"Someone took all the Transcendent Cores?"
At the sight, Lin Yuan's first thought was that One-Eye and his men had transported them into East Pole City.
After all, the place looked fairly tidy, not as though it had been robbed.
But on second thought, something seemed off.
East Pole City had enjoyed peace for a long time, and its people were nowhere near as desperate for Transcendent Cores as the pirates were.
High-grade Transcendent Cores, in particular, were a core necessity for pirates.
They had always been an important resource the great families used to keep the Pirate Generals in check.
Pirates only traded treasures for Transcendent Cores. Why would they do the reverse and transport Transcendent Cores into East Pole City to exchange for treasures?
Besides, when One-Eye had returned to his ship, the carts behind him had held nothing valuable. It clearly did not look as though he had traded cores for treasures.
At that thought, Lin Yuan recalled the intelligence Steward Liu had given him.
It stated that Pirate Generals spent most of their time operating within their own lairs.
On the occasional trips they took outside, they would leave a deputy and several Great Pirates behind.
After all, their lairs held the Pirate Generals' most important assets, so they naturally needed heavy protection.
Earlier, when Bai Ling had sensed that Golden Hook was the only powerful individual in this lair, Lin Yuan had found it rather strange.
Thinking about it now, that seemed to explain quite a few things.
"The Tidal General must have left on some extremely important business. Before leaving, he took not only most of his Great Pirates, but all his Transcendent Cores too."
"He sent One-Eye into the city and moved his lair so close to East Pole Island. He probably wanted