Saint Laurent Prison Warden

Chapter 34 [Porto Pietro Sulfur Corruption Case]

Xingge's mage hand grabbed Richard's throat. If she squeezed hard, she could crush Richard to death.

To be honest, Richard really doesn't like the feeling of having his life in the hands of others.

But he did not get angry. Instead, he patted Xingge's mage hand and said with a smile:

“I remember that the last time someone pinched me like this was Mahir Changren in the near-death illusion.

I was just pinched by your teacher, and now you are pinching me. Do you two have any fetishes? Are you treating me like a soft persimmon?
Ha ha.

Pinch me! You've got a weak spot.

Just as you said, there is a huge gap between our identities. You are the high and mighty city lord, and I am just an ordinary wizard with no parents, no teachers, and no backing.

The result of you pinching me is that you pinch me, because I have no power to fight back.

What's the point of pinching me? It's useless. Even if you pinch me to death, you won't get any pleasure. You might as well let me go."

"Don't act pitiful in front of me. Not only are you good at talking, you're also shameless." Xingge was so angry that she laughed:

“Warden Saint Laurent, the teacher’s direct descendant, Iluna will personally send you the purple robe.

Richard, you are so successful. How can you look like you don't have a backer?
Enough, I am not here to waste my time. I am warning you for the last time, do not insult me ​​in front of the media. Even if you are my benefactor, my tolerance for you is limited. "

Richard lowered his head sadly and said:

“Insult… If you really think that my loving you is an insult to you, then I want to say, please find a way to overcome it.

If you can't overcome it, then you can kill me, because I will continue to love you in the future."

"You! Are you really not afraid of death?"

"I'm afraid. How could I not be afraid?"

Richard's voice suddenly rose and became sonorous and powerful.

“But in this world, there are always things more important than death.

Even if you kill me right now, the fact that I love you won't change.

The warrior who charged for love died under the sword of love. I don't think this is a tragedy.

To that warrior, his death was a worthy one, with no regrets."

"You! I still don't believe you love me. You must have lied to the media in order to achieve some evil purpose of yours!"

Xingge gritted his teeth in hatred.

She was quite annoyed. This was the first time she had met someone as shameless as Richard. She really didn't know how to deal with it.

"You! You have no reason to fall in love with me. We are not even familiar with each other."

Hearing Xingge's words, Richard burst out laughing:

"Ha, how could you say something so stupid?
Lord Xingge, I think you don’t understand what love is at all.

Love is the sinking of free will, the unstoppable outburst of emotions, and the impulse of the soul without distinguishing between right and wrong.

Why do I fall in love with you? How do I know this?

If I can control myself and choose to fall in love with you or not, then I don't love you at all.

It is because I love you uncontrollably that I can be sure that my love for you is genuine!"

Xingge looked at Richard with complicated eyes, and Richard looked at her firmly, without giving in.

For some reason, Xingge had a feeling that Richard was not confessing his feelings to her at all.

Confession of love can have two results: success or failure, and requires emotional interaction between both parties.

But Richard didn't care about her attitude, her feelings, or whether she loved him.

As a result, Xingge's look became more complicated.

Her tone softened and she said softly:

"That's enough, Richard, I'm not here to discuss with you, I'm here to give you a notice.

I'm warning you one last time. If you continue to make statements like 'You love me' in front of the media, I will kill you."

"Then you can kill me now!"

Richard's words were as firm as iron. He closed his eyes, straightened his neck, took a big step forward, and approached Xingge.

"If I would give up loving you in order to survive, then I would not block the stigmata when they come towards you.

Even if it means lying, I can’t say the word “I don’t love you”.

"You! Crazy! You are unreasonable."

Xingge gritted her teeth, took out her magic book, took away the wizard's hand from Richard's neck, turned around angrily, and was about to leave.

When he was about to go out, Xingge turned sideways.
"I really don't understand you, Richard.

Why could you make such a grand confession to me while wearing a bathrobe from a massage club?

Whether you really love me or not, my answer is the same.

I will never be interested in someone as shameless as you.

Don't worry, you have done me a favor, I won't really kill you, but even if I don't do it, if you continue to talk without restraint, you will definitely die.

Since you saved my life, I will tell you a secret.

My parents' status and strength are not inferior to my teacher. There are countless men who want to marry me, and all of them are very strong.

The open and secret struggles between them are extremely brutal. If you are not strong enough, don't jump into the fire pit.

That being said, you can take care of yourself. "

Xingge uttered these harsh words and strode away without looking back.

Richard slowly opened his eyes. He raised his head slightly, looked at Xingge's back as she left, and smiled faintly.

I won this game.

But at this moment, Xingge, who was already halfway there, suddenly stopped. She turned around abruptly and walked quickly to Richard angrily.

Snapped!
Xingge raised the magic book with both hands and slapped Richard in the face with the front of the book.

"Ouch!" Richard felt pain on his face and he felt like his nose was about to be flattened.

Xingge cursed angrily:

"You confessed to me in a bathrobe from a massage club. Do you have any sincerity at all? This is such a shame and humiliation. The more I think about it, the angrier I get. Ugh! Scumbag!"

Xingge left again, this time through the portal.

Richard protected his right cheek with his hand, tilted his head to stare at Xingge's back, and the corners of his mouth curled up a little more.

If someone took a closer look, they would see ripples flowing deep in Richard's pupils, twists and turns, as if there were thousands of words to say.

……

……

Ding dong!

The melodious bell sounds are gentle and circuitous, circling in the silent night.

It's 6 o'clock in the morning.

In two hours the sun would rise, and the farce at the Travel Night Club would be over.

The entire travel night club was inspected.

The walls of the Traveling Night Club were smashed, the ground was pried open, and all the secret doors, safes, and magic dungeons were found by the black-robed wizards.

Almost everyone at the Travel Night Club tonight was also captured by the Star and Moon Society.

The reason why I use the word "almost" is because there was only one person who slipped through the net at the entire scene - Richard. It was Richard who came into contact with the halfling attendant, and it was also Richard who ran to the police station to report the case and triggered a chain reaction.

Logically speaking, Richard is definitely the protagonist of tonight's Travel Night Club incident, and there is absolutely no reason for him not to be scrutinized.

But this world is always so unreasonable. Even Sheriff John was arrested, but Richard was not.

At 6:32 in the morning, Richard returned to the First Affiliated Hospital of the Magic University.

The magic surveillance in the 'monitoring room' gradually dimmed, and all the surveillance images disappeared.

Looking at Richard lying back on the hospital bed, Princeton breathed a sigh of relief.

No matter how loud the noise was on the travel night, he didn't care. He only cared about whether Richard returned safely.

"Finally done. Brothers, you've worked hard tonight. Everyone change your clothes and take turns going back to sleep."

At Princeton's command, the mages in the monitoring room cheered and began to act.

One of the black-robed wizards returned to his room and locked the door calmly.

Click!

In the darkness, he did not turn on the light, but walked to the bookcase with ease and started searching on it in the dark.

Black pepper steak with black truffle, baked butter pie, banana milkshake, pumpkin waffles.

Black, yellow, white, and yellow... "The Struggle for the Throne: The Biography of Kolger", found it here.

The black-robed wizard took out a magic book written in magic characters, placed it on his knees, and slowly recalled.

The steak was cut three times horizontally, two times vertically, and then stabbed twice with a knife and fork.

Page 32, right.

I ate six steaks in total, and in the sixth row, I chewed each steak clearly three times.

The third word.

old……

In the darkness, the man in black robe recalled Richard eating in the banquet hall bit by bit, collected all the information, and then matched them one by one in the book.

Teacher. Where. Are you?

Finally, the five words became a clear sentence:

Teacher, where are you?
"Heh. The teacher is here."

In the darkness, a man in black robes chuckled:
"My child, I'm sorry. This is the first time you have faced such a thing by yourself. You must be very scared, right?

Don’t be afraid, the teacher is here.”

……

In the City Lord's Mansion, in front of the gorgeous desk, Xing Ge bit a feather pen, thinking silently.

In front of Xingge, a halfling dressed in a military green assassin's robe stood upright.

If Richard were here, he would definitely recognize that this halfling is the one who handed him the receipt last night!

"Even if it's a lie, you can't say the word 'I don't love you'...?"

For some reason, Xingge laughed at herself and shook her head.

She raised her head and asked the halfling:
"Arnold, you said, Richard finally got the rescue signal from the Holy See, why did he run to the police station to report it?
Is there a flaw in your acting that made him see that there is something wrong with you?"

When the halfling heard this question, his cloak trembled violently, and he answered indignantly:

“It can’t be that there’s something wrong with my acting!

Miss, I am a professional thief from the Thieves Guild, and an outstanding graduate of the Thieves Academy who has won the Golden Beer Award.

In terms of acting skills, there are few halflings in the Star-Moon Society who are better than me."

Xingge then asked:

"Could it be that the way you conveyed the secret message to Richard was wrong?"

Faced with this question, the halfling seemed a little hesitant and not as confident as before.

"That receipt was the most likely way of contact that I chose out of hundreds of possibilities after careful consideration and taking Richard's behavior into consideration.

Of course, I can’t guarantee that it’s correct.”

"Could it be that someone among us tipped off Richard in advance? Is there a traitor within the Star-Moon Society?"

"This... Miss, if you suspect I leaked the secret, just say it directly, don't beat around the bush.

Only you and I know about our actions, and I haven't told anyone else."

"Tsk. Arnold, you really didn't leak the secret?"

"Of course not! Richard and I are not familiar with each other, why would I leak the secret to him?"

Xingge frowned, looking somewhat bored:
"That's even more strange. Arnold, tell me, why did Richard go to the police to expose you?"

Halflings have strange eyes:
"Miss, I didn't say that.

Think about it carefully, have you overlooked the most likely possibility - Richard is really not a traitor."

Xingge shook his head firmly:
"Impossible. My intuition tells me that there must be something wrong with Richard!"

"Even if you don't have any evidence, Miss. Is it just your conjecture?"

"It's not speculation, it's intuition!"

“Okay, okay, there’s no point in continuing to argue about this stuff.

Miss, I think that although Richard may have had some moral issues in his private behavior in the past, this is not a fatal flaw and he can slowly correct it after he gets married.

Miss, we can't treat him as a traitor just because of your slight prejudice against him.

Or are you retaliating against him because he openly pursued you?

But I remember that you didn't have any feelings towards those men before, and you wouldn't even get angry. Could it be that, Miss, you...are attracted to him?"

With a swish sound, a piece of draft paper on the singer's desk was crumpled into a ball by her.

The halfling stood up straight, put his hands over his mouth, and muttered:
"I didn't say anything."

"Humph! What's all this love stuff?

I am not targeting Richard for such superficial reasons."

Xingge frowned:

"Don't you think that the exposure of the chaste saint is too strange?
She was actually very successful in lurking, and we couldn't even find any trace of her before she was exposed.

She could have left the city of travel so quietly that we wouldn't even realize she was there.

But she just jumped out like that, as if she deliberately wanted to give the [Porto Pietro Sulfur Corruption Case] ​​a result, without any hindrance, and naturally became the source of the entire [Sulfur Corruption Case]. "

"Oh." The halfling had a headache when he mentioned the [Port Pietro Sulfur Corruption Case].

[Porto Pietro Sulfur Corruption Case] ​​It has been more than three years since the Star-Moon Society began investigating.

This was a huge case that forced the Xingyue Society's investigation team to move from above ground to underground and back to above ground, over and over again, before they could figure it out.

The case originated from two agents from the Star-Moon Society who discovered that the local sulfur price in Porto Pietro was slightly lower than the actual estimated value. This low price was well disguised in the form of "buy sulfur and get mercury for free" and "buy sulfur and get rebates", so it had not attracted the attention of the Star-Moon Society.

They didn't take it seriously at first, thinking it was just normal price fluctuations.

It was not until they looked through the historical data of sulfur prices that they were surprised to find that the sulfur price in Porto Pitro had been lower than the estimated value for three consecutive years!
Sulfur in the Yasha world is an essential resource as important as food in the real world.

According to the market demand theory, when the amount of sulfur on the market exceeds the normal local demand and there is no human intervention, the price of sulfur will naturally decrease.

The two agents were keenly aware that there might be a source that was continuously supplying excess sulfur to Porto Pitro, resulting in low sulfur prices for three full years.

They came down immediately and determined that someone had smuggled sulfur in from outside!
(End of this chapter)