"What is the clue of the spy?" The young man named Wei Han asked curiously, and Misha paused for a moment, then slowly walked to a wall. She found a rope beside the wall and grabbed it and pulled it hard. Then a large scroll painting rolled down from the top of the wall and unfolded in front of everyone. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a map of the entire city of Tivian.
After displaying the huge map in front of everyone, Misha shifted her gaze to it and continued speaking.
"Before you arrived in Tivian, His Highness Harold had already entrusted me to track down the traitor in the General Administration. I spent a lot of time conducting a series of investigations in the secret world of Tivian, and finally obtained important intelligence." As she spoke, Misha carefully glanced at the city map of Tivian, and then continued.
"I used my personal connections in the secret world of Tivian to collect all the abnormal clues. Not long ago, I learned an important piece of intelligence. A secret organization called the Eight-pointed Nest is selling relevant intelligence from our bureau to other organizations through extremely covert channels."
Gregor paused slightly after listening to Misha's words, and the woman named Jif, who was not far from him, asked.
"Eight-pointed Nest? Does that mean this secret organization is infiltrating the General Administration?"
"Yes, I have reason to believe that it is the Eight-pointed Nest that is infiltrating us. I spent a lot of money to obtain some small and medium-sized information from private channels. I found that the General Administration has indeed suffered setbacks in its actions recently. The most recent severe one even caused the annihilation of the hunter team and the escape of important prisoners. Fortunately, our joint action with the church has minimized the losses."
Misha continued to speak, and at this time Gregor frowned and asked.
"So... these guys stole information from us just to sell it for money? Is this Eight-pointed Nest essentially just an information dealer?"
"No, they are more than just information dealers. According to the intelligence I have, they should have been planning something unspeakable for a long time. They have only been information dealers recently."
Misha responded to Gregor, then she touched her chin and spoke thoughtfully.
"According to my investigation of the Tivian secret world, the Eight-Pointed Nest had never sold any intelligence to other groups before October. They don't have a tradition of being intelligence dealers. This is a sideline they have just picked up. I guess they must have encountered some financial problems in the past period of time, and they were short of cash for a while, so they started selling intelligence. This also gave me the opportunity to catch some clues about them."
Misha said this. Listening to Misha's words, Greg and everyone present became curious for a moment. What exactly caused Bajian's financial problems?
"So... why does the current Eight-Pointed Nest have a greater financial burden?" Gregor continued to ask, and Misha nodded in response.
"Yes, I think they may have fought a divination war with some other large organization, because the price of the entire Tivian's 'Qi' storage has been skyrocketing in the past period of time. This extremely abnormal price fluctuation is related to this matter, but unfortunately we can't get specific transaction information from the Artisans Guild, otherwise we should be able to obtain more information."
As he spoke, Misha turned his gaze towards the branch of the East City Stonemasons Union in Tivian. He knew that it was impossible to get information from those profiteers.
"A divination war... is it an intelligence war using 'Enlightenment' resources to attack each other? Being able to use so many 'Enlightenment' resources, this Eight-pointed Nest is indeed a great result. I wonder who its opponent in the divination war is?"
Gregor thought with emotion that when he was in Igwinter, there was not a single "Qi" in the entire branch. In his eyes, the storage of "Qi" was the rare things that Director James kept complaining about not being able to apply for. However, it was precisely such a thing that could be owned by one person. This was a little hard for Gregor to imagine.
"So, Ms. Misha, are you trying to track them down through the Eight-Pointed Nest's means of selling intelligence?" At this time, John, the oldest person sitting next to Gregor, asked, and Misha continued to answer.
"This is indeed a direction, but their process of selling intelligence is very cautious and secretive, and it is difficult to find clues. The clues I just mentioned are not in this regard. The biggest gain from investigating the intelligence trade is just to let me know who is trying to infiltrate us.
"In short, we still have too little information about the Eight-Pointed Nest, and the clues I mentioned earlier are about people who may have key information about the Eight-Pointed Nest."
Misha said this, then picked up a small wooden stick like a rat from the table and pointed it to a certain place above the map. The place she pointed to was an area in the northern suburbs of Tivian.
"This is the King's Campus of the Royal Holy Crown University of Tivian. At the end of September, a serious incident of abuse occurred here. Fourteen college students were found to be contaminated by the virus, and our observers stationed at the university were also killed. The people of the Eight-pointed Nest once held a ceremony in the ruins under this school for an unknown purpose."
Misha said this while pointing her finger at an area in the northern suburbs. After hearing her words, Gregor couldn't help but think in surprise.
"Holy Crown University... If I remember correctly, Dorothy was studying at the middle school affiliated with this university, and the middle school was also nearby... Does that mean that so many extraordinary invasions happened around Dorothy? Thank God, Dorothy was fine."
Listening to Misha's words, Gregor thought thankfully in his heart, and at this time Misha, who was standing in front of the map, continued to speak.
"At the beginning, we couldn't determine the purpose of the Eight-pointed Nest's activities here and the purpose of corrupting students to hold rituals. We didn't even know there was a problem until a few days before the incident, someone sent two reports to the General Administration through the channels of the Artisan Union."
"Report?" Gregor asked doubtfully. Hearing this word seemed to trigger some memories, while Misha on the other side continued to speak.
"Yes, I reported it. The first report was about a cult gathering place in the King's Campus. The bureau sent two teams there and successfully cleared out a base of the Eight-Pointed Nest. However, they unexpectedly encountered a powerful enemy and had to retreat successfully.
"The key is this second report. This report directly predicted the corruption ceremony held by the Eight-pointed Nest in the basement of the school. Perhaps it was the work of a spy in the bureau. For some reason, this report did not attract any attention at all. It was not until after the incident that we realized that someone had predicted the occurrence of this incident in advance."
After saying that, Misha glanced at everyone present, and then said that Mi Ao was the first to speak.
"Both reports accurately predicted the Eight-Pointed Nest's actions. This means... the reporter has a very good understanding of the Eight-Pointed Nest! We may be able to use him as a breakthrough point!"
With a serious look, Mi'ao said this, and Misha nodded slightly and continued speaking.
"That's right. The key lies in this informant. He was able to predict Bajian's actions at the time. He is quite extraordinary. If we can get in touch with him, we may be able to gain something."
"This informant used the Craftsmen's Guild to contact us. In his letter, he called himself... a detective."
After Misha finished speaking, Gregor below was stunned for a moment. At this moment, he thought of the man on the train to Tivian who came to help him at the order of the dream dragon Paarthurnax, and who claimed to be a detective.
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