Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo'

Chapter 991 538: Principal and Interest (Part 2)

Cheleviko hesitated for a moment and said: "It's in Huan Country."

"Was it bought from the Lavsha People, or from the Huanguo people?"

Cheleviko bowed his head and said: "It's the Huanguo people."

With that, the situation became much clearer.

Cheleviko quickly emphasized: "But he is indeed a member of another Wizards Association, he has displayed the association's badge, which can prove his identity."

Li Banfeng said: "Just displayed a badge, no other introductions, and didn't show any other evidence?"

Cheleviko said nothing, Li Banfeng was indeed correct.

Li Banfeng had someone bring paper and pen, giving them to Cheleviko: "Write down that person's name, if you can't write it, we'll have to find another place to chat some more."

Cheleviko could write Huan Country characters, he wrote down the person's name.

This person is called Tong Yousan, and this name doesn't seem like someone from the Outside Provinces.

Li Banfeng put away the notebook, returned to the office, and called for Shen Jingye.

Shen Jingye rushed into the office excitedly: "Bureau Chief Li, did you find that top-level fighter?"

"It's not that easy to find?" Li Banfeng asked Shen Jingye to sit down first, "Little Shen, how do you plan to handle those people from the Dandelion Association?"

"Hand them over to the judicial authorities, they endanger public safety, cannot be let off easily."

This handling method still satisfied Li Banfeng.

"What about the people who provided them with the Contract Book?"

Shen Jingye shook his head and said: "I feel there's no need to trace this matter further, these kinds of Contract Books are really too many on the market, I saw one for as cheap as sixteen bucks,

someone might take it back for research, someone might buy it just for fun, it's no different from those market secret manuals on fortune telling, feng shui, and divination, if we take this seriously, we wouldn't know how many people to arrest."

Shen Jingye knew clearly that the Contract Book came from the black market, he simply did not want to continue investigating.

He was right, wanting these people to receive their due punishment, one must avoid escalating the situation, this was to prevent it from being diluted and ending in nothing.

Li Banfeng also understood Shen Jingye's thoughts: "I only investigate the matter, won't arrest people easily, this Contract Book is the real deal, not those random writings on the market, from this we might be able to find the whereabouts of the Lost Soul."

Currently, everything relied on Li Qi to find the Lost Soul; whatever requests Li Qi made, Shen Jingye naturally had to take them seriously: "Bureau Chief Li, you don't need to investigate this yourself; let me send Preserved Fruit, wasn't that person's name Tong Yousan? I estimate it'll take about half a day to find him."

Many believed Shen Jingye was not too concerned with front-line matters, but he was very familiar with many characteristics of the Public Security Team members.

Among the Public Security Team, aside from Big Head, Preserved Fruit was most knowledgeable about the black market; it really took her half a day to identify Tong Yousan's identity: "He opened a bookstore in Jiacheng District Nanshankou Pedestrian Street, secretly he often dealt with things like Contract Books, quite famous in the black market."

Li Banfeng asked: "Does he have any connection to the Lavsha People?"

Preserved Fruit smiled slightly, with a dimple appearing on her left cheek: "Whether there's a connection depends on where the guests are from; if they're from Lavsha Nation, he's a member of the Lavsha Wizards' Association, and can speak fluent Lavsha language,

if the guests are from Ingrid, then he's a member of Ingrid Royal Mage Corps, has badges, certificates, and can speak fluent Ingrid language."

Li Banfeng laughed: "A talent indeed, I'll go meet him."

Preserved Fruit took Li Banfeng to Sanyou Bookstore; the store owner Tong Yousan was organizing bookshelves, barely noticing these two customers.

The two walked to the third row of bookshelves, Preserved Fruit casually picked up a book titled "Medieval Dark Magic," flipped through a couple of pages, and said to Li Banfeng: "This book is meaningless, can't see anything real."

Tong Yousan glanced at them, walked up and asked: "What real stuff do you two want to see?"

"What do you think?" Preserved Fruit shook the book "Medieval Dark Magic," "We came all the way here, clearly not just to look at these things that fool children."

Tong Yousan laughed: "These things are originally to fool children, who would take them seriously?"

Preserved Fruit lowered her voice: "Boss Tong, we're experts, came here wanting to buy some genuine goods."

Tong Yousan seemed not to understand: "My books are authentic, aren't authentic books genuine goods?"

Preserved Fruit frowned: "Talking like this is meaningless!"

Tong Yousan appeared puzzled: "What do you exactly mean? I have plenty of books here, if you find this one meaningless, just look at others."

Preserved Fruit became unhappy, prepared to come on strong.

Li Banfeng bought the book "Medieval Dark Magic," and left the bookstore with Preserved Fruit.

Back in the car, Preserved Fruit felt a bit embarrassed, the first task solo with Bureau Chief Li, unexpectedly things got messed up: "This person usually does business openly, don't know why he's so cautious today."

Li Banfeng was satisfied with today's result: "Being cautious is good, it proves he's no ordinary person."

...

At night, after the bookstore closed, Tong Yousan sat behind the counter, smoking one cigarette after another.

His wife came over and made him a cup of tea: "Shall we hide for a while?"

"Where can we hide?" Tong Yousan sighed, "As long as we're still in Huan Country's territory, anywhere can't escape the Dark Star Bureau, right now if we don't move, might not necessarily be in trouble, but if we make a move, we'll soon be arrested."

His wife sighed: "Our Guide Token is still here, shall we return to Puluo State."