Chapter 332: Join Forces Vertically and Horizontally to Find the Murderer!

Archmage Edgar's investigation is not going well.

He is a high-level mage and 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. For a whole day, Archmage Edgar took the flesh and blood remains extracted from the scene and searched all the high-level plague mages he knew, but no one claimed them...

Even no one gave him directions as to which one this mana fluctuation looked like to me.

Archmage Edgar ran up and down for a whole day without success, so he had to come back to resurrect his life. The person who assigned him the task was the rotating committee member of the Necromancy School in the review committee. After listening to Archmage Edgar complaining and requesting the review committee to authorize 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, he was recruited to give lectures. But investigations, detective work, etc., are really not his specialty...

In the past, when he encountered investigation needs during adventures, he would rely on his teammates, asking about the undead, or crushing them with violence. At this moment, he was conducting an investigation in the city of Nevis, but it couldn't have much impact. He had exhausted all his tracking magic and couldn't find anyone, so he was a bit blind.

"Forget it, the Emergency Management Department is also investigating this matter. ...You go over and help them calm down the situation. If there is some information, it should be suppressed by the way."

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, transport patients, arrest people all over the city, and take care of the food, drink and diarrhea of ​​the entire hospital - by the way, the last task , they decisively kicked him to the city hall. Even so, the entire emergency management department was 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, I became even more jealous of the murderer. As soon as department head Johnny Colin received the authorization, he immediately handed over hospital affairs to his subordinates and devoted himself to hunting down the murderer.

The job of the Emergency Management Department is to maintain order in the city and manage some unruly magicians. Johnny Colin was experienced in investigating crimes and chasing down murderers, and he already 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 get angry:

"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, forget it, why bother to seal off 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 is 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, who was opposite him, was the powerful minister of the Ministry of Emergency Management and held the most important conventional force in the parliament; Edgar next to him was even more so. 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 a familiar magician to participate in the supervision."

His tone was so calm and confident that Viscount Callender did not dare to make trouble. He thought for a while and asked:

"How deep 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. To find a temple or a mage tower, to put it simply, clean 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 this. He endured the whole thing 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 didn't refute, just stared at Viscount Callender motionlessly with his sharp black eyes. The Viscount felt a little weak when he saw him. Thinking about his losses, he could only continue to argue:

"How much does it cost to build 12 buildings, all the pipelines, and water sources? Can the parliament not come up with this money?"

"Of course not."

"Then I deserve my own misfortune?" Viscount Callender became angry 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 silently 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 would be even more dangerous." Archmage Edgar sighed. "You may not know that if people eat cursed animals, they will be like those patients in the hospital - maybe worse. The person who cursed doesn't care about your life, so why should you care about him?"

The furious Viscount Callender volunteered the list of visitors. Not only that, he also asked the housekeeper to take the personnel of the Emergency Management Department to go to each visiting noble house to inquire one by one. Of course, the guards guarding the water source did not miss anything...

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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