A haggard, swarthy-faced young man with rickets was brought in. He was dressed in a starched white linen gown with holes in his boots. He looked even shabbier than those old servants in ordinary noble families.
This is a weather-beaten face, no different from the concierges in old communities in previous lives.
Raymond also deliberately observed the old man's eyes. There were hidden scars on both sides of the corners of his eyes, and it looked like he had been cut horizontally blind by a sword or sharp weapon.
"This little old man has no extraordinary aura at all. Is he really the person Daru wants to entrust? Could it be that there is someone else other than this blind man?"
Raymond was a little relieved, after all, he heard all the words Aphra muttered just now. This guy seemed to be just an ordinary old janitor.
[Ding! Whether to use the ‘Eye of True Sight’ to detect the target. 】
【yes!】
After thinking about it, he still used the detection skill.
[Blind Eriksson]
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Detailed explanation: Your peeping has aroused the disgust of a strong man with sensitive perception.
"Are they all question marks?" Raymond felt happy when he saw the system prompt.
This also means that this old man who seems to have no breath left is really a master of concealment.
At the same time, the blind old man seemed to notice something, and his brows twitched slightly. He said nothing, just stood quietly in the corner like a servant, with no intention of sitting down.
"Sensitive? He's blind. How did he find out that I was spying on him?"
Even though he didn't notice anything strange on the blind old man's face, Raymond looked at the system prompts and knew that his little move just now had been discovered.
This also made him even more curious. He could be called "senior brother" by Yoshimoto, who was extremely powerful in swordsmanship. His strength was still unfathomable, so why did he just guard the door?
...
At this moment,
Aphra sneered and said: "Now that people have been found for you and the place has been cleared according to your request, what other tricks do you have to play?"
Raymond didn't waste much time and said directly: "The Stormrage Sword Technique I learned was indeed not bought on the black market, but was left to me by Senior Daru!"
"You are lying. Uncle Daru only has one apprentice, Senior Brother Dunn! What's more, your swordsmanship foundation is insufficient. It is obviously a wild way that you have found out on your own without the guidance of a famous teacher. You can't lie to us at all, but others can do it."
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Aphra snorted coldly and immediately exposed it, "Besides, Senior Brother Dunn has confirmed that his mentor is no longer alive... Do you really think that we can't verify it, so you want to blame Uncle Daru for your poor swordsmanship?
"
"Haha, you really trust your senior brother Dunn."
Raymond's tone was a little weird, and he said without mercy: "But do you know that the death of senior Daru was caused by the senior brother you said?"
"You can't refute with facts, so you accuse someone of innocence? You, a murderer with a bad character, even your level of sophistry makes people feel so low."
Hearing this, Aphra didn't pay attention at all, but sneered: "Besides, you have to make it clear that what we are asking now is where you learned the Stormrage Sword Technique! If you mention Senior Brother Dunn to confuse the public, just
Can we stop pursuing this matter? What is the connection between the two things?"
"The two things are really related."
Raymond smiled mysteriously and said: "I didn't say that my swordsmanship was taught by Senior Daru. I just found his relics and got the sword skills..."
Aphra said contemptuously: "This lie is not clever at all!"
Gibbon looked at Raymond's expression calmly and did not look like he was lying, so he listened with interest.
At this time,
"Of course, I know that this is not enough to be believed. You will understand it after reading the blood book below."
Raymond said, taking out the suicide note and saying: "The cause of Senior Daru's death is clearly written on it... It was Senior Brother Dunn, the humble gentleman you mentioned, who poisoned and murdered his mentor!"
"That's ridiculous!"
Aphra didn't read the suicide note at all. She thought it was a fantasy. How could a gentle and elegant person like Senior Brother Dunn do such a thing to deceive his master and destroy his ancestors?
In her opinion, even if there is anything really written in this suicide note, it must be a fake!
"Of course, along with the suicide note, there is also the sword move of 'Mysterious Thunder Serpent'!"
Raymond took out another secret volume without any haste.
He knew that without this thing, a suicide note alone was not worth trusting, so he simply took out the skill page.
The suicide note can be forged, but the secret sword manual cannot be forged!
"Mystery: Thunder Snake" is a secret that is not passed down by the Sodros family, and is a top secret that non-direct disciples can access.
This is a piece of heavy evidence that what Raymond said is true.
Daru left this secret sword move in the first place, probably for the purpose of confirming his identity!
"What...you have Razer's sword book?!"
Hearing this, Gibbon and Aphra turned pale at the same time.
Only the old man by the door remained completely unmoved, as if he had nothing to do with him at all.
Gibbon asked cautiously: "Can you show me this sword book?"
Raymond shrugged: "It's up to you."
Hearing this, Yoshimoto carefully picked up two leather scrolls, glanced at them, and stayed there instantly.
Sure enough, it’s Razer’s sword!
After reading the suicide note, his face turned livid and he murmured to himself, "How is it possible...Junior Brother Daru would die in the hands of such a poisonous woman..."
Could it be...
Aphra on the side saw her third uncle being so shocked, and still vaguely guessed something in her heart. Although she tried her best to resist reading the contents of the suicide note, she still couldn't help but take a look.
The poisonous wife and villain conspired to kill me...
The moment she saw the first few bloody words, her eyes widened as if struck by lightning, and she murmured to herself: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible... It must be fake... It must be you, the murderer."
A premeditated lie...how could Senior Brother Dunn be that kind of person!"
Raymond sneered and said, "Since you don't believe that your senior brother Dunn is having an affair with Mrs. Moreau, here is something you can take to prove it."
With that said, he took out an envelope that he had prepared a long time ago and handed it to Aphra.
Dunn and Mrs. Moreau are still nominally in the relationship between apprentice and mistress. No matter how hungry they are, they are unlikely to expose their adultery in public. The two of them have almost no interactions on weekdays, and they don't do anything out of the ordinary.
Outsiders really don't know that they still have such cowardice in private.
But this cannot fool the players who claim to be all-pervasive.
They also discovered a pattern. On a few fixed days every month, the two adulterers and the adulterous woman would have trysts in a secret building. In the game, this is one of the biggest benefits for players! Almost everyone in Philip
New players who are born in the couple will go to watch the two's live erotic palace.
In the game, Raymond doesn't know the inside story.
He thought that after Daru disappeared, sparks came out of the fire between the two. Unexpectedly, the cause and effect reversed, and the two had actually been together for a long time, and later conspired to create the "mystery of Daru's disappearance."
The letter from Raymond to Aphra was the best place to watch. The angle of the telescope was set up and the time was clearly marked, just waiting for her to witness the hot scene with her own eyes.
Calculating the time, there should be a hot performance this evening. At that time, he really wanted to see what the expression of this arrogant woman would be when she saw the perfect entanglement between senior brother Dunn and his senior wife in her mouth.
...
Now that the evidence is conclusive, although Gibbon is reluctant to admit it, he completely believes Raymond's words in his heart.
After all, it was a scandal within the sect, and he looked a little ugly.
After hesitating for a moment, he said to Raymond: "The information recorded on it is indeed of great importance. I must study it carefully."
Raymond nodded, "Okay. But I don't want to wait too long."
Gibbon: "Before this, I hope you will not publicize this matter..."
"I can agree to this too."
Raymond nodded, then turned his attention to the blind old man standing by the door, and said: "But, I prefer this senior to take charge of this matter. After all, the suicide note left by Senior Daru is very clear.
He wanted me to put something in his hands."
"But, this..."
Hearing this, Yoshimoto looked embarrassed and felt speechless.
Ever since that incident happened, the eldest brother has become decadent. He has never participated in any discussions within the sect, and has never even spoken to his former brothers... Even though the "Sword Castle" was attacked this time, the disciples
Countless relatives and friends were killed and injured, and he never drew his sword again.
But...it happened that Junior Brother Daru's last wish also specified that he needed Senior Brother's help.
At this time,
The little old man standing at the door suddenly spoke, "Yoshimoto, you guys go out first."
When Gibbon heard this, he was suddenly startled, thinking that he had heard wrongly.
He turned to stare at the blind old man, seemingly even more shocked than when he saw Daru's suicide note just now, "Senior Brother, you..."
The senior brother who had not spoken for nearly twenty years actually took the initiative to speak?
Obviously, he knew that the senior brother and the bald boy had something to talk about.
"Yes, senior brother."
...
Gibbon pulled the lost Aphra out of the secret room of the parliament, and in a blink of an eye, only Raymond and the blind old man were left.
"senior..."
Raymond wanted to take the initiative to talk,
But the blind old man waved his hand, and saw his cochlea moving slightly, as if he had discovered something. Then he slowly walked to the wall, stretched out his skinny palm like a chicken claw, and used three fingers to grab it
, suddenly grabbed a brick on the wall!
The sight of stone chips flying makes one's heart tremble.
"Amazing!"
Raymond's eyes lit up, and then he realized something and his pupils shrank.
At this moment, he watched the old man crush the bricks and stones, and then took out a goose egg-sized metal instrument from inside.
"Alchemical eavesdropper?"
He obviously recognized this thing.
Players in the game have little interest in this kind of thing. I heard that espionage organizations like to use this thing to collect intelligence.
"I almost leaked the news. The descendants of Sodros are really careless in choosing places..."
Raymond's expression was slightly ugly. Fortunately, this thing could only record passively and had not transmitted the information yet. Otherwise, the content of today's conversation would have been leaked long ago.
"It seems that someone has been keeping an eye on these descendants of Soderos. Will it be the Blood Skull people who planted this eavesdropping bug, or the Whale Chamber of Commerce, the financial backer of this hotel?"
He was a little confused. Since he had already done things like exterminating his family, why would he do all these fancy things like eavesdropping? If he really wanted to kill people and silence them, couldn't he just do it hard?
Raymond guessed that the person behind the scenes wanted to get some valuable information from the descendants of Soderos, so he monitored their conversations at all times.
What surprised him even more was how did the blind old man find this thing in the masonry of the wall?
This is obviously a dead object and it doesn't move. How could it be discovered by a blind man?!
Raymond looked at the old man with a strange look in his eyes and thought, "The old man couldn't have installed it himself..."
"I am blind, so I am a little more sensitive to sounds. The forging skills of this thing are not very good, and there is a slight noise when it is running."
The blind old man seemed to have guessed that Raymond was confused, and muttered to himself.
After a pause, he crushed the eavesdropping bug, and without any intention of bringing up the topic again, he said, "Read Junior Brother Daru's suicide note to me again."
"oh..."
Raymond didn't understand what he was going to do, so he read out the contents of the suicide note.
After listening, the blind old man showed emotion on his face, shook his head slightly and said: "Daru... back then, you and I, our senior brothers, were at odds with each other, but I didn't expect that in the end you would ask me, an old blind man, to clean up the mess for you...
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Raymond knew that this old man was a hidden boss and there must be a task that could be triggered.
And now it seems that the descendants of Sodros are not as reliable as this old man at all, and their strength is also far behind.
He tried to trigger the mission like in the game, and said: "Senior, I delivered the things according to Senior Daru's last wish. If you need my help in any way, just ask..."
For a long while, the old man didn't respond at all.
Lei Meng actually shamelessly made nonsense: "Although I have never met Senior Daru, but because of the sword manual he left behind, he has entered the sword cultivator's sect, so he can be regarded as a teacher...
Half a mentor. If you need help, senior, I will do my best in Xiayuan."
The blind old man finally reacted, "Haha, you are quite scheming. If you hadn't had any bad intentions towards Aphra, I would have exposed your lies long ago."
Raymond was stunned and said: "Senior, when did I lie?"
He captured a very important message from these words. The old man seemed to be particularly concerned about "Afra"!
The blind old man asked back: "You still insist that your Stormrage sword technique was learned from the sword manual left by Daru?"
"How...how did you find out?"
Lei Meng rolled his eyes, not intending to hide it, and said: "The sword manual was indeed bought at the auction, but they didn't believe it, so they had no choice but to make this move."
The system just reminded me that this guy is a master of super perception, and he must have some methods of his own to identify lies.
Sure enough,
"Don't think too much. People can lie, but 'Qi' can't deceive people."
The old man said coldly: "Although I am blind, my heart is not blind yet. Don't try to deceive me with lies."
Raymond was a little panicked. The mission was not completed. Instead, he felt like he was going to be at odds with the hidden boss.
"However, you can become proficient in Stormrage Sword Technique in a month. I guess you are not bad at swordsmanship, and you will also have other adventures..."
At this time, the old man changed the topic and seemed to have no intention of exploring other people's secrets. He said, "Tell me, what else do you want to tell me?"
Raymond felt that talking to this old man was like facing a polygraph test.
He didn't hide anything and directly revealed the biggest news.
"The Dunn family is most likely the behind-the-scenes controllers of the 'Blood Skull Pirates'!"
"I understand, you can go."
The blind old man said calmly and immediately issued an order to expel the guests.
...
Half an hour later,
Raymond stood on the street and looked back at the door of the Whale Hotel, feeling like he was stealing the chicken but losing the rice.
He originally thought he could find some hidden mission from the blind old man, but he didn't expect that the lonely old man had no intention of communicating with others.
Probably, the best case scenario is that I can successfully obtain the Stormrage Heart Technique tomorrow and have no contact with this group of people at all.
As for the adulterer and adulterer's mess, he didn't want to deal with it.
In these two days, the Dunn family's collusion with pirates should be exposed. Even if Dunn is not dead, Raymond will be in trouble.
But what he never expected was...
Before the next day,
In the evening, a breaking news came that shocked the territory.
Aphra, the descendant of Thordros, was murdered!
Because of that letter,
Raymond himself became the biggest suspect in the murder case again!