Two days later, Chu Ying was "invited" by Peng Ziyi to the intelligence team's small building. Since there was no substantial evidence, he could only assist in the investigation. Not only Chu Ying, but all those who might have had an intersection with Baron Goya's testimony in terms of time and place were invited to be questioned one by one.
Although it was only a preliminary investigation, it raised many doubts. After all, Chu Ying's two trips to Suero were well documented, and people from various departments went to Suero with him at the time. The testimony provided by Baron Goya and what others said could be matched one by one. However, Chu Ying's testimony had various minor unreasonable points.
For example, Chu Ying clearly said that he went to the pub alone, but the business team members who secretly went to the pub at the same time did not meet him in the pub. Or he clearly said that he went to the east of the city, but someone saw him at the intersection to the west of the city. Putting these questions together, the flaws exposed are obvious.
Outside the interrogation room, Peng Ziyi said to Milda, "After we submitted the first interrogation record, the committee agreed to search Chu Ying's residence. You will go with us on today's search. If there are any secrets in his residence, you should be the most likely to discover them."
Milda said, "It's too late to look for them now. I know you have suspected those people for a long time, why don't you take the initiative to take action? With our abilities, we may have found some results if we searched their houses directly."
"This is different. I don't have the right to track and search a citizen's house without a warrant."
"Last time, I was asked to spy on them while they were eating."
Peng Ziyi smiled and said, "That's different. I have the authorization to monitor the mages coming from the capital. It's just that you happened to run into Chang Lin and the others."
"But it's much easier to just do it. Not only is it easier to catch the bad guys, but justice will also be served quickly."
Peng Ziyi hesitated for a moment and said, "But this is not the justice I pursue. The justice I pursue includes a certain degree of procedural justice. Simply put, I don't want the injustice of the means to taint the justice of the result."
"I don't understand."
"Have you seen the movie?"
"I have seen it!" Milda nodded. These days, every weekend, movies are shown in the square of the Hewan New District. She basically attends every show and has watched quite a few so far.
"There is a type of movie called superhero movies. In these movies, there are always protagonists with super powers who like to enforce justice in their own way. I know this type of movie is very popular. After all, people in this world all desire the power of magic and fighting spirit. When these powers are cultivated and become strong, everyone can be a superhero.
But have you ever thought that there is only one protagonist in the movie, and everything in that world revolves around his story, because all those who disagree with him are unjust, so his justice is clear and explicit in the movie.
But what would happen if everyone in the real world realized their own justice? You know, justice in concept is a very subjective thing. "
Mirdad had never thought of the question in this way, and was speechless.
"For example, if you think that it is just to conduct a private search, and another person thinks that it is just to stop you from violating other people's privacy, would you use a duel to decide who is more just?"
"But I am not someone else. I have the identity of an intelligence agent."
"If you can investigate others as you please and others can't stop you, and abuse public resources for personal gain, isn't that more terrifying?" Peng Ziyi asked in return.
"I haven't thought about it so much. Even the wizards in the Seven Towers era didn't think about it so much. They could often decide who was right and who was wrong in the Wizard Tower with just one sentence."
"So there must be a set of norms and procedures to regulate these things. To constrain people like you and me, what we cannot do. Or how to pursue justice. Although substantive justice is more important than procedural justice, without procedural justice, it is too easy for us to go astray in the pursuit of substantive justice. So I don't want to break the procedural regulations, because the cost of that may be greater than letting the bad guys escape." Peng Ziyi saw Milda thinking blankly and said, "Okay, but today you are undoubtedly a righteous friend, let's go to work."
"Nerd." Milda rolled her eyes at him and followed her two companions to Chu Ying's residence.
Chu Ying's residence was a very ordinary one-bedroom apartment, and he used half of the bedroom as a study.
The houses here have not been occupied for long, so the furniture is very simple and there are not many things inside.
The three members of the intelligence team searched the room for a long time and turned up a pile of reports and materials, but found nothing valuable.
"These things appear to be normal documents from the business team, and some of the others are his personal stuff," said intelligence team member Zhang Cunliang.
Another member of the intelligence team, Ge Hao, said, "Mildad, use your ability to look for it. Is there anything else of interest here? If not, I'm afraid we can only return empty-handed."
The ability of the Secret Index is naturally handy for exploring large spaces. But to explore space bags or storage rings, it depends on the quality of those things themselves. The more advanced and powerful the space props are, the easier it is for Mirda to find them. On the contrary, props that only compress a little space are not so easy to find. It's like a little white on a black background is eye-catching, but dark gray is hard to find easily.
Milda calmed down and sensed for a long time, and suddenly found that there seemed to be some reaction on the sofa cushion.
This reaction was very weak, and if one did not concentrate, one would not be able to detect it at all. Mirda walked over and lifted the cushion of the sofa, but found that there was nothing underneath.
"Wait a minute, could it be inside the seat cushion cover?" Zhang Cunliang said.
This fabric sofa was brought from that world. He unzipped the back of the cushion, pulled the cover outward, and sure enough, he saw a palm-sized bag inside.
"Space bag!"
"What is this?" Milda took out some scrolls, crystals, and a parchment roll from the bag.
Ge Hao said, "This seems to be a land deed in Floro Town. This man named Alfonso sold the house to Chu Ying for thirty golden axes?"
"Maybe there will be clues there! Let's go now!"
Milda and the two agents arrived in Floro half an hour later and found the house according to the name of the original owner.
It was a two-story cottage, a decent house for the town, but not particularly eye-catching.
Ge Hao looked around at the houses and said, "Why did Chu Ying buy a house here? Isn't he afraid of being discovered?"
"The school has exchanged some houses in Frollo Town for future reconstruction. If he bought them among them, it would not be obvious. I guess he might be doing something here that is inconvenient to do in school." Zhang Cunliang said, "Besides, there are not many people in the town now. Most of the locals have moved to the Hewan New District. Most of the people living here are from the caravan. It's very messy and no one pays attention to him."