"Sir, Miss, who are you?"

The door of the castle was opened by a middle-aged foreign man in a black tuxedo, green eyes and yellow hair, and the man felt a little strange when he saw Li Ye and Ye Mengying standing at the door, because ordinary people would not come to this castle.

"My name is Li Ye, her name is Ye Mengying, and we are from the investigation team of the Special Management Bureau. Li also said and took out his ID and showed it in front of the man.

Hearing this, the man glanced at the criminal police card in Li Ye's hand, and when he saw the words "Investigation Department of the Special Security Administration" written on it, he immediately understood the identities of Li Ye and Ye Mengying.

So the man immediately owed a slight debt to Li Ye and the others, and introduced himself: "It turned out to be a police officer from the Special Management Bureau, two of you, my name is Oliver, and I am Earl Edward's butler." ”

"Mr. Butler, we are here for Count Edward's case, can you take us in now?" said Lee.

"Of course it's no problem, please come with me!" The butler Oliver knew early on that someone from the Special Administration would come, so he came to the gate of the castle to wait for someone, but he didn't expect the person sent by the Special Administration to be so young.

Behind the castle gate is a long corridor, and as far as you can see into the depths, all you can see is pitch black.

The luxuriously translucent black marble floors are spotless, and the long dark red Persian carpet is soft and comfortable to step on.

The corridor is a little dim, because the corridor is lit by oil lamps hanging from the stone walls every few meters, but although the light emitted by these oil lamps is very dim, they are all set with crystal clear diamonds, which is full of luxury.

However, the most eye-catching thing in the whole corridor is the hideous and terrifying demon statues on both sides of the corridor, these statues are either holding sharp blades, or dancing with teeth and claws, or looking up to the sky and roaring, or cold eyes, but all of them are lifelike and intimidating.

Perhaps the atmosphere in the corridor was too gloomy, Ye Mengying, who was following the housekeeper Oliver, unconsciously took two steps closer to Li Ye, lowered his voice and whispered to Li Ye: "Team leader, why is it so dark here!

When Li Ye heard this, he turned his head and glanced at Ye Mengying, he found that Ye Mengying's whole person was tense, looking like he was facing a great enemy, Li couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly, and said with a narrow smile: "This is the castle of the blood clan, if it is not dark, it is really strange." ”

Hearing the teasing meaning of Li Ye's words, Ye Mengying's pink cheeks immediately flushed with two blushes, but she also realized that she might indeed be too sensitive.

The Bloods are almost universally known to be afraid of the sun, and it is no surprise that Edward, as a Bloodline Count, deliberately dimmed his castle.

Passing through the deep corridor, there was a wide hall at the end, but the butler Oliver did not lead Li Ye and the others into the hall, but led them to the stone staircase that spiraled up to the side.

Climbing up the stone staircase to the second floor of the castle, Oliver the butler, finally stopped at the door of one of the largest rooms, past closed doors.

"Officer Li, Officer Ye, this is the master's study, and the master's body is in this room. Oliver, the butler, said in a low voice as he twisted the doorknob and opened the door to the Earl's study.

As soon as the door opened, an unpleasant smell of blood immediately wafted out, and Li Ye and Ye Mengying involuntarily covered their mouths and noses with their hands.

Oliver, the butler, did not seem to rejecting the smell of blood in the room at all, but took a deep breath, and a strange red light flashed in his green eyes.

Although the strange sight in Oliver's eyes was fleeting, it was still noticed by the careful Lee, and he immediately judged that the butler Oliver in front of him should also be a blood clan.

However, Li was not surprised, because the blood clan has always been very xenophobic, and the blood clan believes that the Cain bloodline they have is the most noble blood in the world, so whether it is ordinary humans or other aliens, they are all very contemptuous and repulsive.

Therefore, those who can serve as a butler for a noble Earl of the Blood Clan can naturally only be the people of the Blood Clan themselves.

Casting his gaze into the room, Li also saw a man slumped on a wooden chair.

The man had flowing red hair, pale skin, and deep-set eye sockets, and was very handsome, but the man's dull eyes, as well as the dazzling pool of blood under him, all showed that the man had been dead for a long time.

"Is this Earl Edward?" said Liever, pointing to the male corpse in the room, and asked Oliver, the butler beside him.

"Yes, Officer Lee, this is Lord Earl. Oliver replied as usual, as a butler, he didn't need to show too much grief over Edward's death.

After getting the confirmation of the housekeeper Oliver, Li also took out the shoe covers and gloves that he had prepared before coming out and put them on, and then turned around to beckon Ye Mengying to enter the house with him.

But when he turned his head, he saw Ye Mengying frowning, his white teeth biting his lower lip tightly, and a pair of small hands firmly clenched into fists.

Seeing Ye Mengying's appearance, Li immediately realized that this seemed to be the first time Ye Mengying participated in the homicide investigation, and he should have seen the scene of the murder and suffered an impact in his heart.

Maybe Ye Mengying had seen all kinds of corpses when he was studying at the police academy in the past, and some of them were perhaps more terrifying than the corpse of Count Edward.

But most of those corpses have been dead for a long time, and they have long been lifeless, so the most they bring to people is only a visual shock.

However, the corpses at the murder scene are very different, not only because they have just died, their faces are still lifelike, but more importantly, the corpses are integrated with the environment of the crime scene, which will give people an invisible pressure and a strong sense of oppression.

And for anyone who enters the scene of a murder for the first time, these invisible pressures and feelings of oppression are definitely a great test.

I think that when Li Ye first entered the scene of the murder, his performance was far worse than Ye Mengying.

Li also remembered that his whole body was trembling at that time, but fortunately, he vomited out all the overnight food in one bite.

"Mengying, are you okay?" Li also knew that Ye Mengying must be very uncomfortable at this time, so he couldn't help but cast a concerned look at her.

"I'm fine!" Ye Mengying shook her head stiffly, although Ye Mengying's appearance looked very weak, but her heart was actually very strong, so she didn't want to show her fragile side in front of outsiders.

Of course, Li Ye could also see that Ye Mengying was holding on, and he wanted to let Ye Mengying go aside to rest for a while, but when it came to his lips, it was better to forget it, because if Ye Mengying really wanted to become a qualified police officer of the Special Management Bureau, then there were some things she always had to overcome.

Stepping into the scene of the crime, Lee also went straight to the corpse of Earl Edward, and began to observe it carefully and carefully.

In a homicide, the corpse is the center of the entire scene, and all criminal activities revolve around the corpse, so the clues that can be found from the corpse are also the most.

Earl Edward's corpse hung its head, its hands turned outward, hanging down to its sides, and its body slumped stiffly on the wooden chair, the snow-white shirt on his body was not only turned into a ragged strip of cloth, but also covered with blood.

Li also carefully lifted one of the strips of cloth, and immediately a terrifying wound cut by a sharp blade was exposed, and the completely cracked skin revealed the bright red flesh inside, and even the bones of Bai Sensen could be faintly seen.

Then Li also opened the other pieces of cloth one by one, and finally found that Edward's whole body could be said to be completely skinless, and the horrific wounds were almost all over his body.

I don't know if the murderer has any deep hatred for Edward, or if he has other purposes, and he is so ruthless.

After examining Edward's wounds, Lee walked around Edward's body two more times, as he always felt that Edward's sitting posture seemed a little strange.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Ye immediately thought of something.

Lee also bent down, grabbed one of Edward's arms, and opened the sleeves of his shirt, and sure enough, Lee also found a deep purple bruise on Edward's wrist, as well as some scratches, and Lee also checked Edward's other wrist, and found that it was the same.

Immediately, Li also stood up again, and the doubts in his eyes disappeared, these marks on Earl Edward's hands meant that he should have been tied to this wooden chair before he died, which is why the sitting posture was so strange.

Staring at Edward's corpse for a while, Li Ye couldn't make any new discoveries this time, so he turned around and asked the butler Oliver, "Mr. Butler, do you have surveillance cameras in your castle?"

"Nope. The butler Oliver shook his head, and then he explained: "Because the master thinks that pretending to be a monitor is easy for people to spy on his privacy, so there is no need for that." ”

"That's right!" Steward Oliver's answer made Li also slightly disappointed, but it was normal to think about it, if it wasn't for the death of Earl Edward this time, who would have thought that someone would dare to run to the territory of the blood clan to spread wild.

"And when did you find out that Earl Edward was dead?"

"Probably — a little over five in the morning. Oliver, the butler, looked down and thought for a moment, then replied.

"A little after five in the morning? Is there a more precise time?" said Lee, as he walked away from Edward's body and instead swept his gaze across the room, trying to see if the killer had left the murder weapon at the scene.

"This—I'm afraid I'll have to ask Young Master Dick for this—" Butler Oliver replied with a look of embarrassment.

"Young Master Dick, who is Young Master Dick?" asked Li as well.

After looking around, Li Ye did not find what he was looking for, but this was also expected by Li Ye, after the murderer killed Edward, he actually carefully untied the rope that bound Edward, and took the rope away, such a cautious person, he naturally would not leave such an extremely important clue as the murder weapon.

"Young Master Dick is the adopted son of our Earl. Oliver the butler replied.

"Adopted son?" Li also glanced at Oliver in surprise, and then asked, "I would like to take the liberty of asking how many people usually live in this castle of the earl." ”

"If you count the Count and me, there are nine. ”

"Nine?" and who are the other six, apart from Earl Edward and Mr. Butler, and the young Master Dick you just mentioned?" asked Lee.

"Oh, and the Countess, and Master Liam, the son of the Earl, and the Elder Karl, the Earl's brother, and three of my servants. Oliver the butler replied.

"Mr. Butler, would I like to talk to them all?"

"Okay, Officer Li, then I'll go talk to Madame and Young Master and them now, and let them come over immediately. ”

The butler Oliver said that he turned around and was about to leave, but Li also stopped him, "Mr. Butler, wait, this place is too small, it may be a little inconvenient for so many people, do you want to find a more spacious place." ”

"Oh! Look at my mind, it's still Officer Li's thoughtfulness! Those two officers are busy here now, I'm going to call Madame and them downstairs into the hall. Butler Oliver suddenly covered his forehead with his hand, and then said.

After the housekeeper Oliver left, Ye Mengying finally overcame the discomfort in her heart, carefully put on her shoe covers and gloves and walked into the earl's study.

Then Ye Mengying came to Li Ye, looked at Li Ye with a pair of big watery eyes and asked, "Team leader, what can I do now?"

"Hmm-"

Ye Mengying's question made Li also feel a little headache, because he had never taught a newcomer in the past, so he didn't know what to let Ye Mengying do.

"You, let's see if you can find any clues?" Li also thought seriously for a long time, but in the end he only held back a rather irresponsible sentence.

"Okay, team leader!" Although Li Ye said this sentence as if he didn't say it, Ye Mengying took it seriously, looking at her excited face, it seemed that she was going to do a big job.

Seeing this, Li Ye couldn't help but shake his head, and at the same time sighed secretly in his heart: "Alas!