"Your Excellency Viscount Moro, I have found some traces." The investigator immediately stepped aside and asked someone to push a disheveled adventurer forward. There were still some bloodstains and tears on his clothes, and it seemed that he had been through a battle.
"Where's the thing?" Viscount Mo Ruo didn't care about other people's problems. He just wanted to get the precious magical creation back.
"He admitted that he stole the things, but hid them somewhere else." The investigator said the answer he just got during the interrogation.
"That's right." The adventurer spat, then raised his head and looked at the short old man in front of him.
"You must guarantee my life, and I will tell you where I am hiding."
Hearing such an answer, Mo Ruo's face turned cold. He didn't say anything, but stared coldly at the tattered adventurer.
"You are not an ordinary person."
After a while, Viscount Mo Ruo spoke in a low voice.
"I'm familiar with you guys. Ordinary adventurers wouldn't do something so risky, and they wouldn't know what's going on in the castle."
"You must be a thief or assassin trained by some organization, that's why you have such courage." Viscount Mo Ruo is not one of those hedonistic vase aristocrats. He understands the lower class people of the empire.
"Let me think about it, there aren't many organizations in Longyi Province that have this kind of intelligence capabilities."
"Apart from those greedy and cowardly chambers of commerce, only you, the venomous snakes in the woods, can be so perceptive."
Compared to before, Viscount Mo Ruo had calmed down now. He leaned back in his chair, his hands crossed in front of him, raising and lowering them from time to time, calmly analyzing and thinking.
"'Poisonous Water Lizard', 'Blindfolded Man' or 'Fire-Eyed Warbler'? Other small organizations can't afford a good man like you." He mentioned a few names, and then asked someone to check his weapons and personal belongings.
Several guards held the adventurer down, then continued to search, placing things neatly on the ground. Among them were tiny hooks, ropes, flints, daggers in boots, small magic crystals, small alchemical artifacts that played sounds, whistles, coins, chalk, knives, trauma powder, mosquito repellent spices, and clean gauze.
After looting everything, Viscount Mo Ruo slowly scanned the place before speaking slowly.
"It seems you're not one of the 'Poisonous Water Lizard'. You don't have any poison on you, and you didn't commit suicide. I can't guess the remaining two, but they're easy to deal with."
"Come here, cut off his two hands and give them to these two organizations respectively, and ask them to come forward to clarify. Otherwise, in a week's time, we will see his body hanging on the city gate tower." Viscount Mo Ruo's face was partially covered by the shadow of his fingers, and a cruel smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
In this era, while disability wasn't incurable, it required the intervention of an Angel Sequence 7 or higher, and such noble individuals were rarely accessible to lower-level organizations. Thus, this person's life was ruined, but compared to his deceased companions, perhaps he was a little luckier?
"Ah, no!" After hearing this order, the pinned adventurer struggled violently, but the guards beside him held him down tightly, preventing him from struggling.
Then, two axes rang out, and a hoarse scream echoed in the hall, and then silence returned.
Looking at the man lying on the ground, Viscount Mo Ruo had him taken away.
"Let the priest in the city give him some simple treatment so he doesn't die soon."
"Yes, sir." The guard replied with a fist salute and then dragged the man away.
After finishing the work, Viscount Mo Ruo felt a little relieved, but when he thought about the fact that the things had not been returned to him, he became a little annoyed again.
"Any other findings, Inspector Pansy?" He looked at the experienced soldier in the hall.
The sleek soldier had been observing all this with a cold eye, and only then did he speak. "Not yet, but I'd like you to seal off the city for a few more days. Perhaps we can get some new clues."
"Of course. Even if you didn't mention it, I would continue to seal the city." Viscount Mo Ruo nodded and asked the butler beside him to give instructions.
Then he looked at the bloodstains on the ground, stood up and prepared to go back to rest.
"Sir Mo Ruo." The investigator called out to the viscount.
"What's up?"
"Can you briefly tell me what key treasure was lost?"
"This is our family secret, Investigator, please don't pry into it. Perhaps you should focus your attention on other matters, such as those insects that ignite fire, or the descendants of the red dragon."
After saying this, he turned and left, taking all the guards in the hall with him.
"Don't you want to say it..." Looking at the figure gradually disappearing in the shadows, the investigator savored it slowly, and it took a long time before he left here with his men.
As Viscount Moruo had said, they should indeed focus their attention on those insects. The petty intrigues among the nobles, while unpleasant to watch, were nothing more than minor matters compared to the rebellions that had erupted.
Shortly after the beginning of the year, riots erupted in Purple Shank Province, sparking rebellions in several surrounding provinces. The local nobles undertook painstaking suppression, barely quelling the flames of these uprisings. Shortly thereafter, descendants of the Red Dragon in the southern border also launched rebellions of varying sizes. Some of these so-called descendants of the Pascal family were genuine, while others were fake, creating a frustrating situation.
For this reason, in order to maintain stability in the south, the Regent ordered the military to set up a search agency. Several powerful and professional search teams patrolled the empire to capture possible Martians, and they were one of them.
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On the other side of the city, the turmoil of the search gradually calmed down and the sky was getting bright again.
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