The Whispering Verses Chapter 2530: Detective story and reward coming
Chapter 2529 Detective Story and Arrival of Rewards
Among the cases he handled at the end of the summer of 1854, the one that impressed Shade most deeply was the "10-pound Rhodes Robbery Case."
To put it simply, the night before the city's Buford Auction House was about to auction two precious Rhodes cards, the auction house's warehouse suffered a secret invasion, and thieves stole two special rules Rhodes cards valued at 380 pounds. .
Not only was it a theft, the thief also left a total of 20 pounds in banknotes before leaving, which means a card costs 10 pounds.
This almost provocative behavior even attracted the attention of His Majesty Larous III of the Yodel Palace, so it immediately received great attention from the City Hall and the Police Department.
Not only did Ridwich Field handle this as a special case, they also spent a lot of money to hire detectives from the city to assist in the investigation, including of course "Rejed's Hamilton" who has repeatedly solved strange cases. .
During that time, Shade’s [Origin and Light] was being appraised by the Prophet’s Association. Although the probability was very low, Shade, who was worried that his cards would also be noticed by thieves, decisively accepted the commission and actively carried out detection. .
Thanks to the fact that the Buford Auction House in Tobesk City is the local branch of "Cassandra Auction House" (Chapter 589), Shade used Cassandra's mother-in-law's authority to directly communicate with the auction house. They contacted the company and learned some things that the auction house could not tell the police.
After a series of investigations and evidence collection, and a conflict with a local gang in the middle, Shade successfully captured the thieves and thieves who were preparing to trade stolen goods in a warehouse in the west industrial zone two days after the incident. buyer.
Shad was deeply impressed by this incident because he had seen the "Rhode Card Thief", but in fact, compared with the real "strange cases" he had handled before, this incident was nothing special.
The total number of casualties in the entire incident was less than three, not even comparable to the incident he solved due to the "Haunted Mansion Investigation" that lasted for two centuries, affected three noble families, and involved hundreds of bodies. Nameless corpses, dozens of victims and three generations of emotional disputes are just a fraction of the number of casualties in a major case.
However, people are very interested in this case. "Tobesk Morning News", "Terrael River News" and "Kingdom Morning News" used their second pages to introduce the facts of the case and Shade's detection for two days in a row. Process - The front page is reserved for His Majesty the King.
The Redwich Market and the auction house therefore gave Shad a large reward and bonus respectively. The Ford Auction House even wanted to transfer the two special rule cards [Carson Rick's Special Food·King's Gold Coin Chocolate] Give it to Shade with one of the [Classical Architecture Yodel Palace Complex].
But Shade refused, because he could see that the auction house wanted to "bribe" him with cards because of his relationship with Cassandra's mother-in-law. So he only took the cash reward he deserved and invited the writer to a restaurant for a big meal that night.
"The whole process of this case has been published in the newspaper. It will not be easy for me to adapt it again. But I still have a question, what is the meaning of the 20 pounds left by the thief?"
Dorothy asked curiously, and Shade replied with a smile:
"After the thief was arrested, he insisted that he had not committed 'theft', but had forcefully bought the two playing cards for 10 pounds each. You know, the final sentencing method for these two crimes is Completely different."
Of course, the police and judges did not listen to nonsense like "forced purchase" in the end. Although the daring thieves knew the law, they didn't know much about it.
In addition to this kind of formal door-to-door commissions, Shade's friends will also introduce him to commissions obtained through personal relationships.
For example, Lesia helped her friend, Meris Lucas, the granddaughter of the old Duke Lucas, find Shade, and entrusted Shade to help investigate a handsome man that the noble lady met at the racecourse recently. Young people’s identities and family status.
"Meris said that she fell in love with that young man. She didn't know if he was interested in her, and she was worried that he was approaching her deliberately. Go and help investigate, Shade, I don't think everyone has me If you are so lucky, you will meet a suitable marriage partner right away."
It is actually very simple to investigate someone when they have a name and address. If Miss Lucas didn't want her family to know, she could actually investigate through family connections.
However, this time the investigation did not implicate sorcerers, thieves, serial murderers or fraudsters. The handsome young groom really just worked at Le Maire Racecourse.
After Shade completed the investigation and wrote and submitted the investigation report, Miss Melis Lucas just asked Lecia to give Shade a generous commission fee, but then did nothing. Lecia explained this:
"Oh, Melis met a more satisfactory marriage partner, the eldest son of Earl Sheldon. Little Mr. Sheldon gave her a very beautiful ruby necklace, which is said to have been made more than three hundred years ago. antiques."
"Well, this"
Then because Miss Lucas tirelessly showed off the antique ruby necklace to others at a gathering of aristocratic girls, the case of the Sheldon family smuggling antiques on the "Kingdom's Prohibited Export of Cultural Relics List" was triggered, which further led to the military intelligence During the investigation of Section 6, Earl Sheldon's "special relationship" with the intelligence department of the Kingdom of Kasenlik was discovered.
In short, this uproarious aristocratic scandal caused Miss Melis Lucas to be confined at home by the angry old Duke, and the royal family’s purge of Earl Sheldon’s influence made everyone in the aristocracy during that time Self-danger.
Lecia told Shade the above, but Shade didn’t have much reaction to it, and it didn’t affect him.
But when Carina invited him to watch the horse racing at the Lemer Racecourse again, he accidentally discovered that the young groom, who knew nothing about anything, was preparing for his wedding to his fiancée, his childhood sweetheart in his hometown.
He gave the happy newlyweds a set of affordable silverware as a gift. Of course, the gift was purchased with Miss Lucas's share of the commission fee.
A quiet life is really very comfortable, and during Shad's "vacation", when Iluna visited No. 6 Saint Teresa Square every now and then and used the "door" in her home, she also told Shad about Church matters:
"[Night Seal] has been promoted, but you also know that knowledge has weight, and the church respects the ownership of this knowledge by the 'God Caller', so it is currently only allowing some high-level and middle-level warlocks to try it. Learn.
It's just strange. I remember when we were still in Moon Bay, almost 30% of the witch followers on the Radiant Messenger could learn this seal. However, according to the current statistics of the church, even if the materials are complete and the venue is suitable, the seal mastery rate among the church's ring warlocks is only about 3%, and most of them are at least the ninth ring level. ”
It was still afternoon. Luvia, who was not on duty during the weekend, was playing with her astrology device in Room 1 on the third floor. Shade and Iluna were standing at the door of the room talking.
"Didn't Dorothy say that we use the 'original text' written with special ink, so the effect is better?"
The girl with purple eyes asked, Iluna shook her head:
"I'm afraid this is just one of the reasons. And do you know? Of all the church ring magicians who master the [Night Seal], none of them master thaumaturgy, they are all curses. And I heard that the same is true at the academy. Likewise, even Shade’s teacher, Miss Danister, learned spells.”
"If there are other people who are thaumaturgy, I will feel strange. After all, everyone doesn't even know what to call the 'Silver Moon God', but they only know roughly that it is related to the ancient Sage of the Moon. ."
Luvia replied with a smile, and continued to lubricate the screws of the planetarium with her back to the two people at the door.
Eluna suddenly said:
"But what I master is thaumaturgy."
This is something that everyone has known for a long time, so Luvia still hasn’t turned around:
"That's because you trust Shade, just like me, Dorothy, and Carina."
The promotion of [Night Seal] means that in the future, when fighting against the "special light" scattered throughout the world, the church will finally have the conventional power to fight against those strange lights. That kind of light is no longer completely invincible. of.
The Peace Church therefore gave the "God Caller" a special contribution medal, and handed it to Shade via Iluna on the last Friday before the end of the Moon of Flowers, that is, the 29th of the Moon of Flowers.
What also came to Sha De's hands were two suitcases worth of precious potions, alchemy materials, and three ancient texts that were sealed before being delivered to Sha De's hands.
This is the "God Caller"'s reward in addition to seeking answers from the True God to thank him for his contribution in the Battle of Moon Bay.
It’s just that I don’t know if the church’s reserves of “Philosopher’s Stone” are low or because they feel they can’t always give “Philosopher’s Stone”, so this time there are no more precious red stones in the gift.
But other materials are also precious enough, and many of them can serve as core materials in the opening ceremony of the "Silver Moon Library". Moreover, many of the lists of potions and alchemy items from Priest Augustus, Dr. Schneider, and Mr. Ptolemy Albert require Shade to prepare the materials himself. Now with these, Shade can try to let them go Make some "fun" stuff.
As for the three ancient texts that were sealed and sent, they were written on dragon skin, human skin and golden sheepskin respectively. These three texts are all originals. The church hopes that the "God Caller" can return them after reading them, and Shade naturally agrees.
None of the three texts are relics, but they are definitely no less dangerous than ordinary relics.
What is used to seal and store them is a metal plate cast from fine gold. The front and back sides of the metal plate have the holy emblem corresponding to the church and dense instructions for their containment and use