Chapter Fifty-six Intelligence

  Jieli crashed into Han Jin's arm, and was also hit by the strong smell of blood, her legs softened, almost fell down, fortunately Han Jin held her up.

  Qian Li looked up at Jin with a pale face and asked tremblingly: "Is it... are they all dead?"

  Han Jin nodded, and Sasou frowned: "Did someone make a move on Morgan Merchant Group?"

  "I don't know, maybe someone made a move, or maybe they're killing each other internally." Han Jin said in a low voice: "But at least we've found out that there's a wizard among the enemy."

  Her beautiful face was pale, she had been enduring for several months. When everyone else was living a carefree life in the forest, she didn't want to stay there, her goal was to return to the Morgan Merchant Group. The problem was that she was just an ordinary warrior with no money, a penniless and powerless lone girl, where could she go? Moreover, she was also a very beautiful girl, sometimes beauty meant danger, the more beautiful, the more dangerous, this logic she understood.

  Last time in Shízhèn, she revealed her identity, but to her surprise, no one from the Morgan Chamber of Commerce came to see her. From then on, she knew that something was wrong with the Morgan Chamber of Commerce! The best choice would be to let Han Jin and others protect herself back, trying to calm down the turmoil in the Morgan Chamber of Commerce, but she had no right to ask anyone, from start to finish, she almost made no contribution at all. Everyone took care of her in everything, which was already very good. Moreover, since someone dared to take action against the Morgan Chamber of Commerce, the enemy's power was not something that Han Jin and a few others could resist, would she let her friends accompany herself to death?

  Now, hearing that there was also a wizard among the enemy, Gui Li became even more desperate.

  Just then, little Joseph rushed in with his sword: "Sir? What's wrong?"

  "Little guy, not bad, I thought you'd have been scared off long ago." Han Jin smiled.

  Little Joseph's face turned red: "How is that possible... You are now my employer, I am responsible!" After finishing speaking, he leaned over to this side, and when approaching the cave entrance, he also smelled the stench and covered his nose: "What kind of smell is this?!"

  "Don't ask any more questions, it has nothing to do with you." Han Jin's gaze fell on Qili: "Let's go back, okay?"

  Qiu Li gently pushed Han Jin forward and nodded.

  Back at the hotel, the mood of Han Jin and his friends was somewhat low, especially Qiuli, who didn't greet anyone and went straight into her room. Han Jin didn't want to waste time, so he casually sat down at a table, took out the wooden material he had prepared earlier, and began carving with all his heart.

  Until nightfall, Xian Ni'er still hadn't returned, and Sasou was getting a bit worried, so he went out with Little Joseph to the Mercenary Guild to look for Xian Ni'er. Han Jin didn't want to move, and ran alone to the rooftop, leaning against the chimney, gazing at the night view of Lonely Cliff City.

  Cultivating one's character and nature, the word "nourishing" has a profound meaning. Many practitioners of spiritual cultivation like to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests, precisely because they want to nourish their nature. They sit and watch the clouds rise and fall, listen to the tides ebb and flow, and let everything return to its natural state. As for the saying "a small hermit hides in the forest, a great hermit hides in the city", it's just a fig leaf used by pedantic scholars to cover their shame, and has nothing to do with spiritual cultivation. Hiding in the city is done to be discovered, to be unearthed, to make a name for oneself, but true seclusion can't compare to the peace and tranquility of the mountains and forests!

  Han Jin had rarely left the city since he entered the door of cultivation, which was unavoidable. However, he had developed a habit of taking some time every day to go to high places, looking up at the brilliant starlight and down at the lights of thousands of families. He wanted to make himself thoroughly calm, or savor that kind of loneliness, that feeling of being in a high place where one couldn't win against the cold, and forcibly peel himself away from the worldly noise, which was beneficial for his cultivation.

  At some point, someone slowly sat down beside him, and Han Jin also caught a whiff of a faint scent.

  "How come you're back?" Han Jin asked in a low voice.

  "I've posted quite a few tasks, so I'll wait for a bit longer." Xanier handed over a pouch: "There are all third-tier earth-elemental magic crystals inside. The rest of the fourth and fifth-tier ones can be stored here with me for now."

  Han Jin turned his hand over and opened the cloth bag, exclaiming in surprise: "So many?"

  "Almost over three hundred."

  "How much money did you spend?"

  "Not much, earth attribute magic crystals are very cheap, plus those 4th and 5th tier magic crystals, it only cost a little over 100 gold coins."

  "Xian Ni Er, you... must be quite famous in Ye Liu City, right?" Han Jin asked with a smile, having spent 100 gold coins, and saying it wasn't much, which was not something an ordinary character could say.

  "Don't ask me, I don't want to talk about it." Xanthe changed the subject: "Were all of Morgan's trade team killed?"

  "Uh-huh."

  "What do you think? Are we... going to help Keli?"

  "What's your opinion?" Han Jin asked back instead of answering.

  "I just spoke with Keli about her family matters, according to their rules, after the assessment, she has the opportunity to contact the business group's internal affairs, that is to say, she doesn't understand almost anything now and can't provide us with any help." Xanier said softly.

  "It's not about whether we can help her or not, but whether we can gain anything from it." Han Jin understood Xanier's meaning: "If we try our best and are destined to fail, then why bother taking the risk? Whether it's the people of Sacred Crown City dealing with the Morgan Merchant Guild, or the internal strife within the guild itself, their strength is far greater than ours, and they have more information at their disposal. If we charge in... what good outcome can we expect?"

  Xian Ni'er fell silent, the two of them quietly exchanged opinions here and decided not to help Qiuli anymore. It was very cruel for Qiuli, but Han Jin didn't think he was wrong. From the perspective of a small team, being cruel to a group of people is not as cruel as being cruel to one person.

  "We're missing a thief." Xanthe said in a low voice, "If we can find a high-ranking thief and then find a high-ranking warrior, our team will be perfect. At least we'll have a way to investigate what happened to the Morgan Merchant Guild."

  "I remember Mo Xinkuo saying that too." Han Jin said slowly: "Or... tomorrow go to the Mercenary Guild and recruit a thief?"

  "Don't be ridiculous." Xanthe smiled and shook her head: "You don't understand, it's not easy to have a good team! What if we recruit someone with a narrow mind who likes to stir up trouble? Maybe they'll disband our team. For example, the space ring on your hand, if two people were swapped in, they wouldn't agree to just give you the space ring like that, no matter what, they'd want to get their own benefits."

  Han Jin's gaze fell on the ring, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

  "Right...” Xanthe suddenly remembered something: “We can buy intelligence! How about this, I'll post a task tomorrow to gather some information about the Morgan Merchant Guild. If it's promising, we can help out Kiri. You see how puffy her eyes are from crying? It's so pitiful. If it's too dangerous... then forget it."

  "Alright..." Han Jin shrugged his shoulders. The other side had at least one wizard, which was already very dangerous. What more danger could there be? However, since Xian Ni'er had changed her mind again, he couldn't say anything and could only take things one step at a time.