Cyril still wasn't ready to let it go. "Are you sure there's nothing wrong with the Town Chief?"
Ye Chuqi gave him a surprised look. "Our task was only to gather clues, not draw conclusions. So I don't know whether there's anything wrong with him." She knew too little about the relationships in Mussel Bay or its ties to the Imperial Capital to make that judgment.
The one thing she could be sure of was that, with so much wrong at the Town Office, the Town Chief couldn't be entirely uninvolved. She just couldn't tell where he stood.
The return trip went much more smoothly, at least for the young adventurers. Perhaps the Griffins had eaten their fill and had enough fun, because they no longer felt like teasing their young passengers as they flew. They had been away from Camp for several days, too. They hadn't noticed while they were having fun, but once they knew they were going home, they actually began to miss it.
They flew even faster than they had on the way out, yet their passengers felt none of the wind's biting force. So the Griffins had done it on purpose.
Outside the Imperial Capital, at the Royal Griffin Legion's base, soldiers stood in a row by the entrance, gazing toward the horizon like faithful spouses waiting for their loved ones. These were the soldiers whose Griffins had run away with Xiao Bu several days ago. If the commander and vice commander hadn't reassured them that everything was fine and the Griffins would soon return, they might have run away with them on the spot.
Not even a visit from the commander himself could fill the hole in their hearts.
Jelous, commander of the Royal Griffin Legion and the Empire's Third Prince, didn't know whether