The secret investigation began immediately, and it was faintly led by Elder Zhao.

Wang Lun found out about this and didn't mind at all. After all, if you don't lead the secret investigation, you can put a little less effort into it.

On the first day of the secret investigation, Elder Zhao also transferred the Spirit Sect monks outside the city into the city, plus the people of the City Lord's Mansion, all of them went out to visit the inn, Qinglou and other places.

The people of the City Lord's Mansion are very familiar with Mengze City, and they can also talk to the people of the three sects and nine streams, so in addition to the monks, the bastards, dart masters, and the guardians of wealthy merchants in Mengze City have also joined in, and the secret investigation is very strong.

It's just that Elder Zhao found that those people were like mud cows into the sea, and they disappeared perfectly in Mengze City, and he didn't find any clues after checking all day.

The next day, Elder Zhao was a little anxious, and issued an order to the people who participated in the secret investigation operation, secretly recording the people who stayed in the inn in the last two days, the people who had newly entered the store to do things in the last two days, etc., in short, it was necessary to record as much as possible the places where the gang of thieves might hide and the occupations they might engage in in these two days.

At the end of this day, no clues have been found.

But on the third day, Elder Zhao began to act fiercely, asking the team of monks to "invite" the people on the list to the City Lord's Mansion one by one against yesterday's record list.

Moreover, instead of checking one batch and then "inviting" another batch, he "invited" all the people on the list to the City Lord's Mansion at one time.

This alone used up a day's time.

Elder Zhao was obviously in a hurry, and began to practice this domineering and blunt method. Wang Lun saw it in his eyes and knew it.

Now that Mengze City has been locked down for several days, not only ordinary residents are complaining, but even monks are complaining. After all, if you can't go out of the city, the monks can't go out to do errands, and their movements are greatly restricted, if it's a monk who belongs to the Spirit Sect, it's okay, they won't say anything, but the monks trapped in Mengze City, at least half of them are monks from other sects and loose cultivators, and the accumulated emotions of these people are becoming more and more intense, and Elder Zhao can't keep pressing, and the city gate must be opened in the next few days, otherwise everyone from ordinary people to monks will create a riot in Mengze City.

It was impossible for Elder Zhao to withstand the pressure all the time. What's more, Wang Lun also heard Elder Zhao complain that he had applied for more helpers from the Lingzong headquarters, but the Lingzong did not send additional manpower, Elder Zhao did not know the reason, Wang Lun knew that the Lingzong hoped that Elder Zhao's secret investigation would end as soon as possible.

Of course, Wang Lun didn't persuade Elder Zhao to give up early, anyway, if he couldn't catch those thieves from the nearly 1,000 people who were arrested today, Elder Zhao could only give up.

After all, it was already the last resort that Elder Zhao could take.

The martial arts arena of the city lord's mansion is crowded with people.

Nearly 1,000 people who were "invited" were restrained here, and there were almost 100 monks guarding them.

Elder Zhao invited Wang Lun and a Yuanying monk from Mengze City, and the three of them explored the cultivation of these people together. Anyone who confirms that he has no cultivation will be let go first, and then those who have cultivated to the Qi Realm and the Foundation Building Realm will also be let go.

In the end, there were less than a hundred left, originally nearly a thousand.

Of the twenty thieves, some of them should be among the rest.

"President Wang, if you look closely, you may be able to identify a few people. ”

Elder Zhao pleaded. Only Wang Lun has fought head-on with that gang of thieves.

He knew that it was impossible for the twenty anti-thieves to be "invited" to the City Lord's Mansion, and there must be many anti-thieves who used various means to avoid this stubble, and they might be standing in the martial arts arena now

Among these people, only four or five or even only two or three are thieves, but as long as Wang Lun can confirm even one, he can use this to open a breakthrough.

Wang Lun nodded and began to identify them one by one. Although he had thought in advance that if he could find the thief who attacked the Mengze City Chamber of Commerce that day, he would pretend not to know it, but after the real identification began, Wang Lun found that it was completely redundant to think about this.

After a round of identification, he really didn't recognize any of the thieves.

"Elder Zhao, the people who attacked the Chamber of Commerce that day were all wearing floating masks, and they could only be judged based on their body shape and special characteristics on their bodies, and I found no suspicious people. ”

Elder Zhao was immediately disappointed and said in a low voice, "It's a pity that you can't force these people to cast spells, or forcibly check their magic weapons. ”

Speaking of which, Elder Zhao complained a little bit about the Spirit Sect again. If the Spirit Sect sent someone with higher strength and status, such as the deputy sect master, to come and sit in the town, and publicly announced that this time the search for the anti-thief was of great importance, and all the monks who came into contact with it should unconditionally cooperate with the Spirit Sect to investigate, then the matter would definitely be much easier.

He knew that if the Spirit Sect wanted to do this, it would definitely be possible, and the monk who was investigated dared not speak out.

And the number of times the Spirit Sect has taken similar measures is not once or twice. It stands to reason that this time, in order to find out the thief, he can also do things so toughly and domineeringly, and I don't know that the Spirit Sect headquarters has no expression.

He is also not qualified to question the sect master, he can only guess in his heart, thinking that maybe the sect master thinks that he forcibly investigates like this, even if he finds out a few anti-thieves, he can't follow the clues to find the nest of the anti-thief forces, after all, he can't get key information by interrogation and soul search, since the leader of the anti-thief forces dares to send the anti-thief to attack the Mengze City Chamber of Commerce, he must be ready for the anti-thief to be arrested.

"The sect master didn't give an order, so we really can't ask these people to hand over magic weapons or cast spells. Wang Lun responded.

Elder Zhao sighed: "Let's plant it on those three anti-thieves who have been set up with tracking marks. "If those three don't get rid of their tracking marks, it's easy.

"What is Elder Zhao going to do?" Wang Lun believed that the other party would not dare to use force against these people now, and there should be no other way.

"Try it. Elder Zhao got up and walked towards the people standing on the martial arts arena, but he made a request, "Everyone, the Spirit Sect invites everyone to come over, there is no malicious intent, so far, there has been no unfavorable action against any monk, now please cooperate, show your magic weapon, and after doing this, you can leave the City Lord's Mansion freely." ”

Wang Lun sat still and didn't move. After all, Elder Zhao's approach was wishful thinking.

Before they felt the real pressure, it was impossible for these monks in the martial arts arena to really cooperate with Elder Zhao.

To put it bluntly, he, Elder Zhao, and the Yuanying Cultivator in Mengze City couldn't order these people. Again, if you want these people to obey the order, only the headquarters of the Spirit Sect can do it.

Sure enough, after Elder Zhao finished speaking, although no monk questioned or vehemently objected, these people slowly sacrificed their magic weapons one by one.

And after Elder Zhao saw it, his lungs were going to explode.

The magic weapons that these people took out were all obviously not matched with these people's cultivation.

Obviously he is a cultivator of the Yudan Realm, but he only took out a medium-grade magic weapon, and some even only took out a low-grade magic weapon, which is simply humiliating his IQ in the red fruit land!

Yuanying Realm monks, under normal circumstances, not to mention having a holy artifact magic weapon, at least having a superb magic weapon is a sure thing, but what are the things that several Yuanying monks have taken out? The high-grade magic weapon is mixed with the medium-grade magic weapon, but there is no superb magic weapon!

Elder Zhao wanted to point at the nose of this group of people and curse angrily, but he didn't really do so. How could this group not know that taking out the garbage magic weapon would anger him, but they still did it, to put it bluntly, he had no means to take it out.

He really didn't have the authority to order these people to take out the real magic weapon and show it.

Walking back again, he sat next to Wang Lun and said in a low voice, "President Wang, think about whether there is any other way." ”

Wang Lun shook his head directly: "I can't think of it, unless the Spirit Sect headquarters comes forward." ”

Elder Zhao had a gloomy expression on his face: "That's really no way." "The Spirit Sect is going to come forward early, and we can't expect this to happen now.

Seeing that everyone had taken out the magic weapon, they had indeed done what he had requested, and they seemed to be very cooperative with him, but Elder Zhao knew that if he walked over again and asked these people to take out the real magic weapon, these people would definitely not cooperate.

As for forcing these people to use magic now? He didn't find a way to do it.

In the name of competition? These people will politely refuse.

In the name of pointing out that someone is a thief and then having him or Wang Lun attack that person? This thing cannot be done at all, the Spirit Sect is domineering, but on the contrary, it is necessary to maintain the appearance of a famous family on the surface.

Elder Zhao had a headache.

Seeing that the time passed minute by minute, he couldn't think of a way, so he could only let these people go.

Elder Zhao quietly transmitted the message to Chu Yun, the Yuanying Cultivator in Mengze City, and then Elder Zhao walked back to the middle of the group of people again, attracting the attention of this group of people.

"I've seen all the magic weapons you have shown, and I can put them away. Elder Zhao said with a smile, not at all angry because this group of people were fooling themselves.

Someone couldn't help but ask, "When will we be able to leave?"

Elder Zhao: "I know that you are all in a hurry to leave, but you still have to cooperate a little more, I need to know your origins, whether you are sect monks, or scattered cultivators, the situation of the inheritance of the master, etc., let's start with you." He gestured to the person who asked the question.

"Can you leave when you're done?" the man asked.

"Yes," Elder Zhao said, "Please come over this time, I can't say what the Spirit Sect is going to investigate, but it will never affect your safety, as long as you cooperate." ”

"Okay, then you can ask me. The man agreed.

Elder Zhao began to ask.

Everyone's attention was also focused on this, Chu Yun, the Yuanying monk in Mengze City, took this opportunity to leave lazily with his hands behind his back, he didn't run away secretly, at this moment, it was like the martial arts arena had nothing to do with him, so he left leisurely.

Elder Zhao quickly finished asking the first person, nodded and said, "No problem, you can leave, I will do what I say." ”

The man didn't say much, he left on foot at a speed faster than half that of ordinary people, and the others watched, and found that the person had been leaving from the exit of the martial arts arena, and was not stopped by anyone, and began to believe that what Elder Zhao said was true.

"Ask me, ask me. Someone shouted impatiently, anxious to leave the martial arts arena for the second one.

"Don't worry, let's start here. Elder Zhao pointed to the leftmost person.

Soon, after answering Elder Zhao's question, another person was let go, and like the first person, he left without any hindrance.

When the third person was about to be questioned by Elder Zhao, an abnormality suddenly appeared in the air, and a brilliant golden light slashed straight down, terrifying!