Vol 1 Chapter 13 (1/2)
Chapter 13: Unexpected a.s.sault
Jackson touched his chin, and made an ordinary smile, “You are doing well these days Andre. Can you please say again what did you just said?”
Andre responded fawningly, “It’s a mere nothing, Mr. Jackson. I just saw a young man walking out of the city every morning, and I felt a little strange.”
“What did he bring with him any what did he bring back, did you guys notice that?” Jackson was smiling kindly, yet both Andre and Magg felt a little chilly when they heard that simple sentence.
Magg always declared that he had one-sixteenth Aram Highland Barbarian blood. From that aspect, his brain won’t allow him to answer a question like that. Andre was a little better, he thought for a while and said with some uncertainty, “I remember that he carried an old linen sack, and when he came back……when he came back, um, looks like there’s something in the sack. Although for the current season, there were lots of mushrooms in the Black Forest across River Beleń. Probably he was picking the mushrooms?”
“Does that job even need a young man? The border of the Black Forest isn’t dangerous at all, a boy or a girl is enough.” Jackson shook his head.
Andre asked, “But Mr. Jackson, will there be anything wrong with a dirty pauper like him?”
There’s three outer city gates in Alto, the one facing River Beleń and Melzer’s Black Forest was the most prosperous. Every day there was a ma.s.sive amount of merchants, citizens, mercenaries and adventurers pa.s.sing through, leaving Andre and Magg no time to focus on a poor man like Lucien.
Jackson cackled, “Yesterday, a blacksmith called Gray talked to me and said that he purchased a piece of decent metal from a young man. It’s made of thorium copper, a kind of metal that only those rich elites in high status could afford. Although it’s just the piece with the lowest quality, it could help to forge a decent dagger. He was curious about the source of the thorium copper and wanted to grip it by ourselves. “
“So Mr. Jackson, you mean that Lucien was selling Gray the copper?” Magg’s muscle-filled brain quickly connected the two things without any more evidence. Unfortunately, he’s telling the truth.
Jackson nodded, “That kid was pretty cautious, Gray wasn’t able to tail after him, and he can’t tell the source of the piece because it was processed. It took me a whole day to find some evidence for the Market District. The young man made too many transactions recently, and someone said that they saw he walking out every day. Haha, it’s better that you guys know him.”
“So what are we going to do, Mr. Jackson?” Andre asked promptly.
Jackson pointed his finger at the city gate, “Talk to me about his ident.i.ty first and then tail after him to find where he got all the stuff. If he notices you guys, then seize him and directly interrogate him for the source. You can take all his Copper Fiers.”
“Yes, Sir!!” Magg yelled before Andre and made a fierce-looking face.
He quickly got excited, it was a couple day from the last time he hit someone with his fist.
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Lucien held onto the linen sack and walked along River Beleń. Although he was excited because of the first pot of gold he earned, Lucien now calmed down and started to think about a way to hide his bizarrerie, at least before he got the five Silver Niars.
“I’ve never done something like before, especially in a world that I’m not familiar with. Although I’m cautious in many aspects, there may still be something I missed. Um, according to the plan, I will go out through that city gate for one more time tomorrow; starting from two days later I will go out through the Nolan District, and three days later I will switch to the city gate in Viola District.
Viola District was a common area in Alto, and Nolan District was another market area. Both were far away from River Beleń and took a huge roundabout to get there. If he went from the Market District, even if he picked some mushrooms in Melzer’s Black Forest on his way, it only took about two hours; yet from the other two city gates, three hours is the least.
While he was thinking, Lucien suddenly had a vague feeling that someone is behind him.
Who is that? Lucien immediately became vigilant.
In the sewerage, after Gary almost throttled him to death, Lucien noticed that he had gained excessive spiritual(mental) acuity and the ability to sense his surroundings. That’s why he could get out from those people who were possibly tracking him.
Without any recklessness, Lucien pretended like he knew nothing and kept walking. When he just walked across a turn of the main road, Lucien saw an opportunity that the bushes covered up the tracker’s view. He immediately started running and burst into the spa.r.s.e woods nearby. He hid behind a large tree and waited for the trackers to appear.
Lucien was really chill at this moment, he needed to know who’s behind him and thought of possible solutions.
One or two minutes later, he heard the sounds of heavy footsteps and stopped at the corner. Two people turned their head around and started looking for Lucien
“Sh*t, we let that kid escape.”
“Andre, you should’ve listened to me. Just don’t bother where he went, capture him and beat him up, you’ll know everything!”
Their loud, furious voice went into Lucien’s ear.
Lucien was confused when he heard the familiar voice, but when Magg said Andre’s name , he immediately knew, “Aaron’s Gang noticed me that fast?”