Chapter 501: Hughes
Outside the library, Hughes and Renser, two small policemen, were nervously holding guns and monitoring the movement in the library.
Count Nath was an old nobleman of the Assyrian kingdom, and although it has been in decline for many years, history can be traced back to the founding of the Assyrian kingdom.
The Society of Truth, an association founded by Count Nut, has been under the watchful eye of the police for some time, because its members are all chattering and secretive.
However, the police could not determine what the Earl of Nat had committed. After all, the atmosphere of the Assyrian kingdom was quite open and developed, and there were countless associations of all kinds.
The famous ones include the Demon Hunters Association, the Alchemist Association, the Astrologer Association, etc., and even the fishermen have fishery alliances, and those who kill pigs are also pig slaughtering associations.
Count Nat has become a library, and it seems normal for people to build a truth meeting. And many of those scholars seem to be chattering, and there was a madman who said that the world they are in is actually a ball, and this ball is still revolving around the sun, which is just funny.
The Temple of the Sun is the abode of the God of Light, so how can we go around the temple in circles? This kind of heresy is punishable by burning.
Therefore, the police were only in the stage of suspicion and vigilance against the Truth Society, and there was no substantial evidence, so they only sent two young policemen, Hughes and Renser, to monitor them.
However, Hughes has always believed that there is absolutely a problem with the truth, and even the first policeman to report the truth will be problematic.
Although Hughes has no evidence either, he is convinced of it. It's the instinct of a police officer, the instinct of a future detective!
At this time, Hughes suddenly twitched his nose, and his face changed: "Blood!" There is a lot of smell of blood! Luncer sniffed too: "What does it smell of blood?" You probably drank too much of Mrs. Grace's beef blood soup at noon, did you? I think we should suggest to the Director that he replace Mrs. Grace. We drink ox blood soup five days a week at the police station! Oh my God, we're cops and not vampires! And the ox blood soup is even served with salty wheat porridge, how can the wheat porridge be salty? It's supposed to be sweet! Hughes checked the bullets in his revolver and said, "Mrs. Grace's salted wheat porridge is delicious, and the ox blood soup will ensure that we will have enough nutrients for that poor lunch budget." In addition, it is not easy to hire Mrs. Grace to cook lunch for us with a salary of one hundred copper karls a month. Replace Mrs. Grace and we'll probably have to nibble on brown bread and mashed potatoes every day. Finally, get ready to get your hands dirty! Before Rencer could react, Hughes had already taken the lead and rushed straight into the library!
Lunse was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly scolded secretly: "Damn! But he only hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and rushed in with his gun.
Hughes and Renser thought that they might encounter a mad cultist, an angry Earl of Nut, or all sorts of supernatural scenarios they couldn't have imagined when they stormed the library.
But they couldn't have imagined that the library was unusually peaceful. Only Yang Cheng, who was standing there watching them, and the blood in that place, and...... A corpse that looks like a dried corpse after being bled out.
Yang Cheng spread his hands at the two of them and said, "I said that I am innocent, these people all killed themselves by themselves, do you believe it or not?" Hughes hesitated, but nodded and said, "I believe it?" Yang Cheng asked with interest, "Why?" Hughes said in a deep voice: "Intuition, the intuition of a policeman!" But sir, even if you are innocent, please come with us to the police station. Yang Cheng didn't resist much, but just showed a smile and said, "Okay." The little policeman in front of him was very interesting, in the face of the blood and corpses in this place, it was obvious that the terrifying scene caused by supernatural forces was not the slightest fear, but he dared to let himself go back to the police station.
I don't know if he's really fearless, or if he's simply stunned. Compared to him, the other little policeman was so nervous that even his hand with a gun began to tremble.
The Assyrian kingdom was the most powerful country on the continent, and the official power was actually quite strong. Yang Cheng did not resist communicating with the official forces, and maybe he could finally get some useful intelligence information for him.
The two little cops, Hughes and Renser, were very pitiful, and they didn't even have a police car, so they had to walk back to the police station on their own legs.
In fact, there are public carriages on the streets, yes, not cars but carriages. The level of technology in this world is not very high, although there is a steam engine, but it has not yet been used on a large scale for automobiles, and horse-drawn carriages are still the mainstream vehicles on the road.
However, the price of public carriages is not low, and the police station will not reimburse them casually, so unless they go too far to run a eucalyptus, they have to rely on a pair of legs.
St. Brand West Police Station. Yang Cheng told Hughes everything that happened in the library and made a transcript.
Of course, some details are missing. For example, he didn't say that Count Nat had summoned Heather Vera, the god of truth, but only that he had disrupted the formation in advance, causing them to interrupt their death.
The police station has already taken someone to check the scene, and then combined with Yang Cheng's transcript, he will give him an explanation.
"Mr. Cheng, do you need dinner? But unfortunately, there is only beef blood soup left over from noon in the police station. Hughes poured Yang Cheng a glass of water and handed it over.
Yang Cheng shook his head and said, "My surname is Yang, not Cheng." You don't need to eat. Hughes patted his head: "I'm sorry, the names of the people in the Western Continent are behind, and I can't always react." ”
"Officer Hughes, is Earl Nut's library the largest in St. Brand? I need to find some books on supernatural powers, so I'm going there. Hughes shook his head and said, "Of course not, although Earl Nut's library is not small, it is only a private library, and most of the books in it are left by his ancestors. I even suspect that the reason why Earl Nat sacrificed to the evil gods and created the Society of Truth was because he saw things in those books that he shouldn't have read. Mr. Yang, you must know that there is actually a very secret thing about extraordinary power, although everyone knows it, but it cannot be seen casually. So neither St. Brand nor the public libraries of the entire Assyrian kingdom have any information about supernatural powers. And where there is information about supernatural powers, not everyone can enter. For example, the Royal Library, the Archives of the Witchers Society, the Alchemists' Guild or the Astrologer's Guild will have materials on various supernatural powers. Of course, the focus of the collection of materials in these places is also different. The Royal Library contains many secrets about the continent's extraordinary powers, which are difficult for outsiders to enter. The Witcher's Guild's archives are mainly records of various extraordinary monsters and anomalous events. The databases of the Alchemists' Guild and the Astrologer's Guild are quite complex, and all sorts of things are available, and they are best obtained. Establish a good relationship with some high-level alchemists and astrologers, or get some materials that they are interested in, and they will be happy to help you find some information. Alchemists and astrologers get along well despite their eccentric tempers. Yang Cheng looked at the little policeman in front of him in a little surprise.
He was just asking casually, but he didn't expect the little policeman in front of him to give him such detailed information and suggestions.
"You seem to know a lot about supernatural powers, and being a policeman seems to be a bit wronged, you should join the night watch." Hughes was silent for a moment, then smiled wryly, "My parents died in extraordinary events, so I've always wanted to be a night watchman and wield the power to fight those weird monsters. But it's a pity, maybe my belief in the god of light is not pious enough, and I can't perceive the god of light, so I am destined to become a night watchman without happening, and I can only come to be a policeman. Although I can't use magic to deal with those monsters, the bullets that have been blessed with holy water and inscribed with runes by the Alchemist Guild can also cause some damage to those monsters. The office door was pushed open, and Rencer walked over and whispered a few words to Hughes before stepping out.
Hughes turned his head to Yang Cheng and said, "Mr. Yang, Master Moulton, the senior alchemist of the Alchemist Association, has already gone to check the Truth Society. Count Nat, they did die from the sacrifice of the evil god, and the formation will really take effect, if it weren't for your obstruction, Mr. Yang, maybe the evil god of the Truth Society has already descended. Wait a minute, Master Morton will come and ask you a few words, if there are no problems, you will be free again, thank you for your cooperation. Yang Cheng waved his hand and said, "It is the duty of every kingdom citizen to obey the law." But one thing I'm curious about, why did you invite someone from the Alchemist Guild instead of a night watchman? "The police, as an official organization, must be dealing with extraordinary events from time to time.
Some things that can't be solved must be turned in. Therefore, Yang Cheng thought that it should be the night watchman of the Bright Sect who was docking with the police, but he didn't expect it to be someone from the Alchemist Association.
Hughes lowered his voice and said, "The power of the Holy See of Light is already very large, and the Night's Watch is certainly the strongest among these organizations. However, in recent years, the kingdom seems to have had some unpleasant trouble with the Holy See, especially in the case of the night watchman's authority, and it seems that some people are dissatisfied with the night watchman being too domineering. So since then, the official has been more in contact with other non-governmental supernatural power organizations, especially the Alchemist Association. Although they have a somewhat eccentric temper, they are still very talkative when not experimenting. Hearing Hughes say this, Yang Cheng suddenly understood.
Isn't this the struggle between imperial power and theocracy? The Holy See of Light is huge, and it has already occupied the faith of the entire Assyrian kingdom, and now it wants to encroach on more power of the royal family in the name of dealing with supernatural forces, and the royal family will certainly not agree.
So it's not uncommon for official forces to turn to other other-worldly organizations.