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Hearing Guinness' voice, Byron quickly responded.

"You did a good job. I have appointed you as the special commander in charge of this investigation. You can call on the personnel of the Garrison Department at will. Charles, you and the others in the Garrison Department will assist you."

Byron was very excited at first, but after hearing the latter part of the instructions, he hesitated and asked hesitantly, "Thank you for your appreciation, Lord Guinness, but is this a bit inappropriate?"

"This world is ruled by the capable. What do you think, Charles?"

Guinness forced a meaningful smile and looked to the side.

Although Charles felt jealous and dissatisfied, he did not dare to show it in front of Guinness. He could only nod and say, "Lord Guinness is right. I will do my best to assist Byron in completing the investigation."

Byron was completely relieved. "I will not disappoint Lord Guinness and catch the mastermind behind this."

"I don't want to hear this nonsense, I just want the results."

Guinness' smile faded, and he said calmly, "I'll give you five days. At least find some decent guys for me. Otherwise, you know the consequences."

"Yes!"

I heard Guinness's last words with an escalated tone.

Both Charles and Byron felt a chill in their backs and responded quickly.

"Sherlock, you stay here and report to me if anything happens."

"Yes, Father."

The reason why Guinness attached so much importance to it was not because of how big a stir these cases caused in Berghead. Given his personality, he didn't care at all how many civilians or nobles in Berghead were implicated.

Mainly, there are rumors that it is connected with a rebellious organization.

In addition, they were able to commit so many crimes right under the nose of the garrison without finding many traces, which means that Berghead's local forces must be involved.

And it is possible that they have infiltrated the official internal affairs and are involved in the management of important institutions in Berghead, otherwise it would not be so easy.

Guinness would certainly not let go of such an organization that challenged his prestige and might even endanger his life.

"I've suppressed them before, but there are no Four Supremes. In that case, I'll get rid of you once and for all this time, you disgusting bugs."

However, deep in Guinness' heart, there was actually a vague guess that influenced his thoughts -

There seems to be a breath of light hidden in Berghead.

As a survivor of the Light and Dark War decades ago, Guinness is particularly sensitive to this kind of existence.

And his intuition told him that the organization behind this incident was very likely related to this aura.

If it weren't for the trauma left in the War between Light and Darkness, his strength would not have been able to break through for so long, so he naturally had a deep hatred for the light camp.

Chapter 176 Encirclement

But even Guinness himself hadn't thought about it.

The results of the investigation came out so quickly.

Perhaps it was the completeness of the chain of clues, or the calls of the people and nobles, or perhaps it was Guinness's final warning that worked, causing Byron and many non-commissioned officers including Charles to intensify the workload at hand.

Through the dozen or so shops selling related materials, a list of people who had purchased grey gold stone in the past few months was compiled.

The garrisons in each urban area mobilized most of their personnel to go to their respective jurisdictions to investigate the relevant intelligence of these people and the information they had exchanged during this period.

The whole process was kept secret as much as possible to avoid being discovered by interested parties or the organization behind the scenes and thus arousing vigilance.

Staying up all night and working intensively.

After three days, they finally found the brother and sister who appeared in the Black Swan Theater at that time, as well as their real names, Jerome and Roca.

By having professional thieves track the two people's information throughout the process and using magic instruments to monitor their activities around the clock, it was confirmed that they were indeed involved in the case.

And through the brother and sister, they also uncovered several people who were likely to have connections with the organization and also put them under surveillance.

During these three days, many similar cases occurred in Berghead. Fearing that it would arouse the vigilance of the organization behind the scenes, the Guard Department did not intervene in advance.

In other words, even if intervention is made in advance, it will not have much effect.

Because through the surveillance of the garrison, it was found that among these incidents, Jerome, Roca and other related personnel who were dug out were only involved in one or two cases.

It is obvious that the organization behind this is worried that the repeated appearances of individual members will arouse suspicion.

But it also shows how huge the power of the organization behind it is. After all, there are hundreds of such well-trained members, and it is hard to imagine where the "tentacles" below can spread to.

In the reception hall of the garrison.

Sherlock briefly reported the situation.

"Commander Charles and Chief Petty Officer Byron are stepping up their investigation into those people in order to find out more information about this organization, and they have obtained important intelligence."

"According to the tracking personnel, they are going to a location tonight to gather and communicate. It should be one of the bases of the behind-the-scenes organization in Berghead."

Guinness was very satisfied with the result. "Everything has been arranged?"

"Yes, they have sent several special teams to ambush those members. They are all agile and well-trained elites. As long as we can keep up with these members, we can easily find the opponent's base."

"Well done, it looks like tonight will be a sleepless night."

Guinness narrowed his eyes, and a sharp light flashed across them.

However, just as he was about to stay at the garrison for a short rest and wait for the night to fall, the door of the reception hall was suddenly opened, and a civilian figure came towards him.

"Lord Guinness, something bad has happened!"

"what's up?"

Guinness, whose rest was disturbed, opened his eyes with a cold look on his face.

But soon he jumped up from his seat following the other party's words.

"Report to the Lord, those members suddenly started to move for some reason, and they are gathering in the direction outside the city!"

"Take me to your side!"

Guinness immediately followed the clerk to the inner hall which had been renovated to look like a mechanical alchemy workshop.

"Lord Guinness..."

Many non-commissioned officers, including Byron and Charles, were about to greet Guinness when they saw him but were interrupted.

"No need to waste time, what's the situation now?"

"Reporting to Lord Guinness, these members have gathered outside the city. Because the incident happened suddenly, although the people we sent out immediately followed after reacting, they still fell behind in time."

"Now we can only use the large number of monitoring spells deployed in Berghead to gradually confirm the routes and trajectories of these people's actions."

Byron reported the situation at a very fast speed and explained the cause of the incident.

"Lord Guinness, I'm sure it's not our personnel who were exposed. It should be that something happened to the organization. The behavior of these members clearly shows that they received some kind of message, and they don't look like they found out that we were following them."

"Where are they now?"

Charles immediately took up Byron's words and answered aloud.

"The locations we have recently observed are all in the outer city area. Judging from their movement trajectory, they are heading east and west. They may be out of the city in a few minutes. However, these members are not very fast. Do we need to notify the city guards to blockade them?"

"Not for now, just keep following them."

Guinness narrowed his eyes. He felt that there might be some unexpected gains from this unexpected action.

"This is?"

Suddenly, a surprised voice came from the side, attracting everyone's attention.

Noticing Guinness's cold gaze, the sergeant felt a chill on his back and quickly explained, "Lord Guinness, I just noticed that someone had infiltrated the caravan and followed them out of the city, but this member seemed to be very familiar with many people in the caravan."

"So, I was wondering if most of the people in this merchant group are also members of that organization?"

The voice of this sergeant caused a huge stir, and some other sergeants were reminded and reacted one after another.

"I also saw someone join a mercenary team, and their relationship was unusual."

"The member I noticed earlier also communicated with a group of people when he left. Now that I think about it, their behavior is very suspicious."

"Could it be that this operation involves all members of this organization!?"

Charles drew this surprising conclusion from this.

Guinness's face was gloomy because he had just made a wrong decision. It was obviously too late to notify the city guards to blockade the city, but he definitely did not want to miss this opportunity to catch them all in one fell swoop.

"Have your people continue to follow and don't alert the other side."

"Sherlock."

"Yes, father."

Sherlock, who followed Guinness, responded.

"Notify the First Legion to send cavalry and troops out of the city to contact the people at the garrison. The cavalry should keep their distance and go around to the front to stop these people, while the troops should surround them from the side."

"Yes."

Sherlock lowered his head to hide the curve at the corner of his mouth.

Facts confirmed their speculation. According to the information from various tracking teams, these members tended to gather after leaving Berghead, and many people who were most likely members of the organization appeared one after another.

Based on the observations of those tracking teams alone, there are at least fifty or sixty people, and obviously the number of people who have not yet appeared is even higher than that.

Even though cavalry is a type of military unit known for its mobility, they still fall behind in gathering time and leaving the city.

In addition, these members sped up a bit after leaving Berghead, and the dark night was not conducive to observation, so they marched for dozens of minutes without forming an encirclement.

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Going out to eat with friends, updating alone.

Chapter 177: Transmission Array Across Camps

Fortunately, based on the movements of these members, Byron discovered that they were gathering towards a place called the Mist Forest.

Although the forest terrain was not conducive to the movement of cavalry, it was also able to hinder the advance of these members.

Hidden Forest of Mist...

Guinness chewed on the name in a low voice with a calm face, as if he had heard it somewhere before. However, he did not pay too much attention to it and ordered coldly, "Let the First Legion ambush the perimeter of the forest in advance, and Charles and your people block their retreat."

The Mist Forest covers a large area, but with the speed of the cavalry, they can get ahead of these people and cut them in the middle, thus forming a siege with other troops.

As soon as Guinness's order was issued, the personnel of the First Legion and the Garrison Department immediately executed it.

In just over ten minutes, they surrounded half of the Mist Forest where those members had entered and set up an ambush.

The encirclement formed under the cover of night was like an invisible giant mouth. As long as the members of the organization left the forest, they would be swallowed up instantly no matter from which direction.

However, rather than saying that the encirclement is like a huge mouth, it is more like a foggy forest at night.

Dozens of minutes passed, and there was no sign of any human figure in the Mist Forest. Even the sound of wild animals was almost gone. It seemed particularly quiet.

Yad, the commander of the First Legion of Berghead, and several of his troops were lying in ambush on the plain outside.

He stared at the dim forest ahead, feeling a wave of fatigue coming over him. He shook his head to get rid of the sleepiness. "It's really torture to do this kind of thing late at night."

"That's right, I was planning to go to the bar and have a good drink."

"It turns out that they want to arrest the organization that has been causing trouble in the city these days."

"I don't know what they are doing in there. There has been no movement for a long time."

The close associates nearby, including two deputy group leaders, also echoed this.

Just as Yade was communicating with them, a messenger suddenly arrived, "Lord Yade, there is information!"

"Are those people coming out?"

Yade and others were cheered up and asked immediately.

However, he got a different answer from the other party, "Lord Douglas and the others sensed a special magical fluctuation inside. They might be building a large-scale teleportation magic or teleportation array."

"It is just as Master Guinness thought."

Yade laughed and called everyone, "Notify everyone and the guards to gradually narrow the encirclement. Feimo, you and I will lead the search inside. Let Douglas contact us."

Guinness was so cautious that when he asked Sherlock to notify the First Legion, he did not forget to ask them to take a few magic leaders with them to prevent these members from using teleportation to leave without being noticed.

The Douglas mentioned by the messenger is one of the most powerful magicians in the army.