Quadruple split.

Chapter 2570 Who is naive?

Chapter 2570 Who is naive?
'Let them chat for a while.'

After a while, after secretly sending a message to Ji Xiaoge, Mo Tan quietly left here with the former, leaving time for Anthony Dabbs and No. 715, and came to the center of the somewhat deserted hall.

“It’s hard to imagine what kind of life they led before.”

Ji Xiaoge squatted on the ground, folded her wings and turned herself into a cute badminton. She leaned on Mo Tan's legs and muttered softly, "I feel like all the bad things I've seen in my life combined are not as many as what I saw today."

Mo Tan gently touched his sweetheart's hair without saying much. He just accompanied her quietly so that the girl could clearly feel his presence.

"That ogre boy doesn't even have a name."

Ji Xiaoge gnashed her teeth and said angrily, "How dare they... How could they be so cruel..."

“Never underestimate the limits of intelligent life.”

Wang Badan, who had crawled up to the two of them at some point, curled his lips and said dryly, "This world lacks everything except this kind of son of a bitch @#￥."

This time, Mo Tan rarely paid attention to the bastard's dirty words. He just lowered his eyes and said to Ji Xiaoge, who was looking at him with his head tilted, "If we are determined to be enemies with this kind of existence without humanity and morality, we will witness this scene countless times in the future, and we will be entangled with this heinous malice all day long."

"I know."

Ji Xiaoge stood up, then spread her wings and brought Mo Tan to her side. She leaned against the latter's hard and cold arm armor and whispered, "But someone has to do this kind of thing, right?"

Mo Tan nodded slightly and said seriously: "That's right, but it doesn't have to be us."

"But to put it another way...why can't it be us?"

Ji Xiaoge raised her little face, her beautiful almond eyes met the Knight's gaze. "Compared to the pain I feel from witnessing such a thing, I can't accept that I turned a blind eye to all this. Maybe I am a little naive because I have always been protected by my parents and sister, but many things will not really not exist just because we pretend not to see them, and--"

Looking at the girl in front of him with a burning gaze, he subconsciously wanted to take a step back, but found himself "trapped" in the pair of white wings. Mo Tan looked away somewhat unnaturally: "And what?"

"And since I can't accept it myself, you will definitely not be able to tolerate such a pest that is causing trouble to everyone."

Ji Xiaoge smiled complacently, saying "I understand you very well", then rested her head on Mo Tan's chest and murmured softly, "I will be strong soon, so don't worry, just keep doing what we both want to do."

So, Mo Tan swallowed the nonsense that was about to come out of his mouth and said with a wry smile: "This is not a simple trouble, are you sure you don't want to think about it a little more?"

"Since you know exactly what you will choose in the end, then the so-called 'consideration' is completely self-deception."

Ji Xiaoge shook her head vigorously, revealing a heartbreaking yet strong smile: "I remember that most games have so-called 'main quests'. Although they are long, difficult and complicated, no matter how troublesome it is, you still have to fight the villain in the end."

Mo Tan laughed in silence and raised his eyebrows, saying, "The enemy of the Viper Merchant Guild is different from the polite villains in ordinary games who gradually advance and continuously give experience and equipment to the protagonist. The difficulty coefficient is more than a hundred times higher."

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Sir Knight. I'm sure you will find a way."

Ji Xiaoge blinked and smiled playfully, "Compared to those princesses who were caught in the villain's lair and waited for others to rescue them, I, the heroine of this new era, am much better off. So, I'll have to trouble someone who will go offline from time to time to think of ways to figure out what to do specifically."

Mo Tan: “Uh…”

"Thanks for your hard work."

Before Mo Tan could even think of a way to argue, Ji Xiaoge hugged him lightly, tiptoed and gently nudged the knight's chin with her forehead, and said with a smile: "Although I may not be able to help much, I can give you a little reward like a hug."

Wang Badan: "Ugh."

Ji Xiaoge: “Hmm?”

Wang Badan: "Too sweet! I'm eating it!"

"Hmm~"

Without giving the spoiling turtle a hard kick, the girl let go of Mo Tan with a flushed face and coughed lightly very deliberately.

"So, what do we do next?"

……

"Stay still, tsk tsk ..."

In a three-story house in Anka Market, a tall figure sitting by the fireplace enjoying baking small cakes smacked his lips meaningfully, and after a long while he sighed leisurely: "I am still too naive."

The man who was sipping a glass of lemonade by the window not far away blinked and asked curiously, "What do you mean?"

"That's quite something."

The steward Krull Momor, who has a firm position in the administrative system of Anka Market and is known for his gentle and steady style of doing things, is also a first-class deacon under the core figure of Mr. Lake, one of the twenty-member committee of the Viper Chamber of Commerce. The ogre man of Wildfire casually added a new piece of wood to the fireplace and chuckled, "But when did you become interested in this kind of thing, old friend?"

The dwarf man with short grey hair, a thin body and a somewhat handsome look drank the remaining half cup of lemon juice with a bitter look on his face. He made a grimace and shook his head and said, "Rather than saying that I'm interested in 'this kind of thing', it's better to say that I'm interested in the Paw Patrol with a unique name. So if you have something to say, talk more now while you're still free."

As one of Krull's core forces in Ankh Bazaar, this dwarf assassin named Zip Cold Valve is not one of the best in the epic level, but because the nature of his profession is very suitable for Ankh Bazaar, a place where there is rarely bloodshed, he usually rarely has free time. Of course, corresponding to his workload is his outrageous work attitude. Whenever Krull does not personally supervise him writing reports, it is common for him to work one day and rest six days.

However, having said that, Krul and Zip actually have a pretty good relationship. Aside from the fact that both of them share a relatively Buddhist attitude towards life, the fact that their moral standards are far above the average of the Viper Chamber of Commerce is also a core reason. However, the two have never admitted it.

It's not that they mind the so-called pretentiousness, but they all know very well that they are not qualified to talk about "morality".

Based on this point alone, the existence of Krull and Ziplock, the two self-proclaimed "villains", is far better than those hypocrites.

"It can be seen that the leader of that team, the half-dragon knight you mentioned, wants to get rid of the [Sowlets] as soon as possible."

Krull didn't mind chatting with Zipper, who was supposed to be monitoring the outer perimeter of the [Mountain Earthworm Excavation Site] but forced to switch shifts with his subordinates who were supposed to come back to report to him, and sneaked back to the Anka Market with sparks and lightning. So he briefly talked about his thoughts and said slowly: "If you look at it from this perspective alone, their approach is actually not wrong. After all, no matter how slow [Solphins] are, they should have received the information about the [Music Field] being taken down. After that, he will definitely confirm the situation of the excavation site as soon as possible."

Ziplock used his short blade that looked like a long needle to pick at his ear and asked lazily, "And then?"

"Then he will find that his foundation in Ankh has suffered a devastating blow, and the culprit is the team of adventurers that he had been on guard against but whose strength is far beyond his imagination."

Krull stared at the roaring flames in the fireplace and said expressionlessly, "After that, because there was a large amount of evidence in the excavation site that was enough to make him completely unable to gain a foothold in Ankh, [Sowlet] had no choice but to take the risk and lead his last elite forces to the north in person."

Ziplock continued to nod, and as if he had given up thinking, he asked the ogre who was as big as a small mountain beside the fireplace: "Oh, and then what?"

Krull stroked the "Chronicles of the Spring and Autumn Period" on his knees, which he bought from the [Green Apple Chamber of Commerce] through special channels, and said lightly: "In this life-and-death crisis, [Woodworm], who is determined to go all out, has no choice but to ask for help from me, who seems to be easier to talk to than [Black Wolf] and [Puppet]. In exchange for his black income over the years, he hopes that I can transfer an epic-level combat power to him, so..."

"stop."

Ziplock suddenly raised his hand to interrupt Krull and said seriously: "My curiosity has been fully satisfied, so you don't need to tell me what's next."

However, Krull had no intention of stopping. He didn't even look at Zipper, who looked bitter. He just said to himself, "So, as my most trusted old friend, you wouldn't mind accompanying Mr. Woodworm for a trip, right?"

"mind."

Ziplock answered without hesitation, emphasizing: "I mind it very much!" "Very good."

Krull gave a response that was very different from what Ziplock had just said, and then continued on his own: "You know, even though Mr. Lake doesn't have a good impression of Ms. Moth, who climbed to this position with the help of her family, and I don't really appreciate the way Ms. Woodworm behaves, we are all colleagues in the same Chamber of Commerce after all, so..."

Zipper rolled his eyes and said unhappily, "Shut up, I know what to do."

"Ok."

Krull finally stopped ignoring the other party and smiled, "Then I'll leave it to you. Please be careful."

Ziplock snorted, looking unhappy: "So continuing the previous topic, why did you say that the people in that adventurer team were too naive?"

"Because they are obviously 'righteous people' in an objective sense, and what they did today was all motivated by goodwill, morality, legality and other positive perspectives."

Krull shrugged and spread his hands, "But the problem is that what they are doing now is more like a form of self-satisfaction, and it doesn't help much in the so-called 'justice'."

Ziplock scratched his gray hair and asked in confusion, "Why can't it help much? You also know how dirty the business that [Soolice] is involved in is. Even if I don't go with him later, that guy will most likely be seriously injured. Isn't this considered getting rid of harm for the people?"

"Yes, of course."

Krull nodded slightly, then asked, "But the problem is, you are also a kind of 'harm' to some extent. Do you really think that we are so easy to get rid of?"

Ziplock thought seriously for two seconds, then nodded vigorously and said, "What else? Isn't it just a matter of one knife?"

"No, no, no, my old friend, the 'one knife' you mentioned is just the cost of killing [Soolice]. If you count the elite troops around him, it will cost at least fifty or sixty knives."

Krull laughed and patiently explained, "To destroy the foundation of the Woodworm, you need to swing hundreds or thousands of swords at least. Based on the original intention of the 'Wangwang Adventurer Team', the ideal situation should be to destroy the entire system established by the Woodworm, or the share he owns under the surface of the Ankh Market... Do you want to guess how many swords you need to swing to achieve this goal?"

Ziplock made a rude gesture to Krull with a fake smile and said dryly: "So what do you expect those people to do?"

"I don't know, I'm just... a little disappointed."

Krull casually pulled out an antique thick cigarette, lit it and took a deep puff, and said with a dazed look: "You know, those people brought me more surprises in just one day than that [Woodlouse] has brought me in all these years, so I always feel that they can do better."

Ziplock sneered and complained: "Although you don't know what they should do?"

"Yeah, think about it carefully. If I were in their shoes, I might not do as well as they do."

Krull blew out a weird-shaped smoke ring and said with a wry smile, "Sure enough, the problem is not with them, but with me as a spectator?"

"From the moment you asked me to cooperate with Woodlice, you were no longer just a spectator."

Ziplock stretched himself, then nimbly jumped down from the windowsill, stretching his body while saying, "Okay, that guy's men seem to have reached the door, I'll just..."

"Wait a moment!"

As a result, at this moment, Krull suddenly stood up and whispered, "Hide, zipper."

"—"

Without any hesitation, the moment Krul finished speaking, Zipper's breath and figure completely disappeared in the room.

Then--

dong dong dong.

Accompanied by a knock on the door, the butler's voice sounded outside the door: "Sir, Lord Wenger Pep of the Market Supervision Bureau has sent a messenger."

"Please come in."

Krull put out his cigarette, straightened his appearance, and gently extended an invitation. Then he saw his butler slowly walking in with a man wearing a white robe and a hat with the brim pulled down low.

"Hello, Mr. Steward, I apologize for visiting you so late at night."

After the butler bowed and left, the man in the white robe glanced casually at a corner, then handed a letter to Krull: "This is a handwritten letter from Lord Wenger."

"For me alone?"

"No, every steward has one, so I'm going to take my leave now and deliver the letters to the others."

"The contents inside..."

"I don't know and I can't tell you, sir."

"OK, thanks."

"You're welcome. Goodbye then."

After saying that, the man bowed to Krull and then left in a neat and tidy manner.

A few seconds later, Ziplock appeared silently beside the fireplace, and glanced at Krull who was reading the handwritten letter with an unpleasant look on his face: "I think that guy must have discovered me."

"..."

"Honestly, if a fight had broken out just now, I would have been killed within a minute."

"..."

"Should I say he is worthy of being a member of Wenger and Pep's team?"

"..."

"Krull? What are you daydreaming about?"

“…Zipper.”

"what?"

"Tell me, is there such a possibility..."

"What's possible?"

"Compared to the 'Woof Woof Adventurer' team, I, [Wildfire] Krull Momo, am the naive one?"

"Clam?"