Chapter 155: The Twenty-Seventh District Flower Shop
"Found the murderer?" Leo couldn't help but be stunned after listening to the words of the city guard officer.
It turned out that not long ago, the patrolling city guards spotted a suspicious person and were about to come forward to question, but the person fled quickly, triggering the city guards to chase him. Later, when the man who could see that he had not been able to escape the pursuit in the labyrinthine alleys of District 23, he directly injured the city guards guarding the bridge and fled to District 11, and now the city guards of District 23 are cooperating with the city guards of District 11 to search for District 11.
This news surprised Leo a little, he just wanted to track down the murderer today, but as soon as he turned his head, the murderer was inadvertently discovered by the city guard, which was really a bit of a coincidence to the point of incredible, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that this matter was a little strange.
Not to mention why the so-called suspicious person exposed himself, he usually fled before the city guards came forward to interrogate, and even if he did, he should flee to the thirty-fifth district on the other side. Because there is an airship docking point there, there are at least five or more airships docked there every day, with his strength to easily injure the guards guarding the bridge and grab an airship, it should not be a big problem, as long as he gets on the airship, he can escape from the city and escape to other lake towns, and there is no need to hide in the city like now.
Leo, who was suspicious in his heart, pondered for a moment, couldn't help but smile, and said in his heart: "This Malek is really cunning!"
Leo was sure that the so-called suspicious person was pretended to be by Marek, and he was following Leo's advice to keep the series of accidents caused by the murder away from him.
The reason why Marek chose District 11 as the location for pseudo-suspicious people to hide is mainly because of the particularity of District 11. There are almost one or more nobles behind almost all the properties in the Eleventh District, and the city guards will never dare to search these nobles' estates without the permission of these nobles. And even if they were allowed to, they wouldn't be very aggressive, so even if there was a real suspicious person, it would be almost impossible for the city guards to find out from District 11.
And now, because it was the city guard who found a suspicious person, and some low-level city guard officers were eager to make meritorious contributions, the security bureau from Marek's hands took over the case completely, which is equivalent to saying that Marek was completely freed from this case.
In addition, it is impossible for the nobles, who are accustomed to fighting every day, not to see the slightest clue about the death of the heir of the Novitsky family, but in keeping with the tradition that it does not exist without evidence, they will not pursue this matter in any way.
But now because of the internal strife of your Novitsky family, which affects the interests of all nobles, then this matter will inevitably encounter resistance from various nobles, and even the Novitsky family will become the target of attack by some nobles. Although the Novitsky family, as the second family, has strong strength, it cannot withstand the siege of the other eight lower-class aristocratic families, so the Novitsky family will definitely start to quell this matter.
In this case, the series of accidents caused by the death of the heir of the Nowitzki family will soon be subsided, and Marek's actions will not be punished even if they are discovered, and his cunning approach will be appreciated by the nobles here, and some support may be gained.
It's just that, while trying to understand this matter, another question popped up in Leo's mind, did this method come up with Marek?
It's not that Leo underestimates Malek's wisdom, he can see from his brief communication with Malek that Malek is a down-to-earth and practical person, as long as someone can come up with a plan for him, he can implement it perfectly. But his wit was lacking, otherwise it would not have been impossible to discern the true cause of the nobleman's death, and he would need Leo to remind him to think of it.
What happened now seems very simple, it is to pretend to be a person to attract the city guards and break into the eleventh district, but the person who formulated this plan must have taken into account the form of the eleventh district, the thoughts of the nobles and other details, so the wisdom and insight required in it are definitely not possessed by Marek, the chief of the security bureau who climbed up from the bottom.
"Peter Alcott!" Leo thought of the thin young man.
After already thinking about what happened in District 11, Leo didn't think much about it, and with the card of the Alcott family's relatives and friends, he easily passed through the heavily defended city bridge and went from District 11 to the flower shop in District 27 according to the original plan.
As he passed through the 11th arrondissement, he looked at the guards who were patrolling the streets, the shops and clubhouses in the city, and sure enough, as he expected, these guards only dared to patrol the streets, and did not dare to enter the buildings of certain shops and clubhouses to search as they did in other districts.
It's just that compared to the strict defense of entering the eleventh district from other urban districts, entering other urban districts from the eleventh district is obviously much more relaxed, and it can even be said that there is no defense, just go over directly.
It seems that the chief of the city guard in charge of the security of the 11th district also has some cleverness, and he deliberately created this gap in the strictness of the inspection, I am afraid that he wants to let the suspicious person who broke into the 11th district leave the 11th district, as long as he does not commit any crime in the 11th district, he will not have any responsibility.
After entering the 27th arrondissement, it is easy to see from the surrounding houses, paved streets, and the clothing of pedestrians that the prosperity of this area far exceeds that of the 23rd arrondissement.
In addition, in order to cater to the aristocracy who came here to play, the city governor also designated some areas in the city and built some gardens to provide rest. Although these gardens are not planted with expensive flowers, they are all planted with cheap plants suitable for growing here, but in terms of the infrastructure of gardens, only the 11th and 27th districts of the nearly 100 urban districts in the outer city have been established, which also makes this urban area unique.
Leo is going to the flower shop is easy to find, the largest and tallest building in the whole city is where the flower shop is located, here is the largest and most luxurious gold nest in the 27th arrondissement, from accommodation to food, from play to shopping, everything from accommodation to food, from play to shopping, as long as you have money, you suspect that you can buy all the goods of the Silver Moon Lake District Alliance here, and even some contraband.
It's just that these are not the most obsessive things, the most obsessive thing is the casino and the party in the flower shop, in the casino, there are hundreds of different gambling methods, every day some people get rich overnight, and some people go bankrupt overnight, almost all the popular gambling methods in Ten Towns and Silver Moon City originate from this.
As for the party, it is a place where countless men and women are confused, and all kinds of men and women can be found here, and even some wonderful species can be found here. The monthly Night of the Mask is a carnival celebration, and many nobles will also come to the scene in person, and it is rumored that some wizards from the Wizards Association of Silvermoon City will also be tempted to come here to have fun.
The reputation of the flower shop in the twenty-seventh district is not only famous in the town of Seventh Lake, but also has a high reputation in the entire Yinyue Lake Lake District Alliance, and has even become one of the criteria for dividing the identity of high-level nobles and low-level nobles.
The benefits contained in such a well-known gold nest are naturally huge, and some good people have calculated that the daily revenue of the flower shop is probably the sum of the commerce of the other out-of-town districts in the town of Seventh Lake, and it is the sum of the month.
However, such a huge benefit was placed in front of everyone, but no one dared to touch it, because the people standing behind this gold nest were not only the people of the Alcott family in the ten towns, but even the ten chiefs of the wizarding guild were involved, even if it was just a name.
With such a deep background, let alone making trouble, no one dared to accept even its own business taxes, but fortunately, the person in charge of the flower shop did not go too far, and the taxes that should be paid were not reduced at all, and most of the taxes he paid were used for the city guards and guards, so some people jokingly called the city guards and guards employees of the flower shop.
As for what the outside world said, the city guards and guards in the town of Seventh Lake did not think so much, they knew very well the importance of the flower shop's taxes, so they also attached great importance to the security around the flower shop, and from the fact that three city guards and three guard bureaus were set up around the flower shop, which were specifically responsible for the security and cases in this area, it was enough to see how much they attached importance to it.
When Leo came to this very famous building around Silvermoon Lake, he felt that this building was really familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, and after analyzing it, he realized that this building was very similar to a building called the Pentagon in the Old Earth Era, but this building had a higher floor, as many as twenty floors, and it was the tallest building in the town of Seventh Lake.
Because of the unique shape of the building, Leo was not so surprised to see other items similar to the old earth era after entering the flower shop, such as the mechanical devices called slot machines placed in the hallway, and the gambling methods in the casino on the first floor, which have the marks of the old earth era everywhere.
Seeing this scene, Leo also vaguely guessed who the mysterious person behind the flower shop was.
"I'm looking for Mr. Witzmere. Leo walked to the reception desk in the front hall and said to a maîtress with compound eyes.
"Please ask your name. The maîtress saw that Leo was stunned, and quickly hid her instinctive disgust for skin color, lowered her head slightly, and found the visitor registration card of Vitzmere from the file on the table, and asked.
"Leo Dodd. ”
The female foreman compared the names on the registration card, and then said to the waiters who couldn't hide their disgust at Leo's complexion, "Take this gentleman to room 159." ”
Led by the waiter, who had deliberately distanced himself, Leo crossed an aisle and stopped next to a steam elevator dressed in quaint and luxurious costumes, where several children of the nobility were already waiting for some kind of fun, ready to take the same elevator.
"The flower shop is getting worse and worse, why is everyone letting in?" one of the richly dressed nobles looked at Leo with disdain, and moved two steps to the side, as if he was afraid that he would catch some germs if he approached, and complained to his companion.
Leo turned his head to look at the nobleman, but said nothing.
Soon the elevator came down, the fence door was pulled open by the attendants, and Leo stepped in, and the nobles who had been about to enter also stopped, apparently not going to stay in the same small elevator as Leo.
Just after the waiter asked the nobles and knew that they would not get on the lift, the waiter closed the fence door and forcefully moved the lever to the fifteenth floor scale.
When the elevator slowly ascended, Leo's eyes suddenly lit up, and he directly cast his spiritistic skills on the nobleman whose mouth was broken just now, breaking his spiritual defenses and forcibly extracting a large amount of memory knowledge.
When the spirit was crushed by spiritism, the nobleman instantly fainted to the ground, and at the same time, the hidden ancestral state of the body began to manifest uncontrollably, the gorgeous clothes were stretched open by the rapidly expanding body, and the originally spacious corridor was also crowded with a larger body, and in the blink of an eye, the nobleman became a big boar with fangs and sharp teeth.
The nobleman's fainting and uncontrolled ancestral transformation naturally caused a lot of commotion, and Leo who was in the elevator did not know whether the flower shop staff was handling this matter, but he could still estimate the damage caused by the spiritistic impact spirit, at least for a month, it was impossible for the nobleman to control his ancestral body.
Although the elevator had risen to the second floor when the nobleman had an accident, the waiter in charge of leading the way faintly felt that the nobleman's accident might be related to the person with black skin around him, which also made his emotions become a lot more tense and his body stiffened a lot.
"Don't be nervous! I just don't like those nobles very much, and I guess you don't like them either!" Leo's figure came from behind the waiter and into his ears.
Leo's voice seemed to contain a kind of magic, so that the waiter who heard it couldn't help but burst out with resentment that had been squeezed in his heart for many years, and said: "Those nobles all deserve to die, they are a bunch of greedy beasts, and the most appropriate way to deal with them is to send them to the tables of those poor people in the slums." ”
When the waiter said this, his heart immediately felt more relaxed than ever, but before he could feel this unprecedented state of mind, the bell of the elevator to the designated floor pulled him back from his relaxed state of mind, making his body instantly stiffen, and his face became extremely ugly, and at this moment he realized what he had just said.
"Don't be nervous! Only I know this, I won't say it. Leo reached out and patted the waiter's stiff shoulder, walked past him, entered the hallway, and then turned to the waiter behind him, who was still stiff, and asked, "Aren't you going to lead the way?"
With a gloomy face, the waiter came out of the elevator, lowered his head, and led Leo to the room where Vitzmere was, knocked on the door for Leo, and when someone inside the door opened to ask, he saluted Leo, and then walked back as if fleeing, not daring to look up at Leo again from beginning to end.