This is much more troublesome than money... Jiang Baimian, who only had two Grand Knight gold coins on her, sighed inwardly upon hearing Aister's request.

She asked:

"What is it?

"If it's too difficult and beyond our capabilities, we'll have to give up."

She deliberately avoided showing that they were determined to get it, to prevent Aister from demanding an exorbitant price.

That would only make the situation more difficult to handle and more likely to put themselves in a bind.

Shang Jianyao didn't make any "woo-woo" sounds, nor did he nod or shake his head, cooperating quite well.

Aister seemed to fall into recollection, and after a while, he said:

"What I want you to help with might be very dangerous for others. No one would be willing to take it on except for those who have only one life left and nothing else. But you are different."

"Mr. Aister, aren't you overestimating us?" Jiang Baimian frowned slightly, asking back without any blind arrogance.

Although the "Old Task Force's" strength could be considered outstanding in the Greylands, after all, Shang Jianyao was among the most powerful below the "New World" experts, and the "New World" experts rarely had the freedom to move around and acted very infrequently. However, having experienced so many things, Jiang Baimian didn't dare to be complacent. Not to mention the ruins hiding all sorts of dangers that perhaps only "New World" experts could withstand to some extent, just the Awakened's fragile physical bodies required one to be on their guard.

It wasn't as if there hadn't been powerful Awakened who were overturned in a ditch and died at the hands of weaker ability users or even ordinary people!

Aister revealed a smile:

"What I mean isn't that the danger of the matter is nothing to you, but that even if it has a very high risk, you should still do it, and most likely will do it."

"Is that so?" Jiang Baimian tried hard to show her confusion, incomprehension, and worry to highlight her lack of confidence in her strength.

Aister's gaze swept back and forth across her and Shang Jianyao's faces, and he smiled slightly:

"The matter you are investigating is clearly related to Koninmis. The regret I want you to help me make up for is also related to Koninmis. Therefore, I have reason to believe that even if you know that Koninmis is a very dangerous place now and no one who entered before has been able to come out, you will still go there and give it a try."

Jiang Baimian was silent for a moment and said:

"That depends on whether the final reason can convince us.

"Compared to life, some things are not so important."

Aister nodded:

"Then listen to my request first."

He emphasized the word "request."

"Please speak," Jiang Baimian responded solemnly. Shang Jianyao also put on a serious face.

Aister revealed a look of reminiscence:

"You should already know that Koninmis was destroyed in a disaster twelve years ago."

Without waiting for Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao to answer "yes" or "no," he continued on his own:

"It was a sudden outbreak of 'Heartless Disease.' Since the destruction of the Old World, there has never been such a thing.

"Of course, all of this is just hearsay because there are no true eyewitnesses, and no one who entered afterward came out."

"Then..." Shang Jianyao finally couldn't help but try to speak, but Aister's and Sandro's suddenly sharp gazes blocked his words.

Jiang Baimian roughly guessed what he meant and took the initiative to ask:

"Then who said that?"

"Initially, it was the trading caravans that used to trade there. They hadn't even entered Koninmis when they encountered the overflowing 'Heartless,' and they realized that something was wrong," Aister explained in detail. "They sent people to detour and climb the mountains west of Koninmis, using the terrain advantage and telescopes to observe the situation inside. They found that all they saw were 'Heartless,' not a single living person.

"The caravan returned to Gestaltburg in panic, believing that Koninmis had suffered a major outbreak of 'Heartless Disease.' Afterward, everyone sent people to wait at several entrances and exits of Koninmis for a period of time. They didn't wait for a single survivor, but instead encountered several attacks by 'Heartless.'

"Therefore, we suspect that Koninmis has become like the ruined cities of the Old World's early destruction, a paradise for the 'Heartless.' This is dangerous, but it also means wealth. When the coldest season on the Icefield passed, those who knew the specific location of Koninmis launched an adventure, wanting to obtain valuable materials from that ruined city. As a result, not a single person returned."

Jiang Baimian had heard this past from the leader of the "Far Reachers" merchant group, Smith, and it wasn't a secret in Gestaltburg.

She nodded almost imperceptibly and said to Aister:

"Continue."

This "continue" meant to continue talking about the matter he wanted to entrust to them.

Aister seemed to be in a daze for a moment:

"You were able to find me because you must know that I used to have close business cooperation with Koninmis. I had a company there and lived there for five or six months every year.

"In this life, I betrayed my marriage, let down my wife, and had a lover in Koninmis. That lover also bore me two children, a son and a daughter.

"I am very lucky that when the 'Heartless Disease' broke out in Koninmis, I was in Gestaltburg, with my family. But my lover and my two children were all in Koninmis at the time..."

Aister's voice gradually lowered.

——The "White Knights" follow the knightly code of conduct, emphasizing loyalty, promoting simplicity and moderation, and stipulating that they can only have one spouse.

Jiang Baimian didn't comment on Aister's private affairs, patiently waiting for him to recover. Shang Jianyao looked like he wanted to criticize, but he couldn't speak.

After a while, Aister regained his composure and continued:

"I have no hope that they are still alive or that they haven't turned into 'Heartless.' My request is that if you ultimately choose to enter Koninmis, then help me go to another home where I lived for many years and retrieve their remains. If there are no remains there, then bring back my children's toy bear, any box of building blocks, and an item belonging to my lover, so that I can have something in my hand to remember them by and not regret having nothing."

"We'll consider it," Jiang Baimian secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

This task didn't conflict with the "Old Task Force's" investigation of Koninmis.

Jiang Baimian then pointed out a difficulty:

"But we don't know where your residence in Koninmis is located."

"Once you decide to go, I will give you a city map of Koninmis and circle my residence there." Aister was indeed quite familiar with Koninmis.

Jiang Baimian hummed and nodded lightly:

"Now, you need to give us a reason to enter Koninmis."

That was what Shang Jianyao's father's old task force had asked about here.

"How did it unknowingly turn into me begging you to listen to that intelligence?" Aister smiled self-deprecatingly while handing the photo in his hand to Sandro, asking him to return it to Shang Jianyao.

After Shang Jianyao took the photo, Aister once again showed a reminiscing expression:

"They gave me some effective bio-agents. In exchange, I told them a rumor I had heard in Koninmis.

"The Koninmis Council of Sages, yes, the people who ruled Koninmis, had been promoting something, which was that Koninmis didn't suffer much damage during the destruction of the Old World, nor did many cases of 'Heartless Disease' appear because Koninmis was unique and blessed by the gods.

"This doesn't sound like much, it only proves that they have a tendency to become religious. But later, one of my partners drank the liquor I secretly brewed, and got so drunk that he was confused and told me a message:

"Behind the Council of Sages is a big shot. He is the actual leader of Koninmis. He is the real reason why Koninmis was spared from the outbreak of 'Heartless Disease' and the devastating blow. He calls himself the Son of the Year God."

Son of the Year God... Jiang Baimian frowned:

"Which Year God?"

"I don't know that," Aister rubbed his eyes, looking very tired. "If there's nothing else, you can leave. When you decide to enter Koninmis, come to me for the map."

"Alright," Jiang Baimian didn't tell Aister now that they had already made up their minds and would definitely enter Koninmis in a little over a week.

Aister leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes. Sandro took his boss's place and saw Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian downstairs.

On the way, he couldn't help but ask after being silent for a long time:

"Did you take on the task of protecting the goods to create an opportunity to use your abilities on me and have me bring you to see the boss?"

Jiang Baimian chuckled:

"It's actually a coincidence.

"We came from afar, and the supplies we carried were almost used up. We didn't want to cause any trouble in Gestaltburg that would affect our investigation of the relevant intelligence, so we could only take on some tasks with decent rewards and moderate difficulty at the Hunters Guild."

"From afar" could be the southernmost part of the "White Knights" territory, or even further away.

Sandro was silent again.

He didn't expect that a mere two Grand Knight gold coins had attracted such a group of people.