Chapter 462: Robber

Pointe, East Tivian.

In front of the Boyle mansion, the two guards at the gate looked at their sheriff in astonishment, whose attitude suddenly changed 180 degrees, and they didn't know what to say for a moment.

What's going on? Sheriff Meschos? This guy looks so young, and he's already the sheriff? There must be something wrong!

Listening to Horman's words, the two policemen at the gate were extremely confused. When they looked at the young man in his twenties again, they saw him putting away his ID. Then he walked through the gate with the sheriff named Horman and walked into the courtyard. Not long after they went in, Horman turned his head and spoke sternly to the two people at the door.

"You two, continue to watch this place and don't allow anyone else in. Do you hear me?"

"Listen, I heard it!"

In response to Herman's words, the two guards continued to guard the gate. After Herman scolded the two guards, he looked at Gregor with a smile on his face, made a gesture of invitation towards the gate of the mansion in the distance, and then said.

"Then let's go in now, Mr. Meschos. My people have only been here for a short time, and the scene is well preserved."

"Well, that was hard work."

As he spoke, Greg and Herman walked towards the front door of the mansion together. During this time, Herman looked around again, then spoke to Greg in a low voice.

"That... Mr. Meschos, this case here is not related to... um, the area you are in charge of, right?" Herman said to Gregor with a mysterious look, and after hearing what he said, Gregor did not immediately answer with affirmation or denial, but said without comment.

"It's not certain yet, but I saw a suspicious trace. Whether this can be confirmed as our business still needs further investigation."

"Traces? The traces you are talking about are..."

"Don't worry about this. Sometimes knowing too much is not good for you." Facing Herman's secret, Greg responded directly with a stern admonition. Hearing Greg's response, Herman also looked worried, and then he didn't ask any more questions.

Just like that, Gregor followed Herman across the courtyard and officially entered the Boyle mansion. As soon as he entered the door, what appeared before Gregor's eyes was a messy scene.

Broken vases, overturned tables and chairs, open cabinets, scratched sofas, rolled-up carpets…the room, which seemed to be well decorated and luxurious, was now in a very messy state. There was not a single pleasing place to the eye at first glance.

The water from the vase flowed onto the floor. The coal ash from the fireplace was scraped out. The wet coal ash on the floor was mixed with glass fragments and sofa scraps. It was difficult to find a place to stand.

“It’s really tragic…”

After seeing the scene in the hall, Gregor sighed and said this, and Herman beside him also spoke.

"The family's surname is Boyle. Early this morning, we received a call from their servants saying that their house had been robbed. This was already the case when we arrived here. According to the servant who called the police, in addition to the entire house being in a mess, the housekeeper was also missing."

"There are only the butler and the servants...where is the master of this family?" Gregor continued to ask after listening to Herman's words, and Herman continued to answer.

"According to the servants here, the master of this family fell ill last year and went to the countryside for recuperation. The only young lady who lives here went abroad for study and travel at the beginning of this year and has not returned yet. So now this house has been managed by the housekeeper and servants. Last night was a coronation day, so the housekeeper gave the servants a day off. When the servants came this morning, they saw the current state, and the housekeeper was missing."

“Have you asked the neighbors nearby?”

"I've asked around, and many of them heard a lot of noise coming from this house last night. The lights were on all over the building, and some people thought someone was moving here."

Horman said this to Gregor. Listening to his words, Gregor couldn't help but nodded slightly. Then he began to carefully go deeper into the object and check the situation inside more carefully.

After entering the messy house and looking more carefully at the situation inside, Gregor discovered that there were messy footprints of different sizes on the ground. These footprints overlapped and spread all over the house.

"These footprints are not from yours, right..." Greg turned his head and asked Herman who was not far away, while Herman kept shaking his head in reply.

"No, no, no, this is not ours. It should belong to the thief who broke in here. We must keep important clues such as footprints intact."

After listening to Horman's response, Gregor continued his inspection. He left the hall and went to more underground rooms. The conditions of these rooms were almost as messy as the hall.

Overturned cabinets, scattered decorations, broken glass, fallen bookshelves...even the floors in many places had been pried up, revealing the rock ground beneath the wooden floors. The walls in many places had been damaged and cracked, with potholes of all sizes everywhere, and there were also traces of rock potholes under the pried-open floors.

Accompanied by Herman, Gregor carefully entered each room and observed them. Sometimes he looked at the potholes on the walls and the pried-open floors, and sometimes he carefully observed every footprint on the ground.

After visiting the second and third floors and seeing the equally terrible scenes there, Gregor shifted his focus to the first floor and stopped at a collection room on the first floor.

Gregor could tell that this was once a collection room with a large number of exquisite collections and exquisite decorations. However, now this collection room was in the same condition as other places in the mansion. Many glass display cases were broken, and broken glass was scattered on the ground. Various portraits on the wall were also taken down and thrown on the ground. Some of the collections in the glass display cases were overturned, and some were missing. The floorboards on the ground were also pried open, and there were various marks on the walls. In a corner, Gregor also found a small ball of ashes.

After inspecting the collection room for a while, Gregor squatted in the corner, picked up a little bit of the ashes and sniffed it, then nodded slightly and stood up. He then turned around and looked at Herman who had been following him, and then spoke.

"Sheriff Holman, what do you think of this gang of thieves?"

Greg asked Herman this question. Herman frowned slightly after hearing what Greg said, then thought for a while and spoke normally.

"This gang of thieves... I think they are extremely bold, but also very strange and unusual."

"Oh, why do you say that?" Greg continued to ask, while Herman responded while thinking.

"First of all, they broke into people's houses, turned the house upside down and kidnapped people. This is enough to show how arrogant these guys are. What makes people puzzled is that these guys went too far in turning the house over. Most thieves who break into houses would just rummage through cabinets or something, but these guys didn't just rummage through cabinets. They also pried the floor, broke bottles, knocked on the walls, and even took out the ashes from the fireplace. They knocked down a huge bookshelf...

"To be honest, Mr. Meschos, I've been a policeman for so many years and have seen many cases of theft and robbery, but this is the first time I've seen someone who messed up the owner's house so badly. If you didn't know, you would think they were not here to steal or rob, but to demolish the house and do renovations."