The attack on the Margery family residence soon caused uproar in the city. Martial law was imposed at several major city gates in the aristocratic district of King's Port. All professionals in the city were not allowed to enter or leave.
The streets and alleys inside the city are also filled with groups of city defense troops. Even the King's Guards, the Shining Aegis Legion, have sent several teams into the city to station themselves.
According to rumors from the relatively powerful ministers of the kingdom in the aristocratic district, during the court meeting that morning, Fetis Margery (Mason's second son), the Margery family's domestic minister of commerce, took advantage of this incident.
, accusing the Frank family, who are responsible for the city defense and the royal capital's defense, of slacking off and dereliction of duty, and intending to make the Minister of Military Affairs Marcy Frank voluntarily resign from his concurrent position as the military chief of the city defense.
Of course, Marcy Frank could not give in like this. The two had a heated argument at the court meeting. In the end, it was His Majesty the King who got angry, which prevented the two important ministers of the kingdom from performing a full-scale farce on the spot.
The contemporary King Wood VI used this incident to blame the Minister of Military Affairs, but he picked it up high and put it down gently. He was only fined three months' salary and ordered to sit back and reflect for three days. Other than that, there was no other punishment.
Fetis was dissatisfied, so Wood VI used the fact that the Margery family had led the Shining Shield Legion on an expedition but ended up returning with more than half of their men to suppress him. This made the Secretary of Commerce have to give up the suppression of the Frank family.
Although the matters above the court were finally brought to an end under Wood VI's superb checks and balances, this matter was not really over yet.
After all, the attack on the residence of an important minister of the kingdom was considered a big event in King's Harbor, which was always peaceful and peaceful.
The king then ordered that the Minister of Military Affairs should take the lead, and the Margery family would fully cooperate to investigate the matter thoroughly, and the audacious attacker must be captured and brought to justice.
As a result, the entire King's Port Noble District immediately entered a state of martial law. In addition to all professionals in the city needing to report their whereabouts last night to the city defense army, even the harbor area of the outer city was included in the investigation scope.
The entire city of King's Harbor suddenly fell into a tense situation. Every few minutes, a team of city guards patrolled through the streets, and anyone or anything that looked suspicious was thoroughly screened.
Gangs of all sizes at the docks in the port area immediately became victims of collateral damage. According to incomplete statistics, in the morning alone, no less than fifty gangs were raided by the city defense army and all were imprisoned.
In this tense and serious atmosphere, Xue Hua and his insect swarm lived a peaceful and nourishing life.
The transformed images of the mimic hatchlings are all human images that cannot be found no matter how you throw them into the crowd. In addition, the mimic hatchlings do not have the unique psychic fluctuations of professionals, so the city defense army cannot find them no matter how hard they check.
Check them out.
As for the shadow bugs, it is even more impossible. These completely invisible bug killers can easily avoid various search operations by the city defense army in various ways. As long as the legendary strongman does not personally conduct a dragnet search, no one will
traces of them can be found.
Under such conditions, the progress of Dehaka's investigation operations was not affected by martial law at all. It used its special abilities and various intelligence provided by the insect swarm to quickly and secretly conduct investigation operations in the noble area, using only
In one day, one-third of the entire Noble District was inspected.
Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of Dehaka and the swarm, perhaps because the investigation activities of the city defense army shocked the men in black, causing them to hide deeper in the shadows, so the investigation on the first day
Although it went smoothly, no valuable results were obtained.
That night, in Xue Hua's hotel room, a very ordinary-looking man wearing servant clothes was reporting to him the results of today's actions.
"Master, our opponents are very cunning. Humanity's martial law operation may have disturbed them, which made them hide deeper.
In the absence of various visual reinforcements from the Monitoring King Insect, our investigation was superficial and we were unable to conduct a detailed search inside the human compound, so we did not find any valuable clues today."
"Well, I understand, there is nothing we can do about it. After all, the target we chose when we caused chaos was one of the top figures in King's Harbor!
Anyway, if they want to impose martial law, let them do it. We can't keep doing it like this.
King's Harbor is a commercial kingdom, and such martial law will scare away foreign merchants.
So wait patiently for a few days. When they realize that their efforts are in vain, this martial law operation will naturally not be able to maintain.
What's more, the Margery family said it was attacked last night, but in fact it was just an insignificant warehouse that was burned down. Such a thing is not serious in fact. The only difference is that it happened in Margery.
It’s just in the family’s mansion.”
Xue Hua stood by the window of the hotel, looking at the King's Avenue below which was much emptier than yesterday, and said with a touch of helplessness in his tone.
"I have been investigating like this for the past few days. No matter whether I can find clues or not, at least I can sort out the general situation first. As for the reinforcement of the surveillance king insect's vision... Hey! Unless the parliament suddenly issues an order to let the King's Port
Send more than three legendary strong men to reinforce the eternal battlefield, otherwise don’t even think about it..."
He turned around at this moment and looked at the man at the table who had transformed from a mimic larvae.
"This matter is entirely up to you. The insect swarm cannot be exposed to the sight of the three major families of King's Port yet.
So continue the covert investigation, just keep it as it is today, tell Dehaka that your identity cannot be exposed under any circumstances, and you would rather go slower, do you understand?"
"I will follow your orders, my lord." The man dressed as a servant nodded slightly, then turned around and quickly left the hotel room.
After it left, Xue Hua moved a chair and sat down against the window sill, looking at the brightly lit night scene outside the window and falling into deep thought.
What he is thinking about now is not how to continue to search for those mysterious black-robed strangers, but the situation of the eternal war.
Of course, the current eternal war is far from a battle that the insect swarm can participate in. All the demons there are real bodies. Even a fallen demon has a minimum strength of level 60, and the higher-end champion monsters and elite monsters are even more powerful.
It has reached more than eighty levels, which is infinitely close to the legendary level. Even those dark gold boss monsters that have been tortured by the insect swarm as sandbags are basically all legendary level beings above level ninety.
However, although the current insect swarm cannot appear on that level of battlefield, this does not prevent Xue Hua from being worried about the situation in the eternal battlefield.
Although the angels in high-level heaven are not good things in Xue Hua's eyes, compared with the demons in hell, Xue Hua is still more willing to deal with angels.
The situation of the eternal war must not collapse, at least not now.
If there were a collapse there, the high-level paradise would basically be close to collapse.
And if the high-level paradise collapses, it will be the turn of the first world.
If things really come to that point at this time, then Xue Hua probably has no choice but to go to the Haworth Islands immediately to pick up the two little girls, and then desperately escape outside the sanctuary world.
Humans alone will never be able to stop the invasion of hell's million-strong army.