Chapter 1196

The relationship between nobles can be said to be very complex. Even friends in the same camp can't and can't provide help unconditionally.

A nobleman will help another nobleman only because he is profitable or he is ready to play a big game of chess.

Just as Jeremiah would take a share on the condition that he was also involved when he learned that Carla needed manpower, even if the two had a good relationship at school, they would not give help in vain.

Anyi pointed out that if he could really find the man behind the assassination of Jeremiah, this evidence would become a big political chip. Duke Winifred could use this to threaten the other party to be obedient, give way in many key positions, and so on.

After all, although assassination is very common among nobles, it can't be said in public.

As a provider of this evidence, Carla will naturally get the support of Duke Winifred. At least after the matter reached her cold-faced father, she won't have to worry about being pulled into marriage for the time being.

If you think so, the benefits of tracing this matter are more reliable than catching serial killers. The latter brings only fame, while the latter is a real benefit.

But the success rate of tracing this matter is very low.

An Yizhi now has only the imperial sapphire, the sleeve arrow used by the assassin, and the crossbow fired by the sleeve arrow.

And he can see these clues. How can the local nobles not see them? Their families also have a lot of subordinates. They can get these information as long as they ask the subordinates who are proficient in weapons, but they can't find out who they are.

As Carla said, a qualified assassination plan will certainly completely eliminate all evidence related to the plan before implementation. Even the clues left may be used to bring disaster to the East.

An Yizhi also said that he wanted to check this. He just felt that it might be the main task. By the way, he spent his leisure time before the emperor's permission.

However, after the two left Duke Winifred's house, magical communications from the guard disrupted the plan.

There was another murder.

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According to the guard, the murderer's modus operandi was the same as the serial killer they blocked into the sewer. Because they were worried about whether the serial killer could find a way to get out of the sewer, they asked an Yizhi to go and have a look.

The crime scene is not too far from Duke Winifred's residence. It won't take more than ten minutes for Carla and ANN to walk there. It's better to go by the way.

The success rate is really not high enough to check the real person behind the assassin.

The location of the crime was in a commercial street. Anyway, I can't hide it. The police simply pulled a fairly wide blockade this time. An Yizhi and Kara took a rickshaw to the place. It was a typical small shop, with people living on the second and third floors and business on the first floor.

Ann, standing at the door, looked at the sign of the store, which said "Ophelia magic consumables store".

Wait a minute, it looks familiar!

An Yi pointed to the business card given by the middle-aged man he met on the train. It also said that Ophelia's magic consumables store.

Coincidence... Or was the system arranged from the beginning?

I think the latter is more likely. After all, what this bad system likes most is the copy generation method of setting up three pits for the player in one step. It is likely that once the copy is entered, it implies that the family has something to do with the task.

It's a pity that the sweet little girl left a pretty good impression on an Yizhi.

Shaking her head, Ann threw away her useless compassion, raised her feet and followed Carla into the store.

The guard has been investigating here for some time. Just now, because Carla is in Duke Winifred's house, where magic communication is blocked, and only wired communication is available, she can't be contacted.

"The deceased was a couple who ran this magic consumables store. According to the entry-exit records, they just got off the bus and came back this afternoon. The time of the crime should be shortly after they entered the house. The first discoverer was the adventurer who had agreed to pick up the goods at the appointed time. Seeing that the boss didn't open the store at the appointed time, he went around the back door to check whether anyone was at home I found that the boss and his wife had fallen into a pool of blood. "

The door of the store is a common rolling shutter door in the store. There is a wooden door behind the rolling shutter door. The guard said that when they came in, including the rolling shutter door, they were locked without opening trace, and even all the doors and windows did not show any signs of abnormal opening.

The guards were telling Carla the facts of the case. Ann listened casually and continued to walk inside.

Skipping the busy blue vest, you can see rows of shelves full of magic consumables, such as cheap magic gemstones, herbs used as alchemy concoctions, Warcraft blood and so on.

The prices of these things are not high. They are small profits.

If you go inside, the value of things placed in the tight glass window is relatively high. For example, magic gemstones such as fire agate are unlikely to purchase especially good gemstones. Even if there is a way, you don't have the capital to purchase them. Even if the gemstones are carefully kept, most of them are of medium and low value, He doesn't like this gem on Clark's side.

However, this kind of gem is also commonly used by serial killers. The guard suspected that the gem used by the serial killers in their recent crime came from this temporarily closed shop. I'm afraid the couple running this shop were killed because the serial killers were hit by them when they just entered the house when they secretly came to pick up the gem, so they decided to kill people.

Continue to go forward, then came to the counter, there are also many guard people busy over there.

Because of the speculation of the guard, they are counting the account books and the quantity of goods of the store. If it is consistent with the quantity of gemstones lost by the serial killer at the crime scene, the nature can be basically determined.

An Yizhi also saw the victim on the ground near the counter.

She was the wife of the family she met on the train. She lay on her side and fell to the ground. The murderer put her head on her elbow. There was a dazzling wound on her chest. It looked like a cross shaped blade.

An Yizhi pinched the joint. She had a stiff body, and a lot of blood on the floor had solidified. It is likely that, as the guard guessed, the time of death was not long after she separated from an Yizhi from the railway station and returned home.

It's a little uncomfortable to see someone you know die in front of you. So is an Yizhi. After all, he is still a person.

It has nothing to do with character. It's purely human nature.

Fortunately, human beings have reason in addition to nature.

He looked casually at the body and turned to the other side.

There, behind a shelf, the body of a man leaned against the wall, and his body was placed in the shape of a funny face. Ironically, there is an oil painting with a portrait of Sevilla, the only goddess in the world, hanging above his head.

The goddess's loving eyes swept all this and calmly watched the event happen.

On the whole, although the deceased was an acquaintance, which was somewhat uncomfortable, the situation was similar to what the guard had guessed, and this account was likely to be included in the serial killer.

But Ann felt a little abnormal.

Or the crime scene is too normal, which makes an Yizhi feel that all this is more like being photographed.

So he turned around and went back to Kara and said to the guard:

"Can you show me the account book of this store?"

The guard looked at Carla, who nodded, and the other party said:

"OK, but you can't take it away. We haven't finished the comparison of the goods."

An Yizhi didn't intend to take it away. He just felt that if a shopkeeper who didn't recruit or annoy anyone was killed by a serial killer, there should be some clues in the goods he took over.

There are a lot of account books. An Yizhi only looked through the latest account book, because this account book has been compared by the guard.

The bookkeeping method of this store is different from the ordinary ledger, or more like a daily account.

For example, what did you buy today and how much did you spend. Another example is what is sold, how much is the cost and how much is the profit.

The record is really clear, but it is too flowing and not easy to manage. This is also an important reason why it takes a long time for the guard to compare the books with the goods in the store.

An Yizhi casually turned a few pages and found that this store not only operated magic consumables, but also provided ordering services.

This is also one of the standard services of the magic consumables store. The production of many consumables cannot be guaranteed to be stable. In addition, the value is different. Guests sometimes want what kind of goods, but there is no spot. Many of them are orders from the boss after paying the deposit.

Moreover, by observing the types of orders, an Yizhi saw that most of them were orders for gems. Maybe the boss has a wide network of gems and can get gems that other shopkeepers can't get.

"Hmm? How many pages are missing?"

Look carefully. There was a page missing from the account book about a week ago.

"Maybe the customer cancelled the order. The boss tore it up for the convenience of recording."

Carla is really talking about a possibility, which many store owners do. If you continue to turn back, you can also see that there are occasionally torn places.

But the difference is that the torn order breach a week ago is still very new, as if it had just been torn off.

So an Yizhi took out the white paper and pencil bought by the grocery store from the dimensional pocket, spread it on the account book, and blackened it a little bit with a pencil, hoping to see the remaining handwriting.

The account book is written with a pen. Writing will leave a certain trace, but the trace is far less clear than a ball pen.

However, an Yizhi's efforts were not in vain. He saw a lot of blurred handwriting on the black white paper, and the only clear word was one.

——Imperial blue.