Section 622: Question 1
If the eleven members of the Eleven Council are divided, then Antoine, the great craftsman, and Eric Wood, the tutor of the Academy, are the same kind of people, who believe that knowledge is the beautiful existence that changes the fate of countless serfs in the world, and they mainly develop members among serfs, freedmen and students, because their status, whether in the council or in the eyes of the nobility, they are the kind of people who will least offend people.
Lagerlof Dendell of the Mage Tower and Todd Spencer the Wizard, like Antoine and Eric, are the kind of people who believe that knowledge is power, but they feel that instead of arming mortals, they should recruit more and better transcendents, so they are responsible for developing members in the mage and wizard community, and to be honest, Marin feels that their results are limited - but in fact, those wizards from ordinary backgrounds agree with their philosophy more than mages.
Pinto Olsson and old Francis preferred to help the farmer, and if the latter did it for granted, Marin wondered why Pinto liked to do so, the old man never mentioned why he did it, but considering his friendship with Francis Sr. for at least fifty years, Marin felt that the old man probably didn't want his old friend to die inexplicably.
After all, Mr. Pinto, although he is an astrologer, is also a wizard.
The Svensson brothers, Stein Mansenheim and Carter Robinson, were hardliners in the Council, and in Marin's view, they were the unstable factors in the Council and a necessary condition for the Council to survive under the noses of the nobility - they had a certain amount of military power, and the other three were nobles except Carter, who was the child of the villagers.
And although Carter is a child of the villager, he grew up in the Church of Justice in his early years, was a paladin, and later joined the army, so he left the church, but the church of justice has always regarded him as its own.
It can be said that if there is really a fight, Carter is the one who responds to the council.
Mendel Eriksson is the assistant priest of the God of War Church, and he is the only council member who develops members in the church, and in addition to the church personnel, he also develops those believers, so Marin feels that if Mendel is shot by someone, there may be no way to find out who shot him.
After all, what this person does is the kind that offends people on many levels.
Considering that Mr. Eric was helpless, Marin sent Eric to the Hospital of Mercy - he wanted to see if anyone else dared to attack Eric, but until he sent Eric to the Hospital of Love, there was no assassin as Marin imagined.
Maybe it was because of Marin's presence that those Assassins felt that it was a very painful thing to have a life to make money and not to spend it, and maybe no Assassin would have thought of killing his accomplices who came to see the doctor - after all, this was at the gate of the Hospital of Love, which was said to be the gate of the Hospital of Mercy that would not die as long as there was still a breath.
Following the road map Eric had drawn for himself, Marin came to the scene of the assassination.
This is the exit of an alley, very close to the Church of the God of War, which is a short road between the barracks and the church, Mendel's assistant priests have been active in the barracks lately - many of the believers of the Church of Mars are soldiers, and during Marin's time in the barracks, Mendel often entered the barracks under the guise of preaching and comforting the soldiers, in addition to actually doing so, but also to develop those who are unbelievers among the soldiers as believers, and to advise the soldiers to join Northernism.
Arriving at the scene, Marin revealed his identity and entered the warning area, and the first thing he saw was Jin Haocheng and Harriel Duboa.
Mr. Harrier's nose was much better, and his whole body no longer smelled of the headache of alcohol, and the most satisfying thing was that he finally stood up straight, and he was no longer the sad drunken appearance he had before.
"Your Excellency Marlin, what wind brought you here?" Officer Haocheng stretched out his hand to shake Marin's hand.
"Hello, Officer Hocheng, I'm here to find out how Mr. Mendel was assassinated." Marin finished speaking, and turned his head to look at Officer Harrier, who was surveying the scene.
"We've just arrived, and we've been here before Harold Sheringham, the police officer in charge of the district." After Officer Haocheng finished speaking, he introduced Officer Harold to Marin, this officer is a standard northerner, and as soon as this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes shook hands with Marin, he began to introduce the situation to him.
Mendel went out of the city this morning to the barracks, as the guards and peddlers at the gate can testify, and when he returned, he also walked through the city gate, as evidenced by the large head of a company that went into the city with Mendel on vacation to drink.
They parted on the other side of the alley, and Mendel walked into the alley, apparently preparing to return to church.
Then, when he was out of the alley, he was shot black by the assassin who was ambushed at the alleyway.
"The murderer used a revolver, and when the Church's Guardian Knight heard the gunshot, Mr. Mendel had already fallen in a pool of blood, and he was sent to the Church of Love, so there were a lot of footprints at the scene, and there would be no way to find the murderer's footprints for a while, and because there were too many people, it was impossible to trace back, and the murderer was a veteran...... But we collected four shells on the ground, and it didn't look like it was only four shots, and we guessed that the killer was using an old revolver, the four-shot nest kind, which was enough for my grandfather in terms of age. Speaking of this, Officer Harold, who was over half a hundred years old, shook his head: "Judging from the blood stains on the ground, I am afraid that Your Excellency Mendel will not survive tonight." ”
"There was a lot of bleeding, and we suspect that it may have touched the liver area, although His Excellency Mendel has lost some weight, and the bullet may have come out without rolling in the body, but if it hurts important organs, death is almost certain." Officer Haocheng added.
This made Marin frown - the killer was well-trained, and there were no confirmable clues left other than those few bullet casings.
Marin looked at the shells again and found a problem - the shells looked like they were reloaded.
This makes it even more difficult to find a target - reloading ammunition is becoming popular these days, whether it is a nobleman or a big-headed soldier, they like to make their own reloading ammunition and don't know why they like it, aristocrats like mood, that's for sure.
Why the big heads like it, Marin really doesn't understand, maybe it's because ...... Cost issues?
But it shouldn't be, the bullets of the big heads can be reimbursed.
So, in this way, is it a special warhead?
In Marin's opinion, since the assassins came prepared, they would definitely target Mendel's characteristics, so he looked at the officers: "How is your Excellency Mendel's technique and combat skills?" ”
"Your Excellency Mendel's technique is not good, it would be good if he could shoot a light technique, but his combat skills are very good, when he was young, he was a great swordsman, and then after he injured his leg, he began to use a revolver, and he is the best of our marksmanship in Copenhagen." Officer Harold shook his head when he said this: "The murderer must have come prepared, His Excellency Mendel is not young anymore, the murderer sneaked up on him, the first shot should have hit him in the chest and abdomen, because there were bullets hitting the wall, and there were traces of blood spraying out." ”
With Officer Harold's introduction, Marin and the two officers worked together to reconstruct the situation.
His Excellency Mendel was assassinated after walking out of the alley, in other words, he did not notice the Assassin, but the Assassins had noticed him, otherwise he would not have been able to launch a surprise attack on him at the entrance of the alley.
In other words, there was his accomplice across the street, who was responsible for not only observing the situation in the alley, but also informing the Assassins of the presence of their target, and finally helping the killer to observe the situation on the side of the church...... There are also their men on the other side of the gate, and I'm sure the murderer and observer will only activate if Lord Mendel is found on the other side of the gate.
The killer was wielding an old-fashioned revolver, a staggering number of them, which had been made countless before the Marlin Workshop was established - dwarves, humans, halflings, and even some elven craftsmen, and it was impossible to count how many of them there were.
So it is impossible to recover from weapons.
As for the bullet, because it is a reloading bullet, the cartridge case and the warhead are not matched, and it also cuts off the situation of finding the target from the bullet from one side, and at present, the target can be found from the warhead and the cartridge case separately, but considering that the other party is so cautious in the use of firearms, Marin feels that the cartridge case should also be a mass product, as for the warhead...... Marin has never seen the real thing, and he doesn't dare to make a conclusion, but considering that the murderer is so meticulous, there should be no mistakes in the warhead.
What a tough opponent to deal with.
In short, the killer fired four shots at Mendel, the first shot penetrated his body, the bullet hit the wall and then landed somewhere.
After Mendel fell, he shot him three more times as if he were executed, which can be regarded as a supplementary knife.
With the caliber of the revolver, Mendel had been shot four times, and there was almost no chance of survival, even if the Church of Mercy had a potion donated by Marin, and he had asked Eric to bring two World Tree Fruit Elixirs, but if he had died before that...... Namarin was at the scene, but he was afraid that he couldn't save him.
I hope that Mendel's transcendent sequence has the extraordinary ability to strengthen the body, and I hope that the murderer did not hold Mendel's head on fire.
However, considering that the person was sent to the Hospital of Love, the head of Lord Mendel should still work.
So, now the question is to find a random warhead.
Marin was still thinking about divination about where the warhead had flew, when he heard Officer Harrier's cry of surprise.
"I found the bullet!"
Marin, Ho Cheng, and Harold looked at the man together and saw that he was holding the bullet.
"It's a long warhead produced by our northern military factory, with a magic array."
Harrier seems to have recognized the origin of the bullet.
This filled Marin's heart with despair - long warheads, like the Four Nest revolvers, were existences that could be the grandfather of Officer Harold.
Detection is at an impasse, Marlin.