HPDBC Chapter 499
Chapter 499
Chapter 499: Chapter 472: Old Relic (Please Subscribe) Chapter 499: Chapter 472: Old Relic (Please Subscribe) Li Xianglong: Very good!
Little Rui, the intelligence you’ve provided is extremely important, critical indeed.
I will credit you with a 9X-level mission, but you must pay attention to confidentiality from now on and not disclose any more information.
Li Xianglong felt uncomfortable, as if he’d eaten a fly, upon realizing that East Asia also had a grip on this situation.
But there was no helping it, as Zhou Yunfei was Xu Mengran’s student.
This Xu character was sly and cunning, having discovered the clues early on and started investing.
Xu Mengran: Not bad!
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Little Rui, the information you’ve supplied is very crucial and has greatly helped us.
Next, you should stay put and be sure to keep hidden and protect yourself.
In the office of the chief of the political department at the East Asia National Security Bureau, Xu Mengran also sighed in regret, thinking that he had no choice but to collaborate with that Li Xianglong fellow and couldn’t monopolize the situation.
If he had known Lin Rui’s identity earlier, he would have done everything possible to recruit him for the National Security Bureau.
Lin Rui’s value was simply immeasurable.
In their efforts to find out the purpose of the four Divine Envoys coming to Luojing, the National Security Bureau went through innumerable difficulties and came up with nothing, even risking the exposure of three of their undercover agents.
For Lin Rui, the future national leader of Great Song, it was only a matter of casually asking or paying attention to get the details.
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However, Lin Rui did not have the leisure to look at the messages in this temporary group, as he was standing with his hands behind his back, scrutinizing an old, hunchbacked man before him.
“So, you’re saying you have no leads whatsoever regarding this matter?”
The hunchbacked old man before him was surnamed Yuan, and he was Ji Xueying’s former master, the ‘Yuan’ of the wealthy Yuan merchant family.
When Lin Rui brought Ji Xueying with him to the capital, the Yuan family was very tactful; not only did they not ask for Ji Xueying back, but they also presented Lin Rui with a hefty gift—an entire 8,000 taels of gold and 36 bundles of various gift boxes—as thanks for him avenging their son and eliminating the Heavenly Demon who was an internal enemy of the Yuan family.
Especially after Prince Han was detained, the Yuan family offered another substantial gift.
Lin Rui, seeing how sensible the Yuan family was, took good care of their business on a regular basis.
Recently, when the Yuan family’s ships were obstructed, accused of consorting with demons and detained at the docks, Lin Rui had Wang Sen go on his behalf to handle it.
He made clear that the market administrator and the supervisors of the Imperial City Department must be “fair and just” and not “bend the law for personal gain.” Thus, the waters were cleared for the Yuan ships again.
However, today, Yuan Family Head Yuan Zhengping came to the gates of the Imperial City waiting for him, reporting that all the items Ji Xueying used in the past—such as bedding, desks, beds, and old swords and knives for practice—had all gone missing.
These items had been collecting dust in the Yuan family warehouse, and it was fortunate that the Yuan family had strict rules, checking the warehouse’s inventory every three days, partly to prevent fires and disasters and partly to ensure no item was lost.
Today, they were shocked to find that all the items Ji Xueying used to use were missing without a trace.
Yuan Zhengping was immediately distressed, not only coming to apologize at once but also bringing the warehouse manager and several warehouse hands with him.
Lin Rui had recently found this person to be rather clever in handling affairs and had come to rely on him more and more.
Since this was a private matter, he used a Flying Book instead of contacting via the official seal in his possession.
A short while ago, Lin Rui had asked his Ring Spirit who had stolen Ji Xueying’s old items?
What was their intention?
The Ring Spirit replied that there was insufficient information and that it would require 207,000 soul power points to deduce the answer.
Moreover, if these two questions were to be asked separately, one cost 120,000 points and the other 87,000 points.
Lin Rui felt that deducing the answer with 200,000 soul power points was too wasteful; he had only spent 1.6 million points to refine that Emperor Hao Divine Dragon, and copying a Dragon Stage martial art only took around 70,000 to 100,000 points.
Therefore, he still needed to keep gathering information to reduce the consumption of soul power points.
At this moment, he increasingly felt that his Ring Spirit had something of a supercomputer about it.
Meanwhile, on the eastern watchtower at Chengtian Gate of the Imperial City, a young man dressed in a Prince’s robe suddenly stepped back from the window, avoiding Lin Rui’s sweeping gaze.
“This Lin Hao’s Spiritual Sense is very sharp; I was almost locked onto by him just now.”
The young Prince turned his head to a middle-aged man beside him dressed in the garb of a First-rank Duke, “Duke An, will Lin Hao discover that we had a hand in this?”
“This matter was done cleanly; they won’t find anything.”
The middle-aged man let out a cold laugh with a composed expression, “Lin Hao currently has countless enemies, and who knows how many want him and his sister dead.
Who could they find?”
Just then, the middle-aged man’s expression changed subtly as he pulled out a device resembling an electronic cell phone popular in the Earth Federation over two thousand years ago from his sleeve.
He glanced at the text on the cell phone screen, his lips curving into a slight smile, “Good news, the Heavenly Demons I’ve been working with have successfully extracted Ji Xueying’s DNA.”
The top forbidden arts of Sky Extreme Star combined with modern biotechnology would surely magnify their divine might.
That Blood Saber Lady of Lin Hao dreaming of undergoing Dragon Transformation was simply delusional!
Unfortunately, they had always failed to find where Ji Xueying’s parents were.
Lin Hao had hidden Ji Xueying’s family somewhere, and the middle-aged man had yet to find any trace of them.
Soon after, Lin Rui’s carriage returned to his mansion.
Lin Rui received a message from Lin Xi.
Not long ago, an old man had come to apply for the position of steward and Protector instructor at Lin Mansion.
The man introduced himself, claiming his surname was Lv and given name Jingwei, formerly a wandering cultivator from the martial arts community, and Lin Xi had already welcomed him into the hall to serve tea.
Hearing this, Lin Rui’s expression turned odd, wondering if this ‘Lv Jingwei’ could actually be Lu Hanyuan.
What an apt name he chose, fitting right in with the cattle and horses of his household.