Standing on the outskirts of Fabro City, Rudolf put down his telescope and stared in amazement.
What is that?
On the 5-story office building of the Parliament, the tallest building in Fabro City, there stands an iron frame tower as tall as the office building.
The galvanized silver anti-rust paint and the hollow conical tower body reminded Rudolf of the signal tower he had seen in his previous life.
Alchemists have a strong sense of confidentiality. Their most advanced research results are in the hands of large companies and alchemical research institutes. Rudolf has no way to know that knowledge.
What is the signal tower used for? Could it be used to deal with him?
On the roof of the Parliament office building, Yevgeny was smoking a pipe and watching the alchemists debugging the signal tower.
Yevgeny couldn't help but sigh: "The ability of the alchemists is becoming more and more impressive. According to your theory of the Big Bang of Technology, in another hundred years, where will there be room for other apostles to survive?"
The Big Bang of Technology theory is an important theory of alchemists. Alchemists believe that the speed of technological development is getting faster and faster. In the past, it would take three centuries for a genius to make a qualitative leap in research theory, but now, earth-shaking changes may occur in 50 years.
Pena, the head of the Equipment Department of the Judgment Hall, did not respond. Deputy Director Yevgeny is not an alchemist, but a Level 5 Word Spirit, because Pena does not know whether he should be more modest or admit that the alchemist's technology is indeed undergoing earth-shaking changes.
More than 50 years ago, an alchemist used human experiments on wizards and found that the wizard's star power is a kind of cosmic background radiation. Since then, the means by which alchemists deal with wizards have undergone fundamental changes.
Alchemists no longer pursue direct confrontation with wizards, but use simpler and more efficient shielding arrays.
Alchemy shielding arrays have become the best means to restrain wizards. Shielding arrays have also been updated and upgraded from generation to generation. With the support of the research results of a Level 6 alchemist, shielding signal towers have appeared. The range of this signal tower is so wide that only 5 signal towers are needed to shield the cosmic background radiation of the entire Fabro City, greatly restraining the ability of wizards.
Moreover, this signal tower is mass-produced. As long as they are willing to spend money and invest resources, alchemists can erect this signal tower in every city, making wizards completely become apostles like werewolves, who can only live in the wilderness or wander around the city with their tails between their legs.
Signal towers can prevent wizards from replenishing their star power. In this way, wizards can only rely on the star power stored in their bodies, and their strength is greatly reduced.
Pena, the person in charge of shielding the signal tower, said:
"Deputy Director Yevgeny, these signal towers will also have a certain impact on the planetary prophecy power of the words. The power of the words, like that of wizards, also comes from outer space. However, the impact of the signal tower on the planetary prophecy power of the words will not be as obvious as on the cosmic background radiation star power of wizards. The two abilities are one near and one far, and the bands are very different.
If you need it, the signal tower will be closed for a period of time every day to facilitate your divination of criminals."
Yevgeny's intuition told him that the alchemists would become more and more powerful in the future, which was one of the reasons why he joined the alchemists.
"Don't set a fixed time to shut down the signal tower, and don't let the wizard find a pattern."
"Okay, Deputy Director Yevgeny."
Under the office building, many alchemists were looking up at the workers climbing up and down the shielding signal tower. This kind of high-end equipment actually appeared in a remote city like Fabro City, which really made people feel warm.
In contrast to the warm alchemists, Rudolf felt uncomfortable when he arrived at the South City Cemetery.
The Dordo District also built a shielding signal tower. The closer to the signal tower, the more sluggish the star power in the body will be.
Scratching his head painfully, Rudolf suddenly remembered that the great man said that technology is the primary productive force, which is also true in the other world.
What can I do?
Just last month, it was emphasized that Fabro City is not allowed to have a speaker. Now they have elected a new speaker. Isn't this a slap in Rudolf's face?
They elected an "acting" speaker. I don't know if this is considered to give Rudolf some face, and the slap in the face is not that loud.
Staying in the suburbs of Fabro City, Rudolf didn't know what to do. He needed to adapt to these signal towers and find a way to move around inside them.
After nightfall, Rudolf looked up and searched for the trajectory of the planets in the sky, wanting to do a divination for himself.
These signal towers have a significant shielding effect on the more distant cosmic background radiation, and also have an impact on the prophetic power of nearby planets.
As a last resort, Rudolf retreated to a farther distance before completing the divination. The result was good, the danger was controllable, and he could get out of danger after dying a few times.
Rudolf didn't know whether he should be happy or not. If the signal tower was fully powered, the words in the witch hunters would also be affected, which proved that he would not be so easily found by the words.
At this time in the city center, Yevgeny left the parliament. For several consecutive days, he had not been able to divine the whereabouts of the furnace, and he only had some evidence that was very weakly related to the furnace.
The strongest correlation for the word spirit's evidence divination is biological specimens: hair, blood, nails, etc., which can help the word spirit obtain the most direct divination results.
Unfortunately, the furnace is very cautious, and there are no biological specimens of the furnace in the trial office.
The second most correlated is trace specimens, such as signatures, fingerprints, etc.
On the night when Deputy Speaker Jem died, Ronglu sneaked into the Trial Office and destroyed all traces of Ronglu in the Trial Office, such as the year-end summary that Ronglu had to write every year when he was in the police station, and the documents that Ronglu wrote when he was a patrolman and police officer.
As for other evidence, the divination effect is much worse.
Tonight, Yevgeny was a little flustered, as if something was going to happen tonight. Yan Ling believed in his intuition very much. If he was worried about something, it would definitely happen.
A subordinate witch hunter came behind Yevgeny: "Deputy Director, it's time to leave. Baron Jennifer has returned to her mansion."
"Let's go, act according to the plan."
A group of more than a dozen witch hunters headed to the rich area of Brown District and went straight to the Baron's mansion in Gase Town.
In the Baron's study, Yevgeny met Baron Jennifer, who had a close relationship with Ronglu in the records of the Trial Office.
Jennifer looked ugly. On her desk, there was a letter of introduction, a handwritten letter of introduction from Speaker Obed, asking her to cooperate with Yevgeny's investigation.
Seeing Baron Jennifer staring at him with a sullen face and unfriendly eyes, Yevgeny was helpless.
"Baron Jennifer, I'm sorry to bother you."
"If you really feel sorry, you can leave now."
Yevgeny was rejected, but he just smiled: "Baron Jennifer, do you really think that the Court of Inquiry will ignore your dirty past of colluding with wizards just because of your baron status?"
The temperature in the study suddenly dropped a few degrees. Jennifer stared at Yevgeny who was holding a pipe in front of her, her chubby face full of disdain. The Fabro City Court of Justice couldn't do anything to a baron. The County Court of Justice had to consider the face of Viscount Savan and Count Baron, but the Provincial Court of Justice would not take a small baron seriously.
"I think the letter on your desk, the handwritten letter from Speaker Obed, is enough to give you face. Don't be so naive, Baron Jennifer, you are not a little girl who doesn't know the world. Resisting the Court of Justice will not do you any good."
Jennifer closed her eyes, and her twitching eyelids showed how unwilling she was at this moment.
"You can search for anything you want, I won't stop you."
Yevgeny nodded with satisfaction: "This is a good start, Baron Jennifer, your choice is very wise."
In fact, Yevgeny was just killing extra time, because the witch hunters had already started searching and did not need Jennifer's consent.
Half an hour later, a witch hunter entered the baron's study and whispered a few words to Yevgeny.
Yevgeny nodded as he listened: "I see, you didn't find anything, right?"
Unexpectedly, there was no clue found in the baron's house. Yevgeny said: "Baron Jennifer, can you take the initiative to hand over the items related to the furnace in your possession? This will be good for you."
"Items related to the furnace?" Jennifer thought for a while and said: "Do memories count?"
"Baron Jennifer!" Yevgeny suddenly slammed the table: "I hope you can recognize the current situation! The key now is not only the criminal of the furnace, but also the refugees accepted by the Alchemical Council!
The life and death of the furnace is related to the stability of Fabro City, and the stability of Fabro City is related to the refugees accepted by the Alchemical Council.
There is no room for negotiation on this matter! No noble can stop the Alchemical Council from accepting refugees! This is a major project agreed to and focused on by the Alchemical Council of Orb Province!"
Jennifer raised the corners of her mouth with sarcasm on her face. What about accepting refugees? It's just because the mining area is short of staff, and the Alchemical Council is preparing to develop a second wilderness mining area west of the Ruhr mining area.
"Witch Hunter, I don't have any items related to the furnace. Before the furnace turned black, I admitted that we were friends, but after he turned black, I cut off contact with him, and it is even more impossible for me to keep any of his items. The thing you want now was also asked by the late Speaker Abel, and my answer is the same. I don't have any items related to the furnace."
"Then what about the magic weapons on you? How do you explain it?"
Jennifer did have a few magic weapons made by Rudolph, but there was nothing to worry about. The reason why magic weapons are popular with apostles is that magic weapons do not choose their owners. Once used by others, the power of the apostles will quickly erase the mark of the original owner. Unless it is not used once, it is impossible to use the magic weapon to track down the maker.
Jennifer generously handed over the level 3 wolf blade dagger and looked at Yevgeny quietly.
Yevgeny lowered his head and played with the dagger. This dagger had many traces of use, which meant that Jennifer had used it many times, and it was difficult to track down the traces of the wizard through the star power.
"Baron Jennifer, I know you have been single. Have you ever considered finding a husband?"
Jennifer didn't know why the witch hunter in front of her suddenly talked about her marriage. She didn't want to talk about these things with a stranger.
"Oh, I'm very sorry. If you find a husband, you will need to change your last name. Your baron title and your land will be shared with your husband. I think this is something that every noble doesn't want to see. So..." Yevgeni stared at Jennifer and said,
"So, have you ever thought about adopting a son or giving birth to a child who can inherit your title and land?"
"No comment."
Yevgeni didn't care. He continued, "I know that for nobles, these things are very secretive. I have a lot of information about Leman Town. In that information, you have a close relationship with the furnace.
What I want to ask is that you are now 22 years old. Do you have a child who inherited the furnace and your bloodline?"
Jennifer narrowed her eyes. She understood that the witch hunter Yevgeni wanted to find Rudolph's biological credentials and divine Rudolph's location.
"Since you have a lot of information about the Crucible, you must know that the Crucible is a Scorpio wizard. It is so easy for a Scorpio wizard to poison his own ex vivo cells. As long as he doesn't want to, no one can give birth to his children. What are you expecting? Witch hunter?"
Being asked about such a private matter, Jennifer could hardly contain her anger even though the witch hunter opposite was the deputy director of the Court of Inquisition, a level 5 apostle, and a very rare level 5 word spirit in legend.
She continued, "Since the night of the sacrifice, there has been no contact between me and the Crucible. You can go back and collect materials to frame me. I will not back down."
Rudolf stayed away from Jennifer, which was also a kind of protection for Jennifer.
Seeing the baron's angry eyes, Yevgeny didn't care at all. He was just a small baron and couldn't make any waves.
At this moment, a dazzling light illuminated the window of the study.
The sudden flash of light made half of Fabro City seem to enter daylight at a certain moment. Yevgeny rushed to the window.
That was the direction of the parliament! There was a violent explosion at the parliament!
"Level 5 Word Spirit, why didn't you predict that the parliament would be attacked tonight? Your divination ability is not good enough."
Yevgeny's face was livid. He didn't predict the attack tonight at all. This was his dereliction of duty. At the same time, it also proved one thing: there was a Level 5 Word Spirit in the Furnace criminal gang!
He would do a divination on himself every night to see if he would be attacked by the Furnace.
The divination result was very vague. Three planets on the divination horoscope did not appear, proving that the enemy also had Word Spirits and interfered with his divination.
Yevgeny turned his head, glanced at Jennifer, and left in a hurry, leaving Yevgeny's threat in the air.
"Baron, you'd better not be caught by us. If we know that you have any connection with the Furnace, Count Barron can't save you."
Seeing the study door was heavily closed, Jennifer silently added in her heart that Count Barron would not come to save her, but Rudolph would.
The public locomotive that was supposed to be stopped was waiting for Yevgeny on the avenue. This is a privilege that only the speaker of Fabro City Council can enjoy, and the deputy director of the court can certainly enjoy it as well.
The locomotive carrying Yevgeny and his men quickly moved towards the parliament. It was already night, and there was only Yevgeny's locomotive on the track, which allowed the locomotive to reach the fastest speed.
Yevgeny looked towards the parliament, feeling irritated, wondering what big scene the furnace would make tonight.