Chapter 345 Did you miss me?
The next day
Game time AM07:26
Violet Empire, the royal capital of Salamun, the Crimson Garden
In the study, which was so quiet that it was uncomfortable, a petite girl was leaning sideways at the long table, meditating, with the fireplace The flickering sparse firelight reflected on her cheeks and glasses, making her already difficult-to-read expression even more elusive. On the other side of the long table filled with files, Le, who had rarely appeared in the Red Garden in the past two days, Wen and Cassie, who had just returned, stood there with a solemn expression, staring at the silhouette of the temporary person in charge in front of them without saying a word.
After the house arrest of Duke Buffy Marshall and his entourage ended, everyone in the Fire Claws moved back to the Red Courtyard that night and exchanged residences with the former. However, before Futaba left, he casually walked away with the man in the Quicksilver Courtyard. It was suspected to be a tray that could be used for remote communication. She knew very well that the other party would find out about it immediately after returning, but even so, the mute Marshall had to hold his nose and swallow it.
Although this kind of thing is not even considered interest in Futaba’s eyes...
Two minutes later
“So, why do we need to do this here? It's as lifeless as a cult den?"
After finishing his thinking, Futaba took a long breath and gently rubbed his forehead: "Please open the curtain and open the window."
Levin smiled, turned around and walked to the window to let in the fresh air and morning light. He did not mention that it was Futaba himself who said before, "Who would make it so sunny when discussing Qing Mimi's conspiracy?" This kind of thing.
But Cassie, who was more than half a beat too slow to react, only came to his senses when LeVine had turned around and walked back, lowering his eyes in embarrassment.
"Are you blaming yourself?"
Futaba narrowed her eyes slightly, and asked with a chuckle while adapting to the sunlight that suddenly spread in the study: "Because I feel that I have no Complete the task I assigned you well?"
Cassie lowered her head and stared at the toes of her shoes: "That's true."
"It's hard for a man who is too serious to be popular~"
The girl shrugged indifferently, walked around to the chair behind the long table and sat down, raised her eyebrows and said: "At least you are not popular here, Really, I've told you before, there is little hope of kidnapping the person responsible before killing people over there, and you still want to lead others by the nose when you have lost the first move. It’s hard even for me to do it. Isn’t it normal for an action that I didn’t have high expectations to fail?”
“Even if you say so...”
Cassie frowned slightly. He tightened his hands and whispered: "But if I had been faster, I might have a chance to succeed."
Obviously, this beast elf who has experienced hundreds of battles is still very fond of himself. dissatisfied.
If I had reacted earlier and taken the initiative to seek cover from Mr. Deku to take the first step...
If I had been more precise in designing the trap to block the advance of the large army, even if it might cause some additional casualties, the time would still be delayed. The longest time...
If you had moved faster when passing through those magic traps and illusion barriers...
"In short, you think if you had worked harder at that time, point "Son, if you were more careful and lucky, you wouldn't have watched Mr. Sack's mansion blow up in front of your eyes, right?"
Have you heard the whole story? Futaba glanced at Cassie lazily. He said: "It's really a simple and rigid idea, so I don't like to comfort others... But forget it, considering that your downturn may get me into trouble, I will just give you a few words. ”
"Haha~"
Although he was not in the mood to laugh, seeing the girl who looked like a hothouse little white flower talking to Cassie in this tone, Lewen couldn't help laughing. Voice.
Cassie didn't react at all, but looked with some confusion at the girl in front of her whose aura gradually exceeded 1.6 meters and was rapidly advancing towards 1.61 meters.
“Although I don’t know the specific situation at that time, no matter how you think about it, the possibility that Sakfrith died immediately after sensing the approach of an intruder is really low.” Shuang. While holding his chin and scanning the files in front of him, Ye said absently: "Although this matter seems like a reckless thief accidentally triggered a magic warning, which then caused the entire lumber factory to sound alarms, and finally ended up in a certain room. The mansion exploded on the spot, and the person in charge committed suicide without a complete body, but in fact this cannot stand up to scrutiny."
Lewin frowned slightly: "I can probably understand what you mean..."
"Yes, this is not something difficult to understand. Futaba read the information in front of him at a glance, leaned back lazily on the back of the chair, and sneered: "First of all, if you want to disguise it as an ordinary wood processing factory, Then the triggered wide-area warning that Cassie mentioned before is too nonsense. It is just like announcing to others that "I have a problem here". Of course, The mysteries of magic are vast and profound. There are countless early warning spells that are only triggered under certain conditions. They can even be triggered when the number and hostility of outsiders reaches a certain level. Well, other than that, there are also One could use the explanation that 'the warning magic was turned on at night to prevent thieves but was forgotten to be turned off during the day', but I still think this is abnormal. "
Cassie hesitated for a moment and whispered: "I don't think that early warning magic is very advanced, because it didn't respond to my high-level concealment at all. "
"Well, that's even more questionable. "
Futaba clapped his hands gently and continued: "More than that, Sakfrith's brazen blowing up of the house and his own actions made me even more strange, even if he found out that the menacing attacker on the other side was not good. , but it is unreasonable to die on the spot without hesitation. "
"Could he be a dead soldier? Lewin hesitated for a moment and put forward a different opinion: "After all, the old aristocratic family like Marshall must have people who are willing to sacrifice for the mission at any time." ”
Futaba rolled his eyes, and casually picked up a volume of information left by Ned and threw it to Levin: "It seems that you haven't memorized the information about Sack Frees yet. Captain Ned's investigation results are very clear. Even if That Mr. Sack came from a shady background, and he would only play a role similar to that of a middleman. Although he had an interest relationship with the Marshall family, he was in no way affiliated with the latter. Sack behaved more like a Marshall. The family's partner, no, to be clear, it should be the spokesperson of a certain partner of the Marshall family."
"Huh?"
Lewin unfolded his hand in confusion. After reading the file for a few minutes, he looked up in confusion and asked: "Um, Miss Futaba, I know everything in it, but what you just mentioned... Mr. Ned doesn't seem to be in it. I mentioned it..."
Futaba waved his hand casually: "Yes, yes, I think the captain doesn't know either."
"Then you... ”
"You guessed it, through the information left by the captain and some other investigations, it is easy to come up with the above results. It is not complicated in fact, as long as you are willing, you can do it."
[ I don't think so at all! 】
Lewin, whose self-esteem was hurt, laughed twice and wisely chose to shut up.
Seeing that he no longer expressed his opinion, Futaba continued what he had said before: "In short, Mr. Sak who died without a body should not have committed suicide. Judging from the 'business' he was responsible for, it can be said that It can be seen that this person does not care about right and wrong, good and evil. From his position, it can be seen that he must be quite skillful and at least a little clever. Those who are both smart and have no moral bottom line are often the most cherished. Understand me What do you mean?”
“What you want to say is...”
Cassie was not a fool, and she reacted when she heard this: "That Sack was killed by someone else?" Hand."
Playing with the mid-level mage badge that she just got yesterday, engraved with the three marks of sparks, lightning and arcane eyes, the girl said lightly: "If this is the case, then it is stuck. Xi, if you manage to sneak into that mansion before others are discovered, you will only find one body. If you are not lucky, it will even explode into the sky, so there is nothing to regret, do you understand?"
The beast elf who had nothing to say nodded, and after a moment of silence asked in a low voice: "Then what should we do now?"
"Step by step, after all, I didn't have much hope in the first place. I hope I can get a surprise from the Dark Forest." Futaba shook his little boots that could barely reach the ground and turned to Lewen: "What do we say from the Fire Claw Archduke?"
The latter immediately replied: "Chief Xiluo fully supports your judgment. In addition, Grand Governor Rosh entrusted me in his letter to convey his most sincere respect to you. He feels that you are a truly bloody woman."
< br>"Haha~" Futaba laughed happily and asked happily: "That big and thick little carrot head?"
< br>The two people opposite were shocked and broke into a sweat at that time. You must know that the fiery-tempered Grand Governor is second only to Chief Xiluo in the territory, and the ridiculing nickname "Little Carrot Head" has always been Only his father, the former Grand Warlord Gruheche, dared to say it, and Futaba was the second one who dared to call it that. Not just this time, she said so when she was in the Fire Claw Territory!
At the time, I thought that the ignorant were fearless, but after such a long time of getting along day and night, Cassie and Levine, the two top leaders of the Fire Claws, had figured it out, or they thought they had figured out Futaba. Not to mention calling the Grand Warlord Little Carrot Head, if this girl knew that Chief Fire Claw's childhood nickname was "Big Carrot Head", she would probably dare to call him "Big Carrot Head".
"Okay, then there is nothing to worry about."
The two brothers didn't dare to talk before Futaba met, so they casually brought up the topic of the little carrot head and continued to ask: "The person you asked to find "
Lewin smiled, took out a roll of parchment from his sleeve and placed it in front of Futaba: "Thanks to Grand Duke Baroka, with his help, there are already people on this list. Half of them were secretly picked up and protected. As for the remaining ones..."
"Half is enough for the time being. My original expectation was only one-third. It seems that I can leave this matter to you. It’s really the right choice to give it to Grand Duke Baroka.”
Futaba unfolded the parchment and glanced at it roughly, and then a flame suddenly ignited in the weak and boneless hand, and in an instant it burned. The list LeVine handed over was burned: "Honest people, easy to use, I like them."
Levin coughed slightly in embarrassment, and continued to report before Shuangye Wen: "The Grand Duke of the Crystal Wolf has also sent someone to notify the interior of the territory, and will fully cooperate with our third and fourth filings. You gave her before The decisive 'new evidence' played a crucial role, but..."
"But?"
Futaba frowned and asked curiously: "But what?"
Lewin hesitated for a moment, and then said hesitantly: "But the new evidence is false..."
"Then, did she guess it?"
"No, there is no way to verify the information you forged, so Grand Duke Crystal Wolf should not be able to guess it. She should simply believe you..."
"Then what is the problem?"
"The problem is...the evidence is false."< br>
Lewen scratched his ears in confusion and said anxiously: "We should be cheating like this..."
Futaba whistled in a particularly unladylike way and looked at each other sideways. : "What is our purpose of lying to her?"
"It's...what is it?"
"Idiot, of course I want Sister Emmeline to believe that the Marshall family has indeed engaged in such evil as the slave trade."
"Uh, Yes, that's true."
"Did the Marshall family capture and trade slaves?"
"Of course"
"That's it."
Futaba snorted softly, and shook his index finger at Lewen who was completely surrounded by him: "So I didn't deceive Sister Emmeline at all, but I used my best to Tell her the truth in a simple way."
Lewen's eyes widened: "I always feel like something is wrong..."
"It's none of my business."
Futaba stretched, then got up and walked outside the study: "It should be some time before the third meeting in that damn place. I'm going to bask in the sun for a while. You two can spread your negative energy first. Energy, anyway, there should be no results from this discussion. After all, no one has taken it back, so we will remain passive until the next counterattack and be mentally prepared.”
Levin and Cassie bowed to Futaba at the same time and said in unison: "Thank you..."
"Don't thank me. I did all this for myself, and I just happen to have the same interests as you." Futaba shrugged, then paused slightly, turned back to Lewen and said, "By the way, the matter that I asked you to investigate three days ago has not been found out yet?"
The latter smiled slightly Shaking his head: "Sorry..."
"It's okay, it doesn't matter now anyway."
Futaba curled her lips, opened the door and walked outside: "After all, everyone is dead. Even if it is found, so what? There is no need to continue.”
Immediately afterwards, there was another pause in her footsteps...
"Do you have anything else to do?"
"No, it's nothing..."
Futaba deleted it casually After dropping a message, he gritted his teeth, slammed the door and walked out.
Then another friend message popped up that was exactly the same as before...
‘Did you miss me? '
Then, another one...
'Do you miss me? ’
There is…
‘Do you miss me? Miss me? Just say you miss me! You said I would go on a date with you! How about I say I miss you and then you date me? ’
‘Get out of here and stay! I don’t have time to play with you now! ’
Chapter 342: The End
(End of this chapter)