"Luckily, I wasn’t deep inside the Mystical Mushroom Forest. I carefully felt my way out and ran all the way back to the city. I didn’t immediately go to sell the treasures in the Storage Ring. Instead, I ran straight home, the whole journey feeling completely unreal."

"When I got to my front door, I ran into Yargha. He was looking to buy an extract from me. I thought about the Tier 1 Dung Eater extract I had just hunted. It wasn’t an easy item to sell, and since I’d just come into a fortune, I sold the Dung Eater extract to him for cheap."

As Draco spoke, Su Ze and Mr. Ya exchanged a look. They finally understood the origin of the Tier 1 Dung Eater extract Mr. Ya had absorbed all those years ago.

It seemed Draco had no idea what was so special about that Tier 1 Dung Eater either.

As for the origin of the Void skill, the two were still unable to determine it. They just suspected it was related to the rotting corpse Draco had discovered.

Draco continued his story. Afterward, he began carefully selling off the various treasures in the ring. He didn’t sell them to a single Evolution Store. Instead, he sold them off piece by piece, visiting several stores every so often to sell a few items at a time.

To his regret, while he thought this approach would be more cautious and keep him from attracting attention, it actually increased his risk of exposure.

He would have been better off finding a large Evolution Store, like Evolutionary Technology, and selling everything in one go or in batches.

That way, he would only have had to gamble on the integrity of a single store. But by selling the items separately, he had to gamble on the integrity of every store he visited.

As a result, he had sold less than half of the items in his Storage Ring when someone came knocking.

The person who came for him was none other than the short black man from the illusion. He had tracked Draco down through the Evolution Items he’d been selling.

To this day, Draco still doesn’t know the short black man’s name, only that he was a black man who reeked of a foul stench.

Su Ze’s eyes flashed. ’A foul stench? A Tainted One?’

There are no black people on the Lin Hua Continent. To be precise, almost all of Blue Star’s black population is concentrated on the Flame Emperor Continent.

Based on the two clues of "foul stench" and "black man," he could determine that this was a Tainted One from the Flame Emperor Continent.

Tainted Ones existed not only on the Lin Hua Continent but also on the Snowfield and Flame Emperor Continents. However, he had no way of knowing if the Tainted Ones over there belonged to the Filth Earth Organization.

Now that a Tainted One was involved, Su Ze dropped all pretense of politeness. He retracted the Charming Fox Tail and demanded, "What did he want from you?"

Draco snapped out of it as if waking from a dream. He was dazed for several seconds before he remembered what had just happened.

’I told him everything!’

His face went pale. He stammered and stuttered, unable to get a single word out.

Su Ze had no choice but to use his mental pressure. A terrifying psychic force enveloped Draco, making him tremble like a leaf in his terror.

"Speak. What did he want from you?" Su Ze asked, his voice low and heavy.

Draco finally buckled under the pressure and spoke. "He came to me to trade for something. He knew I’d gotten the Storage Ring from that corpse, but he wasn’t interested in any of the Evolution Items inside. All he wanted was a single, ordinary-looking puzzle piece."

"I didn’t know what that puzzle piece in the Storage Ring was, so I never sold it to any of the Evolution Stores. But he offered a hefty price for it. I realized then that the puzzle piece might be something special, but it was useless to me, so I sold it to him."

A puzzle piece!

Su Ze’s pupils contracted sharply.

’One of the four puzzle pieces to the mysterious inheritance?’

Su Ze thought for a moment, then used the shape-shifting ability of his Liquid Life to form a replica of Mr. Ke’s puzzle piece. "Was it a puzzle piece like this?" he asked.

"Yes!" Draco nodded emphatically.

’So it really is one of the puzzle pieces that serves as a key to the inheritance.’ Although he hadn’t obtained the piece itself, Su Ze felt the trip had been worthwhile. At the very least, he now had a lead on one of them.

Counting the piece in Mr. Ke’s possession, the one Su Ze himself had, and the one now in the hands of the short black man, three of the puzzle pieces had now surfaced.

Only the final piece remained missing.

"And then? Keep talking!"

Su Ze had a feeling things weren’t that simple. There had to be more clues to uncover.

Under Su Ze’s mental pressure, Draco didn’t dare to hide anything and recounted the subsequent events in full detail.

After their deal was concluded, the short black man had asked him a few questions, such as whether he had found anything else near the rotting corpse.

But Draco truly hadn’t found anything else; his only discovery was the Storage Ring.

As for the Tier 1 Dung Eater he had hunted before discovering the corpse, he saw it as an insignificant detail and didn’t mention it at all.

Draco recalled that after the short black man confirmed he wasn’t lying, he had looked visibly disappointed.

Afterward, the short black man warned Draco not to tell anyone about their transaction and offered him a well-paying job.

"My job is to periodically purchase items for the organization he works for, including daily necessities, food, some evolution materials, medicine, and so on. Someone contacts me and sends me a shopping list. After I’ve bought everything, I have to deliver it outside the city, where someone will be waiting to receive the goods," Draco said.

"Do you know who they are?" Su Ze’s gaze was like a dagger, piercing straight into Draco’s heart.