Chapter 1794 The Bizarre Theft Case

How can a man who loves freedom and adventure be willing to be bound in a mine?

Klein Stove originally wanted to decline Mr. Hodge's recruitment, but after reading the letter, he remained silent.

Yes, he really wanted to refuse, but Mr. Hodge offered too much money, so much that he was embarrassed to refuse...

Brother Klein thought about it again, freedom is indeed precious, but it’s a pity that romance can’t be eaten, and he doesn’t care. The gentleman invited me kindly, and expressed my sincerity with a lot of gold coins, why don't I just... go to the mining area for a while and then talk about it.

The fate of the Klein team is not special. For more than half a year, Mr. Hodge has been waving his checkbook to recruit people. Now the total number of formal employees working in the mining area has exceeded 3,000.

In addition to free miners, Mr. Hodge, who is rich and powerful, also bought slave labor on a large scale through his network of contacts.

Today, the total number of slaves serving in the mining area has exceeded 10,000. They are distributed in hundreds of mine pits that are not seeing the sun. , and these ores were packaged as collateral for the issuance of gold banknotes by the imperial authorities, which became a "lever" to leverage the imperial currency reform, and at the same time a "ballast stone" to stabilize the people's hearts.

However, a series of bizarre cases that have occurred in the abyss mining area in recent days has made this seemingly stable "ballast stone" show signs of shaking.

As soon as Joan walked out of the mine transfer station, he saw four familiar figures head-on. They were his old friends Klein, Gray Bird, Gumoduo, and Klein's right-hand man Scholz.

"Brother Qiao An, you are finally here, we have been waiting for you for half an hour!"

Klein greeted him excitedly, and embraced the young mage with his arms wide open.

Joan greeted his old friends one by one, and noticed that the faces of the four couldn't hide their anxiety, so he asked Klein straight to the point, what was the matter of hurrying to find him.

"Isn't it just because of the serial theft I mentioned in the letter!" Klein frowned thickly, "In just one week, the magic crystal warehouse was stolen three times, and two tons of coarse crystals were lost. The thief is still at large!"

"Mr. Hodge is very concerned about this matter, and urged our security department to solve the case as soon as possible, capture the thieves, and recover the stolen goods." Gray Bird followed Klein's words and said, "The thieves are very cunning. Surrounded by our security team, stuck in the warehouse with nowhere to escape, but I don’t know what trick they played in the end, they just disappeared out of thin air under the heavy siege, and turned the warehouse security who was the first to call the police into a stone statue!”

"Turn into a stone statue?" Joan was taken aback. "Hui Bird, you mean the thief has the ability to petrify?"

The blind lady nodded solemnly.

"What does Medea think about this?" Joan then asked.

Medea once collaborated with him on a paper on petrochemical effects, and she herself is a Gorgon who is naturally good at "petrochemical gazing", so she is an expert in petrochemical research.

"My lady came to the mining area yesterday. After checking the petrified security guards, she was sure that it was not poison or supernatural ability that caused the petrification. It was more likely to be the 6-ring 'Petrochemical Spell'."

Gray Bird recalled Medea's explanation, and then said: "Of course Miss has the ability to undo petrification, but she heard that Mr. Klein intends to ask Dr. Vader to help you investigate the theft, so she smiled and said that the statue should be petrified." The security guards of the stone-blind barbarians wait a moment, Dr. Vader will lift the petrification with your own hands, and by the way, ask that unlucky guy about the scene of the crime, and maybe you can get clues to solve the case.”

"I don't understand this. Removing petrification is just a piece of cake for Medea. I can still interrogate the security guards for clues to the case later. Why do I have to wait for me to do it myself?" Qiao An asked in surprise.

Gray Bird sighed, and replied in a low voice: "My young lady's plan is that if she casts a spell to undo the petrification, out of curiosity, she will ask the security guard what happened at the crime scene. The more she knows, the more she gets involved in this crime." As the incident gets deeper, she will inevitably have to participate in the investigation of the case, which will take up a lot of her time, so it's better not to intervene from the beginning, so as not to worry about it."

"Medea is really lazy, she pushes all troubles on me!" Joan resentfully complained.

Gray Bird shrugged her shoulders and smiled bitterly: "It's not the first time you know my lady, and you still don't know how lazy she is? Just like what she often said: don't sit when you can lie down, don't stand when you can sit .”

Joan recalled Medea's behavior style, and it was really like this. She followed the so-called "energy-saving principle" that she boasted about in everything. Once she encountered trouble, she would immediately lie down and pretend to die, and try not to get involved as much as possible.

For example, when Joan, Klein and others tracked the flail snail and explored the magic crystal mine, they kindly invited Medea, whom they met on the way, to join the prospecting team and make a fortune together. However, this lazy woman simply refused because she thought it was troublesome. .

Later, Qiao An and the others discovered the super-large magic crystal mine and made a fortune. Medea missed this opportunity, but did not show the slightest regret.

Joan withdrew his thoughts and turned to look at Guamado: "Elder, you are a level 10 druid and the chief physician of the mining area, so can't you cast spells to undo petrification?"

The old swampman puffed up his eyes and retorted angrily: "Stinky boy, are you stupid in reading? Our druid's list of natural magic spells does not have the spell 'break barrier' at all, you let me take it." Head to de-petrify?!"

Joan scratched his head in embarrassment. His understanding of natural magic is far less profound than that of arcane, and he has indeed made a mistake of taking it for granted.

"Mr. Klein, where is the security guard who was petrified? I will cast a spell to help him regain his freedom, and I will ask for clues about the thieves by the way."

"Brother Joan, don't be in a hurry. Mr. Hodge wants to get to know you very much, so he specifically asked me to invite you to his office and have a cup of coffee." Klein said with a smile.

Qiao An actually didn't really want to make friends with the company executives who were parachuted down from the mainland of the empire, but the other party's hospitality was hard to resist, so he could only bite the bullet and socialize.

Following Klein to Nick Hodge's office, the servants opened the door and invited them into the room. They saw a tall middle-aged man standing up from behind the desk. His gray-blue eyes gave him a tough and capable look. Impression, the huge aquiline nose, just like the cartoon image published in the newspaper.

Even though Joan knew it was impolite, she couldn't help but stare at Mr. Hodge's caricatured and exaggerated aquiline nose.