After listening to Louis. Berry's cooperation content and willingness to do, Juan. Oro once again wondered if something was wrong with his ears.
This is not that the other party's request is too excessive or ridiculous, making people think he is telling a joke, on the contrary, the cooperation he wants can be achieved by the fisheries association without particularly difficult and without paying too much substantial benefits.
This is completely out of Juan. Oro's expectations.
He came to find Louis. Before Berry, he was actually mentally prepared to be severely "blackmailed", after all, the other party and the forces behind him easily controlled Lato. Giaro, showed enough strength to fight against the fishermen's guild, who knows, Louis. Berry spoke much better than he thought.
This made Juan. Auror felt that the other party was deceiving him, and then he would suddenly turn his face and break his promise in the cooperation.
Lumi quietly looked at the deeply wrinkled old man, not explaining his intentions, because once he explained, he might reveal his truest purpose, and it was not the time yet.
After a moment of consideration, Juan. Auror sighed as if he were old:
"We can agree to your request."
But in the process of cooperation, we will also be vigilant and prepare for the backhand.
Lumian smiled, stood up from the back chair suspended in nothingness, and said to Juan. Auror stretched out his right hand:
"Happy cooperation."
Juan. Oro shook hands with him and said:
"You're not as crazy as you appear......"
Lumian thought for a second, and said with the corners of his mouth slightly curled up:
"Of course, I have always been a smart, rational, and polite adventurer."
Juan. Oro had no intention of chatting, and he was very interested in Louis. Berry nodded and said:
"Since you don't want our cooperation to be known to others, then I should leave now, otherwise someone will find out that I have been here."
Lumian thought for a moment and said:
"I will send my companions lurking in the shadows to Milo Village tomorrow night, and you will bring all the sailors who survived last year's ceremony to your main house in advance to take control of it."
"Okay." Juan. Oro did not refuse, this was one of the cooperation contents just negotiated.
Seeing that the old man with a pestle was about to turn around and leave, Lumian called out to him and said thoughtfully:
"I am very trustworthy, and I promised Georgia that if she didn't tell others what she entrusted, she would definitely not say it.
"But I want to ask you something, which 'child of the sea' in the Paco family has disappeared recently, or hasn't appeared for a long time?"
He hinted that his problem was related to the Paco family's commission.
Juan. Aurora's expression froze, and he thought about it for more than ten seconds and said:
"The 'children of the sea' of the Paco family have appeared recently.
"I initially thought that Ruvio's mother Marta had some abnormalities that were inconvenient for us to know, but as a result, she was fine, but she was seriously injured."
No "children of the sea" are missing in the Paco family? Where did that humanoid lizard come from? Lumian was shocked when he heard this.
His first thought was that the Paco family was dealing with other "children of the sea", and the second thought was, was a certain "child of the sea" of the Paco family being replaced?
Fake family members are active in the form of the main owner, and the main owner turns into a humanoid lizard and dies at the hands of the great adventurer?
Thinking of replacement, thinking of being active with the appearance of the main lord, it is difficult for Lumian not to think of a sequence name:
"Faceless Man"!
That is the sequence corresponding to the "Lies" ear clip, that is the previous sequence of "Secret Puppet Master" and "Loki"!
Could it be that after "Loki" was resurrected, he came to Santa Harbor, quietly replaced an important member of the Paco family, and lurked down, with the purpose of setting a trap for me, and secondly, to do something during the sea prayer ceremony to continue what was not done last year?
Thinking of this, Lumian was both excited and excited, but also inevitably felt a certain amount of fear.
But in a blink of an eye, he ruled out this possibility again:
If "Loki" really replaces an important member of the Paco family, then there will be no humanoid lizards at all, he can quietly solve the problem, clean up the traces, and will not leave such obvious loopholes!
In addition, the Paco family is not only Rubio. Paco is such a "child of the sea", and Marta, the old grandmother, as the "maid of the sea", also has the residual power of the sea, how could they not deal with such a humanoid lizard whose strength level does not reach the middle order, and they have to take the risk of leaking secrets to invite the great adventurer Louis from outside. Berry to deal with it?
Lumian became more and more aware of the sea prayer ceremony, and after understanding these "sea relatives", he became more and more confused about the Paco family's previous choices, believing that there must be very important information hidden in it.
He looked at Juan. Oro organized the following language and said:
"Can't the descendants of the same 'Maid of the Sea' attack each other?"
"There is no such thing." Juan. Oro denied Lumian's guess.
Lumian deliberately said to himself:
"Then why did the Paco family specially ask an outsider like me to handle that commission, instead of an extraordinary person in their own family?"
Juan. Auror maintained the same calm expression just now:
"It was because of such confusion that I found someone to monitor Paco's family, and sent a 'little devil' to ask you, so I must meet Marta."
You call that wrinkled monster like a little old man "little devil"? Lumian nodded lightly and said:
"The Paco family should have a lot of secrets hidden."
He didn't ask anymore, looking at Juan. Oro turned around and walked away with his cane.
Soon, the "empty starry sky" around him subsided, and he "returned" to the master bedroom of the suite with the curtains drawn, and "returned" to the back chair in front of the desk.
Lumian smiled, turned half of his body, held the curtain, and brushed it away.
The morning sun shines in instantly, bright and brilliant.
…………
The next night, in Milo Village, in the ancestral house of the Oro family, which is only one floor shorter than the mansion of the "Governor of the Sea".
This multi-renovated building is a mix of old and modern, old and trendy, with blackened gray stone walls flanked by concrete pilasters and red tiles under the seaweed-covered roof.
The small living room on the first floor has closed the door, leaving only Juan. Oro, an old man with a black cane, and his most important grandson, Fernandez. Oro, and seven or eight villagers from Milo Village who were unconscious on the ground.
Suddenly, in the corner of the room, a shadow floated and a figure came out.
The figure was in his early 1.7 meters tall, with an ordinary face and no features, wearing a brown-green narrow-sleeved jacket on his upper body, a pair of brownish-yellow loose trousers on his lower body, strapless leather shoes with ventilation holes, and a low round-brimmed felt hat.
"Who is it?" Juan. Oro asked in Intis.
As one of the most powerful maritime merchants in Port Santa, he went to sea many times to do business when he was 30 to 50 years old, how could he not understand Intis.
The man replied in fluent plateau language:
"I am Louis. Berry's companion, you can call me Charnem."
It's not like the spirit-type extraordinary person that Lato met...... Louis. Berry was hiding in the dark, and sure enough, there was more than one companion...... Juan. Auror was a little glad that he chose to negotiate first.
As his thoughts turned, he glanced at Fernandez, who was still a little pale, and knew that he was not very happy in his heart.
Young people, this is normal, always counting who suffers losses and who takes advantage, and forgets what the most important purpose is.
"You can start asking them." Juan. Oro said to the man who called himself Chanem, "Actually, over the past year, we have used many methods to determine whether they are lying, and even took advantage of the particularity of other sea relatives, but all the results show that they told the whole truth and did not hide it, and the failure of the sea prayer ceremony has nothing to do with them."
Channem curled the corners of his mouth and responded with a smile:
"How do you know if it's okay if you don't try it yourself?"
He walked up to the unconscious sailors, took out a dagger, stabbed their fingertips one by one, and smeared the corresponding blood on the back of his hand in different places.
In such pain, those sailors woke up one after another.
In front of them, Channem took out a mirror and said to them with a smile:
"Your blood will tell me if you are lying, if it is you, if you are yourself, if whoever deceives me, his blood will burn in the mirror, and he himself will have the same end.
"Okay, you answer in turn."
As Channem said, he calmly brought the blood on the back of his hand to the mirror, so that all the sailors could see the blood seeping into the glass in a strange way.
The sailors looked at Juan. Auror glanced at it, and at the same time understood that this was still an investigation into the reason for the failure of last year's sea prayer ceremony, so he skillfully told his experience without missing a single point.
After hearing this, Chanem asked thoughtfully:
"Are you in charge of carrying the lamb offering, Iru and Sara?"
"Yes." All the sailors replied in unison.
Chanem asked:
"Both of them died in the sea prayer ceremony?"
The surviving sailors nodded one after another, indicating that the two companions were thrown off the ship in the great waves of the failed ceremony, fell into the sea, and never surfaced again.
Chanem looked sideways at Juan. Oro:
"Are there any relics of Iru and Sara? Clothes that have been worn many times, toothbrushes that have not been discarded, etc., etc.
"I want to try to summon their spirits, although it has been a year, their spirits must have dissipated a lot and they can no longer remember valid messages, but their spiritual state itself will also reveal some things, such as deep resentment and hatred."
Juan. Auror shook his head:
"After the sea prayer ceremony, we tried, but we couldn't summon their spirits, and those who were swallowed up by the furious sea would also be devoured."
Channem smiled and said:
"Try again, you won't lose anything if you give it a try."
Juan. Oro thought about it and immediately ordered Fernandez to get the Iru Sick Fang and Sara's clothes that had been used for psychic communication.
Then they saw Chernem setting up the altar and performing the summoning ceremony:
"Me!
"I call in my name:
"A sailor from the village of Milo in Port Santa named Iru. The man of Edra, the owner of this tooth......"
The sound of the wind rose, and the candlelight on the altar was dyed green color.
A blurred figure quickly came to the fore.
Successful? Actually succeeded? Fernandez's pupils dilated and looked above the candle.
The figure vaguely showed the appearance of Iru, but there was no drowning manifestation such as being wet and having pale and swollen skin, but instead his face was covered in blood afterimages, and there was an obvious wound on his forehead.
This ghost's eyes were full of pain and hatred.
(End of this chapter)