Chapter 499: Looking for clues

"One year......" Xiao Yan nodded after hearing this, "Have you counted how many spirit stones you have lost in total this year?" ”

"In the past year, all the spirit stones added up, there should be tens of thousands, including more than a dozen black fire spirit stones."

Black Fire Spirit Stone? Xiao Yan couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, this black fire spirit stone can already be described as priceless, a black fire spirit stone is enough to make an immortal bankrupt, the black fire spirit stone, no matter where it is placed, is the object of scramble, but now it has lost more than a dozen pieces! No wonder the headquarters will attach so much importance to this matter, and if it continues to be thrown like this, the loss will be more than just those millions!

"Take us to see the treasure house where the spirit stones are stored."

"Okay."

Later, the patriarch called the caretaker, this treasure house has a total of two keys, these two keys must be inserted at the same time to open the door of the treasure house, and this caretaker is from the headquarters, the level of loyalty to the headquarters can definitely be guaranteed, or he will not be allowed to keep the key to this treasure house.

After checking the tokens of Xiao Yan and the others again, the man was relieved to work together with the patriarch to open the door of the treasure house, and when he opened the gate, the scene inside made Xiao Yan and the others widen their eyes.

The incomparably precious fire spirit stones in the outside world are now piled up on the ground like waste stones, which is similar to the scene Xiao Yan saw in the unknown treasure at the beginning, piles of red fire spirit stones are piled on the ground, and there are some shelves next to them, and there are some fire spirit stones of different colors on the shelves, compared to those red fire spirit stones on the ground, their number is obviously much less.

Seeing these fire spirit stones, Xiao Yan had an urge to take them for himself, but just thinking about it, he didn't have the courage yet.

"Are all these produced spirit stones piled up here?" Xiao Yan asked, pointing to the pile of fire spirit stones in front of him.

"Yes, it's all here." The patriarch replied respectfully.

"Did you open it before the headquarters came to pick it up?"

"No, the mining of this spirit stone is in batches, from mining to final formation, it will take at least half a month, so we usually open this treasure house once every half a month, and register the newly polished spirit stone into the warehouse, waiting for the headquarters to send someone to collect it at the end of the month."

"So that means that before entering the warehouse, the total number of these spirit stones is only known to you and him?" Xiao Yan pointed at the patriarch and the person who guarded him sensitively asked.

"Yes." The patriarch replied affirmatively.

Then Xiao Yan asked him a few more questions, and then went back, and after going back, the door was closed, and Xiao Yan and the three of them started a discussion at this time.

"Who do you feel?" Xiao Yan asked.

"I don't know who it is, but it shouldn't be this patriarch, he has been guarding this place for many years, and he wants to steal it early, why wait until now?" Huang Funan expressed his own opinion.

"I think the caretaker is suspicious, the one who can do this will definitely not be an ordinary caretaker, at least the one who can steal the spirit stone from the treasure house, it will definitely not be the one who died, he is just a small janitor, where can he dare to do such a big thing, the discerning person knows that he is a scapegoat at a glance." Tosha also expressed his opinion.

"The water here is very deep!"

The next day, Xiao Yan and the three of them went their separate ways, Xiao Yan was responsible for supervising the process from mining to polishing and finally forming, Tuoshe was responsible for the process from forming to loading, and our Huangfu Nan was responsible for setting up in the crowd, only by mingling with everyone, they could set out more insiders, this thing is Huangfu Nan's strength, and it is also his favorite thing to do. He went out that day with a jug of wine.

Seeing Huang Fu Nan who was the same as the chicken blood, Xiao Yan was very pleased, Huang Fu Nan, as long as he wanted to do something, he would definitely be able to do it.

The three of them divided their labor and worked together, and they had already found ways to find places where the spirit stones might be stolen, so many spirit stones were definitely not stolen overnight, and what was that person going to do by stealing so many spirit stones? Is it just to sell for money? But who did he sell all these spirit stones he stole to? Who are the buyers? The buyer who can eat such a large amount of spirit stones is definitely not an ordinary person, who dares to take such a big risk to steal spirit stones?

Soon, Huang Funan brought back the latest news.

"I'll tell you...... Belch!! ”

Huangfu Nan burped, and Xiao Yan and Tuoshe, who were instantly smoked with alcohol, took a few steps back and covered their noses with their hands to resist the pungent smell of wine.

"How much alcohol have you drunk? The smell of alcohol! Xiao Yan fanned back and forth in front of his nose with his hand, but just like that, he still couldn't resist the pungent smell of wine.

Huang Fu Nan propped himself on the table with one hand, and made a finger hook gesture at Xiao Yan and Tuoshe with the other, his behavior was completely like a drunkard, if he didn't speak clearly, Xiao Yan and they would definitely not want to pay attention to him.

"Come here...... Come here...... I'll tell you a secret...... Today...... I've heard...... The lost spirit stones are far more than that...... As early as a few years ago, they had already discovered that the number of spirit stones was not matched...... But they reacted to the people above, and the people above said that they knew, but they didn't make any moves...... In recent years, the number of lost spirit stones has increased, which has attracted the attention of the headquarters......"

Listening to Huang Funan's words, Xiao Yan and Tuoshe glanced at each other, "That is to say, this incident of stealing spirit stones has not been a day or two, it can be said that it has been many years, but the action was relatively small at the beginning, and everyone didn't pay much attention to it." ”

"Right...... Right...... That's it...... It's definitely not a day or two, I've heard about it...... I heard ......"

"What did you hear?" Xiao Yan turned his head and saw that Huangfu Nan had fallen asleep on the table, and the snoring sound was deafening.

"Alas!"

Xiao Yan sighed helplessly, shook his head, and carried the drunken Huangfu Nan to the bed with Tuoshe.

"Do you have anything to gain there?" Xiao Yan took the initiative to ask.

Tuosha shook his head, "This treasure house is heavily guarded, and with my strength, I can't sneak into it without alerting the guards, let alone steal spirit stones from the treasure house. ”

Xiao Yan nodded, "Okay, from tomorrow onwards, you take over my work, carefully monitor every process in the middle of the formation of spirit stones, and see if anyone can make a ghost out of it, if you can, help Huang Fu Nan appropriately, I will go to the surrounding bazaars to see if there is a place for buying spirit stones." ”

"Okay, no problem, leave it to me here!" Tosha nodded.

"Well, be careful, the water of this immeasurable mountain is very deep!"