Chapter 129
129: Is She Going to Just Come Out and Explode?
Seeing that Jasmine's attention was finally no longer on the cabinet behind her, Evelia breathed a sigh of relief while hurriedly telling Jasmine everything about Victor in detail. She also pulled Jasmine to sit on the sofa as far from the cabinet as possible while handing her the ledger to examine.
Just as Evelia had expected, after seeing the information recorded in the ledger, Jasmine's expression grew darker and more somber.
Finally, she slammed the ledger shut and angrily threw it onto the coffee table.
"Victor actually dares to do such a thing!? Does he really think that just because he's old, no one will dare touch him!?"
"Um... Miss Jasmine, please calm down. The most urgent matter right now is to investigate where exactly those children were sold to, and what the buyers' intentions were in purchasing these children..."
"Hah! No need to think about it; it definitely won't be as simple as ordinary trafficking! This is an orphanage. If people wanted children, they could come here to adopt them directly. Why spend a large sum of money to buy them? What's more..."
As she spoke, Jasmine picked up the ledger she had thrown on the coffee table, casually flipped to a page, and pointed at two identical runes following different names as she said to Evelia:
"These runes clearly represent the buyers who purchased the children, and in this ledger, over half of the 'buyers' are represented by the same rune! What does this mean? It means that old bastard Victor has a long-term regular 'customer'!"
Goodness, Jasmine was clearly really angry right now! If Evelia remembered correctly, Church Saints weren't allowed to use profanity. Now Jasmine was already so emotionally agitated that she was cursing Victor as an "old bastard." Even if this still couldn't compare to certain modern profanity, for Jasmine as a Saint, this was definitely already an expression of extreme anger and being completely unhinged.
But speaking of which... a customer. Just thinking about this, even Evelia couldn't help but shudder. There were simply too many points here that could make one's imagination run wild! Ask yourself, what would one person want with so many children? Or perhaps this customer wasn't an individual but some organization. But even for an organization, needing so many children in just a few years was clearly abnormal!
Organ trafficking? Or something even darker, something even more unspeakable?
Damn! If she could, Evelia wanted to rush out right now and put a bullet in that old bastard Victor's head!
"Sigh... Miss Evelia, next I need to contact headquarters to investigate some things. It won't take long. We'll have results before today's activity ends... For an old fox like Victor, if we directly accuse him, he'll definitely use the excuse that the Church regularly transfers children to monasteries to argue his way out. Just this ledger and An An's accusation aren't enough to directly bring him down... Under normal circumstances, investigation and evidence gathering takes quite a while. He would definitely take advantage of that time to find every way to escape. But unfortunately for him, I'm here today... Hmph! Daring to do such things in secret, I won't let the Executors go easy on him!"
An An looked curiously at Jasmine, whose face had reddened somewhat from anger. Although she couldn't understand some of the specialized terms this sister was using, she could still understand the general meaning... Probably, this sister was going to bring that Director who did all those bad things to justice? She didn't seem as bad as Lady Lina had said...
"Sigh... I'm very sorry, Miss Evelia. You've only just joined the Church, and you've already discovered such a scandal... Please don't develop a prejudice against the Church because of this. People like Victor are just extremely rare individual cases. Most everyone in the Church is still working hard for humanity's future..."
Jasmine pinched the bridge of her nose with a headache, trying to calm her emotions as much as possible, and spoke to Evelia with a slight tone of apology. Evelia nodded in understanding while subconsciously glancing a few times in the direction where Lina was hiding... What she didn't know was that all her little movements had long been observed by Jasmine. Jasmine first hesitated slightly, then turned to An An, who was sitting to the side watching them with curiosity, and said:
"Little An An, Luo Xin and the others are still waiting for you downstairs~ Can you go down by yourself? This Miss Evelia and I still have some private matters to discuss."
"Oh... okay..."
For An An, she had originally been hiding from adults because she was afraid there might be accomplices working with Director Victor among them. But since her Lady Lina had personally said that this Miss Evelia was a good person, and the white-haired big sister next to her who looked a lot like Lady Lina had also said she would help take down the bad Director, then they must all be good people! An An had also noticed while hiding and observing earlier that the beautiful golden-haired sister downstairs seemed to have a good relationship with Evelia, so by extension, she should be a good person too. There was no need to keep hiding from her.
Therefore, after Jasmine gently asked her to go down, she obediently did as told.
Actually, An An had always been a very obedient good child~
And now, what remained in the room were only a bewildered Evelia and a helpless-looking Jasmine.
"Miss Evelia... please understand, I don't mean to rush you... I just want to know, regarding my sister Lina whom I previously asked you to search for, is there... any result now?"
"Ah... well, about that..."
Evelia was very nervous. She wasn't clear why Jasmine would bring up this matter at this particular moment. Clearly there were already matters just as urgent, or even more important, waiting for Jasmine to handle right now. Yet she still specially chose this time and place to ask Evelia this question. It was hard not to suspect she had discovered something.
"If not, that's fine... After all, that child has been away from home for so long, and even we haven't been able to find her. Relying only on your power, Miss Evelia, it would indeed be somewhat difficult..."
Jasmine slowly rose from the sofa, deliberately or not walking to the bookshelf. As she spoke, she reached her hand toward the bookshelf while Evelia watched in terror. Then, seeming unintentional, she picked up a book from the shelf and began casually flipping through it.
"Did you know? Miss Evelia, that child Lina... actually liked me a lot when she was little!"
"Um... I'm not really clear about the past between you and your sister, Miss Jasmine..."
Evelia's gaze remained nervously fixed on the cabinet in front of Jasmine. At the same time, she also noticed the tuft of white hair extending from the cabinet gap. Although it seemed Jasmine hadn't discovered its existence yet, if this continued, Lina being exposed was only a matter of time!
What was more critical... when Jasmine said that sentence "Lina liked me a lot when she was little," Evelia clearly saw that tuft of white hair suddenly twitch violently! She was now genuinely worried that it wouldn't be Jasmine actively discovering the hiding Lina, but rather Lina, having her sore spot poked, actively running out to explode at Jasmine...