The warden who guards the witches

A few days later, Aiden waited for Heinz Hoffman, who had made an "appointment" with him, as expected.

"Surprisingly, I didn't expect you to come to me first instead of your princess." In the office, Aiden poured tea for Heinz who was sitting across the tea table.

"Things are prioritized. I have something to add to the investigation you entrusted us with last time." Heinz answered seriously.

"Is it inconvenient for outsiders to know?" Aiden asked bluntly.

Heinz nodded: "Sending a telegram must be handled by someone. It is risky and inefficient for me to send a letter. It is best for me to tell you personally."

"Please go ahead." Aiden didn't beat around the bush.

He observed Heinz's expression for a moment - he was still serious, and his face as hard as stone made it difficult to read any information.

Aiden quickly retracted his gaze. In terms of experience and quality in investigation and counter-investigation, the other party must be better than him, so it is not advisable to let the other party become suspicious too quickly.

After Chichimora accidentally discovered the inside story of the Gistas military base, their investigation soon encountered a bottleneck.

The core area of ​​the test site was obviously tightly shrouded by some kind of authority. After exploring and observing for a while, Chichimora discovered a rule - the number of living people that can exist in the core area is fixed, and it is basically always full. There are two situations for the personnel inside: the staff of the test site change shifts; and the experimental materials are replenished immediately after death.

The time interval for replacement is very short. Chichimora once took advantage of that time to enter the core area for observation, and found that there were other secret rooms inside, and there was no chance to investigate in depth. Even if they ventured directly into the depths, they would immediately alert the enemy.

Abigail and Lamia both began to be interested in what was hidden inside the base. Chichimora gave them the materials collected several times for analysis. Although they also gained some results, they were still relatively limited.

Aiden weighed in his mind whether he should directly ask Heinz about what happened in the military base to obtain more information. But no matter what, it is better to listen to the "secret" that Heinz wants to reveal first.

"You specifically asked about Professor Dodge's family. I think you should have obtained a more reliable clue, right?" Heinz suddenly asked.

Aiden nodded: "I got a reliable hint, but there is no content. As for the source, please don't ask too much, just tell me the answer directly."

"Okay." Heinz also nodded and lowered his voice, "I'll be frank. In fact, the key to the problem lies in Professor Dodge's deceased child. According to our investigation, Professor Dodge's child has some kind of incurable congenital defect. I didn't ask what the specific disease is. After all, it has been ten years... The cause of death was announced to the public, and it seems to be a complication caused by this defect. But after listening to your reminder, I commissioned someone else to conduct an in-depth investigation and found that the child's tomb was actually an empty tomb."

"You dug up someone else's grave?" Aiden was surprised.

"We wouldn't do such a big thing in other countries. I used my previous relationship in the Empire to hire a high-level necromancer, and used necromancy to explore the cemetery and confirmed that there were no human remains in his child's grave." Heinz waved his hand quickly.

Aiden thought to himself that you wouldn't be soft-hearted in your own country, right?

But this is indeed a feasible method. According to the theory of black magic, under normal circumstances, the human spirit will directly dissipate with the death of the body, so unless the necromancy is performed in advance or the deceased has extremely strong resentment, there will be no wandering souls that exist independently from the body.

But the corpse is different. Before the corpse disappears completely, it will always be connected to the power of death. Necromancer comes from the power of "death", and most things related to the concept of death can resonate with necromancy. Those mummies and bones dug out from the tomb, let alone in the past ten years, even if they are hundreds of years old, as long as the body is intact enough, they can still be manipulated by necromancy.

Aiden couldn't help wondering: "Was the body stolen?"

"It may also not exist in the first place." Heinz continued.

"What's going on?" Aiden could see that the other party had already had the answer.

"There is something that may be related, but I have never reported it to you. First of all, it involves some secrets, and now only I and three senior officials in the Royal Secret Police know about it. Secondly, I was not sure whether this matter was related to Harrison Dodge at first." Heinz said slowly, "It was not until you reminded me that I linked the two things together."

"Tell me about it in detail." Aiden picked up the cup and drank tea.

"About seven years ago, our intelligence network discovered that the Imperial Army built a secret base in the northwest. Afterwards, we confirmed that the Empire was conducting some inhumane human experiments there..."

Hearing this, Aiden almost choked on the tea and hurriedly put down the teacup.

"It's shocking, isn't it?" Heinz stared at Aiden and said.

"Yes, you can smell a strong conspiracy just by listening to it. Are you sure you are not writing a novel?" Aiden commented calmly, but his thoughts were surging in his heart.

Building a secret base for inhumane human experiments... Why does this plot sound so familiar?

The Witch Assembly had no reason to lie to him about this matter. Kikimora should have indeed found such a military base in Gistas.

So was it Heinz who mixed the truth with his lies and grafted the dirty deeds done by Gistas onto the Empire?

No, we can't jump to conclusions, at least there is no conflict in the timeline. The Empire incident mentioned by Heinz happened seven years ago, and the experiment of the Kingdom of Gistas, considering that the experimental materials mainly used refugees from the southern war, should have been officially started in less than a year - the two events may have happened one after another and there is some connection.

With this idea, Aiden didn't say anything extra and listened patiently.

"Unfortunately, it's not." Heinz explained seriously. He was obviously not the type of person who was good at joking. "It's beyond the duties and capabilities of the Royal Secret Police to spy on the confidential intelligence of the Imperial Bureau and the military - our intelligence work is generally aimed at the political level, and this matter is under the jurisdiction of the military's intelligence bureau. However, the intelligence bureau asked us to cooperate in the execution of the mission for this matter, so I finally learned some secrets."

"Okay, I believe you." Aiden raised his hand to signal the other party to continue, "What experiments did you find that the imperial soldiers did in that base in the end?"

Then Heinz said the answer that had long emerged in Aiden's mind: "It is to create new demon descendants - they are studying how to merge humans with new species of demons."