Soul echo

Chapter 165 Clues
"Are you sure?" Zhong Ye folded his fingers together, held the gold coin, and looked straight at the woman sitting opposite him, "The one who was assassinated a few days ago?"

The masked woman hesitated for a moment, "...To be precise, it was three days ago."

Paul's daughter disappeared five days ago, the old lord was assassinated three days ago, and they encountered the traveling merchant team yesterday. According to the traveling merchant team, it had been two days since they left Montreux.

One thing that makes people wonder now is whether the death of the old lord is related to the disappearance of Paul's daughter.

After Zhong Ye heard about this, he subconsciously associated the two things together, and with his current perceptual attributes, there was a high probability that these two things could really be linked together.

To put it a bit more mysteriously, with his current perception ability, he can already capture the "fate track", and can connect two seemingly unrelated things together according to some internal logic that he himself does not know.

Zhong Ye believed in his intuition, but now his intuition told him that these two things might be related.

Therefore, he is already thinking about what happened during those two vacant days.

Zhong Ye fell into deep thought, and the house became quiet.

Lilian, who was sitting next to him, looked at the wild guesses in the barrage, and also fell into thinking.

Although she thinks she is not as smart as Zhong Ye, but just like before, sooner or later she will have to face difficulties alone. At that time, if it is not a critical moment, Zhong Ye will just stand aside and watch her quietly.

So she had to 'preliminary' before her study progress reached that stage, so as not to be unable to cope with the 'surprise exam'.

After a long time, Zhong Ye raised his eyes, looked at the woman sitting opposite him, and asked, "How did you know this news?"

"We have our own channels... Alright! In fact, someone from us has found something, but that person has disappeared now. If there is no accident, the old lord's death is also related to him." Seeing Zhong Ye from Ten gold coins were taken out of the purse, and the masked woman immediately changed her words.

Hearing this, Zhong Ye narrowed his eyes, "Is he in charge of collecting information?"

"No..." The woman in the mask shook her head, "When we absorbed him, we trained him as a combatant, but I don't know why he..."

She shrugged her shoulders and said no more.

But even if she didn't say it, Zhong Ye knew what was going on behind her.

He has learned about the general structure of the thieves' guilds, and knows that they are generally engaged in intelligence business. Unlike the name, thieves have developed to the present, and thieves will no longer do petty theft. The thieves on the street will be theirs. Eyeliner, but it is impossible to be a member of the guild.

Retaining the title of 'thief' is not only to mislead, but also to remind latecomers to respect tradition and not forget the inheritance of stealing skills-it can be used, but it can't be done without.

In fact, many businesses of the Thieves Guild are an extension of the art of stealing. If they lose their inheritance, they will not be able to do many things.

In addition to selling information, the Thieves Guild also undertakes assassinations, delivery of letters, and theft.

Combatants generally have little to do with other sections, although not every section has a professional head.

Not all members of the Thieves Guild are rogues, they also absorb other professionals, because 'thief' is just one identity, which can be one of all the identities of people. In addition to the 'thief' identity, they can also have other identities, multiple Their identities directly serve as a cover and use for each other.

Because of this, combatants, also known as 'thugs', rarely have access to the secrets of the guild, unless they have made great contributions to the guild.

That's why the woman wearing the mask felt strange, why the thug could know that the disappearance of Paul's daughter was related to the old lord.

Zhong Ye keenly noticed that she used 'disappeared' instead of 'death' when describing the combatant, and then thought of the fact that Lord Montreux's army had been searching the city these days, so he asked: "Who is that person?" Is it very powerful?"

"No." The woman in the mask shrugged her shoulders. "I've seen him before. The only difference between him and a gangster is that he is more flexible. In terms of combat experience, he is no different from a gangster."

So how did such a man escape after assassinating the old lord?

Zhong Ye thought it was necessary for him to know more about the death of the old lord, and took out three silver coins from his wallet, "Tell me, how did the old lord die, where did he die, and how did that person die?" got away."

Looking at the three silver coins with some heartache, the woman in the mask took a deep breath, shook her head and said, "These news don't need to be that much, just treat it as a gift from the previous news - first of all, he was assassinated on the street Yes, under the protection of a group of guards and a Transcendent; secondly, he died outside the construction site of the Adventurer's Home under construction; finally, we don't know how that person escaped."

After they go out, they can ask anyone to find out these questions. The adventurer in front of them seems to have become an important customer of them. Compared with the three silver coins, reputation is more important. Maybe they will have opportunities to cooperate in the future.

Zhong Ye stood up and threw ten gold coins out one after another. Before the masked woman and the other two thieves had time to reach out, the gold coins fell into her hands, piled up in a pile, and stood firmly in her palm. .

Seeing this move, the pupils of the three suddenly dilated, and they immediately felt creepy.

——They all know what this stack of gold coins represents!
Looking up, the tall adventurer took the little girl out of the house without even saying hello.

As soon as she walked out of the house, Lilian couldn't wait to ask: "Teacher, did you guess what?"

"...No." Zhong Ye shook his head.

He did guess something, but those guesses were unspoken.

The entire event timeline begins with the disappearance of Paul's daughter five days ago, followed by the assassination of the old lord two days later. His eldest son inherited the lordship on the same day and began to order a search for outsiders.

Zhong Ye didn't ask about the combatant's background, because the new lord might have known his identity from the Thieves Guild, so he set the target as an 'outsider'.

It has been confirmed that the person who assassinated the old lord was an 'outsider', and then the place where the old lord died was outside the construction site of the Adventurer's House—why was it there?

Because the House of Adventurers in Montreux is nearing completion!
When heading to the "Xiyong's Lake" station, Zhong Ye had already seen the construction site from a distance. Unlike reality, the stonemasons in the Dan world did not enclose the construction site when they built the building. They did not have that sense of safety, and just In terms of today's construction technology in the Dan world, it is impossible for falling objects to appear.

Then, as an ordinary thug of the Thieves Guild, how did that person know that the disappearance of Paul's daughter was related to the old lord, how did he know that the old lord would go to the construction site of the Adventurer's Home, and how did he learn from so many people? escaped from the encirclement?
All of this seems to be unreasonable. Logically speaking, with that person's ability, it is impossible to do these things.

However, if these things are done by the 'players', then everything can be explained!

——This time the assassination was done not only by one player, but by two or more players!

At least one player joined Fort Xiyon, and then learned the old lord's secret, did not meet in the game, but contacted in reality, and carried out this assassination.

As for why the assassin was able to escape from the encirclement of many guards, this is a better explanation.

Because the player will not be 'killed' until the number of resurrections is exhausted, all the people or monsters who kill them will be distorted in memory, creating an illusion that the player somehow escaped and survived.

Zhong Ye already knew this during the closed beta, so when all the information was clear, he immediately realized that the person who did these things was the 'player'!
They have already begun to affect the course of the world—even if it is just Montreux, a small city-state that is not well-known in the Westland.

However, it has only been a few months since they entered this world.

Now they have been able to use the player's characteristics to assassinate to create a 'perfect' assassination for the aborigines, so what about the future?
(End of this chapter)