Alien world

Chapter 1038 269. Clues
Terry stood up: "I'll go and promise them now!"

"Eat first, and then I'll go with you."

Hungry Annan ate up all the food, praised the flattered chef several times, and followed Terry out.

"Find a chance to bring the chef back to Liberty City." Annan said with lingering feelings.

It is said that the chef was brought in specially by the old president? It must be said that the nobles are really good at enjoying themselves.

Annan was quite familiar with the Shadow Brotherhood. Although they did not do good things, they were generally lawful: they used reason with the strong and used fists with the weak.

Drove to Harrah's, where the Brotherhood's contact person is.

Annan glanced at the gang members on duty and those passing by, and found that all of them were missing a little finger.

The contact person was a middle-aged man who looked like a businessman, without any characteristics of an assassin. He recognized Annan and showed his reasonable side: "Master Olme, I didn't expect this matter to alarm you..."

"I have dealt with you before, let's get straight to the point, who is the deceased?"

"This……"

Annan pressed on: "I can ignore it, but I can't help asking. How do I know if the person you killed is Free Blade?"

"Certainly not!"

"I said he was."

Annan demonstrated his arrogance and domineering nature to the fullest.

The contact person's face was not looking good: "Master Olme, this matter should have nothing to do with the Purification Court, right?"

"It's irrelevant? This is the Purification Court. We are in charge of what the City Guards are in charge of, and we are also in charge of what the City Guards can't control."

The contact person was relieved. Olme's reaction was consistent with his prejudice against the Purification Court. It also confirmed that the Purification Court really knew nothing and just discovered it by chance: "But it really has nothing to do with the Free Blade..."

"Do you think the king believes you or me?"

"Okay... I'll tell you, but I hope you can keep it a secret for us."

The contact person said that the deceased was Kurtz, a low-ranking knight of the Brotherhood. He was bribed by the target during an assassination mission, killed his companions and defected. The Shadow Brotherhood sent people to capture him and execute him.

The Shadow Brotherhoods in different regions have different characteristics. For example, the Shadow Brotherhoods in the Kingdom of Dimon have tattoos on their arms, and Yingge has a red flower. The Shadow Brotherhoods in the Kingdom peel off the nails on their little fingers. He also showed his little finger without nails.

Annan recalled the characteristics of the corpse and found that the little finger had no nail. At that time, he thought it had been dug out of the soil.

This statement is easy to check, and it is unlikely to be a lie. No wonder the Shadow Brotherhood is reluctant to say it, as the defection of a member is a scandal to them.

"Okay, I won't ask any more questions. Now let's talk about the bloodline of the old capital."

The contact person nodded, looked at his men around him, and signaled them to step back first.

"You guys should go out first."

Annan asked everyone else to leave, leaving only Terry.

The story begins with a commission that the Shadow Brotherhood received after arriving in the new capital. They were commissioned by an official to eliminate one of his political enemies. They completed the mission, and the target revealed a secret before being killed: Princess Sers was deliberately abandoned in the old capital, and they were sent by the murderer.

"that is it?"

Annan was very satisfied with the news. A long-standing case that had no clues at all suddenly had a suspect. He just wanted to test whether the Shadow Brotherhood knew more.

"We are the Shadow Brotherhood. We are not in the intelligence business. This information is useless to us."

"Tell me who the noble is."

The contact refused to speak. Annan continued to coerce and bribe: "Do you want to drag the entire Shadow Brotherhood down with you for a rule that no one follows, or do you want to maintain a good relationship with the Purification Court?"

"…Socrates's grain collector."

Annan didn't know him, at least he wasn't on the list.

"I have another question. Don't worry, it has nothing to do with this matter." Annan asked curiously, "Are you in contact with the Shadow Brotherhood of the Dimon Kingdom?"

"It was still there before the capital was relocated."

It looks like the Kingdom's Shadow Brotherhood is trapped on an isolated island?
"Got it. Shadow Brotherhood...we will meet again."

Annan took Terry away, leaving behind the contact person who was worried about the outcome.

Annan's guess was correct. The Shadow Brotherhood had indeed become an isolated island with no help, otherwise they would not have been helpless even when being coerced by the nobles.

In order to survive, they need a backer.

Now it seems that the Purification Court does not mind, but Master Olme is too young and immature. Who knows if he will die before becoming a great noble?

……

Annan and Terry got in the car and watched the street scenery pass by. Annan asked, "What do you think?"

"He didn't lie, but he concealed part of the story." Terry, who had remained silent, analyzed.

"Oh?"

Terry analyzed the mission from his perspective of the Shadow Brotherhood: Normally, the Shadow Brotherhood would not get involved in personal vendettas between officials to avoid being implicated, but the official offered a price they could not refuse.

This was the first mistake made by the Shadow Brotherhood. The second mistake was that when they were carrying out the assassination, they spared the target's life in order to find out the hidden property. In order to survive, he revealed a big secret: Princess Sales was deliberately abandoned in the old royal capital, and the murderer who sent them was one of the instigators, in order to shut him up.

No matter how stupid the knight who took action was, he should have realized that this was a hot potato and killed everyone outside the Shadow Brotherhood who heard about it on the spot.

If that were all, they wouldn't want to exchange this information with the Purification Court.

The problem was that after the assassination was completed, the noble suspected that the Shadow Brotherhood knew something, so he summoned other nobles to chase and intercept the Brotherhood from all angles.

In the final analysis, the Shadow Brotherhood is just a civilian organization like a mercenary association. They don't have the strength to compete with the entire country. In order to protect themselves, they can only resist.

The Brotherhood originally wanted to follow their old ways and assassinate all those who knew about the situation, but the nobles seemed to know something and increased their defenses.

At this time, the Purification Chamber found them through the traitor incident.

The Brotherhood wanted to pass the hot potato to the Purification Court and bring some trouble to the noble, so the Purification Court, which had been causing trouble for the nobles all day long these days, became the best candidate.

"What you said is indeed more logical."

The motives of the Shadow Brotherhood became clear, for example, why they were so eager to talk about the bloodline of the old royal capital...it was to attract Annan's attention.

"They want to use you as a weapon. They are despicable. Should we say they are colluding with the Freedom Blade?"

"No, I don't hate this kind of cleverness, and they really helped us, didn't they?"

Because of Dina and Yingge, Annan has a good impression of the Shadow Brotherhood.

And they really helped.

Annan was looking forward to the scene when the chairman of the parliament handed the case to him and he told him that the murderer was imprisoned in the dungeon.

(End of this chapter)