Chapter 104 (2/2)

Ray spotted a kind and young soldier and asked him where were the shop that was worth going and the restaurant that served the best dishes, and who was well-informed about this city.

Ray paid the soldier and the soldier told him where he should go. Ray didn’t go to the “shop that was worth going” or the “restaurant that served the best dishes”, instead he went straight to a grocery store–as that soldier had told him, the owner, Randolph, of this grocery, which was built in the port area, was seemingly managing a grocery store, in fact, his real job were the exploration and the research, he was a real adventurer. He knew quiet a lot about both the general knowledge and the secret messages.

Ray quickly found this grocery store, which was a rather ordinary one and it seemed that there were not many guests here. He asked the other to stay outside and went into the store alone–of course, Sui Xiong was still resting on his head like a hat.

Randolph looked like around forty years old, he was wearing a glass, in a word, he was just an ordinary middle-aged man. But both Sui Xiong and Ray could tell he was really powerful although he looked very ordinary. Randolph was a marvellous warrior and was able to practice the spell, and he had got more than one magic tool with himself, his glass was one, for example.

Maybe that was why he manage to stay alive after so many times of exploration.

When he knew Ray’s intention, he didn’t respond immediately, instead he began to contemplate.

“I have my own principles.” after thinking for a while, he said in a very low voice, “the business of selling the information is in fact very dangerous, those who casually sell the information to others always ends bad. So I have to abide by principles–if the information is about some trivial things, I shall give you happily, but if the information is very important, I would sell it only to the person who has got some decent reasons or is proved to be a decent man either in a court or in front of a God.”

“If you want to get the information about that ship incident, please give me your decent reasons!”

He stared at Ray and his glass began to shine in blue light.

“Be careful, his glass is a very powerful magic tool and is ‘detecting if what you are going to say is a lie or not’.” Sui Xiong warned.

Ray thought for a while and said: “I want to help a family, whose family member died in that ship incident, they are in a very difficult situation. I think there is a conspiracy behind this whole incident, so I come to find the truth.”

Hearing this, Randolph adjusted his glass a little bit and smiled.

“You are telling the truth.” he said, “I am so happy to be able to meet a warm-hearted person, I will tell you everything I know.”

“Before the ship made its sail, the son of the castellan of the Garth City of the Blue Moon Kingdom, Sean Riley came to the Cloud Pagoda City, he mentioned he wanted to create a sea route and do a business of selling some monsters’ body parts and spices of the middle and low class. Soon, many people came to negotiate with him, among them, there was a rich businessman whose parents were the advanced wizards.”

“But Sean Riley didn’t make a deal with any of them, instead he secretly kept in contact with a strange businessman who didn’t have any social connections, and many people were angry about this and tried to make some trouble, but they gave up the idea when they had some talks with Sean Riley.”

“Soon, Sean’s commercial corp made their departure, but strangely, Sean was not in the boat. Instead, he even began to make the preparation for the next sailing, and it seemed like he thought there was a big chance that this first sailing would be a failure, while he was still confident about creating a new sea route.”

“Then came the news that this boat was attacked by the ‘dark tide’ Thom Sal and suffered a great loss.”

“While Sean Riley was not much bothered by this incident, still, he was steadily preparing for the next sailing, and it seemed that the he had a very successful sailing in the recent and he benefited a lot.”

“Now, he is preparing for the next sailing, it is said that he want to take this opportunity to leave the Federation and go back to his hometown.”

Hearing this, Ray nodded and asked: “then…have you found any clue that can prove that this ship incident has something to do with the church of Noble Maids?”

Randolph was stunned, he thought for a while and became a bit doubtful, then he said: “I never thought about this really, a principle of the church of Noble Maids ever paid a visit to Sean and had a conversation with him–I thought that principle just came to preach his religion, so I didn’t pay much attention, besides, that principle also died in that ship incident…do you think there is anything strange about this?”

Ray didn’t reply and shrugged, then he said: “you will find it out later.”

Then, he turned around and left this grocery store.

Randolph indeed knew a lot about this incident, which was totally out of Ray’s expectation.

This information…were already enough!