After hearing Larry introduce himself, Ryan also took the initiative to say: "Hello, my name is Ryan, and we are both from the same mercenary group."
Larry nodded, smiled at the four people, and said, "Come in and sit for a while, they have to walk for a while."
Ryan thought for a moment and then agreed: "Thank you then. I happen to be tired from walking. I need to take a rest."
The four people followed Larry into the shop. It was an antique store. Ryan and the others looked around and found that there were a lot of things placed outside. Although Faras was not good at these things, his father Luke was The largest official in the empire, even if he didn’t buy it himself, his subordinates would still give him a lot of gifts.
Officials generally rarely give gold coins as gifts. Firstly, a large number of gold coins are too heavy and too numerous to store conveniently. Secondly, if something goes wrong, there is no way to get rid of them. It is much better to give antiques and the like. It is of high value and easy to preserve. More importantly, if it is found out, you can use your personal hobbies to evade it. If it doesn't work, you can just say that you think it is a fake. Although it seems that I have never heard of any subordinates sending fakes to their superiors.
Therefore, Farasi has been accustomed to seeing these things since he was a child, and he will naturally have a higher vision, and he will not look down on those whose grades are too low. With Larry's decades of experience, he naturally understands Farasi's thoughts, so he He smiled and explained: "Actually, I don't put really good things outside. They are all worthless things. I mainly rely on the officials and nobles of the empire, and only they can afford them." It can easily cost tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.”
Ryan nodded and glanced at these small things casually. As expected, as Larry said, they were all old rings, jewelry and the like. In one corner were two sets made in an unknown era. The armor was slightly damaged, and there were several oil paintings hanging on the wall. The painters were average. Even though Ryan knew nothing about this, he could tell that these paintings were far inferior to what he saw in the palace.
Ryan smiled at himself, comparing an ordinary antique shop with the collection in the palace. How did he think of this? Ryan picked up an old ring and looked at it casually. This ring was made of It was made of bronze, but the style looked familiar. Ryan was secretly wondering. He began to recall where he had seen something similar to this ring.
"Ah, I remembered." Ryan said suddenly. He remembered the ring that Bart was wearing on his hand. The style was very similar to this one. Ryan quickly took out Bart's ring from his body and compared the two. As expected, there are some similarities in style between them, and the gloss of the appearance is also similar.
Larry's sharp eyes could clearly see the style of the ring that Ryan took out at a glance. He smiled and said: "Hey, you should have bought this ring from me, but why do I have no impression of you at all?" .”
Ryan quickly asked: "Do you remember this ring?"
Larry nodded and said: "Of course, you have to know that a business like mine usually doesn't have customers every day. Often I can only sell one thing a month. But it's been a long time. Let me think about it carefully. think."
Ryan and the others looked at Larry quietly, with hope on their faces. No one expected that they would find some clues here.
"Ah, I remembered it. The person who bought this ring was a young man. Well, I was very impressed by him. He spent a long time choosing from me before he found a pair that was exactly the same. He also gave me a hard time negotiating the price. For most of the day, this young man, hey, only had a few dozen silver coins, so what?"
Ryan and the other four people were all overjoyed. Ryan continued to ask, "Do you know the young man who bought this ring? Do you know where he lives or where his tailor shop is?"
"How did you know he was in the tailor shop?" Larry asked strangely, "I only found out by chance later."
"Then do you know where the tailor shop is."
Larry shook his head and said, "If you are looking for that young man, I don't know where he has gone. I heard he went to the north. As for the tailor shop, it has been closed."
"how so."
Larry looked at the door and found no one, so he whispered: "His Majesty got married some time ago. You should know about it."
Ryan and others nodded together. Even if they were not in the imperial capital, how could they not know about such a big thing
"As for that tailor shop, the craftsmanship is always good in the Imperial Capital. His Majesty is getting married. Since the time is really tight, the tailors in the palace are too busy, so I asked tailors from several tailor shops in the Imperial Capital to help. The one you are looking for A tailor shop is among them.”
"Ah, so they are in the palace." Farasi asked,
Larry shook his head and said: "Hey, how should I put this matter? On the night of His Majesty's wedding, he died mysteriously." At this point, Larry lowered his voice desperately: "It is said that there was a rebellion. That night the entire palace , the imperial capital was in chaos, and the wealthy area was basically burned to rubble. Later, after dawn, many people disappeared mysteriously. The tailor from the tailor shop you are looking for, and his My daughter, I don’t even know where she is, hey.”
Hearing the news, Ryan's heart sank. If Josha died in the turmoil that night, the body might not even be found. Faras also felt a little uncomfortable. After all, her father Luke also died that night. Being involved in it, many things would not have happened if Luke had not acquiesced or even sent people to do it intentionally, such as the fire in the wealthy area.
Ryan said to Larry disappointedly: "Thank you, we have something else to do, let's go first."
Larry didn't hold back, but stood up and whispered in Ryan's ear: "You must not spread what I just said. The imperial capital is quite chaotic during this period. It's better not to come out if you can. Get out of here as soon as possible. Just leave quickly.”
Ryan and the other four people came out. Farasi said to Ryan cautiously with a worried look on her face: "Maybe, maybe she's fine, she's just hiding somewhere."
Ryan took a deep breath and looked at Faras. He didn't know what to say. Even putting aside the relationship between Faras and himself, Luke was very good to Ryan. In terms of friendship, Ryan knew Luke much earlier than Bart. ,
"Hey, what should I do now?" Ryan sighed,
"Josha may not be fine." Flanner suddenly spoke. Ryan raised his head, looked at him, and said, "You don't have to comfort me." "No." Flanner interrupted Ryan with a firm word. Continued: "How did the emperor die? Although Lord Luke said it vaguely, we all know in our hearts. Do you think that when the ruler of an empire is assassinated, those people who were temporarily recruited into the palace can be without suspicion? Who? If we can guarantee that Josha is not an assassin, we should check it in detail no matter what."
"It won't take so long." Ryan calculated the time and said, "It's been almost a month. I should find out something."
Flanner smiled bitterly and said: "Ryan, those guys are not paying attention to this at all now. How Fernando XIII died is not important to them. The key is that he died. This is enough. Now The question is who will be Fernando XIV. As for the few tailors, they will be locked up. Even if they are secretly silenced, they may just die of a sudden illness and be buried."
The four people looked at each other. Flanner's words can be said to be the key to the whole matter. If everything is as Flanner said, then Josha's matter will be very troublesome, because once it involves the ruler of the empire, After being killed, many things become difficult. If Ryan and the others get Josha out through Luke's relationship, there is no guarantee that someone will use this matter against Luke in the future.
"How about I talk to my father tonight." Faras saw that Ryan's face was really bad, so she whispered: "Maybe it's not a big problem."
"No, absolutely not." Flanner immediately stopped and said, "Actually, you and I both know what an ordinary tailor can do, but we can't let Luke be passive because of this little thing, especially now that the empire is in crisis. , if Luke is suspected of being the mastermind behind it because of Josha, the consequences will be extremely serious."
Ryan sighed and said: "I promised Bart that I would take good care of Josha, so if Josha is still alive, I will definitely rescue her and let her have food and clothing for her whole life. But what Flanner said makes sense. I Let’s see, Fannie, please talk to Uncle Luke and ask him to strengthen supervision of those tailors and don’t let them suffer. Once the orcs are defeated, we can slowly figure out a solution.”
"You, do you want to see her once?" Faras saw Ryan's dejected look and asked, "It should be no problem if we only meet once."
"No." Ryan refused without thinking: "When we meet, what should I say? Tell her that Bart is dead. Forget it, let's go back. Now that the enemy is facing us, my previous actions were a bit too willful, but soon, Thank you for always being by my side.”
Flanner smiled and said, "Haha, Ryan, you know what."
"What."
"Although you are less than 20 years old, Ryan, you talk and act like an old man with decades of human experience. Moreover, your strength is far beyond that of your peers. I estimate that even a magister-level magician and you Even if we fight face to face, we may not be your opponent. Your Shunfa magic is really too perverted." When Flanner said this, he suddenly became excited: "I don't understand magic, but I also know Shunfa, and Or what does it mean to have multiple magics at one time? I don’t know how your teacher trained you, but I believe you definitely put in hard work and sweat.”