Wizard Earl

Chapter 762 Suspicion (2)

However, Kurzawa's informant's account of how Arbeloa escaped after discovering the attack by De Jong's Black Knights differed greatly from Arbeloa's own account!

The Derong Black Knights were a formidable bandit gang in the Frosinone region, which gave them the audacity to accept a hefty contract from the Leo Group, a rival of the Ferguson family, to attack the Pharos warehouse, where the Ferguson family's production and distribution company stored ore.

However, within the territory of Frosinone, although the Ferguson family has declined, they have cultivated various connections and relationships in Frosinone for hundreds of years, making them a formidable force. In the end, they still hold the title of an imperial hereditary earl, and the family also maintains a knightly squad of about ten men. Their absolute strength far surpasses that of the De Jong Black Knights.

Therefore, although the Black Knights of Derjun were driven by greed and accepted employment from the Leo Corporation to attack the Pharos warehouse, they were not foolish enough to launch a large-scale attack. They wanted to turn this attack into a headless case with no one knowing who did it, in order to avoid the wrath and retaliation of the Ferguson family!

After the De Jong Black Knights raided the Pharos warehouse, they discovered that Arbeloa had escaped. To prevent the news from leaking out, the De Jong Black Knights immediately dispatched a small squad of eight bandits to hunt down Arbeloa. When Arbeloa was caught, he killed the eight armed bandits of the De Jong Black Knights in less than a minute and then calmly continued his escape.

If Arbeloa were a knight who had mastered the Ferguson Knight Breathing Technique, such an outcome might not be surprising. However, it's important to know that Arbeloa was already twenty-five years old when he married into the Ferguson family, missing the prime age to become a knight. Furthermore, there is absolutely nothing related to knighthood in Arbeloa's life story from childhood to adulthood!

If the detective report that Kurzawa provided to Connor about Arbeloa and the Black Knights of De Jong is true, then Arbeloa is obviously a problem. He might be the mole that Reyes planted in the Ferguson family that Connor has been searching for these past few days!

After carefully reading Arbeloa's profile three times, Connor put the document back in his pocket, took a sip of the hand-ground coffee made from Pauleta beans, a specialty of the Frosinone region, which had a wonderfully fragrant aroma, and prepared to pay the bill and leave the Grand Agudro to go to Arbeloa's address, "Villa No. 7, Bruno Community," as recorded in the detective's report, to have a proper talk with Arbeloa. Suddenly, a girl with an ordinary appearance but a very elegant demeanor, dressed in a delicate blue dress, walked into the restaurant and came into Connor's view.

Connor was certain he had never seen this elegant but rather plain-looking girl before. If he had, he would remember her vividly. But for some reason, Connor's keen intuition gave him a faint sense of familiarity with her, as if he had met her somewhere before…

Just as Connor was pretending to pick up his coffee cup and take a sip, he was secretly glancing at the girl in the blue dress out of the corner of his eye. While pondering what connection he had with her, something even more unexpected happened. This girl in the blue dress, who seemed familiar to him, looked around the restaurant and then sat down at a seat just three meters away from him.

The girl in the blue dress immediately alerted Connor. It was only 6:30 in the morning, not the peak time for guests at the Grand Agudro Hotel to have breakfast. This luxurious restaurant, which could accommodate 500 people at the same time, only had a dozen or so people dining there.

In fact, before the girl in the blue dress sat down next to Connor, everyone in the restaurant, except those who were dining together, consciously maintained a distance of at least ten meters. Connor's seat was a secluded corner that he had deliberately chosen, with no other diners within a fifteen-meter radius of him.

So, the girl in the blue dress not only gave Connor a sense of familiarity, but also sat so close to him that Connor had a vague feeling that this woman, whose face he had never seen before, had suddenly come to this restaurant at this time, perhaps specifically for Connor Ferguson…

Just as Connor was becoming wary of the girl in the blue dress, she seemed oblivious to his suspicions. She beckoned to a waiter standing nearby and called him over to order, saying, "A cup of unsweetened Pauleta coffee and a whole wheat bread from Sneijder, and please hurry, I'm in a rush!"

"Understood! Miss, I will bring your things as soon as possible!" Upon hearing the girl in the blue dress's order, the waiter replied very respectfully. After speaking, he bowed to the girl in the blue dress and then withdrew.

After ordering, the girl in the blue dress remained calm and quiet, looking at a reproduction of "The Rising Sun in Frosinone" by Bernardeschi, a famous painter from the Kaman Empire, hanging on the restaurant wall. She seemed quite interested in the reproduction!

Connor sneered inwardly at the girl in the blue dress's behavior. Although he still didn't know who she was, her actions only made him more certain that she was after him. Her act of pretending to appreciate the painting was just a cover-up.

"You're not a good actor. Aren't you tired of pretending so fakely?" Connor whispered to the girl in the blue dress after taking another sip of his coffee, savoring the rich aroma of the Pauleta. He was certain that this girl in the blue dress was a wizard just like him, but he didn't know how powerful she was.

Connor's telepathic message seemed to surprise the girl in the blue dress, but she remained calm, her gaze still fixed on the oil painting on the wall. Her cherry lips parted slightly as she spoke to Connor in a voice that sounded completely unfamiliar to him: "Don't ask who I am. I know what you're looking for. I'm here to provide you with clues!"

Upon hearing the other party's telepathic message, Connor's eyes narrowed slightly, a fleeting glint of shrewdness flashing within them. He then replied telepathically, "Since you're here to provide me with clues, I'm all ears!"

(End of this chapter)