After Rogge left, Catherine and Murphy returned to the crowd and picked up the weeping pregnant woman, telling her that she was willing to help her and avenge her husband.

During the conversation, they learned that the woman's name was Petty, and they sent Petty home, where she and her husband Barton were in the bakery, and Petty told them about the day of the incident.

"Barton and I just got married last year, and we both lived off this bakery, and the deceased Mr. Connor took a fancy to our shop and wanted to buy our shop, but the price he offered was too low and we never agreed to his request. ”

"A few days ago, he came to our store again and asked us to sell the store to him, but my husband still didn't agree, and the two of them had a big argument in the store, and my husband was very angry and threw him with eggshells to kick him out of the store. ”

"Unexpectedly, when Connor exited the store, he suddenly fell to the ground, and when my husband heard the shouting of people outside, he found that he was dead, and then the security team came to the store and arrested my husband back to the law enforcement office, saying that he pushed Connor down and killed him. ”

Petty wiped tears from her eyes as she said, "I have never seen my husband, he is actually a very gentle man, although he is strong, he has never fought with anyone, and the neighbors around him know that he is kind, and he did not have a physical altercation with Connor at all that day." ”

Catherine and Murphy nodded silently when they heard this, and Catherine asked Petty, "Was there anyone else present at the time of the incident?"

"There were no customers in the store at the time, just me and Barton and Connor, and I told the sheriff everything I knew, but he didn't believe it. Petty said with tears in her eyes.

"You just said that Barton went out to see when he heard someone shouting, so there should be witnesses on the street, right?" Catherine asked tentatively, recalling Petty's words.

"Yes, there were people on the street, and the shop across the street was open at the time, so someone saw Connor fall. Petty nodded repeatedly.

Hearing her say this, Catherine had a bottom in her heart, and she told Petty not to worry, and waited quietly in the store for news, and she and Murphy left the bakery to look for witnesses in several nearby stores.

In a grocery store across the street, a middle-aged man with a big beard said to the two: "I knew about it, I was sitting in front of the store that day, and I vaguely heard a quarrel coming from Barton's shop across the street, and I guessed that Connor must have gone to trouble him again." ”

The man took a puff of his pipe and continued, "Because Connor had been to his shop many times before, and we all knew about it, so I kept an eye on them, and then I saw Connor retreating from the inside in embarrassment, and when he retreated to the door, he suddenly coughed violently. ”

"I didn't pay attention at first, and thought that the old fellow was lying in front of Barton's shop, but after a while I saw him lying motionless, and I thought something was wrong, so I called some of my neighbors to see him, and called Barton out, but Connor was dead by then. ”

"Did you see Barton pushing Connor with his hand?" asked Catherine, staring at him with concern.

"No, he was the only one when Connor came out of the house, and I didn't see anyone in physical contact with him from my point of view, and I don't know what happened inside the house!" the grocery store owner shrugged and shook his head.

"Did you tell the sheriff all this?" asked Murphy, interjecting.

"No, Sheriff Rose didn't even ask us guys," the boss said with a shrug of his shoulders and pouting, "He saw Connor lying in front of Barton's shop when he came, and ordered the body and Barton to be brought back to the vigilante, and he didn't come to ask us later." ”

He knocked his pipe on the door frame of the grocery store, sighed softly, and said, "To be honest with you both, Connor's old man, though old, is very strong, and every autumn he takes his manservant out to hunt, and walks faster than I do, and I find it hard to believe that Barton fell and killed him!"

Catherine and Murphy exchanged glances, thanked the boss and left the grocery store, and the two stood on the street for a while, discussing what to do next.

"I thought it was supposed to be a simple case, but now it feels complicated, what do you think?" said Catherine, confused to Murphy.

"Let's go to the law enforcement department first, didn't Rogge say to see what the dead man had to say, maybe we can find something from the corpse. Murphy suggested.

The two then came to the Law Enforcement Agency, found the sheriff in charge of the case, Rose, and explained to him his intentions, Rose heard that the two of them were here for Patton's case, shook his head with disdain and said, "The case has been decided, you better go back!"

"Didn't the Senate's announcement say that there are still three days left to appeal?" Catherine argued, "Maybe we can find something from the body of the deceased?"

"Miss," said Sheriff Rose, shaking his head with a mocking, "perhaps you really think you have what it takes to overturn the case for Patton, but I must tell you that the body of the deceased is not in our hands, and Miss Connor has brought back her father's body, which is now in Connor Manor. ”

"Taken away?" Catherine asked, staring at him in surprise, "Have you examined the body, and is there any evidence that it has anything to do with Barton?"

"I'm sorry Miss, I don't have the right to answer this kind of thing, if you want to see it, go to Connor Manor by yourself, goodbye!" Rose said and walked away, Catherine glared at him angrily, and turned to leave the law enforcement house with Murphy.

The two rented two horses at the inn, left Roma City according to the direction pointed out by the innkeeper, and went northwest to find Connor Manor, and it was close to dusk, and the two knocked on the door of the manor, and a manservant asked them what they were for.

"We are here for Mr. Connor's case, and want to meet Miss Connor. Catherine replied unhurriedly.

"Wait a minute, I'll go and report on it. After the manservant finished speaking, he closed the door, Catherine and Murphy waited outside the door for a while, and the manservant poked his head out of it and said, "Our young lady said that there are no guests now, the master's case has been closed, there is nothing to talk about, please go back, you two." ”

"Wait a minute!" said Catherine, holding against the door that the manservant was about to close, "We feel that there are many doubts in this case, and Barton may not be the real murderer of Mr. Connor, we want to meet Mr. Connor, please let us talk to Miss face to face." ”

"I'm sorry, Miss said she didn't see anyone, you don't need to say anything. The valet pushed the door shut with force without flinching, and Catherine looked at the door in exasperation and sighed, then turned and walked away with Murphy.

"There must be something wrong with this," she said to Murphy with a suspicious glance at the gate of the manor, "the vigilantes are silent about the autopsy, Miss Connor is behind closed doors, there must be something strange about this!"

"Just because she's closed doesn't mean we can't see the body!" Murphy said with a meaningful smile as he looked back at the manor. Catherine looked at him curiously, looked back at the manor in the afterglow of the sunset, and suddenly realized.

Time passed minute by minute, midnight came, and on the dark wilderness, Connor Manor seemed to be covered with a curtain of night, and the whole manor was pitch black, without a trace of light.

On the high wall of the manor, a green vine climbed the wall silently, climbed over the high wall and drilled into the ground, and the people outside the wall pulled the rattan with their hands, and after making sure that it was fixed and strong, they climbed the vine to the wall and turned over into the garden inside the wall.

The two sneaky men fell to the ground and looked around vigilantly, and the garden was quiet, and one of them beckoned to the other, and the two entered the garden one after the other, and approached the main building of the manor under the cover of verdant vegetation.

The two of them stopped on one side of the mansion and looked up at the three-story building, and saw that there was a window open on its second floor, and Catherine pointed to the window, allowing Monica to fly over and see that it was a window in the corridor on the second floor.

Monica lowered two vines from the window and let Catherine and Murphy climb into the house, and together they made their way down the hallway, discovering that there were many rooms in the hallway, and each door was closed, and it was not known which one contained Connor's body.

"How are we going to know which room Connor's body is in?" Catherine asked Murphy back, "You can't find them one by one, can you?"

At this time, Monica said, "I have a way. She cast a spell to conjure up a few black beetles on the ground, and then said to the two, "It's a corpse eater, it can smell the corpses, and we can find them by following them." ”

"I'm glad you're here!" said Catherine, smiling happily.

The two of them followed the corpse worm through the corridor and down the stairs to the first floor, where they found a small door next to the stairs on the first floor, where the corpse beetle wandered, and Catherine and Murphy tried to open the door.

A dark basement staircase appeared in front of them, the aisle of the staircase was wide enough to accommodate three or four people side by side, Murphy and Catherine carefully walked down the stairs, through a hallway to a large door, she put her ear to the door and listened, it was silent.

"Maybe it's inside!" Catherine pointed to the door to Murphy, carefully reached out and grabbed the doorknob and pushed the door inward, the door slowly opened, Catherine looked inside, and found that it was dark and silent.

Luckily, her night vision was unaffected by the darkness, and she saw a body lying on a large rectangular table in the center of the rotunda, and she looked in its direction, making sure there was no one else, and slipped in with Murphy.

Catherine and the two took the little flower spirit to the corpse, Murphy pulled out the thunderbolt sword on his body to illuminate the surroundings in a small area, they saw that the corpse was covered with a white cloth, some old clothes were thrown on the ground and piled up, Catherine carefully lifted the corner of the white cloth, and saw a gray-haired old man lying naked in front of him.

"You come and check the body, I'll look at the clothes. Catherine looked up at Murphy.

She handed the body to Murphy and crouched down to pick up the stacked clothes and examine them one by one, feeling a bulge in the pockets of the clothes when she picked up a black coat.

She reached into her pocket and pulled out a handkerchief, which she was about to throw aside, when suddenly the corner of the handkerchief caught her attention.