Chapter 3038 Meeting

On the northwest outskirts of Tivian is an area of ​​undulating hills. This area of ​​hills is covered with trees, and the area of ​​the forest can be called vast. It is quite rare to have such a vast forest that is rarely opened near such a large city.

In the winter woods, the ground is covered with rotten leaves and damp soil. Most of the trees in the woods have lost their leaves, and only the thick trunks extend with branches that are slightly swaying in the cold wind.

In the daytime, the sky of Tivian was white and thick. In the woods in the northwest suburbs, on a small hill, there were several figures standing there. The leader was a thin woman in her forties wearing a black cotton cloak and a fur hat on her head. She stood in the cold wind, and beside her stood several servants in different clothes. They stood in the cold wind together, as if they were waiting for something.

This woman was Larina from the Order of the Underworld, and the people standing around her were all her subordinates. At this moment, these subordinates were looking around with a vigilant look. There were not many of them, but there were many ghosts wandering around in places that ordinary people could not see. The gathering of invisible things made the temperature around here seem to drop by several degrees.

In the middle of the open space on top of the hill, there was a small wooden square table with a lantern on it. Larina had two of her men guarding the table.

On the hill, the ghost and his men were on guard all around. Larina herself was holding a monocular telescope and looking into the distance. In the direction Larina was looking, there was a huge stone building standing in the woods in the distance.

The city wall, which was not too high, was bent at a sharp angle and finally formed a complete huge star shape. The star-shaped city wall was overlapped and staggered in two circles and spread outward, like a pointed flower blooming on the earth. There were gentle slopes and deep trenches in front of the outer city wall, and various buildings stood on the inside of the city wall. Flags were flying above the city wall. Larina used a telescope to clearly see the logo of the Pritt Army and the Pritt Kingdom on the flags, and there were red and white soldiers patrolling on the city wall.

Obviously, this is a fortress, a military fortress of considerable size standing on the outskirts of Divian. Staring at the huge building in the distance through the telescope, Larina concentrated for a long time, then put down the telescope with a slightly frown on her face.

At this time, a man in a simple coat and a thick hat ran to Larina from a distance. It was Kale. He stood respectfully beside Larina and reported to her.

"Ma'am, we have already carefully investigated the area within a few kilometers and found nothing unusual or ambushed. We have also dug up the soil beneath the trading site and found no traces of traps. This trading site can be said to be safe."

Kale reported to Larina that in order to prepare for this transaction, they had arrived in Tivian several days ago, and since then their main focus has been on collecting intelligence and exploring the transaction site.

Tivian is not a place where the Order of the Underworld is particularly powerful, so they will act more cautiously. For them, this transaction location was chosen by the thief, and the other party may have ambushed or set traps here in advance, so they must take position in advance and conduct a careful survey.

"There's nothing unusual... Didn't those thieves come here and do anything?"

Listening to Kale's words, Larina paused slightly, then continued to ask, and Kale responded in an affirmative tone.

"No! Ma'am, our people and ghosts have been monitoring this place since the day before yesterday. No suspicious people have come near. As far as this place is concerned, it can be said to be absolutely safe!"

"Right this place..." Listening to Kale's speech, Larina raised her eyebrows and continued speaking.

"From your tone, it seems that... there is a problem somewhere else?"

Larina spoke slowly, and Kale nodded, pointing to the fortress at the end of the distance.

"Yes, the biggest problem is the Pritt Fortress over there. Although the fortress is not far from here, the range of its defense is very large. You can often encounter patrols and sentries just five meters away. The defense force of this fortress is very strong, and the soldiers are well equipped."

Looking at the tall fortress buildings in the distance, Kale paused, then continued speaking.

"More importantly, we used ghost reconnaissance to discover that when we were about one kilometer away from the fortress, we sensed the extraordinary effect of expelling spirits. The sentries close to the fortress seemed to be equipped with luminous lights to conduct inspections. Several of our ghosts were discovered because they got too close. Immediately afterwards, patrol personnel skillfully used the soul-sealing talisman to seal our ghosts and immediately launched a search. If we hadn't reacted quickly and hid in time, we might have been discovered...

"Madam... that fortress seems to have very complete extraordinary defenses. It is not an ordinary military fortress. Although it is far away from that side, it is considered safe. But there is such a fortress with strong defense both in terms of ordinary military and secret extraordinary defense. We still need to be cautious..."

Kale said this to Larina. Larina did not respond immediately after hearing Kale's words. Instead, she turned her head and looked at the fortress in the distance. After examining it for a few more times, she murmured.

"A heavily guarded military fortress next to the capital of Plit, with perfect and extraordinary defenses... Interesting..."

At this time, Larina was thinking about the role of the military fortress in the distance, and she already had a little guess. At this time, another subordinate came over here from the distance. After coming to Larina and Kale, he pointed to one side and said hurriedly.

"Ms. Larina, someone is coming, driving three carriages up the hill. They must be the target!"

Hearing the words of the subordinate, Larina and Kale were startled, and then walked in the direction pointed by the subordinate. After walking for a while, they saw three carriages lined up on the gentle slope of the hill, driving up the uphill road. Two of them were large freight carriages, and one was a small carriage for carrying people.

There were two freight wagons, each pulled by two horses, moving in front, driven by two drivers in ordinary clothes. The cargo on the wagons was covered with canvas, so it was impossible to tell what it looked like, but the strong spiritual aura on it was easily sensed by Larina and other "Silence" extraordinary people present.

This is the feeling that only the spirit of "Silence" can have! The Nether Coffin Extraordinaries at the scene made such a judgment in their hearts, and Larina, a Cretaceous Extraordinary, further felt the familiar aura of spirits on those goods. She could feel the powerful spirits that she had hunted personally.

“Here I come…”

Watching the carriage slowly driving up the hill, Larina gritted her teeth, a hint of anger showing on her face, but she quickly suppressed it. She turned around and asked the subordinate who had just reported the news.

"Are these the only ones?"

"Yes, there are only these few. According to the ghost's report, there are three carriages with three drivers, and there is a passenger behind the last carriage. There are no others."

The subordinate reported to Larina, and then, Larina used the Cretaceous Soul Sensing to sense the three carriages in front of her. Under her perception, she found that there were no traces of souls on the three coachmen, but there was one in the passenger carriage. Based on this sign, she made a judgment in her heart.

'The three coachmen have no souls and seem to be some kind of puppets. The only living person in the team is in the last carriage..."