Arcane Detective of the Steam Age
Chapter 61

The follow-up investigation

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Military Intelligence Section Seven arrived quickly. Perhaps because this was, strictly speaking, its first field assignment since its founding, everyone was rather excited. All three specialists turned up, while the other staff wore police uniforms as they searched the premises and took photographs.

Incidentally, Li Wei had also found the exit from the underground ruins afterward-it was behind a bookcase in the ground-floor office.

An unimaginative but perfectly normal arrangement. It was similar to the secret passage at the Pink Lady, only a little more sophisticated. At least judging by the construction, it did not look like a recent discovery, but something that had been there all along.

Ms. Windsor went to question the couple and their little girl to see if she could find any clues, while Li Wei mainly escorted Benjamin around the battle site.

"Good grief..."

Benjamin's eyes lit up as he surveyed the marks before him.

"This thing did more damage than a grenade. That ghost really did this?"

"Yes. I have to say, these fellows really are a pain."

Li Wei curled his lip as he looked at the ground. Now he understood why those famous generals of antiquity were so aggravating.

They were genuinely hard to kill!

Take this knight, for instance. Li Wei simply could not put him down with a gun. Not only could he block bullets, but his close-combat skills were terrifyingly good. Without [Death's Eye] and [Shadow Shift], along with Benjamin's powerful cane gun, killing the Ghost Knight would have been no easy task.

More likely, Li Wei would have stood there and fired, only for his opponent to raise his shield, block the shot, then charge over and cut Li Wei down with a single stroke.

"More firepower? Or add a magazine?"

After hearing Li Wei's complaints, Benjamin began

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