#517 - That year (asking for monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

"This? My lords, what are you doing? Why are you all here?" Clement struggled to sit up, looking bewildered at the four people who had appeared before him, but he couldn't help but use honorifics.

"You have the nerve to ask us? I want to ask you, how did the information about the park leak out?" Anduin, playing the Silver Spear, used a familiar voice, questioning Clement with an unkind tone. "Did you betray us?"

When Clement heard the other party's voice, he was immediately shocked. Wasn't this the voice of Lord Goldfinger? Could it be that he had personally come to the park? What did he mean by betrayal? And why was he lying on the ground now? This wasn't his office either.

After hearing Goldfinger's familiar voice, Clement didn't doubt it at all and hurriedly asked, "What do you mean? I don't understand. What do you mean by betrayal? I have never thought of betraying the club!"

"Then why is it circulating outside that the club is secretly running a breeding park? Now even the location of Park One has been revealed, and the affairs of those folk groups have all been exposed!" Anduin angrily pressed him, "Do you know that Andrei and his subordinates are ready to attack here!"

"What?" Clement looked at Anduin in shock when he heard this. "How is this possible? I have never heard any similar rumors!"

"Still being stubborn! My inside source in the Legal Enforcement Squad has told me everything. Andrei is already organizing people to attack this park. If I hadn't reacted in time, this place would have been emptied long ago. Besides you, who often comes in and out, who else could have leaked the news?"

Anduin didn't know if the Silver Spear had an inside source in the Legal Enforcement Squad, but he asked himself, if he were Peter, he would definitely have planted someone next to Andrei, so now, whether there was one or not, he was going to try to trick him.

"Are you talking about Virgil? No way, is he mistaken?" Clement asked without questioning, blurting out the name.

And just as Clement said Virgil's name, Andrei next to him was shocked, with an unbelievable expression on his face. Fortunately, he was wearing a mask at this time, so he didn't reveal anything.

Anduin also noticed Andrei's strangeness at this time, so he glanced at Andrei, meaning to tell him to be calm and not to startle Clement.

Andrei nodded almost imperceptibly, then forced himself to suppress the shock and anger in his heart. At the same time, he realized the value of interrogating Clement at this time. If he did this later, the consequences might be disastrous.

However, Clement was in a panic at this time and didn't notice the strangeness of the people in front of him at all. He really thought that what Lord Goldfinger said was true.

At this moment, he was trying hard to recall whether he had really revealed anything that would allow outsiders to detect the secret here.

But after thinking for a moment, he was still at a loss and didn't realize what went wrong. But now, in his eyes, he was already suspected by Goldfinger. If the crime of betrayal was confirmed, he would be finished. Clement knew the club's methods.

"My lord, I have always been loyal to the club, as you know. I have no need to betray the club. I think Virgil must have made a mistake, or the problem lies elsewhere." Clement defended himself incoherently.

"No need to betray the club?" Goldfinger snorted coldly, "You have never been allowed to enter the club and become an official Silver Spear. Do you dare to say that you don't harbor resentment? How many benefits did Andrei and the others give you to make you turn against us?"

"Absolutely not! Lord Goldfinger!" Clement panicked when he saw that the other party had almost identified him as a traitor.

To be honest, he also knew that Goldfinger and the other Silver Spears had been dangling him. With his achievements, let alone becoming an ordinary Short Spear, even becoming a Long Spear directly would be no problem. The club just thought that his public identity was too useful, so they blocked Clement's promotion channel.

But this didn't mean that he would choose to betray the club because of this, so Clement argued urgently, "My lord, please be aware that I was personally recommended by you to become a club partner. Have you forgotten?"

He knew that the other party had already made up his mind, and Clement, who was extremely excited, now played the emotional card. "We have known each other for more than 30 years. You should know my character. And over the years, how many things have I done for the club and you? If these things are known to the Legal Enforcement Squad and Andrei, I won't have a good end."

"Now you're talking about the past, don't you think it's too late? People say you can know a person's face but not their heart. How do I know if you haven't been acting with me all these years?" Anduin said, raising his hand slightly and taking off his mask, revealing a face that was exactly the same as Peter's.

When Clement saw Peter's face under Goldfinger's mask, there was no surprise in his eyes, only his face turned pale. He knew that this was a sign that Peter was very angry.

Amelia, Andrei, and the others next to him saw that Clement didn't question Peter's identity at all, and they were even more certain that what Anduin had said before was correct. Peter was a member of the Silver Spears, and he had known Clement a long time ago and had developed and promoted him.

"Since you keep mentioning the past, I'll give you another chance now." Anduin, with Peter's face, said in a low voice, "Let me hear you repeat what you have done over the years, and let me see if there are any errors in your memory. Remember, look me in the eyes and say it!"

"Yes, my lord." Clement knew that Peter wanted to conduct a lie detection on him, but this was exactly what he wanted. In addition, he didn't have any doubts after seeing Peter's true face.

This was also because his heart was completely messed up at this time. If Clement could remain calm and think, he might not be so easily deceived. For example, why did Goldfinger dare to take off his mask in front of the other three Silver Spears, and why did he ask him to narrate the past so abruptly? All of this revealed abnormality.

But Clement's mind was now focused on expressing his loyalty to Goldfinger, and he had no time to consider anything else.

"I still remember, 30 years ago, I was just a small character doing odd jobs at 'Triss's Cauldron Shop'. I was lucky enough to meet you at that time. You didn't have your current name back then."

"And since I met you, I have had good luck. You funded me and allowed me to start my own magical supplies business, which I will never forget." Clement's expression was pious and grateful.

However, Anduin, playing Peter, didn't give any feedback to his flattery. Seeing this, Clement immediately continued, "With your help, I earned my first pot of gold. It was from then on that you started to let me get involved in smuggling and introduced me to the club."

"Over the years, I have transported, managed, and cared for so many magical creatures for the club that I can't even count them myself. If Andrei's people know my background, there is no possibility of negotiation."

"In other words, if Andrei is willing not to pursue this past of yours, you would be willing to accept their conditions?" Peter sneered and curled his lips, completely unresponsive to Clement's emotional offensive.

"No, that's not what I meant." Clement quickly explained when he saw that Peter had misunderstood him. At the same time, he continued, "Leaving aside my helping the club manage magical creatures, just the dirty work I have done for you in the past ten years, Andrei would definitely not forgive me."

Clement said, tentatively glancing at Peter, and when he found that the other party was still unmoved, he immediately said, "Do you still remember 15 years ago? That's when you started using the identity of Dario Peter, and it was also from that time that you changed this skin to its current appearance."

This skin? Anduin's heart couldn't help but thump when he heard this. Could it be that Goldfinger, in addition to having the means to appear in two places at the same time, also has a way to transform his appearance? Could that guy also be a Metamorphmagus?

However, this doubt had just appeared when he suppressed it in his heart. Now was not the time to dwell on these things. This interrogation required a very high level of acting skills from him, and he couldn't let Clement see through him.

And his indifference did deceive Clement, so he immediately threw out other tokens of allegiance, "Even if you don't care about this, from that time on, you ordered me to start contacting folk groups in East and West Germany and try to integrate and lead them."

"With so many years of effort, the 'West German Advancement Association' that I lead, and the 'Munich Union' that split from it, have more than hundreds of wizards under their command, and nearly a hundred core partners."

"Have you forgotten? It was by bewitching them that we have been able to intensify the conflicts between East and West Germany over the years. I actually knew from the beginning that your ideal was to completely split Germany. There are many folk groups in East Germany that are also partners of the club."

"Like the 'East German Progressive Union', I know that it was the club's Phoenix who contacted them, and it was also she who instigated and manipulated an East German wizard to kill the eldest son of the 'Schmidt' family in public that year. Finally, she used public opinion to allow the 'East German Progressive Union' to protect that East German wizard."

"This is why the Schmidt family and their allied families fully support you and advance and retreat with you in the Wizengamot, further promoting the separation bill, isn't it?"