Selicis kicked it away and warned: "Provalos, shut up! Do you want to attract all the slaves from the Raodisian family behind the mountain?" You know, in order to avoid the other party's attention, they went around a long circle and crossed several mountains before they got around here from the side.

As soon as Selys finished speaking, "Ga!Ga!Ga!..." A shrill cry resounded throughout the mountains, scaring Selys.

A group of crows were lying on the branches.

Provalus looked at Selysis' embarrassing appearance and couldn't help but laugh, so he hurriedly covered his mouth with his hands.

"Damn the crow!" Selysis couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

"That's the messenger of Hades, who is here to help us!" Aphites in front turned around, saluted to the crow devoutly, and then said seriously to Selicis: "If Pafergris had buried things here recently, it might be here."

"Here?!" Provalus looked at the place where Afitis stood in confusion. The trees and weeds seemed to be no different from other places.

Selys was tall, but he could see that the weeds in the area where Aphites stood were obviously shorter than the surroundings, as if this small part was sinking as a whole.

"Excavate!" Selys's eyes were full of mechanical and anxiousness. During this period, he asked through various channels and asked from many sources. None of the information he received was seen in Pafergris's mansion. On the contrary, the very few information confirmed that Pafergris' slaves wandered in the forest many times. The most accurate news came from Prosdmo's famous hunter Affitis, who came to ask him for help many times. The land in front of him was his last hope!

He raised his pickaxe high and smashed it hard.

Provalus took a breath and began to dig the soil. You know, although this forest belongs to the Kingdom of Dionia and is not distributed to individuals, the fields of Laodycien are on the hillside of the front mountain. Due to his power, several conflicts occurred. Over time, the people of Prosdermo had to hunt and collect wood in the mountains, and tried to bypass the mountain. If Selyss had not been kind to him, he would never have taken the risk to come here.

The valley was very quiet, and even the crows stopped chirping, only the low gasps and the sound of pickaxes hitting the ground...

The soil here was soft and a small hole was dug out soon...

"Wait!" Afites, who was standing aside and looked at the wind, suddenly shouted, stopping the two of them from swinging their pickaxes. He lay down and reached out to lift a small piece of "branch" stretched out from the water at the bottom of the pit, but could not pull it. He stretched out his hand to wipe off the black mud on the "branch"...

The two people next to them opened their eyes wide: it was a swollen and rotten finger!

"Aphites, Inspector Theocasis and his men are hiding now?"

"I know, we came just now..."

"You go and bring them here right now!"

"knew."

...

When Theocassis arrived, it was already half dark, but he was very excited. As soon as he saw Celices, he said excitedly: "Celicis, you finally brought me good news!"

Selys was covered in sweat, standing next to the pit with a pickaxe, looking a little tired, and said in a heavy tone: "A female corpse was found, probably the missing girl. Two corpses were found... I don't know if there are more in this land?"

Theocasis was suddenly shocked, looked at the dark pit in front of him, and said angrily: "Damn Pafergris, he should go to the underworld and accept the torture that never stops!"

He suddenly turned around and shouted, "Brothers, light the torches for me and continue to dig up this land!"

"Yes, sir!" many inspectors responded.

"This will alarm Pafergris!" Selices said anxiously.

"The evidence is conclusive now. Pafergris dares to stop me. Isn't he afraid of adding a few more charges to him?!" Diocashi waved his hand with confidence: "Dig for me!"

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The next day, an explosive news spread quickly throughout the city: six corpses were dug out from the mountains west of Naxos. According to the inspector's investigation, all six corpses were women and were strangled to death...

The news from the Hitman shocked the Naxos: Since the establishment of Dionia, there has never been such a terrible murder. Who is the crazy murderer?!!

Just as the people were in panic, Theocasis had led the inspectors to surround the mansion of Raodisian.

Although his housekeeper Antrus tried hard to defend that the corpse behind the mountain had nothing to do with his family and loudly protested the illegal act of the inspection team trespassing into a private house, slaves soon admitted under pressure that five young female slaves serving Pafer Gres had disappeared without realizing it.

There is also slave identification: a corpse with a tail finger missing from the left hand may be one of the female slaves.

The wife of the freeman who was brought also recognized that the decayed corpse was wearing the clothes her daughter wore when she disappeared.

Just when Theocasse forced to arrest Pafergris, a male slave took the initiative to come forward and admitted that these people were killed by him and were willing to commit suicide!

While surprised, Theocasis still took Pafer Gres back to the inspection office next to the city hall on the grounds that "Pafer Gres is a major suspect."

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Stromboli called the young city inspector to the town hall and asked as soon as he met: "Docassis, is the case progressing now?"

"Paffergris has never admitted that he killed the person, only saying that he was not strict in disciplined slaves and is willing to be punished. The slave who admitted that he killed people was one of Paffergris' two confidant slaves, and the other had already committed suicide the night we found the body. I guess they had been burying the body for a long time, otherwise he would not have explained the location of each corpse so clearly... But no matter how we torture him, he always said that he was the one who killed himself..." Diocasis said with some frustration.

"I'm almost unable to deal with the MPs in the past few days. If you can't find conclusive evidence of his murder, I'm afraid..." Stromboli touched his beard and thought, "How to punish him for killing people indulging slaves?"

"According to the judge, 'The serious ones are sentenced to ten years in prison and a large amount of money.' However, the dead are all slaves, and only one registered daughter of a freeman, and neither is a citizen. Therefore, even if he is indeed a person who really kills, he is very likely not to be sentenced to death! Judge Ardarus also urged me to hand the slave and Pafergris over to the court as soon as possible, and to close the case as soon as possible, so as to avoid the trouble getting bigger and bigger and causing panic in the city... I think he took the benefits of that family!" Diocasis said angrily.

"Don't talk nonsense! The court is independent. I can't influence them, and I can't interfere! Perhaps Judge Ardarus thinks that killing a few slaves is nothing." Stromboli comforted him, but he was still worried: "But in this way, Pafergris is fine and cannot involve Raodisian. He is not punished by the Senate, so you will offend him completely..."

"I'm not afraid of them at all!" Diocasis said toughly.

Stromboli sighed and said, "With us support, you don't have to be afraid, but it's a problem after all... It seems that I'm going to write to His Majesty again..."

"Why do you need to write a letter to Your Majesty?" Diocasis asked in confusion.

"Because His Majesty hates citizens' abuse of slaves the most. A few years ago, a member of the Crotone local council beat his slave seriously for no reason, and the local judge gave a fine. After His Majesty Davers found out, he asked the court to impose a further punishment, not only fined him a large amount of money, but also sentenced him to one year in prison... If he knew that so many female slaves were killed this time, think about how angry he would be. Can Pafergris still survive?" Stromboli sneered.

Theocasis nodded suddenly.

At this moment, Stromboli slapped his forehead and suddenly remembered something: "By the way, you go and invite the priests of the Temple of Hadishi to see if they can let the slave tell the truth..."

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For Greek city-states of this era, there are three most common ways to punish criminals: fines for the mild case; physical punishment for serious cases, such as accountability, whipping, punishment, severe city-states such as Locre, and cruel means such as shopping and eye-digging, and execution for the extremely serious case; of course, there is another common way to deprive citizens of the country and deport them.

However, no Greek city-state has a sentence of imprisonment and sentence, because in this way, the criminals not only do not have to work, but also must provide food for the city-state. This is unacceptable for the city-state regime with few people and less money. Therefore, these Greek city-states do not have a fixed public facility for prisons.

However, the Kingdom of Dionia is different from other Greek city-states. In the laws of Dionia, there is no punishment for trauma, but it has terms to sentence its imprisonment for years based on the severity of the crime. Therefore, every city in the kingdom has a prison, and most of them are in inspection centers.

At this moment, Colientus, the priest of Hades Temple in Naxos, entered the prison of the inspection office with the respectful welcome of Theocasis.

Collientus was originally a priest in the Temple of Athena, but when the Temple of Hades was established, its faith spread rapidly throughout the alliance and was deeply loved by the people. He was attracted by the teachings of Hades and finally served the Pluto. A few years later, he won the trust of the priest of the scepter Priest with his ability. After the completion of the Temple of Hades in Naxos, he was sent to be promoted to priest to be responsible for the temple affairs of Naxos.
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