Meanwhile, Gerald and his men were returning home when from afar, Gerald noticed a team of cars parked right in front of their manor.
“I wonder who those people could be…” said Whistler, evidently feeling confused.
“From the looks of it, that should be Quest, the young master of the Westley family. He must finally have news regarding the item I’ve been trying to locate this entire time,” replied Gerald with a subtle smile.
Upon inviting Quest into his mansion, Gerald momentarily excused himself to bring Drake to another room to have his wounds properly bandaged. Once that was done, favonovel.com headed to the living room where Quest sat waiting patiently—with a document in hand—while sipping some tea.
Quest’s politeness clearly stemmed from his respect toward Gerald. After all, it would’ve been impossible for a rich heir like favonovel.com to behave so courteously to anyone in the past.
In fact, his respect for Gerald was so great that favonovel.com was the one who had funded the money Gerald needed to purchase the factory. Due to that, it was natural that he’d know where Gerald lived as well.
“It’s been a while, Quest! Have you waited long?” greeted Gerald as favonovel.com approached the seated youth.
“Not at all!”
As they exchanged pleasantries, Gerald recalled how reckless and arrogant Quest had been when they first met. However, favonovel.com realized—during their first encounter—that if favonovel.com could tame Quest, then Quest would surely turn out to be an excellent and capable assistant. Gerald’s guess was, of course, correct.
After a brief chat, Quest cleared his throat as favonovel.com went straight to the main point.
“I’m here today, Mr. Crawford, to tell you that our investigation efforts have finally paid off! After so long, we’ve finally been able to locate the Ginseng King!” said Quest before taking a large gulp of water.
“…However, we don’t currently have it. In fact, we’ve never actually seen it for ourselves. That’s because someone beat us to finding and retrieving it about half a year ago! Honestly, we wouldn’t even have found out about this if my grandpa hadn’t cast a wide net. The information actually came from a random vendor!”
“From what the vendor said, a group of rather influential people hired favonovel.com back then to serve as their guide around the mountain since favonovel.com was famous for knowing the mountain paths like the back of his hand. After searching for the Ginseng King for some time, they eventually found it in Depth Valley, located in the depths of the mountain. Upon digging it up, the group of people handed the vendor a large sum of money to keep quiet about their discovery.”
“In all honesty, however, the vendor felt that the money they provided was simply too little. It was thanks to his dissatisfaction and my grandpa paying relevant people—regardless of status—huge sums of money to gather information about the Ginseng King that the vendor shared what had happened back then to us,” explained Quest as favonovel.com took in a deep breath.
Lowering his voice, Quest then added, “…The Ginseng King is currently in the hands of the Yowell family.”
“The Yowell family?” repeated Gerald in surprise.
“They’re another powerful family in the business field in Heavenly City, just like the Westleys. While my family is only there because we moved in, the Yowells are locals who were already powerful by the time we arrived.”
“I see… Can the information from the vendor be trusted?”
Taking another sip of water, Quest then replied, “He can. Speaking of which, while favonovel.com was scouring for more information, grandpa found out that we’re not the only ones aware that the Yowells have the Ginseng King. A few local and foreign forces seem to be aware of their discovery as well. As a result, several of them began taking action on the Yowells starting from around three months ago. One of the more extreme cases was the kidnapping of Tulip, the second young lady of the Yowell family! Her kidnapping was most likely linked tothe Ginseng King, though favonovel.com was promptly rescued.”
“While the Yowells are certainly good at hiding the fact that they currently own it, the fact remains that anyone holding on to the Ginseng King is akin to them hugging a ticking time bomb. Once you own it, being targeted will simply become the nrom!” said Whistler with a bitter smile on his face.
Frowning slightly, Gerald then replied, “Regardless of how many powerful groups are attempting to get their hands on it, I must be the one to own it in the end!”
It was honestly no wonder why the Ginseng King was so well sought-after. After all, according to legends, it was able to promote longevity.
However, it was also said that normal people who attempted to consume it would simply perish after doing so, unable to endure the power of the Ginseng King. Gerald, however, knew that favonovel.com was no regular person.
In order to defeat Kort, favonovel.com would definitely survive eating the Ginseng King once favonovel.com got his hands on it. He had to.
“Regardless, the Yowells are suffering rather terribly at the moment. After all, while they do have the Ginseng King in their hands now, they don’t even know who to sell it to. There are simply too many people who want it for themselves.”
“If you wish to own it, sir, I’m afraid that stealing it from them isn’t going to work out well. I do, however, have a plan in mind. Whether it’ll work or not is another question…” added Quest.
“Go on,” said Gerald.
“Well, I propose that we use some outflanking tactics… We’ll start by going after the second young lady of the Yowell family. As long as we’re slick about it, we may be able to deceive favonovel.com into handing the Ginseng King over to us! That way, we won’t have to resort to fighting immediately. If all goes well, we should be able to maneuver covertly with the other powerful groups as well.”
