"First question. Alice asked, "I wonder what happened here twenty-seven years ago?"

The drunkard took a gold coin from the table and said, "Nothing happened here twenty-seven years ago, when it was still a small village, and the biggest thing was which family's children fell into the well, and which family's wife had an affair with someone else." ”

"What about the neighborhood, is there anything going on in the nearby city?"

"There were a lot of things that happened, but none related to Sir Lurkaugh, because Sir Lurcauf hadn't even come to West Sand at that time. Do you still want to know what happened then?" the drunkard took another gold coin.

Alice said, "You mean Sir Lurkauf is not a local, he is from out of town?"

"Yes. The drunkard took another one of the gold coins.

Alice asked again, "Sir, do you know what happened before he came to Xisha?"

"I don't know. ”

"When did he come to Nishisha?"

"Think about it. The drunkard thought for a moment and said, "It should be the year 7388 of the Holy Garden, yes, that year." I still remember that when he first came to Xisha, he wanted to settle here, and he hired me to paint his new house, and his home was not as big as it is now. ”

"The year 7388, that was twenty-six years ago. Alice muttered, "What happened twenty-seven years ago, and then twenty-six years ago Lurkaf came to settle in Westsand. ”

"Is there anything else you want to ask?" the drunkard looked at the gold coin, hoping that she would ask a little more question.

Alice still has some questions to ask. But at this time, he only thought about Lulkaf Kopochin, and said: "Don't worry, I'll come to you later, you tell me everything you know." She took out a bag of money and said to the bartender: "Bartender, this money is sent to you, and all the expenses of this old gentleman today are recorded with me, and I will come back later." ”

When the drunkard heard this, he was amused: "Girl, you are really a good person, good people will have good luck, I am waiting for you here." ”

After leaving the tavern, Alice ran straight to the town hall. She approached Deputy Mayor Banjera and said, "I want to go through the file again." Is it a personnel file?"

Kopochin is a nobleman with a knighthood, and the city of Xisha was established by him, so of course there are his archives here. In the archives, Alice flipped through Kopochin's biographical records. From his birth to the time he single-handedly founded the city of Nishisha. and the knighthood he received from the king.

"These should be all of Copperchin's personnel records. From this, from the time he was born to the time he was knighted, all the more important things were recorded one by one, and it seems that there is nothing wrong with it. But there is nothing here that has anything to do with twenty-seven years ago. Alice said secretly, "That's weird. Something must have happened to Copperchin twenty-seven years ago, but there is no record here......" Her heart suddenly moved: "Could it be ......"

She hurriedly flipped through Kopochin's file again and found a few more for comparison. "If this is the case, then it seems that what happened that year must not have happened in Zaliba, but a foreign incident, or an international incident. What happened abroad twenty-seven years ago, ...... twenty-seven years ago" Alice carefully searched the memories in her mind, searching for the big international events that happened in 7387. After all, she was too young to know too little about what had happened in the past in the world, and she couldn't find anything to remember. And this is just a local archive, which generally does not record what happened abroad, only in the national archives.

"What should I do? How can I find out what happened 27 years ago?"

......

Outside the tavern, in an uninhabited alleyway, a half-drunk lacquer master was talking to a man with a white scarf wrapped around his head and a gauze scarf masked.

"Yes, but only halfway there. She said to come back and ask me later. The drunkard said.

The masked man said: "Remember that these things you said are what you know, no one has ever sued you, if you dare to divulge my deposit to others......"

"Then I'll die. The drunkard didn't wait for him to finish his sentence before taking it.

The masked man nodded: "Very good, you are a smart person, this is for you." "A bag of money was thrown into the hands of an alcoholic. The drunkard put away the money and immediately left the alley.

......

Coming out of the personnel file, Alice first went to the tavern and asked the drunkard more questions, so that she also got another piece of information, not only Lurcaf Pokochin had come to West Sands twenty-six years earlier, but also Mayor Lucalf Callid had arrived from out of town in the same year. Then Alice has been given a space to guess, that is, if Korpochin and Khalid came to settle in West Sands from other places because of the same thing, then Khalid was probably not killed because of Korpochin's relationship. If this hypothesis can be true, then the murderer's motive for killing was not simply the murder of Copperchin, but a murderous plan for something that was going on.

Alice said secretly: "Now all the clues are focused on the incident twenty-seven years ago, if you can figure out what happened twenty-seven years ago, this qiē will be able to come to light." ”

At this time, the officials of the magistrate's office hurried in the direction of the manor, and Alice stopped to ask what had happened, only to find out that it was Jazz's fourth wife, Reco, who had disappeared.

It was Sizz's butler Ivo who discovered that Reco had gone missing, and he told everyone that Lady and her maid had not been seen for two days, and at first she thought that Lady had taken her servant Nasha to play outside the manor, but she had not returned until last night, which made him anxious. He didn't dare to report the matter to his master at that time, so he could only take the people in the manor to search around, but he didn't find it after searching inside and outside the manor all night, so he reported the matter to the owner Kopochin and reported the case.

After receiving the report, Binks naturally launched a city-wide search of all the characters at his disposal, but several hours passed, and he still couldn't find it. In the evening, Deputy Mayor Banjera heard the incident and rushed to arrive, along with Naviti and Saseniel.

The disappearance of Sizz's wife is extremely serious, and Bengera said, "Could it be that the murderer did this again?"

"Then Madame, she may be in danger. Epsilin said: "But I haven't seen the body yet, and I can't be sure yet." If it was the fake Nissim, perhaps it was possible that he had taken his wife hostage. ”

"If you take him hostage, then you will put forward conditions, and wait. Bangera said.

Copperchin nodded: "Well, that's all there is to it. ”

......

Late at night, in the secret room in the backyard of the manor, the torture was inflicted on Nasha layer by layer, and poor Nasha had already been beaten to the point of being inhuman, and only her last breath was still hanging there.

When Copperin entered, Ivo stopped his torture device.

"How's it going?" asked Copperchin.

Ivo shook his head: "All the torture has been used, and she just won't say it." ”

"If you don't say it, then fight again. Seeing such a tragic scene, Copperchin had no pity on his face, only coldness and cruelty.

Ivo said, "Master, if she continues to fight, she will die." ”

She ...... Would she rather die than say it?"

Ivo did not answer.

"Damn, these damn Sudemite remnants are so hard to deal with, I've been hiding here for more than twenty years, and they're still here!"

"What now?" asked Ivo.

Copochin said angrily: "Since she wants to die, let her die!"

"This ...... Do you want to think again. Ivo said: "They still have accomplices who have not been found, and if they kill her, then they will not be able to talk about the stubbornness of Lady Ricco." ”

When Kopochin thought about it, he could only suppress his anger and said: "Then save her first, and then slowly torture her." There are some ways to torture people in this world, I don't believe that she doesn't open her mouth!"

At the same time, a group of mysterious black-clad masked men came to the outside of the manor, and they jumped into the high courtyard and dived deeper into the manor......

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(Today's fourth shift is over.) (To be continued......)