The boy did not agree, though. "Since the body of the old woman has been found, we must know what happened to the young one just to be safe. Finding her corpse will be the surest way to determine her death. Her being alive will cause problems for us eventually."
His assistant nodded in agreement but added with some hesitation, "It's not easy to locate a body in the vast Eastern Sea, but I'll do my best; I just can't promise anything."
The boy tidied the stack of notes on his table and mulled over his words with pursed lips.
Indeed, trying to look for a body in the sea was akin to searching for a needle in a haystack.
After a while, he instructed, "You try to see if you can enlist the help of the local fishermen there. As they go out fishing regularly, they may discover something before us. If they find something suspicious, tell them to inform us immediately. We have to seal the news before they call the police."
His henchman nodded in acquiescence.
