CH 497

That youth was either a liar, or a big shot. This matter was important so he couldn’t act rashly. After thinking about it for a bit, Gerrard was forced to make a decision, he would first treat him with the respect as deserving of Gotham’s dragon, but reject all his requests until Deborah returns.

“Lin Xiao… is it? Sorry, my knowledge is limited and I can’t verify whether it’s authentic or not, so I can only ask for you to please wait until our manager Deborah returns… how about that?”

“Tsk, how troublesome… when is she coming back?” Lin Xiao shoved the badge back into his pockets and was clearly unhappy.

“I’m not sure, but should be soon.”

“Okay, I can wait… but, can we get some food? I haven’t eaten anything all day.”

Lin Xiao held his shriveled stomach and turned to look at Elena and ShenDai Ying who were both also awkwardly holding their stomachs and knew they were hungry as well, so he made the request.

“Uh… you want to eat something at a time like this? Do you not feel nervous at all…”

“Hm? Deputy manager Gerrard, did you say something?”

“N-nothing! Food is it? No problem! Please wait a bit, I’ll immediately get someone to prepare something that will satisfy you!”

Gerrard wanted to complain but didn’t dare say it out loud and could only suppress his suspicion and wait for Deborah to return.

But Bacon couldn’t stand seeing him shirk his responsibilities!

“Wait! What’s the meaning of this?”

Bacon got impatient when he saw Gerrard trying to escape to the kitchen with the excuse of preparing a meal, so he quickly stopped Gerrard by pulling his sleeves.

“Gerrard, you’re the deputy manager, you can’t ignore this!”

“Baron Bacon, I do want to take care of it, but I really don’t know whether it’s authentic or not.”

“Nonsense! Didn’t you see it before? And luminous gold should have its unique characteristic, so you should be able to tell when you touch it… since you touched it earlier, did you feel its effects?”

“Uh… no.”

“No? Hah! Since you didn’t, then that means he’s a liar! Why aren’t you getting someone to arrest him!?”

“Wait! Baron Bacon, I don’t think it’s that simple, although I didn’t feel its warming effects, the craftsmanship was exquisite, it doesn’t seem like an imitation, so I think…”

“Fool! Since it isn’t made of luminous gold, then it must be fake no matter the craftsmanship, what are you worried about?”

“Right, but…”

Gerrard couldn’t refute Bacon, but he still felt uneasy… Could there be some reason that made the luminous gold lose its effects temporarily?

Although it was just Gerrard being prudent as usual, this time he was right!

There are two special cases where the luminous gold may temporarily lose its effects: when its stored energy was drained, or being suppressed by a powerful source of energy.

The chances of these two cases happening were extremely low, but Lin Xiao coincidentally managed to encounter both!

First, because of Lin Xiao’s unique skill of accumulating magic power while sleeping, that badge wasn’t able to escape being drained dry a day before.

Second, Lin Xiao was on the cusp of breaking through to the eighth level so he himself was just a walking energy source!

Even Lin Xiao himself never expected that it would be to his strong magic power that temporarily suppressed the effects of the luminous gold so that Gerrard couldn’t verify his identity. Which gave Bacon his confidence to strike back!

“Gerrard, you’re sure that it’s not luminous gold yet you’re not doing anything, are you trying to protect this liar!? Or are you actually working with him to try and trick us while Deborah isn’t here!?”

“Baron Bacon, don’t be ridiculous! How could I be working with him!?”

“Then prove it!”

“How?”

“Call the guards to arrest him!”

“That…”

Gerrard clenched his jaws but still couldn’t easily make a decision.

Bacon saw him hesitating and snorted and knew that it was time to give him one more push!

“Gerrard, watch closely! I’m going to expose that kid right now!”

Bacon confidently walked to the center and stopped the kid that was about to go get some food.

“Damn kid, stop! You have to answer a question before you can eat.”

“What question?”

“It’s simple, let me ask you…. do you know what that badge is?”

Everyone was confused when they heard Bacon’s question. Wasn’t it too stupid? Everyone has heard of the legends so how could he not know? No matter if he was truly Lin Xiao or not, he would surely know, otherwise he wouldn’t have used it to prove his identity.

But Lin Xiao awkwardly scratched his head and feebly responded, “I heard you guys mention it earlier and it seems to be called Gotham’s dragon?”

“You heard us? So… you didn’t know!?”

“I didn’t know.”

“What!?”