It was in the morning, and the weather in Nisk was fine.

It is another good day for tourists to travel.

However, in the headquarters of the garrison on the north side of the Leiden River estuary, the atmosphere is a bit solemn.

Compared with the extravagance of a banker, this is a poor meeting room.

In order to ensure the strength of the fortress, the ceilings are extremely low on the rough polished rough stone walls and floors. There are several narrow windows on the walls that only allow adults to lean out.

Even in the daytime, they have to resort to gas lighting.

A long spliced ​​table covered with green flannel and two rows of heavy wooden chairs on each side constitute the entire meeting room, which is as shabby as Major General Coverdale's office.

Oh, at least the decorations on the wall today are slightly better than his office.

On the uneven wall, there was a flag of the Kingdom of Tyrol, a navy flag, and the alliance "tulip cross flag" that was specially hung up because of the complexity of the participants.

it's here.

The military meeting, including the garrison officers of the country, reinforcement representatives from the six countries, and the church wall knights, has been going on for a long time.

"Report to the Commander, the information as of this morning.

From the six fixed maritime observation points from Nisk to the border of the far sea, no abnormalities were found.

In addition, our two battleships and twelve cruise ships are divided into four groups, and the whole route is cruised in a cycle of six days. The situation is the same.

The news of the ‘Leiden Valley’ and Hudgens’ next attack has obviously spread far, and most people who should know already know.

Even we have a record of more than ten consecutive days, and we have not seen a pirate ship at sea. "

In the garrison headquarters, a colonel adjutant in charge of responding to maritime threats finished his report and sat down again after saluting.

"Ok!"

Sitting at the top of the conference table, Major General Coverdale, the commander of the garrison commanding a knife in his hand, nodded slightly, then looked at another officer sitting next to him, his light blue eyes filled with pressure.

"Col. Wilde! Your joint mobile unit has been stationed in several big cities for some time. I want to know what you have gained during this time?

In particular, the intelligence agencies have identified the elite subordinates of Huggins active in the cities along the route. How many have you found of these rats? "

The colonel named Wilde immediately stood up when he heard the words and saluted the commander:

"Report your lord!

We transferred the Kingdom’s garrison officers and alliance reinforcements to form a mobile force consisting of 28 extraordinary men and 120 apprentice peaks.

There are three groups, one group is stationed in the capital of Brandenburg, one group is stationed in the city of wealth, Golden Lion City, and the last group is maneuvering along the "Leiden Valley".

During this period of time, many new faces have poured into various cities, which proves that the eyes of many forces have concentrated here.

We did not take care of those who took the initiative to report their identities. In cooperation with the city defense forces in various cities a few days ago, we arrested a total of 23 pirates who showed signs.

After interrogation, it was confirmed that the five people captured in the two small cities of Como and Macerata were direct subordinates of the Pirate King. "

The colonel paused, with a look of shame on his face:

"But no matter what the torture is, we haven't been able to get other people's hiding place from them, including their purpose here this time.

It can basically be determined that all the subordinates of the pirate king use passive one-line contact, at least they have no idea of ​​the purpose of their trip subjectively.

Moreover, the military's advisory team used all available methods such as hypnosis, divination, and psychic, and failed to get more information from them. "

Major General Coverdale frowned, obviously a little dissatisfied with their work.

As the highest-ranking military chief in the "Leiden Valley" region, after so long, I didn't even know where the enemy's target was. I really apologize for His Majesty's trust.

Let alone the maritime patrol forces that were not the focus, the garrison officers and elite troops who had high hopes on the land could not even catch the only clue that the "pirate king is a pirate".

But the general knew that losing his temper was of no use, so he patiently continued to ask, "Where are the Golden Lion City and Brandenburg?"

As the two largest and most important cities in their jurisdiction, these two places must not be missed.

Even the "Golden Lion City" has a third-tier church bishop and a great knight from the Dutch Banking Group. Count Mars, the consul of "Brandenburg", is himself a veteran knight who has experienced many battles and is one of the guardians of the White Swan Crown of the Royal Family of Tyrol.

They are strong, far stronger than reinforcements.

Looking at the general's face carefully, Colonel Wilde bit his head and said:

"The Lord Mars allowed us to enter the city and also sent his own guard to cooperate with our inventory, but there was no gain for the time being.

In addition, the people in the Dutch banking group said that they have the ability to protect their own and their customers’ property and that we are not allowed to disturb the peace of the city and citizens.

And Bishop Jasper of the Golden Roof Cathedral also helped them. Although we were stationed there, it was difficult to carry out the investigation because of their non-cooperation. "

boom--

Hearing the feedback from the "Golden Lion City", Major General Coverdale instantly became so angry that he severely beat the command knife in his hand.

Even if we know that Golden Lion City, an alternative "country within a country", is not easy to deal with, it is still playing this game in the eyes of the bones that may be attacked by the pirate king! Are they not afraid of death?

However, those big bankers didn't even give the king's face, let alone the commander of the garrison.

Secretly annoyed for a while, the major general is also worthy of a stroke of his eyes, and spit out two words:

"inability!"

I just don't know who the word general is referring to...

At this moment, I heard a very small voice sound in the conference room, but most of the people in the room have extraordinary ranks above the official knight, and they still heard that sentence softly and clearly.

"How can you blame us for not catching the big fish? I don't know if there is a ghost covering these mice?"

The officers in attendance easily discovered the source of the sound and looked at the past one after another, including of course Captain Ivan, who was sitting in the corner of the conference room with only his ears brought over.

Sitting in the position of the Joint Mobile Forces, holding a long sword with a black hilt and black scabbard in his arms, a young officer with short ice blue hair. He was stubbing his neck under everyone's attention, as if he didn't care that his words would be heard by others.

The major general, who was already unhappy, raised his eyes to see this sting, and he even stretched his face.

"Mr. Thomas Gregory! Do you suspect that there is Huggins's internal response in the cities along our line?"

As the second place of this "Navy Rising Star", I originally arranged for him to enter the sea cruise team with the first place Ivan Garriott and the third place Bertram Solomon.

It seems to be important, and there is no too much risk. Haven't you seen that there are no pirates at sea now?

However, it may be that he felt that his "Snow Lake" was only a Tier 5 cruise ship, and did not want to be short in front of the other two "Navy Stars". This Captain Thomas abandoned the ship directly and joined the mobile force.

it's good now.

The mobile unit he was in was underperforming, so he dared to find reasons to shirk responsibility again.

From the moment he came to the report, he directly disobeyed his own arrangements, Major General Coverdale had "preconceived" him to characterize him, publicity, impetuous, proud... I don't like it!

Hearing the general's questioning, Thomas insisted on his point of view without showing any weakness:

"It's not just a suspicion. I think the current situation is difficult to explain with common sense. If there is not enough internal response, it is impossible for a large number of elite pirates to hide so secretly."

The general smiled without anger, and asked again:

"Hehe, common sense?

Do you know how much energy is needed for hundreds of thousands of pirates distributed in cities along the route as mentioned in the hidden intelligence? Do you know what the consequences of colluding with pirates in the entire Tulip Alliance are considered as the same crime as pirates?

In the ‘Leiden Valley’, what kind of big power will take this risk, which is tantamount to abandoning everything they have in Tulips, and follow a big pirate who can only drift on the sea all the way to darkness? "

Seeing that Thomas was not convinced and would argue again, the general raised his hand to stop what he had already said:

"That's good, the situation you said is not impossible.

I will assign you an independent intelligence team, how about you going to be responsible for finding the ghost behind the scenes?

Even the personnel of the intelligence department in the garrison can be selected at will. Our time is tight and we will give you up to half a month. If you can’t find it, you can go back to your ‘Snow Lake’ to carry out the cruise mission! "

Wow----

Thomas pushed away the chair and stood up suddenly~lightnovelpub.net~ The general's words were right in his arms.

Consciously unable to display his talents, he immediately agreed in a loud voice:

"No problem, Commander! These days, I am familiar enough with the Leiden Valley. Just give me an assistant. My crew is my team member."

Said that he looked at the officer in the conference room pretendingly, and finally fixed himself on someone he had been paying attention to since entering the conference room.

"Hehehe, what did I say, when a troublesome guy was staring at me, what should come is finally here."

When Ivan heard the laughter of Patlem Solomon who was sitting next to him.

He raised his head just to match the gaze that Thomas was looking at, and he naturally saw the pride in his eyes, and heard Thomas say lightly:

"Your Excellency Commander, why not let Mr. Irving Garriott be my deputy! We are taking this opportunity to learn from each other, both of which belong to this issue.