Chapter 533 Find out the truth
Liduo settled down at the Star Mercenary Group’s base, and Jifeng and Jianyu had a huge open-air bird’s nest on the top of the hill where the base was located.
Although the two birds cannot fly freely in the sky or hunt in the mountains and forests like they did in Huangshi Village, they can still circle over the hills for a few times. Occasionally, Lido will take them for a stroll in the mountains outside the outer city.
However, they may prefer this kind of life, because if they don't go out hunting, the mercenaries will feed them. Although it is not all half-monster meat like when Lido first fed them, ordinary meat and half-monster meat are also divided into half, and the quantity is large enough to make them full. It is much better than when they were hunting in the Daqing Mountains before, they only had ordinary wild beast meat and might not be able to eat enough.
The supply of half-demon meat in Tianjing's main city is much more sufficient than that in Qingyan City. Even in the outer city, you can buy a large amount of half-demon meat, and the variety is much richer.
Now that they have a place to stay, they don't have to worry about buying entry passes for the time being. There is no need to bring them into the inner city. It does no good and will only attract covetous eyes.
During this period, Liduo entered the inner city every day and walked through almost every area. While walking through the streets and alleys, she used her mental power to explore the surrounding conditions. She gained a full understanding of the customs and behavioral habits of the inner city, and also had a preliminary impression of the large and small forces in the inner city.
Let’s put it this way, the information Feng Wuya has gained over the past six months with the Star Mercenary Group in the main city of Tianjing is probably not even a fraction of what Li Duo has learned during her leisurely tour of the inner city over the past half month.
Did they not work hard? No! It was simply because they did not have the convenient means that Li Duo had.
After the inner city was explored, it was the turn of the outer city. And not just the western outer city. Lido explored the outer cities in the four directions of southeast, northwest, and northeast, and spent much more time than when she was in the inner city.
For a total of nearly two months, Liduo wandered around the main city of Tianjing alone, and finally got a general idea of the situation in the entire main city of Tianjing.
After that, Liduo spent a whole month staying in the mercenary group’s base to draw a map. She drew the inner and outer cities of the entire main city of Tianjing. It was a huge map that covered an entire wall.
In addition to place names and locations, Lido also marked the names of various forces and their spheres of influence on the map, and used different colors to distinguish them, so that it is clear at a glance that the inner city and the outer city belong to the same force.
The places where the forces overlap and intersect are also clear. Lido also uses the same color to add borders outside the boundary lines of the forces of the alliance. Of course, these are all marked based on the situations that Lido has discovered herself.
For example, some small and medium-sized forces appear to be subservient to a certain large force, but in fact they are flirting with another large force. These are clearly marked, and you can tell at a glance on the picture which are loyal brothers and which are traitors.
With this picture from Liduo, and the fact that under Liduo's orders, the mercenary group had reduced the number of people who were completing tasks and made every effort to find out about other mercenary groups and employers who were preventing the Star Mercenary Group from accepting tasks and issuing trap tasks to the Star Mercenary Group, Feng Wuya and the others finally figured out who was suppressing the Star Mercenary Group.
At the beginning, two or three forces took action, mainly sending their subordinates or familiar mercenary groups to compete with the Star Mercenary Group for missions. They had been deeply rooted in the main city of Tianjing for many years and had many business dealings with the mercenary guilds, so it was easy for them to achieve their goals.
All the missions that were easy to complete, had low risks and offered high rewards were snatched away, leaving the Star Mercenary Group with only difficult, risky and low-reward missions. Often, after all the hard work, they would get very little in the end, and sometimes unexpected events would occur in the middle, which would often result in more expenses than income.
Generally speaking, it is not cost-effective for a group of the size of the Star Mercenary Group to do low-level missions. However, after completing several high-level missions that resulted in losses and even nearly casualties, the mercenary group originally planned to do some low-level missions as a transition.
But he didn't expect that the other party had already prepared for this move, and even cleared out all the high-quality tasks among the low-level tasks, leaving only worthless tasks.
Finally, the mercenary group had no choice but to pick out some relatively better tasks from those high-level useless tasks to do, barely maintaining the operation of the mercenary group, but in fact they were already using up the mercenary group's reserve resources.
The reason why the other party did this was obvious, which was to force the mercenary group into a difficult situation. If the mercenary group wanted to break the difficult situation, they usually needed to introduce external forces and find a backer for themselves.
Even if you don't directly join a certain force, forming an alliance with it can still achieve your goal.
What the other party didn't expect was that the Star Mercenary Group had extremely abundant resource reserves, and they had been holding on under their suppression, showing no signs of surrender.
If the means of suppression here are still normal, it will become sinister after the Lei family joins in the suppression.
After Feng Wuya rejected their recruitment, the Lei family acted very generous on the surface and expressed their desire to have friendly exchanges, saying that they could come to them if they needed help in the future.
Does she look familiar? Manager Reka also said the same thing to Li Duo later. If she hadn't given away her identity at the beginning, I would have thought she was a kind-hearted person.
Look, Feng Wuya was very shocked when he saw the results. He was really fooled by the other party's performance.
The Lei family's methods are much more despicable than those of the previous ones. They sneaked in after the previous ones tried to suppress the Star Mercenary Group but failed. They disguised their own methods as those of the previous ones, and their methods were even more despicable. Those trap missions were issued by people sent by them, and some of the traps were even set by them, while they pretended to be the good guys on the outside.
This is also the reason why the Lei family has a good reputation in the inner and outer cities. They are such good actors!
Those trap missions caused great damage to the Star Mercenary Group. Although no one died in the end, it was at the cost of a huge amount of resources consumed by the mercenary group.
Of course, this will also greatly increase the loyalty of the mercenary group's members.
But this cannot change the fact that the Star Mercenary Group cannot operate smoothly and can only rely on its old capital.
In fact, if the Star Mercenary Group did not have Liduo as a stabilizing force, Feng Wuya would have really planned to find a force to join after suffering a series of suppressions and struggling to survive, and the Lei family was his first choice!
Therefore, when the investigation results came out, Feng Wuya was furious. He really was fooled by someone. After being furious and ashamed, he was filled with boundless rage. The Lei family is really awesome!
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