Wizard Earl

Chapter 95 An Encounter at the Reservoir (Please vote and add to your favorites!)

Because a terrorist organization once attempted to poison the Mendi Reservoir, in order to protect the personal safety and property of the citizens of Luen from any infringement, a special military police patrol and guard the area within a ten-mile radius of the Mendi Reservoir. No one may enter or leave without permission. Violators will be punished according to the provisions of the "Kaman Empire Citizen Security Law," depending on the severity of the circumstances, with a minimum of three months of detention, a fine of five gold pounds, and a maximum of hanging.

Arriving at the outskirts of Mendy Reservoir, Connor hid behind a pine tree, discreetly observing the military police marching along the mountain path in front of him.

It was a standard twelve-man Imperial Military Police squad. All twelve men were dressed in black cotton uniforms and carried a rifle. The man at the front had a revolver tucked into his waistband, and he looked like the squad leader.

"Every thirty minutes?" Kang An murmured to himself as he watched the military police squad gradually disappear from his sight, a hint of surprise in his eyes.

This was his first time at Mendy Reservoir, but judging from the map, the entire area of ​​Mendy Reservoir wasn't very large. Connor estimated that with his current physical abilities, which were almost at the level of a Grand Knight, it wouldn't take him more than an hour to search the entire area of ​​Mendy Reservoir. According to his observation, the military police patrolled every half hour, which was a huge gap in time, making it very easy to evade them.

Without any hesitation, Connor flashed into the woods near Mendy Reservoir. He needed to find the coordinates Reyes had given him as soon as possible: the third large locust tree!

Things seemed to go much more smoothly than Connor expected. In less than ten minutes of searching, Connor found a row of huge locust trees that were at least ten years old.

Having quickly located the third large locust tree, Connor began his operation, using two shadow daggers in alternating attacks, and soon dug a large pit under the tree.

"Click!"

With a crisp sound, the Shadow Dagger seemed to have touched something. Connor's mind raced, and he quickly stopped digging, carefully pulling the object out of the pit.

It was a briefcase. After carefully examining the briefcase, Connor nodded slightly, then with a flick of his sleeve, the scattered dirt instantly filled the large pit that Connor had just dug.

"Semedo, wasn't that chick from last week hot?" Just as Connor was putting his suitcase into his spatial ring and preparing to retreat, a man's teasing voice reached Connor's ears. Connor's expression changed slightly upon hearing this, but he remained very calm and quickly hid behind the nearest large locust tree.

"Hehe, don't let that skinny appearance fool you, that chick has no boobs or butt, she's really tight..." the man called Semedo said with a grin.

Seeing that the other party seemed not to have noticed him, Connor slowly released his mental energy. Instantly, a three-dimensional image appeared in Connor's mind. About a hundred meters away from Connor, two men dressed as imperial military police were squatting on the ground, smoking one cigarette after another.

Seeing that the two military policemen seemed to have arrived unintentionally, Connor felt slightly relieved and began to focus his mental energy on them. According to the feedback from his mental energy, the two military policemen were ordinary people, except that each of them carried a rifle on their back.

However, just as Connor realized that the appearance of the two military police officers was merely a coincidence and was about to leave quietly, the two military police officers happened to walk towards Connor.

"FUCK!" Connor cursed inwardly, stopping in his tracks and taking out his two shadow daggers from his spatial ring.

With his current abilities, he could kill those two military policemen virtually without a sound. In an instant, Connor even planned out the entire process: a stealthy attack with his Shadow Dagger, taking down both men, then incinerating their bodies with Flame Spell, dumping the ashes into the Mendy Reservoir, cleaning up the scene, and leaving...

However, Connor did not want to kill unless absolutely necessary. This was not because Connor had any qualms about it, but because the people he was killing were military police, especially in the sensitive Mendy Reservoir, which controls the water supply for the entire city of Loen. If the killing was not handled properly, it would cause a lot of trouble.

"Roberto, what time are those fishermen coming tonight?" The gendarme, whom his companion had just called Semedo, asked quietly as they entered the locust grove.

"Don't worry, Semedo and the others will arrive at nine o'clock tonight. You don't have to do anything. Just let them in during your patrols, and you'll get one shilling!" Roberto lightly punched Semedo's shoulder and quietly handed him a one-shilling note.

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Seeing what these two were up to, Connor understood what was going on. Because no one else was allowed to enter the area near Mendi Reservoir, no fishermen appeared. Over time, the aquatic resources in Mendi Reservoir became very rich. No special preparations were needed; a single cast of the net would yield a bountiful harvest. Judging from the furtive appearance of these two military policemen, it was no surprise that the patrolling military police had allowed the fishermen to enter and fish without permission, and the fishermen had given the military police a bribe.

After accepting the bribe from his companion, the military policeman known as Semedo chatted with his companion about some details not far from Connor before hurriedly leaving.

Watching the backs of the two military policemen, Connor emerged from behind the tree where he had been hiding. He was certain that the two military policemen had not noticed him. While they were talking, Connor's mental energy had been monitoring the two men. If anything unusual happened to them, the Shadow Dagger would slit their throats.

"I didn't expect the military police here to have been bribed. What if someone is pretending to be a fisherman..." Thinking of this, Connor couldn't help but look down at his spatial ring containing the suitcase, and a question arose in his mind.

"Reyes has so many storage locations available for this suitcase, why did he specifically choose to put it at Mendy Reservoir? Could there be some deeper meaning behind Reyes's actions?"

Without time to think, Connor quickly retreated from the vicinity of Mendy Reservoir and returned to his carriage, where he opened the briefcase Reyes had left him.

"Komoin gemstones, golden poplar wood, mithril..."

Looking at the various precious raw materials in the suitcase, Connor's heart trembled. If all the materials in front of him were converted into gold pounds, it would conservatively be estimated to be more than 10,000 gold pounds.

(End of this chapter)