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Someone noticed him while Sistin was sitting behind a window watching the execution on the street.

The Sistin claimed that he had many strongholds in the wilderness, and that he and his men were hiding in these countless strongholds, and that it would be a joke if anyone who knew much about them wanted to find him.

He lied.

In Demalagurgus, there are only three strongholds in the Sistin, and the most famous Devil's Mountain has been swept around by Wren's people. And it is impossible for his people to really live in a stronghold in the wilderness all the time, after all, there is nothing there.

You can restrain a person's actions, but it is absolutely impossible to restrain a person's thoughts.

Sistine really wanted all his men to listen to him honestly, and all his demands were strictly enforced, so that they would not stand when they were sitting, and they would not squat when they were lying. This is just a beautiful imagination, smuggling as a kind of criminal group, many participants may still maintain a relatively positive attitude at the beginning, and think that they are a good person who abides by the rules and stands in the camp of justice and order, but the division of labor is different.

But as the number of smugglings continues to increase and the scale of smuggling continues to expand, these people's ideas are also changing. Before, their behavior could be self-consoling, becoming the Lord's errand, obeying orders. Now they have psychologically turned into real criminals. The fact of constant smuggling, such gross treason, has distorted their hearts. They also discarded their past perceptions and really thought of themselves as criminals.

After this happened, the management of the Sistine smuggling syndicate became troublesome. He's like a teacher at the academy, he can make good kids obedient, but he can't keep bad kids from fighting.

So in fact, many of the smuggling syndicates are hidden in the city.

The city is a little warmer than the wilderness, a little more lively than the wilderness, and there are enough entertainment places for them to squander the money in their pockets - and constantly crossing the border on charges of treason is not for any great ideal.

Sistin frowned suddenly, he was keenly aware of a gaze coming from the scattered crowd, and he kept scanning the crowd without noticing where it was coming from. Feeling a little uneasy in his heart, he immediately put down his glass and stood up, and threw two silver coins on the table. "Let's go, De Malagu can't stay any longer, go back to the mainland first, and we'll come back after Wren leaves. ”

He smiled at the staff member sitting across from him, "Are you afraid?" he said with many intentions.

Before becoming the steward of the smuggling syndicate, the Sistin had the same identity as this staff, and he was also one of the staff members of a certain great nobleman, and he was a confidant of the great nobleman. Before being selected to be the head of the smuggling syndicate, the two men had the same status. But Sistin is the person in charge and in charge, and this staff member is still a staff member, but he has been demoted by one level. Because he is now the brains of the smuggling syndicate, in other words, he is a member of the staff of the Sistin.

From the staff of the great nobles to the staff of the staff, he was very unwilling. Why am I just a staff member, and you, the Sistin, are the stewards? Before Wren came, he could only accept his fate, and Gahel was like a blind man who didn't care about anything, and there was no danger on the unimpeded smuggling route. Danger brings conflict, conflict changes status, which was not available before, but now it has.

Sisdin looked at the old fellow in amazement, "Don't make trouble, we should take a step back and come back when the wind is calm." ”

"That's not going to work, Sistine. The staff picked up the wine glass and played with it, with a playful face, "Once we retreat and want to come back, there will inevitably be many obstacles." You should also be very aware of how many people covet this line, what they won't do when we're there, and once we leave, they're bound to get ahead of the curve. ”

Indeed, the already ripe smuggling routes and open markets are something that everyone covets. In the face of huge profits, nothing can stop people from grabbing money. If they leave, others will seize this smuggling route and channel, and all the foundations on which they once spent a lot of manpower and material resources will become someone else's. The reason why they have been able to monopolize this business so far is because they are the designated trade partners of the Ice Man, and even if others come with goods, they can only sell things to them, and then they will sell them to the Ice Man.

If they were gone, it would be impossible for the Ice Barbarians, who were growing in increasing throughput, to wait for them to return without any trade for months or even longer. As long as someone hits the head, their business will be snatched away by someone else. When the time comes, if you want to get this business back, you will have to pay a lot of costs, such as war, such as profits.

He was right, but the Sistine didn't see it that way.

Staying here, in the end, it will be 100% found out by Wren, once he is caught and loses his life, not to mention, this business will also be lost, and Wren will follow the vines to find melons and target their master's house. It's definitely a stupid choice that will throw away all your chips, including lives. It is difficult to come back after leaving, but life still belongs to you, and the masters behind it will not lose the slightest, but only lose some gains.

Sistine also knew very well what this former companion was thinking, and he wanted to take this opportunity to step himself down. In the past, both of them were studying at the Imperial Higher School at the same time, and they were fellow villagers, and they had a good relationship as if they were one person. After graduating, they had the opportunity to go directly to a department in the center of the empire, but he rejected the proposal. In the words of this fellow countryman, it will take at least 30 years to mix up his personal appearance.

When they get ahead, I'm afraid that their lives will also reach the second half, rather than pinning all their futures on those stereotypical promotion paths, it is better to find a big nobleman to rely on and directly rise to the top. As a staff member of the great aristocracy, his status is not lower than that of the cadres of those departments, or even higher. Although doing so will cost them some freedom and some dignity, it will save them twenty or thirty years of time.

In the spirit of initial friendship, the Sistine agreed.

Now, however, everything had changed, and a deep affection could no match for comparison, and by the time Sistin was appointed as the steward of the smuggling syndicate, in charge of all matters relating to smuggling, the two men had become inseparable.

The Sistin knew that he could not persuade him, and that he would regard his kindness as a malicious obstruction that prevented him from gaining a higher status and more power, so the Sistin kept his mouth shut.

One last glance at this fellow countryman and the companion of the first half of his life, Sistin turned away without hesitation, he could serve the great nobles and sell a little dignity, but he must not lose his life for those great nobles.

Looking at the back of Sistine leaving, the staff smiled absently, and watch me dance the storm!

He looked out the window at the sky, and his mood was exceptionally bright.

Less than fifty meters away, a man stared closely at the staff in the distance through the gap between the window and the ledge.

This is a dwelling, and the dwelling means that the owner of the house is a commoner.

The instant outbreak of the whistleblower order caused many people to suffer from this, and after being denounced, they became prisoners, and even beheaded on the street. Others, as a result, became rich in an instant, so that they have a bright future.

It is definitely better to be able to go to the cities in the mainland than to stay in Demalagu, these people have stayed here and have not left, not because they are nostalgic for their hometown, but because they really have no economic foundation to live in the mainland. Some people go to the interior and think that it is like the merchants say, full of gold. The dream was shattered by reality, and many people became beggars, worse than living here.

Now, there was an opportunity in front of him, and he didn't even have to do anything about it.

He clenched his fists, he didn't know the Sistin, he didn't know the staff, but he thought that the two peasants would never drink on the second floor of the tavern, it was definitely not a place where the peasants had money to go.

The whistleblower order made everyone very suspicious of the things around them, and made relatives and friends suspicious of each other. In the spirit of human nature, which had begun to be a little distorted, this whimsical civilian, immediately wrapped his body in a sheet, revealing only a pair of eyes, and quickly left the house.

He's going to snitch!

Immediately after the departure of the Sistin, he packed his bags and left decisively from the south gate of the city of Uvel with a dozen or so followers, who gathered outside the city and took a carriage from a farm and moved south. Along the way, they were not fast, and they did not dare to be fast. Now the whole of Demalagu is like a strange whirlpool, many people have become prisoners because of some trivial things, if the speed of the carriage is too fast, soon someone will tell you that this is the fugitive pursued by Rennes who is fleeing from Demalagu.

So the Sistin used a very small carriage, and ten people were crammed into the carriage with little room to move, but the groom who drove it became the most comfortable one. The speed of the carriage was not fast, and it was trotting unhurriedly on the official road. Even if someone takes a look, they will retract their gaze.

Less than two hours after the Sistine's carriage left Uvel, his companion was captured. An insignificant little person, daydreaming, denounced him and the Sistine. This little person didn't even know them, let alone what they did or what their purpose was, but instinctively felt that these two people were suspicious, and then denounced them.

Sometimes, things can be more dramatic than chivalric novels and legends.

Someone loses because of greed, someone gains because of greed!