"Of course, I hope we can resolve this peacefully. Many people here are good people, and we won't wrongly accuse any innocent people. The Bashalan Empire is friendly, and you are very welcome to come to Oro City to trade. If any of you know any news, please tell me, and then you can leave. We don't like wasting each other's time, right?"
Sean continued his speech.
In fact, it is the same as the avalanche incident in Thelemian, except that the murderer was in the crowd, so you have to provoke him in order to find someone with different favorable impressions on the map.
There are not many businessmen in front of us, and everyone's favorability and status can be seen clearly, so this time we have to look at their emotional changes.
If you don't know anything, you'll simply feel like a complete waste of time. Your feelings and status will be more extreme. Those who know a little will naturally hesitate, or those who have actually taken something will appear nervous.
Merchants weren't necessarily new to the idea of comparison; it could even be said that everyone has a penchant for showing off. If someone took something, they might show it off to the other merchants, and they would start to worry and get nervous.
"Don't you want to say it?"
Sean had already noticed the emotional changes of the dozen or so people around him, and several of them had indeed behaved as expected.
"In this case, I can only ask them one by one." He waved Joseph over and whispered a few words in his ear.
At this time, all the Adak merchants in front of him were in a state of tension.
"Come here."
"Wait, what do you want? We are just businessmen. You can't treat businessmen like this. We are businessmen from the Bahamas." An Adak man wailed coolly.
"Of course we know your background, and we don't intend to do anything to you. We just want to chat with you. We in Oro City are very hospitable."
Joseph was quite skilled in dealing with captives; with just a few words he could scare a traveling merchant so much that he could not stand up.
The traveling merchant is knowledgeable, but he is not fearless of death.
Especially in front of someone like Joseph who looked rather vicious.
After the person was taken away, a wailing sound came from the alley.
Xianen had previously instructed Joseph to scare one of them first, so he specifically chose someone who was in a state of fear, worry, and tension.
I don’t know what method he used to make people scream like a pig being slaughtered.
ah
Tsk tsk tsk
Woo woo woo.
"Sir, we are not aware of this. We are just ordinary merchants, not thieves, and we would not steal things from the city."
"Aren't you taking a lot of things right in front of you?" Sean looked at the furniture scattered on the street.
"this"
Who would have thought that the other party would actually bring up something that no one wants.
This is something no one wants.
"We'll only know whether they know the truth or not after asking them. Keep an eye on them. Next one," Sean ordered, and he followed the soldier to the alley.
In a place where no one can see, Joseph can scare the guy in front of him with his momentum just by sharpening his knife and provoking him.
"General." Joseph said respectfully after seeing him coming.
There was a smell of a foul sewer in the alley, but it was just right for the moment, and the Adak merchant in front of him was almost scared to death.
"Look, our friend. You wouldn't be clueless at a time like this."
"I really don't know, General." The other party said with a sad face.
There is no negative or lying state on the head, it seems that he is not lying.
"No news at all?"
"No, we don't know what happened." Seeing the other party's persistent attitude, Sean wondered if his suspicion was wrong, but he had not made it clear before.
He leaned close to the merchant's ear and whispered something.
"For example, your Bahamian leader asked you to find a certain book. You should know something about it." As soon as the words came out, the other party was stunned.
"I"
"Know"
The other person shook his head.
"have no idea"
The other party also shook his head.
Just as he was about to raise his hand to give instructions to Joseph behind him, the merchant immediately changed his tone.
"I know something, but I don't know if it's what the General is asking about."
"Tell me about it"
"That's the news I heard from the Bahamas. It says a businessman who had been in danger in Tacoma returned to the Bahamas a completely different person." The businessman was panting as he spoke, his voice almost incoherent, and there was no sign of lying.
"What's changed?" Sean asked.
The dangerous encounter the other party was talking about should be the last Tacoma City incident, that is, when the Immortals summoned the people who woke up that time, maybe there were foreign merchants.
"He was originally a businessman, but after he returned, he suddenly seemed to have changed into a different person. He actually became an artist. He not only learned oil painting but was also very good at music. His paintings were even appreciated by Lord Mahati." The businessman spoke mysteriously as if he was telling a story.
"Are you sure you learned it suddenly after you went back?"
"Yes, we have seen that man before. He is an honest businessman, very ordinary even in a traveling group." The businessman insisted.
"Then what does this have to do with what I'm going to say?"
"The rest is what I want to talk about. His portraits amazed and refreshed many nobles. They seemed to have a kind of magical power that kept them fascinated. One time, he drew a very strange picture that looked like a book, and he even said, inexplicably, that the book might be in Old Tacoma, so..."
"So you came looking for it," Sean said.
"This story was only spread among traveling merchants. They said that Lord Mahdi privately ordered that whoever found it would receive a reward of 1,000 gold coins. We just treated it as a joke, and few people took it seriously."
This statement was said against his will. In the eyes of a businessman, even the slightest gain was worth fighting for. This was the wisdom Sean had learned during his time away from home.
"Did you find it?"
"No one is taking this seriously."
Sean squeezed the other person's collar slightly.
“Of course, we have heard another version of the story.”
"What's that?"
"The reason why that businessman suddenly became talented is because he brought something back from Tacoma. It's a statue made of an unknown material, and it seems to have a painting of some strange creature. Some people have seen it, but they're not sure."
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