However, the people in charge below were slow and always had various excuses to delay. By the time they got around to really counting the time, the real "criminals" would have already run or hidden. Only then would they go out onto the streets in full force to search.
Those who dared to attack the mansion of the Dean of Merton Academy were undoubtedly desperate outlaws! Encountering them would be quite dangerous.
Throughout the second half of the night, the ordinary people and the disciples from poor families in the Capital certainly did not sleep well. After setting up checkpoints along the streets with no results, they began to search house by house. The residences of the high-ranking officials and nobles, like Owen Bertram's estate, were naturally not disturbed.
But some affluent businessmen with no solid connections were inevitably extorted.
