Path of Light.

Chapter 185 186. Conspiracy
Roy boarded the deck of the Black Pearl, and the last thing he wanted to see now was Tiffany.

Miss Tiffany was sitting on the side of the Black Pearl. She was wearing a light blue shark-pattern dress, with a gradient color from light to dark and gold patterns, which set off her figure perfectly, with a slender waist and plump hips.

Holding the side of the boat with both hands, she raised her head and said excitedly to Roy:
"Roy, I heard that you helped Xiu cut down a nightmare vine. This nightmare vine has been entrenched in that sea area for a long time and killed many Naga. Now it is finally cut down."

"It was a coincidence that night, our boat was just about to spend the night next to that sea reef, if Xiu hadn't come out and cut down that nightmare vine, maybe we would have fought fiercely with those water ghosts until dawn..."

Roy smiled dryly and said.

Tiffany saw that Roy's expression was a bit unnatural, glanced behind Roy, and asked suspiciously:
"Where's Jasper? Why didn't he come with you?"

Then, she couldn't wait to pull the long skirt with shark pattern on her body to show the outline of her legs, and said to Roy proudly:

"Did you see? I learned the Transfiguration technique, and now I can walk freely on land, but I can't leave the water for too long..."

Roy found that the light scales that should have been on her cheeks, the back of her neck, and her upper arms had also faded away, and her skin became white and greasy.

She's pretty much like an elf except she doesn't have pointy ears...

A wry smile appeared on Roy's face, and said:

"Tiffany, Jasper is dead."

"..."

Sitting on the side of the boat, Tiffany, who was still smiling, changed her face, and her body shook violently, almost falling into the sea...

She stared at Roy with wide eyes, feeling agitated, clutching Roy's shirt collar with both hands, and asked eagerly:
"When did this happen?"

Roy wanted to appease Tiffany, who was almost out of control, but he didn't know what to do.

He didn't struggle, let Tiffany grab his collar and said:
"The morning before yesterday."

Tiffany seemed to have been beaten with a sap, his body was shaking a little, but his eyes were fixed on Roy, and he asked him, "How did this happen...how did he die?"

"Throat cut."

Cyan scales appeared on the back of Tiffany's neck...

"Where is he now?"

"Western Suburb Cemetery." Roy replied.

Tiffany asked Roy in a daze, "Can you take me to see him?"

"Okay, you wait for me here, I'll go to the pier first to find a carriage..."

After speaking, Roy helped Tiffany to sit on the deck, and then he slid down the ladder on the side of the ship and ran to the pier.

……

Even at night, horse-drawn carriages can be found at Castleton Harbor Wharf.

It cost Roy a full [-] les to hire a carriage that was willing to go to the western suburbs cemetery at this time. Even after paying such a high price, the half-blood elf driver couldn't help complaining a few words.

Roy parked the carriage beside the small square on the west side of the port pier, then walked over with Tiffany and boarded the carriage.

Probably seeing that neither Tiffany nor Roy had the pointed ears of elves, the coachman looked at them a few more times.

The two sat in the carriage, and it could be seen that Tiffany was in a bad mood, and Roy didn't speak.

There are only the sound of horseshoes stepping on the stone road and the sound of wheels rolling on the stone road.

The cemetery in the western suburbs was extremely quiet at night. There was some dim light around the fountain of life at the gate of the cemetery. Roy could even see some elves in the state of souls dancing around the fountain of life.

The coachman parked the carriage beside the Fountain of Life, unwilling to drive into the cemetery anyway.

There is a gravekeeper's hut here. The coachman walked to the hut with a lantern and sat down on the wooden chair at the door.

Roy took Tiffany up the stone steps of the cemetery. There were many neat cypress trees planted here. Behind each cypress tree was a grave. There were nameplates on the cypress trees, which looked gloomy at night.

Occasionally there will be a few owl calls, which is even more creepy.

Tiffany came to the elves' cemetery for the first time, she folded her arms on her chest...

I don't know if it was too scared or it was too cold at night, her face turned blue.

Walking up the stone steps, she took out a water bag and poured the seawater in the water bag head-on, and her whole body was soaked immediately, and her body regained some vitality.

Relying on his memory, Roy found Jasper's grave, and the newly transplanted cypress tree in front still had Jasper's nameplate.

Roy squatted in front of the cypress tree and showed the nameplate to Tiffany...

The nameplate was engraved with the name 'Jasper'. Tiffany covered her mouth with one hand, suppressed her crying, and squatted beside the grave behind her. She bent down, put her face on the grass of the grave, and whispered:

"Jasper, I'm back, didn't you promise to wait for me..."

Roy took a few steps back, letting Tiffany and Jasper whisper in the grave.

After a while, Tiffany walked out of the grave with a cold face and came to Roy.

She asked Roy:

"Who killed him?"

Roy led Tiffany back the same way, and replied, "The elf patrol suspects that Abt is the murderer."

"I'm asking you."

"About is the biggest suspect. He has been missing for two days now." Roy hesitated, and then continued: "I think if he is still alive, he should still come to me."

Tiffany's eyes flashed with anger:

"I don't care who killed Jasper, I want revenge!"

……

The carriage left the cemetery, and Miss Tiffany sat in the carriage, feeling a little calmer.

Tiffany set his eyes on Roy and asked him:

"I want to know what happened between you while I was gone."

Roy sighed softly and said:

"The three of us found a treasure map and a golden key in the Black Pearl. At that time, we agreed that we would go to find the treasure together in a few years. We divided the treasure map into two, and gave half of the treasure map to Jasper and the other half. In Abbott's custody..."

Tiffany asked, "Do you have the golden key?"

"Well, I hid it." Roy agreed.

Roy didn't tell Tiffany that Jasper wanted to go to the Dark Land, but only talked about the contradictions that Abt and Jasper had accumulated during the recent period.

Said that Abt might come back to find himself to get the golden key.

Tiffany lowered her head and said to Roy:

"I want to live on the Black Pearl for a while..."

Roy agreed very simply: "Oh, yes, usually almost no elves will come to this ship."

The carriage was parked on the west side of the port pier. Roy opened the door first and jumped out of the carriage, helping Tiffany down.

After paying the fare, the coachman drove away with his whip raised.

Tiffany walked towards the Black Pearl on the west beach without saying a word.

Roy didn't leave immediately. He stayed on the pier for a while, looking at the sea ships docked at the deep water pier, wondering whether Abt, who had obtained the entire chart, was on a certain ship.

……

Deep water pier.

On a large ship named 'Mothra', in the '07' cabin on the first floor of the deck.

The magician Benjamin and Abbott huddled together in front of the narrow square table, and the two had some disagreements on the next action plan...

"The problem we need to solve now is how to drive away the Black Pearl, instead of taking the risk of taking the golden key!"

Benjamin put his hand on the chart on the square table and said to Abbott.

He brought Abbot in because he actually wanted to get the Black Pearl, go to Prison Island to rescue some Kumquat sailors, and finally set sail into the Endless Sea.

But now Abbott is messing things up...

Up to now, Abbott still firmly believes that the Welsh magician is helping him go to sea to find the treasure, so Abbott not only wants the half of the chart in Jasper's hand, but also wants the golden key in Roy's hand.

"Wales, listen to me, the golden key is also very important."

Abt spoke a little dry, he picked up the cup and took a sip of water, then said:

"As for how to drive the Black Pearl away, it's so simple. As long as we go to the nearby fishing port and hire some half-breed elf fishermen, they have experience in sailing, and it will be no problem to become the crew."

"But they don't know how to fight, but if they can hire a group of half-blood elves who are willing to go to sea with us, it seems that it is not impossible..."

Benjamin blinked and said.

At this moment, he was thinking in his heart:

'How to rescue the crew members of Pallam Prison Island.

If he wanted to return to the Roland Continent, he had to cross the endless sea. Without a group of experienced veteran crew members, the half-blood elf fisherman recruited alone would not work.

But it's not impossible to use the half-blood elf fisherman for a while!

It will also be a fortune to save the old crew on the prison island and transport these half-blooded elves back to the mainland of Roland. '

(End of this chapter)