subordinates, a man and a woman, looking at Erwin and Susan with awe-inspiring but unkind eyes.

Seeing that Erwin frowned and didn't mean to speak, Susan automatically took on the job of negotiating, and in the past, she was often the one who received various clients in the Gray Dove Mercenary Group, so she was not jerky about the means of negotiation.

"Before we talk, I hope to be able to re-understand the identities of both parties......" Susan's expression was serious, looking directly at Lydia, although she was a little shorter than her, but her momentum was not weak at all, "I'm Susan, this is Erwin, we are all mercenaries like you, and we belong to a mercenary group called Shenhuo." Although we both come from different places, we will at least have some common language and do not need to understand each other by force. ”

Lydia's expression froze, she could tell that this beautiful little girl named Susan was accusing them of planning to do something, if she heard a little girl from a mercenary group who was much younger than herself and from a little-known mercenary group dare to accuse herself like this before today, Lydia would definitely laugh out loud, not to mention the reputation of their Thornflower mercenary group in several big cities in the hinterland of Tulbo, her name alone has the confidence to not allow other mercenaries to point fingers.

It's a pity that Erwin's sword just now completely destroyed Lydia's confidence to be pure, and the strong man of the rank gate that large mercenary groups may not have makes Lydia have to accept Susan's accusations in full.

The famous female mercenary leader glanced at Erwin, who did not speak, and then nodded with a nonchalant face: "I admit that we are indeed a little impulsive, but what the murderer did in Turbo cannot calm people down, and there are at least a thousand people who have died under his hands, including many innocent civilians, merchants, and even nobles, and you can't protect him." ”

Turbo is the name of the hinterland of the territory of Lorenço, also known as the hinterland of Turbo, located in the northwest of the kingdom of Lorenço, and is also the most economically concentrated place in half of Lorenço.

Tulbo means wealth in Portland, which shows how important this hinterland is to Lorenzo, and the fact that the murderer has caused such a big impact here has already made many people nervous, which is indeed not something that two young people can cover, even if they are high-ranking powerhouses.

And if the murderer is allowed to continue to run rampant, sooner or later it will alarm the upper nobles, and then the dispatch of the army will be inevitable, after all, the number of thousands of victims is close to a small military conflict.

Susan glanced at Elwin, the two of them had heard Rex say what this murderer had done last night, it was hard to believe that there could be such a rampant person, but if this murderer was Rex who sat in front of them last night and talked about it, it was probably even harder to believe.

"We don't mean to harbor murderers, but the person you are talking about may not be the same person as the person we know......"

Susan shook her head and said, but the woman who was one of the two following Lydia interrupted her excitedly, "Why not? We came after him, and last night there were only you in the town of Massawa except him, if it wasn't for him, could it be you? ”

Erwin glanced at her, and the female mercenary, who was still trying to say something with her mouth wide open, suddenly seemed to be choked by the neck, and the words held in her throat stopped abruptly, and finally she could only close her mouth with a hateful expression.

"I beg your pardon, but we have many friends and friends who have died at the hands of that demon, and this is a blood vendetta that must be avenged." Lydia said with a cold face, although she was dissatisfied with Erwin for scaring her men, which had even led to a fight in the past, but now she had to explain it aggrievedly, "So our emotions will inevitably be a little excited." ”

"So you've already fought a murderer?" Susan understood the key in Lydia's words and immediately asked, "Can you describe his appearance first?" ”

"This ......" Lydia looked hesitant, but eventually described the appearance of the murderer they had seen.

Black cloak, gray armor, riding a blood-streaked warhorse, but wearing a demon mask on his face, so no one could clearly see what the murderer looked like.

"Oh? Since you can't even see your face, how are you sure that someone we know is a murderer? ”

Although Susan didn't have any expression on her face, her eyes had already shown a clear question, and she stabbed at Lydia like a sharp blade: "Cloaks, armor, masks, and even blood-streaked war horses are not the only ones, it's okay if you catch someone on the spot, but based on these alone, you can think that all people dressed like this are murderers, won't they be too reckless?" ”

Lydia didn't expect Susan's questioning to be able to grasp the point, indeed, whether it is a cloak or armor or a mask, these things cannot be used as the only evidence, because there are people dressed strangely everywhere, there are many people dressed in black cloaks and gray armor, even the extremely expensive blood-patterned war horses, and many nobles specially buy them from the Black Eagle Grassland thousands of miles away as collectibles.

The reason why Lydia decided that Rex was a murderer was also because they had united many mercenary groups, and they had fought with the murderer not long ago, although they lost a lot of lives, but the other party was also slightly injured because of this, and then went south alone, and the fastest Thorn Flower mercenary group followed closely, and the gap was only one night's journey.

And Rex's timing and direction are in line with the murderer they are tracking, so the Thorn Flower Mercenary Group will naturally identify him as him.

Although Lydia's momentum was a head shorter under Susan's questioning, she immediately refuted it with her own reasons, but she also had a lot of loopholes in this reason, and Susan easily grasped the loopholes, and in two or three sentences, Lydia turned pale and speechless, and a man and a woman who followed her wanted to interject several times, but they all endured it because of Erwin's gaze just now.

Erwin has been listening silently from the side, and at the same time thinking about more things in his heart, although Lydia's reasons have many loopholes, they are not untenable, and they are even the most likely one, and they can't be blamed, because no matter how you look at it, Rex's suspicion is the greatest.

Both Erwin and Susan knew Rex's identity, and they also knew that the possibility of this guy being a murderer was very small, and both believed that there would definitely be some misunderstanding in this, but Rex's strange performance last night made this misunderstanding confusing.

What's even more uncomfortable is that Erwin and Susan have no way to tell Rex's true identity, not to mention whether Lydia and the group will believe it, once Rex's identity is revealed, there will be more resistance and trouble for him to investigate the Sect of the End.

Now Rex is undoubtedly on the cusp, whether it's rumors of a murderer or the pursuit of these mercenaries, Rex's outfit will attract sharks like blood when they appear.

"You're covering up, if your friend isn't a murderer, why don't you dare to tell him about his whereabouts?"

If it had been a few days ago, Lydia wouldn't have been as insistent as she is now, but from the town of Massawa, the places to the south will become everywhere, and Lydia will no longer be able to grasp the movements of the murderer as accurately as before, unless he can commit another murder, which is not what Lydia would like to see.

And Thorn Flower came out to pursue the murderer this time, the original number was more than seventy people, and after two separate pursuits, there were already more than twenty people left, and if they continued to pursue separately, if they really caught up with the murderer, it would not be a pursuit, but simply a head.

Therefore, after Lydia knew that the two young men in front of her might know the movements of the murderer, she couldn't wait to know where he had gone, even if she grabbed him and tortured him.

Susan didn't answer Lydia's words, but turned her head to look at Erwin, she had already done what she had to do, and what to do next was up to Erwyn to decide

Erwin sighed slightly, then looked up at Lydia, whose face was a little red from excitement, and said, "We don't know his whereabouts, we just met by chance last night. Also, as far as I know, he's also on the hunt for a murderer. ”

Lydia and the two mercenaries behind her froze for a moment, then a look of disbelief appeared on their faces.

Erwin wasn't lying, but if he didn't say it until now, Lydia would naturally think that he was looking for an excuse to cover up Rex, and even the later statement that Rex was chasing a murderer was seen as an attempt to deny Lydia's judgment and casually said nonsense.

Lydia would think so, and Erwin wasn't surprised.

"I know you won't believe what we're saying now, but again, I don't trust your judgment either."

Erwin smiled faintly, "It's just that I don't need to prove anything, whether the person I know is a murderer or not actually has little effect on me." If he's not, then I don't need to worry about it, because the truth will be clear when you catch him, and if he's a murderer, then I don't mind if you kill him. ”

"Then you should cooperate with us, and don't continue to cover up and tell his whereabouts." Lydia glared at Elwin, "Do you want to continue to watch him kill innocent civilians and let more lives die at his hands?" ”

"I don't want to, but I don't have this responsibility and obligation, we are not from Lorenzo, not even from the Northern Continent, what does the life or death of the civilians of Lorenzo have to do with me? Besides, I've already said that we don't know his whereabouts, it's just that you don't believe him. ”

Erwin felt that he was simply a model of ruthlessness at the moment, because Lydia's eyes were already red when he looked at him, and he believed that if it hadn't been for the claw wind sword technique that had just been exposed outside, this woman would definitely be unable to pounce on her.

The ruthless words were like a sharp knife, provoking Lydia's anger and slashing her momentum to pieces.

And Erwin's words have made it very clear, he doesn't need to prove anything, and he has no obligation and responsibility to deal with any murderer, whether Lydia believes it or not, and with the current strength of both sides, Lydia can't do anything to Erwin and the two at all.

"So, what do you want to do now? Keep moving and get us arrested? Erwin sneered, "Don't forget, you've wasted a lot of time here, I remember that Massawa went to many places in the south, and if you don't continue to chase after it, the murderer will completely slip away." ”

"You ......" Lydia almost couldn't breathe, she didn't expect Erwin to dare to sneer at this time. And the most infuriating thing is that she can't do anything, let alone take down Erwin, and they probably can't hurt this young man by going together, but they have to pray that the other party won't trouble them.

As for continuing the pursuit, more than twenty people can no longer cope with the next pursuit, if they want to stop and wait for the people behind to catch up, then, as Erwin said, the small town of Massawa leads south to many places, and by then the murderer has already slipped away.

Seeing that Lydia was so angry that she couldn't speak, Erwin no longer opened her mouth to provoke her nerves, as for why he wanted to make this royal sister angry, Erwin didn't retaliate because of what happened at the door just now.

He did this because Lydia had always had a distrustful attitude towards him and Susan, and no matter what Erwin said, the woman would probably have a lot of suspicions and think that they were still shielding Rex.

That's why Erwin wanted to show that he didn't care about himself, to dissociate himself from Rex and Lorenzo, and to provoke her anger with two or three words, turning distrust into hatred.

It's not that hatred is better than distrust, but in this situation, Erwin only needs to change his attitude if he wants to defuse Lydia's hatred for him and Susan, and distrust is like a thorn, and it is difficult for the two parties to cooperate smoothly.

Yes, Erwin did want to work with Lydia, as he also wanted to find out if Rex was a murderer.

After today, no matter what the outcome is, Erwin will go to Rex to make sure. It's better to go with this group of mercenaries, if Rex is not, then you can clear up the misunderstanding between the two sides by the way, if Rex really becomes a murderer.

Although this possibility is very low, remembering Rex's anomaly last night, Erwin couldn't help but reach out and rub the iron sword on his waist.

"Well, have you figured out what you're going to do?" Erwin asked, for a long time.

"It's none of your business, go back to your hometown, don't set foot in our country" Lydia continued to glare at Elwyn like an angry female leopard, eager to tear the cold-blooded man in front of her to shreds.

Erwin didn't think it was wrong, smiled faintly and stopped talking, but the hand under the table pinched Susan's palm, the expression on Susan's face remained unchanged, but under the table stepped on Erwin angrily.

She already knew what this secretive guy was up to.

After sorting out her emotions, Susan looked at the angry Lydia and said to her, "We may be able to work together." ”

"W-What?" Lydia and the mercenaries behind her were completely stunned.

"Although we are not Lorenzo's people, we have just said that we are mercenaries. Although there is no obligation or responsibility to help you, in turn, you can hire us to help. ”

Looking at Lydia's surprised gaze, Susan continued to say with a serious expression, "Since you don't believe us, then talk to us in a different capacity, as an employer." ”

It took Lydia a long time to digest Susan's proposal, her gaze flashing over their faces, and she couldn't help but ask, "What the hell do you want to do?"

Seeing that the distrust and hatred in Lydia's heart had been suppressed by doubt, Erwin let out a sigh before changing to a serious attitude: "We also want to know the true identity of the murderer, whether it is our friend or not, but we have no reason to do so, so you can hire us to find out the people together." ”

Erwin grinned, showing his white teeth: "If you agree, then this is the first commission of our Shenhuo mercenary group, and we can give you a twenty percent discount." ”

Susan kicked Erwin again.

Lydia fell silent, her heart struggling to know how to answer Elwin.