When the Capitol was in chaos, Pan Long had already returned to the Bureau of Suppression, staying in the corner of the telegraph hall, waiting for Dr. Natalia Long to get off work.

He hadn't forgotten that he was going to visit her today, to have a good talk with this woman who was keen on the study of history, and to exchange information.

Although the anti-suppression adviser will be undergoing a psychological examination next, he believes that she will be able to pass the test easily and will not be affected.

Just then, a telegraph suddenly rang. The staff in charge of managing the telegraph machine looked at the paper tape that had been typed out, and his face suddenly became wonderful.

Shocked, excited, scared...... All kinds of emotions were intertwined on her face, making her originally youthful and beautiful face look a little distorted.

She took a deep breath and said in the calmest tone possible, "Everyone, something is wrong!"

"What's the matter?" asked Dr. Natalia Long nonchalantly.

She was figuring out how to fool the psychological censorship, and she didn't care much about anything else.

"Four members of the National Assembly have just been assassinated!" said the staff member, with irrepressible excitement in his voice, "It's in the conference room of the Capitol building, right next door to our Anti-Suppression Bureau!"

For a moment, everyone froze, even Dr. Natalia Long.

The House of Lords of England is composed of royal descendants, hereditary nobles, life nobles, judges of the Court of Appeal, and archbishops and bishops of the church. These people are undoubtedly high society in British society, and it can be said that they have a monopoly on the whole of high society. If you don't get their approval, no matter how rich and powerful you are, you can only be a bun and have nothing to do with the "upper class".

...... In fact, without their approval, it is simply impossible to be "rich and powerful".

After all, the main natural and social resources of the whole of Britain are under their control.

In this era, the House of Lords was the highest authority in the United Kingdom, with not only the highest legislative power, but also a direct veto over any decree. Moreover, they are not elected, and the process of selection, inauguration, and resignation is completely free from social scrutiny and is not accountable to the public.

It can be said that these people are the big people in the real sense, the real "superior people", and the British royal family plus them are the real controllers of the behemoth of the British Empire.

But now, four members of the House of Lords have been assassinated in Parliament!

This matter is simply appalling, and this kind of thing has not happened in the British Empire for so many years!

"What the hell is going on?" a moment later, Dr. Natalia Long was the first to react, standing up and asking aloud.

"There is no detailed information yet, detectives and intelligence officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs are investigating the scene. The staff member looked at the tape and said.

Dr. Natalia Long frowned and sat back down.

The rest of the staff were already whispering.

"How could it be...... Can you be assassinated in Congress?"

"That's a Lord!"

"It's incredible!"

"How will this affect us?"

"Who knows...... Fortunately, our Bureau of Suppression is not responsible for the security of the Congress......"

In the midst of the chaos, the door was suddenly pushed open and Assistant Superintendent Wakefield walked in.

Compared with last time, this time his steps seemed much faster, and his face was no longer as cold as before, but there was a panic that was not enough to hide.

"Natalia Dragon!" he shouted, "Go to Room One at once, we need an emergency meeting!"

"But I still have to go through a psychological review first. Natalia said lukewarmly, with a hint of sarcasm in her words.

Wakefield's face froze, and he suddenly showed a bit of anger, but this anger was immediately suppressed by him, and his tone was more calm: "The censorship is canceled." Now there is something more important, four honorable Lords were assassinated at their workplaces. This despicable terrorist attack shocked all of Britain, and now we must put solving the case first and everything else in the back row. ”

"The Bureau of Suppression is not Scotland Yard, so what does it have to do with us?" Natalia was unmoved, "and I'm just a consultant who manages the telegraph hall, no matter how big the case is, it has nothing to do with me." ”

"Of course it's about us!" Wakefield clenched his fists to suppress the anxiety and anger in his heart, "The main work of those four Lords is related to our Anti-Suppression Bureau. One of them is even our associate director!"

At this moment, Natalia's face also changed.

"What did you say?!" she asked in surprise, "Deputy Director, the de facto supreme leader of our Anti-Suppression Bureau, and he was killed?"

Wakefield nodded with a heavy face: "Now you understand the seriousness of the matter, right? No matter what you have at hand, put it down immediately, all the department directors and action team leaders of the Anti-Suppression Bureau will have a meeting, now, immediately!"

Natalia nodded and stood up, "Okay, I'll go now." ”

She walked to the door of the telegraph hall, and after only a few steps she stopped, looking at Wakefield suspiciously.

"Assistant Superintendent, why did you come to inform me......? Does it have anything to do with me?"

Wakefield didn't answer, but turned around and pushed the door open, and hurried out.

After about 20 minutes, in a large conference room near the entrance stairs of the Bureau, more than 50 middle-level and high-ranking members of the Bureau were gathered together, their faces heavy as if they had lost a relative at home.

It's actually not wrong to understand it this way, after all, the de facto supreme leader of their Anti-Suppression Bureau has just died.

Wakefield sat in the host's seat and said in a deep voice, "I know a lot of people have gotten the news, but ...... Let me elaborate on this news. ”

He coughed, cleared his throat, and said, "At 8:25 this morning, there was a horrific terrorist attack inside the Capitol. Including Viscount Freiswater, the deputy director of our Anti-Suppression Bureau, four respected elders were assassinated. ”

He paused, seeing that everyone did not show a look of shock, and then said: "At present, the Royal Police, the Home Office, and the London Metropolitan Police have launched a joint investigation. Our Bureau of Suppression also sent a crack team led by First Class Police Inspector Douglas to participate in the joint investigation. However, the results of the joint investigation have not yet been reached, and I can only relay the information to you first-hand. ”

He turned around, pulled out a photograph, and used a device to enlarge the image of the photograph and project it into the air.

In the photo, it is an old man with a blank face. He was dressed in a gorgeous and dignified dress, and at first glance he knew that he was a big shot. But he had a deep wound on his forehead, his face was covered with blood, and the golden yellow of copper alloy could be seen in the wound, and something was clearly inlaid with it.

"This is the body of Viscount Freiswater. Wakefield said.

Then, he changed the photo, which showed a copper coin that had been washed. Round, square hole, there are four square words on it, "the world is peaceful".

"This is a murder weapon, and the injuries of the four councillors are exactly the same, all of them were pierced through the forehead by such a murder weapon. The skull was ruptured, and the remaining force shattered the brain, and he died on the spot. ”

Looking at the four square words, Natalia's face suddenly changed, and she couldn't help but say, "That's the Oriental text!"

"That's right. "We've established that the murder weapon was an Oriental coin called a 'copper coin' — but in the East, it has also been abolished, and they now use copper coins called 'tongbao' or 'ingots.'" ”

"Is that an ancient coin?" asked one of the supervisors, "is it a bronze coin?"

Bronze coins have a special place in the study of the invisible arts. In many cases, if the researchers of the invisible arts want to trade something, they often do not use the pound sterling as currency, but use these ancient coins that have been polished over the years and contain the power of sentient beings as currency.

If the murderer used bronze coins as a murder weapon, then it is almost certain that this person is a researcher of invisible arts.

"Not sure yet. "Experts are looking at whether the four copper coins are bronze or not, at least I haven't come to a conclusion." ”

"It shouldn't be a bronze coin. "At least, not the bronze coins of our history." ”

Everyone looked at her, and more than one of them showed a solemn expression.

"As you know, I have studied the history of the East quite a lot. Natalia stood up, took a deep breath, and said in as calm a tone as she could, "In the East, the word 'peace under heaven' has a very special meaning. It was the slogan of a massive peasant uprising that broke out in the East in the late second century. At that time, those peasants took religion as a bond, with the slogan "The year is in Jiazi, the world is peaceful", and wrapped yellow strips of cloth around their heads, which swept the entire Eastern Empire. ”

She paused for a moment and waited for everyone to understand her words before she continued: "Since then, the word 'peace under heaven' has taken on a special occult meaning in the East. Few people would dare to use it in public, or even if they were to use a similar concept, they would modify it and not follow it exactly. ”

She added: "There are also bronze coins with the theme of 'Taiping' in the East, but as Assistant Superintendent Wakefield said just now, it is either 'Taiping Tongbao' or 'Taiping Ingot', and there is no case where these four characters are printed directly on the coin." ”

"So, it could be a second-century bronze coin?" asked one of the supervisors.

Natalia shook her head: "In the second century, the bronze coins they used were called 'five baht coins'. There are only two words on the coin, 'five baht' – meaning that a coin is roughly equivalent to the weight of 'five baht' at the time. ”

"So, could this copper coin be a secret token used privately by the sect that started the uprising?" asked another supervisor.

Natalia shook her head: "It's unlikely. That sect had been brutally beaten for a long time, and had been extinct a long time ago. Even if there is a small remnant of them, they will not survive in our history - you can't imagine how active the Eastern Empire is in tracking down and fighting them, as far as I know, until now, if they are judged to have a relationship with them, not only will they be executed outright, but all adult members of the entire family will be killed as a result. ”

Everyone gasped, and more than one whispered, "It's really impossible to survive anymore......

"So I think these coins should come from another history - in that history, this sect under the banner of 'Taiping' has survived and has a certain power. That's why they use this copper coin as a symbol of their status. ”

"That's it, I'm done. Natalia nodded to the group and sat down again.

The supervisors talked a lot, and everyone looked solemn.

If the Assassins came from another history, it would be serious.

It is naturally impossible for those who are qualified to sit here for a meeting not to know the existence of "Zhushi". Although the British Empire is the most undisputed country in this history, and can even be said to be the hegemon of the world, in other history, this is not the case.

As far as everyone knows, there is actually only one of the five known histories in which Britain developed into the British Empire.

Britain in other histories is not as strong as it is in this one. There were even cases where the Roman Empire did not fall, England and Scotland were only two Roman provinces, and England lost the Hundred Years' War completely, and England became a fief for the crown prince of the French Empire.

No matter how powerful the British Empire is, it can't do anything with other history!

Natalia's face was even more solemn, and she thought of something else.

In the early hours of this morning, in the "Moonlight Street" that appeared on the streets of London, a powerful invisible cultivator from the East appeared. In her judgment, this person may have come from another history.

And this morning, someone used ancient Oriental coins from another history to kill the de facto top leader of the Bureau.

As long as you are not a fool, you can get a very clear conclusion by connecting these two messages.

The murderer was none other than the Oriental from another history.

He had a conflict with the Anti-Suppression Bureau, and they were very unhappy with each other.

In the history of his world, his sect was the leader of the Great Empire, and he was used to being on top and could not tolerate offending him.

And in his capacity, he disdained to kill a few nobodies, polluting his own hands.

So he chose to kill the leader of the Bureau of Suppression in order to show his power and deter those who had bad motives against him.

...... Yes, that's it, right?

She didn't say what she guessed, just quietly listened to the discussion.

The directors of the Bureau of Prevention and Control discussed in a rambling manner for almost half an hour, without reaching any meaningful conclusions.

In the end, Wakefield had to send all the action teams out and search the streets of London, trying to find a few clues.

Interestingly, he also concealed that the murderer might have been a named person from the East of other histories.

And...... He concealed that he had reported to Viscount Freiswater shortly before the crime, and had applied for an assignment to investigate information about the named man......