"Is there any problem?" Eva, the eldest princess beside Antonio, couldn't help but ask with concern when she saw the difference between him and Murphy's faces.

"Your Highness," Antonio glanced at the corpse of the Elf King lying on the crystal stone bed in front of him, and asked the Elf Princess beside him, "What have you done since Your Majesty's corpse was transported?"

"Nothing has been done, everything is still the same as when it was found," Eva said in a soft voice as she looked at Antonio with her melancholy eyes, "I know that Mr. Rogge may need to find clues left by the killer to help us find out who killed my father, so I didn't let anyone mess around." ”

"But I remember when the messenger came to report that His Majesty was hanging from a tree with spider silk, and we did not see it. Murphy on the other side of the crystal bed asked without hesitation, and Antonio glanced at Eva with a scrutinizing gaze, and the meaning in his eyes showed that Murphy was asking what he wanted to ask.

"Ah, you're talking about the silks, the soldiers did bring them back, but they ripped them off when they took down my father's body, and I told them to bring them. ”

Eva hurriedly turned back and instructed the heralds around her to relay the order, and soon the two soldiers walked into the hall with a large ball of white spider silk, placed it in a corner of the stone bed, and retreated.

Antonio and Murphy stepped forward to check on the spider silk, they were already entangled at this time, but they could still see that the core was twisted into a rope like a rope, forming a spider silk ring, and the two of them grabbed the two ends of the spider silk ring with their hands and pulled it hard, the spider silk rope was so strong that it could not be broken at all.

"It does look like it's enough to strangle a person. Antonio let go of the silk rope and said to Murphy as he cleaned the silk from his hands.

"But I don't think Your Majesty was strangled by spider silk. Murphy did the same thing in his hands, turned around and walked to the neck of the Elf King's remains, gently lifted the chin of the remains, pointed to the light-colored strangulation marks on the neck, and said, "If you were strangled while you were alive, there should be dark purple or black strangulation marks on your neck." ”

"You're right," Antonio stepped forward and glanced at the strangulation marks that Murphy was referring to, and nodded, "The dark strangulation marks are the marks left by bruising, but if the person had been dead for a while, the blood had stopped flowing and was hung again, there would be no such marks." ”

"What do you mean by that murderer who killed our father and then hung him from a tree with spider silk?" Eva's eyes widened in surprise and she shook her head, "No, why did he do this, it's terrible!"

"It must be the queen spider!" Sophia on the side couldn't help crying: "I knew that something would happen if I kept it, and I should have asked my father to send troops to clear the spider's nest!"

"Your Highness, please calm down!" Catherine and Tali hurriedly grabbed Sophia, and Antonio heard Sophia's words and turned back to Eva to ask about the situation after the spider, and Eva told Antonio the general situation.

"According to the previous Courier's report, there was a period of several hours between the disappearance of His Majesty and the discovery of his body by your soldiers, during which time the Queen Spider did not bring his body back to the lair, but kept him hanging in place. ”

Antonio frowned and looked at the remains of the elf king and asked: "I don't know much about spiders, just through your introduction, I think that no matter how intelligent animals are, they are also animals, and their primary purpose in killing people or other animals is to prey, but they did not eat His Majesty, which does not seem to be in line with the nature of animal predation." ”

"You mean, it wasn't the spider queen who killed my father?" Eva looked at Antonio with a blank face and asked at a loss, "But if it wasn't for it, why was my father's neck hung by spider silk, and who was the murderer?"

"Impossible!" Before Antonio could reply, Sophia became agitated again, and as she tried to break free of Catherine and Tully's hands, she shouted loudly, "It must be the Queen Spider, Mr. Rogge said that it has super intelligence, maybe it is going to kill his father and make him protest against us, it has already killed many of our soldiers, hasn't it?"

"Sophia, don't be so excited!" Eva frowned in displeasure and said loudly to her sister: "Don't affect the investigation of the two gentlemen, they will definitely find out the truth, don't make any more trouble!

Hearing her sister's words, Sophia gritted her teeth and held back, lowered her head and stopped talking, Eva saw that her sister had softened, so she sighed and turned back to Antonio to apologize.

The Knight Leader shook his head and said, "Judging from the current clues, we can't rule out the suspicion of the spider queen, and the key lies in these wounds. ”

He asked two knights to help turn the Elven King's body over, and saw that the wound on the body's chest went straight through his chest, leaving a penetrating wound on his back, and he and Murphy examined the wounds on the chest and back, and found that the formation of the three wounds was different.

"It is evident from the shape of the wound valgus and the blood stains around it that the wound in the middle is pierced from behind and out of the chest, while the other two wounds are diametrically opposed, that is, someone has attacked His Majesty from behind, and after he has turned around, he has launched two deadly attacks in quick succession. ”

Speaking of this, Antonio pointed to the wound on his left chest and said: "I think this blow should be the final fatal wound, the wound accurately penetrated the heart, and directly led to death." ”

However, there were no signs of a fight on His Majesty's body, he was neatly dressed, his hair on his sideburns and bangs was not scattered, and there were no scars on his hands and arms, which did not look like he had fought with people. Murphy looked down at the corpse's hands and said, "And it's strange that his hands are clean, without any blood and dirt." ”

"It would be a strange question if Your Highness could be sure that your soldiers had not done anything to sort out His Majesty's remains. Antonio said, looking back at Eva.

The eldest princess shook her head affirmatively and said, "No, I'm sure no, I specifically asked them, and they didn't move anything except to remove the spider silk." ”

"If that's the case, I think it's probably an arrow that caused the wound. Murphy pointed to the wounds on the body and said, "The wounds are very thin, and there are cross-shaped lacerations at the entrances on the front and back, consistent with the marks left by the cross-shaped barbs at the front of the bow." ”

"It makes sense, this is also in line with what was said before that there was no trace of a fight, if the murderer used a bow and arrow to attack His Majesty from behind, and when His Majesty turned around, he shot him with two arrows in succession, so that he did not have any chance of returning the fight, the previous doubt can be explained. Antonio nodded approvingly.

"But, who has the ability to shoot the Elf King in the Sun and Moon Forest?" Tali asked in surprise, and the people in the hall looked at each other, and after a long silence, Sophia suddenly said in a trembling voice: "There is a person who can do it......"

"Who?" asked Antonio and Murphy in unison.

"My brother...... Lorian ......," Sophia said with a pale face.

"Sophia, don't talk nonsense, Lorian has been dead for ten years, how could he do such a thing!" Eva shouted to her sister.

"But sister, who else can do it? No one can shoot our father with a bow and arrow, you know that, only my brother can do it, and it must be his unjust soul who has returned, because my father did not send troops to avenge him, so he came back to avenge us!" shouted Sophia hysterically.

"No, even if Lorian's soul does come back, he won't kill his own father!" Eva said categorically, "Sophia, you don't know our brother too well, if he can really do something like that, he won't be Lorian!"

The atmosphere seemed to freeze, Sophia covered her face and squatted on the ground sobbing, looking like she was on the verge of a mental breakdown, Eva's face was as pale as white paper, and if her lips were a little more bloody, she might look more like a vampire.

"Your Highnesses, please calm down, everything still needs to be investigated, it is too early to draw conclusions, there is only so much that Your Majesty's body can tell us for the time being, we had better go and take a look at the scene of the incident. Antonio finally broke the silence and suggested to Eva.

"Do you need me to come along?" Eva asked softly, recovering her emotions.

"No, at this time, you'd better stay in Moon Shadow City and preside over the overall situation, please send soldiers to lead the way for us. Antonio said and glanced at Sophia, who was squatting on the ground, and said to Eva, "As for Her Highness Sophia, please let her rest first." ”

"No, I'm going with you!" Sophia said aloud as she sobbed from the ground.

Eva was about to stop her sister's wayward move, when Catherine suddenly said, "I think let's let Her Highness Sophia go with her, anyway, even if she stays, she won't rest at ease." ”

"Let her go, me and the stupid girl will take care of her!" cried the little owl with big twinkle eyes.

"Alright then, I'll trouble you. Eva gratefully owed Catherine, glanced at her sister, Sophia still breathed a sigh of relief for her sister, deliberately avoided her gaze, and turned to walk out of the hall.

The group leaves the Elven King's Palace and returns to Moonlight Square, where Eva orders the Elven Captain, who found the Elven King's remains, to follow Antonio's knights to the place where the remains were found.

The griffons flew away from Moonshadow and flew to the south of the Virgen Lake in the thick of the night, and quickly found their destination under the guidance of the elven captain, Antonio asked the knights to land on the lake, leaving some knights to guard the griffins, and the rest followed the elven captain to the vicinity of the large tree where the body was found.

Instead of immediately approaching the scene, Antonio asked Tali, who had night vision in both eyes, to help her observe the surrounding grass for suspicious footprints.

"This should be for me!" Before Tali could answer, the little furball on Catherine's head shouted anxiously: "I'm better at this than Miss Tully, as long as Mr. Captain makes sure I have a delicious breakfast tomorrow morning, I will definitely help you find out that not a single footprint will be left behind!"

Antonio smiled and agreed to the little furball that Mao had proposed, and Lilith flapped her wings and flew into the sky with satisfaction, and after a moment she reported to Antonio that there were no footprints around, and the grass on the ground showed no signs of being trampled down.

"The murderer didn't leave any footprints?" Antonio frowned in surprise as he heard Lilith exclaim, "However, I found other traces on the grass in front of the tree!"