As the sky grew darker, Thundercastle was enveloped in night, and the sound of the surging tide of the Darcy Sea reverberated under the Thunder Cliff and entered the dreams of the people inside the majestic fortress on the top of the cliff.

In the barracks of the Tyrell garrison in the outer city, a Guards soldier sat alone in a small room, leaning against a table with his fully covered helmet and a long sword lying silently beside him.

At this moment, there was a strange knock on the door, which sounded slight and strange, and the guards looked back at the door vigilantly, picked up the full-coverage helmet on the table and put it on his head, grabbed his long sword and walked to the door and asked softly, "Who is it?"

No one answered, the guard waited a few seconds, then slammed the door open, the sword in his hand poked out of the door, but no one appeared, he cautiously looked around, only a dark corridor appeared in front of him.

"What the hell!" the guard muttered to himself, closed the door softly, turned back to the table and sat down, and suddenly found three little people standing on the table, looking up at him with a serious face.

"Hey, hello, I hope our sudden appearance didn't scare you. The man in white stepped forward, waved his hand holding his cigar to the guards, and said, "Do you know why we are looking for you?"

The guard stared at them for a moment, gradually calming down from his surprise, and he shook his head lightly, "No, I don't know, what do you want to do?"

"Let me introduce myself, my name is Rogge, and I'm a friend of His Highness Tyrell, though I don't know if he thinks the same way. Rogge took a deep puff on his cigar and said, "I heard that he was burned, so I came here to find out who killed him." ”

"Did you find him, then?" asked the guard, looking at Rog with suspicion.

"Why do you use the word 'he'?" Rogge keenly caught the words in the other party's mouth, stared at him and asked, "Have you been sure that the murderer is a man before he has been identified?"

"Everyone knows that there was a waiter who approached His Highness's room at the time of the incident, and he disappeared after the incident, who could he be?" said the guard with a disdainful sneer.

"You're right," Rogge nodded with a smile and said, "As I thought, the murderer is one person, not the three people that Thorin said, and the two deserters that Thorin said are just smoke, because he doesn't take people out of the soldiers as killers at all, that will only mess things up." ”

He paced back and forth on the table, saying as he went, "Let's reconstruct the crime scene, the signs of poisoning I found on Tyrell's dog carcass indicate that the assassin disguised as an acolyte came to Tyrelll's room with a meal filled with Treasure Snake Venom and wanted to poison Tyrell. ”

"But alas, Tyrell was alert, he let the dog eat the food first, and then the dog died of poison!" Rog turned to look at Antonio and Catherine, who were listening attentively, and continued, "Then Tyrell and the murderer fought, and the two guards outside the door rushed in. ”

He looked back at the guards who were listening intently and said, "When I examined the three charred corpses, I found that the necks of all three were twisted off with their bare hands, and two of them were broken in exactly the same position, indicating that they were killed by the same person with the same method!"

Rogge paused, took a puff on his cigar and continued: "And the third person, his neck fracture is completely different from the previous two people, indicating that it is not the same person who killed him and killed the other two!"

"What the hell are you trying to say?" the guard asked in a somber voice, staring at Rogge.

"I'm trying to say that four people are fighting in Tyrell's room, and the killer broke the necks of two soldiers with his bare hands, and the soldiers in the hallway didn't hear anyone, isn't it strange?"

Rogge smiled and brought the cigar to his lips and said, "The only possibility is that the guards present at the time were all accomplices!"

"Nonsense!" the guards slammed their fists on the table in anger, and the whole table shook violently.

Rogge stood silently in place, staring at him without moving, and smiled: "Not only that, but all of Tyrell's men, including General Stark, are accomplices, and the reason they did this is to cover you as a murderer!"

"You say I'm a murderer, what proof do you have?" the guard stared at Rog with clenched fists, looking like he might swing his fist at him.

"I'll tell you the evidence later, but now I'm going to point out four suspicions," Rog walked to the edge of the table, looked up at the giant's face with a fully covered helmet, and smiled, "First of all, during the day you followed General Stark to the hall where the three charred corpses were kept. ”

"When Elder Titan and General Stark walked into the hall one after another, you didn't stay outside the door and wait, but followed the hall, which is a serious violation of common sense!"

"When I was in Hurricane City, I saw that the Titans are strictly hierarchical, and people who are not qualified are absolutely not allowed to take one more step, but you boldly followed in, this is definitely not something that an ordinary soldier dares to do!"

He turned to Antonio and Catherine, and said as he went, "Secondly, I have examined the hands of the three corpses, the two corpses with the same broken neck, their palms, tiger mouths, and knuckles have calluses on the inside of their palms, tiger mouths, and knuckles, which are left by holding weapons for a long time, indicating that they are the two guards standing guard at the door. ”

And the third deceased, his hands and fists were flat, and the fists had thick calluses, but the calluses of the tiger's mouth were very light, indicating that this person had been practicing boxing and empty-handed fighting for a long time, and had the ability to break the necks of soldiers with his bare hands, so it can be seen that the two soldiers mentioned before died in his hands. ”

"What nonsense are you talking about?" said the guard, staring at Rogge in surprise, "Do you mean that His Highness Tyrrell strangled two of his own soldiers, and then broke his own neck and set himself on fire?"

"I didn't say that," Rogge turned around and smiled slightly, and said unhurriedly, "Don't worry, listen to what I'm saying, third, I checked the feet of the three corpses, and the soles of their feet all had thick calluses, apparently left by walking barefoot for a long time." ”

He tilted his head and took a puff on his cigar, and said as he pondered: "As far as I know, the Titans also have a clear hierarchy in terms of being barefoot, only the upper echelons will wear shoes, and the middle and lower ranks of soldiers and civilians are barefoot. ”

Speaking of this, Rogge stretched out his hand to the guards and shouted: "But there is an exception, that is, soldiers with serious foot injuries that affect walking can wear shoes, this is to protect the soldiers' feet, and when you are in the morgue, you wear shoes on your feet!"

"So what?" the guard sneered and asked, "Am I the murderer?"

"No," Rogge shook his head meaningfully, "as a soldier, although you are wearing shoes, your steps are light, and there is no sign that your foot injury will affect your movement, even if it is a good shoe, it is impossible to make a seriously injured foot become as if it has not been injured!"

He gently spat out a puff of smoke, a sly smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he squinted at the guards and smiled: "Moreover, I see a kind of elegance and composure in you that is different from ordinary soldiers!"

"When facing the Titan King and Elders, you didn't have the slightest cowardice or cowering, but exchanged glances with General Stark from time to time, which is by no means something that a soldier can do!"

He tossed the cigarette butt of his cigar at his feet and stepped on it, stared at the guards with confidence and said loudly: "Finally, it is the evidence you want, take off your helmet, that is the best evidence, the third prince of the Titans, His Royal Highness Tyrell!"

The Guards quietly stared down at Rog, who looked up at him without flinching, and after a long time, a soft laugh came from the full-covered helmet, and the Guards slowly took off the helmet, revealing an admiring expression and smile on Tyrelle's face.

"Mr. Rogge, you've surprised me again, don't you have to do this every time we meet?" said the Titan Prince with a smile and lowered his head, looking at the confident smile on Rogge's face.

"Your Highness, you are really alive!" Antonio and Catherine, who were standing behind Rogge, looked at him in surprise, Tyrrell nodded lightly and smiled: "That's right, just like Mr. Rogge said, I'm still alive!"

He sighed softly and said to the three of them, "Everything is as Mr. Rogge deduced, the killer tried to poison me, but I used the dog to detect that the food was poisonous, and there was a fight with him, he strangled two of my guards, but the other soldiers nearby arrived in time to help me catch him." ”

Tyrrell gently placed the full-covered helmet on the table and continued, "This incident made me understand that Thorin would not dare to kill me openly, but he could kill me secretly, and I was afraid of being poisoned again, so I decided to fake my death. ”

"I broke the killer's neck with my own hands, and burned him to char along with the corpses of two soldiers, who were about the size of me, and couldn't tell the difference when burned, I thought I did it perfectly, but I ignored your presence. Tyrrell smiled at Rog.

"At least you're lucky, I'm not your enemy!" said Rogge, the smile on his face frozen, and he said, "You may have thought so well that you didn't even tell the Knights and the Priesthood for the sake of secrecy, but you made a fatal mistake today!"

"What?" Tyrell asked, his eyes wide in surprise.

"Do you really think that Thorin kept the three charred corpses in the palace just to wait for the results of the investigation?" Rog shook his head and said, "He wouldn't be so stupid as to let the killer he sent out never return, and believe that you are dead based on those three unrecognizable corpses, don't forget, he hasn't been able to pull out the Thunder Sword yet!"

"You mean ......" An ominous premonition suddenly welled up in Tyrell's mind.

Rogge continued, "Your action of following General Stark to the palace today to find out Thorin's movements was too reckless, Thorin was too busy dealing with the elders to take care of you, but he must have remembered the anomaly in this guard afterwards!"

"I was negligent!" Tyrrell said.

"Your Highness, you must act immediately and try to get out of Thundercastle, Thorin will soon send someone to track down your whereabouts, you won't be hiding for long!" Rog said to Tyrell in a hurried tone.

Tyrell nodded repeatedly, got up and was about to call General Stark, when the door was suddenly pushed open, and General Stark crashed in and shouted: "Your Highness, it's not good, Thorin has led people to surround this place!"

(If people don't know, unless they don't do anything, the so-called wise man must make a mistake in a thousand thoughts, how should Lao Luo and others deal with the crisis?