Xingtie: My mission master joins the chat group.

"...Hahaha, I should be calling you 'Master,' not 'Master'!"

Looking at Dolly, who had the appearance of a shrewd businesswoman, Yakoda immediately remembered her.

"You're the... colleague the boss mentioned before?"

"What colleagues? We're competitors."

Dolly glanced at her, and with her intelligence capabilities, she immediately recognized Akoda, an employee of the Secrets House.

He then guessed why she had come to see him: "You're here to see your missing boss, right?"

Dolly smiled brightly, pulled Yakoda into the shop, and made her sit down on a small stool.

Yakoda didn't react in time and was bewildered as the other person pressed her onto the stool, holding the tea that Dolly handed her with both hands.

The water in the glass was clear to the bottom, clearly tea, but only a few leaves were steeping inside.

In contrast, Alice's cup was piled high with tea leaves; one might think she liked to chew them dry.

Yakoda's eyelids twitched slightly.

Before meeting Dolly, she had heard from Nefer that the man in front of her, Lord Sango Mahabay, was a complete swindler.

I like to cater to different people.

But this scene still opened her eyes.

Alice, too, glanced at the cup handed to her, then at Dolly's pained expression, gently shook her head, and put the cup down.

This stuff is probably so bitter that it's impossible to swallow.

Back to business.

Yakoda took a sip of tea. Although there were only a few tea leaves in the cup, thankfully it wasn't served cold water.

We warmed up Yakoda, who had been traveling for several days.

He cleared his throat and asked Dolly:

How did you know we were here to see the boss?

us?

Dolly keenly sensed the hidden meaning in Akoda's words and cautiously glanced at Alice, who had come with Akoda.

She thought it was just a coincidence, or that Yakoda had bumped into Alice and that Alice had brought her to her for help.

It seems that's not the case now.

Dolly sighed inwardly.

It looks like we're not going to make any money from this Mora deal.

'I finally saw an opportunity to get the Secret Archives to owe me a favor, and it just slipped through my fingers... sigh, never mind!'

"Although finding the owner of the Secret Chamber is my goal, you can ask for a normal price without any worries."

Alice suddenly spoke up, seemingly understanding Dolly's thoughts, and winked at her.

Dolly immediately understood; if the price was normal, then Mora definitely wasn't hers to pay!

So Ms. Alice was also entrusted by someone to find the owner of Yakoda!

With her worries gone, Dolly held up one finger.

"Let's get straight to the point. I'm a businessman who sells everything, including intelligence."

"If you want information about the owner of the Secret Archives, this is the minimum price you'll be charged."

Yakoda's mouth dropped open. "One million Mora?"

"wrong!"

"Ten million Mora!"

"Cough cough cough." Alice suddenly clenched her fist and coughed lightly.

Dolly quickly corrected herself, "Ahem, I misspoke, it was one million Mora!"

“That’s too expensive…” Yakoda muttered.

She doesn't spend much Mora on a meal at a restaurant.

One million Mora is enough for her to eat at restaurants for twenty or thirty years.

'Never mind, at least we have a clue. We'll find the boss and make her pay later.'

Yakoda shook her head. "Okay, but I don't have a million Mora right now. You'll have to wait until I find a boss before I can give you that million Mora."

"This won't work!"

Dolly shook her head, spread her hands, and said:

"To put it bluntly, nobody knows what your boss's situation is right now. What if she... umm, wouldn't I have done this business for nothing?"

"I'm afraid my resume will now have one more stain that I can never wash away."

"What will my business partners in the underworld think of me in the future?"

“If someone doubts me, Lord Sangmahabai, and refuses to cooperate with me, the losses will be many times greater than one million Mora.”

Yakoda's mouth gaped slightly, her expression blank. "Is it...is it as serious as you say?"

"Of course!"

Dolly shook her head. "The intricacies of business are too much for a lowly employee like you to explain..."

"How about this, I'll compromise. I'll give you the information in ten days. After ten days, whether or not I can find your boss, you have to give me this one million Mora."

"Could you... make it a little cheaper?"

"I can't speak," Yakoda said weakly.

One million might not mean much to Nefer, but it was a huge sum for an ordinary working woman like her.

"I can't lower the price any further. I'm already selling at a loss for Ms. Alice's sake."

Dolly looked completely sincere.

Looking at Yakoda's 'poor' appearance, Dolly pondered:

"No, I'll take the loss. If we don't have Mora, you can bring some items from the Secret Chamber to offset the cost, and I'll charge you the highest price."

"If I did that, my boss would kill me."

"Oh, it's just temporarily held by me. If you want it back, you can just exchange it for Mora, right?"

Dolly waved her hand.

"Besides, you're buying this information for your boss. Even if she knows, she won't say anything. As for her not knowing... well, that goes without saying."

Yakoda was persuaded to buy Dolly's information, which included all of Nefer's movements before her disappearance.

Yakoda was so frightened that she felt as if someone was following Nefertari around the clock.

This made her wonder if she was also being followed and observed.

He glanced at Dolly and saw her smiling at him. He shuddered and followed Alice as they fled the scene.

"Take care, esteemed guest!"

Looking at the deserted shop, Dolly pulled out a Mora and rolled it between her fingers. "One million Mora plus a favor from the Secrets House... This deal is a steal!"

However, there's a prerequisite for making a killing.

That is the owner of the Secret Chamber, Nefer, who is still alive and has not yet returned to the ley lines.

"Even if I don't come back, I'll still make a profit. There must be a lot of treasures in the Secret Chamber, but... it's a bit unlucky to take things from the dead."

"Yes, the favors of the living are more valuable. The room for manipulation and the value that can be earned are incomparable to those of the dead."

Otherwise, the phrase "I'll eat you up for the rest of my life to keep this secret" wouldn't have appeared.

"Hehehe, I'll live off this favor for the rest of my life!"

After her initial excitement subsided, Dolly glanced in one direction outside the shop and curled her lip in disdain. "There are so many people who aren't afraid of death these days."

"What should we do now?"

In the town of Nasha, Yakoda was looking through the intelligence provided by Dolly. It contained detailed information about Nefer's whereabouts, but it did not specify where she had gone.

The intelligence reports revealed that many of Nefert's movements seemed deliberate and unnecessary.

She must have known that many people were watching her, so she did this on purpose to mislead those who were following her.

The effect was obvious; Yakoda couldn't figure out where Nefer had ended up.

Alice calmly held up two fingers. "The second step is to go to the Secret Archives."

"..."