Chapter 566 Try Again After listening to the cooperation content and the commitments that Louis Berry was willing to make, Juan Oro once again wondered if there was something wrong with his ears. It's not that the other party's demands are too excessive or too ridiculous, making people feel that he is joking. On the contrary, the cooperation he wants can be achieved by the Fisheries Guild without any particular difficulty and without paying too much substantial benefits. This was completely beyond Juan Oro's expectations. Before he came to find Louis Berry, he had actually prepared himself mentally for being severely "blackmailed". After all, the other party and the forces behind him easily controlled Rato Giaro and demonstrated the strength to confront the Fisheries Guild. Who knew that Louis Berry was much easier to talk to than he had imagined. This made Juan Oro wonder if the other party was deceiving him and would suddenly turn against him and break his promise during the cooperation. Lumian looked quietly at the old man with deep wrinkles, and did not explain his intentions, because an explanation might expose his true purpose, and now was not the time. After considering the options for a moment, Juan Oro sighed with an old look: "We can agree to your request." But in the process of cooperation, we will also be vigilant and prepare backup plans.
Lumian smiled, stood up from the armchair floating in the void, and extended his right hand to Juan Oro: "Pleasant to work with." Juan Oro shook his hand and said: "You're not as crazy as you appear..." Lumian thought for a second, then raised his lips and said: "Of course, I have always been a smart, sensible, and polite adventurer." Juan Oro was not in the mood for idle chat, so he nodded to Louis Berry and said: "Since you don't want our cooperation to be known to others, I should leave now, otherwise people will find out that I was here." Lumian thought for a moment and said: "I will send my companions hiding in the dark to Milo Village tomorrow night. You should bring all the sailors who survived last year's ceremony to your main house in advance and control them initially." "Okay." Juan Oro did not refuse. This was one of the contents of the cooperation that had just been discussed. Seeing the old man with the cane about to turn around and leave, Lumian called him and said thoughtfully: "I am a man of my word. I promised Georgia that I would not tell anyone about the commission. "But I want to ask you something. Has any of Paco's 'children of the sea' disappeared recently, or hasn't appeared for a long time?" He hinted that his problem was related to the commission from Paco's family. Juan Oro's expression darkened. He thought for more than ten seconds and said: "Paco's 'sea children' have all made an appearance recently. "I initially thought that Rubio's mother, Marta, had some abnormality that was inconvenient for us to know about. As it turned out, she was fine, just seriously injured." No "child of the sea" was missing from Paco's family? Where did that humanoid lizard come from? Lumian was shocked to hear this. His first thought was that Paco's family was dealing with other "children of the sea", and his second thought was whether one of the "children of the sea" in Paco's family had been replaced by someone else? The fake family members are active around in the appearance of the real ones, while the real ones turned into humanoid lizards and died at the hands of the great adventurer? Thinking of taking over, thinking of being active with the original owner's appearance, it was hard for Lumian not to think of a sequence name: "Faceless man"! That is the sequence corresponding to the "Lies" ear clip, and that is the previous sequence of "Master of Secret Arts" and "Loki"! Could it be that after being resurrected, "Loki" came to Santa Port and quietly replaced an important member of Paco's family and lay lurking there, with the purpose of setting a trap for me and doing something during the sea prayer ceremony to continue what was unfinished last year? Thinking of this, Lumian felt both excited and inevitably a certain amount of fear. But in a flash, he ruled out this possibility: If it was really "Loki" who replaced an important member of Paco's family, then the humanoid lizard would not appear at all. He could quietly solve the problem and clean up all traces without leaving such an obvious loophole! In addition, the Paco family does not only have Rubio Paco as the "Child of the Sea". The old grandmother Marta, as the "Maid of the Sea", also has the residual power of the sea. How could they not be able to deal with a humanoid lizard whose strength level is not even at the middle sequence? Why would they have to risk leaking the secret and ask the great adventurer Louis Berry from outside to deal with it? As Lumian learns more and more about the sea-praying ceremony and these "sea families", he becomes more and more confused about the Paco family's previous choices. He believes that there must be very important information hidden in it. He looked at Juan Oro and organized his words: "Can't the descendants of the same 'Maid of the Sea' attack each other?"
"There is no such thing." Juan Oro denied Lumian's speculation. Lumian said deliberately to himself: "Then why did the Paco family specifically look for an outsider like me to handle the commission instead of having their own Beyonders do it?" Juan Oro maintained the same solemn expression as before: "It is because of this confusion that I asked someone to monitor Paco's house, sent the 'little devil' to question you, and I must meet Marta." You call that wrinkled monster that looks like an old man a "little devil"? Lumian nodded slightly and said: "Paco's family must be hiding a big secret." He didn't ask any more questions, just watched Juan Oro turn around and walk away with his crutches. Soon, the "empty starry sky" around him faded away, and he "returned" to the master bedroom of the suite with the curtains drawn, and "returned" to the armchair in front of the desk. Lumian smiled, half turned around, grabbed the curtain, and pulled it open. The morning sun shines in instantly, bright and brilliant. ………… The next night, in Milo Village, in the ancestral house of the Oro family, which was only one floor lower than the residence of the "Governor of the Sea". This building, which has been renovated many times, is a combination of the ancient and the modern, the old and the trendy. Next to the blackened gray stone walls are pilasters made of cast concrete, and under the seaweed-covered roof are red tiles. The door of the small living room on the first floor was closed. Only Juan Oro, an old man with a black cane, his most beloved grandson Fernandez Oro, and seven or eight villagers from Milo Village who were unconscious on the ground were left. Suddenly, a shadow floated in the corner of the room, and a figure walked out. The figure was a little over meters tall, with an ordinary face and no special features. He wore a brown-green short-sleeved shirt with narrow sleeves, brown-yellow loose trousers, strapless leather shoes with ventilation holes, and a low-top, round-brimmed felt hat on his head. "Who are you?" Juan Oro asked in Intis. As one of the most powerful maritime merchants in Santa Port, he went out to sea for business many times between the ages of thirty and fifty. How could he not understand Intis? The man responded in fluent plateau dialect: "I am Louis Berry's companion. You can call me Chanem." Unlike the soul-type extraordinary person that Lato met... Louis Berry really has more than one companion hiding in the dark... Juan Oro was somewhat glad that he chose to try negotiating first. As the thought turned to his mind, he glanced at Fernandez, whose face was still a little pale, and knew that he was not very happy about it. It is normal for young people to always care about who is at a disadvantage and who is taking advantage, and forget what the most important purpose is. "You can start questioning them now," Juan Oro said to the man who called himself Chanem. "In fact, over the past year, we have used many methods to determine whether they are lying, and even took advantage of the special features of other sea families. But all the results show that they told the whole truth and did not hide anything. The failure of the sea prayer ceremony has nothing to do with them." Chanem raised the corner of his mouth and responded with a smile: "How do you know if it works if you don't try it yourself?" He walked up to the unconscious sailors, took out a dagger, pierced their fingertips one by one, and smeared the corresponding blood on different places on the back of his hand. In such pain, the sailors woke up one after another. Chanem took out a mirror in front of them and said to them with a smile: "Your blood will tell me if you are lying, if you are really me, whoever deceives me, his blood will burn on the mirror, and he will have the same fate.
"Okay, answer in turn." As Chanem spoke, he calmly smeared the blood on the back of his hand onto the mirror, allowing all the sailors to see that the blood had strangely seeped into the glass. The sailors looked at Juan Oro and understood that this was still an investigation into the failure of last year's sea prayer ceremony, so they skillfully recounted their experiences without leaving out anything. After listening to this, Chanem asked thoughtfully: "Are Ilu and Sarah responsible for carrying the lamb sacrifice?" "Yes." All the sailors answered in unison. Chanem asked: "Both of them died in the sea prayer ceremony?" The surviving sailors nodded, indicating that the two companions were thrown overboard in the huge waves caused by the failed ritual, fell into the sea, and never floated up again. Chanem turned his head to look at Juan Oro: "Are there any relics of Ilu and Sarah? Clothes that have been worn many times, toothbrushes that have never been thrown away, etc. "I want to try to summon their spirits. Although a year has passed, their spirits must have dissipated a lot and can no longer remember useful information, but the state of their spirits themselves can also reveal some things, such as deep resentment and hatred." Juan Oro shook his head: "We tried after the sea prayer ceremony, but we couldn't summon their spirits. Those who were swallowed by the raging sea will have their spirits swallowed as well." Chanem smiled and said: "Try it again. You won't lose anything by trying." Juan Oro thought so and immediately ordered Fernandez to get the Iru disease tooth and Sara's clothes that were used for spiritual communication. Then they saw Chanem setting up the altar and performing the summoning ceremony: "I! "I call in my name: "A sailor from Milo Village in Santa Port, a man named Iru Aedra, the owner of this tooth..." The wind blew and the candlelight on the altar turned a dark green. A blurry figure soon emerged. Success? It actually succeeded? Fernandez looked up at the candle with dilated pupils. The figure vaguely resembled Ilu, but he did not have the wet body, pale and swollen skin, and other signs of drowning. Instead, his face was covered in blood and there was an obvious wound on his forehead. The ghost's eyes were filled with pain and hatred. (End of this chapter)