Chapter 198: Tracking the Clues
In order to further investigate what happened, Lin Qiu decided to follow the people of the Musa consortium to find out. The few people obviously had no intention of going back, and they went in the opposite direction, choosing a road deep into the north.
"Tyr, what are you going to do?" Ella asked in a whisper following Lin Qiu and Phoenix. With these two around her, she is also a lot bolder.
"Let's go see the situation first, based on my years of experience, they might secretly set up a research station or something like that in the North. β
While the North is dangerous for most, the first half of the Frontier is almost no threat to high-ranking knights. According to Alyssa, the Musa consortium moved out of the imperial capital centuries ago, and if they were trying to hide something, the north was the best place to go.
There are so many dangerous tales about the North that only a few adventurers dare to come here on a normal day, and even if they accidentally bump into them, they can make them disappear without a trace. After all, the missing people in the North can travel around Horutia three times a year, and no one cares how they went missing.
"What are you going to do?" Lin Qiu asked Ella.
"I ...... I don't know. Ella shook her head in confusion.
She had always wanted to find out the truth about the riots nine years earlier, and she was convinced that it was not Carnor who had fanned the riots, which lasted for nearly a week, during which time she lobbied with little success. Melia slaughtered most of the leaders of the rebels, and after the rebellion was suppressed, Henry V sent someone to assassinate the others. The civilians of the imperial capital are either outsiders who know nothing about the riots, or ordinary people who claim to have participated in the riots when they claim to have been carried away for a while.
Those who really know are long deadβthat's what Ella has been asking for for a long time.
She always believed that hunger and cold might break a person's will, but if she wanted to take the entire imperial capital overnight, it would take a long time to plan. People blamed Canor, but she knew there was someone else behind it.
The discovery was a breakthrough, but it wasn't the truth that Ella was eager to know.
Obviously, the riot nine years ago had nothing to do with the monsters.
"Then why are you here to investigate what Eric is doing?"
"The carriage that I mentioned came out of the palace...... Eric is on it. At that time, Melia was still a knight of the Church, and did not have any position in the Kingdom Army, and it was very strange for her to escort Eric out of the city. And the Musa Consortium did clean up the riot they had taken nine years earlier, and the night before the riot, Eric, escorted out of the imperial capital by Melia, was, in the parlance of her biography of the bard, the perfect alibi.
If Ella hadn't seen Eric in the carriage in the slums, he wouldn't even know that the Musa Consortium had ever been in the imperial capital.
"What if that incident really has nothing to do with the Musa Consortium?" Lin Qiu frowned.
As the old saying goes, a tailor who doesn't want to be a cook is not a good driver.
Oh, no.
"The Musa consortium is behind the scenes in the business of smuggling monsters, but that doesn't mean they're terrorists. The point is that Eric and the royal family had a close relationship with the church, and it is difficult to think of his motives for agitating the riots. β
"I don't know, but Eric is the last hope. β
In fact, Ella wasn't sure what the images she saw that night would represent, perhaps...... Eric only came to negotiate with the royal family or the church, and left after the negotiation.
"Hey, you two be quiet!"
Phoenix couldn't help but say.
Lin Qiu's conversation with Ella made her head a little dizzy, she was really not good at deceitful between humans, she only believed what she saw, and the innate feeling of monsters. What's more, if she's not mistaken, the three of them should be stealth at the moment, and she hasn't seen anyone make stealth like a debate.
Through the conversation between the two, Phoenix identified three points:
Lin Qiu and Ella were very noisy.
The four high-ranking knights invited by the Musa Consortium are all parallel goods, and they can't find out if anyone else is holding a debate here.
Lin Qiu's previous inference was correct.
"Look there!" Phoenix pointed ahead.
The Musa Consortium researchers pressed something on the stone wall at the entrance to a snow hill, and then the three of them felt a noticeable tremor under their feet. As a player who once had no idea of a map of China, Lin Qiu had no idea where he had been taken by the researchers of the Musa Consortium, none of them had a map in their hands, and they were surrounded by a vast white snowfield.
And snow dunes of this size can be found everywhere in the north, and you can encounter several without walking one or two hundred steps.
"What to do?" Ella asked.
The secret colony may actually exist, but the difficulty of the next tail row increases several times.
She saw the researchers walking into the snow mound, and at this distance, they knew nothing about the situation in the snow mound, and rashly followed up, in case there were one or two guards at the door, they would be exposed.
"We can burn the experimental base with a fire. "Phoenix believes in a straightforward approach.
"Are you sure? There might be a lot of your monster like that down there. Lin Qiu felt that the main reason why they would encounter the researchers of the Musa Consortium was not entirely lucky, and Julius's injury proved from another angle that these people often came out to "hunt" monsters.
"That'...... Let's fight our way in and free the monsters!" Phoenix gestured with a fist.
"Next. β
"Don't ignore me!" Phoenix said with a puff.
"I'll go over and see what's going on. Lin Qiu said solemnly: "At this time, the importance of export talent can be reflected, even if I meet the doorman guarding the door, I can use perfect persuasion skills to let them let us in." β
As he spoke, he hid a stone he had picked up from the ground behind him.
The specific skill of persuasion is that whoever dares to contradict him for a moment will be stoned on the door of that person's head.
"What's the difference between that and just going in!"
"Anyway, it's decided!"
Lin Qiu made an "OK" gesture, and a person swaggered towards the snow mound.
Seeing that he had disappeared for less than ten seconds, Phoenix and Ella leaned out of the snow mound and waved at them.
So smooth?
Phoenix was a little surprised, but still ran all the way with Ella.
However, after entering the snow mound, she did not see the unconscious guards and researchers as expected, and the light in the narrow cavern was dim. Lin Qiu patted the stone wall, the rough touch was no different from other snow mounds.
It's a dead end.
In other words, after a few researchers, they took four high-ranking knights and an ice-toothed mammoth and evaporated in this narrow cavern.