After the supporting mage arrived, he quickly used water magic to extinguish the fire in the warehouse from above. When the fire became smaller, the door of the warehouse was opened. Only then did the guards and security teams in the warehouse area finally come into play and began to extinguish the open fire. A smoldering fire that may come back to life. However, all of this had already passed for nearly an hour. When the fire was completely spread, the person in charge of the warehouse area finally arrived. However, looking at the scene in front of him, the person in charge, who was still wearing pajamas, almost fainted from fear on the spot.
Several warehouses belonging to Sir Phillibos, one of the three giants in the free city, have been completely burned by fire. All goods worth at least hundreds of millions of lien have been burned. The high temperature has even melted some precious metal minerals stored into molten iron. , the entire fire scene can be described as horrific. Thinking of the anger from the big slave merchant Sir Philiberts, thinking that he would go bankrupt in an instant and even his whole family would become slaves, the person in charge almost lost control and cried loudly after waking up.
A fire actually broke out in the warehouse district that had been there for decades, and it caused unimaginable losses. The most important thing was that the warehouses that had passed the fire were all owned by Felibos. The conspiracy theory almost spread the next day. The moment the sun rose, the news spread throughout the streets and alleys of the free city. Whether it was the gangsters on the underworld or the nobles and businessmen in the upper-class areas, the fire in the warehouse district instantly replaced the previous slave riot and became everyone's after-dinner meal. chat topics.
When the news reached the ears of Sir Felibos, the three giants of the free city were unusually calm. He only issued an order to strengthen the security of his mansion and quickly find out the situation.
As for why such an order was issued, it is actually very simple. As a slave merchant, Philibos had countless people’s blood on his hands. The total number of people who wanted to take his life on the entire continent could probably form a legion. This time The several warehouses that caught fire happened to belong to Philiberts' properties. If it was an accident, it would make no sense. There has been no fire in the warehouse area for decades. How could it be possible that all Philibers' industries were hit this time? It was obvious that this was targeted destruction.
The other party was able to sneak into the free city and set fire to the heavily guarded warehouse area. Will the other party directly find him next time? Felibos has to consider his own life safety! At the same time, the intelligence network belonging to Felibos also started operating in an instant. This kind of behavior that challenges his majesty must be suppressed immediately, otherwise, his face will be humiliated!
At the same time, spies and spies began to swarm the entire Free City. The investigation report on the fire house area is also gradually coming out.
First, investigators found some suspicious residual materials in the burned warehouse. After analysis, they determined that there were magic crystals in them and that they were infused with fire power. Obviously, it was determined that the fire was not an accident but was intentional. Arson. At the same time, an empty box was found from several valuable fireproof safes, and the very precious magic materials in it were taken away by the criminals. The city security team is tracing this clue. The protective magic circle used to extinguish fires that was supposed to be activated when a fire broke out did not play a corresponding role. Now the mage union responsible for maintaining the operation of the magic circle has sent personnel to conduct an investigation to determine whether there is a problem with the magic circle itself or whether there is a problem with the magic circle itself. It was vandalized by prisoners.
While investigators were conducting a detailed investigation of the fire scene, all the guards on duty that night had been detained by the city security team. In particular, the first patrol team that discovered the fire was questioned in detail. From the time of the fire, the time of discovery, the circumstances of the fire, the surrounding environment, every detail has not been spared by the security team. After all, the person who suffered the loss this time was one of the three giants. If it was not handled properly, everyone's head would be in danger.
At the headquarters of the security team, there was an atmosphere of tension in the office responsible for investigating the fire in the warehouse district. Because it was Philibers who suffered the loss in the fire, the security team did not dare to neglect and immediately invited a free city man. The legendary figure—Raghavan Lukes! This investigator is famous in the free city for repeatedly solving strange cases.
Investigator Raghavan, who has a Chinese character face and a mustache, is sitting in his office, taking the trouble to look at the recording screen of the protective array on the day of the fire over and over again. There are six roads into the warehouse area, and six records. Ragavan has watched the picture he clicked dozens of times but still hasn't found any clues. The picture shows that everything is normal. No suspicious outsiders had entered the warehouse area, and by ten o'clock at night, except for a few workers from the chamber of commerce who temporarily picked up goods, no outsiders had entered. After the investigation, none of the staff members were suspected of committing the crime.
"Mr. Ragavan, please take a rest. You have been watching for more than fourteen hours." A maid carrying a handicap came in and placed the handicap on the table.
Neither Ragavan nor the captain of the security team sitting aside had any intention of taking a rest. The two of them still stared at the surveillance screen of the magic circle without blinking an eye. It was not until the black tea completely turned cold that the two of them finally withdrew their gaze.
The captain of the security team, a middle-aged man with a strong background as a mercenary, held his head in pain and said, "Damn it! How did the other party enter the warehouse area? Are so many protective and detection arrays just decorations? No! Not a single suspicious record!”
The maid standing by did not dare to express her anger. The fire in the warehouse area has made the security team, which has been under pressure recently due to thefts, even worse. All the officials of the entire security team, large and small, have been canceled and dispatched. When they went out to collect clues, even the few people who stayed in the headquarters were anxiously reading the information and analyzing the case.
Looking at the captain of the security team who was almost anxious and his hair turned gray overnight, Glavin still stared at the picture calmly. It wasn't until the playback ended that Glavine finally raised the cold black tea and took a sip: "No need to look at this thing anymore, there are no clues."
"Damn~ What should we do then, Mr. Glavine? The victim this time is Sir Phillibos. If we can't find the perpetrator, we will all be doomed."
"Don't worry." Glaven still looked calm, stroking his beard and asking the maid to change him a cup of tea: "I just said that there are no clues in the records of the protective circle, but I didn't say that there are no clues in other places. At least now I We can roughly deduce some situations.”
The captain of the security team seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw: "Please say Mr. Glavin!"
Glavine calmly took a sip of the tea that the maid had just poured, and then took out some documents under the anxious eyes of the security team captain. The documents clearly contained the contents of the recent theft case in the Free City: "This is The copy is from a report from a chamber of commerce a few days ago. The chamber of commerce reported that several magic crystals were stolen and some magic materials were also lost. Now these stolen items have appeared at the fire scene. "
The captain of the security team was startled and quickly picked up the document and browsed it carefully.
Glavine continued to place other documents on the table one by one and pointed at them: "These are the theft cases that have occurred in the Free City in recent days. Coincidentally, all stolen merchants use their own protective magic for security. All the formations have lost their function, and none of the magic formations have recorded anything suspicious."
"It's hard~could it be said┉┉"
"That's right!" Glavin nodded: "This time the arsonist was also not discovered by the protective magic circle when he entered the warehouse area. I think both the theft case and the arson case were all committed by the same person. The other party is very likely He is a powerful magician and has rich knowledge of magic circles!”
Looking at the documents, the captain of the security team finally regained his composure. Without the interference of anxiety, the captain of the security team began to think calmly.
Obviously, through the methods of theft cases and arson cases, it can indeed be judged that they are all called by the same person, but the other party is elusive and elusive at the scene without leaving any useful clues. There are no witnesses, and there are no protective formations to record the scenes. In the huge To find such a person in a free city is obviously to find a needle in a haystack.
While the captain of the security team was looking at the documents, Glavine lit his pipe and took a puff: "I know what you are thinking, but although the other party did not leave any clues at the scene, they still left them for me when they committed the crime. clue."
Standing up and walking to the city map hanging on the wall, Glavin took a pen and drew small x's one after another on the map. Each small A big circle has circled all the small x's. As an investigator these days, although Glavin no longer serves in the security team, because of his past achievements, the security team will ask Glavin to assist in analyzing any difficult cases, and the recent serial thefts have had a considerable impact on the security team. News of the case was delivered to Glaven.
"Although the other party will not steal at the same place a second time when committing the crime, the criminal's current range of activities will be such a large distance, especially in the market at the junction of the lower and upper districts in the East District. Several families have been arrested. The thieves’ guilds are all very close together. It’s obvious that the criminals should be active in this area!”
The captain of the security team immediately felt as if he had found a treasure: "As expected of Mr. Glavin, I will immediately send personnel to conduct a focused search here. We will even turn the ground over to find him."
"Don't worry yet!"
Glavine stopped the captain of the security team. After looking at the map, Glavine habitually took a few puffs of cigarette and then slowly said: "Although it is definitely of this generation, the range of activities of the prisoners is not small. If it is now Carrying out a large-scale search may alert the snake, so let’s wait and see if the criminal will continue to act, and there is another doubt that I haven’t figured out yet┉┉”
"But~ Mr. Glavine, we don't have much time, where is Sir Phillibos!!"
"Explain the situation to Jazz. I think Jazz is not the kind of unreasonable person, unless we really can't find the prisoner!" Glavin continued to draw marks on the map with his pen. (To be continued...)