"In the pawnshop's second quarter, Mr. Asotoni's item No. 11 is due for five pounds and six shillings, and Mr. Kolov's item No. 3 is due for eight pounds and one shilling and seven pence …"
"In the pawnshop's second quarter, Mr. Tiago Silva's No.37 mortgage has received and Mr. Bruzovic's No.24 mortgage has received …"
Connor frowned as he carefully read every paragraph of the "Second Quarter Report" in Ruiz's hands. He really couldn't find any secrets from the details of the management of the Redstone Pawnshop.
Just when Connor was having a hard time, a sentence in a corner of the report suddenly caught Connor's attention.
"The goods that Viscount Valdés pawned have expired and have been placed in Enzongqi's warehouse at the railway station in the southeast of the city. The goods will be loaded onto the train at 3 am on July 3rd and transported to Fort Thessaloniki to be sold to Baron Harry Kane. The expected profit of this transaction is fifty pounds!"
Although there weren't many words and the information between the lines wasn't very eye-catching in the whole report, if Connor wasn't mistaken, Ruiz had stared at the two lines for almost a minute. He had never spent so much time on the other contents of the report!
Just as Connor began to ponder over how a pawnshop that profited from selling expired collateral, which was the most common way of profiting from a pawnshop, as well as a mere profit of 50 pounds, could make Ruiz value it so highly, he couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he thought.
In the manager's office of the Redstone Pawnshop, Ruiz, who was originally reading the "Second Quarter Report", suddenly seemed to have made up his mind. He looked towards the southeast and sighed slightly. Then he closed the report in his hands and put it on the desk. Ruiz, who didn't know that his every move was being monitored by Connor, sat back on his bed in the manager's office and began to meditate.
Standing on the rooftop of the Marcello's Department Store, Connor looked at Ruiz who was meditating while thinking about that piece of information in his mind.
After a long time, with the help of the cool night breeze, Connor's eyes lit up as if he suddenly thought of something. If Connor remembered correctly, Marguerite once told him in the Rossi Opera House that Ruiz had some connections in selling stolen goods. That was how he joined the Secret Society and became an outer member of the Secret Society.
Now, Ruiz was going to ship a batch of goods out of Iprua to Fort Thessaloniki and hand it over to Baron Harry Kane. Could it be related to selling stolen goods?
Realizing this, Connor couldn't help but feel excited about his discovery. However, he seemed to have thought of something else. The smile on Connor's face face froze and he immediately took out an exquisite pocket watch. The hour hand on the watch showed "two" and the minute hand showed "six". Connor couldn't help cursing in a low voice.
“FUCK!”
After cursing, Connor felt that time was of the essence. Relying on his superior strength, he directly used Light Body Technique to leap from the rooftop of the Marcello's Department Store, which was 15 meters tall. He silently arrived downstairs and directly threw a gold pound note at the unopened newspaper stand at the intersection. He took a map of Iprua and quickly left.
Looking at the map of Iprua, Connor didn't understand why Ruiz sighed after looking at the southeast direction in the manager's office. In the "Redstone Pawnshop Second Quarter Business Report", it was mentioned that the goods to be delivered to Fort Thessaloniki for Baron Harry Kane were currently stored in Enzongqi's warehouse. They were in the southeast direction of the two-story building of the Redstone Pawnshop!
Seeing that his conjecture had been confirmed on the map, Connor no longer hesitated. Under the cover of the night, he rushed toward Qi Fangku's location with all his might.
According to the description of the message, the goods would be loaded onto the train and transported to Fort Thessaloniki at 3 am on the 3rd of July. The current time was 2: 30 am on the 3rd of July, which meant that if nothing changed, Connor only had half an hour to find the goods in Enzongqi's warehouse. If Connor was late, the goods would be transported to Fort Thessaloniki by train.
Although Connor was an official wizard and could fly for a short period of time with his own magic power, he couldn't compete with a steam train in terms of speed and endurance. Therefore, if Connor didn't hurry up, he would probably never find out what was inside the strange goods. He would also lose the best chance to break the trap set by Cristante.
With the help of the Black Magic Robe, Connor's speed was still very fast. When it was eight minutes to three o 'clock in the morning, Connor finally crossed the downtown area of Ipurua. From the northwest corner of the downtown area where the Malaga community was located, he arrived at Enzongqi's warehouse at the train station in the southeast part of the downtown area.
After entering Enzongqi's warehouse, Connor didn't waste any time. He immediately snuck into Enzongqi's warehouse. Although it was late at night, there were five labourers working in the warehouse under the orange light of the coal mine lamp. They were moving back and forth between the warehouse and the train, carrying wooden boxes of goods from the warehouse to the train. Steam was rising from the front of the train, making loud noises. It seemed that the train was about to set off!
Connor, who had snuck into Enzongqi's warehouse, saw the group of people's movements. Although he didn't know whether the wooden boxes they were moving were what he was looking for, there were only a handful of people in the warehouse.
But looking at the huge warehouse of En Zongqi, only these few people were moving things, and the timing was so coincidental, Connor immediately made a decision. He first looked around, and seeing that there were no ambushes in the surroundings, he immediately moved his mind. The five laborers who were moving the wooden boxes, and the three train drivers in the cab, suddenly lost consciousness and fell limply to the ground.
Seeing this, Connor immediately walked out from the shadows. With a wave of his hand, he opened one of the wooden boxes, only to see that the wooden boxes were filled with … cotton!
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