Ray frowned, thinking hard and talking to himself.
"At first glance, there seems to be no problem. It is not uncommon for a failed investment to cause a number of families to suffer heavy losses and thus bear huge debts. But … to persuade people like Knight Parne, who have settled down for many years, to participate in the voyage, there must be enough confidence. After all, for them, even if it is seventy percent sure — no, even eighty percent sure, they will not take risks! Each of them has a family and a career, and there is no reason to risk their lives for wealth! "
"But … where is the problem? The Golden Tower City is not near the sea, but the businessman still wants to do ocean trade? It is not difficult to understand. Perhaps he has quietly made contact with Gars City. Businessmen are profit-driven. As long as they can make money, even if they go to the ocean, it is okay. And this time he is opening up a trade route. If he goes to the seaside port city to recruit partners, it is easy to cause trouble. "
"So, is it his behavior of privately borrowing a large amount of debt when he obviously pulled in a lot of shareholders? No, that is normal. Since it is a sure long-distance trade, and it is the most profitable first deal, of course, the more the capital, the better. It is abnormal not to borrow money! "
"Or, is the problem with the chief priest of the Church of Noble Maids? Also not right. His behavior is very normal … In order to monitor the opponent and to make profits, he also bought a large number of goods on the ship, and then when he encountered Timsar, he also fought to death. The whole process is not strange, and there is no doubt. The only thing that makes people suspicious is where did the church get so much money? After he bought a large number of goods, how could he borrow a large amount of money? But the Church of Noble Maids relies on many big nobles, and it is not so strange to have a large amount of money … Perhaps it is because of the large amount of money that the chief priest followed on the ship and wanted to personally supervise the process of this business … "
"… It is not right! There must be something wrong! "
Ray pondered for a long time, and after all, he could not find the key to the problem, and finally could only ask Sui Xiong for help.
After dinner, after saying goodbye to Mrs. Teague, Liv, and Nice, they went to the hotel to rest. Steele sneaked away to somewhere unknown, while Ray and Sui Xiong began to discuss.
"There must be something wrong with this!" Ray said. "Although I still can't find out what the problem is, I can smell the smell of conspiracy!"
"That's right, something isn't right!" Sui Xiong also nodded. "Knight Parne has no reason to go to sea. They are not short of money!"
"Come to think of it, they are actually short of money." "The Church of the Cavaliers (another name for the God of Cavaliers and Pioneers) is fighting against the Church of the Noble Maids. Money is needed, and a lot of it. Knight Parne and the others were not rich, and it would be difficult to support them in a few years. Since they saw an opportunity to earn a lot of money, of course they wouldn't let it go. "
"… That's true. Through this voyage, they can also strengthen their social relations. As long as the risk is not high, it will only take about a year."
"Yes, because the High Priestess of the Church of Noble Maids has also boarded the ship, they don't have to worry about being taken advantage of during this period of time. There's nothing wrong with that Officiator's reason for boarding the ship. " Ray pondered for a long time, but in the end, he was at his wit's end. "Your Majesty, why don't you just use magic?"
"Magic? There's no magic that can detect the situation in the churches of other gods. " Sui Xiong thought about it, shook his head, and said, "Only some gods with priesthood such as' conspiracy 'and' spy 'have such special magic."
"Isn't there a magic that can invite unknown strange existences to answer questions? It seems that the correct rate is quite high … "
"Oh, you mean that series of magic. Although I don't think it may be useful, it doesn't hurt to try. " Inspired, Sui Xiong began to prepare the magic. After a while, accompanied by black smoke and cold evil breath, a horrible ghost face appeared in front of them, staring at them with a cold gaze that could freeze people's bone marrow.
Ray was a little creeped out by its gaze, and hurriedly asked a question, "Please answer my question. Was there a conspiracy behind the death of Knight Parne?"
The ghost face's expression became a little absent-minded. It was using its talent to spy on the long river of fate, looking for the answer to this question.
But before it could find the answer, its face suddenly became frightened, and then the ghost face suddenly distorted, accompanied by a shrill scream, and exploded into a cloud of smoke. Then all the smoke and coldness swirled and fell into a vortex that emerged in the air, and soon disappeared with the vortex without a trace.
"… What's going on?" Ray was taken aback and asked doubtfully.
"A powerful existence has made a move." Sui Xiong easily noticed the problem. "But I'm not sure if he set up a magic maze in advance, so that all the magic searching for relevant content will automatically trigger? Or did he set up an alarm, and once the alarm is triggered, he will do it himself? "
Ray was silent for a moment, and asked, "How strong is he?"
"It's hard to say. If it's the former, then he's simply too strong," Sui Xiong said. "Even if it's the latter, his strength is not trivial."
"Compared to you?"
"No matter how strong the opponent is, as long as I don't rush into other worlds, and don't use means such as fate to fight against him, I'm not afraid of any enemy in the conventional battle of the human world."
Ray thought for a long time, and finally shook his head and sighed deeply.
"Alas! Even if we want to continue to investigate, there are no clues! "he said helplessly." If we can't find clues, no one can do anything! "
Sui Xiong also sighed. Gods were not omnipotent.
After a while, Ray said, "Your Majesty, Knight Parne is gone. Are you still going to find a lord for the Holy Land to be built?"
"Of course. But I haven't thought of who to look for, "Sui Xiong said. "It's not so easy to find a capable, good character, and political talent who has no conflict of faith with me."
"I know a few people, maybe I can give it a try," Ray said thoughtfully. "Although I haven't contacted them for a long time, their ability is certain. In terms of faith … it shouldn't be a big problem. But I'm not sure what their character is now. After all, people change. "
"It's worth a try if there's hope. Where do they live?"
"The capital of the Eagle Kingdom, Eagle Wing City," Ray said. "They should have been in Eagle Wing City at least 15 years ago. I haven't heard any news about them in these years. They probably still live in Eagle Wing City. "
"That's good." Sui Xiong nodded and finalized his intention.
But the next morning, after thinking all night, he changed his mind.
"I can't let this matter go!" He said resolutely. "A group of good people led by Knight Parne died without knowing why, and their families are still being oppressed. Since I have encountered this kind of thing, I have no reason to stand aside!"
"So … we help them pay off their debts?" Ray asked after thinking about it.
"I always feel that it's not straightforward enough …"
"Things have to be done step by step. Help them solve the immediate trouble first," Ray said. "Besides … if there is really a conspiracy behind this matter, then if we help them pay off their debts, we will destroy the follow-up plan of the people behind the scenes, and they will definitely come to us for trouble. At that time, won't the clues come to us? "
Sui Xiong nodded repeatedly and praised.
Ray's vision and strategy were really good. If it weren't for the fact that he was obviously not interested in being a lord, perhaps it would be a good choice to let him be the lord of his own Holy Land.
With Sui Xiong's encouragement, Ray became more and more active. After some consideration, he made some more plans to stimulate the people behind the scenes so that they would lose their cool and jump out themselves.
A few hours later, they visited Knight Parne's home again. Liv had gone out today, and only Madame Teague and little Nice were at home.
When they learned that Mr. Ray had contacted the lord through magic, and the lord said that he could help those who were in trouble pay off their debts, they couldn't help but be surprised.
"But … but that's a very amazing number!" Madame Teague was so surprised that she even stuttered a little.
"About how much?" Ray asked.
"My sister calculated it, and it's a total of …" Nice tilted her little head, thought for a while, and said a number that was enough to shock a relatively wealthy family. "Ah! How about the interest? I won't … "
This number was not beyond Ray's expectation. He smiled slightly and said gently, "Don't worry, even if you add the interest, it's not a big problem. I'll go and raise some money. After Miss Liv comes back today, I'll ask her and those friends to gather here tomorrow, and we'll talk about it in detail. How about that? "
"No problem!" Madame Teague replied immediately, but then she said worriedly, "But … that's not a small number! The annual tax that our Golden Tower City can allocate is no more than two thousand gold coins … "
"That's because most of the various businesses of the nobles don't pay taxes," Ray said with a smile. "You can rest assured that our lord is a nouveau riche. This number is indeed not small, but for him, it's nothing more than a matter of showing his teeth."
As he said this, he even showed his teeth, which made little Nice laugh.
After finalizing this matter, Ray said goodbye and left. He woke up Steele, who was still sleeping soundly. The red flames on the back of her hand had increased by seven times overnight, and she had almost turned into a pig. Together, the two of them went to several shops in the city that mainly dealt with monsters' materials. They spent all their cash and gems to buy as many monsters' materials as possible at a low price.
Thanks to the Church of the God of Aristocracy's suppression of the magic materials trading market during this period, the price of magic materials in the Golden Tower City was indeed very low. They easily bought a lot of magic materials, and as long as they went to other cities, even if they sold them at a low price, they could still make some profits.
But how could Sui Xiong be satisfied with selling at a low price? After leaving the city, he left Ray's coordinates, cast the spell of transmission, and took Steele across almost half of the continent in one breath. They returned to the territory of Geerteng, and came to the side of "Black Blade" Wall.
Since the last accident, Sui Xiong had worked hard on the spell of transmission. During this time, he had successfully determined the coordinates of several devout believers as the transmission coordinates. Although, due to the limitations of the spell of transmission, he could only transmit small and weak doppelgangers, and could not transmit the body that was too strong and too big, it was enough to be used for delivery.
They went straight to visit the lord and showed him the magic materials. Olian immediately gathered several big nobles and big merchants in the territory to discuss the plan to make a fortune.
After several hours of discussion or quarrel, the materials were finally sold at a very good price. The nobles and rich merchants who participated in this transaction were all very happy, and everyone was very satisfied.
When Sui Xiong and Steele returned to the outside of the Golden Tower City, and met up with Ray, who was bored and trying to train the copper-crowned flying dragon as a mount, his space bag was already full of gold coins and gems.
Just the profit from this transaction alone was enough to cover the debt by several times!
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