Chapter 2590: Chapter 2590: The Mysterious Figure
A few minutes later.
Ilia Yarrow drove in with a fierce demeanor.
As soon as he entered, before he had a chance to lose his temper, he saw Long Wu sitting on a chair.
The two knew each other.
They were acquaintances back in the Ten Thousand Mountain Alliance.
Ilia Yarrow rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn’t seeing things.
He turned around, only to see Long Kun standing behind him.
"Long Kun..." Ilia Yarrow naturally knew Long Kun, back then, Long Kun was a genius in the Long family, known by everyone.
One of the leaders of the Ten Thousand Mountain Alliance was Miss Dragon, a member of the Long family.
As Long Wu’s brother and with the Long family status, Long Kun was very famous in the Ten Thousand Mountain Alliance.
Seeing two members of the Long family in a row, Ilia Yarrow even doubted if he was mistaken.
But the facts were right in front of him.
He had met the Long family members.
There was no escape.
He knew very well how strong Long Kun was, and how strong Long Wu was.
"Miss Dragon, you..."
"Long time no see, Great Commander Yarrow, you’ve grown quite the ego, haven’t you?" Long Wu sat on the chair, sneering, "According to the rules, I’m on equal standing with Silvio Reed, when you see me, you’re supposed to perform the grand etiquette of three bows and nine kowtows."
She interrupted Ilia Yarrow strongly, just to give him a bit of a shock.
"Y-you’re right."
Although Ilia Yarrow was unwilling, he still half-knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly.
After finishing the etiquette, he stood up and asked, "Miss Dragon, if you wanted to see me, you could have just summoned me, why..."
"Why use such underhanded means?" Long Wu sneered, "If I had just summoned you, would you have come?"
"I certainly would have," Ilia Yarrow said with a smile.
He still hadn’t figured out Long Wu’s intentions.
Once he figured it out, he would know the safety of the situation.
"I don’t want to waste words with you, there’s only one reason I called you here today." Long Wu grabbed a belt from the table and tossed it to Ilia Yarrow: "What’s the meaning of this? Why is Silvio Reed’s burial clothes outside?"
Upon seeing the belt, Ilia Yarrow’s face changed drastically, but he quickly regained his composure.
"Miss Dragon, I think you must be mistaken? How is this clothing Silvio Reed’s?" He pretended to examine it carefully and shook his head: "It really isn’t."
"Still being stubborn?" Long Wu stood up, with hands behind her back, looking at him coldly: "I gave you a chance, but if you don’t cherish it, don’t blame me for acting against you. Long Kun, according to our Ten Thousand Mountain Alliance rules, how should he be dealt with?"
"Drawn and quartered." Long Kun said and placed his right hand on Ilia Yarrow’s shoulder.
"Oh... Miss Dragon, this really isn’t Silvio Reed’s..." Ilia Yarrow wanted to argue.
When he saw the belt, he knew things weren’t good.
Ilia Yarrow would never have imagined that the thing he had been looking for for so many years would end up in Long Wu’s hands.
"You know my style. I say I’ll kill, and I will kill, leaving you no chance to argue." Long Wu waved her hand.
The sword at Long Kun’s waist immediately unsheathed.
"Wait! I’ll talk..." Ilia Yarrow said with a pale face, not able to hold on.
"Can I ask where exactly did you find this?" He wanted to inquire.
But Long Wu already knew what he was thinking, and sneered: "Answer directly. If I’m not satisfied, your head will roll."
"Alright, I’ll talk." Ilia Yarrow realized that facing Long Wu, he had no chance to argue.
At this point, it seemed only a candid confession could provide a way out.
He hated Darian Martin to death.
However, Darian Martin was nowhere to be seen around.
"Back then... I was so impoverished that I couldn’t live, there was no way. I was stuck on this mountain for thousands of years. The elders of the Ten Thousand Mountain Alliance died one after another, and I couldn’t leave the mountain, so I could only guard Silvio Reed’s tomb. So, I took some things from inside and sold them casually."
Ilia Yarrow’s face was full of helplessness, with a tone filled with bitterness.
"I thought, even if Silvio Reed knew, he wouldn’t blame me. After all, I had no choice, I couldn’t just leave Silvio Reed’s tomb to seek survival, right?"
He tried to depict his situation as pitiful, hoping Long Wu might be moved and spare him.
"Truly touching." Long Wu looked at Julius Reed: "What do you think?"
"Empress, who is he?" Ilia Yarrow finally noticed the inconspicuous blind man.
There weren’t many people Long Wu was courteous to.
Back then, besides Silvio Reed, even Trent Marsh had been scolded by Long Wu.
"Ilia Yarrow, you are truly bold, colluding with others to steal things from Silvio Reed’s tomb. Clearly, you intended to offer this belt, but your son found out and couldn’t bear to see you turn into a thief, so he quietly took it away."
Julius Reed pointed at Ilia Yarrow, his tone exceptionally stern: "You even sent people to hunt down your son, but your son, Brody Yarrow, wasn’t lacking in skills and killed the people you sent."
Everything Ilia Yarrow thought was heard by Julius Reed crystal clear.
"You..." Ilia Yarrow looked at Julius Reed in surprise, stunned and not knowing what to do.
"Still want to argue?" Julius Reed walked over, grabbed Ilia Yarrow by the neck, and pinned him tightly against the wall. "Tell me, who made you do this!"
He knew about Ilia Yarrow’s actions, but he still wasn’t sure who Ilia Yarrow intended to offer the belt to.
"I... who exactly are you!" Ilia Yarrow’s face went pale, for the first time feeling panicked and at a loss.
"I’m the one asking you." Julius Reed gradually increased the force in his hand.
Inside Silvio Reed’s Nine Provinces tomb, there were countless treasures. If parts of it kept getting stolen, the consequences would be unimaginable.
The critical thing was that these items never appeared.
If they showed up, it would be better.
But the fact that they never turned up left everyone uneasy.
Before the storm, it was always very calm.
"I..." Ilia Yarrow still wanted to argue, but as his words reached his lips, he couldn’t say them anymore.
Because Julius Reed’s grip was getting stronger, almost twisting his neck off!
"I’ll talk..." Ilia Yarrow finally gave in.
No one in front of him was a person he could afford to provoke.
"This is your only chance." Julius Reed released his hold, took two steps back, and said: "What I’m looking for, I will find."
"Phew..." Ilia Yarrow let out a long breath, feeling like he had taken a walk by the gates of hell.
"At the foot of Autumn Name Mountain, there’s a cave called Eight-direction Cave. Inside, there’s someone, I don’t know his name, but he’s very skilled. Over the years, I’ve been providing him with things from inside, and he gives me spiritual medicines, and teaches me cultivation techniques."
"I’ve never seen him; he always wears black clothes and a mask. The location of the Eight-direction Cave, I can take you there, but you can’t kill me."
Ilia Yarrow pleaded: "My life has been very difficult too, please understand. For all these years guarding Silvio Reed..."
"Take us there." Long Wu walked over to him, coldly saying: "If you play tricks, I’ll kill you."
"Understood."
Ilia Yarrow grimaced in pain.
"How many things have you given him?" Julius Reed casually inquired.
"Dozens of pieces..." Ilia Yarrow thought for a moment: "But strangely, he returned a lot of them, and the ones he truly kept seem to be only a few?"
"By the way, this sword, I also once sent over. This sword... how is it with you!"
He widened his eyes.
