Chapter 861: The impermanence of world changes
Most of the hotel guests stood there hesitantly, not knowing what to do.
They were all arranged to stay here by acquaintances in the town, and they seldom walked around the hotel on weekdays, so they naturally knew nothing about Kant and others.
Judging from the conversation between Kant and the orc man, the reason why these attackers came to the door was indeed because their targets were Kant and others.
Without understanding the situation, do you want to continue to participate in stirring up this mess
Most of the homeless people wandering between the lobby and the escalator have such thoughts in their hearts.
"I don't know anything. I'm going back to my room to pack my luggage. What does your conflict with those people have to do with us?" A dwarf walked out of the crowd and said to the Calradian soldiers.
The leading soldier glanced at Kant who was sitting on the chair, and shot to intercept the dwarf who was about to leave.
"Wait a moment, please," the soldier said.
"What? You still want to force others to stay?" The dwarf's tone was tinged with annoyance.
"Those who want to stay stay, and those who want to leave can go." Kant said lightly: "Some people are worried that they will get into trouble. Such thoughts are indeed unavoidable. But on behalf of Calradia, I promise everyone who will not leave the meeting , those who participated in the discussion. We will not leak anything you say. And, as long as you choose to stay in the hotel: we can guarantee the safety of all of you until you leave the town."
After Kant finished speaking, the noisy scene became quiet.
After a while, the passengers who were stuck in the choice found a chair near the dining table and sat down.
"...Alright then." The dwarf who was stopped by the soldiers agreed after frowning and thinking for a while.
The soldiers on the side saw that his attitude was loose, and immediately took him to a chair near Kant and sat down.
"Thank you for your trust." After Kant nodded, he shifted his gaze to the dwarf beside him, and asked, "What's your name?"
"Molière." The dwarf glanced at Kant and responded.
"Well," Kant raised his head and said to all the homeless people: "Perhaps before today, you didn't know who we are. So let me introduce myself first. My name is Kant, and I live on another continent. The lord of the oasis country called Calradia. The people with me are soldiers and generals from Calradia."
"Hi everyone, my name is Bundak. I'm the commander of Calradia's army." After receiving Kant's wink, Bundak briefly introduced.
"Hi everyone, my name is Abel. I am a soldier from the kingdom of elves. The army of our elves and the soldiers of Calradia were sent to this small island to perform missions together." After the voice fell, he spoke consciously.
"It turned out to be you!" A passenger in the crowd screamed in surprise: "You went up the mountain to rescue the dwarf clan before. I have heard the names of you and the other two human captains."
"Yeah." Abel nodded with a smile, and said, "Then do you know what's going on with Corey Dave?"
Even when he met the dwarves last time, the patriarch of the dwarves never mentioned Corey Dave's name. Now that he met someone who knew the inside story, Abel couldn't help asking.
"I heard that he has been dismissed by the Supervision Office." The tenant replied after thinking for a while: "But after that, no one has seen him. I don't know if the dwarves imprisoned him, or he escaped by himself. Where did you go?"
"That's why." Abel said: "If that person was just dismissed, considering what he did, the punishment of dismissal is still too light."
"Is Corey Dave the member of the Inspectorate who set a trap to make the world think that the dwarves disappeared?" Kant raised his eyebrows and asked.
"Yes, the reason we came to this island is probably because of what he did." Abel said angrily.
"That's right." Kant replied.
"Let's not talk about this, everyone, tell us what happened to you today." Bundak recalled the letter written by DeWitt, which indeed mentioned the number Cory Dave. People's first names. It's just that the most important thing now is to integrate the clues in everyone's hands, so he hastily opened his mouth and presided over: "Who will talk first?"
"Everyone's experiences are similar, I think," said a passenger in the crowd.
"Yes, yes." All the rest of the passengers, even a few waiters agreed.
"Are you guys staying together?" Bundak said in a daze.
"Yes." Another passenger explained: "Everyone was called to the lobby by a young waiter, saying that some of the leftovers from this morning were found to contain toxins. We need everyone who has had breakfast Go downstairs for a health check."
"Has anyone among us received such news?" Bandak confirmed to the soldiers behind him. After receiving a negative answer, he turned to the tenant who spoke and asked, "What time was it when you were called to the lobby?"
"About seven o'clock in the evening." The tenant responded.
"So that's how it is." Bandak murmured in a low voice, not knowing what he thought of.
"At that time we were still eating in the restaurant," Abel thought carefully, "but why didn't we hear the movement downstairs?"
Kant pondered for a while, and asked, "What does the waiter who brought you the news look like?"
"It looks thinner than other half-orc waiters, and there is no blood on the face." The tenant replied while recalling.
"Could it be the same person?" Abel and Kant looked at each other with doubts in their eyes. Then he shouted: "By the way? Where did the waiter go? We didn't see him in the cellar?"
"If he belongs to the dark side organization, he probably has escaped from the inn by now." Bandak said: "If he is a staff member who was held hostage in the store."
Because Bandak couldn't bear it very much, he still didn't say the rest.
"Do you know the waiter mentioned by the tenant?" Kant asked the others.
"Of course they recognize it." Bandak said lightly at this time.
"Bundak?" Abel asked suspiciously, "Have you seen this waiter stay with other waiters before?"
"Yes, it was when I went to the backyard to cook medicine tonight." Bandak looked coldly at the two or three waiters in the field, and said, "He and he are bullying that waiter with fists and feet. "
The two waiters who were named by Bundak showed embarrassment.
Chapter 862: Helpless Status Quo
After Abel heard the words, his expression became serious. He said: "I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen in this store. It seems that the source of this basket of things that happened today has finally been found. You two, you have to explain it to us."
The two half-orc waiters glanced at each other, and the waiter standing opposite Kant said: "My lords, the attack by outsiders really has nothing to do with us. As for who is responsible, it is the waiter who made a mistake." , let the attacker take advantage of the loophole."
"Don't fart me!" Abel frowned and shouted: "Is it up to you to decide what is right or wrong? I hate you bastards who bully the weak in groups. Now give me the timeline of what you know Straighten it out, and then ask other people where you went wrong!"
".Yes." The waiter pursed his lips, and responded, "This waiter is an orphan brought back from the suburbs by our boss. He is weak and withdrawn. We usually just play with him casually. I didn't expect this kid to poison our meals. But God took care of us, everyone went to the gate of the city to help unload the goods this morning, and we ate breakfast at the tavern on the street. The staff meal was thrown away."
"And then?" Bandak asked coldly, "When did you find out?"
"When we returned to the store at noon, we didn't know about it." The waiter continued to state: "It's just that the people from the health center on the street came to our store and said: the leftovers sent by the back kitchen to be processed Someone poisoned the leftovers. At that time, the accountant also panicked, and immediately asked us to search the back kitchen to find out who poisoned it and how."
"You didn't notify the residents in the store immediately?" Abel asked suspiciously.
"At that time, even if we notified everyone, we couldn't explain clearly." The waiter standing in the corner responded.
"Go ahead." Kant said lightly.
"Then we discovered that kid's behavior." The waiter paused, and continued: "Before we brought him in front of the cashier, we were in the backyard and gave him a lesson."
"Shouldn't it be just a little heavy hand." Recalling the scene he saw, Bandak took a deep breath and said, "Didn't the waiter faint?"
"No! That kid is definitely playing dead. When he saw you were here, he would," the waiter argued.
"If I hadn't appeared in the backyard, that waiter would have been knocked out by you." Bundak interrupted him, and said, "Let's talk about what happened next."
"Yes..." The waiter's face was not good-looking, after all, he was used to being awe-inspiring among the waiters, and suddenly he was taught a lesson, and he couldn't even refute it. Inevitably upset. However, Kant and the others took good care of their hotel. As a waiter in the hotel, he had to endure whatever Bundak said. At this time, he replied in a low voice: "After you leave, my lord, we will send Jackie to Mr. Accountant and let him be dealt with. At this time, that boy Jackie woke up again and cried to Mr. Accountant how we usually treat him. Accountant The husband said: After this matter is dealt with, we will be dealt with."
"Then we started to go to each guest room to call all the guests, saying that it was a sanitation inspection." Another waiter answered.
"And then? Why didn't you inform us? When was Mr. Accountant killed?" Kant asked.
"Because, my lords, apart from dinner time today, our main investigation targets are those who have eaten breakfast or lunch in the store. They have not eaten in the store. Mr. Kant, the only one who has eaten, the dishes ordered It is run by the head chef of the restaurant. The ingredients used by the chef are purchased and stored by himself.”
"I see." Kant nodded and said, "Then how did the accountant get killed?"
"It's that boy Jackie. I heard Mr. Cashier talking to him alone in the back kitchen. After a while, I heard the news that Mr. Cashier was killed." The waiter's eyes seemed to be breathing fire, and he said through gritted teeth.
"Jackie?!" Bundak said in surprise.
"At that time, there were only him and the accountant in the back kitchen. It must be him." The waiter nodded.
"Who was the first to discover the scene?" Kant raised his hand and asked everyone in the lobby.
The homeless people who were listening to the story attentively were taken aback for a moment, and then they identified each other.
"I remember Mr. Divits"
"No, I also heard about it from others." The person who was named denied it.
Until the end, the source of this news was not found.
Everyone's expressions became distressed.
"If everyone is not lying," Kant lowered his eyes and said, "It seems that the first person to discover this scene is one of the group of people who were kidnapped just now."
"Your Majesty, what do you mean?" Abel's eyes widened, and he recalled the scene he saw in the corridor when Jackie came to deliver the letter. Then he hurriedly asked the waiter, "How did you get kidnapped by that group of people?"
"Mr. Accountant died of suffocation because he was strangled by a rope." The waiter said, "The back kitchen can only lead to the backyard except for the lobby. When all of us searched in the backyard, We were assigned to attack from behind. So before those attackers revealed their identities, we didn't know who the attackers were."
"It seems that Jackie chose to cooperate with the conscientious people of the dark side organization in a panic." Kant nodded.
"The condition offered by the other party is probably something like 'I will send you out of the town safely'." Bandak said with a sigh.
"After I broke their conspiracy, Jackie should have escaped from this hotel." Abel said: "He is penniless now, I don't know where he will escape to?"
"I don't know." Bandak replied in a deep voice.
"I think he will go back to the hotel, after all, this is the only place he can hide in this small town." Kant said: "Whether he killed the person, you have to ask him in person when you have time. "
"Yeah." Bundak nodded.
"My lords, we have told you everything that happened today." The waiter said, "Since you have learned about the whole incident, can you let us go back to rest?"
Abel glanced at the waiter, walked to the tea table, and said to everyone: "Everyone has worked hard, please go back and rest."
Chapter 863: Search for Scattered Clues
"If you have any more personal details, you can tell anyone in our army later. We will not delay everyone's rest today. After all, most people should be tired too." Kant added.
"My lord." A vagrant in the crowd said: "I hope I can leave the city within tomorrow, can you please send some soldiers to protect me? Just send it to the gate of the city. I will ask acquaintances to pick me up later .”
"Me too." "Me too!"
After him, several vagrants asked.
"Your Highness." Abel said hesitantly.
"It's okay, all the residents who need to go out of the city tomorrow, register with Molière and leave it to me tomorrow morning." Kant promised: "I will assign a group of people to escort you out of the city."
"Thank you, thank you." The resident who spoke first thanked him.
"It's okay." Kant waved his hands while standing up, turned and left Datang, and walked towards the stairs leading to the guest room.
"Your Highness, are you going back to your room to rest?" Bandak followed Kant's footsteps and asked.
Kant walked to the steps of the stairs, stopped, and said, "Well, too many things happened today. I have to tidy up in the room myself. You and Abel will search the hotel carefully again. Collect all the information, and when the innkeeper returns, he must at least give him an explanation."
"Yes!" Bundak nodded.
"After finishing these things, you and the soldiers should go back to your room and rest quickly. Thank you for your hard work." Kant nodded slightly.
"yes."
After watching Kant walk up the stairs, the residents also returned to their bedrooms.
Bandak gathered his soldiers together and ordered: "All soldiers! Divide into five groups and search the hotel. Except for the guest rooms where people live. Don't miss any corner!"
"Yes!" Calradia's soldiers replied in unison.
Upon seeing this, Abel also began to lead the elf soldiers to conduct a detailed search in the hotel. He even flew over the roof tiles to see if there were any footprints of someone slipping away from the roof.
All the soldiers worked until late at night before returning to the lobby to assemble.
"Did you find anything?" Bandak asked seriously.
"Second Squad!" A Calradian soldier stepped out of the queue, Hongshenghui reported: "We found the rope used by the murderer to strangle Mr. Accountant."
Another soldier handed over the charred half of the rope.
"Where did you find it?" Bandak asked, holding the rope lightly in his hand.
"In the woodpile under the kitchen stove," replied the soldier.
"Well," Bandak nodded, and continued to ask, "Did you find anything else?"
The team captains shook their heads silently.
"We found traces of someone climbing on the roof." Abel said at this time.
The news was reported to him by his soldiers: the tiles on the roof are messy, probably because the waiters like to sneak to the roof for parties, but from the perspective of the elves, they quickly identified a corridor extending to the second floor Window footprints.
"The row of footprints proved that Jackie climbed up to the roof alone." Abel said briefly.
"Yes." Bandak nodded and said, "Everyone has worked hard, go back and rest."
"Yes, Commander!" The soldiers agreed.
After disbanding, Bundak followed Abel and walked back to the guest room. He was still holding the half of the rope tightly in his hand.
"Master Kant and I are very strange. Why did you look unhappy when you heard the news we said before the meal. It turns out that you met those waiters." Abel took off his boots at the entrance When I was there, I whispered to Bundak: "You stopped them, didn't you?"
"At that time, I hesitated for a while until I heard that Jackie had lost his voice." Bandak replied.
"Oh." Abel shook his head and said nothing.
"Your Highness." "Your Highness."
After seeing Kant sitting in front of the tea table and drawing something under the candlestick, Abel and Bundak bowed to greet him.
"Are you back?" Kant put down his pen, raised his head and asked, "Did you find anything?"
"The murder weapon was found, and Jackie indeed left the scene, went through the roof, and walked to the second floor to inform us." Abel responded.
"Well, what is the murder weapon?" Kant stroked his forehead and asked.
"The rope was thrown into the burning pyre." Bandak held the rope in front of Kant and explained.
Kant stared at the half of the rope in silence for a while, and said, "Okay, put this piece of rope in a package and seal it up. I'll give it to the hotel owner when he comes back."
"Yes." Bundak nodded.
"Your Highness, if we need to send someone to take the guest out of the city tomorrow, the manpower from the west city." Abel said worriedly.
"It's okay, I'll go tomorrow too. We have enough people under our command." Kant shook his head and said.
Not long ago, Molière sent in a list of guests who wanted to go out of town tomorrow.
"Aren't you going out of town?" Kant asked in a little surprise after reading the list.
"No. Those who left the city first are fools. Those who organize the assassination will definitely find them." Molière responded with disdain: "What's more, I want to stay and see how you put that group of people in prison going in."
After Molière left, Kant roughly calculated the manpower that would need to be dispatched tomorrow. The task was not as labor-intensive as one might imagine.
"Your Majesty, are you going tomorrow?!" Abel said in surprise, "No, that guild is not a serious place. What if Pique talked about your lord with the people he connected with?"
"It's almost the end of the month, and I still have to find out the specific situation of this guild." Kant raised his eyebrows and said, "I'm not you or Bandak, and Pique doesn't need to mention it to the people around him. Me. Besides, the day we met Pique was two weeks ago, and he left the city after that. There was no chance to meet people in the guild."
"But I still don't think it's right," Bundak shook his head and said, "The tree attracts the wind, we have walked all the way. We have met with the leaders of all races. The town is such a big place, and there are probably already Many people know our identities."
"Oh, that's fine. I won't go to the guild myself, but you still have to send someone to inquire in the guild. At least find out where the door to buy medicine is." Kant couldn't compete with the people in front of him The two compromised.
"Yes." Abel replied.
Chapter 864: The shopkeeper who came late
"Are there any soldiers in our team who are suitable for such a mission?" After agreeing to Kant's request, Bundak became distressed again.
"This is something you need to arrange yourself." Kant shrugged: "I will give you one day at most tomorrow. The day after tomorrow is the last day of this month, which is the day when the bottoming operation begins."
"We will definitely find someone suitable," Abel responded.
Kant glanced at the two helplessly, and said, "Just keep thinking about it, I'm going back to my room to rest."
"Yeah." Bundak nodded in response.
Kant ignored the two of them, but got up and left the main hall directly.
Abel and Bandak stood in place, thinking hard for a while. Still no results.
Bandak sighed helplessly: "I didn't expect that I didn't know the soldiers so well that I couldn't even figure out their respective strengths."
"I know the group of people under me very well." Abel shook his head dejectedly, and said, "None of them are suitable for this kind of investigation mission. Maybe the waiter at the front desk of the guild will introduce them to them." time, fell asleep."
"No way." Bandak sat down at the tea table, took out two teacups, and filled them with tea.
"Thank you." Abel sat opposite Bandak, and raised his teacup and said to Bandak, "If it really doesn't work, let me get in easily."
"As far as your suggestion is concerned, do you think His Majesty Kant will agree?" Bandak took a sip of hot tea and responded.
"Then what can we do!" Abel leaned on the tea table and sighed.
"Isn't there still one day tomorrow? Let me look again to see if there is any suitable one in the team." Bandak turned his head and looked out the window, and replied.
"That"
"Dong dong dong!" A knock on the door interrupted the conversation between the two.
"It's so late, who could it be?" Bundak stood up, put down the teacup in his hand, and walked towards the entrance while muttering.
After opening the door, a relatively unfamiliar face appeared in front of him. The other party was dressed very luxuriously, obviously he was not a resident of this hotel.
"You are." Bandak tried to remember in his mind, and said doubtfully.
"My name is Trubin, and I am the manager of this hotel." The half-orc in front of him looked very depressed, and replied softly at this time: "I want to see your highness."
"The hotel owner?!" Bandak yelled, "When did you come back? Come in, Your Highness, he went back to his bedroom to rest."
"I want to see him. If I can't see him today, I have no reason to enter your room." Trubin turned his eyes away and said slowly.
"Then I will inform His Highness right away, please come into this room first. Some hot tea is prepared in the room." Bandak noticed the frost on Trubin's fur coat: it should be from a hurry Come back immediately from outside the city.
"Yeah." Trubin nodded slightly, took off his boots, and walked into the main hall with Bundak.
At this time, Abel was worrying about the plan of action for the day after tomorrow, and when he saw Bundak coming with a face-faced orc, he seemed a little surprised and at a loss. He hesitated and asked, "Excuse me, who is this?"
"We had dinner together before." Trubin looked back and forth between Bundak and Abel, and explained: "I am the shopkeeper of the hotel."
"Ah," Abel stood up immediately, bowed and said, "I'm sorry, shopkeeper. My memory isn't very good recently."
"It's okay." Trubin patted the condensation on the coat and said, "Please go and inform His Highness Kant, I want to see him."
"Okay, okay." Abel and Bundak looked at each other, then nodded.
Then he turned around and walked towards the bedroom. After seeing the candlelight in the room, he knocked lightly on the door and called out in a low voice, "Your Highness Kant."
"What's wrong?" Abel was relieved by the voice from the bedroom, and Kant hadn't rested yet.
"The owner of the hotel is here, and he said he wants to see you." Abel explained to the crack of the door.
After a while, the bedroom door was opened by Kant. Before Kant had time to put on his coat, he was wearing a single shirt and asked Abel who was standing in front of the porch, "Where is the shopkeeper?"
Abel folded his hands in front of him respectfully, and replied, "I'm sitting and resting in the main hall."
"Yes." Kant nodded, and immediately walked towards the main hall. After seeing Trubin's figure, he quickened his pace, walked up to him, and greeted him: "The shopkeeper."
"Your Highness Kant." Trubin stood up politely and replied, "I have received the news."
"I'm sorry, because we stayed here overnight and caused you so much trouble." Kant said apologetically.
This time, although there was no damage to the items in the store, the death of the accountant will cast a shadow over the reputation of the hotel.
"It can only be said that you and I are not very lucky." Trubin's eyes were a little sad.
"The people from the inspection station have already taken away the raid. Felix's body was also taken away by them." Kant said: "It is said to be for an official investigation, I hope you can understand."
"I saw it at the monitoring station. Felix shouldn't be like that." After talking about Felix, Trubin's voice became whimpering.
"My condolences." Kant sighed and bowed his head.
At noon, when he was traveling with the owner of the hotel, he also heard Trubin tell the story of him and Philett settling in this small town.
At the end of the story, Trubin said to Kant: He is three or four years older than Philet, so when he was wandering outside, Philet was always the one who was protected. Therefore, Filip, who has entered the threshold of middle age, has always maintained a child-like state of mind. And Trubin has been running around in order to allow them to continue to live in peace. Deal with various forces in the town.
Only in the last few days, Felit suddenly mentioned to him that he wanted to go out and make a living by himself.
Naturally, Trubin immediately rejected Felipe's request for various reasons.
Therefore, for several days, Felite avoided seeing him.
"It feels like the story of the little daughter's house." Kant commented at the time.
"Hehe," Trubin said with a smile: "I'm used to him staying by my side and being protected. If there is no such a person, I don't know if I will lose the idea of working hard."
On the tea table, Kant stared at the innkeeper who was covering his face and weeping, feeling a wave of sadness in his heart, not knowing what to say.
(end of this chapter)