Chapter 39 CASEFILE·4: Night Bandits (6)
According to Jiangyou's description last night, both trucks were piled high with large boxes. If they were filled with raw jewels, the two horses pulling the trucks would have had difficulty running lightly, and the ruts left on the ground would not have been so shallow.
There were no remaining traces of weight-reducing magic on the overturned car. There might be money and jewelry among the transported cargo, but it is impossible that the entire car was filled with them, so the weight would not match.
Considering that the Chena family is very close to Baron Neumann, Andrei suspects that the Chena family is secretly helping Baron Neumann, and the goods being transported are not from the Chena family, but from Baron Neumann.
But why would Evil Eye Moon seize the goods Baron Neumann was secretly transporting under the name of the Chena family? This is something worth pondering. In fact, according to the clues Andre had previously found, Baron Neumann and the Evil Eye Moon people should have had a long-term secret cooperation. Now that the two sides have suddenly fallen out and are confronting each other, is there something else going on?
"The missing cargo doesn't match the owner's account. Even stranger is the entire convoy vanished in an instant. From the time you arrived at the scene and the knights set out in pursuit, it must have only been a dozen minutes at most. How did the criminal manage to do it in such a short time?"
"The Kingdom's knights are still searching the area, but they haven't found any wheel tracks, horse hoof prints, or any traces of teleportation magic." Andre shook his head. "However, that area is a mix of residential areas, businesses, and warehouses. I suspect the criminals rented a house nearby and hid the vehicle, horses, and the kidnapped Chirsna inside."
"Oh! That's very possible!" Aunt Wolf said excitedly, "Have you found them?"
"Not yet." Andre continued to eat breakfast, "But my men are still searching. If they find any new clues, they will inform me."
"Alas..." Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but sigh in disappointment.
After a delicious breakfast, Andre went upstairs to catch up on some sleep. Not long after, the troll Ferias arrived, duly appointed. With him came another troll. He carried several bags of tools and introduced himself as Ferias's uncle, Ariel. He seemed calm and reliable, quite unlike the unreliable Ferias.
"Wow, I didn't expect you to actually get dragon crystal." Ariel reached out his large, furry hand and tapped the dragon crystal. "It's good quality and the right size. With the right amount of thinning, it can become a luxurious door."
"Speaking of which," the little dragon Leodo poked his head out from the side, "except for our dragon clan's nails, there are almost no weapons or tools that can damage dragon crystal. How do you plan to deal with dragon crystal?"
Ariel grinned and pulled out a strangely shaped knife from his tool bag. The blade was inlaid with a small piece of sharp animal claw.
"We also cooperate with the dragon tribe and regularly collect their old nails that fall off," said Yalilan. "Then we will make these nails into knives."
Xiaolong was amazed and gained a deeper understanding of the tribe's messy business: "It's amazing."
——I don’t know whether he was praising these trolls or the dragon clan who have a strong business sense.
With all the necessary materials, renovating a dragonglass gate wasn't a difficult task. Some even used the dragonglass directly from the original gate, now completely integrated into the wall, eliminating the need for disassembly and assembly. Now, the trolls only needed to cut and smooth out the bulging, protruding parts to create a stunning dragonglass gate.
Ariel first covered the house with waterproof and dustproof canvas, then had Jiangyou turn the dragon crystal to a closed state and began to cut it vigorously. After a few hours, the troll craftsman rolled up and closed the canvas wrapped with dragon crystal fragments and dust, and a beautiful, square dragon crystal door appeared in front of Jiangyou.
"Wow!" Takumi exclaimed, "It's really nice, but the colors don't match."
"That's easy," Ariel said. "You're bound to this dragon crystal, right? Then try imagining your favorite color while infusing it with magic."
Jiangyou placed the bone claw on the gate and tried hard to picture a brown gate in his mind. Sure enough, the dragon crystal immediately turned into a brown gate that looked very harmonious with the wall, and one could even faintly see a pattern similar to wood grain.
"Done!" Ariel laughed heartily, "This is like cleaning up the mess for my nephew. By the way, how are the materials next door getting prepared?"
Jiangyou showed him around. Ariel tapped the dragon crystals on the ground and said, "The materials here aren't thick enough... Well, we need to let the dragon crystals grow for at least another week before we can make the outer walls of the greenhouse. When you have all the materials, we'll come over and start construction."
"Dragon crystal only has one chance to synchronize its magic, so once it's bound to its user, it becomes a very reliable defensive material. It can protect against anything except dragons. Of course, against magical creatures like dragons, no other material can protect against them."
After saying this, Ariel laughed a few times and walked back to the workshop: "Ferrias, go home!"
"Hey, uncle, wait! I still want to have breakfast!"
"Breakfast?" Ariel sniffed and indeed smelled a rich aroma. He rubbed his stomach and said, "Indeed, I'm a little hungry."
So the two trolls became the first official customers this morning - there was no other way, in order to repair the door, Jiangyou had to postpone the opening time in the morning, and it was almost noon now!
With a thought, Jiangyou's dragon crystal door slowly turned transparent, and the two trolls reentered the workshop and found a seat. The neighbors nearby saw this and immediately followed the trolls into the workshop. "Hey, a new door? This door is so strange! I thought the shop was closed just now! Now you can go in!"
"If it's transparent, you can go straight in. If it's brown, that means we're closed!" Jiang You explained to the guests. She felt that she would have to repeat the same explanation many times before everyone got used to it. "Because of the new door, the only dishes we'll be serving today are pot-side hot pot, soy milk, tofu pudding, oyster cakes, fried dough sticks, and shrimp cakes. The rest of the dishes are still being prepared!"
The customers sniffed the aroma of food filling the restaurant: "We're not picky, just bring us the most fragrant ones!"
“Hahahahahaha!”
While the trolls were messing with the gate, Nasha had been practicing pot-cooking for the whole morning under Jiangyou's guidance. Now she has successfully mastered this technique. The seafood soup in the big iron pot was bubbling and boiling, and various fried foods in the oil pan were sizzling.
Jericho wrote down the guests' orders in a small notebook, while Leila carried a tray laden with food, quickly serving them. Takumi put his hands on his hips, admired his newly renovated door, and then contentedly went into the kitchen.
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