The Investigation Was Locked On
Moreover, the secret letter found in the pocket of that Third Order leader was an open conspiracy, blatantly obvious. The other party was telling you outright that the letter was a conspiracy: would you arrest the Earl or not?
You can choose to believe the contents of the letter or not, but whatever you choose, you will have to bear all the consequences yourself!
Just as the convoy members were turning pale with shock at seeing through the delaying tactic, Lu Yuan, standing at the door of the dark room, looked at the few wisps of gray lines in the air that had almost completely dissipated and were nearly invisible. His heart skipped a beat as he suddenly realized another, even more troublesome problem.
Theoretically speaking, whether it's the old water storage station or boiler room where they just started arresting people today, or these two deserted places, as long as the Heretic inside escape with the spores beforehand, normally the Knight Academy people wouldn't be able to catch them at all.
Because if they run fast enough, the gray streaks left in the air will gradually fade away over time.
However, when Lu Yuan looked around, he found that the gray aura in the air of these deserted places had disappeared for a very long time. It was clear that the Heretic who were leaving had begun to pay attention to their aura and had used methods to hide their remaining aura to a certain extent during their retreat!
A thought instantly surfaced clearly in Lu Yuan's mind: since the other Heretic had evacuated had deliberately concealed their auras, why were the four people from the Second Waterworks the only ones who hadn't concealed their auras at all, instead leaving such a dense Black Qi that stretched all the way to the Northern Highlands?
This shows that the person at the Second Waterworks was clearly conducting a test on purpose!
This group of Heretic has most likely already figured out how they were exposed, because their people clearly escaped with the spores beforehand, and without any survivors to inform on them, how did the Knight Academy manage to find them so accurately every time?
There's only one reason they could be found: someone at the Knight Academy must have been able to see their presence, traces, or even spores!
Standing next to Lu Yuan, Lin En looked at the spotless darkroom floor and his eyes suddenly sharpened. He clearly realized at that moment that their tracking methods had been exposed.
However, both of them tacitly kept their lips tightly pressed together, and neither of them revealed this alarming matter to the team members around them.
But one thing Lin En and Lu Yuan were very clear about: now that they realized the other side was using sacrificial pawns to cut off their retreat and buy time, they absolutely could not continue to follow the Heretic timeline, and they absolutely could not wait until tomorrow to be passively attacked. They had to start the collective testing of the Night Watcher as soon as possible tonight!
After making his judgment, Lin En acted immediately, taking out his communicator and contacting the high-ranking officers of the Knight Academy stationed in Watch City. He truthfully reported that all the buildings and facilities in the Outer City had been evacuated in advance and the full details of the secret letter containing the conspiracy.
Just at this critical juncture, a new batch of Wailing Crystal ordered by the Academy arrived in Watch City. Even though the current stock wasn't enough to test every single Night Watcher in the city, it was sufficient to identify the majority of Night Watcher.
In this urgent situation where there was no other way and it would be too late if they didn't act now, the Academy's leadership, stationed in Watch City, issued two orders to be carried out overnight after a brief discussion.
First, a mass screening of the Night Watcher will begin tonight. However, since there are still many Night Watcher outside completing their night patrol duties in various districts, if the help of the Night Watcher is suddenly lost for one night, the night defense of the entire Watch City will be much weaker.
Furthermore, we absolutely cannot simply call everyone to the Night Watcher Headquarters, have them touch a crystal, and consider that sufficient. If they get infected again after touching it and going on a mission, then tonight's screening will have been completely wasted.
Therefore, the Academy's leadership made thorough defense coordination in advance.
First, the garrison of knights from the Knight Academy, along with the city's elite defense forces whose innocence had already been verified, were mobilized to take over the Night Watcher's patrol duties throughout the city tonight. Simultaneously, under the pretext of emergency wartime rotation and reorganization, and the distribution of new Contamination alchemical protective gear, all Night Watcher were gathered at a specially arranged, enclosed military training ground at the inner city's border. The screening must be completed as quickly as possible within one night!
The second action was a split operation, with two other six-person teams that had just completed their outer perimeter search working with the inner city's elite forces to rush to the inner city's Earl 'Earl's Mansion overnight. Under the guise of protection, they imprisoned the Earl inside the mansion.
As for Lu Yuan and Lin En's team, they immediately took a car to the closed military training ground to observe the Night Watcher's collective screening that night!
Half an hour later, several steam-powered carriages broke through the wind and snow and drove into the large military training ground at the junction of the inner city and the western district. The ground had been prepared in advance and was completely blocked Isolation by heavy troops with towering stone walls all around.
After getting out of the car, Lu Yuan and Lin En did not go to the front of the crowded queue below. Instead, guided by an Academy Deacon, they went up the stone steps on the side of the training ground to the semi-circular observation corridor on the second floor, which offered a wide view. Holding onto the railing, they looked down at the training ground below.
Taking advantage of tonight's screening that brought together all the Night 'Night Watcher, the true scale of the Night Watcher Branch in this largest city in the Northern Territory was revealed to Lu Yuan for the first time in such a direct way.
When Norbert was drinking and chatting with Captain Norbert in Snowowl City, Norbert himself said that although Snowowl City was one of the safest cities in the North, it was still not as good as Watchtower City in the North.
At that time, the Snow Owl City branch was organized with one chief, two Deputy Chief, five Captain, and twelve squads.
Meanwhile, on the brightly lit training ground below, the Night Watcher of Watch City were lined up in neat formations. There were ten battalions, each with a Third Order Captain, and under them were thirty-two full-strength squads, totaling more than five hundred official Night Watcher!
In front of the main grandstand and around the field, besides the Fourth Order commander of the Watch City Night Watcher Branch, three Fourth Order Deputy Chief, and several Fourth Order powerhouses specially transferred from the workshop and the Knight Academy to provide support, there were also other personnel present.
In the very center of the main grandstand, on that high-backed stone chair, sat the only Fifth Order Guardian of Watch City!
Standing on the second-floor balcony, Lu Yuan withdrew his gaze from the main grandstand and exchanged a glance with Lin En beside him. Both of them were very clear about what they were about to be screened.
The Night Watcher has its own strict set of rules.
Lu Yuan himself was the captain of the Night Watcher from Bronze City, so he knew very well that although this set of rules could not guarantee that members would not be unknowingly Contamination by the concealment drug, it could definitely detect whether a person had been replaced by an outsider.
Therefore, among the more than three hundred Night Watcher present, there could absolutely be no outside Heretic lurking; there could only be Night Watcher have been Contamination.
Of the three main potions created by the Heretic, the [Aura Concealment Potion] was specifically for the Heretic themselves to use while infiltrating Watch City.
[Wailing Crystal] are completely useless against it, and [Plague Water] are used to Contamination ordinary people. Heretic really use to Contamination the public officials or guards in Watch City is the [Pathway Contamination Potion], which is extremely insidious and powerful, and cannot be detected by conventional means!
The [Wailing Crystal] set up below tonight are for testing [Pathway Contamination Potion] and [Plague Water]!