On the Seven Towers

Greenwood City is a large city in the southwest region of the kingdom.

Although the Chinese controlled Alano and Alvita, for Greenwood City, they had not reached the point of approaching the city with troops. Even the Duke's Palace had not concluded whether the Chinese wanted to invade some places or attack Greenwood City.

However, no matter how the Chinese act, Greenwood City cannot take the initiative. Due to the series of previous defeats in Arano Town, none of the vassals under the Duke of Greenwood City were willing to fight the Chinese.

Generally, it takes at least four days for the army to march from Alvita, so many people felt that there was still time. Except for a few people who chose to take refuge, most of them chose to stay and watch.

Green Forest City is close to the Elf Kingdom and is the most important trading city between the Iberian Kingdom and the Elf Kingdom. A large number of goods from the Elf Kingdom pass through here and spread to various regions of the kingdom. Therefore the city is inhabited by a small number of elves and many more half-elves. Most of them gathered on the west side of the city, forming a community of elves and half-elves. The architectural style here is simple and has a lot of elven atmosphere, which is very different from the styles of houses in other areas of Green Forest City.

Although Duke Parsa of Greenwood City is a greedy and rough man, his attitude towards the elves is very good. Because he knew that if he offended these elves, he would lose the source of wealth for the entire Green Forest City, which would put his city in trouble. So the elven community is mostly autonomous and quite isolated from the rest of the city.

However, the elves are not too opposed to humans moving into this community. In most cases, they can get along with the human residents here in peace. Therefore, this state is valued by some humans, and they choose to live in this area to avoid a lot of prying and trouble.

Recently, due to the tense situation, many elf warriors and mages have appeared in the elf community, and most of them have the status of inspectors. Come to protect the elf residents in the community and lead them to evacuate when necessary.

According to the intelligence, Julio now lives in this elf community.

Two days after talking to Luo Ling, Ackley, Anal and Glade dressed as businessmen sneaked into Green Forest City. There was basically no difficulty in entering the city. The three Ackleys all wore the clothes of local businessmen and walked inconspicuously in the streets of Green Forest City. Based on the intelligence, they found a two-story house with a single family courtyard. This should be where Julio lives.

"Julio was originally a knight attendant to Julieta, the son of the Duke of Greenwood City. He should live in the Duke's Palace. I am afraid that the Duke of Greenwood City moved here out of the intention of protecting him." Glade said across the street. He said looking at the house from a distance.

"Duke Parsa Solanas of Greenwood City has always been an ambitious man. As long as possible, he will not give up the opportunity to take back Alano Town. Naturally, he wants to hide Julio." Ake. Rai said.

"Let's go. There's not much to see here," Anal said.

The three of them walked across the street to the door of the house and found that the door was not locked.

Ackley was supposed to go inside first. After entering, he found that the courtyard was empty. He listened carefully, but he didn't notice any movement in the courtyard.

"No one?" Ackley asked confused.

Not only were there no people in the yard, but there were no horses either. The stables on one side of the yard were empty, and the horse manure that had not been cleaned up was still on the ground.

Anal's eyes swept across the window sills, and the room seemed to be silent. She said: "Open the door. If my guess is correct, there is probably no one inside."

Glader walked to the door and climbed up the stairs. The door to the house was a wooden double door with an iron edge. He focused on the door lock, his mental energy seeping into the door lock like mercury.

After more than a year of practice and experience, he has reached the level of a high-level mage. The structure of the door lock seems extremely simple in front of his mental power. A few seconds later, with a click, the lock was cracked open.

The three of them walked into the house, and Glader turned around and closed the door. As expected, the room looked empty.

There were many footsteps coming and going at the entrance, as if many people had repeatedly passed between the room and the yard before.

Ackley followed the footprints into the dining room and saw a lot of leftover food on the table: uneaten bread, vegetable soup and bacon, as well as overturned wine glasses with liquid dripping from the table. Going underground, they were trampled everywhere along with their footprints.

Judging from the position where the food was put down, these people were interrupted by something in the middle of eating and left the table.

Ackley judged based on the degree of dryness of the remaining wine in the cup and the degree of spoilage of the food: "These foods should all be left over from last night. Could it be that the people from the Shadow Group have come and kidnapped them all? "

"Impossible. You are overly worried. There are no signs of fighting here. There are eight plates on the table, which means that eight people are eating here at the same time. Even if there is no particularly powerful master among them, it is impossible for them to be attacked. After that, no one resisted." Anal looked around and said, "I guess the people here got the order to evacuate in a hurry and left the house before they could pack up."

"Yes. I didn't think carefully." Ackley said with a sigh of relief.

"You're just a little too worried about your brother." Anal comforted.

"According to this, the person who notified them should be of high status? Otherwise, they wouldn't be so busy." Glade analyzed, "If they left here at dinner time yesterday, it has been more than ten hours since now. We have to catch up with them, so we must hurry up."

Ackley thought for a while and said, "Then let's go and see if there is anything valuable left in the room. Then ask people nearby if they have seen where these people went."

Several people walked around the room separately, and there was nothing new, so they prepared to look for clues around.

But just as they were about to leave the house, the door lock turned by itself.

Ackley gave the other two a look. The three of them retreated quietly, and they each took out their weapons and found cover to hide.

As soon as the door opened, ten people walked in from outside. These people were all wearing ordinary clothes of the locals. But they all held various weapons in their hands, forming a tight and complete formation. The first one held a long knife, although he was not wearing black this time. But Barclay recognized his identity from his figure at a glance: a black-clothed archer.