546 Homicide 3

Troubles are always too much to deal with, and a test to elect a new monarch has implicated almost all of Calais's nobility, and there have even been two murders in quick succession, all of which are unsolvable. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but this trouble has not been a few days later, there is new bad news in the swamp, the ten princes who are eager to go out to lead the 20,000 troops recruited to walk in a dense forest in the swamp, suddenly ambushed, the ten princes unfortunately were killed on the spot by arrows.

The body of the tenth prince was sent back to the royal capital of Calais, his mother was crying to death, and the nobles who supported him were also full of defeat, thinking that they would be able to seize the opportunity by sending troops as soon as possible, at least in terms of attitude. But I didn't expect that the hastily organized army of 20,000 would be vulnerable in front of the orcs, not only losing most of them under an ambush by the other party, but also catching the hope of the family.

Under the auspices of several cautious nobles, despite the resolute opposition of the princess, the coffin of the tenth prince was opened, and a tragic scene was suddenly exposed in front of him.

The princess fainted several times, and the nobles prepared to dress up for the prince who had died heroically, and when the prince was carefully dragged out of the torn armor, a piece of arrow suddenly appeared, apparently his men had not noticed it in a hurry.

A nobleman held back the panic in his heart, reached out and held the arrow and wanted to pull it out, but the coagulated blood stuck to it, coupled with the sharp and smooth arrow, a slippery hand suddenly cut a hole in his palm, and blood splattered out. In pain, he hurriedly withdrew his hand, but still let his blood stain the scar on the tenth prince's body.

After the hot blood, the blood stain on the arrow was washed off, revealing a text symbol, at first no one paid attention, and when they found a tool to pick up the arrow, but suddenly found the symbol, everyone was stunned, and their faces turned pale.

Because the arrow was not used by the orcs, but the three-edged arrow of the Calais crossbow, some people suspected that the orcs captured it and used it in that ambush, but when several relatives insisted, all the wounds of the tenth prince were carefully examined inside and out, which was almost equivalent to dissecting the corpse, so that the already grief-stricken princess passed out directly.

The result shocked everyone, and after dissection, it was found that several arrows were broken in the body, as well as two tail feathers stuck under the bones, and then look at the wounds on the body, all of which were caused by the three-edged arrows of Calais's heavy crossbow.

If it were an orc, even if they had captured the heavy crossbow arrows, they would have been reformed because they were good at using longbows. The orc's arrows had longer shafts and longer tail feathers, and they were in the form of double flying feathers, not the three-winged feathers of crossbow arrows, from which it can be concluded that the Ten Princes were afraid that they would die not at the hands of the orcs, but at the hands of the Calais themselves.

And the murderer is likely to be the regular army of Calais. Who gave them the guts to assassinate a prince? After contacting several things, the answer came out, why was the heir of the House of Agris, after which the tenth prince was buried in the swamp, and then died at the hands of the regular army of Calais?

I'm afraid that the murderer is the Agris family, because only with heavy troops can they do this big case of killing the prince so secretly, and they can also push it to the orcs afterwards, so that they don't know it. This method is really clever and tight, but it is a pity that people are not as good as heaven, and in the end, it was the blessing of the Ten Princes, who left enough evidence in his precious body.

Through the mouths of the nobles who participated in the autopsy, the news spread through Kyoto in an instant like wings, and after the news spread, almost everyone believed this speculation, of course, some of them really wanted to find the culprit as soon as possible, and many more wanted to see such a result.

The Agrisian family enjoyed the highest honor in Calais, of course, thanks to their family's strong force, and the young figure of this family can be seen in every tragic battle in countless brutal wars. It is even said that half of the glory of Sincais was forged by the blood of the Agris.

A family of supreme glory, why did they do this? I am afraid that it is not just for the struggle for the throne, it is likely that the Agris family has already obtained the evidence, and the heir of their family died at the hands of the Ten Princes.

The tenth prince sent someone to assassinate the heir of the Agris family, but he was afraid that he was also angry after he could not win over the family, and saw him publicly support the third prince, but this reckless action finally cost him his life.

These rumors began to circulate among the nobles of Calais, and even became more and more like the truth, and some people came up with more favorable evidence, saying that a letter written by a Calais soldier who was hunted down afterwards, telling his family what happened to him, saying that he received a secret order from Shangfeng to sneak into the swamp to ambush a team of orcs, and almost all of his companions were marksmen, and from different teams, everyone almost did not know each other, only knew the time and place, and afterwards the soldiers who accompanied him were gathered in a secret military camp and were brutally strangled to death, and only he survived。

Who can mobilize the army so easily? It must be a big man who holds military power. Who can clearly grasp the movements of the Ten Princes who hurriedly raised troops? Of course, it is still the big man who holds military power. The answer seems to be clear, the Agris!

The point of evidence is directed at the Agris. Immediately pushed the family to the judgment seat of the murder of the prince. But just as the rumors spread and became a topic of heated discussion in the streets and alleys, and even in the deep palace, the newly elected heir of the Agris family was assassinated again.

This time, the heir was on the way to travel in a carriage, was attacked by a group of archers, their goal was very clear, on a not wide street, easily let go of the carriage in front, and then the roofs on both sides of the street threw a large number of horse bars, blocking the heir's carriage in it, and then ten thousand arrows were fired, and the newly elected heir of the Agris family was brutally shot into a hedgehog before he could sit down.

After a rain of arrows, all the Assassins scattered like clouds of smoke, leaving no trace. The feathered arrows used are quite complicated, with almost all kinds of styles, and they look more like orcs. How could there be a large number of orc archers in a major town in Calais? This is clearly to cover up, and the death of the heir is strikingly similar to that of the Ten Princes, all of whom were killed by ten thousand arrows. This has to be questioned.

Even if a fool is afraid, he can see that this is the crazy revenge of the forces behind the Ten Princes, and want to avenge their master in this way, but in such a sensitive period, these nobles can really make such crazy moves? Don't forget that the Agris family is not a soft persimmon, although this family has declined a little in recent years, and even the most powerful general has been stationed in the swamp for decades, but still no one dares to touch this sleeping lion.

But the truth is in front of him, the tenth prince said that he was robbed and killed by orcs, but the arrowhead on his body was Calais's standard equipment. And the heir of the family of Agris, who clearly died in Calais, had arrows on his body as if they had been done by orcs. This is clearly a blatant slap in the face. If your Agris family dares to commit murder in the name of orcs, then I can also take revenge in the name of orcs.

There are even some people who are interested in spreading this matter deliberately, and it suddenly becomes the talk of the people on the streets. Rumors are like a storm rolling up the already turbulent undercurrent, raging unconsciously. As the rumors spread, things may have deviated from the truth, but the consequences were even more dire and difficult to control.

The royal family began to feel uneasy, perhaps because of the appointment of the crown prince, or perhaps to appease the Agris. Prison departments in various localities began to arrest those who spread rumors, and even some prominent local figures were brutally assassinated for discussing these things. The Calais military and government courts have also tried to cover up these bloody facts, but they have not been able to hide the people's mouths. In the midst of these bloody cases, large and small, it seems that an invisible black hand is lurking, constantly stirring the whirlpool of terror.

Unease gripped Calais, large and small. This has seriously affected the business operations of Calais, and even the shops in the imperial capital have experienced an unprecedented depression, and people have rarely patronized the shops except for the necessities of life, for fear of being involved in trouble at some point. At night, the streets are even more sparsely populated, and even a few passers-by are in a hurry.

Many people began to worry that if they continued to make trouble, they would shake the foundation of the empire, but some nobles were secretly happy, and they preferred to believe that these things were a fierce confrontation between the Agris family with heavy troops and the family behind the Ten Princes, but they were afraid that this was just the beginning, and it would evolve into a protracted revenge and bloody war in the future, and then they were afraid that more and more family and royal family members would be implicated, and eventually there would even be a complete reshuffle of the Calais nobles.

Reshuffle, what a seductive word, how many families have struggled for generations just to be able to be on the front line, but Calais's almost harsh hierarchy has crushed them there and cannot turn over. But now the opportunity has come, a chance to reshuffle the cards, and if the old and powerful nobles fall in this battle for the crown prince, then they will become the new upstarts of the empire.

What a thrilling tide, but it is also extremely dangerous, a careless may be swept up by the waves and fall on the reef, and even the bones will be gone, but driven by huge interests, countless small and medium-sized families still quietly plunged into the undercurrent.

Now all the spearheads are pointed at the Agris, it seems that this powerful family is the source of evil, the real culprit of all the bloody cases in Calais, public opinion has pushed them to the forefront, and forget that they were also victims of this incident, after all, the heirs have been killed, and the losses are the best children in the family.

The people are not without sympathy, but what they know and see is far from refuting the rumors they heard, and under the spread of intentional or unintentional, the family seems to have been stripped of its former glory, and even the third prince they support has been smeared with dazzling blood.

In this way, not only will the third prince, who had just received strong reinforcements, become the target of public criticism, but I am afraid that the other princes will also become pitiful victims in this bloody political conspiracy, and who will inherit the throne in the end? The people have no way to care, they are only concerned about the inconvenience caused by the rise in the price of rice, frequent searches, and even irregular checks caused by these things. The small and medium-sized nobles also showed their indifference appropriately, because they had already calculated in their hearts, and secretly had already shown favor to their favorite masters, which did not need to be for outsiders, so they expressed their silence one after another, but their hearts were far from being as calm as they appeared.

The repeated blows made Theodore's body heavier, and the effect of drunken dreams and death was constant remorse, and the torture made him even more unbearable, he was no longer able to preside over the overall situation, and the royal family really did not have a person who could convince the public to preside over the overall situation, which made this gamble of appointing the prince even more difficult.

Those high-ranking families also began to slowly calm down, and began to carefully examine the current situation, rather than taking rash measures, for fear that their opponents would seize the opportunity to put themselves to death. This has made the upper class society have an unprecedented period of calm, those gentlemen who swagger through the market on weekdays are gone, and the aristocratic ladies who appear at various banquets are gone, and some are just quiet on the surface, and the silence is chilling and suffocating.

There was a restless smell in the air, like the earth baked on a rainless summer day, and everything around it seemed to be nervous about to burst into flames. This is the precursor to a truly terrifying storm, and the sky will fall.