Iron Powder and Spellcasters

   Chapter 57 Assassin

   "Wait, what did you say? The Monta?" Winters was startled, breathing hard.

   "Yeah." Ben Wei answered naturally.

   "Monta people working on the pier?" Winters asked repeatedly: "You mean the person who blew up the pier was a member of the Monta gang?"

   "Yes." Ben Wei spread his hands: "It's a new helper that Da Scar found recently, and he just got together with the Monta people recently."

Winters took a deep breath, and his tone became extremely serious: "Benway, if you want me to help you solve those Monta people, I will help you as long as you speak. But, never because of you and the Monta people. It’s a festival and I’m talking about it. This assassination is not simple, the identity of the deceased is a mystery until now, and there may be some incredible things involved... I want you to answer me honestly, are you sure you read it right? "

   "I'm sure, I'm sure I didn't read it wrong." Ben Wei replied earnestly to meet Winters' eyes: "And the relationship between us and the Monta people has not reached the level of life and death, you think too seriously."

   "Tell me everything you know about those guys."

   "Where to start?"

   "Start from scratch."

   Benwei drank some water to moisten his throat, and started talking six years ago.

   In the last year of the Army Infant School, the Benway family lost two laborers - Benway's father and uncle because of an unfortunate accident. So after graduating from the Army Infant School six years ago, in order to support the family, Benwei went to work on the docks like his parents did.

   At that time, there was no order in the wharf, and as a large number of landless peasants poured into the city, the competition on the wharf became fierce.

  You want three silver coins to unload a cargo?

   We will do it with two.

  Dock workers fought each other and lowered prices, and the resulting violent conflicts emerged one after another.

   Soon, as the conflict intensified, the organization improved, and small groups began to appear among the dockworkers. The power of one man is insignificant in the face of the power of a gang, and dockworkers are terrorized, beaten, and expelled if they do not join a certain gang.

   And the small gang will be bullied by the big gang, either joining each other or forming a larger group with other small gangs. Eventually, all the dockers became part of some big gang.

   For these people from all over the world, the place of origin is the most common identity, and it is an inevitable result to form a group based on the place of origin. In the end, outsiders such as the Monta, Vine, and Paratus expelled the Veneta natives from the docks and took control of all handling.

   These three groups controlled the number of dockworkers, and did not allow outsiders to work at the docks, thus avoiding excessive competition. To a certain extent, it was similar to the trade and handicraft guilds artificially stipulated industry access thresholds.

   But they didn't form a tight organization, and in essence they were still in a group so as not to be bullied. Even the leaders of the gang are usually ordinary porters, but in the event of a conflict, everyone will line up according to their place of origin.

   At first, they were at peace with each other, but gradually some people were not satisfied with it. About half a month ago, Benwei discovered some new faces among the Monta people. Originally, this was nothing. Dock workers were very mobile, and there were always people leaving and new people coming in.

   But then the Monta people provoked a conflict with the other two groups. The strength of the three parties was about the same. After all, they were all just porters, and no one dared to fight too hard. But the new faces among the Monta people were extremely vicious, that is, they severely injured Benwei's uncle and died not long after they were brought home.

  The leader of the Monta people, Da Scar, boasted to others proudly after drinking, saying that these people were all the thugs he specially hired.

   On the day of the pier assassination, Benwei saw with his own eyes the new Monta men throwing explosives at the trestle. There were several other porters beside the Monta people, but they were all silenced on the spot, and only Benwei escaped by hiding in the cabin.

   Winters thought to himself: "The porters who were silenced were probably the corpses that were taken away by the family members mentioned by the customs." The intelligence confirmed each other and increased credibility.

  After that, there was an earth-shattering explosion, and Benway rescued Winters and Moritz, who could not swim, from the sea. Winters and his contemporaries were sent to the customs prison to "rest", and what happened outside had nothing to do with them.

   But for Benway, bad things happened one after another. Because of the explosion at the customs, Benwei couldn't find anyone willing to listen to a small porter.

   In desperation, he just went home and waited until the next day to go to the customs guard. As a result, before dinner was eaten, several distant relatives and friends knocked on the door of his house, out of breath and told him: Da Scar is dead, and the Monta people are gathering people to seek revenge for him.

  Benwei's family left home overnight, and the woman and the old man were sent to other places. Benwei and his uncle and younger brother have been hiding in the suburbs until today.

"Where are the thugs that the Monta people invited? They are assassins at all. They just disguised themselves as thugs and infiltrated the Monta people's gang." disappeared."

  Benwei sighed lightly: "I also thought that those few faces were not ordinary people, they were all guys who took other people's fate as their own."

"I'm a little surprised. It's already been mixed into the dock, so why make such a big noise? And that carriage, is it possible that you want to deceive people and catch them alive?" Winters rubbed the Hu on his chin. He said with a sneer, "I am more and more curious about the identity of the deceased now. Who is worth so much trouble? I guess the head of the Monta people was silenced by them."

   "Anyway, those people must have disappeared without a trace."

   "Everyone who walks by will leave traces. Follow the footprints and you will find it. Do you know where the core members of the Monta people are now? The people on the pier didn't tell us anything."

  Benwei shook his head: "I don't know, just like they don't know where I am, they are hiding. If they find it, I will let someone tell you."

   "Okay, but don't let this friend deliver letters for you again." Winters said with a wry smile: "He's a really bad messenger. Also, hurry up and move to another house, this house is too unsafe."

   Benwei smiled and nodded in agreement.

   We talked about the time we experienced together and the time we didn’t experience together, and the two said goodbye.

   "If you change places, how will I find you in the future?" Winters asked.

   "Go to the pier to find George Gap, tell him he wants to see me, and I will contact you."

  Winters nodded, no more nonsense, and rode back to the city.

   Pushing open the door of the gendarmerie, Winters found Lieutenant Colonel Field and Major Moritz waiting for him.

   "Where have you been?" Field asked in dissatisfaction.

   "I went to see a dock worker and asked for some important news." Winters, who was absent from the meeting, answered without blushing: "The dock should not be monolithic anymore, and the Vine people will support us."

   "Oh? What news?"

   Winters recounted what he had heard from Benwia about the relationship between the Assassins and the Montal gang.

   "Your classmate Lu You doesn't want to use our hands to get rid of the Monta people, right?" Field looked suspicious.

   "It's possible." Although Winters trusted Benwei, he didn't say anything.

   "Leave this aside in advance." Field waved his hand: "I have an important job for you... Have you ever stolen something?"

   It turned out that Lieutenant Colonel Field and Major Moritz searched for several days according to the list provided by the Duelists Club, only to find that the Duelists Club provided a half-truth list.

   On the one hand, this is a very detailed list that fills seven pages. But many of them just signed the guest book and were included in the list. There are also many people who are not officers on this list - the Duelists Club appears to have developed quite a few non-official members.

   But the gendarmerie is looking for someone who is both familiar with Ned's longsword and skilled in the swift sword. There may be many civilians who are good at swift swords, but not many people are familiar with long swordsmanship, because long swords have long been out of fashion, and Veneta has no swordsmanship schools that teach long swords. Only officers who returned from the Army Officers Academy have systematically learned this swordsmanship.

   The real core members of the Duelist Club did not appear on the list too much. There are only a few school-level officers in the entire list, which is impossible.

  Although Major Moritz is also a full member of the Duelists Club, he has always been loose and seldom awake after eight o'clock in the evening. So occasionally go to the club to eat and drink, and never participate in the management of the duelist club.

  Moritz went to ask for the list, but the other party sincerely refused to give it, so the major had no choice.

  No, the major actually has a way. His way is to steal.

   "No, no, no." Winters shook his head vigorously and waved his hands again and again: "It's okay if you ask me to **** it, I really can't steal it."

"Stealing things is very simple, the main thing is to have a good psychological quality. Just like a horse thief, as long as you are calm like the owner of a horse, no one will be suspicious. I think your psychological quality is very strong and has great potential." Field is crazy Kill Warrant Officer Montagne.

   "Senior, I really can't do it, I'm an officer anyway, if I get caught stealing something..."

  Field reprimanded: "Before something is done, you think about failure first. Can this mentality succeed? As long as you think about success, you won't miss it."

   He added: "Besides, our division is famous, and it is an upright investigation. How can we be considered stealing when we do things in the gendarmerie? This is called using alternative means to obtain evidence."

   "If it's upright, let's kick the door with a gun and go grab it! If we go grab it, I'll definitely go!" Winters was anxious.

   "Okay, Warrant Officer Montagne, I order you to grab the evidence—without being discovered."

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