Chapter 348: The Twilight Farm Murder Incident
"How's it going?
Lin Qiu only moved his eyelids, and before he could open his eyes, he heard Alyssa's concerned voice. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Alyssa really admired Lin Qiu this time, and when she was still thinking about whether to adopt Ravenhall's plan, he pinched his nose and drank the liquid in the glass bottle in one go.
Ravenhall said there might be side effects, but he doesn't know exactly what the symptoms will be.
Lin Qiu sat up, the sky outside the house was already cloudy, he calmed down, and then said solemnly: "You may not believe it, I just solved a bizarre closed room murder case. ”
It's true.
Lin Qiu reiterated in his heart that apart from being a little dizzy, there were no other particularly obvious side effects - if he had to find another one, it would probably be that the taste was too unpleasant. He estimated that he had been asleep for most of the night, and the faint astringency still lingered on his taste buds.
It's a pity that there is no standard narration like "Brother Tyr, you just said ......" next to a slightly obese police officer next to him. Lin Qiu regretted it a little, if Anna and Rose were here, maybe they could cooperate with him. He glanced at Selt, who was still unconscious, and rolled over and got out of bed: "I found another deceased. ”
Richard finally reacted: "Another deceased?
"That's right. ”
According to his previous memories, Lin Qiu easily found the firewood house on the farm, and the firewood house was still locked, and it seemed that the people in the town did not pick the lock out of respect for the deceased or for other reasons. When Lin Qiu opened the door, a foul smell came to his face, and the firewood room was charred black, but the most striking thing was the charred corpse lying at the door. The corpse was burned black, and the uniform of the Stove Academy had long since been consumed by the flames - in other words, the townspeople thought that Adolf had gone hunting the bears, and there might have been speculation that Adolphus had met with an accident while going deep into the forest, but no one knew that the rumors of the bears were all made up by Selt's father, who had actually died here on the night of the fire.
So it seems that the body has not been found for at least three months.
"I see!" Lilith suddenly realized, the third corpse in the Twilight Farm, when she saw the corpse on the ground, a flash of lightning flashed in her mind: "No wonder the people in the town say that Celte's personality changed dramatically later, but in fact, the truth is that on the night of the fire, he was burned to death in this house, and the 'Celte' we see is actually a monster imitation, and it deliberately spread false news about the firebird in order to confuse the people of the town!"
The more Lilith thought about it, the more likely it became, so that she and Richard would not have to blame themselves for assaulting an innocent little boy.
"Congratulations, Lilith. ”
Lin Qiu's words made Lilith's eyes light up, but just when she thought that she was getting closer and closer to a detective, Lin Qiu's next sentence suddenly broke her illusion: "You don't have a point where your reasoning is correct, thank you for participating." ”
"And who the hell is this man?" Prince Richard was the only one of them who crouched down and examined it carefully. Of course, his inspection found nothing, this corpse was already charred black, and after being placed here for more than three months, the body had already dried out: "You just said the 'secret room murder incident', so who killed him? But he should be a knight." ”
The only thing in the firewood room that wasn't burned was Adolf's heavy sword, which had been scorched by the heat, and it still looked like before.
"That's how it should be. Alyssa glanced in the direction the corpse was facing and her right hand stretched, "He should have tried his best to get out of this house before he died." The position of the heavy sword suggests that he was somehow unable to break through the door with his sword, and ended up trapped in the woodroom - if you look a little closer, you can see more. ”
Alyssa went out of her way to mentor Richard.
The ability to observe details is necessary on the battlefield, and often the traces left from abandoned camps or rest stops along the way are enough to give a good commander insight into the state of the enemy, and these seemingly trivial details can sometimes influence some major decisions.
She felt that Richard had a lot of potential at this point. As for Lin Qiu, she wouldn't care, this guy's reasoning ability was even stronger than herself. Of course, there is also one in her team who ignores at least a few clues indicating the identity of the deceased such as the epee and directly identifies her as Selthe: "Richard adds 1 point, and Lilith deducts 1 point." ”
Alyssa scored the two on the spot.
"There is only one truth - this person is a student of the Furnace Academy, or Adolf as the adventurers of the town call it. ”
Adolf...... The knight with a broken leg?" Except for Lin Qiu, only Alyssa would write down some seemingly casual words from the adventurers. Lilith didn't care about it at all, and Richard tried hard to remember, but his memory was not very good.
After half the night, he could no longer remember whether the adventurers were talking about the knights Adolf, Aragorn, or Albert.
Oh no, Albert is his brother. Eliminate an error option.
"That was an excuse to stop us from going deeper into the forest, after all, 'the Royal Knight was attacked and broke a leg', which sounds more intimidating than going missing...... However, Adolf is not a royal knight, to be precise, he is between a silver knight and a royal knight, which is why adventurers can't say the rank of royal knight - if he is really a royal knight, with his character, he will definitely remember it and be ready to show off to outsiders that they have an X-rank royal knight here. ”
Of course, another reason why they are reluctant to say why Adolf disappeared may be because until now, the adventurers of the town believed that Adolf would one day suddenly return to the town.
This was just Lin Qiu's speculation.
"In short, I already know all the truth about the fire three months ago - the man who killed the knight Adolf and started the fire that killed Celt's parents...... It's them!"
"Wait, that doesn't make sense. Lilith's curiosity was piqued: "Why did they burn down the farm? Don't tell me it's because they accidentally set the crops on fire during the murder of Adolf, which could have killed their children!"
"They did it on purpose. But on the contrary, not only will it not hurt Celthe, but it will also give him great abilities - what you see when you knock him unconscious is not a hallucination, and the flames on his body are a parting gift from his parents. ”
"You mean...... They are members of the Divine Bird Cult. ”
Alyssa had come to the conclusion that she had seen quite a few extremely fanatical heretics in her past missions. At least thirty percent of the unrest in a town is caused by these fanatical infidels. Burning a farm and murdering a knight were far from the craziest things she'd ever seen, and if they were members of the Cult of the Divine Birds, it all made sense.
"Yes. ”
"You mean ......"
This time, it was someone else who asked the question. Lin Qiu turned around and found that Celte had woken up at some point, and he was not far from a few people, looking at everyone hesitantly. During that sleepless night, Celt stood there about the same, stopping his fanatical father from smashing Adolf on the head with a hammer.
And now, everything is a matter of fact.
"My parents, did very, very bad things, right?" asked Selter.