On the Seven Towers

"Shouldn't we continue to eavesdrop on their conversation?" Ji Yijun asked.

"I have cast a spell, but now they are silent. I don't know what they are doing inside." Xiao Chen said. He only heard some scattered noises. It seemed that Jiang Yitian and Cole had already made some plans and were preparing for each other.

At this time, Xiao Chen heard Cole say: "You have no way out now. Favio and others have already set off. As long as you really accomplish this, the empire's promise will definitely be fulfilled."

Jiang Yitian said: "I didn't hesitate. I just went through all the links at the end. It's too early now. Let's wait a while before setting off."

Cole said: "You arrange it. We are ready and can set off at any time."

After the two said this, the room became quiet again.

"Cole actually represents the empire? From the way he spoke, his status is not low? Is he a spy sent by the empire before?" Ji Yijun said.

"It's very likely that the mercenary is just his cover identity. He was originally responsible for gathering intelligence about the kingdom, but later his mission changed, so he followed Kalanda to join us, working for us and waiting for an opportunity to find out about us time travelers.

He should be a nail planted by the Empire here a long time ago, maybe he is also a Black Guard. As Cole, he had been in contact with us for a long time before he escaped last time, and participated in many of our affairs. It seems that the Empire already knows a lot about us." Xiao Chen said.

"When we were hunting Orville together, he looked like an ordinary mercenary. There was nothing special about him except that he was a half-elf." Ji Yijun said.

Xiao Chen said: "Half-elves mostly live at the junction of the Iberian Kingdom and the Elven Kingdom. There are very few half-elves in the empire, and this identity is a good cover."

Ji Yijun said: "However, it is strange to say that he joined the hunt because of Zhang Hong. I don't know why Zhang Hong was so enthusiastic at that time and took the initiative to ask to hunt down the horse thieves. This is not like his usual behavior. This person always stays out of things that do not concern him. What does revenge for my father have to do with him?"

"You mean, it was Zhang Hong who took the initiative to find them to cooperate?" Xiao Chen asked.

"Yes, the two mercenaries Cole and Gamero were hired by him. They were nominally his bodyguards, but in fact they were his killers who hunted down the horse thieves. He said that he was abused when he was caught by the horse thieves and wanted to seek revenge on them. But I always feel that it is not the case. His state at that time was very strange. It didn't feel like he wanted to do anything to Orvel, but he was looking forward to his death as soon as possible."

"Killing to silence him."

"Yes, that's the feeling." Ji Yijun said.

Xiao Chen said: "Could it be that Orville has mastered some secret of Zhang Hong, which made Zhang Hong eager to kill him? This must be a very serious problem. Once this secret is made public, Zhang Hong will be finished, so he must risk his life to eliminate this threat."

"It makes sense." Ji Yijun agreed, "He gave me that feeling at the time, so urgent."

Xiao Chen continued to analyze: "Then Cole killed Orville for Zhang Hong. It is very likely that he learned the secret from Orville, so he has a handle on Zhang Hong.

Now I know that Cole is an imperial, then everything can be linked together. When we interrogated Zhang Hong in Suero why he betrayed, he mentioned that the imperial threatened him. Things, he just said he wanted to save his life, now it seems not only that, the imperials have more things in their hands to control him, maybe this is the fundamental reason why Zhang Hong betrayed us.

I guess when we received the imperial negotiation team, Cole himself sneaked in and met Zhang Hong, and then threatened him with this handle. In order to keep his position, Zhang Hong surrendered to the imperials and opened the Black Wood Pass for them! ”

“But what did Zhang Hong do? If it was intelligence, then under torture, we didn’t expect him to be steadfast and resist to the end. Even if he revealed some intelligence to the horse thieves, and the horse thieves were later eliminated, everyone would forgive him, right? In that case, he didn’t need to behave like this. ” Ji Yijun was puzzled.

"I think maybe it's not intelligence, maybe it's a person."

"Person?"

Xiao Chen spit out a name: "Hong Lifeng."

"Hong Lifeng? Didn't they say that the bandits killed him..." Ji Yijun suddenly realized, "That makes sense. No one knows how Hong Lifeng died. Everything was told to us by Zhang Hong. Maybe Zhang Hong played an ignominious role in Hong Lifeng's death. For example, he wanted to surrender to the bandits, and then the bandits forced him to kill his own people to show his loyalty! So he killed Hong Lifeng."

Xiao Chen said: "I'm afraid only Cole knows the specific situation now. No However, the most crucial point is what Cole is doing with Jiang Yitian now. What will the group of people who were taken to the conference center just now do at night? According to Cole's previous actions, he has always been a spy who sabotages in secret, not a diplomat at all. Are the people led by him really here for negotiations? "

"How about I lead the troops to surround the conference center directly? Arrest those imperial people. No matter who they are or what they want to do, as long as they are arrested, they can't cause trouble for us." Ji Yijun proposed a quick and decisive plan.

"This is risky. These are all our inferences. Maybe these people are really secretly sent by the empire. In that case, we will make a big mistake. The committee will definitely not let us go. "Xiao Chen said.

Ji Yijun smiled and said, "I'm kidding. I, Ji Yijun, have never been afraid of this. At worst, I will lose my hat and come to the prison to stay with you for a while."

Xiao Chen nodded and said: "As long as you understand. Now is an extraordinary period, and this is indeed the most effective way. You go now, mobilize troops, and lead people to capture the four imperial people. Be careful to bring experts with you. Then I've seen a few people from the empire, and they all have unusual demeanor and must be quite capable. At the same time, you also send people to greet Chairman Guo and Peng Ziyi and tell them that there may be something going on in the emergency meeting here."

Ji Yijun said: "Okay! In this way, the opponent's rhythm will be disrupted by us. I want to see how they play later."

Ji Yijun was about to leave immediately, but at this moment Jiang Yitian's vicious voice came from their minds: "Okay, it's almost time. Let's go to the mage prison now and kill Xiao Chen!"