Soul echo

Chapter 229 Evidence

Purcell didn't expect that when he opened a drawer at random, he saw a lot of letter paper.

Then, he fell into doubts.

Why did Graham keep these letters in the drawer if they were important?If there were any thieves or spies, wouldn't Graham be in big trouble?
But this thought only lingered in Purcell's mind, he didn't say it out loud.

Seeing Purcell's expression, Zhong Ye understood what happened, and took off his gloves as he walked over.

He hung the blood-stained gloves on his waist, and took out all the letters from the drawer, "Lilian, come and help."

Even if Zhong Ye didn't call, Lilian would go over to help.

Her gloves were also stained with a lot of blood and greasy, imitating Zhong Ye, hanging the gloves on her waist, and randomly took out a letter from the pile of letter papers.

After a few glances, Lilian threw the letter aside, "This is a letter from home."

"...It's not necessarily just a letter from home." Purcell stood aside and watched for a while, and after seeing Lilian's movements, he couldn't help but speak.

He had written a letter before, ostensibly to communicate with his friends, but in fact, it was a letter that implicitly indicated Graham's identity as a 'cultist', but he hadn't sent it out yet.

"If you don't think so, come and help." Zhong Ye put down a report submitted by an intelligence officer, and looked at Purcell, "There is nothing wrong with us, after all, we just came to this town today, but how do you wash yourself off?" suspicion?"

Zhong Ye's words turned in Purcell's mind, and he immediately realized what a dangerous situation he was in now.

First, he was invited by Graham to the party; second, he worked in this town for several months, not only with Graham, but also with other nobles who had been killed; third, he He was the only mage advisor left in this town, and several of his colleagues died in that battle!

Just looking at these three points, even Purcell himself doesn't believe that he has nothing to do with the cultists.

Purcell's scalp felt numb all of a sudden, and he almost jumped up from the ground in fright.

He rushed to the desk in a hurry, but later found that these two adventurers didn't need his help at all, and they checked the letters quickly by themselves.

So, what should he do at this time?
Purcell's brain turned quickly, and he suddenly picked up the letterhead that Lilian and Zhong Ye had checked, and browsed through it at a glance.

While flipping through the pages, he glanced at the only bookshelf in the office, and his eyes flicked back and forth between the two.

After a while, he grabbed a letter, ran to the bookshelf, took out a book from it, and quickly flipped through the book according to the information provided in the letterhead, muttering incessantly.

"The third line on the ninth page...the ninth line on the No.12 page...the first line on the No.30 page..."

I extracted the corresponding information from the letter, and found the answer in the book, put those words into a sentence, and got...

Purcell suddenly threw the book in his hand to the ground angrily, and ran back to the desk, continuing to search for possible clues or evidence.

Compared to Zhong Ye and Purcell, Lilian's searching speed was much slower.

Her brain is not enough for her to process too much information in a short period of time, even if her intelligence attribute is eleven points, she is already smarter than at least half of the human beings in the world.

Because of her slow reading speed, she could only read more carefully so as not to miss any important information.

"Royce appears four times, and his identity is Graham's son; Elle appears twice, and he is Graham's sister; Mander appears twice, and his identity is unknown; Adrian appears three times, and his identity is unknown..." Zhong Ye reported eight names one after another, and looked up at Lilian, "Lilian, where are you?"

Lilian looked up in a daze, and immediately realized, "Royce appeared once, Mander appeared once, Adrian appeared twice, Price appeared once..."

Apart from 'Royce', Graham's son, the most frequent sender of these letters was 'Adrian'.

At this time, Purcell also raised his head, and interjected: "If nothing unexpected happens, this Mr. 'Adrian' may be the dean of our college."

He also read those letters just now. Although they were not very detailed, the "Adrian" in the letter was very similar to the dean of the Kingdom's Master Academy in terms of style and description—as an excellent graduate, Purcell naturally Had contact with the dean.

The contents of the letters from the same sender all have similar themes. For example, Royce often writes about his studies and interpersonal relationships in his letters. Mander is about chatting, and Ayler’s letters seem to be warm family letters on the surface. , but actually it is an erotic poem that needs to be matched with a book to piece together-both of them.

Only Adrian, from chatting about beliefs to hallucinogens, from hallucinogens to self-defense spells, each letter has a different theme.

So it looks a bit suspicious.

But again, if the letters were really important, why didn't Graham put them in a safer place, but in a desk drawer?

In addition, these senders have one thing in common.

——These letters all come from 'Paris'!
It seems that after the hallucinogen incident in the southeast region is over, they will go to Paris...

"Has Graham not been back to Paris for a long time?" Zhong Ye asked suddenly.

Purcell shook his head and replied: "No, he has been living here since he took office, and his family also came to this town with him, but three years ago, his sister returned to Paris, and two years ago, His son went to study in Paris, and his wife died five years ago..."

Listening to Purcell's narration, Zhong Ye's eyes became more gloomy, "...In that case, how did he come into contact with the evil god belief?"

In this closed town, there was almost no human interaction. That is to say, Graham most likely came into contact with the belief of the evil god without any guidance from outsiders, and became a follower of the Lord of Pleasure.

But if this is the case, Graham is too weak!
Therefore, Zhong Ye determined that before Graham, there was another 'source' - that guy was the real source of infection inspired by the Lord of Pleasure!
Zhong Ye opened a few more drawers, but unfortunately, those drawers were either Graham's work documents or his personal items.

After checking the working documents, they did not find any evidence that Graham was a cult member. Instead, they found ironclad evidence that he had withheld some of the arms without permission.

And this part of the arms, presumably, has disappeared from the warehouse.

"Lilian, can you still fight?"

Hearing this, Lilian nodded heavily, "Yes!"

She knew very well what Zhong Ye was going to do. Perhaps not all the nobles gathered in the banquet hall at that time, those nobles all had such problems, it didn't make sense that other nobles really had no problems at all.

What's more, the remaining nobles are fine, so what about the servants of the dead cultists' noble families?Where's Graham's servant?
Let them screen one by one, there may be mistakes and omissions, but they can use the power of the gods to help them expose all the hidden cultists!

So they go to the local church, to the pastor.

"and many more!"

Seeing that Zhong Ye and Lilian were about to leave, Purcell still couldn't find any evidence to remove his suspicion, and couldn't help but shouted urgently: "I have evidence to prove that those nobles who died were cult members...Of course , not the Lord of Pleasures..."

It is precisely because the evidence he discovered before could not point to the Lord of Pleasure that he did not say these things.

Zhong Ye and Lilian stopped at the same time, and looked back at Purcell.

"It's true." Purcell stepped forward and said anxiously, "As far as I know, those nobles don't believe in the Lord of Pleasure, but an evil god... I don't know what it's called!

"The evil god used hallucinogens to spread his beliefs in secret. I have seen more than one nobleman pray to the evil god after using hallucinogens—yes, yes, I even used spells to record those scenes ! Those evidences are in my room!"

"...Perhaps, what they believe in is indeed the so-called 'God of Hallucinogens'." Zhong Ye was silent for a long time before speaking again, "They don't even know that their belief points to the Lord of Pleasure."

As he spoke, Zhong Ye frowned deeply.

It turns out that the person standing behind the 'hallucinogen flood' incident is not the king of wisdom, but the lord of pleasure?
So, the evil god who affected their senses and made them subconsciously ignore other ways of dealing with this series of events is also the Lord of Pleasure?
(End of this chapter)