Chapter 43: The Fog Gradually Clears

  Mo Yan has delegated many of his rights, and currently, apart from providing some general guidance, he has handed over the details to others. However, this approach is not a big deal for Mo Yan, as he is not a person with strong control desires. To be honest, as the town grows bigger, there are more things to manage.

  Mo Yan is not the kind of person who can sit in an office every day, almost non-stop handling official business. So he needs all sorts of talents to help him, to help him manage this city and possibly a country. Currently, the First Legion is completely under Sarte's control, except for Mo Yan's direct orders, the demons will follow Sarte's commands.

  That's why Mo Yan formed the second legion, to restrain and balance the power under his command, a skill that a leader must have. After all, Mo Yan can't stay in the first legion every day, if those Sart people take advantage of Mo Yan's inattention and use their power to do something that Mo Yan doesn't want to see, Mo Yan won't be able to notice it either.

  There are now three forces in the city, Sart, Malo and Carthage. For these three people who originally served the original forces, Mo Yan gave the first legion to the Sart people, the second legion to the Carthaginians, while the Malo people were formed into the Party Guard, directly under Mo Yan's command.

  Among the three forces, the SS has the greatest power. They have the right to try any officer of the First and Second Corps, and in special cases can preemptively assassinate suspected traitors before reporting the incident to Mo Yan. However, among the three forces, the SS is indeed the smallest in number, and many procedures are controlled by Mo Yan.

  The First and Second Legions have the same number of demons, and are equal in terms of equipment and supplies. In fact, later on, Mo Yan should still think of ways to stir up small conflicts between the two legions, allowing them to compete with each other without causing major friction. This balance must be grasped well, otherwise it will get out of hand and lead to internal chaos.

  In addition to these powerful individuals, the two Mo Yaos were the most important in internal affairs. The supply mobilization, import and export trade, and diplomatic aspects of Lei Dian Ya were all handled by the two Mo Yaos, who would integrate them into reports before notifying Mo Yan, who would then make corresponding judgments and decisions.

  Two demonesses at Thundercliff, holding positions equivalent to those of other imperial chancellors, but in reality they were prohibited from contacting anyone with actual power. They could only handle paperwork, and the documents were currently arranged by Mo Yan An for Emily to be responsible for copying backups and reporting to the demonesses from time to time for comparison.

  If anything goes wrong, the succubi will have to bid farewell to their work and can only serve as Mo Yan's exclusive flesh tools from then on. If Mo Yan gets tired of them that day, what awaits them is a ruthless slaughter, for Mo Yan has always been a man of his word when it comes to certain promises.

  After the removal of the Thunder Cliff's rights holders, the largest at the bottom is a earth spirit called No. 1. He is in charge of all the hardworking earth spirits on Thunder Cliff, and has established his own team of earth spirits to manage a series of projects from farming, mining, logging, construction to smelting minerals.

  This earth spirit is rare and has a high level of intelligence, even able to develop its own management system based on the management method given by Mo Yan. All earth spirits who are injured due to labor will become food for other earth spirits. All earth spirits who do not work hard will become food for other earth spirits. All disobedient earth spirits will become food for other earth spirits.

  Under this management policy, combined with Mo Yan's reward method, the labor of the land spirits has almost never had any problems. Except for a period of time when too many land spirits were killed, resulting in a slight decrease in production. However, because only the smart ones remained, the later supplemented land spirits could quickly learn from other old land spirits and become familiar with the life style of the land spirits on Lei Ting Cliff.

  Apart from the dwarves, the grey dwarves are another group in the city. Although they are treated much better than the dwarves, they do not have any large organization. They are mostly divided into small teams, each team being responsible for an ironwork shop. Every day, apart from forging iron, they build the castle at the center of the city.

  Mo Yan did not restrict their freedom, and they could leave at any time if they wanted to. They were ordinary citizens in the city, but they had no right to influence the city, and they could only work. However, recently these gray dwarves, who were deliberately separated by Mo Yan, began to have the intention of organizing in taverns, and they also wanted to seek greater influence in the city.

  This is the current organizational structure of Thunder Bluff.

  "With this mood, studying the Lightning Ridge's Pyramid of Rights is pointless. Think about how to crack the case instead." Regal slammed the file in his hand and said to Matthew who was writing vigorously on the desk: "And what's with that flesh X-er? Where did you learn such a weird term?"

  "Yesterday, when I saw the city master, I happened to hear it." Matthew rubbed his temples and said: "By the way, how's your clue organized? It's been a day, and we still don't have any leads."

  "It's not like there's no headway at all, the general idea has already been sorted out." Reg said as he sat down in his own seat in the office. For now, the Party Guards were temporarily divided into a building near Mo Yan's villa as their office. After all, this was just an assessment, and the Party Guards' special training grounds were still under construction, let alone their garrison.

  "What have you found out?" Matthew scraped his chair against the floor, making a screeching noise as he sat down beside Regal and asked, "If it's assassination or something I'm still good at, but this stuff I don't understand."

  "It's clear that these people aren't messengers from the Council City or anything. The messenger proved to be something they pulled out to protect themselves when they were caught." Regal rummaged through his somewhat sore ear and said, "I retrieved their luggage from the First Legion and found this inside." Grael handed Matthew a few blank sheets of paper.

  "It's a hidden message." Matthew sniffed the paper and said, "We used to use this method too, and transmitted quite a bit of intelligence. However, now everyone understands it, so very few people use this thing anymore."

  "But apparently it's still a good method in Eran." Regal continued, "I've gotten the stuff off the paper, about the secret of why the Grey Dwarves can forge so many weapons. That thing is already considered a Thundercrag secret, these guys don't know who bribed that guy to get this."

  "It's clear they didn't make it back alive." Matthew furrowed his brow and said, "But at that time we were still out training, so who killed them? Was it just a coincidence?"

  "If anyone wanted to kill them," Reg said, "it would undoubtedly be our lord of the castle. But now the lord has us investigate this matter. If he is not covering up what he did, then it means that he does not know about this matter. I will go ask him at noon."

  "So let's put this issue aside for now. The missing seventh person is still the key to everything. As long as we can find him, everything will become clear."

  "Could this seventh person be the one who sells information?" Matthew said: "After all, the one who sells information will not stay after the transaction is completed."

  "It's very likely that's what happened." Reg said thoughtfully. "My current guess is that a group of spies from the Council City came to Thunder Cliff, intending to get their hands on the secret of Thunder Cliff's arms production. And they were successful in contacting someone who knew the inside story on the day they arrived, and even arranged to meet at an inn for a transaction."

  After the transaction was completed, the intelligence seller took the money and left. These people wrote down the obtained intelligence in invisible ink on the few pieces of paper we got. However, at this time someone knocked on the door, thinking it was a hotel staff member, several people hastily hid the intelligence and pretended to be chatting, then sent one person to open the door.

  However, the person who entered was not a hotel staff member, but something that didn't know whether it was a demon or what. He killed the doorman at the moment he opened the door. Then the entrance activated a demon or magical item, isolating the sound of the entire room. Then he killed others in the house and left after scattering wolf hair.

  "There are only three things that have yet to be clarified: the intention behind leaving wolf hair, whether the perpetrator is human or a demon, and who the person selling information is."

  "Oh oh oh...... Although I don't understand what you're saying." Matthew clapped his hands with a surprised face and said: "But it sounds really cool!"

  "Then you're listening with a face that says you understand!" Regal kicked over Matthew's stool and shouted: "I've spent so much effort, analyzing the reasons so clearly with you, and yet in the end you tell me you didn't understand a thing? You're asking for trouble!"

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