Chapter 9: Surprised?
Su Xiao walked out of the main gate of the Holy Court, and at this time he had a knighthood hanging on his chest, a duke's honor!
As soon as Su Xiao walked down the steps, the imperial soldiers on both sides of the road all raised their weapons in their hands, and all knelt on one knee, their armor colliding, full of momentum.
This kind of scene is also one of the reasons why people pursue power, no matter where they go, there are people who are in awe, and some people kneel on the ground.
Su Xiao walked along the Yong Road, followed by Bubuwang, Eminem, and Baha.
As soon as we reached the end of the road, a carriage was parked with the moon wolf emblem on it, and the door was open.
"We hate the old guy, but we also believe in his vision."
Li Lin was sitting in the carriage, this upright duke, no matter what time it was, always focused on the overall situation.
Lao Yin is not necessarily a bad person, such as Duke Li Lin, he is extremely ruthless when he does things, but most of the things he does are for the people and the empire, as for sometimes selfish desires, who will have no selfish desires at all?
There is a saying in the city of Arans that without the Duke of Lirin, the empire would have lost hope completely.
Even, more than 30% of the officials will support Duke Li Lin as the Holy King, as for the remaining 70% of the imperial officials, they have long been rotten.
Su Xiao got into the carriage, this time Baha glared at Eminem, Eminem sat beside the coachman with some grievances, the coachman trembled, wanted to say something, but didn't dare to say it.
The carriage sped away from the city of Arans, pulled by two unicorns, far faster than rhinoceros.
In 20 minutes at most, the carriage leaves the city of Arans, and in about half an hour, it arrives at a vineyard where the Duke of Fury Lion was killed.
The 'White Winery' has been surrounded by soldiers, conservatively estimated to be tens of thousands of soldiers, some small officials or wealthy businessmen, some are gathering together, and some are already crying.
These people cried from the bottom of their hearts, not because of how deep their friendship with the Duke of the Angry Lion was, but because after spending a lot of money to buy off the relationship, the Duke of the Angry Lion died, which is equivalent to nothing, some of them will go bankrupt in a short time, and some will be removed from their official positions.
The soldiers made way for Su Xiao's carriage to pass, and as soon as the carriage passed, the soldiers hugged together again and blocked the winery layer by layer.
The carriage stopped, and as soon as Su Xiao stepped out of the carriage, he smelled a faint sour smell, and on the grape trellis not far away, the stems of the grape vines were dry, and the bunches of grapes were grayish-white.
Someone ingests the vitality of plants in the vicinity in a short period of time and converts this vitality into a hallucinogenic gas, which will have a sour taste before it completely dissipates.
Su Xiao stood in front of the grape trellis and observed for a moment, and with his combat experience, he could judge a lot of things.
Following the gravel road of the winery, Su Xiao arrived at an ancient castle, which had been weathered for some years, showing beautiful stone patterns.
The main entrance of the castle was wide open, and a figure was lying in the door, dressed as a maid.
Su Xiao stepped forward and immediately judged that the maid was not dead, but was just stunned, this style of acting, Su Xiao immediately thought that the assassin did not want to kill innocents indiscriminately, and was even willing to take extra risks for this.
Su Xiao's hand pressed on the back of the maid's neck, the maid's neck bone was not broken, and it was not even in place, judging from the degree of damage to the subcutaneous soft tissues, the enemy's hand was not big.
Based on the size of this hand, the height of the enemy is about 157~163cm, and the weight does not exceed 50 kg, female.
Su Xiao could only judge these, and Bu Buwang stepped forward and sniffed.
"Wang."
"Roses?"
Su Xiao frowned, the current season of the empire is August, and the roses are in full bloom in May~June, how could a female assassin apply flowers and spices on her body? Or rather, she touched it by accident.
Women, who have been in and out of places where pollen and spices are applied, have a slight deviation in the direction of the blow, and there is a high probability that there is a waist injury, which affects the balance of force of the whole body.
Su Xiao not only thought in his mind that a female assassin who had been injured was hiding in a brothel somewhere in the city of Arans to recuperate from her injuries, and before the operation, she had stained a prostitute with spices made of roses.
"Kukulin, don't stand in our way."
Lady Moon Wolf winked at Su Xiao, but Su Xiao didn't speak, but walked towards the ancient castle.
As soon as he entered the door of the tasting room of the ancient castle, Su Xiao smelled a strong smell of blood.
Pushing open the door of the tasting room, a brutal scene appears.
A very strong corpse was hoisted, with a dozen holes in his chest, not blasted out, but by some sharp weapon digging out pieces of flesh and organs.
This was the Duke of the Angry Lion, whose head had also been cut out of a hole, and a large piece of his skull had been ripped out.
Su Xiao stood diagonally below the corpse and observed for a while, basically restoring the battle scene.
Duke Angry Lion stayed here last night, this is an extremely good drinking man, he wanted to have a drink this morning, but he was paralyzed by the poison in the wine so that he couldn't move, there were 2 assassins, a man and a woman, the man was responsible for the assassination, and the woman was responsible for putting down the servants around him.
These two points were done almost at the same time, so it can be judged that the two assassins were familiar with the winery, and in order to assassinate the Duke of the Angry Lion, they even did not hesitate to hide here for a few months, or even longer, and gain the most basic trust of the Duke of the Angry Lion, so that he could easily poison the wine.
"Duke Lilin, if I guessed correctly, there are two assassins, a man and a woman, they are servants in the winery, or laborers, at least they have been working in the winery for more than a few months, the two of them will not have much contact on weekdays, the male is thin, the woman has left the winery recently, and there are injuries, if they are dead soldiers, they will still stay in the winery, and wait for the other dukes to arrive, that is, wait for you and me to arrive, if it is not a dead soldier, after they are successfully assassinated, there is a high probability that they will hide in the ......"
After Su Xiao briefly explained the situation, Duke Li Lin's eyes were full of doubts.
"In that case, I'll send someone to search."
Duke Li Lin politely replied that in fact, he did not think that it would be so easy to find the assassin.
However, a few minutes later, there was a roar outside the castle, which turned into a loud bang.
"It looks like a dead man."
With a wave of Su Xiao's hand, he threw out a small piece of ceramic shard, and the hemp rope hanging from the Duke of Angry Lion broke, and the corpse fell to the ground with a pop.
Hurried footsteps were heard, and several soldiers rushed into the castle through the main entrance, all armed with long weapons, seven long weapons piercing and erecting the body of a woman, who was already on the verge of death.
And around the woman's waist, there was a blood-stained bandage, and this was the female assassin.
"How, maybe, why."
The female assassin muttered in her mouth, she was already extremely weak, she still had three sharp cones inserted in her body, restricting her from manipulating the energy in her body, she couldn't figure out whether she was alive or dead, why she had laid out the plan for half a year, and she was recognized as soon as she was halfway through it, and even knew their physical signs, and even worse, she knew that she was injured.
With blood on her face and a dull look in her eyes, the female assassin was convinced that there must be a ghost inside, otherwise this would never have happened.
Li Lin and Lady Moon Wolf turned their eyes at the same time and looked at Su Xiao, Li Lin was still serious, but his ugly face showed how bad his mood was at this time.
Thinking about it, Li Lin and Mrs. Moon Wolf had just restrained an old fox, but who knew that at the moment, an even more terrifying guy was released, and the assassin was pulled out in less than 10 minutes.