Chapter 454: The Truth About the Murder Case (Ⅱ)

Hearing Little Jack's justification, Joan frowned, turned to call Rebecca over, and asked her in a low voice, "Have you prepared the 2-ring divine spell 'Realm of Honesty' today?"

"I only prepared combat-type magic spells today, but I brought a 'Realm of Honesty' scroll with me."

Rebecca opened the storage pouch, pulled out a sheepskin scroll, and cast the spell. Then, a golden halo full of holy magic power spread under her feet, covering the surrounding 20-foot space. In this area, the person under trial The spirit will be affected by magic, and the urge to tell the truth will arise involuntarily.

Joan asked Rebecca to maintain the "Region of Honesty", then turned around and continued to interrogate Little Jack, first asking the question again, and Little Jack answered it again impatiently, without any change in content.

"Did he lie?" Joan asked Rebecca.

"I don't think he's lying." Rebecca added a few sentences cautiously, "Of course, there are very few exceptions, such as this guy's willpower is very strong, strong enough to resist the control of the 'Realm of Honesty'. It's a lie... But, I really don't think Little Jack is the kind of person with a will of steel."

"This is troublesome." Joan frowned. "If what he said is all the truth, it means that Walter Lee's death has nothing to do with them. Who should be responsible for this murder?"

"Let's leave these details to the police to investigate. At least Little Jack confessed to the murder of Master Rawls, which shows that our hard work was not in vain. I am even more curious about why Idal and Jack brothers murdered Master Rawls. said Rebecca.

"I asked little Jack this question just now." Little Miao answered Rebecca's question, "There is no personal grievance between Brother Jack and Master Rawls, they were recruited by the 'shepherd' Idar to assist Idal Murder Master Rawls."

"Then why did Idar insist on killing Master Rawls?" Rebecca asked.

"That's a long story, and we have to start with this winter."

Sitting cross-legged on the grass, Xiao Miao rested her chin on her hands, recalling Little Jack's confession.

"As you all know, Brother Jack and Idar are both members of the 'Primitive Cult'. This cult group is headquartered in the depths of a primeval forest in the north and worships a mysterious evil god known as the 'Primitive Lord'. The current pope It is an extremely powerful legendary frost giant witch named 'Angel Poda'."

"According to Little Jack, at the beginning of January this year, the original Pope Angel Poda received divine revelation in a dream, and learned that a mysterious meteorite from the astral world penetrated the barriers of the planes and fell on the ground in Alfheim. In the southern region, we don’t know the exact location of the fall.”

"This meteorite is very important to the 'Original Lord', so I entrusted it to Angel Boda in a dream, asking her to send someone to investigate the whereabouts of the meteorite and find it as soon as possible."

"Angel Boda didn't dare to neglect, and immediately sent the senior deacon of the religious order, 'Shepherd' Idar, to Alfheim to investigate the whereabouts of the meteorite. During the journey, the industrial and agricultural production of various cities and towns were destroyed along the way. Practice the beliefs of the primitive order."

"This explains the sudden outbreak of insect infestation in the area around Leiden Harbor this spring. Idar was active in Leiden Harbor at that time." Rebecca suddenly said.

Xiao Miao nodded and continued to talk.

"Idal disguised himself and made an in-depth investigation in the city of Leiden. He was deeply shocked by the animated scarecrows commonly owned by wealthy families in the city."

"The primitive sect he belongs to is extremely disgusted with modern magic industrial civilization, and especially hates magic machines that are used to replace manpower in industrial and agricultural production in order to reduce costs and improve efficiency!"

"Based on his own beliefs, Idar has every reason to hate man-made structures like 'activated scarecrows' that violate the laws of nature, and even more so to Robert Rawls, the 'father of scarecrows' who invented and promoted such structures Hate to the bone."

"However, during this period, he hadn't made up his mind to murder Master Rawls. After all, sneaking into Leiden Academy to assassinate an arcane professor was too risky, and his primary mission at the time was to search for the whereabouts of meteorites, so he had to put aside his personal likes and dislikes for now. , leave Layton Port and continue traveling south.”

"Idar went all the way south along the Delin River. First, he found the Beaver Village that was destroyed by the meteorite. After investigating the area for many days, but found nothing, he turned to Delin Town, the nearest human settlement to the Beaver Village. "

Having said that, Xiao Miao gave Qiao An a meaningful look.

"That happened this summer. Idar wandered around Delin Town for about two weeks, and had a fierce conflict with my grandfather during the period, and fled Delin Town with injuries afterwards." Joan said softly.

"Joan knows better than me what Idal did in Delin Town, so I won't say much here. In short, after the conflict between Idal and Joan's grandfather, I harbored a grudge and didn't dare to provoke the old man, so I transferred the hatred When it comes to Joan, plus he listened to rumors during the investigation of the meteorite's whereabouts, he suspected that Joan knew the whereabouts of the meteorite, and after returning to Port Layton, he wanted to trouble Joanne."

"At that time, Leiden College had just started school, but Joan was still serving in the Brass Mountain Pass, and had not yet returned to the academy to report. Idal was unwilling to find Joan, and I did not know where to find out that Robert Rawls was Joan's mentor. And if he wants to trouble Joan, he will inevitably have a conflict with Master Rawls. If he can solve the threat of Master Rawls in advance, Joan will be easy to deal with without his backing."

"That's it, Idar finally made a murderous attempt on Master Rawls!"

"At that time, Idal's injuries in Delin Town were not completely healed. He knew that he could not defeat Rawls with his own strength, so he went to Wild Boar Island again, and two local believers of the Primitive Order—Brother Jack— —Get in touch, murder Master Rawls with the Jack brothers, and leave the mark of our 'Sons of Liberty' association on the spot, trying to mislead the police, frame the blame...they really succeeded in the end."

After listening to Xiao Miao retelling Little Jack's confession, both Joan and Rebecca fell into deep thought.

After a long time, Rebecca was the first to break the silence.

"If you only take the case of the murder of Master Rawls as an example, Little Jack's confession is clear and reasonable, and it can be determined that what he said is true, but he didn't mention another murder case that happened on the same day. Could it be that Walter Li Zhen Didn't they murder?"

"I also can't figure this out. Assuming that the three of them really didn't murder Master Li, then who killed Master Li? Why does the murder scene look so similar to the murder scene of Master Rawls, like Was it the same group of people who committed the murder?" Xiao Miao wagged her tail and thought hard.

"Little Jack obviously doesn't have the virtue of honesty, but the case he confessed is likely to be the truth, because they had sufficient reasons to murder Rawls Mentor, but they didn't have any reason to murder Walter Lee." Joan believed in his intuition, "Behind these two murders, there may be hidden secrets!"