Mysteries: Arcana Wars

... Field Moretti ... Field Moretti ...

Ever since he was involved in the Harvest Church bombing, the name "Field Moretti" has been like an indelible spell, echoing in Scott's mind every day.

In the subsequent investigation into the bombing, the name "Field Moretti" never appeared again.

Scott clearly remembered every detail of the wedding, but from beginning to end, there was no person named Field Moretti in that luxurious wedding three hundred years ago.

The groom, Jonathan Venturi, was one of Scott's few students and confidants outside the church system. Scott even began searching household registration data from a few years before Jonathan was born.

During these three hundred years, a total of Field Moretti's births were recorded and stored, and there are still 8514 Field Morettis alive in the world. Among Backlund's current population of 145 million, there are Field Morettis of different ages.

Not to mention the surname Moretti. Not only do major church orphanages enjoy naming their children after this surname, but there are also countless civilian families who have continued to use Moretti as their surname to this day.

Scott believed that if he shouted loudly on the street at this time, "Mr. Moretti is a bald idiot!", at least four Mr. Moretti would run over and beat him up, and it was even possible that one of them was actually bald.

It would be great if the sound feature information was also preserved.

Thanks to the development of information technology, data from the early days of the information age more than 300 years ago is still well preserved, but damage and loss are inevitable. Under the current conditions, Scott cannot be sure whether the data of Field Moretti on the videotape was completely deleted or it was the result of manual editing.

This person...did he really exist in this world?

Scott sat in his office chair chewing on a tattered cigarette. Somehow he felt that Field Moretti must still exist in this world.

The technical genius Jonathan embarked on the path of a Beyonder, but stopped at Sequence Five. Jonathan's wife Margaret eventually became the famous Valkyrie of Loen, but died at Sequence Three. So Scott had reason to believe that Field Moretti must have also embarked on the path of a Beyonder, and it is very likely that he is still alive today!

So... why is it that only this video records him?

No matter what, wherever you go, you will leave traces.

For three hundred years, he has been investigating the truth behind the deaths of Jonathan and Margaret. In fact, the circumstances have long been sorted out, and the murderer has long been punished, especially the battle of the Valkyrie's fall, the real process is roughly the same as the content recorded in historical documents. But there are some seemingly insignificant things between these things that scratch Scott's heart day and night, making him doubt that he has not yet fully unearthed all the secrets.

Scott took off the chewed cigarette and made up his mind to find the missing Field Moretti. He had too many questions to ask him, about his student Jonathan, about the Valkyrie Margaret, and about many other false speculations that bothered him. Scott felt that as long as he found this Field Moretti, he would get the truth.

Scott needed an assistant in this matter, but he was not going to tell anyone about it. As a Sequence 3 church member, he had all the official resources he wanted, and as the church's dirty glove behind the scenes, Scott had many "friends" in the underground city black market and other extraordinary organizations.

The only problem is, Scott doesn't trust anyone on this matter.

Jonathan, a technical genius, was one of Scott's few students and confidants, and his death became a source of worry for Scott. Of course, the people involved in the case had long been cleared by Scott, but he searched for a long time and couldn't find the single earring worn by Jonathan, the obsidian pendant.

Margaret died young, and Jonathan, who was addicted to technology, spent some time in a daze. He also died more than ten years later, leaving Scott with only the original core host loaded with the artificial intelligence Kovau.

By the time Scott arrived, the core host of the troublemaker Kewawu had already merged with the extracted extraordinary characteristics and became a sealed object.

After that, Scott had little contact with the descendants of the Valkyrie family. He once thought that Jonathan gave the obsidian earring to his children before his death, but now it seems that this is not the case.

There's no doubt that those bastards were trying to steal Jonathan's technological achievements, but why did they take the obsidian pendant?

Just as Emperor Roselle said, the beautiful jade is innocent, but the person who owns it has original sin. Was Jonathan really just studying artificial intelligence during his last years?

Since this memory card was hidden in the obsidian belonging to Margaret, the obsidian that Jonathan lost must also contain important information!

Find that Field Moretti, find that obsidian earring!

Scott crushed the cigarette in his hand completely, picked up the phone and dialed a number.

"Hey, old lady."

"Working hours."

"Okay, do you have any shitty cases you want me to help with? The kind of cases that are small and convenient, but disgusting and make people not want to work. In fact, it doesn't matter whether the case is investigated or not.

"For example, someone's chicken suddenly dances, someone's mop disappears when they turn their head, someone thinks their husband is cursed but in fact anyone with a discerning eye can see that their husband is out meeting his boyfriend... Of course, the fresher the better, and it would be best if the news hadn't even been entered into the file system yet."

"…You're going to use that trick again."

"One thing to say, one thing to say, indeed."

"This afternoon, a large number of jewelry and ritual objects used in ceremonies were lost. The perpetrators were two people."

Oh, the offerings of your Church of the Night were stolen, is that something you can say?

Indeed, this kind of ritual vessel is usually just a showpiece. If it is lost, they will just make a new one. They will not make a public announcement, and they rarely conduct a serious investigation. However, if it were to be spread, it would embarrass St. Samuel Church and St. Julie Church...

"Okay! Are there any occult divinations and ritual channeling?"

"Preliminary divination has been conducted and some information about the perpetrator has been obtained. The report has not yet been compiled and compiled. No further progress has been paid attention to and the case has been handed over to others to handle."

I see, the classics are used to fool the newcomers. This is what is called tempering and testing.

"Okay, then stop writing and leave it to me."

"Okay, we'll fight on multiple fronts."

"You haven't divined their names yet, have you? Did the camera's biometric comparison yield any results?"

"No."

"Did you read the face?"

"There's only a quick headshot. Do you need it?"

"Forget it, I won't post the picture this time."

"Ok."

"Is there anything else I should pay attention to?"

"The divination results show that both of them have a history of murder, but no case has been filed for investigation so far. The initial inference is that the murder happened not long ago, and the body has not been found. Be careful."

"I'll do the work, don't worry."

They were an old couple, so without much greeting, Scott hung up the phone with his wife and began to write the wanted warrant and suspect file in the system.

Obviously, the two of them had a tacit understanding about this frame-up method of finding someone, and they tacitly agreed not to ask the other party who they were looking for.

Unlike the police's wanted warrant data, which is universal, open and transparent, and can be borrowed from different police systems, the criminal files and wanted information of various church systems are not interoperable, just like the attitude of various churches towards sealed objects.

The church is willing to share some wanted notices and criminal files with other churches and the police, but more files are secret files of each church and are selectively disclosed to the public.

This information island gave Scott, an old sly man, an opportunity to take advantage. If they really caught the person, these minor charges would seem harmless. At most, they could tell the Church of Evernight that it was a mistake, or really find their lost items and return them, which would be considered a favor.

Ah, you see, when we were trying to catch the criminal in this case, we accidentally found some clues and arrested another person. As luck would have it, after interrogating him, we found that the person we caught was the criminal you were looking for.

No need to thank me, this is all the guidance of the God of Steam and Machinery. Praise the God of Steam and Machinery!

Scott was already familiar with this kind of nonsense.

"Field Moretti, male, stole a number of ceremonial jewelry from various churches. Preliminary estimates show that the churches affected include St. Samuel's Church, St. Julie's Church, Holy Wind Cathedral, etc. He is suspected of committing crimes again in recent days. He is quite aggressive and may have accomplices. Reward is 100 pounds."

Even with this, Scott still felt that it was not appropriate, so he continued to make up stories in the system.

"Stealing a Tamagotchi from St. Hillran Church."