Wang Zifeng stopped the video, and Doris pointed at one of the fat men and said excitedly, "I remember him! He should be one of the merchants who came here more than once. I remember this face very clearly because he has a mole on his face, which makes it easy to recognize him. Although I don't know his name, some of the innkeepers must know him!"
"Okay then. Wang Zifeng, you accompany Doris to look for clues. Others should stay calm and do what needs to be done in the town. Once we find out where this person came from, we'll look at the next step." As the deputy mayor, Kalanda has now replaced Chen Hansheng's position. However, she has always been powerful and fair. Even modern people like Wang Zifeng are convinced by her. She thought for a moment and said, "No matter who the enemy is, if they want to see us in chaos, we have to stay calm! As long as we don't panic, they won't be able to achieve their goals."
Under her arrangement, everyone in the room took action.
Kalanda walked to the next room. The early summer weather was already a little hot. She pulled Chen Hansheng's quilt up to his chest, put his arms outside the quilt, wiped the sweat off Chen Hansheng's face, sighed softly, then turned around and left to devote herself to her work.
Wang Zifeng took Doris and began to check the hotels in the town one by one. One advantage of the magic world is that even if Wang Zifeng took out something like a mobile phone, the hotel owners would not be too shocked, after all, everything can be explained by magic.
They asked the inns in the town one by one, until the seventh one, the fat old man scratched his head and said, "Captain Wang, I seem to have some impression that this guy should be a businessman, but I forgot his name. He used to stay here every time he passed through Alano. He was originally in the fur business, but two or three months ago, he changed to the iron business. I think I heard him brag that his goods are no worse than those in Black Mountain, and there are more varieties. He has stayed here three or four times. But he hasn't shown up since you showed up here."
"Is there anything special about him? Or, has there been any changes after he started running the ironware business?" Wang Zifeng asked.
"Speaking of changes... He seemed to have been involved in some slave trade later on. I remember one time, he bought a young female slave from a poor family in town. He said someone else asked him to buy it..."
"Then do you know where he is from, or where his supply channels are?" Wang Zifeng asked again.
"Captain Wang, you are joking. The place where the goods are purchased is the lifeblood of these traveling merchants, they won't tell others about it, otherwise their business will be robbed if they are not careful. We who run the hotel have to keep our mouths tight and not ask too many questions." The fat boss said with a smile.
"Then do you know which trade route he took?"
"I really don't know. I haven't seen where he entered the town from."
"I know that," Doris said suddenly. "I saw him both times at the town gate. They came from the south. But there are several roads going south outside the town. I don't know which one it is."
Wang Zifeng wrote down a few clues and asked for a long time, but the boss couldn't say more. Although he knew the business content of this businessman, he still didn't know his name or where he came from. Based on the information provided by the hotel owner, he would definitely not find this person.
Wang Zifeng then called the waiter in the hotel, who only remembered that the other party went northeast when leaving the city. He asked the waiter to take him to find the family who sold his daughter to the merchant. But the poor mother had no idea where her daughter had gone.
However, to his surprise, the widow mother burst into tears after he asked the question, and kept saying that if Mayor Chen could come earlier and give them, the poor, a way to make a living, she would not have to sell her daughter.
"Oh, there have been many such things. My family has had good years in the past two years and our lives have been better. When I was in my teens, there was a drought and my father almost sold me for food. He cried like this that night." Doris said after leaving the widow's house, feeling somewhat empathetic.
"I've only heard about this kind of thing in stories before." Wang Zifeng looked back at the widow's room. The woman was still crying on the table. "I never thought that seeing the real situation would make me feel so uncomfortable."
“Then you must come from a good place,” Doris said.
"Yes." Wang Zifeng took out a silver gun coin from his pocket, handed it to Doris and said, "Give it to that woman."
"Captain Wang, you don't have to do this."
"This is not for her, it's for me. Giving her this makes me feel better."
Wang Zifeng and Doris asked several other inns but did not get any more clues.
"Captain Wang, what should we do? Should we mobilize mutual aid groups and women's associations to do more investigations?" Doris asked.
"This is the only way we can investigate now." But Wang Zifeng himself knew very well that the possibility of finding any truly useful clues was very low if he continued investigating in this way.
Do I need to sit back and wait for him to come to me
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Half a day later, Ji Yijun and Huang Zheng's team finally arrived at Alano.
Ji Yijun and the others were shocked and indignant about what happened to Chen Hansheng, but after watching Wang Zifeng's video, they quickly discovered that what Chen Hansheng was investigating was likely directly related to what happened in Avalo.
In the conference room at night, after watching the video, Avalo clenched his fist and said, "This is the village! That is the workshop where I work! That hillside is where the managers live. If you go up from here, you can reach the house where the black-haired demon lives."
He vaguely heard in the afternoon that the leader here was injured. At this time, he suddenly realized that he and the people here had a common enemy, and perhaps he had a chance to use their power to save people.
"My lords, I don't know how to get there, but if you can find that village, I can lead the way for you and I guarantee you can catch that damn guy. But, please save Ava too!"
"Don't worry, if we want to rescue, we will definitely rescue every slave." Wang Zifeng rewound the video to a specific position. Pointing at a person on the screen, he said, "Do you know this person?"
When Avalor saw this man, he was stunned, and then he gritted his teeth and said, "Even if you chop this man into pieces, I know him. He is Janola. Ava and I were harmed by him!"
"So it was him!" Ji Yijun was a little excited. "I remember you said that in order to keep you steady, he chatted with you and told you stories about his business. Did he mention anything that made us guess which route he usually took to transport goods?"
Avalor pondered for a long time, and suddenly his eyes lit up and he said, "I remember now. He said that one rainy night, his tent was almost washed into the river!"