Felix's expression was still calm when the woman in front of him said that she was going to report her son, but when the other party said the name "Valery" and the word "Salem", Felix's eyebrows couldn't help but raise.

In the cold north, the name "Valery" symbolizes a strong, vigorous vitality, and for many St. Stille parents, it is the best blessing for newborns, so in the kingdom of St. Steele, the name is somewhat common, and even many girls will have it.

However, when the name was combined with "City of Selen", a face appeared in Felix's eyes as it should.

There's no way Felix could have forgotten Master Valery.

In a way, without Valery, the refugees in Salem might still be rescued, but the process would never have been so smooth, and the end result could have been even more tragic.

It was Valery's presence that allowed Felix to take the group of children through the most difficult times, and it was he who succeeded in carrying out Xiuge's plan.

After the events in Salem City were completely over, Valery joined the Dawn Society, along with many other mages, with his status as a certified mage from Merlinle, and these members of the Dawn Society with the status of "orthodox mages" played a very important role in the mediation and negotiation between the Dawn Society and the Law Committee, and some of them have now joined the Vann Magic Society.

Valery himself was not an academic scholar, so he was actively involved in the Dawn Society's work on the Kingdom of St. Steele.

Felix even had a brief meeting with Valery before the start of the campaign, when Valery had just joined a joint detachment organized by the Law Council, and they were tasked with groping their way along the less war-stressed frontier to document some of the remaining magic and rituals of the Black Sun Society, so that the Vann Magic Society could disassemble and study the methods of these enemies.

Of course, Felix also knew that Valery had joined the mission with some of his own ideas, and since the Black Sun Society took control of the kingdom of St. Steele, his communication with his family had been completely cut off, so he wanted to take this opportunity to find out about his family's situation.

The information about Valery flashed through Felix's mind, and then he quickly gathered his thoughts and looked seriously at the anxious woman sitting across from him.

When Valery first joined the Dawn Society, Felix had heard him talk about his family, and in Valery's description, his mother was actually very young, a somewhat delicate woman, and very good at taking care of herself, but now, Felix saw only exhaustion and vicissitudes in this face.

"Take a sip and we'll move on...... Take it easy. ”

Felix lowered his voice: "Valery is our companion and comrade-in-arms, and it is impossible for the Dawn Society to turn a blind eye to this kind of thing, now, I need you to provide as many details as possible about this matter, the more the better." ”

The woman's agitation was calmed down by Felix's reassurance, and after a few sips of warm water from the glass, she began to recount the whole event.

Thanks to Valery's advance notification of magical letters, his family left the big city where they had settled before the Black Sun Society could launch its operation, and voluntarily moved to remote towns in the southeast, seeking refuge with some of the less connected relatives and friends.

These towns tend to be less likely to get the attention of the Black Sun Society and the royal family of St. Steele than those densely populated cities, and have a better chance of escaping chaos and conflict.

Initially, this was going well, but as they were about to reach their target town, chaos erupted throughout the kingdom of St. Steele, where deserters, bandits, and refugees who had lost their homes due to the impact were mixed together, making a mess of the otherwise peaceful route.

In the process, Valery's father was shot at by two young bandits, and he was mortally wounded and had to recuperate in a small village far from Overwatch, and because of the loss of the money he had with him, Valery's sister and mother had to take care of the wounded while working part-time jobs in exchange for some medicine.

"Just half a month ago, yes, half a month...... On that day, I was doing laundry, but Valery suddenly appeared, and I thought he was coming for us, but he grabbed me and told me to find a way to find Felix in the Dawn Society and pass on the news of his 'mutiny' to you. ”

Tears began to fall from the mother's face as she recalled the scene, but she still struggled to describe the details: "He lost a lot of weight, he seemed to have injuries on his body, and he looked a little flustered...... Well, my eyes are all glazed off, more like refugees than we are. ”

As he said this, he kept looking around, as if he was hiding from someone...... I wanted to ask him about the situation, but he didn't give me a chance at all, and after saying those words, he left me and fled into the distance. ”

Felix kept recording in his notebook, and he asked, "You didn't try to catch up?" ”

The woman shook her head, "He used some kind of magic, and I couldn't catch up with him." ”

Felix recorded these answers one by one, and after carefully reviewing them, he asked, "I need to confirm one thing, he explicitly mentioned 'shelling' and 'Watch' at that time?" ”

"Yes, he mentioned, he told me that someone was planning some kind of 'deadly' operation against Overwatch and Dawn, and that all of this happened because of his ...... His 'betrayal'! ”

"Did he say anything else?"

"No, he didn't even ask me about his father and sister."

The woman shook her head sadly: "I think he must have been in some very terrible situation, otherwise with his character, he would not have been able to do these things!" ”

"I understand."

Felix slowly closed the notebook in his hand: "Since Master Valery is willing to trust me, then I will naturally find a way to deal with this matter...... Don't worry, the dawn society will put you in place, ma'am, a little later, I will let my subordinates who can trust come to you to learn more details about this matter, they may also use some magic to restore the scene at that time, you just cooperate, don't be afraid. ”

He slowly got up, "Please trust the Dawn Society, just as we will trust Valery...... In addition, please tell us the specific location of your family, and the dawn society will send someone to pick them up. ”

"Thank you, thank you! Mr! ”

The woman stood up excitedly, and the middle-aged Mr. Felix in front of her was very different from the government officials she had seen before, and although both seemed very stern, Felix had a peculiar, convincing power in his manners and words, which made her feel unusually reassured.

Felix nodded and accepted the woman's thanks, and after a gentle pinch of his fingers on the cane, he made sure that there was nothing wrong with the woman, and then turned and left the room.

The moment he came to the hallway, his face quickly sank.

Reason and logic tell Felix that Valery's matter is definitely much more serious and complicated than the word "mutiny".

So, Felix, who left the meeting room, did not go back to Meyer and the others immediately, but went to another room alone and asked Sally to help him call Mayer over.

Mayer was naturally alert, and the moment he stepped into the room, he looked at Felix with a frown: "What's wrong?" Isn't that right? ”

"Professor, I'm afraid we're going to have some internal problems."

"You mean, there are traitors?"

"There may be more than one."

Felix handed the note in his hand to Meyer, and after the other party finished reading it, he said: "The joint detachment of Master Valery has applied to the Sword of Dawn several times before for intelligence information on the territory of St. Steele, and the distribution of these materials is handled by me...... So I know very well what they are made up of. ”

He stood against the wall with his cane: "In this detachment, apart from Valery, there are no other core members of the Dawn Society, and this means that even if their detachment is ambushed by the Black Sun Society and all members are captured alive, it is impossible to easily obtain the latest information inside the Dawn Society." ”

"What's more, there is a significant time lag in between."

Mayer immediately understood what Felix meant, and his face became serious: "The last appearance of Master Valery was about the same time as we entered Overwatch City, and it is impossible for the Black Sun Society to obtain information about the city through him...... Someone else leaked information to the outside world! ”

"Yes, and I don't believe that Mage Valery could have become a traitor, and from the information provided by his mother, it is clear that he has encountered some extremely special circumstances and therefore had to use this method to convey to us."

Meyer nodded: "So, what do you think you should do now?" Started an internal troubleshooting? ”

"It's inevitable, professor...... But until then, we must inform all our comrades who are still operating in Saint-Steele, especially Miss Verin, that these positions are too deep to leak out any information about them. ”

Hearing this, Meyer couldn't help but sigh, as one of the supreme leaders of the Dawn Society, his perspective on the development of the situation is destined to be different from ordinary people, looking at the development of the war during this time, the benefits and help brought by these teams organized by Xiuge, Wei Lin and others to the Dawn Society and even the entire coalition army are immeasurable, and those secret strongholds set up in the territory of St. Stille have become eyes that monitor the Black Sun Society one after another.

Once they withdraw these "eyes", it is destined to have a huge impact on all the actions that follow.

However, Meyer nodded: "I agree with your proposal, we will never put our comrades in such a dangerous situation...... Let them lie dormant or evacuate as much as possible, Miss Verin should pay special attention to them, they have recently been in contact with some nobles of St. Steele, and once they leave, it is likely to attract attention. ”

Mayer raised his hand and touched his shiny head, he smiled distressedly: "Anyway, these things will be left to you, and I will help you prepare for the internal inventory...... Feel free to get in touch. ”

With that, Meyer turned and left the room, his steps a little heavier than before.

Before the Dawn Society and the coalition forces prepared to carry out the next phase of the operation, the counterattack and infiltration of the Black Sun Society had finally arrived, and even the Dawn Society, which had always maintained a considerable degree of "purity" in the past, still seemed to have no way to break free from the shadow cast by the black sun.

"Who could it be?"

Felix stood alone in the room, he looked down at the slightly curved metal cane, and muttered to himself, "Who could it be?" Can you help me find out? ”

As if hearing Felix's heart, the moment his voice fell, his staff trembled lightly twice.

It also seems to have a heartbeat.

……

Shoge, who was carrying a large cargo box among the corpses, paused inexplicably.

Just now, he suddenly sensed a fluctuation.

Very faint and very short-lived.

It is like a stone falling on the other side of a wide water, and the ripples continue to spread, and finally disappear into nothingness.

"Who's trying to contact me? Or is it calling me out with magic? ”

The fluctuation was too fragile, and even with Xiuge's spiritual strength, he still couldn't successfully capture it, and with his magical knowledge, he could only barely make a rough characterization of the fluctuation based on its slight characteristics.

"Is there something going on in the Vann? Is it Verin? Or Meyer them? ”

Hug breathed a heavy sigh of relief, then he lifted his palm, controlled the many Calon touches that extended from his side, and moved the heavy crate to the open space in front of the metal pedestal, and forced the sealed lid open.

A dilapidated breath came to his face.

Calon's Touch nimbly reached into the crate, and soon, one of the tentacles rolled into a translucent pass in front of Shug.

"I hope it helps."

Because of the sudden fluctuation before, Xiuge inexplicably felt a trace of anxiety in his heart, so the movements in his hands were also a little faster.

He gripped the pass and poured his magic into it, resuming the long-silent precision circuit back into operation.

The light gradually appeared, and the pass that had lost its energy supply became bright again.

On the ID, Xiuge saw a photo of Engineer Wang, and at the bottom of the pass, he saw a soothing green lettering: "Access Permission Activated."

(End of chapter)