Chapter 369: All About the Ripper
Covering the flesh and blood directly with an "iron plate" is not a wise choice.
The process was painful and had a high mortality rate, which was not a technique used on the aristocracy and the big men of high society.
The "body" here is the "body" in the literal sense.
Bart called it "Slave Armor" because it was a technique used on dead soldiers and slaves.
The armor is nailed to the human body and cannot be removed, and there is only one way to die after dismantling.
The piece behind it is not a simple iron plate, but a great creation of steam machinery.
The needle pierces into the blood vessels, drawing blood for fuel, causing a special resonance in the rest of the armor.
Let the dead move like ordinary people, or even faster, and will not be dragged down by weight.
Of course, the most important thing about slave armor is still reflected in defense.
As long as you protect your head, you are enough to become a "body of steel" and shield your master from danger.
Surely the big guys wouldn't put this stuff on their bodies.
However, there may be one or two bodyguards around them, and they will have slave armor on their bodies - more formally, it is called blood armor, which is named because of the red lines on the iron plate.
These lines are caused by the slow penetration of blood over many years.
Baron Bart is dressed in blood-tattooed armor because he was once not a big man and has a tragic and inspirational past.
His rise in Lington was only within a decade.
Thirty years ago, Bart was a war slave in the Colosseum, dressed in blood-patterned armor, fighting with other people and beasts.
From a war slave to today's baron, it can be described as quite inspiring.
The blood-patterned armor on his body was a secret that his wife, who was born in a declining little aristocracy, and his two children did not know.
Even, even I almost forgot that unbearable period of just over a year, not too long but extremely painful.
Today's Baron Bart has long lost his former blood bravery, and has become not much different from other "big shots".
After figuring these things out, Xia Yanzhen asked, "Don't you think I'm Jack the Ripper, and you think I'm the one from the Colosseum?" ”
Bart glanced at Xia Yanzhen strangely and replied, "That place was formed by a big businessman, and later he went bankrupt and people died. ”
"Ah, so you didn't kill it?" Xia Yanzhen asked.
“…… No. ”
Baron Bart said after holding back for a few seconds.
The irregular "Colosseum" completely collapsed with the bankruptcy of its owner, and he regained his freedom.
It's not an exciting story to fight your way out.
Of course, this does not affect the inspiration of going from war slave to baron.
If Bart really killed, he wouldn't have his current status.
"Well, what about people like you in Linton, are there many?" Xia Yanzhen, who was thinking too much, asked, "I mean to nail an iron plate to your body." ”
"No, this technology was declared illegal twenty years ago." Baron Bart said, "But it's not for a few reasons, not too much because it's not a very old method. ”
The mortality rate is too high, and it's more about improving defense, and it's not the slightest bit brilliant in other aspects.
Over time, this technology became obsolete.
Of course, neither the technology nor the illegality could prevent the bigwigs from letting one or two of the dead men of slave armor into their homes.
Baron Bart can be regarded as a big man in Lington, and there is no such dead man because he has it himself, and he doesn't need anything extra.
It is still very expensive to raise a slave and a dead soldier, and the bankrupt businessman must have understood it very well.
"Well, tell me about Jack the Ripper."
After learning about the slave armor technique, Xia Yanzhen turned his focus back to Jack the Ripper of the mission.
"Jack the Ripper...... It's crazy. Baron Bart thought for a moment and said.
"You know him?"
"I don't know." Baron Bart said, "But anyone who knows what he does will think he's a madman." ”
"How?"
"Just look at the people he killed."
"I haven't read the eucalyptus rolls, and there is no specific information about the victims in the newspapers, only that I know that the identity is extraordinary. It is not known who exactly he killed. Xia Yanzhen said, "I don't dare to say it in the newspapers, it seems that the dead are indeed important." ”
added a sentence of his own analysis.
Baron Bart looked at Xia Yanzhen, and finally couldn't help but ask, "You just came to Lington?" ”
"Sort of, answer my question." Xia Yan Zhencai was too lazy to weave a suitable identity for himself.
"Seven dead, three old nobles, four new nobles." Barthes put it in the most succinct terms, "The Ripper offended not a certain person or a certain group of people, but the whole of Linton, the whole of Inwell." ”
In the upper echelons of Lington, the positions, identities, and factions of the big people are quite complicated.
But to simplify, it's also very simple, there are two kinds - the new aristocracy and the old aristocracy.
The ripper came to a "double kill", how can such a person not be considered a madman?
"Offended all of Linton, Inwell, so, have you caught any clues about him?" Xia Yanzhen asked.
Bart was silent when he asked directly, shaking his head in silence.
"None? Not at all? Xia Yanzhen asked.
"So to speak." Bart said.
No one else may be able to answer in the affirmative, but Bart and Gran Field are close friends.
He also really knows the progress of the investigation of Jack the Ripper very well.
The progress is terrible.
In addition to determining the other party's unique criminal methods, Gran Field knows no more about Jack the Ripper than "Old Things in Linton".
"Since you didn't catch any clues, why do you think I'm not Jack the Ripper?" Xia Yanzhen asked.
"If Jack the Ripper had been as high-profile as you, we would have caught him a long time ago." Bart said.
Contrary to Jack the Ripper's fiery fame, it is the Ripper's own style of acting.
He was a ghost in Lington, and no one but the dead had ever touched or seen him.
It is even doubted that it exists at all - if not if the seven dead died in the same way.
The extent of Jack the Ripper's elusiveness can be glimpsed from the places of death of the seven deceased.
The two deceased died in their own carriages.
According to the coachman's recollection, it was a normal driving trip (home) at night, and the deceased was sitting alone in the carriage.
They were driving the car, smelled blood on the way, realized that something was wrong, and opened the car door to see that the person had been disemboweled, dead.
In the march of the carriage, quietly died.
The doors were closed, and the coachman was not aware that anyone had gotten on or off the carriage.
There were also two deceased who died at the party, one at the ball and the other at the ordinary party.
The place of death was the washroom.
Before the deceased was found, no one was aware or aware of anything unusual - except that the deceased had been in the toilet for a long time.
The other three deceased, died in their beds at home.
If the carriage and the ball party are outside, there is a possibility that outsiders can get close.
At home, the possibility of outsiders approaching is greatly reduced.
In particular, the three deceased were the last three deceased.
After the death of four big men with heads and faces, the upper echelons have begun to endanger themselves.
Naturally, the protection of the home is done to the extreme.
The doors and windows were locked, the windows were reinforced with iron plates, and there were bodyguards outside the room.
However, even in such a well-guarded secret room, the person is still dead, and when he enters the room at night, he is alive and well, and when he looks at it the next morning, it is cold.
There are carriages that never stop, parties and dances that are in full view, and secret rooms.
Three extremely difficult environments, Jack the Ripper leaves nothing but a corpse.
He was like a ghost that suddenly appeared, killed, and suddenly disappeared.
Not to mention the Grand Field, even if you can call the Gran Field police around, point at the higher-level detectives and detectives, and scold them, telling them to stay away, because their existence has lowered the IQ of the whole street and affected their own thinking.
It's not just Gran Field that's looking, it's the detectives.
Little detectives, third-rate detectives are also looking.
In Lington's Bounty Hunter Market, Jack the Ripper is currently the only quest.
Gangs of all sizes, large and small, also make the search for Jack the Ripper their most important task.
Even ordinary people know that there is a good reward for providing clues to Jack the Ripper.
The whole of Linton is like a giant machine, running frantically to find Jack the Ripper.
But...... Half a month has passed, and there are still no effective real clues.
Before the name Jack the Ripper was proposed in "Old Things in Linton".
Inside the Grand Field it is called "Ghost".
Obviously, this title is far less eye-catching than that of Jack the Ripper.
After the Linton incident began to be reported, the name Jack the Ripper was also used in the interior of the Gran Field.
Unfortunately, the change of designation did not speed up the progress of the eucalyptus.
Xia Yan's style of acting is completely different from that of the ghostly Jack the Ripper.
If he really was Jack the Ripper, Baron Bart would have laughed out loud.
His close relationship with Gran Field is maintained by the current Chief Constable of Gran Field.
But Jack the Ripper could not be caught, and the Chief Superintendent could not keep his position.
Hereditary titles do not play a very good role in the face of the great pressure of the "double nobility".
Emotionally, Baron Bart is tempted to think of the mysterious man in front of him as Jack the Ripper.
Intellectually, I really can't.
Moreover, Jack the Ripper is concerned about the safety of the big guys, and it is impossible to find someone to blame.
After listening to "everything" about Jack the Ripper.
Xia Yanzhen even extinguished his desire to complete the task in the form of exploration.
"Linton...... What is the strongest combat power in the entire Inwell? Xia Yanzhen asked.
He had a not-so-mature plan in mind and needed more information.
"The strongest combat power?" Bart didn't know why.
"Is there anything like steam-mechanical armor that you wear on your body?" Xia Yanzhen simply changed his question.
"Yes." Bart replied.
"Is it strong? Well...... Can you stop the bullets of that steam gun? The kind that will explode. ”
"The armor can block the attack of the blood bomb." "But you can't keep it off." ”
"I want to see it." Xia Yan really thought about it and said.
I can't come up with a reason just by listening to the description, but I still have to experience it for myself.
"Yes, I have some friendship with Count Marvin." Barth's heart finally let go, and he shouldn't die.
Although the other party is not Jack the Ripper, he is a madman no less than Jack the Ripper.
Jack the Ripper is a silent ghost who takes people's lives silently.
And this ...... Bart was thinking not of individuals, but of disasters such as fires and hurricanes.