Chapter 298 Investigation

The first thing Herage solved was the defense structure of the witch formation, cutting off its structure from other parts to prevent the defense function from being triggered by unexpected circumstances. new

Then the connection between the magic lock and the witch formation was cut off. Now even if the magic lock is smashed into the witch formation with a hammer, it will not be triggered.

However, Herage was not in a hurry to open the magic lock. For the sake of stability, he continued to crack the witch formation.

Finally, there is the core of the witch formation, which has several main functions such as defense, monitoring, sensing, and self-destruction.

It was the most troublesome to deal with. Herage patiently cracked the structure one by one, cracking all the sub-functions of the witch formation and rendering it ineffective.

In Herage's perception, the whole process was a bit long.

It took him about half an hour to crack the entire witch formation.

With a click, the magic lock opened automatically.

Herage pushed lightly and the door was opened without any abnormality.

The process of deciphering the witch formation requires great patience and meticulousness, and no mistakes can be made.

Herage has rich experience in refining magic potions. He has been trained for a long time and has a very stable mentality.

"Good job!" Preuss patted Herage on the shoulder to express his appreciation.

Preuss walked into the house first, followed closely by Herague.

The furnishings in the house are simple and plain, without too much clutter. new igh.𝑐𝑜𝑚

A table, a wooden sculpture, nothing more.

There was only one relatively large wooden sculpture left on the table, and all the small carved wooden sculptures were given to Lu Qi.

The remaining one is usually used by Max to worship the gods. Judging from the carving marks, it seems that it was not carved recently, it has been some time ago.

Prius picked up the large wooden sculpture on the table, turned it over and looked at it, then put it away, preparing to take it back and study it slowly.

The two searched and checked the house carefully several times, but found nothing else of value.

Herage even checked it several times with a dark blue environmental detector, but found no clues.

It seems that Max is also very careful and doesn't put anything here except this big wooden sculpture.

More details will have to wait until Max’s soul is interrogated.

After Prius determined that there was nothing wrong with the small attic, he asked his subordinates outside to conduct a rigorous search of the entire three-story building.

Here is a place where every object will be controlled and inspected using various means.

When facing the Abyss cultists, the wizard organization in the Land of Dawn is extremely cautious and will not miss anything.

After Prius instructed a few people on some matters here, he returned to the city hall without stopping, preparing to start interrogating Max.

Herage stayed at Max's house and helped search the entire house and inventory all the belongings. ♧

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Three days later.

Prius held a document in the office of the city hall and said to Herage: "Herage, you have made a lot of contributions this time. According to the final evaluation calculation, you can get two awards this time. One hundred and sixty contribution points."

"So much? It seems that I am really lucky. I can encounter such good things even if I go out to the street to have a glass of wine." Herage said with a smile.

In the past three days, Preuss and others conducted strict interrogations on Max's soul and Lucci, and found out a lot of information.

You wouldn’t know if you didn’t check, but you’ll find out after checking.

In addition to the wood carvings that Lucci distributed through beggars, many of the wood carvings sold in Max's wood carving shop contained little monsters from the abyss plane.

Such as bugs and beetles.

Although these little monsters from the abyssal plane do not have the ability to directly transform ordinary people into abyssal cultists, they can subtly expand their inner desires.

For example, most people have various desires such as greed for money, lust, greed for power, etc.

The wood sculptures made by Max will amplify these desires in people's hearts.

Once their inner desires reach a certain level, the evil gods from the abyss plane will try to contact them and begin to seduce and bewitch them.

Under normal circumstances, ordinary people are unable to resist this kind of temptation, and thus transform into Abyss Cultists.

Like Lu Qi, they will start to work for the evil god in the abyss plane, getting deeper and deeper into trouble.

The process of capturing Max and Lucci went smoothly, and Prius and the others captured them without much effort.

These things are simple, because Max and Lucci are relatively weak.

The troublesome thing is the follow-up.

According to the information obtained during the interrogation, Max was still making wood carvings containing monsters from the abyss about two years ago.

I don’t know how many pieces have been sold in the past two years, and many of them have even spread to areas outside Serandiil and to various places in the Land of Dawn.

During the interrogation, Price also discovered that Max was a very extraordinary person.

He seemed to have expected that one day he would be caught, so he had cut off many key memories.

In Max's memory, there are basically only some memories of daily life.

But once key information is involved, it becomes a blank and completely impossible to check.

Prius noticed something unusual from this point, and Max was probably just a nobody.

There must be some big fish hiding behind him.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for Max to use this method to remove his own memory.

Being able to achieve this level only shows that the identity of the person behind Max is very unusual.

Prius felt a bit overwhelmed, just recycling those wood carvings was a troublesome task.

No shipping order records were found in Max's store. Max usually does not record this information at all.

So now we can only issue an announcement to inform everyone that there is a problem with Max's wood carvings. If you have any, please immediately submit them to the city halls of various cities in Serantir.

The effect of this kind of announcement was not very good, and only a few people turned in the wood carvings.

These handed over are basically wood carvings that were recently obtained through various channels. They have not been affected too much and have not become Abyss Cultists.

But compared to the number of wood carvings Max has sold in the past two years, the number turned in is really pitiful.

In the seemingly peaceful city, countless people have been influenced by the wood carvings sold by Max and have become members of the Abyss Cult.

Price has been very busy recently, asking his subordinates to use various means to find out who has bought Max's wood carvings.

As long as someone is found to have bought it and failed to hand it over, that person will be strictly investigated.

This is a very heavy workload, and even wizards feel a little short of energy.

Because there are too many people involved, and many of the wood carving buyers themselves use them to give away or trade, it is very troublesome to check, which requires a lot of manpower, material resources and time.