While Tringer entered the room to check, Jacques told everyone Marianne's reply, and asked everyone to find a way to delay the time and wait for Marianne's people to solve the siege.

Jacques felt very ironic about helping solve a serial murder case, but still having to find a way to get out.

When Tlinger returned again, Fabian stepped forward and said, "You can also see that I fired the arrow that caused the fatal wound, Mr. Deputy Captain. I'm more than happy to cooperate with your investigation, but ...... It's just that I'm a nobleman of the Empire, and I need to get what I deserve. ”

"Oh, you're a nobleman?"

"Yes, my father was Viscount Bernande of the Duchy of Castile, and I am his third son, Fabian Bernande. According to the law, as long as I have not committed the three major crimes, rebellion, murder of relatives, and murder of nobles, I do not need to be detained for other crimes, as long as I monitor my residence. ”

Tlinger pointed to Gabriel's corpse and said, "That's right, first of all, I want to prove your noble status, I can take you to the city hall to get information, you have a family crest." ”

"Bring it, sir. ”

"That's fine, but this man has two stab wounds, this Mr. Jacques must have caused them, right? You can keep an eye on the residence, he must go with me to the City Guard headquarters. ”

Sneaking up on Gabriel's house to look for evidence, Fat Orange tells Jacques that the words on the writing desk are all strange words that don't match the preface and have no value, and that the names of people and places that appear have nothing to do with the case in the factory area, and most of the place names are in the area west of the Medis.

As for the internal organs and magical items, Fat Tangerine didn't find it either, it's good at finding this kind of thing, and if you don't have it, you don't have it.

How to delay the arrival of Marianne's people became a big problem.

Jacques thought of a possibility and asked Tylinger, "Mr. Tylinger, have the internal organs of the deceased been found in the previous case?"

Tlinger replied casually, "No, it's completely gone." ”

Jacques continued: "Oh...... That's right...... Look what's over there!"

Everyone looked in the direction of Jacques's finger, and Jacques turned around, rushed to Gabriel's corpse in two steps, bent down and drew his knife, and slashed it horizontally against the ground.

The blade sliced through the abdomen of the corpse, and only then did everyone react, and Terlinger was the fastest, immediately appeared next to Jacques, grabbed his right hand holding the knife, and shouted, "What are you doing?"

Jacques smiled and said: "I probably know where the missing internal organs are, just open his stomach to know, now it is less than two hours before the time of the crime, and the evidence you want should be inside." ”

Tlinger was skeptical, but arranged for his men to examine the corpse's stomach.

Sure enough, the heart and other internal organs that he had swallowed almost filled his stomach.

Now There's nothing to say at all, those things prove that Gabriel is a serial murderer, then Jacques and the others are not only no longer suspected murderers, but also have become heroes in the capture of murderers, in addition to the commissions and bonuses provided by the Transcendent Guild, the City Guard will also have a bounty for them.

Even if the half-wolf, half-human transformation of Jacques and others is not credible, the half-digested human internal organs can fully prove that Gabriel devoured the internal organs of today's three victims, and he is the serial murderer.

At this time, Marianne's men also arrived, and Pittinger rode Marianne's blue steam car to the neighborhood where the crime occurred.

Jacques didn't bother to deal with Tylinger, so he took everyone to board the steam car and said to Terlinger: "Mr. Terlinger, let's leave first if we have something to do, please arrange the finishing work, as for the bounty, we will go to the city guard to collect it in our free time, with the emblem of our orange cat mercenary group, right?"

"Regimental Emblem...... ......" Therelinger had no choice but to let them go.

......

Once in the car, Jacques spotted the steam car heading towards the West Manor, and said to Pittinger: "We will not go to the manor, but to the meeting place, and we will wait for Marianne and Graves to return to the manor together." ”

"Miss Marianne's meeting will go on for a long time," Pittinger advised, so you guys should go back to the manor and wait." Besides, Miss Marianne has ordered me to take you back to the manor. ”

Jacques didn't talk to him, and directly turned on the call of the source stone communicator, this time Marianne answered, Jacques said: "Marianne, let's not go back to the manor first, now come and meet you, I still have something to tell you." ”

“......”

"Mr. Pittinger, let's go to the meeting place, Marianne is waiting for us. ”

Jacques couldn't wait to talk to Marianne about Gabriel, who was half wolf and half human, and through Fat Orange's inspection, he didn't find any magical items in Gabriel's residence, which made Jacques even more suspicious.

Jacques knew that the matter was over with the City Guard, and Trelinger didn't care about the whole thing. His mission is only to find the murderer, and if he obtains the murderer, he will be all right.

Gabriel had come to Yorktown more than a year earlier, and the serial killings had started around that time. Judging by the current information, he only transforms on certain days of the month, and is usually just an ordinary worker with a good salary at the gas factory. It's not like when you were an adventurer and you had the opportunity to get rich overnight, but it's enough to live a decent life.

So what caused his transformation and killing?

How did he get his strength and speed beyond that of ordinary awakened people, his beast-like defense and his sense of smell to be able to spot Fat Orange?

Jacques felt that he could start his adventures in the Medice a year earlier, especially the names of people and places he had written. Such an investigation requires the support of Marianne, whose family has enough people in the Medis to conduct the investigation.

Jacques wanted to find out if Marianne had helped him sooner, so he preferred to wait for her directly at the head office of the West Comptoir where the meeting was held.

It didn't take long for the steam car to reach its destination.

The head office of the Vest Firm is a five-story brick and stone house, which is currently the office of the trading house, and is responsible for selling the products produced by the various industries of the Vest family, involving rubber from rubber plantations, grain from farms, cattle and sheep from livestock farms, minerals such as coal and iron from mines, steel from steel mills and manufactured products from other factories.

Naturally, Jacques and the others couldn't disturb the meeting, so they rested in the living room on the third floor.

Fabian, who was bored when he first arrived in the reception room, found that Graves' communicator had not been turned off, and out of curiosity, everyone turned on the communicator to observe the meeting, and Jacques also told Graves not to turn off the communicator.

After listening for a while, Jacques realized that this meeting was really an important meeting for the West family, and they were discussing the main direction of the West family's development in the future.

Jacques also knows a little about the situation of the West family, although the nominal main heirs are Marianne and Graves, but their uncle Roman also has a lot of say and has direct control over the farm and livestock farm.

Marianne's grandfather handed over many properties to the management of important ministers who fought the world together, and he only grasped the direction of key matters as a major shareholder. When he died, the management of the trading house and the shares of the West Continent Bank were handed over to the eldest son, Marianne's father, and the farm and cattle ranch were handed over to the second son, and the West's estates in York City and other cities were shared by the family.

Marianne's father had a better vision, seized the opportunity to invest in a large number of mines, and mortgaged the shares of the Western Continentals Bank to build a steel mill and other processing plants, and the factory that Jacques patrolled to produce hexagonal lathes was Marianne's father's last investment.

When Marianne's parents died unexpectedly, both siblings were not very old, Marianne had just reached adulthood, and Graves was only twelve years old. Many of her grandfather's trusted ministers turned to their uncle Roman for more support in the allocation of resources, including those in charge of the rubber plantations, the convoys, the fleet, and the docks.

Griffin, the head of the trading house, who was supposed to have the most say in the allocation of resources, was also a good friend of Marianne's father, but he said that he would abide by neutrality and not help each other. Marianne had no choice but to watch every year as all the proceeds of the family's joint property went into the pockets of her uncle and his allies.

Fortunately, the mines and steel mills that her father invested in have been making good profits, and by this year not only paid off the loan and recouped the shares of the mortgaged Western Continental Bank, but also expanded several new mines, which gave Marianne some confidence in the family.

She has money, and they need it!

This meeting was to decide the direction of the West family in the following year, and Marianne had long known that Griffin, the head of the trading house, wanted to work with the Baptiste family of Castile to invest in the construction of a trunk railroad and telegraph line in the New World.

This cooperation was originally led by Mayor Hoffa, and several major families in York City would participate, and the West family only needed to participate in the investment like other families, just like the Baptiste family built the railway in other areas, and the local Haoqiang invested in the shares.

But the Baptistes were more interested in the big mines and steel mills in the hands of the West family, or more precisely the Marianne siblings.

Both of these industries were indispensable support industries for the construction of railways, and it was impossible for a new railway company to transport rails and trains to the New World by ship, so it was better to acquire suitable factories and mines than to invest in new construction locally. What's more, the high-quality mines are basically in the hands of the Marianne siblings, which is why the negotiators of the Baptiste family hijacked Marianne in Medis.

Of course, Marianne later cooperated with the Baptiste family, selling part of the shares of the steel mill and mine in exchange for the latest technology of the Baptiste family.

But today, Griffin's proposed direction for the new year made Marianne very unhappy, and he wanted the West family to abandon the existing factories and devote themselves to the maritime trade. He believes that due to the price limit of the textile industry and the high labor cost of the New World, it is better to give up the manufacturing industry that is not very profitable, and concentrate resources on the import of Stuart's industrial products, Stuart's things are cheap and easy to use, everyone knows.

Marianne's uncle Roman, contrary to the previous state of constantly asking for money to buy land and ranches, even asked to buy shares in the steel mill from Marianne's sisters and brothers, in exchange for the real estate owned by the family. He said that he had found a big customer for the steel mill, and that he could contract all the future production capacity, and as long as he was asked to manage the steel plant, the Marianne siblings would lie down and count the money.

This is also the sequelae of the cooperation between Marianne and the Baptiste family, since you can let outsiders take shares, why not cheap your own family.

In the end, under the continuous questioning of Marianne and Griffin, Roman revealed that his main patron was the royal family, and he swore that only he could get better profits in the transaction with the royal family.

Marianne also lost his temper with this uncle who had little management ability but was very good at managing people, the New World was about to build a railway, the output of the steel mills and mines was not to be sold at all, and even she had to increase investment to expand production capacity, where did he get the confidence that he could get greater benefits by making a deal with the royal family.

But Griffin and Roman must have made a private agreement, and both sides agreed to invest the public revenue and the proceeds of various industries in the purchase of new large sea vessels to expand the West's maritime power, and even asked Marianne to take out the shares of the West Continent Bank and re-pledge it.

As for the purchase of sea vessels with the proceeds, Marianne also objected to ineffectuality, and could only endure it as in previous years. As for the mortgage, she will be grateful to her, in case the family assets are not paid, she still has to pay it back herself.

But as for the arrangement of the factory and mine under her name, she rejected them all.

The meeting ended in an argument for the time being, and how the two of them would talk to Marianne about the steel mill and the factory was another matter.

At the end of the meeting, Jacques and Marianne returned to the estate in a steam car, kicking Pittinger, who had wanted to squeeze in, into another car.

Marianne learns that Jacques wants to investigate Gabriel's situation, and she immediately agrees, and her family's mines are mostly near Medis, where there are enough people to arrange a few security guards to get the general picture of the situation.

Seeing Marianne's sad face, Jacques overheard half of the meeting, and had some understanding of the situation, so he suggested: "Now that I have decided to buy a large sea-going vessel, I don't think it's a loss-making thing, but it may be just in time to make money." ”

Marianne listened to Jacques's words and found it interesting: "What can you do? I know you have a lot of ideas, so let's talk about it." ”

"Didn't you say a few days ago that the Kingdom of Light and the Empire stopped the grain trade? But so many people in the Kingdom of Light always have to eat, right? Do they have enough food to stop the grain trade with the Empire? Doesn't your uncle have a lot of farms? There is a lot of grain production, right? Is there a surplus in addition to supplying the New World? Who is it sold to? Can it be sold to the Kingdom of Light, there are just a large sea ships to transport it. ”

Marianne thought for a moment and said, "Actually, I didn't know who my uncle's grain was sold to, but today's words made me guess that he had sold all the surplus grain in the past few years to the Northern Regions. His partner is royalty!

It is unlikely that the grain will be blatantly sold to the Bright God Kingdom, and there may be a chance in the future.

Today's meeting made me very worried, Roman has taken a fancy to my steel mill, that guy is a person who will not stop until he achieves his goal, and I will have a headache in the future. ”

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