Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton

Chapter 774: 443
 

Returning to Northern Wind City, we found an Undead Fire and together used Durken’s Highest Power Mark and entered the House of the Deceased.

Once inside the virtual tower of books, Negris still seemed puzzled and asked, “Does the House of the Deceased have a recording function?”

Durken responded, “Of course, it does. Without a recording function, where would I look if something goes wrong? I can’t stay in the Consciousness Space all the time. However, the last time I was in, I noticed that the recording function was turned off. I guess its because His Majesty doesn’t need it, after all, he wouldn’t fix anything even if it was recorded. Have you found a way to turn it on, Silver Coin?”

“Yes, I’ve activated it and recorded some things,” Silver Coin responded.

This period, Silver Coin had been spent digging continually in the House of the Deceased, using Durken’s Highest Power Mark, with all the functions available to him, he operated with more adept skills than Durken, the designer.

After a bit of meddling, the entire space darkened, and the entire scene started to rewind quickly.

Silver Coin continuously adjusted, accelerating or decelerating the playback of the scene, finally stopping at a certain point, Silver Coin clicked again, and the scene started playing normally.

If you hadn’t seen the scene adjustments with your own eyes, you might not have noticed that this was a recorded scene, because this here was originally the Consciousness Space.

Entering with Durken’s Highest Power Mark, they could see others, but others couldn’t see them, just like playing a recorded scene each time.

The scene started, a shadowy figure appeared instantly on the central stage, draped in a cloak, exposing only two red dots at the eyes.

Not much later, another shadowy figure emerged at another location. This figure was a human, but his face was blurred it was hard to make out his features.

Durken explained, “This kind of manifestation in the Consciousness Space can be adjusted in appearance, all it takes is an Intermediate level imprint.”

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Silver Coin dashed over, and wiped his hand over the blurred face a few times, and now it was clear. It revealed the face of a square-faced middle-aged man, there was a scar on his cheek, and every time his face moved, the scar squirmed like a worm, grotesque.

No wonder he blurred his face; otherwise, it might scare the children. But it’s a pity, in the House of the Deceased, any adjustments can be seen with a Highest Power Mark. He probably never expected that he would expose his appearance.

Silver Coin timely said, “I had someone identify him, he is Lioado, the vice president of the Guild of the Dead.”

Durken asked, “Is he famous? Guild of the Dead? Vice president? Who is the president?”

Negris was, however, interested in something else: “Whom did you ask? Do you recognize the vice president of a guild?”

“Uh, the Guild of the Dead doesn’t have a president; they serve the Undead King. They only have three vice presidents, and Lioado is one of them. I asked Lucidia about this,” Silver Coin explained.

“Oh,” Negris nodded in understanding. He had wondered why Silver Coin had contacted Lucidia so quickly. Silver Coin previously said it would be better to allow her to ‘starve’ for a while, making her more willing to accept a higher price. How much time had passed? He’d already gotten in touch with her? It seems it was for this reason.

While they were chatting here, the two figures in the scene started their conversation. Lioado greeted the cloaked figure deferentially, then reported in a formal tone, “Sir, I have investigated everyone in the guild, no one is doing secret deals under their permissions.”

The cloaked figure’s voice echoed, “Are you sure?”

“Sir, I am sure, and I guarantee, those who possess permissions are under my supervision, they have no time to do anything,” Lioado asserted.

The cloaked figure nodded, “Recently many high-level messages have been leaked. Much high-value bounty has been preemptively completed, yet there are no records here. Unless your side is the one causing the problem, there must be a mole within, and not at a low level.”

Upon hearing this, Negris and Durken finally understood what they were talking about and were startled. They quickly turned towards Silver Coin asking, “Were you exposed?”

Silver Coin scratched his head awkwardly, “Seems like it, lately, I indeed snatched lots of high-value bounties and traded lots of high-level information. Didn’t think they would discover so quickly.”

Negris puzzledly asked, “Didn’t you take the Highest Power Mark? How could they discover you?”

Silver Coin replied, “Simple, they don’t necessarily trade in the Consciousness Space. Some trading parties also know each other in reality. A private exchange here and there, and they are quick to discover that one side didn’t see the rewards that the other side had posted. When it happens often, it’s easy to notice something amiss.”

“Some informants even plant bounties for fishing, to bait insiders into action. If there are issues, this cloaked figure calls Lioado for inquiries at the first notice, apparently, they’ve frequently run into such things.”

Negris seemed enlightened. So, there was such fishing? That’s a good method, publish some high-value bounty first, bait the insiders into action, then follow the vine to the melon, and catch all the insiders along the line.

From the cloaked figure’s proficiency, it was clear this was not the first time it had happened.

The cloaked figure pondered for a while, instructed, “Post a piece of high-value information to coax the mole out.”

Lioado bowed and listened, then replied, “What kind of information should I post? If your assumption is correct, sir, the mole is of a high rank. Therefore, ordinary information might not pique their interest.”