"Kidnapping?" Hearing the man's words, Rogge and Catherine were taken aback, and the man nodded again and again with certainty: "That's right, just now, Mrs. Klose went to deliver the ransom according to the kidnappers' demands, if you want to know the inside story, go to the law enforcement department to inquire." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"He's right, we're going to the Law Enforcement Department, and Antonio and Tali must be there. Rogge turned back to Catherine and said that the two of them hurriedly left Klose's house and rushed to the law enforcement department in Khan Fort City, where they learned that Antonio and Tali were indeed there.

"You're finally here, where the hell have you gone, Tali and I went to Shirley's manor to look for you, only to find that there was no one there, what happened?" asked Antonio suspiciously.

"It's a long story, let's get back to it, tell me what happened to Klose first?" Rogge asked, frowning at him and Tully's worried faces.

"Let's talk about it first. Antonio took Rogge into the law enforcement and sat down in a reception room, Antonio sighed and said, "This is really strange, a week ago, on the day the holy artifact was about to be repaired, Klose suddenly said that there was something going on in business, and then left the house. ”

"We stayed at home with Madame Klose until midnight, and Klose did not come back until the next morning, when Mrs. Klose was about to go out to look for it, when she found a note at the door. ”

Antonio took out the note and handed it to Rogge, who looked down and saw that it read: "Your husband is in my hands, pay me the ransom the way I say, or you will never see him again!"

"How much does he want?" Rogge flipped the note over and over a few times, then looked up and asked Antonio.

"That's the strange thing," said Antonio, spreading his hands suspiciously, to Rogge, "the kidnapper has demanded a ransom of four times, each time for only fifty copper coins, and so far the total has only been two silver coins." ”

"Kidnapping a man for two silver coins?" Catherine looked at Tali in surprise and asked suspiciously, "What's more, why did he divide it into four times?

"Klose is not a man who has the leisure to play pranks," Rogge said with a meaningful shake, "he takes his business very seriously, and he is completely at a standstill without a week in the store, and the restoration of the holy artifact is the most important thing in his hands, and he will not fool around at such a time." ”

"I don't think his kidnapper was playing a prank, but what exactly did he want?" said Antonio, puzzled, "and the way he ordered the ransom was also strange, sending a pigeon each time." ”

"Pigeons?" Rogge looked at him thoughtfully and asked, "Is it a living pigeon?"

"Yes, they were all sent by children from the streets, and according to their descriptions, it was a man who was wrapped all over his body and gave them a few copper plates and told them to bring the pigeons to the door of Klose's house, and a note was tied to the pigeon's leg, telling Mrs. Klose to release the pigeons at the designated place. ”

"Did the sheriff try to track the pigeons to find the location of the kidnappers?" said Rog, playing with the note in his hand, pondering, "Pigeons are very regressive birds, and the reason why they can be used as messengers is because they are very homely, and the kidnappers use them to pass money, so they must go to the place where the pigeons landed to retrieve them." ”

"The sheriffs did think of this," Antonio nodded approvingly, "but they don't have a very good way to track the pigeons, and they have tried several times without success, and the last time we don't know the news, the sheriff in charge of the case, Paul, has already followed Madame Klose to release it, and I don't know if it will be successful this time." ”

As he was talking, a tall, thin and uniformed sheriff walked in from outside with Madame Klose, Rogge and Antonio and others hurriedly got up to inquire about the results of the operation, and the sheriff sighed helplessly and said, "No way, we still haven't been able to track it down." ”

He invited Madame Klose and the others to sit down, and he dragged a chair and sat down, saying, "Originally, we had brought in the falconers in the city to track the pigeons with the help of their falcons, but when we did do so, we found that things were quite different from what we had imagined. ”

He sighed in frustration and said: "Those falcons can't tell the difference between tracking and hunting, every time the pigeon has not flown far, they catch it, we have no choice but to give up, but it is also difficult to hope that people will track it, and eventually we lose the trace of the pigeon." ”

"A bunch of big stupid birds, they can't even track!" muttered the little furball lying on Rogge's hat with a look of disgust.

"By the way," Catherine said to Rogge when she heard Lilith's voice, "If we can get Lilith to track the pigeons, won't we be able to find the kidnappers' hiding place?"

"I don't want to chase stupid pigeons!" exclaimed the little furball, raising its little head.

"If you want to see Sister Shirley sooner, you'll have to do it. Rogge raised an eyebrow and said.

"Nasty bad wolf. Little Furball pouted the little eagle's beak, lay down on his hat and said, "Okay, for the sake of Sister Shirley's face, I'll help you once, just once!"

"In that case, we'll have to wait for the kidnappers to ask for a ransom next time. Rogge turned back to Sheriff Paul and said, "Have you tried to put some spies around Klose's house to search for the man who hired the child to deliver the pigeons?"

"We did, but they seemed wary, and according to the children we interviewed, they were hired from different places, and they were far apart, and most of them were not near Klose's house, so it was not easy to find him. ”

"Looks like this guy is an insider. Rogge muttered to himself as he looked down at the note from the kidnapper in his hand.

After a little thought, he asked Madame Klose, "Madam, the kidnappers always send notes tied to the pigeon's legs, do you still have those notes?"

"It's all with the sheriff. Mrs. Cruzer looked at Sheriff Paul across from her and said.

"Why are you asking about all those notes with me?" Paul asked, looking at Rogge with concern.

"I just want to see these notes, can you get them for me?" Rogge said to him earnestly, and the sheriff hesitated, but got up and walked out, and a moment later he walked back with four notes and handed them to Rogge.

Rogge looked down at the notes in his hand carefully, looked at them one by one, and then said to himself in confusion: "This is strange." ”

"What's wrong? have you found anything?" asked Sheriff Paul, concerned.

"Look at these papers," said Rogge, dividing the five slips of paper in his hand among the people in the room, "these notes are of the same kind of paper, and the paper is very good, and the price on the market is about fifty copper coins, and this note is equivalent to twenty-five copper coins." ”

He sat back in his seat, looked at the puzzled expressions on everyone's faces, and said: "The kidnappers spent twenty-five copper coins to send a blackmail letter at a time, but only extorted fifty copper coins, which is not counting the money on the ink, and it can be seen from the clear handwriting on the note that the quality of the ink is also good, and the cost is so high, but it is too strange to extort such a small amount of money." ”

"You're right," Paul nodded as he stared down at the note in his hand, "what the hell is this guy trying to do?"

"It's hard to say yet. Rogge handed the note in his hand to the sheriff and said, "You put these things away first, maybe we can use them in the future, now we can only wait for the next blackmail letter, four extortions have only earned one silver coin, I don't think this guy will stop there." ”

Paul then put the note away and sent them out of the court, and Rog, along with Antonio and the two girls, sent Mrs. Klose home, and when they returned to Klose's house, they found it empty.

"Where's your servant?" asked Catherine, looking around the room as she accompanied Madame Klose into the drawing-room.

"Yulia is already home at this time. Madame Klose sat down on the sofa in the drawing-room, invited Catherine to sit beside her, sighed worriedly, and said, "She has a very sick husband to take care of at home, so she prepares dinner for us every evening by five o'clock, and she goes home at five o'clock." ”

"I see, then I'll go to the kitchen and get you something to eat." Catherine got up to leave, but Madame Klose took her by and waved her hand, "No, I can't eat, Miss Catherine, sit with me for a while." ”

At this moment Tali also walked in, and she sat down on the other side of Mrs. Klose, and told Catherine Rogge and Antonio to go to the second floor to discuss the next steps, and the two girls accompanied Mrs. Klose to talk about her family affairs, and learned that she and Mr. Klose had a son who was currently serving in the army.

Mrs. Klose told the two of them a great deal about Mr. Klose and her son, and after they were enlightened, Catherine went to the kitchen to get some dinner, and with Tully persuaded her to eat a little, and then sent her back to her room to rest.

The four of them then had a hasty dinner in the dining room, and then went back to their rooms to rest, and the next morning, the sudden knock on the door made everyone in the room nervous, Rogge rushed to the door in three steps and two steps to open the door, and saw a child standing at the door with a birdcage in his hand.

"Is this Mr. Klose's house?" asked the child, looking at Rogge.

"Yes, what's the matter?" said Rogge, glancing at the pigeon in the birdcage, and looking over the boy's head into the street.

"A gentleman asked me to send this. The boy handed the bird cage to Rogge.

"Thank you. Rogge gave the boy a copper plate, took the birdcage and grabbed the boy who was about to leave, and asked, "Please wait a minute, can you tell me what the person who gave you the cage looks like?"

"He was very tall, with a very thick cloak on his body, he could not be seen, and he wore a pair of cowhide shoes. The boy replied after a long time of recall.

"Are they flats?" Rogge asked with concern.

"Yes. The boy remembered for a long time and finally nodded.

"Good boy, thank you. Rogge took out another copper coin and handed it to the boy, and watched him turn and run away, then got up and returned to the house with the cage.

He put the cage on the table in the living room, grabbed the pigeon out in front of everyone, took the note from the pigeon's leg and saw that it had an address written on it, and at the same time it was stated that he had to arrive at the designated place at half past five in the afternoon and release it.

He handed the address to Madame Klose and said, "Be prepared, Madame, for if nothing else happens, we will find the kidnappers' lair tonight." ”