Two days ago in the afternoon, on the outskirts of Baifeng Town.

With a flash of green light, several figures appeared in the dense jungle, they were the same kidnappers who had been teleported by Anne, led by Orlov.

None of the people reacted, only Orlov understood what was going on, he was originally a nobleman, he had been in various circles in Baifeng Town for a long time, and he had also befriended several magicians.

At this time, he could see through the magic circle on a tree that they were under attack by magic.

Compared to the panic of the kidnappers, Orloff is surprisingly calm, which is an innate trait of him, and the more desperate he is, the clearer he is.

If this continues, Louise will be rescued by the witch, and she will most likely go to Baifeng Town, when he will be convicted of kidnapping the children of the nobles, and maybe even the murder of his brother will be exposed.

Unlike these outlaw kidnappers, Orloff still has a family business and property in White Peak, and if he could give it up easily, then he wouldn't have killed his brother in the first place.

So, he thought of a desperate solution, which was to draw a line with these kidnappers before Louise was sent home, and then return to Baifeng Town to clear his name.

Although he risked being caught, he had no other way now, and if he didn't do anything, he would definitely not be able to go back, and he would be left with nothing.

"Hey, what just happened? Do you have any clues? The eldest of the kidnappers asked him.

"The woman used magic."

"Huh? Magic? The kidnappers looked at each other, as if they had never heard of such a thing.

"Hmph, I told you not to stay in such a conspicuous place a long time ago, but now it's good, the hostages are lost, and the ransom will not come." Orlov said indignantly.

"Hey, what do you mean? You're blaming me," the boss didn't like it anymore, and shouted loudly, "You didn't object at the time, but now it's my fault that something goes wrong." ”

"Hehe, I didn't blame anyone." Orloff crossed his arms and sneered.

"Tsk, okay," the boss didn't want to say any more, and then asked, "Then tell me what we should do next?" This single can obviously make a lot of money, but the result is so yellow, do we really give up like this? ”

"Or else? We're just ordinary people after all, how can we compete with witches," Orlov said, and suddenly changed his words, "but I can still introduce you to another business, which can be regarded as my compensation for your failure this time." ”

"Haha, sure enough, it's still you who is righteous, let's hear it." When the boss heard this, he immediately smiled.

"Hmm," Orloff said mysteriously, ...... "I'll talk ahead, it's not easy, and if you're not careful, your life will be in danger, so you'd better think about it first." ”

"Hmph, don't be alarmist here, you say that every time, and so far this order has failed."

"Hehe, that's what I said, but I still have to grieve a few of your brothers in this matter."

"Okay, as long as you have money to make, you can say anything." The Boss readily agreed.

Subsequently, Orlov quietly told him about his plans.

……

Back in the afternoon of the previous day, at the direction of Nova, Melissa took Orlov to the scene of the crime.

It was a remote jungle, a few hundred meters away from the main road to Baifeng Town, and a carriage had stopped in the dense grass, and the horses had already run away, leaving only the body alone covered with weeds.

Melissa drew her sword and cleared the surrounding weeds to make way for a clearing.

The broken carriage had been reduced to a small animal's lair, and as soon as Melissa approached, a gray figure sprang out of it and fled into the depths of the jungle, because it was so fast that no one could tell what it was.

At this time, Nova also hurriedly helped to clean the carriage, and then it was possible to see that there were clear traces of blood left on it, which continued to the bottom of the carriage, and it seemed that the deceased had shed a lot of blood at that time.

Looking at these traces that had long since dried up, Nova recalled those bad memories again, no matter what, what happened that day had become a psychological shadow for the rest of his life.

Melissa observed the carriage and could see nothing but a dozen knife marks on the door.

It is now certain that the two deceased were stabbed several times and died from excessive blood loss, and as for the murder weapon, Melissa could judge that it was a medium-length machete based on her years of experience as a knight.

This kind of knife is commonly used in the hands of some butchers who sell meat, and is used to chop meat and remove bones, and some gangsters use it to defend themselves or kill people.

According to Nova, the murderer hired someone to commit the murder, so naturally he would find some gang members, so that everything was right, and then he just had to investigate all the gangs in Baifeng Town, and then let Nova identify it.

However, in theory, this is true, but it is not easy to implement, although all the gangs in Baifeng Town are registered by the Knights, but those gang members are always fooling around, and even if they are gathered, it is very difficult.

"Orlov, since you're here to investigate, you should play a role." Melissa looked at the guy who was standing by in a daze.

“…… Ah, sorry, I'm thinking about it. Orlov came back to his senses and said embarrassedly.

"Oh? Do you see something? ”

"Well, I did find out," Orloff nodded, and then said, "You knights probably don't have a record of this case." ”

"Uh, yes." Melissa nodded.

This meant that she had admitted the Order's negligence, but as a worthy knight, she did not want to deny her mistakes.

"Alas, if the Knights had investigated earlier, they would have found the murderer soon, you see."

Orloff said, gesturing to a bloody stain on the back of the carriage, apparently from the drag.

He then went on to explain.

"Under normal circumstances, when the victim encounters the prisoner, he will definitely try his best to escape from the carriage, and even if he fails in the end, there will only be blood stains on the front or side of the carriage, and the blood stains on the back of the carriage should be left by the murderer's dragging of the corpse after the murderer kills the ......"

"But what does that mean?" Melissa was puzzled.

"Oh, listen to me first," Orlov hurriedly said, "Regarding the follow-up of this case, the Knights should know, the two corpses were finally thrown on the road a few hundred meters away, but it's a pity that you didn't investigate deeply, otherwise the murderer would have been caught a long time ago, after all, the traces left are so obvious." ”

"Hey, don't talk nonsense, the murderer is obviously you and the kidnappers." Nova was impatient, and when he heard him, he seemed to be blindly accusing the Knights of irresponsibility.

Although this was indeed a dereliction of duty on the part of the Order, he found that Melissa felt visibly guilty when he heard this, and he feared that Melissa would lose her judgment as a result.

"Oh? What is his relationship with the kidnappers? Melissa hurriedly asked.

As a result, Nova tells her what happened to her, and Melissa finally realizes that it was the same group of people who killed Nova's adoptive parents and kidnapped Louise.

"Oh, Nova, you can't slander me for nothing, we have to talk about the evidence, right?" Orlov looked aggrieved.

"Well, if you find anything else, let's go on." Nova didn't bother with him anymore, but wanted to see how long he could act.

"Well, then can you recall when the deceased was killed, day or night?"

"This ...... Of course, it's daytime, and only during the day will we go out on an outing. Nova didn't understand why he was asking this.

"Hehe, isn't this enough, how dare the murderer throw the body in the daytime? And there was a lot of traffic on the road, so it wouldn't be good if people saw it, so I guess the murderer hid the body for a while after the murder, and then threw it on the road at night when there was no one. ”

“…… Well, it seems like that's the truth. Melissa had to agree with the conjecture.

"What do you call it like, it's obviously like this, follow the bloodstains left by this drag, we can find the place where the murderer hid the body, if I'm not mistaken, it should also be the murderer's stronghold."

"Hmph." Nova snorted coldly, thinking that he was one of the murderers, and of course he knew what was going on.

"Alright, without further ado, let's go over and have a look."

Melissa said, picking up her long sword and opening the way in front, because after a year, this place has been covered with weeds, and after clearing those weeds, sure enough, she found a trail of blood.

After about an hour, they found a thatched hut a kilometer from the carriage, and the blood stains disappeared here, and it seemed that this was the stronghold of the murderer that Orlov had said.

Because it was deep in the forest, the light was very low, and there were some dwarf shrubs everywhere.

Melissa swung her sword to clear the way to the thatched hut, but when they arrived, they found that it was the back door, and on the other side there was a path leading to the main entrance of the thatched hut.

After a while, with a "squeak", Melissa opened the door to the thatched house.

However, the moment the door opened, a strong stench hit his face, and Nova wanted to vomit when he smelled it.

Melissa quickly covered her nose as well, and then looked intently, and found that there were corpses lying all over the ground in this small house, and the degree of decomposition was quite high.

Orlov was not so surprised, he calmly walked in and counted the corpses on the ground.

"It looks like they're the murderers, but if you look closely, they all have knives stuck in their bodies, apparently stabbed in the back, and it seems that they were killed by a sneak attack."

"Indeed, so who attacked them?" Melissa asked.

"Hehe, it's not simple, it must have robbed the money, and in the end, the spoils were unevenly distributed, and someone killed his accomplices, and then swallowed all the property alone."

Nova walked over and looked at the bodies, although they were already unrecognizable, he recognized the clothes they were wearing, this was indeed the same group of people who had killed his adoptive parents at that time, and it was they who had kidnapped Louise, there were nine people in all, except for Orlov, there was one.

Now, he couldn't figure it out at all, how could this group of people die here after he had seen them in his forest hut not long ago, and they had been dead for a long time like this, could it be that he had seen ghosts before?

But he knew very well that there were no ghosts in this world, and he couldn't help but think of one possibility, or the only one.

That is, there is a problem with his memory, because he can't bear the fact that his adoptive parents were killed, so his memory is confused.

However, after careful consideration, he still realized that something was wrong, if these people were long dead, and then the one who survived threw the bodies of his adoptive parents onto the road, then what about kidnapping Louise?

Because this is something that Melissa also knows, could it be that other people's memories are also confused?

"Tsk, what the hell is going on!" Nova couldn't figure it out at all.

However, Orlov on the side couldn't help snickering when he saw his expression, he knew very well that no one would know the truth now.

In fact, the plan he told the boss was to kill the other kidnappers, and then he promised to give half of his fortune to the boss when the deed was done.

As for why these corpses looked like a long time ago, Orloff had to be glad that he had dealt with the magician, he had long expected such a day, so he bought a few bottles of potion from the magician in advance, this special potion can dispose of the corpse as if it had been dead for a long time.

Of course, in order to prevent the East Window incident, the boss was later killed by Orlov's design, and his body was not even a slag, and the reason for killing him was very simple, because only the dead can keep secrets.