In the afternoon.

In the living room of the Blue Lagoon Manor, Richard was waiting.

The servant Galie had just reported that a guest had come to the door when there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, and Joseph walked in briskly.

Joseph, as the introducer and guide of Richard to join the Truth Society, had a good relationship with Richard, and he was not polite after coming, and said bluntly: "Wizard Richard, you may be in trouble." ”

"Hmm, trouble, what trouble?" asked Richard.

"Before I tell you, I want to ask you, is there anything you want to talk to me and the organization about first?" said Joseph, looking at Richard with a pair of eyes.

Richard took a sip of tea, thought for a moment, and said, "There is indeed one thing. ”

"What?"

"Earlier, I mentioned to you that the improvement of the crystal ball to convey information can greatly improve the efficiency of communication, but it seems that it is not being adopted in the organization now. Although you have also told me that this is a bit troublesome to implement, I still want to ask, when will it happen?" asked Richard seriously.

Listening to Richard's words, Joseph, whose expression was serious, was stunned, obviously Richard's words were very different from what he thought. After a long while, he opened his mouth and said, "This seems to be really difficult to do, and in my opinion, it may not be possible to achieve it in a few years." ”

"Well, well. Richard spread his hands, "Then I don't have much more to say." ”

"Really?" Joseph asked, squinting at Richard, "Aren't you going to say anything about the mines near Shambhala?" ”

"Yes, I did pay for some mines and hired people to manage them. Richard replied, his expression indifferent, "But there's nothing to say." The small town of Shambhala is not far from where I live, and it is only rich in ore. I have some spare money in my hand, invest in some industries, earn a certain profit, and satisfy my life, there is nothing wrong with that, right?

In other words, I knew about Shambhala Town because of you. If it weren't for the demonic creatures you dealt with in the first place, and I mentioned the name of the place, I wouldn't have set my sights on it, and maybe I would have invested in the minerals of the rest of the place.

Why does the organization think that it is wrong for me to make money like this, that it violates the pursuit of truth? Or is it that I am violating one of the organization's rules?"

"This ......" was said by Richard, Joseph was stunned, and after a few seconds he reacted and said, "It's not true, it's just ......"

"Just what?"

"It's just that your mine is different from an ordinary mine, isn't it?" Joseph said, "Some special circumstances in your mine have attracted the attention of the inspector above, and I am meeting with you this time to take you to the Deland branch for inquiry." ”

"Ombudsman?" Richard suddenly asked, "Isn't it that the organization is dissatisfied? Why is the Ombudsman coming out again?

"Well, I forgot to explain to you, the Ombudsman is a special dispatch on our organization, because you haven't joined the core yet, and you have too little contact, so it's normal not to know. In fact, they are equivalent to ......," Joseph quickly explained.

After listening to Joseph's explanation, Richard raised his eyebrows and said, "According to what you say, it is not the organization of the Deland branch that attacked me, but the inspectors sent from above?"

"Yes. Joseph nodded, "Actually, I heard that the branch also wanted to investigate your mine, but it was preempted by the inspectors, and it was the inspectors who eventually caused the trouble." ”

"What is the attitude of the branch Kanon manager?"

"Of course, I cooperated with the Ombudsman's investigation. ”

"So you came alone to meet me and tell me to go to the Deland branch?"

"yes, what's the problem?"

"No problem, just a slight surprise. Richard said, a little cleared up the context of the matter, and couldn't help but shake his head in his heart, finding that things might be simpler than he imagined.

Originally, he thought that it would be the Truth Willland branch that would investigate the mine, so he made all preparations.

Unexpectedly, it was actually an inspector from the headquarters who investigated the mine, an outsider.

And this time Joseph was the only one to inform him, and he was not at all hostile to him, and it seemed that the branch did not cooperate very well with the outsider of the Ombudsman—even if it was openly cooperating.

Thinking of this, Richard stood up and said to Joseph: "In that case, then I will follow you to Dere as soon as possible." To be honest, I would like to really ask why the Ombudsman is targeting me, why he is attacking and destroying my mine. ”

"What??, the Inspector attacking your mine?" Joseph found unexpected information from Richard's words, smelled an obvious smell of gunpowder, and couldn't help asking, "You have a conflict with the Inspector?"

"That's up to the Ombudsman himself. Richard said, stepping out.

Joseph froze and chased out.

......

Night.

Truth Church Deland Branch, Underground Base.

In one of the conference rooms, an oval ring table sits along.

Around the circular table, there are four high-backed chairs, three at the top and one at the bottom.

At the top of them was Inspector Chekaf, with a pale face and a gloomy expression. The superintendent Rommel and the steward Canon sat on the left and right, with Rommel with his eyes half-closed and expressionless, and Canon with a solemn face.

Sitting at the bottom was Richard alone.

There were also quite a few people from the Truth Society sitting around, all silent.

In the spacious conference room, Chekaf stared at Richard, recounting the investigation.

In the end, after Chekav finished speaking, he said in a deep voice: "Because of my current special state, because of the lack of my soul, I can only remember these things for now. However, there is no doubt that the mine under the command of this peripheral member named Richard has many questionable points and is very suspicious, which may threaten the stability of the organization and need to be cleaned up. ”

At this time, Richard listened to Chekaf's words, did not have much fear, and looked at Chekaf very calmly and said: "Dear Inspector, I don't mean to offend, but I don't think there is anything questionable about my mine, I don't feel that I have any suspicions, and I don't think I threaten the stability of the organization." In fact, in my opinion, I have contributed a lot to the organization through the service of the magic pattern.

As you said earlier, you have lost a lot of your memories and are unable to fully reconstruct your original investigation of my mine. I can help you with that. I can be sure that during your first investigation, there was inexplicable large-scale destruction of my mine, resulting in a direct reduction of more than half of my mine's production that day. And in your second investigation, you destroyed many buildings in my mine and killed a large number of my employees. I really don't know what makes you target me so much. ”

After speaking, Richard looked directly at Chekaf.