"Or is it the Order of Sloth?" Wei Luo was slightly surprised.
"Well, I captured one of the three attackers alive. Although he didn't admit it himself, I found the seal of the Cult of Sloth on him. So, the owner of Diya's slave seal is most likely a member of the Cult of Sloth."
Li Shanren expressed his speculation.
After hearing this, Wei Luo's face did not show any joy, but rather looked a little uncertain.
He lowered his eyes slightly, as if thinking about something.
"What's wrong?" Li Shanren asked when he saw Wei Luo's complicated expression.
"Actually..." Wei Luo hesitated for a moment, then said, "We still managed to get some useful information out of Lorant."
"what's the message?"
"The location of the main base of the Sloth Cult in Orin City."
"Where?" Li Shanren's eyes lit up.
"Altaïr told me a place, but I don't know where it is. It's called 14 East Suiyi Street."
Hearing this place, before Li Shanren could react, the diner sitting at the table behind Wei Luo suddenly stood up, turned around and asked excitedly: "Where is that place you said?"
Li Shanren looked up and found that the diner looked vaguely familiar.
He remembered that this man seemed to have walked in shortly after Wei Luo arrived here, and turned around and sat in the seat behind Wei Luo.
However, there were several other diners who came in at the same time as this man, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
Now it seems that Wei Luo is being followed...
Li Shanren's eyes darkened and he looked the diner up and down with some hostility.
The other person was a thin middle-aged man with an old face and graying temples. He even had an eye patch on his left eye, so he was one-eyed.
He stared at it for a few seconds, and then a familiar figure suddenly flashed through his mind, and his eyes showed surprise.
"Boss?" Wei Luo turned around and recognized the diner at a glance.
He was the owner of Huosen Hotel, the first hotel where Li Shanren and Wei Luo stayed in Olin City!
This boss was also quite surprising. Before, when Li Shanren went out and returned to the hotel, six out of ten times he would not see this boss sitting behind the counter, as if he was not worried about theft at all.
Seeing the reactions of these two people, the hotel owner realized his gaffe, but the information he just overheard really shocked him beyond words.
Then he quickly glanced around and some diners seemed to be looking at him because of his actions.
The innkeeper was startled and whispered to the two men, "This is not the place to talk. Follow me."
After saying that, he turned around and left the restaurant on his own, as if he was not worried at all that Li Shanren and Wei Luo would follow him.
Li Shanren and Wei Luo looked at each other.
After a long silence, Li Shanren finally took the initiative to ask, "Let's go take a look?"
"Let's go." Wei Luo immediately pulled Diya up.
The two of them were together, and with their combined strength, they weren't too worried about the other party setting any traps.
"By the way, didn't you notice that he was following you?" Li Shanren asked as they walked out of the restaurant.
"I found out. He has been following me for two days, but he has no ill will towards me, so I ignored him." Velo said calmly, "It may be that Altaïr asked him to come here."
Li Shanren was speechless.
It is unexpected that they did not catch this person who followed them here for no apparent reason and interrogate him first.
What if the other party has some malicious intentions and brings a group of people to surround us? Wouldn’t that be big trouble?
Even if they could be considered as acquaintances of the hotel owner, this relationship was as shallow as a piece of paper and would break with a single poke.
However, things have come to this point, and Li Shanren can't say anything more.
Besides, the innkeeper seems to know something about the headquarters of the Cult of Sloth, so it might be a good idea to go over and take a look.
Li Shanren turned around and saw the hotel owner standing on the side of the road with an anxious look on his face.
After seeing them follow him out, he breathed a sigh of relief, waved to them covertly, and then hurriedly walked into the alley next to him.
Li Shanren and Weiluo followed quietly.
The four of them walked in the alley one after another for about ten minutes, and finally they came to a familiar place.
It was the Hosen Hotel where I first stayed in Olin City.
However, the snow in front of the hotel had not been cleared yet, and there was a seal on the door, which meant it had not been opened for some time.
The hotel owner tore off the seal that he had put there without any hesitation, took out the key, unlocked the door, and pushed it open.
"Come in, everything should be fine here." The hotel owner called to the three people behind him.
Li Shanren looked around the hotel and used his mental power to scan the surroundings. After confirming that there was no one else inside, he stepped in.
Wei Luo, on the other hand, didn't worry too much and walked into the hotel holding Diya's hand.
After they came in, the hotel owner carefully closed and locked the door, then his expression relaxed slightly.
"Boss, now let's talk about it. Do you know anything about the headquarters of the Cult of Sloth?"
When the boss turned around, he saw Li Shanren had taken out a staff inlaid with purple gems at some point and was looking at him with a smile.
The innkeeper was slightly stunned. He did not expect this foreign magician to be so cautious. So he smiled bitterly and said frankly:
"I was once a member of the Assassin's Resistance."
"And... I am very familiar with Altaïr, so I know something about your affairs. This hotel used to be a secret base of the resistance, but it has been abandoned now."
"So is there anything special about the location of that stronghold? You seemed very excited when you heard this in the restaurant just now." Velo asked, "When Altaïr told me about this place, his expression was also complicated, and he even invited me to go to the stronghold to take a look."
At this point, Wei Luo paused, "But at that time, because I didn't get any clues from Lorant, I thought my matter might have nothing to do with the Sloth Cult, so I didn't accept his invitation."
"If he hadn't come looking for me, I would have gone to pick up Diya in the next two days and sent her back to the Elf Forest first."
As Wei Luo spoke, he glanced at Li Shanren.
The innkeeper's eyes showed some bitterness, and he sighed as if reminiscing:
"I am very familiar with the place you are talking about. To be more precise, it is a building nearby. The headquarters of the Order of Sloth is too close to that building. Coupled with some speculations that have always existed before, I have some bad associations... I hope this is just a coincidence."
......
Sui Street is located in the civilian area east of Olin City, but there is a large manor in this civilian area.
The outer wall of the manor is very high, and outsiders can hardly see what is inside. Only when you walk away or stand on a high place can you see several large white villas and wide green lawns standing in the manor.
I heard that this manor is the private property of an unknown nobleman, but usually there are few people coming in and out.
Only occasionally would one see some servants coming out to shop, and no one had ever visited the manor.
Perhaps it is because only a few people were hired to maintain the place, but the owner of the manor himself is not here.
There is a remote side door on the left side of the manor facing the alley. Residents nearby would occasionally see the side door being opened and mysterious people in black robes coming in and out.
The only time you can see these people in black robes is usually late at night. If you don’t look carefully, you won’t be able to detect anyone coming in or out.
At this moment, Altaïr was standing in a deep alley, staring deeply at a corner of the manor.
"No. 14, East Suyi Street..."
He whispered the address of the manor in a complicated tone.
Confusion, doubt, loss...all kinds of emotions mixed in.
On the right side of the alley stands a two-story wooden building with a plain appearance and an architectural style similar to the nearby civilian residences.
There is also a license plate issued by the local administrative agency on the wall of the building, which reads "No. 86, East Sui Street".
Altaïr took a deep breath.
No matter what guesses you have in your mind, you have to verify them.
Even if I go, I'm afraid I'll just be walking into a trap, and my life or death will be uncertain.
But he still wanted an answer.
After making up his mind, Altaïr pushed open the wooden door of the building next door, slipped in, and closed it with his backhand.
The furnishings on the first floor of the building were very ordinary, no different from the houses where ordinary residents of Olin City lived.
Altaïr entered the second room on the left with familiarity, opened the cellar hidden inside, and jumped in.
There are three wine racks in the cellar, with many wine barrels neatly arranged on them, but all the barrels seem to be empty. The stoppers can be opened at will, but no wine flows out.
Altaïr walked over to the shelf on the left, reached into one of the barrels, and used force to activate the mechanism hidden inside.
With a "click", the wall at the deepest part of the cellar suddenly trembled, and a gap similar to a door frame appeared on the originally perfect wall.
Then the wall rumbled and turned, revealing a rough single-person corridor.
Altaïr walked into the corridor with a normal expression.
Shortly after he entered, the wall rumbled back and merged seamlessly with the surrounding walls again.
Altaïr walked calmly in the narrow stone corridor.
This corridor is extremely complicated, with one or two forks in the road every forty or fifty steps.
Faced with those forks in the road, Altaïr did not hesitate at all and directly chose a fork to move forward, as if he had been here many times and was already familiar with the route here.
After walking for seven or eight minutes, Altaïr left the corridor and entered an unusually large underground cave space.
A red carpet extends from the entrance of the corridor all the way to the six steps.
There were many stone seats on both sides of the carpet, but now they were all empty.
There is only a flat stone platform above the stairs, which seems to be convenient for people to talk on it. Apart from that, there are no other unnecessary decorations.
Altaïr took a deep breath and walked to the stairs step by step and stood still.
Some time ago, he was standing at the foot of these stairs and was identified as a traitor.
And this is the headquarters of the Assassin's Resistance Society!
He originally thought that he would meet his patrolling assassin brothers on the way back this time, but he did not expect that the strength of the resistance would be so weak that the headquarters seemed to be empty.
Altaïr's eyes sank slightly, then he closed his eyes and used the Eagle Vision he had just learned to search around.
A few minutes later, he opened his eyes, walked onto the stone platform with a serious expression, and stepped hard in the center for a while.
After a while, he actually stepped on a place in the center of the stone platform.
This kick seemed to have triggered some mechanism.
After a sound of stones rubbing against each other was heard, the position at the rear center of the stone platform actually moved on its own, revealing a staircase leading downwards.
Altaïr stared at the secret staircase he had never heard of, and finally took a deep breath and walked in resolutely.
After walking down dozens of steps, he came to a narrow corridor again.
However, compared to the rough corridor leading to the Assassin's Hall, this corridor has fine brick walls on both sides, and automatically luminous light energy stones are inlaid every ten steps or so. The floor tiles underfoot are also very flat, full of the flavor of being carefully crafted.
This secret passage goes straight forward without any extra branches.
Altaïr's pace quickened, his breathing became heavier, and his eyes were filled with tension and hesitation as he was about to uncover a secret.
After walking for a few minutes, he walked up a flight of stairs, and was finally blocked by a stone slab above his head.
Altaïr activated Eagle Vision again and activated a masonry mechanism on the wall next to him.
"Boom..."
The stone slab slowly moved away under the action of the mechanism.
Altaïr walked out step by step, from bottom to top.
He came to a dimly lit secret hall with a scarlet carpet under his feet and precious statues placed on both sides.
The carpet is painted with a round slave collar with thorns, which is the symbol of the slave army under the Order of Sloth and is sometimes used as a decoration in certain strongholds of the Order of Sloth.
Altaïr looked straight at the center of the end of the secret room, where there was a large chair.
Although it was very dark here, he was only a few dozen steps away from the chair, so he could clearly see the familiar figure sitting on it.
The figure didn't seem surprised by his arrival. He played with a golden ball in his hand and said calmly, "Are you back?"
It was as if he was greeting a subordinate who had been sent out and had not returned for a long time.
Altaïr stared at the figure on the chair and said with a complicated expression:
"I never knew that the headquarters of the Assassin's Resistance Society and the headquarters of the Order of Sloth were only separated by a street. I also didn't know that there was a secret passage that directly connected our headquarters."
"Can you tell me what's going on here?"
"Master Chief, or...Master Archbishop of Sloth?"
......
------Dividing line------
Thanks to Liu Jie Fa from Evil Dragon Valley, Jiang Bei from Gu Yue River, Mo Xia, An Ren Ben 242, This Life Would Be Crazy, Yun Luo Kan Ri, Yuan Feng who loves to eat Zhongshan Lu Dou Zong, Yuan Xing., Nan Xiang Zhuo Feng, Gu Hehehe, ~Wanderer~, Qian Shou from Zhatian Gang, Chu Zhaoyun who likes Jian Ling, and caty for their rewards!
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