King Deiz's words surprised everyone present, and Antonio persuaded him bitterly: "Your Majesty, Sir Langaro is very good at investigating cases, and I have seen him solve many difficult cases with my own eyes, and he will certainly help you find out who is the murderer of the prince." ”

"There's nothing to check about this!" King Deiz shouted angrily, "Who else but that bastard of Hochersky? I must break him into ten thousand pieces, and let the people of Checheng pay for my son's life!"

Antonio was about to persuade a few more words, but King Deiz couldn't help but say, and with a wave of his hand ordered the guards to blast everyone out of the palace, and the guards were about to step forward to drive everyone away, when Rogge suddenly raised his hand and shouted: "Your Majesty, wait!"

King Deiz, who was about to leave the throne and return to the harem, turned his head and glared at Rogge, as if he was the murderer of his son, Rogge said unhurriedly when he saw this: "Your Majesty does not let us check the body of His Highness, nor does we allow us to look at His Highness, this is not a problem, I still have a way to get clues about the murderer on His Highness." ”

Hearing Rogge's words, King Deiz turned to face him suspiciously, and the people around Rogge also looked at him in surprise, only to see Rogge push away the guards beside him and step forward and say to the king: "As long as you allow me to stand outside the door of the room where His Highness's body is stored for ten minutes, I will be able to get the clue I need." ”

Everyone present stared at Rogge with incredulous eyes, and the king sneered after a moment's silence: "Could you be some charlatan, running to me to rob while the fire is hot? I don't need people like you to investigate any clues, get out of my palace!"

When the guards heard the king's words, they stepped forward and pushed Rog out, Rog smiled calmly, turned around and walked out and said: "In that case, forget it, I thought that King Deiz was a wise king, but I didn't expect that he didn't even investigate who his son died in, and he only knew that he was ruthless, which really made Tarthalas ashamed." ”

The king, who was about to turn away, heard his grandfather's name, turned around sharply and shouted, "Slow!"

Everyone stopped and looked back at the king beside the throne, and King Deiz stared at Rogge's slightly mocking face, and asked in a deep voice, "Can you really find out who killed my son?"

"Captain Antonio as a guarantor, if I can't produce strong evidence to prove who is the murderer, I will pay for His Royal Highness the Prince on behalf of the people of Checheng," Rogge stepped forward and smiled confidently: "How about it, Your Majesty, do you want to gamble?"

The king stared at his face for a moment, then turned his gaze to Antonio, and the knight chief looked at Rogge with some hesitation, although he believed that he must be sure, but he still felt uneasy about him making such a big bet, but he had no choice but to nod to the king in affirmation.

"Well, I'll give you a chance, but you only have three days, and from now on, you must bring me the murderer here in three days, and prove to me that he's the murderer!" said King Deiz as he strode up to Rogge and glared at him with two stern eyes.

"Yes, my majesty!" said Rogge, confidently owing him.

"Go then, go to the place where my son's body is kept, but as you yourself said, you are not allowed to enter the room, let alone touch or look at his body, and you can only stand at the door for ten minutes!" the king glared at him coldly, and turned to brush his sleeves away.

"Sure enough, it's a descendant of Tarthalas, but he can't stand the agitation!" Rogge glanced at the old king's back and turned to Antonio with a smile.

"Are you sure?" Antonio looked at the cynical smile on his face and asked uneasily, "There are only three days, and the corpse is not allowed to be examined, what are you going to do?"

"Don't worry, let's go to His Royal Highness the Prince first. Unhurriedly, Rogge turned back to the palace steward and said, "Lead the way, Lord Steward." ”

The steward of the palace led the group through the beautiful palace made of white marble, under the magic towers, to the bedchamber of Prince Kevin, where the prince's body was laid in his bedroom, already decorated in a richly gilded coffin, waiting to be nailed to the lid and buried.

Rogge and the others stopped in front of the luxurious silver door of the bedroom, and the steward ordered someone to bring a ten-minute hourglass, and said to Rogge: "If you are ready, I will start the timer, and when the time is up, you must leave the palace, this is your Majesty's order." ”

"I'm tired, Lord Steward. Rogge smiled approvingly, turned around and handed the sleeping little Lori in his arms to Catherine, Catherine just took Lilith, and the little Lori kicked her little feet, and a small red dancing shoe fell in front of the door of the bedroom.

"Little villain, sleep so dishonestly!" Rogge frowned and leaned over to pick up Lilith's little dancing shoes, and when his hand grabbed the shoes, Monica, the little flower spirit hidden in his palm, jumped behind the dancing shoes, and took advantage of the opportunity of the dancing shoes that Rogge picked up to block the manager's vision, and got into the house through the crack in the door.

Monica, who flashed through the door, cautiously looked into the room, and saw that there was no one around, so she flapped her wings and flew towards the coffin placed in the center of the luxurious large room, and burrowed into the coffin through the gap in the front of the coffin.

The body inside the coffin was already showing signs of decomposition, Monica carefully landed on the prince's face, probed the inside of the corpse's nasal cavity, and noted the color of the corpse's lips, and then protruded a thorn vine from between the wings behind it, and pierced the sharp tip of the rattan into the prince's lips.

When Monica pulled back the thorn vine, there was already a lot of coagulated blood on the spikes on the surface of the rattan, Monica stretched the tip of the rattan in front of her, dipped a little blood on it with her hand and put it in her mouth to taste it, and suddenly felt the bottom of her heart.

She left the coffin and flew out of the half-open window, and went around from the corridor back to the door of the dormitory, and landed on Rogge's shoulder, Rogge glanced at her with his spare eyes, saw her nod slightly, and said to the steward, "Lord Steward, I have found the clue I wanted, thank you." ”

The chief steward looked at him suspiciously, looked down at the hourglass in his hand, it only took about five minutes, he suppressed the doubts in his heart, turned around and led everyone out of the dormitory, on the way Rogge asked him, "Do you know where the attendant who suffered misfortune at the same time as His Royal Highness the prince is now?"

"He was in the martyr's cemetery in the royal city, and I heard that he would be buried in the next few days. The manager replied nonchalantly.

Rogge nodded and said nothing, and left the palace with the others, and when they said goodbye to the steward and walked out of the palace gate, Monica couldn't wait to say to him, "The prince has signs of poisoning in his mouth and nose, and I have extracted the coagulated blood from his body, and found that it contains a toxin from a plant called blood clotting." ”

"Blood Clotting Grass ......" Rogge couldn't help frowning after hearing this, and only listened to Monica's introduction: "That's right, this plant will cause the blood in the body of people and animals who eat it to gradually coagulate, it is a chronic toxin, it has a long onset of effect, and the effect is especially obvious at night. ”

"I remember this thing," Rog muttered, "this thing is very common in the northwestern part of Erus, and the toxin extracted from it is highly volatile, colorless, odorless, and easily soluble in water, but it is by no means a poison that can be bought casually, because the extraction process is very complex and difficult. ”

"Can you find any clues about the murderer?" asked Antonio, expectantly.

"This is not enough," Rogge shook his head slightly, and said to Antonio, "Let's go and see the squire first, while he is not yet buried, at least we can know if he and His Royal Highness the Prince have the same cause of death, which can help us make the first judgment, and then I have another favor that I need your help with." ”

The group left the palace and went straight to the martyr's cemetery outside Bailin City to check the body of the attendant officer, Rogge found no obvious human injuries on the body of the attendant officer, and Monica found the toxin of coagulated herb in the blood components of the attendant officer, Rogge nodded with satisfaction when he heard the news, and led everyone out of the cemetery with Antonio.

"Next, we'd better go to the base camp of the Deiz army besieging Checheng, which will require the commander to clear the way. Rogge smiled and said to Antonio, and the knight commander readily agreed, and the group returned to Checheng through the dimensional passage and appeared directly in the Chinese army camp of Deiz's army.

Antonio made his intentions clear to the current commander of Deiz's army, and according to Rogge's request, asked him to find the soldiers and attendants who were on duty outside the prince's tent on the night of the incident, and at the same time to call the two generals who accompanied the prince to Checheng on the day of the incident.

"On the night of the incident, did His Royal Highness the Prince eat or drink anything during the period between leaving Checheng and returning to the barracks?" asked Rogge, sweeping his gaze over the two generals.

Both of them said that they had returned to the barracks after leaving Checheng without any stops, and Rogge asked the soldiers who were on night duty outside the tent if the prince and the attendant had eaten after returning to the barracks.

"When His Royal Highness returned to the Great Tent, he used to say that he was thirsty, and after I poured him a glass of water and drank it, he lay down and fell asleep, and did not eat anything else. One of the two soldiers outside the prince's tent replied.

"Where did the water come from?" asked Rogge, narrowing his eyes at him.

"It's the water that comes from the nearby river, and the whole army drinks the same water. Another soldier replied.

"When did that water get into the big tent?"

"I sent it in before dusk, and the barracks will distribute drinking water once before dusk, and I will bring it to His Royal Highness as soon as I receive it, so that he will drink it when he returns. One of them said.

"Has anyone ever entered the tent since the water was brought in?"

"No, we've been outside the tent, no one else has come. The two replied without hesitation.

Rogge nodded silently and asked the same question to the two soldiers outside the chamber, to which one replied, "Lord Stewart has fallen asleep since he returned to the tent, and I asked him if he wanted to have dinner, but he refused, and lay down without even taking a sip of water." ”

"The attendant officer didn't drink anything since he came back?" Rogge was stunned for a moment, the soldier's answer seemed to be different from what he expected, but another soldier confirmed his words, and at the same time, the general who investigated the scene of the crime also testified that the kettle in the chamberlain's tent was full when the body was found, and the water in it was tested to be fine.

"One drank water and the other didn't, but both of them were poisoned, so it is impossible for the poisoner to be from the barracks......

"But," Rogge muttered to himself, frowning, "if the banquet was poisoned, why were the two generals who went to the banquet not poisoned, and if it was poisoned in the beetroot soup that the prince drank, why did the attendants who did not drink the soup also be poisoned?