Necromancers are frantically stationing troops in the apocalypse.

Deacons have a high status in the local area.

How dare these ordinary guards steal before they are sure they can't come back?

Put the valuables in the room into your pocket?

Wu Heng felt that this statement was untenable.

The other association members behind him were also staring at each other.

Waiting for a reasonable answer.

The captain of the guard looked a little unhappy. He didn't expect that he would be targeted after coming back to deliver the money.

After a short hesitation, he replied, "My Lords, I misunderstood you. It is a real misunderstanding."

"What kind of misunderstanding is this? Let me hear it." Wu Heng still looked at him.

The captain immediately said, "We didn't take these things. Someone took advantage of the chaos in the city and broke in to take them. Because it involved a local deacon, we recovered some of the things, but... our subordinates were dishonest and took some of them."

He looked up carefully and continued, "I learned that the adults from the headquarters were coming to investigate. I was afraid of causing trouble, so I arranged for people to recall these properties and send them to the adults."

Wu Heng and the others frowned.

I didn't expect he could come up with such an excuse.

In other words, they did not take the things, but recovered dirty items, some of which were withheld and divided.

This time, people from the association's headquarters came to investigate, and they were a little unsure, so they took the initiative to send it over.

"It's already been taken. If it's not returned, we won't know anything about it." Wu Heng said.

"Sir, the City Lord's Mansion has issued an order not to have any conflicts with the association. Each person will not get much money, and we are afraid of causing trouble." The captain continued speaking, telling all the things that had happened in the team.

Sharing of dirty things is a common thing in any era.

When the association's team is handling a problem, the seized items can be directly divided among their own team, and only important and special items will be handed over.

"Are all the things that were distributed here?" Wu Heng asked.

"Some of them cannot be found, so I will give you the difference in price. Please forgive me, sirs."

Hum~!

The old wizard Janvito snorted coldly.

The rest of the association members also looked unhappy.

The people in front of me are either of high rank or have strong backgrounds. None of them would be short of this little money.

And these things that cannot be recovered may be of some help to the entire case.

Wu Heng also looked the other person up and down, and didn't intend to ask any more questions here.

He said directly: "Please ask the captain to go back with us so that we can explain the matter clearly."

"Ah? Sir, I don't know the rest of the matter, and I'm afraid I can't help you with anything." The captain's face changed.

"Don't worry, it's just a simple inquiry." Wu Heng glanced back.

Several members of the association team stepped forward and walked towards the captain.

The guards behind the captain also began to get a little restless and prepared to fight.

"Don't move, don't move, I'll go back with you." The captain said, and then said to his men behind him: "I'm going to the association, you take this matter back."

Seeing that the other party was quite honest, Wu Heng nodded and said, "Just cooperate."

Wu Heng doesn't have many means to use when dealing with living beings.

The only [Sincere Clay Doll] was obtained by killing the Association's inspector in private, and it must not be used.

Just because you can’t do it doesn’t mean that other people in the association can’t do it.

Among the accompanying personnel, the 15th-level priest has the ability to [Detect Lies].

According to what Xilagui told me before I left, not everyone can detect this ability.

But the team leader in front of him was obviously only about level seven or eight.

It’s actually not a big problem to discern what he says.

After confirming that there were no clues here, two association members were arranged to stay behind temporarily, while the rest headed towards the association opposite.

Just as I reached the gate, the dwarf 'Kaitan' who was supposed to go to the town hall came back.

"Hand him over to the elder and explain the matter to him." Wu Heng said.

The team members walked into the association with the captain of the guard.

Wu Heng walked towards the returning 'Kaitan' and asked, "How is it?"

"Nothing was found. No properties or information were found for the three people's names." The dwarf said directly.

Wu Heng frowned, things were more difficult than he had imagined.

There are no clues in both directions.

The old wizard Gianvito asked, "What should we do next?"

Wu Heng said: "Go and call out the local deputy deacon."

One member walked right in and came back out with the local archdeacon behind him.

"Several adults."

"You all said that many people died in the city. Where are the bodies buried?" Wu Heng asked.

"It burned down. There was black smoke billowing into the sky for several days in a row, and the whole city was filled with the smell of burnt bodies," said the local deputy deacon.

"So many bodies, all burned?"

The deputy deacon thought for a moment and said, "The bodies of some local residents with families should be buried over there in the cemetery."

"Take us over there to have a look. By the way, prepare a carriage for Dean Gianvito." Wu Heng said.

"Yes." The deputy deacon nodded and began to prepare.

Soon, the carriage and horses were brought over.

The old wizard and the investigator rode in a carriage, while the rest rode on horses, following the local deacon out of the city.

……

At the city gate.

The guards simply asked questions and then let us go.

This was completely the opposite of the attitude before docking in the morning.

Wu Heng and others did not stop and went all the way to the cemetery outside the city.

At a glance, there are densely packed graves.

He took out a few masks from his space ring and distributed them to the others, then ordered the skeleton, "Dig the grave, from front to back."

The skeleton swung up the shovel and dug out all the bodies inside.

When the coffin lid was opened, the strong stench of a rotting corpse instantly filled the air.

Many people subconsciously took two steps back and kept their distance.

Wu Heng used [Talk to the Dead] on a corpse, and the corpse sat up, its head turned, and its eyeballs fell to the ground.

"How did you die?"

The corpse replied hoarsely, "Two groups of people fought and killed me."

"Do you know anything about the association's deacon?"

"do not know."

"During the civil war in the city, was there any news that you thought was special?"

The corpse was silent for a moment, then said, "The City Lord's Mansion announced that reinforcements will be coming to help defend the city..."

……

Association, Deacon's Study.

Elder Tapani sat behind his desk, looking through some previous materials.

Dong dong dong~!

There was a knock on the door, and two level 15 professionals from the team walked in.

The priest said, "Elder, the man was taken away by the people from the City Lord's Mansion, and we didn't get anything out of him."

"Is what he said true?" Tapani frowned.

"Given his level, he can't lie to me. Several people divided some things privately. This time when we came here, the City Lord's Mansion didn't allow us to have conflicts, so they sent the things back." The priest replied.

“Did the investigator record everything?”

“I have recorded it.”

As he was speaking, there was another knock on the door.

Wu Heng, Gianvito and others all walked in.

Tapani's eyes lit up, "What did you find out?"

"We checked the deacon's residence and dug up the graves outside to interrogate the bodies, but we haven't found anything so far." Wu Heng asked, "What about the captain?"

The priest said: "I told the truth. We divided the things privately."

At this point, everyone fell silent.

The fact that the association members went into the city could not be concealed.

Therefore, Wu Heng and others immediately began to investigate.

But after walking around, no clues were found.

"It's not a good start." The elder muttered, and then said: "Wu Heng, what are you going to do next?"

“The first thing is to collect information about other secret talkers. If necessary, we can also publicly offer a reward for the information.” Wu Heng said directly.

It is impossible for an association to have only one secret speaker.

Maybe other whisperers can deliver some useful information.

Publicly offering a reward for information is a last resort and will of course damage the association's image.

"Maybe it was just an accident and the murderer wasn't involved," one person said.

Wu Heng did not answer immediately, but found a seat and sat down.

After thinking for a while, he said, "I'm thinking about a question."

"what is the problem?"

"There is no body, and the place of death cannot be found. The things in the house have been moved. If there is no whisperer to deliver the message to Treasure Island, it is fine to say that the deacon left because of the war in the city."