Chapter 327: Join forces vertically and horizontally to find the murderer!
Archmage Edgar's investigation is not going well.
He is a high-level mage, not a textbook on necromancy. He is not familiar enough with the various branches of plague magic and the subtle differences in the spellcasting methods of different magicians to see it at a glance. Throughout the day, Archmage Edgar took the on-site extraction
He searched all the high-level plague mages he knew to find the flesh and blood remains, but no one claimed them...
Even, no one gave him directions as to which one this mana wave looked like to me.
Archmage Edgar ran up and down for a whole day without success, so he had to come back to revive himself. The person who assigned him the task was the rotating committee member of the Necromancy School in the review meeting. After listening to Archmage Edgar complaining, he asked for a review.
When the Council authorized the investigation of the foreign mage tower, he twitched the corner of his mouth in a sinister manner and sighed:
"Outside? How far away?... 100 kilometers? 200 kilometers? How many mage towers of the Necromancy School are there within this range? How much time do you want to spend investigating, and how do you want to investigate? Should you ask them one by one? Or search
past?"
"this……"
Archmage Edgar didn't know how to answer for a moment. His strengths lie in research and teaching, so when the parliament held an elite class before, they caught him and gave lectures. But when it comes to investigation, detective work, etc., then he really isn't him.
Expertise...
When he encountered investigation needs during his adventures in the past, he relied on his teammates, asking about the undead, or crushing them with violence. Now that he was conducting an investigation in Nevis City, it wouldn't have much impact yet, so he used
I tried all my tracking magic and couldn't find anyone, so I was a little bit blind.
"Forget it, the Emergency Management Department is also investigating this matter... You go over and calm things down for them. If there is some information, you can suppress what should be suppressed."
Archmage Edgar was eager for this and went straight to the Emergency Management Department. In the past two days, the Emergency Management Department has also been turned upside down by the epidemic. It has to seal off the epidemic area, send patients, arrest people all over the city, and manage
Food, drink, and diarrhea in the entire hospital—yes, the last task was decisively handed over to the city hall. Even so, the entire emergency management department was also busy.
The most hateful thing is that after a hard day's work, you still have to use disinfectant to wash people, horses and cars, without missing a single drop!
The entire emergency management department was filled with complaints. After receiving the news from the review meeting and confirming that the epidemic had human factors, they hated the murderer with hatred. As soon as Johnny Colin, the head of the department, received the authorization, he immediately handed over the hospital affairs.
To his subordinates, he devoted himself to the pursuit of the murderer.
The job of the Emergency Management Department was originally to maintain order in the city and manage some unruly magicians. Johnny Colin was experienced in investigating cases and chasing down murderers, and he had a preliminary plan after hearing what the Archmage said.
While he arranged for his subordinates to collect information, he and Archmage Edgar personally found the water supply company and the owner of the 12 buildings, Viscount Callender.
Viscount Callender met them while holding back his anger. After serving tea according to aristocratic etiquette, he immediately started to attack:
"Minister Colin, in the past few years since you took office, my Callender family has not offended you, right? Why do you have to punish me like this? Take the sick people for treatment, that's fine, why bother sealing the entire neighborhood? What if?
If the news spreads and others think there is a ghost in the house, can I still rent this house?"
"Lord Viscount, I am afraid that these 12 buildings of yours cannot be rented out for the time being." Johnny Colin picked up the tea cup calmly. The level of tea in the cup was stable and stable:
"After identification, the water supply in your 12 buildings has been completely contaminated by plague seeds, and the residents inside may be infected at any time. We do not recommend that the houses continue to operate before the water sources, water supply pipelines, and the entire building are thoroughly cleaned.
rent."
"You..." Viscount Callender wanted to say, "You're talking nonsense!" However, Johnny Collin opposite him is the powerful minister of the Ministry of Emergency Management and controls the most important conventional force in the parliament; Edgar next to him is even more
High-level mage. When he finished speaking, he could only turn around:
"If you say this, you must have evidence!"
"The contamination of water pipes and water sources has been confirmed by the review committee." Colin's attitude was calm:
"Of course, as a noble, you have the right to request verification again. The verification personnel can be arranged by us, or you can invite familiar magicians to participate in supervision."
His tone was so calm and confident that Viscount Callender did not dare to make trouble. He thought for a while and asked:
“Then how far does it need to be cleaned??”
"Two options." Colin was confident: "One, you can find the Spring Water Temple - or any mage tower on your own, and use magic or divine magic to kill the plague seeds. Afterwards, as long as it passes our acceptance, the water supply can be restored.
"
Viscount Callender gasped. Looking for a temple or a mage tower, to put it simply, cleaning everything from the water source to the building, how many spells would it take? - Money, that's all money!
"What about the other plan?"
Minister Colin explained Gretel's plan in detail. Viscount Callender changed his expression halfway through hearing it. He endured the end and slammed the table with all his strength:
"You might as well let me demolish the building!"
...In fact, it is indeed more efficient to demolish buildings...
Minister Colin complained silently. He did not refute, but stared at Viscount Callender motionlessly with his sharp black eyes. The Viscount was a little weak at his sight. Thinking about his own losses, he could only continue to argue:
"How much does it cost to build 12 buildings, all the pipelines, and water sources? Will the parliament not come up with this money?"
"Of course not."
"Then I deserve to be unlucky?" Viscount Callender's anger rose again. Before he could hit the table again, a rare smile appeared on Minister Colin's face:
"of course not."
"According to our preliminary investigation, your water supply company was contaminated because someone cursed the animals near the water source." Archmage Edgar had been sitting quietly next to him, and now he said coldly:
"Your Majesty the Viscount, don't you want to know who did such a despicable thing and then get back the losses from him?"
"...How do I catch him?"
"The parliament has dedicated people to do this." Minister Colin smiled:
"But I need your cooperation. Your Excellency, Viscount, have you taken anyone to the water source or the mountains and forests near the water source in the past two weeks? If not, can we ask the guards who guard the water source?
Have you seen anyone suspicious?"
"...But, the family has a villa there. In the past two weeks, we held two banquets there, and many people went hunting in the woods..."
"That's even more dangerous." Archmage Edgar sighed. "You may not know that if a person eats a cursed animal, he will be like those patients in the hospital - maybe even worse. The person who gave the curse doesn't care about you.
His life, why do you care about him?"
The furious Viscount Callender took the initiative to provide the list of visitors. Not only that, he also asked the butler to take the personnel of the Emergency Management Department to go to each visiting noble house to inquire one by one. Of course, there were no guards guarding the water source.
Missed...
At the same time, the subordinates sent by Minister Colin also obtained another list from the guard office of the city's public water source.
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