Graycastle, Neverwinter. .
Everyone in the police hall was in a hurry, and there was an endless stream of orders and reports. The appearance of the red moon has become the hottest topic in the past few days, and it has also made the entire organization busy.
As the new royal capital of Greycastle, the royal residence of His Majesty Roland, even if there was a little disturbance in the city, the police department had to find out the cause and record it, not to mention the big incident of fire and explosion at the same time.
Carter Lannis hadn't slept for two days and two nights. After comforting his frightened wife that day, he devoted himself to his work. Protecting His Majesty's safety is always the chief knight's top priority. He will never tolerate anyone. Chaos here. According to past experience, if an accident occurs in multiple locations at the same time, it must be a gang committing the crime, so he immediately invited the Neverwinter detective team to assist the police department in their investigation. Carter believes that as long as the investigation continues, the perpetrators will soon be brought to justice.
However, after a lot of reports were submitted, a joint investigation team consisting of the Witch Union, the Kingdom Security Bureau, and the Police Department of the Executive Office was formed. The focus was not on the accidents or crimes that occurred in the city, but The new ghost is the main investigation content.
"My lord, the witnesses have been brought here," a knight whispered, "do you want to start the questioning?"
Carter put aside his distracting thoughts, drank the strong tea in the cup, nodded and said, "Let's start, by the way, invite others in."
"Yes."
Since they were not interrogating prisoners, in order to take into account the emotions of the other party, the interrogation was conducted in a temporarily vacated office. In addition to him, the main personnel of the joint investigation team are Ms. Agatha and the deputy director of the security bureau, Vader.
The first witness brought into the house was a 21-year-old hotel maid, an informal resident with no criminal record.
She looked a little nervous, sitting in the chair and rubbing her hands.
Carter glanced at the information in his hand, and asked in a deep voice, "Miss Linglong, right? I'm curious, the ticket price for the premiere of "Dust of Oblivion" is as high as fifty gold dragons, where did you get such a huge sum of money? money?"
"My lord, this is definitely not something I stole or robbed!" The other party quickly defended, "Mr. Victor, the guest I was taking care of, was worth a lot of money, and he paid for it for me. There were also many people in the administrative hall on the day I bought the ticket. Mind you, I swear I didn't lie!"
In fact, he had already sent someone to investigate these preliminary investigations. The first question was just to increase the invisible pressure, so that the other party would not dare to talk nonsense easily. After all, Miss Nightingale was not here. "Is that Victor? We'll check with him later. Now let's talk about what you saw at the end of the ghost."
"Yes..." The maid's voice trembled slightly, "I didn't quite understand what was going on at the time, it was as if those hallucinations had become real..."
After a quarter of an hour, she stopped her statement, "Fortunately, the chasing soldiers were repelled by the police in the end, otherwise I wouldn't dare to imagine what happened to those two."
Carter frowned. He had also seen the ghost. Although "Wolfheart" was thrilling, it was not exaggerated to this extent.
"Are you sure the pursuer's weapon hurt the audience?"
"I'm… not sure, but Mr. Victor does have blood on his face, and the screams of the other wounded don't seem to be disguised…"
"Do you remember when this accident happened?"
"About ten minutes before the end? Or longer... I'm sorry, but I was so scared that I was hiding in Mr. Victor's arms almost the whole time."
"Do you have any questions?" Carter looked at the other two.
Agatha pondered for a moment, "If I understand correctly, did the character in the ghost talk to you?" She picked up a photo, "Is it this person?"
In the photo is the actor of the Star Flower Troupe, who plays the witch guardian in the play.
"That's right, it's him, I remember very clearly, he was still thanking us at the time!"
Carter couldn't help but get goosebumps when he heard this. He naturally knew that once the filming of the ghost was completed, its content could not be changed, and it was absolutely impossible to talk on his own.
Seeing that the two of them stopped talking, he waved at his subordinates, "Let's change someone else."
The testimony of several witnesses after that was also similar. In short, everything in the ghost seemed to come alive. Although it was later confirmed to be a false alarm, it actually happened at the time, and the testimony was mutual. Applying means it is not a personal hallucination.
Since Carter's attention had been focused on fires and explosions a few days ago, the reports of panic in the theater had not been taken too seriously. Now he vaguely understood why the above would care more about it.
"The next witness was the police officer who was standing in the courtyard and was responsible for maintaining order, the captain of the second team."
"Let him in."
The captain was obviously much calmer, and quickly explained the process of the matter, "I first heard the cries and calls for help from outside, and when I was going to go out to find out, I noticed that there was a lot of time in the sky. There was a red moon. To be honest, I was a little hesitant at the time, not knowing whether it was better to be stationed at my post or to help those who called for help. At this moment, a witch ran out from the back door of the viewing room, and she asked I immediately went inside with my men to protect all spectators."
"And then you shot back the pursuers in the ghost?"
"Although it sounds a little strange, it is true that they may only be actors, but they had already posed a real threat to the audience at the time. Plus I always thought these were just hallucinations, so I didn't hesitate."
The second-to-last person to be questioned was the witch who played the ghost at that time, Higaka.
"What can I do, I'm also very desperate. Originally activating the Time Sigil is the job of whoever has the most magic power. Who knew this kind of problem would arise?" Yes, the sigil suddenly squeezed me out of sight. According to the emergency, I should stop the magic input immediately, but it didn't stop at all. I tried to shake the audience, but there was no response when I pushed it, just It's like being caught in the seed of sleep. In short, I have tried my best, and after thinking about it, I can only ask the guards for help. "
Agatha twitched the corners of her mouth, "It was the talisman... that squeezed you out?"
"Probably, I did feel a repulsive force coming from it at the time, as if the magic power had been poured in enough, but it started to overflow, and then the vision returned to normal."
"Okay, next one."
When the last person walked into the office, Carter couldn't help but be slightly taken aback. The other person was actually the writer of the play, Kakin Fiss himself.
As soon as he sat down, he clenched his fists excitedly.
"God is above, this is definitely the best drama I've ever seen in my personal life!"
"You were in the theater?" Carter frowned. Because the other party had a dispute with his wife, he has always been quite contradictory to the drama master, "I checked the list of the first viewers, and you are not on it."
"He was in the backstage at the time, and it was a specially arranged seat. In fact, members of the Star Flower Troupe don't need to buy tickets when they want to watch their own performances. Did your wife not mention it to you?" Ice Witch Tikakin He replied, "In fact, it was his report that made His Majesty pay attention to this matter and sent the Witch Union to investigate."
"Sorry, this is my personal habit," Kakin apologized while touching his chest, "As long as it's a script written by myself, I always like to watch it with everyone without telling my identities, so as to feel the most direct way for each audience member. Mrs. May probably knew this and didn't reveal it to you in advance." He said this, his tone became excited again, "I have to say, this ghost is definitely a miracle in the history of drama because the audience Rewrote its ending!"
"What did you say?" Carter asked in surprise.
"You heard that right, Lord Knight, my script was not written like this!" Kakin Fith waved his hands and spoke, "In the original story, this is a sad ending, in order to protect his sweetheart. , the guardian attracted the attention of all the chasing soldiers, and finally fell into a cliff, leaving only the witch alone. But I didn't expect that the two would be rescued by the audience, and thus both survived. Is there anything better than this? "
The chief knight was stunned.
"Those lines were not written by me, but they made up this memorable passage by themselves. As the characters in the play said, the audience not only saved them, but also changed their destiny!" Kakin couldn't help it. The ground said loudly, "This is the ultimate drama I have been looking for. If you can find the reason, please tell me! Please!"