"Young Master, that Shopkeeper Ma Shen seems to be going all out to gather information about Tongtian Trading House. The dozen or so groups he sent out today, without exception, have all been secretly making contact with people inside Tongtian Trading House!" Big Ear reported within the underground karst cave.
"Gathering information from inside Tongtian Trading House? This fellow's behavior does seem rather strange." After pondering for a moment, Ye Zhen gave another order. "Keep watching him."
"Yes, Young Master!"
A day had passed since Tongtian Trading House's Great Shopkeeper Yan Chi had been killed and the eastern part of Chaotic Void Island had gone up in flames. Chaotic Void Island's Third Island Master, who had roared in fury, reopened the island after sealing it off for barely half a day.
There were countless merchants on Chaotic Void Island, and its daily trading volume was simply beyond description.
Forget closing it for an entire day—even the losses from shutting it down for a single hour were more than the island's merchants could bear. Which of the merchants, great or small, on Chaotic Void Island lacked some backing?
Not to mention that once Chaotic Void Island was shut down, the island itself would suffer unimaginable losses.
Those docks with their enormous daily throughput would come to a complete standstill.
Even the owners of Chaotic Void Island could not bear such pressure.
Regarding the fire in eastern Chaotic Void Island and the murder of Tongtian Trading House's Great Shopkeeper Yan Chi, Chaotic Void Island's guards and Tongtian Trading House's Enshrined Experts conducted a hasty half-day search of the island before they could only bring matters to a temporary close.
In truth, even this so-called large-scale search was limited to screening suspicious individuals. With so many merchants and so many commercial secrets on