The next day, the news exploded throughout the city that Lucalf Copperin had died, on his bed. When the current mayor Bangera and sheriff Binks arrive at the estate with people, they are startled by the tragic scene in their beds.

The bed was covered with blood, and although the blood was attracted by the bedding, it remained wet. Copochin was disemboweled, lying on his back on the bed, his limbs were all cut off, and even his head was cut off without a trace.

Seeing this, Binks' face turned white, and he hurriedly asked the people present, "Who was the first to find Jazz's body?"

"Yes...... It's a maid who washes Jazz's face early in the morning. Ivo, the butler, glanced at the maid who was still trembling and colorless.

Binks couldn't speak when he saw her like this, so he had to ask Ivo, "Butler, did any suspicious people appear in the manor last night?"

Ivo shook his head: "No, but the master seems to have gone out last night." ”

"What's going on?"

The housekeeper Ivo said: "I used to shut myself in the study at eleven o'clock in the middle of the night so that people should not disturb him, but I forgot it, and at half past eleven I went to bring tea to the master, knocked on the door, but there was no response in the house. I was worried that something would happen to my master, so I used a spare key to open the study, but there was no one in the room. ”

"Oh, is it the study here?"

"Yes, it's the study on this floor. ”

Binks went to the study and asked, "What about then?"

"It was only after a little after a little later that I saw the master in the hallway. At that time, the owner was about to sleep. Although I was curious at the time, I didn't dare to ask more about the master. Ivo said in a fifteen-tenth voice......

......

In the hotel, Alice was dressed in pajamas, sitting on the bed with her chin propped up. After a while, he puffed out his cheeks and sighed: "I'm so tired, I have to think about so many things every day, and my head is going to be big." It's better than before, don't think about anything, don't worry so much. ”

She collapsed on the bed, her face pressed against the slightly rough quilt. Eyes blinked. I began to think about the parchment scroll again.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and outside the door Jennifer shouted, "Alice, are you in the room?"

"Yes. Alice scrambled to her feet. Open the door of the room and ask, "What's the matter?"

"Something's wrong!"

Jennifer's suite. Alice had changed her clothes and sat down with the four of them. Rourke said: "It's okay now. Korpochin is dead, and last night we thought about going to Copperchin again to ask about the map, but now we can't do it. ”

Alice thought for a moment. "I was negligent in this matter, I should have thought that Copperchin's life would be in danger, but I reacted a step too late." ”

"What should I do?" said Comander, "the only one who knows about the tomb is that map, but we don't know who took it." Hey Lucas, you're usually the smartest, what's your idea?"

"I'm wondering who killed Copperchin right now," Lucas said. We also saw last night that Copperchin is not weak, and according to Alice, he is probably also a master. Who will be the one who can kill him?"

"Could it be the black-haired man who appeared in the square during the day yesterday, that one is called ......?"

"Saseniel. ”

"Yes, that's him. Comand said, "He rescued his wife Reco, and he rescued the man in black, maybe the man in black has a grudge and asks him to take revenge?"

Rourke said: "It's useless to guess whether he killed it now, what matters is the map." ”

Jennifer saw that Alice was silent and asked, "Alice, what do you think?"

Alice looked up and said, "I want to see the body." ”

......

At the town hall, Naviti came here with people and Saseniel, and Naviti said, "Acting Mayor, I'm afraid there is some misunderstanding in this matter, right?"

"Misunderstanding?" said Bangerra, pointing at Saseniel, "this man saved the Man in Black in full view, and now I even suspect that he has a close connection with Sir's death." ”

Naviti said: "This is impossible, yesterday during the day we were on the Gobi and did not enter the city, and Saseniel has been with us all the time, and has never left half a step, how can it be possible that we are here again to commit a crime? ”

"What you said is true?"

"Of course it's true, all the people I brought with me can testify," Navita said. ”

"That's strange, but what we watched with countless pairs of eyes yesterday won't be fake." Ah, is it the face of a demon again?"

Binks immediately said, "It's very likely." ”

Naviti asked, "What's the Demon Face?"

"A prop that can change a person's appearance. Bangera looked at Saseniel and said to Naviti, "I believe you, but your friend is suspicious anyway. I hope that your friends will not leave Xisha City until the matter is cleared up in order to assist in the investigation. ”

Coming out of the town hall, Naviti said to Saseniel, "Don't worry, I'll help you through this." ”

"Thank you. Saseniel smiled appreciatively.

Naviti patted him and said, "Thank you, we are friends, you saved my life, you were with us yesterday, I believe in you." It's just that the mining of minerals is going to be delayed, but I'll deal with it, go back to the hotel first, and I'll contact my dad. ”

"Hmm. ”

Back at the hotel, Saseniel's mind was dark: "I didn't expect Bangera to know the face of the demon and almost let my identity be revealed, but fortunately, Naviti trusted me." I also blame the fact that the decision was too sudden, I originally came here to develop minerals, but I didn't expect to hear the news of Dragon Zero after I came, and at first I wanted Monina to deal with Dragon Zero, but she didn't know much about Dragon Zero, so I had to let her pretend to be me and continue to approach Naviti. It seems that I need to be cautious until the dust settles on the world, and I can't let anyone know that the map is mine. Well...... Reco can't go and meet them again. ”

......

The golden yellow sand was scorched by the sun, and a man led a camel slowly in the desert. The desert is so large that there is no end in sight, like an endless sea, drowning everything and the footprints left by a man and a camel.

The wind and sand started and stopped, and the man walking on the sand dunes raised the sand hat on his head, and his black hair was blown by the wind in front of his forehead, and he showed a pair of clear black eyes looking ahead, but he couldn't tell the direction at all, he could only see more sand. The camel leader had no choice but to lower the sand hat again. Keep your head down and continue to move forward with the wind and sand.

......

The bodies lay in the morgue of the church. Alice and the others were shocked when they saw the corpse.

Comand snorted: "It's so ruthless, broken hands and feet, disemboweled, and even the head was cut off." His killer, Jane, hated him so much. ”

The surrounding area was full of cold. Stacks of ice around the morgue lowered the temperature of the morgue. Jennifer looked at Alice and asked, "What are you going to see here?"

"I'm here to confirm one thing. Alice stared at the corpse. To the four people around him: "You strip him of his clothes." ”

The fat corpse was lifted up like a dead pig, and the clothes on it were quickly stripped off. Alice stepped forward and looked inch by inch, as if she was discovering something from the corpse.

Jennifer glanced at her companion. I just thought Alice's behavior was very strange, and after a while, I couldn't help but ask, "Alice, what are you looking at?"

"I'm looking to see if this guy is Copperchin or not. Alice said.

The four of them were stunned, and Jennifer said, "You mean this person may not be Copperchin?"

Alice looked at the corpse around the corpse bed and said: "Generally speaking, cutting off the head after killing is nothing more than two reasons, one is that the murderer has a great hatred for death, and not cutting off the other party's head is not enough to calm the hatred in his heart, and the second reason is to hide the true identity of the deceased. ”

"We know that, too. Do you see anything?"

Alice nodded: "This person is not Copperchin. ”

"What?!" all four of them were startled, and Comand hurriedly asked, "How do you know?"

Rourke also looked at the corpse and shook his head and said, "No, I also looked at the corpse carefully." This guy is very similar to Kopochin regardless of body size, and he has fine skin and tender flesh, and his skin is well maintained, which is rare for people to have such skin in such a dry place as Xisha, and at first glance he is a pampered person. And Kopochin has a habit of incense, and I don't have to get close to this guy's corpse to smell a scent of incense, which is caused by years of immersion, how could he not be Kopochin?"

Alice didn't say anything, just reached out and pointed, pointing to the part of Copperchin's right hand.

The four of them leaned up to take a look, and wondered, "What's the matter, there's nothing wrong?"

Alice said: "Look at the ring on his right index finger, the ring is very smooth, this is a trace caused by playing with the ring for a long time. I remember that Copochin had a habit of rubbing the ring on his index finger with the base of his right thumb, and I noticed his hand when I was talking to him, and this part of his right thumb also had a very smooth callus, which this person did not have. ”

Jennifer hurriedly said, "According to you, Copperchin is really not dead?"

Alice said: "I think he left this trick for himself a long time ago. He knew that someone wanted to kill him, and it was impossible not to take precautions, and this was probably also a fake image he directed and acted by himself, just waiting for all the people who knew his true identity and secrets to get rid of him, so he changed his face by faking his death and left this place, and no one would know him again. ”

"This guy is so scheming, what he did from the beginning, is it just for today's step?"

Alice said: "Maybe this is a way back for him. Here are the cities and homes that he has worked hard to build for more than 20 years, and I am afraid that he can't give up casually, maybe he just wanted to get rid of a few people who knew his identity, and then become his knight in peace, the real master of Xisha City. It's just that things have become complicated, and he escaped by faking his death, and maybe now he has already left Xisha. ”

"Do you want to tell me about it, so that you can mobilize those who are in the shadows to find him?" asked Jennifer.

Alice shook her head: "Let's go, the coroner will come to perform the autopsy in a while, don't let them find us." ”

...... (To be continued......)