Quadruple split.

Chapter 2551 Subtle Source of Intelligence
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Game time PM14:11
Ankh Market North District, Blue Carp House, in front of Mo Tan's room
"Ok?"

Mo Tan was clearly still in the house when he was offline, but was suddenly teleported out by the system. He was stunned at first, then he pushed the door and walked into his room. He raised his hand to greet Ji Xiaoge, Yaya, Samurai Shodown and Origami who seemed to treat this place as a public area, and asked curiously: "Where is Wang Badan?"

"He said the house was too gloomy, so he ran outside to bask in the sun."

Ji Xiaoge shrugged and just stood up to greet him, she saw Samurai and Yaya sandwiched Mo Tan in the middle, clamping his two arms respectively. Her expression suddenly became subtle: "Oh my, this person is really popular..."

Mo Tan showed a somewhat stiff smile, and after realizing that he had no way of breaking free from Fangya and the Samurai Shodown in a non-combat state, he sighed silently and said helplessly: "I'll apply to go outside to bask in the sun as well."

"Application rejected."

Ji Xiaoge glared at him, then coughed lightly. Her beautiful eyes turned to the two companions beside her who looked like plasters. She showed the same helpless smile as Mo Tan: "Please let this guy go, or the system may strike him with lightning in a while!"

Yaya chuckled, then trotted back to Ji Xiaoge and hung himself on the latter.

The Samurai who liked to say "die" also slowly let go of Mo Tan and nodded very slightly to Ji Xiaoge: "Oh."

"Big Sister Yege!"

She looked exactly like Gu Xiaole, but her heart was like that of a little origami loli. She trotted over to Ji Xiaoge and said with a sly smile, "The Samurai sister seems to listen to you very much! Can you teach me how to tame her? The master is so worried!"

Ji Xiaoge scratched her hair and said in a confused and cute way: "I don't know either..."

"Go to hell."

Samurai Shodown glanced at Origami coldly, and then added a threat: "I will tear you apart, be careful."

"Thanks for the reminder, I will be careful."

Origami winked at the Samurai with a playful smile, then her expression turned serious and she said solemnly, "The master is coming, you guys chat and I'll listen."

After he finished speaking, Origami slowly closed his eyes. The next second, Gu Xiaole looked up and showed everyone a bright and refreshing smile: "I'm here! Did you miss me?"

"Wang misses little sister Wang!"

Yaya immediately spoke enthusiastically.

"I'm fine. After all, I was just messaging and chatting. Woohoo!"

Ji Xiaoge stuck out her tongue, then let Gu Xiaole pounce on her and hug her and Yaya together.

"Go to hell."

Samurai Shodown clearly states its consistent position.

"Uh huh huh~"

Gu Xiaole raised his chin proudly, then turned to Mo Tan and wrinkled his nose: "Where's Mo-chan?"

"I'm fine too. After all, we haven't seen each other for a long time."

Because of the existence of [Chivalry·Honesty], Mo Tan, who could only tell the truth, smiled and walked to the corner of the room where he was least likely to be suppressed by Samurai Shodown or Fang Fang, and asked, "So, did you find out anything?"

At present, it is the third day since the Paw Patrol arrived at Ankh Market. Since they left the [Wreck-It Ralph Mercenaries] the day before yesterday, Mo Tan and others settled down in the hotel they used to stay in and started investigating the [Unicorn Mercenaries]. On the other hand, Birger and Gu Xiaole's real bodies stayed in the mercenary group's base. In addition to wanting to reminisce with friends, the former also needs to grasp more detailed information, while Gu Xiaole, whose strength is infinitely close to the epic level and who has Origami to replace him in activities outside, acts as "extra security" and "megaphone".

Given that the situation faced by the [Destroyer Mercenary Group] is somewhat strange, and that there is a high chance that Mo Tan and others will be targeted, everyone neither took any high-profile action nor rashly went to places like the Adventurer's Association or the Mercenary Guild to inquire about information. Instead, they conducted a relatively low-key investigation.

Admittedly, this kind of restricted investigation is not only inefficient but also not very safe. However, since the matter is of great importance, as the leader of this team, Mo Tan finally decided to let everyone prioritize safety and stability.

As the saying goes, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Since everything is so stable, the probability of obtaining effective intelligence is naturally pitifully small. From the expressions of the girls, it can be seen that what they have gained in these two days is almost zero.

"Without going to the Adventurer's Guild and the Mercenary Guild, there are too few channels available to us."

Ji Xiaoge shook her wings and pouted, saying, "You didn't even allow me to ask the Wanderer's Inn and the Thieves Guild. I really can't think of any other places where I can get information..."

"Wang can't figure it out either."

Yaya drooped his ears, squatted on the ground and whined, "Wang wanted to go to the unicorn's residence to bark for a while, but Sister Wang Ge said it was not safe."

"I go."

Samurai narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Kill him again, let's see if he dies or not."

"Stop making trouble, honey. They are quite powerful after their reincarnation. If we really start a fight, we probably won't win."

Gu Xiaole rejected Samurai Shodown's crude proposal, and then said to Mo Tan in a serious tone: "But Mo-chan, we are indeed too passive now. Although your concerns are reasonable, Ankh Market is a big place after all. The Adventurer's Association and the Mercenary Guild are still in the downtown area. If we are careful, it shouldn't be a big deal if we just gather intelligence normally..."

"I understand, Miss Xiaole. I know everyone is getting a little impatient, but I must reiterate that the situation Bilge and his men are facing this time is not as simple as it seems. For professional mercenaries, intelligence blocking and eliminating threats are the most basic of basic skills. In other words, if we are careless just once, there may be consequences that we cannot afford."

Mo Tan looked at the girls seriously, then changed the subject and said with a smile, "But we are not completely doing useless work. For example, if someone is really monitoring us, these two days of running around like headless flies should be enough for the other party to relax their vigilance."

Gu Xiaole's eyes lit up: "So?"

"So the 'intelligence sources' I found from other channels should be easier to find without arousing suspicion."

Mo Tan glanced at the system time in the corner of his vision and said softly, "If you calculate the time, it should be about the same."

dong dong dong-

As a result, at this moment, three knocks on the door, neither light nor heavy, neither fast nor slow, sounded very timely, which scared Ji Xiaoge and others.

"It seems that the guest I invited has arrived."

Mo Tan smiled at everyone, then slowly walked to the door and gently turned the handle——

Outside the door stood a petite figure. To be more precise, it was a petite girl wearing a grey cape, a black sleeveless jacket, leather shorts and boots of the same colour, with the lower half of her face covered by a black mask, silky white hair and a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes.

And behind her, in the unnatural darkness, stood a hooded black figure silently.

"Hello you two."

Mo Tan was stunned for a moment, then he slightly turned sideways and suggested, "If you don't mind, come in and talk."

"Thank you, Mr. Mo."

Accompanied by the soft and pleasant male voice under the hood, the two 'guests' slowly walked into the already not-so-spacious room. The hooded man then said calmly before Mo Tan could speak: "I know your identities very well, so in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, let's skip the self-introduction part. In addition, your friend has already paid for the information."

Mo Tan nodded and said with a smile: "Okay."

"that……"

It was only then that Ji Xiaoge slowly stepped forward, stood side by side with Mo Tan, and cast his eyes towards the man and the girl, and asked softly, "Who are you?"

"Now, we are 'the information dealer and his bodyguard'."

The man answered slowly, then raised his hand to interrupt Ji Xiaoge's follow-up questioning, and said calmly: "The [Unicorn Mercenary Group] you want to investigate is actually the [Woodworm] group from the [Viper Chamber of Commerce] Anka Market."

Ji Xiaoge: "...Viper Chamber of Commerce!?"

Gu Xiaole: "Woodlouse?"

Yaya: “Woof!”

"Yes."

The hooded man nodded and said calmly, "You should all have heard of the name of the Viper Chamber of Commerce, so I won't go into details here. As for Woodlice, he is a first-class deacon under the command of Ms. Moth, one of the snake heads of the Chamber of Commerce. Although he is considered a 'newcomer' planted by the Viper in Anka Market, he has been here for several years."

"Uh, wait a minute, we seem to be jumping to different topics a little too quickly..."

Ji Xiaoge blinked her beautiful almond-shaped eyes, scratched her hair and confirmed, "So what you mean is that the [Wrecker Mercenary Group] has a feud with the evil Viper Merchant Guild?"

The hooded man shook his head and corrected him, "To be precise, the Destroyer Mercenaries had a feud with the Viper's first-class deacon, Woodworm, at the Ankh Market. Even this feud may not really exist. The reason why those Highlanders were targeted was probably because they had the misfortune of becoming a necessary part of Woodworm's plan."

"?"

Yaya wagged his tail and asked curiously, "Is there any difference?"

"Have."

The hooded man nodded without hesitation and explained, "Because of the special structure of the Viper Chamber of Commerce, even though many people think they are a whole, even the head of the 'Committee of Twenty' has never reached a consensus. Although this split power model has many disadvantages, it is also the biggest asset that has enabled the Chamber of Commerce to survive until now. In other words..."

"In other words, the Viper Chamber of Commerce only has individual actions, and there is no so-called collective will, right?"

Gu Xiaole took over the conversation and chuckled, "To be honest, if you weren't someone Mo-chan had asked, it would be hard for me to believe your words unconditionally."

"Because this statement itself lacks a lot of details. After all, the Viper Chamber of Commerce is a complete force. If it didn't have a code of conduct that most people could agree on, it would have fallen apart long ago."

The hooded man smiled silently, took out a piece of candy from his pocket and stuffed it into the girl in front of him, shrugged and said, "But that information has nothing to do with our topic today."

"acid."

The girl with a cold temperament chewed the candy in a very cute way. While complaining, she tilted her head and rubbed the back of the other person's hand: "Delicious, thank you, Master."

"Owner?"

Ji Xiaoge's wings suddenly stood up, and she looked at the hooded man with unfriendly eyes: "What does she mean? What is your relationship with her?"

"She is a very important person to me. As for the title of 'Master', although I do have the opportunity to become such a person, for now, it is just a little prank."

For the first time, the hooded man showed a somewhat helpless but humane attitude, and gently poked the girl's cheek: "Obviously, she thinks you are very good people and there is no need to be too wary of you. And it just so happens that the snacks I just gave her are not to her liking, so..."

He didn't say anything else, just shrugged and poked the girl's fair face again.

"Ying likes this name."

The girl leaned back, like a kitten, giving her body weight to someone she could trust without reservation, and whispered in a tone that was a mixture of complaining and coquettishness: "It feels more intimate this way."

Ji Xiaoge confirmed that there was no strange relationship between the two of them through the girl's attitude, so he folded his wings, then turned to Mo Tan with an eager look, as if he wanted to play something.

"No, call me by my name."

It was impossible to imagine what would happen if Ji Xiaodao found out that his sister called him "Master", but Mo Tan was sure that the consequences would be far beyond his imagination, so he sternly expressed his rejection with his eyes.

Gu Xiaole's eyes lit up, and he suggested to the super cute white-haired girl: "Hey! If you want to be more intimate, why don't you call him old..."

"Excuse me."

The next moment, the hooded man interrupted Gu Xiaole with a very firm attitude, and asked in a complex and subtle tone: "Do you guys want to continue listening to the intelligence?"

"need."

Mo Tan immediately took over the conversation as the team representative and said to the other party righteously: "Then I'm leaving it to you. Please continue to help us explain the situation."

"call……"

The hooded man, who had regained his composure, breathed a sigh of relief and remained silent for a moment before continuing, "In short, it is certain that the so-called [Unicorn Mercenary Group] was established from the very beginning for the purpose of 'annihilation'. The only purpose was to replace [Woodworm] and his men and become a legal and compliant alien mercenary group that would hardly arouse people's suspicion."

"why?"

"Because an identity that allows one to walk freely in the sunlight is too precious for people like us who walk in darkness."

"you?"

"I am not talented, I am currently a second-class deacon of the Viper Chamber of Commerce."

"???"

Chapter 2542: End