The Necromancer is amassing troops like crazy in the apocalypse-Chapter 525 - 434, No Authority to Arrest

Chapter 525: Chapter 434, No Authority to Arrest

The Investigator quickly flipped open his notebook.

Wu Heng had the Skeleton open the mat and then he cast “Communicate with the Dead.”

The body, riddled with bullet holes, suddenly sat up, its cloudy pupils looking towards the group.

“It’s your business, you ask,” Imilo said.

Wu Heng stepped forward and asked directly, “Who instructed you to abduct someone from Conch Tavern?”

The corpse answered, “The newly formed Guard Team leader, Greco!”

At these words, everyone was taken aback.

It wasn’t the pirates’ revenge.

But the island’s leader?

Just formed and not capturing pirates, but the first to target the association.

Wu Heng glanced at the others.

He didn’t ask another question but instead avoided the corpse’s gaze, turning to Shiraz, “Who is that?”

“Lighthouse Street, the leader of the new Guard Team,” Shiraz explained briefly, then asked in confusion, “You don’t know him? Then why would he want to kill you?”

“I don’t know him, I don’t even know who’s in this new Guard Team.”

Imilo interrupted their conversation with a gesture, saying directly, “Shiraz, you know this person, now take your squad and capture him. If he resists, you are authorized to kill on sight.”

“Yes!” Shiraz responded, touching the hilt of his sword as he walked out, calling two squads with him to go and capture the man.

Imilo turned around, “Continue asking.”

Wu Heng nodded and turned back to the corpse, “Greco, what exactly did you say to them?”

The corpse answered, “Kidnap the tavern owner and lure out the person behind the scenes, five Gold Coins afterwards.”

Five Gold Coins, an amount that seems small, but far exceed the normal bounty.

To capture a tavern owner was already a princely sum.

Wu Heng continued, “Before seeing me, did you know who was behind the tavern owner?”

“No.”

“If I hadn’t shown up, what was your next step?”

The corpse answered, “Kill the person, bury the body, go back and get the money.”

“Apart from ‘Greco’, who are the main players?”

“No one else, I only know him.”

After five questions, the body lay back down.

The Investigator began to make notes rapidly.

Next, Wu Heng cast “Communicate with the Dead” on the second corpse.

He confirmed the identity of the instigator as well as a few other issues.

The responses were nearly the same as the first one’s.

Five people were hired by this ‘Greco’ to directly abduct ‘Millicent’ from the Tavern.

But they had no idea that this matter was related to the association, thinking it was just a simple case of abduction and murder.

If they had known, they most likely wouldn’t have taken the job.

“It seems that it was indeed this ‘Greco’ who did it,” Wu Heng concluded.

The others looked at him with surprise.

The few questions to the second corpse also clarified the situation for them.

Someone was captured at dusk, and by nighttime rescue was already underway.

They had killed a squad themselves and rooted out the mastermind.

What kind of speed was that?

You didn’t tie them up that fast, did you?

While the others were astonished, the Investigator kept on taking notes diligently.

Imilo looked at him, “Do you have any disputes with the Guard Team?”

“Not that I know of, I’ve never even spoken to them!” Wu Heng replied, then added with some doubts, “A few days ago, someone from the Guard Team came to where I was staying for an inspection and got blasted away by the Skeleton, but that shouldn’t be enough to want me dead.”

“It wouldn’t be over something so trivial,” Imilo said flatly.

Wu Heng thought the same.

“Then it could possibly be because of the ‘Secret Cultivation Hall’ or the blank envelope, due to some cases before where I made enemies with them,” he conjectured.

“You mean to say, this leader is part of those organizations?”

“That’s the only explanation I can think of. I haven’t had much contact with those forces, but if they tracked me to Conch Tavern, it means they’ve been investigating me for quite some time,” Wu Heng analyzed.

“Hmm, your analysis makes sense,” Imilo acknowledged.

During their conversation, a squad member hurried in.

“Steward, Vice-executive, Greco has been found at the harbor, fighting with Vice-executive Shiraz,” the member reported.

At the harbor?

He was trying to leave the harbor.

It was indeed him.

“Steward, what should we do?”

Imilo said, “Capture him, before the island’s Guard Team can intervene. Bring him back.”

“Understood!”

Wu Heng, with Skeleton by his side, quickly walked out of the cabin.

…

He went up to the deck.

His gaze turned toward the location of the public harbor.

Xi Ligui, clasping the Longsword with magic circles spinning around her feet, agilely and quickly launched assaults, attacking the young man opposite her.

The other few members of the team were also coordinating the attack.

The young man on the other side, wearing a gray cloak, kept retreating while fending off the Society’s encirclement.

“It’s him!”

Wu Heng had actually seen him before.

And had a fairly deep impression.

Last time, when he brought “Philippa” to visit her mother, this man was delivering a speech at the harbor.

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The content was average, but there was a group of ladies and noblewomen cheering along below.

He even took a special look at his face back then.

Is he “Greco”?

He didn’t know him at all.

At the moment, the man was coping with the attack from Xi Ligui and the other members. Although continuously retreating, he was still holding on.

His strength was definitely above level 12.

In the human world, he was considered a genius.

Wu Heng, accompanied by Skeleton, disembarked and pushed through the crowd, hastily making his way over.

“I am the Captain of the Gold and Silver Island Guard Team, and you have no right to arrest the captain of a local government.”

“Xi Ligui, recognize your strength. If I have to be destroyed, you won’t benefit either,” the man said while fighting.

When he saw Wu Heng and the Attendant behind him, his expression turned even uglier.

He knocked away “Xi Ligui” with his Longsword, took two steps back, and suddenly ripped a scroll from his hand.

Whoosh~!

A blizzard rose in the midst, blowing everyone around haphazardly and obscuring their vision.

“He’s trying to escape,” a Ranger shouted.

Wu Heng quickly ran laterally, avoiding the blizzard.

He raised his hand and fired a gun.

Bang bang bang~!

The sound of gunfire rang out, and the running captain of the Guard Team staggered.

Thigh, buttocks, lower back, all took a bullet.

He also fell to the ground.

Xi Ligui burst through the blizzard, emerged rapidly, and rushed to his side.

The Longsword was placed at the man’s neck, “Don’t move. The Steward said we can kill you right here!”

The scroll’s effect vanished.

The team members also rushed over.

“Take him to the Steward,” a team member ordered, escorting the man toward the direction of the ship.

The man’s gaze, however, was glaring full of spite towards Wu Heng.

…

In the cabin.

Greco said through gritted teeth, “I just captured a woman, paying her some money should suffice, no need to turn it into this mess.”

“What you’re doing is completely against the rules; I am the captain of the island’s Guard Team. Your Society is arresting people without any proper justification.”

The interrogation continued to yield no results.

Greco stubbornly clung to one point, that he was at most a lecher who took a fancy to the tavern owner.

He claimed no involvement in the Society’s affairs.

And professed complete ignorance of any connection with the Society.

Wu Heng looked towards Imilo.

Since they were proceeding according to the Society’s protocol, the next step depended on Imilo’s decision.

“Kill him, and use ‘Communicate with the dead’!”