Chapter 564: "Chasing the Murderer" (II)
The queen is a queen after all, even if she is kept in the dark like a fool, she is still the object of everyone's allegiance.
Daenerys' desire to find out the real culprit and bring him to justice is so urgent that even if the case has been designated as an unsolved case by Egger, the process steps to be taken are still the same: under her direction and leadership, the top of the Land Grant Army is responsible for the execution, and the two Queen's special envoys are co-supervised...... The Poisoning Investigation Team has temporarily been granted the supreme authority of the Monarch, and the full investigation of the poisoners has been carried out throughout Winterfell without hindrance.
As the most critical props and physical evidence of this big show, the series of perfect toxicological properties of "Stranger's Kiss" is an important basis for the implementation of the whole plan. However, although this poison was both concocted and named by Coben, it was not his exclusive secret recipe - at that time, this energetic scholar wanted to study a life-saving drug to treat diseases, but accidentally concocted an incredible poison, and Koben, who still regarded himself as an "excellent doctor" at that time, did not think much about it, but reported the invention to the school according to the practice of the school, and registered the physical, chemical, and toxicological properties of this new poison in one ......
This unintentional move has now become a huge loophole for Egger, if he conceals the origin of the poison, he can fool him for a while, and when someone else finds out, it will cause a rollover.
Anyway, he couldn't stop it, so Igor used a simple and crude way to get around: he took the initiative to ask Cobain to "identify" the type of poison, and then "was surprised to discover" that it was actually his own potion that had been stolen.
As a result, the scope and starting point of the investigation will be narrowed down from "finding the source of the poison" to "tracking down the identity of the drug thief" - so that the rest of the matter can follow the script.
Egger's rough plan is roughly as follows:
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After separate questioning, investigators were presented with two sets of testimony: one was that the guards had witnessed someone loitering outside Bachelor's room two days before the incident, and the second was that the same dressed person had been seen by the cooking squad near the Stark family's wine cellar and the kitchens of the Land Giveaway the day before the incident.
These two ...... No, to be precise, the common denominator between the two groups of witnesses is that the witnesses both claimed to have seen the man dressed in the Northland-style service, and the clothes on his chest were embroidered with what appeared to be the stripping coat of arms of the Bolton family.
At this point, all the unfavorable evidence still points to the Burton family, but Harvey, the head of the investigation team, will take the initiative to raise suspicions: if it is understandable that the former group of people saw the Burton soldiers outside the room of the Corben Bachelor, then when the latter group saw the same suspicious characters outside the Stark family's cellar, the soldiers of the Burton family had already been ordered by the queen not to leave the camp without permission because they were framed by the "rape case" planned by Petyr!
An in-depth investigation would soon confirm his suspicions: no one from the Burton family had ever entered Winterfell through the gate, either the day before or on the day of the incident!
Either all the witnesses lied—the truth, but few would have thought of it right away, or the Land-Granting soldiers guarding Winterfell didn't notice the thieves who had sneaked over two walls and a moat to enter—it was impossible, or someone in the city was pretending to be a Skinners soldier and trying to blame Luce Burton!
In order to convince everyone that this is the third case, a new twist will soon occur: after a search of the castle inside and out, a new pile of ashes will be found in the corner of the old courtyard where Bran Stark had fallen from the castle and the remnants of the tower—and half of a suit with the coat of arms of the skinned man can still be faintly seen in the freshly burned debris.
Someone is destroying evidence!
Prompted by this sense of urgency, a new round of inventory searches will be launched immediately, but unfortunately, no matter how much they dig into Winterfell this time, no new witnesses or evidence can be found (of course, there is no need to fake what does not exist), and the investigation has reached a dead end...... In the original plan, after two days of no progress like this, Iger will "finally wake up" and start to take charge of the situation with his sick body in tow, calmly arranging the end and end of this good show.
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The above is a scenario.
Although it is a bit hasty, the script can be regarded as taking all aspects into account, and as for the details that are not planned, you can think about it slowly when pretending to be unconscious, or you can simply let the executor play it himself...... Doesn't it mean to have subordinates, but you don't have to do everything yourself?
Fighting against an existence of the level of Varys, it is a blessing to be able to win a wave with thunderous means, and if you want to wait until everything is ready and only the east wind is owed, you can launch it in a vain attempt to achieve a perfect victory, and the end will only be that the plan is always due to various "accidents", and you can't find the opportunity until the end, and finally you will suffer and withdraw from the stage with hatred.
Accidents and problems are bound to arise with incomplete plans, and everyone involved in the conspiracy is ready for all kinds of contingencies, but they don't think about it—in the end, accidents appear at a stage that no one could have imagined, in a way they could never have expected.
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The murderer who didn't exist was found out!
Here's the thing: the first act of the original script was "investigating the source of the poison", which of course had to be investigated by the chef and the service personnel such as serving food and pouring wine. Originally, this was just a formality, and the suspicions of the people under investigation would have been quickly ruled out - after all, Iger had arranged for the source of the poison to be "in the cellar and not in the kitchen".
However, during the interrogation, the executing soldiers noticed that some of the kitchen staff behaved strangely, looked evasively, and slurred their words, and immediately became suspicious.
It is true that the investigation is a joke, but this is known only to the top level such as Iger and Harvey, the head of the investigation team, and the queen's side, as well as the middle-level officers and low-level investigators of the land-giving army, are unaware...... If you catch a suspicious person, can you still arrest and interrogate them?
Thus, the first act of the script went wrong: the kitchen staff who should have been innocent were arrested and tortured en masse, and the investigation went in the "wrong" direction.
Egger thought that this was a self-inflicted unjust, false and wrongful case, so he instructed Harvey to intervene to stop it, and the strange thing is that before Harvey could make a move, the interrogation was concluded, and the arrested people really unanimously confessed the same name: Mizedan.
The name was a bit unfamiliar, and even Egg had heard it for the second time - the last time it was two days ago when he reported to the Unsullied Guard that Arya was wandering around the castle with a sword, causing the latter to be caught by mistake.
Compared to the land grants, Yonezerdan is considered to be from the queen's side, but in fact, Daenerys doesn't know this guy at all - he is a subordinate brought in by Varys, and his apparent identity is the secretary and assistant of the intelligence director. Taking advantage of the fact that Egger and Petyr's eyes and energy were focused on Varys a while ago, this person secretly approached the low-level personnel of the land-giving army, and from the bottom up, he had unknowingly developed many people into his "friends"!
As soon as the land giver informed the Captain of the Queen's Guard of the results of the interrogation, Black Shell immediately rushed over with a vote of the Unsullied to arrest him.
Here's the funny: when Yonezedan was arrested, he was dumping and destroying some bottles and cans - and these things were later tested by the Queen's healers, and most of them were confirmed to be various poisons!
As an assistant to the intelligence chief, it seems reasonable to have some poison. Just when Harvey and Iger thought that the accident was over, and were scrambling and meditating on how to turn the situation back into the orbit of the script, an even more exciting plot was staged: after being arrested by the Unsullied, this man could not bear the torture in his cell, and even took poison sewn into his clothes, successfully committed suicide, and did not reveal a single message until he died!
The man committed suicide with no trace of the "stranger's kiss" in the poison that was about to be destroyed, and he did not admit any accusations or confess any behind-the-scenes, but as soon as he committed suicide by taking the poison, the yellow mud suddenly fell into the crotch of his pants - not but - not but If it weren't for Egger's clear memory that he was actually the real murderer, just looking at the information on the surface, even he couldn't help but believe that this was the poisoner, and he committed suicide in fear after being caught.
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In the room where only two people remained, the confused mastermind behind the scenes, Egg, who should have been unconscious, sat on the edge of the bed in pajamas, drinking hot soup to replenish water and nutrition while listening to the report.
"We didn't participate in the arrest and interrogation of that rice and what an egg. ”
"It's Yonezadan, and if adults say that participation means 'hands-on', that's not at all. Harvey denied, "In accordance with your instructions, we have made a division of labor with the Queen's Guard, and we will investigate and arrest the personnel who belong to the land grant, and the rest will be the responsibility of the innocent, with a clear scope of authority and responsibility, and do not cross the line with each other to avoid quarrels." From the arrest to the torture and finally the suicide of this person, the land-giving army had at most someone to witness it, and no one touched half of his hair, and even the prisoners' meals were prepared by the Innocent Room. ”
"Good. Iger nodded, not only very good, but very good—so that the queen would never suspect that this person was framed by the land gift, and even killed.
In fact, it is true that he did not, he was ready to make this a cold case from the beginning, and he didn't intend to frame it against anyone at all. From the human evidence at the beginning to the physical evidence and suicide after torture, the land-donating army has been ...... from beginning to end Not only did he not have any idea of intervening, but he also did not have the opportunity to do anything, and he really did nothing in this matter.
But this is even more strange - since you haven't done anything, can you still be a scapegoat in the sky?
How can there be such a good thing!
Frowning, Egger put his mind down, continued to ask about the relevant details, and pieced together a large number of fragments of information obtained for comprehensive analysis, judgment and deduction, and soon, a game planned by the opponent, more detailed and elaborate and huge than his own actions gradually surfaced.
Yonezedan bribed the kitchen staff, and what he wanted to do was to poison the guests during the dinner and drink while the northern princes gathered in the city of Severn to pledge their allegiance to the queen in Linwinter!
At first, Iger was a little puzzled about how Varys planned to get out after poisoning, but he soon came to his senses: destruction is always easier than construction, and bad things are easier than doing things, and Varys is different from himself, he is neither the actual controller of the castle nor the control of a party, and he doesn't care how much damage the queen's power is (in fact, the bigger the better), he doesn't have to think about how to get rid of suspicion. The eunuch's original plan may have been to poison himself, Petyr, the Starks, and the princes of the North. At that point, the people of the North will suspect that the Queen is responsible for the Feast, the Land-Donors will think that the Starks are avenging the destruction of the city, and the Unsullied Guard will be busy protecting the Queen from danger...... The castle and outside will be a mess of chaos, who has the heart and ability to track down the murderer?
Once the matter is completed, not only will the queen lose the support of the northern border and the land grant in an instant, but the original rival Petyr will also be successfully eradicated, and in the absence of competition, Varys will play both the intelligence director and the prime minister.
Egger and Petyr had long suspected that Varys would take advantage of this lords' conference to do something, but they didn't expect that this eunuch was thinking about much more than just doing things, but took a big step forward and decided to finish the battle!
Mi Zedan, who had committed suicide by poisoning, was not an innocent pond fish who was affected at all, he was just an unlucky guy who was poisoned and thrown one step too late, and the old master was beaten to death by random punches - by extreme coincidence, he took the blame for Egg, who struck first!
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