Chapter 128 Lily's Killing Intention
Lily followed Lujiao and wandered around the huge building, trying to figure out its spatial structure.
It looks square, but it's like a maze - there may be doors or passages on the four sides of each room. However, there are almost no rooms that lead to four directions, and most of them lead to two or three directions.
According to Deerhorn, this seems to be a common architectural style during the Reign of Giants. There are no L-shaped corridor corners, and the entire building is composed entirely of square and rectangular rooms.
It is said that this is because the giant's vision has blind spots, making it easy to be attacked when passing a corner.
The solid walls, combined with the maze-like, circuitous route, would force a large force to disperse and compress it into a very small, narrow "beam." The giants disdained to use traps, otherwise Lily felt that traps alone would be enough to kill a large number of people.
——As a result, the giants may indeed not be ambushed or attacked.
Because Lily was very aware that Lujiao had lost his way - they had passed the same room three times, but Lujiao had no idea that he was lost.
Lily gradually found her way.
The reason for getting lost is simple. The giants' craftsmanship seems to be poor, resulting in uneven wall thicknesses. They didn't construct the entire structure and then divide it into rooms. Instead, they built it up room by room, then expanded outward to form a single structure.
Because of this, the four walls of the same room might not even be the same thickness, which results in some rooms being out of place—turn left, turn left, turn left, and you end up in a circle, unable to get back to the original room.
Lily's [Spider Sense] allowed her to visualize the building's outline more clearly. Once she could sense the thickness of the wall, she wouldn't get lost there.
While they were taking a detour, Lily chatted with Deerhorn as "Mr. Gray".
When Lily expressed her curiosity about the Round Table, she keenly realized that... Deer Horn seemed to regard her as a member of the Strangler Party.
It might be because Lily's strangling skills seemed unusually skilled, and the Lloyd's District gang already had a large number of low-level transcendents on the Path of Love and the Path of Adaptation, so the mistake was made.
After that, Lu Jiao has been trying hard to hint that he has an inseparable connection with Lily's "organization above her head".
He could only be referring to Lloyd's, Lily thought.
Although Lily didn't understand how to carry out this mission, she could keenly sense Lujiao's intentions.
In addition to trying to get close to her and build a relationship, he was also testing Lily's identity... If "Mr. Gray" was really a member of the Strangler Gang, then he would definitely know that the person who managed the Strangler Gang was Lloyd's.
Lily had no experience with these forces, of course. But fortunately, when Aiwass joined Lloyd's, Lily accompanied him throughout his life as his personal maid.
On the way back, Aiwass had already told her about the relationship between the gangs of all sizes in Lloyd's and Lloyd's.
Therefore, Lily did not admit her identity as a strangler, but boldly went a step further - she claimed to be a member of Lloyd's and reported a high-ranking name that was very similar to her own code name. In order not to expose Aiwass, she deliberately chose another person who was unknown to Aiwass.
"...Ms. Gray-green?"
Lu Jiao obviously knew this person, and he answered naturally, "I'm not very familiar with her. After all, she mainly manages the private loan business, is also responsible for managing the small gangs in Lloyd's District, and runs her own casino and nightclub - am I right?
"But I have a very good relationship with your Vice President Boca... I can even call him a close friend."
"Then I guess you must be a minister."
The deep voice of Mr. Gray echoed from the void: "Vice-President Boca has repeatedly hinted at his close relationship with a certain minister. And you're so familiar with the Round Table..."
"No need to test me," Deerhorn said with a hearty laugh, "I am that Droste."
——Since he is from Lloyd’s, he is one of us.
He dared to participate in the New Moon Ceremony, and he didn't seem to be a fool who couldn't see his own cards... He even knew Lady Gray-Green. Judging from his codename, he seemed to have a close relationship with Lady Gray-Green. He was very likely her direct descendant.
"Gray-green" is not a good person.
As a transcendent at the peak of the fourth energy level, she was essentially the strongest assassin in Avalon. Although she was now middle-aged and her physical strength had declined slightly, she had become more experienced and cunning. This made her even more difficult to deal with.
She also has a lot of black material about the ministers of the Round Table Hall in her hands, so when she encounters some troubles, she doesn't need to take action herself, she can just use the other party's force to solve the problem.
No wonder "Mr. Gray" wanted to ask me about these things. He probably wanted to take the information back to please Gray-Green.
This "Mr. Gray" was likely at least a mid-level executive at Lloyd's, and his First Path strength was likely around Level 3. Although this was his first promotion ceremony to the Path, his skill in adapting to the Path was clearly more refined than that of a normal newcomer.
He is most likely a disciple trained by Huilv herself, and has inherited the mysterious skills she possessed.
What Huilv excels at is her unparalleled stealth ability and her exquisite poison killing ability.
Originally, Lujiao had planned to have Huilu kill his secretary to silence her, but Ms. Huilu was busy recently and didn't accept the order.
He hadn't expected Iris's spies to be so quick. Before he could successfully launch his mission, they had already killed Secretary Raff and, in the process, exposed his involvement in the smuggling of dangerous goods.
Fortunately, he usually had a good image and had leverage over many people in the Round Table Hall. This was enough to barely stabilize the situation. But even so, he had to stop.
If something goes wrong again, he might really get into trouble.
Thinking of this, he decided to befriend Mr. Gray and, through this relationship, connect with Ms. Gray-Green. The next time he encountered such a situation, he must immediately notify Ms. Gray-Green to deal with it.
As the Kingdom's Minister of Trade, he was exceptionally skilled at leveraging other people's networks. A seemingly insignificant individual could very well connect with someone valuable, someone he'd normally have difficulty contacting, after just two or three connections.
That’s why it’s best to avoid offending anyone if possible. This is the art of the long bet.
But after hearing what Lujiao said, Mr. Gray fell silent.
After a long while, he cautiously asked, "What's your full name? What's your secretary's name? What's your illegitimate child's name?"
This is confirming your identity.
When Lujiao heard these words, he smiled.
When he heard this question, he immediately confirmed Mr. Gray's intention. He was also certain that Mr. Gray must be from Lloyd's and was a subordinate of Ms. Gray-Green!
"I'm Charles Droste. My chief personal secretary is John Love, who was recently assassinated by Iris's spies... He's the man I contacted through Vice President Boca to assassinate. It's just that she's been so busy lately that I've been delayed a bit."
"As for illegitimate children... Actually, I don't have any. I only have one illegitimate daughter, the child of a prostitute. That was one of the few times I was deceived, and it's my shame.
"I've forgotten her name. The whore gave it to her. Now she's probably working as a servant in the Moriarty household."
Deer Horn said seriously, "That whore is crazy, and she even wanted me to marry her... It took me a lot of effort to get rid of her before. That was also the first business I contacted Ms. Gray-Green for."
This is the secret behind the three questions mentioned by "Mr. Gray".
Whether it was the "secretary" or the "illegitimate child", they were both targets that he had commissioned Ms. Gray-Green to assassinate.
Mr. Gray didn't know that he was not actually a bastard son but a bastard daughter. There are two possibilities - one is that the Gray-Green Lady did not mention the details to them, and the other is that he deliberately made a mistake to confirm whether he was the real Droste.
Deer Horn continued, "That girl has been taken by her master to the Royal Law University as an auditor. She might come into contact with my granddaughter... Just in case, I'd like to ask Lady Gray-Green to kill her as well."
"Last time, I softened my heart a bit and didn't accept the 'package' offered by the Gray Lady. But I have to say, I regret it now. It would be best if she died quietly, without anyone discovering she was murdered. Let the Moriarty family bury her properly.
"When you get out, report this to Ms. Gray-Green. I want to see the news of her death within a month, and then I will transfer the money to the agreed account."
Lujiao was not worried at all about being deceived and revealed his information in his dream.
The use of intelligence has its limits. Not everyone can use it.
When you wake up from a dream, you forget a lot of things... The knowledge in the dream cannot be verified through a lie detector test. Therefore, it is not enough to be accepted as evidence.
Even if I search my memory, I can't see the part related to the dream world.
On the black market for the extraordinary, people often sell pamphlets that describe what they've seen and heard in the dream world. While some of them do contain lost secrets, most are just wild claims.
Most of the writing was poor, with some writing being disjointed and sometimes sounding like sleep rambling. The content was also filled with details overlooked by blindness or forgetfulness, arbitrary inferences made by those with poor brains, exaggerations and artistic manipulations of details, and the filling in of things one hadn't seen. Some people even deliberately made mistakes to conceal secrets.
This kind of thing wouldn't fetch a high price, and it couldn't even be considered evidence or evidence.
Not to mention Mr. Gray from Lloyd's, he wouldn't be afraid even in front of Madam Red and Inspector Gordon.
At Minister Droste's level, there was no way to arrest him without solid evidence. Even if there was solid evidence, it might not be of any use - as long as he was still useful to Queen Sofia, and as long as the Round Table did not want him dismissed, then the most he would get was a reprimand from Her Majesty.
Because of this, placing orders in dreams is the safest. The promotion ceremony is the simplest way to enter the dream world.
Whether it's a smuggling order for the king or a murder order for Mr. Gray, no evidence means no evidence. Conversations here leave no evidence, and even retellings from overheard people to others cannot guarantee their credibility.
"I will report to Lady Gray-Green."
The man in gray's voice became lower and colder.
And at this moment, a heart-wrenching howl suddenly came from the distance.
That wasn't the scream of someone being attacked...it was more like the scream of a lovelorn man, or a gambler who had lost everything.
——That’s the sound of “thunder”!
"Go and have a look."
Lujiao suddenly became serious and gave a low command.
(End of this chapter)
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