A few hours ago, when most people were lying in bed enjoying their sleep, Duke Michael Alubeg still stayed in his private study and did not leave. Also communicating with him there was Hugo, the Lord of the Night Owls.

Buckman and Lion Guard Commander Cassius Leonhardt, and of course Viscount Larry Greville, who had just returned from the central region not long ago, and the Duke's daughter Chris, who was exceptionally allowed to attend this secret gathering.

·Michael.

The above are the main people in this gathering. The rest are some personal attendants or assistants. After all, the things we want to discuss this time are somewhat sensitive. It is not appropriate to let other nobles participate mainly for the sake of confidentiality. The residence of Duke Michael

The residence is undoubtedly one of the safest places in Trikla City, and the remaining members are naturally Alubeg's most trusted companions.

The content of this rally was to address the issue of who was behind the riots during the day. Although Alubeg publicly claimed that he did not know who was causing the trouble, in fact he knew it well, but it was just because it was not critical.

The evidence is enough to make a final decision.

Arubag has known about Count Darthnil Klein for a long time, but those old things cannot be used as evidence. After all, if you want to capture him in one fell swoop, you must directly obtain him through public legal means.

It is not as simple as just talking about the extent to which the crime should be exonerated or even, preferably, sentenced to death on the spot.

Although Earl Klein is also an earl, he can actually be regarded as a privileged class among the higher-level nobles in the duchy's hierarchy of titles. Originally, like Earl Oskander, he was a troublesome type who could not be easily moved. But he was different from Oskander.

As far as the earl is concerned, the privileges of the Klein family belong to the previous earl of Klein. Although the late old earl did not contribute in Duke Michael's war of independence, he was also an old vassal noble of the Michael family.

When the Michael family was under the Kingdom of Solis and before they became dukes, the Klein family were loyal followers of the Michael family. Until the death of the old count, he was still immersed in the thought of not being able to give to his old benefactor.

In the guilt of contributing.

But you can’t expect something like loyalty to be passed down from generation to generation. After the old Earl of Klein passed away, his son Darthniel succeeded to the title of contemporary Earl of Klein. At the same time, with the changes in the past few years,

It was not difficult for Alubeg to see that this somewhat extreme Earl of Klein was not only not loyal to the Michael family but also a bit treacherous. Even after he sneaked into the black market, it only took two or three years. With all kinds of ruthlessness,

With his cunning strategies and methods, he quickly became one of the big bosses of the dark street and black market. Fortunately, he had been targeted by Night Owl before, otherwise it would be really difficult to trace him from now on.

Hypocritical face.

In fact, just as Count Klein thought, after the surprise battle in the dark street that night, neither the Lion Guard nor Nite Owl found any traces of Count Klein in the dark street black market. Because he had been there from the beginning.

He has never personally participated in the black market business, and he has never run business under the banner of Earl Klein. After all, he still needs to play the role of a traditional aristocratic image with excellent education and inheritance during the day, and he also needs to perform government affairs.

Try your best to play the role of an old-fashioned aristocrat who hates merchants and loyal farmers.

In Aruberg's view, maybe Klein really has a talent for acting. At least if you don't look at the shady information that has already been archived, Count Klein's realistic acting skills will indeed deceive everyone, even Hugo.

He secretly asked some of Nite Owl's agents to study Klein's disguise image to strengthen their disguise abilities. It must be said that Darthniel Klein can be regarded as a genius, but his talent is used in the wrong way.

He lost his place and eventually became hopeless.

Arubag is not just planning to target Earl Klein. This time he plans to directly strip the Earl title from the Klein family. As for Darthnil Klein, his crime is unpardonable, but the entire Klein family

The family will still be useful to Alubeg in the future, so he does not intend to completely erase it. The only thing that makes Alubeg unable to do anything now is the lack of an excuse, an absolutely fatal but unable to be used by the nobles.

An excuse blocked by law and privilege is also an excuse that enables public judgment.

Although Alubeg has some black information about Count Klein's family, these things cannot be used publicly, because once released, it will undoubtedly expose Ye Xiao himself and Ye Xiao's dark side. By then, not only may he not be able to

Becoming a reason to convict Klein will also become a trigger for intensifying conflicts with other nobles. But the bad luck lies here, because in the past, neither Arubag nor anyone else thought about Darthniel.

The rebellious behavior is in the eyes. After all, first of all, the other party is a young junior, so everyone rarely pays attention to him. Secondly, everyone never thought that this guy not only inexplicably climbed to the top of the black market in a short period of time, but his personality also changed.

Too radical and violent.

It has completely lost the faith and loyalty that the Klein family should have, and has even become a threat to the principality's unrest. Therefore, Darthniel Klein not only has no need to exist, but is also a target that needs to be eradicated as soon as possible.

Tough stuff that can only be dealt with through formal means.

All in all, the old black material cannot be used, so we have to get some new inside information to deal with it. However, since Night Owl has not paid much attention to Klein recently, there is no evidence on hand about his recent illegal activities. But good

Count Klein himself is indeed a restless guy. Although Night Owl has no direct evidence, there are some recent suspicious movements about Darthniel. This is a very good breakthrough point. For this reason, everyone will come to the meeting tonight to discuss

The content is also centered around this point. But for now, there is no new progress, because there is not much key information in the currently known intelligence that can be used, and more of it is just some

It's just a suspicious factor that hasn't been confirmed yet.

Chris was originally not involved in this matter, but because of her origin, she has been outside the principality's political system for a long time, so it is not appropriate for her to participate at this time, because of her origin

This proves that Chris Michael will not have an overly close relationship with any noble in the duke, and this is something that neither the eldest son nor the second son of the duke can do.

Another point is that Chris provided a very key secret information to Duke Michael today, that is, when Chris returned from Viscount Harvey in the afternoon, she did use some of her own power to investigate the relevant information about Klein.

Regarding the count, he also vaguely found out the fact that Viscount Avilon Troyes, one of the big bosses of the black market, was manipulated by Count Klein. This was a very dangerous signal, but because Chris did not go further

Following this clue, more details about the relationship between Count Klein and Viscount Troyes are unknown, but from this point alone, it is not difficult to speculate why there are so many inappropriate things in the hands of Viscount Troyes.

There is a problem with the large amount of business funds that belong to him or exceed the upper limit of his holding capacity.

In addition, Hugo also followed this clue in a short period of time in the afternoon and tracked down more properties in the dark streets that were not under the name of Earl Klein. Although the complete amount has not yet been found, as far as the current situation is concerned,

Klein's assets in the dark street and black market seemed to be no less than those of the old aristocrat Count Oskander, which really shocked everyone.

However, it is a pity that these properties are not in Dasniel's name, and even the black market assets themselves do not have the legal protection effect of the Principality. Therefore, after being seized, they are automatically included in the Principality and the national fiscal treasury.

Even if this matter is taken to deal with Count Klein, it will have no legal effect, and it is not appropriate to make the matter about the dark street public in the near future. After all, the black market itself involves too many nobles, even if

Those who do not operate there have also spent money there. Once it is announced, even if it is not directed at them, it will not make them look any better, and they may even continue to plan some conflicts.

The discussion suddenly came to an end, so Arubag had to pause for a while and also told Chris to rest first. After all, it was too late, and she would not be able to play a big role if she continued to stay here.

At least Chris can't be of much help here until a suitable plan is come up.

Chris obediently left the Duke's study, but when she returned to her room in the mansion, she did not rush to rest first. Instead, she ordered all the ladies to leave, leaving only Norma Rose as her personal attendant.

Er and Lisa Perrin. After Miss Lisa closed the doors, windows and curtains of the room, Norma activated the soundproof magic props that Chris placed in the room, and then the three of them came to the table and sat down.

After laying out the map of Trikla City, Chris took out a thick book and started recording some contents. At the same time, Lisa also took out a very old military green walkie-talkie from the backpack she carried with her and put it on the

On the table.

This walkie-talkie was given to Chris by Erica and the others for emergency communication before setting off from Wilsk City. However, because this magically blessed communication tool still has the effect of distance, Erica and the others are here.

It was difficult to contact Chris who was hundreds of kilometers away in the south. But after all, leaving this thing to Chris was a kind of test. At least Erica and the others were able to detect these things that Savina originally gave them.

The magic transformed the communication tool into more detailed parameters, and when Chris followed the Argasburg airship to the city of Tricla, the two parties communicated with each other privately using walkie-talkies.

"Miss, do you need to contact the Chosen Ones now?" Lisa asked after preparing the walkie-talkie.

"Wait a minute..." Chris said while looking at the map of Trikla City on the table: "I need some time to sort out the information."

After receiving Chris' instructions, Norma also walked around the room with the small prop used to activate the "Sound Isolation" magic. At the same time, she did not fully activate the magic ability of this prop, because after past tests, everyone had not until

Most of the "Sound Isolation" magics have hindering effects on these communication tools. Therefore, when you need to use these tools to communicate, the magic cannot be turned on.

The content that Chris is sorting out in the book at the moment is the information she got from Harvey today and sent people to investigate. It was launched almost at the same time as the investigation from Night Owl. However, due to the imbalance in human resources,

Chris was not able to obtain a large amount of detailed information in a short period of time like Hugo. The only information she could obtain was information from the business circles in Tricla City, and this part of the information was from Chris.

unique information.

This part of the information is actually similar to what Arubag said before, but in terms of details, Chris's information is more detailed and complete, such as the complete commercial assets held by the Viscount of Troyes.

And so on. By comparing the time and use of the assets, Chris very carefully distinguished those belonging to Count Klein and those belonging to the Viscount of Troyes. She planned to wait until she found out the assets of Count Klein.

Later, we can discuss with Erica and the others about asking for help. However, this classification is only a rough classification, because as Chris identified more and more content, she was also surprised to find that Count Klein

It seems that the assets of the Viscount of Troyes have been completely embezzled. Even some properties that originally belonged to the Viscount of Troyes may have been controlled by Count Klein based on the asset flow trends, especially

Viscount Roy may have become Count Klein's scapegoat long ago.

This is not good news, whether it is for Duke Michael or everyone in the principality, because from the perspective of business rules, Earl Klein has crossed the line, whether it is legal or among the nobles.

There are tacit and unspoken rules among people, and it is always Klein's rough and barbaric methods that destined him to be the enemy of everyone. At the same time, it is not difficult for Chris to feel from these traces that Darthniel Klein seems to be a very good person.

An ambitious guy, and usually such ambitious people will not be satisfied with the present. Perhaps after experiencing the short victory during the day, he is also planning the next step of the conspiracy.

After Chris sorted out the information she had just sorted out, she asked Lisa to call Erica. However, at this moment, Ai was making a "long-distance call" to Earth in the bathroom of the Garden Palace Annex.

Rika didn't hear the call signal from the intercom in her room.

This is the first contact Erica has called since arriving here. Unfortunately, it is not a comrade or old companion that she was worried about in the past, but an arms dealer with whom she rarely communicates.

Igor, a fat guy from Ukraine, is unfortunately also Erica's closest arms dealer.

Igor, like Erica, was from the mercenary company Zirnitra. Erica was still a newcomer when he retired, so there was no direct connection between the two. However, later because Erica passed the logistics service before retiring,

Some guys from the department made several transactions with him before he became a regular customer of the other party. Anyway, they are all wild dogs from the same den. No matter how much they don't trust each other, they are at least better than outsiders. At the same time, this guy Igor is in Eastern Europe.

There are also very good purchase channels between countries, so the transaction between Erica and him is quite a happy cooperation.

One of the reasons why Erica planned to contact him first was to use the batch of goods that had not yet been received as an excuse to test out the information there. After all, after Erica died in the battle, what happened there was unknown, and the other was

One point is that if Aliaka contacts her comrades and companions, then she will not be able to explain the current situation. She can neither explain nor explain it. If not, this fragile bond will be stiffened or directly destroyed.

Even if Erica didn't like making friends with others in the past, it doesn't mean that she won't cut off contact with anyone. Maintaining a few relationships was her code of conduct in the past, but now it is a memory that feels good about herself.

Of course, although Igor is not a comrade-in-arms, he can still be regarded as a companion who can talk a few words on the rope, and not surprisingly, he naturally also knows the news that he died in Ukraine more than two months ago. Although the local

The government did not discover her body, but it is not difficult to draw a more accurate conclusion based on the government's employment records and the survivors' confessions. At least Erica herself remembered that she had been shot before she was separated from her last mercenary companion.

bombed, and the reason why the other party abandoned him and left first was because he believed that he was hopeless. However, he did not know and did not expect that he would use the gas in the kitchen to counterattack the enemies who surrounded him at the last moment, but this result

You can't change your own ending.

Igor was still suspicious when he was first contacted by Erica. After all, this number should no longer exist for him, or at least it was unused before it was automatically logged out. For this reason, Igor went to the street

When Erica made contact, Erica also heard the uncoordinated signal sound in Tonghua, which was the signal of Igor's anti-tracking method. However, it was a pity that he could not find out his location even after checking for a long time.

Probably none of them could be found. And in the end, Erica was able to dispel her excessive doubts through secret words with him. Although he had not yet fully detailed that he was still alive, at least he had planned to use that
To be continued...