Bai Xiaowen has already used insight to see that Jide's strength is elite level 7, which can be said to be the master in the entire Crow organization, second only to the leader Benny.
"But Joshua has already shown his loyalty," Bai Xiaowen said with a hint of interest, "I admit that your ability is stronger than Joshua... However, what I value more is loyalty. I believe you understand this.
.”
Jide said loudly: "Please rest assured, sir, my loyalty is by no means inferior to that of Joshua." In order to avoid Bai Xiaowen's misunderstanding, he slowly took out the iron ax from his waist and pointed it at Ben beside him after obtaining Bai Xiaowen's consent.
Ni's corpse was chopped down with an axe.
Benny was whipped for the second time, and his skull rolled away.
When other members of the Crow Organization saw this bloody scene, everyone was moved. Most of them tried their best to suppress their inner fluctuations, and only a few cast a look of contempt at Jide.
Bai Xiaowen nodded slightly: "Okay, I recognize your loyalty for the time being. You can serve as the second leader of the Crow Organization, equal to Joshua's status." He raised his hand and asked two people to come over and remove Benny's headless body.
Splice it together with the head and carry it away.
Bai Xiaowen himself does not have a perverted hobby of whipping corpses. Joshua was confused by his servant and stabbed Benny's corpse. Bai Xiaowen did it deliberately, just to take the lead for other people in the Crow Organization and give these people
An opportunity to follow suit.
Especially since Joshua's own status is not high, how could those members of the elite organization be willing to just rely on whipping corpses to climb over others. Therefore, Jide's performance was actually within Bai Xiaowen's expectation.
The internal cohesion of the Crow organization is actually relatively weak, and the loyalty of the members to the boss is very low. The boss Benny has a cold nature. When he saw his subordinates' bald burly men being killed on the spot, he didn't even dare to fart one more.
This kind of boss is destined to have no die-hard followers.
Seeing that Jide's surrender was also recognized by Bai Xiaowen, other members of the organization were a little moved. However, after Bai Xiaowen obtained Jide's allegiance, he had achieved his basic goal and immediately ordered others to leave. Jide and Qiao Shu
The two of them stayed behind and asked about the missing persons case and Voodoo.
Perhaps because of the presence of Joshua as a competitor, Jide's attitude towards Bai Xiaowen can be described as kneeling and licking. Compared with Benny's previous obedience, there was a clear difference.
"Is the Crow Organization involved in the missing persons case? Do you know about it?" Bai Xiaowen first asked the question about the main mission.
Jide looked horrified and shook his head repeatedly: "Sir, I dare to guarantee with my life that the Crow Organization has nothing to do with the missing persons case. Although the business taken by the organization is decided by Boss Benny... No, that guy Benny,
But he would not dare to get involved in such a large case. Although he is not a good person, he is not that courageous."
Bai Xiaowen was a good judge of appearance and knew that what Jide said was not a lie.
"Then the second question, how much do you know about Voodoo?" Bai Xiaowen stared at Jide with burning eyes, not missing his every subtle expression and reaction.
Jide said honestly: "Voodoo has some cooperation with us."
"What kind of cooperation?"
Jide: "Just to collect some special materials. As you know, my lord, many voodoo rituals require some inexplicable media, such as a virgin's menstrual blood, a frog's eyes, or a cobra's venom gland..."
Bai Xiaowen narrowed his eyes: "Where is the Voodoo stronghold in Hodge Town?"
Jade shook his head.
"Since we have a cooperative relationship, why don't you know their stronghold? Do you dare to lie to me?" Although Bai Xiaowen judged that Jide was not lying from his heartbeat, breathing and subtle expressions, he still wanted to put pressure on Jide.
Jide quickly complained: "Sir, I really don't know. Even Benny doesn't know the secret stronghold of Voodoo. Every time there is a transaction, the other party comes to collect the items and then gives the new list of materials."
Us, let us collect... Because the other party is very generous, we are happy to make some extra money. Anyway, the things we need to collect are just troublesome, not too difficult..."
"The other party came to the door? Who is this person? You must have followed him, right?" Bai Xiaowen asked.
Jide: "...The person who came is actually not a human, but a huge stitched corpse monster, which is somewhat similar to the zombie monster you summoned. That's why Joshua, the guy, saw the corpse of your Excellency for the first time.
At strange times, I call out the name of Voodoo..."
After a pause, Jide continued to speak, but he seemed a little guilty: "Looking at the other party's generous spending, we did follow the corpse monster and wanted to find the other party's address... But the brothers sent out that time were all
After they didn't come back, their bodies were found hanging at the entrance of Blackwater Lane the next day. Their bodies were covered with maggots and mold spots, and their death conditions were horrible. From then on, Benny... never mentioned the matter of following him again.
"
Bai Xiaowen nodded slightly, what Jide said should be true.
In the team channel, Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi discussed it.
"We came to Blackwater Alley originally to find the main mission and solve the clues of the missing persons case. Unexpectedly, we got some clues to the Voodoo Cult through some crooked tricks." Bai Xiaowen said in the team channel.
Li Shuyi: "Hey, I originally thought that the missing persons case was related to voodoo... Do you think this is still possible now?"
"It's basically impossible," Bai Xiaowen said. "According to Jide's description, the Voodoo Cult's secret lair in Hodge Town should have a small but refined staffing, maybe only a few elites and one or two senior
Strong leaders, or even more extreme, only one or two polished commanders. With such a personnel configuration, it is impossible to plan and implement large-scale human kidnapping cases without being discovered by the black and white of the Sheriff and the Crow Organization.
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Bai Xiaowen deduced the staffing of the Voodoo Cult through reverse thinking. If the Voodoo Cult has a large number of people, then small but troublesome but not difficult tasks such as collecting frog eyes and poisonous snake venom glands will not be "outsourced".
It was completed by the Crow Organization. Based on the principle of confidentiality, shouldn't this kind of work be best completed by our own people, that is, voodoo practitioners?
After listening to Bai Xiaowen's explanation, Li Shuyi quickly agreed.
"Next, the focus of our exploration can be turned to the side missions of Voodoo Cult," Bai Xiaowen thought for a while and said, "Although the main mission has the highest status, it lasts for ten days, and its difficulty rating is only ordinary A-level.
, I believe it will be completed in the end. As for the elite side mission of Voodoo Cult, the time limit is only 72 hours. Now that we have the clue, we will do this first."
Li Shuyi: "But even the people in the Crow Organization don't know the address of the secret stronghold of the Voodoo Sect. How should we find it?"
Bai Xiaowen smiled and turned to ask Jide: "How many days do you have contact with Voodoo people?"
Jide said: "I'm not sure about this, it seems to be very irregular... When I'm in a hurry, it will come once a day or two, and at the end of the list of materials left by the corpse monster, the additional wording is also very strict, and it will be added
Some threats. Other times, I am more relaxed and only come once every ten and a half months."
"When was the last time you came here?"
"Three days ago." Jide answered quickly this time.
"Last time?"
"Four days ago."
"Bring me the list of materials that the Voodoo Corpse Monster gives every time, especially the note containing his reminder for the goods."
Jide was a little panicked: "We didn't keep things like the material list properly... there may only be a few left, and they are all recent."
"Okay, bring me a few of them." Bai Xiaowen said calmly. He didn't expect an underground organization to have strict rules and regulations to keep documents and archives.
After a while.
Bai Xiaowen held a few lists, asked Jide a few questions, and pondered slightly.
"There are a total of four lists here, which are the latest four acquisition materials," Bai Xiaowen analyzed in the team channel. "According to the dates recalled by Jide, three of them are three days, four days, and six days ago. It can be
They seem to be next to each other, and the message at the end of the list is also very impatient, wanting to pick up the goods on the spot. And the earliest one was half a month ago. So I infer... In a short period of time, the Voodoo people
We will no longer pick up goods at your door.”
After a pause, Bai Xiaowen said again: "It's a pity. I originally thought that if the Voodoo people would come to the door in the next two days, we could track the corpse monster and follow the clues."
Bai Xiaowen's analysis was clear and logical, but Li Shuyi was confused: "How do you know that the Voodoo people will not come in the short term?"
"From this irregular delivery date, it can be inferred that these materials are used for voodoo experiments, rather than normal production. Because normal production and manufacturing not only require a stable supply source, but also show large quantities of similar goods.
Demand, this is not on the list.”
Bai Xiaowen paused: "When doing experiments, especially when exploring unknown experiments, the experimenter needs to verify many of his assumptions. Just like Edison invented the light bulb and tested thousands of materials, voodoo experimenters also need to constantly
Replace materials. Therefore, from the frequency of the material list, we can see the progress of his experiment."
Li Shuyi understood: "In other words, a continuous and severely worded list of materials means that the other party's experiment has encountered a bottleneck, is currently working on key problems, and is in urgent need of materials. And a list of materials that comes only once every ten and a half months means that a certain aspect of the experiment
This stage has been successful, and the other party has no new experimental ideas."
Bai Xiaowen smiled and nodded: "That's right. Let's look at the dates of these four lists. The last three pickups were concentrated three days ago, four days ago and six days ago. With only one or two days apart, new materials are urgently needed, which represents experiments.
The person is in the bottleneck stage. Three days have passed since the last time he picked up the goods, and the other party has not come... This should mean that the experiment has achieved a staged success, and the other party is not very urgent for this batch of materials.
"
This is the basis for Bai Xiaowen's speculation that Voodoo people will not come to the door in a short time. It may seem like speculation, but in fact there is a deep-seated reason.
Of course, this kind of speculation cannot be 100% accurate. It would not be surprising if the experimenter suddenly comes to the door if his brain twitches and he has a new inspiration. Bai Xiaowen's speculation is only applicable under normal circumstances, and the possibility is 70 to 80%
, but 20 to 30% of surprises cannot be ruled out.
Li Shuyi said with some distress: "What should we do... If the Voodoo people don't come, we can only wait and wait. If it exceeds 72 hours, the mission will fail."
Bai Xiaowen smiled and said: "So this mission rating is an A-level elite mission."
Li Shuyi pouted and then laughed again: "I won't bother my poor brain cells. Anyway, you are here... Last time in the world of Kane's plane, you were able to handle all the S-class hero missions.
This A-level elite mission must be no problem."
Bai Xiaowen spread his hands: "Don't say that, the last S-class hero mission was actually mostly luck. If Dr. Zombie's unconventional zombie research happened to restrain the undead plague, that mission would have been impossible to complete... Even so,
The final degree of completion was also very low.”
Of course, once the S-class hero mission is completed, the rewards you get are also very terrifying. Bai Xiaowen's permanent fiefdom order is a direct reward, and the permanent team building item Black Blade's Oath, as well as the opportunity to kill Absolun, the chief of the remnants, can later be missed.
, obtaining two pieces of dark gold equipment (blood essence stone + dark gold shoulder pads) can also be regarded as an indirect extended benefit.
After Bai Xiaowen told the truth and said something modestly, he signaled Jide to leave, and then carefully studied the lists of materials. He had a feeling that there was an invisible thread existing in these lists. As long as he grabbed that
Basically, this A-level elite mission is half completed.
After reading it several times, Bai Xiaowen suddenly stood up.
"What's wrong?" Li Shuyi asked.
"I have an idea, I don't know if it's right...but thinking about it, it should be very possible," Bai Xiaowen said in a deep voice, "Let Jide restrain the members of the Crow Organization, strictly control Blackwater Lane, and no member is allowed to go out.
...You come with me."
Li Shuyi followed closely: "What's wrong? Does anyone in the Crow Organization know about the Voodoo Sect's stronghold?"
"No, no, I'm just in case, to prevent these people from leaking the news," Bai Xiaowen said in a low voice, "I don't have time to explain, come with me quickly... I made a mistake, I should have thought of it earlier."
Li Shuyi pursed her lips and stopped asking any more questions, so as not to disrupt Bai Xiaowen's train of thought.
After giving instructions to Jide, Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi quickly left Heishui Lane, then quickly turned right, followed the way they came, and entered the dilapidated commercial street filled with the stench of sewage.
After walking for a while, Bai Xiaowen stopped at a shop at the corner of the street.
"Huh...it's okay. It's here."
Seeing that the door of the shop was still open, Bai Xiaowen breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed his frown.
On the sign of the shop, there is a line written clearly: Akaia's Cauldron.