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Chapter 109 The Cruel Cripple

"I suggest you go in and take a look." This time, after two and a half minutes, Deputy Knight Commander Fang walked out of the house with a frown and suggested that Zhang Wei go in and take a look himself.

"What's going on?" Zhang Wei said, but he didn't mean to move.

"Do you want me to say it here?" Deputy Knight Commander Fang looked at the crowd watching the excitement nearby and asked Zhang Wei with some dissatisfaction.

"Let's talk inside, let's talk inside." Zhang Wei immediately gave in and asked Deputy Knight Commander Fang to go into the house first.

Deputy Knight Commander Fang brought Zhang Wei to the living room and pointed at a headless corpse and said, "The deceased, Wang Qiang, or Sha Qiang as you call him, had his head cut off, his fingerprints destroyed, and even his blood drained out. However, the murderer knew nothing about our method of identifying identities."

As Deputy Knight Commander Fang spoke, as if to make Zhang Wei agree that the mummy in front of him was Sha Qiang, he took out a magic prop and said, "The way we identify people is not through fingerprints, eye patterns, facial recognition or blood, but based on magic genes. Everyone's magic genes are not only the same as those mentioned above, but also unique. More importantly, as long as there is a little bit of matter, we can use the magic genes retained on it to check with the people in the database."

Deputy Knight Commander Fang spoke as she operated. She moved a virtual image from the magic prop to the air in front of her. Displayed on the image was the appearance and other information that Sha Qiang had registered when he started working as a tax officer.

Zhang Wei was like a fool who had never seen the world, repeatedly exclaiming how good the props in Deputy Knight Commander Fang's hand were. Only Zhang Wei knew that the magic props in Deputy Knight Commander Fang's hand were just low-level official versions, nothing to brag about. If this thing was not available on the black market, Zhang Wei would have made one for himself long ago, and there would be no need for the government to investigate these things.

Of course, according to reason, as a sergeant, Zhang Wei should be given a beggar version of magic props that is worse than the one in the hands of the deputy knight commander. However, the army has not given it to him. Zhang Wei asked for it several times, but was rejected on the grounds of out of stock. After Zhang Wei knew that they would not give it to him, he did not ask for it again.

"How are you going to deal with this matter now? I've heard a little about your internal strife. Has it exceeded your expectations this time?" Deputy Knight Commander Fang rarely asked Zhang Wei for information.

Zhang Wei thought about it and said with a wry smile, "I guess no one would have expected this. I want to preserve these bodies. Please let the Baron make the decision. After all, the dead so far include soldiers and tax collectors. This matter is no longer something I can handle."

Deputy Knight Commander Fang was keenly aware of the message in Zhang Wei's words. She said sarcastically, "That's good. You have become a baron so quickly. That's pretty fast."

Zhang Wei smiled but said nothing. If one wants to be a lone minister, one must be aware of the fact that he is a lone minister. Not to mention that things are pushing him forward now. If he wants to continue to play the pig and eat the tiger, he has no other choice.

"Are you going to the third place?" Deputy Knight Commander Fang asked Zhang Wei.

"No. Did you send someone to notify the Baron, or should I do it?" Zhang Wei had already given up hope on the third place. He felt that it was most likely the Cripple who did these things, so it would be impossible to see the Cripple's body in the third place. As for why the Cripple dared to kill Sha Qiang, only the Cripple himself knew.

"Okay, I'll send someone. When you have decided on a place to stay, send someone to tell me. I can tell you what the situation is then."

"Okay, thanks." Zhang Wei was a little flattered by Deputy Knight Commander Fang's sudden act of doing him a favor. He couldn't quite understand the woman's behavior. She had mocked him for changing his ways and climbing up the social ladder just a second ago, and now she was suddenly doing him a favor. She changed her attitude faster than turning the pages of a book.

A few days later, after Zhang Wei received the news that the Baron, the Viscount and the President of the Adventurer's Guild had returned to the city, he hurried to meet the Baron.

The baron looked very unhappy, and the tax collector standing beside him looked even more unpleasant.

"What did you do? Why did you let the knights get involved in this? And let them know that the dead included soldiers and idiots?" The baron angrily scolded Zhang Wei for his poor performance.

"Your Excellency, please be aware that the death of a person cannot be covered up for long. At that time, I was worried that the local army led by the Viscount would intervene, so I had no choice but to find Deputy Knight Commander Fang. This woman is usually not popular, and she is eyeing the position of Knight Commander, so she can be used by you." Zhang Wei slowly told the baron the words he had prepared long ago.

The Baron snorted coldly and waited for Zhang Wei to continue explaining.

Zhang Wei saw that his prepared words did not convince the Baron, so he spoke again: "The raid on our hideout was an accident, and Brother Qiang's murder was an accident among accidents. But there is one thing that concerns me..."

Zhang Wei wanted to divert the Baron's attention elsewhere, so he began to whet the Baron's appetite by being hesitant to speak.

Sure enough, the Baron asked Zhang Wei what he was concerned about.

"Since the murderer had already killed Brother Qiang, why did he have to cut off his head, draw blood, and destroy fingerprints? It's like he was trying to cover up Brother Qiang's death. If the murderer didn't know how to identify someone, we might have been fooled by him. In addition, the cripple's body was not found where he was, but a similar mummified corpse was found. After checking, it was not the cripple, but an adventurer registered in the Viscount's Adventurer's Guild."

"Are you suspecting the cripple?" the Baron asked Zhang Wei.

However, Zhang Wei shook his head and said, "There is no evidence to prove that the cripple did it. Only the tax official knows how many people he has arranged to come. Maybe the cripple has already met with misfortune, or maybe the cripple is the murderer who embezzled money." Zhang Wei did not say everything because he was afraid that things would take a turn for the worse. If he didn't trick the cripple, it would not be worth it if he got himself tricked instead.

The Baron turned to look at the tax collector.

At this time, the tax officer was wiping the sweat from his forehead, and he immediately said that he would verify the personnel information immediately.

Just then, the guard came to report that the lame man wanted to see him.

The tax officer looked surprised.

Zhang Wei had a blank expression on his face.

The baron looked at the tax collector's expression, then at Zhang Wei's expression, and then asked the guards to bring people in.

As soon as the cripple entered the room, he knelt before the baron and declared himself guilty of a capital crime.

As Zhang Wei watched this scene, what emerged in his mind was the image of the lame man kneeling in front of Brother Nan and begging for mercy.

"What is your capital crime?" asked the Baron.

"Your Excellency, I realized at the time that someone was going to take revenge, so I reminded Brother Qiang to change the location and concentrate the manpower to prevent any accidents. But Brother Qiang didn't listen. If I hadn't been prepared, I'm afraid I would have been beheaded."

The cripple's words aroused the baron's curiosity, so he asked, "Tell me slowly and give me the details."

According to the lame man, after kidnapping Kelly, Brother Qiang raped her several more times, and then, feeling unhappy, Brother Qiang went out to look for women again, which resulted in a conflict with someone, but no one took it seriously. However, the lame man discovered that they were being targeted by someone, and it seemed that the person was not ordinary.

Therefore, the lame man reminded Brother Qiang to gather the people together and move to another place to wait for the next instruction. However, Brother Qiang did not listen to the lame man's advice, but continued to do his own thing.

Feeling that his life was threatened, the cripple hired an adventurer who looked very similar to him and wore a magic mask to be his substitute. Anyway, the third base where he was was just a backup base, and it would not expose the whereabouts of Qiang Ge, Kelly and others.

As a result, the substitute really died for the cripple. After the incident, the cripple did not know the murderer's background and did not dare to rashly turn to the knight who was investigating the case. So he had to wait for the baron to come back and then go to see the baron as soon as possible.

While the cripple was speaking, the baron was secretly observing the expressions of the cripple, the tax collector and Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei just kept looking at the lame man talking nonsense with an expressionless face, as if he was looking at a dead fish.

The tax collector tried to interrupt several times, but was stopped by the baron's eyes.

When the cripple finished speaking, the baron signaled the tax collector that he could speak. The tax collector opened his mouth, but finally closed it. It was not that the cripple's words were impeccable, but the tax collector really couldn't find a way in. He always felt that there was something strange about the cripple's statement, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

"Waste." The Baron cursed in his heart. These recent events have caused the tax collector's status in the Baron's heart to plummet, and the Baron's attitude towards the tax collector has become worse and worse.

The Baron did not ask Zhang Wei because he felt that Zhang Wei had something to say, but in the current situation, Zhang Wei would definitely not say it.

"Someone come here." The baron called the guard behind the door.

"Here." Two guards pushed the door open and waited for the baron's orders.

"Take him down and let him rest."

"Yes." Two guards stepped forward and lifted the lame man up, one on the left and one on the right.

The lame man indicated that he could walk, and the two guards let him go and "escorted" him to a room suitable for house arrest.

The baron gestured to the tax collector to leave.

"Me?" The tax collector didn't expect the baron to ask him to recuse himself again.

"Nonsense! Did you do the job I asked you to do?" the baron started cursing.

The tax officer remembered that he had not yet verified the deaths, so he quickly left the room.

"Okay, everyone is leaving. Do you have anything to say?" the Baron asked Zhang Wei.

"Your Excellency, I have a question that has no answer." Zhang Wei raised a question.

"What's the problem?" the baron continued.

"How did he know you were back?" Zhang Wei asked his question.

"Who?" The Baron didn't respond.

"I didn't explain it clearly. What I wanted to say was, how did the lame man know that you were back? I only knew about your return and where you were after receiving the notification. Since he was running for his life and hiding, how did he know the time of your return and where you were, and how was he able to find you as soon as possible?" Zhang Wei explained further.

The baron said nothing. After a slight sneer appeared on his lips, he returned to his normal state.

At this time, the cripple was walking on the road, thinking about what trap Zhang Wei would set for him and how he would answer the baron's questions. If the Blood Moon Cult hadn't told him about the magic gene, he would have naively thought that he could fake his death by replacing the original with the new.