Yes, Lady Funina!

"Wait a minute~"

After saying that, Linnet used the element of wind to create a small cyclone around her body. The green element of wind lingered on the diving suit, as if strengthening something. After a while, the element of wind dissipated and Linnet's speaking speed returned to normal.

"Okay, we can go now." Linnet took the lead and walked briskly towards the depths of the ruins.

It was as if the wind elemental power just now really helped.

Soon the two arrived deep into the ruins. On the way, they found some footprints in the corridor. Although the footprints were messy, they could be seen to belong to one person. Some were new and some were old. The latest footprints should have been from a few days ago.

A few days ago was the day when the accident happened in Fontaine Scientific Research Institute. Perhaps that person thought it was time for "Les" to reappear in everyone's sight, so he came here to get the original fetal sea water to make Les.

"Is there any primordial fetal sea water here?" Linnet looked at Richard. She was wearing a thick diving suit, which not only isolated her from the dangerous primordial fetal sea water, but also reduced her ability to observe the surrounding environment.

"Yes." Richard could already sense the component of primordial fetal sea water in the air.

Richard walked forward following his feeling, and after a few steps he found a small spring, which contained the original fetal sea water he was looking for.

In addition to the fetal sea water, Richard discovered that there was also a small room with a desk, a bench, a simple camp bed, and bookshelves full of documents. In addition, there were some storage boxes stacked in the corner, and no one knew what was stacked inside.

This room is full of traces of human life, but most of these traces are very old, and even the desk is covered with a thick layer of dust.

From some experimental instruments placed on the desk, it can be seen that this was a simple laboratory before, but it has been abandoned now and only serves as a place to obtain raw materials of original fetal sea water.

Linnet picked up a lab notebook and turned the pages with some difficulty.

"【Experiment No. 16, aimed at verifying and breaking through Jacob Ingold's conclusions on the original fetal sea research..."

"【Experiment failed, no one emerged from the water of the original fetal sea, and girls number 22, 23, and 24 were dissolved】"

Linnet read the contents expressionlessly, but from the pages that were gradually wrinkled due to excessive force, it could be seen that she was very angry.

Even Richard, who was standing by, fell silent when he heard what Linnett read aloud. Each of the cold numbers on the list might represent the lives of several young girls, and behind each missing girl might be the brokenness of a family.

The guy who conducted this evil human experiment is, unsurprisingly, the culprit behind the serial disappearances of young girls.

Richard looked at the contents of the other notebooks on the table again, and without exception saw the familiar name - 'Vashey'.

Vash, who disappeared more than ten years ago, has now been found here. Richard also found labels on the experimental instruments such as "in preparation", "completed", "sample", and even fruit-flavored Les.

There is no doubt that the murderer of the serial disappearance of girls is also the mastermind behind the production of "Les".

The man named 'Vasher' should have changed his appearance and is still living in Fontaine with another identity. He may even be living a very good life because of 'Les'.

This is really...

Richard's face was stern. This time, not only for his own sake, but also for the lives of these innocent victims, he must be brought to justice.

"These boxes are filled with women's products, and they are categorized using labels." Linnette put down her lab notes and went to the storage box and discovered this.

And the presence of so many boxes means that the number of murdered girls is far greater than the number registered in the serial disappearance of girls case!

"Collect them all as evidence. I will use my power to seal this place temporarily. Although I don't know how much original fetal sea water Vash took away last time, as long as the source is sealed, unless the other party has other places to obtain original fetal sea water, it should be difficult for the other party to produce 'Les' again."

Li Jue felt that the other party should not have any other places to obtain the original fetal sea water. According to his investigation, most of the original fetal sea water exists on the seabed that is difficult for ordinary humans to reach. It should be difficult to find a second place like the one in front of him where ordinary people can access the original fetal sea water.

However, Richard did not adopt a sit-and-wait approach, waiting for the criminal named Vash to come to his door. That would be too inefficient, and he was not sure whether there would be any innocent victims this time.

He planned to seal this place first, so that it could no longer use the original fetal sea water, and then alert the enemy to make them lose their composure. Once a flaw appeared, Richard would personally arrest them and bring them to justice.

As for how to alert the enemy... the Thorn Rose Society thinks this is the key.

You should know that the official "murderer" of the serial disappearance of young girls is the former president of the Rose Thorn Society - Cares, and based on the evidence in his hands, there is no doubt that Cares is innocent.

And the guy who was able to frame the leader of a powerful force obviously had a very close connection with that organization, or at least he knew the Thorn Rose Society very well.

According to known intelligence, before his death in the honor duel, Carres had been committed to fighting against the sales gang of "Les".

For this reason, Vashie would not go to great lengths to ruin Cares's reputation. After all, doing so would not only fail to resolve the conflict between them, but would even intensify it, causing the Thorn Rose Society to focus all its efforts on dealing with the 'Les' sales gang.

Therefore, Richard speculated that it was very likely that Carres had some key evidence, which made the other party completely determined to break up with the Thorn Rose Society. Although it was unknown what happened at the time, whether there was a full-scale conflict in private, it was no longer important, because the result was already out, and Vashie won.

The name of "Unjust Carres" spread throughout Fontaine, and the Thorn Rose Society suffered a severe blow as a result. It has not recovered yet, and all its forces have retreated to Baisong Town to lick their wounds.

"Take another look at this." Linnette handed Richard another notebook, which looked like a diary and was quite old.

After reading the above content, Richard finally understood why Vash was so obsessed with using young girls for human experiments.

It turns out that Vashé's lover [Vignel] was also a victim of the primordial fetal sea water. It seemed that she accidentally touched the primordial fetal sea water during an adventure, and then dissolved in front of Vashé. Vashé also wanted to find a way to bring back his dissolved lover through experiments.

The diary also wrote that Vashie himself had tried various ways to use the original fetal sea water, such as touching, taking, and applying externally, in an attempt to follow his lover. However, because Vashie was not a Fontaineland person but a Solstice person, the original fetal sea water had no effect on him at all, and all attempts ended in failure.

Perhaps it was precisely because he was unable to follow his lover that he began to look for a way to get his lover back.

This also led to a series of tragedies that followed.

Among them, 'Les' is a by-product of human body research. It is used to collect funds for the research and to infiltrate Fontaine to cover up his criminal behavior.

More than a decade later, coupled with the highly profitable illegal beverage "Les", was enough for an unknown adventurer to run a huge black industry chain in Fontaine.

In addition to Vash's diary, Linnet also found the diary of Vash's lover [Viniel] and an investigation report on Cares.

The former's diary only recorded some sweet daily love life, which seemed to have nothing to do with the current situation, while the latter confirmed Richard's previous speculation.

--Cares was indeed wronged.

This report records in detail the change in the attitude of the Vash gang towards Cares, and also proves that Cares did have some key evidence, which forced them to kill him and be cautious about doing anything to Navia.

The next things will be much easier. What Richard needs to do now is to find the current boss of the Rose Thorn Society, Navia, the daughter of Cares, and ask her for the key clues that her father found back then.

You know, Miss Navia has been trying every means to overturn her father's case in recent years. Now the report in Richard's hands is enough to make her let down her guard and cooperate with him.

Well, maybe the matter of contacting Navia could be left to Clorinde. This would be a good opportunity for the two to resolve their misunderstandings and put Clorinde's worries to rest.

Ah, Clorinde, oh Clorinde, how shall you repay me for all that you owe me?

Richard has already started thinking about how to use the other party after this incident is over.

After collecting almost all the evidence, Richard and Linnet returned to Fontaine.

Before leaving, Linnett specifically asked, "With all this primordial fetal sea water, aren't you going to take some with you?"

But she knew that the original fetal sea water was actually beneficial to Richard and could improve his strength.

But Richard didn't care about it. His current strength was more than enough. The improvement brought by the original fetal sea water was just a drop in the bucket for him. Without going to the different space that gave birth to the original fetal sea water, there would be no qualitative improvement.

Not to mention that countless young girls may have dissolved in the original fetal sea water here. Although Richard is not a mysophobe, he does not want to be indirectly contaminated by the sin here.

When the murderer is brought to justice and the souls of all the innocent girls who died are at peace, Richard... will not drink this original fetal sea water.

Too salty, not tasty at all.

After returning to Fontaine, Richard immediately went to find Clorinde, who was currently accompanying Funina to watch a drama performance.

When Fu Nina saw Richard, her eyes lit up, and then she shrugged her nose, with a hint of curiosity in her eyes: "You smell salty, did you just come back from the beach?"

Richard looked at Funina in surprise. You can smell that too?

"Yes, Lady Funina."

"It's not working hours now, no need to use honorifics."

"Well, Furninna, Linnet and I did just come back from the beach."

"You should just call me Lady Funina!"

Faced with Furninna's sudden change of expression, Richard's forehead showed several black lines. What exactly do you want?

On the other hand, Funina hugged her chest and looked very angry.

She wasn't mad at Richard for going out on a date with Lynette alone...well, maybe a little bit.

But Funina felt that she was more likely angry because Richard went to play outside Fontaine without her. That's right! That's it!

Richard ignored the sour Fernina for the time being, and his eyes fell on Clorinde who was standing beside him.

"Claude, there is something I need you to do."

"Me?" Clorinde pointed at herself, not expecting that there was still something to do about herself.

Didn't she use her resignation trick? Why is she involved again?

Do you want to check what time it is? Today is the weekend! Fontaine is a legal holiday!

I was so angry, what did you promise me in the beginning? Is this how you can have two days off a week?

Clorinde was angry, in a way that was hard to appease.

Richard didn't plan to coax her. "Please help me contact Navia. I have some evidence on hand about Mr. Cares. Don't you have a misunderstanding with her? This is a good opportunity to resolve it together."

"Okay, I'll leave right away." Clorinde calmed down and said obediently.

Volume 79: Chapter : Funina: As expected of me~

"You mean the murderer of the serial disappearance of young girls is not actually Carres of the Rose Thorn Society, but someone else, an adventurer who has been missing for more than ten years, and is also the mastermind behind the sale of the banned beverage 'Les'?"

Finina was stuffed with too much information at once and felt a little dizzy. Why could Richard know so much in just one morning?

What on earth did he do with Linnet?

"Yes, Lady Finina. Linnet and I found the place where 'Les' was produced. There we found a series of documents that could be considered decisive evidence. The missing girls were dissolved by Vash using the original fetal sea water, just like the leader of our previous treasure-stealing group who turned into water."

"Wait a minute, what is the primordial fetal sea water? Why do I feel like you know a lot of things that I don't know? What did you do this weekend when I was away?" Fur Nina motioned for Richard to wait a moment while she sorted out her thoughts.

Too much information poured in at once, so much so that Funina couldn't tell who the murderer was, who Vashé was, and what the primordial fetal sea water was.

"It's too much trouble to explain it now. Let's find a quiet place first, and then I'll explain it to you all after Clorinde comes back."

Soon, Clorinde led Navia, who looked skeptical, and her two followers to a lounge in the Momang Palace.

Linnet also came into the meeting room with a magic bag full of evidence.

At this time, she had already put the bulky diving suit back home, took a quick shower, and changed back into her professional secretary outfit.

"Ms. Navia, please have some tea." Linnet placed the tea in front of everyone, and then found a seat to sit down.

"Mr. Richard, do you really have direct evidence to prove that my father was wrongly accused? I...I don't mean to doubt you, I mean I..." Navia obviously didn't care whether the tea was red or not. She just wanted to know whether what Richard said was true.

It was about her father, and it was the answer she had been searching for all these years. Now someone suddenly told her that the answer had been found. Navia's first reaction was disbelief.

"Yes, Miss Navia, don't be anxious. Let me tell you slowly. If we want to find the murderer behind the scenes, we need your cooperation and the Thorn Rose Society behind you..." Richard comforted her.

"Cooperate and catch the murderer. No problem, Mr. Richard. As long as you can prove that what you said is true, I will do anything you ask me to do." The beautiful young lady in luxurious clothes said earnestly.

Oh? Is it really okay to do anything?

Richard didn't have any bad thoughts, he just wanted to argue.

But in the end, Richard resisted the urge to ask her if she could do a math problem. After all, Navia looked really anxious, and the current atmosphere was not really suitable for jokes.

Richard slowly told Navia the information he had discovered in the ruins. At the same time, Linnet distributed the evidence collected from the ruins to everyone present for review.

Although Funina didn't know what happened, she looked at the evidence very carefully, especially when she saw the notebook that recorded the human experiments, she exclaimed.

"It's outrageous, really too outrageous. I can't imagine that such a horrific thing would happen in a 'just' country." Obviously, Funina was also shocked by the above content.

Vashé, who was responsible for dozens or even hundreds of lives, obviously had a countless number of deaths, not to mention the countless families indirectly harmed by the 'Les' he created.

It is indeed a huge cancer in Fontainebleau, and the damage it has caused to Fontainebleau is simply incalculable.

"Father..." After Navia read all the evidence while holding back her tears, she finally couldn't help sobbing slightly.

"Miss..." The follower named Myles behind him hesitated to speak, looking like he had something to say.

"Does Mr. Miles know anything?" Richard asked immediately after noticing this.

As an old subordinate who has followed Cares for many years and also the team that Cares left for Navia, it is obvious that this old gentleman knows a lot of inside information.

"Yes, Mr. Richard." Miles did not deny it. At this point, there was no need to hide it any longer.

Everyone present was trustworthy, whether it was Clorinde or the water goddess Furninna, or Richard and his secretary Linnet, they were obviously people who could not be infiltrated by the 'Les' gang.

Navia also looked at Myles with tears in her eyes and red eyes, and said with a strong nasal voice: "You really know something, Myles."

"In fact, the boss has known about the connection between 'Les' and the 'serial disappearance of girls' case' for a long time." Miles said.

"Then why doesn't he just say it?" Funina wondered.

"Because he only knows that there is a connection between the two, but he doesn't know who is the mastermind behind it. Once he tells it, Navia will probably be in danger. For a father, what could be more important than his daughter's safety?" Richard said.

"Mr. Richard is right. At that time, the boss was afraid of the other party's method of turning people into water. He also knew that if he acted rashly, your safety would be fatally threatened." Miles sighed, as if he was sighing for his boss's decision.

"Mr. Cares is truly a great father who wants to protect his daughter even at the cost of his reputation."

"Where is the Special Patrol Team? Where is the Shadow Chasing Court? Aren't they doing anything?" Funina asked again.

"Lady Fu Nina, I'm afraid that the Special Patrol Team and the Shadow Chasing Court have been infiltrated almost as soon as now. Haven't you noticed that several times the Special Patrol Team and the Shadow Chasing Court organized encirclement and suppression operations, except for obtaining a few boxes of 'Le Si' and arresting a few insignificant thieves, there was no gain at all?"

"Hmm..." Finina was speechless. Apparently, she also realized that Cares was in a desperate situation with no one to help him at that time.