In the year 335 of the glory calendar, on the 17th day of the sunset month, outside the Black Rock Fortress of the Falcon and Woodpecker Legion Chen Bing, it did not move all night. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the early morning of the 18th, Lasses issued a statement questioning Barria why.

On the 19th, Barria was silent, and the eyes of the major forces on the Frigga continent were focused on the border between Lasses and Barria.

On the morning of the 20th, Barria issued a statement accusing Lasses of violating the eastern border, causing serious losses to the three cities of Antlers, Wileman, and Ghiber, strongly condemning it and demanding compensation from Lasses. Later that day, Lasses responded to Barria, claiming that the unrest on the eastern border of Baria was not their doing, accusing Barria of slander in order to find an excuse to start a war, and that Lasses would not pay compensation and that he was not afraid of war.

On the 21st, the two sides were silent, and there was local friction on the border between the two countries, and in the afternoon of that day, the Barian Army retreated thirty miles, joined up with the Leopard Tooth Army, and remained still. That night, eight heavy cavalry brigades of the Lasses Pegasus Regiment arrived at Black Rock Fortress.

On the 22nd, Barria issued a statement saying that diplomats would be sent to the city of Lasses to discuss with Lasses how to deal with the friction.

With Barria's concessions, tensions on the border quickly eased, and a possible war was forced into a diplomatic process.

This incident was recorded in the history of Fliga, ostensibly just a regular friction between countries, until after the end of the subsequent upheaval, the whole of Fliga suddenly discovered that the clues of the upheaval appeared in this simple friction, and everything that happened afterwards had already laid the fuse at this time.

In the history books written by scholars, this event is called "the prelude to being prolonged".

And the real initiator of the "prolonged prelude" hidden behind the curtain is the man who earned the nickname "Lord of Harrican" in the subsequent upheaval.

......

Seven days later.

The morning sun shines through the windows of the hotel.

Smack, a copy of "The Barria Incident" was casually thrown on the table.

Ivo yawned: "There was a lot of trouble, but there was still no fight......"

Lao De took his head: "Why do you have to stop the war, it's so boring." ”

Ivo sighed melancholy and pointed to the sun outside the window, "I don't want the wind to be noisy, ah, you see, how soft the sunshine of peace is...... Damn, it's glaring!"

"Get out. ”

This is a Baria town, and it is the meeting point that Leon and him have agreed upon.

"Why hasn't Leon come yet. Ivo muttered, picking up the newspaper and reading it again.

Barria has sent diplomats, aboard a goblin airship, and is about to arrive in the city of Lasses.

Country-to-state exchanges, without wasting time waiting for messengers to arrive.

Goblin airships are fast and convenient means of transportation, more than ten times faster than horse-drawn carriages, airships are a product of goblin engineering, expensive (very expensive), and money-hungry goblins will not discount even in the face of state procurement, so airships can rarely be seen on Fliga.

I heard that in the Odin Continent and the Muir Continent, the airship is a regular means of transportation, and Fliga is relatively wild, not as good as these two prosperous continents.

Aggressive, a steady knock sounded, and when the door was opened, it was the ordinary-looking Li Ang.

Ivo handed Shaya's bounty slip to Leon, "The goal has been solved. ”

Li Ang nodded, his face slightly different: "It seems that the disaster in the eastern border of Baria also has your share." ”

Ivo was not surprised, with the Brotherhood's intelligence ability, it was impossible not to find the place of Shaya's death, but he didn't care, raised his eyebrows and said, "The Brotherhood still cares about this?"

Leon's expression returned to normal, "No, this has nothing to do with the Brotherhood, your mission is well accomplished, come with me, I will introduce you to the Brotherhood." ”

Ivo followed Leon and left the town and headed out into the wilderness.

It was dusk until the two of them came to a wood.

"What are you doing here?" Ivo wondered.

Leon smiled slightly, identified the trees, and then lay on the ground and groped, and soon, he pulled out a chain full of yellow mud from the ground and pulled it gently.

The sound of machinery running from the ground slowly appeared on the ground, and a square intersection slowly appeared, with stone stairs leading downward.

Ivo was amazed, Leon led the way, and Ivo followed.

After walking all the way down for five minutes, it finally became flat ground, and after turning a corner, it suddenly opened up in front of me.

It is a very large and deep underground space excavated by man-made, with a dark underground river channel in front of it, with a simple wooden boat tethered to the bank, and torches hanging from the stone wall, extending into the depths of the underground lake.

"Get on board. Leon and Ivo got into the boat and rowed along the river.

After rowing for ten minutes, the wooden boat docked, and in front of me was a black door, without any patterns, isolated in the stone wall, which looked very strange.

Li Ang's fingers buckled on the door a few times, and with a click, a groove popped up on the door, and Li Ang took out the fraternity badge, pressed it into the groove, twisted it hard, touched the machine, and the black door slowly opened.

Ivo took these steps to heart and followed Leon inside.

Behind the black door was a long corridor, and at the end of it turned out to be a dimly lit tavern, with only an old man wiping his glass, and not a single guest.

Li Ang's face was expressionless, and he said to the old man: "I introduced newcomers to join the club and passed the assessment. ”

The old man glanced at Ivo, took out a piece of paper from under the counter, and handed it to Ivo, "Name or nickname, race, occupation, referrer." ”

Ivo thought for a moment and wrote the nickname "Hurricane", Terran, warrior, and introducer Leon Gon Daddio.

The old man looked at it and nodded: "Mr. Hurricane, the Shadow Brotherhood welcomes you to join, you are now a full member of the Brotherhood, Li Ang is your introducer, and the Brotherhood's high-level officials will evaluate you for about half a year." Once the assessment is complete, if the higher-ups feel you can be trusted, you will be given an official fraternity badge and free access to the 'Shadow Tavern'. ”

"There are thousands of Shadow Taverns on the five continents, and just like here, the Shadow Taverns are a place for Brotherhood members to meet, trade, exchange information, and accept bounties. The old man was concise and to the point.

Ivo was surprised, the power of the Brotherhood was beyond his imagination, thousands of shadow taverns, equal to thousands of secret bases, spread across various continents, this is a huge intelligence network.

The old man took out a stack of bounty lists, "This is the Fliga bounty list, normal level. ”

The Brotherhood's bounties are also divided into tiers, and the high-level bounties represent a strong target or a high status, which can only be chosen by high-level members, which is also an intelligence-sharing mechanism, and high-level members can get more information.

Ivo flipped through the pages and suddenly found a person.

"Count Mufacata Toury, a native of Baria, head of the family of Tulli, age forty-seven, current Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Baria......" is followed by a list of political achievements, and at the end of the bounty introduction is a recently updated message, which also attracted Ivo's attention: "The most recent place to appear, in the city of Lasses, represented Barria as a diplomat, and negotiated with Lasses on the handling of border frictions. The employer demanded that Mufakata be assassinated before he left the city of Lasses. ”

Ivo's mind flickered, and he had many guesses.

The person who first issued this bounty must have wanted to provoke a war, it could be other forces that are eyeing him, or it could be Barria himself, in short, if Mufacata was assassinated in King Lhasis, Barria would definitely not give up, and the situation would be tense again.

With this in mind, Ivo randomly selected a few bounties for the wicked, and left the Shadow Tavern with Leon.

......

Returning to the town hotel overnight, it was already getting dark, and after saying goodbye to Leon, Ivo locked the door to his room.

He used the scroll to summon Blackie, and re-transmitted the information that Mufacata might be assassinated to Nafi, which was a relief to him, but fortunately he had joined the Brotherhood, and knowing this information could make Lasses on guard.

The war seems to have nothing to do with him, but in fact it has a great impact, and if war breaks out in Fliga, the safe area will be greatly reduced, and the environment will become more dangerous, and he is also thinking about himself.

I didn't sleep for a day, Ivo was a little sleepy, and according to his habit, before going to bed, let Lao De open the memory battlefield and hone his combat skills.

Entering the battlefield of memory, Ivo opened his eyes and was shocked to find that it was not the familiar purgatory, but a dark forest.

"What's the matter, old man, why did you change your background?" Ivo wondered.

Lao De's voice sounded faintly: "The source of the memory battlefield is my memory, I want you to see some of the things that have happened in front of my eyes." ”

"What's the matter?"

Old German said in a faint tone: "Maybe you should take a look, your ancestors." ”

Ivo was stunned, and suddenly turned around, and found behind him the demon statue of Lao De, with dark eyes and black light.

This is a demon statue sacrificed by the mimics.