Fish is the most luxurious food in Xisha City, and the price of a fresh grass carp can be sold here for dozens of gold, or even more than a hundred. Lucalf Kopochin lay lazily in his big chair, eating the well-roasted fish in his mouth, while the maid and maid were waiting behind him, helping to carry the juice and hand the handkerchief.

"Well, the fish was grilled well today, and it reminds me of the time I used to spend with my friends when I wasn't even young. ”

Two thick beards like silkworms were stained with the spices and spices of the grilled fish, but Kopochin didn't care at all, he nodded with satisfaction, the fragrant fish lingered in his mouth.

The chef who grilled the fish next to him bowed down and said happily: "Mr. Lurkaugh's appreciation is my greatest honor, if you still need it, I will bake another one for you." ”

"Uh-huh, okay. A fish was soon gnawed under Kopochin's mouth, and he licked his lips and urged the cook to roast it again.

At this time, the butler suddenly ran over, holding a letter in his hand, and ran over with an exclamation: "Oh, no, no, master, again...... Here we go again!"

"What?" Kopochin wiped his mouth with a towel, took the letter in the butler's hand and looked at it, his face suddenly changed color, and he hurriedly shouted: "Hurry... Go and call them over. ”

......

If the largest resident of Xisha City is the manor of Copochin, Alice walked along the high courtyard wall for a long time without completely turning the whole manor. She came to the gate of the manor, and looked at the solid metal gate and the seven or eight heavily guarded guards in front of the gate, as if she were guarding the palace.

"Little girl, what are you looking at, don't stand in front of the door and look around. Let's go, let's go, go a little further. The guard guarding the door saw Alice standing in front of the door and did not leave for a long time, and came forward to coax her a little unpleasantly.

Alice said, "I'm just looking, I don't need it." ”

"What's there to see. The guard impatiently pushed Alice away, and said, "This is not the place for you to come, if you don't want to get into trouble, leave quickly, otherwise be careful that I will not be polite to you." ”

"Don't push me. Alice avoided pushing, but was driven away by the guards, and secretly thought in her heart: "If my matter is directly superficial, I am afraid that I will be driven out if I can't say two words." Before, I thought about directly threatening with violence. Now it seems that it will not work. She paced back and forth under the tree, and said to herself, "I just saw that the guards looked nervous, as if something was going on. And although this manor is very large, it doesn't need seven or eight guards to guard a side gate. Could it be that something is going on in the manor?......" she thought for a moment. Looking up at the manor courtyard wall in the distance: "In that case." I might as well go to the manor and find out what is going on before I make a decision. ”

It's night. Lucalcafe's manor house was brightly lit, and in the hall rooms of the main building, there were more than twenty people gathered around the room, except for Lucalf Kopochin.

"Here it is again, and here it is, and here it is!" said Copperchin three times in a row. But his expression was very nervous, he looked at the crowd, and his hand held the letter received in the evening and trembled, obviously very frightened.

"Sir, don't worry, I've deployed twice as many officers and soldiers to guard here tonight, and as long as the murderer dares to show up again, he won't be able to escape our sight. "The one who speaks is wearing a military uniform and should be the chief of the local peace.

"Really?" Kopochin glanced coldly, obviously not believing what he said: "Hmph, last time you said that you would definitely catch the murderer, but now, the murderer is still killing, but you don't even know who the murderer is." I've got a bunch of useless trash!"

The sheriff's face turned red, and he was very embarrassed, and he could not refute it, so he had to keep quiet.

At this time, a few people came out of the crowd, it was Jennifer and her party who came with Alice, Jennifer stepped forward and asked: "Sir Lurkaugh, we have already known the general situation of the matter during the day, which means that the murderer will write a letter to you before each murder, announcing his plan for the next killing." And in the past two months, the murderer has killed nine servants in the manor, right?"

"More than servants. The housekeeper Ivo said: "Last month, the master's adopted son was also murdered by the murderer, and his ultimate goal was to kill the master. ”

"Oh?" Jennifer wondered, "Since the murderer has entered the manor several times to kill the killer, why did he do this, why didn't he do it directly to Mr. Jazz?"

"This ......" the butler Ivo took out a letter from the small bag he was carrying and handed it to Jennifer: "Look at this, this is the letter left by the murderer before the second killing, the letter said that he wanted to make his master afraid, and he wanted to let his master die in endless fear. ”

Jennifer looked at the letter and handed it back to Lucas: "Oh, it's also a threat. ”

"Yes. ”

Kachenv said to the crowd: "The reason why I have spent a lot of money to bring you from all over the world is that I hope that you can catch this murderer for me, so that I will not be frightened day and night. Now that this murder notice has been sent again, what do you think should be done? This murderer kills people on a regular basis, and he doesn't have to kill tonight, or not, but as long as the letter comes, he will definitely kill people......

Outside the house, Alice, who wore a white hat and hid her figure, quietly stuck to the wall, listened to the sound of talking in the house, and said secretly in her heart: "It turns out that such a thing happened in the manor, no wonder there are so many guards here, and they are all nervous." Murderer ......"

Alice was thinking about her mind when she suddenly heard a shout nearby.

"Who's there?"

The cry came suddenly, and Alice was startled to see the shadow draw its knife and lunge at her. She hurried off the wall and flew and kicked at the man, but the man in the darkness was so skilled that he grabbed her left ankle in the middle of a flop. Alice was shocked, spun around in the air, kicked away the knife with her right foot, and lightly hooked the toe of her left foot and pointed it on the opponent's wrist.

"Hmm!" the other party let go, and both sides were shocked.

At this time, the people in the hall of the room had rushed out, and Alice saw that the situation was not good, and immediately ran away.

"Where are the people?"

"Chase, don't let him run!"

Noises came out at the same time, some people were still looking for Alice's trace, while others were already looking for it.

"The other party is invisible, protect Sizz!"

In the darkness, the figures were hunted down or guarded, but they soon subsided.

The pursuers returned: "Damn, let him run!"

"Didn't you catch it?, did you see the other side clearly?" asked the butler Ivo quickly.

The person who came back shook his head: "No, the other party has been in stealth, although the guards in the manor released the hound, but still let him run away." ”

"Oh, alas!" Ivo stomped his foot in frustration.

"What is a pity?" Jennifer said suddenly, "This person is not a murderer, what is there to be sorry for." ”

"That's right, this person can't be a murderer. "A man with short blond hair, dressed in a straight suit, is playing with a nail clipper in his hand and sharpening his nails as he talks.

Copochin was surprised: "What did you say, Mr. Nessim, you also think that this person is not a murderer?"

"Yes, although the other party is sneaky and hidden, it can never be a murderer. ”

Korpochin was puzzled: "Why?"

Nissim put down the manicure knife and explained: "The murderer has had the experience of killing people in the manor nine times, which shows that the real murderer is a master who can come and go freely in the manor. ”

Butler Ivo thought for a moment, shook his head, and said, "Not necessarily. It was Mr. Brad who had just spotted the suspicious person, and he was one of the best guards in the manor, and his strength was ...... The strength is also extraordinary. ”

"Oh?" Nissim looked Brad up and down as he was chasing him, and said, "I'm not done yet." There is also the second point, the murderer has committed murder nine times before, since his purpose is to intimidate Sir and make Sir live in fear all day long, so why didn't he do it this time? Although there are many guards in the manor now, but the manor is so big, it is not particularly difficult for him to kill one or two subordinates to cause panic, why did he sneak near the main mansion this time, does he want to assassinate Sir when the most people around him are protected? And the third and most important point. When I chased him out just now, a suspicious person who was stealth was running in front of me, and I smelled a faint fragrance in the wind that this person ran by, this fragrance was not an ordinary smell, but a body fragrance unique to a young girl, and it was a virgin body fragrance. Judging by my intuition, a teenage girl, still a virgin, could never be a murderer who did such a sneaky thing. ”

"This ......" Everyone looked at each other when they heard this, although they felt that the two things he said earlier made some sense, but the last point was too unreliable, and they didn't know how to respond.

After hearing this, Brad thought about it and nodded: "Yes, I fought with that person just now, and I grabbed that person's ankle, and the other party was wearing leather boots, but I felt that the other party's feet were very soft, it was a woman's foot, and it was not an adult woman." ”

Sheriff Binks spoke: "So, as Mr. Nesim said, the other party should be a teenage girl, probably a ...... It's a virgin. And everyone doesn't seem to think that this girl is a murderer, that murderer must be someone else, and his murder plan may happen at any time, so everyone still has to be careful and try their best to figure out a way to catch the murderer. ”

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