"Camito came to see me today!"

"That dwarf?"

"Um!"

"Is it going to be bad news again?"

Joey's first reaction was the same as Cartel's back then: he felt that Camito's arrival must have brought bad news.

"Uh, this time it really isn't!"

"That is..."

"That dwarf from before has left the city; he was ordered by the city lord to leave!"

"That short guy named Duro?"

"Um!"

"He's been in charge of monitoring the residents, so why did he suddenly leave the city?"

Joey also felt strange.

"Just a few days ago, he was imprisoned in the dungeon after returning to the city lord's mansion, but he was released immediately!"

"A few days ago?"

Joey was also unusually sensitive to this point in time.

"you mean……"

Joey looked at Carter, who nodded slightly to him.

"Looks like they're after us!"

"So what do you plan to do?"

"You don't need to go back to the workshop. Just stay here. I think Leighs doesn't know about this yet, otherwise he would have sold me out long ago. He definitely wouldn't let go of this big deal."

"I'll go back and pack my things, and I'll be right there!"

"good!"

Carter finished speaking, got up, and went out the door.

Joey touched his chin, his eyes darting left and right as he pondered his next move.

"What exactly are you talking about?"

Completely bewildered, Catherine turned to Joey, hoping he could explain things to her; the nonsensical conversation was utterly incomprehensible to her.

"not understand?"

How could I understand?

"You don't understand something so simple?"

"What exactly is too simple? Sergeant Medes, do you understand now?"

Seeing that Joey was about to bring up her intelligence again, Catherine quickly pulled someone to keep her company.

"Huh? I didn't hear anything!"

Medes simply pretended not to hear.

In the past few days, he has figured it out: whenever it involves Captain Joey and Lady Catherine, it's best to play dumb. The two are like a pair of bickering lovers, and it's better for him not to get involved.

"What were you doing? Didn't you hear me?"

Catherine wanted to talk about Medes to shift the focus.

"I...I was just thinking about what to eat for dinner!"

He made up some excuse to change the subject.

"you……"

Catherine was speechless.

Then he saw Joey looking at him as if he were an idiot.

"Okay, I just didn't understand, alright?"

Catherine pouted, seemingly a little angry with Joey, but there was nothing she could do.

"Okay, it would have been better to just admit it sooner. It's not that hard to face your own shortcomings!"

Joey tried hard to suppress his laughter, finding Catherine's reaction quite amusing.

"So, can you speak now?"

"Of course! If my dear Lady Catherine wants to know, then it must be arranged!"

Joey cleared his throat and began to analyze the situation for Catherine, while Medes, who was standing nearby, also pricked up his ears to eavesdrop.

"If I'm not mistaken, this Lord of Sandstone City must already know about the orc attack on us!"

"However, judging from the current situation, he doesn't seem to want the orcs to attack us, as this is detrimental to his rule!"

"As for sending a dwarf out of the city, it's probably to do some diplomatic work. After all, if he wants to take action against the tribe, he still needs to seek some support, and that support will definitely come from the Alliance. The tribe wouldn't be stupid enough to send someone to kill their own people!"

After Joey finished speaking, he looked at Catherine with a smug expression, as if waiting for her reward, but to his disappointment, there was none.

“I’ve heard from Martha these past few days that the lord of this sandstone city is a miser. Since the tribe already knows I’m here, why don’t they just give me the money directly?”

Catherine pointed out the flaw in Joey's statement.

Joey pretended to be deep in thought, then looked up again.

"Perhaps the tribe's chief is also a stingy miser!"

"Maybe they're just stupid and didn't even think of that idea. Aren't people in that tribe called pigs?"

Joey analyzed.

"Are they really pigs, capable of fighting the league to the death for hundreds of years?"

Catherine didn't think the tribesmen were really pigs, especially after she was hunted down and became homeless, which made her even more convinced of this.

"Maybe this time it really really is a pig!"

Joey had also thought about this issue, but since Tobacco Field was safe for now, he wasn't in such a hurry.

Catherine rolled her eyes at Joey, completely disregarding his words.

"Don't look at me like that. At least this news of mine proves that your reputation as a jinx isn't unfounded!"

Joey always enjoyed teasing Catherine, and this time he seized the opportunity to bring it up again.

"you……"

Catherine was so angry that she stood up and raised her hand to vent her emotions on Joey.

"She's murdering her husband! She's murdering her husband!"

Joey immediately got up and ran away, shouting as he did so.

Catherine's cheeks immediately flushed, and she quickened her pace to catch up with Joey.

(Just who is my Captain Joey? He even dares to flirt with Lady Catherine?)

Seeing what was happening before him, Medes only wanted to get away as soon as possible. He felt that staying here and witnessing all this was not a good thing.

He slowly moved his feet and walked towards the gate.

"Sergeant Medes, you have to testify! Catherine is trying to murder her husband!"

Catherine's gaze also turned towards Joey when he suddenly called her name.

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