Chapter 154 Expansion

While William inspected the work of his units, the city of Kalmar was in turmoil.

Alcatio, as well as two of his recognized "generals", were poisoned at the same time, and this vain attempt to catch them all made Alcatio furious.

The next night, Arcatio entered the palace and cried to Norton I.

He deliberately leaned on a cane, and staggered when he walked, just to emphasize in front of Norton I that he was already an old man in his last years.

Norton I was full of sympathy for Alcatio, who was a little older but cried like a child in front of him, at least on the surface, the reason why Alcatio was poisoned and his only son is still lying in a hospital bed is because of his authority.

So when Alcatio asked Norton I to ask for justice for him, Norton I couldn't refuse, so he could only agree and allow him to expand the authority of the investigation bureau led by Chloe, and in addition to the right to investigate, he also obtained the right to judge.

……

At night, a mansion in the aristocratic district of Kalmar City is lit up.

With his hair combed and round-rimmed glasses, and wearing a crisp suit, Chloe held his hands behind his back and watched a group of agents rummaging around the mansion.

The composition of the Investigation Bureau led by Chloe is more complex, with a small number of them coming from William's Morgan Pirates, and the other part composed of the retired members of the kingdom's army and the children of nobles from middle-ranking families.

The common characteristics of these people are that they are loose, greedy, and undisciplined, they say that they are looking for stolen goods, and they act more like speculators, and from time to time there is the sound of broken vases and glasses and other utensils in the mansion, as well as the exclamations of female dependents.

Chloe looked at the baron in front of him with satisfaction, his face was blue and red for a while, he was not a nobleman, so what? As long as he has power, the so-called high-ranking nobles who have been around for a hundred years will not be able to crawl and tremble in front of him, and he will not dare to move?

"My lord," Chloe said slowly, "you better confess, we have received a tip-off that there is a large amount of stolen goods in your manor, and we can find it sooner or later, and the sooner you confess, the less guilty you can be charged." ”

The tall and thin baron was furious: "You pariah, lackey, what do you think you dare to talk to me like this?"

"I'm talking to a suspect right now as the head of the Liquor Smuggling Investigation Bureau," Chloe tilted his head to look at the baron, "you're not convinced?"

The baron glared at Chloe through gritted teeth, then suddenly turned around and ordered a tall and sturdy guard beside him, who had always followed him, "Shoot him to death for me!"

Seeing that the guard hesitated, the baron shouted hysterically: "He's just a pariah, I'm a nobleman, I'm responsible for killing him!"

When the guard heard this, he no longer hesitated, and rushed towards Chloe, who seemed to be weak, and several detectives from the investigation bureau next to him saw this and wanted to step forward to stop him, but they were directly fanned away by the bull-like guards.

Seeing this, several agents of the Investigation Bureau, who had been a few steps slower, slowed down.

Chloe squinted at the guard, and when the other party was about to rush to him, his feet were a little light, and the whole person was already as light as a swallow over the guard's head.

The guard pounced, looking stunned, and his sturdy body took two steps forward under the inertia, and then fell to the ground with a "poof", blood flowed from his throat, and soon stained the carpet under him.

Behind him, as soon as Chloe stretched out his hand, a sharp-eyed agent of the Investigation Bureau had already nodded and trotted forward, handed over a clean handkerchief, and then Chloe wiped the blood stains on a short dagger that appeared in his hand at some point.

"One more crime," Chloe said to the agent next to him, looking disdainfully at the baron, who was staring at the corpse and his body trembling like chaff, "arrest and resist the law." ”

After a while, several agents walked briskly from the direction of the study.

"Director, the stolen goods have been found!" the men gestured to Chloe with a variety of high-end liquors in their hands.

Chloe picked up a bottle of amber mead from one of them, smiled smugly, and shook it at the pale baron, "What else do you have to say now?"

From the beginning of entering this mansion, Chloe was not worried at all about not being able to find alcoholic beverages, the prohibition of alcohol is a law that is not easy to violate for ordinary people in this country, but for the nobles, it is simply a dead letter, in the entire aristocratic district, there is no nobleman's home that can't find alcohol, and even if he can't find it, Chloe can also frame him.

"You, this, I ....... "The baron was sweating profusely, and he didn't know what to say.

On the other side, Chloe had already waved to his subordinates: "Escort this person to me!"

"Wait, I want to see His Majesty, I want to see Arcatio!" said the baron, alarmed.

Clory ignored him, and the two powerful agents of the Bureau of Investigation had already sneered and knocked the baron down and handcuffed him.

When the baron was dragged down like a dead dog, Chloe pulled a small notebook from his bosom.

The notebook was full of the names of the nobles, and Chloe crossed out one of the names with a pen, and it could be seen that several names had also been crossed out on the notebook.

Chloe found a few wine glasses, opened a bottle of mead and poured it, then distributed the wine glasses to several of the men in the room, and took a sip of one of them.

"Lord Baron, you also see what kind of person it is, he hates us, let him come out, there must be revenge, you know how to do it. Chloe said quietly.

Several agents looked at each other and smiled: "What to do, we all know, my lord." ”

"This mansion, since it has no owner, even if it is an ownerless thing, tell the others that you can take two things per person when you leave," Chloe said with a smile as he shook his glass, "not too much, not too little." ”

A group of agents said excitedly when they heard this: "Thank you, sir!"

……

A few hours later, the Chancellor of the Exchequer went to the palace.

Alcatio paced slowly in the reception room, his cane had been thrown to the middle of nowhere, and his steps were so vigorous that he could not see the weakness of the previous cry in front of Norton I.

He pondered, and said to Chloe, who was standing in his hands: "The first problem now is to find the mastermind of the poisoning, the others should not delve too deeply, remember, don't expand the scope of the attack too widely, so that it is easy for the real culprit to escape, and at this stage, we should not make too many enemies." ”

"I understand, don't expand it, don't make too many enemies!" Chloe nodded and said insincerely, "I'll do what you say, don't worry." ”