On the seventeenth day of the month of the god of calamity, the second queen of the wind.

The snow is still falling, but it is not too heavy, and it does not make it more difficult for the already fast-moving oak car.

Arrogant and in a good mood, he doesn't look like a merchant who braves the snow to come to the door but eats the closed door - no one can see this snow field anyway.

He took advantage of the snow to sneak into the winery, found three wine cellars with his sense of qi, and then picked out the wine that best tasted him, received the borrowing ring, and finally left a batch of Luo Guojin as wine money according to his own estimation of the market, in order to avoid the trouble caused by these exotic gold coins, he spent a little effort to smear all these gold coins into gold cakes without any carving marks. Only then did Shi Shiran get out and leave.

It all went smoothly, and it's no wonder he's in a good mood.

Although he didn't know that the imperial envoy of Emperor En and the five realm ministers were all in Maogen Fort, he could also conclude that the theft of this ticket of wine would inevitably cause an uproar in the Zupol realm. So when the wagon was returned, he immediately returned south.

However, he still underestimated the ability of the realm ministers to toss.

First of all, the guards who were on guard inside and outside Maugan Fort at that time were all summoned to inquire one by one - this case was full of suspicions, and ordinary people could not do it alone anyway. But the guards were relieved of suspicion.

And then there are those mages, even if the little sleeve mages have the spell to collect things, their mana can't even hide a barrel of wine, let alone two hundred barrels. Although the four mages may have this ability, they don't have the time to steal alcohol - the mages must have guards to follow and guard, so that they can give full play to the advantages of the mages. This is tantamount to saying that the mage's movements are being monitored, well, even if the guards were controlled by him and cooperated with his actions, there are enough witnesses to prove that none of the mages and his men have ever been to all three stolen cellars. Could it be that multiple mages collude to do such a thing? Please, these mages themselves belong to different realms, where is the opportunity to collude?

As for the people in the winery itself, they have no ability or opportunity to start.

So, no one at the castle scene is suspicious?

No, there is at least one suspect.

There was such a big case, and anyone who appeared near the scene had to investigate, so as the only one who had ever been close to Fort Maugen, the dealer who claimed to have come to buy alcohol was of course the key object of suspicion.

Although the guards confirmed that the merchant had not entered Mauganburg, and had watched his cart return until it disappeared from view, it was still not enough to clear his suspicions—in fact, the stressed courtiers would never have missed any opportunity to relieve themselves of their responsibilities.

Jing Zhong summoned hundreds of pickets, and the Jing Governor summoned 2,000 local soldiers, centered on the Maogenbao Winery, and scattered a search for all suspicious traces, one of the key points was the merchant who spoke a lot of Chinese and looked like an outsider.

Strength is in numbers, and it took only three hours for the net to be cast before the pickets found a wagon to rent to the small merchant of Aozhong.

The small merchant was questioned, but insisted that the wagon was rented on the same day and returned on the same day, and that the empty car went back empty. And when the dealer who rented the car returned the car, he also said that he had run in vain.

The pickets, of course, would not be gullible to this, and on the one hand, they dismantled the borrowed wagon, almost piece by piece, to see if any traces were left, and on the other hand, without waiting for the results of the inspection, went out to search for the trader, and soon found the inn where the trader had stayed for the night, but the inn could provide little information.

Seeing that the clue was about to be broken, the head of the Zhekankamu Realm only came forward to say that he had moved the three-eyed superintendent stationed in the Zupol Realm under the command of the Eunuch, and learned that there was a merchant with a similar appearance, so he left the realm and went south on the same day.

After getting this clue, the head of the realm immediately asked the mage to send a message to the two Dharma Ancestor Realms, asking them to intercept this person, and at the same time sent a large number of pickets to chase him along the road.

However, the courtiers did not put all their hopes on this merchant, after all, this merchant seemed suspicious, but to say that he could transport two hundred barrels of wine alone, even if he was a mage, it was impossible. It shouldn't be a big problem to hold this man, but what if you can't find the lost wine from him?

Therefore, the toss of the ministers in the territory did not relax at all.

The day after the incident, the head of the realm finally appealed to the chief priest of the Fertility God Temple of the Ancestral Realm, and asked for an oracle to find out the drunkard.

As mentioned earlier, the great priest is not so easy to invite, the protector priest can not sell the face of the king, and in the same way, the great priest does not sell the face of the head of the realm, which is also very normal, if it weren't for the fact that Kankamu and Naheirin have a private relationship, it is really difficult to invite someone else.

There is a great priest to make a move, not to mention catching someone immediately, at least it should be able to easily find out the thief, even if the fertility god is privately considered by many people to be the main god with the weakest divine power in some aspects, but no matter how weak it is, it is also the main god.

Therefore, several realm ministers waited for the results of the oracle in the great temple together, and the imperial envoy Qi Danzan, who was preparing to return early to return to his life, came—although he decided that he could not stand on the same side as the realm ministers again, if the case could be solved while he was there, it could also be regarded as his own merit when he returned to his life.

The oracle went well, and in less than half a time, Grand Priest Nahei Lin came out of the oracle hall, but his face didn't look good.

Facing the expectant eyes of everyone in front of him, the great priest quickly adjusted his expression.

"I only saw a strange fog that I couldn't see through. The chief priest only said one sentence, and then turned around and walked back to the inner hall of the temple.

This is the result of the oracle.

It wasn't a hard word to understand, but it was hard to convince the people waiting there - what kind of spell was a fog that even the gods couldn't see?

What's even more embarrassing is that the spell advisors on the scene, who originally thought that they were just supporting the scene as a guard, had to face this kind of problem that even they found incredible, and we who didn't know about it might know that we were just mages.

It's not good to ask for help from the oracle, no matter what the result is, what the priest says, you don't even have a chance to ask, and seeing that even the gods can't tell who the thief is, a few realm ministers are disappointed, but they feel a slight sense of relief - the more mysterious and powerful the opponent, the smaller their responsibilities will be.

However, they have no intention of giving up, except for the gods, they have other hopes - the realm governor has a hard relationship with the Ministry of Military Affairs, and he replied: I can send someone to the Zupol realm as soon as possible to help make an emperor light backtrack, that is, the imperial military version of the situation reappearance array.

At a critical time, our imperial army can still be relied on. The ministers sighed in their hearts - in the big temple, who dares to speak out when their brains are burned, and the great priest has just turned around, who knows if people are listening?

However, even if the people from the Ministry of Military Affairs can come, it will take ten days to change horses and make a concurrent journey, and in which direction do they have to go to check these ten days?

Come to think of it, that is, the liquor dealer is the most worthy of recourse. So the head of the realm lined up another team of capable men to chase after him.

To go south from Zubor, you must pass through the realm of Kol or Gofergang, and the courtiers believe that if there is an interception in front and a pursuer in the back, the little merchant will not be able to escape.

Sure enough, before the pursuers arrived, the person in charge of interception had already passed the news - many suspects had been caught.

As long as the imperial pickets are convinced that the direction is correct, they have always been afraid of making a big deal out of it, not to mention this kind of big and important case, as long as they don't miss people, what does it matter if they catch the wrong person? Therefore, as long as they look at the age and appearance of those who are a little similar, they will all be taken down first, and then handed over to the ones who take over one by one to investigate, and if they do not come up with a strong enough alibi, they will all be locked up and wait for the pickets in the Zupol realm to take over, and then slowly review them.

So for a while, the prison on the border of Kolxian was overcrowded, almost filled with these suspects waiting to be escorted.

Are there any arrogances among these detained suspects? Of course, there can't be, and at this moment, arrogance is almost leaving the realm of Koll.

He is still in the territory, but he is walking outside the road and staying in the field, how can the pickets and sergeants block it? It is not that they are too stupid to think that the other side may go into the field, nor is it that they are unwilling to search in the field; on the one hand, the manpower is limited, it is easy to hold a boundary line, and it is acceptable to guard the entry and exit of various circles, and if they have to search the field carefully, then there is nothing they can do. On the other hand, they don't think that anyone can travel in such a deep winter wilderness for days, and that it would be great to survive two nights in the snowstorm.

In short, these pickets and defenders are destined to be busy in vain. It is bitter for these "suspects" who have been arrested.

Fortunately, the ending waiting for these suspects may not be so tragic, it is not that the empire does not engage in unjust, false and wrongful cases, but this case is too big, not that the pickets have to give an explanation to the courtiers, but that the ministers have to give an explanation to the imperial court, and just catch someone back and say that it is no problem to be a thief, but you should chase back those wines?

This is also in the expectation of arrogance, when he was in Middle-earth, he did not do any major thefts, but there is a person in Middle-earth who is called the fourth in the world in martial arts, and the world's unparalleled thief asks the sky, although he has not stolen two hundred barrels of wine at one time, but the value of any case is much more expensive than these wines, and he has not seen any innocent people implicated.

What Ao Zongheng didn't expect was that although he was already very fast, at the moment when he was about to leave the Koll Pioneer Realm and prepare to return south through the imperial capital, a piece of news related to him was sent to the imperial capital through three different channels.

On the 20th day of the Evil Plague Divine Month, the Prison, the Prison, and the Legal Management Department each received a message.

"In the realm of Zupol, the Grand Priest of Naihei Lin asked for an oracle to find the thief of the Chryt Maugenburg, and the result was an impenetrable fog. ”

Just such a sentence was continuously relayed by the mage through the teleportation circle—only in this way could there be this speed. And beyond the layers of information screening and sorting, within a time and a half of the information arrived, it was sent to the core people of the three major organizations.