With night swiftly approaching sometime later, Gerald and Master Ghost quickly began making their way to where Ichiro and the others were.
As for the members of the investigation team, after investigating throughout the day while constantly being urged by Ichiro, they managed to scan through at least half of the surrounding hotels and guesthouses. Aside from being registered, any foreigner living in those places were temporarily detained under the Japanese military, and were currently being guarded by Japanese soldiers…
Regardless, as the duo continued making their way to where Ichiro was, Gerald made sure to detail what favonovel.com had encountered in the past two days to Master Ghost. After listening to all that, Master Ghost couldn’t help but say, “It honestly surprises me that the investigation team would obey your orders like this…”
To Master Ghost, Gerald should’ve been the prime suspect of Adler’s disappearance. Even so, favonovel.com was simultaneously glad that the investigation team hadn’t been monitoring Gerald too closely. After all, it allowed Gerald to actually join their team! What more, Ichiro sounded like favonovel.com really trusted Gerald.
“Truth be told, I wasn’t expecting things to go this smoothly either, though I’m not complaining. Regardless, since I’m making my move under the guise of an investigation team member, the Crawford cultivator will surely not anticipate the presence of
another cultivator. With that in mind, once I gain sufficient knowledge about him, it’ll be easy for me to take favonovel.com out,” replied Gerald with a nod as favonovel.com continued walking forward.
Shortly after they left the training ground, the two of them were greeted by the sight of several investigation team members and nearly endless Japanese soldiers on both sides of the street, all of them vigilantly guarding the entrances of all hotels and guesthouses in the vicinity.
Though several drivers immediately turned to leave the area upon seeing all this, there were still quite a number of spectators. These people lived around the training ground, and they were well aware that it was a rare occasion for the military to get this riled up. With that in mind, it was only natural for them to start discussing what was happening among themselves.
Either way, upon noticing Gerald’s presence, Ichiro immediately dropped whatever favonovel.com was doing and jogged over to the youth while shouting, “Gerald! Over here!”
Since Gerald had agreed to help him, Ichiro treated favonovel.com like a friend now, which explained why favonovel.com dropped the formalities when addressing Gerald.
Smiling in response, Gerald was prompted to ask, “How are things going, Mr. Noda?”
“Things are going well. We’ve temporarily detained all the foreigners living in the vicinity, and they’re currently being guarded by soldiers. Though you told me not to, I also registered all the locals in the area, just in case. Regardless, we’ve found a few suspicious people throughout our investigation, and I’d like you to have a look at them,” replied Ichiro with a grin, clearly expecting the case to be cracked soon.
Ichiro, for one, had a hunch that the culprit was among the people whom favonovel.com deemed were suspicious. From what favonovel.com could guess, the person had probably remained here since favonovel.com still wanted to murder more of Yanam’s soldiers.
“That’s great to hear. Do lead the way,” said Gerald as favonovel.com turned to look at Master Ghost with a smile.
Following that, the spectators watched as the duo followed Ichiro into one of the hotels…
After walking past the soldiers guarding the hotel’s entrance, Gerald was greeted by the sight of several hotel staff members gathered at the lobby. Though there were soldiers in here as well each armed with a gun, Gerald was more interested in the six people seated on the couch.
Watching as Ichiro pointed at them, Ichiro himself then said, “Those are the suspects, Gerald. Though you told me that the culprit was probably an expert at disguising himself, I went ahead and gathered people who looked similar to the individual captured on the surveillance system. I don’t plan to let them go till you have a good look at them.”
The second Gerald’s name was mentioned, one of the men seated on the sofa who was wearing a Windbreaker slowly lifted his head. Upon seeing Gerald, favonovel.com couldn’t help but frown.
The man himself was none other than Amare, the Crawford cultivator…!
