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"Your Excellency, why are you here?"

Could it be that I was wrong? Brending Goch thought subconsciously in his mind, but said in a hurry.￠￡

"Why can't I be here?" Xia Lan asked with a smile.

Brending Goch smiled embarrassedly. The other party came to board his boat uninvited to go to Monteres. Now that the boat is docked, he will naturally get off the boat and leave. Perhaps because of guilt, he asked such a stupid question.

Fortunately, the other party didn't care too much, and his attention turned to the wanted manifesto posted on the wall. He secretly glanced at the other party's ordinary side face, looked at the portrait depicted on the manifesto, and thought to himself that he seemed suspicious.

"Is the bounty worth ten million? Interesting."

After quietly browsing the contents of the manifesto, Xia Lan couldn't help but smile when she saw the amount of bounty marked under the portrait of Adelina.

"Your Excellency, are you very interested in the wanted criminals above?" Brending Goch, who observed Xia Lan's change in expression, asked carefully.

"Of course, because my profession is a bounty hunter." Xia Lan said lightly.

"Bounty Hunter?" Brending Goch said in amazement.

"Or why do you think I came to Monteres?" Xia Lan glanced at him and said. "If you hadn't taken a fancy to your pirate identity in Monteres, you would have been dead when you ransacked the merchant ship I was on."

After hearing this, Brending Gochi's back suddenly became cold and his sweat was pouring on his face. His voice trembled slightly and said, "Thank you for not killing me. In this way, you said that the real deal is..."

"I just need your help to arrest someone." Xia Lan said calmly.

"Your Excellency's goal is..." Brending Gorge said bitterly.

"Claydo Ochi." Xia Lan expressed a name.

"It turned out to be him?"

Brending Goch was slightly stunned. He had some impression of Claydo Ochi. The other party came from Korkis, the windmill country in the north of the Principal of Sevier. He heard that he was a thief with extremely skilled means and was extremely good at disguising and hiding. It was rumored that nearly half of the nobles in Korkis had been robbed by him. However, what made him most famous was that he finally bravely sneaked into the treasure room of Korkis' palace and stole the famous bronze holy grail. At the same time, it was this that caused the anger of the Korkis royal family. Faced with the nationwide search and arrest, Korkis broke through the numerous encirclements and chased and fled to Monterres to barely save his life.

As for the whereabouts of the bronze grail he stole, he has been missing. Some people say that he dedicated it to Augsger, the master of Monterres. If it weren't for this, Claydo Ochi would never have lived to this day, but some people say that when he fled to Monterres, he secretly buried the bronze grail in an unknown place.

Although the Korkis royal family returned in a desperate situation under Monteres' tough attitude, they never gave up searching for the whereabouts of the Bronze Holy Grail. For this reason, the Korkis royal family even offered a huge bounty of 500,000 and the title of viscount.

Claydo Ochi has been living in seclusion for several years since he fled to Monterres, and rarely appears in front of outsiders. He seems to be always alert to the secret arrests that may occur at any time in the Corkis royal family.

"Mr. Captain. If Claydo Ochi heard some wind that caused my mission to fail, you should know the consequences." Xia Lan said softly.

"Your Excellency! I'm guaranteeing my life. I will never reveal any news about you." Brending Goqi said solemnly.

"Very good. I will come to you again after I investigate Clydo Ochi's affairs."

Xia Lan finished this sentence meaningfully, walked towards the intersection where the soldiers were stationed, and gradually disappeared from the end of her sight after a period of investigation and release.

"So this is the truth?"

Brending Gorge murmured in his mouth, his face becoming more and more gloomy.

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Xia Lan walked leisurely on the noisy and bustling clean street with a smile on her lips, and her eyes would occasionally stop at the passing buildings, looking like a purposeless and in a good mood.

The impression of Monteres in my mind was very weak. He could not recognize the road at all. He walked by his feelings. The occasional sense of déjà vu was like the hazy lights in the night, guiding him to another familiar and unfamiliar direction.

The scenes on the streets kept changing, and before he knew it, he came to a noisy place with loud noises.

"It should be right here."

Brile Market, Monteres' largest selling place.

Xia Lan stood there and looked around. There were a wide range of goods everywhere on both sides of the wide street. The mercenary situation of bargaining among the vendors and customers. The bustling pedestrians had different identities, including merchants in brocade clothes and silk, mercenaries with fierce appearance, and powerful people with extraordinary temperament. They gathered here and had one thing in common, purchasing!

"Sir, do you need a guide? Just pay me a silver coin and I can take you to the entire Brilley market and buy something you like."

A young child voice suddenly sounded at Xia Lan's feet. He lowered his head and saw a little boy dressed in plain clothes and clean face looking up at him, with deep eager expectation in his clear and bright eyes.

Xia Lan really needs a guide who is familiar with this place. Seeing the little boy's appearance, he seems to have become accustomed to this kind of business. Since someone recommended himself, he has no unnecessary idea of ​​picking.

"I need to see some alchemy materials and props. Little guy, please lead the way."

He responded with a smile and a silver coin popped out of his hand and fell accurately into the mouth of the little boy's shirt.

The little boy reached out to take the silver coin from the exit bag, as if he was a little curious about the unfamiliar silver coin with his small hand. He weighed the silver coin with his little hand, then pinched his fingers in the center of the silver coin and blew it hard and put it in his ears. After hearing the clear vibration, a happy smile finally appeared on his face. He immediately said politely and respectfully to Xia Lan: "Sir, please come with me."

Although the styles and types of currencies are similar, the essence of currency is the same. As long as you identify the currency as real money and silver, most people will not care about the appearance of currency.

Xia Lan can understand the little boy's caution. Judging from his sophisticated identification method, he must have been deceived by someone with counterfeit coins.

He followed the little boy slowly, constantly passing through the crowded crowd. After a long time, the little boy stopped in a quiet street with fewer people.

"Sir. This is the sixth district of Brilexi, which specializes in selling remote goods." The little boy pointed to the sparse crowd on the street and said, "I saw someone selling alchemy things here a few days ago. I don't know if the other party sold cleanly today."

"Take me to see it." Xia Lan said.

"Okay, sir, please go here." The little boy said, walking forward happily, his eyes observing the vendors around him from time to time, as if searching for someone.

"Sir, it's him." Suddenly, the little boy's eyes lit up and he pointed at a vendor in front of the right and told Xia Lan.

After hearing this, Xia Lan walked straight to the vendor that the little boy said, and glanced at the goods placed on the ground.

Refined into stones, separators, goblets of flames, thin conduits, and various alchemy tools appear before your eyes one by one.

"Sir, do you need to buy these alchemy tools?" The vendor is a middle-aged man, tall and burly, with a dark face, and his half-closed eyes give people a rough and shrewd feeling.

"Is this the only goods?" Xia Lan whispered.

"There is only a part of it. If you really need it, you can go and check out other goods next." said the middle-aged man.

"No need, send all your goods, as for the price..." As for the price, Xia Lan looked at the other party.

"Don't worry, the price is absolutely preferable!" The middle-aged man was overjoyed when he heard this, "One thousand five hundred! Only one thousand five hundred gold coins are needed, and all the goods are yours!"

"One thousand five hundred gold coins?" Xia Lan raised her eyebrows and said, "I will give you five hundred at most."

He is indeed rich, but he doesn't like being a sucker.

"No, no! Five hundred absolutely cannot!" The middle-aged man widened his eyes and refused, "I have given you enough discounted prices for this goods. If you put them in another place to sell them, you will have at least three thousand gold coins!"

"I heard that your batch of goods has been sold for a long time?" Xia Lan said lightly, with some meaning in her words.

The middle-aged man glanced at the little boy beside Xia Lan, took a deep breath and said, "Eight hundred! This is my lowest price!"

"Since you have the goods of alchemy utensils, you must have the alchemy materials for sale, right?" Xia Lan said with a smile.

"Of course, alchemy materials are easier to sell than utensils, but I am not responsible for selling materials." said the middle-aged man.

"I have a list of materials here. If it is convenient, pack it and sell it to me." Xia Lan took out a piece of paper from her arms and handed it to the other party.

The middle-aged man took the list paper, and after a while, he frowned and looked at Xia Lan and said, "Sir, we do have most of the materials on the list above, but the other materials you want are gone."

"It doesn't matter, you need as much as you want for the time being." Xia Lan said.

"Okay, you can wait for me here, and I'll contact the person selling the materials."

When the middle-aged man left, he specially called a left-behind young man. Xia Lan ignored the other party and instead placed her attention beside her, who was bored and teasing the little boy on the ground.

"Little guy, do you want to make more money?"

As soon as he heard the word "money", the little boy immediately jumped up from the ground, stared at Xia Lan with his eyes shining brightly and said enthusiastically: "Sir, is there any other place I can serve you?"

"I need to rent a large house in Monteres in a secluded environment. If you can help me find it, I will pay you ten gold coins." Xia Lan touched the little boy's hair and smiled.
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