Volume 1: Raging Waves City Chapter 85: The Viscount's Invitation
The car door opened and a maid dressed in traditional imperial attire got out.
She saluted Luke and said, "Thank you for your visit. Please get in the car, Detective."
Luke took a look at the young and beautiful maid, then handed her his hat and cane and got into the carriage. The maid closed the door and stood outside with Shelley and Pisco.
"Hello, Lord Iscolan!" Luke sat opposite Viscount Iscolan. After observing the situation outside through the car window, he pulled all the curtains.
Viscount Iscolan smiled and said, "Inspector Meteorite is very careful!"
"It's a professional custom, especially for my status and yours, so I'd better be careful. I wonder why the Viscount invited me here?"
Isklan knew that Meteorite was doing this unnecessarily, and it was actually to remind himself: since we are not familiar with each other, don't talk about excessive things.
So Iscolan gave up the prepared words and asked directly: "Inspector, this sudden demonstration was arranged by you, right?"
Luke did not deny that this was originally an open conspiracy, and it required some people to understand its cause.
“I’m just taking advantage of the situation… If the City Hall wasn’t really incompetent and allowed the Elf Clear Sky to destroy the Thunder Tower, I wouldn’t have the ability to initiate this march.
Did today's incident cause any loss to the Viscount?
I am willing to compensate as long as I can afford it."
Viscount Isklan
"I can still protect myself in Raging Waves City. The main reason for inviting the inspector here this time is... I want to provide you with some clues about the Clover armed airship incident."
Luke laughed, and things were getting more interesting.
"My Lord Viscount, do you have any clues? That's great! The airship was soaked so badly by the sea water that we couldn't find anything useful on it. If your clue is true, it will really help us a lot."
"It is my duty as a citizen of the Empire to help the Secret Service solve the case..." After making his position clear, Viscount Iscolan said, "Inspector, you should know something about the City Council of Raging Waves."
Luke continued, “Since I came to the Secret Affairs Bureau of Cape District in Nutao City to take up my post, I must have read some information about the City Council of Nutao City before coming here.
The City Council is the highest administrative body in Raging Waves City, and consists of nine councilors. Three of them are from the business community, belonging to the capital faction, and are mainly responsible for the city's finances; three of them are from city officials, belonging to city's magic research institutions, belonging to the technology faction, and are mainly responsible for technology research and development and application.
The theory is that the speakership position should be rotated among the three factions of legislators, but in recent years it has been rotated among the technical faction of legislators. Compared with the capitalist faction and the establishment faction, the technical faction of legislators is much more low-key.
That's roughly what I know. Does the clue mentioned by the Viscount have anything to do with them?"
Viscount Iscolan nodded slightly. What Luke said was something that everyone knew. The relationship between the two of them was not suitable for further discussion.
"What the inspector said is correct. We should also realize that the reason why Raging Wave City has developed so rapidly in recent years is precisely because it has a technical parliament. Internally, it is a huge empire, and externally, it is connected to the entire world. Any new technology starting from here can create a lot of wealth in a short period of time.
This ever-changing era has made this place a paradise for smuggling, with some councillors and city officials getting involved.
According to the intelligence I obtained, when the Clover armed airship crashed, it not only had the imperial tax on it, but also a batch of gold that was several times more than the imperial tax. All of this gold was illegally obtained and was intended to be transported to the imperial capital to be turned into legal wealth.
Unexpectedly... this batch of gold disappeared inexplicably after the Clover armed airship crashed into the sea."
Luke asked, "How did you know about the existence of this batch of gold? You must be persona non grata to the city council."
Viscount Iscolan said: "My family has been in Raging Waves for much longer than the City Council, and we can even say that we have watched this city grow. Although I didn't know about the existence of this batch of gold at first, and I didn't know it was on the Shamrock, the disappearance of the gold caused chaos within them, and some news naturally leaked out.
In fact, I don't need to say anything. I believe that the inspector will hear some news in a few days."
Luke said in his heart: I got the news earlier than you.
But you still have to pretend.
“It seems that this case is more difficult than I thought. No wonder Councillor Ibel went to the Cape District today and asked me about this case anxiously.
The Viscount invited me here not just to tell me this matter, I want to hear your opinion on this case. "
Isklan observed Luke's reaction, trying to see if he was a participant in the case. After all, what he did for Ibul today clearly showed that the two had reached an alliance.
But the Viscount didn't notice anything.
Then just ask directly: "I want to know first...the purpose of your organizing this demonstration today, and what kind of deal did you reach with Ibul."
Luke said truthfully: “Congressman Ibel came to me today and said that someone in a very high position wanted to kill him and asked for my help.
I asked him to persuade Parliament to allow me to borrow money from the Imperial Royal Bank to build Cape Harbor and give me the right to operate Cape Harbor for 30 years.
Councillor Ibel said yes, and asked me to bring people here to cause trouble, and put pressure on the Government Office and the Parliament by saying that the Wrath of Thunder Tower was destroyed. Councillor Ibel then lobbied, and the Government Office and the Parliament passed the issue of repairing Cape Harbor in order to divert public attention.
So I brought people here..."
Viscount Iscolan was stunned, his expression lacking the composure and demeanor of a nobleman.
"You, you, you organized a large-scale demonstration of more than 100,000 people in Raging Waves City and even stormed the city government hall. Just to get the parliament to agree to build Cape Harbor?"
"Otherwise... I just want this. What Councillor Ibel wants to do has nothing to do with me. As the detective of the Secret Service of Cape District, I just want to use Cape Harbor to improve the lives of the city's citizens and allow more people to have decent jobs instead of giving up on themselves in the face of a hopeless life.
My expectation for my term is to see a clean, safe and vibrant urban area when I leave office.
Instead of looking at a bunch of crime stories and coroner's autopsy reports on homicide bodies every morning."
