Everyone is looking for Diego.

The walls of the port city are plastered with wanted notices.

A reward of 100,000 watts was offered, which was a lot of money in a place like Silvermoon Harbor, and the port dwellers, who had not yet slept, left their homes and searched everywhere for the boy named Diego.

The wanted warrant was issued by Father Gaudell, who accused Diego of performing cult rituals on their ship and also burning one of their ships.

But there's something weird about the whole thing.

Silvermoon Harbor is a relatively isolated port city, and there is very little movement of people here, especially during the period when the Third Neutral Kingdom changed until Cuenca and the expeditionary force were stationed.

Most of the residents of the port knew each other, but when they saw the sky-high bounty and looked around, they found that no one knew Diego at all.

According to the information given in the wanted warrant, at the age of 14-15 years old, it is clear that he is not a member of the expeditionary force.

The reason why Father Godell issued the wanted warrant is even more bizarre, there is a grapevine that Father Godell dreamed that a teenager named Diego performed a cult ritual on the ship of the Tide Cult, and when he woke up from his sleep, the church ship was indeed on fire.

He firmly believed that this was a revelation from the Lord of the Tides, and commanded them to put the cult member named Diego to death.

But here's the problem......

You can't execute someone who doesn't actually exist.

After most of the night of searching, many of the port residents decided to give up the tempting gratuity, and God knows if the people of the Tidal Cult had made up a name out of thin air to entertain them with empty checks.

After all, you can never know what is going on in the minds of the people of the Tidal Cult, and Father Godell's own mental state is a little abnormal in the first place.

Also involved in the investigation is the weirdo Franken.

To the inhabitants of Silvermoon Harbor, he is like a detective, and once they have become acquainted, they will occasionally ask Franconian to help them solve tricky problems.

Franken the Weirdo is always there to help them out.

And this time, unlike the harbor dwellers roaming the streets, the "Emperor" first went to the burning ship, and by this time the ship was only wrecked, and it was no wonder that the people of the Tidal Cult could not find any substantive clues from the ship.

But the truth of everything is hidden in the clues.

Father Godell firmly believed that Diego had engaged in cult activities and burned their ship, but judging from what the "Emperor" had investigated, it did not seem to be the case.

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He found the footprints of the crew in the wreckage, as well as the remnants of an oil lamp.

In his opinion, the fire did not seem to have a direct relationship with the cult ritual, but more like the crew accidentally knocked over the wick and accidentally set the entire ship on fire.

When the "Emperor" found the crew member before dawn, the latter was lying in bed in a trance, and he didn't even have time to clean up the traces left at the fire scene, and when he got home, he was lying on the bed like a lost soul.

The crew also insisted that Diego was responsible for the cult rituals, but when he continued to interrogate, the crew could not come up with a reason.

Even he couldn't tell who Diego really was.

I couldn't clearly describe what the other man looked like, but I knew that it was a boy of 14 or 15 years old, thin and malnourished, and these few details were exactly the same as the boy that Father Gaudele had seen in his dreams.

Immediately after that, the "Emperor" questioned some of the port residents who participated in the firefighting, and they did not witness anyone similar to Diego during the firefighting, and even the "Seagull" had never heard of such a person in Silvermoon Harbor.

She thought it was probably Father Gaudele sleeping in the lake, blaming the heretics for a man-made fire.

She has always had no good impression of the people of the Haichao Sect, who are always chattering and seem to be mentally abnormal, and for a group of people suffering from mental illness, it is really normal for paranoia to occur.

According to the analysis of "Seagull", the fire was mostly caused by the crew's illegal operation, and in order to clear himself of responsibility, he threw the black pot to the cultist that Father Gaudel dreamed of, and Father Gaudel was so frightened that he would take the dream seriously.

It would be in vain to continue to investigate this matter.

Not to mention 100,000 watts, even if they provided a million or even 10 million watts, they would not be able to pull out a person who existed in a dream and twist it to Father Godell.

From a scientific, rational, and objective point of view, this is indeed the most likely outcome.

But the Emperor was keenly aware of some subtle anomalies.

All those who might have witnessed Diego had their memories blurred, and they could almost only paint a similar picture, but the caliber was surprisingly consistent, as if everyone had the same dream.

This is more like the effect of jamming capabilities.

As he continued his investigation along this trail, he finally made an unexpected discovery.

The Emperor temporarily put the name Diego behind and returned to the event itself.

For example, what exactly was the burning ship used for?

Soon he received information from the Seagulls that the Tide Church took in some of the orphans of Silvermoon Harbor, provided them with food and shelter, and took some of them to the Misty Islands whenever they went out to sea.

But just like the inhabitants of Silvermoon Harbor who became cultists, those orphans went to Misty Isle and never returned.

Usually the Tides would place the orphans on their ships and let them help with odd jobs on the ships.

When the 'Emperor' learned this information, he realized what the problem really was.

Diego was not alone in the fire.

All the orphans who lived in the same boat with him were missing, but neither Father Gaudell nor the other Tides seemed to be aware of this, and they never thought that the children had died in the fire.

It was as if the traces of their existence had been erased from the minds of the cultists, and they could only vaguely remember that among the orphans there was a boy named Diego.

The Emperor finally found the whereabouts of the missing orphans.

They hid in a temple not far from the outskirts of Silvermoon Harbor, where the Lunar Eclipse Cult was once the Church of the Eclipse Cult, and during the time when the Barossa Group took control of Silvermoon Harbor, the Lunar Eclipse clergy were driven out and the Church was abandoned.

Seagulls say that the orphans in the harbor made it their home.

He eventually found the boy that Father Gaudele had dreamed of.

The boy, Diego, was lying dying on a straw mat with burning skin festering from the burn.

Orphans gathered around him.

"Why didn't you take him to the hospital at the port?"

The Emperor couldn't help but ask the children, and he examined all the orphans present to discern who was the distracting psychic who had distorted the minds of the cultists.

But in the end, nothing was found.

They all look like just ordinary port orphans.

"Because Diego is going somewhere better."

One girl, who looked much older than the other children, said, "God is coming to pick him up." ”