Chapter 218: Investigation
The carriage made its way back to the man-made city on the tenth floor without incident.
The sneak attackers of unknown origin were tightly wrapped, and they did not report their names before fighting when they launched the battle, and kept the whole process secret.
It wasn't until Simon and Akane killed the dream that they started talking, but they revealed very little information.
Simon can't tell which adventure group the other party is based on the other party's accent, and the Earth Dragon Secret Realm is wide open, almost everyone can enter, and it is impossible to investigate, so this matter can only be investigated by a team with an investigation business.
As long as you can afford it, the capabilities of these professional teams are still okay.
For example, the team Simon is about to find, called the Hound Adventure Group, their leader is a summoner from a support class who can summon special hounds with skills.
Hounds can track down enemies through scents or objects in the field, and as long as they don't deliberately eliminate the scent, they can follow the scent all the way.
Simon picks up a few weapons that they lost while escaping before returning to the man-made city, and his chances of finding them are greatly increased.
After a while, Simon arrived at the headquarters of the Hound Adventure Group.
This is the corner of the 10th mountain castle, next to a wall of wooden fences and creepers, surrounded by a large courtyard with various plants and animals.
It was the first time that Xiao Qian, who came with the team, saw such an animal raised in a garden, which was full of life, the clear stream ran into the courtyard, the black old cow lowered his head and gently drew water, and the yellow-haired dog wagged his tail, pounced on the wall and poked out the dog's head, looking at the two of them outside the wall.
At this time, the two of them noticed that the wall was one and a half meters high, and the volume of this big dog was a little higher than the wall, and they only needed to kick their legs lightly to get up and pounce on the wall.
The two of them looked at each other.
The big yellow dog stuck out his big tongue, exhaled haha, rolled his eyes, and looked at the carriage behind the two, and the two black and white in the carriage shrank back, as if they were a little afraid of life.
"Hello, I'm looking for your master, it's a tracking business." Simon said.
The big yellow dog screamed, put down his legs and fell to the ground, and ran away without a trace as soon as he slipped through the smoke, and ran into the house.
After a while, someone rode out of the house on a big yellow dog and came to Simon very quickly.
"Hello, Mr. Simon, who exactly do you want to track, and is there a target?"
"It's a team I don't know, and this is their weapon." Simon turned and lifted the curtain of the carriage, revealing several weapons lying on the floor inside.
Simon didn't put these weapons in the space backpack, mainly because they were too lattice, and it was better to carry them in a carriage.
The man riding the big yellow dog patted the dog, and the dog jumped into the carriage with a vigorous body.
Both cats jumped out of the window and ran away, burrowing into Simon and Akane's shoulders, scared of the oversized yellow-haired dog.
The yellow-haired dog grinned, and the two cats were even more afraid, so they directly shrank their heads, hooked their clothes with their paws, and shrank on their backs.
"Rhubarb, work hard."
The man patted the yellow-haired dog, looked at the weapon, and then stepped out of the carriage to check in with Simon.
Simon once approached them for a tracking business.
At that time, someone wanted to find trouble with the white fruit, but Simon couldn't find anyone to make trouble.
The family power behind Mei Guo and Bai Gu can't find out what the problem is.
In the end, Simon spent the team's funds to ask the professional team to track down, and then found the mastermind behind the scenes.
At that time, everyone in the Hound Adventure Group, and more than half of the main team members were two-star class adventurers, and the star strength on paper was about the same as the white fruit at that time.
Now the Hound Adventure Group is now full of members of the third order, and they have the money to live in the city on the tenth floor.
When the Hound Leader saw Simon again, he couldn't help but sigh that it had changed too much, Simon had become the hottest adventure group at the moment, which could be said to be second only to the Four Heavenly Kings Adventure Group.
There are a lot of people who want to join the Snow Mountain Adventure Party now, but Simon hasn't started hiring in a big way yet, and has been on vacation since he returned.
If you suddenly came to him today, you must be in trouble.
After listening to Simon's general story, the Hound Captain said, "I know who it is." ”
"Who?" Simon was a little surprised, after listening to this information, this guy directly guessed blindly?
Don't you look for evidence along the weapon?
"Just guessing." He patched himself in time and said, "I guess it's the team of the Four Heavenly Kings, or it's just some group in the Earth Dragon Alliance. ”
"The team of killers they sent out missed, and they ran away in a frenzy, so they definitely won't do it again in the near future.
"They will calmly observe for a while to see how you react, and it is possible to destroy the evidence directly.
"The time is a bit urgent, I have to find them before they are extinguished, the cost, because it is urgent, give five million in the early stage, and the cost in the back will be made up when the difficulty is made.
"If you agree, you will give money, the time is urgent, you can set off now, the people in my group happen to be there, and you can go immediately."
The Hound Leader said at the end, showing five fingers.
This asking price has increased tenfold compared to before it was grown.
Moreover, this is still an upfront cost.
The cost of the later stage is immeasurable, because the Hound Adventure Party does not know what kind of resistance they will encounter in the future.
Simon heard the offer and felt fine.
Money is such a thing, it should be spent.
And it involves people and things, and the origins are very large, and it is not something that a small team can investigate.
If you are not careful, you may die.
"You said that there is a team of the Four Heavenly Kings involved, and they are dissatisfied with their own resources and want to kill me and take my resources?"
Simon is not stupid, he thinks about the possibilities, and feels that the possibilities are very high.
"There are two possibilities, the first is to kill you and take away your resources, but smart people definitely don't do this, they should have expected that the killer would fail, and you probably won't die, but there must be a danger to your life, and you will be seriously held accountable.
"The second possibility is to force you to expand your manpower, quickly arm the various resource areas, and immediately start developing the resource areas.
"And where do these short-term urgently recruited people come from, they can only be selected from the full-time adventurers, it is impossible to recruit a group of two-star apprentice adventurers to slowly cultivate to the main position, you must find powerful people, otherwise in the tenth layer, it is easy to die, not to mention the waste of money, the delay is not a small number.
"And many of these people are spies of the Grand Adventure Group, or just eyeliner.
"The reason why I emphasize the second possibility is mainly that this is a common control method of the Four Heavenly Kings, infiltrating the nascent grand adventure group through a large number of idle people in society.
"You won't see the effect at the beginning, but after a long time, you'll know.
"As the head of a group, you can't ask about everything, and with so many resource areas, there are always places you can't manage.
"Many adventure groups with no background are secretly overshadowed like this, growing rapidly, and they don't have time to cultivate their own people, and if they want to be greedy for resources, they can only be counter-overheaded."
After Simon listened, he felt that he was right.
The team of the Four Heavenly Kings has been able to stand in Haizhen for so long, and twenty years later, it is still the four teams that are still the kings and hegemons, and it turns out that there is this trick waiting for him in the back.
If you don't want to be manipulated by this trick, you can only sell the resource area, reduce the number of personnel, and focus on being a small but beautiful adventure group.
But they don't know anything.
Simon didn't care about the benefits of this one-third of an acre, and a year later he was ready to climb the mountain.
What he can't take away is of no use to him, at most he can make another sum of money when he sells the land.
(End of chapter)