Chapter 298 Investigation

The first thing Herag solved was the defense structure of the magic array, cutting off the connection between its structure and other parts to prevent the defense function from being triggered by unexpected situations.

Then the connection between the magic lock and the magic array was also cut off. Now even if the magic lock was hit by a hammer, the magic array would not be triggered.

However, Herag did not rush to open the magic lock. For the sake of stability, he continued to crack the magic array.

Finally, the core of the magic array, which mainly has several main functions such as defense, monitoring, sensing, and self-destruction.

It was the most troublesome to deal with. Herag patiently cracked one structure after another, cracking every sub-function of the magic array and making it invalid.

In Herag's perception, the whole process was a little long.

It took him about half an hour to crack the entire magic array.

With a click, the magic lock opened automatically.

Herag pushed the door lightly, and there was no abnormality.

The process of cracking the magic array requires great patience and meticulousness, and no mistakes can be made.

Herag has a wealth of experience in potion making, and has long been trained, so his mentality is very stable.

"Well done!" Prius patted Herag on the shoulder to express his appreciation.

Prius walked into the house first, and Herag followed closely.

The furnishings in the house are very simple and plain, without too many sundries.

A table, a wood sculpture, that's all.

There is only a relatively large wood sculpture left on the table, and the small carved wood sculptures were given to Luqi.

The remaining one is used by Max to worship the gods. Judging from the carving marks, it is not recently carved, but has been a while.

Prius picked up the large wood sculpture on the table, turned it over and looked at it, then put it away, preparing to take it back and study it slowly.

The two searched and checked the house carefully several times, but did not find anything else valuable.

Herag even checked it several times with Deep Blue's environmental detection, but did not find any clues.

It seems that Max is also very careful, and he didn't put anything here except this large wood sculpture.

More details will be known after interrogating Max's soul.

After Prius confirmed that there was no problem in the attic, he asked his subordinates outside to conduct a thorough search of the entire three-story building.

In this place, every object will be controlled and checked by various means.

The wizard organization in the Land of Dawn is extremely cautious when facing the Abyss Cultists, and there will be no omissions.

After Prius instructed a few people on some matters here, he returned to the City Hall without stopping and prepared to start interrogating Max.

Herag continued to stay at Max's residence to help search the entire residence and count all the items.

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Three days later.

In the office of the city hall, Prius held a document and said to Herag: "Herag, you have made a great contribution this time. According to the final evaluation, you can get 260 contribution points this time."

"So much? It seems that I am really lucky. I can encounter such a good thing even when I go to the street to drink a glass of wine." Herag laughed.

During these three days, Prius and others strictly interrogated Max's soul and Luqi, and found out a lot of information.

You don't know until you check.

In addition to the wood carvings distributed by Luqi through beggars, many of the wood carvings sold in Max's wood carving shop contain small monsters from the abyss plane.

For example, insects, beetles and the like.

Although these small monsters from the abyss plane do not have the ability to directly transform ordinary people into abyss believers, they will subtly expand their inner desires.

For example, greed for money, lust, greed for power, etc., most people have various desires.

The wood carvings made by Max will expand these desires in people's hearts.

Once their inner desires reach a certain level, the evil gods of the Abyss will try to contact them and begin to seduce and bewitch them.

Under normal circumstances, ordinary people cannot resist this kind of bewitchment and thus become Abyss cultists.

Like Luci, they will start to work for the evil gods of the Abyss and get deeper and deeper.

The process of capturing Max and Luci was very smooth, and Prius and his men took them down without much effort.

These things are very simple, because Max and Luci are both relatively weak.

The troublesome thing is the subsequent processing.

According to the information obtained from the interrogation, Max was still making wood carvings containing Abyss monsters about two years ago.

I don’t know how many pieces have been sold in the past two years, and many of them have even spread to areas outside of Serantiel and to various places in the Land of Dawn.

When Prius interrogated, he also found that Max was a very unusual person.

He seemed to have anticipated that he would be caught one day, so he had cut off many key memories.

In Max’s memory, there are basically only some memories of daily life.

Once the key information is involved, it becomes a blank and cannot be checked at all.

Price noticed something unusual from this point. Max is likely just a small figure.

There must be some big fish hiding behind him.

Otherwise, Max would not have used this method to remove his memory.

To be able to do this, it can only mean that the identity of the person behind Max is very extraordinary.

Prius was a little overwhelmed. Just recycling those wood carvings was a hassle.

There was no record of shipping orders in Max's shop. Max usually didn't record this information.

So now he could only issue a notice to inform everyone that there was a problem with Max's wood carvings. If you have any, please hand them over to the city halls of various cities in Serantiel immediately.

This notice was not very effective. Only a few people handed in the wood carvings.

These wood carvings that were handed in were basically obtained recently through various channels. They have not been affected too much and have not become abyss cultists.

But the number of wood carvings handed in is really pitiful compared to the number of wood carvings Max has sold in the past two years.

In the seemingly peaceful city, there are already countless people who have been affected by the wood carvings sold by Max and have become a member of the Abyss Cult.

Prius has been very busy recently. He asked his subordinates to use various means to find out who has bought Max's wood carvings.

As long as someone is found to have bought and not handed in, he will conduct a strict investigation on that person.

This is a very heavy workload. Even wizards feel that their energy is not enough.

Because there are too many people involved and many buyers of wood carvings give them as gifts or trade them, it is very troublesome to investigate and requires a lot of manpower, material resources and time.