The Journey of the Demon Hunter

"This is a letter intercepted halfway, oh, a new copy after interception is exactly the same as the previous one." Kedinger walked to Zelin, reached out and clicked the signature on the envelope: "I can tell you, Radovide must be cautious, because he has moved too many people’s interests, and everyone wants him to die, no doubt. Not only in Ridania, he also provokes dwarves, you know what dwarves value most. Right?"

"Gold?"

Zelin tore open the envelope and looked at the contents while answering Curdin.

"It's not gold, the demon hunter, it's the control of gold." Kording spread his hands: "No one knows how much gold is stored in the Mahakam Mountains. Every year the dwarf merchants who descend down the mountain will forge their steel forge. Sell ​​to humans in exchange for gold coins to be transported to the mountains. This has been the case for hundreds of years. If necessary, they can put a large amount of gold into the market, sell human materials or even directly destroy the value of gold. If everyone has one in their hands A lot of gold, gold coins are worthless. And the kings only have gold coins in their vaults. At that time, if the normal army salary is issued, it will not satisfy the soldiers in the army. Who will fight for the king?"

"I knew that the bank was unreliable." Zelin snorted softly. He has always disliked depositing money in the dwarf's bank. As a result, Enid often regarded his approach as stubborn and conservative.

In the letter, Vilan mentioned that Ridania is forming a bank for humanity. Ladovide asked the nobles and wealthy merchants of the country to deposit money in the royal bank to show their loyalty to Ridania. Anyone who does not do so The family and the manor will be harassed by all kinds of gangsters of unknown origin. The tax officer will visit every few days to investigate their tax payment issues. They have been investigating until decades ago, until they could not find the tax payment certificate for the year. So far.

As a result, most nobles chose to withdraw the money from the dwarf's bank and deposit it in Tritog Bank. Deposits of nobles and wealthy merchants accounted for more than eight tiers of bank deposits. Weilan reported to Mahakam’s family headquarters in the letter that Tritog Bank must go bankrupt, or if it succeeds, other nations will follow suit and the dwarves’ banking business in the north will be severely hit.

"Yes, now it seems that the dwarf has succeeded." Curdinger said: "Rumors are everywhere, and many people think that the Tritog family is going to swallow the money in the bank... ahem! I dare say, There must be a dwarf **** behind these messages."

Zelin suddenly remembered that when he was tracing the funds to sponsor the Renegade, he started the investigation from the Vevadi Bank in Novigrad. A large amount of money was transferred from the bank, and its destination is unknown. When in Lomugne, they all thought that the money was probably related to the apostate. After all, the funds required for the Warlock Research Institute have never been a small amount.

"I understand..." Zelin said slowly.

In the afternoon, Zelin heard an unexpected news in Novigrad.

The city of Tritog released a message that His Majesty Ladovide was assassinated, but he was still safe and sound. He has commissioned Brenner's hero, General Bruncott, to command all the Redania soldiers against the Nilfgaard Army. At the same time, General Bruncott announced an additional one-month bounty for the soldiers on the front line as a reward for their efforts for Redania.

Zelin withdrew a sum of money from the bank. He did not have a bank account, but Francesca did. The Elf Warlock and the Vivaldi family had a lot of cooperation, so Zelin directly took it out in the name of Francesca. Two thousand crowns. This is a lot of money, but if Sasha can tell Zelin valuable information, then the money is worth the money for him.

Sasha stayed in the tuna hotel and waited for Zelin. When she saw the demon hunter put a heavy bag on the table, there was a hint of surprise in her eyes.

"Two kilograms?"

"Your one thousand eight hundred krona, I have already given you two hundred." The bag is full of heavy currency, with a high gold content, one can be used as many dozens of krona. There are about a hundred gold coins of various sizes, filled with three bags: "Do you need me to send you to the pier? You have to carry so many heavy things..."

After Sasha opened the bag and checked the coins inside, she smiled with satisfaction: "That's enough. You are indeed an honest person like Cynthia said. You can bring the money and follow me, and I will take you to get it. Intelligence and evidence."

"Those things are not on you?"

"Of course." Sa Sa stood up, opened her arms and turned around in place: "If I put the intelligence on her body and I was caught, and the intelligence and evidence were collected, wouldn't I be worthless?"

She made a cutting gesture on her neck: "The worthless intelligence personnel are dead. Not everyone is like you. Demon hunters are reassuring."

"Is this a compliment?"

"Just think so, come with me, you can take at least part of it."

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ps: Sorry for taking too long a nap today. I woke up at more than five o'clock in the morning, and the phone automatically shuts down when the battery is out. There is no alarm, embarrassing...

Chapter 2601 Paying the Money in One Hand

When Sasha was going out, she took a hidden stabbing sword from the closet in the room and pinned it to her waist.

"You better have the evidence I need, not..."

"I know what you want to say." Sasha turned around and raised her hands to indicate that she was not malicious: "I know better how to deal with what kind of people you meet. You already know enough about me, Demon Hunter. Hunter, isn’t it? In the past, I never said this to a client who exchanged interests, but I know very well that the best way to deal with you is to be open and honest. This way we can reach an agreement that is beneficial to both parties, not Wasting time in mutual suspicion."

"Isn't it because you have already revealed your identity and there is no time to waste?" Zelin asked back.

Sasha was silent for a few seconds: "You are right to say that. There are some reasons why I choose to come to you, because I don't need to waste time to understand you. Cynthia gave me information about you."

"I remember Cynthia was a spy for the Imperial Intelligence Service?"

When Zelin met Cynthia in Fujian, he thought she was just an apprentice and playmate that Philippa had found, but she soon left a deep impression on the demon hunter—the assassination of Philippa. Although the plan failed, she escaped and searched for the ancient plague laboratory for Nilfgaard in Lomune. After finding the results, she did not hesitate to kill another imperial warlock because of differences.

"But I also remember that you teamed up with Cynthia to kill that nasty Albert in Lomugne." Sasha raised her eyebrows: "Later you didn't betray her, so I temporarily assume that you are credible. Kind of people."

"What is Cynthia doing now?"

"Continue to be an imperial spy, go undercover in Nilfgaard College, find out the emperor who rallies against him in private, or collect the speeches of those professors, to see if they are dangerous in their thinking, and to prevent them from instilling their dangerous thoughts. In the minds of the students, in simple terms, be an informer." Sasha shrugged: "If you want to ask why I am in contact with Cynthia? It's very simple. Everyone has to prepare a way out for themselves. Only fools. Standing on a boat, drowning and refusing to jump off the boat, what does it matter who is the emperor and the little people like us? Everyone is the same, and there is no difference in why people work. This is just a job... Do you want to stay here until early tomorrow morning? That ship is waiting for no one."

The warehouse where Cynthia hides the information is located in an abandoned house in Biz District.

There are many uninhabited houses in Novigrad, especially in the district of Biz. These houses are expensive, and Zelin sometimes has to be speechless at their prices. Many people live outside the city, and there are many vacant houses in the city. But the price here is still getting higher day by day. Everyone believes that the houses will be sold sooner or later, so these uninhabited houses can often be found in Biz District, and no one even takes care of them.

Along the muddy alley, Zelin followed Sasa.

Suddenly, he noticed some unusual footprints on the dirt road.

"Wait, Sasha."

"What's the matter?" Sasha, who was walking in front, turned around: "Did your eyes see anything? People say that the senses of the demon hunter are more acute than ordinary people."

"I think there should be no people living around here."

"It's true."

"There are footprints." Zelin pointed his finger across the ground: "It is the footprints of five people. They walked back and forth on this road twice. Can you see them? There are footprints that were recently stepped on."

There are very few footprints in the alley, and there are no traces on the nearby roads, only this one is very obvious in the eyes of the demon hunter. It rained the day before yesterday, and the sun could not directly reach the alleys. The ground in the alleys was extremely slippery, and these footprints were very deep. It can be confirmed that it appeared after the rain.

If there are people inhabited, there must be a lot of footprints here, just like the alley of Glory and Fisherman's Market, it is difficult for Zelin to track an exact target there. But there are few footprints here, and those dense footprints only left a trace, indicating that this was left after a group of people appeared, rather than caused by residents walking back and forth.

Zelin quickly made a judgment.

Someone suddenly appeared here in the last two days, as if looking for something. They returned without success on the first day, and then came again the next day.

"It's all mud, I can't see it..."

Zelin put a finger in front of his mouth, motioning for Sasha to be quiet.

The demon hunter stepped lightly, followed the traces on the ground carefully, and walked deep into the alley. Sasha followed behind him, clutching the stabbing sword she was carrying.

The footprints spread all the way to the steps of a house. Novigrad’s houses are all crowded together. This house is very small, as if it only used the stone pillars of the apartment directly in front. A secret room was opened behind the stone pillars, and then the door was opened behind the apartment as a separate house. For sale.

"...Someone broke in?" Sasha lowered her voice: "This is my hiding place three days ago."

Zelin pressed his ear to the wooden door, and some subtle conversations came to his ears.

"....... Do you have it over there? Damn, do we want to lift the floor?"

"Open one by one? Are you crazy? There are nails on these floors, all nailed together, and you only need to step on it to know that the bottom is solid."

"Where did that **** hide things? If someone at the embassy catches her first and asks her whereabouts of the intelligence, we won’t take any credit! You all know that people who are considered incapable I am arranged to go somewhere, I don’t want to go to the **** mine shaft and swing the mine pick with the group of slaves!"

"...Could it be that **** didn't hide things here?"

Zelin listened to the sound inside, turned around and stretched out three fingers to Sasha, then pointed to the door of the room with his thumb, and finally stretched out his hand to make a cutting gesture.

Sasha nodded, and she bent down slightly and raised her sword backhand in front of her, as if she was preparing to attack.