Watching the Elephant Person Guard struggle into the sewer facility, the repairman's lips curled into a honeyed smile.
His companion beside him jabbed him in the waist. "Xu Nan, since when were you so good at lying?"
Xu Nan smiled faintly. "I wasn't lying."
"Someone really did steal the manhole covers—didn't you personally steal those covers just now?"
The City Management Captain fell silent, with a string of obscenities stuck in his heart that he dared not voice.
Half an hour earlier.
Using their identities as repairmen, the two carefully observed the streets around the Golden Tree. Before long, Xu Nan found a clue.
Most of the buildings in this district were church structures dedicated to praising Lannis, including residences for clergy, churches, libraries, plazas, and so on.
The most eye-catching thing nearby was a towering statue of Lannis.
The statue was called Lannis of the Broken Arm.
Without question, her left arm was the broken one. More coincidentally, the fingers of her naturally hanging right hand pointed directly toward a Sacred Library.
"What was the point of a riddle on this level? Other than wasting their own people's time?"
Xu Nan was certain that the person who had hidden the Dream Scroll had probably wanted to imitate those pretentious bastards from epics and legends by forcibly creating some riddle or cryptic proverb.
His bloodline senses also faintly told him that the Sacred Library might contain what he was looking for.
The library was indeed near an intersection, only slightly closer to the Golden Tree.
Something like the Dream Scroll was fairly safe hidden in a library—at least no one would destroy it by using it as toilet paper.
There were simply too many Elephant-Man Guards nearby, so Xu Nan had no choice but to send Qin Lele to do