Chapter 152: Arrest Failed

The breakthrough found by the task force is also an unexpected surprise, who would have thought that an anti-smuggling operation unrelated to this case would uncover key evidence?

The Amm Navy intercepted a merchant ship while patrolling off the coast of Ascotra, and the Navy's anti-smuggling team conducted a routine inspection of the merchant ship, seizing a batch of magic crystals in the mezzanine of the merchant ship's bottom compartment.

The shipment was not reported and was intended to be quietly transported into Amm to avoid high customs duties.

Originally, this was just a normal anti-smuggling operation, and what was seized was just an ordinary smuggling case.

Amm imposes a punitively high tax rate on magical items, and in order to make more profits, smuggling magical items into Amber and selling them to black market merchants.

However, the attentive customs officials remembered the recent uproar in the Bredrow Theater bombing case, and the task force informed various departments of Amm of the case in the form of secret letters, which mentioned that the bomb used to blow up the theater was a magic bomb, and the magic crystal was one of the raw materials for making magic bombs.

Customs officials then provided the seized samples of the magic crystals to the task force, and the masked mage's arcanists examined them and determined that the bombs used in the bombing of the Bredrow Theater were used to create them.

That's a big clue!

The task force immediately interrogated the magic crystal smuggler, and under torture to extract a confession, the magic crystal smuggler could not endure the torture and confessed to his next home in the black market.

This person is none other than the ore merchant Geria!

Jaliah was immediately arrested and subjected to the same severe torture.

As for why the task force tortured a suspect when it caught it, it is not unusual.

In the magical Middle Ages, Feren did not have the concept of so-called "human rights", and even if it was a regular regime in the orderly camp, it would not take any soft measures against criminals, and would fight them when they should be.

If you find out that you caught the wrong person at the end of the fight, then I'm really sorry, count you unlucky, please get out of prison with gratitude (because I didn't beat you to death) and make room for the next unlucky guy.

The ore merchant also couldn't survive the punishment, violating the rules of the black market merchant by revealing a secret customer list.

In the past six months, there has only been one customer who has purchased such magic crystals!

The magic crystal shipped by the smuggler was also booked by the customer, and the deposit of 100,000 gold coins has been paid!

After the task force got this clue, they were extremely excited, thinking that the truth was right in front of them, and as long as they caught the customer who bought the magic crystal, they could solve the Braidro Theater bombing case.

Geria confessed that the customer had purchased the purchase anonymously, and that Geriyah did not know who the person was.

It was not difficult to know him, so the task force found a portraitist and asked Jaliya to describe the person's appearance, and the portraitist drew according to his description.

According to Jaliya's description, the client was a hooded woman with short hair and a cool and beautiful appearance......

After the portrait was completed, the task force saw that this was not Lucit, who had been imprisoned for framing Bledro a month ago?

It was determined that the customer who bought the crystal was Lucit, but the task force did not rush to arrest her, because the woman was from Gellos, the big businessman of Am, and her release on bail was still due to the fine paid by Gellos.

In Am, the amount of money is linked to social status, and Gairos is a wealthy businessman, and his social status is correspondingly very high, according to intelligence, Lucitt has been haunting Gairos's mansion in the port area, and is usually hidden in the mansion.

For the sake of prudence, the task force conducted eyewitness collection in the vicinity of the ore merchant's shop, and after questioning the testimony of nearly 300 citizens who lived in the neighborhood and often haunted the neighborhood, the clues gradually became clear.

Eyewitnesses confirmed that just after Lucit purchased the Crystal, the wagon transporting the Crystal drove to the port area, and the eyewitnesses in the port area also confirmed that the carriage ended up in the back alley of the Gairos mansion.

After the carriage drove into the back alley, there were no witnesses to see the carriage come out again.

A series of clues are directed at the big merchant Gairos.

Mayor Byrana, who listened to the report of the task force, immediately remembered that on the night of the bombing, Bredrow had raised suspicions about Melonia and Lusit, who had framed him, believing that they were terrorists and had a grudge against the terrorist plan being sabotaged by Bredero, so he planned the bombing in retaliation.

The female mayor intuitively thought that it was impossible for the two good camps to do such a thing, so she did not invest in the investigation on this line, and after the task force found a series of evidence and clues, she had to admit that her intuition was sometimes wrong (in fact, it was not wrong).

"Arrest the major suspect Lucitt immediately!"

The female mayor gave an order.

Attorney General Bugalle led the Ams guards to the Galos mansion, but was stopped by the harpist's guards at the entrance of the mansion and did not allow them to break into the harper's secret base.

The secret base established by the Harpists Alliance in Amm is hidden from the Amm Six Council, and once the base is discovered by Amm officials, the Harpists Alliance will be very embarrassed, and the two sides will have to fight diplomatically for a long time.

No country in Faeron, even if it is in the good camp, does not want the harpist agents to hide in their country without reporting to the government.

What's more, Amm is not a country of the good camp, and there are quite a few evil people in the Council of Six, and God knows if these harpists are planning some kind of "hoeing" operation against a certain big man in the Council of Six.

Once the Amguards break into the Galos Mansion, they are greeted by a huge sculpture of Mystra and a harpist-style décor.

This group of harpists also have expensive brains, they are obviously secret agents, they have a secret base, and they have spent a lot of money to decorate it so stylishly, so they are not afraid that someone will sneak in, and the secret camp will be exposed all of a sudden?

It's no wonder that the mages of the Santarin Society have been keeping an eye on the neighborhood, and such an obvious oversight must be exposing their whereabouts.

As long as it is decorated like a normal person, even if it encounters an official inspection by Am, there is no need to stop it as desperately as today.

Grand Prosecutor Bugalle even more thought that the building was suspicious, even if the mansion belonged to the big merchant Gallos, the security team of the Amm City Hall wanted to go in and arrest people, but they would not react so violently that they were not allowed to enter the gate.

Since the identity of the chief prosecutor is revealed, these people dare to disobey orders and disobey orders, and do not take the Amm regime in their eyes at all, then they must be a group of outlaws, Bugaret thinks that there is nothing to say, and at the first order, he called the Amm soldiers to attack!

It's a pity that he came in a hurry this time, and only brought a small squad of Amber soldiers, only twelve people.

This group of Amm soldiers was defeated by the harpists who rushed out of the mansion to reinforce them!

Grand Prosecutor Bougari fled in a hurry under the cover of his adjutant, and the arrest failed.