Quadruple split.

Chapter 2561 Under the Ankh
"It's not that I didn't!"

Facing August's question, the dwarf immediately shook his head like a rattle and said in a loud voice: "Really woof woof!"

August pulled the corner of his mouth and said dryly: "So what on earth is this 'woof woof' you're talking about!?"

Saka next to him also had a confused look on his face. It was obvious that the vice president was unable to understand the mystery.

"It's the Paw Patrol Adventure Team."

Upon hearing this, the second-class operator who came to report the news immediately explained in a hurry: "It was the adventurer team that wiped out four operators of our Chamber of Commerce seven months ago and caused the Diesel family to clear out the forces of the Sanlun Chamber of Commerce throughout the entire Casello Grassland. They were issued a regular hunting order."

"never heard of that."

August shook his head first, then frowned and said, "But the Casello you were seven months ago... I have some impression of him. Oh, yes, those operators who were killed should be the clerks who cooperated with Buffy Marshall in the slave trade, right?"

The other two looked at each other, obviously unaware of this matter.

This is not surprising. After all, as mentioned before, the structure of the Viper Merchant Guild is very loose. For example, August, who belongs to Mr. Bitter, although his operators will also collect various intelligence closely related to the organization, they will not pay too much attention to other people's business outside the usual scope unless they get clear orders from their direct superiors.

However, because of his violet origin, August, who always subconsciously pays extra attention to that empire, knows a lot of "useless information", including the Marshall family's slave trade incident which has nothing to do with him and Mr. Ku's faction!
However, even though he knew about it, he would not be too impressed by such a small matter as a certain adventurer team killing several operators in Casello. So after a moment's hesitation, he immediately asked the operator who came to report the news for details.

The dwarf operator who was in charge of contacting the spies lurking around [Woodlouse] knew most of the information the day after reporting it to Kuang Dalei. He did not dare to neglect it at all and reported it quickly. Then he was sent away by August with a subtle expression.

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two minutes later
"The Woof Woof Adventure Team and the leaders of the Destroyer Mercenaries are an interesting combination."

August chuckled, then turned to Kasa and asked, "What else do I have planned for today?"

The latter said without thinking, "Listen to a concert with Ms. Jasmine from the Thieves Guild, meet Mr. Yin'er, the deputy director of the business office who was just transferred to Anka by the Steam Consortium, and..."

"Cancel them all for me."

August interrupted and waved his hand, "Go now."

Saka nodded immediately, then quickly left the tea room to make arrangements, without saying a word.

August stood up after drinking the last bit of tea, and came to the study through the shortcut behind the bookcase in the tea room. Then he used the sinking mechanism behind the long table to descend underground, and finally found a half stone door at the end of the crooked space that looked like an underground palace. After passing some strict identity authentication, he walked through the door and arrived at a dark room.

The dark room was not large, only about 20 square meters, and the furnishings were extremely simple. There was nothing else except three stone benches and a brazier surrounded by chairs.

“This level of excitement…”

August muttered to himself as he slowly walked to the chair facing the stone door and sat down. He flicked his finger with practiced skill and flicked out a dark red flame, lighting the strangely shaped brazier in front of him. He said happily, "You two won't miss each other, will you?"

Peng! ! !
The next moment, accompanied by the explosion of illusory flames, two hazy figures with strange textures appeared on the left and right chairs respectively.

Then--

"Black Wolf, Black Wolf!"

At the moment when August lit the brazier, the figure on the left, whose face could not be seen clearly, whose voice was sharp and whose height was estimated to be no more than 50 centimeters, jumped up and down and shouted: "Have you heard it! Have you heard it! The place of [Soolice] has been destroyed!"

"Calm down, Muppet."

On the chair on the right, a man who was much taller and more muscular than an ordinary orc, with a voice as deafening as a bell but revealing a sense of elegance, smiled, turned his head and nodded to August: "Since Black Wolf showed up at this time, he must have heard about it."

August, who was also covered in a layer of phantom flames, nodded slightly and said to the two in a brisk tone: "It seems that you two got the news much faster than I did."

The one sitting on the left chair, who was called a 'Muppet' and was indeed a blonde ragdoll-like woman, chuckled and said, "Almost the same. Wildfire and I just got here too."

On the chair to the right, Wildfire, who was in the image of a tall ogre, smacked his lips and sighed, "But I never expected that the business that [Soolice] had been secretly operating for nearly half a year would be destroyed in an instant. Do you two have any idea where those attackers came from?"

"No."

The puppet gave a straightforward negative answer and said proudly: "I never care about those messy matters."

"I think so too."

Wildfire sighed, then turned to look at August and asked, "Black Wolf, what about you? Do you have any inside information to share?"

August pondered for a moment, and finally told the truth: "According to the feedback from the few nails I planted around [Sour Bug], the culprit should be a team of adventurers named 'Wangwang'. In addition, there are also a few young people from the [Destroyer Mercenary Group]."

"You mean the Destroyer Mercenaries that were targeted by the Woodworms?"

Wildfire touched his bald chin and said hesitantly, "But they should all be in the base on Burning Bear Street right now. The people I sent over there to monitor them didn't report any abnormalities, so... it shouldn't be the case."

Upon hearing this, the puppet immediately looked at the big ogre opposite with great interest, and asked curiously, "I know that bug wants to cause trouble for those Highlanders, but why did you specially send someone to keep an eye on them? Don't you have anything to do?"

"Although I haven't been very busy recently, I'm not that idle either."

Wildfire shook his head and said bluntly, "The reason I sent people over to keep an eye on them is because Captain Largo of the Destroyer Mercenaries once did me a small favor. Even if it's to repay that favor, I can't let those Highlanders be completely killed by the Woodlice."

August, who heard about this for the first time, also looked over and asked, "So who did the captain help? Wildfire? Or Manager Krull Momor?" Wildfire laughed dumbly and immediately replied, "Of course it was Manager Krull. With Largo's personality, if he knew that I was Wildfire from Viper, even if he would give up reporting me for the sake of our friendship, he would definitely try to distance himself from me."

"I see."

August leaned back in his chair and said leisurely, "So, the plan of [Soolice] may not have been successful from the beginning. After all, with you protecting them, the witnesses they personally selected cannot be dealt with. In this case... it is probably only a matter of time before they are exposed, right?"

Wildfire smiled nonchalantly and said calmly, "Plans cannot keep up with changes. Compared to the true identity of the vice-leader of the Destroyer Mercenary Group, the Woodworm will probably pay a heavy price for what happened today before the vice-leader of the Destroyer Mercenary Group was exposed."

"boring."

The puppet uttered a sharp complaint, and then began to roll around on the chair with her lifeless body, complaining, "I want to go to that destroyed place in the west and see the blood flowing like a river!"

August and Wildfire laughed at the same time, not taking the Muppet's words seriously at all. It's not that they looked down on the seemingly harmless, small alchemical shell, but the Muppet hasn't really "appeared" for centuries. In this case, it's nonsense to expect her to run to [Music Field·Warm Cocoon] where she will soon be targeted by all kinds of people.

By the way, in the eyes of the Woodlice and even the entire faction of Ms. Moth, the true identity of the Puppet is the elusive manager of the Ninth Office of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce in Anka Market, the silver elf Sera Linxi, who almost never appears in front of outsiders. However, this is completely false information.

In fact, only a few people like Black Wolf August and Wildfire Krull who have worked with Ragdoll for a long enough time, as well as Mr. Bitter and Mr. Lake behind them, know that the silver elf is not Ragdoll himself, but some kind of agent of the latter. Not only that, they also seriously suspect that the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce knows more about this matter than they do.

There are not so many idiots in this world, and the senior executive of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce who can appoint the person in charge of the office in Anka Market is so naive that when handling personnel matters, he accidentally recruited a first-class deacon of the [Viper Chamber of Commerce] who was nominated for promotion to the "Sharp Teeth" level several times... This kind of anti-intellectual plot can only appear in third-rate or even inferior bard stories.

Because of this, for a long time, August and Krull have always suspected that [Puppet] was an employee of the Gold Coin Chamber who infiltrated their own organization. However, this does not make sense, because according to the Gold Coin Chamber's style of doing things, if [Puppet] is really from there, then she has no reason to refuse the proposal to be promoted to "Sharp Teeth".

After all, this is definitely not in the interests of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.

Of course, although they have thought a lot, many of their thoughts are unlikely. After all, neither [Black Wolf] nor [Wildfire] are the top of their factions. Even if they are guarding the Anka Market and are more powerful than many "Sharp Teeth"-level cadres, the ones who really need to think about this kind of thing are still [Mr. Bitter] and [Mr. Lake].

Therefore, the two of them are actually quite open-minded when interacting with the "Muppet", and rarely rack their brains to find out other people's backgrounds.

"All in all, although the result is not bad, our previous plans have indeed been disrupted."

Krull leaned back in his chair and turned to August and said, "The place has been destroyed for us by the Adventurer Team and the Destroyer Mercenaries. What about the rest?"

August narrowed his red eyes, stroking his chin, and said calmly: "According to the information I have, there is no one alive in that place. Except for the victims, all the subordinates of [Soolice] and the guests were killed, even the woman who had been doing tricks under our noses, so..."

"evidence."

The puppet, who had sat up straight at some point, suddenly interrupted coldly with her sharp synthetic voice, "Send people over there right now to look for evidence that would be unfavorable to the woodworm. If those people just acted on impulse and didn't conduct any targeted searches, we will try our best to recover the key evidence before the woodworm's people arrive."

Krull frowned and asked, "And then?"

"Then?"

[Puppet] stared at the big guy opposite him and laughed sharply: "Then of course we have to find a way to get those things into the hands of those who can take charge. For a middle-level manager like you who is good at playing both sides and is very likable in everyone's eyes, it should be easy to do it, right?"

Krull nodded without comment, and did not deny that he did have the ability. He just continued to ask: "What if the evidence was taken away by the adventurer team and those highlanders?"

"That's even better."

Before [Puppet] could speak, August laughed cheerfully and said leisurely, "People who can slaughter everyone in that place from top to bottom in a rage and leave no one alive will not allow [Sootle], the mastermind behind the scenes, to go unpunished forever. Even if we do nothing, they will find a way to force that rat into a desperate situation."

Krull nodded and agreed, "Indeed. After all, due to our half-hearted interference over the years, Lady Moth has not been able to insert even one epic. Under such circumstances, it will be difficult for Woodlice to deal with that seriously underestimated team of adventurers, hehe."

"You look pretty happy, big guy."

[Puppet] said with a dull tone, sneering, "Is it the pitiful sense of justice in your heart that's causing trouble?"

"You're joking, Ms. Muppet."

Krull shook his head and said calmly, "If I really had even a little bit of that 'pitiful sense of justice' you mentioned, Woodlice would have died on the first day of planning that place."

"...That's true."

"Well, everyone should make some preparations. I guess we will be busy during this period."

"Indeed, even if we don't have to do it ourselves, it will probably take some effort to clean up the mess."

"Besides, that place doesn't seem to be the final destination for those people."

"Tsk, it's really exciting."

"You mean the woodlice's expression?"

"And the results of [Woof Woof]."

"Well, see you later."

"Goodbye."

"Bye."

Chapter 2552: End