Early the next morning, the sleeping Ryan suddenly heard the sound of the door curtain being lifted, and he opened his eyes, only to see Elendor walking in.

Ryan stretched out and sat up, smiling at Allendo and saying, "I thought you would be back last night." ”

Alendor sat down next to the table, he picked up the bucket on the table, poured himself a large glass of water, and then took the glass and drank the water inside.

After drinking the water, Alendor wiped his mouth before answering Ryan's words: "Actually, I came back last night, but I saw a good show." ”

"Oh?" Ryan heard Allendo's words, and quickly twisted his ass to Alendor's side a few times, approaching Allendo, and he urged, "Tell me, what did you see?"

Alendor said to Ryan, "I've been exhausted from this night. When I came back last night, I saw that the tent we were staying in was burning, and I was worried about you, but I later found out that you burned it. I saw a man in black sneak up on you, so I guess it must have something to do with the thieves, so I hid and waited quietly. Sure enough, after everyone rested, three figures left Giethoorn gently. I followed. ”

Ryan hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't say it yet, let me guess." These three men must have been Azim and his two attendants. ”

Alendor praised: "Yes, yes, I followed them for a long time before I accidentally saw Azimu's appearance." I didn't expect you to guess it as soon as you guessed. ”

Ryan explained, "It has something to do with what I heard last night, but you better tell me what happened last night." ”

Alendor said, "Well, I go on, the three of them walked in the middle of the night, and came to a pine forest to the west, and I followed them quietly, and found them with a group of men dressed in black. The sentry posts arranged by this group of people are very good, and I don't dare to get too close, so I can only look at them from a distance. But the night was quiet, and I hid downwind again, and I heard a few words. It probably means that Azimu told the group of men in black about tonight's events, and the leader of the men in black was very angry and blamed Azimu for not sending someone to kill you, and almost exposed himself. The leader of the men in black asked Azimu to quickly convince Mayor Zhelile to hand over the things. They whispered for a while, and Azim returned. I stayed and stared for a while, there were about forty of these men in black, but they were very well guarded, and I couldn't find a chance to sneak in a few times. Seeing that the sky was about to dawn, I was afraid that you would be in a hurry, so I came back. ”

After listening to Ellendo's description, Ryan stretched out again, and told Elendor about the conversation he overheard between Mayor Philip and Azimu last night, as well as the conversation between Mayor Marew and himself, and briefly talked about the whole process of the man in black assassinating him.

Alendor listened carefully to Ryan's narration, he thought for a moment and said, "After listening to your narration, it seems that this Azimu will definitely take action today, because the deadline given by this group of thieves is tomorrow morning. ”

Ryan said, "Why don't we go straight to the thieves?"

"It was very difficult to get close to them during the day, and the thieves chose a good place to be stationed, and the surrounding area was relatively empty, except for the sparse woods where they were stationed. And their guards are too tight, there are more than 20 sentry posts alone..."

Speaking of this, Allendo suddenly thought of something: "Oops, no!"

Ryan hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"I've always felt that something was wrong in my heart, and when I got to the sentry just now, I suddenly realized what I was suspicious of," said Alendo. Aren't you surprised that there are more than 20 sentry posts in the camp of more than 40 thieves?"

Ryan listened to Allendo's words, and also felt that there was indeed a problem here, he thought for a while and said, "If it is not that the number of this group of thieves is far more than 40 people, then there are very important people among them. ”

"Generally speaking, thieves rob with gold coins or other valuables that are small in size and easy to carry," said Allendo. Very few thieves ask for horses, and 3,000 at once! There are only about 40 of them, and it is impossible for them to control so many horses at once. ”

Ryan also put forward his opinion: "I guess that this group of thieves is probably Azimu's people, and he used the name of thieves to threaten the mayor of the town to take a large number of horses, so that the strength of the town will be weakened, and he will increase his own strength." When the balance of power in the entire town of Giethoorn changes, he can even directly become the mayor of the town himself, and let others act according to his own intentions. ”

"No, no. Allendo retorted, "3,000 horses, where is he hiding?" and if he wants to be mayor according to Phillips, then he can use this opportunity to get things in order, and then find a way to make the mayor appear inactive, so as to highlight his ability. Now that he has proposed a plan to go to most of the horses in the town at once, even if the matter is over, what good will he do?"

Ryan nodded, admitting that his reasoning was wrong. "What the hell is going on?" he scratched his head in annoyance, and said to himself, "3,000 horses, which is only an army can ask for such a large number." ”

Alendor said, "Forget it, Ryan. If you can't figure it out, don't think about it. We set out at once to go to the thieves. Regardless of the relationship between Azimu and this group of thieves, it is only this group of thieves who can pose a threat to Giethoorn in the end, and our mercenaries are also tasked with eliminating this group of thieves. ”

Ryan said with concern: "You haven't slept all night, can you hold on?"

Alendor shook his head, signaling that it didn't matter.

The two walked out of the tent gently, it was still early at this time, and the herdsmen basically did not get up, Alendor looked around, and did not find that there was no one, so he led Ryan quietly out of Giethoorn Town, and left cautiously.

Out of sight of Giethoorn, Elendor led Ryan towards the thief camp at a rapid pace.

Around noon, Ryan and Alendor were outside the camp where the thieves were.

They hid in a large clump of grass at a distance, silently observing the camp of thieves stationed in the woods.

As Alendor said, the thieves' camp was very well guarded, with sentry posts in the distance, and even every once in a while, a small group of thieves rode around the area.

After waiting until it was dark, Ryan and Alendor took advantage of the darkness to slowly approach the thieves' camp.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the distance. A dozen men rode towards the camp of thieves. When they got closer, Ryan found out that it was Mayor Philipler!

Mayor Philip seems to be familiar with the thieves, and no one has stopped or questioned him when he arrives. Philip rode directly into the camp, came to the middle tent, dismounted and walked in.

Ryan and Allendo glanced at each other in surprise, and the scene in front of them completely overwhelmed the two of them: the mayor of the town who issued the mercenary mission to eliminate the thieves turned out to be in the same group as the thieves?

Ryan gestured to Allendo, and the two of them slowly crawled inside, risking being found again.

A moment later, the sound of horses' hooves could be heard again in the distance. Ryan and Allendo hurriedly hid on the spot. Carefully observe the situation outside.

It turned out that Azimu had also come to the thieves with three people.

Amid the thieves' shouting, Azimu jumped off his horse and walked to the thieves' camp. A man behind him hurriedly dismounted and led Azimu's horse.

Azimu walked to the door of the thieves' camp and was stopped by a thief. The thieves carefully examined Azimu and only let Azimu in after confirming that Azimu was not carrying a weapon.

The leader of the thieves came out of the tent in the middle, he was a slender man, but he wore a mask, and he couldn't see what he looked like.

When Azimu saw the leader of the thieves, he hurriedly greeted him and said, "That damned coward, no matter what I say, he won't agree. ”

The leader of the thieves spoke, his voice clear and magnetic: "It's okay anymore. It doesn't matter if he says yes or not. ”

Azimu was very strange, and he said, "How can it be okay? according to our plan......

Before he finished speaking, a familiar voice came from Azimu: "According to our plan, you are just a pawn. ”

Azimu jerked his head up and saw a man he would never have dreamed of coming out of the tent of the leader of the thieves - Mayor Philal!

Aqimu's face changed greatly, he pointed to the mayor of Zhelile, and said incredulously: "You, how could you..."

Mayor Zhelile changed his usual weak expression and said viciously: "Azimu, I have put up with you for a long time, if it weren't for our plan, do you think you would have survived until now?"

Azimu looked at the leader of the thieves, and then at Zhelile, and suddenly understood, and he shouted: "I understand, in fact, you have long been in the same group, it turns out that I have been deceived by you all along. ”

Azimu turned around in horror and said to the people he brought, "Quick, take me out!"

The people brought by Aqimu didn't move at all, but one of them sneered and said, "Damn Aqimu, do you really think that 100 gold coins a year can hire four of us Soul Devouring Rank 1 killers? If it weren't for the leader's plan, I would have wanted to tear you apart yesterday." If it weren't for your lame intelligence, how could the Stygian Pattern die at the hands of a little magic apprentice. ”

Azimu only felt that the sky was dark, he had always been confident in himself, but he didn't expect that everything he had done in recent years was in someone else's plan, and he felt that he was really a fool. Azimu's body began to crumble, and he couldn't even stand still.