"What are you staring at?" After Abel hung up the phone, he looked at the trantor whose face was


    pale white. He then realized that she could understand what he was saying.


    He figured this woman must have been scared by what he had just said.


    However, Abel did not intend to exin anything to her. He hired her to be his trantor, and he was


    the boss. Did it matter if she heard the threats?


    She did not have any evidence to prove anything about him.


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    "I''m sorry, Mr. Abel." The trantor came back to her senses after thinking about how frightening he


    was. She apologized to Abel with a lowered head. Then, she asked, "Would you like to look around


    now?"


    Abel looked disdainfully at the bustling venue.


    Initially, there were not many people who came to theworking event. Now, it was crowded all


    because of Luke.


    Moreover, the venue was mostly open-air. Even though there wererge fans blowing air around, as


    the afternoon approached, the weather became increasingly hot and humid.


    Abel, being a native Russian, could not tolerate such humidity.


    However, he needed to help Shanks find medicinal herbs now. Abel nced around the venue. He


    could not spot Shanks and had no idea where he had gone.


    Shanks was a medical genius who was particrly passionate about researching naturopathy.


    He believed it was something passed down from the millennia-old civilization of A City. It was far


    superior to Western medicine, with plenty of room for research.


    Therefore, whenever he encountered herbal medicine, he would be excited to study it thoroughly.


    "Where did he go..." Abel could not help but wonder. None of the others on the Ind of Despair had a


    talent for medicine, and neither did he.


    Still, he needed to help now. Without Shanks, he figured he could easily be deceived at any moment.


    "Are you referring to Mr. Shanks?" asked the trantor. Shanks understood English. Even though he


    could not speak fluently, regrmunication posed no problem.


    Therefore, the trantor''s most important task was to trante for Abel.


    "Did you see him?" Abel nced at her.


    The trantor replied, "When you were on the phone earlier, Mr. Shanks was still over there..."


    She pointed in the direction of a stall where Shanks was no longer present. "He was talking to those


    medicine vendors. I don''t know where he went now. Would you like to give him a call?"


    "No need." Abel remembered Shanks mentioning something about acting separately earlier.


    After all, saving Kassy was not Shanks'' responsibility.


    They had to split up and act separately.


    "Okay." The trantor felt a bit puzzled but did not continue speaking. Then, she heard Abel say, "Let''s


    go. We''ll check out the stalls now. I need to find some herbs, and you''ll help me with the trantion."


    "Sure, Mr. Abel," agreed the trantor.


    They walked among the various stalls.


    On the other hand, Luca had been browsing for a long time and had talked to some medicine vendors.


    However, none of them had the herbs Shanks needed.


    After a while, Warren approached with a serious expression on his face. "Dr. Craw."


    "What''s the matter?" Luca was already irritated.


    "Mr. Turner said he found one of the herbs Mr. Crawford wants. Do you have any specific instructions?"


    Warren ryed Luke''s message to him.


    Abel was present, and Luke did not want Luca to follow him around.


    "Found it?" Luca knew that the herb Mr. Turner was looking for was the same herb Shanks needed.


    She did not know how Luke managed to find out what Shanks and the others wanted, but it was


    obvious that he did.


    Otherwise, Warren would not havee to inform her.


    "Yes." Warren nodded, confirming it once again.


    "Alright, I got it. Please inform Mr. Turner to..." Luca quietly exined some things to Warren.


    There were many people at the venue. Their behavior did not seem abrupt, so the others did not pay


    much attention to them.


    Warren noted Luca''s instructions and then nodded before leaving.


    Ten minutester, Luca received a call. She checked her phone. It was from Warren. She answered,


    "How''s it going?"


    "Dr. Craw, we’ve followed your instructions. I''ve also confirmed that it''s the herbs you need. I''ll send


    you the stall location now," replied Warren.


    "Good," responded Luca.


    She hung up the phone and received a message from Warren with information about the stall.


    Luca knew that Evan must have found this stall under Luke''s arrangement.


    She had just instructed Warren to have Evan privately purchase some medicinal herbs to confirm if


    they were what they wanted.


    Evan offered some benefits to convince the herbalist to sell the herbs to him. If the herbs were what


    they wanted, they would buy them all regardless of the price.


    The herbalist could not resist this temptation and agreed directly.


    Now that Luke''s men had confirmed it, the herbs sold by the herbalist were indeed the ones Shanks


    needed.


    Luca had to go to the stall to negotiate with the owner now.


    She followed the location Warren sent to her earlier and arrived in front of the herbalist.


    The herbalist''s business was not doing very well. The other stalls were surrounded by several people,


    but there were not many people at the herbalist''s stall.


    When the herbalist saw Luca approaching, he immediately noticed thepany name on the permit


    badge on her chest. He asked with a smile, "Miss, are you here to buy some medicinal herbs?"


    "Yes, my colleague bought some herbs from you just now, and they''ve been confirmed to be genuine.


    I''d like to purchase the remaining herbs,” replied Luca.


    "Really?" The herbalist''s eyes lit up. He did not have much hope for the deal just now. Those herbs


    were poisonous and had little medicinal value for pharmaceuticalpanies.


    "Yes, it''s true. How much do you have?" asked Luca.


    "I don''t have much of it either. Even though this herb is effective, most people don''t grasp its medicinal


    value, so there''s hardly any market for it. Nobody bothers to grow it.


    "It just popped up in my medicinal field one day, and I thought, why not leave it be? Plus, if it''s meant to


    grow on mynd, there might be some special reason for it, so I left it alone.


    "I didn''t expect apany to actually have a use for it." The herbalist did not expect that the herbs he


    nted would bring him profit. He happily told Luca how the herb came about but did not mention


    exactly how much of it he had.


    After the herbalist finished speaking, Luca patiently asked again, "So how much of it do you actually


    have?"


    "Not much, just ten kilograms at most," replied the herbalist. Even though he called it an empty patch of


    He felt that even for the medicinal herbs in demand in the market, this small space was insufficient. He


    could not be bothered to remove the herbs, so he let them grow freely.


    However, he did not tend to them much, so the yield was not high.


    At this moment, the herbalist regretted it. If he had known that someone needed this herb, he would


    have cultivated and nted more.


    "I''ll take it all. How much?" said Luca. She quicklyposed a message on her phone to inform Abel


    of the progress on her end.


    Shanks had requested five types of medicinal herbs, and now, through Luke''s contacts, she had found


    one of them.


    The herbalist did not expect Luca to be so straightforward. He reckoned that she must be desperate to


    get the herbs, so he decided to ask for a hefty price...