Chapter 284: Investigation
Jackman took a deep look at Heath.
Although he had already realized the strength of this Wizard after coming here, Jackman still found that he had underestimated him. He was considered one of the top-ranked Wizards among his peers in the Deep Sea Kiss, although Alice was relatively weaker, she was still a genuine official-level Wizard.
However, the two official-level Wizards were easily taken down by this young Wizard without any resistance. One of them was even cast a malicious shapes.h.i.+fting spell. Such strength was really unexpected.
Heath said, “I don’t want anyone to disturb me when I’m talking. I hope you can understand my offense.”
It was an apology, but there was no apology at all.
However, Jackman didn’t dare to say anything in front of this absolute difference in strength. He just nodded and took the cage and put it on the table.
Heath asked, “What did you say just now? You can repeat it.”
“Yes.”
Jackman nodded, then picked up the Magic Stone bag again and explained, “We found this Magic Stone bag in s.h.i.+pwreck Bay…”
Heath said, “Yes, this is mine.”
“Not long ago, I went to s.h.i.+pwreck Bay for some materials needed for training, and collected them there. According to the Wizard Convention, this is my right.”
Jackman nodded, “Yes, but you should pay the corresponding amount.”
According to the Wizard Convention, Wizards could go to other Wizard organizations to collect materials in the Wizard territory, but after the collection, they had to pay Magic Stones to the local guards according to the market price of the materials.
After a pause, Jackman added, “And it’s the market price of the corresponding materials.”
Heath was stunned. He finally understood what Jackman meant.
‘Was it because I didn’t give enough Magic Stones?’
This idea was immediately rejected by Heath. The Magic Stones he took out at that time were all according to the market price, and in order to avoid conflict, he deliberately increased the price by about 15%. There was no such thing as not matching.
Then why did the other party come to find him?
After a moment of silence, he said, “At that time, the forest keeper of s.h.i.+pwreck Bay was not there, so I just left the Magic Stone pocket where it was. If there is any problem with the number of Magic Stones that do not match, I think you should ask your forest keeper.”
If the price of the Magic Stones was not right, then there could only be one explanation, and that was that the other party’s forest keeper had tampered with it. He was not there at that time, so it was very likely that the other party had embezzled from above.
However, Jackman’s reply in the next moment denied Heath’s guess.
Jackman smiled bitterly and said, “Even if it was to fill one’s own pockets, there wouldn’t be a forest keeper who would be crazy enough to disregard everything, right? The loss of tens of millions of property could be fooled by more than a dozen high-level Magic Stones?”
Heath was stunned. “Tens of millions?”
Jackman’s gaze paused on Heath for a moment, especially the gaze he was looking at him with.
As if he had seen something, Jackman said, “It seems that Your Excellency is indeed not related to this matter.”
Heath frowned and asked, “What exactly are you talking about?”
Why did he feel that the more he listened, the more confused he became?
Jackman explained, “After Your Excellency left s.h.i.+pwreck Bay, there was a large area of property damage in s.h.i.+pwreck Bay. Not only some of the materials, but also the sea fish and marine species inside had disappeared without a trace.”
Heath suddenly understood.
He said, “I see, so you came here for this matter.”
Jackman nodded. “According to our investigation, during this period, only Your Excellency entered s.h.i.+pwreck Bay, and we also found Your Excellency’s Magic Stone pocket there, so… There are some necessary investigations. Please forgive me, Your Excellency.”
Heath nodded. “I understand.”
Jackman asked, “Then, sir, can you recall if you encountered anything special during your time in s.h.i.+pwreck Bay?”
In fact, before coming here, Jackman had thought that the disappearance of the marine species in s.h.i.+pwreck Bay should not have anything to do with this Wizard. The main reason was that the missing marine fish did not have much effect on a Wizard’s cultivation, if a Wizard really took them away, he could only sell them. However, according to the source, the Wizard did not do so.
Heath explained, “It’s a Siren.”
“I saw a Siren eating in s.h.i.+pwreck Bay when I was collecting the sea creatures. Most of the sea creatures in s.h.i.+pwreck Bay were eaten by the Siren.”
Jackman seemed to have expected this answer. After receiving Heath’s answer, his face turned cold. “It’s really those guys!”
Heath asked, “It seems that you already have an answer to this.”
Jackman nodded and said, “Actually, before this, I had suspected that it was related to the Sirens. After all, only they are the most familiar with our magic array arrangement. Moreover, only the Sirens’ barrier can make so many fish disappear without leaving any clues.”
“To be honest, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened. It’s just that we don’t have any evidence, so…”
“Those b*stards from the Seafolk Race are getting more and more outrageous!”
Jackman said angrily.
This was an area of the ocean, so it was inevitable to have dealings with the Seafolk Race. Although the Wizard Alliance established a Wizard Convention to divide the area of influence, there were often conflicts and things like that.
After a pause… Jackman suddenly said, “Wizard Heath, although the truth has been found out, I still need to ask you to follow me to Deep Sea Kiss to prove it. Please rest a.s.sured, as long as you didn’t do it, the ‘Big Conch’ of Deep Sea Kiss has a way to prove your innocence.”
Big Conch was a Wizard tool of Deep Sea kiss, belonging to the rule-type Wizard tool. It could test the Wizard’s words according to the Wizard’s Law of cause and effect, to test the authenticity of the words. To put it bluntly, it was a lie detector.
However, this lie detector was built on magic with high precision. Basically, there were no mistakes.
Jackman persuaded, “This is good for all of us. After all, you don’t want to bear the name of a ‘thief’, do you?”
In other people’s territory, they went to other people’s Wizard resource territory to collect. Now that something had happened, although Jackman was not the instigator, it was reasonable for him to help with the investigation.
However, there was no corresponding regulation in the Wizard code. Whether or not to help was entirely up to the Wizard’s own will.
So, should he help them?
Originally, he had nothing to do, so it did not matter if he helped them testify. However, Heath suddenly had an idea. Wasn’t this a good opportunity to borrow the local power to obtain Purple Coral?
So, he didn’t agree. Instead, he asked, “I don’t seem to have any obligation to help you, right?”