Chino: "My opinion is that either we get to the bottom and find out who might be behind this." Either pretend not to know, close the case, and go back and report back to His Majesty the King. The problem itself, and the person who caused it, has to disappear. ”

"Very clever opinion, no wonder you can rise to prominence at a young age." Edward tugged at the reins and drove the carriage away from a low depression, then looked ahead and said slowly, "I can only suspect that someone is behind the scenes, and I haven't got any evidence. Even if we wanted to find out the truth, we couldn't find out, and all the clues were broken on those two charred corpses. ”

"If my guess is correct, this incident is indeed a game laid out in advance by the mastermind behind the scenes, then now the game has formed a closed loop, in other words - it is over." Edward glanced at Chino with a smile and said playfully, "In my opinion, this mastermind behind the scenes is very smart, as smart as you, he knows how to use intelligence to manipulate the situation and influence the truth." ”

Chino: "You have something to say, now it's just the two of us, you might as well say it directly, do you think I'm behind this?" I directed all of this? ”

Edward smiled slightly and comforted, "Don't be too sensitive, I won't criticize unless there is solid evidence." When I say that this man behind this is as smart as you, I praise you and praise him. ”

"But," Edward's words suddenly changed, his gaze and tone became unfathomable, "this matter is very secret, this mastermind behind the scenes is extremely cunning the whole time, and the layout seems to be seamless, but it reveals a flaw, a flaw that I am afraid even he has not noticed." ”

After speaking, Edward stretched out a free hand in front of Chino: "Smell it, what does it smell like?" ”

Chino sniffed and asked lightly, "Listen to flattery, or listen to the truth?" ”

Edward: "Flattery. ”

Chino: "Masculine with a masculine factor." ”

Edward: "What about the truth?" ”

Chino: "The smell of sweat." ”

"Hahaha." Edward let out a hearty laugh, withdrew his hand, and said slowly, "Look, whether it's flattery or truth, you only notice the surface, and you don't find out where this flaw is, and I don't think the person behind the scenes has also found it." ”

"As you know, I'm also technically an animal plague infected, which has distorted our lives, but it has also given us a strong body and some abilities that are far beyond the ordinary, such as... Olfaction. ”

"Not to mention mortals, many hounds can't smell as high level beast plague inhabitants, and I can smell what others can't... The secret to taste. ”

Edward's pupils moved slightly to the side, staring at the side of Chino's face, his dark pupils as deep as a black abyss: "In that oasis burned by fire, I smell the remnants of the plague beast. ”

The desert is empty and lonely, and at this moment, it seems that the wind and sand are quiet.

"Plague Beast." Chino met Edward's gaze, a smile welling up in his eyes, "Things are getting interesting. ”

Edward playfully said, "That's it, things get interesting." As it stands, the plague beasts are either locked up in the lower plague areas throughout the kingdom, or they are members of my Trojan clan. ”

"There may be some other forces, but there are definitely not many of them, and they can even be said to be very rare."

"Then here's the problem, Hu Shanrong took Ah Bao to rest in the oasis, and met the murderer who robbed the money in the middle of the night, and the murderer used the fuel he carried with him to destroy the corpse, and the time of the murder was exactly the night before we arrived at the ransom delivery site... These things are quite reasonable and can be described as coincidences. ”

"However, this murderer is an infected person who can independently beast, and since I smell the breath of the plague beast, it means that this infected person did not assassinate when he committed the murder, but entered the form of the plague beast, broke out a battle with Hu Shanrong, and finally killed him, which shows that this is an infected person whose strength is no less than that of the 4th sequence."

"If you string all these things together and explain them by coincidence, what will be the probability?"

The two looked at each other, and the atmosphere was extremely oppressive and silent, except for the sound of carriage wheels running over the sand.

"Looks like you're right." Chino's back to the sun, the shadow on his face like some terrifying creature, making it impossible to see his expression, "There's a mastermind behind this matter, who is in charge of all this. ”

"So, who could this person be?" The sunlight shone directly into Edward's pupils, and there seemed to be a scorching glow, trying to illuminate the darkness that could not be dissolved.

Edward didn't wait for Chino's answer, he looked away and said straightly: "Of course, no matter who this person is, as I said, the game he laid out has completed the closed loop, and we won't be able to find the answer in a short time." ”

"But remember one thing – time will tell the truth. Believe me, what is true is true, what is false is false, the truth is like a beast dormant in a cage, there will always be a day when it will come out of the cage, but the time has not yet come. ”

...

When Chino and Edward returned to the border town, they took two charred corpses with them and told Resahar what was going on.

As said before, since the clue is broken, and the mastermind behind it cannot be found, the existence of this person will only make the situation more complicated, and it will also appear that they are very incompetent, and they did not mention many doubts about this matter, but only told Resakhar about their experiences along the way.

Resakhar was more upright, and did not find those hidden suspicions, but was surprised and unwilling, and muttered that it would be difficult to deal with it when he went back this time, and he would inevitably be scolded by His Majesty the King.

Pertheus had made two requests before - Po, to see people alive and corpses to death; Hu Shanrong, you have to live.

None of the three of them did both.

Hu Shanrong died violently, forever silent, unable to hear the ins and outs of the matter from his mouth.

Ah Bao seemed to have seen the corpse, but he only deduced that it was Ah Bao from the shape and the golden teeth, and there was no conclusive evidence, and the kingdom's technological level was not enough to identify it through a charred corpse.

Just go back and make a business, the king can have a good face.

But at this point, they couldn't do anything, so they had to go back.

After a few repairs in the border town, Resakhar flew back to the royal city with them overnight.

It was late at night when they arrived at the royal city, and the three of them learned from the royal guards that Pertheus had not rested, and had given an order that as soon as the three of them returned, whatever they were doing, they would be immediately informed and summoned.

The three of them were taken to the conference room of the main hall by the imperial guards, Perseus sat in the main seat, and the three of them stood under the stage, with the box of unspent golden moons and two charred corpses in the middle.

Pertheus stared at the two hideous charred corpses, and then turned his gaze to Edward, "What does this mean?" ”