svetikya Chapter 224 A Murder That Happened on New Year's Day
Chapter 224 A Murder That Happened on New Year's Day
Chapter 224 A Murder That Happened on New Year's Day
Raphael was unaware that a large golden retriever had also learned the method of summoning the messenger Payne.
For him, there was only one thing left before the New Year: to prepare to play the role of a "serial killer".
The performance time has also been set for New Year's Eve.
To Raphael's surprise, his announcement did not seem to cause much of a stir.
I don't know if the notice was lost, or if it wasn't taken seriously.
In any case, this was just one part of Raphael's role; if it didn't work, it didn't work.
After a flurry of activity, the New Year has finally arrived.
Backlund Bridge district.
Seeing so many people at the public carriage station, Hugh and Fors decided to turn into a small alley. Fors used "travel" to take Hugh to the town square in the west district.
There will be a fireworks display at the city square on New Year's Eve this year.
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A second or two later, they appeared in a small alley not far from the city square and followed the crowd to the square, where they found a good spot to wait.
The two had just exchanged a few casual words when, suddenly, guided by their spirituality, they looked in the same direction.
Soon they spotted Raphael in the crowd.
Fors waved to Raphael, who also saw them, and the three quickly reunited.
Hugh asked, "Are you here to see the fireworks display too?"
"I didn't know there was a fireworks display here." Raphael flashed his signature wicked smile. "It's just that spending New Year's alone is pretty boring, so I came to a crowded place for a stroll."
Hugh and Fors exchanged a glance, completing their silent communication. Hugh then extended an invitation to Raphael: "How about we grab a drink after the fireworks show?"
Raphael hesitated for a moment before saying, "Okay."
Whoosh~ Bang~
At that moment, the first firework exploded in the sky, like a beautiful silver flower blooming.
Raphael smiled; the fireworks in his hometown were much more beautiful than those here.
North of Backlund, the villa of grain merchant Besip.
Leonard, with his poetic temperament, stepped down from the carriage, glanced at the fireworks in the west direction, and then strode into the villa's gate.
Just over half an hour ago, a murder occurred here.
When the police arrived, they immediately notified the "Night Watchers" because the victim was a follower of the "Goddess of the Night".
The "night watchman" briefly surveyed the scene and immediately summoned Leonard, who was on duty that day.
Leonard is actually a senior deacon of the "Red Gloves," commanding a "Red Gloves" squad.
However, most of the Church of the Goddess of Night's manpower is now concentrated in the Amanda Mountains and the Minminsk Mountains to fight the Church of the God of War, and there are not enough people in other places.
In Backlund, the Sequence 5 and Sequence 6 of the "Night Watchers" and "Red Gloves" have to take turns working together to barely handle the extraordinary cases that occur on a daily basis.
Leonard was then called in to handle cases encountered by the "Night Watchers".
Upon entering the study, Leonard immediately saw the grotesque corpse of the victim, Beyshipp. He was slightly overweight, sitting in a chair behind the desk, his belly swollen and his mouth open, filled with barley.
Leonard then looked at a mural on one of the walls. The background depicted a demon with curved goat horns, and in front of it was a man tearing at the people around him.
Although the painting is relatively simple, it is clear that the man in the painting is Beelzebub.
Below the painting is a sentence: "The devil took away the soul of this glutton." He was already full, but he kept eating and eating.
Leonard immediately realized, "The Seven Deadly Sins!"
The first Night Watch captain, Cliff, said, "Yes!"
"I just sent someone to contact the members of the 'Substitute Punisher' team, who brought back the case file from a recent case, which also featured a mural of a demon."
"However, the mural says that the devil took away the souls of two greedy people," because those two wicked merchants were indeed very greedy, so no one considered that possibility.
Now that "binge eating" has appeared, this association is easily formed.
Leonard nodded slowly after hearing the captain's report, then glanced at the victim and remarked with a sigh, "Fortunately, the body's internal organs are still intact."
Last year, Leonard participated in the investigation of the "Backlund serial murders" and learned some information about the "devil" and the "apostle of desire".
If the internal organs disappear, it means that a "demon" is performing a ritual to promote someone to the "Apostle of Desire".
Leonard then asked, "The victim didn't die from overeating, did they?"
"He died from overeating," Cliff said, having already conducted a thorough examination. "The victim's stomach was full of barley; it must have been forced in by the murderer."
"Although no autopsy has been performed yet, the cause of death is likely that after the esophagus was already filled with barley, the perpetrator continued to stuff it into the trachea, ultimately causing suffocation."
He shook his head and said, "This process must have lasted for a while. Just thinking about it makes one's spine tingle. How desperate must the victim have been at that time?"
"But strangely, the bodyguard who was hired, a Sequence 6 level bodyguard, didn't find anything!"
Leonard casually flipped through the case file provided by the "substitute punishment agent": "The two victims in the previous case were also major grain merchants."
Three of Rune's four major grain merchants have already been taken away by the demons.
Leonard suddenly asked the person next to him, "How much does bread cost per pound now?"
He has been eating work meals lately and hasn't bought bread for himself for a while.
One of the night watch members said, "After the second round of price increases, dark bread is now 6 pence a pound."
Leonard remarked, "I remember before the war started, it was two pence a pound."
This may seem like just a 4p increase, but in Backlund, many people earn only 3 to 5 sols a week.
With an income of 5 soles, which is equivalent to 60 pence, one can only buy 10 pounds of bread, and can only eat a little over one pound a day.
For manual laborers, this was a disaster.
The reason why Backlund has not yet experienced turmoil is that the middle class, who have some say, are still able to make a living.
Thinking of all this, everyone looked at the victim. The price of grain had risen so much, and these grain merchants deserved a lot of credit for it.
Municipal Square.
The fireworks display ended in just a few minutes; after all, this year is a time of war, and the Ruen government doesn't have much spare money.
Raphael discussed it with Hugh and Fors and decided to go to their rented apartment for a drink, since there might be a lot of people at the bar today.
They found a dark alley and the three of them used their "travel" to return to the rented room. Fors took out a keg of beer, as well as the fries and pork rinds that they had just fried that afternoon.
Xiu filled their beer glasses, and the three men smiled and clinked glasses: "Happy New Year!"
The room was filled with the joyful atmosphere befitting a New Year.