Chapter 1429 - A Hand

Giyon and Grivon stayed silent without saying anything. Sam just shrugged and answered his question himself.

"It is because they are all prompted to do so by possibly the same person. If I had to guess it, they might have been either blackmailed by that person or they all work for the same person.

The second is a bit far-fetched. After all, from the information you gave me, there are some people that want to kill each other within the group of people that disappeared.

So, the first case is most probable.

Now, we can narrow down our suspects to the person that has enough resources and capabilities to hold this much sensitive information about so many people. I believe that there are not many people who fit the criteria."

Sam took out a paper and showed it to Giyon and Grivon.

They looked through it with a frown.

This is the list of the people who have the capability to gain all the information they need to blackmail all of these people. In fact, within the list, Giyon is on the top.

"Why did you add my name?"

"Because you fit the criteria, I just entered it out of habit. Don't take it personally."

"You have some really weird and annoying habits."

Giyon said as she looked through the rest of the list.

When she was done, she couldn't help but sigh deeply.

"Are you sure, you want to poke all of these people? One of them is a grand elder and the rest are also not some soft persimmons either. They have immense power within and outside the clan. You wouldn't be having a peaceful time if you really mess with them."

"That is why I am not the one messing with them. You guys are."

"What do you mean?"

"You are going to use the secret forces and make a big move to divert all of the attention from me. The perpetrator who is trying so bad to blame me for this whole thing wouldn't be feeling happy about it.

He will try to make a move and that would be the best time for us to identify him."

"What kind of big move are we talking about?"

"I will tell you, but before that. I want you guys to pick someone as important as the ones that went missing, but that person has to be expendable, for you and your clan. I mean, even if he loses an arm or leg, the clan shouldn't be worrying about it.

Do you have such a candidate in your mind?"

"Lot of them."

"Loads."

Both Grivon and Giyon replied at the same time. Sam chuckled and said.

Then that is great. Pick one from that lot and tell me. Also, arrange a meeting with a representative of your secret forces.

I understand that it would be impossible for me to directly talk with all of them. It is unreasonable too. So, a representative would suffice. I will explain the plan after everything is ready."

Sam then went back to working on the formation plate.

By evening, Grivon and Giyon came back with all the preparations done.

Then they had a meeting together where Sam met the two representatives of Grivon and Giyon's secret forces.

They also picked the candidate that is completely dispensable.

After getting the details of the candidate and his daily routine from the information, Sam started explaining the plan.

As he went through with it, the expressions of the other four people within the meeting changed continuously.

"Are you sure you want us to do exactly this? This might slight many people and the issue would gain the attention of the authorities."

"It should have already been their issue. Why are they not investigating the missing cases and just believing that I am the one who did it blindly? Is it really plausible for every single person that went missing to go after the assets at the same time?

They should have done it already. But they didn't do it. I have a suspicion that this person might even be part of the chain of command that controls the investigation or they are cooperating with someone who has the authority to control the investigation.

We would be keeping an eye on the investigation department and the officials that have high authority within."

"This is a bit risky. If the clan authorities find out that we are involved, we wouldn't be able to hear the end of it. 

If the perpetrator manages to link us to the whole thing, they might even take this as an incentive to make us scapegoats." Grivon said in a tense tone.

"Yeah, they are definitely going to do that. But that would give us a great chance to find out who really did it. It would be a win."

"What if they succeed in scapegoating us? What is your plan then?"

"Not much. We would cross the bridge when we get to it."

"Really? No plan?" Grivon almost lost it.

"Come on, Grivon. Stop it."

Giyon reprimanded him and thought carefully.

She knew that things are not going to be easy with the plan and things could get really messy very quickly.

"We will proceed with it. You can keep in contact with these two guys. They will be leading two teams. One will be in charge of doing the hidden dirty work and the other will be in charge of the rest of the things that you need to do out in the open."

Sam nodded and then shook his hands with the two people. Then he gave the communication tokens.

"Your first step is to abduct our target. You need to bring him in at the specific place and time that I am going to mention. I would be on planting the evidence required. You make your men tail him every second. As soon as I contact you guys, the deed should be done.

You will then hold him hostage and wait for my next instruction."

They nodded and were about to leave, but Sam stopped them again.

"Here are the masks. They are disguises that you need to wear. They will change your facial features and hide your face too.

But it wouldn't do anything to the aura and other stuff, for that the traditional cloak with the formations is the best."

"Then why use this at all?"

"You need to throw some faces as scapegoats. It would be much easier that way."

"Whose faces are these?"

"Someone that deserves some pressure from a clan like this."

Sam left after giving that answer.

Immediately the two team leaders were deployed and a woman came out of nowhere following behind the target.

Sam commanded some of Grivon's subordinates to fake the evidence and by midnight, he ordered the capture of the target.

The woman who was tailing him got the order and had a weird expression. Because the target is inside a brothel.

She gritted her teeth and went in anyway with the mask she got.

She hit the target on the neck making him fall unconscious before escaping.

Everything was done swiftly and the news of the kidnap didn't stay put for long as it spread far and wide in a very short span of time.

Another elder was added to the list of people that are trying to bug Sam.

That night, nothing else happened. Except for the chaos and the meetings held by these elders, there is not a single thing of significance that happened.

But the very next morning at dawn at the city gate, an arm of the target that was caught the day before appeared.

The arm was cut off along with the robe and the spatial rings that were on them were still attached. 

They immediately recognized who it belonged to. Along with the arm, there is a letter.

When the father of the young master saw the letter, he immediately went to meet the clan's leader with it.

"This bastard Sam is becoming more and more outrageous. How dare do such a thing?" One of the elders on the side said out loud and just when the rest of the elders are about speak in support of him, the clan's leader raised his hand to stop them.

"It is better to throw accusations after you learn the full story. This has nothing to do with Sam."

"What? How can that be?"

One of the Elders exclaimed out loud.

Everyone looked at him for a moment before they turned to the Clan's leader once again.

"This is the work of new underground ground. They are expanding into our territory and they kidnapped all of our young masters and they don't want the credit to go to Sam.

So, they are giving this arm as a warning to say that whoever that is using the incident to go after Sam, should just shut it and stay down.

So, any of you guys involved in this?"

The whole room turned silent.