Burton opened another document in his hand, which still contained three golden assassination warrants, but the full content presented was completely different:

Client: Tree.

Undertaker: Winter clothes.

Target: Chino van Helsing.

Date: 10th of the year 512 of the Huoyao calendar to the 30th day of the year 513 of the Huoyao calendar.

Special Requirements: Torture and killing, extreme pain.

Grabo lowered his head and explained, "I have a good personal relationship with Irene, and she told me about entrusting the assassin - this 'tree' is Erin's pseudonym, and this whole golden assassination order was the order that Erin placed last year. ”

Bolton compared the two golden assassination orders before and after, squinted his eyes and said, "The bearers of the two golden assassination orders are all this 'cold clothes'..."

Grabo nodded heavily: "So, here is my personal guess - this 'winter coat' is actually Chino, he has been an assassin for the Bloodthorn Society since the beginning, and has been dormant in Shilin Town for many years, waiting for the opportunity to climb to a high position, grasp the administrative power of the kingdom, and provide internal cover for the Bloodthorn Society." ”

"After the banquet bombing last year, Erin entrusted the Bloodthorn Society to assassinate Chino, and the Bloodthorn Society ostensibly took this order, but in fact it secretly passed into Chino's hands - it is impossible for the Bloodthorn Society to give up the chess pieces that were so hard to be placed in the kingdom, and it is impossible for Chino to kill himself, so he must get rid of Erin so that he can continue to play the role of the administrator of Twilight City."

"Coincidentally, at that time, Erin had a bad relationship with a giant businessman in Thundercloud City, and Chino took this opportunity to poison Erin, and also secretly disposed of the giant businessman together, and faked the illusion that the two were fighting and the murderer was absconding, and successfully diverted the conflict."

"Later, the employer named 'Moon' sent a commission to the Bloodthorn Society to assassinate you, and the Bloodthorn Society assigned the order to Wintercloth, aka Chino. That's why the Star Fort was stolen and you were assassinated. ”

"Wait, wait!" Lorna interrupted Grabo as she paced back and forth to gather her thoughts, muttering, "You said that Chino was an assassin of the Bloodthorn Society, and that he was hiding in Doglander in order to provide cover for the Bloodthorn Society... But he also led his troops to the desert some time ago and captured a bunch of assassins from the Blood Assassin Society... It doesn't make sense, does it? Why did he attack his old club? ”

Grabo shrugged his shoulders: "There are many possibilities, for example, after Chino became the administrator of the kingdom, he coveted 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 identity and become a real administrator from now on." ”

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

Grabo thought for a moment and asked, "Miss Lona, think about it, the Bloodthorn Society is a desert assassin organization, and even the kingdom's high-level intelligence department has never been able to find their hiding place. And what about Chino? He's just a main city-level administrator, how did he find the Bloodthorn Society if he didn't have a special information channel? ”

"This..."Lorna didn't know what to say, indeed, Chino led the troops to raid the Blood Thorn Society, indicating that they had long known their hiding place, this matter was very strange, how did Chino get the information? ...

Lorna thought about it and suddenly thought of something: "That's right! A dark-skinned man had visited the government mansion before, and that person had talked to Chino in the office, and Chino suddenly led his troops to the desert that day. ”

Burton asked in a loud voice, "Did you hear what they were talking about?" ”

Lorna shook her head: "No, I saw such a person, I thought it was an ordinary guest, so I didn't pay attention, and then I don't know what happened to them." Anyway, that day, Chino led the troops to the desert without saying a word, and it was already a few days before he came back. ”

Grabo frowned and said, "If I want to guess, that dark-skinned visitor is most likely a member of the Bloodthorn Society, and the Bloodthorn will notice that Chino has a sign of defection and send someone to negotiate. But the negotiation did not go well, so Chino broke the jar and led the troops to attack the Blood Thorn Society, wanting to exterminate the old club, kill people, and completely hide his identity. ”

Lorna scratched the back of her head and muttered, "It's not right for you to say that, if Chino is really determined to defect, why did he later receive the golden assassination order to assassinate Burton?" ”

Grabo stretched out his hand to hold his chin and pondered: "I think it is likely that after the fierce battle between the two sides, the bloodthorns will show some hole cards, such as they have Chino's handle in their hands, forcing Chino to interrupt the idea of defecting, and can only honestly serve the bloodthorn society." As for what this hole card is, I won't make much guessing. ”

Lorna was not good at logical reasoning, not to mention that Grabo's guess was not logically wrong, Lorna didn't continue to ask, just glanced at him: "You can quite talk." Seeing that you are showing off your power and bullying civilians all day long, I thought you were a mentally disabled person whose head was caught in the door. ”

Grabo smiled awkwardly: "I admit that I am not very friendly to civilians, and I am willing to correct it... But I'm really not mentally handicapped, I can become a city-level administrator, and my intelligence and force will definitely not be bad. ”

"I have a question." Solandelle, who had been silent, spoke, she looked directly into Grabo's eyes, and although her voice was immature, it carried an unspeakable oppression, "Where did the golden assassination warrant in your hand come from?" ”

"When I used to study the history of the desert, the palace scholars mentioned the contract structure of the Blood Thorn Society—in an assassination commission, one contract would be divided into three copies - an "employer document" with the name or code of the client, a "prey document" with the name of the target to be hunted, and an "assassin document" with the code name of the undertaker."

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

"Administrator Grabo, what about you yourself who claim that Executive Chino has something to do with Bloodthorn? You, a main city-level administrator, how can you have the golden assassination order of the Blood Assassin Society in your hand? And it's a complete contract from the top, middle and bottom, and there are even two copies! Aren't you more suspicious? ”

"Uh-" As soon as Solandelle finished speaking, Lorna took the lead in unsheathing her long sword and put it on Grabo's neck, and said coldly, "You'd better not move, and explain Solan's problem to me clearly." ”

Burton and his guards also looked at Grabo coldly, waiting for his next step.

Grabo was not flustered, as if he had known that he would be asked, and he said steadily, "I was about to report to you." I didn't get those two documents from somewhere, but they popped up on my desk. ”

Solandale was stunned: "Suddenly appeared... What do you mean? ”

Grabo explained: "Shortly before the assassination of His Royal Highness, I was setting up a reception banquet in the government residence, and when I passed by the office, I suddenly saw a strangely packaged document on my desk, and when I opened it, I found that it contained these two golden assassination orders. As soon as I saw the name of His Royal Highness the Prince, I realized that something was wrong with the situation, and I rushed to the main road with my troops non-stop... You all know what happened next..."

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

Grabo's face was full of innocence: "I really don't know, I asked all the guards, and no one noticed anything unusual, it was as if it appeared out of thin air." If I had to guess, only the elusive Desert Assassins could do that. ”

Lorna was a little confused, and asked inexplicably, "What the hell is going on?" The Bloodthorn Society instructed Chino to assassinate Bolton here, and put the golden assassination warrant on your table over there, what is this for??? ”

Grabo wanted to cry without tears: "You ask me, who do I ask?" If I guess, it can't be ruled out that it is a plan to kill two birds with one stone by the Blood Thorn Society, first instructing Chino to assassinate His Royal Highness the Prince, completing the contract, and then betraying him backhandedly to get rid of this unstable factor with a heart of rebellion..."

"Guess, guess, guess, what are you going to do here?!" Lorna's brain couldn't turn, and she was so angry that she kicked him directly, "You can guess so much, you go to be a guest in the guessing session of this year's New Year's banquet!" ”

Solandale also said anxiously: "Administrative Grabo, don't confuse the public here!" There are a lot of untenable places in your guesses, and you can even say that they are full of loopholes! Do you want me to refute it to you one by one?! ”

Grabo was so aggrieved that he was about to cry: "I said it all, these are my personal guesses, and I didn't say that they must be right!" I'm just giving His Royal Highness the Prince's ideas! ”

Solandale grabbed Burton's sleeve and looked very aggrieved: "Brother, I don't believe Chino will be such a person..."

"I don't believe it either." Lorna gave Grabo a blank look, and began to be yin and yang, "This person used to give me the impression that he was a mental cripple, but now he has become so eloquent!" If you want me to say, someone must have taught him to say that! ”

Grabo was caught off guard by such a big hat, almost frightened to cardiac arrest, and his voice became louder: "You are responsible for saying this!" ”

"That's it!" Burton stopped Grabo and said in a fierce voice, "Isn't it a question now - whether the person who shot me was Chino - just figure this out?" How simple is it?! You guessed all the time, and it made such a mess! ”

Grabo had already been scolded for being self-contained, and he shrank his head and said weakly: "Please Your Highness the Prince to be aware of everything." ”

Bolton raised his moving right hand and pointed at Barrett on the table: "This weapon, the alchemist said it was called a "sniper rifle", and the thing it fired was called... Guns? ”

Grabo whispered, "The alchemist, on the other hand, call it 'projectile'. ”

Bolton said to one of his guards: "Take someone to the scene of my assassination, retrieve the projectile that hit me, and see if you can fit this gun into the mouth of it, so that you can see if it has wounded me." ”

"Yes." The guards stepped back.

Bolton continued to point to Barrett: "If it was true that this gun hurt me, the second thing to be sure of is whether there are any Chino's palm prints or fingerprints on it." If there is, it can be determined that Chino himself did it, not that he was framed and blamed. ”

The guards reacted quickly and strode back: "I'll go to the Alchemy Association immediately and get utensils and potions to get the palm prints." ”

"The third thing to confirm is the scene of the crime - Solan said that he saw strange reflections in the cathedral, and Grabo you said that Chino was assassinated here and was injured by the soldiers who arrived on the road." Bolton pointed to the window, pointed to the blood on the glass shard, and said, "If that's what you say, the blood on the glass must be Chino's, right?" ”

Grabo chick nodded as if pecking rice: "According to the soldier's report, the floor next to the window, the glass slag on the window, and the blood on the ground downstairs are all from Chino's body, you can let people identify it." ”

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

Before taking office, officials at all levels in Dogurand would keep blood samples and fingerprints in the archives center, and the data would be recorded on paper and copied and distributed in the main cities.

Although there is no modern criminal investigation technology in this world, the potions developed by alchemists are more powerful than many criminal investigation potions in previous lives, and they can be easily sampled and compared.

An hour later, the results of the multi-party investigation were all rolled back.

After comparing the blood samples, the blood stains at the scene were determined to be Chino's, judging from the degree of dryness and discoloration, which basically coincided with the time of the assassination.

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

At the scene of the assassination on the street, the guards also picked up the bullet, although it had been deformed and could not be stuffed back into the muzzle, but it was identified by a professional alchemist and determined to be a matching bullet for the assassination firearm.

Time, scene, murder weapon, fingerprints, modus operandi... If it is a regular case, it will be put in the court for adjudication, and the proper chain of evidence will be stable, and it can be convicted in court.

If Grabo's previous analysis was only a subjective guess, then in the face of so much conclusive evidence, Chino's identity as a murderer has been confirmed, and it has also made Grabo's guess very reliable.

When Solandelle learned of the results of the investigation, she was confused and couldn't say anything, she walked to the window in a daze, looked at the blood stains with complicated eyes, and remembered the scene of Chino being injured here, hitting the window and being covered in glass shards, and finally falling from the window, falling into a bloody blur.

Solandale pursed her lips tightly, a mist appeared in her eyes, and she muttered to herself aggrievedly: "I don't believe it..."

Burton 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 Grabo in a low voice: "Immediately block Thundercloud City, Chino is injured and may still be hiding in the city, immediately chase down with soldiers and hounds!" If necessary, enter a wartime state, issue a lockdown order, and search from house to house! ”

"Yes, Your Highness the Prince. Uhhhh ”

Burton: "Say." ”

Grabo whispered, "Chino has been in operation in Twilight for so long, and his power has become entrenched. I recommend that all the officials of Twilight be arrested immediately, or at least those in the executive mansion, and that they be arrested and interrogated to see if there are any members of the Bloodthorn Society. ”

This suggestion was very reasonable, and Bolton directly adopted it, and said to the guards: "You immediately take the elite soldiers to Twilight City, arrest all the people belonging to the executive government residence, and take them to Thundercloud City for trial. The rest of the officials at all levels should also be sent to control them, put them under house arrest at home, and interrogate them one by one when the time comes! ”

"Yes!" The guards left.