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"What?" Hearing Catherine's words, Rogge couldn't help but be taken aback, and the little furball standing on his shoulder asked with concern, "Is Sister Pumpkin okay?"

"Britney is fine," Catherine said with a slight shake of her head, "it was the priests of the two priesthoods who died, and the two died in the same place, and the head of the regiment Antonio and the high priest had already arrived at the scene." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

As she was talking, Britney Spears came out of the house, stopped beside Catherine and frowned and asked Rogge: "Where did you run just now, we couldn't find you everywhere, it's so dangerous here and running around in the middle of the night?"

"Thank you for your concern, but I guess I'm not going to get bitten on the neck yet. Rog shrugged his shoulders and beckoned to the two of them, "Come on, take me to see the scene, although I don't really want to see the high priest now, he must be angry again." ”

As Rogge expected, when they arrived at the scene of the incident, the High Priest Goethe was furious with Antonio, accusing him of not meddling in his business.

"Looks like you won't be able to dream well tonight, Captain. Rogge stopped in front of Antonio, tilted his head to look at Goethe, the pale-faced high priest behind him, and raised his eyebrows at Antonio.

"You already know that, right? Two more people died, both priests of the priesthood, and they lived in the same room, and none of the other priests in the room noticed when they left, or why they came here, until someone woke up with screams. Antonio said with a wry sigh.

"So, did the two of them get gnawed off their necks again?" Rog looked behind him, but didn't see the body of the deceased.

"There was a guy who had his ear bitten off, half of his face was bitten to a bloody pulp, and the other had a big piece of flesh torn off his shoulder, hell. Antonio beckoned to him in annoyance, and led him past the High Priest, skirting several towering black trees to the corpse.

I saw the bodies of the two priests lying on the ground one by one, one lying on his stomach, his shirt had been torn, and there was a large wound of flesh and blood on his shoulder, and the other was lying on his back on the ground, his face facing the sky was covered with blood and scars, and one ear was gone.

Rogge crouched down in front of the corpse lying on his back on the ground, turned his head towards him, and saw a deep wound in the temple of the unbitten half of his face on the other side, as if it had been pierced by something sharp.

He looked up at Antonio with an inquiring look, who crouched down beside him and looked at the wound and said, "We checked the surroundings and found a blood-stained stone. ”

He asked a knight to hand the found stone to Rog, who took the stone in his hand and looked at it repeatedly, then looked at the wound on the corpse's head, and shook his head silently.

He examined the body's scars, but found no scrapes, bruises, or other scars from the fight, and Rogge frowned, got up and went to the corpse lying on the ground, and flipped him over to lie on his back, while his eyes were drawn to the corpse's neck.

"Have you seen this?" Rogge said to Antonio, pointing to the corpse's neck.

The knight squatted down beside him and asked a knight to bring a torch, and by the light of the torch he saw a bruise two centimeters wide on the corpse's neck, Antonio shook his head in surprise and said, "No, I didn't pay attention to this before, I only saw that the back of his head was broken." ”

"A wound in the back of the head is not fatal enough. Rogge examined the wound on the back of the corpse's head, shook his head meaningfully and said, "This should be the scar left by hitting the back of the head with a hard object, it will only make people unconscious at most, but it will not make people die, and the strangulation marks on the neck are the real cause of death." ”

"You mean, Mina first stoned him unconscious, and then strangled him with a rope?" Antonio looked at Rogge with a puzzled face, and Rogge waved his hand at him and said, "I didn't say that, and it wasn't the rope that strangled him." ”

"Not a rope?" Antonio looked at the wound on the corpse's neck in surprise, and Rogge turned the corpse's head sideways, pointed to the side of his neck and said, "See, the bruises only exist in the front throat area, and there are no bruises on the sides of the neck." ”

"If a person is strangled by a rope, the rope must be wrapped around the neck, so that it will leave marks in at least three directions on the neck, but there are only marks on the front of the body, which means that the murder weapon that strangled him was not a rope. ”

After listening to Rogge's explanation, Antonio suddenly realized, and Rogge continued: "Based on the width of the bruises, it is speculated that he should have strangled something like a stick. ”

He took one of the corpse's hands, handed it to Antonio and said: "Look, there are residual sawdust in the deceased's fingernails, which means that the murderer strangled his neck with a stick from behind, and the deceased grabbed the stick with his hand while struggling and tried to push it away from his neck." ”

"You mean, this priest wasn't knocked unconscious before he was strangled to death?" Antonio looked at him in surprise, and Rogge nodded slightly: "That's right, if a person has been knocked unconscious by stones, then why bother strangling him to death?

"And the wound on the back of his head?" Antonio looked at Rogge suspiciously, and Rogge sat up with him on the corpse, lifted his hair and examined the wound on the back of his head, and said, "As for this wound, it may have been left by a flying stone thrown from a distance, knocked the person down and then stoned the other one to death." ”

He paused, looked back at the corpse next to him, and said, "Or, there is another possibility......

"What is possible?" Antonio looked at him with concern, Rogge shrugged his shoulders after a moment of silence and said, "It's nothing, it's more like speculation, I think it's still a little more reliable than the possibility just now." ”

He and Antonio put the bodies back in their place, and the two stood up to look at the two bodies on the ground, and Antonio said, still full of doubt, "I have to say, I still find it difficult to understand why Mina first stoned one person and strangled the other with a stick." ”

"She didn't do that, Captain. Rog replied lightly, and Antonio looked back at him in surprise, and Rog, noticing his puzzled gaze, beckoned to him and led him to the first corpse, crouching down beside his head and pointing out the wound on his temple.

"If you look closely at this wound, you will see that it is not at all the blood-stained stone you gave me, the wound is very deep and thin, it was penetrated by something sharp, and there are indeed some abrasions and blows on the surface, but the tip of the stone cannot penetrate the depth of the wound at all. ”

Antonio examined the wound in the light of the torch, and asked his men for a dagger to try to cut the wound, and sure enough, seeing that the wound was the same as Rogge had said, he tried to reunite the blood-stained stone with the wound, but failed.

"You're right, but I'm getting more and more confused about what the hell is going on. Antonio looked up blankly and asked Rogge.

"I think things are a lot clearer than they used to be, Captain. Rogge stood up and said meaningfully.

Antonio got up and was about to ask him to explain what he meant, when he heard a knight standing guard nearby shouting, "Commander, there's someone over there!"

Everyone looked in the direction of the knight, and saw the bushes not far from him sway, and the knight turned back to Antonio at the same time and shouted, "I see her, it's the woman in red!"

"Catch her!" Antonio shouted, and the knights swarmed in the direction of the bushes, and as they passed through the bushes, they saw a red shadow flash through the trees in the night, and the knights immediately rushed to the place where the red shadow had disappeared.

When they came to the tree where the woman in red had disappeared, they couldn't find her, and they searched around in pairs, but Mina seemed to have evaporated from the world, leaving no trace.

The knights had no choice but to return home, and soon after they left, a woman in a red dress carefully climbed down from the tree where Mina had disappeared, and although she was wearing a long red dress, her movements climbing the trees were not affected in the slightest, and she was as agile as an ape.

Mina, who fell to the ground, glanced back coldly at the direction where the knights had left, turned and walked towards the depths of the jungle, suddenly, a dark figure came out from behind a tree in front of her, blocking her way, Mina subconsciously took a step back, reached out and touched the stone tied to her waist with a rope.

"Don't be nervous, if I really want to do something to you, a stone won't hold me back. Rogge leisurely lit a cigar, took a puff, looked up at Mina, and said.

Mina stared at him silently, motionless and silent, and Rogge smiled slightly when he saw this, and said, "I know you can speak, maybe you have some reason for refusing, not wanting or not wanting to speak, but now that three people are dead, and you are the biggest suspect, aren't you going to say a few words for yourself?"

Mina remained silent, but Rog could make out a hint of hesitation in her eyes, observing the subtle changes in her expression, waiting for her reaction.

But Mina never responded, and after a long silence, Rogge spoke again: "Mina, we are your friends and not enemies, and we are preparing to try to lift the curse of the Raven God on you and free your family from this misery, I think that's what you want, right?"

Mina was still silent, like a stiff statue, cold and silent, and the scene fell silent again, and at that moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps behind Mina, and the high priests Goethe and Antonio arrived with the knights and priests, and surrounded Mina.

"Come on, arrest this man-eating witch for me!" The high priest Goethe pointed at Mina and shouted angrily, and the priests rushed up to push Mina down, Mina did not resist, but just looked up and stared at Rogge.

Just as Goethe ordered the priests to escort Mina back to the village, Mina, who had been silent, suddenly turned back to Rogge and said, "Life cannot blossom from a lie......