Chapter 40: Mother and Daughter Assassins
Jiang Weihan squatted down, showed his kindest smile, and asked the cute little girl, "Alice, who is your mother?" β
Alice held out her little finger and pointed not far away at a woman who was looking at her with encouraging eyes. She carried a fruit basket full of identical apples. Seeing Jiang Weihan looking over, she bowed slightly to him with gratitude and humility.
Jiang Weihan saw that several nearby workers were also eating apples, and guessed that this beautiful woman should be from among the refugees.
He nodded his gratitude to Alice's mother from afar, and then took the red apple from Alice's hand.
"Thank you, Alice, and thank you Mom!" Jiang Weihan said with a smile. Then he pulled into his pocket, and there seemed to be a few pieces of candy in it, which were Lux's usual snacks. He took it all out and put it in Alice's palm, "This is a gift for you!" β
Alice took the candy and laughed happily, revealing two small dimples, which were very cute: "Thank you, Uncle Lord!" β
"Just call me uncle."
Alice peeled one open and put it in her mouth: "What a delicious candy!" Uncle, why don't you eat apples? It's delicious, we grow it in our own orchard. β
"Eat it, eat it." Jiang Weihan picked up the apple and was about to nibble on it, when the angel came over and reminded in a low voice: "Lord Commander, this apple has not been tested yet. β
"It's okay, if others can eat, I can eat too!" Jiang Weihan took a bite without care.
Alice's mother called her softly, and Alice politely said goodbye to him, and then hopped back to her mother, and continued to take the apples her mother had given her, and gave them to the resting workers around her, who seemed very welcome.
"What a scene of harmony." Jiang Weihan sighed. When he had finished his stroll, he walked back contentedly to see what had happened to Sinjid's return.
This apple tastes pretty good. He thought as he ate.
When he returned, he saw the familiar face of Sinjid. Kyle didn't seem to want to be alone with this guy, so he nodded to Jiang Weihan outside to say hello. Let Jiang Weihan walk in alone.
An eye-seeming smile appeared on the alchemist's face: "Your Excellency, Commander! β
"Welcome back, Singid!" Jiang Weihan greeted warmly. Now that this is an important chemist, a high-end technical talent, and a key researcher in overcoming the plague, Jiang Weihan must give him enough courtesy. Although his actions do seem crazy.
"Commander, we are having trouble in Stratholme." Singid succinctly described their work.
When Jiang Weihan heard that they had made an antidote to the poison/medicine part, he was now just trapped in finding a strong repulsive neutralizer that could neutralize the holy water, or find a substitute for the holy water, which would perfectly solve the threat of the plague.
"This is already encouraging news. I believe that it will not be long before we will defeat the plague! Jiang Weihan felt that it seemed inappropriate to talk about business while eating apples, so he put the half-eaten apples in his hand on the plate. Let me think about it, what can be a substitute for holy water......"
Sinjid glanced at the apple, then picked it up and sniffed it, then took a bite, and under Jiang Weihan's surprised gaze, he showed a strange smile:
"Your Excellency, I have another good news and a bad news for you, which one are you going to hear first?"
For the first time, Jiang Weihan found out that alchemy was also so "naughty": "It's bad." β
"The bad news: congratulations, Commander, this apple is poisonous!"
Jiang Weihan's heart sank, and he was a little flustered, ordinary people were told by a poison/medicine master that they were poisoned, and their first reaction was definitely the same.
He nervously asked, "And what about the good news?" Do you have an antidote? β
"It's a pity," Singid's opening calmed Jiang Weihan, and then he made an unusually stern expression, "You guessed it! β
"Scared the hell out of me!" Jiang Weihan exhaled. He thought of the mother and son who had just given him the apple, and he had no idea that someone who seemed so kind could have such ulterior motives. "There are still a lot of people on the construction site who have eaten apples, how many antidotes have you brought?"
"If it's like you, it's enough for ten people." Sinjid didn't use a teasing tone anymore, but replied seriously.
Jiang Weihan frowned slightly, there were definitely twenty or thirty apples in that woman's basket, and if each of them was poisonous, someone would inevitably die because of it.
"Kyle, come in!" Jiang Weihan beckoned outside, and then Kyle came in at his behalf, her ears sensitive enough to hear their conversation just now.
"Let Captain Chris of the SWAT team bring everyone who has eaten apples here, and then please go and see if the mother and son are still here."
"Okay, Commander." Kyle takes the order and leaves. But in fact, long before Jiang Weihan gave the order, she had already ordered Zhixin and Yan to do these things. Kyle was a little dissatisfied in his heart, but he didn't expect that she just left Jiang Weihan on the front foot for a while, and such a thing happened. It looks like her two left and right hands are a bit derelict in their duties.
Sinjid then took the antidote from himself, which had been packed in a test tube beforehand. Jiang Weihan immediately thought: "Could it be that the poison/medicine in the apple ......?"
"That's right, it's the poison/medicine part of the plague virus." Sinjid confirmed his guess, "The whole plague venom will have some sweet smell and will be easily detected by those with keen senses, while the pure poison/medicine part will be almost impossible to detect, and with an onset time of more than three hours, it would be great to use it for poisoning!" β
"It's really hard to guard." Jiang Weihan drank the antidote prepared by Xinjide. It's better to be in a hurry than to be in a hurry, who came to poison him, and happened to meet a poison/drug expert returning from a distance, with an antidote specially designed to restrain the poison/drug. "Looks like I'm going to have to be a little more careful in the future."
At this time, Angel Blaze came over with SWAT Captain Chris, and Kyle followed.
As soon as Zhixin came in, he knelt down on one knee and said, "I'm sorry, Commander, it's all because of my dereliction of duty that I caused your poisoning." I am willing to be punished! β
"No, no, no, you reminded me, I was too unvigilant, it's all my fault. I will listen to you in the future, get up quickly! Jiang Weihan quickly pulled her up and explained to Kyle by the way, "When that little girl gave me the apple, she kindly reminded me that I ate it anyway, don't blame her!" β
Kyle nodded, agreeing.
Chris said, "Commander, my men told me that my mother and son left the city shortly after you left. People in the neighborhood said they had been in the city the day before yesterday, claiming to be small landowners of an orchard in the countryside. Her man was previously a Union soldier serving in Dunhold, who died in a raid by the orcs. Out of the desire to repay the kindness, he sent the fruit of his family here. According to our analysis, this was a premeditated operation, and the SWAT team applied to search for and arrest them. β
Jiang Weihan said: "I agreed. Let the Screaming Serpent pilots outside the city scout for you, they shouldn't have gone far. If you haven't found it in an hour, you don't have to keep searching, understand? β
"Yes, Commander!" Chris saluted, then turned and went out to carry out the order.
Angel Hiko and several SWAT officers brought over other people who had eaten apples one after another. Sinjid went up to examine them and found that four other people had also been poisoned. And others are fine. In this way, there is no need to worry about the lack of antidotes.
"That's good news," Jiang Weihan did smile, "It shows that Wayne's instincts are right, our old rival is indeed hiding in a corner around us." β
It is clear that the plague virus is now only available in Kel'thugad. And only this guy has a grudge against Jiang Weihan. He guessed that the guy in the ice cube in the Ice Crown had revealed something to Kel'thugad.
Jiang Weihan carefully thought back to the cute little girl who gave him the apple, she looked like she was only five years old, and she was so innocent, how could she be an assassin? Or is it only her mother who is an assassin and she's just an unwitting executor?
Letting such a young girl be an assassin, Jiang Weihan couldn't imagine how ruthless that mother was.
But soon Jiang Weihan realized that his idea was too simple.
Because his poisoning was discovered so quickly, less than ten minutes had passed since he got the apple, so when the SWAT chased out of the city, the Demacian soldiers guarding the city gate told them that the mother and son had been gone for less than five minutes.
The soldiers of the Demacian reconnaissance battalion then followed the SWAT officers, and the yodel pilots of the Screaming Snake of the Flying Force guided the air in helicopters, and the mother and son were quickly found.
"Stand still and surrender! You have nowhere to run! Captain Chris rode wildly across the wilderness on a SWAT motorcycle, and the other SWAT officers quickly closed up with the help of cavalry.
The mother and son galloped wildly for a while, and found that the speed and endurance of humans were completely incomparable to that of war horses and locomotives, and the mother made a ruthless move: she shook off the little girl Alice's hand and pushed her to the ground, and ran with all her strength on her own. With less of this "burden", her speed has indeed improved a lot.
When Chris realizes that the order is useless, he orders the SWAT officers to shoot. It's just that on a crazy motorcycle, there is no accuracy in shooting, only deterrence. A knight stayed, and he jumped off his horse and walked over to the little girl Alice, who was as cute as a Barbie doll, sitting on the ground and crying loudly.
"What a cruel mother." The knight of Demacia sighed with emotion and stretched out his hand to the little girl, "Little girl, come to me, good!" β
Little Alice stood up crying, took the knight's hand, and asked timidly, "Shall we go after my mother?" β
"No, let's go to the city, and your mother will be waiting for you there." The knight replied. When the air force reached the front to form an encirclement, the female assassin would have no way to escape, and he was not wrong to say so.
"Well, thank you, uncle!" Alice burst into tears and laughed. The knight lifted her back to the horse, and then rode herself on the stirrups. As he grasped the reins and prepared to turn his horse's head back to the city, a sudden pain in his chest caused him to let go of his hand weakly.
The knight bowed his head in disbelief and watched as the dagger in the little girl's hand pierced his heart: "You...... You ......"
Alice pushed the knight down, and she rode her horse in the opposite direction, and she looked mockingly at the corpse of the knight on the ground: "What a naΓ―ve fool! β
She rode her steed and galloped, when suddenly an unusual shadow appeared above her head, and she tried to tilt her neck back, and then found an angel in full armor pounced......
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