Chapter 349 Raising troops to investigate crimes
Chapter 349 Raising troops to investigate crimes
2018年09月10日，深夜23:22。
The Saint Abilene airship landed on the rooftop of a building in Vivian Harbor. The howling evening breeze made the huge bikini poster above the hypermarket flutter, and the flag embroidered with the Dyke family's thorny rose emblem also fluttered in the night sky.
Ning Zhe leaned against the wall and reached into his pocket, and found the rubber band that Xia Yubing had used, with an ice-blue butterfly on it.
Ning Zhe gathered his wind-blown hair with his hands, tied it up with Xia Yubing's rubber band, and said to Lan Shiwen who had just come up from downstairs: "It feels like a long time since we last met, Xiaolan. I guess you have something to say to me."
"We didn't catch Fenwu, he ran away." Lan Shiwen didn't even look at him and walked straight to the entrance of the airship.
"There's no way we can catch him." Ning Zhe didn't care.
With her hair tied up, Ning Zhe's body faded and disappeared under the night sky, turning into a beautiful ice-blue butterfly, fluttering its wings and landing on Lan Shiwen's shoulder.
Lan Shiwen glanced sideways and saw that it was a tropical butterfly called the Blue Morpho, which mainly lived in the forests of South America. It was not distributed in Asia, the land of the rising sun, or Europe, the land of the setting sun, and could only be seen in the ecological park.
"Can't you turn into a bird? There's a strong wind on the rooftop, so you don't have to worry about your wings being broken." Lan Shiwen said.
"Do you want me to give you a cage so you can carry me for a walk downstairs?" Ning Zhe pretended not to hear the test in his words.
Lan Shiwen shook his head and stopped talking. He walked into the cabin with the butterfly perched on his shoulder and went straight through the empty interior of the airship, which had been cleared in advance.
The only occupied room in the airship was filled with a depressing atmosphere. The people gathered here frowned as they looked at the corpse on the floor whose face was covered by a white cloth. Their expressions couldn't help but become stiff.
Although they couldn't see the face, they were able to recognize through his clothing and body features that the body on the ground was that of Fusolus Milicato, a vassal of the Dyke family and the young master of the Milicato family.
He actually died.
Xia Yubing leaned on the back of the sofa and looked around, scanning the faces of several people one by one:
Liu Hongwen, the last living person of the Liu family in Yunzhou.
Shen Changjiang, Vice President of Yanzhou Merchants Association.
Ji Boying is the younger brother of the former 'God of Wealth' Ji Boyang.
...These people were all people who had fled abroad after being persecuted in Jiuzhou and were protected by European nobles. Xia Yubing's own status was also the same, so it didn't seem out of place for her to stand among them. In fact, because she was personally invited here by Marquis Van Dyke, her status was slightly higher than that of others.
Although no matter how tall they are, they are not as tall as the local men in Europe.
"Miss Meilin, what, what on earth is..." Shen Changjiang's face looked very ugly, and he looked at the tall woman sitting on the sofa with fear in his eyes.
"It's obvious that Fusolus is dead." Meilin lowered her head and rubbed her nails, saying indifferently, "I didn't ask you to come here to ask questions. You have to answer them."
Petain nodded and said, "Don't forget why our families sent representatives to Vivian Harbor." Liu Hongwen and Shen Changjiang looked at each other, and they both saw the shock in each other's hearts, but they still said in unison:
"——Hunting Lan Shiwen."
"That's right." Petain nodded and continued, "Dyke, Flimmisret, the Golden Clan, and I represent 'Astarti'. The reason why our four major families gathered here is to hunt down the Yunzhou Ascendant named 'Lan Shiwen'."
"It is true that the expected benefits of hunting down Lan Shiwen are so huge that they are unimaginable, but great opportunities also come with great dangers. Lan Shiwen has the terrifying ability to 'predict the future', so before we officially take action, we need to share what we have and make all preparations as much as possible."
Facing a monster that can know the future, the hunters cannot be too careful. It is already very civilized for the four major families to join forces to plot against one person. At least they did not drag the entire United States of Europe into it.
"However, earlier today, representatives of the four major families had just arrived at Vivian Port. Before we officially met each other, an accident happened."
Meilin hesitated for a moment and then said:
"The first is the Golden Clan. The representative they sent mysteriously disappeared after entering Vivian Harbor and never returned to his residence. Almost at the same time, Xi Zhao lost control."
"Then there was Fusolus. He was participating in an... er, auction at the opera house with Mr. Dyke and Ms. Xia. Taking advantage of Xi Zhao's loss of control, an extremely ferocious evil spirit came to Vivian Port and killed several people in the hypermarket. Then it wandered into the opera house."
Petain crossed his fingers, supported his chin and continued:
"It is worth mentioning that according to our subsequent investigation, the evil ghost's movement trajectory was not unconscious wandering, but was moving towards the direction of the opera house with a purpose. It seemed that there was some invisible force guiding it to a specific destination."
Who was in the opera house at that time?
Liu Hongwen took a deep breath and cast his eyes on the cold body lying on the ground. It was Fusolus's body, and the one who was in the opera house with Fusolus at the time...
"Why isn't Mr. Dyke here? Could it be that he has also..." Shen Changjiang's face was pale.
"No, Mr. Dyke is currently investigating the missing representative of the Golden Clan. Thanks to his timely use of the 'ink fountain' to seal the evil spirit in the opera house, the impact of this strange incident did not expand further."
Pétain shook his head and said, “And that’s exactly what I’m going to say next—after banning the strange incident and leaving the opera house, Fusolus shot himself on the window sill of a hotel.”
"This..." Liu Hongwen was stunned: "It turned out to be suicide?"
"If we look for it, there are many doubts, but it is undoubtedly suicide." Meilin saw that she couldn't get anything out of Liu Hongwen and Shen Changjiang, so she glanced at Ji Boying, who was sitting opposite the table, drinking tea silently without saying a word.
Ji Boying looks very similar to Ji Boying, the difference is that Ji Boying is thin, while Ji Boying is a little fatter, his face is more rosy, and he does not have the dark lightning-struck wood tattoo on his chest.
"Mr. Ji, what do you think about this accident?" Petain stared at Ji Boying's wrinkled face, and his implication was simple:
——Our four major families gathered here because of you. If you hadn't claimed that you had something on Lan Shiwen, this gathering that ended in failure before success would never have been held in the first place.
Now that something has happened in Vivian Port, they need an explanation.
(End of this chapter)