Chapter 148: 148 - Investigation
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While Fang and Pax were busy making plans for Ren's birthday and setting up Zephyr, Ren and Wolf were busy investigating the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom and what the man could possibly want with Fang.
"There really are records of the seventh prince going out of Valley Kingdom in the time period that man mentioned, Ren," Wolf said quietly, handing some papers over to Ren. "There is a good chance that the seventh prince actually came to Cosmopolis and went to the Orchid Orphanage and – and met Fang. The travel records are fudged up and buried, but we did manage to dig up some and gain some insider information as well…"
Ren cursed out loud, and a murderous aura rose up all around him like an almost physical thing.
Wolf, too, was no less incensed. If Ren said in this moment that he wanted to go to the Valley Kingdom and murder the seventh prince with his own hands, Wolf would go right along with him.
Because it was clear that this seventh prince was one of the two people who had managed to escape from their net a year ago. There were indeed two people who were mentioned by Fang but about whom no records could be found – and Fang could not give detailed descriptions of these two because he had been blindfolded at the time. He could only tell that one was a middle aged woman and one was a young man, perhaps in his late twenties or early thirties. Fang had only been able to hear their voices but not see them during the entire ordeal that he had been through – and those two were the people that Ren and Wolf and Pax had not been able to trace at all, despite their best efforts.
And now they knew why – it seemed that one of those two horrible people had been the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom – and as for the middle aged woman, it should be someone who was well acquainted, or probably even related to the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom.
But still, the question remained – why had the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom come all the way to Cosmopolis to visit one abused orphaned young teenager – it didn't make sense. In fact, if the traces of his visit had not been hidden away so well, it would have been a very, very risky endeavour! And, besides, the cost of covering up this entire matter could not be any less than several billions in terms of money – because it involved many people at many levels, and some would have to be eliminated and some would have to be silenced – all in all, it really didn't make sense for a royal of another country to do something like this. If the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom simply wanted a toy boy, he could have gotten one rather easily and rather discreetly – without having to risk so much and then spend so much to cover up that risk!
And if the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom had been so infatuated by Fang that he wanted to keep the boy – wouldn't the man have taken him away to the Valley Kingdom with him? After spending so much money – the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom had never visited Fang again, and now he had turned up out of nowhere wanting to kidnap Fang – there was clearly much, much more to the eye here that what was apparent and known to them…
"What else have you found?" Ren asked Wolf. "Have you been able to find any traces of the middle aged woman that Fang had mentioned at the time?"
"There are a few women of the correct age group in the royal family of the Valley Kingdom," Wolf said in a sombre voice. "The most prominent one would be the current empress of the Valley Kingdom and the mother of the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom. From the descriptions that Fang had given us – these two seem to match the profile. Of course, we can't really confirm either of these for certain without asking Fang, but…"
"No!" Ren interrupted Wolf in a firm voice. "We are not going to tell Fang anything about this. If we are reasonably sure that the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom and the current empress of the Valley Kingdom are the ones that got away from our net last year – then, I want to silence them quietly, without Fang getting to know anything about it. I won't have him revisit his nightmare of the past again and again!"
Wolf sighed. "Relax, Ren," he said. "I am with you on this. I was never going to suggest that we ask Fang to identify the two – I wouldn't want our Fang anywhere near filthy people like this ever again!"
Ren nodded, trying to rein in his anger. His fists were clenched so tightly that his neatly cut nails were digging into the palms of both of his hands hard enough to draw blood.
To be honest, at this moment, Ren wanted nothing more than to fly to Valley Kingdom, all guns blazing, and shoot down the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom as well as the current empress of the Valley Kingdom. Even if the chances of these two being the tormentors of Fang were about sixty five to seventy five per cent – instead of the ninety five per cent that Wolf had arrived at after thorough investigations – Ren would still want to eliminate these people rather than take a chance of them turning up again to hurt his precious Fang.
And this was a plot development that Ren had neither known nor expected. Fang in the original book 'The Trials of Ren' had never encountered people from the Valley Kingdom later in his life – well, after he had escaped from the clutches of the evil doers at the Orchid Orphanage. And the Valley Kingdom had not been mentioned in the book at all, as far as Ren could remember (after all, he didn't have an eidetic memory like Fang did, so he couldn't claim total and complete recall of anything) – or, even if it was mentioned, it would have been in passing – certainly not enough to make an impression!
"We did find something else, though," Wolf said quietly. "You had asked us to investigate the missing princess as well, right?"
Ren nodded. "Yes," he said. "I find that there is something really fishy about the whole matter. The Valley Kingdom is a matrilineal society, and the current emperor sits on the throne only because his sister, who was the rightful heir to the throne of the Valley Kingdom, had eloped with a man from the Dragon Nation and as a consequence of that, she had been disinherited from her position and legacy as the crown princess of the Valley Kingdom, if I am not mistaken?"
Wolf shook his head. "No, no, you're not wrong – in fact, she wasn't disinherited at all – that was just the rumour spread by the current emperor – or, perhaps, the current empress on behalf of her husband. One of my men managed to get into the royal records and take a look.. The missing princess was considered missing and then later presumed dead until her death was actually confirmed – but she never lost her status as the crown princess to the throne of the Valley Kingdom. And the current emperor – although he likes to call himself the emperor of the Valley Kingdom – is only the steward of the throne – he neither has the right to pass the throne to his children, nor does he have the right to deny a child of the late crown princess – if a child actually shows up and makes a claim towards the throne of the Valley Kingdom! All this information has been hidden away very, very deeply, and my man nearly lost his life in trying to dig these out – fortunately, he is a hacker of the best quality and competence, and he could collect all this data – well, steal all this data, to be honest, in a matter of nanoseconds before the firewall and the cyber security of the Valley Kingdom popped up and tried to not only oust him from the system but also caught hold of him, almost – he could barely escape with his life and his computer! In fact, if he hadn't been sitting far away in the Dragon Nation and was in a well protected area with so many firewalls and jammers which react instantaneously the moement someone tries to attack him and goes into hibernation mode and becomes a complete ghost – he would definitely have been caught and raced and put to death! It's a good thing that this man can use a little bit of magic – and it was this little bit of magic that mixed in with his hacking skills and somehow managed to save his life this time!
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While Fang and Pax were busy making plans for Ren's birthday and setting up Zephyr, Ren and Wolf were busy investigating the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom and what the man could possibly want with Fang.
"There really are records of the seventh prince going out of Valley Kingdom in the time period that man mentioned, Ren," Wolf said quietly, handing some papers over to Ren. "There is a good chance that the seventh prince actually came to Cosmopolis and went to the Orchid Orphanage and – and met Fang. The travel records are fudged up and buried, but we did manage to dig up some and gain some insider information as well…"
Ren cursed out loud, and a murderous aura rose up all around him like an almost physical thing.
Wolf, too, was no less incensed. If Ren said in this moment that he wanted to go to the Valley Kingdom and murder the seventh prince with his own hands, Wolf would go right along with him.
Because it was clear that this seventh prince was one of the two people who had managed to escape from their net a year ago. There were indeed two people who were mentioned by Fang but about whom no records could be found – and Fang could not give detailed descriptions of these two because he had been blindfolded at the time. He could only tell that one was a middle aged woman and one was a young man, perhaps in his late twenties or early thirties. Fang had only been able to hear their voices but not see them during the entire ordeal that he had been through – and those two were the people that Ren and Wolf and Pax had not been able to trace at all, despite their best efforts.
And now they knew why – it seemed that one of those two horrible people had been the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom – and as for the middle aged woman, it should be someone who was well acquainted, or probably even related to the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom.
But still, the question remained – why had the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom come all the way to Cosmopolis to visit one abused orphaned young teenager – it didn't make sense. In fact, if the traces of his visit had not been hidden away so well, it would have been a very, very risky endeavour! And, besides, the cost of covering up this entire matter could not be any less than several billions in terms of money – because it involved many people at many levels, and some would have to be eliminated and some would have to be silenced – all in all, it really didn't make sense for a royal of another country to do something like this. If the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom simply wanted a toy boy, he could have gotten one rather easily and rather discreetly – without having to risk so much and then spend so much to cover up that risk!
And if the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom had been so infatuated by Fang that he wanted to keep the boy – wouldn't the man have taken him away to the Valley Kingdom with him? After spending so much money – the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom had never visited Fang again, and now he had turned up out of nowhere wanting to kidnap Fang – there was clearly much, much more to the eye here that what was apparent and known to them…
"What else have you found?" Ren asked Wolf. "Have you been able to find any traces of the middle aged woman that Fang had mentioned at the time?"
"There are a few women of the correct age group in the royal family of the Valley Kingdom," Wolf said in a sombre voice. "The most prominent one would be the current empress of the Valley Kingdom and the mother of the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom. From the descriptions that Fang had given us – these two seem to match the profile. Of course, we can't really confirm either of these for certain without asking Fang, but…"
"No!" Ren interrupted Wolf in a firm voice. "We are not going to tell Fang anything about this. If we are reasonably sure that the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom and the current empress of the Valley Kingdom are the ones that got away from our net last year – then, I want to silence them quietly, without Fang getting to know anything about it. I won't have him revisit his nightmare of the past again and again!"
Wolf sighed. "Relax, Ren," he said. "I am with you on this. I was never going to suggest that we ask Fang to identify the two – I wouldn't want our Fang anywhere near filthy people like this ever again!"
Ren nodded, trying to rein in his anger. His fists were clenched so tightly that his neatly cut nails were digging into the palms of both of his hands hard enough to draw blood.
To be honest, at this moment, Ren wanted nothing more than to fly to Valley Kingdom, all guns blazing, and shoot down the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom as well as the current empress of the Valley Kingdom. Even if the chances of these two being the tormentors of Fang were about sixty five to seventy five per cent – instead of the ninety five per cent that Wolf had arrived at after thorough investigations – Ren would still want to eliminate these people rather than take a chance of them turning up again to hurt his precious Fang.
And this was a plot development that Ren had neither known nor expected. Fang in the original book 'The Trials of Ren' had never encountered people from the Valley Kingdom later in his life – well, after he had escaped from the clutches of the evil doers at the Orchid Orphanage. And the Valley Kingdom had not been mentioned in the book at all, as far as Ren could remember (after all, he didn't have an eidetic memory like Fang did, so he couldn't claim total and complete recall of anything) – or, even if it was mentioned, it would have been in passing – certainly not enough to make an impression!
"We did find something else, though," Wolf said quietly. "You had asked us to investigate the missing princess as well, right?"
Ren nodded. "Yes," he said. "I find that there is something really fishy about the whole matter. The Valley Kingdom is a matrilineal society, and the current emperor sits on the throne only because his sister, who was the rightful heir to the throne of the Valley Kingdom, had eloped with a man from the Dragon Nation and as a consequence of that, she had been disinherited from her position and legacy as the crown princess of the Valley Kingdom, if I am not mistaken?"
Wolf shook his head. "No, no, you're not wrong – in fact, she wasn't disinherited at all – that was just the rumour spread by the current emperor – or, perhaps, the current empress on behalf of her husband. One of my men managed to get into the royal records and take a look.. The missing princess was considered missing and then later presumed dead until her death was actually confirmed – but she never lost her status as the crown princess to the throne of the Valley Kingdom. And the current emperor – although he likes to call himself the emperor of the Valley Kingdom – is only the steward of the throne – he neither has the right to pass the throne to his children, nor does he have the right to deny a child of the late crown princess – if a child actually shows up and makes a claim towards the throne of the Valley Kingdom! All this information has been hidden away very, very deeply, and my man nearly lost his life in trying to dig these out – fortunately, he is a hacker of the best quality and competence, and he could collect all this data – well, steal all this data, to be honest, in a matter of nanoseconds before the firewall and the cyber security of the Valley Kingdom popped up and tried to not only oust him from the system but also caught hold of him, almost – he could barely escape with his life and his computer! In fact, if he hadn't been sitting far away in the Dragon Nation and was in a well protected area with so many firewalls and jammers which react instantaneously the moement someone tries to attack him and goes into hibernation mode and becomes a complete ghost – he would definitely have been caught and raced and put to death! It's a good thing that this man can use a little bit of magic – and it was this little bit of magic that mixed in with his hacking skills and somehow managed to save his life this time!
While Fang and Pax were busy making plans for Ren's birthday and setting up Zephyr, Ren and Wolf were busy investigating the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom and what the man could possibly want with Fang."There really are records of the seventh prince going out of Valley Kingdom in the time period that man mentioned, Ren," Wolf said quietly, handing some papers over to Ren. "There is a good chance that the seventh prince actually came to Cosmopolis and went to the Orchid Orphanage and and met Fang. The travel records are fudged up and buried, but we did manage to dig up some and gain some insider information as well"Ren cursed out loud, and a murderous aura rose up all around him like an almost physical thing.Wolf, too, was no less incensed. If Ren said in this moment that he wanted to go to the Valley Kingdom and murder the seventh prince with his own hands, Wolf would go right along with him.Because it was clear that this seventh prince was one of the two people who had managed to escape from their net a year ago. There were indeed two people who were mentioned by Fang but about whom no records could be found and Fang could not give detailed descriptions of these two because he had been blindfolded at the time. He could only tell that one was a middle aged woman and one was a young man, perhaps in his late twenties or early thirties. Fang had only been able to hear their voices but not see them during the entire ordeal that he had been through and those two were the people that Ren and Wolf and Pax had not been able to trace at all, despite their best efforts.And now they knew why it seemed that one of those two horrible people had been the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom and as for the middle aged woman, it should be someone who was well acquainted, or probably even related to the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom.But still, the question remained why had the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom come all the way to Cosmopolis to visit one abused orphaned young teenager it didn't make sense. In fact, if the traces of his visit had not been hidden away so well, it would have been a very, very risky endeavour! And, besides, the cost of covering up this entire matter could not be any less than several billions in terms of money because it involved many people at many levels, and some would have to be eliminated and some would have to be silenced all in all, it really didn't make sense for a royal of another country to do something like this. If the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom simply wanted a toy boy, he could have gotten one rather easily and rather discreetly without having to risk so much and then spend so much to cover up that risk!And if the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom had been so infatuated by Fang that he wanted to keep the boy wouldn't the man have taken him away to the Valley Kingdom with him? After spending so much money the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom had never visited Fang again, and now he had turned up out of nowhere wanting to kidnap Fang there was clearly much, much more to the eye here that what was apparent and known to them"What else have you found?" Ren asked Wolf. "Have you been able to find any traces of the middle aged woman that Fang had mentioned at the time?""There are a few women of the correct age group in the royal family of the Valley Kingdom," Wolf said in a sombre voice. "The most prominent one would be the current empress of the Valley Kingdom and the mother of the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom. From the descriptions that Fang had given us these two seem to match the profile. Of course, we can't really confirm either of these for certain without asking Fang, but""No!" Ren interrupted Wolf in a firm voice. "We are not going to tell Fang anything about this. If we are reasonably sure that the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom and the current empress of the Valley Kingdom are the ones that got away from our net last year then, I want to silence them quietly, without Fang getting to know anything about it. I won't have him revisit his nightmare of the past again and again!"Wolf sighed. "Relax, Ren," he said. "I am with you on this. I was never going to suggest that we ask Fang to identify the two I wouldn't want our Fang anywhere near filthy people like this ever again!"Ren nodded, trying to rein in his anger. His fists were clenched so tightly that his neatly cut nails were digging into the palms of both of his hands hard enough to draw blood.To be honest, at this moment, Ren wanted nothing more than to fly to Valley Kingdom, all guns blazing, and shoot down the seventh prince of the Valley Kingdom as well as the current empress of the Valley Kingdom. Even if the chances of these two being the tormentors of Fang were about sixty five to seventy five per cent instead of the ninety five per cent that Wolf had arrived at after thorough investigations Ren would still want to eliminate these people rather than take a chance of them turning up again to hurt his precious Fang.And this was a plot development that Ren had neither known nor expected. Fang in the original book 'The Trials of Ren' had never encountered people from the Valley Kingdom later in his life well, after he had escaped from the clutches of the evil doers at the Orchid Orphanage. And the Valley Kingdom had not been mentioned in the book at all, as far as Ren could remember after all, he didn't have an eidetic memory like Fang did, so he couldn't claim total and complete recall of anything or, even if it was mentioned, it would have been in passing certainly not enough to make an impression!"We did find something else, though," Wolf said quietly. "You had asked us to investigate the missing princess as well, right?"Ren nodded. "Yes," he said. "I find that there is something really fishy about the whole matter. The Valley Kingdom is a matrilineal society, and the current emperor sits on the throne only because his sister, who was the rightful heir to the throne of the Valley Kingdom, had eloped with a man from the Dragon Nation and as a consequence of that, she had been disinherited from her position and legacy as the crown princess of the Valley Kingdom, if I am not mistaken?"Wolf shook his head. "No, no, you're not wrong in fact, she wasn't disinherited at all that was just the rumour spread by the current emperor or, perhaps, the current empress on behalf of her husband. One of my men managed to get into the royal records and take a look.. The missing princess was considered missing and then later presumed dead until her death was actually confirmed but she never lost her status as the crown princess to the throne of the Valley Kingdom. And the current emperor although he likes to call himself the emperor of the Valley Kingdom is only the steward of the throne he neither has the right to pass the throne to his children, nor does he have the right to deny a child of the late crown princess if a child actually shows up and makes a claim towards the throne of the Valley Kingdom! All this information has been hidden away very, very deeply, and my man nearly lost his life in trying to dig these out fortunately, he is a hacker of the best quality and competence, and he could collect all this data well, steal all this data, to be honest, in a matter of nanoseconds before the firewall and the cyber security of the Valley Kingdom popped up and tried to not only oust him from the system but also caught hold of him, almost he could barely escape with his life and his computer! In fact, if he hadn't been sitting far away in the Dragon Nation and was in a well protected area with so many firewalls and jammers which react instantaneously the moement someone tries to attack him and goes into hibernation mode and becomes a complete ghost he would definitely have been caught and raced and put to death! It's a good thing that this man can use a little bit of magic and it was this little bit of magic that mixed in with his hacking skills and somehow managed to save his life this time!
