Chapter 19: Doubts
Egret and Nina didn't stay with Yulina for long, and after making sure that Yulina had enough security around them, the two of them went out of the room with Op. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
For the same stateroom guests, the distance between the suites is not far away. Even if something happens, with the skills of Egret and Nina, they can arrive quickly.
"But if you can't find a killer, the problem isn't solved. Op said to the egret. "Lord Egret, this matter involves the nobles of Kazan, and I think we should wait until the airship arrives in Starlight City and hand it over to the investigators of the airship operator to solve it. ”
"I'm sorry, I'll lose sleep if I let a dangerous person be on the airship. Egret shook his head, "By the way, are the two great nobles of Kazan already going to war?
"How could it be allowed. Ay. Op sighed, and the fat on his face was huddled together, revealing an ugly expression. "Kazan wasn't an empire in the first place, it was once the domain of various lords. However, when resisting foreign invasion, this group of lords united. After successfully defending themselves against foreign enemies, they established the Kazan Empire together. ”
"So these great nobles are the descendants of the lords, and they have rights and positions that other empires do not have, including autonomous military power. The Kazan Empire, which has its own noble council, is able to regulate the relationship between the various nobles most of the time. However, this time the conflict between the two nobles involved the issue of water sources. ”
Originally, the Marquis of Sanroe and the Count of Bayrot themselves shared a river, but with the development of the Earldom of Bayrot, they could no longer be satisfied with the allocation of water resources of the original river. The Earl of Bayrot was in desperate need of a new source of water, and most of the nearby water sources belonged to the Marquis of Sanro, who was upstream.
Because of the distribution problem, the Count of Bayrot often negotiated with Sanro, but there has never been a major conflict. However, with the Count of Bayrot demanding the establishment of a new town, the Marquis of Sanroe finally could no longer endure the repeated demands of the Count of Bayrot for water resources, leading to a break between the two great nobles.
The Count of Bayrot was the first to send troops to occupy the common water source near the Marquis of Sanro's domain, the Fanyuan Lake. And set up a town cantonment station here. After that, the Marquis of Sanroo was not to be outdone, excluding private troops to occupy the other side of the lake. Although the armies of the two sides were quite restrained, clashes often occurred at such a close distance.
In the eyes of the other great nobles at present, the form of these two realms is already on par. Op theorized that Count Bayrot's desire to kill the opponent before the battle was not only a provocation, but also a way to demoralize the opponent.
That's why this inference is drawn. The egret nodded knowingly. "Now there are other clues, we need to find Yulina's lighting engineer, who was on the roof before the captain. ”
The role of the gaffer is mainly to ensure the stage effect of Yulina's performance, set the response of the lights and the degree of spotlight, and in the process of Yulina's performance, the gaffer also needs to keep an eye on the stage at all times to avoid accidents, so the gaffer should not leave his post before the performance is over. In other words, he must have been on the roof at the time of the attack on Yulina, so his suspicion was the highest.
As Yulina's lighting engineer, in fact, unlike Yulina's servant, this is a stage design talent invited by invitation, and it is natural to receive better treatment. So the gaffer lives in the second-class seat. At Yulina's place just now, Egret had already asked where the gaffer's room was. The egret was not ready to delay, and after speaking, he led Nina and Op to the second-class table together.
The second-class seats are set up on the middle floor, and the gaffer's room is not remote, but close to the center, but now, there are already several guards standing at the door of the gaffer's room in advance.
"Your Excellency Egret. One of the guards saw the egret and immediately greeted him. "The military attache has already arrived, but the gaffer isn't in the room, so let's stay here. ”
"I see. "The gaffer wasn't in the room at this time, and he didn't see him when he went to the ceiling just now, and now even if he can't be sure that he is the murderer, there is definitely a problem.
Who doesn't have a problem and doesn't return to the room after the airship has been ordered martial law?
"Open the door. Egret frowned and said, "I want to see what clues there are in the gaffer's room." ”
Although the guard frowned, he didn't deliberately stop it, and opened the door with his hand. "I've searched it just now, but I haven't found any clues, and the gaffer's residence is the same as new. ”
The description of this guard is really good, the gaffer's room is very clean, there is no luggage, there are no props, even the bedding is untouched, and there are neatly arranged fruits on the small table at the head of the bed. The first impression of anyone who comes in is that there is probably no one living here.
The egret couldn't see anything, and the second-class room was so small that you could see it all at a glance. However, Nina said lightly at this time: "There is a strange smell here. ”
The egret sniffed carefully, but there was nothing to gain, but the egret itself could not smell it, but it did not mean that it could not smell the plug-in it it carried.
"Elf?" the egret cried silently, "can you tell what the smell is that Nina is talking about?"
"Honorable Divine Envoy, I have retrieved a variety of scents, including the smell of sweat on your body, the body odor of your friends and the smell of the fat man beside you, and the scent of a lotus flower called Fen Lotus. The elf replied truthfully.
The egret selectively ignored the previous pile of nonsense, and silently recited the last one in his mouth: "Fen Lotus?"
"Fen Lian?" the well-informed Op reacted when he heard the egret's silent thoughts. "It's a high-grade diffuser from the Dean Empire. ”
"Surely yes!" Op shouted, "The gaffer must be a killer from the Dean Empire, so that the sniper attack and the gaffer's nowhere to be found can be explained." He must have changed his identity and hid somewhere. ”
Nina was a little surprised that the egret knew this smell, but the keen eldest lady was more concerned that this spice was not available to ordinary people, even the nobles of the Dean Empire, it was not easy to obtain.
"If it's a spice like Fenlian, it's also rare in the Dean Empire. Nina paused and continued. "It's strange that a killer will have an aroma. With a rare spice smell, it is even more peculiar. ”
Nina is right, but that makes things more complicated. Now there are no more clues for the Egret except for the conflict of the great nobles of the Kazan Empire, the image endorsement of the attack on the territory of the great nobles, a special sniper rifle of the Dean Empire, and the killer of the bearer of rare spices of the Dean Empire
Could it really be that Count Bairot invited the killer of the bloodslaughter, and this killer was a member of the Dean Empire, who attacked Yulina with a special weapon made by the Dean Empire in order to defeat the morale of the Marquis of Sanro, the other side of the conflict?
The egret couldn't say why, it always felt that something was wrong.
However, the gaffer could not be found, and the clue was broken here. Op still said his sure conspiracy theories, while Egret and Nina had no more clues to explore, and after glancing at each other, they reluctantly chose to return to the room.
"I always feel like something is wrong, but I can't say why. Egret said to Nina as she walked, completely ignoring Op's chatter.
Nina frowned slightly, "Breath, at the moment of the attack, I didn't feel the breath from the killer. ”
"The inheritance of the projection sword is very particular about the judgment of breath, and because of this, it is called the nemesis of the assassin profession. With the breath that I can't detect at my current stage, my strength must be much higher than mine. ”
The strength is much higher than Nina's killer. The egret shuddered just thinking about it. What else does this kind of killer fight when he appears in front of him, just admit defeat and surrender. Not to mention anything else, Nina's ability to fight against a master-level demonic puppet or mecha again, is stronger than such a power, well, the egret has never seen it, and it is difficult to imagine.
That's right!
The egret felt like he had a flash of inspiration and seemed to have grasped some key point. However, before the egret could figure it out, it was interrupted by a commotion ahead.
It's almost time to get to the room, and what the hell is it? The egret was a little angry, and looked in the direction of the noise, and at the door to the open square, several guards were cooperating to grab something in the air.
"What's going on?" Egret frowned and stepped forward, "Didn't that guy from the military attache arrange for you to be under martial law, it's not what you should do to come here to be lazy." ”
"Your Excellency. A guard trotted over in a panic, "That's not the case, we were originally going to protect the safety of the upper-level VIPs, but we didn't expect there to be chaos in the open square." That's when I came to help. ”
"Mess?" Egret and Nina looked at each other suspiciously, "What mess, did you find the killer?"
"Not really. The guard blushed a little, "It's the floating lights in the square, and all of a sudden they are flying wildly." There was a bit of confusion among the attendants in the plaza, and we just heard the sound, so we came over to help turn off the floating lights. ”
The egret felt that there were 10,000 divine beasts rushing through his heart, and he had worked hard to find clues for a long time, but these guards who were supposed to go to the killer were catching floating lights here, and they simply didn't know what to do.
But when I got closer, I felt that it was really troublesome. The lights seemed to be out of control, flying around. It looks like an irregular flying fly, but it's a lot bigger.
It's no wonder that without the control of the gaffer, the floating lights will naturally fly around without a fixed flight program, and some of them will even reach the edge of the airship, which is difficult to catch with the skills of these guards.
The egret has quick eyes, and a fast-flying floating light is grabbed by the egret before it can probe the egret's body. The shape of the spinning top of the light, one side is large, and the other side is small. The big side is flat, and it's the one that shines brightly.
"It was a rough night. Even now, I am not at peace. The egret complained, "Is this light just starting to fly?"
The guard's face turned even redder, he didn't have the skills of an egret. "It's been a long time, almost just around the moment you went to the roof. I was the first to arrive, and the military attache arranged for the guards on duty in the back, and I called over to help. ”
The egret was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes shone with a dazzling brilliance. "I see, I finally understood. ”