Chapter 155: 152 Intelligence

What should be done if a human Hero is encountered?

That is, of course—

Hide Pujji and do nothing!

Judging from the situation just now, the other party must not have discovered the scout Pujji; after all, there were so many people in the tavern, and the scout Pujji hid quickly.

However, Lin Jun still felt quite awkward; this awkwardness stemmed from the Hero being completely different from his impression.

Previously, what Dilan and Inanna said about the Hero was that he was a big shot who fought heaven and earth hundreds of years ago, killed the Demon King, and wiped out the Demon Race.

Every time he thought like this, he felt that perhaps he, this "Hero," could also have such a cool day someday.

Suddenly seeing a Lv. 18 Hero serving as a Garrison Chief on the Slave Island this time... how to say it... the gap was simply too huge...

Moreover, how could there be another real Hero besides himself?

Lin Jun even suddenly began to suspect whether the so-called Hero was something similar to raising gu, where a huge number are raised, and the one who finally achieves fame and success is the true Hero?

Although he couldn't figure out why a Hero would appear here, anyway, Lin Jun had no intention of getting involved with this Hero; just thinking about such things was troublesome.

So Lin Jun didn't even mention this to Dilan, only telling him to keep his distance from this Garrison Chief.

After Dilan left the tavern, following the address provided by the small one, he found a secluded basement, with only a red flower pattern on the door as a marker.

As soon as he pushed the door open, Dilan wrinkled his nose at the sweet, cloying smell of opium mixed in the air.

The basement space was very small, almost just a narrow corridor; at the very end was a counter, behind which sat a woman smoking.

The woman glanced up at Dilan, seeming quite surprised: "A guest actually came."

While speaking, whether intentionally or not, the woman pulled her collar even lower.

【Name: Meng Ya】

【Race: Succubus】

【Level: 36】

A real Succubus!

However, Lin Jun did not speak out to warn Dilan.

Looking at the woman posing seductively before him, Dilan's eyebrows furrowed even tighter—wasn't that small one teasing him, giving him the address of a pleasure house?

But Dilan still tentatively spoke the password: "Half a Sea Immortal Flower?"

"Sigh—" Meng Ya on the other side suddenly sighed, listlessly saying, "It's this business... speak, what do you want to inquire about?"

Dilan looked at her with a strange expression: "So... does your scope of business also include serving customers?"

"Interested?" Meng Ya looked at Dilan; it seemed she preferred another profession more than selling information.

Dilan decisively shook his head.

"I came to inquire about a person named Bella."

To Dilan's surprise, as soon as he finished saying the name, Meng Ya on the other side pulled out several documents from under the counter and threw them in front of Dilan, as if she had prepared them long ago.

"Two gold coins."

Dilan's eyebrows tightened; such a cheap price, and it looked like many copies had been sold...

After handing over two gold coins, he held the documents and read them right there.

The information was very detailed, clearly stating when Bella arrived on the island with which ship and what she did on the island.

Only at this moment did Dilan realize that the person who killed Glosa's secretary, which he had heard about before, was actually Bella!?

And at the end of the information, it was written: Escaped, whereabouts unknown.

This made Dilan both worried and relieved.

There was one last sheet behind; after flipping it open, the information on it was about a silver-rank middle-aged adventurer named Dilan, with the relationship to Bella being father and daughter...

Not good!

Dilan reached for the sword at his waist, but upon looking up, he saw a pair of purple eyes.

Those eyes seemed like a vortex; once they met Dilan's, he could no longer look away, and his hand gripping the sword loosened.

【Fixed Status: Charm】

"How strange, why did you show up on the island? Do you mind telling me?"

The boss Meng Ya's hand slid over Dilan's face while she spoke, but halfway through she suddenly stopped her action.

Meng Ya frowned, pulled her hand away, and a blood streak appeared on Dilan's face.

After being injured, 【Mimicry】 failed, revealing Dilan's green face covered in fungal filaments.

"Demon Race? Parasitic type!"

In the instant Meng Ya was flustered, the backpack behind Dilan suddenly jumped out; before she could react, the backpack straps wrapped around her hands and feet, choking her neck and lifting her up. What!?

Meng Ya wanted to resist; as long as she gave an order, this "Dilan" who was charmed would help her!

But the tentacles were tied far too tightly, and they were getting tighter and tighter; the pain and pleasure of suffocation surged into Meng Ya's brain simultaneously.

Unable to maintain the disguise any longer, the small wings and thin tail on her back were fully exposed.

Seeing that Meng Ya was about to faint, a black shadow holding a dagger jumped down from the ceiling.

The scout Pujji seemed to have expected this; only three tentacles restrained Meng Ya, while the free one swung upward, precisely knocking away that dagger, and incidentally hanging up the sneak attacker as well.

【Name: Stinky Fish】

【Race: Goblin】

【Level: 26】

【Fixed Status: Aging (all base attributes reduced by 20%)】

The Succubus on the side had already been strangled into rolling her eyes back; the Goblin, who had just been entangled and could still move, suddenly said:

"My Lord, spare my life! Spare my life! It's a misunderstanding among our own people! Let Stinky Fish go, and Stinky Fish will tell everything!"

This fellow not only begged for mercy in fluent Human Common Tongue, but then repeated it in the Demon Tongue.

Goblin plus Succubus.

This combination looked strange to Lin Jun no matter how he looked at it.

Meng Ya finally fainted dead away; at that same instant, Dylan, who had been stunned in place, came to his senses.

Only then did Lin Jun set the two creatures down, though he did not loosen the bound hands and feet of the Succubus.

The moment they touched the ground, the Goblin knelt on the floor and kept bowing his head in kowtows.

"Thank you, my lord! Thank you, my lord! It was all a misunderstanding! Meng Ya had eyes but no sight; she didn't know you two were also Imperial Demons!"

After kowtowing for quite a while, the Stinky Fish grabbed the Succubus and gave her a fierce beating, slapping her until she was upright again.

Meng Ya slowly came to, her mind not yet catching up, when the Goblin dragged her over and forced her to kneel aside.

Lin Jun ignored the two demons' occasional glances toward Puji, and told the now-sensible Dylan to go find some rope; binding the Succubus with fungal hyphae tentacles was inconvenient.

Dylan actually found rope under the counter; not just rope, but even a whip and other miscellaneous items...

"Which Duke do you serve?" Lin Jun asked through Dylan, adopting the attitude of a Demon among his own kind.

By now the Succubus had fully regained consciousness; she cast a glance at Dylan and Puji, then turned her face away in indignation.

"Hmph!"

Not cooperating... then let's just directly...

"Ouch, great lady, what are you pouting about!"

The Goblin, who had not been tied up because he posed no threat, kicked Meng Ya on the buttocks from the side, causing the latter to squirm in displeasure.

The Goblin then ran to the wall, pulled open a partition, took out a stack of intelligence files, and knelt before Puji once more.

"Two my lords, we are under the Night Kiss Duke; we are one of your own! Don't mind her; whatever she knows, I know! My lord, you must have come on a mission; feel free to look; it will surely be of some help to your mission!"

Looking at the Goblin whose will to survive was maxed out, though he didn't know who the Night Kiss Duke was, Puji still nodded in pretense.

But now Lin Jun was also quite conflicted.

He hadn't expected before coming that the information brokers here would turn out to be two Demons; it was somewhat too blatant, and it was hard to believe no one had discovered this.

Moreover, now that Dylan already knew news of his daughter, what should be done with these two?

This Goblin is so cooperative...

When Dylan left, Lin Jun thoughtfully locked the door from the inside for them.

The two Demons lay unconscious in the basement filled with hallucinogenic spores; unless someone else forcibly broke in, they would likely be out for a day.

He didn't kill them because of the presence of the small figure in the tavern; Dylan's approach to them had a trail to follow; killing them might only add trouble for no reason.

If intelligence personnel are killed, the other side will likely investigate; but if the two are not dead and merely feel they've been fleeced by a peer, they should choose to swallow their anger.

Anyway, they would leave Silver Shawan soon, so there was no fear of petty revenge.

The intelligence in the hands of the two Demons was very mixed, covering everything about Silver Shawan.

What truly caught Lin Jun's attention was one of their latest missions—monitoring the new garrison commander of Silver Shawan, Tian Qi.

(End of this chapter)