Hu Tao took out a pack of shrimp crackers, and the crisp clicking sound was particularly obvious.
Jiang Bai glanced at the hall master who was ruining the atmosphere and opened his mouth.
"ah--"
A piece of shrimp cracker was stuffed into his mouth.
In the sound of the two chewing, the tense atmosphere before suddenly disappeared.
Jiang Bai asked questions while accepting Hutao's feeding.
"Tell me your true identity and purpose."
Alfonso's mood was complicated, this scene was too strange, but she didn't have too many choices.
These two people may be his only hope to complete the mission.
"My name is Trofen Shenetzvich, and I am an orphan from Hearth House."
"What is the Fireplace House?" Walnut asked curiously.
"You don't know?"
"We are just adventurers, how can we know these secrets of the Fools? Even if the Skirmisher has a good relationship with me, he will not tell me these things.
"Besides, at a time when the Fools are causing trouble everywhere, you are very lucky to meet us who are not hostile to the Fools."
Jiang Bai actually knew about the Hearth House, but he only knew that it was a force under the executioners [servants] of the Fools.
No matter how many other haters there were, they didn't say much to him.
"Hearth House is an orphanage established by Lord [Servant]. The children living in Hearth House are not blood relatives, but we have more important brothers and sisters.
"When they reach a certain age, qualified children will be trained as spies, lurking in various places, waiting for orders."
This is not confidential information. You can know this if you have a little knowledge of the inside of the Fools.
“What about the kids who don’t have qualifications?”
"...They will live a normal life."
"What is your mission?"
"I received an order from Lord [Doctor] to capture Lanaro."
"Why capture Lannaro?"
"In order to study Lanaro's connection with dreams and death realms. Weaponizing [dreams] and [dead realms] seems to be his topic. Of course, we are also his [research resources]."
Alfonso's answer was very detailed, so detailed that Jiang Bai was a little surprised.
This information is actually classified, right? Was it revealed so easily?
"Speaking of which, his project should not continue. After all, the problem of World Tree has been solved, and no new dead realm will be born..."
Seeing that Alfonso was so generous in revealing information, Jiang Bai also revealed some information to him.
I don’t know if Alfonso knows about this. Anyway, the resolution of the World Tree problem is not something that needs to be concealed.
"I did not receive an order to end the mission, so I will continue with this mission."
For the soldiers of Foolish Crowd, the mission is above all else.
As long as the superior's order is not ended, the task must continue to be executed.
"But I can't see Lannaro. I have never completed this task. If you can help me, I will be grateful."
Of course Jiang Bai didn't intend to help him, he just wanted to ask him about his details.
"I encountered this Lannaro by chance, and it is not nearby. Since you have been in Vimo Village, it means that there should be a Lannaro living nearby."
"That's right, the children said that Lannaro is called Lanlana."
"In this case, I'll go take a look tomorrow to see if I can see this Lanaro. You go back first, we have to rest."
"Then I'll take my leave first." Alfonso left with a heavy heart.
He didn't get any guarantees, and he didn't even know their names, but there was nothing he could do.
After Alfonso left, Hutao rubbed his somewhat stretched belly.
"Are you really going to find Lanaro tomorrow?"
"Let's go take a look, and ask for some information about Alfonso."
"I don't think that guy is a good person."
"It doesn't matter if he is a good person or not, can't we just tell the ranger when the time comes?"
Early on the first morning, Jiang Bai got out of bed and stretched himself in front of the sun.
After buying two Xumi specialty breakfasts on the street, Jiang Bai took Hu Tao and wandered around the village, asking for news.
"Uncle, has anything unusual happened in the village recently?"
"Young man, why do you ask this?"
"We are writers who are out collecting stories, looking for inspiration."
"Writers... are really rare. But there are indeed some abnormalities. Some children in the village ran into the forest and disappeared one after another. Fortunately, they were all found after a few days. But when I asked them where They can't remember anything about this experience in the forest..."
"Huh? Will the forest swallow up memories?"
"In my opinion, it's just a child's playfulness. He goes to the forest and doesn't want to go home..."
"That's right. Uncle, did you know that Alfonso is here? He doesn't seem to be from Sumeru."
"Alfonso, he came to our village a few years ago. He is down-to-earth and hard-working. He is a good boy."
Jiang Bai asked some people one after another, and the evaluations they gave were similar.
Alfonso was a warm-hearted and good man in their eyes. Not only the adults in the village like him, but also the children.
"It seems that the identity management is very good. I don't know if the disappearance of the child has anything to do with him..."
Just when Jiang Bai was thinking about going to the forest, ranger Lana ran over.
"Both of you, I'm very sorry to bother you!"
Jiang Bai looked at the ranger running over with some surprise.
Before he even thought about asking him to reveal Alfonso's identity, the ranger came running over on his own.
"What's wrong, Miss Lana?"
"I want you two to issue a commission, but I don't know if you two are willing to do it."
"What commission?"
"Are you two holders of the Eye of God?"
"Um."
"There is a large dead zone in the nearby forest. Only the owner of the Eye of God can enter without being affected. Because this dead zone is too close to the village, I am worried that children will accidentally run in. I want to entrust I wonder if you two are willing to accept this death realm?"
Jiang Bai readily agreed.
"That's it, no problem. I've done some cleaning before, so I have experience."
"Thank you so much! I will also accompany you two. Although I cannot enter, I will provide as much help as I can."
While walking towards the dead zone, Hu Tao chatted with the ranger.
"Is the job of ranger hard? I don't think there are many rangers in the village."
"Fortunately, it's all work. There are three rangers in the village besides me. The rangers have very high requirements, so the number of them is very small..."
"How do you usually deal with dead areas?"
"Because there are no Eye of God holders in the village, we usually report it and wait for the Order to arrange someone to come and deal with it..."
(End of chapter)
