Chapter 560 Purpose So fast? Lumian hadn't expected that the Sword Knight's investigation would yield results in just one day. Following his instinct, he turned his body sideways and cast his gaze towards the full-length mirror. The "Sword Knight" with messy brown hair and pale face appeared there at some point. “Just a clue?” Lumian thought about what the other party had just said and extracted the key points. The Sword Knight glanced at Lumian with an extremely suppressed and restrained look and said: "The day after they arrived at Santa Port, they went to the Balansat Boat Rental Company and asked how much it would cost to rent a boat for fishing. After that, they never showed up again." After hearing the Sword Knight's answer, a thought flashed through Lumian's mind: It's quite romantic. As expected, they are a combination of one and a half Intis people and half Fenapote people. They actually choose to go fishing at sea as a date! If Nolfi did not have the identity of the child of the "Maid of the Sea", and this was Santa Port, the pursuit of romance might be closer to the real purpose of their renting a boat. Unfortunately, there is no if in reality. After sighing, Lumian seriously thought about the real reason why Nolfi and Batner did this. ——There are many fishermen in Santapuerto, but not everyone has his own fishing boat. These lower-class fishermen either accept employment and help on board to earn an income consisting of a relatively fixed monetary reward and a portion of seafood, or they form a partnership and buy or rent a fishing boat that can go out to sea. The Balansat Boat Rental Company mainly makes money in this regard. As for the middle class and tourists, the income from sightseeing and sea fishing is not much. Santapuerto is not a city famous for tourism. As Lumian began to think, the Sword Knight continued: "The inquiry was led by the woman named Norfi, but the man named Butner cooperated throughout the process and showed no resistance at all." Bartner didn't really think that going fishing was a date, did he? For the people of Intis, this was indeed something worth looking forward to, so how could they resist? Renting a boat to go out to sea... What exactly did Norfi want to do? During the sea prayer ceremony, intercept the special boat carrying the "Governor of the Sea" to be appointed, or load a boat full of gunpowder and directly crash into it, ending the lives of the "Governor of the Sea" and the "Maid of the Sea"? Or, quietly follow them and replace them at the critical moment? Lumian's thoughts were flooding, and he had all kinds of guesses.
Suddenly, he remembered something. The information about the sea prayer ceremony he collected from different channels all mentioned one piece of information: The final and most core part of the sea prayer ceremony is the sea sacrifice, which is held in a special sea area outside the port. People who have not been there are not clear about the details of the sea sacrifice, nor do they know where the sea area is located. Thinking of this, Lumian suddenly had an idea and made a new guess: "Norfi's mother is the 'Maid of the Sea' who escaped from Santa Port. She must have been to that special sea area and may have told her daughter the relevant information. “The purpose of Norfi renting a boat is to go to that special sea area? “What’s there? “The core of the Sea Prayer Ceremony is held there. Does it mean that there is something, a being or a power hidden somewhere in that sea area, and the essence of the Sea Prayer Ceremony is to borrow something special from it? "Does Norfi want to take that thing away and claim it as his own, becoming the permanent 'Governor of the Sea', or destroy it completely and end the long history of Santa Port selecting the 'Governor of the Sea' and the 'Maid of the Sea' and holding the sea-praying ceremony? "If it were really easy to take that thing away and control it in their own hands, the members of the Fisheries Guild would have done it long ago. Most of the time, human nature is selfish and it is impossible to leave good things to a child of a 'Maid of the Sea', unless that 'Maid of the Sea' had other experiences after leaving Santa Port and knew how to approach, how to obtain, and how to avoid danger... "It might be easier to destroy than to occupy..." Lumian raised his head slightly as his thoughts raced. Could it be that the purpose of the core members of "April Fools' Day" to play such a prank is to steal that thing or all its special features? Did they succeed? This is a very critical question. The Sword Knight looked at Lumian quietly, without interrupting his thoughts, standing there like a corpse. After a while, Lumian asked with a little curiosity: "How did you manage to find out some of Nolfi and Butner's whereabouts in just one day?" The Sword Knight replied in a deep voice: “Get information from the spirit world, and then investigate on the ground. "After they left the Balansat boat rental company, all the relevant information was hidden or eliminated and could not be found." “Isn’t this the principle of some divinations…Norfi and Bartner didn’t do a counter-divination before going to the boat rental company, but did after they left? "This doesn't make sense. Either they don't do it, or they do it all the time. Unless both of them are rookies, they only think of doing the reverse divination after asking about the price of renting the boat... "Well, a more reasonable explanation is that ship leasing is also an industry related to fisheries and maritime trade, and has a deep relationship with the members of the Fisheries Guild. The behavior of the two outsiders, Nolfi and Batna, asking about the price of leasing a ship attracted attention, and their identities were exposed, so they passively 'disappeared'... "Did the note that told me that Norfi was the child of the 'Maid of the Sea' come from the owner or a shareholder of the Balansat Boat Rental Company?" Lumian's thoughts gradually became clear.
He looked at the "Knight of the Sword", hesitating on how to ask him to continue the investigation. At this time, the "Knight of the Sword" took the initiative to say: "I will do further research with the boat rental company." "Thank you." Lumian thanked him sincerely. He then saw the figure of the "Sword Knight" quickly become transparent and disappear. Transformed into a spirit-like creature? A "vengeful spirit"? Lumian saw more details this time. This made him wonder if the "Knight of the Sword" came from the "Temperance Faction" of the "Fool" Church, and then went to the Southern Continent to deal with the "Hedonism Faction" of the Rose School. Without thinking too much, he took off his clothes, put on a cotton shirt that had been washed until it turned white, and lay down on the bed. ………… Late at night in Trier, Franca was wearing a thick tweed coat and a pair of trousers that fit her legs perfectly, and she was walking in the intermittent light of street lamps. Although she wore no make-up and deliberately used darkness and shadows to conceal her features, there were still many drunks who would approach her from behind or from the side and ask about the price, just like the tiny flies hovering under the gas street lamps on a summer night. Snapped! Franca's ponytail swayed slightly, and she side-kicked a drunk who was pestering her and sent him flying. The drunkard screamed and vomited all over the floor. Franka curled her lips in disdain and muttered to herself silently: "'Joy' is really troublesome. It's okay during the day, but some self-righteous guys will come to pick up. When you go out at night, there are malicious people everywhere. Even the heroes who save the girls are just for the follow-up pick-up... "However, those bastards came here with imagined happiness and expectations, but in the end they only received a beating and corresponding pain. Hmm, this can be regarded as a simplified version of pleasure bringing pain?" It was precisely because she wanted to experience this and see if she could find an opportunity to digest the potion that Franka did not sneak into the shadows and move forward without being seen by anyone. After walking for a while, Franka entered the shadows and came to the empty room where she had met "007" before. The companion said that he had found out about the ancient tomb next to the "Crazy Mushroom Cave" in the fourth level of the catacombs through church information and municipal archives, but it was not convenient to talk about it in the telegram group. After all, no matter how good the relationship was, one had to be on guard. So, he put the sorted information at this contact point and let Franka pick it up herself. Franka searched briefly and found two thin folded pieces of paper. She unfolded them and quickly read through them - as an "assassin", no matter how dark the environment was, it couldn't stop her from seeing the words: "The ancient tomb where you found the 'Mirror World Fragment' belonged to a great noble family in the Tudor Empire in the Fourth Epoch. “Their last name is Tamara. “I haven’t found any information about which members of Tamara’s family the tomb belongs to, but I found something strange: "Not only are there multiple tombs of the Tamara family on the fourth floor of the catacombs, but there are also some on the third floor, such as the 'Tomb of Thorns and Shields', the 'Tomb of the Just', etc. Why aren't they placed together..." Seeing this, Franka's eyes suddenly froze. Isn’t the “Tomb of the Wall of Thorns and Shields” the tomb where Jannah took the Tear Bottle to complete the quest? The mission they used as an excuse involved the Tamara family, and the tomb where the "fragments of the mirror world" were obtained also belonged to the Tamara family! Could this be too much of a coincidence? Is it a manifestation of the laws of mysticism? After calming down, Franka read the following content: "…Regarding the Tamara family, my rank does not allow me to have access to more detailed information. You should think of a solution yourself." Hmm... Franka nodded slightly and decided to report the whole matter to Ms. "Judgement", hoping to obtain certain information and hints from the "Tarot Club".
………… Early morning, Santa Fe, Aquinas Street. In a house diagonally opposite the Solo Hotel, Lumian, whose appearance had changed, was standing at the window of a room, holding the new identity card given by Valerio, looking at the suite where he, Lugano and Ludwig lived and the street below. Now, he wanted to play the role of an ordinary bounty hunter who had accepted a secret commission and was monitoring the great adventurer Louis Berry. With the radical behavior in the past few days, all well-informed people in Santa Port should know that there is such a great adventurer who wants to investigate the Sea Praying Ceremony, and it is very likely that the "Bard" and other core members of the "April Fools' Day" are among them! (End of this chapter)