"My, my son doesn't know where he went to ss around today, but he, he usually does this, don't assu..."
Blondie Douding exhaled lightly, only Li Ang who was close could feel it.
"Go check your son's room," she said.
The boss was shrouded in a heavy mood, yet seed to be expecting sothing, leading the two upstairs in silence.
The second floor of the tavern was for guest rooms, but the third floor was where the boss's family lived.
"My wife and I live on this side, my son stays at the end of the hallway, the room with a view of the street."
The boss pointed the direction, the scale powder also attracted attention over there.
No one was inside, but clothes and daily necessities were scattered all over.
"He usually goes ssing around after work, maybe he's in the Flower City?"
The boss spoke almost to himself, then asked, "What on earth is happening?"
In his eyes, you could see he even hoped his son was in trouble, rather than sothing bad happening.
"The tracks went out the window," Li Ang said to Elaphia.
"Let's go."
Douding manipulated the tal window fra to open it, saying to the boss, "Don't worry too much. If there's any update, the Order Knight will inform you."
The two stepped out of the window, onto the roof. Li Ang levitated them with wind, moving slowly forward along the rooftop.
"Do you think his son is still alive?" Elaphia asked.
"He's dead."
"Why are you so sure?"
Li Ang sighed, shaking the clothing he just picked up at her.
"If we look further down, we can almost confirm it. Then let the Order Knight ensure the boss's safety."
The tracks led to beneath a manhole cover.
"Sewer?"
Elaphia's expression was shocked.
Seeing her lose her usual calmness, almost like a little girl about to cry, Li Ang found it amusing yet understood her feelings.
Actually, he didn't want to go down either, but after doing dirty and exhausting work in the adventure, he wasn't that picky anymore.
"Why not let another Order Knight go down with ?"
"...I am the Order Fla Corps commander and a resolution council mber, I must lead by example."
Blondie Douding took several deep breaths of pure air, raising her hand in a death-defying manner to lift the tal manhole cover.
After all, she had seen big scenes before, she wouldn't roll on the ground crying like so.
Li Ang looked at the manhole entrance and the descending ladder, smiling at her, "Looks not especially dirty."
Elaphia said nothing, she had no mood to respond now.
Li Ang didn't want to use the ladder either, controlling the wind to gently lower himself in, the young girl following suit.
Past the manhole cover, below was a vast sewer.
After the desperate situation of the Demon Disaster Realm was opened up, the rules of the Material World would return, so there would be rainfall and rainy seasons.
The rainy season just ended, there wasn't much water in the sewer, they could walk forward along the path without wading.
"Turns out when the Holy City was being built, such wide sewers were planned, consider it foresight."
Li Ang chatted with Aifei, while the latter only covered her nose, looking like about to collapse.
Following the tracks, they arrived at a special hideout.
"Gang?"
This type of hideout Li Ang had seen on tasks on other islands, so cities had sewers built so large, almost like underground cities; over ti, they beca gray areas.
Many gangs hid there, it was no exception in the Holy City, despite strict managent, there were still so gray organizations claiming to be legitimate businesses.
In front of them was a hideout in a recessed corner of the sewer, with moldy hammocks and a table, the table covered with molten wax and leftover letters.
Besides the letters, there was also a corpse here, similarly dissolved, flesh covered with old leather pants and jacket.
"This person seems like a gang mber," Li Ang said, and Elaphia nodded while covering her nose.
This was strange, a Fairy Dragon running into the sewer to kill a gang mber?
Such legendary high-tier magical creatures, what could they have to do with gangs that might not even have Excellence Realm fighters?
Beside the corpse, there were so burn marks.
The burning wasn't very intense, indicating its source wasn't a powerful magic attack, yet the burn marks were multicolored.
Li Ang could almost imdiately determine they were caused by magic attacks released by scale powder.
The spirituality of the Fairy Dragon in this space was several tis more intense than outside.
"Look at that letter."
Elaphia nodded, her fingers danced, generating flowing silver tal, forming into a pair of hands to unfold the letter.
"Hello, Female Immortal's ssenger, upon arriving here, soone will take you to the designated location where the materials you need are."
The letter content was short, the signer was two Nebis Language symbols, evidently initials of a na, and like the Silver Heart Sword symbol "A·A" by Li Ang, here it was "U·C."
Beside the signature, there was also a mark made with scale powder, likely used to verify the letter's authenticity.
Elaphia, who had been covering her nose and mouth, couldn't hold back at this mont, angrily exclaiming, "The Fairy Dragon entering the city is colluded with internal people?"
"Yes, this indeed isn't a simple matter, but it seems sothing substantial is involved."
From this letter, the person writing it is colluding with soone higher rank related to the Fairy Dragon entering the city, having been in contact for a long ti.
The one entering the city is either a Tier 7 or at most a Tier 8 Fairy Dragon, which in the Holy City is not significant.
Why that one? Maybe to avoid drawing too much attention, or perhaps it's enough for the letter writer to implent their sche.
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