I, Stone Golem, only want to forge.

Chapter 97 What got on board?

"Do you know Mr. Murphy?"

However, Sri didn't rush to ask about it. Instead, he planned to find out what connection this person had with Murphy.

If you know someone, then you're friends.

I don't recognize her. She's a nun from the Inquisition, though she's not exactly an enemy.

But the way you ask questions can never be very gentle.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

Ya quickly pretended to be confused.

She's not stupid. What if this person has a grudge against Murphy? Wouldn't she be in trouble?

"You have its scent on you. Mr. Murphy and I are friends, so you don't need to hide it from me."

Siri noticed the other party's concerns and offered an explanation.

Ya ultimately gave a vague answer.

"It was kind of a business relationship; she asked me to be her assistant."

Siri couldn't verify whether the other party was lying, but emotionally, he could tell that he and Murphy were at least not enemies.

There has been contact, but they are not hostile; these two points are enough.

So he didn't continue with a tough stance, but instead smiled and smoothed things over.

"Then isn't this a misunderstanding? We didn't mean you any harm, it's just that no matter what—"

He paused briefly, then abruptly changed the subject. Although his tone remained polite, it became somewhat serious.

"This gentleman is also a crew member of this captain, so don't you think he should know some of the truth?"

Ya quickly revealed everything she knew.

Of course, it wasn't that Ya was being honest, nor was it that her superiors were hiding things from her; the main reason was that she really only understood this much.

This is the Papacy after all, so the orders issued are naturally not in simple, straightforward, and easy-to-understand plain language.

They had to bring up some anecdote here and some god there, then go back and forth, say a few words like a riddle teller, and only then would it be considered done, and the orders be issued.

Without at least ten years of experience reading scriptures, you can't possibly understand the specific meaning of the commands given to you here.

More importantly, the higher the mission level, the more incomprehensible and nonsensical text appears.

The orders she received this time were among the most outrageous.

Ya only received a mission objective and summary, which totaled about ten pages.

At most, you can get a general idea of what needs to be done from fragmented snippets of information.

Fortunately, this part is all at the end.

So generally, when a task is assigned, they just need to look at the ending.

"He was killed by a dwarf, it has nothing to do with me. As for why the dwarf killed him, it's because this person touched the dwarf's goods, but I don't know the specifics."

Sri nodded. Hearing Ya say this confirmed his guess.

However, it seemed that the nun didn't know the specific details either, but she still asked just in case.

"I've heard that the cargo this captain is handling seems to be connected to your Vatican—do you know anything about this?"

Ya nodded, then shook her head.

"Actually, I don't know if I have any relationship with the Holy See. Judging from your strength, you should be quite powerful. You should also know what the situation is like inside the Holy See, right?"

They're scattered like sand, divided by region, by belief, by ideology, by workplace... sigh...

So you're saying it's related to the Vatican? Haha, is there anything in this world that isn't related to the Vatican?

Diaz paused for a moment.

Part of the reason was that it was the first time he had heard this claim, which slightly changed his opinion of the Vatican.

Another reason was that he didn't expect the nun to actually dare to say it out loud; wasn't she a bit too bold?

He glanced at Sri beside him, who nodded after a long silence.

The Vatican is like this, and the Druidic order in the north, including Siri's, is actually not much different.

Essentially, they were all just makeshift operations.

Therefore, Sri didn't press the matter further, instead asking, "Have you seen the bodies of the other captains?"

"Huh? Are they dead?"

Ya's eyes widened in surprise, and she gasped.

Diaz and Siri exchanged a glance, both noticing the seriousness and astonishment in each other's eyes.

Could it be because the timing was off?

Those captains died after Ya saw them.

With this in mind, Sri asked again, "Why do you think they're not dead?"

Arden immediately noticed the inconsistency and frowned: "Because I saw them being taken away with my own eyes—before I even met this captain. When did you see their bodies?"

She witnessed the people being taken away, but these two people in front of her claim to have seen the bodies of those people!?

Whether it was the body seen before it was taken away or the body seen after it was taken away.

It was all incredibly horrifying for her.

The Vatican's escorts never left fake corpses behind as a disguise.

So if Sri and his group really did see the corpse, either it was faked by those captains, or something was wrong with what the Vatican was transporting.

The body was seen after the transport was completed, which was even more frightening.

She has not received any divine pronouncements or notifications.

Who knows what strange things have happened at the Vatican?

Siri recalled the memories in his mind and then gave a definite answer.

"Judging from the condition of their bodies, they must have died a day ago."

Ya's expression became even more troubled and melancholy. She sighed and immediately said, "I just watched them being escorted away today—no, I have to report this!"

She walked to the side, intending to use her divine speech to tell her colleagues who were escorting the captain about the situation.

Diaz and Srui naturally couldn't stop them, and while watching the person report the information, they whispered to each other.

"Mr. Sri, what do you think might be going on? They should only have been involved in the slave trade; things shouldn't have gotten this bizarre, right?"

Diaz asked.

"Unless the issue of slavery is just an excuse for them to do other things! That's not their intention."

Siri's first reaction was that someone was secretly plotting something.

but----

"Using the slave trade as a pretext is just too absurd, isn't it?"

Diaz truly hadn't expected that such an excuse could be used to cover up anything.

It's understandable that someone would steal to cover up their crime of murder.

However, if someone is killed specifically to cover up other crimes, then the severity of that crime is self-evident.

After a moment of contemplation, Sri offered a conjecture.

"If this is related to the Vatican—is it an evil god?"

They needed to cover it up with something as heinous as the slave trade, and it was also connected to the Papacy.

So the only thing Siri could think of was an evil god.