Chapter 91 90 Said You Are Suspicious, Then You Are Suspicious

Chapter 91 90. If you are suspected, then you are suspected

"Name."

"Lu Yu, the person next to you is my servant Sigrid."

"What about this black fog and white fog?"

"Oh, this is our traveling companion, the fog demon. The one on my shoulder is a summon."

"Summon, then you are a magician, right?"

The guard who was recording halfway raised his head and looked at Lu Yu for a long time, and asked again: "What are you doing in the capital?"

Lu Yu told the truth: "I am taking a temporary break during the trip and preparing to collect some materials here."

The guard continued to record, and nodded to Lu Yu after checking with his companion beside him.

"Since you are an outsider, I remind you that there have been murderers committing crimes in the capital recently, and it is not very peaceful, so try not to run out of the city at night. It is a small matter to be misunderstood by us, but it will be a big trouble if you are targeted by the murderer."

The same scene also happened in the tavern where Lu Yu stayed. I don't know how many people were quarreled just after they finished washing and lying down to rest.

After the guards left, the owner of the tavern served fruit plates to the travelers who were annoyed by the three inspections in one day.

Many guests arrived at the capital of the Gran Empire after a tiring day, and everyone wanted to have a good rest, but three waves of surprise inspections in succession made everyone sleepless.

The guests who ate the fruit plates simply sat in the tavern and complained about the bad things they encountered today.

"The registration for entering the city is so detailed that it gives me a headache. I'm just a small businessman, but they insisted that I tell them about my recent movements and asked me if I had any way to prove it... How can I prove it?"

"It's almost the same for me. At first, I thought these guards wanted to get some benefits, but they didn't accept any. They even invited the magician in charge to interrogate me... Fortunately, the magician let me go in the end, otherwise I would have to sleep in prison tonight."

"I heard that there are knights stationed in the South City and the East City, so the guards didn't act in a mess. It seems that you are all unlucky people who went through the remaining two gates."

"Okay, even if you come in, so what? After the evening, there were three consecutive inspections. You were pulled out to answer questions while taking a shower... Aren't they doing useless work by screening like this?"

Lu Yu and Sigrid ate fruit plates and looked at the two notices in their hands.

One of them was the murderer that Lu Yu had heard about in Kais City. The Imperial Knights, one of the three major knight orders in the Gran Empire, offered a reward for clues about the murderer and provided generous rewards based on the authenticity of the clues.

After arriving in the capital, Lu Yu had a basic understanding of this killer.

The killer committed his first crime in the spring of last year. The public didn't know much about the first victim. They only knew that he was a teenager who died in a very miserable way. When his body was found, it frightened a village woman.

Because this teenager was originally homeless and his identity was unknown, the relevant personnel in the Gran Empire who handled the case simply reported it as a gang vendetta to fool people.

Perhaps those who handled the case at that time would not have thought that this was just the beginning.

After the first victim, the killer killed sixteen people in succession, and some details concealed by the authorities finally leaked out.

The bodies of each victim were incomplete, and the missing parts could not be found at the scene. It was suspected that they were taken away by the killer.

According to the revelation, the only thing the victims had in common was that they were all under the age of twenty.

The races of the victims were different, and there was no killing against a certain race.

Putting down the killer's reward notice, the other notice in Lu Yu's hand should be the reason why the Gran King's capital was on high alert.

The Elven Kingdom and the Gran Empire will stop the state of war that has lasted for nearly 20 years. In order to show their sincerity, the kings of both sides will visit each other's capital.

The Elven King will arrive at Gran's capital in a few days, and the last crime committed by the killer in the capital was half a month ago. If a vicious crime occurs at the time when the kings meet, and the Elven Kingdom hears about it, it will be a loss of face for the country.

Lulutis can understand the logic of their doing this, but the problem is... the murderer is all over the street. Wouldn't the people of the Elven Kingdom know everything if they come here to ask a little?

Lu Yu didn't want to explain more, he had seen a lot of such operations.

People in the Elven Kingdom probably don't see many normal people when they travel. If they are all over the streets, everything is peaceful, then they will naturally have face.

Whether it is the killer or the restoration of normal relations between the two countries and the opening of the border, it has nothing to do with Lu Yu, a passerby.

After eating the fruit plate, Lu Yu stretched and yawned and was about to go back to his room to sleep, but there was movement outside the tavern again.

The guards who had just left came to the tavern again. The guests who had not yet returned to their rooms sighed and prepared to be interrogated again.

Unexpectedly, this time the guards did not ask questions, but took out a crystal ball and waved it in front of every guest, even the drinkers who came to consume.

When it came to Lu Yu, the crystal ball flickered slightly.

The captain of the guards saw the condition of the crystal ball, walked up to Lu Yu and said, "Magician, right? Come with us."

Lu Yu was puzzled. The other party's posture was obviously aimed at the identity of the magician.

But the guard who just came registered his identity as a magician and didn't say much. What's going on?

"This white fog and black fog are your summons, right? Disperse them quickly and don't carry them."

Faced with the other party's request, Lu Yu was not so stubborn as to directly resist. After all, it seems that the other party is just doing routine work. Except for the bad tone of law enforcement, there is nothing wrong.

He handed all the luggage to Sigrid and told them to eat and drink.

"You can spend as much as you want when I'm not around. This is a rare opportunity!"

Lu Yu's words made Sigrid laugh and cry.

Seeing that Lulutis wanted to follow him quietly, Lu Yu quickly gestured to her.

Following the rules can at least ensure that the other party will not have unnecessary misunderstandings. If it is clearly stated that summons cannot be accompanied, and Lulutis still follows, then the other party can take advantage of the situation and things will change.

Learning from the east gate by the guards, Lu Yu found that there were many magicians like himself who were taken out of the city by the guards. Many of them looked confused like him.

A camp appeared in the distance, with flags flying.

A sword grew a pair of wings. This pattern is the logo of the Wind Feather Knights, one of the three major knight orders in the empire.

Inside the camp, Lu Yu looked around and found that the people in the Fengyu Knights' camp were in a hurry, and most of the knights had anxious expressions on their faces.

More and more magicians were gathered together, and the number was close to thirty.

And they were left alone, and no one came to explain why they were brought here.

They stayed there until the second half of the night, and the sleepy Lu Yu was already a little angry.

In this situation, no one dared to sleep, for fear that something unexpected would happen and they would not be able to react in time.

Finally, someone couldn't help it.

A female magician wearing a pointed hat angrily found a knight and yelled: "We have waited from the first half of the night to the second half of the night. If we wait any longer, it will be almost dawn. What do you want to do? Why did you let us come here!"

Sleepy, waiting for several hours in a row, even the best-tempered people were on the verge of exploding.

With someone taking the lead, more than thirty magicians came forward and asked for an explanation.

Soldiers and knights drew their weapons, archers on the tower prepared, and more magicians walked out of the camp.

Just as the magicians were losing their minds, a dozen people rode into the camp.

The leader was a middle-aged man with a scar that almost ran diagonally across his face. As soon as he arrived with eyes like a hawk, the soldiers on the scene put away their weapons and the members of the Knights stood at attention.

"Captain Nalin, these are the people."

"Have you confirmed them all?"

"Yes, they are all magicians, and they are all near the crime scene."

Captain Nalin walked in front of the magicians, and his sharp eyes extinguished the anger of the magicians present.

"Not long ago, the murderer committed a crime again, in the capital."

Nalin did not waste words and paced among the magicians.

"Unlike before, this time the killer targeted a baron's daughter. She was suddenly attacked by the killer and fought back desperately, but was also seriously injured. Although she didn't see the killer's appearance clearly, she successfully called for help."

"Based on the killer's previous methods of committing crimes, we know that this madman is a magician. Because the baron's daughter called for help in time this time, the soldiers in the capital quickly blocked the surrounding area, and it was impossible for anyone to escape from the East City District."

Nalin's tone became colder: "And now... all the magicians near the crime scene are here."

While speaking, Radna, the leader of the Imperial Knights, also led his team to the Fengyu Knights' base.

Radna, with blond hair and wearing monocles, asked the members to move a chair for him as soon as he arrived. He sat behind Nalin, saying nothing, and scanning the magicians present with a sullen face.

With this posture, the two major knights have already determined that the crazy killer is among the people present.

Lu Yu was so sleepy that his eyelids were fighting. Even after hearing such explosive news, he kept yawning.

Compared with the leaders of the two knights, he should be the one who wanted to catch the murderer the most.

After almost a night of tossing and turning, the murderer was brought to justice, and he could go back to sleep. What could be better than this?

Lu Yu, who had a clear conscience, sat on the ground and watched the situation change quietly.

The murderer would definitely not stand up and surrender. The two major knights knew this, so they began to interrogate the magicians one by one, what they were doing at the time of the incident, and who could prove it.

Lu Yu looked at this group of people doing useless work here, and he was really confused.

He didn't want to stand out too much among this group of people, but he also saw clearly that if he didn't say something, maybe he would have to spend the next night in the knights' residence.

Lu Yu raised his hand.

The manager of the knights in the front row saw it and motioned someone to go over and ask what happened.

A knight came to the two leaders with Lu Yu's words.

"Captain, this magician said he wants to tell you something in secret."

Nalin and Radna looked at each other, and Nalin nodded slightly to his men.

Before Lu Yu, who was led to the two captains, had time to say anything, the senior knights of the Imperial Knights asked: "Are you going to surrender?"

Lu Yu snorted, cleared his throat, and asked back: "Are you going to catch the murderer's imitator, or the murderer?"

"What do you mean?"

"I just heard that the Baron's daughter seems to be a magician of the first level, right?" Lu Yu said, "A perverted murderer who killed 17 people in a row would not know the strength of his target and rashly attack the target that he cannot attack?"

"A murderer with extremely strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities. Every time he kills, he kidnaps, kills, and then dumps the body. Why did he abandon the original plan and choose to do it on the spot for the eighteenth crime?"

In fact, there was something Lu Yu didn't say.

None of the magicians present had noble status.

Is it because the nobles in Dongcheng don’t have magician blood, or is this done deliberately?

Nalin and Radena stared at Lu Yu.

"Magic, I admit that what you said is somewhat interesting. There is indeed the possibility of copycats, but how can you be sure that this is not a murderer's mistake?"

Captain Nalin's face was sullen, which made the scar even more ugly. He slowly approached Lu Yu and said.

"There was only one first-level magician among the people killed by the murderer before. His failure to deal with the second-level magician can be completely understood because he was unable to satisfy the pleasure of hunting and planned to challenge a high level of difficulty."

"It makes sense, but if you arrest him like this, what will happen even if there is really a murderer here? Do you have any evidence?"

Radena, the leader of the Imperial Knights who had been silent, suddenly spoke.

"Magic, your tone makes me feel like you are the murderer."

"Killing people, escaping punishment many times, and even being captured by the Knights, yet still able to get away with it based on insufficient evidence, talking to us about details and flaws with a smile, and changing directions to show off his shrewdness..."

"Do you know that, in my opinion, there is only one person who can quickly judge that others are imitators... and that is the murderer himself."

The members of the Imperial Knights who heard the voice of Radner's words stepped forward to surround Lu Yu.

Nalin, who was stroking his chin in thought, dissuaded him: "Captain Radena, this happened suddenly. I really didn't think too much about it. There is indeed the possibility of copycat criminals. We should be cautious."

Radena stood up with a sneer: "Prudent?"

"The Imperial Knights are an extension of His Majesty's power. We represent His Majesty's will, which is different from Feng Yu and the stars."

"Your Majesty is busy meeting with the Elf King. The nobles are planning how to welcome the Elf clan. We should do our best to share their worries."

"In special times, we don't have much time for us to confirm repeatedly. I don't say that he is a criminal. I only say that he has major suspicions. I will imprison him for a period of time. When the Elf King leaves, his suspicions can be cleared and then released. No problem?"

"Even if he is not a murderer, we caught him wrongly, and if the news is released, both the real criminal and the imitator will want to prove that he has not been caught and commit another crime and slap us in the face. Naturally, we will have a chance to catch him again."

Lu Yu reluctantly understood Radner's logic in shock.

This means that he thinks that his suspicion of a copycat means that he is the murderer himself.

Although he has no evidence, because time is sensitive, it doesn't matter if there is no evidence. If he is wronged, he will be wronged. If he happens to imprison the real murderer, it will bring glory to the country.

It didn't matter if he caught him wrong. If he wronged Lu Yu, he might have caught the real murderer, which would be considered fair to him.

This logic comes from the mouth of a knight directly connected to the empire... It is really not too surprising.