The elven girl turned her head to look at the young paladin beside her, her eyes were serious, and then she asked, "The manager of Hurenger, the Count of Drew - did he allow the black market trade to exist in this city?" ”

"Why did you suddenly think of this?" Finn looked at Arya with some surprise.

"No why." Arya blinked her eyes and shook her head slightly, "It just feels like something is wrong." ”

“……”

Finn was stunned for a moment, and his mind fell into a deep thought.

In his previous life, before the cataclysm, his main location of activity was not in the area along the coast of the St. Fern Sea in the Violet Kingdom, so although he didn't know much about the history of the game in this area during this period, the lack of key memories caused him to encounter some uncertain thinking obstacles in the extension of Arya's questions, but fortunately, his experience in the game for the past five years helped a lot at this time.

Combined with his past experiences in the game world and some useful forum information in his memory, Finn's contemplation lasted for about a minute, during which the emcee of the venue had already displayed the next item on the booth, except for Arroyo, who also set aside some attention to pay attention to the current situation of the venue, Arya, who asked this question, and Raymond, who didn't know much about the rules of black market trading, were attracted by Finn's thoughtful expression.

The Witcher Elf Maiden and the future Sword Saint Youth looked left and right at the Paladin Youth in the middle. Finally, when the new bidder quoted the bid code for the second item on the booth, Finn finally stopped thinking in his heart, then raised his head and took a deep breath and exhaled, looked at Arya and said slowly: "Theoretically, Count Drew should not recognize the legitimacy of black market transactions in Hurenger. ”

"So your conclusion?" Arya and Finn's eyes looked at each other.

“……”

The elven girl was answered by a brief silence for a second.

"Finn?"

"I'm not sure...... Really not sure. Finn's eyes darkened, but immediately brightened again, "But this may be a clue that can help us further touch some of the truth behind the whole purpura incident...... Arya, your intuition has served its best, and I think we should calm down and analyze the suspicion you just mentioned. ”

"But—wait a minute! Stop for a moment. Raymond didn't understand what Finn wanted to say, so he hurriedly reached out from the side and patted Finn on the shoulder, "Count Drew admits that he doesn't recognize the legitimacy of the black market trade, what does this have to do with the purple spot disease in the city?" ”

The young swordsman looked blankly at the companion beside him, who had taught him a good lesson in the tavern of Azur Harbor, and Arya, who had caused the topic, was also full of confusion at this time, not understanding why some indescribable uneasiness in her intuition could be connected to the large-scale disease that was currently prevalent in Hurenger.

Fein looked left and right at the two people beside him, then asked the two of them to tilt their heads slightly, and then unhurriedly began to analyze: "First of all, let's understand the background of the whole problem. In the most common sense theory, the official laws of a kingdom usually do not recognize the legitimacy of the underground black market, but when such rules are implemented at the local level, they are full of all kinds of operability. Can you understand this phenomenon? ”

"Understandable." Raymond thought for a moment, then replied.

Arya didn't speak, but her eyes rolled in her sockets, and then she nodded at Finn to indicate that her answer was yes.

After receiving a response from his two companions, Finn smiled and continued, "However, the phenomenon you just mentioned is not applicable in some places. Within the Violet Kingdom, Perades and Hurenger are two of these places. ”

Perades ...... The royal capital of the Violet Kingdom. Arya reviewed the Terran history in her memory for a moment, and immediately reacted to a place name that Finn had just mentioned, "The legal rules of Perades must be strict, because it is the capital of the kingdom, do you mean that?" ”

"Yes." Fein nodded in acknowledgement, "Perades' local regulations have few loopholes to exploit precisely because it is the heart of the kingdom. The reigning ruler of the land, King Bag, was intellectually deficient, but his excellent regent, Princess Tiphia, ran the kingdom herself, making the administration of the royal capital Perades as flawless as that of Ode, the god of order, and the merchants of the royal capital could not even smuggle, let alone establish a black market. ”

"And what about Hugh Lunger?" Raymond took the conversation and asked, "Isn't Hurenger a bustling economic and trade hub?" Its characteristics are economic rather than political, why is it on a par with Perades in this regard? ”

"It's simple, Raymond." Finn raised his eyebrows, his smile still on, "Remember, where did we wake up after we were rescued from a shipwreck?" ”

“…… Cathedral of Tiamagos. Raymond's eyes widened, "Ah, I remember, Hurengel is the holy city of the Templar Church!" ”

"That's right." Fein nodded again, "Hurengel sits on the Cathedral of Tiamagos, designated by the canon of the Templar as one of the religious shrines of the Church. The majesty of religion does not tolerate the filth of the Holy Land, and the enforcement of Hurengel's laws is as tight as that of Perades. Based on this realistic background, it is inferred that Count Drew, as the lord of Hurengel, must stand on the side of cracking down on black market transactions, which is not only conducive to his own public image, but also meets the basic normative requirements of the national law for a noble lord. With that said, the background of the incident is over, and we now need to turn the whole analysis process back to the starting point of the question, that is, whether Count Drew, the lord of Hurenger, allowed the black market to legally exist under his nose. ”

After saying such a long sentence, Finn stopped his verbal discussion to buffer his breathing, and then suddenly fell silent again, and the two eyes that gradually became blurred seemed to carry his consciousness into the depths of his brain's thoughts.

The improvised discussion group of Finn, Arya, and Raymond paused the discussion, but the underground auction in which the four of them, including Arroyo on the side, did not notice the hiccup in the slightest, and did not interrupt the bidding boom that was gradually heading towards the climax.

At the same time that Fein was once again in thought, the second and third items on the booth had already been priced and sold, and the staff of the conference party had already placed the fourth item on the booth of the venue.

The fourth sale was a richly colored oil painting, encased in a large and beautiful frame, which the master of ceremonies explained was the work of a talented bard, and loudly proclaimed that "the noble man of true learning will appreciate the value of the painting", and then pushed the painting into the invisible battlefield of the rich competing with each other for a reserve price of three hundred and fifty gold coins.

The reserve price of the oil painting was higher than the original magic sword called the Frost Thorn, and the people in the hall on the first floor of the venue were hardly interested in the painting, but the rich dignitaries in the box on the second floor showed a high degree of enthusiasm for the oil painting displayed on the booth of the venue.

The quotations of the VIPs began to be conveyed to the master of ceremonies one by one through the notes in the hands of the waiters, and the prices drawn were like a note played by the piano player to draw a wisp of climbing curves upward, and with further calm thinking, Finn's train of thought became more and more relaxed.

Finally, when the price of the painting broke through five hundred gold coins in the loud announcement of the master of ceremonies, Finn also withdrew from his complicated thoughts.

"Continuing what I just said." Finn's eyes regained his brightness, and he raised his hand and tapped his forehead to speak, "Although we have turned the entire process of analysis back." The starting point of the question of whether Count Drew allowed the black market to exist legally in Hurenger', but regardless of Count Drew's own wishes, the current reality is that the city of Hurenger is holding such a small underground auction under the city at this time, and in addition to this, there are still scattered small gangsters and even kleptocratic organizations on the surface of the illegal organization. According to the simplest logical speculation, this situation points to two different possibilities - first, Count Drew neglected the management of the city, so that the black market merchants finally had an opportunity; Second, Count Drew acquiesced in the black market gathering. ”

"Since Earl Drew must take a stand against the black market, can he only be negligent in the management of the city?" Raymond guessed.

"I said, I'm not sure." Fein smiled wryly and shook his head gently, "I said when Arya first asked me, I'm really not sure. Both possibilities may be true, and the only thing that is certain is that the two of them are each other's false propositions, and there is only one truth. ”

"But didn't you say that Count Drew must take a stand against black market trading?" Raymond was stunned.

"Yes, I said and I think in my heart that Earl Drew must stand in the fight against black market trading." Finn spread his hands, "We all agree that Count Drew must do this, but is that really what Count Drew thinks in his heart?" ”

"You mean-?!"

"Shh......h

The young paladin pressed down on his fellow swordsman beside him in time, and put his finger in front of his mouth to stop the latter's almost burst of loud volume.

After reading the meaning of Finn's face, Raymond pursed his lips knowingly, and after signaling himself to calm down, he continued to fill in what he wanted to express at an appropriate volume, and asked, "You mean, Count Drew...... Got tired? ”

"This is an assertion based on the second possibility." "If the second possibility is true," corrected, "then Count Drew not only has a cat in him, but he is not small. Come to think of it, the lord of Hurengel had the right to control the flow of foreign goods in and out of the city, how could he let the 'seeds' of purple spot disease enter the city? It was his remiss to let suspicious objects with unidentified security into the city. ”

"But it's also possible that Count Drew was negligent in monitoring and managing the entry and exit of materials in the city, right?" Raymond kept up with Finn's thinking speed as much as he could, and in the process grasped a loophole in the former's view, "Thinking about it, even if Earl Drew acquiesced to the existence of this underground auction, he didn't necessarily know that the 'seeds' that caused the purple spot outbreak were smuggled into the city, did he?" ”

"According to your hypothesis, even if Count Drew was unknowingly negligent in monitoring and managing the entry and exit of goods, I think that the second inspection procedure set up by the Cathedral of Amagos for Hurengel should not let this omission unspared. The Church's magistrate will take care of the second pass after the goods have passed through the lord's side, which is a solid system of double insurance, and there is little chance that there will be a loophole in both insurances at the same time. ”

"So ......"

Assuming that the second possibility is true, we can draw three conclusions from it for the time being. The first conclusion: Count Drew has ghosts; The second conclusion: there are ghosts in the Cathedral of Tiamagos; The third conclusion: Count Drew and the Cathedral of Tiamagos, they both have ghosts. "Of course, the above assumptions are based on the fact that the object that Arroyo mentioned before his departure actually entered the city. All we have to do now is wait and see if the thing that caused the purpura outbreak will actually show up at this auction, as the information provided to us by the Brotherhood suggests. ”

When Finn calmly finished explaining his opinion, Raymond felt as if the air around him had frozen as Finn finished speaking.

The future Sword Saint looked at the face of the young paladin up close and opened his mouth, thinking to himself, "Hey, do you know what you were talking about just now?" Are you questioning the lord? Are you questioning your own church? Still the face doesn't change? My God......"

After a while, he came back from his stagnation just now, and then remembered to ask Arya for his opinion, so he leaned forward and looked sideways at the elf girl who was a little farther away from him and asked, "Arya, do you think so too?" ”

"I'm ......," the elf girl blinked, "huh...... Actually, I was dumbfounded. ”

"Huh?"

"What Finn thought of, I didn't think of at all." Arya shrugged her shoulders, then looked at Finn with admiration, "Seriously, Finn, I feel like you're a monster right now. Your mind is so sharp that it only takes a little clue to deduce so much...... Liv is on top, if you want to dig into my privacy, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep well every night. ”

"It's over." Finn squinted and smiled.

Of course, he could hear Arya's words as a compliment.

At this moment, Arroyo, who was keeping an eye on the venue, noticed something special. He suddenly turned his head, raised his hand and pointed straight to the booth below the semi-circular venue, looked at the three companions next to him and reminded, "My lord, Arya, Raymond, you look at the stand. ”