Chapter 21: The Aftermath of Confusion
The attack on the Marjery family's house soon became so popular that martial law was imposed at the main gates of the noble district of King's Port, and all those who worked in the city were allowed to enter or leave.
The streets and alleys of the city were also filled with teams of city defense troops, and even the King's Praetorian Guard, the Shining S.H.I.E.L.D., sent several squads into the city to station.
According to rumors among the relatively powerful ministers of the kingdom in the aristocratic district, Fetith Margery (Mason's second son), who was the Minister of Commerce in the country by the Marjery family, took advantage of the incident to accuse the Frank family, who were in charge of the defense of the city and the royal capital, of negligence in their duties, and intended to make the Minister of War, Marcy Frank, automatically resign from his concurrent post as the military secretary of the city's defense.
Marcy Frank, of course, could not have given in like this, and the two quarreled over the court meeting, and in the end, it was His Majesty's anger that prevented the two important ministers of the kingdom from staging a farce of full force on the spot.
The present King Wood VI used this to reproach the Minister of War, but he took it high and put it down gently, only fined him three months' salary, ordered him to think about it behind closed doors for three days, and did not punish him any other than that.
Refused, Wood VI used the fact that the Margeries had led the Shining S.H.I.E.L.D. on an expedition but eventually lost more than half of their men to return, which made the Minister of Commerce have to give up suppressing the Franks.
Although the matter above the court was finally settled under the skillful checks and balances of Wood VI, the matter was not really over.
After all, the attack on the mansion of the king's important minister was a big deal in the always peaceful and peaceful King's Port.
The king then ordered that the Minister of War take the lead, and that the Mageri family fully cooperate in a thorough investigation of the matter, and that the daring attackers be apprehended.
As a result, the entire noble district of King's Port immediately entered a state of martial law, except for all professionals in the city who needed to report their whereabouts to the city defense army last night, even the harbor district of the outer city was also included in the scope of investigation.
The whole city of King's Harbour was suddenly in a tense situation, and every few minutes a group of city guards patrolled the streets, and anyone or anything that seemed suspicious was thoroughly screened.
According to incomplete statistics, no less than 50 small gangs were raided by the city defense army and all of them were arrested and imprisoned in the port area.
In this tense and serious atmosphere, Xue Hua and his insect swarm lived a very stable and nourishing life.
The changing images of the mimic chicks are the kind of human images that cannot be found no matter how they are thrown into the crowd, and the mimic chicks do not have the unique spiritual energy fluctuations of professionals, so the city defense army will not be able to find their bodies no matter how they check.
As for the shadow bugs, it is even more impossible, these completely invisible swarm killers can easily evade the various search actions of the city defense army in various ways, as long as the legendary powerhouse does not personally conduct a dragnet search, no one can find their traces.
Under such conditions, the speed of Dhaka's investigation was not affected by martial law at all, and it carried out investigation operations quickly and secretly in the aristocratic district through its special abilities and various information provided by the swarm, and it only took one day to investigate one-third of the entire aristocratic district.
Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of Dhaka and the biters, the first day of investigation did not yield any valuable results, perhaps because the investigation of the city guards had startled the men in black and caused them to hide deeper into the shadows.
That night, in Xue Hua's hotel room, a very ordinary-looking man dressed as a servant was reporting to him the results of today's day's actions.
"Lord, our adversaries are cunning, and the human martial law has likely disturbed them, making them even more hidden.
In the absence of various field reinforcements from the monitoring king insects, our investigation is superficial, and we cannot go deep into the interior of the human house to conduct a detailed search, so we have not found any valuable clues today. ”
"Well, I see, there's no way around it, after all, the target we chose to cause chaos at that time was one of the biggest names in King's Harbor!
Anyway, if they are willing to be under martial law, let them go under martial law, they can't go on like this.
King's Harbor is a commercial kingdom, and such martial law will scare away foreign merchants.
So wait patiently for a few days, and when they find out that they are actually working in vain, this martial law will naturally not be maintained.
What's more, last night the Majeri family said that it was attacked, but in fact, it was just an inconsequential warehouse that was burned down, and such a thing is not very serious, the only difference is that it happened in the Majeri family house. ”
Xue Hua stood by the window of the hotel, looking at the King's Avenue below, which was much more empty than yesterday, and said with a touch of helplessness in his tone.
"In the past few days, I have been investigating like this, no matter whether I get clues or not, at least I will sort out the general situation first, and then I will talk about it, as for the field of vision reinforcement of the monitoring king worm... Hey! Unless the Council suddenly orders King's Harbor to send more than three legendary powerhouses to reinforce the Eternal Battlefield, don't think about it......"
He turned around and looked at the man at the table who had been transformed from a mimic insect.
"It's up to you to do this, and the swarm can't be exposed to the three families of King's Port right now.
So continue the covert investigation, just keep it like today, and tell Dehaka that he can't reveal his identity no matter what, and that it's better to progress slowly, understand? ”
"Do as you command, Lord." The man dressed as a servant nodded slightly, then turned around and quickly left the hotel room.
After it left, Xue Hua moved a chair and sat down against the windowsill, looking at the brightly lit night scene outside the window and falling into deep thought.
What he was thinking about now was not how to continue to find those mysterious black-robed monsters, but the battle situation of the Eternal War.
Of course, the current eternal battle is far from a battle that the swarm can participate in, the demons there are all real bodies, even a sinking demon has a minimum strength of level sixty, and the higher-end champion monsters and elite monsters have reached more than eighty levels, infinitely close to the level of legendary, and even those dark gold boss monsters who have been abused by the swarm as sandbags and blood, their deities are basically all legendary level existences above level ninety.
However, although the current swarm could not appear on a battlefield of that level, this did not prevent Xue Hua from worrying about the battle situation on the Eternal Battlefield.
Although those angels in the high-level heaven were not good in Xue Hua's eyes, compared to the hell demons, Xue Hua was still more willing to deal with the angels.
The tide of the Eternal War must not collapse, at least not for now.
If there is a collapse, the high-level heaven will basically not be far from collapse.
And if the high-level heaven collapses, it will be the turn of the first world next.
If things really came to that point at such a time, then Xue Hua estimated that he would have to go to the Howorth Islands immediately to pick up the two little girls, and then desperately escape outside the shelter world.
Humans alone will never be able to stop the invasion of the million-strong army of hell.