Path of Light.

Chapter 801 802. Night

Leah, who was squatting in the shadows, was also very nervous because she noticed that Doyle's pupils shrank slightly and he was obviously making a decision in his heart.

The knuckles of his fingers that were gripping the edge of the treasure map had turned white due to the force he was using...

Leah moved forward silently, the bayonet spinning around her fingertips. She slightly arched her body in a half-squatting position. As long as Doyle dared to attack Roy, she would stab the bayonet into Doyle's jaw, and the sharp tip would come out from the back of his head.

She used this method to assassinate the gray dwarves more than once. Leah discovered that because of the gray dwarves' long beards, their chins were actually their biggest weakness.

Roy looked at the chart and said to Doyle:

"Your guess makes sense. Where do you think Captain Ralph is most likely to have hidden these dwarven technologies?"

As he spoke, Roy raised his head with a faint smile on his face, as if he had already seen through Doyle's thoughts. That look made Doyle feel a little suffocated.

He suppressed his panic, picked up the cup and took a sip of water. The moment he drank the water, Doyle smelled a faint fragrance around him, and his heart immediately began to beat wildly.

"I guess the hiding place of this batch of treasures should not exceed this circle."

As he spoke, Doyle held two pencils together like a compass, pinned the dot on Farin Island, and then drew a circle very neatly.

Roy looked carefully and found that the radius of the circle should be about the two-day journey of a three-masted sailing ship.

In fact, this sea area is already very large, but it is still about three days' sailing distance from the Queen Evigny Islands...

Roy asked him: "Does this treasure map give you any new inspiration?"

Doyle shook his head in frustration.

Roy found that his gaze lingered for a long time near a trench on the treasure map. Combining what he had just said, Roy pointed to that area and asked Doyle:
"Where is this? Don't tell me you don't know."

Doyle looked up at Roy with a bitter face:

"Esperance Island. This narrow trench looks very much like Esperance Island, but that is not the territory of our gray dwarves. There are a group of sirens hiding in those islands. Even the Naga sea tribe dare not approach there easily. I am not sure where Ralph would hide those ships."

When Roy heard Doyle say the name 'Esperance', he quickly walked to the wall of maps drawn by Abbott.

"Hand me a magnifying glass!"

Roy stretched out his right hand towards the air, and a copper-handled magnifying glass appeared out of thin air in his hand.

When he saw the magnifying glass that appeared out of nowhere, the gray dwarf Doyle realized how close he was to death. He immediately looked around vigilantly, feeling that the empty Third Conference Hall might be crowded with elves at this moment.

Roy picked up the magnifying glass and searched around Farin Island for the Esperance Island pointed out by Doyle. He did not find the long and narrow island in the area of ​​Que Island, so he expanded the search area to the sea area west of Farin Island.

A long and narrow island appeared in Roy's sight, and this place was close to the edge of the Lost Sea.

It is said that the Lost Sea is covered by thick fog for at least three quarters of the year, so no one knows what kind of island is in the fog.

When Abbott drew the islands in this sea area, he clearly annotated that the islands he drew came from six different nautical charts. He couldn't figure out which chart was closer to reality, so he added all the islands.

There are sirens here, so no ship dares to approach...

Doyle hesitated for a moment and said to Roy, "I don't think Ralph and the Siren are colluding together..."

Before he finished speaking, Roy had already picked up the treasure map on the table and left the third meeting room. Then several half-elf guards came in from outside the meeting room, put shackles on Doyle again, and escorted him to the dungeon.

Doyle was completely dumbfounded. He didn't say much and the meeting ended in a hurry.

From the beginning to the end, it seemed as if Roy had no intention of asking him anything...

……

Roy took a car with the treasure map to the central square. It happened that the portal led from Partington to Kui Island. It was just night in Padstow City. There were many flatbed carriages parked in the central square. These cargo carriages were loaded with boxes of apples. These were the supplies that were being transported to Kui Island.

There are now nearly 50,000 half-elves on the island of Kui, and almost all of their daily necessities are supplied by the city of Padstow.

Roy discovered that in addition to apples, oranges and breadfruit, the half-elves would also send some dried fish from the Sun Island Bay to Que Island.

In fact, what Roy really wanted to say was that the island of Kui is surrounded by the sea. Is it necessary to transport dried fish from Padstow City?

The half-blood elves from Kui Island have been settled in the residential area in the north of the city, and some have gone to live with their relatives...

Roy passed through the portal and found that there were many half-blood elves busy in the clearing in the woods on the island of Kuei.

He left the clearing in the woods and went directly to the Black Pearl which was moored at the dock of Kui Island. The door at the bottom of the ship had been completely sealed, and if one wanted to board the ship, he had to walk directly from the sampan to the deck.

The Black Pearl is still under repair, mainly the rudder at the stern. The sails on several masts have been installed, and all the ropes have been connected. It is only waiting for the rudder to be repaired before it can go out to the harbor for sea trials...

Currently only Miss Tiffany lives on the Black Pearl.

Roy walked onto the boat along the sampan, and Miss Tiffany just heard the footsteps and opened the window to look out onto the deck.

She was wearing a halter dress with a mermaid pattern, habitually showing off her slim figure, with her hands on the windowsill, enjoying the starlight.

Her beauty comes from the elves in the sea...

"Roy, why are you here?"

It was already very late at this time, and many elves had fallen asleep, but there were no other elves on the Black Pearl. Her voice carried an indescribable charm.

Miss Tiffany leads a very regular life.

If she doesn't go out, she will hide in the bathtub and sleep. At night, she will be more energetic...

"I suddenly remembered something, Tiffany, do you remember how you were caught by Captain Ralph?"

Roy stood on the deck and did not move forward. He put one hand on the mast, feeling the breath of life emanating from the pillar.

"I remember... it seemed like the siren's song made us fall into a coma, and then the gray dwarf bandits captured us all." Tiffany said with a frown.

She actually didn't want to think about that past, and had been dreaming about similar scenes for a long time...

Roy didn't care what Tiffany was thinking. He continued to ask:

"Then do you know where those sirens come from?"

Tiffany held her forehead with one hand and replied, "It should be the sirens from the Lost Sea. I think they may be in cahoots with Ralph and the others."

It turns out that Miss Tiffany actually knew a lot of things, but Roy didn't.

Roy said to Miss Tiffany:
"I just came back from Padstow City. I asked the gray dwarf Doyle there... Regarding the whereabouts of the dwarf treasure, the gray dwarf Doyle told me that it was Ralph who colluded with the Naga Sea Clan to attack their fleet, and then Ralph fled to the Lost Sea with some treasure. He suspected that Ralph's treasure was hidden near the Lost Sea."

When Miss Tiffany heard what Roy said, she immediately retorted angrily:
"Ralph is colluding with the Naga tribe? That's impossible. If he had reached some agreement with a member of the Naga tribe, it might be possible, but it is absolutely impossible for him to collude with the Naga tribe."

Roy continued, "Ralph hid the dwarven treasure in the Lost Land. I think he might be connected to the sirens of the Endless Sea..."

Tiffany tilted her head and stared at Roy suspiciously: "So you called me out of bed so late just to help you investigate whether the dwarven treasure is hidden in the Lost Sea?"

Roy smiled politely: "Not only that, I also want to know whether the Sirens of the Lost Sea... are the real culprits who arrested you. If the Sirens of the Lost Sea are also involved in the slave trade, I think they should be punished..."

Tiffany knew exactly why Roy came to the Black Pearl...

He just wanted to go to the sea to investigate some speculations about these situations.

"Well, since you said so, for the sake of our friendship over the years, I will help you investigate."

After Miss Tiffany finished speaking, she turned around and went to the cabin. She took her magic waist bag and wand and walked out of the ship.

"Are we leaving now?" Roy asked.

"What else? Do we have to wait for the tide?"

Miss Tiffany rolled her eyes, walked quickly to the side of the boat, then leaped forward and jumped into the sea.

In the darkness of the night, Roy didn't even see the surging waves before Miss Tiffany disappeared...

……

Roy returned to the beach cottage and found Moira's room empty.

There were a few clothes hanging on the balcony and the room was very tidy.

Moira said that she would go out on patrol every other night, and it looked like she would be on duty tonight.

Roy walked directly into Moira's bedroom from the door on the terrace to avoid disturbing others.

Moira was away, so Roy planned to take a quick shower and go to sleep in the bedroom.

There were some slight noises in the next room. When Roy came to the living room, Sabrina walked into the living room in her pajamas with her arms around her chest...

"Moira followed the patrol team to carry out the mission. Recently, there have been gray dwarf bandits trying to sneak into the island, so the patrol team has increased its duty frequency recently." Sabrina said.

"Did I wake you up?"

Roy said as he watched Sabrina pick up the water bottle on the dining table, pour a glass of water, and stand in the doorway.

"Would you like some?"

Sabrina asked Roy, holding up her cup.

Roy shook his head. He wasn't very thirsty...

"I just couldn't sleep, so I heard the noise and came out to check," said Sabrina.

There was a half-empty bottle of orange soda on the table, and Sabrina poured herself a glass and handed one to Roy.

In the moonlight, her arms were as white and delicate as milk, and the silk nightgown she was wearing was thin and translucent. Even though the room was a little dim, Roy could still see the slightly exaggerated outline of her body through the nightgown.

Roy Lianmen took a sip of orange soda and shifted his gaze.

"This time I discovered... that one link in the maritime industry chain is closely connected to the gray dwarf bandits on Kui Island." Roy said.

Sabrina had just woken up and was a little confused: "What industrial chain?"

"Slave trade!" said Roy.

"In fact, the Partington plane is only the first link in the slave trade industry chain. A group of elves led by Lord Alvis sold half-elf slaves to Ralph on the Partington plane, and Ralph would resell these slaves to slave traders in the Green Empire."

Roy expressed his guess.

"Captain Ralph and his group of gray dwarf bandits should be one of the links. However, at that time, he wanted to expand his pirate group, so he stole the dwarven treasure. However, before he could digest the dwarven treasure, he was exposed in Castletown Harbor."

"The sirens from the Lost Sea are likely to be part of this. Their main hunting targets are the Naga mermaids from the Endless Sea. To the Naga sea people, they are a group of slave hunters."

"There should be other slave trading gangs, and they formed a slave trading industry chain at sea."

Roy said slowly.

Sabrina sat down on the sofa opposite Roy. It was probably a little cold in the room at night. She hugged the pillow in her arms and said to Roy:

"You haven't dealt with the gray dwarf bandits near Kuei Island and the dark faceless army in the Partington plane yet, and you still want to investigate the slave traders?"

Roy said without hesitation:

"If conditions permit, I will investigate further..."

Sabrina suddenly reached out and held Roy's shoulders. She stared at Roy closely with her sexy blue eyes.

She had a very pleasant scent of lavender.

"do not move!"

She said it very forcefully.

Roy's body was a little stiff at this moment...

Sabrina stared at Roy, then leaned her head forward and kissed him on the cheek.

"good night!"

Sabrina, with a faint scent of lavender, turned and walked back to her room, leaving Roy sitting on the sofa in the living room.

……

When Roy got up early in the morning, the room next door was already empty.

He kept some wheat flour in the kitchen so that in the morning he could fry a wheat cake in a frying pan.

Only Roy could make these foods which were very strange to elves, and of course he was the only one who ate them.

Roy had a simple breakfast in the cabin, not fruit or fish, which gave him great satisfaction...

In fact, some gray dwarf bandits are also imprisoned on Kui Island.

Roy interrogated the group of gray dwarf bandits one by one, and finally asked them about the slave trade.

The gray dwarf robber thought that he might be trying to track down a half-elf, so he said honestly:

"The gray dwarves on our Farin Island never do this kind of thing. Only the gray dwarves on the nearby islands occasionally go out and do it."

(End of this chapter)