This is also the fact that the Rose Kingdom expanded more strongly in the early years, so it borders many old religion countries, which is why it has suffered from unwarranted disasters.

In fact, the territory of the Rose Kingdom also has four-fifths of the total territory of these six countries, and the population is also seven-tenths of its total population, and in terms of high-end cultivators, it is not weak at all, as for low-level cultivators, there is already a steam musket at this time, even ordinary people can shoot apprentice-level or even elite-level cultivators with steam muskets. It's just that because the border line is very long, there are not so many troops to defend, so the Kingdom of Roses made a selective abandonment and began to defend some large cities.

and actively mobilized troops from the royal capital in order to break the situation, which also led to the lack of garrison strength in the royal capital, which was extremely empty, giving those cultists an opportunity to take advantage of.

This attack came from six sides, so the queen had no need to personally conquer the capital, and personally sat in the capital to coordinate the overall situation, but only one-tenth of the royal guards were left, that is, one hundred, and the city guards were only one thousand, and the entire capital was extremely empty. And the queen was not aware of this, although some ministers had reminded her, but since she was sensible, nothing major had happened in the capital, and her preconceived notions made her think that the capital was very safe.

However, the minister who reminded him also thought that this was a small probability event, and seeing that the queen didn't care, he didn't dig into it himself. This also led to these cultists walking in the shadows seeing an opportunity and committing several murders.

The beginning of all the events in the capital also stemmed from these murders.

The murder occurred in the outer city, which was a relatively normal thing at the time, and Su Ling looked for several posts on the forum because he was more interested in this matter, although he did not find the final result, because he and his master had just met when this incident happened. Luckily, his master was a member of the royal family, because he felt that Su Ling was very similar to his deceased son, and had an extraordinary talent in swordsmanship, so he taught him the Rose Sword Technique.

And his deceased son was one of the deceased in the outer city (of course, he didn't know that his son had passed away at that time), and Su Ling, who had the news, was ready to help his son.

However, it is still necessary to understand what stage of development things have been, and after school in the afternoon, ignoring his classmates, he came to the outer city alone.

First of all, he needs to find a sheriff named Ryan, who is the first person to take over these cases, and has found a trace of the cult, but his report is not taken seriously because of insufficient evidence.

Now Su Ling needs to find this person and see how many murders have taken place.

So Su Ling "encountered" the sheriff in a tavern in the outer city, and when they first met, the other party was still in a daze, and he didn't even move the wine in front of him.

"Hello, Sergeant Lane, I'm Su Ling, a detective, may I sit here?" Su Ling walked up to Ryan with a smile and asked.

He's already investigated this Sheriff Lane, and he's still friendly to the detective.

"Hello, Mr. Detective, please take a seat, have you heard about the last few murders? However, the police did not give a bounty for this, which may be the reason why the victims are poor people......"

"It's not important, I'm not keen on bounties." Su Ling said with a smile, "I'm here for the case, doesn't Sheriff Ryan think these cases are strange?" ”

"It's strange to say strange things, I've been thinking about it just now." Sergeant Ryan nodded, "This is a serial murder case, it can be seen from the scene of the killing, the death posture of the deceased is very special, normal people will not have such a posture after death, it must be the murderer himself." ”

"Moreover, the hearts of these deceased people are gone, which also allows us to judge that the murderer is an extremely murderous person, so even if there is no bounty, the chief feels that this case needs to be solved by a certain amount of police force. If Mr. Su Ling can help, I can give you some honorarium privately, but it won't be too much. Sheriff Lane said, because he didn't have a clue about these cases.

"No, I said I was here for the case, didn't you remember something about the strange death scene?" Su Ling asked with a hint of suggestiveness.

Because under normal progress, Ryan had this suspicion.

"Wait, are you saying it's a cult?" Listening to Su Ling's hint, Ryan had an idea, "If it's a cult, it's really possible, it is said that some cultist murder cases that have occurred in other places will be arranged very strangely." However, this is the first time such an incident has happened in the royal capital, and the queen is on top, which is not a bit unlikely. ”

"No, it's entirely possible, because of the war." Ryan was still very sharp, and he reacted on his own, dragging his chin into deep thought.

Su Ling smiled and said nothing, waiting for his next step.

"If that's the case, then the matter in the outer city must be taken seriously, but I can't say that it was done by cultists based on the situation of the corpse alone, and some conclusive evidence must be found." Ryan said to Su Ling.

"That's right." Su Ling nodded, "I came to you for this matter, I'm investigating some things, some things about cultists." I was aware of the possibility of cultists in Kyoto, and that there had been such murders, so I speculated that the cultists I tracked down must have done it, so I found you. ”

"I need the help of the police now, and I think we can cooperate." Su Ling smiled and stretched out his hand.

"Of course, it's a pleasure to cooperate with you, Mr. Su Ling, so what are we going to do next, do we want to see the situation on the scene or have a drink first?" Ryan asked.

"Tell me about the case first, as for the scene, I can already guess it." Su Ling asked the waiter to serve a glass of wine and said to Ryan.

"That's right, I don't want to go to such a bloody place anymore, if you see too much of the scene, it will really be mentally polluted. In that case, I'll tell you about the general history of the case. ”

"The body of the first deceased was found about seven days ago, the deceased was an elderly man, a beggar, the body was under a bridge hole, and we speculate that the time of death was about nine days ago. The second deceased also had the nature of a beggar, but he became a young man, and his body was found seven days earlier, which is much more recent than the old man's death, and we speculate that he died on the day he was found......"

Ryan introduced the case to Su Ling, which is basically a person who died in two days, that is to say, tomorrow, the murderer will do it again.