The villain daughter did all kinds of things

Therefore, the mages who were questioned during their mastery period were quite cooperative, and they all had alibis for Jacques Shaw's death, which were almost irrefutable.

Full of hope, they began their investigation, but ultimately found nothing. Even the strong-willed Miss Mengmeng couldn't help but feel a little down.

However, after all the masters of the control period in Locke City had visited the registration information, Fatty Wei did not take Miss Mengmeng back to Baihe Commercial Management Company, but went to Lanxing Film and Television.

"...What is this?"

Miss Mengmeng was somewhat puzzled:

"Going to report to your young lady? Then you go, I'm not going."

With such strong support and cooperation, yet after several days of hard work yielding nothing, Miss Mengmeng was a little embarrassed to face Emily.

"No, it's not time to report to the young lady yet."

Fatty Wei chuckled and shook his head, pointing to the sky. Just then, a beautiful figure in a cloak flew into the Blue Star Film and Television building:

"Although the possibility is basically zero, Miss Yulia is also a mage in the control stage, so we can ask her."

"Is there even a question? I'm pretty sure it's not hers."

Miss Mengmeng rolled her eyes:

"Although I've only been in Locke City for a few days, I've already heard about this girl who, despite being a mage, is willing to stay among the people and use her power to help others. If even she is the kind of accomplice who helps human child trafficking gangs to silence them, then this world should just be destroyed."

Despite the complaints, Miss Mengmeng followed Fatty Wei into the Blue Star Film and Television building, even though she didn't have to see Amelie.

The two waited in the reception room for a short while when, accompanied by the sound of footsteps, the door was pushed open in a flurry, and the newcomer was none other than a beautiful blonde twin-tailed magician.

"Fatty Wei, you were looking for me?"

Yulia greeted Fatty Wei naturally, sat down opposite them, and skillfully picked up snacks and started putting them in her mouth.

"There are a few issues that require your cooperation, just routine stuff, boss."

Fatty Wei smiled and nodded at Julia.

Yulia no longer even bothered to scoff at the title of "Big Sister," because that's what the Baihe Gang members all called her, and they'd been calling her that for months.

Julia certainly didn't like the title, but she didn't want to be called Second Miss even more, so she could only gradually accept that Amelie's subordinates called her Boss.

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Chapter 102 The Magic Repeller

"Hello, Miss Investigator."

"Hello, Miss Hero~"

"...Oh dear, Miss Investigator, you're exaggerating. I'm hardly a hero."

"No, you already are... at least a hero of Locke City, and one day you may even become a hero of the Federation or even a hero of humanity."

Yulia and Miss Mengmeng shook hands and greeted each other. The two seemed to appreciate each other quite a bit, and Miss Mengmeng's praise made Yulia feel very happy.

Yulia is now enjoying being treated like a hero.

After the pleasantries, it naturally came down to the routine questioning session that Fatty Wei had mentioned earlier.

Miss Mengmeng had already decided in her heart that Yulia couldn't be a bad person, so the questioning process was quite easy, almost like chatting with a friend.

Yulia indeed had a solid alibi, and she could even produce the magical video that Muffin had taken as irrefutable evidence.

Miss Mengmeng wasn't too disappointed, having expected this outcome, but she couldn't help but sigh as she thought about how she had been searching for several days and still hadn't found any clues.

"...Is the case you're investigating very difficult?"

After Yulia swallowed a very delicate little cake whole, she casually wiped her mouth and looked at Miss Mengmeng curiously:

"I heard from Emerald that you're catching a group of child traffickers? Do you need my help? Although I'm not very good at analyzing clues with my brain, I have a keen sense of smell and eyes, which might be of some help?"

"This……"

Miss Mengmeng hesitated for a moment, then, on a whim, showed Yulia the magical image of her informant:

"Look, it's him. He was my subordinate. He suddenly died in the line of duty while tracking down clues about that criminal gang near Locke City. Miss Julia, do you remember him?"

"……what?"

Unexpectedly, Yulia was genuinely surprised upon seeing the magical image. She frowned, pondered for a moment, and then slapped her thigh.

"That's right, it's him! I've seen him before! I almost beat him up!"

"Huh?" x2

Miss Mengmeng and Fatty Wei were also quite shocked. Was this what they meant by "searching high and low without finding it, only to have it come to them effortlessly"? They had worked hard for several days without finding any clues, only to discover that the clues were right beside them.

"Tell me what happened!"

Miss Mengmeng couldn't wait any longer and even grabbed Yulia's hand without caring about her image.

"..."

Yulia raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything, though she was a little puzzled.

That's strange... Miss Mengmeng is very pretty too, so why don't I feel anything when she touches my hand, but when Emery touches my hand, it makes me feel itchy and uncomfortable all over? Is it because Emery is a bad woman?

After shaking her golden twin tails to clear her mind of distractions, Julia began to carefully recall her encounter with Jacques Shaw:

"That was... about 20 days ago? I don't remember the exact date."

"Anyway, I was helping people in the city as usual that day, but people don't encounter difficulties all the time. Anyway, it just happened to be a period of time when I was free."

"So I floated over the city, keeping my eyes and ears open, looking for anyone who needed help or any suspicious bad guys."

"And that's how I found this guy."

As Yulia spoke, she pointed her finger at the face of Jacques Shaw's magical image:

"I didn't recognize him at first because he was disguising himself, dressing up as a beggar, or a lame beggar."

“But I could tell from a great distance in the air that he wasn’t lame at all, and his behavior was suspicious, like he was following someone. He was very suspicious.”

"I happened to be free at the time, so I flew over to question him, asking about his identity, what he was trying to do by pretending to be a cripple, whether he was trying to pretend to be pitiful and swindle money from others... In short, I rambled on and on to him."

"His answer was very perfunctory, he seemed very impatient, and he was also suppressing his anger. It was as if he was determined to beat me up if he couldn't beat me."

"Of course I was furious about it too! If he hadn't held back from making the first move, I probably would have punched him!"

"..."

After hearing Yulia's story, Miss Mengmeng was speechless.

They're an FBI informant, investigating a criminal gang under an assumed identity. If you suddenly rush up to them and start nagging and interrogating them, anyone would resent you, right?

However, we can't blame Yulia, since she did it out of good intentions.

Miss Mengmeng could only sigh:

"What then?"

"And then? There was nothing more to it..."

Yulia blinked:

"That guy kept holding back his temper. He was just acting a little suspiciously, but he didn't actually do anything wrong. I couldn't possibly lay a hand on him, could I? So after giving him a lecture, I received a message that I was needed to help elsewhere, so I left and haven't seen him since."

"This……"

Miss Mengmeng bit her lip:

"Then Julia, think back carefully, what was the exact day you met him?"

"...Um, sorry, I don't remember."

Yulia considered for less than three seconds before giving up, but a smile still lingered on her face:

"But it's okay. Everything I experience during my work will be filmed by Pancake using magic and magical devices, and used as material for Emerald's creation... This part is the same. We just need to go to Pancake and look at those projected videos."

"Then let's go quickly!"

Miss Mengmeng finally showed her first genuine smile in days.

With Amelie personally issuing the order to fully cooperate with Miss Mengmeng's investigation, Flying Fat Orange Cat Pancake naturally wouldn't refuse Miss Mengmeng's request. He readily found all of Yulia's magic recordings from more than 20 days ago and even helped review them.

With the four of them working together, the search for the video was very efficient. In less than half an hour, the video of Yulia nagging and questioning Jacques Shaw was found.

Quite coincidentally, the day Julia interrogated Jacques Chau was the same day he died; in fact, the time between the extinction of Jacques Chau's life support and Julia's interrogation was less than two hours.

In other words, when Julia discovered Jacques Shaw's suspicious behavior, there was indeed a very high probability that Jacques Shaw was disguised and tracking that criminal gang!

Major clue!

Unfortunately, the camera kept following Yulia closely, capturing her beautiful face and hot figure clearly, but there were few shots of passersby... At least in the magical images, it was impossible to tell who Jacques was following at the time; the only clue was that he was located on a street in the west of Locke City, just before leaving the city, based on the surrounding environment.

"Please, Miss Julia!"

Miss Mengmeng could only make another request:

"Please think carefully again. Were there any other suspicious people or noteworthy places where Jacques Shaw was? This is very important... It concerns the sacrifice of an FBI informant and the lives of many children."

“Ugh… I really wanted to help, but… but he was the most suspicious person there, otherwise I wouldn’t have approached him.”

Yulia scratched her head and complained in distress. Seeing that Miss Mengmeng was sincere, she could only force herself to use her not-so-good brain to recall it again.

Close your eyes, and the scene from that day vaguely reappears in your mind, gradually becoming clearer as you concentrate.

It was around 4 PM, on a street in the west of the city, just before leaving the city. There were very few people on the street at the time, except for a few cars and that suspicious guy! What brand of magic-powered car was it again?

Yulia frowned deeply, putting even more mental effort into recalling the fragments of memory that were already deep within her brain.

A scene that was only captured out of the corner of my eye has finally become completely clear.

"Ah, I remembered!"

Yulia's eyes suddenly lit up:

"Those vehicles aren't magic-powered vehicles at all! They're oxcarts! A caravan of oxcarts heading out of the city!"

"An oxcart?"

Miss Mengmeng's eyes lit up as well:

"Are you sure?"

"Sure!"

Yulia nodded vigorously:

“I can even remember how many cows there were now… There were nine cows in total, eight black cows and one brown cow, and each cow was pulling a wooden four-wheeled cart!”

"Ox cart..."

Fatty Wei also touched his almost non-existent chin:

"The lowest-end magic-powered vehicles aren't expensive now, and miners can afford them... Those who really can't afford them will choose magic-powered skateboards. As for those who still use oxcarts as transportation, the only ones I can think of are the savages and the merchants who specialize in dealing with savages."

"Don't call them savages!"

Miss Mengmeng suddenly yelled at Fatty Wei sternly, glaring at him fiercely:

"They are also legal citizens of the Federation, they just unfortunately have a magic-repelling constitution. It is illegal to call them savages! For that alone, I can send you to jail for three days and fine you 5000 rens!"

"I'm sorry, Investigator!"

Fatty Wei readily admitted his mistake and offered another explanation:

"As you know, I wasn't a good person before, and these are all bad habits left over from the past. I will try my best to correct them."

"...Hmph, that's more like it."

Miss Mengmeng's expression softened.

The "savage" that Fatty Wei mentioned is officially called a "magic rejecter."

As their name suggests, in a human kingdom where nearly 80% of people are compatible with magic, those who are averse to magic are the unfortunate 20%.

Their bodies are extremely incompatible with magic, to the point of being allergic. Once they come into contact with magic, they will either die or be injured, or even mutate into monsters. They are unable to live with those who are compatible with magic.

After all, the magical civilization in this world is very advanced. The application of magical circuits and magical devices has penetrated into all aspects of life, much like the electrical appliances on Earth. You can't find a place in the city that is completely devoid of magic.

Therefore, most magic rejecters live in villages in the wild, leading an agricultural life similar to that of primitive tribes on Earth. As a result, they are sometimes called savages, and the villages where they live together are called savage villages.