No strange things are allowed to evolve!

So as long as the Kingdom's Knights can take action before then, sending men to stake out the city gates and markets, and arrest anyone who sees my equipment and materials, they'll be right!

“Hmm…” Jiang Shu nodded thoughtfully: “Logically speaking… that’s true.”

In reality, the other party might already be able to buy their equipment on the black market.

Jiang Shu couldn't help but recall his conversation with the merchant when he was selling all his harvest.

"Hello, what are you planning to sell today?"

"I don't know, let's take a look together."

Chapter 234 If you can't beat them, join them

Yes, Jiang Shu had no idea what had been possessed.

He only found out what he had and its value after he went to the black market and counted the items with the black market dealers.

As I said before, the faster you go, the more timings you get.

Doesn't this avoid the victim reporting the crime?

"In short, I can't wait to send that damn bastard to the gallows!"

Hearing the furious curses, Jiang Shu asked in surprise, "Will he be sentenced to death?"

"Of course, this kind of despicable behavior is ten thousand times worse than that of thieves and swindlers. Once the Kingdom's Knights catch that guy, they will definitely subject him to the cruelest punishment!" the other party replied angrily.

To be honest, Jiang Shu was indeed a little frightened and couldn't help but feel a bit scared.

If I had known more about the common knowledge of this world back then, and had been willing to spend some time learning about Warcraft from the National Library, I might have been able to resist my curiosity and spend some time identifying those materials.

Fortunately, I'm fortunate to have the blessing of being uneducated.

"Are you alright?" The other person noticed Jiang Shu's unnatural demeanor again.

Fortunately, the helmet covered him, so he couldn't see Jiang Shu's serious expression.

"It's alright, let's keep going."

"Okay." The other person then suppressed their intense, almost dripping, resentment: "Thank you for your help."

Before long, Jiang Shu escorted the other party to the Kingdom Knights' encampment.

During this time, Jiang Shu learned that the other party's name was Andrei, a monster hunter with some minor reputation.

It wasn't because he was exceptionally capable, but because he always went his own way and never teamed up with other Warcraft hunters.

"Yes, I know that."

"Oh? You've heard my story?"

If I hadn't known you were a loner, I wouldn't have bothered with you.

Jiang Shu really wanted to say that.

However, what came out of his mouth was: "No, but from the fact that you were so badly injured but still insisted on coming back alone, I can tell that you are probably a very self-reliant person. And from our short time together, I can also feel that you don't like to trouble others and are not willing to delay others easily. So I think you are probably not good at dealing with people and are more used to being alone."

"You're really observant," Andrei said, somewhat surprised.

He hadn't expected Jiang Shu to have such keen insight.

Seeing that they had reached their destination, Andrei stopped and looked at Jiang Shu with gratitude once again.

"Alright, that's enough. I can walk the rest of the way myself. As for the payment we discussed earlier..."

Andrei paused, his expression somewhat uneasy:

"I'm a little short on cash right now, but I'll make a special trip to thank you later."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Shu shook his head and politely declined, saying, "I think we should forget about the reward. To be honest, I sympathize with your situation. After hearing your story, I only hope that you can catch your enemy as soon as possible. So I only helped you walk for a while. You don't need to take it to heart."

"No, no, I can't accept this." Andrei was a little surprised, but still insisted on expressing his gratitude.

Jiang Shu's eyes darted around, and he suddenly said, "If you insist on thanking me... how about this?"

"How about it?"

"Anyway, I'm quite curious about what will happen next in your case. There's nothing else that interests me right now, so how about I follow up on it too?"

Jiang Shu rubbed the pointed corner of the helmet, pretending to stroke his chin:

"As a friend or family member of the victim, I don't care about anything else, I just want to know the progress as soon as possible."

Andrei paused, seemingly understanding but not quite: "You mean... you want to be friends with me?"

"You could say that," Jiang Shu nodded.

"Hmm..." Although Andrei felt something was off, he thought about it carefully and realized that Jiang Shu seemed like a nice person after their brief interaction. So he finally agreed.

"Okay, it's an honor to be friends with you."

"Each each other."

A moment later.

"That's how it is, sir, you have to stand up for me!"

After the stationed knight recorded the complainant's statement with a quill pen, he nodded slightly: "I understand."

"Oh, Your Honor! We're counting on you!"

Frowning, the knight couldn't help but say, "There's just one thing I can't figure out."

"what?"

The knight stared at Jiang Shu with suspicion: "Your description doesn't seem to mention you at all. What do you do?"

"Uh."

Jiang Shu felt somewhat embarrassed when questioned.

Andrei, who was next to him, was even more embarrassed.

From the moment they entered the interrogation room, Andrei had no chance to interrupt. It was Jiang Shu who was communicating with Uncle Helmet. He wanted to add something, but after racking his brains, he couldn't find anything wrong with it.

“I was just a kind passerby who brought him here to report the crime,” Jiang Shu replied.

"Then how do you know so much?" the knight continued to ask.

“He told me that,” Jiang Shu said, pointing to Andrei.

The knight then looked at Andrei, who could only nod helplessly: "That's right, I told him. What he just said is all I know."

The knight said nothing more, but instead said, "Show me the arrow."

Andrei nodded and handed the knight the two arrows he had just retrieved from the treatment room next door, along with the broken arrow shafts he had brought with him during the emergency treatment.

After glancing at it casually, the knight clicked his tongue lightly.

"It's hard to investigate. These are very ordinary standard-issue bows and arrows. Every weapon shop in the city has the same ones. Countless bows and arrows are sold in the city every day. Trying to catch someone with just these is like looking for a needle in a haystack."

"Damn it!" Jiang Shu immediately roared, "They're so damn cunning!"

The two looked at him in surprise.

“Your friend is even angrier than you are,” the knight said to Andrei.

Andrei scratched his head and chuckled: "That's how he is; he has a strong sense of justice."

“Then we’ll have to start with the stolen goods.” The knight raised his pen and looked at Andrei: “Describe the style of your armor and weapons, as well as the specific magical beast materials you harvested.”

"Oh, okay." Andrei then proceeded to describe in great detail what items he had lost.

During the process, Jiang Shu rested his chin on his hand and spaced out.

He actually knew about these things, but it wasn't convenient for him to interrupt at the moment.

So he could only listen while silently checking the accounts in his mind to see if there was anything he hadn't stolen, but Andrei insisted on claiming he had.

Even thieves have their code of honor. Jiang Shu can accept being reported, but he cannot accept being framed.

The Jiang family are all respectable people, especially when it comes to family traditions.

However, Andrei was relatively honest and did not overcharge by a single penny, so his accounts matched Jiang Shu's.

There was one thing that made Jiang Shu rather unhappy.

"These items, if valued, should be worth between a thousand and a thousand one hundred gold coins, right?" After checking the accounts, the knight stroked his chin and estimated, "If the equipment is brand new, it would be worth another two or three hundred."

"How many?!"

Jiang Shu was greatly surprised.

Damn it, putting aside the materials, is that equipment even worth five or six hundred?

Why did I only get two hundred?

Although Jiang Shu was mentally prepared that the items he sold at low prices would be lower than the market price, he did not expect them to be so much lower. Only 30% or 40% lower, he would have been quite rich even if he sold them at half price.

Do these shady black markets really think they're above the law just because they call themselves black markets?

How dare they overcharge their customers?

"Why are you yelling so loudly?" The knight, startled, frowned. "Take off your helmet! And there's even an echo!"

Jiang Shu then realized he had lost his composure. Quickly regaining his composure, he removed his helmet, his face filled with disbelief, and said to Andrei with concern:

"You got robbed of so much?!"

Andrei, who was staring at Jiang Shu's handsome face with some surprise and in a daze, came back to his senses and said with a wry smile, "Yes, it's almost all of my possessions."

Jiang Shu was also surprised that Andrei, who was only around level 10 and not much stronger than himself, a newbie, had such valuable equipment.

Keep in mind that the Warcraft hunters in the newbie hunting area might only have a few dozen gold coins for their entire set of equipment.

As for the materials they painstakingly farmed, Jiang Shu had inquired about them and found that a low-level magical beast might only be worth ten gold coins.

Tsk...

I still have to possess someone else's body.

Even with the Kingdom Knights present, we still have to take it.

If a level 10 Warcraft Hunter's belongings are this valuable, then the value would be unimaginable if the target were a higher-level Warcraft Hunter.

If it were World of Warcraft, how long would it take to grind?

This caused Jiang Shu's resolve to retire, which had just been stirred by the knowledge of the Kingdom Knights, to waver once again.

He couldn't help but wonder how he could continue his work right under the noses of the Kingdom's Knights...

"Alright." The knight, having obtained all the necessary information, closed his notebook and said to the two, "Go back and wait for news. In the next few days, we will send people to keep an eye on the major markets and the black market. We will also send people to the city gates to conduct spot checks on anyone who looks suspicious. As long as he tries to sell these things, we will definitely find him."

"That would be troublesome..."

Just as Andrei was about to express his gratitude, he got up to take his leave.

But suddenly.

"Does this mean... we can only passively wait like this?" Jiang Shu frowned in dissatisfaction.

The knight had long been dissatisfied with him, and now, seeing him restless again, he was losing patience: "So tell me, with so few clues, what can we do?"

"Haven't you ever thought about how Andrei's whereabouts were exposed?"

"Hmm?" The knight's eyelids twitched slightly. "What do you mean?"

"Think about it, isn't this whole thing too much of a coincidence?"

Jiang Shu analyzed in a very serious manner:

"First of all, when monster hunters hunt, they often go in groups. But that bandit was alone. If he had encountered a group of monster hunters, wouldn't he have been unable to succeed?"

Therefore, he knew in advance that Andrei was alone, which gave him the opportunity to make his move.

Secondly, why didn't the other side kill Andrei?

Since they've already stolen so much stuff that it's enough to send him to the gallows, and he's going to die anyway, why not just kill Andrei? The risk would be even lower.

He clearly had the opportunity to do so, but in the end, he only managed to incapacitate Andrei.

The knight pondered for a moment, found it made sense, and became interested: "Continue."

“That person knew that Andrei was a loner and only wanted money, not to kill. So I tend to think that the other person might be an acquaintance of Andrei, and Andrei was probably very friendly to him, which is why the other person didn’t have the heart to kill him at the crucial moment.”

“But…” the knight thought for a moment, “It could also be a crime of passion? For example, he happened to be passing by and saw Andrei and the monster fighting each other, and then he was overcome by greed and couldn’t help but take action. As for not killing him to cover it up, perhaps it was because of a change of heart.”

“Yes, that’s possible,” Andrei agreed.