"Ah!!, corpses, corpses, !!" accompanied by a scream, the people of the city ushered in a new day, the boy who cleaned the street sat on the stone bricks, trembling and pointing to the depths of the alley, and the pedestrians gathered around, and they all saw the cold corpse at the end of the alley.

The rain was pouring down, and the whole sky was dark and dark, and the dark clouds were very low, which made people feel very uncomfortable.

If Alan remembers correctly, this was the first heavy rain since the beginning of summer. Since Alan returned from the royal city, he has been in a mess, and when he went out for a walk today, he suddenly rained and was drenched in the rain, and then he was a little sober, and remembered that he still had a lot of things to do, and he didn't find Yir's shadow, and he immediately blamed himself.

A team of soldiers rushed over, and the captain who led the team knelt in front of Allen with a serious expression, and Allen had a bad premonition.

"Your Royal Highness, something has happened in the city. ”

Allen's right eyelid began to jump, and he unhurriedly picked up the captain and asked the captain to explain the matter.

"We found a body that had been dead for more than two days, a gardener on West Street. His family reported his disappearance to us four days ago, but at the time I didn't know why, no one cared, and no one went to find out. Knowing that the child who was sweeping the street today found the body, we found out that he had been dead for a long time. The captain was also visibly annoyed, and if they had started searching for the gardener's family when he had reported him missing, they might have saved a life.

Alan didn't even have time to change his clothes, so he hurriedly led people to the scene of the crime.

"How did he die? Did you find out why?" asked Alan as he walked.

"If there is no accident, it is caused by excessive blood loss, we see many wounds on the gardener's wrists, but no injuries were found on other parts of his body, and the murder weapon is tightly held in the gardener's hand. ”

"You mean, he committed suicide?" asked Allen, curiously.

"I can't rule out this possibility, and it is also possible that the murderer deliberately faked this scene, but judging from the wound on the gardener's wrist, it should be a wound cut by himself. ”

Alan obviously couldn't believe this answer, suicide is not just a matter of words, how desperate a person would choose to end his life, Alan didn't know, Alan believed that it must take great courage and guts. A gardener, even if he encounters something that cannot be solved, will not commit suicide, not to mention that he has a family and children.

"He couldn't afford to borrow from a loan shark?" asked Allen.

"As far as we know, no. ”

"Was his wife having an affair, and he loved his wife so much that he couldn't bear the pain before he committed suicide?"

The captain looked at Alan strangely, and said with some embarrassment: "Your Royal Highness, if you see what the gardener's wife looks like, you probably won't think like this. That's why it's a strange thing, and we consulted a lot of people, and we couldn't find any reason for the gardener's suicide, but it all seemed like a suicide. ”

Alan pursed his lips and stopped guessing. Finally arrived at the scene of the crime, despite the bad weather, it was still full of civilians, each of whom had a frightened expression on their faces, and a little expectation in their eyes, expecting their esteemed Royal Highness the Prince and Lord to give them a reassuring explanation. After all, this is the first time this has happened since Alan became the lord here, and no one wants to be the next unlucky guy lying on the corner of the street.

The corpse was somewhat swollen from the rainwater and gave off the characteristic smell of decay. Alan covered his nose with a handkerchief and took a closer look at the corpse, but he could not see anything, so he could only order the soldiers to take the gardener's body back to the castle and give it to a special doctor for examination.

After all, autopsy is not his specialty, and he is responsible for pacifying his own people.

"Your Royal Highness, did Old Jack really commit suicide?

"Your Royal Highness Allen, I heard that Old Jack has been dead for a long time, has he offended anyone, do you know any inside story?"

"Your Royal Highness Allen, Old Jack's wife Arthur Mi said that she had approached the people of the escort team four days ago and wanted them to help find Old Jack's whereabouts.

"Your Royal Highness Allen......"

A questioning voice sounded, and then all the miscellaneous voices exploded, and Allen's head was too big to listen to, too many doubts were very detrimental to his rule, so he could only answer patiently one by one.

At this time, another team of guards hurriedly ran from the rain, and the leader saw that His Royal Highness Allen was surrounded by the crowd, so he hurriedly stepped forward to separate Allen from the crowd, and whispered in Allen's ear: "Your Highness, we found another corpse in the east of the city, and it has been moved back to the castle." ”

"What!" Alan shouted.

He left a few stewards to calm the people's uneasiness, and returned to the castle to see the newly discovered corpse.

For several days, the light rain continued to fall, and in addition to the two bodies found on the first day, six more bodies were found one after another, and the whole city fell into unknown panic and unease.

At this time, the atmosphere in the castle is also extremely depressing, it has been a week, and the number of victims is increasing every day, but there is still no progress on Allen's side.

A total of eight corpses were lying flat on a white cloth on the distant platform, and there were ice cubes under the platform, but six of them inevitably began to decompose, emitting a disgusting smell, and almost everyone in the castle covered their mouths and noses with something.

There were many people standing in the quiet council room, but no one was willing to speak first, and Alan looked at the nobles in front of him, as well as a few stewards who were in charge of the affairs of the city, expecting someone to give an opinion on these two incidents.

Dario also stood in the ranks of stewards.

"Since no one is talking, I'll ask first. Alan said with a calm face, his gaze swept over the officials in charge of order in the city, and saw that the officials all had a look of emptiness.

"Who has been in charge of the safety of the city for the past week?"

The hall was quiet enough to hear the sound of people breathing, and after a while, a bearded man stood up from the end of the line tremblingly and whispered, "Yes, I'm in charge, Lord Allen." ”

"Oh, it turns out that His Excellency Lord Tessie is in charge, in that case, let me tell you, what unusual things have happened in the city these days?"

Mustache Tessie immediately knelt on the ground, you must know that his title is the last lord among all nobles, and he has no power or power, but although he has no ability, he is still a small nobleman after all, and he has some connections, so he spent money to buy a chief who guards and patrols the city.