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ARGENT carefully landed the flying car on the clearing of a fairly dense forest . The forest was located near a small village called Qingxin . This particular village was the one closest to the small fis.h.i.+ng village of Hangzhou . Because Hangzhou was a fis.h.i.+ng village, it was inadvertently surrounded by bodies of water . The only way to go there was to hire a boat from Qingxin .

Argent decided to land near Qingxin instead of going straight to Hangzhou . She studied the topography of Hangzhou from the map provided by Lei Feng . Hangzhou was a fis.h.i.+ng village located at a very small island full of open s.p.a.ces . There wasn"t any forest that could hide the landing of the flying car . Thus, her decision .

There were still three hours before midnight . The only light available was coming from the moon above the starlit sky . But that was enough for Argent to successfully land the car on the clearing . She looked back at her four pa.s.sengers . Lei Feng and An Si still looked normal but the same thing couldn"t be said to the other two . An Liu"s face was pale but he still maintained an emotionless expresion on his face . An Qi, on the other hand, looked like he would puke his gut"s out any minute now .

"You can get out now . "

As soon as she said that, An Qi immediately ran outside the car . Probably to throw up . The other three men also followed . Argent turned off the stealth function of the car and also get off . Then she pressed the b.u.t.ton of the remote, turning the car into a capsule . She picked it up and put both the capsule and the remote in her s.p.a.ce ring .

An Si who was preparing a bonfire once again marvel at the ingenuity of this flying contraption . If it wouldn"t bring shame to his Master, he would probably "oohed and ahhed" the first time he saw such a mysterious vehicle . He was sure that An Liu and An Qi also felt the same . So at the end, they only held their amazement in themselves and tried their best to act like it was nothing .

But truly, this young duke was indeed a one of a kind genius . Someone who would only appear once in a millenium . Creating the sPhone was enough to cause a change in the way of life of people . But if people found out that the young duke also created such a contraption, it would no doubt bring forth another change . And he probably had other amazing inventions up his sleeve . What a fearsome genius . And to think that he was only 14 years old .

But based on their master"s warning, it looked like the young duke didn"t really want to divulge his other inventions to the world . An Si thought it was a wise decision . Who knew what those people in power would do if they found out that the young duke could do more than a communication device . Wars would probably be fought just to get their hands on those inventions .

Argent turned around and saw that Lei Feng was already setting up a tent while his guard An Si was already making a fire . "Where"s the other two?"

"Hunting," Lei Feng answered . He stood up after he finished setting up the tent . "Do you mind eating wild game for dinner?"

Argent shrugged . "I don"t mind . "

She sat near a tree and started thinking . Particularly about the things that her sister discovered . Argent was most concerned about the "Apostles of Gaia" thing . She kept on wondering if it was somehow connected to that dreadful Temple of Gaia . She asked White to search for information about Apostles of Gaia on their database, but as she expected, nothing of import came up . Which meant that no one ever posted anything about any Apostles of Gaia . And no one ever talked about it over sPhones . If this Apostles of Gaia was somehow an underground organization connected to the Temple, then not finding immediate information about it was understandable . Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www . webnovel . com for visiting .

Her thinking was cut off when she felt the familiar vibration from the diamond stud on her earlobe . Argent opened her light brain and what appeared on the screen was Jaxon"s handsome face .

"Are you already in Hangzhou?" Jaxon asked, noting her surroundings .

Argent sent Jaxon a message about the things Aurum discovered so he was pretty much up to date about everything . "Not yet . I"ll probably arrive there tomorrow . Have you found new information?"

"Not on my end . I tried to search for the family that was supposed to guard the Elven queen"s favorite jewelry but found nothing . I couldn"t even tell if they did exist or not . "

"Hey, Uncle Jax, there"s something that has been bothering me for quite some time now . These treasures, they were obviously connected to the two mythical races - the dragons and the elves . Something like that should be pretty well-known, but why does it seem that no one knows about it?"

"It"s not that no one knows about it, it"s just most people don"t believe that they exist . It"s been 500 years since Mythos continent closed off, so the existence of those three races almost felt like a myth . Legends about their treasures were innumerable . Finding out which one was true is almost impossible . "

But her father excluded two from those innumerable legends and somehow decided that they were true . But why those two particular legends?

"By the way, my men didn"t find anything about that Temple of Tian Long . But they did find something when they went back at that forest where you lost Thea"s signal . This time, they searched every nook and cranny of the forest . Even each trees . It proved to be quite fruitful," Jaxon added .

That certainly grabbed Argent"s attention . "What do you mean?"

"They found something written on one of the trees . It was on the bottom and covered by tall shrubs so they didn"t notice it the first time they searched there . I recognized Thea"s handwriting, so I know she"s the one who wrote it . But I couldn"t make heads or tails of what she wrote . I think Thea made it that way so even if her abductors find it, they would just see it as nothing but gibberish . I will send the picture they took . "

"Please . And Uncle Jax, tell your men that they could leave that area where they are right now . Tell them that they shouldn"t be stealthy about it . The bigger their actions, the better . They should also act like they"re giving up their search . "

That way, if one of her mother"s abductors was still in the area, what they would see was a group of men searching for someone and then giving up in frustration because they couldn"t find her . That would definitely lower the guard of those d.a.m.n abductors .

"I understand . I"ll do what you say," Jaxon said, clearly understanding what Argent meant . "I will be travelling to Xing after I leave here . Since I don"t think I could find anything more even if I stayed . "

Argent only nodded since she really couldn"t find a viable reason to stop him . "But be careful on the excuse you"ll give why you suddenly visited Xing . The Emperor here is very tricky . You"re quite well-known yourself . If you come to Xing, that Emperor would surely want to meet you . If you"re not careful enough, that annoying man would surely think that something was up . "

Really this girl, calling an emperor annoying . "I know . You don"t have to worry about that . "

After that, both of them ended the call .

Argent opened the message Jaxon sent containing the picture of the message her mother wrote on the tree . What she saw was;

CAKEN TAOAD MBOLE UDSUT RCNDD EGEOP BBEOL NSOEL UODNR TRNTA ROESA RE

Well, this certainly looked like gibberish . Argent took a small notebook and a pen from her s.p.a.ce ring and started writing those letters . When done, she turned off her light brain and started studying the string of letters she wrote . It was definitely some kind of code . But how to decrypt it?

Before she could continue to ponder, a delicious smell wafted in the air . Then a barbecued meat was suddenly presented in front of her face . Because she was still thinking about the code, she didn"t think much and just bit down on the barbecue . When she realized what she"d done, Argent looked up and saw Lei Feng holding the barbecued meat . With the help of the light from the bonfire, she noticed that his ear tips suddenly turned red . He"s probably embarra.s.sed because of what she did .

"Ah, sorry," she apologized and immediately took the barbecue .

"It"s nothing . Tell me if you want to eat more . "

The three dark guards who saw this immediately looked down and pretended that they didn"t see anything .

After eating dinner, Lei Feng suggested that Argent rested in the tent . Argent walked towards the tent . She was about to enter it when she remembered something . If she was not mistaken, this tent was some kind of magical tool . It"s the type where it looked small on the outside but really wide on the inside .

Argent turned to Lei Feng . "Where will you sleep?"

"On one of the trees . "

"Why not sleep inside? I"m pretty sure there"s more than enough s.p.a.ce for the both of us . "

The moment Argent suggested that, Lei Feng"s ear tips immediately turned red . Even his face had a faint blush . "No . I"ll sleep outside . "

He didn"t wait for Argent to say more and just jumped to one of the trees .

Argent tilted her head in confusion . What was he being shy about? She shrugged and just entered inside the tent .

The three dark guards who also witnessed this scene didn"t know how to react . How come their outstanding general was now acting like a teenage girl?