Chapter 4217: Ambitious

"Xia De, you want people from the Astley family to disguise themselves as Gray Glove agents, right?"

Weigao laughed immediately:

"Although this sounds like the 'ambitious' Astley family is finally going to launch a conspiracy, no problem, I will arrange these things. Even without using my followers, the Astley family still has many usable people in this city. Having raised that group of people for so many years, they can finally come in handy. I will give you the result as soon as possible."

Then she looked at Ajielina again. Weigao had already felt that this student of hers had a talent for such things:

"Ajielina, I might not have time to keep an eye on this matter, and Yifu also has to handle her own studies. Then this matter will be handled by you. Don't worry, I'm not throwing everything to you, but you also have to make some decisions yourself."

Ajielina took this as a sign that her teacher trusted her, and she indeed really wanted to provide help to Xia De:

"Alright, teacher, I will perform well!"

Thus, the plan for people from the Astley family, who were guarded against by the royal family, to disguise themselves as Southern agents and be contacted by spies controlled by the Northern princess, officially began.

Weigao didn't think this was a big deal, after all, it didn't involve Ringed Shushi, so she was relieved to let the eighteen-year-old princess participate. Ajielina was very excited about this; this could be considered the first time she personally handled such a complex matter. Although it was not her own country's matter, she was still very serious.

The power of the Astley family, which had infiltrated every corner of this city, was fully mobilized because of this Monday lunch. If Xia De could know what kind of potential Ajielina could exert, and what this day's lunch meant for the entire Old Continent situation, perhaps he would consider whether to let Ajielina execute the mission with all her strength.

However, at least not long after, Ajielina really brought an answer to Xia De.

Not personally participating in the subsequent investigation was not because Xia De had developed lazy thoughts, but because he believed that he didn't need to consume too much time in these ordinary people's affairs that one could see at a glance would involve many troubles later, it was better to leave the subsequent investigation to people trusted by Weigao.

Of course, precisely because this matter only involved ordinary people for the time being, Xia De was very relieved to let Ajielina try to exert her potential.

Weigao and Ajielina spent the whole afternoon mobilizing manpower to investigate the things Xia De wanted to know, and Xia De was not idle either. The work of investigating the Big-Mouthed Sparrow and the banknote printing master plate was handed over to others, so he went out to visit Mr. Finch and Mr. Bernhardt, summarizing the information mastered by his friends respectively.

Xia De also didn't forget about Yiluna's matter. Xia De informed Mr. Finch that he wanted to get in touch with members of the 【Magic Eye Club】, and that old gentleman thought that the "Awakener of Gods" finally didn't want to wait and wanted to take action against the extremely suspicious 【Magic Eye Club】 now.

The old gentleman only hesitated for a moment, then agreed to find an opportunity to lure the "Thousand-Eye Shushi" out alone, and after Xia De knew his thoughts, he immediately explained:

"I just want to get some secret arts from them... but can that 'Thousand-Eye Shushi' be lured out? If it's really possible, I don't mind witnessing the power of those top-level magic eyes on him, just don't know if the magic eyes he holds are of the Unknowable level."

Xia De confirmed again, Mr. Finch nodded and shook his head:

"It is possible, but I don't suggest you take action against him directly. I am not doubting your combat power, it's just that the number of magic eyes collected by the 【Magic Eye Club】 is something even the Church doesn't know. If they are really pushed into a corner, I worry they will use those magic eyes..."

Thus, Xia De temporarily abandoned the idea of forcibly attacking the 【Magic Eye Club】 by violent means, while Mr. Finch agreed to try to find a way to introduce some high-level personnel of the club to trade with Xia De.

And apart from this matter, Mr. Finch also informed Xia De of an important piece of intelligence.

"Ordinary people dreaming of the Origin Sea have appeared in the city."

Mr. Finch sighed:

"This is news transmitted from the Peace Church. It was an elderly old lady. She was very terrified after dreaming of a red ocean, so she went to the church to pray and mentioned this matter to a priest she was familiar with. The Five Gods Church should also have realized what that dream meant."

Xia De, however, let out a breath of relief:

"It really is Arcadia City, that's good, I thought it would be Tobesk... No no, I am not rejoicing, just confirmed that the location where the Origin Sea is about to appear is local, many things can be prepared in advance."

Mr. Finch nodded:

"The Cult has already given me instructions. If the Origin Sea appears, I need to enter it to investigate the situation. If you hadn't appeared, we might have cooperated with the Church, but now it shouldn't be necessary."

Xia De understood what he meant:

"We can communicate at any time regarding intelligence about the Origin Sea. I suspect that the ancestor of the Burgundy family was someone who entered that ocean but luckily escaped. Some extremely special individuals can obtain special powers from that sea. I recently found some information about the Fifth Era."

Xia De informed Mr. Finch about Ms. Thorn. That pair of "Pregnant Magic Eyes" left a deep impression on him. Mr. Finch also clicked his tongue in wonder at such magic eyes, but currently Xia De still didn't know what that witch had experienced in the "Origin Sea," only waiting for the witch to retrieve that segment of memory could it be of help to Xia De's subsequent preparations.

The 【Light-Guiding Cult】 attached great importance to the arrival of the "Origin Sea," not only because the gate of the "Creator's Delivery Room" existed there, but more because that was the place where the native species of this world were born. Most people didn't understand the matter of the "First People." In the cognition of most people, the oldest Creator was the existence that created everything in the material world, therefore the "Origin Sea" had important significance to all mortals.

In the eyes of the old gentlemen of the 【Light-Guiding Cult】, recording the place of origin of life before the world perished had major significance no less than collecting any civilization data.

Mr. Finch had already made preparations to enter the "Origin Sea." He even thought that if he couldn't walk out, he would ask Xia De to bring the data out, but these things hadn't happened yet, so at this moment he didn't talk to Xia De in detail about this matter.

It was when Xia De mentioned that the thing lost in the Willondale theft case was the banknote printing master plate that Mr. Finch frowned slightly:

"If this is just a political event, it is a good thing instead. What I worry about is the master plate falling into the hands of Ringed Shushi."

He explained to Xia De:

"The ritual symbols when holding a ritual don't necessarily have to be supernatural items; some valuable antiques, or even modern items containing stories, can also become ritual materials. This is the most basic knowledge in ritual studies.

The banknote printing master plate of modern circulating paper currency, in a suitable ritual, can become a very important ritual material. It carries part of the power of civilization. Although wanting to draw out that power based on the master plate is very difficult, but at such a time, the stolen master plate coming to Arcadia City is ultimately not a good thing."

Xia De had also discussed the topic of currency and civilization with Ms. Pawo at the Printing Guild exhibition some time ago, and he understood Mr. Finch's meaning:

"Before causing bigger trouble, I will find a way to find them back, the Astley family has already started to act."

Xia De looked outside the window. At this moment, he and Mr. Finch were in the Mechanical Tower in the Upper City, and outside the window was the direction of the park:

"The big trouble caused by those two banknote printing master plates, wouldn't it be the thing prophesied by the Prophet Association? Princess Margaret is about to end her visit to the Eastern Front and come here, and there is only one week left before the opening of the Industrial Expo."

The old man was equally worried:

"Who can know? Oh, there is one more thing you need to know, people from the 【Son Alliance】 have started to be active locally again. This time they are very cautious, it seems they are also worried about being attacked by witches again."

"Since it is like this, perhaps Helmons will also appear again soon."

Mr. Bernhardt's side didn't have too many things. The 【Apna Library】 received Xia De's letter, and after knowing more things related to the 【Silver Moon Library】, it officially formed an alliance with the vampire species.

Recently they were trying to find ancient tombs hidden underground in the Outer City. If they could find ancient vampire species that had not yet awakened in the tombs, Xia De even hoped to use this to find the treasure of the Delin-Aul Kingdom.

Not too many things happened this afternoon. Active machines appearing in factories in the Outer City, suspected Ringed Shushi fighting near the Gray Rock Pass fortress, a runaway relic appearing in the Lower City to the extent that the Church blocked an entire street, a certain noble family in the Upper City being investigated by the Church because they were suspected of hiding contraband; these were already very common things in the last month.

Various organizations were still collecting life force. Although Xia De already had a "Source of Fire" in his hand, he was not in a hurry to do this thing, because the life force collected by Mr. Bernhardt and them using "containers" and the life force obtained by the witch's followers when solving things in the city would eventually come into Xia De's hands.

When returning to the Fragrant Mansion after finishing the visit to friends at dusk, Weigao and Ajielina had also almost arranged the contact matters with the local Gray Glove agents. They had already prepared a full set of plans, even thinking that if the matter was not finished after Margaret arrived, they could still use Margaret's identity to do some things.

And the news of the 【Son Alliance】 being active again brought back by Xia De only made Weigao a bit surprised:

"The Speaker said the essence of this group of people is ashes, just being resurrected again and again by 'Abomination'. Wanting to solve them can only first go and solve 'Abomination', but 'Abomination' is not fully born now, and there is no way to solve that thing... Why don't I call the Speaker over again, and let the Speaker go and clear them out again, how about it?" ===== CHAPTER 4218 =====