The relationship between the nobles can be said to be very complicated, even if they are friends of the same camp, many times they can't and can't help unconditionally.

A nobleman will help another nobleman, simply because it is profitable, or because he is ready to play a big game.

Just as Jeremiah will get a piece of the pie on the condition that he will participate when he learns that Kara needs manpower, even if the two have a good relationship at school, they will not help in vain.

And if Ann can really find the mastermind behind the assassination of Jeremiah, this evidence will become a big political bargaining chip, and Duke Winifred can use this to threaten the other party to be obedient, back down in many key positions, and so on.

After all, although assassination is common among the nobility, it cannot be said in plain sight.

And Kara, who provided this evidence, will naturally have the support of Duke Winifred, at least after this matter reaches the ears of her cold-faced father, she doesn't have to worry about being dragged into marriage for the time being.

If you think about it this way, the benefits of pursuing this matter are more reliable than catching a serial killer, the latter of which brings only fame and merit, while the latter is a real benefit.

It's just that the success rate of tracking down this matter is very low.

The only evidence in his hand was the Imperial Sapphire, the Assassin's Hidden Arrows, and the crossbow arrows fired by the Hidden Arrows.

And he can see these clues, how can the local nobles not see it? They also have a lot of subordinates at home, and they can get this information by asking their subordinates who are proficient in weapons, but if you follow the information, you basically can't tell who it is.

As Carla said, a proper assassination plan will definitely completely destroy all evidence related to the plan before it is executed, and even if it leaves clues, I am afraid it will be used to cause trouble.

An Yizhi also said that he wanted to check this, but he just felt that it might be the main task, and by the way, he would kill this leisure time before the emperor's permission.

However, after the two of them left the Duke of Winifred's palace, a magical communication from the guard disrupted the plan.

Another homicide occurred.

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According to the guards, the murderer's modus operandi is the same as the serial killer they blocked in the sewer, and because they were worried about whether the serial killer would find a way out of the sewer, they asked Ann to point them over and take a look.

The scene of the crime is not too far from the Duke of Winifred's mansion, and it won't take more than ten minutes for Carla and Ann to walk there, so it's better to stop by and see.

To find out the true identity of the person behind the assassin, the success rate is really not high enough.

The location of the crime was on a commercial street, and it was impossible to hide it anyway, so the police simply pulled a fairly wide blockade line this time. An Yizhi and Carla took a rickshaw to the place to take a look, it was a typical small shop, the second and third floors were occupied, and the first floor was open.

And Anyi, who was standing at the door, pointed to the sign of the store, which read 'Ophelia Magic Consumables Store'.

Wait a minute, it seems a little familiar!

Ann pointed out the business card given by the middle-aged man he met on the train earlier, which was also written on Ophelia's magic consumables store.

Coincidental...... Or was the system arranged from the start?

It feels like the latter is more likely, after all, what this bad system likes most about is the dungeon generation method that gives the player three pits in one step, and it is likely that from the moment you enter the dungeon, it is implied that the family has something to do with the mission.

It's just a pity that the sweet-mouthed little girl left a pretty good impression on An Yizhi.

Shaking his head, Ann tossed away her useless sympathy and followed Kara into the store.

The guards had been spotting here for a while, and had just been unable to reach Carla because she was in Duke Winifred's Mansion, where magical communications were blocked, and only wired communications were available.

"The deceased is a husband and wife, they run this magic consumables store, according to the entry and exit records, they just got out of the car and came back this afternoon, and the time of the crime should have been shortly after they entered the house. The first discoverer was an adventurer who had agreed to pick up the goods at the appointed time, and he saw that the boss had not opened the store at the appointed time, so he went around the back door to check if anyone was at home, only to find that the boss and his wife had fallen in a pool of blood. ”

The door of the store is the kind of roller shutter that is common in shops, and there is a wooden door behind the roller shutter, and the guards said that when they entered, including the roller shutter, they were locked and there was no sign of opening of any abnormal doors, and even all the doors and windows did not show any signs of abnormal opening.

The guards were telling Kara about the case, and Ann listened casually and continued inside.

Skipping the busy blue vests, you can see rows of shelves full of magic consumables, such as cheap magic gems, herbs used as alchemical concoctions, and demonic beast blood.

The price of these things is not too high, and it is a small profit.

Walking inside, the things that are placed in the tighter glass windows are relatively valuable, such as magic gems such as fire agate, but this kind of small store is unlikely to stock particularly good gems, even if there is a way, there is no capital to buy, even if the gems are carefully kept, most of the value is medium and low, this kind of gem is placed on Clark's side he can't look at.

However, this gem is also a common thing used by serial killers, and the guards suspect that the gems used by serial killers to commit crimes recently came from this temporarily closed shop, and the couple who ran this shop were killed because the serial killers were bumped into by them when they just entered the house when they secretly came to get gems, so they decided to kill people.

Continue to walk forward, and you will arrive at the counter, where there are also many guards busy with work.

Because of the guards' guesses, they are counting the number of books and goods in this store, and if it matches the number of gems thrown by the serial killer at the scene of the crime, the nature can basically be determined.

An Yizhi also saw the victim on the ground near the counter.

She was the wife of the family she met on the train, lying on her side, lying on her side and lying on her head by the murderer, with a piercing wound on her chest, and the shape of a cross-shaped blade.

Ann pinched the joints with her fingers, she was already stiff, and a lot of the blood on the floor had coagulated, most likely as the guards guessed, the time of death was shortly after she returned home after separating from the train station with An Yizhi.

Seeing someone he knows die in front of him is a little uncomfortable, and the same is true for An Yizhi, after all, he is still a person.

It's not about character, it's purely human nature.

The good thing is that human beings have reason in addition to their nature.

He casually looked at the corpse and turned to the other side.

Where, behind a shelf, the corpse of a man leaned against the wall, his body arranged in a comical grimace. Ironically, there is also an oil painting above his head that depicts the portrait of the world's only goddess, Saviara.

The Goddess's loving gaze scanned all this, calmly watching the events unfold.

Overall, although the deceased was somewhat unpleasant that he knew someone, the situation was similar to what the guards had guessed, and the account was likely to be counted on the serial killer.

But An Yizhi felt a little abnormal.

Or that the crime scene was too normal, and this normality made An Yizhi feel more like he was being photographed.

So he went around and went back to Kara and said to the guards:

"Can you show me the account books of this store?"

The guards looked at Kara, who nodded, and then said:

"Okay, but you can't take it away, we haven't finished comparing the goods yet"

An Yizhi didn't plan to take it away, he just felt that if a store owner who didn't recruit anyone and didn't provoke anyone was estimated to be killed by a serial killer, there should be some clues in the goods he took over.

There are a lot of ledgers, and An Yizhi only took the latest ledger to look through, because this ledger has been compared by the people of the guard.

The bookkeeping method of this store is different from that of an ordinary ledger, or rather, it is more like a running account.

For example, what was purchased today and how much money was spent. Another example is what is sold, how much it costs, and how much is the profit.

The record is indeed clear, but it is too fluid and not easy to manage. This is also an important reason why it takes a long time for the people of the guard to compare the ledger with the goods in the store.

An Yizhi casually flipped through a few pages and found that this store also provided ordering services in addition to dealing in magic consumables.

This is also one of the standard services of the magic consumables store, the production of many consumables can not be guaranteed to be stable, plus the value is different, customers sometimes want what kind of goods, there is no stock, many are after paying the deposit, the boss goes to buy back the order.

And by observing the types of orders, An Yizhi saw that most of them were orders for gemstones, and perhaps this boss had a wide network of contacts in gemstones, and could get gems that other shopkeepers couldn't get.

"Huh? How many pages are missing? ”

If you look closely, you can see that the ledger from about a week ago is missing a page.

"It may be that the customer canceled the order, and the boss tore it up for the convenience of the record"

What Carla is talking about is indeed a possibility, and quite a few shop owners are doing it. If you continue to flip back, you can see the occasional tear off.

But the difference is that the order that was torn off a week ago is still very new, as if it had just been torn up.

So Ann Yizhi took out the white paper and pencil bought from the grocery store from his dimensional pocket, spread it on the ledger, and blackened it little by little with the pencil, hoping to see the remaining handwriting.

The ledger is written with a fountain pen, and writing will leave certain traces, but the traces are far less clear than those of a ballpoint pen.

However, An Yizhi's efforts were not in vain, he saw a large pile of blurred handwriting on the blackened white paper, and the only one that was relatively clear was one word.

- Imperial Blue.