"What do you want to do?" Daisy suddenly became a little nervous.
"I didn't mean anything by it. It's just that I misquoted the price of the seashell you bought. It's actually worth 5 purple gold coins, and the money you gave is far from enough. Don't you all agree?" Old Man Bei immediately changed his attitude.
Those around them echoed their agreement, clearly indicating that it had been pre-arranged.
"Then I don't want it."
"Haha, you've already put them all into your magic bag, who knows if you've switched them? Hurry up and pay, or we'll have to rob you."
Luo Fan noticed that the servant who had been following them had no intention of making a move; instead, he was watching the show with great interest.
This kind of deal was clearly a pre-arranged scheme to attract people who love a good spectacle, but no one expected there to actually be a treasure inside.
Moreover, they looked like a group of naive girls who had never seen the world, and seemed very easy to fool.
"How could you do this!" Daisy continued her act, since Luo Fan was there, she had no intention of taking out the seashell.
"Young lady, hurry up and pay to buy peace. Your companion is wearing a spatial ring, so she doesn't seem to be short of money. Five purple gold coins is already very cheap."
"Is that so? You want to fight? I'm not afraid!" Freya took out her staff and summoned a thunderbird. She didn't have the patience to keep going. She had only been there to watch the show.
"You're not just a mid-level mage, you're a grand mage!" The crowd that had been surrounding them immediately deflated. The Thunderbird also had a very strong aura; it was at least a mid-level magical beast.
"So the security in Tianshui Town is this bad!" Daisy sighed. Then she saw officials come over and disperse the surrounding crowd.
Old Man Bei was very polite to the newcomer, clearly recognizing him. After a brief conversation, he packed up his stall and slunk away with the young man.
"Miss Daisy, I'm so sorry, I didn't expect this to happen. Please excuse my poor appearance."
"You know me?" Daisy was clearly curious.
"Yes, I've heard of it. Please don't mind." The guard saluted and slowly left.
"Is this a test of our strength?" Luo Fan muttered to himself, while also tracking the old man's movements, hoping to find the other half of the seashell.
As night deepened, the clone slipped out, and the girls turned back.
Sure enough, it wasn't long before the guard met up with Old Man Bei. After giving him some more instructions, he left with peace of mind.
"Grandpa, does that girl have a powerful background?"
"I don't know either, but their status is definitely not low. Let's retreat first. At least we earned 50 gold coins and made a contribution. We've made a big profit this time."
Luo Fan followed them all the way and found that they finally arrived at a house and threw the things they were selling directly into a box.
After sneaking inside and searching around, Luo Fan found the other half of the seashell at the bottom of the box. Only then did he decide to leave, taking the useful part of the spiritual material with him.
Unexpectedly, not long after, a man in black slipped in, asked Old Man Bei for some information, and then turned and left.
It seems the news of the princess's arrival has alarmed quite a few people. Luo Fan then followed the man in black and discovered that he had slipped into a brothel and even entered a secret room.
"Daisy? Isn't that Duke Simmons' daughter? Why is she with the princess? And there's a great mage with a thunderbird. Who could this woman with lightning attributes be?" The man inside, having received the news, muttered to himself.
"Forget it, just send out the message that the princess is going to challenge the Tianshui Underground City tomorrow, with powerful archmages and mid-level magical beasts, and tell them to seize the opportunity."
The man in black left quickly, leaving the man alone in the secret room to think.
"If we can kill Caitlin this time, I wonder if the dog emperor will go crazy, and that Ellie should have died long ago. It's just that this base is likely to be lost. If Simmons finds out that his daughter was killed, he'll probably investigate like crazy."
With a soft chuckle, the man then stepped out of the secret room.
Holy crap, these people actually dared to attack the princess directly! Could it be that they were just trying to gauge the strength of the people around her? Was this whole scheme just to find out about this new face, Freya?
After searching the secret room, I found a few unimportant documents. The other party was quite vigilant!
Following the scent of the man in black, Luo Fan went over there.
Near the dock, the presence of the men in black disappeared on a cargo ship, the markings of which were one of the ones Caitlin had told him about.
Before he even entered, he sensed the presence of the Archmage. The Archmage seemed unusually alert, and there were sounds coming from inside the room.
"That woman isn't a mage? How is that possible? I clearly sensed signs of a mage probing when that ship first arrived."
"Could I have seen wrong? Are you sure that woman only has the strength of a Grand Mage?"
"Confirmed. Archmage level 7, pet Thunderbird level 66, scouts have not found any trace of archmages."
"Young Master told me to tell you that if you want to kill her, you must seize this opportunity. Once she goes to Holy Sea City, the strength around her will definitely be much greater than it is now." After saying that, the man in black left.
Luo Fan, peering through the crack in the door, overheard their subsequent conversation. It now seemed that at least three forces were plotting against Caitlin, and the people inside were likely the thugs.
Should we make a move beforehand and scare them away? After thinking about it, I decided against it; if we act now, we won't catch many fish.
After leaving a spatial node outside, they stealthily approached the cargo ship, ignoring the mage who was deep in thought.
The cargo ship was very clean. However, Luo Fan could still smell the demon's aura; after all, he had encountered it before and it left a deep impression.
Just as they were about to search for that aura, they discovered it had vanished onto the deck, with several iron chains nearby that looked somewhat like anchors sunk to the bottom. Following the chains downwards, they found numerous iron cages at the bottom of the deep lake, each containing a mutated demon.
There was also a hidden magic circle on the cage, shielding these people from their presence.
Luo Fan discovered that these people were showing signs of becoming semi-magical beasts, and each of them had a water-type magic core in their mouth to maintain the flow of magic power.
Could this be the effect of grafting humans and magical beasts? So, are they considered human or beast? If so, is there a possibility of them breaking through to become gods?
Finding his thoughts wandering, Luo Fan quickly pulled them back. He couldn't discern the ranks of the people below, but their physical abilities were at least at the high-level martial artist level, and their ranks were likely not low either.
Demons are stronger than martial artists of the same level, since they can directly use magic cores for energy and also use martial artist skills.
Forget it, to avoid any unexpected problems, let's kill them first.
Luo Fan had no liking for these inhuman creatures. He decided to kill them while they were lost in meditation and their vigilance was lowered, and then see how things would unfold.
Using the scorpion's stinger to paralyze their nerves, combined with the venom of the rats, Luo Fan easily killed all the demons. Their positions and postures remained unchanged; they died peacefully, with no outward signs of abnormality.
It's all thanks to the many treasures we obtained from the secret realm back then, otherwise it would have been difficult to achieve this result.
Luo Fan silently gave himself a thumbs up. After confirming once again that everyone was truly dead, he slipped onto the cargo ship. He discovered the archmage was gone, and his attempt to sneak inside to look for clues yielded nothing.
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