honor me as god

Chapter 273 True Identity
Bolton opened another document in his hand, which still contained the top, middle and bottom three golden assassination orders, but the complete content presented was completely different:
Client: Tree.

Undertaker: Han Yi.

Target: Chino Van Helsing.

Date: From the 512th day of Luoying in the year 10 of the Huo calendar to the 513th day of Dilu in the year 30 of the Huo calendar.

Special requirements: massacre, extreme pain.

Grab lowered his head and explained: "I have a very good relationship with Irene in private, she once told me about entrusting the assassin - this 'tree' is Irene's pseudonym, and this whole golden assassination order is Irene's last year Order placed."

Bolton compared the two golden assassination orders before and after, squinted and said: "The successors of the two golden assassination orders are both this 'cold clothes'."

Grab nodded heavily: "So, the following is my personal guess—this 'cold suit' is actually Chino, who has been an assassin working for the Bloodthorn Society since the beginning, and has been dormant in Xilin Town for many years, waiting for the opportunity to rise to a high position , control the administrative power of the kingdom, and provide internal cover for the Bloodthorn Society."

"After the banquet bombing last year, Irene entrusted the Bloodthorn Club to assassinate Kino. The Bloodthorn Club accepted the order on the surface, but in fact it was transferred to Kino's hands in secret—the Blood Thorn Club couldn't give up and finally placed it. It is impossible for Kino to kill himself as a pawn to enter the kingdom, so he must get rid of Irene so that he can continue to play the role of Twilight City administrator."

"Coincidentally, at that time, Irene had a bad relationship with a giant merchant in Thundercloud City, and Kino took this opportunity to poison Irene, and also secretly disposed of the giant merchant. contradiction."

"Later, the employer named 'Yue' issued a commission to the Bloodthorn Society, intending to assassinate you, and the Bloodthorn Society assigned the order to Hanyi—that is, Chino. This is how the Stars Fort was stolen and you were assassinated just now. thing."

"Wait, wait!" Lorna interrupted Graber, pacing back and forth to sort out her thoughts, and muttered, "You said that Chino is an assassin of the Bloodthorn Society, in order to provide cover for the Bloodthorn Society, hide In Dogrand, but he led his troops to the desert some time ago, and brought back a bunch of assassins from the Bloodthorn Society. Doesn’t this logic make sense? Why did he attack his old club?”

Grab shrugged: "There are many possibilities. For example, after Kino became the administrator of the kingdom, he was greedy for his own power and wanted to get rid of the control of the Bloodthorn Society, so he led troops to raid the Bloodthorn Society, intending to completely reverse his own power. identity, and become a real administrator from then on.”

Lorna said with an ugly face: "You are just guessing, there is no evidence at all! Just open your mouth!"

Graber thought for a while and asked, "Miss Lorna, think about it, the blood thorns will be the Desert Assassin Organization, elusive, and even the kingdom's high-level intelligence department has never been able to find their hiding place. What about Kino? ? He is just a city-level administrator, if there is no special information channel, how did he find the Bloodthorn Society?"

"This..." Lorna didn't know what to say. Indeed, Kino led troops to raid the Bloodthorn Society, which meant that he already knew their hiding place. This matter was very strange. How did Kino get the information?
Lona thought about it, and suddenly thought of something: "That's right! There was a dark-skinned person who visited the government residence before, and that person had a conversation with Kino in the office, and Kino suddenly led troops to the desert that day. .”

Bolton asked quickly: "Did you hear their conversation?"

Lorna shook her head: "No, I just saw such a person. I thought it was an ordinary guest, so I ignored it. I don't know what happened to them afterwards. Anyway, that day, Kino led his troops to the desert without saying a word. , It will be several days before I come back."

Grab frowned and said, "If I want to guess, that dark-skinned visitor is most likely a member of the Bloodthorn Society. The Bloodthorn Society noticed that Kino had a sign of defection, so they sent someone to negotiate. But the negotiations did not go well. So Kino smashed the cans and led the troops to attack the Bloodthorn Society, intending to wipe out his old club, kill people, and completely conceal his identity."

Lorna scratched the back of her head and muttered, "You're not right to say that. If Kino was really determined to defect, why did he accept the golden assassination order to assassinate Bolton later?"

Grab put his hand on his chin and pondered: "I think it is very likely that after the fierce battle between the two sides, the Bloodthorn will show some cards, for example, they have Kino's handle in their hands, forcing Kino to stop his defection. , I can only honestly work for the Bloodthorn Society. As for what the hole card is, I won’t make any guesses.”

Lorna is not good at logical thinking, not to mention that there is no logical error in Grab's guess. Lorna didn't continue to ask questions, but just glanced at him: "You can speak well. Seeing that you are showing off your power all day long." Bullying civilians, I thought you were mentally handicapped with your head caught in a door."

When the embarrassment was picked up, Grab smiled awkwardly and said: "I admit that I am not very friendly to civilians, and I am willing to correct it, but I am really not mentally handicapped. I can become a city-level administrator, and I will definitely have neither intelligence nor force." Poor."

"I have a question." Solandelle, who had been silent all this time, said, she looked directly into Grab's eyes, her voice was immature, but with an unspeakable oppressiveness, "The golden assassin in your hand Ling, where did it come from?"

"When I was studying the history of the desert before, the Grand Master of the Royal Palace once mentioned the contract structure of the Bloodthorn Society-in an assassination commission, a contract will be divided into three parts-write the name or code of the commissioner The "employer's file", the "prey file" with the name of the hunted target, and the "assassin's file" with the code name of the successor. "

"A contract is split into three parts, the top, the middle and the bottom, and stored in the three strongholds respectively. Only by matching special symbols can the entire contract be restored."

"Administrator Grab, you keep claiming that Administrator Chino will be involved with Bloodthorn, so what about you? You are a city-level administrator, how can you have a golden assassination order from Bloodthorn in your hand? And you are still in the upper middle school Write a complete contract, even two! Aren't you more suspicious?"

"Huh——" Sorandale's voice just finished, Lorna took the lead to unsheath her long sword, put it on Graber's neck, and said coldly: "You'd better not move around, explain Soran's problem to me clearly .”

Bolton and his personal guards also looked at Graber coldly, waiting for his next words.

Grab was not flustered, as if he knew that he would be questioned, he said steadily: "I am going to report the situation to you. I didn't get those two documents from anywhere, but they suddenly appeared in my on the desk."

Solandelle was taken aback: "Suddenly appeared. What do you mean?"

Grab explained: "Not long before His Royal Highness was assassinated, I was setting up a reception banquet at the government residence. When I passed by the office, I suddenly saw a strangely packaged document on my desk. After I opened it, I found that there were these two The golden assassination order. As soon as I saw the name of His Royal Highness, I realized that something was wrong, so I led the troops to the main road without stopping. Everyone knows what happened afterwards."

Lorna pushed him: "No, let's be clear, who put this document on your desk?"

Graber's face was innocent: "I really don't know. I asked all the guards, and no one noticed anything unusual. It just appeared out of thin air. If I had to guess, only those elusive desert assassins could do it." at this point."

Lorna was a little confused, and asked inexplicably: "Then what's going on? The Bloodthorn Society instructed Chino to assassinate Bolton, and then put the golden assassination order on your table. What is this for??? "

Grab wanted to cry without tears: "Ask me, who should I ask? Let me guess, it's not ruled out that the Bloodthorn Society's plan to kill two birds with one stone, first instructs Chino to assassinate His Royal Highness, completes the contract, and then betrays him , Get rid of this unstable factor with a rebellious heart."

"Guess, guess, guess again, why don't you let this go, let this go?!" Lorna couldn't turn her head around, and she was furious for a while, and kicked him directly, "You can guess so well, guess what this year's New Year's banquet In the music session, you go to be a guest!"

Solandelle also said anxiously: "Administrator Grab, don't confuse the public here! There are many untenable points in your guess, and you can even say that it is full of loopholes! Do you want me to refute you one by one? ?!"

Grab was so wronged that he was about to cry: "I've said it all, these are my personal guesses, and I didn't say that they are definitely right! I'm just providing a reference for His Royal Highness!"

Solandelle held Bolton's sleeve, looking very aggrieved: "Brother, I don't believe that Chino would be such a person."

"I don't believe it either." Lorna rolled her eyes at Graber, and started to get angry, "I used to think that this person was mentally handicapped, but now his eloquence has become so good! If you want me to say, someone must have taught him Said so!"

Grab was caught off guard by such a big hat, and almost suffered a cardiac arrest from fright, and his voice became louder: "You have to be responsible for saying this!"

"Okay!" Bolton stopped Graber with a stern voice, "Isn't it a question now—whether the person who shot me was Chino—is it enough to figure it out? How simple?! You guessed wildly and made such a mess!"

Grab has been scolded for being autistic, and he shrank his head and said weakly: "Please, Your Highness, be aware of the details."

Bolton raised his active right hand and pointed to Barrett on the table: "This weapon, the alchemist called it a "sniper rifle", so what it fires is called a gun? "

Grab reminded in a low voice, "The alchemists call them 'projectiles'. "

Bolton told a bodyguard: "Take someone to the scene of my assassination, retrieve the bullet that hit me, and see if you can put it in the mouth of this gun, so that you can confirm whether it wounded me or not." I."

"Yes." The guard withdrew.

Bolton continued to point to Barrett: "If this gun really wounded me, the second thing to be sure is whether there are any palm prints or fingerprints of Chino on it. If so, we can be sure that Chino himself did it. It's not about being framed and blamed."

The personal guard reacted quickly, and stepped back: "I will go to the Alchemy Association immediately, and take the utensils and potions to get the finger and palm prints."

"The third thing to confirm is the scene of the crime—Soran said he saw a strange reflection in the cathedral, and Grab you said that Kino was assassinated here and was wounded by the soldiers who came." Bolton pointed By the window, he pointed to the blood on the glass shards and said, "If it's what you said, the blood on the glass should belong to Kino himself?"

Grab nodded his head like a chicken pecking at rice: "According to the report of the soldiers, the floor next to the window, the shards of glass on the window, and the blood on the ground downstairs are all from Chino. To identify."

Bolton didn't talk nonsense, and directly asked the personal guard to go to the archives center to ask someone to do a blood sample comparison.

Before taking office, officials at all levels in Dogrand will keep blood samples and fingerprints in the archives center. The data will be recorded on paper and copied and distributed in the main cities of various places.

Although this world does not have modern criminal investigation technology, the medicine developed by the alchemist is more powerful than many criminal investigation medicines in the previous life, and it can be easily sampled and compared.

An hour later, the results of various investigations were summarized.

The cathedral was searched inside and out, but no trace was found.

After comparison of the blood samples, the bloodstains in the room where everyone was staying and by the window were definitely Chino's. Judging from the degree of drying and discoloration, it basically coincided with the time when the assassination occurred.

On the barrel and trigger of the Barrett M82A1, Chino's fingerprints were recognized, and there was no other person.

At the street scene where Bolton was assassinated, the guards also picked up the bullets. Although they were deformed and could not be put back into the muzzle of the gun, they were identified by professional alchemists as matching bullets for the assassination gun.

The time, scene, murder weapon, fingerprints, and modus operandi are all correct. If it is a routine case, it will be sent to the court for adjudication. The proper chain of evidence is stable and you can be convicted in court.

If Grab's previous analysis was just a subjective guess, then in the face of so much conclusive evidence, Chino's identity as the murderer has been confirmed, which also makes Grab's guess very reliable.

When Solandelle learned the results of the investigation, she fell into a daze and couldn't say anything. She walked to the window in a daze and looked at the bloodstains with complicated eyes. The scene where he was covered in shards of glass, and finally fell from the window, falling to a bloody scene.

Solandelle pursed her lips tightly, mist formed in her eyes, and said to herself aggrievedly: "I don't believe it."

Bolton knew that Solandelle and Chino had a good relationship, and she was too young to accept this gap for a while, so he didn't say anything more, and let her adjust her mentality.

Bolton turned around and said to Graber in a low voice: "Siege Leiyun City immediately. Chino is injured and may still be hiding in the city. Bring soldiers and hounds to hunt him down immediately! If necessary, enter a wartime state and issue an order. City closure order, search from house to house!"

"Yes, Your Royal Highness." Grab rubbed his nose and asked tentatively, "I don't want to offend, I think you can try to consider some suggestions."

Bolton: "Say."

Grab said in a low voice: "Chino has been operating in Twilight City for so long, and his influence has become deeply entrenched. I suggest that all the officials in Twilight City be arrested immediately, at least the people in the administrative mansion, and arrested for interrogation to see if there are any It is also a member of the Blood Spurs Society."

This suggestion was very reasonable, and Bolton directly accepted it, and said to his personal guards: "You immediately take your elite soldiers to Dusk City, arrest all the people belonging to the government residence, and take them to Thunder Cloud City for trial, not a single living thing will be spared! The rest of the officials at all levels should also send people to control them, put them under house arrest, and interrogate them one by one at that time!"

"Obey!" The guard left.

(End of this chapter)