Information Network

Ryusei stayed silent, he didn't know what to say, he knew that she won't change her decision even if he tried to convince her. He wanted to borrow some money from her but it seemed like she was adamant on supporting him with everything she had, that's why he couldn't refuse her.

He sighed and accepted her kind intentions. Having confirmed that Ryusei had stopped refusing, Rongrong left his embrace with a slight blush and pulled out a cheque from her Spatial Locket which had a Blue Sapphire Crystal embedded in it. Ryusei curiously looked at her locket and asked, "Who gave you this locket?"

Ning Rongrong was confused by his question, she thought that maybe Ryusei liked her locket and wanted it. She replied with hesitation, "This locket…. was given to me by my father on my 10th birthday."

"Oh…" He looked surprised at her words but Rongrong thought he was disappointed, so she said, "I can't give you this locked because it was a gift from my father but I can ask someone to give you a similar locket."

Ryusei looked at her speechless as it seemed that she had misunderstood his question and didn't know what to say, but he didn't want to say anything in front of the man and the woman.

Rongrong understood that he didn't want to talk about it here so she quickly wrote a 200 Gold Coins cheque and signed it. They could use this to pay for their expenditures and convert them into Gold Coins.

Both the man and the woman were happy upon receiving the cheque, the Ryusei said, "Alright then, I want the both of you to go to the Heaven Dou Empire and gather all the information about the Spirit Hall and send it through the method I spoke of."

Both the man and the woman bowed as they heard his commands, they really felt grateful to this young man for giving them a chance to live a better life. Ryusei glanced at Rongrong and both left the Straw-stale house.

After they were away from the house, Ryusei looked towards her and started speaking to her, "Silly girl, when did I say that I wanted the locket, I was just curious about that crystal on that locket of yours." Rongrong blushed slightly due to embarrassment and replied, "It's a Blue Sapphire Crystal."

Ryusei chuckled at her look of embarrassment and said, "Just give me that locked for some moments." Rongrong was a bit hesitant but removed the locket from her neck and handed it to him.

Ryusei used his Purple Lightning and suddenly, a bright purple light started shining inside the Blue Sapphire. It was glowing with the Purple light so much that it could be said to be a Glowing Purple Crystal right now.

Suddenly, some holographic images started to appear above it, picture showed Rongrong playing with her father when she was still a kid. The picture changed and next picture was of her birthday when she turned 8 years old.

The next picture had the image of her with her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Rongrong covered her face as she blushed, and tears dripped down from her eyes. Then she turned her gaze towards Ryusei who was smiling lovingly at her. She never expected that there was such a thing in her Blue Sapphire Crystal.

"Blue Sapphire is a rare crystal that is only found in small quantities and is used as a memory stone to store some information in the form of pictures. Many spies in the ancient times used this crystal to record the secret data or information.", said Ryusei while wiping her tears.

He continued, "Such a large Blue Sapphire Crystal must have required a great deal of fortune even for your Clan. Besides, this isn't its only function, this crystal also has a sensory function and can detect if a strong attack is heading your way and can act like a barrier and can protect you against the full powered attack from a 10,000-year-old Beast."

Rongrong was even choked with emotions, she never knew that her father did so much for her without even telling her. She felt grateful to have such a caring father.

She then turned towards Ryusei and asked him while sobbing, "How….. How did you know about this crystal?" Ryusei put his arm around her and said, "I read a similar description about it in the Shrek Academy's Library. At first, I didn't know what this Sapphire was but when I carefully observed it, I could feel that crystal was bound with some Spirit Energy."

He suddenly stopped speaking as he started thinking 'Shit! I didn't think this earlier. But when the Spirit Energy that bounded the images vanished, Ning Fengzhi would be able to feel that his Spirit Energy has vanished from the crystal and most likely will know about this location.'

He shook his head as he thought 'No use thinking about it now. The first thing we should do is move away from here as even if Ning Fengzhi didn't come here, he would surely send someone to investigate this location.'

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In the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan, a handsome man was sitting on top of a luxurious building and watching the beautiful sunset with a glass of wine. He sensed that his Spirit Energy that was in the crystal vanished and knew that Rongrong probably about those pictures now.

He was a bit surprised that she was able to find out about that Crystal's hidden feature and was also surprised as he felt that she was very far from their current location. She wasn't in the Shrek Academy but instead somewhere in the Star Luo Empire.

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In a month, Ryusei repeated this exact same thing and met up with many beggars that were living on the outskirts of the town and offered them to go to different cities. He didn't tell them about the other spies that he set up in different towns and cities. So, they were oblivious to who was working with them and was on their side.

They only had one task, send the information about the Spirit Hall. If there was an emergency information to report then it would be better to inform him as soon as by personally coming to his current at that time.

He had strictly ordered them that unless it was of utmost importance, they were not supposed to come back to this town otherwise their agreement would be cancelled, as it would be dangerous if his location was leaked to the world.

After he had assigned them their tasks respectively, he arranged some people who could drive a cart and hired them with the offer 1000 Gold Coins per year. Their task was to drive the cart to different towns and cities with fruits & vegetables and return to this town after completing their task.

Even the cart drivers didn't know about what was the motive behind their task, they just knew that they had to drive a cart full of fruits to different cities and in return they would earn 1000 Gold Coins per year.

Ryusei also asked every one of them to convert the cheque into cash when they reached the city which was assigned to them. There were about 1000 people to whom he gave a 300 Gold Coins Cheques while there were 100's of people who got 1000 Gold Coins cheques.

The income of the cart drivers was much higher than that of the Information providers because the cart was the most important part of his plan. It would be useless if they got the information and it didn't reach Ryusei. And also, the cart had to travel various cities which required more money for food and accommodations. That was the reason why, he gave them a much higher salary.