In the next week, the team still stayed in Grande to rest. However, everyone was not idle either. On the one hand, they continued to track down the person behind the incident of erasing the records of the Adventurer General Guild. On the other hand, they did not forget their original mission.

That is to find the recipient of Mazak's letter.

The recipient of the letter is called Sir Duke in the letter, which sounds like an old gentleman with some status. But in Grande, there are tens of thousands of such old gentlemen and nobles with status? Although there is only one title.

, Mazak also told them the old gentleman’s original address, but after they investigated the place, they found that it had been renovated and rebuilt more than ten years ago, and most of the original residents had already left.

Fortunately, from the people who stayed, they learned that most of the original residents had moved to the Uptown District, Binno District, and Port District. Although these three urban areas were also very large, they were not completely clueless.

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Everyone can only pray that the old knight is not part of the minority, otherwise investigating the entire Grande would be like finding a needle in a haystack.

In contrast, it was the other side who had clues first. Tianlan, Jita, Parker and Box were assigned the task of going around to investigate the information of the officials of the Adventurer General Union. This was not a difficult task. After all, they were in a street bar.

It is easy to obtain this public information.

And it doesn’t require much time and material resources.

The next step to rule out suspicion was more difficult. By contacting the Night Thieves Guild and purchasing information, everyone narrowed down the scope step by step. It was only in the last few steps that their investigation encountered difficulties because the authenticity of the information was difficult to determine.

Small trouble.

When several people were at a loss, Ms. Papamo, played by Parker, shined because during an investigation, 'she' met a dwarf tailor who was the servant of a guild official.

The latter had no doubts about this "lady" who claimed to be the "new" washerwoman, and fell in love with "Ms. Papamo" at first sight for her beauty and cuteness. From then on, she became loyal and talked about everything.

But of course our Ms. Papamo is very loyal and cannot be bothered by this. However, Tian Lan accidentally learned about this matter, so under the coercion of this little devil girl, the latter had no choice but to compromise with her.

During a 'date' - this is how Tianlan described it, but Ms. Papamo refused to admit it and only admitted that it was a mission - this loyal and reliable dwarf man accidentally revealed a piece of information to everyone.

Of course the other party was not proactive, he was just bragging to the "very lovely" lady in his eyes about how much he was valued by his master - as if because of this, the official talked to him about everything, and the master and servant often kept secrets together.

But this is not the case. Jita discovered early on that this dwarf servant was actually sensitive and inferior in private. In order to satisfy his vanity, he often hid in the closet and eavesdropped on his master's secrets, and was proud of it and bragging about his status.

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Thanks to the poor man's inconspicuousness in the eyes of the official, he was not discovered for so many years. However, based on this, Jita and Tianlan worked together to formulate a plan.

So at this moment, 'Ms. Papamo' pretended to be disdainful - of course, this was actually 'her' true thought, and spoke out without mercy to expose the loopholes in the other party's words. Because 'Ms. Papamo''s expression was so

It was so lifelike and hurtful that the dwarf man jumped up as if he had been stabbed, with a blushing look on his face: "Just wait!"

After that, he jumped down from the flower bed, turned around and left. Just when Parker thought that his mission had failed and breathed a sigh of relief, he saw the other party running back from a distance, and panting, he threw a badge to the

In front of her.

Then he told her about a recent incident with a proud look on his face——

It turns out that his master was entrusted by someone not long ago to help eliminate an incident in the Adventurer's Guild. Although the incident was not big, it was a serious illegal operation after all. Once discovered, given his master's status,

If you can't eat, you have to walk around.

Therefore, his master gave him numerous instructions to keep this secret carefully, and gave him a badge as a witness.

Our Ms. Papamo looked at the badge and was shocked. Looking at her like this, the dwarf seemed to have gained great psychological satisfaction. It was just that Parker took the initiative to ask for the badge.

At this time, the other party seemed to be a little cautious.

He put away the badge, shook his head, and told her that the badge was an agreement between his master and him, so he could not give it to the mission person.

"I swear, that badge is exactly the same as the one we saw before. It belongs to those damn guys from the Dragon Cult. I can guarantee that I saw it right."

After returning to the hotel, facing everyone, Parker replied somewhat exaggeratedly.

Jita also shook her head.

"That dwarf is lying. His master can't possibly tell him these things. He probably overheard those words. They may have some value, but they cannot be fully believed." Miss Naturalist's voice was soft and childish:

"He probably stole that badge, so he didn't dare to give it to Parker—"

Others nodded, agreeing with her analysis.

But Luo Yu put forward his own opinion: "Then what should we do next?"

"The official has left Grande and gone to Vanrik in the south. It seems to be to avoid the limelight, or perhaps for other reasons."

"Isn't it just in the Changhu area, south of the Caodi Mountains?"

When Fang Yu heard this, he looked at the others, especially Etila and Sylvide. After seeing the two men nodding slightly, he said: "We can go to Vanrik, but there is no need to disrupt the original plan.

, Improving strength is still the top priority for the current Seven Seas Brigade."

The elf girl did not object. Red was cutting tobacco on the sofa nearby. The bright afternoon sun shone on his mane through the window. The scissors in his hands were sharp and made a clicking sound. The big cat man looked like he was enjoying his leisure time.

I don't intend to speak.

The ship officer naturally stood by Fang Pliance, and the others had no objections, so the next plan was decided.

Only Tian Lan praised: "Anyway, Ms. Papamo has made great contributions this time."

However, how could Parker not understand what the little witch meant and retorted loudly: "It's Parker, not Ms. Papamo."

Everyone couldn't help laughing when they heard this.

This is mainly because of something that happened during the period. The story between the poor Mr. Dwarf and Ms. Papamo originally came to an end, but unexpectedly, during the last confirmation of the news, the other party actually took out a gem.

Courtesy of Ms. Papamo in public.

According to the description of Tianlan, who laughed so hard at the time, Ms. Papamo was very moved at one point. After accepting the gem from the poor dwarf, she rejected his advances.

This lofty operation naturally became a joke among the adventure group, and the name "Charming Ms. Papamo" spread like wildfire.

Unfortunately, Parker was unable to keep the gems he had finally obtained through hard work. Miss Attila took them back to the public on the grounds that all expenses and income from the mission were team assets.

It was an emerald, which was said to be very valuable - of course, it was probably stolen by the loyal and reliable Mr. Dwarf.

So the last remaining task for the adventure group was the recipient that Mazak asked them to find. But this seemingly uncomplicated task made no progress for a while, for no other reason than Shangcheng District, Binno

The area of ​​the district and the port area is too large.

Since there are no shortcuts, everyone can only investigate step by step.

Seeing that another week has passed, everyone has stayed in Grande for nearly half a month. In order to save time, they continued to walk around the streets and alleys during the day, looking for clues left behind.

On the other hand, after nightfall, Mr. Huiyan's platform renovation work began to proceed in an orderly manner in the animal pen.

Although the materials for the platform have not yet been resolved, the ordered airbags have arrived. Fang Pulong and Luo Yu plan to make a frame first, or at least come up with the design. After all, it is not a short trip from Grande to the Caboti Mountains.

, and the Seven Seas Brigade is not the same nine-member team as before. We can't let Alisa, Baggins and Box sleep on the hanging net on the platform all the time?

Although Baggins had been a sailor in the past and had seen worse environments, the box had no objection to this. The lovely Lisa was still a girl after all, not to mention everyone in the team was equal. The previous arrangements for the box were just improvised and simple.

Not a long-term solution.

In addition, Fang Plover also considered that Grande's conditions were better in all aspects, and some needed tools and parts could be purchased nearby, so he did not need to waste time by making them himself - not to mention (because of the grade) the quality may not be up to standard.

Since the beast of burden platform is by no means their first creation, there is also a factory in the animal pen that can be rented to modify the platform, so the modification and design here are far better than related work in the wild in every aspect.

Therefore, the renovation work has also been planned in advance.

Naturally, the renovation work first started from the actual needs of the team. It was first of all a mobile camp, which needed to provide some basic functions of the camp, such as shelter from wind and rain. On Mr. Gray Rock’s original platform, the four carriages provided this function.

, but compared to the current team of twelve people, four small carriages are definitely not enough.

However, with the additional buoyancy generated by the airbag, the platform can be further enlarged. With the help of the original Guy generator, the load capacity can be increased up to about seven times, so it is not impossible to increase and improve the original living space. It’s just that in

On this small matter, everyone had quite a disagreement.

To be precise, for the sake of training, Fang Plover's plan is to distribute and arrange the modified platform in a style similar to that of an airship as much as possible. The original carriages should no longer be simply placed on the platform frame, but

It becomes a cabin structure.

However, his idea was relatively simple. The layout of the cabins was just enlarged according to the structure of the original platform, from four to eight, all of the same size. There were two people living in each cabin, and a total of sixteen people could be accommodated.

Although the team currently only has twelve people, twelve people are obviously far from enough to control an airship. For a team, they also lack many key positions. Sooner or later, they will need to recruit professional sailmakers.

The professional mage chief and the doctor and priest on the ship.

Therefore, vacating part of the cabin is also due to the need to expand the team in the future——

But this plan encountered the first objection from the ship officer.

Sylvide's opinion is very simple. She believes that since it is to be similar to an airship, the distribution of cabins should naturally be as close to that of an airship as possible. As a future captain, Fang Plover naturally needs a captain's cabin of his own.

and shipyard.

Seriously speaking, this was the first time that Fang Plover was so directly refuted by Sylvester, and the other party's reasons seemed a bit unreasonable to him.

He always thought that Sylvide's title of captain was just a joke, and the space on the small platform was limited, so how could it be possible to set up a separate captain's room and ship's room for him, which in his opinion were useless.

But I didn't expect that other people agreed with Sylvester's view.

This is mainly due to an opinion from Jita.

The future Miss Naturalist believes that their captain, as an alchemist, naturally needs a specialized alchemy laboratory. This is also the biggest benefit of the platform to a team with alchemists as the main body. If this is ignored, there will be no success.

It is different from abandoning the basics and chasing the last.

So she proposed to merge the separate captain's cabin and the alchemy workshop proposed by Miss Sylvide, as a single cabin, which can serve as both the studio and the captain's cabin. Although this is not in line with tradition, but considering the platform

It's not big per se, nor is it unacceptable.

So everyone unanimously agreed with this opinion. After all, the help of a professional alchemist to the team is obvious to all. At the same time, Sylvide also accepted this compromise. Once she agreed, Baggins and Siesta naturally had no objections.
To be continued...