Chapter Forty-two: Mysterious and Confusing

  After the curfew, Raytheon Cliff quieted down. Everyone gathered in their residence hotel and did not go out to shop on the street. They had already received the news that the delegation of Parliament City was killed in a hotel in the city. These Sault people were all discussing who did this thing and what they intended to do.

  The scene where the envoy was killed has been protected, but in fact, it has spread throughout the city that there were a large number of wolf-like hairs at the scene, and the envoy also had bite marks from some kind of creature. Therefore, the most likely inference is that the envoy of the Council City was killed by a frenzied werewolf.

  Of course, there are also many conspiracy theorists who say that this is a very serious plot. The Parliament City is the most important city in all of Eran, and now with Thunder Cliff's rise to power, as well as the fact that he is controlled by demons, has made the council members of the Parliament City somewhat restless, and they have staged this assassination themselves.

  The reason is that there is a reason to destroy this increasingly powerful demon city. The reason for this argument is that the envoys who came were not important figures, and on the day they arrived, they did not go to see the lord of the city, but instead found a small inn to stay in by themselves. It wasn't until later, when the First Legion's Sault people inspected their luggage, that the letter of appointment for the envoy was discovered, confirming their identity as envoys.

  "What do you think?" Gloeck asked, addressing Grael who had been assigned to handle the matter. The bodies in the room had already been removed and placed in a designated area, leaving behind only white human-shaped imprints.

  These patterns were later drawn because the body had been moved by people who came into the room, so they didn't have much effect. They were only made later at Mo Yan's request based on the image of the hotel staff who discovered the murder. It can roughly let people who come to the scene later know what the situation was like when the body was placed at that time.

  "What's the situation?" Regal, who had been staring at the corpse in a daze, suddenly snapped back to reality and asked Glok, "Are you referring to this case? I don't know much about it yet. The only thing I can confirm is that it's a murder. Before I arrived, you must have done some investigation already. What did you find?"

  "It wasn't a werewolf that did it." Glocked pointed to a mark on the door and said, "First of all, if a werewolf wanted to kill someone, they wouldn't knock on the door. Their claws allow them to scale walls and walk on roofs, windows are absolutely more unexpected than doors, so people in the room won't be prepared."

  "That's right." Reg said, recalling their time in the jungle, where they were ambushed by the First Legion's werewolves: "Those guys are good at climbing trees."

  "The intruder killed the person who opened the door instantly." Glock pointed to a cut on the corner of the bedside table and the torn bed sheet, saying: "The people in the house were very frightened by this sudden change. When they took out their weapons, they accidentally cut here. And there was originally someone sitting on the bed, he turned his head back in fright while pulling out the long sword from his waist and tore the bed sheet."

  "It's a perfectly normal reaction," Reg said. "When you hear your companions screaming in pain, anyone would react like that. But how were five people killed? Even if it was a relatively powerful monster, couldn't the five of them have at least stalled for time even if they couldn't kill it? And where are the employees from, I heard the bodies weren't discovered until the next morning."

  "The hotel staff just moved from Lobito, where they can offer very high salaries, you know." Groke shrugged and said: "As for your meaning, I understand. I asked everyone in the store, and they all said that no one heard any sound at the time. Unless the people in the store are all murderers or accomplices, it's impossible to have such a uniform tone, and there's also a strange place."

  "Where?" Regal heard Gloc's words and asked.

  "Here." Glocked pointed to the tea cup fragments under the table and said: "There are seven used tea cups, but there are only six people in the delegation. Obviously, someone who is not a member of the delegation has been here before, and they talked about it before the murder occurred, or this missing person is the murderer."

  "It's unlikely that this person is the killer." Reg said, looking around, "In that case, the body at the door can't be explained. You said he was stabbed in the back after opening the door. And the one in the corner of the wall was obviously thrown there by the killer, the cracks on the wall indicate that the killer had very strong arm strength."

  The bed and furniture had obvious signs of a fierce struggle, indicating that the fight at the time was very intense. Except for one possibility, it is impossible for the employees downstairs not to have heard."

  "Are you saying magic?" Groke said: "However, the number of people who can use magic in Thunder Ridge is limited, except for the two demons of the Minotaur, only the Black Dragon will use it. I think these three people are unlikely to be the murderer, the demon has been with the Minotaur for the past few days, and the Black Dragon went north with the Second Legion early on. And they all don't have a motive to act."

  "I didn't say that." Reg said with a smile, "Or maybe it's just a magical item. I've seen something like this in Malo City before. It turned out to be an apprentice wizard who had stolen a magical item from his mentor and used it to rape and murder the daughter of the victim's parents next door.

  At the time, the victim's parents did not hear any noise and only discovered that their daughter was dead when she didn't get out of bed the next day. The case was very famous in Malo at the time, and many people were invited to catch the murderer. At that time, almost no one suspected that apprentice who could be said to have a bright future.

  "The situation here is different." Glock started to walk out, and the evidence here was just these valuable ones, the others had been destroyed by the hotel employees who were in a mess.

  "I know." Reg said, nodding as he followed Glock down the stairs. "I've seen those bodies, except for the two that were severed in half, all of them had obvious bite marks. Some parts of their flesh are gone, we can assume they were eaten by the killer."

  "These details are not important." Groke shook his head and said, "What's important is why the murderer scattered wolf hair at the scene? It's clear that they wanted to make it look like the werewolves of Thunder Cliff did it. And indeed, a patrol team from the First Legion has gone missing. If the Council seizes on this point, we'll be facing a huge war. And I don't want to fight this war."

  "Are you done?" Matthew on the floor looked at the two walking down and said: "How's the situation? Is there any clue?"

  "Not yet for now." Reg said shaking his head, "But I think we should have a breakthrough soon, after all the lord of the city has given us three days to crack the case."

  "I'll do my best to provide you with assistance," Glock said. "I'll follow up on the case in other aspects, and if I find anything, I'll notify you. If you need support, you can come to the military camp to find me. If I'm not there, you can also look for my deputy officer, and I'll arrange for him to provide you with support."

  "Thank you very much." Reg said with a nod. "So that's it for today, I'll go back and sort out the clues we got today, see if there's any breakthroughs."

  "So long." Glog said with a military salute to Regal.

  "What are we going to eat today?" Matthew, who had left the scene of the crime at the inn, asked Regal, who was deep in thought: "I heard that a barbecue restaurant here is very good, and the way it's grilled is taught by the lord himself. Almost everyone who has eaten there says that their barbecue is the best they've ever had."

  "Eat?" Regal looked at Matthew with a hint of amusement and said, "Speaking of eating, do you know what I promised the lord of the city?"

  "What's up?" Matthew asked nonchalantly in response to Regal's words.

  "If things can't be settled within three days," Regal said slowly, "then the entire SS's food supply will be on the same level as the dwarves for a month."

  "What the...!!" Matthew yelled, his voice echoing loudly in the empty streets: "What are you still doing here dawdling around!! Get to headquarters quickly and immediately bring out that damned criminal! I'd rather die than eat the same swill as those dwarves!"

  "Now you're in high spirits?" Regal said with a smile, looking at the extremely excited Matthew: "Not planning to go eat that barbecue? And don't say it's none of your business, think about how to catch the culprit!"

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