Chapter 577: Handover

After a while, Chaneimu couldn't help himself and looked at Noerfei:

"Do you have any secret collaborators?"

Noerfei nodded gently:

"Yes."

For this answer, whether it was Batner or Chaneimu, both had anticipated it, but it didn't hinder the latter from feeling a joy in his heart:

"Who is it?"

Noerfei struggled for a moment and said:

"It, it is Juan Oro!"

Juan Oro? The president of the Fishery Guild? Batner was startled.

Chaneimu was the same.

Is this an undercover agent who became the boss? He complained while asking:

"Are you sure it's Juan Oro?"

While asking Juan Oro to initially screen who had problems among the core personnel of the Fishery Guild, Lu Mian, who had already grasped the true purpose of the "Mother Goddess of Depravity" church, also asked Noelia of the Bountiful Society to provide similar intelligence, which included the president, Juan Oro.

According to official data, Juan Oro's body had always been quite good; he had never had a serious illness or suffered a serious injury, and he had not shown symptoms of complete lizard-like loss of control.

That is to say, he should not have been occupied by the transmigrator "Ultraman."

Of course, it was impossible to make a certain judgment from this point alone; after all, when the original owners of the bodies of many members of the "Curly-Haired Baboons Research Society" had accidents, there were no other people around.

But Juan Oro's personality hadn't shown any obvious changes over so many years; he had just become more stubborn with age and had an increasing tendency to return to the sea.

More importantly, if Juan Oro were "Ultraman," then many of "April Fool's" actions in destroying the Sea Prayer Ritual would seem unnecessary and could have been simpler and more covert.

Combining several aspects of the situation, Chaneimu had initially determined that Juan Oro was not a core member of "April Fool's."

Noerfei pursed her lips and said:

"It is him. Half a year ago, I met with him in Layak Port."

Layak is located north of the Daliezh Mountains and is a port belonging to the Reston Province of the Intis Republic.

"Met?" Chaneimu blurted out, "Your eyes can deceive you; what you see is not necessarily equal to reality."

He couldn't control his desire to confide and continued:

"Just like now, the me you see is not equal to the actual me; the difference is quite big."

"Are you saying that the Juan Oro I saw was fake?" Noerfei was obviously a bit disbelieving, "But, but he also displayed the power to control the waves!"

Chaneimu smiled:

"Most of the committee members of the Fishery Guild can accomplish similar things. What if one of them disguised themselves as Juan Oro?"

"But, but it was too similar..." Noerfei fell into self-doubt.

Chaneimu said leisurely:

"According to the intelligence we have collected, Juan Oro hasn't left Sangtagang for nearly ten years.

"He is the president of the Fishery Guild and goes to the association to sit for a while every day."

This was used to persuade Noerfei, but it wasn't absolute evidence, because if Juan Oro were "Ultraman," he could completely ask the "Mad Lady" to take him to Layak Port and come back, and the whole thing wouldn't take more than two hours.

In that situation, almost no one would notice that he had disappeared for a period of time.

Noerfei subconsciously fell silent and couldn't help but whisper:

"Then, then who could it be?"

"You ask me, and who do I ask?" Chaneimu said the words he was complaining about in his heart.

He changed the subject with slight embarrassment:

"What kind of cooperation did that fake Juan Oro hope to reach with you? What method do you have to destroy that palace on the seabed and completely end the Sea Prayer Ritual?"

Noerfei's body began to tremble, as if she were fighting against an instinctive impulse.

After a few seconds, she answered with great difficulty:

"He, he will help me, help me cover up the traces, ignore my existence, let me, let me be able to take a ship, rush to enter the Sea Sacrifice Land before the 'Sea Viceroy's' ship, and hide there.

"Then, wait for the 'Sea Viceroy' to throw out the 'Sea Queen's Ring' and chant the marriage words, and I will chant a passage of words.

"That passage of words was taught to me by my mother, coming from her deep resonance with that palace when she accepted the sea's gift. Its, its function is to start a self-destruction program inside that palace."

Noerfei spoke more and more fluently, obviously having given up on resisting.

"Self-destruction program? Are you sure? Do you understand that language that doesn't know where it came from?" Chaneimu looked disbelieving.

"That's what my mother told me." Noerfei indicated that she also didn't understand the language corresponding to that passage.

Chaneimu asked:

"Does your mother understand that language?"

"She doesn't understand it either, but she knows what it means. Do you understand? A kind of soul-level communication." Noerfei tried hard to defend her mother.

"Soul-level communication isn't impossible to deceive people with, and deceiving the illiterate is always relatively easy." Chaneimu once again said the complaint in his heart.

He frowned and asked:

"Did fake Juan Oro tell you that last year's Sea Prayer Ritual failed?"

"No, otherwise I wouldn't have rented a ship in Sangtagang." Noerfei had been very annoyed about this matter before.

If she had known from the beginning that last year's Sea Prayer Ritual had failed, she would definitely have guessed that Sangtagang would increase its vigilance in all aspects this year and would definitely pay attention to those trying to rent ships to go to sea.

Chaneimu showed a puzzled expression:

"Then fake Juan Oro wasn't waiting for you to be caught by Lato Giaro..."

Half a year ago, whether it was "April Fool's" or other people in Sangtagang with ulterior motives, it was impossible to predict that Lu Mian would come here to investigate the Sea Prayer Ritual. That is to say, Noerfei's original role definitely wasn't to lure Lu Mian into the trap; perhaps she really belonged to a part of "April Fool's" original plan, until they changed their minds and planned to use the "Great Adventurer's" investigation.

Under such an arrangement, letting Noerfei be caught by Lato Giaro obviously shouldn't be a low-level loophole that appeared in "April Fool's" planning, unless this was what they hoped for.

"Throwing Noerfei out was to confuse the people of the Fishery Guild, making other committee members suspect Juan Oro, causing rifts between them so they couldn't cooperate well? But this kind of instigation tactic isn't clever enough..."

"Responding to the 'Mother Goddess of Depravity' church's attention to this year's Sea Prayer Ritual, guiding them toward Noerfei's line?"

"Or, or..."

Seeing Fu Lan Ka, who was disguised as Chaneimu, felt a stir in her heart and had a guess:

"Or, Lato Giaro is a member of 'April Fool's'!"

"As soon as Noerfei arrived in Sangtagang and tried to rent a ship, she was caught by him. This is both Lato Giaro's absolute control over this 'collaborator' and corresponding protection... Wait until the Sea Prayer Ritual is about to arrive, and he will pretend to relax his vigilance, letting Noerfei successfully escape and get a ship?"

After having this guess, the more Seeing Fu Lan Ka recalled Lato Giaro, the more she felt he had a problem:

Whether it was the intelligence provided by the "Knight of Swords" or the information given by the official, it clearly recorded one piece of information:

Lato Giaro had been sleeping in separate rooms from his wife for many years!

For a transmigrator, after occupying the original owner's body, the thing they worry about most is being discovered by people around them through various details that they have a problem. And among the people around them, the ones most likely to expose their disguise are, first, parents with deep feelings, and second, spouses who share the same bed, especially the latter, who know many habits of getting along that others don't know. In this situation, finding an excuse to sleep in separate rooms is obviously the transmigrator's protection of themselves.

When seeing this information before, Seeing Fu Lan Ka had a moment of suspicion, but quickly dismissed the corresponding speculation. This was because, first, it wasn't too strange for a middle-aged man to sleep in a separate room from his wife; Lato Giaro wasn't the only one among the Fishery Guild committee members who did this. Second, Lato Giaro had once been forcibly controlled by the "Knight of Swords" and Lu Mian, and fed truth serum, and the subsequent questioning didn't reveal any trace of a connection with "April Fool's" — he didn't even show a smirk when mentioning the words about marrying the sea!

But what if Lato Giaro, who actively passed on Noerfei's information, had been guarding against the Great Adventurer coming to the door in advance and had hidden part of his memory through means like "hypnosis"?

The essence of truth serum is to greatly enhance the desire to confide. Things that the person taking it doesn't know or understand in their self-cognition won't be spoken out.

The problem now is, where did Lato Giaro find a Beyonder or item with similar abilities, through "April Fool's" channels?

Seeing Fu Lan Ka, who increasingly felt that Lato Giaro was "Ultraman," remembered another thing:

The acting "Sea Viceroy," Simon, is a branch member of the Giaro family!

Before, Juan Oro had, according to her suggestion, drawn blood from those boarding the ship other than Lu Mian to confirm whether the other party belonged to a certain family, to see if any outsiders had disguised themselves and mixed in.

If, if Simon Giaro was disguised by Lato Giaro?

That method would only confirm his identity!

On the Colorful Flower Ceremony Ship falling toward the seabed as if pressed by a giant rock.

Simon Giaro, standing at the bow of the ship, seemed to be stunned there, with a face of panic and bewilderment.

But the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

At this moment, he recalled last night's "Sea Viceroy" handover ceremony:

Simon Giaro, wearing a crisp blue dress uniform, walked into the hall and saw the former "Sea Viceroy," Miguel, wearing a retro white robe, looking at him. Following the predetermined process, he said the predetermined words:

"The sea is handed over to you."

"This is my honor." Simon Giaro replied solemnly and walked slowly toward the other party.

Miguel extended his right hand, and Simon Giaro also reached out his hand and shook it with him. This represented the resignation of the former "Sea Viceroy" and the preparation of the current "Sea Viceroy."

After shaking hands, the two passed each other, and when looking at different places, the corners of their mouths curled up almost simultaneously and imperceptibly.

Under the gaze of countless statues around, one continued forward, and one left the hall.

(End of chapter)