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Chapter 108 - Gathering Clues
Lin Mu felt the dense spirit qi wafting out of the safe as soon as he removed the door. He looked inside and saw that the safe had two compartments. The upper compartment was the source of the spirit qi. He extended his hand and pulled out a small box that seemed to be leaking the spirit qi.
Lin Mu opened the box and found three spirit stones kept inside it. These spirit stones seemed different from the ones that he already had. These spirit stones seemed to be filled with much more dense spirit qi than the other spirit stones.
"Are these mid-quality spirit stones?" Lin Mu muttered.
"Yes, they are indeed mid-quality spirit stones. But they don’t seem to be stable." Xukong replied.
"They’re not stable?" Lin Mu questioned.
"You see how there is the spirit qi that is being released out of the spirit stones, that should not happen. A proper mid-quality spirit stone should not release any spirit qi and should keep it completely contained within it. These ones are damaged." Xukong answered.
"What do I do with them then, senior? I mean won’t they lose all of the spirit qi and become useless." Lin Mu asked.
"You don’t have to worry about that. Just put them in the ring, they won’t leak any spirit qi in there." Xukong replied.
Lin Mu followed senior Xukong’s advice and stored them in the ring. Then it came the turn for the next item, which had pulled his eyes the moment he had opened. This thing was shining and was very prominent to one’s eyes, they were solid gold bars.
The gold bars occupied most of the upper compartment, and only a small part was taken up by the box that had the mid quality spirit stones. Lin Mu counted them and found there to be forty of these gold bars.
Each of these gold bars was the thickness of a finger and was the size of a palm. There was a special pattern engraved on each of the gold bars. The engraving read: Shuang Qian. But after reading them, Lin Mu once again felt anger rising within him.
"Where did the Town Head get all this gold? And these engravings they are of the name of this kingdom. Was he hiding all this wealth from everyone?" Lin Mu spoke with a grim tone.
"Seems like it is indeed as you thought. But now is not the time for this, you can think about it later, for now, focus on your task." Xukong advised.
Lin Mu chanted the calming heart sutra and dissipated his anger.
"You are right senior." Lin Mu replied.
Lin Mu then checked the bottom compartment of the safe and found that it was filled with documents, scrolls, letters, and some long books. Lin Mu decided to just store all of them into the ring for now and check them later, as he did not think he had much time left.
A minute later, the sound of a door slamming open came from the office. The sounds of multiple footsteps resounded within the room, spreading along with the shouts of the guards. Lin Mu heard the shouts of shock and horror, presumably because they noticed the dead bodies of the Town head and Han Lei.
"SILENCE." A voice shouted.
Lin Mu felt like he had heard this voice before, but could not exactly remember where. He thought that it belonged to the captain at first, but then rejected this thought as it was much more different and lower-pitched.
A few seconds later, the door of the bedroom also slammed open, and the guards entered the room.
"Over here, we found the boy." Shouted the guard that had entered the bedroom.
"He’s unconscious as well." Another guard informed.
Then, Lin Mu heard some different footsteps enter the bedroom. He felt that these were different than those of the guards because the noise made by their boots was different. If the guards were wearing thick leather boots, then this person seemed to be wearing fur boots instead.
The footsteps came to Lin Mu’s side and halted. Lin Mu used his spirit sense to observe the scene and was a little surprised to see the person who was standing beside him. This person was not a Guard instead, it was the supervisor Li Peng.
’What is he doing here?’ Lin Mu wondered.
Li Peng scanned Lin Mu with his eyes and then turned to look at the guards.
"Carry him out and treat his injuries. Also, call in high official Hei Wan. She will want to look at the scene." Li Peng ordered.
"Yes, sir." The guards responded respectfully.
The two guards then picked Lin Mu up and carried him downstairs towards the first floor of the town center. While on the way, Lin Mu was observing the entire time. He also saw Hei Wan standing alongside Hei Bao outside the Town Head’s office.
The guards halted near Hei Wan for a moment before speaking.
"Sir supervisor invites madam inside." The guard respectfully spoke.
Lin Mu could see that Hei Wan was looking at him, waiting for him to give a signal. Understanding this, Lin Mu decided to open his eyes.
"Huh... Where am I?" Lin Mu muttered, pretending to wake up.
The guards heard his voice and looked at the now awake Lin Mu. Hei Wan also looked at Lin Mu and signaled to him with her spirit sense. Lin Mu felt the spirit sense touch him and faintly nodded.
"What happened to this Boy?" Hei Wan asked.