Chapter 2530 Detective Story and Arrival of Rewards
Chapter 2529 Detective Story and Arrival of Rewards
Among the cases handled at the end of the summer of 1854, the one that left the most profound impression on Shade was the "10-pound Rhodes Robbery Case."
To put it simply, the night before the Buford Auction House in the city was about to auction two precious Rhodes cards, the auction house 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 worth 10 pounds.
This almost provocative behavior even attracted the attention of His Majesty Larous III of the Yodel Palace, and therefore immediately received great attention from the City Hall and the Police Department.
Not only did Ledwich 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 [Original Light] was being appraised by the Prophet 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 connect with the auction house.
As a result, I learned some things that the auction house would not be able to tell the police.
After a series of investigations and evidence collection, including a conflict with a local gang, Shade successfully captured thieves and buyers who were preparing to trade stolen goods in a warehouse in the western industrial zone two days after the incident.
Shade was deeply impressed by this incident because he had seen the "Lord's 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 whole 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 nameless corpses.
A fraction of the number of casualties in a major case involving dozens of victims and three generations of emotional disputes.
But 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 process for two consecutive days——
The front page is reserved for His Majesty the King.
The Redwich Market and the auction house therefore gave Shad a large amount of remuneration and bonus respectively. The Biford Auction House even wanted to exchange the two special rule cards [Carson Rick Specialty Food·King Gold Coin Chocolate] and [Classic
One of the buildings in the Yodel Palace Complex was given to Shad.
However, Shade refused, because he could see that the auction house wanted to "bribe" him with playing cards because of his relationship with Cassandra's mother-in-law. Therefore, he only took away the cash reward he deserved, and
In the evening of the same day, I invited the writer lady to a restaurant for a big meal.
"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 smiled and replied:
"After the thief was arrested, he insisted that he had not committed the crime of 'theft', but had forcefully bought the two playing cards for 10 pounds each. As you know, the final sentencing methods for these two crimes are completely different.
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Of course, in the end, the police and judges did not listen to nonsense such as "forced purchase". 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 Melis Lucas, the granddaughter of the old Duke Lucas, find Shade, and entrusted Shade to help investigate the identity of a handsome young man the noble lady met at the racecourse recently.
Identity information 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 also worried that he was approaching her deliberately. Go and help investigate, Shade, I don't think everyone is as lucky as me.
You can meet a suitable marriage partner in no time.”
It is actually very simple to investigate someone when they have a name and address. If Ms. Lucas did not 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 Lesia to give Shade a generous commission fee, but then did nothing. Lesia responded to this
It explains:
"Oh, Melis met another marriage partner that satisfied her, the eldest son of Earl Sheldon. Mr. Sheldon Jr. gave her a beautiful ruby necklace, which is said to be an antique from more than three hundred years ago.
"
"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, and then MI6's
After investigation, it was discovered that Earl Sheldon had a "special relationship" with the intelligence department of the Kingdom of Kasenlik.
In short, this high-profile aristocratic scandal caused Miss Melis Lucas to be confined at home by the angry old Duke. The royal family's purge of Earl Sheldon's influence made everyone in the nobility at that time in 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 Le Maire Racecourse again, he unexpectedly discovered that the young groom, who knew nothing about it, was preparing for his wedding to his fiancée, his childhood sweetheart in his hometown.
He then gave the happy newlyweds a set of reasonably priced silverware as a gift. Of course, the gift was purchased with Miss Lucas's commission fee.
A quiet life is really very comfortable, and during Shad's "vacation", Iluna also told Shad about the church when she visited No. 6 St. Teresa Square every now and then and used the "door" in her home.
:
"[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 letting some high-level and middle-level warlocks try to learn it.
It's just strange. I remember that when we were still in Moon Bay, almost 30% of the witch followers on the Radiant Messenger could learn this seal. But according to the church's current statistics, even if the materials are complete and the venue is complete,
Under appropriate circumstances, the mastery rate of magic seals among church ring sorcerers is only about 3%, and most of them are at least the level of the ninth ring."
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 'original text' written with special ink, so the effect is better?"
The purple-eyed girl asked, and Iluna shook her head:
"I'm afraid this is just one of the reasons. And do you know? Among all the church 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.
Even Shade’s teacher, Miss Danister, learned all about spells.”
"If there are other people who are thaumaturgic, I would feel strange. After all, no one even knows what to call the 'Silver Moon God', but they only roughly know that he 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.
Iluna suddenly said:
"But what I master is thaumaturgy."
This is something that everyone has known for a long time, so Luvia still didn’t turn 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" escaping throughout the world, the church will finally have the conventional power to fight against those strange lights, and that light is no longer completely invincible.
Therefore, the Peace Church 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.
Also coming to Shade's hands were two suitcases worth of precious potions, alchemy materials, and three ancient texts that were sealed before being delivered to Shade.
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 whether the church’s reserves of “Philosopher’s Stone” are low or because they feel they can’t always give out “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, the potions from Priest August, Dr. Schneider and Mr. Ptolemy Albert
, many of the alchemy item lists require Shade to prepare materials by himself. Now with these, Shade can try to let them make some "interesting" things.
As for the three ancient texts that were sent after being sealed, they were written on dragon skin, human skin and golden sheepskin respectively. These three texts are all originals, and the church hopes that the "God Caller" can return them after reading them.
De naturally agreed.
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 storage and use.