Qiao Tianyu had no idea of avenging Herman at all. But the dead have always been easy to make a fuss. There are two most frequently used and most logical reasons: to avenge the dead, or to take advantage of the burial to make a fortune.

Qiao Tianyu is not short of money, as the fourth heir of the Qiao family, although he is not rich and rivals the country, he always has a few bank cards with an astonishing amount in his pocket. For Red Rock City, Qiao Tianyu has always felt that it is just a large black nest. It wasn't until Herman committed suicide this time that he really paid attention to it and offered to come over and take charge of the aftermath.

There are more than 200 people in his entourage, all of whom are Qiao Tianyu's henchmen. Among them, the strongest are the two guards with the strength of the third level of evolution.

Within the Imperial military, there is a hierarchical standard for judging evolutionary power. Each level is divided into ten layers. In other words, there are a total of forty different stages from the soldier level to the king level. For example, the dead ghost Devitt who was killed by Su Hao, although he was a third-order evolutionary mercenary, was only at the second level of the third-order. And the guards around Qiao Tianyu had the strength of the third-order seventh-level.

The number of warriors who can become "generals" is scarce, and there are not many humans and the dark world. Although there are a few within the Qiao family, they are not the hidden power that Qiao Tianyu can freely support.

With Qiao Tianyu stationed in Red Rock City, the originally loose Black Wolf Gang suddenly turned into a tightly moving machine.

By the afternoon of the next day, Qiao Tianyu had already got the detailed information he needed.

He sat on the couch as usual, and in front of him stood a tall, middle-aged man.

Looking at the Wen Jiàn folder opened in his hand, Qiao Tianyu slowly frowned: "In other words, this matter is completely Herman's own fault?" He ordered a purge of those who refused to sell their goods, which triggered a series of actions that followed? ”

"Judging from the current situation, it should be so."

The middle-aged man's attitude was very respectful: "In the purge list made by Young Master Herman, there are five people who have escaped. The so-called purge is just that Young Master Herman wants to stand up, or it is a temporary interest. Unfortunately, the person in question, Kleet, is dead, and we are unable to find more evidence and clues. At that time, all the members of the gang sent out to carry out the purge mission were killed, DeWitt and Carol were only the beginning, and several others were killed one after another. Just yesterday afternoon, we received a report that a member of the gang had died of food poisoning. Although there are no flaws on the surface, I have reason to believe that this was his killing, not an accident. ”

Qiao Tianyu slowly flipped through the text in his hand and saw more than a dozen pages of incident records about the recent deaths of members of the Black Wolf Gang.

There are those who fall from a height and die when they are drunk, there are those who are jealous and stabbed to death with a knife, and there are those who can never wake up in their sleep for some reason...... Including the middle-aged man's report just now, together with DeWitt and Carol, there were as many as twenty-two people who died.

"Interesting!"

Qiao Tianyu looked at Wen Jiàn with interest, and asked without raising his head: "Can you determine who did it?" ”

"The most suspicious targets are the five survivors who escaped the purge."

The middle-aged man lowered his voice: "We contacted the eyeliner arranged in Redstone City and determined that three of them were not suspected, but they were not caught by the purge force at that time due to coincidence. Another member of a small group belonging to the city simply did not have the capacity to carry out an act of retaliation on this scale. ”

"Oh! According to the method of elimination, then there is one last one left? ”

"That's true."

The middle-aged man nodded, but his expression became a little hesitant: "But we still can't be sure that he is the real murderer." ”

Qiao Tianyu raised his head and asked rather unexpectedly, "Why?" ”

"He's a dark hunter, and he's only gotten hunter qualifications in the last few months."

The middle-aged man replied slowly: "He only has second-order evolutionary strength, and he doesn't have any identity background. In my judgment, in order to carry out the act of revenge against Master Herman, it is necessary to have strong resources and force backing. That Dark Hunter was a minor character, he had nothing. ”

Qiao Tianyu was very dissatisfied with this answer: "Just because you don't have the ability and backing to rule out suspicion? That's your criterion? ”

"I have enough grounds."

The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said, "His name is Su Hao, and he has only accepted tasks with low bounties. This also confirms that he is not too strong, otherwise, he would not have been able to kill DeWitt and Carol at all. Even if he did it in secret, he would be able to succeed once or twice at most, and he couldn't succeed every time. After all, the Dark Hunter is not a professional killer. ”

Qiao Tianyu frowned and thought.

Obviously, the middle-aged man's answer did not satisfy him. However, this is the most logical answer. A homicide investigation is more than just identifying targets. Especially in terms of family status, there is no need to be as cautious as the Imperial police in dealing with criminal suspects, but there must be sufficient factual evidence.

Qiao Tianyu thought for a few minutes before he unexpectedly reopened the article folder and turned to the page about the list of people who had been purged from the "Silver Arrow" bar.

He stared at the photo of Su Hao on the text for a long time, and said seriously: "I have an intuition that this guy did it." That bar was his home, and the people in it were more or less connected to him. It doesn't matter if there is evidence or not, acts such as killing are always driven by profit. Herman is a useless waste, and the price at which the Qiao family buys the Dark Brain Fluid in Redstone City is also very fair, and there has never been a saying of forced buying and selling. If you are hated, you will not wait until now, but start working a few years ago. Even within the family, Herman was a dispensable white-skinned bastard, and I can't think of anyone who would pay for his head. Even among those who were purged, only this guy named Su Hao was the most likely to retaliate. ”

Although he didn't agree with Qiao Tianyu's statement, the middle-aged man didn't dare to argue, but just shook his head: "We haven't found any trace of this person." He left Redstone before he was done, and no one saw him return. Perhaps, already dead outside. This kind of thing is very common, especially with a high chance of it happening to the Dark Hunter. ”

"Huh! That's just your personal thoughts. ”

Qiao Tianyu smiled and shook his head repeatedly, put down the text, got up from the sofa, and walked to the window. From here, Redstone City was a brightly lit human settlement, but Qiao Tianyu's gaze became keen, firmly locked on the Dark Hunter Guild Building at the other end of the city, where only a vague outline could be seen.

"I still have a relationship with President Gao Mo. I'm sure he won't refuse to do me a favor. ”

Qiao Tianyu turned around, slowly stroked his round belly, and sighed: "Contact the Dark Hunter Guild, just say that I want to meet this guy named Su Hao." If you can, this can be released as a mission. ”

……

When Su Hao walked into the Hunter Guild Building, Gao Mo's personal secretary was already waiting in the hall. Without any politeness, I walked him directly into the elevator and went straight to the top office.

Gao Mo sat behind his desk, looking a little tired. The secretary brought in two cups of coffee, and according to the order in which the cups were placed, Su Hao sat down on the sofa.

"I was forced to come back."

Gao Mo's opening remarks made Su Hao slightly surprised, and then became normal: "In this life, there are always some feelings that cannot be erased. I'm the same way, I always have to pay back the favors I owe. There is no way, you can only take the airship from the imperial capital, and the journey of thousands of kilometers is not a joke. It's dull, it's boring, except for honestly sitting there and listening to the stewardess's nonsense, and the only pastime is sleeping. ”

Su Hao had previously received a communication from the guild, saying that Vice President Gao Mo had something important to see him. With the last dismissal, Su Hao didn't think that there was any conflict of interest between Gao Mo and himself, so he sat here.

He was a little surprised by Gao Mo's statement, and he didn't quite understand what kind of scientific and technological development the third stage world had reached. Su Hao took a sip of coffee, slurred, and replied tentatively: "If you invent an airplane, maybe the journey will be faster." ”

Gao Mo narrowed his eyes slightly: "Plane? What is Airplane? ”

"It's a kind of machine I imagined."

Su Hao casually took cover: "I also think that the speed of the airship is too slow, it is better to have a fast flying machine." It's like a maglev car, or a motorcycle, it's very agile and powerful. ”

"Young people just have a lot of ideas."

Gao Mo did not doubt these words, and still shook his head: "I also thought about being an inventor before. It was when I was very young, and I always wanted to be able to invent an invisibility cloak so that I could swagger into the supermarket and take whatever I wanted, especially chocolate candy, and eat as much as I wanted, and no one would care about me or arrest me as a thief. ”

"Very interesting idea."

Su Hao laughed and said, "However, you can be regarded as a dream come true now." At the very least, you don't have to worry about having no money in your pocket if you want to eat candy. ”

"Yes! There is indeed a gap between imagination and reality. It's up to you how you understand and how you implement it! ”

Gao Mo smiled and sighed again and again, turned around, and his eyes focused on Su Hao, becoming extremely deep: "You make me a little unable to see through." He was able to kill so many people from the Black Wolf Gang and rob them of the goods they transported. Going back a few decades, it was my age, your position, and I didn't have the guts to do this. ”

Su Hao's expression was stunned for a moment, and he was silent for a few seconds, he picked up the cup again, took a sip of coffee, his expression became a little sad, and his voice was a lot lower: "They forced me." ”

Since Gao Mo said this, there must be sufficient evidence. Su Hao is very experienced in dealing with this situation, and he knows very well that it is extremely unwise to lie at such a time. Moreover, Gao Mo did not show hostility towards himself.

Judging from the last contact, Gao Mo belongs to the kind of person who is very protective of his shortcomings, and if you give me benefits, I will give you something in return.

Su Hao didn't know how much Gao Mo knew about this matter. But it can be determined that Su Hao only acted as a retaliator in the whole incident. If it weren't for the Black Wolf Gang doing it in front, he wouldn't have done it in the dark. That's what you say about coming and going. What's more, this is redstone, and there are no laws, no morals, and no social binding.

Gao Mo looked at Su Hao sternly for nearly half a minute, his face gradually became softer, and his speech became slow: "I have read the investigation materials after the incident, those people in the "Silver Arrow" bar died very badly, they are actually very innocent. I've never been a fan of drugs, but I can't help it, the rotten hormone can only be extracted through guòravonin. Even in a damn place like redstone, if you want to buy something for thirty silver coins that should be worth fifty silver coins, you will be criticized, and even cut people with knives. ”

After a pause, Gao Mo continued: "If this kind of thing happens somewhere else, such as the Inner Realm of the Empire, I'd better go to the police. Although the Imperial Police are very fucked, and there are a lot of idiots in the corpse vegetarian diet, there are still a few guys who are really willing to do things after getting paid. It is precisely because of these people that the wanted villains really can't stay in the inner realm of the empire. They can only run outside. The Grey Zone has never been recognized by Imperial law, and the Imperial Army has never regarded it as a key point that must be heavily defended. There are many places like Red Rock City, and even in the wilderness, there are intrigues, cruel and bloody everywhere. ”

Su Hao slowly raised his head and looked at Gao Mo with a calm and indifferent gaze. There was not the slightest kindness and mercy in his eyes, even a high-level hunter like Gao Mo, who was accustomed to seeing life and death and had killed countless dark creatures, still shuddered at Su Hao's gaze. For a few seconds, Gao Mo even suspected that Su Hao, who was sitting in front of him, was not a human at all, but a dark creature with wolf or leopard genes. Although his lips were pursed, the outline of his teeth was clearly revealed, and the masseter muscles on both sides of his cheeks were constantly straightening, pulling the facial muscles to twitch for a while.

"Are you working as a lobbyist?"

The voice that came out of Su Hao's mouth was extremely cold, as if he and Gao Mo were two strangers at all.

"Lobbyist?"

Gao Mo froze, laughed, and kept shaking his head: "Don't get me wrong, I'm not the kind of person you imagined." I hate bullying bastards as much as you do. Even in the inner realms of the Empire, "friend" is still an extremely precious term. That means you have to give your heart and soul for them, and they will do anything for you. Heaven has blessed us with too many evil qualities: jealousy, indifference, arrogance, ruthlessness...... However, behind all this sordid meanness, there is at least mutual trust, which is enough to be called "divine grace". Don't say it's you, if it were me, I'm afraid it would only go more than you did and kill more bastards. ”

The cold light in Su Hao's eyes eased slightly, and Gao Mo also changed the focus of the conversation in a very timely manner: "You are a very good little guy." The current Dark Hunters Guild is no longer what it was when it was first created. We kill a lot of dark creatures every year, and the Empire gives the hunters enough respect, and many unscrupulous people see the benefits, and they do everything they can to get the title of dark hunter. There are too many things to fight for power, to use unknown hedron as trophies, to deceive for the identity of a high-level hunter, and all kinds of messy things...... You're smart and you're not greedy, and the last time you dealt with those two hedrons, it was very telling. You're brave, and now there are very few young people who have just joined the Guild who are willing to honestly kill dark creatures with one shot at a time in the wilderness. Most importantly, in the case of your friend, you have shown me more of the good qualities that have been forgotten. I don't dare to say whether those who died really believed in you, but they know you, and it is definitely the wisest choice in this life. At least, you know to avenge them. You know, this is redstone, a place full of deceit and deceit. ”

Su Hao was silent. He pondered Gomo's words, looking for parts that might help him. After nearly half a minute, Su Hao's eyebrows curled, and he pondered the words, and said, "Can you give me anything?" ”

"There are no more than two choices."

Gao Mo's question to Su Hao was obviously expected: "First: get out of here." You are a young man with good qualities. I don't know why you're in this place, and I don't want to get into your secrets. Red Rock City doesn't fit in with you, and even if this is over, you're sure to get into all sorts of trouble in the future. This is the so-called gathering of like things, and only villains and villains can get along. Redstone City is not a place for you to stay, you can only live for a while, and it is impossible to live for a long time. Of course, before you leave, you can do everything you want to do and kill everyone who makes the death list. ”

Su Hao thought silently for a few seconds and asked, "What is the second option?" ”

"Herman is dead. The principal of the Black Wolf Gang has also changed one. ”

Gao Mo said seriously: "Seriously, I really don't want to meddle in this matter. But you have to understand that in this world, there are always some difficult human feelings. I'm only responsible for helping him get a message, and he wants to meet you, to meet you. Of course, whatever your decision is, I will be on your side. ”

Su Hao said calmly: "You and I will make peace with them?" ”

"As I said, whatever the final outcome and decision is, I will be on your side."

Gao Mo reminded in an extremely earnest tone: "Sometimes, it is much better to sit down and talk about it than to be stubborn. There are many ways to achieve this, but you are only one person, and I can't help you much in this matter. From a fair point of view, I'd better talk to them about you. The location is up to you, and you can also make any kind of request. Don't always think about the bad side of things, sometimes look at it from a different angle, and you will find that there are more ways to continue that you have never thought of. ”