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Chapter 1753

From Effect to Cause

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Enbo's information was easy to find. Even though his house had been razed, just the fact that he was directly connected to the name "Ember" was enough to make the Players dig up every last detail about him.

Enbo was an orphan who grew up on handouts from the neighbors. Later, he was assigned a job by the government during a period of rapid Sub-district development. But he was unlucky: he injured his leg at work and became a cripple. After that, he grew quiet and withdrawn, keeping to himself.

He spent a long time in a slump. Then government workers visited to console him and urged him to work hard, saying that once he had a job, they could introduce him to someone. Enbo pulled himself together for a while and took on work that didn't require nimble legs. After the discovery of the large amber deposit, he was briefly in high demand. But he seemed uninterested in the girls who showed an interest in him or in the government's arrangements, and rejected them all. When he was repeatedly pursued and pressured, he even flew into a rage and hurt people. After that, he stopped working too, living off welfare. With no family or friends, he often drank himself senseless. Within a few years, he drank himself to death.

An ordinary, wretched life.

There were hardly any women in this man's social circle, and he had no connection to a maiden. So trying to use that as a starting point to find the "Enbel Maiden" yielded almost no clear leads. All they could do was conduct a carpet search, as they had in Dingding Flower Town and other places called "Ember."

Unfortunately, this method didn't work. One batch of Players after another came and went, and no one found

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