Chapter 328: Is the suspect absconding out of fear of crime?
Holding the two lists in hand, comparing them carefully one by one, this is a big project. Minister Colin was so busy that he even stopped drinking coffee. He held a piece of parchment in one hand and looked at each other until his eyes almost became cross-eyed:
"This one has only been there once...this one too...this one has never been to a public water source...this one has not been either..."
There were not many nobles attending the banquet and hunting, so it was easier to check. But Minister Colin thought with his toes, and he didn't think that the necromancer who cursed would use his true identity to sneak into the team. Most of them would still pretend to be servants or guards.
, or simply avoid people and sneak in?
Regarding the latter possibility, he had already asked the staff guarding the sand table if anything unusual had happened in the past few days.
Archmage Edgar also watched with him. Even if he had never seen the Necromancer in Nevis, he had probably heard the name. At this moment, the two of them turned over page after page. Edgar
The Archmage suddenly said "Hey":
"What is this family doing here?"
"Which one?"
Johnny Colin immediately turned over to look. Archmage Edgar pointed at a line of names:
"Baroness Hopman? Still have time to attend the banquet? - Their eldest son just died!"
"...Perhaps the relationship between the Baroness and her son is not good?" Minister Colin speculated. "Why are you particularly concerned about this?"
"Their family has a grudge against Little Gretel!"
In order to prevent the Baron's family from retaliating, Linn reported to the teacher the story of their feud as soon as they came back from the banquet. After listening to Archmage Edgar's account, Minister Colin burst into action:
"...It's indeed suspicious! This clue needs to be investigated carefully!"
The results of the survey were not so optimistic.
The Baron's eldest son, Knight Hopman, died recently. The second son, who had been sick for many years and had no sense of presence, had to be hurriedly pushed to the stage. In order to make him familiar to the aristocratic circle, starting from the funeral of Knight Hopmann, the Baron and Baroness brought him to the stage.
The second son and his wife were active in the surrounding social circles. The banquet at Viscount Calderon's house was just a stop in their social activities, and there was nothing unusual about it.
According to the memories of the housekeeper and waiter of the Viscount's family, when the Baroness came to the banquet, there were no strange people in the party...
"It's really not them?" Archmage Edgar put down the report in a daze. Minister Colin frowned and shook his head:
"No, let's check again. I have a hunch that there is something wrong with their family——"
He dove into the pile of information. Personnel lists, movement trajectories, past information, family relationships... After checking, he suddenly slapped the table:
"Yes! The Baroness has a sister who is a magician!"
The Magician Management Department next to the Emergency Management Department stores the family information of each magician, mainly to facilitate the processing of inheritance. When Master Slimin applied for the magician badge before, he happened to register the Baroness as the heir to the inheritance...
The way magicians investigate cases is that as long as they have clues, they don't care whether the means are legal or not. In other words, they have no concept of "legal means."
Archmage Edgar checked the inheritance of Master Slimin from the database of Black Crow Swamp, and took her mentor along with him. In order to prevent Master Slimin from escaping or refusing to tell the truth, he also specially learned from the prophecy
The department invited a ninth-level mage to come over. Minister Colin brought a seventh-level magic control mage from the Emergency Management Department to join the team, and headed straight for Master Slimin's mage tower in the mountains.
"Um..." At the entrance of the mage tower, several apprentices were trembling with fear in the face of this powerful lineup falling from the sky:
"My mentor went out a few days ago, saying he was looking for a rare herb, but he hasn't come back yet..."
"Is he absconding out of fear of crime? Chase him!"
Archmage Edgar sneered. They entered the mage tower and searched it. They confirmed that Slimin was indeed not in the tower and had left half a month ago. They turned around and left. The oldest apprentice in the tower watched them leave.
, quickly returned to the top of the tower and released a huge crow.
Half a quarter of an hour later, the crow fell into the palm of Johnny Colin. The experienced magician held the message bird and looked at it for a moment, without untying the message bucket on the crow's feet, and only made a few gentle gestures.
For a moment, a deep black appeared outside the message barrel.
"There is a specific message to be sent." Johnny Colin sneered. He turned around and handed the crow to his subordinate, pointing into the distance:
"Deploy a team of people to follow secretly to see who this message is conveyed to, and where the person who receives the message is going!"
The group of people divided into two groups. Johnny Colin led two teams of emergency management operators, following the crow's whereabouts, and soon arrived at the baron. They made up, dispersed, and lurked patiently for two or three days before finally landing on a ship
On the passenger ship that had already set sail, Baroness Hopman was intercepted in a hurry.
On the other side, everyone was tracking all the way under the guidance of the prophecy mage. With magic guiding the way and arcane eyes everywhere, they also successfully intercepted Mage Slimin. This magician was actually lurking in the Mage Tower.
Nearby, I saw a large group of people coming to the Mage Tower for questioning, so I quietly passed them by!
If the Emergency Management Department acts slowly, the ship destined for the New World will have already set sail!
This back and forth made the great magicians sweat all over their bodies. On the tenth day after the outbreak, a magic wall was raised in the prison of the Ministry of Emergency Management. On both sides of the wall, two groups of people began to interrogate:
"Master Slimin, the Emergency Management Department has judged that you are suspected of poisoning in the recent plague incident. We are ordered by the review committee to ask you some questions. You can refuse to answer, but in that case, we have the right to use
Use enchantment and control magic to conduct forced interrogation."
"You can also lie, but please note that every answer you give will be judged by the prophecy magician to be true or false. If it is judged to be a lie, your guilt will be aggravated in the subsequent trial."
"Of course, you can also commit suicide...but as a necromancer, after committing suicide, your soul will be captured and you will continue to be interrogated. I guess you should know that?"
"Now, please answer the first question:
In the past two weeks, have you left the Mage Tower and been around Nevis City?"
Magician Slimin clasped his hands and trembled slightly. On the other side of the magic wall, two magicians from noble backgrounds asked the Baroness seriously:
"Magic Slimin has confessed. She said that it was under your instruction that she carried out the curses and poisonings with the intention of harming the citizens of Nevis. Baroness, do you admit your sister's accusations?
?Why did you instruct her to do this?"
"——I didn't! It has nothing to do with me! She and I haven't seen each other for more than ten years!" the Baroness screamed:
"I demand treatment worthy of my status! You have no right to lock me up and interrogate me just because of her accusations!"