Chapter 179 Casefile 5: Nether Festival (8)
The reason why Andre came to Jiang You in the first place was because he found out that there was a close connection between Mi Funa and Evil Eye Moon.
The potion with Mi Funa's personal characteristics that frequently appeared in multiple cases, the magic book with the lich chapter changed, the failed lich experiment conducted on Mi You, the mark of the "Eye of the Crescent Moon" scratched on the inside of the coffin lid...
If these clues before were still confusing, then Mi Funa now appeared at the celebration site of the Hades Festival in the form of a corrupted zombie, capturing and killing many civilians with bloody and strange means, and taking away a large amount of soul energy from their corpses... This can clearly explain the other party's position.
Of course, the premise is that the rotten corpse and the consciousness that dominates it really belong to "Mi Funa" herself.
Andrei pondered, "In short, judging from the current clues, no matter who controls the Evil Eye Moon organization, they are plundering wealth, disrupting order, and confronting His Majesty the King, while secretly conducting some dark magic research on liches. This is a basically confirmed fact.
"The former involves power and wealth, while the latter implies immortality. It seems that no matter how evil an organization is, its motivations are nothing more than mundane things like money, power, and immortality."
"It's more like the more evil the organization, the more they crave these mundane things," Baster said with emotion. "If they had any noble sentiments, they wouldn't be stirring up trouble everywhere, instead of constantly thinking about doing something detrimental to the world."
He quickly finished off the food in front of him and asked, "Boss, are we going to East Eston as planned today, or are we going back to the capital?"
Andrei shrugged. "Although His Majesty the King may be short of money, he has many talented individuals at his disposal. News of the case has arrived, but His Majesty hasn't recalled us at the same time, which means he has other plans for the capital. We don't need to worry about things over there for now. Let's stick to our original plan today and follow the tunnel to East Eston."
"If both sides are truly connected to the Evil Eye Moon, then our investigation here might also provide more clues to the case over there."
That's how it was settled.
After breakfast, Andrei and Jericho put their luggage and equipment on the horses, while Jiangyou put on the outdoor jacket and tactical shoulder straps that she asked Alexi to make, as well as a pair of combat pants full of pockets.
She sorted the various strange soul fire bottles she had collected recently and stuffed them into different pockets one by one, and also stuffed a dagger for self-defense into her tactical boots.
Fortunately, she was a skeleton, and her boots were empty except for bone claws, so she could still fit a lot of self-defense items.
She stuffed everything she owned into her clothes, covering her entire body with various self-defense items. Then she patted her head in satisfaction, humming a song as she handed the store over to Jericho.
The six new employees who passed the interview yesterday have arrived at the brewery today. However, since this is their first day on the job, Jiangyou is worried about their lack of experience and is hesitant to hand the shop over to them directly. After much deliberation, he decided to let veteran employee Jericho serve as temporary manager.
A home guardian's abilities are limited in the wild, but they can be maximized within the confines of what they consider "home." Now, simply standing on the land purchased by Takumi Yuu, Jericho can sense who's in each shop and what's happening there, like a surveillance system turned into a spirit.
Jiangyou also gave Jericho the authority to control the dragon crystal doors and windows, so he could play a greater role by staying in the city.
After arranging everything and having no worries, Jiangyou happily sat on Andre's back, hugged Andre's thin waist comfortably, and rode with him to the deserted house in the east of the city.
In order to prevent the people of Evil Eye Moon from sneaking into the city through the tunnel during the Nether Festival, Andre had the kingdom's knights surround the mansion with three layers inside and three layers outside yesterday, and also sent several knights with high agility and martial arts skills to explore the tunnel.
Now that those people have returned safely, upon seeing Andrei and Jiang You approaching, they came up to report, "My Lord! We've investigated the tunnel, and it does lead to East Eston! There are several cave-ins in the tunnel, but it's not completely destroyed. We've cleared and reinforced a passage overnight.
"This tunnel connects to a large building beneath the East City of Eston. We only went to the outer edge and then emerged from another exit. We didn't explore further, so we're not sure yet whether it's the legendary tomb of a previous dynasty, or a maze or underground city.
"We found some signs of human life and quite a few traps, but we didn't find any trace of those people. The ruins of East Eston are enormous, so we didn't search too far before returning."
"Well, you did a great job." Andre praised casually. With a small team of three or five people, being able to achieve this level was beyond his expectation. It was neither safe nor realistic to rely on these few people to search the entire East City of East, both above and below ground, to find those Evil Eye Moon bandits. A large force was still needed.
"Leave two teams to guard the courtyard and ensure the safety of our retreat. Three teams will follow us through the tunnel, and the remaining large force will head to East Eston City via the main road to search for and arrest the bandits hiding in the ruins of East Eston City."
"Yes, sir!" the kingdom's knights responded in unison.
They moved very quickly and were divided into several teams in an orderly manner, each carrying their own supplies and equipment.
The three teams had to traverse narrow, partially damaged tunnels impassable to horses, making it impossible to carry large objects that couldn't be shrunk by magic. Andrei placed the bulk of the baggage with the ground troops, while they packed minimally, taking only the most basic rations and water, weapons, armor, and tools they might need in the tunnels.
In order to prevent the Ghost-Faced Man from setting his signature wire head-cutting trap, all knights had an extremely hard neck ring armor added to the neck of their armor.
Not only that, Jiangyou also called Tux and his brothers. A dozen dwarf craftsmen, wearing their own armor and dwarven-style helmets, carrying huge axes as long as their height, were eager to show their skills.
Tux was already chatting attentively with Jiang You. "Boss You, don't worry. We're absolute professionals at digging tunnels and dismantling traps! We checked out that trap in the yard yesterday. Its attack point is about 160 centimeters above the ground, which is completely useless to us dwarves."
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