Chapter 529 The Truth

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When Benson heard the knock on the door, he thought it was the neighbor's child next door who came to ask for candy again.

As a government employee and a newly promoted deputy minister in the department due to personnel transfers and war reasons, Benson's salary did decrease slightly, but his life did not become difficult as a result. Melissa's school has not suspended classes. According to her, the food in the school cafeteria has indeed reduced in portions and has become a bit tastier than usual, but it is not unpalatable - after all, the Moretti family is not rich to begin with.

They still lived the same peaceful life as before. They had lunch at school and work, and then brought some food back to have dinner together. They then put away the uneaten bread and meat slices for breakfast tomorrow morning.

The neighbor of the Moretti family is also a government employee, but because of the difference in salary and position, as well as the larger family size, he has been more affected than them. Occasionally, when Benson and Melissa go out, , you will see the wife or old man of that family wearing a veil and hat, coming back with bread.

But more often than not, they come up empty-handed.

Therefore, Benson and Melissa also reached some consensus. In order to respect each other, they chose to occasionally invite the neighbor's child who was less than ten years old to come to their home to have a meal together, or give him some candies, cookies and buns that Melissa brought back from school.

Little kids don't eat much, and Benson and Melissa are trustworthy and good neighbors. Therefore, the neighbor family all expressed their gratitude. Although they could not express it in monetary terms, they would always ask their children to bring simple origami or small gifts such as handkerchiefs sewn by the hostess.

"Isn't it a little late today? What time is it..."

Benson came to the living room, and before he could get closer, he heard the door knocking again.

This time, he heard the knocking on the door was very different from before. The neighbor's child was less than ten years old. Although he knocked on the door quickly, the intensity was very light. However, this time the guest knocked slowly and hard. It cannot be ignored, and the knocking sound came from a very high position... Benson's eyebrows wrinkled slightly. He felt that the knocking sound should be at the same height as his head, and the male owner of the neighbor's house was not that tall. !

Benson suddenly felt something was wrong. Seeing Melissa popping her head out of his room because of the second knock on the door, he quickly made a gesture and asked his sister to come to him with a kitchen knife.

Even under the current situation, desperadoes should not break into the communities where government workers live, but what if?

Benson took the knife and asked Melissa to return to her room, approached the door, and asked loudly:

"who is it?"

"We are Senior Inspector Benson Moretti of the Backlund Police Department. Please don't be nervous or afraid." A deep and deep voice came through the door.

Benson couldn't believe it. Although he was a government employee, he rarely interacted with Silveras Field, so he deliberately said loudly:

"Can I see your police ID?"

"By the way, I just had dinner with Director Mr. Brandley the day before yesterday. He didn't tell me at that time that a police officer would come to see me today. Your voice does not sound like the senior police inspector I know. , is the other Mr. Bourne?"

He pretended to be familiar with the senior personnel at Silveras Field, and named all the inspectors and sergeants with whom he had only met a few times and had only spoken a few words, hoping to scare them away. Suspicious elements outside. Logically speaking, if the target of the robbery is not only a government employee, but also acquainted with the top brass of the police department, then the dangerous elements who only do it for money and food should give up no matter what.

"You can call me Gale, Mr. Moretti."

To his surprise, the person outside the door not only continued to answer, but also said without fear at all: "I showed my police officer ID. You can check it through the peephole. My companion is not Inspector Bourne. But you can also show your police officer ID.”

Benson hesitated and looked through the peephole from a distance, and indeed saw a police officer's ID card with no trace of placement, the logo of Silveras Field and a dark pattern. Not only did the doubts in his heart not diminish, but they even grew:

"Then I believe you two, but why do you come to me? Our department doesn't have much cooperation with you."

The two senior police inspectors outside the door, or the punishers of the Thunder Church, looked at each other and then at the police officer behind them. The police officer consciously covered his ears to avoid suspicion. Then, the man who called himself "Gale" said in a firm tone:

"Mr. Moretti, you are suspected of being involved in a vicious act intended to subvert the country."

"Intent to subvert the country?"

Benson was shocked. If this terrifyingly big hat were to fall down, even the corners would smash him and Melissa into pieces.

Although he has now become the deputy minister of the Ministry of Finance, that is also because the deputy minister was dismissed due to his political stance and many reasons, and the noble son who was originally a candidate for deputy minister died in the war. More importantly, those legislators who promoted the "Examination Act" also need a typical case to prove the superiority of this bill, so that civilians, or Benson, who comes from a former military family, can quickly be appreciated and fill this vacancy. ——In addition, Benson does not have the family background or social connections worthy of this position. As Deputy Minister of Finance, his own family's finances were affected to a certain extent by the war.

Therefore, Benson's first reaction was that someone was trying to frame him, so he argued for himself without thinking:

"Please don't talk nonsense, Mr. Inspector."

"As a new deputy minister of the Ministry of Finance who has only been in office for two months, why would I do such a thing? This will not do me any good!"

"Gentlemen, although I don't know what your purpose is, please stop slandering and spreading rumors about me immediately, and leave from my doorstep immediately, otherwise I will ask for the help of the community peace officer!"

Gale, the captain of the Punisher team, took a deep breath, his eyes flashing with lightning, obviously very annoyed by Benson's words. He had never been spoken to like this by a commoner, let alone a commoner who was not even a follower of the God of Thunder.

The companion next to him nudged him with his elbow in time and said loudly:

"Mr. Benson, you are suspected of being 'involved', not participating!"

"Please don't be nervous, we are not here to arrest you. On the contrary, you and your family members are important stakeholders, and we will provide you with protection until the case is thoroughly investigated."

The police officer obviously spoke more logically, but Benson's heart was still pounding, and his palms holding the door handle were soaked with sweat.

"What exactly happened?" Benson licked his dry lips, "I don't remember that I was involved or involved in anything."

The punisher thought for a while, took out his mission book, took a look at it, and then asked:

"The ones at home should be Mr. Benson and Ms. Melissa. Regarding this matter, it has basically nothing to do with you, but you are indeed listed as important parties... Maybe your brother Klein Moretti Know the situation.”

"Klein?"

Benson almost exclaimed, and even Melissa couldn't help but cover her mouth. Benson became even more angry:

"This is slander! This is an even more extreme slander!"

"My brother Klein Moretti is dead! As a civilian police officer in Tingen, he died fighting criminals! He is the hero of Tingen and our pride... (Benson took a deep breath, with tears glistening in his eyes) Mr. Inspector, this must be someone who used my brother’s identity to do evil! Please stop slandering my dead brother immediately!”

Now it was the turn of the punisher outside to be surprised.

"Cline Moretti is dead?"

He seems to be even more unbelievable than Benson, but he is an Extraordinary after all, and he is also a law enforcement team of the Thunder Church. The fact that the dead are still active is equivalent to a ghost story to civilians, but in the Extraordinary world, there are many ways to do it The simplest way to achieve it is to summon the undead to work for you. After the death of ordinary people, the spirit body exists for a very short time, so the next step is to use certain spiritual creatures to simulate the appearance of the deceased. This is also done by performing "spiritual summons" and "reunion with the deceased" to cheat money. Extraordinary people's means of making money.

The simplest and most direct way is that "Cline Moretti" may be an Extraordinary of the "Corpse Collector" path.

After all, he once belonged to the Extraordinary team of Tingen City of the Church of the Night. There are a large number of "corpse collectors" in the Church of the Night, and they have all the formulas of mid- to low-sequences - and records show that he also worked with Azik Egg of the "Death Church" Si has a teacher-student relationship, and maybe he was guided by Azik Eggers and became an Extraordinary on this path, and then entered suspended animation through some means, and then was awakened.

However, Klein drank the "Soothsayer" potion under the watchful eyes of everyone and was able to "resurrect from the dead." The punisher could only guess that "Death Archon" Azik Eggers was among them. What did... Possibly, Crane Moretti never died.

Death is just an escape technique.

The poor family didn't even know that their younger brother had become a cultist... The punisher expressed his deep condolences to the two family members who seemed completely unaware and truly believed that their younger brother had died to protect the people. pity.

However, because of the death of his younger brother, the family received several thousand pounds in compensation. I don’t know if this was Klein Moretti’s purpose.

"...It's useless to say more, look at this."

The punisher took out a photo from the assignment book. The photo was pinned to a file with a paper clip, and the personal information on the file was "Sherlock Moriarty."

"Look at this, Mr. Benson."

The punisher posted the photo in front of the cat's eye so that Benson could see it clearly.

Benson squinted his eyes for a while, but didn't think there was anything special about this bearded detective. If this detective looked similar to Klein, there were too many people in the world with similar face contours and eyes, and even Can break through the blood relationship.

But just as he was about to refute, he saw the punisher take out another photo from the folder.

The pictures on this photo are very interesting, there are pictures of Sherlock Moriarty, and pictures of Crane Moretti.

Moreover, a beard exactly like that of the private detective was drawn on the photo of Clayn Moriarty next to it. After drawing the beard, Sherlock Moriarty suddenly changed from "only a spiritual resemblance" to "There are eight points like". Benson's eyes widened in disbelief and he remained silent for several seconds. Even his proud eloquence was temporarily ineffective because the facts before him were too shocking.

If Leonard were here, he would find that he had drawn both pictures - yes, it was he who first noticed the resemblance between Crane and Sherlock. But he would also be surprised at the same time, because these three comparison photos had been inserted into the book after he discovered the truth, and after digging the grave and solving the misunderstanding, they were hidden in the book as a secret shared by him and Klein. How could it be found in the most inconspicuous place on the bookshelf and displayed to Klein's family so easily?

Melissa stood at the door of the bedroom, and she clearly heard the words of the punisher outside the door.

She originally sneered at the other party's words, but when she saw Benson's suddenly stiff body, Melissa suddenly felt her heart shake violently, as if something was slipping in a bad direction, and then she fell into the abyss. .

"This-this doesn't mean..." Benson's voice became dry.

There were still tears hanging from the corners of his eyes, and his expression turned dull, which made his expression look particularly weird and funny.

The words of the punisher were like a heavy hammer that smashed Benson's dying struggle into pieces:

"Sherlock Moriarty does not have any identification. He claims to be from Jianhai, but there is no family with this surname in Jianhai."

"Mr. Benson, let me tell you this, this Mr. Sherlock Moriarty suddenly appeared in Backlund in September last year. I remember, that was when Mr. Klein died. About a month?”

"To be honest, before this... we also went to Tingen. I'm sorry, but in order to ensure that Mr. Klein Moretti's reputation is not tarnished by criminals who stole his identity, we got the approval of the church there. , dug his grave.”

With that said, the punisher took out another photo.

Benson no longer wanted to look, but the last glimmer of hope made him reluctantly raise his head. Then, he saw the familiar tombstone and the all-too-familiar young man's smiling face on the tombstone. In front of the tombstone is the open coffin. There is nothing inside but air. The body that should be sleeping there has no idea where it is now.

"The best brother..."

Benson's lips completely lost color. He looked at the contrasting photos in disbelief through the peephole glass.

He simply couldn't accept such a huge psychological gap.

"Klein...are you still alive?"

The always mature brother's fingers trembled slightly, he gripped the door handle tightly, and murmured to himself: "Are you still alive? Why... don't you come back to us... What dangerous things are you doing..."

"Mr. Benson?"

The punisher did not hear his soliloquy clearly, but he also realized that his words probably had an effect and made the other party believe his words - this is for sure. In the face of such a mountain of ironclad evidence, Benson Mo No matter how irrational Reti was, he should have realized that his brother was not dead, but just escaped from them through some means and then joined some hidden evil organization.

"Mr. Benson." He said again and knocked on the door. "Please open the door."

Click.

Benson opened the door, revealing a face full of red bloodshot eyes, as if he had aged ten years in an instant.

"I'll go with you."

He said hoarsely, full of endless sorrow: "Please tell me, Klein, where is he now, what exactly has he done, why, why did he try to subvert our country..."

TBC

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Good night!