Chapter 212: "The Swindler"

Most of the people present quickly sat down within five minutes, and a few quickly found their seats on the empty stone chairs with the movements of the rest.

There were some people who were whispering, but most of the time it happened between individuals, or, as Esther noted, groups that were clearly more familiar with each other:

Some of the cloaks were inlaid with drooping hands, and some were stamped with dark patterns on the backs of their cloaks, and the two groups could be said to have deliberately gathered a crowd of similarly dressed people, sitting more congratulated and facing the other side.

However, the small groups with dark patterns are smaller in number, and they are separated from each other and are faintly divided into two parts, which seems to be at odds with each other.

Sure enough, even within the group of "thieves", differentiation is an inevitable result, and eighty percent of these people feel that the other party's "integrity is worrying", but their own minds are also very tight......

When Asther thought this, she heard a low chuckle from the middle-aged man next to her:

"It's all this time, and they still have different hearts, which is really interesting. But this loose organization has lasted longer than I thought, and since the ancestors of the Zoroasd family lost their word of protection, both of them have lost their protection, and I thought they would break up in the last century.

"It's a pity that the Jacob family has no figures, and they are timidly shrunk behind the scenes, not daring to make a move against each other at all, and the new generation is far worse than the Zoroasrid family."

Esther always felt uncomfortable listening to the middle-aged man's mean comments, and the spiing eyes staring at the two of them became more and more, and she even felt that the other party was deliberate.

The two of them sat closer to the group of people who parted with the drooping hands, because the middle-aged man did not deliberately lower his voice, and several people glared at him, his eyes were not good.

It seems that they were all members of Jacob's family?

The middle-aged man met the gaze of those people, but only hooked the corners of his mouth mockingly: "If you think what I said is wrong, you can wait until you leave here to find me, I am happy to teach the juniors who don't know how to be polite."

After saying this, he grabbed the hat and pressed it to his chest, and saluted playfully: "I will look forward to it."

His tone and smile, including the smiling but hidden malice in his eyes, gave Esther a strange sense of familiarity.

She quickly shifted her gaze from the middle-aged man and landed in the middle of the hall, her body tensing.

If only Benjamin was next to him at this time, she should have given him a hint that this middle-aged man had a problem, and there were really wolves mixed in!

At nine :06 a.m., another distant bell rang in the hall.

The young man in a short formal suit appeared directly in the middle of the hall, he slowly turned around to make sure that everyone in the hall could see his gentle face, and his green eyes were hidden behind his disc glasses, scanning his surroundings indifferently and without any mood fluctuations.

All the whispers fell silent, and Esther heard a soft snort from the middle-aged man beside her, who seemed to be disdainful of Benjamin's style.

Esther couldn't help but glance at him again, just in time to meet the eyes of the middle-aged man who was looking over, or maybe he had been staring at her all the time.

In order not to appear weak-hearted, Esther kept her eyes on him and asked, "You don't seem to like this?"

"It's not so much 'I don't like it, I just don't know why it's there.'" The middle-aged man's tone and smile were very polite, but Esther could hear the disdain and ridicule behind his words, "Like cicadas that only live for one summer, they are too noisy and fragile to see the traps, and they are so stupid that they don't know anything about the real threat."

When the middle-aged man said this, he first looked away and looked at Benjamin, who was standing in the middle of the hall.

Esther's hands were clasped together and he listened to Benjamin's speech, and as he spoke, he kept looking around at the crowd on the stone chair, and even if there was no spotlight here, the young man standing in the center of the dial was the most conspicuous speaker:

"First of all, it's every *** customary welcome, welcoming our old friends as well as our new ones. I know that quite a few of them may have come from a long distance to participate in this event

It is the honor of the Jacob family to be in charge of this meeting.

"Introduce yourself to those who don't know me well, Benjamin James, 'Conference Assistant of the Hermit Society of Destiny. Due to the individual grievances of the participants and our long-standing traditions, we do not have a president, we are loosely organized, and we do not make any 'confidentiality' requirements for members."

Benjamin smiled humbly: "However, 'secrecy is also very limited to you. I don't ask for it, but it's also the safest place for us to exchange information, and I don't think anyone wants to walk in intact and leave here as an extraordinary feature."

Esther's clenched hand gradually loosened, and Benjamin's infernal joke briefly distracted her, and she was no longer wary of the middle-aged man next to her, who was suspected to have been replaced by Amon's clone.

But is it really appropriate to say this on such a serious occasion?

As soon as Esther's thought came to her, the middle-aged man next to her let out another chuckle.

Esther subconsciously moved her body to the other side, but the chairs were fixed to the ground, and she couldn't pull much distance at all.

Can this man stop laughing, his voice is too obvious in the whole hall!

Esther sat beside him, feeling more and more eyes coming to her, and she turned her gaze to the middle of the field, and found Benjamin looking at it as well. He nodded lightly in this direction, it seemed that the middle-aged man's laughter just now also caught his attention, and with Benjamin's response, Esther's mood calmed down slightly.

But at the thought of sitting next to her, ninety percent of them might be an Amon clone, Esther's hands on her knees were constantly clenched and released.

"You're nervous? It's not an important meeting, relax some young people."

The voice next to him was very loose, and it sounded more like he was comforting the newcomer's elders, full of affinity.

Esther glanced at him, "Thank you for your kindness."

She let out a long sigh of relief, not wanting to have any more contact with this man. If she is later mistaken for another Amon clone, she may also get Benjamin into trouble......

Benjamin's opening remarks ended with a much shorter sentence than Esther had imagined, and Benjamin bowed to the crowd again: "Then it's the usual time for each *** to share information with each other about our 'common enemy'."

The black-robed man sitting at the front of Jacob's family immediately raised his hand, and a hoarse and old voice came from under the hood:

"Intistril is still the hardest hit area, they are almost on the surface, and it is not recommended for anyone to approach them. In addition, in the northern provinces of Honachis and the coastal areas, there have also been frequent people who have been replaced by fate, and the south is relatively stable and safe, but there is still the possibility of hiding in the doppelganger."

On the other side of the hall, the group of people with the dark pattern of the clock on the back of the black cloak also had the leader sitting at the front. The man raised his hand in a similar gesture and said in a rather soft female voice:

"Fersak has a definite suspicion in Indo Harbor, where two people have already gone missing. He had been seen in the Plains of Eternal Night at the beginning of the year, and there was no obvious anomaly in the rest of the area, but be careful, he seemed to be more active this year."

After these two people, those who did not belong to this small group also began to raise their hands one after another, reporting locations they knew or suspected, including the "disappearances" of the same extraordinary people they knew.

There are at least a number of mentioned locations in Rune, Lemberg, Fenerport, and even the sea and the southern continent, and the meeting began with mutual warning.

For the first time, Esther had a more detailed understanding, and she was puzzled by this, how many doppelgangers did Amon have that allowed him to be so willful to throw into the world? Even though these clones are still hunting, the more extraordinary properties he devours, the more he can create himself, and it will not affect the power of the main body......

Esther raised her right hand and scraped her fingertips across her right brow, but what she was really curious about was the spot of light hidden beneath her hair.

The middle-aged man beside him coughed lightly, attracting Esther's attention, and a playful smile was hanging on his undisguised face, which diluted the gloomy temperament of his appearance, and his voice was very soft: "Do you be scared when you listen to this?"

Esther hesitated for a moment, and decided to reply to the middle-aged man's inquiry with an attitude more in line with that of an ordinary "thief": "Of course I'm afraid, just these life-saving news will make this *** worth more than I imagined."

The middle-aged man stared at her in amazement for a few seconds, the smile on his face did not change, and he no longer deliberately lowered his voice: "You Aurora will know this news, won't you take action against Amon's clone?"

The small communication in the hall suddenly stopped, because most of the people had already communicated their known information, and the surrounding environment was relatively quieter at this time, which also made the middle-aged man's voice seem very abrupt.

Esther, who was suddenly detained with a black cauldron, was full of indifference, she just looked back at the middle-aged man quietly, not irritated by the other party's provocative smile.

Benjamin cleared his throat: "If you have a personal vendetta, please discuss privately after *** and don't interfere with the order of the venue."

There was a small whisper in the hall again, mixed with dissatisfaction with Benjamin's intervention, but it did not explode directly.

The smile on the middle-aged man's face disappeared, and when he sank his face, the hooked nose would highlight a more arrogant coldness: "Even if someone enters with the favor of the true Creator, you have to favor this person?"

The silence of the pin drop can be heard.

Benjamin looked at the middle-aged man and let out a long sigh:

"Seriously, Uncle Gad is a kind man, and now I know that he was robbed of his fate by you, and I regret it."

The middle-aged man gradually hooked the corners of his mouth and stood up from the stone chair: "It's a pity that he believes in the wrong person."

Esther suddenly turned her head and stared at the middle-aged man next to her.

The man was not looking at Benjamin, but at her.