Chapter 1325 Accidental Death
No matter how perfect the plan is, there may be huge deviations when it is implemented. Leo and Sylvia did not wait for Shaw's list, but waited for the news of Shaw's death first.
Almost on the third day after meeting with Shaw, Bain Ruf, the patriarch of the Ruf family, secretly came to the manor at night to meet Leo and Sylvia. One was to tell the two that Shaw's death was informed, and the other was to say that the cooperation they talked about with Shaw, the Ruf family would still carry out. Bain also brought a list, which he said was handed over to him before Shaw's death.
Although Bain did not say it clearly, it is not difficult to hear from his tone that he believes Shaw's death is related to this list.
"How did Mr. Shaw die?" Leo took the list from Bain and did not look at the content above, but asked Shaw's cause of death.
"I don't know." Bain shook his head and said, "No problem can be found, it's like natural death, but I'm sure he won't die like this, our death is not like this."
Leo hesitated for a moment and said, "Can I see Mr. Shaw's body?"
Bain shook his head again and said, "Before I came, his body had been sent into the mountain according to the rules of our family."
Hearing Bain's words, Leo was stunned for a moment, then looked at Sylvia beside him, and asked, "Is there a person who doubts?"
Bain didn't say anything, but looked at the list on Leo's table.
Leo nodded slightly and continued to ask, "Do you understand the agreement between me and Mr. Shaw, Mr. Bain?"
Bain nodded and said, "I understand. He told me the agreement I reached with you when he went back that day."
"Our agreement continues, and the forest farm is still left to your Rufu family to take care of it." Leo said, pretending to be hesitant: "As for the other part of the agreement..."
"Still continue." Bain said quickly.
Leo said in a deep voice: "Since that's the case, we can help you block the pressure from the Utter Federation according to the agreement. As for Patch, you will deal with it yourself, and as for the price, follow the contents of the agreement."
"The price?" Bain was stunned and asked, "What is the price in the agreement?"
"Didn't Mr. Shaw tell you?" Leo frowned and said.
Bain quickly replied: "He passed away before he told me this. What is the price in the agreement?"
Leo pointed to the list beside him and said, "Mr. Shaw does not fully trust our abilities, so he took out this list. When we resolve the people on this list through official power, our cooperation agreement will be officially reached. At that time, I will use my official power to suppress Patch's staff in the Federation. You can solve Patch before the Crowley's family comes out of the mountains. As for the reward for our assistance, it is very simple." As he said, he took out a leaf from his arms and said, "He will take us into the mountains to find the source of this leaf."
"Holy Tree Leaves?" Bain couldn't help but murmur after seeing the leaves.
Leo nodded and said, "It seems that you know this leaf and you should also know where the source of this leaf is. You are also qualified to continue to implement our cooperation agreement."
Bain suddenly shook his head and said, "Impossible, he can't take you to the Holy Tree."
"No, he will, when he faces greater interests and greater pressure, he will do things he didn't want to do before." Leo looked at Bain calmly and said, "It seems that you are not going to complete the agreement set by Mr. Shaw. Since that's the case, then just pretend that the agreement does not exist! I will still leave the matters of the forest farm to your family. As for other things, you will pretend that you have never heard of it."
Bain quickly said, "Wait, wait! I have never said that I would not agree to complete the agreement, but the content of the agreement was a bit unexpected."
"No, you don't have to rush to answer," Leo raised his hand to signal the other party not to rush, and continued: "You obviously do not fully understand the agreement between Mr. Shaw and me, and some of the contents are beyond your expectations. Any promises you make in your current state are unreliable, so you'd better think calmly after going back and thinking about whether you should agree to this agreement. Just during this period, I can also use my influence to solve the people on the list, so that you can see that I really have the ability to help you. At that time, you will decide whether to continue to implement the agreement. What do you think?"
After hearing Leo's words, Bain relaxed a little, but he did not stop any longer. He said that he would seriously consider it when he went back, so he got up and left.
After Bain left, Leo turned to look at Sylvia and asked, "What do you think?"
Sylvia replied: "It should be him, there is the blood mark I left on Shaw."
Leo said thoughtfully: "I didn't expect this seemingly honest and honest man would take such a ruthless move and kill Shaw directly. Is Shaw still his uncle?"
Sylvia smiled and said, "Shawk's death is so good for him. At least he can truly take charge of the Rufu family. I was surprised that he could endure it for so many years. According to the information, he seems to have been in the position of patriarch of the Rufu family for almost twenty years."
At the beginning, neither Leo nor Sylvia had any doubts about Bain, because Bain had portrayed his image as a reckless man so much for so many years. Leo and Sylvia, who had only read the information of the Roof family, subconsciously believed that Bain was the type of plan executor who charged on the front line.
But when Bain refused to check out Shaw's body and used the words of sending the body into the mountain to vague Leo, Leo and Sylvia immediately aroused the suspicion of Leo and Sylvia, because they both knew very well that the lumberjack family did send the bodies of family members into the mountain, but no matter which lumberjack family would only send people into the mountain on the fifth day after the death of the deceased. It was never possible to directly send Shaw's body into the mountain like now.
So, after the two exchanged their opinions with their eyes, Sylvia used his secret technique to check the blood mark he left on Shaw's body that day. Finally, he found that the blood mark had been transferred to Bain, and the transfer characteristics and conditions of the blood mark also showed that Bain was the one who killed Shaw himself.
Leo didn't care whether Bain killed Shaw. He only cared about whether Bain could be used by him. Now it's a good thing to look at Shaw's death. At least Bain was not sure what Shaw's cooperation agreement was, which gave him room for manipulation, such as the temptation just now.
This time, the test learned at least two things. One thing was that the lumberjacks knew where the tree in the depths of Mount Trub was, and the second thing was that the tree had a very high status in the minds of the lumberjacks. According to their name for the tree and the Carita Demon contract, it is very likely that the tree had some relationship with the Carita Demon.
Leo told Sylvia what he had just guessed, and Sylvia pondered for a moment and said, "I think I know what's going on?"
Sylvia's inexplicable words made Leo feel a little puzzled, but he did not ask, but waited aside to let Sylvia say the answer himself.
"Can't you cooperate with me?" Sylvia said dissatisfied when she saw Leo's actions.
"Uh!" Leo was stunned for a moment, smiled, and cooperated with a curious expression, and said, "What did you think of?"
"No sincerity." Sylvia tapped Leo's forehead with her finger, then returned to the topic, and said, "I suspect that a Carita Demon has come to this world and is integrated with this world."
Hearing this, Leo frowned. Based on the knowledge of the abyss he gained, Carita Demon was very cautious in his character and never left the abyss. Even if his contract had successfully evolved into a god in another world, and dragged that world into the abyss bit by bit, He would never enter the world that should be considered extremely safe for him. Therefore, Leo felt that Sylvia's speculation was a bit untrue.
Sylvia seemed to know that her speculation was contrary to common sense, but she didn't care and continued: "Under normal circumstances, it is indeed impossible for the Karita Demon to leave the abyss. Even if they encounter danger of death, they will choose to die in the abyss, because in this way they may use the power of the abyss to resurrect, or use the backhand they left in advance to resurrect. But there is a situation that may cause the Karita Demon to have to leave the abyss and venture into other worlds."
"Are you talking about the contract backlash?" Leo soon realized what Sylvia was going to say, but he was puzzled: "The contract backlash of Cocarita's contract backlash is just a legend and has never happened."
Sylvia reminded: "You should think about it the other way around. If it hasn't happened, then how did this legend come about?"
Leo said in confusion: "Even if the contract is backfiring, the Karita Demon only needs to come to this world and try to terminate the contract. But now He has made so many contracts, doesn't He want to go back to the abyss?"
Sylvia shrugged and said, "I don't know much about this, but I can be sure that if the Carita Demon really came to this world, judging from the current situation of this world, His situation would definitely be bad." As she said, she paused and said, "If we can find Him, maybe we can..."
Leo nodded slightly. He knew very well what Sylvia meant. If it was just a simple Karita Demon, it would not be worth the fight between the two of them. But if it was a Karita Demon who had begun to merge with this world and could use some of the power of the world's laws, then his value would be incomparable.
Especially since this Carita Demon is in a bad state and does not have enough resistance, this is simply a good thing that a pie falls from the sky.
Leo said in a deep voice: "This matter is not urgent. We need to lead the lumberjack family to enter the mountain without getting lost, and we also need to lead willingly."
In fact, in the past two days, Leo and Sylvia have tried to go deep into the depths of Trub Mountain, and even secretly followed a group of members of the lumberjack family who entered the mountain. However, they all inexplicably encountered some forces that even they could not resist. They got lost in the mountains, and then walked out inexplicably.
Leo tried to use his psychic wings to fly through the air, but as a result, Trubo Mountain's forbidden air power was stronger than outside, and his psychic wings could not even allow him to glide in the air.
They also tried to walk directly from the top of the tree, but getting lost still occurs. According to the data records on the general recorder, they always spin in place and finally turn to leave the direction outside the mountain.
This made them realize that the power contained in Trubo Mountain far exceeded that of the demigod, and it was probably the real power of the gods. It was only when they realized this that they gave up the idea of going directly to the mountain to find the source of the leaf.
In order to get Bain from the Roof family to take the bait as soon as possible, Leo sent two improved grenades that had been made in the past two days together with that list to send Cardi to the capital through special channels of the Secret Service, and added a note to that list, indicating that the people on the list may collude with church countries outside to try to stop the development of new weapons.
If it were normal circumstances, the list sent by Leo would definitely not cause any trouble. After all, he was just a foreigner, and many of the people on the list were famous people from Josh County. How could anyone believe in the suspicion of a foreigner?
But now it is different with new weapons. The grenades made by Leo have become the new weapon that the Utter Federation attaches most importance to. In this case, anything that affects the development of such weapons is not a trivial matter to them.
Even if they still doubt the authenticity of this list, they will definitely arrest these people first and review them slowly with the mentality of believing in it, as long as one of them has problems, the others will definitely not be able to gain freedom in a short period of time.
At that time, as long as Bain sees this situation, he will definitely think that Leo has a strong influence on the Otter Federation, so that he will seriously consider whether he should continue the so-called cooperation agreement with Leo.
In the following days, Leo and Sylvia were secretly monitoring these lumberjack families. Compared with the calmness within other lumberjack families, there were some small fluctuations within the Ruf family due to Shaw's death.
When Shaw was still alive, he held all the power of the Ruf family. The patriarch Bain was just a decoration, and Bain also played his image as a reckless man very well, making no one in the family afraid of him or respect him. So after Shaw's death, Bain wanted to take the power of the family, and many people jumped out to question Bain's ability.
Fortunately, Bain had already anticipated this. He had secretly controlled many young and majestic people and prepared a batch of weapons. When those who questioned him were dancing happily, they were beaten to them in one go, completely solving the problem of excessive power.
Chapter completed!