"Negotiations broke down?"
In the cottage, Duan Shanyue, who was still looking blank, leaned over to ask the scar-faced man, but what he got was expressionless silence. Chen Yu Canyue, who had just rushed back, angrily questioned the other people here, but what he got was
It was also Grayson with an ugly expression on his face. Only after following Duan Qing, when a certain black-clothed nobleman who appeared next to him asked this question, did he get an answer from someone: "
Yes, the negotiations broke down."
"It seems... you are not very popular in the adventurer world."
Reaching out and pressing the top hat that was almost blown by the night wind, Kima appeared in front of Duan Qing in a different appearance again and asked in a low voice: "Are you in a bad mood and are you planning to give up?"
"Give up? Haha... maybe this word has appeared several times in my life."
Looking at the city shrouded in darkness, Duan Qing, who was strolling on Yare Street, replied slowly: "But definitely not now."
"Originally, I wanted to ask you if you need help, and invite you to join the Shadow Club or something." Kima made a joke of her own: "Now it seems that I don't need it anymore."
"...Don't comfort me, I know what your position is." Duan Qing said without looking back: "But...the aristocratic forces you support seem to have no future at the moment."
"Although I didn't have much hope before, the place in Talan Village... is indeed their last effort." Kima's voice deepened: "There is no news from the messengers sent by the principality to ask for help, and now there is no news.
Without more troops, if we want to survive under such conditions...it seems that the only way to survive is to negotiate terms."
"Have they never thought of asking adventurers for help?" Duan Qing paused slightly: "To seek help from us selfless adventurers?"
"Among the intelligence received by our Shadow Club, only Fords still maintains the arrangement he laid down when he confronted the civilian party." Kima also slowed down a little: "As for what they are thinking in their minds... this
It’s not something we can know.”
"For the sake of our common survival, should we reveal all our information and exchange it?"
In the noisy market filled with players, Duan Qing's conversation suddenly turned a corner: "It's already reached this point... Hiding it seems to be no good for both of us, right?"
"What you say makes sense." A slight smile appeared on Kima's face: "But our Shadow Society is not an organization that survives today by trading intelligence."
"..."
"In Wisel's words, even if the principality is destroyed and the Free Continent is unified by the empire, the shadow will still live on."
Ignoring Duan Qing's speechless expression, Kima maintained his usual smile: "Attachment to the nobles is just a way for us to obtain more information from them. We think it is necessary to maintain such a relationship, so we
Having done this - valuable targets have always maintained a certain degree of contact with us, which are the so-called customers... You who have had the opportunity to become a customer should be able to understand, right? "
"So you can betray your allies at any time...is that right?"
"Please don't get me wrong, we are not allies, why would we betray one?" Kima replied with a smile: "Just like...the relationship between you and me."
"...It is indeed the dark shadow society."
Looking back at the war-torn sky behind the black-clothed nobleman, Duan Qing showed a wry smile: "I've learned a lesson."
"This is my reward for letting me watch a good show." Kima bowed proudly: "There will be many opportunities for communication between us... in the future."
"...can I leave now?"
"Let's go? Oh, I have no intention of following you, I just want to have a friendly exchange with you."
The nobleman played with the cane in his hand and stopped in an alley on Yare Street: "For example...where are you going to go next?"
"Black market." Duan Qing replied: "I have established some alliances with a person named Queen Maggie... that you can't understand. News was sent from there today, and I was about to go take a look...
Why, you people who seem to know everything want to follow me and learn more?"
"Uh... no need."
For some reason, the orthodox noble showed an unnatural expression on his face: "We still rarely have contact with places like the black market. After all, there is a group of fools from the Warrior House who want to hinder our business expansion and are guarding us every day.
Get your hands on that place..."
"But they have now been silenced by Parliament."
"Well... that will take time, at least some instructions from our superiors."
The figure of the noble continued to move forward and began to disappear into the dark shadow of the alley: "Without the approval of the Lord of the Free City, no delegation would dare to come to this war-torn place... The truth behind this is
Isn’t it the same?”
"..."
"We look forward to your future performance."
Kima's voice became farther and farther away, seeming to gradually disappear with his footsteps: "Heart..."
"Don't die easily."
"……Hey."
A mixed cold snort came from his nose. Duan Qing looked back at the end of Ya'er Street, then turned around and walked away, his figure gradually disappearing into the crowd of people on the street. After a while, the figures of several players
They appeared together in the corner of the underground passage, and then received a message from a certain iron tower man with a fierce look on his face, which surprised them: "The Queen is not here? Where has she gone?"
"She is probably investigating something somewhere." Hu Lin, the former nightclub bartender who looked like an iron tower, replied expressionlessly: "She has been out for a long time."
"Then why did she send the message?" Mengzhu, with his hands on his hips, said angrily: "We rushed here in a hurry, thinking we finally found something..."
"What's the point of our queen waiting for you to come? She can do whatever she wants." Hu Lin, who was snorting to the sky, dismissed other players who were still handing over tasks to him, and replied disdainfully: "You want to
Looking for her..."
"Just go to the central area and take a look."
Duan Qing and others looked at each other for a while and were silent for a while. Then they left the place hand in hand. After discussing with each other for a few minutes, they rushed towards the central area mentioned by Hu Lin in the dark. There was Duan Qing.
The place where the others have been unable to set foot is the location of the so-called furnace mentioned by the underground forces. However, this time they still encountered the same huge difficulties as before in their infiltration: "Why are there so many guards?"
"No, the number of guards has increased again."
His eyes scanned around the passage, and Duan Qing, who returned from the investigation, lowered his voice: "Probably because the world on the ground no longer needs guards, so everyone has been transferred here."
"Are they still city guards?" Qian Zhihe, who was holding the staff, also pouted: "It doesn't matter if it hinders us all day long, they still like to guard places like the sewer..."
"The sewers are a paradise for snoops. This is an eternal truth." The shirtless Xiao Hongchen shook his head and replied: "So... I have long disliked these guards! There must be something wrong with them!"
"The problem is also the problem with the people above. They probably don't even know what they are doing here." Xiyu, who was holding a long sword, smiled and turned his head: "Is it because they want to catch us fugitives? They think we are here.
Is he a rabbit who likes to hit trees?"
"They definitely don't know about the allusion of waiting for a rabbit, and the furnace is not a tree stump." Duan Qing said expressionlessly: "So their appearance... must be to guard this place."
"Besides us and the underground forces, is there anyone else who wants to break into this place these days?"
"No more, sir."
The blue and white coded Ninglan folded her hands and bowed gently with a smile: "Su Meili has never shown his face again. It is said that he has withdrawn from this place according to the instructions of his backstage, and Kazak
The same is true, but his situation seems to be a little different, since the last attack... he has not been seen again."
"The only party that has received a substantial blow is Queen Maggie, who is somewhat close to us." The woman in maid uniform said softly: "And the players who wanted to approach here later also encountered some... obstruction."
"oh?"
"The city guards patrol here, and they seem to pay special attention to people related to Queen Maggie." Codename Ninglan explained: "There are many players who are more or less affected when they help Hu Lin do things. They have
Some people were afraid of going against the local official forces, so they retreated, and some people who were curious or liked to confront... later also discovered this place."
"And then kicked out without exception? Good."
Looking at the movement of the other party's head, Duan Qing turned around with a low smile: "It seems... they really value this place."
"It's time to go in and take a look."
A man's voice suddenly sounded, suddenly attracting the attention of several people present. When the warning sound and the sound of weapons being unsheathed sounded at the same time, the black figure squatting in the corner of the passage hurriedly pressed his arm, and then again.
He raised it up and said, "Hey, I just shouted out my heart for you. Don't treat me like this."
"Who makes you so scary?" After seeing the other party clearly, Duan Qing waved and signaled Ningyu Ninglan to remove the dagger from the other party's neck: "Why are you here? Are you following us here?
"
"That's right, after all, I'm not familiar with this place." Huanmeng, who was touching his neck, gave the maid a thumbs up, and then replied with a smile: "After all, it's an underground waterway in a big city, and there is no guide to take me... I am
It’s impossible to find this place.”
"Comrade Huan Meng, please tell the truth." While several players were about to breathe a sigh of relief, Duan Qing sighed: "No wonder the fighting has been so intense these days, but you disappeared... Who brought you here?"
Came here?"
"Can you give me some face? Don't expose me so quickly." Huanmeng tugged on his windbreaker and smoothed out the wrinkles on it: "I came here following some people, and they are also among my goals when I came here.
First, they hid underground one after another, so I started searching here... Well, in order to find them, I haven't watched the game for several days, and I feel like I have lost 100 million."
"...You'd better not look at it." Duan Qing said expressionlessly: "So? So you chased me here?"
"Yes, this is the place in front of you. You call it...the furnace, right?"
"Why, do you have another name?"
"According to the information I obtained from previous investigations, that thing should be called the Henea Engine."
Huanmeng's voice was low and deep, but it attracted the attention of several people present: "Don't look at me like that, that's how he was called in the information I found, although I don't know why those ruins
The information will call this light beam an engine..."
"Light, light beam? Have you even seen its appearance?"
"Not only the appearance, I also saw a few people coming in and out of here." Looking at Duan Qing's surprised expression, Huan Meng smiled proudly: "For example, a few mysterious men in black, a few running errands back and forth.
players, and a few guys who look like guard commanders..."
"Wait, wait, wait." It seemed that the amount of information revealed by the other party was too large, so Duan Qing hurriedly interrupted him: "Man in black? Player? How did you know... No, you have already sneaked into this place.
Yes? How did you get in?"
"Of course we entered from above."
Pointing to his head, the man in the trench coat grinned: "Up here...is the place you call Parliament Square. There is a secret passage that can lead directly to it. Judging from the appearance of the secret passage, it should not be temporary.
It was dug out, but it was designed a long time ago."
In the eyes of several people who were widening their eyes in surprise, Huanmeng continued to recount his experience proudly: "I followed an old man in. He had already used that secret passage several times. He probably wanted to meet someone there.
That’s why I’m so sneaky, but I don’t dare to follow too closely, so I don’t hear a few words every time…”
"Old man?" The sharp whisper quickly caught the key word: "Who is that old man?"
"Uh... I'm not familiar with the people in your principality." Huanmeng scratched the back of his head: "It should be, it should be the president of your principality, right? He is the one who looks very old and thin..."
The buzzing sound was accompanied by a moment of silence, and slowly dispersed from Duan Qing's ears like a halo. It was the sequelae caused by his sudden recognition of certain possibilities, and his mind exploded.
But before he could completely sort out the lines, there was a sound of rushing running from one side of the passage. The sound was not the sound of the guards guarding the furnace door searching for them, but several voices accompanied by shouts.
The player who yelled shouted: "...Duan Qing, come out!"
"You can't run away this time!"
"Hey, you came here with your tail?" Huanmeng in the corner stretched out his head, and then let out a helpless sigh: "That's too much, haven't you already solved it?"
"That's what I want too."
Duan Qing closed his eyes helplessly, and calmly adjusted his breathing for a while. When he opened his eyes again and looked around, they were filled with a strange light.
"They...really went too far this time."
This chapter has been completed!