Michael believed that the Cethos government would never buy Phantom Wolf’s services. Cethos was not a small country and it had a strong military force, so it did not need to borrow Phantom Wolf’s power. So that just left a few consortiums and aristocratic families as the suspects.
Cethos was a country with a long history and had many aristocratic families. Although there had been wars in recent years and many aristocratic families had disappeared as a result, there were still some tenacious families that had survived and were very powerful.
For example, the Fletchers, the Winstons, the Mitchells and the Edwards.
The Fletchers were a military family and were all loyal to the country. They had produced many great heroes and generals but bore a grudge with Phantom Wolf, so obviously, the Fletchers weren’t the ones who used Phantom Wolf.
As for the Winstons, they had always mingled with people from the underground world… If it was the former family head, it was highly possible that they had used Phantom Wolf because he was merciless and cruel. Unfortunately, more than ten years ago, an illegitimate son of the head of the Winston Family suddenly killed him to seize power. Using bloody means, he ruthlessly suppressed the Winstons and killed almost all of his siblings.
The mother of that illegitimate son was an insignificant stripper who accidentally got pregnant with the head of the Winston Family’s child. The child was named Harry Winston after he was born.
Things were always unpredictable in life. The head of the Winston Family had so many legitimate and illegitimate children, and it was publicly known that he had three or four mistresses. But only Harry, the illegitimate son of an inconspicuous stripper, completely inherited his father’s mind and cruelty, who then fought his way up to the top while eliminating his brothers and sisters along the way.
Harry Winston… It was impossible as well. He and Michael had known each other since college and had worked together ever since. Michael had faith in him, so it was impossible that the Winstons would buy Phantom Wolf’s services.
So the only one left was the Edwards Family.
The head of the Edwards Family, Jordan Edwards, who was also the father of Lucy Edwards, was a true equal of Cooper Mitchell. He was very likely the patron behind Phantom Wolf because he had both the means and motive to buy Phantom Wolf’s services!
After Michael analyzed the situation, he came up with a few people based on his judgement, then finally narrowed down the list to a few suspects and focused on investigating them. Linus had a list of suspects as well.
After he was finished with everything, Michael felt mentally and physically tired. He massaged his temples and went back to his room to sleep. He set the alarm to ring at five thirty in the morning because he wanted to do it before going out.
Because it was a sudden decision to visit the temple in the mountains, they only began to pack their luggage the next morning.
Sophia packed her own luggage. Because there was snow on the mountain and it would be cold, Sophia packed the sweaters Nicholas had knitted. While she packed her travel kit , hygiene kit and some snacks, she asked Michael, “Are we bringing Nate along?”
Michael was in the middle of a shave and replied, “No, it will be a long hike up to the mountain, so he might get lost. Besides, he has to go to school.”
“Then are we bringing the dogs with us?” Sophia asked another question.
“It would be troublesome, so no,” Michael replied.
Sophia gave it a thought. It really did seem troublesome.
After having breakfast and seeing Nate off to school, Michael started putting their luggage into the car. He was just done putting in the luggage and Sophia had just gotten in the car when something suddenly jumped into the car and refused to get out. Michael frowned and pulled the leash to drag Judge out. “Stupid dog, get out!”
Judge didn’t move and refused to get out. It then curled up beside Sophia, and there was a bag of biscuits in its mouth. It probably knew they were going to travel, so it had prepared its own food.
Sophia patted its head and laughed. “Let’s just bring the dog along… Judge would be bored being alone at home.”
Judge barked softly to agree with her but when it looked toward Michael, there was a little bit of fear in its eyes.
Michael was left speechless. He put Nicholas into the car as well then started the engine, and the four of them set off for the outskirts.
They would be gone for a few days as Michael had planned for a pilgrimage. If the spirit in the first mountain was not efficacious, then they would go visit a few more mountains. There was bound to be a Saint Mary that was efficacious.
If worshiping Saint Mary wasn’t enough, then they would worship the Daoist Three Pure Ones, Jesus and God too.
So this is Mr. Eighty Thousand’s lair…
So there are cable cars now. It makes sense because who would want to walk up there? Of course they would choose to ride the cable cars to get up the mountain.
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