The original god of the Jyota Jinchūriki

Chapter 64 Intelligence
"That sound, did Tevarin get beaten again? I seemed to have vaguely heard his screams just now."

Inside the seal, the sleepy Rhodra Dragon King looked towards the wind dragon ruins with some suspicion. Was such a miserable cry really made by Tevarin? After all, he is also a dragon. Who beat him to make him cry so miserably?

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There was a knock on the door. Ruo Jin, who was reading a fairy tale book with Klee, was a little confused. He didn't know many people in Mondstadt, so who could it be at this time? He opened the door curiously and saw someone he didn't expect to see. Diluk was standing outside the door with a stern face.

Diluk? Shouldn't he be helping Venti fight the Wind Dragon?

With doubts in his heart, Ruojin welcomed Diluk into the house. He searched the house for tea, but only found a pack of ordinary tea. He couldn't find anything else to treat Diluk, so Ruojin had to use this pack of tea to brew some.

"We don't have any good tea at home, so Boss Diluk, you can just make do with this."

"No need to go to so much trouble. This time I came here to make a deal with Lord Ruojin."

Trade? Ruo Jin paused as he was about to make tea. Was Diluk planning to expand his business to Liyue Harbor? That's right. There were many wealthy merchants in Liyue. For Diluk, a foreigner, to do business in Liyue, it was important to find a backer in the early stages, and the Ke family was a good choice.

"If Boss Diluc plans to expand his business, I may not be able to make the decision. I don't know much about this area, and I need someone special to talk to you."

When Ruojin was a child, he took Mora to buy candies. There were two stalls selling three Moras, one and ten Moras, but Ruojin only wanted to buy three candies, one for himself, one for Xiangling, and one for Hutao. He was so anxious that he didn't even pay attention to the price and directly chose the stall selling ten Moras, three.

From then on, the elders of the Ke family never thought of asking Ruojin to help manage the business again. Xingqiu often made fun of Ruojin after hearing about it.

"No, I don't want these. I want to trade some information with the Ke family behind you."

Diluk's words made Ruo Jin frown. Intelligence is something that can be said to be important or unimportant. The key lies in who holds the information. If it falls into the hands of a fool, it is just a blank sheet of paper, but if it falls into the hands of a smart person, it is hard to say what value it can create.

"Boss Diluk, what kind of information do you want?"

Nothing major has happened in Mond in the past few years. With the power of Diluk, the richest man in Mond, Ruo Jin really couldn't think of anything that Diluk didn't know about in Mond.

"I want evidence of corruption and bribery among the high-ranking members of the Knights of Favonius when the dragon Ursa attacked Mondstadt."

Diluk's answer made Ruo Jin's hand tremble and he almost threw the teapot in his hand. Things like corruption and bribery must be done in a very covert way. Are you sure the Ke family would have such a thing? You think too highly of the Ke family's intelligence organization.

Diluk noticed Ruojin's surprise. Diluk had already expected this reaction. Ruojin looked at Diluk's expressionless face and asked curiously.

"Um, can I ask Boss Diluk why you want this information?"

Ruo Jin had read the name of the Demon Dragon Ursa in the intelligence about Mond. It was said that the Knights of the Order bravely expelled the Demon Dragon Ursa at that time, and several noble knights were even promoted for this.

At that time, Ruo Jin just watched it for fun. He didn't think that those who didn't even have the Eye of God could be a match for the Demon Dragon Usa. He guessed that it was probably the elders of these noble families who expelled them in order to flatter their younger generations.

"When interrogating the Lawrence family guards, many of them were taken back by the dragons that attacked their village. When they were about to starve to death, the Lawrence family took them back and trained them as guards. These guards were also one of the assets that made the Lawrence family arrogant in Mondstadt over the years."

"But when I was looking through the intelligence, I found that the Knights of Favonius had purchased food at a high price and distributed it to the people in those villages for free. However, according to the notes of those guards, these people did not receive any food."

Diluk's eyes were extremely cold. He thought that the Knights had been too much by not giving his father the honor he deserved. Unexpectedly, he still underestimated the greed of the Knights' leaders. They were greedy for such life-saving food. If he had known this, he should have left Mondstadt later. In this way, with his help in distributing food, at least fewer people would have starved to death.

"Do you suspect that the top brass of the Knights of Favonius did it?"

Ruojin was also a smart man. He guessed what Diluk was thinking as soon as he heard it, but he felt that this guess was a bit too decisive. Diluk shook his head.

"No, it's not suspicion. Kaia once saw with his own eyes that a truck carrying food turned around on the road and then secretly delivered it to the home of a high-ranking member of the Knights."

"Zhao, there are still people like this?! People like this should be killed."

Ruojin couldn't help but roar, and the Ruota Dragon King in his body nodded in agreement. He has never been a good-tempered dragon. If this kind of thing happened in Liyue, he might have already ordered Ruojin to start the massacre.

"But I'm not sure whether the Ke family has this kind of information."

After calming down from his anger, Ruo Jin was a little hesitant about the capabilities of the Ke family's intelligence organization. This kind of cross-border intelligence is often extremely difficult to collect. Even a thousand-year-old family like the Ke family may not have such secret intelligence.

"No, your Ke family did have some. When this incident happened, your Ke family was preparing to enter the real estate industry in Mondstadt with all their strength. For this purpose, they even donated a sum of Mora to the Knights to buy food. However, at that time, because the current Yuhengxing was valued by the previous Yuhengxing for some reason, your Ke family gave up the business in Mondstadt in order to pave the way for this Yuhengxing with all their strength."

"The dragon incident was a big deal in Mondstadt at the time, so your Ke family's intelligence organization must have kept some records. I don't think that after the Ke family donated Mora to the Knights, they didn't even know what the Knights did with the Mora and who got it."

Diluk was very confident in the Ke family's intelligence organization. The power of this thousand-year-old family was far greater than Ruojin had imagined. Hearing what Diluk said, Ruojin nodded.

"Since you said so, Diluk, I will have someone look for it later. If they can find it, the information will appear in the Dawn Winery."

"Thank you very much. I am willing to provide this information..."

"No need for compensation, just think of it as making a friend."

Ruojin interrupted Diluk. He didn't care at all about the reward Diluk gave. Through this incident, he felt that making friends with Diluk was far more worthwhile than the so-called reward. Although he had only met Diluk a few times, he believed in his intuition.

Friends? Looking at Ruojin's sincere eyes, Diluk felt a little dreamy. Diluk hadn't heard the word friend for many years. When he suddenly heard it today, it seemed to be a good feeling.

"Okay, thank you very much. If you encounter any troubles in the future, just come to me and I won't disturb your rest."

Having obtained what he wanted and gained unexpected friendship, Diluk still had a stern face, but his tone of voice was not as cold as before.

When Ruojin sent Diluk away, Klee scratched her head. She always felt that this strange adult had changed a little, but she couldn't tell what the changes were. He was truly a strange adult.

"Little Keli, come on, I'll take you out to play."

"Great!"

(End of this chapter)