After learning what kind of curse the Faceless Men had cast, several other members of the special operations team were equally filled with indignation.
According to Niebuhr's calculations, the curse would take effect in about 24 hours, so Buck issued a death order, and the Faceless Man must be found within 18 hours.
Kel'Thuzad took Siroma into action in the air, the mage said based on the existing intelligence analysis.
"The Faceless Man shouldn't have gone too far after escaping from its lair. To cast spells on multiple people at the same time requires a magic circle that can continuously output spells. Because our search for the Faceless Man was forced to move the magic circle.
If it wants to continue the curse, then the ritual cannot be suspended for too long, and it will not run too far away to rearrange the magic circle."
As he spoke, Kel'Thuzad drew a circle in the void with his hand, and a circle composed of arcane energy appeared in the air, enclosing the theoretical range of activities of the Faceless Men.
"Start the search here. There are not many places that can provide enough hiding space for the faceless people to arrange the magic circle.
Another good news is that after the Eternal Dragon was defeated, his time spell gradually became ineffective, and our search difficulty was greatly reduced.
18 hours is enough for us to catch this guy."
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While the special forces were searching for the Faceless Men, Reed also visited Talanji during a break during the United Conference.
"Princess Talanji, did the consultation this morning go well?"
Li De had been dealing with the issue of the faceless man's curse early in the morning and was unable to appear at the meeting. However, because the topics of each meeting were informed to the representatives of various countries one day in advance, Li De also had a certain understanding of the discussion topics this morning.
There was only one main topic throughout the day: the land dispute between the Quel'dorei and the Amani.
More than two years have passed since the mediation in Quel'Thalas. In the past two years, the high elves and the Amani trolls have generally been in peace. Of course, the two sides have no plans to restart the war recently.
This land dispute is actually because Quel'Thalas believes that as the actual victorious country, it naturally has the right to control the occupied land at will, so it placed a large number of rune stones on the land occupied by Nanyonge Forest, and also placed a large number of rune stones underground.
Build a magic network.
The high elves' wanton development of land naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the Amani trolls. Although the trolls recognized that they lost a large area of land to the elves in the last war, they believed that these lands would be taken back sooner or later.
of.
The Amani Trolls have been without a backbone since Zul'jin's death, and they can only turn to Zandalari to make decisions for the Amani.
Therefore, at the joint meeting, Talanji and Kael'thas negotiated the land issue of South Yonge Forest.
Talanji insisted that there are a large number of historical relics from the Troll Empire period underground in the South Yonge Forest. The high elves' wanton construction of magic nets underground will cause damage to various cultural relics and historic sites underground, which will harm the whole world.
the wealth of civilization.
Kael'thas also refused to give in, believing that more attention should be paid to practical issues. Many empires have been glorious in history, and the development of modern people should not be stopped just to accommodate trolls. Building magic nets is the way of life for high elves.
Zandalari should not interfere with Quel'Thalas' construction on their legal land.
The two sides had been talking to each other for a whole morning, but no one could be convinced. Representatives from various countries also took a neutral attitude and did not easily express their stance.
"It's not optimistic. It seems that neither we nor the high elves intend to give in. Is there something wrong with you?"
Talanji saw that Li De did not come to him specifically to talk about this matter. If he wanted to know the results of the morning's consultation, Li De could have listened to the report from Nogfogg and the others.
"Well, there is something I need to let you know. During the recent investigation of the Faceless Men and the Ancient Gods, our special operations team discovered that several Zandalari exchange personnel from the Art Academy were suspected of being involved in this matter. So
We decided to investigate several people."
Talanji nodded after hearing this.
"I understand this matter. The Ancient God is our common enemy. If anyone among Zandalari dares to serve the Ancient God, Zandalari will never tolerate it.
There is no need to worry during the investigation, but I have two requirements: after the investigation is completed, both people and corpses need to be returned to us; and we need to see the files by then, otherwise the matter cannot be explained."
Hearing what Talanji said, Li De was in a good mood and couldn't help but say a few more words.
"Thank you very much for your understanding. Regarding the conflict between Amani and Quel'dorei, I hope Zandalari will not be obsessed with the results of the negotiations. Some conflicts cannot be resolved at the negotiation table in one generation. After all, the accumulation of conflicts
It took many generations.
Compared with the current results, Amani's initiative to rescue Zandalari is the most valuable. As for whether Zandalari can seize this opportunity, I think it depends on whether the ruler is willing to truly stand among Amani.
To win their hearts."
Talanji thought about Li De's words, and then thought about some of the real problems in her country, and she seemed to understand a little bit. However, she still had a positive attitude towards the debate in the joint conference, and tried to strive for as many benefits as possible.
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Li De saw from Talanji's eyes that she had made some determination, so he stopped disturbing her.
"I'll take my leave now. The results of the investigation will be informed to you as soon as possible."
After saying farewell to Talanji, Li De strode out and said to Martin Leigh who stayed with him.
"Meanwhile Van Cleef and Niebuhr, the investigation into the Art Institute now begins."
The order quickly reached the Bureau of Land Statistics and the Shadow Hunters. Van Cleef and Niebuhr immediately geared up and entered the art academy with the most elite action team members.
The investigation at the Art Institute had almost no twists and turns. With William's assistance, they quickly uncovered the Zandalari troll who had betrayed his soul and faith.
When he realized that he couldn't hide anymore, the troll wanted to resist, but he was immediately pushed to the ground and rubbed by the boys from the Geostatistics Bureau and the Shadow Hunters.
These action team members have also been holding back their anger recently, and they were still thinking about it when they suppressed the Zandalari troll.
'If I can't cure the Faceless Man, I can't cure you?!'
With the combination of hypnotic interrogation and curses, Van Cleef and Niebuhr quickly obtained a complete confession and presented it to Li De.
After picking up the testimony, Li De didn't rush to read it but asked first.
"Will you give this to the special operations team?"
"Don't worry, I've already asked the Wind Rider to send it over."
After hearing what Van Cleef said, Li Decai started reading with confidence.
It's not very complicated, but it's very Zandalar:
The criminals are not some transformed faceless men, but pure Zandalari residents. When the Zandalari nation was at its peak, it was said to have three thousand Loa, but now it only claims to have eight hundred Loa. Although it can be known
Both of these are just imaginary numbers, but it can also be seen that Zandalar's Loa is decreasing.
With the development of the times, the Loa faiths are also merging and merging. In this process, things will naturally disappear. In Zandalar, several Loa faiths die out naturally almost every year.
The Loa that the criminal's family believed in died two years ago. Normally, after a Loa belief dies, the original believers will naturally devote themselves to other belief systems.
However, something went wrong with the criminal's family during this process. They did not devote themselves to the Loa faith officially recognized by Zandalari, but instead believed in a Loa called G'huun.
In the history of Zandalari, there are few records of this "G'huun", but now it seems that G'huun has a deep connection with the Old Gods.
So much so that criminals will follow G'huun's orders and actively contact the Faceless Men to help the Faceless Men create illustrations to carry curses to corrupt children's hearts.
According to the criminal's confession, the Faceless Man did briefly meet him during his escape, but the meeting lasted no more than three minutes, and his main purpose was to take a large painting from the criminal.
When searching the criminal's residence, the Bureau of Land Statistics also discovered the draft of this large painting. The image it spoke of was exactly the super beast Hazax that had appeared before!
"'This is the miracle of the great C'Thun, bringing illusions into reality!' That's what the criminal said?"
Li De looked at the confession and said with some surprise, and Van Cleef stood opposite and responded hurriedly.
"That's right, that's what you said."
Li De temporarily closed his eyes, thought for a while, folded up the confession, and handed it back to Van Cleef.
"Go and send these to Princess Talanji. There are many things here worthy of her attention."
"yes!"
The Zandalari Troll's confession was also sent to the special operations team. After a day of searching, the enemy's location was also continuously reduced.
After reading the testimony, Kel'Thuzad confirmed his conjecture, because the testimony provided good supporting evidence.
"After leaving the school and going to the residence of the exchange staff, with these two points, the scope of its activities within the time limit of continuing the curse is even more limited.
All other suspicious locations have been searched, and now only this one - the Gadgetzan Hotel is not searched."
Buck looked at the time. Only ten hours had passed since half past seven in the morning.
"There is still plenty of time. I'm going to get the cooperation of the city's security forces. You all should be ready to go to your respective posts."
"Yes! (five people)"
In fact, Kel'Thuzad was quite suspicious of the Gadgetzan Hotel from the beginning, because the United Nations Conference has recently seen a lot of visitors, and the Gadgetzan Hotel has completely turned into a commercial hotel after stripping off its office and foreign affairs functions.
The security level is not as high as in the past, so it is easier to hide.
However, the special forces did not choose to search the Gadgetzan Hotel from the beginning, because the personnel here were complex and difficult to investigate, and the resistance encountered in conducting a search in such a purely commercial hotel was also considerable.
If there is any emergency situation here, it is likely that a lot of time will be wasted just to deal with the problem. If the Faceless Men are not hiding here, the time for searching other areas will be seriously squeezed.
Therefore, within the time limit, the special operations team will put the Gadgetzan Hotel last.