There is a cemetery on a hill 30 kilometers north of Black Flame City. After knowing that An Qier and the others were buried here, on January 7, when the sky was slightly bright and the cold wind was howling, Zhang Tie went on foot alone. After walking out of the north gate of Black Flame City, a person came here.
Knowing that Angel and Sawa were very good sisters in school, their families buried the girls together to prevent them from being lonely.
The snow outside the city was very thick. Every time he stepped down, the snow covered his knees. It took Zhang Tie, wearing a windbreaker, two hours to walk step by step from Black Flame City.
The five new tombs lined up side by side were very conspicuous. It didn’t take much effort for Zhang Tie to arrive in front of the five tombs. A layer of white snow pressed on the tombstones. Zhang Tie took off his gloves and raised his hands with his hands. Sweeping away the snow on the tombstone, photos of several girls were revealed.
Photos are in black and white.
In the black and white photo, Angel's brilliant blond hair, Sawa's beautiful face, Nia's beautiful eyes, Hildina's obsession with herself, and the smile on Mia's face A pair of cute dimples seemed to reappear in front of Zhang Tie's eyes.
The days spent with these lovely girls seemed like yesterday, but now, they were lying on the cold ground.
The so-called separation between life and death is like this.
Hot fluid flowed out of Zhang Tie's eyes, dripping down his face and onto the cold tombstone.
When no more tears came out, Zhang Tie leaned down. He kissed each girl's tombstone tenderly, then turned around and left.
After leaving here, Zhang Tie returned to Black Flame City step by step. When he saw the gate of Black Flame City, Zhang Tie did not enter the city. Instead, he bypassed the north gate of Black Flame City and walked towards the south of Black Flame City.
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The animal trading market south of Black Flame City was also depressed on such a cold day, with almost no people. However, Master Abian's castle and manor outside the city looked even more beautiful than what Zhang Tie saw more than a year ago. It's grand and beautiful, because the previous castle can no longer match Master Abian's current status.
Last year. Master Abian advanced again, leaping from a red-robed alchemist to an orange-robed alchemist, and suddenly stood on the sixth level of the glorious ladder of the alchemist world. He became the most famous figure in the entire Black Flame City.
At this moment, Master Abian has joined the Norman Empire and has become one of the vice-presidents of the Alchemist Union of Brunswick Province in the Norman Empire. He is famous for his reputation. It has even spread to Nottingburg, the northern capital of the Norman Empire. In the past few days, Master Abian has been invited by the evil Nottingburg Alchemist Guild and is visiting Nottingburg. He heard that he will not come back for a few days.
In a country with such a strict hierarchy like the Norman Empire, an orange-robed alchemist who joined the empire was enough to make Master Abian the highest-ranking senior nobleman in the entire Black Flame City, and he had huge influence in many aspects. In some respects, Master Abian was even more influential than Colonel Leibniz. At least for Colonel Leibniz. It's not like he can go to a place like Nottingburg if he wants to. An orange-robed alchemist is better than a colonel. Places like Nottingham are undoubtedly more popular with some big shots.
Therefore, under the powerful influence of Master Abian, the deaths of Angel and several others were calmed down in the end, and everything was attributed to the accident. As an assistant to an orange-robed alchemist, several A young girl accidentally came into contact with some deadly things in the warehouse of an elixir master who had all kinds of poisons and beasts, and then died. It was an ordinary "little thing". After compensating the families of several girls with a few gold coins, After that, the matter was forgotten.
In the eyes of a person like Master Abian, what kind of thing is it for a few civilian girls from Black Flame City to just die
Of course Angel and the others did not die from accidents, but from standard murders.
Because just when Susan and Fiona saw the bodies of Angel and several people, they all had some strange scars on their bodies. The scars did not seem to come from attacks by wild beasts, but more like man-made ones, and they were almost human-made. The blood in the girl's body seemed to have been drained. Angel's right hand was still tightly held. After Susan and Fiona shed tears and spent a lot of time to open Angel's fingers. , and then she took out what was in her palm. What Angel was holding tightly in her hand was the ring that Zhang Tie gave her.
Among the "rules" that are very private and only popular among the girls in the Rose Club, if a girl takes off the jewelry a boy gave her and throws it away immediately, it means that the two of them will be separated forever. If you don't meet each other, but if you still hold it and don't throw it away, you have to give that thing back to the man.
If what Angel encountered was an accident, then when the accident suddenly happened, her first thought was to save herself and survive, instead of thinking about returning the ring she gave to her in a critical moment, because at that time she She was not present at all, and there was no need for it. Therefore, Angel took off the ring and held it in her hand, just to let the other girls in the Rose Club who saw her help her return the ring to herself. Angel used such an action to tell She was still alive and conscious when she took off the ring, but she already knew that she would never be alive to see herself again. Because she has foreseen her destiny.
This is what Angel wants to tell herself. If she encounters an accident, Angel will not do this. She does this because she wants to tell herself how she died.
Angel is a smart and proud girl. When several other girls couldn't think of it or had no ability to do so, she did it and held the ring on her hand tightly in her palm and kept it for herself. One of the most crucial information.
Who caused several girls to die tragically
The answer is already obvious. Apart from Master Abian, there will be no other person.
If Master Abian is an idiot, or he has lost control of his castle, then maybe someone in the castle really dares to attack the female assistants around him, and kills five girls at once. The question is , Master Abian is not an idiot, an alchemist who has been promoted to one of the vice-presidents of the Alchemist Union of Brunswick Province in the Norman Empire at a young age, and it is even more impossible for him to lose his own nest in a place like Black Flame City. In Black Flame City, Zhang Tie had heard of Master Abian's stern reputation a long time ago, so the murderer could not be anyone other than him. If it were anyone else, Master Abian would not use his influence to resolve this matter lightly.
Zhang Tie stood on the hillside, looking at the more magnificent castle and manor where Master Abian lived, with a cold death look in his eyes.
After imprinting every detail of the castle and manor in his mind, Zhang Tie took a deep breath and closed his eyes. Half a minute later, Zhang Tie opened his eyes and reached out to pick up a handful of snowballs from the ground. , after rubbing his face for a while, he turned around and left here without looking back.
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Twenty minutes later, on a street in Black Flame City, Zhang Tie got back into the special car arranged for him by the Black Gold Hotel. Zhang Tie sat back in the car, slammed the car door, and calmed down his thoughts again. Sorted out the things to do.
Go to Gregory Street! "After deciding what to do today, Zhang Tie asked the driver to start the car.
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Gregory Street is a street named after the Gregory family of the Coal and Steel Federation that once ruled Black Flame City. In the legend of Black Flame City, the reason why this street is called Gregory Street is because More than half of the houses and shops on this street belong to the Gregorian family.
Zhang Tie came here, of course, not to do anything related to Gregory, but to do something more important to Zhang Tie.
The car stopped in front of a post office on Gregory Street. Zhang Tie looked in the car window at the sign called "Bion Clinic" hanging on the opposite side of the street, then got out of the car and walked directly across the street. , walking towards that clinic.
The door of the clinic is under the signboard. Because it was cold and it was just a few days after the New Year, there were not many people in the clinic this early in the morning. A young nurse wearing a nurse uniform was offering services after entering the clinic. Behind the desk, it wasn't until Zhang Tie walked to the clinic's service desk that the nurse noticed that someone had come in. She quickly raised her head from under the service desk, and then quickly put away the bag of snacks in her hand.
"Ah, sir, do you need medical treatment?" The fat, round-faced nurse looked at Zhang Tie.
"I don't want to see a doctor, I'm going to see Dr. Beyonce!"
"Do you have an appointment with Dr. Beyonce?"
"I don't need to make an appointment!" Zhang Tie smiled and took out his special pass from the Iron Horn Legion Supervision Department to let the nurse take a look.
The special pass of the Iron Horn Legion's Supervision Department is the identity certificate of the Supervision Department officers when performing tasks. In an area like Black Flame City that was just conquered by the Norman Empire with force, documents from powerful military departments are of great value to ordinary people. It has a huge deterrent effect. When the nurse saw the certificate in Zhang Tie's hand, her expression suddenly changed.
"Ah... I'll take you there right now..." The nurse quickly walked out from behind the service desk and took Zhang Tie to the room inside the clinic.
The clinic was not big, just over 200 square meters. After passing through the service desk, a pharmacy and a consulting room, the nurse led Zhang Tie to a room and knocked on the door.
"Please come in..." A voice came from inside the door.
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