Circle of Inevitability
Chapter 122

Each had his own plans

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Baron Brignais didn't answer Lumian's question immediately. He put down the Peach Wood-colored Pipe and took a leisurely sip of coffee.

After a few seconds, he smiled and said, "I am not an official, and I have no obligation to help them catch wanted criminals.

"If you hand over a person with a wanted warrant upon seeing him, then we Savoie Gang will lose a lot of outstanding talents.

"The most important thing is that the amount of your reward is not high, and it is far from the level that makes me excited. Of course, if you do anything detrimental to us in Market District, I don't mind tying you up and finding someone to send you to the door of Police Station in exchange for a considerable bounty."

The hidden meaning of Baron Brignais is: Savoie Gang itself has many wanted people. As long as you obey, I can pretend that I haven't seen you.

"You let people follow me just to confirm what I plan to do?" Lumian"It suddenly dawned on me."

Baron Brignais nodded appreciatively:

"I'm glad you understand what I mean."

Lumian glanced across the faces of those Thug, and said calmly, "Since you saw my wanted poster, you should have seen a few others as well.

"I only intend to do one thing when I come to Trier, and that is to find them."

"Very good." Baron Brignais understood that Lumian said this to show that he was not hostile to Savoie Gang.

He then pointed to the chair opposite the booth:

"Would you like a cup of coffee?"

"No need." Lumian declined Baron Brignais's invitation, "I just want to find those people as soon as possible."

Then, he opened his arms and said, "Praise Sun, let us all live in the light!"

After saying that, Lumian turned around and walked towards the stairs step by step, not caring that his back was exposed to the hidden muzzles of those Thug.

After his footsteps disappeared into the stairs, Baron Brignais looked at the reserved Missiri and said in a gentle voice, "Tell me in detail how you were discovered by him and how you were forced by him. Don't miss any detail."

After giving the instructions, Baron Brignais held the Peach Wood-colored Pipe in his mouth, leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes.

Missiri gingerly told his story from beginning to end.

After listening to his description, one of the Thug said angrily, "Baron, why didn't you teach that kid a lesson just now and let him leave so easily?"

Baron Brignais tapped the Peach Wood-colored Pipe twice on the table, and asked with a smile, "Teach him a lesson?"

"Do you know how much Sequence he is, what abilities he has, and what weapons he has?"

"I don't know." Thug answered honestly.

Baron Brignais stood up amidst the sound of the chair retreating, holding the Peach Wood-colored Pipe in his right hand, and slammed it on the head of the Thug.

In the sound of banging, Thug's forehead cracked slightly, and bright red blood flowed out, but he did not dare to scream or hide, he just stood there with a look of fear on his face, timidly.

Baron Brignais took back Pipe and looked at him with a cold expression:

"How dare you teach him a lesson when you don't know any information?

"Come here, let me take my seat for you. Let's see how long you can survive!"

Before Thug could respond, Baron Brignais smiled again.

He took out the folded white handkerchief from his breast pocket, wiped Pipe, and said as if chatting, "Didn't you find that there is something wrong with Lumian Li's wanted order?"

"The difference between the bounty for catching him and the bounty for providing clues is too small. One is only 3000 Felkine, while the other is 500.

"What does this mean? It means that the official does not want us to deal with Lumian·Li directly, but to provide intelligence and let them do it themselves.

"I can only think of two reasons for doing this. One is that Lumian·Li is very dangerous, and allowing the Bounty Hunters to capture him will cause widespread casualties and unnecessary losses. The second is that Lumian·Li has something quite precious, and the official does not want it to fall into the hands of Bounty Hunter.

"If I just taught Lumian·Li a lesson, it would be better in the second case. If it is the first possibility, what do you think is our hope of survival?"

That Thug nodded frequently and did not dare to argue.

Baron Brignais sat down again, picked up the coffee cup and said, "Furthermore, from his performance in dealing with Missiri, from his daring to come directly to find me, we can see that he is a ruthless, decisive person with a certain degree of confidence in his own strength.

"I bet that if I had mainly threatened him and wanted him to surrender completely, he would have taken action immediately. He really dared to kill someone.

"Haha, this is his advantage and also his disadvantage. Without knowing my strength or how many ambushes there are here, he dares to come here with the idea of killing people and silencing them. Sooner or later he will suffer from this."

Baron Brignais took a sip of coffee and closed his eyes:

"Let's take another look and see if we can give him some help and protection. This kind of ruthless country boy with a wanted warrant is a very useful knife."

Outside Breeze Ballroom.

Lumian looked back at the white Orb-shaped Statues composed of skulls, and walked towards the nearest Public Carriage station.

On the way here, he had actually made a plan to kill people and silence them, but in the end he did not implement it.

What he expected was that once Baron Brignais threatened him with a wanted warrant or showed a certain degree of hostility, he would pretend to be afraid and tell the other party that he was wanted because he took a very powerful Beyonder weapon from Cordou Village Ruins, and he was willing to hand it over in exchange for Protection.

If Baron Brignais is not weak, has strong self-confidence, and is willing to let Lumian approach with weapons, then when Lumian gets close, he will get angry and pretend to assassinate, but in fact he will actively put "Fallen Mercury" into the opponent's hands.

In that case, the Baron Brignais that is not wearing Gloves will become this Evil Dagger's Marionette, and after many days of getting along, and "communication" from time to time, "Fallen Mercury" no longer dares to violate Lumian's words to a certain extent. As long as it does not conflict with its instinct to find "Blade-Bearer", it will do things according to Lumian's instructions, even if it has been mastered by others.

At that time, Baron Brignais will definitely change his attitude and turn his enemies into friends. After a few days, no one will suspect Lumian, and he will mysteriously disappear from Underground Trier's Depths with a few knowledgeable Subordinates, never to appear again.

What if Baron Brignais didn't let Lumian approach with "Fallen Mercury", but let one of the Thug take the silver-black Dagger, then Lumian's strategy is to first turn that Thug into "Blade-Bearer", then use words to cover up his abnormality, and give corresponding instructions to "Fallen Mercury".

After that, let that Marionette raid Baron Brignais and exchange it for Destiny, which becomes "Blade-Bearer".

After completing this matter, if Lumian can break through, he will break out, if he cannot break through, he will surrender, and wait for the exchange of Destiny to be completed - even if the original Marionette dies because he can no longer attack, as long as "Fallen Mercury" itself is not seriously injured, the exchange of Destiny will not be interrupted.

As for the torture he might suffer after surrendering, Lumian didn't care at all. As long as he didn't die, he would be able to fully recover by six o'clock the next morning.

And Baron Brignais becomes "Blade-Bearer". After Living Corpse is transformed, there are signs of decay and it is easy for others to detect abnormalities. Lumian has also thought of a solution:

Baron Brignais himself said that in Trier, it is very common for men Makeup, and he himself should be a loyal reader of "The Aesthetics of Men".

Perfume can cover up corpse odor, and powder can cover rotting skin!

Frankly speaking, in Café on the second floor of Breeze Ballroom, Lumian had some struggles and was hesitant to take action.

The reason that finally made him give up was that Baron Brignais showed a certain degree of goodwill towards himself, a wanted criminal.

And this kind of Villain kindness often means that he wants to take advantage of the other person.

"If Baron Brignais really wants to take advantage of me, then he will definitely take the initiative to help me conceal his identity and tell me some of Bounty Hunter's changes in advance..." Lumian laughed while thinking.

This is a good thing!

As for whether he will be put into a very dangerous situation due to being exploited in the future, Lumian already has an idea.

By that time, he and Baron Brignais should already be familiar with each other.

The more familiar you are, the better you can start!

When being used by the other party to do something quite dangerous and something that he is unwilling to consider, Lumian has only one choice, and that is to kill Baron Brignais.

Phew...Lumian took a breath and considered how to further disguise himself.

He originally had a certain degree of confidence in his disguise. As long as he didn't "reveal" his relationship with Parish Priest and Madame Pualis like he did when he went to find Anthony·Reid, so that the other party would have corresponding associations, he would not be directly recognized.

But what happened with Baron Brignais made him realize that he might have underestimated other Beyonder.

Since there is "Hunter" who is good at tracking, there may be other Sequence who are better at identifying people.

"Baron Brignais or one of his Subordinate should have similar abilities..." Lumian nodded slightly.

This is corroborated by the fact that Aosta has been found after moving several times.

Thinking of this, Lumian stopped in front of the stop sign, got on a double-decker carriage painted brown, and spent 30 Kopek to choose a seat in the carriage - if you sit on the roof, that is, the upper floor, it only costs 15 Kopek.

The carriage started slowly and drove towards Observatory District.

Lumian looked out the window and saw hurried passersby in different clothes, saw jingling bicycles, saw Hired Carriage belonging to different companies, saw Humanoid Machine composed of Gears, valves, pipes, levers, etc. The metal backpack behind it was carrying white Steam, driving it forward step by step.

"Praise Sun!"

The fiery Sunlight fell on the pedestrians with open arms on the street.

Dang dang dang, the nearby Church bell rang, and it was twelve o'clock at noon.

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