Hunter x Hunter: Call Me Master Inventor

Chapter 146 The Mission of the Brigade ~That's it~

The old man leaned back on the sofa, raised his head, and looked up at the sky.

It seems they've just finished something and are still savoring it.

Have you found a new source of goods?

The old man's wrinkled face slowly moved down.

Their gaze shifted from the ceiling to the tall man's face.

And when he revealed this face.

Kuroro and the other character, who were monitoring the screen, recognized him immediately.

This is the target they have been searching for all along: Linus, the chairman of the "Future of Children" Foundation.

"We have reached a preliminary agreement with some gangs in Yorkshire."

The tall man said respectfully, "They said that if the price is right, they will look for abandoned children in the abandoned areas around the adventure park—"

"Is it simply a matter of 'searching'?"

The old man, Lisnos, spoke up, directly interrupting the tall man.

"And it involves risks?"

"You know, that's not what I want to hear."

"Yes, I understand."

The tall man lowered his head even further: "But there really aren't many stable and legal channels like 'Meteor City' anymore —"

"Since there aren't many left, why not continue getting supplies from Meteor City?"

The old man, Linus, asked casually.

"Money doesn't matter, what's important is—"

He took a cigar out of his waist pocket and lit it.

"What I do must not involve any risk."

2

"Lysnos said slowly."

"For some reason, Meteor City is currently under particularly strong defense measures."

The tall man explained in a low voice, "Their security measures seem to have improved significantly. They have a very clear view of the people who have infiltrated the area and their movements—"

I don't want to hear the details.

"Tell me the result," Linus interrupted again, his tone growing even calmer.

"Yes—the result is that this one channel has been cut off."

The tall man, who knew Linus's character well, answered immediately, his tone quick but without the slightest confusion.

The speech was very clear and organized: "We sent many people back there to buy more goods, but each time we were discovered—"

"Every single time."

As if afraid of incurring Lisnos's wrath, the tall man quickly said, "All the men we sent out have been discovered, and none of them have returned."

"So, that channel is now cut off—"

3

The tall man eventually fell silent.

"No one has come back?"

Linos slowly exhaled a smoke ring: "Did you send any other people to check on it afterwards?"

"I've sent it!"

The tall man, understanding the old man's meaning, immediately replied, "I sent some guys who were simply there to make a living and observe."

"Meteor City doesn't mean to make things difficult for guys like him."

"They even welcomed him warmly, as if they were accepting him."

"Then I tentatively sent two or three people to probe the channels, and the result was—"

He didn't say what happened next, but Linus understood what he meant.

"They haven't come back again, have they?"

He narrowed his eyes slightly.

His face was still covered with wrinkles, making him look old and frail.

But there was no cloudiness in his eyes.

"You don't reject those who come to live here, but you absolutely won't let a single person with malicious intent escape, is that right?"

He easily saw through Meteor City's arrangement.

"They weren't like this before."

Lisnos casually tossed the half-smoked cigar aside like trash.

The tall man immediately crawled over, using his back as the ground to catch the still-burning cigar.

"You have such keen insight!!"

The tall man immediately flattered him: "The person I sent there also discovered the differences in Meteor City."

"And the biggest change is that Meteor City started at some point."

"They started to spread this saying."

"We don't reject anything, but don't try to take anything away from us!"

Upon hearing this, Linos immediately straightened up slightly from leaning against the sofa: "Not refusing—but don't expect to take anything away from me either?"

"Hehehe, interesting."

Linos laughed, while the tall man lowered his head even further.

Those eyes and ears, completely undetectable to anyone, were silently suspended in mid-air.

Silently, it records everything that continues to happen in this room.

"Useless piece of trash!!"

After the tall man left, Linos muttered a curse under his breath.

"They can't even handle this small task. It seems it's time to find someone else."

Linus frequently replaced his secretaries whenever he was dissatisfied with them.

Once a suitable new secretary is found, she will take up the post, and the old secretary will naturally step down.

As for the outcome of stepping down...

The secretary who knew so many secrets about Lennox and this conglomerate.

After stepping down, he naturally went where he was supposed to go.

Linos felt a little restless.

The heart that had just calmed down was stirred up again by these changes.

So, without hesitation, he got up and chose to calm himself down in the same way he always had.

He walked up to a cabinet.

He placed his palm on the inkstone beside him and gently rotated it.

In an instant, the entire cabinet silently split into two sides.

What appeared before the eyes and ears of Linos and the "spy device" was a pitch-black passage.

Linos seemed to be very used to and familiar with this road.

He stepped inside. The moment he entered, the cabinets on both sides quickly closed shut.

Before they closed, the "spy device's" ears and nose also went in.

Ta-ta-ta.

The entire passage was pitch black, with only the clear echo of Lennox's footsteps.

"He must have been walking on some kind of staircase."

As he took notes, the knight analyzed, "It should be from his room that leads to the secret room on the lower level."

"Use this spiral staircase to descend into his secret room."

"He really did have a secret!!"

As the knight muttered this, his body involuntarily leaned forward.

I also felt a sense of excitement, like I was about to catch a big fish.

"Our goal is to let the outside world know about Meteor City's existence and purpose."

"And one of the most important elements of our principle is that the other side first took what was ours—"