Time Travel: Age of Discovery

What's more, what you need is the devil fruit, which is extremely important. Once you lose it, you will never get it again.

"I am an explorer. A few days ago, while traveling on a deserted island, I stumbled upon a secret chamber filled with gold. This treasure must have come from there."

After hearing this, Lilia said nothing, but picked up a newspaper on the table and pointed to the mountain of gold in front of an island on the cover, with Tina's figure beside it.

Teya hadn't paid attention to the court bulletin recently, and didn't realize that this matter had become such a big uproar.

"Is this the island?"

When Lilia asked, Teya nodded in agreement. At this moment, he could only answer as she wished, and he thought he would be safe.

Throwing the newspaper aside, Lilia pondered for a moment, then turned back to look at Teya, and then chuckled and left.

"I'm truly sorry. I want to see the gold with my own eyes."

"I will obey your command."

After Teya finished speaking, he poured all the gold in his backpack onto the table.

At this moment, Lilia was feeling quite annoyed. Although she felt that what Teya said was incredible, the time and place he mentioned later were consistent with each other. She only took this number because it was inconvenient to carry.

In addition, considering the ship that Teya took to land on the island, it can be almost concluded that he was not lying.

However, Lilia's intuition told her that Teya might be hiding something.

She examined each piece of gold jewelry one by one. This batch of goods should have been sent to another island and inspected by her personally, so there must be no mistakes.

"This is indeed part of the goods we lost back then."

"So, even if I find this gold, how can you ask for it to be returned to its original owner?"

Lilia smiled calmly without saying anything, and only glanced at Teya twice.

The most important thing for a businessman is trust and integrity, which is the principle that Lilia follows in her life.

Therefore, from the beginning to the end, she had no intention of plundering, she was only out of curiosity.

I want to know who the person who is bent on buying the devil fruit is and what is his power?

Now it seems that Lilia felt that she might have misjudged this person, and her curiosity turned into a slight disappointment.

This person is impatient and a little impatient, but his adherence to principles is commendable.

It seems ordinary, but it is actually quite interesting.

In the end, Lilia handed the box containing the Smoke Fruit directly to Teya, but claimed that the price needed to be increased. This was because the fruit was recently acquired and had not yet passed the so-called discount period, so it had to be purchased at more than twice the price.

So Teya handed over all the gold to Lilia, secretly praising her for her cleverness in calculating the value of the gold.

However, Teya had already made plans and had previously stated that it could not be exchanged for cash, so this move was also part of its plan.

Carrying this hot thing will only add to your troubles. It is better to throw it away. Out of sight, out of mind.

Teya opened the box and saw the smoke fruit lying quietly inside. He couldn't help but feel secretly happy that his hard work had finally paid off.

However, at this moment, a boat was quietly anchored on the river bank out of sight of the house.

A white-haired old man walked out of the boat, holding a pipe and wearing a long robe.

"Sir, do you need to inform the young lady?"

The old man took a puff of his cigarette, glanced at the man in black beside him, and said contemptuously: "If I tell him, wouldn't my trip be in vain?"

At this moment, the blond man who came with Teya passed through the woods on the shore and happened to meet these people.

"Hey, isn't this Young Master Catherine from the Palace Merchants Guild? Why are you here?"

Upon hearing the voice, the blond man was stunned at first, then glared at the other party coldly.

"It's you! Black Market Daddy!"

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"Ah, no one has called me by this name for years. I never thought that a young man like you would remember me today. I haven't seen you for many years, and you have become even more handsome and elegant."

"Humph."

The blond man snorted coldly and continued, "Don't try to get close to me. You set up a scheme to deceive my father, causing him to lose all his gold investment. My Dian Shang Chamber of Commerce is in this situation today, all thanks to you!"

The old man took a long puff of cigarette, slowly exhaled a smoke ring, looked at the blond man with red eyes, and couldn't help shaking his head and sighing.

"My child, the gold was indeed looted by pirates, and we suffered heavy losses. Your father and I are old friends. How could he lie to you?"

However, the blond man did not believe what the other party said and spat on the ground.

"How dare you mention it? Where were you when my father was so angry that he vomited blood? My Dian Shang Chamber of Commerce was so prosperous in the past, but it collapsed overnight and became a laughing stock of the world. Do you know how we managed to survive all these years?"

"There's no need to argue any further. The gold has been confirmed to have been stolen by a certain pirate group. The navy has apprehended them, but the gold has been confiscated."

Unfortunately, the blond man hadn't read the newspaper about this incident. It would have been too easy for him to quell his pent-up anger with just a picture. Now he knew that he had tried his best to control his anger.

Recently, the Chamber of Commerce needed a lot of funds to reorganize and had difficulty in turnover, so he decided to auction off his private collection. More importantly, he wanted to know the operating status of the black market Chamber of Commerce led by the old man.

However, this scene made him furious. Why could they enjoy such a glorious life while his own guild suffered such treatment? Now that the matter had come to this, he was determined to put an end to it.

After all, since the old man has already appeared, he will definitely not leave easily without giving an explanation.

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"Miss Lilia, why are you stopping me?"

Teya looked helpless as he looked at Lilia, who refused to give way no matter what and just blocked his way.

As for the reason, Lilia felt extremely embarrassed when she thought about it.

This incident happened two minutes ago. When Teya was about to leave, Lilia received a coded call from her subordinates, and the content was obviously about an important matter.

After hearing this, Lilia's face turned pale and she hurried forward to stop Teya...