Volume 7 Chapter 9 - You Are More Valuable (1/2)

Winnie and Joshua were limited to the horse carriage, they couldn’t see what was happening outside. However, based on the sunlight that came into the horse carriage, they could tell a few things.

The horse carriage was naturally not as fast as the Magic Sedan, so once it started moving, it shouldn’t have gone north first, but rather to the northwest.

As well, the horse carriage only moved at twenty to thirty kilometers per hour and it had never stopped since they boarded. The sunlight that came from outside the window kept getting dimmer and soon they couldn’t see any light at all, which was when they made their first stop.

“Get out, we’re resting here first.”

The middle aged magician coldly said before looking at the two men who were keeping Joshua and Winnie in the horse carriage.

After the two got out, they found that they were at the foot of a barren hill and there weren’t any signs of civilization around them.

Even a road……they should have left the road at least two hours ago.

It was clear that the other side needed to keep their actions hidden, so they avoided places with many people and choosing to rest in this barren mountain was very normal.

Joshua looked into the west at the setting sun before looking at the stars that were in the sky above them, confirming that it was around seven at night.

As for where they were……Based on the estimate along the way, they should be already two hundred kilometers from where they had been kidnapped.

Based on the direction they had gone on, they should be close or at the border of the Falk Kingdom.

The only other country that bordered the Falk Kingdom in this direction other than the Antila Kingdom was a small duchy called the Yash Duchy.

As for where they were exactly, he couldn’t make that judgement.

Perhaps it was because they were a bit further away, the middle aged magician seemed to relax a bit. He indicated for the two of them to find a place to sit and after they sat down, they waited for the other men to cook dinner.

The men that the middle aged magician brought along seemed well trained and had experience camping, so it didn’t take them long to set up a small camp.

What surprised Joshua and Winnie and what they also found funny was that these two people didn’t build camp fires as they had expected. Rather they took out two Magic Stoves from another horse carriage and used the Magic Stoves to quickly make a simple dinner.

The fragrance spread all around them. When they had this meal that tasted decent, Winnie and Joshua couldn’t help mistaking that they weren’t kidnapped, but they had come here for a camping trip.

If it wasn’t for the people threatening them with blades, this might have been a good trip.

“Now can you tell me why you kidnapped us?” After Joshua had a few bites, he asked the middle aged magician this.

The middle aged magician looked at him before looking at Winnie beside him and gave a cold snort, “Kid, our main target is her, you’re not that important.”

Joshua was surprised. Winnie couldn’t help laughing before asking, “Why is my value higher than his?”

“It’s very simple. It’s because you are a researcher of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s magic research facility and this kid isn’t.”

Hearing this answer, Joshua and Winnie looked at each other before finally having some ideas in their hearts.

“This means that you are after her identity as a researcher. Then if my guesses aren’t wrong, you have ideas about the technology that she grasps?” Joshua asked.

The middle aged magician gave a snort, but he didn’t reply.

But based on the fact that he didn’t deny this, it meant that Joshua’s guess was right.

Joshua couldn’t help shaking his head, “Since it’s for technology, you clearly aren’t normal bandits and you even have a powerful magician here. You should have been sent by some country, right?”

“Stop guessing. When we get there, you’ll know.” The middle aged magician said in a deep voice.

Joshua couldn’t help shaking his head, “If it’s just for technology, your approach isn’t right. Winnie is only a normal researcher in the magic research facility, she only has a small part of the technology. It’s impossible to get the technological data that you want from her.”

“That’s right.” Winnie also said, “There are over one thousand and five hundred researchers at the magic research facility and each researcher only participates in certain projects. Even if you wanted me to hand you the data that I have, it won’t be of any use, not to mention that it wouldn’t help you manufacture any magic machines. Oh…..what you want the most is naturally the military magic machines and I’ve never worked on any projects related to the military magic machines before, so it’s no use if you catch me.”

The middle aged magician looked at Winnie without any expressions before taking out a small item from his chest.

“If you haven’t participated in them before, how did you get this thing?”

The small thing that he took out was the Magic Barrier Booster item that Winnie had before.

Winnie gave a shrug, “This was something that I got through internal channels to defend myself, that doesn’t mean that I participate in this project. Not to mention that even if I did, I wouldn’t be able to give you any valuable information. You might not know this, but in any research project, there would be at least several dozen or even several hundred researchers working on the same project. The role that a single person can play is limited.”

The middle aged magician focused on Winnie, trying to tell if she was telling the truth.

After a while, he shook his head and put the item back into his chest.

“No matter what, we’ll take what we can get.”

Winnie and Joshua looked at each other before giving nods at the same time.

They didn’t count on the other side letting them go with a conversation because they already spent that much effort in catching them, so it was impossible for them to be easily released.

But through this conversation, they had confirmed the other side’s goal.

Since they knew that the other side was definitely after the magic machine related material that Winnie as a Frestech Chamber of Commerce researcher had, they were much more relieved.

Of course, that didn’t mean that they were planning on just accepting it.