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When Benson heard the knock on the door, he thought it was the neighbor's kid next door who had come to him to ask for candy again.

As a government employee and a newly promoted deputy minister in the ministry due to personnel transfers and war, Benson's salary did decrease slightly, but his life did not become strained. Melissa's school was not closed, and according to her, the food in the school cafeteria had indeed decreased and become a little less palatable than before, but it was not unpalatable - after all, Moretti's family was not wealthy in the first place.

They still live the same peaceful life as before, each of them has lunch at school and in the workplace, then brings some food back to share dinner, and then puts away the bread and meat slices that have not been eaten in the evening for breakfast tomorrow morning.

The Moretti family's neighbor is also a government employee, but because of the difference in salary and position, as well as the larger size of the family, they are more affected than they are, and occasionally, when Benson and Melissa go out, they will see the wife of the family, or the old man wearing a veil hat and returning with bread.

But more often than not, they are empty-handed.

As a result, Benson and Melissa also reached some consensus. Out of respect for each other, they choose to occasionally invite a neighbor's child who is not yet ten years old to come to their house for a meal together, or give him some candy, biscuits, and buns that Melissa brought back from school.

Little kids don't eat much, and Benson and Melissa are good neighbors to trust. Therefore, the neighbors expressed their gratitude, although it could not be expressed in monetary terms, but the child would bring a simple origami or a handkerchief sewn by the hostess.

"Isn't it a little late today? What time is it......"

Benson came into the living room, and before he could get closer, he heard another knock on the door.

This time, he heard a big difference between the knocking sound and the previous one, the neighbor's child was not yet ten years old, and although the knock was rapid, the force was very light, and this time the guest knocked slowly, the force could not be ignored, and the knocking sound came from a high position...... Benson's eyebrows furrowed slightly, he felt that the position where the knocking sound came from should be the same height as his head, and the male owner of the neighbor's house was not so high!

Benson suddenly felt that something was wrong, and seeing that Melissa had also poked her head out of his room because of the second knock on the door, he quickly made a gesture for his sister to come to him with a kitchen knife.

Even in the current situation, there shouldn't be outlaws breaking into the communities where government workers live, but what if?

With a knife in hand, Benson let Melissa go back to his room, approached the door, and asked in a loud voice:

"Who is it?"

"We are Senior Inspectors of Police attached to the Beckland Police Department, Mr. Benson Moretti, please don't be nervous and afraid." A deep, deep voice came through the door.

Benson couldn't believe that, although he was a government employee, he rarely dealt with the West Villas field, so he deliberately said loudly:

"Can I show you your police ID?"

"By the way, I had dinner with Commissioner Mr. Brandley the day before yesterday, and he didn't tell me that there would be a police officer coming to my door today. Your voice doesn't sound like the senior superintendent I know, is the other one Mr. Bourne? ”

He disguised himself as if he was familiar with the senior officers of the West Villas field, and reported all the names of the police inspectors and sergeants he had only met a few times and had not spoken a few words, hoping to scare off the suspicious elements outside. It stands to reason that if the target of the robbery is not only government employees, but also high-level police officers, then dangerous people who are only doing it for money and food should give up anyway.

"You can call me Gale, Mr. Moretti."

To his surprise, the person outside the door not only continued to answer, but also said without fear at all: "I showed my police officer ID, you can check it from the cat's eye." My companion is not a Bourne police officer, but he can also show his police ID. ”

Benson hesitated to look through the cat's eye from a distance, and did see a police officer card with no trace of placement, the logo and dark stripes of West Villas Field. The doubts in his heart not only did not decrease, but increased:

"Then I believe in the identities of the two of you, but why did you come to me? Our department doesn't have much cooperation with you. ”

The two senior police inspectors outside the door, or the substitute punishment of the Thunder Church, glanced at each other, and looked at the police officers behind them, and the police officers consciously covered their ears to avoid suspicion. Then the self-proclaimed "Gail" said in a hard tone:

"Mr. Moretti, you are suspected of being involved in a vicious act aimed at subverting the country."

"Intent to subvert the state?"

Benson was taken aback, if the frighteningly large hat were to be smashed off, even the corners would smash him and Melissa into meat sauce.

Don't look at him now that he has become a deputy minister of the Ministry of Finance, but that is also because the deputy minister was dismissed because of his political stance and many reasons, and the children of the nobility who were originally candidates for deputy minister died in the war. What's more, the lawmakers who pushed forward with the Examinations Act also need a typical case to prove the merits of the bill, so that civilians, or Benson, who came from a former military family, can quickly be appreciated and fill the vacancy. - Other than that, Benson doesn't have the family and social connections to deserve this position. As the deputy minister of finance, his family's finances were affected by the war.

Therefore, Benson's first reaction was that someone was going to frame him, so he argued for himself without thinking:

"Please don't talk nonsense, Mr. Inspector."

"As the new deputy minister of the Ministry of Finance, who has only been in office for two months, why would I do such a thing? It's not in the slightest favor for me! ”

"Gentlemen, although I don't know what your purpose is, please stop slandering and spreading rumors about me at once, and leave my door immediately, or I will have to ask for the help of the community sheriff!"

Gail, the leader of the substitute punisher, took a deep breath, his eyes flashing with lightning, clearly annoyed by Benson's words. He had never been spoken to by a commoner like this, let alone a commoner who was not even a believer in the God of Thunder.

And his companion stabbed him with his elbow in time, and said in a loud voice:

"Mr. Benson, you are suspected of being 'involved', not involved!"

"Please don't be nervous, we're not here to arrest you. On the contrary, you and your family are important stakeholders, and we will protect you until the case is fully clarified. ”

The officer was obviously more organized, but Benson's heart was still pounding, and his palms clutching the doorknob were drenched with sweat.

"What the hell is going on?" Benson licked his dry lips, "I don't remember being involved in anything. ”

The substitute for punishment thought for a moment, flipped out his mission book and looked at it, and then asked:

"It's probably Mr. Benson and Ms. Melissa who are at home, and it's true that this matter has nothing to do with you, but you are indeed listed as important stakeholders...... Perhaps your brother Klein Moretti knows what's going on. ”

"Crane?"

Benson almost let out an exclamation, even Melissa couldn't help but cover her mouth, and Benson was even more angry:

"This is slander! This is even more excessive slander! ”

"My brother Klein Moretti is dead! In the city of Tingen, as a civilian police officer, he died fighting criminals! He is a hero of the city of Tingen and a source of pride for us...... (Benson takes a deep breath, tears glint in his eyes) Mr. Inspector, this must be someone who is pretending to be my brother! Please stop slandering my dead brother immediately! ”

Now it was the turn of the substitute punisher outside to be stunned.

"Klein Moretti is dead?"

He seems even more unbelievable than Benson, but he is the Extraordinary after all, and he is still the law enforcement team of the Thunder Church, and the fact that the dead are still active is equivalent to a ghost story to civilians, but there are many ways to achieve it in the Extraordinary World, the simplest is to summon the undead to work for him. After the death of ordinary people, the existence of spirits is very short, so the second is to use some specific spirit creatures to simulate the appearance of the dead, which is also a means of making money for some extraordinary people who perform "conjuring" and "reuniting with the dead" to cheat money.

The simplest and most straightforward way is that "Klein Moretti" may be the extraordinary person of the "corpse collector" path.

After all, he used to belong to the team of Extraordinary Beings in Tingen City of the Church of the Night, and there are a large number of "corpse collectors" in the Church of the Night, with all the recipes of the middle and low sequences - and records show that he also has a teacher-student relationship with the "Church of Death" Azik Eggers, maybe he was guided by Azk Eggers to become an extraordinary person in this path, and then entered suspended animation through some means, and then was awakened.

However, Klein was able to "come back from the dead" after drinking the "soothsayer" potion under the watchful eyes of everyone, and the punisher could only guess what the "Archon of Death" Azik Eggers had done...... Probably, Klein Moretti never died.

Death is just a technique to get out.

The poor family didn't know that their brother had become a cultist...... The substitute expressed deep sympathy for the two family members who appeared to be completely unaware and also sincerely believed that the younger brother had died to protect the people.

However, because of the death of his brother, the family was compensated by several thousand pounds, and I don't know if it was the purpose of this Klein Moretti.

“…… It's useless to say more, you look at this. ”

The Punisher pulls out a photograph from the assignment, which is pinned to a file with a paper clip, and the profile is "Sherlock Moriarty".

"Look at this, Mr. Benson."

The punisher pasted the picture in front of the cat's eyes so that Benson could see it.

Benson squinted his eyes for a while, and didn't think there was anything special about this bearded detective, if this detective and Crane looked alike, there were too many people in the world with similar face contours and eyes, and they could even break through the blood relationship.

But just as he was about to retort, he saw the substitute take out another photo from the folder.

The picture on this photo is very interesting, with a picture of Sherlock Moriarty, and Klein Moretti.

In addition, the beard that is exactly the same as that of the private detective is drawn on the photo of Klein Moretti - after drawing the beard, Sherlock Moriarty suddenly changed from "only looking like" to "having an eight-point look". Benson's eyes widened in disbelief and he didn't speak for a few seconds, and even his proud eloquence was temporarily useless because the facts before him were so shocking.

If Leonard had been here, he would have seen that both of these pictures were painted by him – yes, it was he who first discovered the similarities between Klein and Sherlock. But he would also be surprised, because these three comparative photos had already been sandwiched into the book after he found out the truth, and after digging up the grave and solving the misunderstanding, he hid it in the most inconspicuous place on the bookshelf as a secret shared by him and Crane, how could this be so easily found and shown to Klein's family to see?

Melissa stood in the doorway of her bedroom, and she could hear the words of the substitute outside the door.

She had scoffed at the other party's words, but when she saw Benson's suddenly stiff body, Melissa suddenly felt her heart shake violently, as if something was sliding in a bad direction, and then fell into the abyss.

"It's—that doesn't mean ......," Benson's voice became dry.

With tears still hanging from the corners of his eyes, his expression became sluggish, which made his expression look extremely strange and funny.

The words of the substitute punisher smashed Benson's dying throes to pieces like a hammer:

"Sherlock Moriarty doesn't have any identification, he claims to be from Makai, but Makai doesn't have anyone with this surname."

"Let me tell you, Mr. Benson, that this Mr. Sherlock Moriarty appeared out of nowhere in Beckland in September of last year. I remember, that was about a month after Mr. Klein's death, right? ”

"Truth be told, before that...... We have also been to Tingen, and we are sorry that in order to ensure that Mr. Klein Moretti's reputation is not tarnished by unscrupulous people who have stolen his identity, we have received the affirmation of the church there and dug up his grave. ”

As he spoke, the substitute took out another photograph.

Benson didn't want to look at it anymore, but the last glimmer of hope made him reluctantly raise his head, and then he saw the familiar tombstone, and the smiling face of the young man on the tombstone. In front of the tombstone was a coffin that had been opened, and there was nothing but air in it, and the corpse that was supposed to be sleeping there did not know where it had gone at the moment.

"Best Brother ......"

Benson's lips were completely bloodless, and he looked in disbelief at the contrasting photographs through the cat's eye glass.

He simply couldn't accept such a huge psychological gap.

Klein ...... Are you still alive? ”

The elder brother, who had always been mature, trembled slightly, clenched the doorknob, and muttered, "Are you still alive?" Why do you ...... Don't come back to us...... What the hell are you doing dangerously......"

"Mr. Benson?"

The substitute didn't hear his words clearly, but he realized that his words probably had the effect of making the other party believe his words - yes, in the face of such a mountain of ironclad evidence, Benson Moretti should have realized that his brother was not dead, but had somehow escaped from them, and then joined some hidden evil organization.

"Mr. Benson." He said again and knocked on the door, "Please open the door." ”

Click.

Benson opened the door, revealing a bloodshot face that seemed to age ten years in an instant.

"I'll go with you."

He said in a hoarse voice, full of endless sadness: "Please tell me, Klein, where he is now, what exactly he has done, why, why is he trying to subvert our country......"

TBC

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Good night!

(End of chapter)