honor me as god

Chapter 280 Trust or Not
"Boom--"

As its name suggests, Leiyun City has thunderclouds and rain all the year round. It may have been clear just now, but immediately after that, it was covered with dark clouds and heavy rain fell.

The quality of Solandelle's sleep tonight was very bad. She had insomnia at first, and then woke up after a few minutes of sleep. She slept like this until midnight, and finally fell into a deep sleep, but an inexplicable chill spread all over her body. Let her wake up from her dream.

Solandelle rubbed her eyes, and poked her head out of the bed to see. It turned out that the wind was blowing too hard and the window was blown open. No wonder it was so cold.

At this time, there was a heavy rain outside, and the thunder light illuminated the haze that covered the sky. The rainwater swayed in the air, and under the blowing of the strong wind, it made the sound of howling ghosts and wolves, continuously splashing into the window and wet the floor.

Solandelle put on her slippers, trotted over to close the window again, fastened all the locks, and prepared to go back to sleep.

"Boom—" Without warning, her pupils dilated violently, and her heart rate climbed to the extreme in an instant.

Someone
With the dim light of the candle beside the bed, Solandelle vaguely saw the wet shoe prints on the floor by the window, spreading all the way to the darkness on the other side of the room, as if something was lurking.

She was pretty sure it wasn't her own shoe print, or the one Bolton left—it wasn't raining.

These shoe prints, which appeared after she fell asleep, mean one thing
There are people in the room now.
who is it? .
The cold breath traveled across Solandelle's body like a poisonous snake, and the surrounding was as dead as a tomb, only the sound of heavy rain hitting the window, and the oppressive feeling was like countless arthropods crawling to bite on the scalp and heart.

It has to be said that after being assassinated by a sniper rifle, Solandelle's psychological quality has been tempered a lot. She did not show fear or panic, but pretended not to notice anything, walked to the bed and muttered, " I'm so thirsty", the hand seems to be reaching for the water glass at the head of the bed, but it is actually a crossbow stretching towards the water glass.

Just when Solandelle was about to touch the crossbow, a familiar voice came from the darkness: "Do you want to kill me? Little princess."

She was stunned by this voice, and quickly picked up the candle and turned around: "No?!"

In the darkness, Kino's face was shrouded in shadow and blurred, but under the light of the candle, he could vaguely see the pair of amber eyes reflecting the candlelight, and he could occasionally hear the liquid dripping on the floor. The sound, presumably because of walking through the heavy rain for too long, the whole body is soaked.

Solandelle hurriedly asked: "No, are you okay? Now that Thunder Cloud City is blocked, the entire bodyguard army is looking for you!"

Kino didn't answer this question. He stretched out his hand wrapped in a soaked white glove, with water dripping from his fingertips, and slowly pointed to the crossbow on the bedside: "Can you pass it to me, please? Thank you."

Without any hesitation, Solandelle directly picked up the crossbow and handed it to Kino.

Kino took over the crossbow, plucked the arrow, pulled the string, and took aim. The arrow pointed to the heart of Solandelle like the sharp teeth of a wild beast, and his fingers silently hit the trigger.

Solandelle first took a step back subconsciously, but quickly took a step forward, returned to the original position, and looked at Kino with clear eyes.

Chino: "I have targeted many people. If you take a step back, I can understand it. If you take a step forward, I can understand it too. But like you, you take a step back and then move forward, and I can't understand it."

Solandelle: "I retreated because I was pointed at by a crossbow. I was afraid."

Chino: "How about going one step forward?"

Solandelle: "You are the one holding the crossbow. I have nothing to fear."

Kino didn't speak, and could only hear the sound of the crossbow trigger spring reaching the firing edge, and the god of death was opening its ferocious claws.

"click"

Kino's finger was pulled to the firing limit, and he was about to trigger a powerful crossbow shot, piercing Solandelle's heart, but he didn't go any further. He put down the crossbow, and a hand wrapped in white gloves stretched out from the darkness: "Little princess, put Give me your hand."

Solandelle held out her hand to Chino.

Kino held Solandelle's weak and boneless little hand, pulled it into the darkness, put it close to his lips, felt the temperature on it with his most sensitive part, and then said softly: "Your hand is very cold, come back Get in bed, don't catch a cold."

Solandelle was very obedient, she obediently returned to the bed, pulled the quilt up, then looked at Chino in the dark, and asked with concern: "Nuo, why did you come here? There are guard posts everywhere near the mansion. Said to be the most dangerous place!"

Chino: "To be honest, I don't know why I came here. Maybe I want to see if you are as stupid as them."

Solandelle said firmly: "I always believe in you! Even though they all say that you attacked my brother, I still believe that you were framed."

Chino: "Why?"

Solandelle blurted out: "Because you are my friend!"

Chino: "When you judge something, you should not rely on the relationship between yourself and the other party, but analyze it based on the facts - just because you regard a person as a friend does not mean that you can trust him without any reason —It is a very dangerous thing to be caught up in personal relationships, and it will cloud your judgment."

Solandelle pursed her lips, not knowing how to answer.

Chino: "Think again? Why was I framed?"

Solandelle opened and closed her red lips, pondered for a moment, then quickly raised her head and said, "There are many doubts about my brother's assassination."

Chino: "For example?"

Solandelle: "For example. Before the attack, I saw a reflection in the bell chamber of the cathedral, and I sensed danger from that direction, but the administrator Graber said that the assassination site was in a private house. There was a divergence of information here. .”

Chino: "Did Bolton investigate later?"

Solandelle: "Investigated. The guards said that no traces were found in the bell chamber of the cathedral."

Chino: "So? What do you think?"

Solandelle looked very confused, and said hesitantly: "I don't know. I think I can see clearly, but they said that I had an illusion because of too much pressure after stress. Indeed, I was very nervous at the time." I was nervous, and I once wondered if I was really wrong. To be honest, I don’t know.”

Kino: "If you can't even believe it, you are so hesitant, how can you use it as a basis?"

Solandelle lowered her head in frustration, not knowing how to answer.

Chino: "Think again."

Solandelle tucked the quilt tightly and fell into deep thought. After an unknown amount of time, she suddenly realized something: "Motive!"

Chino: "Go ahead."

Solandelle: "Unless he is a crazy lunatic, a person must have some kind of motive for committing a crime, whether it is material or spiritual, whether voluntary or forced, he must be able to obtain positive benefits from committing the crime—or relatively Smaller negative losses."

"But in fact, you have no grievances or enmity with my brother. You only met once at the New Year's banquet. You will not gain any benefits from killing my brother. Therefore, you have no motivation to do this at all."

Chino: "We've only known each other for half a year. What you see may be just the tip of the iceberg. Are you so sure that I have no motive to assassinate you? You don't need so many reasons to kill a person. It may be for money, or to vent anger. Maybe he's not polite, maybe he just can't appreciate the music."

"Tap." There was a snap of fingers in the darkness, followed by Kino's sly smile: "Do you know what others say about me——Kino Van Helsing is a lunatic."

Kino's rebuttal put a lot of pressure on Solandelle, who was at a loss for a while and couldn't speak.

Chino: "So, in terms of motivation, what do they think of me?"

Solandelle's voice obviously weakened: "They said that you are an assassin from the Blood Stinger Society and received a golden assassination order against my brother."

Chino: "Look, here comes the motivation."

Solandelle hurriedly said: "But that's just a hypothesis! Although the administrator Graber took out two golden assassination orders, his words were all 'I guess', 'I think', 'I think'. There is no substantive evidence for what he said, at most it can only be regarded as an idea, and it cannot be used as evidence!"

Chino: "Besides me, is there a second suspect?"

Solandelle: "The successor on the golden assassination order is 'Han Yi'. According to their guess, you are this Han Yi, so you are the only suspect until there is no other evidence to break the guess."

Chino: "Look, this speculation seems empty, but it's actually quite credible."

Solandelle's voice was almost inaudible: "But I don't believe it"

Chino: "Then think again."

At this moment, Solandelle was like a puppet being manipulated. She hurriedly grabbed the folded clothes at the foot of the bed, and found her small notebook from inside.

During the day, accompanied by Lorna and some of her personal guards, she explored the street where Bolton was assassinated, the private house that was recognized as the scene of the assassination, the cathedral that she thought was strange, and the surrounding suspicious places.

Because of her noble status, she can also directly enter and exit the physical evidence room, and is accompanied by a professional alchemist to conduct a comprehensive survey and analysis of all physical evidence.

During the entire investigation process, Solandelle recorded all the points she considered suspicious in a small notebook, hoping to find a breakthrough and help Kino clear the suspicion.

She has no strength, and her connections are not as wide as her brother's. The only advantage is that she has read a lot of books, and her thoughts and pens are the only weapons she can use to help Kino.

At this time, Solandelle opened the small notebook, read the details recorded on it one by one, and muttered in his mouth: "Other doubts... I think... a gun! The weapon that assassinated my brother was seized from the aliens. A weapon named "Sniper Rifle". "

"According to the records, the time when the sniper rifle was stolen in Stars Fort was "Red Lotus" on the 2nd. At that time, you were in Twilight City, with me and Lorna. It was impossible to go to Stars Fort thousands of miles away. steal! "

Chino: "This doesn't mean anything. I don't have to steal it myself. I can let someone steal it and bring it back to me after stealing. You won't notice the whole process."

Solandelle: "But it doesn't make sense! There are so many assassination methods, why go to such lengths to steal a sniper rifle?"

Chino: "Because I have fought against aliens many times, I have faced this weapon before, and I know how far it can shoot and how powerful it is. The success rate of assassination with a sniper rifle is hundreds of times that of other weapons."

Solandelle became nervous because of Kino, she flipped through the little book anxiously, and said, "But, that gun is a weapon of an alien, and you are not an alien, so it is impossible to shoot so accurately."

Chino: "My shooting talent is very high. And the rune imitation of the sniper rifle, I have tried several times in the shooting range of the government mansion, and one of the shots even hit the head of the dummy. Many soldiers can do it for you. The court provided statements."

Solandelle's hands that turned the pages began to tremble slightly, and her thinking was already confused: "But Lorna also thinks you are not a prisoner."

Chino: "Other people's judgments have nothing to do with you. Lorna thinks I'm not a prisoner, and you think so too. Then if another person thinks I'm a prisoner, will you follow blindly? I told you just now—— Getting caught up in a personal relationship is a very dangerous thing, and it can cloud your judgment."

Solandelle felt very aggrieved, and tears began to well up in her blue eyes: "No, don't do this. I really believe in you."

Kino: "Belief without even being able to explain the reason is a kind of blind belief. It is like a vortex. It is not obvious at first, but it will swallow you up bit by bit as time goes by. Now, you have two choices -"

"One, you find a reason to believe me. This reason doesn't have to be horrifying, and it doesn't have to be perfect, but it must be convincing enough without obvious flaws."

"Second, you shout Bolton's name now, let him break the door to arrest me. I assure you, I will not resist, I will not resist arrest, I will even directly plead guilty, all confirmed and unconfirmed charges, I Accept all the orders, not one.”

Solandelle bit her lower lip, her teeth almost sinking into her lip, her determination during the day had been torn to pieces, and she was at a loss.

"Tap." There was another snap of fingers in the darkness, and Kino smiled and said, "I'll give you a suggestion, choose the second one. Just imagine, the assassins that the entire bodyguard army can't catch, even the great Prince Bolton can't catch them." The assassin who was at a loss was captured by the clever Solandelle van Dorgolande after breaking into the boudoir at night! The god of death, the destroyer of aliens, was finally defeated by the nine princesses of the royal family! Ah~ That will be a good story that can be passed down for a long time, and your name will be sung over and over again by bards."

Solandelle's grievances could no longer be contained, tears fell on the quilt, and she murmured in a low voice: "I don't choose. I don't want any good stories. I just want you to be well."

Chino: "Then you want to choose the first one?"

Solandelle clutched the notebook tightly, almost tearing the paper with her fingertips, and her thin shoulders kept trembling from sobbing: "But I don't know, I really don't know how to help you"

The wind blew, the candle flames fluttered, and it was a figure who came out of the darkness and came to the bedside.

Kino stretched out his slender index finger wrapped in a white glove, and pressed it between Solandelle's eyebrows with just the right amount of force, which made her feel a sense of strength without poking her.

Solandelle raised her head in a daze, her face was covered with tears, she stared at Kino absentmindedly: "No?"

"The hint has been given to you." Chino kept poking his forehead, "Think again."

(End of this chapter)