Labyrinth City Mesugaki Pawn Shop

46. Truth (2)

Publication of stigmatized adults.

It’s an unprecedented thing to have 8 of them.

It was clear that nothing would grab as much attention as that.

Of course, this wasn’t something I could do alone.

With Rusalka’s help, you have to draw maximum attention and then pop it to make it more effective.

If I did it clumsily, as the real Rusalka said, I might be sent straight to the church and be abducted, confined, and brainwashed, so I had to be careful.

Besides, even though it’s fake, there were some things I couldn’t move recklessly since I joined the Dvořák family.

“But it’s okay if I just fooled around…?”

A ridiculous title of general manager.

It was clearly impersonation, and it was an act close to fraud and deception.

Obviously, if they get caught, things won’t end well.

“It will be fine. Actually, we didn’t promise anything about the matter, we just came out after hearing the conditions.”

If they had followed Philip’s words and really granted permission from the church, there might have been a problem, but what they received was the support for nuclear fission research.

It would have been better if I had taken the method of interviewing the doctor, but it was not without profit.

Rather, there were a lot of them.

An experimental method that requires a large amount of silver. Moreover, as Maria Salomea, a slave in Yongin, said, ‘research is still ongoing’, it was clearly so.

It was an urgent problem to be solved before radium.

And luckily I had a way to track it down.

“If you have time, shall we go to the Porter’s Union for a while?”

I don’t know what it’s for, but I should at least know where it’s done.

**********

At the end of the familiar marble floor and classic bar, Lucky, the head of the association, was wiping his glass.

“Welcome… What is it, you’re not a guest?”

“Hello Lucky.”

Unlike before, the bar was empty except for one assistant bartender.

In a situation where the people who had been sipping in the corner before could not be found, he told me that it was no big deal if he had read my gaze.

“Ah, they all went to work. 21St floor, running hard.”

I was farming hard to see if I had passed the 21st floor as I was taught.

Well, it wasn’t that I couldn’t break through the 20th floor because my skills weren’t good enough, it was simply because I couldn’t get there because I didn’t know how to do it.

“Did you bring someone who doesn’t suit you at all? The commander of the Knights Templar…”

Lucky was able to find out at once if Raffy’s face was famous.

Of course, interest soon faded.

Because I keep the center of the story.

“So what did you come here for?”

“I came here to see if the Porter’s Association was selling information.”

“Certainly, we hear a lot of information.”

The Porter’s Union was the strongest private organization, but ironically, it was also the place where the weakest belonged.

It was a place that was in charge of not only the porters climbing the labyrinth, but also transporting goods between cities in general.

There was no way that the amount of information obtained from receiving goods and walking around the city was ever small.

Most of the people involved in the transport business are almost members of the Porter’s Association.

“So, what did you come to find out, our fortune?”

“I need information on the internal transportation of the Porter Association.”

It took less than a second for Lucky’s grinning smile to harden.

“What?”

“What kind of goods, where they were transported, what was the reason, who the transport client was, and whether there were any unusual issues during the transport – we need all of that information.”

Eyes that narrow in an instant.

“Are you saying that knowing what it means?”

“Yes, I know enough. What am I talking about?”

All I’m saying is…

“I came to buy the trust of the porters guild itself.”

“This wasn’t a lump of fortune… It was a lump of ash…?”

Lucky stopped his hand from wiping his cup and poured ice cold water into his cup and handed it to him.

“I don’t mean to say anything that doesn’t make any sense given the information you gave us before… Why on earth do you want inside information about our coalition?”

“It’s not difficult to tell why. Instead, you might have to force the Porter’s Union to jump in after you find out, right?”

Knowing the truth but pretending not to know is neglect.

After looking into my eyes for a moment, Lucky almost took the ice water I gave him and then drank it himself.

Big.

I poured cold water into the burning fire.

“The 21st floor information you taught me a while ago. To be honest, there was a tremendous repercussion from the inside that everyone was doing crazy things and that they were only doing things by listening to the words of a kid who hadn’t even entered the labyrinth?”

“But it worked.”

Enough to hit the 21st floor safely.

“And the same goes for the elixir of immortality, I heard a lot of crazy things about wasting money even when the porters were raking in weeds. But that too-“

“It worked.”

“So, I am really worried right now. It’s not like I brought up the story to ask for inside information for nothing…”

Lucky, who had been tapping his head with his index finger a couple of times, suddenly spat out sharp words.

“…Is it because of the radium?”

Unexpectedly close.

“Why did you think that?”

“When the person who came with me asks about the person in the church and the inside information on the transportation of goods, and seeing the recently popular items, there seems to be no other answer. Among the denominations, only the Western denomination is sponsoring it, so there must be something internal that we don’t know about. Aren’t you here to find out?”

“It’s similar, but it’s not. The radium thing is also correct, but… It’s a lower priority.”

“Then what is it?”

“I am looking for an area where silver is added in tons.”

A story about the need for 13,000 tons of silver.

Judging from the story that had been going on for a long time, there was a high possibility that a significant amount of silver was only going in and not being taken out.

“What, are you doing treasure hunting?”

“An area where silver is only stored and not taken out at all, a place adjacent to Suwon excluding the city center… Would be fine.”

I don’t know exactly what kind of experiment it was, but it was certain that a huge amount of additional coolant would be needed.

Basically, nuclear fission necessarily accompanies enormous heat.

“That’s what I’m looking for, and I haven’t told you yet about the purpose of why.”

“…”

After pondering for a while whether it is okay to tell the truth, he opened his mouth.

“I want to find the place where Dr. Louis Devierne is researching. And he is in a position to stop the experiment.”

Progress under strict discipline and supervision will bring technological advances, but indiscriminate development and actions that gave away responsibility were just a shortcut to ruin.

Seeing that radium was scattered like a dog, it was clear that there was no sense of responsibility, so it was clear that the outcome of this study would not be much different from that.

And at the end, only those who suffer may exist.

Then we have to block it somehow.

“Dr. Devierne’s research? If you’re talking about Devierne, are you talking about this?”

At the same time, what Lucky pulled out from under the bar was none other than…

[Raditol]

-Through physical and chemical processes…

Gyaaa.

It was an empty Raditol bottle.

“Is the ice water made with this?”

Raditol’s magical powers extended to the Alliance as well.

Maybe it’s fortunately, it was lucky that he drank my ice water.

“I want to drink this again and again, and the refreshing feeling is no joke…”

“You’d better throw away all radiol and radium-related products that you have in the association.”

“Huh? Isn’t it good Doesn’t the church also guarantee it?”

“Guarantee is only for the Western Church.”

Apparently, Rusalka also had doubts about something, so she asked Raffy to find out about radium.

“If you continue to drink it, you will not only get infertility, deformities, cancer, jaw and neck melting, but you will die in blood all week.”

I put more weight on this side to make sure Lucky’s decision was still hesitant, as if he still had lingering feelings for those words.

“I guarantee it. If I keep eating that, I won’t be able to die in my name.”

“You guarantee?”

Those eyes were filled with questions.

What on earth do you have to guarantee it?

After turning his back on Lucky, he slowly lifted his clothes.

First public appearance to someone other than Rusalka and Rafi.

“I guarantee this in the name of Einheri Dvorak, a saint of the Goddess Church. Now, give it away, throw it away.”

Lucky’s mouth was so wide that it could not open any further.

No, why is this here?

Then, with trembling eyes and twitching cheeks, I quietly gave my opinion.

“Mo, can’t we do something we haven’t seen…?”

No, don’t change, I don’t intend to change, go back quickly

**********

Lucky, holding his head as if he had made a mistake, sighed and finally put down the raditol bottle.

“No, there was no such thing before… More than that, why did you have the surname Dvořák attached… I’m going to kill all the idiots who investigated earlier…”

Since I saw the stigma on her back, she was also related to her.

“This… Is to jump into a factional fight inside the church, right…?”

“In a big sense, yes.”

The saints and saints oppose it, but the cardinals belonging to the western church are fully supporting radium.

“…What should I say to the allied members?”

“But anyway, even if you say you know, it’s not like you actually want to jump into politics or anything like that. All I want is information about shipping. If you tell me that, I won’t ask you to take a side.”

“…Wait a minute.”

Lucky, who escaped to the back with a dejected expression as if he had given up, soon returned with a book.

“It’s a magic book that contains all the records of the alliance. It is to be linked periodically with the records of each branch on the continent.”

There were countless items written in the booklet, such as the type of object, the duration, the weight, and the amount.

Even at first glance, it was the crystallization of transportation secrets that outsiders should never see.

And among them, it wasn’t too difficult to find a place that met the conditions I called.

“Near Suwon… Since it is silver, it is an area where there is no separate exportation in the classification of precious metals…”

“I like places with few people.”

“Hmm… Wait a minute, then there will be about 5…”

From noble mtl dot com

Five places.

When I looked at the place where dots were marked on the map spread out next to me, it was completely central heating.

A messy location with no missing anywhere in the east, west, south, or north.

It was neither too many nor too few, but is there any way to narrow it down further?

“Is there anything written about the situation at the time of transportation?”

For example, animals dying for no reason, or forests drying up…

“Ah, yes. It’s an old record, but it’s been a while? A forest full of red, as if the forest had drawn a certain boundary, all the trees were gone, and there were no animals to be seen. The last transport record was a month ago, 1 ton of silver… Nothing else went in. I only went in, but nothing was sent out.”

Bingo.

The red forest and the disappearing animals were phenomena that occurred when radioactive material leaked.

“Uh, where are you going?”

“Richland Hanford. It’s a town only a day away from here.”

I found it.

But… There was one thing I was worried about.

“Does Suwon overlap with Labyrinth City…?”

′′ Hmm… That’s not it, it’s a completely separate water source. The source of the stream and the place where it gathers later are also different.”

That was definitely fortunate.

If it was the same Suwon… I didn’t even want to imagine it.

The purpose of coming to the Porter Association has been achieved.

Before standing up, I asked Lucky, who was closing the book.

“You’d better throw away all things related to radium. Now it is considered as a panacea, but in fact, it is more like poison.”

A poison without an antidote.

The only way to prevent is to stay away.

“It is assumed that inventory is processed, but distribution is…”

You’re probably referring to the radium items you leave through the Porter’s Association.

“It would be right to reject it from now on. I moved it for no reason. Will it be troublesome if the word comes out later?

“It’s not okay to get work from the Western Church for the time being.”

Lucky sighed as he clicked his tongue and shook his head helplessly.

But where did you find out early?

“Richland Hanford…”

While pondering the name, he joined the Porter Association.