Chapter 524: Puppet and Korok

Chapter 524: Puppet and Korok

Chapter 524: Puppet and Korok

"You must be Mr. Bell."

After flipping through the documents and personal belongings on the table and confirming the identity of the owner, Leon turned to look at the slovenly man held down by Alger and said calmly:

"Please rest assured, we don't want to hurt you. We just want to use your identity as a scholar in Area 1 to help us do something."

"Humph!"

Before Leon could ask for anything, the man with a messy beard snorted angrily, and then said with a bad look:

"You are the vagrants, right? What's going on? After attacking Administrative District No. 3, you are now targeting Research District No. 1?"

"Yes."

"I won't take you there, don't even think about it!"

The sloppy man acted very tough, stiffened his neck and glared at Leon, saying:
"Research Area No. 1 is the core of the entire Korok Kingdom, and everything I have was given by the kingdom. I will never betray the kingdom!"

"Uh-huh."

After responding casually, Leon, who had not slept all night, did not continue to say anything to the sloppy man, but said to Alger who was holding him down:

"Senior Alger, it's up to you from now on."

"Ok."

After hearing what Leon said, Alger nodded slightly, and the right hand that was pressing on the sloppy man's shoulder instantly spread out, turning into countless silk threads finer than hair, hanging softly on his shoulder.

"What is this? What are you...what are you going to do?"

Under the horrified gaze of the sloppy man, the strange silk threads hanging on his shoulders actually broke through the skin on his shoulders like earthworms burrowing into the ground, and drilled into his body one by one.

Then, before he could resist, those thin and almost transparent threads "swam" along the gaps between his muscles and towards his limbs and bones.

In just a few breaths, these strange silk threads spread throughout his body, replacing his will and completely taking over his body. Even places like his eyelids and tongue were implanted with at least dozens of thin threads, making him unable to move at all.

"almost."

After flipping the sloppy man's earlobe and faintly feeling a slight bulge of silk thread at the thinnest part of the skin on the back, Alger nodded, his entire right arm disappearing at the shoulder, and said to Leon:
"This Mr. Bell has been controlled by me. If he has any abnormal behavior, I will discover and stop it immediately to ensure that he has no chance to ask for help."

"Hard."

After nodding to Alger, Leon rummaged through his pockets under the horrified gaze of the slovenly man, took out the small notebook he carried with him, glanced at the itinerary written on it, and then said:

"Let's go. It's time for Mr. Bell to go to work. We should leave."

Departure? You guys...ah?!
After hearing what Leon said, the sloppy man was horrified to find that it was as if there was another set of bones and muscles exerting force in his body. He actually raised his hand, turned the door, and walked out.

The young man with black hair and black eyes, and the sturdy man without his right arm, followed him directly and went straight to the street without avoiding people.

What's even more bizarre is that when faced with these two criminals whose appearance was exactly the same as in the report and who didn't even change their clothes, passers-by on the street seemed to have seen nothing and had no reaction at all.

How is that possible? Could they be invisible?
While the sloppy man was puzzled, Leon had already inserted his ID card into the pathfinder on the side of the road and sent a request to go to Research Area No. 1. Then, he and the tall man with one arm missing followed him into the hovercraft that came to pick them up. …

"Mr. Lyon."

He seemed a little unsure. After the hovercraft started moving, Alger couldn't help but ask:

"Are we just going to go straight over here? Wouldn't it be safer if we relied on Mona's [Smooth Road Ahead] to go over there?"

"It's okay, just go ahead."

Sitting next to the sloppy man, Leon looked through the information he had snatched yesterday and answered without raising his head:
"I have checked carefully. The technology of the Korok Kingdom does not have anything like video surveillance. With the effect of [Secret Tail], it is enough for us to pass through ordinary checkpoints.

Including the several large experimental areas specially developed in the surrounding areas, the total area of ​​​​Research Area No. 1 is about square kilometers. It is not a small place. We just need to be careful not to get too close to the core area, and don't appear in too empty places. The possibility of being discovered is small."

"That's good……"

After hearing Leon's assurance, Alger felt a little relieved. He then glanced at the man who was looking through the documents and asked curiously:
"Mr. Leon, these stolen materials are just ordinary data, right? You spent the whole night reading them yesterday. Haven't you finished reading them yet?"

"No, I've only read about one-tenth of it now."

"So... did you find anything?"

"There are some."

Flipping through the thick "Korok Mineral Resources Policy" in his hand, and the "Annual Table of Revenue and Expenditure of Major Energy and Core Materials" as a comparison, Lyon said with a slightly cold expression:

"The area of ​​the Korok Kingdom is not large, but its resource consumption is astonishingly large. The floating crystals alone consume more than 10 tons per year. The consumption of other whale blubber, coal, special ores, and various rare metals is calculated in millions of tons."

"Isn't this normal?"

After Alger thought about it, he said in confusion:

"I don't quite understand this, but I've heard that although the Kingdom of Korok is small, it is actually a trading country like the Thousand Sails Sea Kingdom Sai'ao. It sells a huge amount of products every year. This consumption doesn't seem to be a big deal, right?"

"This consumption is nothing. In fact, it can even be considered small compared to the trading volume of the Kingdom of Korok. But the real problem is where these resources come from."

Taking his charcoal pencil, Lyon circled the attached picture of the Mineral Resources Policy a few times, then frowned and said:

"Although the 'territory' of the Korok Kingdom is not large, it actually controls a large number of 'mining areas' that exist only to support the Korok Kingdom.

Even if these "mining areas" are taken individually, they are not large, and their locations are extremely scattered, but these areas that provide resources to the Kingdom of Korok in the name of short-term development, semi-permanent lease, or even direct purchase, add up to nearly 400,000 square kilometers. "

"what?!"

After hearing what Leon said, Alger couldn't help but be shocked.

"So many? Our Kingdom of Alesund is so big, but it's only over one million square kilometers! I thought the Kingdom of Korok was a small country with only over 20,000 square kilometers!"

(End of this chapter)