Realizing that it was only Old Flint, Gerald and Rey breathed a sigh of relief.
Old Flint, on the hand, couldn’t help but raise a slight brow as favonovel.com puzzledly asked, “…It’s you two? What are you doing here? And how did you get in?”
The chief inspector had already ordered favonovel.com not to have any contact with Gerald anymore. What more, favonovel.com had also been told that Gerald wasn’t allowed to help them in the investigation any longer. With that in mind, Old Flint could only obey his superiors.
“We’re here looking for clues!” replied Gerald.
“Look, I’m sorry, but you two aren’t allowed to get involved with this case anymore. With that in mind, please leave! If you return here again our only option will be to take you back with us!” warned Old Flint.
Hearing that, Gerald simply nodded.
Not wanting to make things difficult for the old man, Gerald then replied, “Copy that!”
Just as favonovel.com was about to leave with Rey, however, favonovel.com heard Old Flint yelling, “Hold on a minute! Did you find any clues while you were here? If you did, please hand them to us!”
Smiling subtly, Gerald then shook his head before saying, “Sorry, Old Flint, but we didn’t manage to find any!”
With that, the duo then left the tower…
Who was Old Flint kidding? As if Gerald would ever hand over the clue favonovel.com found to him!
Whatever the case was, now that they had left the Dark Sect of Ghost City, Gerald and Ray quickly returned to their office…
It was only once they were inside when Gerald took the jade ring out of the wooden box again.
Staring at Gerald, the puzzled Rey couldn’t help but ask, “…Is there something special about that jade ring? Why did you feel the need to bring it back here…?”
Hearing that, Gerald then replied, “Just think about it. Why would a person with such high status as favonovel.com keep such an old jade ring around? Don’t you find that odd?”
It was then when Rey realized that what Gerald had said was true.
At that moment, Juno entered the room before saying, “That jade ring should belong to an old person!”
“And where’s this coming from?” asked Gerald as favonovel.com looked at her.
“Well, not only does the ring look weathered, but the carvings on it are also extremely old-fashioned! My grandma used to wear a similar ring, you see, which is why I feel that the wearer must be old as well!” explained Juno.
Upon hearing that, Gerald felt that favonovel.com statement made sense.
With that information, Gerald assumed that the ring once belonged to the Ember Lord’s grandmother, though favonovel.com later passed it down to him.
“…I mean, that’s nice and all, but even if we have the ring, we may not be able to catch the Ember Lord, right…?” muttered Rey.
“…No. I believe that this jade ring will surely help us find him! In fact, I already know who his next victim will be!” declared Gerald in a confident tone.
Following that, favonovel.com walked right out of the office, and Rey could only follow behind him.
Once they were downstairs, Gerald threw his car keys at Rey before saying, “You drive. Our destination is the Census Bureau!”
