Chapter 0402 cat and mouse
"The ones loading cars in the distance below are the group of merchants of unknown origins you are targeting?"
Mardias Shore, the leader of the Storm Kingdom Military Information Seven, was at this time in the Alexton Ranch northwest of Yuexi Town with several senior officials, and was quietly monitoring the group of strange merchants near the granary near the farm outside who came to the farm to purchase grain and fruits and vegetables in a hidden room near the second floor of the farm owner's house.
Since they spent 500 gold coins from the goblin's venture capital company more than ten days ago, they had arrived at the approximate time and place of the western wilderness, they hurriedly took the goblin's steam boat Shuo River, and finally arrived here in the western wilderness two days ago, intending to make some preliminary preparations to intercept the other's escort ship.
Whenever I think of the said advanced steam boat they hired for the Wind Stranglethorn Insurance Company branch, the automated and mechanized ship that was said to be able to go upstream without paddling, Madias couldn't help but feel the urge to chop those damn goblins!
During the past few days he was rushing, he finally had a personal experience of what it means: goblin products, which were shocking!
At the beginning, the coal-burning steamships were indeed very fast and good. Although the smoke was a little heavy and the coal smelled a little too strong, it was tolerated!
However……
During the other half of the time on the road, their ship had a problem, and the magical mechanical paddle wheel never turned, causing them to have to turn from employer to crew, and paddle hard with the only goblin to barely reach the bank of the western wilderness, at least not delaying time.
"Yes, we've been monitoring them for a long time!"
In fact, the group of merchants below have purchased grain for the second time this month! Because the amount of grain purchased by the other party was too large, the talents from the MI7 forced to send someone to investigate.
Originally, they thought that the other party was just the same grain merchants as in previous years, so they didn't care much.
However, they found new additional situations in the investigation: those merchants who are said to be from Stormwind City, those rich merchants who are buying grains in a big way and who are making generous bids, after confirmation by the farmers, they found that the other party was not the fixed merchants who have come to the western wilderness to purchase grain in recent years, but are new?
What is even more intriguing is that the accents of these strange faces do not sound like people from Stormwind City, but rather like Lordaeron in the north...
This situation is intriguing: a group of rich people, don’t care about prices, and are guys with Lordaeron accents. They came to the western wilderness of the Storm Kingdom to purchase a large amount of food. What exactly do they want to do?!
Therefore, after their close observation and multi-party intelligence summary and judgment, Madias's men came to an amazing final conclusion based on the time when the opponent appeared and the other party's entourage, after they had close observation and multi-party intelligence summary, they came to the amazing final conclusion: the opponent should have come from the north to the western wilderness and are helping to organize the enemy spies of the Fire Alliance with the Difia Brothers' Association with ill intentions!
The purpose of the other party helping to organize the Difia Brotherhood is already very obvious, that is, to disrupt the large granary of the Western Wilderness of the Storm Kingdom and to create difficulties in supplying the Storm Kingdom and even the Storm City Alliance army!
Now, after the judgment of the agents of the MI7th Division, they felt that it was definitely inseparable from the upcoming batch of weapons and equipment!
Because, the time for those Difia Brotherhood uprisings is about to come...
Now the other party is buying grain in a large amount of time, just preparing logistics supplies for the army of the Difia Brotherhood under the name of a businessman. It is definitely not wrong!
"Can you really be sure that those two of them really have problems?"
Slightly lifting a small corner of the curtains in the room, and through the inferior window glass, Madias Shore could easily see the two main people who purchased food in the distance: one of them was a young woman in her twenties who looked very elegant and decent, and seemed to have an extraordinary background. The other was a little frivolous tall young man, who looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, and there was a broad sword with a hilt decorated with a somewhat gorgeous appearance, but I didn't know whether the other party was a knight or a warrior? However, judging from the other party's strong body and pace of movement, I guess they were at least a high-level professional!
However, after watching for a long time, Madias Shore did not see the information from the other entourages. The black-haired thief: Vanessa Van Cliff, who forcibly assassinated Duke Grieg Lescova in the western wilderness People's Army camp in Yuexi Town a few days ago and then left calmly.
Of course, it is also possible that the other party used the magical deformation method that could avoid detection?
But no matter what, in Madias's own opinion, the other party chose to run to the western wilderness of the Storm Kingdom to make trouble at this time, which was nothing more than doing some final dying struggles. This just shows the weakness of the opponent's Fire Alliance and the smooth progress of their Northern Expedition in the Storm Kingdom!
As for the information Madias himself knew, the powerful support of the Delaney people was coming, and the flame alliance in the north could only hold on to the defense lines that had lasted for so long with the Paladins of the Silver Hand. They would definitely not be able to hold on for many days. Their demise was just around the corner!
At that time, the entire Eastern Kingdom will be the world of their Stormwind Alliance! No matter the evil Fire Alliance or the ignorant tribe, don’t think of gaining a foothold in this Eastern Kingdom Continent!
"Yes, chief, we're pretty sure!"
"After investigation, we found that no one had seen those two before the Difia Brotherhood re-moved! Moreover, we also specially investigated Stormwind City and the large merchant groups around us, and we can confirm that they did not belong to any merchant group or the noble children of rich families!"
This kind of large-scale grain transaction that is enough for thousands of people to eat for several months is not daring to reach out without some strong strength! And in the Storm Kingdom, there are very few merchant groups with such strength... After all, the reconstruction of Storm City has not been many years, and there are only a few rich people, so it is really easy to investigate.
"The members who have been stationed in the western wilderness have also found that the entourages below them were several unemployed people who had been wandering around Yuexi Town. However, when the Difia Brotherhood became active again, they disappeared! So, we are now 90% sure that those of them are indeed the Difia Brotherhood!"
All kinds of information have shown that the guys who are purchasing food below are the hostile targets that their military information team will deal with!
"You guys have done a good job this time, and I'm very satisfied!"
"By the way, have you found out where they will be escorting their food to later? Humph! With so many trucks of food, they may not easily go to the north or south road, right?"
Although it was discovered by their MI7 that such a huge transport team was the second time they purchased it, Madias also had enough reason to believe that the other party would definitely be transported to the Defia Brotherhood's nest!
And this is their MI7 opportunity!
Now they not only know where the other party's sea-carried weapons and equipment are ready to be delivered, but they will also soon know the specific location of the other party's nest. This will have a great effect on whether their MI7 can successfully crush the other party's conspiracy! Next, they just need to wait patiently. After learning everything, it will be the time for their MI7 and the Western Wilderness People's Army to take action to eradicate the other party.
I hope that the Western People's Army formed by the old knight Grian Storman will not disappoint the Storm Kingdom...
"Yes, leader! The disguised brothers below have asked, and the other party is talking about going west first, passing through the Dimont wilderness to the temporary dock by the sea to load the grain, and then taking the sea route back to Stormwind City?"
Speaking of this, the intelligence officer from the MI7 couldn't help but sneer.
Since their Storm Kingdom's northern expedition and mobilized almost all maritime forces to participate in the war in the north, the route from north of the Western Wilderness Lighthouse to the Port of Storm City has long been cut off by the crazy pirates! The ships of Storm City have no dared to take the sea boats along the Western Wilderness, and where did these guys get ships to do sea transportation?!
"Interesting! Okay, you guys will organize the manpower right now! When they escort the food back, we will follow them quietly... I think they will definitely not return to Stormwind City or other places!"
"At that time, we will disguise ourselves as robbers and rob their food directly! But you must remember that you must let a few living people go. We need to know where they will return? That's all for the time being, you can go out first..."
He continued to observe outside for a while, and when Madias could not see more information from the other people, he waved to his subordinates tiredly.
During this period, he traveled from Stormwind to Stranglethorn Valley and returned to the western wilderness for a long distance from Stranglethorn Valley. He kept rushing for time, which really made him exhausted. But it was all worth it. They seized several life gates of the New Defia Brotherhood and were waiting to launch a fatal blow!
In fact, in Madias's opinion, it should be easy to defeat the new cat's Difia Brotherhood. After all, the other party was formed in a hurry, so it would definitely not be a weather! But the only thing that made him feel worried was: At that time, can he capture and kill that Vanessa Van Cliff?
Once the thief who is said to be in his teenage years successfully escapes again, it will be an endless trouble...
"Yes! I obey the order!"
When several thieves with faces turned around and were about to leave one by one, Madias called out to one of the dwarfs again.
Somehow, he suddenly remembered something. In order to succeed in the action later, he must confirm it again, and there must be no sloppy at all!
"McClary, take a closer look at the woman in the leader who was still wearing a robe... what she was wearing... seemed to be a wizard robe?!"
Madias, who was about to rest and wait just now, suddenly realized that something was wrong. Then, he quietly lifted a corner of the curtain and began to look at the young woman in the distance who was commanding the entourage and the farmer to load the car.
The style of the robe on the other party and some strange things seemed to be very similar to the magical equipment that mages like to wear?
"Uh...it should be true?"
"Head! What do you mean... is that she might be a mage? But, I didn't see a staff on her hand..."
The Dwarf Agent was a little uncertain. After all, he was just a thief who specialized in assassination and concealment, and he didn't know much about the mages. It was still a bit difficult to judge whether a person who used spells was a mage.
Besides, there is no obvious magic fluctuation on that robe, and even if it really exists, it may be just an ordinary magic item!
In the Storm Kingdom, those rich nobles or big merchants always like to buy themselves one or two expensive magic robes, because this can not only show their noble status, but also have good protection capabilities to make them safer? In this way, it is normal for the woman in the distance below to wear magic robes, so there is no need to make a fuss.
"You mean the staff..."
"The staff... is not right! This is a problem!"
"McClary, hurry up! You have a lot of time to ride a griffin to Yuexi Town immediately and let the high-level mage Combe, who came with us in Stormwind City, come to investigate the cause of the Duke's death, come and help! If he refuses to come, you say: We may have found the female mage who killed the Duke!"
When he heard the dwarf's subordinate McClellie talk about the staff, Madias suddenly remembered the confession written by several witnesses: On the day the Duke was killed, the mage who cast a strange teleportation spell and directly took away the bandit leader Vanessa Van Cliff and the Duke's head. The other party used it as if it was a staff of a short wooden stick style!
And that staff at that time... seemed to be taken out of the other party's sleeve? At that time, the woman waved her hand, and Vanessa and the Duke's head disappeared in an instant...
Thinking of this, Madias couldn't help but look at the sleeves of the young woman below. The other party was indeed wearing a long-sleeved robe. In that case, it would be too easy to hide a wooden stick or two in the sleeves!
"You mean...yes! I understand now!"
After a moment of stunned silence, McClellie, the bronze bearded dwarf of Iron Fort, immediately understood what his boss meant, then nodded quickly, turned around and took a funny short steps, and ran outwards outside the door.
———
"Sister, be careful, I found that we seem to have been targeted..."
While loudly urging the farmers and their men to speed up the time to load goods, this future general of the Western Wilderness, Pete, walked to his sister Lana by pressing the hilt of his waist, and then possessed himself in the other party's ear and said quietly.
After a period of observation, Pete discovered something was wrong with the people around him, so he immediately walked to his sister. While reminding the other party, he also hoped to protect her.
"Oh? My good brother... Then when did you find out?"
Lana didn't agree with Pitt's words. In fact, she had long discovered that there were people observing them around her, and probably found many guys who were suspected of observers! In fact, at the beginning, she even thought that the other party did that just because of her beauty, so she didn't care at first.
Because, when she was in the City of Fire, she had long been used to the attention of others.
However, after confirming it several times just now, she finally found something wrong! Because, when those guys looked at her, they did not have the strange look of stunning or admiration, but a cold, ruthless, even as if they were looking at a dead person, without any affection in it!
So, after confirming, Lana felt that the shopping incident seemed to be getting more and more interesting...
"Aha! I've discovered it for a while!"
Instead of rushing to say anything, Pete stood next to his sister, put on and looked at the carriages that loaded and unloaded goods in the distance, and then pointed at them.
His height is two heads taller than Lana. Lana, who is originally very slender, can barely reach the lower position of his shoulders. If someone who is uninformed sees it, when he sees the intimate actions of these two people, he may even think that they are a couple!
"Sister, you know that we have grown up on the farm since we were young! If some terrible things had not happened later and we would never have touched those farm work again, we would probably still be two ordinary farmers now... Although our current circumstances have changed, some things will never be forgotten!"
"You may have discovered just now that behind us, among the tenants who threshed grains, there were two or three guys who kept pretending to be with a handful of grains. They were obviously not qualified farmers!"
Instead of turning around and looking over, Pete seemed to be talking about something irrelevant, and lowered his head and whispered to his sister. The other party's carelessness when doing farm work seemed very unprofessional, and it was inevitable that he would find a flaw!
"Oh? Then how do you know that they are spies? Maybe... they are actually lazy?"
Lana was still a little uncommon, she just giggled and joked about her younger brother.
She actually discovered more people, but she did not sloppyly alert the enemy, but just thought that the other party did not exist! But if the other party dared to take action, so many of them would not be afraid of them here!
At worst, when the time comes, she sets fire here and runs away. What can those enemies do to her? Because of a little girl's example, Lana's most proficient spell is "Flame Bear"! The fire released is fast and ruthless. Although it is not very powerful, it is easy to burn this farm and the granary here.
"No! They are definitely not lazy!"
"First of all, I noticed: Although they changed their clothes, their skin color and hair were not like those farmers who did coolies. Moreover, the farmer who was holding the whip was next to them... They were squatting there with a handful of grains, but the smart farmer didn't throw it over. Don't you think this is strange?"
Earlier, before the grain was loaded, Pete and Lana had bargained with the farmer for a short time. He felt that it was absolutely impossible for a farmer to be lazy under his nose, like the stingy and smart guy! So, this matter was obvious.
Anyway, who are those people, why did the farmer cooperate with the other party to come in and lurk and observe them, and why did the farmer feel a little afraid of them? If these factors are combined, it is not difficult to guess the other party’s specific identity.
"Just you know!"
"Actually, they have a lot of people! As far as I have discovered, there are at least twenty or thirty people, and there are many invisible guys! Don't look back, don't be surprised... Just pretend that you don't know anything, and don't leave me easily! I'm casting a barrier spell on my body now. If they will start assassination later, not only will they be a warning, but at least can you resist a few more times?"
After wailing with the help of those still uninformed subordinates, Lana reached out and patted her brother's hand holding the hilt of the sword, signaling the other party not to worry and relax, because it is useless to worry at this time!
As the people from MI7 speculated, today, the two brothers and sisters came here to purchase food, indeed preparing for the upcoming Western Wilderness Uprising!
After all, Lana, who grew up in the Fire Palace, often comes into contact with government affairs and is not unfamiliar with military affairs, is very clear about the fact that the troops and horses are moving first! This time, they are actually the second batch of food, so Lana herself doesn't mind whether they can be successfully escorted back.
Even if she really fights with the other party later, she will not be timid! If she can win, it is the best thing, but if she can't win, she will pull her brother to phantom and run away, leaving dozens of irrelevant subordinates. If she dies, then she will die!
Anyway, in Lana's eyes, the safety of her brother Pete is the most important thing!
Since those thugs have chosen to join the New Difia Brotherhood to gain a bright future, they must be prepared to work hard! In this Azeroth world, where are there those safe and promising jobs? If you want to get rewards, you must first make efforts!
You know, even Lana herself has been assassinated by hostile militants or spies in recent years! Even the queen maid and female official of the Flame Kingdom have almost died many times. What are the thugs who joined the Difia Brotherhood to complain about?
"Okay sister, I understand! Do you need me to remind those guys?"
Nodded, Pete thought for a while, and then lowered his head to ask for his sister Lana's opinion. The guys in his mouth were obviously the foresight soldiers of the Difia Brotherhood disguised as entourages and caravan guards.
"No! If they let the idiots know, it will be a bad thing!"
“…”
Chapter completed!