Group B's inquiry investigation at Titas Gate will not be mentioned yet. Ryan said goodbye to the five people and went to the old Agria road alone.

Following the old road, in front of a fork near Palm, Ryan discovered an intersection sealed by a large number of block boxes.

After carefully looking at the platform behind the intersection, Ryan murmured, "It should be this place? Although the map has been erased, the traces of existence will always be preserved."

After leaping over the pile of wooden boxes as obstacles, Ryan gradually walked to a tall iron door with a giant sturdy lock.

A warning was posted on the door, which roughly said that there was a high-incidence section of landslides behind, and this abandoned road has been completely closed. Passers-by should not break in without authorization.

“Ha…landslide.”

Ryan sneered and ignored the warning, and he began to look for clues near the gate.

"really……"

On the edge of a mountain on the west side of the gate, Ryan found a deep rut.

His face was a little gloomy and he moved along the traces, and finally found a very inconspicuous natural mountain tunnel under the cover of the woods and terrain.

"I actually ran to this place that had been explicitly closed to disturb the peace of the dead..."

Ryan looked at the traces extending deep into the mountain road in displeasure, took the Taidao from his waist and quickly killed several jump cats that had gradually gathered here due to abandonment for a long time.

Looking back at the closed door behind him, Ryan sighed softly, "It seems that they will eventually be exposed to this village that should be forgotten. I wonder if Usses will let go of his mouth because of his anger."

Although Yuss looks very calm and composed on the outside, he seems to maintain an elegant demeanor at all times.

But according to the information provided by Clow and the experience of Ryan getting along with him personally, the second young master of the Duke of Elbarrea's family hid a fiery soul under his quiet appearance.

Although he doesn't often go over the head like Machias, judging by his and Machias's behavior of looking at each other as thorns in their eyes... I'm afraid he is only more reserved and self-control than Machias.

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Almost at the same time, Group B had already asked for key information from the soldiers and past traders at Titas Gate, and the five returned to the restaurant to sort out the news they obtained during this period.

Machias chaired the small meeting instead of Emma, ​​who is relatively soft-hearted. "First of all, based on the intelligence we obtained at the Palm Army stronghold, the target of this group of smugglers who have been in the Liberbos area and Palm for many years is very clear."

"They imported raw silk from Liberbos to cross the border and entered the Herrebonian Empire for sale, and they were seeking nothing more than the huge benefits of tax evasion."

"They had traded with the next one outside Palm town, and the army has not been able to find their traces until today."

Alisa held her chin and looked at the map around Palm on the table with a contemplative expression, "But this is a bit strange. Lingbangjun is not a pampered bag, so how could she not find the smuggler's place for so long?"

"About this..." Emma raised her hand and said, "I have a guess. Don't you think Palm's territorial stronghold is too close to the regular army fortress of Titasmen?"

Euss's face moved, and then he pondered for a moment, and finally showed a sudden expression.

"I understand. Both the regular army and the territorial army are afraid of each other's existence and have not done too blatantly in the old road of Agria at the junction of the two armies."

"Well, that's reasonable." Fei yawned and said, "Although this kind of confrontation between domestic troops is stupid, Agria's old path is indeed a blind spot where neither side wants to cause friction."

Alisa patted her forehead and said helplessly, "That is, Haynes is a gentle and restrained person. If it were in my hometown Lure... Rognath would definitely not care about it and be reckless first."

Euss sighed and smiled bitterly, "Sometimes it is not necessarily a good thing to be too gentle. It's like in this incident, both sides were afraid of being afraid to search the old road of Agria, which made it the best safe haven for smugglers to hide."

Emma asked in confusion, "But according to what we learned from the regular army of Titasmen, they would patrol the southern half of the old Agria road along the main road every day, and the leadership army would also send people to patrol the northern half."

"The surrounding area is full of steep mountains and dense woods. Where did the smuggling merchants smuggle into Ereponia and where did they usually hide?"

While the other four were thinking hard, Yuss suddenly flashed his inspiration when he thought of Ryan's previous words of hiding his head and revealing his tail.

"Squad leader, take out the document that Instructor Reinhardt gave you...I have a bad guess."

“Eh?”

Emma asked with a cute look on her face, "But... the instructor said that he could not open it unless he had to?"

Usses shook his head, "It's urgent to be true. Perhaps the last piece of the puzzle we need is in that document. I'll just take a look at the beginning alone, and at least I can understand the direction we should investigate next."

After five votes, except for Emma and the old-fashioned Machias, the other three chose to agree. Based on the principle of minority obeying the majority, Emma helplessly took out the folded documents and placed them on the table.

Usses slowly expanded the file with a serious expression. After seeing the three words at the beginning of the file, Usses closed the file again with a "splash", and the expression on his face became very gloomy.

"Let's play such a cleverness... I will never let you go!"

Emma and the other two were confused and looked at Usses's rare gloomy face and were at a loss. Finally, Machias asked boldly, "What puzzle are you fighting with the instructor? What's the problem with that document?"

"snort!"

Usses stood up from the cafeteria seat, "This time I have a legitimate reason not to answer you, because the secrets involved were not originally something that we students should touch."

"Let's go, since the instructor handed us the documents and keys, it means that he has predicted the progress of the situation to some extent, so let's set off now."

Marcias looked at Uses who was strode out of the cafeteria and scratched his short green hair irritably, "Ahhh! I'm so annoying, half of his words are so enchanting!"

The three girls looked at Uses and Machias who were leaving, and looked at each other at the same time, revealing a hint of caution in their eyes.

Emma took Fei and Alisa out worriedly, "It seems that things are very unusual, let's catch up, I also have a bad feeling."

After the five people left, a slight "creak" sound suddenly came from the food warehouse door in a corner of the canteen, and a figure hidden in the dark quickly slipped out of the canteen gate.

No one saw his whereabouts, only a cat with beautiful purple fur sitting high and looking at the person's departure with bright eyes.
Chapter completed!