With this question from Hector, none of the leaders can say anything without thinking, they really didn't know if there was even an enemy and if it did they didn't know how they managed to attack everyone from the base without them noticing.
The truth was that Hector also thought that this could be an attack by the enemies, but whenever he thought about it he had to think that there was some traitor who was helping the enemies.
But it was almost impossible to have happened because everyone at the base was sick and now was the time when the thieves were having a better life, with the agreement he made with one of the noble families they were getting a lot more money and they didn't have so much more fear of the king.
Not to mention that they were receiving information from inside the capital and that is why their thefts were better and they did not take that much risk if everyone died a traitor would not gain anything from it either.
"Ne nobody is going to say anything, so I'm going to say what I think, this strange situation started last month when Robin's group left and never came back, we didn't receive a report of what happened to the Robin group from our informants at the capital."
"So the only explanation for this is that the security guards in the group that Robin attacked killed them all and the merchants continued their journey, which is impossible to happen."
"A few days later two thieves from my group left our base and never came back, so of course they were killed by enemies, in just over 2 weeks after that happened we are all" sick ", so I find it hard to believe let this be a coincidence."
All the leaders heard what Adrien said and they had to agree that he was right, it was quite a coincidence that it all happened just before they got sick and that none of it was connected.
"I agree that this could be connected, but how did the enemies make all of us sick and how we still haven't died after 2 weeks since the first person started getting sick."
"I do not believe that there is a traitor on that basis, after all, we are all sick and a traitor would not gain anything from it, moreover, our enemy had to be powerful enough to be able to prevent the noble family that has an agreement with me from warning that something was happening."
What Hector was saying was what everyone thought, they didn't believe it was the king who had sent someone to attack them, because if that were the noble family they knew, they would have known this before and the king would have done something before.
They kept talking about it for several hours with theories that were very difficult to happen, all theories needed a traitor and it would be difficult to find a traitor when everyone was sick until someone thought of something different.
"I remember one more strange thing that happened before everyone got sick, Hector, didn't you tell them to close all the water wells before this disease started?"
"Yes, I did, some thieves who were watching said they saw arrows fallen near the wells, it was strange because they had arrows near 2 wells that were found, I feared it was an enemy and so I ordered them to close the wells so that the arrows did not fall into the well by accident and could contaminate the wells."
"Yes, that's what I was thinking, you said that the enemies fired arrows that were found near 2 wells, you closed the wells to prevent the arrows from contaminating the wells."
"But I don't know anything near the wells that would be an interesting target for enemies to try to hit, the wells are in isolated places, and after you closed the wells the arrows stopped showing."
"So I was thinking that maybe the enemy's goal was really to contaminate the wells with arrows, if our water is contaminated then it is normal for all of us to get sick."
With Adrien saying that everyone thought something like this could actually happen, at least it was a better theory than they had until now, if the enemy's target was really the wells, then it was normal for the arrows to disappear after Hector had them closed the wells.
Hector had not thought about it either, he had never imagined that the enemies could try to infect the wells using arrows, and the enemies did it in a way that no one saw anything happening and only noticed the arrows that were on the ground.
Furthermore, if something like this were true then Hector would not be responsible for this because he ordered the wells to be closed as soon as they realized something strange, otherwise the people at the base could get even worse.
"I don't think anything like that was possible, I can't imagine how the enemies would infect the wells using arrows, even more so if the thieves who were watching noticed nothing, the traitor theory makes a lot more sense."
"I don't care if you believe me, Jasper, I said that because there is an easy way for us to find out if what I said makes sense or not."
"How can we do that?"
"Hector can send some of his trusted men to open the 4 wells and check inside the wells if we find some arrows inside the wells, then what I said must be the truth, if we find nothing inside the wells, then let's think of another one thing."
"Jasper, I agree with what Adrien said, if the problem is water then it is more serious than we thought and we have to do something to resolve it."
When Jasper heard that Hector also agreed with what Adrien said, he had nothing more to say about it, he was also infected and felt weaker every day, so it was better for Jasper to find the cause of the problem.
Hector took some of his trusted men and also took Adrien and Jasper to go with him to open the wells and see if they found arrows inside the wells, they started with the 2 wells where the thieves found the arrows near them.
Everyone knew that the wells were closed and that they were only open for Hector's trusted men to get water for the people at the base, so if they had arrows in the wells it was before Hector closed the wells.
Soon they checked the two wells with great difficulty because it was difficult to find arrows in a well as deep as the wells in the village, but as it was an important matter Hector ordered one of his men to enter the well after cleaning himself.
Everyone agreed that this was something necessary and after one of the thieves searched for a few minutes he found 3 arrows that were the same as those outside the well inside the well, this worried everyone and they went to check in another well.