Chapter 257 The reversal of polarity
The sound in the room lasted for a long time before gradually returning to silence.
For the mastermind behind everything, solving a hunter is actually not a big problem.
The only difficulty is that the hunter is a saint, a highly promising "future star" in the sect.
This is destined that once something happens to her, she will not be fooled as easily as Baruch and will attract attention.
Hence, this matter must be done flawlessly.
This is a little troublesome.
But only a little.
Kathleen was walking on the main street in Phoenix.
The streets are bustling with people.
This is a unique scene in the North.
But she knew that this excitement was only relative to the north.
Phoenix is actually just a very inconspicuous small city to the outside world, and its so-called prosperity is just a small scene worth mentioning.
It is said that in big cities outside, during festivals, the streets will be full of visible people dressed in festive costumes, parading around various floats.
The road, which is several times as wide as Phoenix, will be crowded with enthusiastic people.
In front of those floats there will be a band that plays music, and there will be a clown with a big nose on stilts.
Wherever the float passed, colorful ribbons were flying and laughter was flying.
On both sides of the street, there were children watching.
At that time, someone would sprinkle lots of candies on the floats, causing children to rush for them.
Candy? It was such a rare thing that even she had only heard of it but had never seen it with her own eyes.
The thought of this made Kathleen, who was born in the North and has never left the North, feel a little yearning.
What will it be like with such liveliness and prosperity?
It's just that Kathleen's yearning is not for the outside world.
What she yearned for was to be able to see such a prosperous scene in the north in her lifetime.
Although she knew very well that this was almost impossible.
In the history of the Northern Territory for so many years, there has only been a single seedling like Phoenix.
If she wants to see such a big change in the Northern Territory in her extremely short lifespan relative to the Northern Territory's history, unless there is a miracle...
While thinking about these various things, Kathleen walked towards the place where the bounty tasks were distributed and received.
After a small week, the bounty mission they used to hide from others has been completed.
What she has to do now is to complete the task.
Just halfway, Catherine was stopped by a hurried person.
She took a closer look and quickly recognized the servant she had seen at Elder Grant's place a few days ago.
“What’s wrong?” Kathleen asked strangely.
"Elder Grant has investigated some useful information, and asked me to tell you to rush over now.
He seemed to be very anxious, so I went to your residence to call you, but you were not there. I searched on the street for a long time, but fortunately I found you." The servant gasped, seeming to be slightly nervous.
"That's it." Kathleen's heart moved, and her attention was attracted by the "useful news" spoken by the servant in front of her.
Of course, she also noticed the servant's nervousness.
But she didn't pay attention, purely thinking that the other party was nervous about the high-ring ice-born mage and the panic that he couldn't find anyone after passing the news.
"Then I'll go there quickly, don't delay anything." Catherine said.
The servant immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and quickly spoke to stop Kathleen, who was about to set off on her own, and said: "Elder Grant is waiting for you in another private residence. You come with me, and I will lead the way."
"Oh, that's alright, you hurry up and lead the way." Kathleen didn't think much about it.
After all, Elder Grant's residence is located in the center of Phoenix, and the entrance and exit are somewhat conspicuous. It is reasonable to find a private place to discuss things.
Under the leadership of the servant, Kathleen turned into an alley next to the main road, and then started to twist and turn through various buildings of different sizes.
“Elder Grant actually has a private residence in a place like this.” Kathleen looked at the increasingly narrow streets and was a little surprised.
"Private residences must be hidden deeper." The servant paused slightly, and then explained carefully.
Kathleen frowned slightly. She didn't know why, but she gradually noticed something strange.
But Phoenix is just a "small town" after all, so at this time, the two of them had already arrived at the destination of their trip.
It was a dwelling in a dark alley, built of gray stones, with doors made of animal bones and skins.
After Kathleen took a look, she didn’t find anything special.
"Elder Grant is waiting for you inside."
Having already arrived, Catherine temporarily put aside her doubts, raised the curtain, and walked in.
The servant did not follow, but waited outside.
This is normal. Their subsequent conversation involves some hidden things, and these servants are naturally not suitable to listen.
This residence is neither big nor small. After Katherine came in, she glanced around and saw no one.
She frowned slightly, walked inside, opened the animal skin curtain of the inner room, and prepared to enter the inner room.
But the moment she lifted the animal skin curtain, Katherine's nose moved slightly and her brows frowned for a moment.
· As a hunter, her keen sense of smell allowed her to smell an unusual smell of blood at this moment.
Kathleen's heart tightened and she reacted very quickly.
"Something's wrong!"
But just when she noticed that something was unusual and was about to leave the place immediately, there were already messy but urgent footsteps and a shout outside.
"It's here. I heard some strange noises at night, and then smelled the smell of blood. Then I had the courage to take a sneak peek, and sure enough I realized something was wrong."
The next moment, a loud explosion sounded.
One of the walls and the door of this residential building were blasted open in an extremely brutal manner.
A group of ice-born mages wearing armor with the emblem of the Zhenbing tribe rushed over from outside the collapsed wall and surrounded Kathleen in an instant.
At this time, Catherine had completely lifted the animal skin curtain in the inner room and had a clear view of the scene inside.
There are seven or eight corpses, also wearing Zhenbing tribe armor, lying in the inner room.
The body is still very fresh, and it seems that the time of death should not be more than a day ago.
How could Kathleen not know that she had fallen into a terrible trap carefully laid for her?
That servant of Elder Grant made her relax her vigilance, and she fell into the trap so easily.
With things developing to the point where they are now, Kathleen will naturally not be so retarded as to shout that she was lured here, that she had just arrived here, and that she wanted to find the servant to prove that she was wronged.
A carefully laid trap will not leave such flaws.
The people behind the scenes have many ways to make the traces of the servant disappear, whether it is to silence him directly, or to have arranged an alibi, etc. It is possible.
This scene has been framed on her and there is no way to defend it.
The question is, who did it?
Also, what should we do now?
Although Kathleen's heart was filled with anger, her mind was very calm at the moment.
Faced with the surrounding ice-born mage of the Zhenbing Tribe, to be honest, with her strength, she could kill them all in the shortest time, and then escape from Phoenix before the Zhenbing Tribe could react.
However, if she did this, it wouldn't matter whether she killed these people or not.
As the saint who is the guardian of the snowfield, being charged with such a crime is not only her own fault, but may even lead to conflicts and even wars between the Zhenbing tribe and the sect.
Can't resist, at least there is a chance to prove his innocence.
In an instant, Kathleen made the wisest decision, and at the same time her heart became much colder.
She can be sure that since the other party has laid such a trap, he will definitely guess her reaction, and there will most likely be follow-up arrangements.
This time, she wanted to prove her innocence, which was obviously not an easy task.
The only good thing is that she was not with Loic.
Otherwise, if the two of them were framed together, it would really make heaven and earth unable to respond, and the earth and earth would become inoperable.
"Take her down and bring her back!" the obvious leader of the group of ice-born mages ordered.
Kathleen lowered her head.
Since she had made a decision in her heart, she had no intention of changing her mind.
She just started thinking about another question.
Who did it?
As soon as she started thinking about this issue, many clear contexts emerged in her mind.
Kathleen believed that she had not offended anyone. If she had offended anyone, it was only closely related to what she was doing at the moment.
So, it should be the work of the man behind Baruch's affairs and the practice of forbidden necromancy.
The status of the mastermind who was able to lay out such a trap in Phoenix in just one week was beyond what she had originally expected.
What's more important is that she has clearly made a pretense of "making extra money" in Phoenix, and the other party also used this method to frame her.
Obviously, the mastermind behind the scenes has determined her true purpose.
Why can the other party get to the essence in such a short period of time?
There must be clear intelligence guidance.
"The only flaw is that the branch's priest reported a request for help after Gothe appeared. From this message, we can know that I should be tracking Gothe at this time and should not appear in Phoenix." The confidentiality level of the message will be increased, and there will be no more than three people in the entire sect who have the authority to know that I am responsible for this task. So in theory, this flaw no longer exists."
"Wait." The next moment, Kathleen suddenly thought of a terrible possibility.
Is it possible that the mastermind behind the scenes is one of those three?
How is it possible? !
As soon as this idea came up, Kathleen trembled all over, and then shook her head subconsciously.
Practicing forbidden necromancy is equivalent to apostasy.
And those three are the actual leaders of the sect.
In other words, can the king of a country commit treason?
While Katherine was thinking, the Iceborn mages of the Zhenbing Tribe had already stepped forward and took out the locks.
"I will go with you, and there is no need for the chains." Kathleen raised her head and said to the leading iceborn mage: "I am the hunter of the Snowfield Guardian. I believe there must be something in this. Misunderstanding, someone else framed me, I will find evidence to prove my innocence."
The leading Ice Mage was stunned for a moment, then thought about it and nodded towards the Ice Mage under his command.
The man put the locks away.
“Let’s go.” Kathleen said to these iceborn mages of the Perfect Ice Tribe.
When Gothe returned to the residence where he had lived for a week, he found that Loic, who had been away from home this week busy with bounty tasks, was actually there.
"Have you finished the task? Where's Kathleen?" He asked casually as he closed the door.
Roic, who was very talkative in the past, did not respond to his words today.
He turned around and saw that Loic's expression was unusually solemn today, with a bit of anxiety, upset and suppressed anger in his eyes.
Gothe was stunned for a moment, then thought of Kathleen who had not seen him, and suddenly guessed something.
"Has something happened to Kathleen?"
At this time, Roy Qiqi nodded and responded in a muffled voice: "Yeah."
"What's wrong? What happened?"
Gothe was surprised. Although he didn't know the exact mage level of Kathleen, he could tell that she was a tough guy. How could something happen so easily?
"She was framed." Now that they had started talking, Loic, who was depressed in his heart, simply said it all like a complaint:
"Someone will escort the prey back. A group of ice-born mages from the Ice Tribe in Phoenix killed and took away the young frost monitor lizards they brought back that contained thin dragon blood, and framed the matter to Kathleen, and now she has been escorted back by the mages from the Ice Tribe."
"It should be that the mastermind behind the sect discovered that we were investigating him, so they used this method to frame Kathleen."
Good guy, this is a reversal of the two poles. Kathleen, who forcibly escorted him to Phoenix, now also experienced the feeling of being restricted in freedom. Gothe's heart tightened, but he did not rejoice in his misfortune.
Because in this matter, his relationship with Loitch and Katherine was one of mutual prosperity and loss.
Although he was unhappy that the two men had forced him to come to Phoenix, it was indeed very possible that the man behind the scenes mentioned by Kathleen would kill him and silence him.
This man behind the scenes is so powerful that he can trap Kathleen in. Wouldn't it be effortless to kill him, a mage who has just been promoted to the first level?
“Aren’t you very familiar with Elder Grant? Can’t you ask him to help?” Gothe asked quickly.
His face became even more ugly as soon as Gothe said this, and after a moment of silence, he slowly said:
"As soon as I knew something happened to Kathleen, I went to find Elder Grant"
"He refused to help?!" Looking at Roic's expression, Gothe knew that there would be no good results.
"It's not that he refuses, it's just that he can't protect himself at this time and can't take care of us." Loic's face was full of depression.
"Just two days ago, something went wrong with the Jinhui wheat seedlings of the Zhenbing Tribe, and one by one they began to lose their vitality inexplicably, and died, but they could not find the cause of the problem. "
"Grant is responsible for the cultivation of golden wheat in the Zhenbing tribe, and golden wheat is an extremely important and valuable crop for the Zhenbing tribe.
If the problem of golden wheat is not solved as soon as possible, he, as an elder, will be done. At this juncture, there is really no time to worry about our affairs."
(End of this chapter)