Chapter 994: Who is the murderer
Seeing this, Leo couldn't help but think of the Phantom of the Sea God he saw when he crossed the sea last time, so he looked up at Sylvia and asked, "You are the lord of Randall, what do you think of this Poseidon Church?"
"It is the first ancient church to join the Orthodox Church, and it usually has no church consciousness, but when ordinary ships go out to sea, some ceremonies are held at sea, and some sacrificial ceremonies are held when fishing boats are fully loaded, and it is generally a very peaceful church. Sylvia recalled for a moment and said, "I am a believer in the quasi-Sky Lord Church, and the relationship between the Sky Lord Church and the Poseidon Church is not very good, so I don't have a lot of communication with the Poseidon Church. At this time, she saw Leo frowning slightly, and immediately had some associations in her heart, and said, "Do you suspect that the Poseidon Church has something to do with that assassin?"
Hearing that Sylvia had misunderstood what he meant, Leo was about to explain, but the words stopped when he came to his lips, because after a quick analysis, he found that Sylvia's misunderstanding-style conjecture did not seem to be untargeted, and the Poseidon Church was indeed very suspicious.
In the past, although Randall was the territory of the French royal family, the autonomy of this land was very large, and basically the northern French royal family never adapted to the life of the southern seaside, and it was difficult to come once a year, and the city government and Poseidon Church of Port Randall were the actual rulers here.
But now that Landall has become Sylvia's fief, Sylvia's character naturally will not allow his fief to be controlled by himself, so Sylvia must have done something to obtain Randall's power, which will inevitably conflict with the Randall City Government and the Poseidon Church.
The city government of Randall is easy to solve for Sylvia, through the work of the intelligence department, it is easy to find some moths from the city government, and then use this as a breakthrough to reorganize the city government and obtain the administrative power of the city government.
But the Poseidon Church is different, her methods are not suitable for the church, and because of the Orthodox Church, the power struggle between the Poseidon Church and Sylvia may still be in a stalemate.
If Sylvia has no heir, then who benefits the most, according to the normal situation, is naturally the United Kingdom, because the fief nobles have no heir, then the fief will be nationalized, but the hidden beneficiary is the Poseidon Church, because then they can regain control of Port Landall.
And more importantly, the Poseidon Church and the Sky Lord Church have been hostile for so many years, and there have been countless secret conflicts between the two sides, and the senior clergy have even participated, so they should be familiar with each other's divine power aura, and it is not difficult to imitate similar divine power aura.
"Do you think it's possible?" Leo didn't know much about things like the Poseidon Church and Port Randall, and didn't have enough information to make a correct judgment, so he could only ask Sylvia.
Hearing this, Sylvia was silent for a moment, then pulled out a document in a black file bag from a pile of papers and handed it to Leo.
Leo took the file bag, opened it and took out the three pages inside, and looked at it quickly, with a look on his face showing a little solemnity.
These three pages are letters written by the Archpatriarch of the Church of the Sky, the Archim of the Viren Continent, and the contents of the Church of the Sky are the detailed investigation of the Assassin with the blessing of the gods.
At the beginning of the investigation document, the archmaster admitted that the assassin was the Divine Cleaner of the Church of the Lord of the Sky, and that he had a very high status among the Cleaners, and was a mentor-level figure, but the Cleaner had disappeared a long time ago and had already been listed as dead, and the battle that led to the Cleaner's disappearance was a conflict with the Church of the Poseidon.
At that time, the internal investigation team of the church felt that the god cleaner should have been killed in a battle with the strong man of the Poseidon Church, and the body was also taken away by the Poseidon Church as a trophy, because the Poseidon Church has the habit of taking away the corpses of powerful enemies as trophies, so when the Sky Lord Church and the Poseidon Church negotiated afterwards, they hoped that the Poseidon Church could return the body of the cleaner, but the result was that the Poseidon Church said that there was no such body, and the cleaner was not on the Poseidon Church's list of results.
The Poseidon Church conducted some open and secret investigations afterwards, and finally concluded that the Poseidon Church did not lie, that the cleaner did not die at the hands of the Poseidon Church, and that the Sky Lord Church also found that the Poseidon Church also disappeared in that conflict.
Eventually, the Archmaster said that a third party must have intervened in the conflict, and that he had kidnapped the Cleanup, and that there was an unknown way to control the Cleanup, which led to the assassination of Sylvia's heir.
Although it is not clearly stated in these three pages who the third party is, Leo can still sense between the lines that it should be referring to the original French royal family.
"I don't think it's the French royal family. At this moment, Sylvia seemed to see what Leo was thinking, and directly denied his thoughts, saying: "It is possible for the Church of the Lord of the Sky, and it is also possible for the Poseidon Church, but the possibility of the French royal family is very small, whether it is the current French royal family or the royal family of the United Kingdom, the possibility of doing this kind of thing is very small." ”
Leo thought for a moment and said, "Is it because of interests?"
"Hmm. Sylvia nodded and said seriously: "I have no heir, even if I die, neither the French royal family nor the royal family of the kingdom can get any benefits from it, but it will have some bad effects, if they are not stupid, they should not do this kind of thing that hurts others and themselves." On the contrary, the Church of the Lord of the Sky and the Church of Poseidon will have a lot of interests in my absence of an heir. ”
Leo asked a little puzzled, "I can understand that the Poseidon Church will have benefits, but the Sky Lord Church?"
Sylvia explained: "I once made a suicide note and donated all my property to the Church of the Lord of the Sky after my death, and that suicide note is still valid for me now. ”
Leo was stunned when he heard this, then frowned again, and said, "The Church of the Lord of the Sky should not ...... for your inheritance."
"Not before, doesn't mean not now. Sylvia seemed to have something in mind, but she didn't intend to tell Leo, she just said it briefly, and then said that the matter was for her to investigate, and didn't say anything more about it.
Seeing that Sylvia had already made a decision, Leo didn't say anything more.
In the next few days on the train, several people lived peacefully, without any accidents, and I don't know if this was because those who regarded Tolan as the destroyer had stopped, or because the Church of the Lord of the Sky passively intervened in the investigation and had a deterrent effect, or because Sylvia changed trains halfway through, and chartered a group of carriages, and also sent a team of elite men to protect them, so that those people did not have a chance to attack.
All in all, in the past few days, they came to the Randall railway station on the outskirts of Randall Port without any danger, and when they walked out of the train station, the butler of the Belmont family had already arranged the escort of the carriage and waited in the square in front of the train station.
Sylvia and the others got into the carriage, and at the shouts of the coachman, the carriage started slowly, gradually picking up speed, towards the castle at the sea cliff outside the port of Landauer.
The sea cliff is located on the seaside cliff on the east side of the port of Randall, from the sea level to the top of the cliff about 100 meters, it is also the highest point in the entire Randall area, standing here you can take in the scenery of the entire port of Randall and its surroundings, if you look at the sea, then the sea surface area seen from the sea cliff will be larger.
Due to the geography, a lighthouse was built here in the early port of Landauer to serve as a navigation guide for fishing boats.
However, I don't know why many fishing boats, after seeing the lighthouse signs, not only did not enter the harbor in the correct position, but instead crashed straight into the cliff under the lighthouse as if they had been struck by evil, so that the sea area under the Wanghai cliff became a fishing boat ranch.
Afterwards, the people of the Poseidon Church came to investigate and discovered that there was a mysterious power that could distort the light and even produce a mirage-like hallucination, so that the fishing boats were ultimately guided by the wrong direction.
As a result, the lighthouse was abandoned, and the people of Port Randall had to choose another place to build a new lighthouse.
However, the original lighthouse was not demolished, because when it was ready to be demolished, the royal family of England came here and used this lighthouse as the main support column to build the Black Castle of Wanghai Cliff, so the main body of the lighthouse can still be seen in the Black Castle.
The carriage drove very fast and came to the port of Landall in a few moments, but instead of entering the port city, the carriage turned a corner and headed for the black castle at the cliff of the sea as it entered the first square of the port.
In the carriage, Leo also drove the spiritual network to cover the port of Landall and the surrounding area in an instant, and soon through the feedback of the information, he learned that Sylvia's reputation in the port of Landall is really bad, and those who knew that Sylvia had returned from the Randall people stayed in their favorite tavern, cursing Sylvia for a series of reforms to the port of Landall, and gave Sylvia a vicious nickname, and it is not an exaggeration to describe the relationship between the two sides.
However, it wasn't Sylvia that the Landall Fishermen talked about the most, cursing Sylvia seemed to be just a warm-up for what they were actually chatting about, and what they talked about the most in the tavern was going out to sea to catch fish.
How to fish safely in the gray fog and bring the catch back became their primary concern, and based on what they had said, it seemed that the Poseidon Church was able to make a special kind of bow statue, which could be safely caught in the gray fog by installing it on the bow of the fishing boat and making the necessary sacrifices after each harvest.
From their conversation, it seems that several large fishing boats have installed the bow of the Poseidon Church, and have managed to catch a lot of fish in the sea blocked by the gray fog, and make a lot of money.
In the tavern, the owners also planned to install a bow statue on their boats, but because of the price, they had to pool their money to buy a bow statue, and several ships took turns to use it.
The news that this detective heard made Leo a little surprised, because although the sea god claimed to be in charge of the sea and was a true god with great power, compared to the old gods such as the Lord of the Sky, the power of the sea god was still much worse, and the top true gods in the Velen world such as the Lord of the Sky could not lift the blockade of the gray mist, how could the sea god have the ability to erase the power in the gray mist.
So this bow statue was either taken out by the Poseidon Church to cheat money, or the Poseidon Church really mastered a way to allow fishing boats to pass through the gray fog safely.
However, Leo was not in a hurry to figure out what was going on, because now the fishing boats with the bow statue had already gone to sea, and it would take a few days before he could have the bow statue for him to inspect when he returned to port, and as for running to the Poseidon Church to find the bow statue, Leo did not consider this idea at all, because he might need to cross the sea in the future, so he didn't want to offend the sea god now.
After trying a specially built and planted forest, the carriage began to climb upwards, and Leo's spiritual network shifted to the Lookout Cliff and the Black Castle.
And when his spiritual net swept these two places, a look of surprise also appeared on his face, and he found that even the superalloy armor of the starship could penetrate the spiritual network, which was blocked by a mysterious force, was blocked by a mysterious force from the sea cliff and the black castle, and in his sense, that place was empty and there was nothing.
"What's wrong?" Sylvia asked after seeing Leo's obvious expression.
"I can't sense your castle or the cliffs," Leo told him truthfully, "there must be something hidden here." ”
As Leo spoke, the carriage had already driven to the edge of the area where the spiritual net was blocked, and then he was completely submerged in the mysterious power.
Leo tried to use his power at this time, and found that the power on his body was attenuated to varying degrees, even the psionic energy, but these restricted powers did not include the abyss power in the crystallized serpent.
Leo, who discovered this, immediately turned his head and overtook Sylvia and asked, "Don't you feel that your strength is being restricted?"
"Restricted?" Sylvia was stunned for a moment, and immediately drove the abyss power in her body to check her body, then shook her head, looked at Leo with some puzzlement, and said, "No, the power in my body is intact, and there is no restriction at all," she said, she noticed Leo's expression, and said, "Did you find something?"
"The vast majority of my strength is limited. Leo nodded, and then continued: "Only the abyssal power has not been restricted, it seems that the so-called mysterious power here should be a hidden abyssal rift, and this abyssal rift has formed the abyss realm. ”