The night goes on.

Richard returned to the rented courtyard and stood in the courtyard, looking at the night sky, not knowing what he was thinking.

At this time, there was a rhythmic knock at the gate of the courtyard.

Richard was not surprised by this, and walked to the courtyard gate, quickly opened the door, and let in the person who was knocking on the door.

Coming in was a man, about twenty years old, dressed in a black robe, tightly wrapped, as if he was afraid to see people. A thin face was hidden in the robe and hat, and a pair of eyes flashed a sharp gaze from time to time, very vigilant.

The other party's name is Mu En, a wandering third-level wizard apprentice, and an intelligence peddler. He controls many ordinary people in Florence as eyes and ears, and as long as someone pays for it, he dares to take any risk to gather information or help with some tricky things.

The other party did this, the benefit is good, but at the same time the risk is also very high, once because he missed and was chased by several wizards, and was rescued by Richard, who happened to pass by.

Since then, the other party has become Richard's exclusive intelligence monger, receiving a large amount of Richard's funds while serving Richard wholeheartedly.

At this time, the other party walked in the door, first quickly glanced around the courtyard, and after making sure that there were no other people, his expression was slightly relaxed. But he still habitually stood near the door, ensuring that if there was any danger, he could quickly escape the courtyard and avoid being surrounded by people - this was not to be wary of Richard, it was purely a habit developed over many years of hard work between life and death.

Richard was not surprised, looked at the other party and asked, "No one is following, right?"

"I saw the signal you left me, so I rushed over, very careful on the road, absolutely no one followed. Mu Endao, then looked at Richard and asked, "I just don't know what happened to Your Excellency Richard, who suddenly summoned me?" Do you want to know how my work has been going on recently?"

"Not really. Richard shook his head, "But, since you're here, it's okay to tell me how you've been doing." Let me understand some of the things that will be better communicated to you. ”

Mu En nodded when he heard this, and said, "Okay, then I'll say it." It's just that after that, I hope you don't get angry, Your Excellency Richard. ”

"How?"

"Because the situation on my side has been very unsatisfactory recently, or no progress has been made. Your Excellency Richard, you gave me two assignments.

The first mission is to investigate a girl named Heidi, who you told me has a black cat with her, and it may be related to a special symbol.

And after I did my best to investigate, I didn't find anything about the girl and that particular symbol, but the black cat found a lot, but they were all wild cats, and it was unlikely that it was the one you said.

The second task was to investigate information about the Black Spirit Empire, and I found a lot of Florentine scholars, and even used some special connections to contact some wizarding figures, but they didn't know about it. The symbol of the Black Spirit Empire is also nothing.

Overall, my performance was terrible. ”

Speaking of this, Mu En paused, and could see that he was very guilty because of the lack of results, and couldn't help but say: "Your Excellency Richard, I don't doubt the importance of these two tasks to you, but I really don't have any clues at the moment." If you keep going, it's just spending the money you give, you see, don't you stop for a while?"

"Don't. Richard waved his hand and said, "No need to stop, girl Heidi, you continue to let people pay attention to and search, tell me if there is news, and increase the number of people if there is no news." Funds are not afraid to be spent, but they are afraid not to be spent, as long as they are used in the right place, I can provide them to you no matter how much they spend. ”

"Uh-" Mu En didn't know what to say anymore.

"In addition, regarding the mission of the Black Spirit Empire, it is normal that you can't investigate the information. If I could easily find out the results, I wouldn't have asked you to do it specifically.

And you don't have to worry, there is still no clue about the next step, the breakthrough point of this mission has now appeared, you just need to seize the opportunity. ”

"Where is the breakthrough point?" asked Mu En quickly.

"Did you know that north of Florence, there is an alley of rotten pine wood?" Richard said.

"Huh?" said Lee's eyes, "Your Excellency Richard, are you talking about the rotten pine alley that was on fire last night and was posted by the soldiers in Florentine today? Obviously, Mu En understands this information very well, after all, this is the basic quality of being an intelligence dealer.

After hearing this, Richard nodded and said, "Yes, it's that rotten pine alley, this alley is on fire, it's not accidental." ”

"It's like the announcement says - malicious arson?"

"Almost. In the deepest courtyard of Rotten Pine Alley, there is an old man named Lawrence, whose ancestors were a craftsman in the Black Spirit Empire, so he passed on some knowledge about the Black Spirit Empire and made many objects that only exist in the Black Spirit Empire.

This practice of his may become taboo in the eyes of others, so he was killed. I've been to the scene, and in that courtyard, there is the symbol of the Black Spirit Empire. ”

"This!" Mu En raised his eyebrows, then fell into deep thought, and spoke out for a long time, "I really haven't thought of this yet, it seems that ...... I'm going to have to go around the scene too. ”

"What you do, I won't interfere, it's all your freedom. "But I personally advise you to dig deeper into this matter." Not surprisingly, this incident should cause a reaction from many wizarding organizations, and you can use your connections to gather more information about them, and maybe there will be a key clue. ”

"Hmm. Mu En nodded in agreement.

"The other is. Richard continued, "According to my guess, the people who did this were a very special wizarding organization, they acted unscrupulously, and they also had a lot of information about the Black Spirit Empire. If your person has contact with them, you must be cautious, because he has very powerful abilities and strange methods, don't think about forcibly attacking, use your brains more. ”

"Use your brain, I've made a note of it. ”

"That's good. ”

After a short silence, Mu En looked up at Richard and asked, "Does Your Excellency Richard have any other orders?" If not, I will leave first, and I will inform you of the results. ”

"Good. Richard nodded in agreement, and continued, "I'll send you away." As he spoke, he walked with Mu En to the courtyard gate.

After a while, Mu En walked out of the door and found that Richard had not closed the door, his eyes couldn't help blinking, and he asked keenly: "Your Excellency Richard, you seem to have something else to say?"

Richard pursed his lips and opened his mouth to speak, "All I want to say is - be careful - those people are really dangerous, you have to be careful!"

Richard spoke in a very serious tone, and Mu En couldn't help but have a solemn expression when he heard it, felt the weight in his words, nodded seriously, and responded, "I will." ”

"That's for the best. Richard said, reaching out to close the door, and Mu En quickly disappeared into the darkness outside the door.

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