Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Pollitt was quite impressive. He finished his investigation a few days before Li Huailin's deadline. Li Huailin's party gathered once more. Of course, the original members were still the same: Li Huailin, Hongyan Drinkwater, Jade Emperor Summon, Eternity Immutable, and Jiang Xueping. After all, they were the only ones with quests.
If possible, Li Huailin didn't want to summon Jiang Xueping for now. However, everyone had quests to do. By the way, Jiang Xueping's in-game ID was Zhong Shi Xi Qu. The meaning of the ID was unknown. It was probably because she had joined the game too late. When Shi Feng joined the party, he noticed that Jiang Xueping had already reached Level 48. She had leveled up three times in such a short time. She was quite fast. Li Huailin didn't understand why Meila Group's Asia Pacific Region manager had so much time to play the game. Did she not care about the game at all? Su Ruoyan was so busy that she didn't even have time to play the game.
In any case, the few players who received the news gathered once more. Once again, they gathered at the entrance of the Main City's Business District. As Li Huailin was already inside the Main City, he waited at the entrance for a while. During this time, he encountered a few players who approached him to take photos with him. In any case, Li Huailin didn't care and allowed them to do as they pleased. However, if they continued to wait, Li Huailin had a feeling that the reporters would rush over.
Fortunately, the gathering point was in the main city. So, they could return to the main city after returning to the main city. After waiting for a while, everyone had already arrived before the crowd had gathered.
Because Li Huailin looked a little fierce, everyone knew that he was not someone to be trifled with. Therefore, the interviewee was changed to Hong Yan Drinkwater, who looked harmless. Now, the relationship between Hong Yan Drinkwater and Li Huailin was basically exposed. This time, the reporters who surrounded them were basically tabloid reporters (Usually, reporters from big newspapers would inform them of the interview in advance). They were here to dig up some gossip, so they kept asking Li Huailin personal questions.
"Rumor has it that Brother Awesome's girlfriend is the daughter of the Tiancheng Group's chairman. Is this true?"
"I heard that the two are about to get married. We've already met their parents. Tiancheng Group's chairman, Su Ximin, is it true?"
"Excuse me …"
"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law …" With so many people surrounding them, Hongyan Drinkwater was a little overwhelmed. Fortunately, Li Huailin had a way. He looked at a team of city guards passing by. Li Huailin waved at the captain of the team. When the captain saw that it was the Duke of Aquitaine, he quickly led the team and ran over.
"Duke, how may I be of service?" the captain asked immediately.
"This group of people is so noisy," Li Huailin said, pointing at the group of people.
"No problem, Duke." The captain waved his hand and shouted at the crowd, "Maintain order, disperse the crowd, and protect the safety of Duke!"
While the patrol team was maintaining order, the remaining three people had arrived. Li Huailin took the opportunity to leave and head to the main city headquarters of De 'an Chamber of Commerce. When he reached the entrance, Polit was already there to welcome them. When he saw Li Huailin, Polit quickly welcomed Li Huailin and the others in. Of course, everyone behind them was blocked outside, and the city guards helped to disperse them. When these people saw that they couldn't enter, they quickly dispersed.
"Duke." Polit immediately greeted Li Huailin. Considering that the matter involved might be confidential, Polit quickly sent all the people away, leaving only two people in the room. These two people should be Polit's trusted subordinates.
"Have you finished the investigation?" Li Huailin asked.
"Yes, Sir. I have finished the investigation you asked me to," Polit said as he handed over a document. Porritt handed over a document as he spoke. "Please take a look, Sir."
Li Huailin received the document and passed it to Jade Emperor.
"Hey, hey, I already said that I'm not your personal secretary. What are you doing?" Although he said that, the Jade Emperor still took the document directly.
"Polit, give me a brief explanation," Li Huailin said.
"Yes, Sir." Polit nodded and said, "According to the investigation, Count Sandra purchased the Homran Stone in an auction 15 years ago. This matter was handled by our De 'an Chamber of Commerce, Mondela."
"Yes, Sir." Polit looked at the NPC named Mondela. Mondela nodded and quickly walked out of the door. After a while, Mondela dragged an old NPC into the room. Li Huailin looked at the man's name. His name was Parson Lagra, and he looked like an old man. He was at least 60 to 70 years old, and his clothes were very shabby. It was as if he had come from a junkyard.
As soon as they entered the room, Parson knelt in front of them without saying a word.
"Duke, this is the former President of the De 'an Chamber of Commerce, Parson Lagra. He was the one who handled this matter," Polit said as he pointed at Parson.
"Oh?" Li Huailin looked at Parson and nodded.
"Isn't he the former Old President? How did he end up in such a miserable state? "Millennium Immutable asked.
"Uh … this …" Polit looked at Li Huailin.
"Because he used to work with Marquis Fillmut. Now that the Marquis has fallen due to treason, Parson is in such a miserable state," Li Huailin explained.
"Oh, I see. I understand." Millennium Immutable nodded. This was easy to understand. If one lost a political struggle, they would lose everything. Although Parson used to be a member of the De 'an Chamber of Commerce, the De' an Chamber of Commerce had to draw a clear line between them. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to explain themselves. Polit was also very ruthless.
"Duke …" Parson understood his current situation very well. Although he used to be very famous, nobody dared to have anything to do with him now. He was even worse than a commoner. When Parson saw Li Huailin, his legs trembled in fear.
"You were the one who bought the Holmland Stone for Count Sandra, right? Tell me some useful information," Li Huailin said.
"Yes, Duke. I was the one who did it. My purpose was to get closer to Count Sandra, who was Marquis Fillmut's confidant at that time." Parson immediately said, "At that time, I helped Count Sandra raise the funds for the auction. It was about 500,000 gold coins."
"That has nothing to do with me. I want to know who auctioned it," Li Huailin said. "Hurry up and prove that you're still useful."
"Yes, yes, Duke. I know." Parson immediately said, "Although it's usually impossible for auctions to disclose the seller's information, I have some special channels. I knew the President of the Thousand Orchid Chamber of Commerce at that time, so I did some behind-the-scenes work …"
"Alright, alright. I don't care what behind-the-scenes work you did. Who was it?" Li Huailin asked.
"It was Hoglavin," Parson replied immediately.
"Hoglavin? Who is it? "Li Huailin asked.
"Ah, there's one here." The Jade Emperor, who was looking at information at the back, said.
"Yes, Your Highness, I've already looked into it," Porter said. "This Hoglavin is a great leader of the orcs …"
"The leader of the orcs?" Li Huailin was slightly stunned.
"Yes, I've looked into it and found some shocking news. This Hoglavin happened to be 15 years ago. He was originally a Wolf Rider Squadron Leader with only 200 men under him. However, 15 years ago, he suddenly rose to become the leader of his tribe. According to the intelligence, the reason for his rise can basically be attributed to a large amount of money of unknown origin …" Porter said.
"A large amount of money of unknown origin?" Li Huailin thought for a moment. "This means that Hoglavin auctioned the Holmland Stone and obtained a large amount of gold coins. He then used the gold coins to rise to the top …"
"Just the Holmland Stone is far from enough. In fact, I think he has other sources of gold coins …" Porter said immediately.
"Oh?" Li Huailin stroked his chin. Could it be … that the other party auctioned more than just the Holmland Stone … If that was the case, it would be a little interesting. Inferring from this, Earl Guitalera had disappeared 15 years ago, but according to Marina, Earl Guitalera was still alive. Since he was still alive, then the seven gems must be with Earl Guitalera, and one of them was obtained by Hoglavin. Then, it was very likely that Hoglavin had obtained the remaining stone and auctioned it for a large amount of gold coins. Inferring from this, this Hoglavin was very likely to know where Earl Guitalera had gone.
"Looks like we have to look for this Hoglavin," the Jade Emperor Summoning Summoning behind him seemed to have figured it out, and said directly.
Li Huailin thought for a moment. His main objective now was to find the last piece of the secret treasure, but according to Marina, Earl Guitalera should not have found it. However, Li Huailin still had to look for Earl Guitalera, not because of the mission, but mainly because Earl Guitalera was someone who had experienced the situation at that time, so there were some things that he had to ask him clearly. Maybe he could find the whereabouts of the last piece of the secret treasure.
"Well, then let's look for this Hoglavin first," Li Huailin said.
"But … he's an orc lord, how do we find him?" Millennium Unchanging suddenly asked.
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