Chapter 259: Two Poles Reversal

After the sound in the room lasted for a long time, it gradually returned to deathly silence.

For the mastermind who dominates everything, in fact, solving a hunter is not too big a problem.

The only difficulty is that the hunter is the Saintess, the "future star" highly regarded in the sect.

This destined that once something happens to her, it will not be easily fooled like Baruk, and will attract attention.

Therefore, this matter must be done perfectly.

This is a bit troublesome... but only a bit.

Catherine walked on the main road of Phoenix.

The flow of people on the street was bustling.

This is a unique scene in the Northern Realm.

But she knew that this liveliness was only relative to the Northern Realm.

Phoenix, placed in the outside world, is actually just a very inconspicuous small city, and the so-called prosperity is just a small scene not worth mentioning.

It is said that in big cities in the outside world, when it comes to festivals, the streets will be full of crowds wearing festival costumes, surrounding various floats for parades.

The wide road, which is several times wider than Phoenix, will be crowded with enthusiastic people.

In front of those floats, there will be bands playing, clowns with big noses on stilts.

Wherever the floats pass, ribbons fly and laughter drifts.

On both sides of the street are children watching.

At that time, people on the floats will sprinkle candies in large handfuls, attracting children to scramble for them.

Candies? That is such a rare thing; even she has only heard of it and has never seen it with her own eyes.

Thinking of this, Catherine, who was born in the Northern Realm and had never left the Northern Realm, felt a bit of yearning.

Such liveliness and prosperity, what would it be like? It's just that Catherine's yearning is not yearning for the outside world.

She yearns to see such a prosperous scene in the Northern Realm in her lifetime.

Although she also knows very clearly in her heart that this is almost impossible.

The history of the Northern Realm for so many years has only had one unique seedling like Phoenix.

If you want to see such a big change in the Northern Realm in her limited lifespan, which is extremely short relative to the history of the Northern Realm, unless a miracle appears...

Thinking about these miscellaneous things, Catherine walked toward the place where bounty missions were issued and taken.

After a small week, the bounty mission they used to cover up had been completed.

What she has to do now is to settle the mission.

It's just that Catherine had only walked halfway when she was stopped by someone in a hurry.

She looked closely and quickly recognized that it was the servant she had seen at Elder Grant's place a few days ago.

"What's the matter?" Catherine asked strangely.

"Elder Grant's side has investigated some useful information, let me notify you to rush over immediately."

He seemed very anxious, "I went to your residence to call you, but you weren't there, and I searched on the street for a long time. Fortunately, I still found you." The servant said, panting, seeming a little nervous.

"So that's it..." Catherine's heart moved, and her attention had been attracted by the "useful news" in the servant's mouth.

Of course, she also noticed the servant's nervousness.

However, she didn't care, purely treating it as the other party's nervousness about the high-circle Ice-Born magic user and the panic of not finding anyone to pass the message.

"Then I'll rush over, don't delay things." Catherine said.

The servant heard this, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly opened his mouth to stop Catherine, who was preparing to set off on her own: "Elder Grant is waiting for you at another private residence; you follow me, I'll lead the way."

"Oh, that's fine, you lead the way quickly." Catherine didn't think much either.

After all, Elder Grant's residence is located in the central area of Phoenix, and coming in and out is somewhat eye-catching; changing to a private place to talk is also reasonable.

Under the guidance of the servant, Catherine turned into a small alley on the main road, and then twisted and turned through various buildings of different sizes.

"Elder Grant actually has a private residence in such a place." Catherine looked at the increasingly narrow streets and alleys, slightly surprised.

"A private residence must be hidden deeper..." The servant's footsteps paused slightly, and then he explained carefully.

Catherine frowned slightly, not knowing why, and gradually noticed some weirdness.

But Phoenix is only a "small city" after all, so just at this time, the two had already arrived at their destination.

It was a residential house in a dark alley, built with gray stones, with doors made of animal bones and animal skins.

Catherine sized it up and didn't find anything special.

"Elder Grant is waiting for you inside."

Since she was already here, Catherine put down her doubts for the time being, lifted the door curtain, and walked in.

The servant didn't follow in and waited outside.

This is also very normal; their subsequent conversation involved some secrets, and these servants were naturally not suitable for eavesdropping.

This residential house was neither big nor small; after Catherine came in, she swept a glance and didn't see anyone.

She frowned slightly, walked inside, and lifted the animal skin curtain of the inner room, preparing to enter the inner room.

But just at the moment of lifting the animal skin curtain, Catherine's nose moved slightly, and her brows instantly frowned tightly.

As a hunter's keen sense of smell, she smelled an unusual smell of blood at this moment... Catherine's heart tightened, and her reaction was extremely fast.

"Something's wrong!"

But just as she noticed the abnormality of this matter and prepared to leave this place immediately, messy but urgent footsteps and a loud shout came from outside.

"It's here; I heard some strange sounds in the night, and then smelled the smell of blood. Later, I gathered the courage to take a peek, and sure enough, I found something wrong..."

The next moment, a boom of an explosion sounded.

One wall of this residential house, together with the front door, was blown open extremely rudely.

A group of Ice-Born magic users wearing armor with the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe emblem rushed over from outside the collapsed wall and surrounded Catherine in an instant.

And Catherine had also completely lifted the animal skin curtain of the inner room at this time, seeing the scene inside clearly.

Seven or eight corpses, also wearing Enduring Zhenbing Tribe armor, were lying in the inner room.

The corpses were still very fresh; it looked like the time of death should not exceed one day.

Catherine now understood where she could not know that she had fallen into a terrible trap carefully set for her.

That servant of Elder Grant made her relax her vigilance, so she easily fell into the trick. The matter developed to the current point, Catherine naturally would not be stupid enough to shout that she was lured here, and that she had just arrived, and to find that servant to prove that she was wronged.

A carefully set trap will not leave such flaws.

The mastermind has many ways to make the traces of that servant disappear; whether it is direct silencing, or having already arranged an alibi, etc., are all possible.

This scene has already been framed on her, and it cannot be defended.

The question is, who did it?

Also, what should be done now? Although Catherine was angry like fire in her heart, her brain at this moment was very calm.

Facing these surrounding Enduring Zhenbing Tribe Ice-Born magic users, to be honest, with her strength, she could completely kill them all in the shortest time, and then escape Phoenix before the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe reacted.

However, if she did this, whether these people were killed by her or not would no longer be important.

And as the Saintess of the Snowfield Guardians, bearing such a crime would not only be her own business, but would even involve and trigger contradictions and even wars between the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe and the sect.

Cannot resist; at least there is still a little chance to prove her innocence.

In an instant, Catherine made the wisest decision, and her heart also cooled a lot.

She could be sure that since the other party set up such a trap, they would inevitably guess her reaction, so eight or nine out of ten there would also be follow-up arrangements.

This time, she wanted to prove her innocence, which was clearly not a simple matter.

The only thing to be glad about is that she was not with Luo Yiqi.

Otherwise, if both were framed, it would really be calling heaven and heaven not responding, calling earth and earth not responding.

"Take her down and bring her back!" The leader among the group of Ice-Born magic users issued an order.

Catherine lowered her head.

Since she had already made a decision in her heart, she didn't have the idea of changing her mind again.

She just started thinking about another question.

Who did it?

As soon as she thought about this question, many clear veins emerged in her mind.

Catherine considered herself not having offended anyone; if she really had to say she offended someone, it was only closely related to what she was doing at the moment.

Therefore, it should be the mastermind who led the Baruk incident and practiced forbidden necromancy.

Being able to set up this kind of trap in Phoenix in just one week... the status and status of this mastermind have exceeded any one she initially expected.

More importantly, she clearly had already created the illusion of "earning extra money" in Phoenix, and the other party still used this means to frame her.

Clearly, this mastermind had already determined her true purpose.

How could the other party point directly to the essence in such a short time?

There must be clear intelligence guidance.

"The only flaw is that the request for help reported by the branch's teaching priest after Gao De appeared, from this news, it can be known that I should be tracking Gao De at this time, and should not appear in Phoenix."

"But with my status, after taking over this mission, the confidentiality level of the news will rise. There are no more than three people in the entire sect who have the authority to know that I am responsible for this mission... so theoretically, this flaw does not exist either."

"Wait..." The next instant, Catherine suddenly thought of a very terrible possibility.

Could it be... the mastermind is among those three? How is it possible?! This idea popped up, Catherine first had a shiver all over, and then subconsciously shook her head.

Practicing forbidden necromancy is equivalent to betraying the sect.

And those three are the actual rulers of the sect.

In other words, would a king of a country betray the country?

In the process of Catherine's thinking, the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe's Ice-Born magic users had already stepped forward and took out shackles.

"I will go with you; there's no need for shackles," Catherine raised her head and said to the leading Ice-Born magic user: "I am a hunter of the Snowfield Guardians. I believe there must be some misunderstanding in this; it was someone else who framed me. I will find evidence to prove my innocence."

The leading Ice-Born magic user was stunned for a moment, then thought about it, and nodded toward the Ice-Born magic users under his command.

That person put away the shackles.

"Let's go." Catherine said to these Enduring Zhenbing Tribe Ice-Born magic users.

When Gao De returned to the residential house where he had lived for a week, he found that Luo Yiqi, who had been busy with bounty missions and outside all week, was also there.

"Mission finished? Where is Catherine?" He asked casually while closing the door.

Luo Yiqi, who was very easy to talk to in the past, actually didn't respond to his words today.

He turned his head and saw that Luo Yiqi's expression today was unusually solemn, with some anxiety, annoyance, and suppressed anger in his eyes.

Gao De was stunned, and then associated with Catherine, whom he didn't see, and guessed something all of a sudden.

"Catherine is in trouble?"

Only then did Luo Yiqi nod and respond in a muffled voice: "Hmm."

"What's wrong? What happened?"

Gao De was surprised in his heart; although he didn't know Catherine's exact magic user rank, he could see that she was a tough nut to crack; how could she easily get into trouble? "She was framed." Since the topic was opened, Luo Yiqi, who was stuffy in his heart, simply told everything like complaining: "Someone killed a team of Enduring Zhenbing Tribe Ice-Born magic users who were escorting prey back to Phoenix, took away the frost giant lizard hatchling with thin dragon blood they brought back, and framed this matter on Catherine. Now she has been taken back by the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe's magic users."

"It should be that the mastermind in the sect discovered that we were investigating him, so he used this means to frame Catherine."

Good fellow, this is a two-pole reversal; Catherine, who forcibly took him to Phoenix, now also tasted the taste of being restricted in freedom... Gao De's heart tightened, but he didn't gloat.

Because in this matter, he and Luo Yiqi and Catherine were instead in a relationship of glory and loss.

The two forcibly binding him to Phoenix certainly made him unhappy, but the mastermind Catherine mentioned would definitely kill him to silence him, which was also very likely.

This mastermind, who could be powerful enough to pit Catherine in, killing him, a magic user who had just advanced to the First Circle, wouldn't it be even more effortless? "Aren't you and Elder Grant very familiar? Can't you find him to help out?" Gao De asked hurriedly.

Hearing Gao De say this, Luo Yiqi's face became even uglier, and after being silent for a moment, he slowly opened his mouth:

"As soon as I knew Catherine was in trouble, I went to Elder Grant..."

"He refused to help?!" Seeing Luo Yiqi's expression, Gao De knew there was no good result.

"It's not that he refused, it's just that he is unable to protect himself now, and can't take care of us." Luo Yiqi was full of depression.

"Unable to protect himself... how do you say?"

"Just two days ago, the Jin Hui Wheat seedlings of the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe had some problems, and they began to lose vitality one by one and wither, but they couldn't find out where the problem was."

"Grant is responsible for the cultivation of Jin Hui Wheat in the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe, and Jin Hui Wheat is an extremely important and valuable crop for the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe."

"If the problem of Jin Hui Wheat is not solved as soon as possible, his elder position will be over. At this juncture, he really has no time to worry about our affairs."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 260 =====