Although Caris just murmured, Emma still heard it and couldn't help but look at Caris. Caris immediately silenced, smiled awkwardly, and signaled Emma to continue to torture Merope.
At this time, Merope was much more honest, and the look she looked at Emma was a little more fearful.
"Say! What did you say to the guy from the Temple of Nature!? If you dare to hide it, I will crush your bones, and then let Karis repair them for you..." Emma stopped holding her head at this time and asked sternly, she Now I understand that it is useless to deal with such people in a nice manner. Sometimes, you should use special methods like Vijay.
"I said, I said... they, they asked me about one of the items in the last auction, which was a white jade pure bottle!"
"What did you say?"
Merop's eyes were a little dodgey, as if he wanted to hide something, but seeing Emma's cold eyes, Merop finally opened his mouth to explain: "That item was originally the item for the last auction, but it was moved forward by me. Switched to the previous auction..."
"Why change the lot!?" Emma asked.
"Because... because... we are interested in a valuable antique from the previous auction. That antique can be sold for a good price. Someone has already paid a high price for it in the black market...
"Because...because...we were interested in a valuable antique in the previous auction. That antique could be sold for a good price, and someone on the black market had already paid a high price for it...so I used my job to With the advantage of the personnel, he cooperated with others to exchange the lot with the white jade pure bottle from the last auction.
The white jade pure bottle has low craftsmanship and ornamental value. Even if it is sold at auction, it will not fetch much, so we exchanged the white jade pure bottle with the antique. After the white jade pure bottle was sold, we forged the transaction record to look like that antique. Antique transaction records.
As for the white jade pure bottle, because it is not of high value, we originally planned to modify the transaction record after the auction, fill the holes with our own money, and then fake the transaction record into a formal transaction record, so that no one will notice that there is a problem.
We are just making a profit. The price given on the black market is enough to cover the shortfall of the white jade pure bottle, and it can also allow us to make a profit. Who knows that someone attacked the auction on the night of the auction..."
After listening to Merope's story, the truth finally came out, and the last piece of the puzzle of the whole incident was finally complete. Looking at the whole incident, the Temple of Nature knew about the existence of the White Jade Purity Vase from some source, and coveted the contents of the White Jade Purity Vase. The so-called 'sacred water' is because the Natural Temple is not a local force, and the current situation is tense. The Natural Temple can only keep a low profile and plan to buy the white jade pure bottle at the auction and bring it back to the temple.
At the same time, the old enemy of the Temple of Nature, the Temple of Decay, in order to prevent the Temple of Nature from obtaining the white jade purification bottle, also dispatched high-level wizards to ambush the venue, ready to wait for an opportunity. As long as the white jade purification bottle appears in the temple of decay, they will do anything regardless of the consequences. Take action to snatch.
However, who knew that the staff at the auction were secretly committing theft? On the day of the auction, Merop and the team behind him fell in love with an antique item from the second auction. The identity replaced the item in advance with a white jade pure bottle of low value in the next auction, and replaced the transaction record of the antique item with the transaction amount of the white jade pure bottle.
The auction started in the evening. The original white jade purification bottle had already been taken away by lawyer Philip in the afternoon auction. Until the end of the auction, the Temple of Nature did not wait for the white jade purification bottle, so he questioned it, instantly exposing his identity. identity, the Temple of Decay took advantage of the situation and caused the attack three months ago.
If there had not been an attack, Merop and his team would have spent their own money to buy the white jade pure bottle at the lowest price. Of course, the price would definitely be lower than the antique auction item. Although they were guarding theft, they did a very good job on the books. , in layman's terms, they just make a profit, but this profit is also extremely considerable.
In fact, Merop was not the core figure of the entire team. The core of the entire stolen goods sales team was a financial staff member of the auction house. Unfortunately, the core leader was accidentally injured and died in the attack that night, and the truth was buried.
Everything after that made sense. The Temple of Nature was looking for the White Jade Purifying Bottle, and at the same time the Temple of Decay was also looking for it. The two parties secretly competed with each other. Coupled with the intrusion of the Welfare Family, all the truth was finally revealed to the world. A big battle destroyed a small town and basically wiped out the wizards who entered the Temple of Nature and the Temple of Decay illegally.
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In the woods, the Moon Vine Priest also told the sad story of the Nature Temple. Because they entered the country illegally and had to act in secret, for three months the Priests of the Nature Temple could only secretly track down the people who participated in the auction that night.
Because there were so many people attending the meeting, we could only check them one by one in three months. After all, the Temple of Nature did not have the financial resources like the Welfare family to directly buy the entire auction house.
In order to obtain the internal documents of the auction, Yue Teng sent someone to sneak into the auction house and read some of the documents. He also knew that there were actually three auctions scheduled for that day, but there was no white jade pure bottle among the items in the first two auctions. , there is no record of white jade pure bottles in the transaction records, so the Temple of Nature no longer pays attention to the first two auctions.
In the end, the Temple of Nature focused its investigation on the participants of the last auction. After repeated inquiries, there was still no news. There were only a few participants who had not been questioned, including the man named Merope's cleaning staff.
After all, the other party was just a cleaning staff. At first, no one at the Temple of Nature paid much attention to her. It was not until the Welfare family was finally discovered that the temple accelerated its progress. They traveled thousands of miles to find Merope who was hiding in Ireland.
After they found Merope, they realized that their investigation was in the wrong direction from the beginning.
The Temple of Nature learned from Merop the final destination of the white jade purification bottle, and then immediately went to find Lawyer Philip. Because his whereabouts were exposed, they could no longer act in secret, so they simply arrested Lawyer Philip. Only then was Welfare family noticed.
As for the whereabouts of Lawyer Philip now, according to Yue Teng's account, Lawyer Philip was released by the people from the Temple of Nature long before the battle started.
The Temple of Nature is quite principled when it comes to treating innocent people. They are not psychopathic cultists and will not kill innocent people. When interrogating the participants of the third auction, they did not use any Extreme measures.
