Chapter 101 Toxins
Conquer the southern coast of the sea, Kankerdar.
In Kankedal at that time, in the foreign residential area, on the side of a street close to the suburbs, the Kankedal Citizens' Mansion was located here. This large mansion was funded and built by the Kankedal Municipal Government. It has multiple uses. Sometimes, all kinds of free art performances, rare exhibitions, citizen activities, and mayor speeches are held here. It is a comprehensive activity center.
At this time, an event was also being held in the Citizens' Mansion. The mansion was bustling with people, and a large number of citizens from the Kankedal Foreigner District were gathering here. They were often dressed in black and had solemn expressions. They came to attend the memorial ceremony for Prince Mazar, the only person who died in the South Station assassination not long ago.
A few days after the assassination at the South Station, the Kankerdar Municipal Government held a memorial service for the assassinated Prince Mazar at the Citizens' Mansion in order to express apologies to the Baruch royal family, in memory of the noble and respected leader of the exiled Baruch royal family. Since the newspapers in Kankerdar were full of reports on the exiled Baruch royal family, the momentum created was great, so after hearing about the memorial service, many citizens came to participate.
The tall lobby of the Citizens' Mansion, built with brown marble, stood on a wide lawn. On the sidewalk leading to the lobby door, citizens in plain clothes were walking around. Among these citizens, there was a man wearing a windbreaker, a short hat, deep eye sockets, a hooked nose, and a pale complexion. He looked around while walking along the sidewalk towards the lobby.
After a while, the man walked through the lobby door and entered. He looked around and saw a wide open space with flowers decorating every corner. There were large carpets on the floor and traditional tapestries of Northern Wu hung on the pillars. There were various exquisite patterns on them, depicting different legends. In the center of the hall was a high platform covered with all kinds of flowers. On the platform, between the flowers, was a coffin covered with a cloth.
In front of the high platform where the coffin is placed, a Northern Wu-style priest wearing a turban holds a scripture and preaches to the citizens who come to mourn. After listening to the preaching for a while, the citizens will begin to circle around the coffin covered with a cloth, and the whole space is filled with the sound of deep and ethereal piano-like instruments.
In the lobby, the slightly pale man looked around, then walked to the coffin platform. With the help of his perspective, Dorothy in the distance couldn't help but murmur softly.
"No extraordinary detection... It seems that they are not paying attention to this place..."
Controlling the corpse doll Edric, Dorothy participated in Mazar's memorial ceremony remotely. She originally thought that there might be extraordinary detection settings here, but in the end there were none. This was good news for what she was going to do next.
Dorothy used the corpse doll to attend Mazar's memorial service. Naturally, she was not there to mourn him, but to scout the area and conduct preliminary investigation. Dorothy wanted to steal Mazar's body here to clear herself of suspicion of the special envoy group.
According to Evie, if the judge who was investigating the case had a clear bias, the evidence they produced had to be irrefutable and irrefutable. Dorothy thought about how to get the so-called ironclad evidence for a while, but she quickly decided to find Mazar's body.
Because of Dorothy's secret interference on the day of the assassination, the assassin's plan was disrupted. The last assassin rushed in hastily after the previous plans failed, so his shooting was not accurate. The shots that almost hit the victim did not hit the vital parts, and the victim did not die immediately. In order to prevent people from being rescued, the city government of Kankedal tried to use the medical team to send the victim who was not dead yet to the road while giving first aid to the victim.
Based on Vanya's treatment of the two victims, Dorothy knew that the Kankedal medical team's method of killing people was poison. They injected toxins into the victims and killed them directly with poison even though they were only injured by gunshot. Therefore, the real cause of Mazar's death was not gunshot, but poisoning.
Therefore, Dorothy thought that if she could get Mazar's body and extract the residual toxins in it, and if she could prove that the real cause of Mazar's death was poisoning rather than being shot, then the suspicion of the special envoys would be cleared. After all, Kankedal officials announced that Mazar died of an assassin's gunshot, and poisoning was impossible.
As long as it can be confirmed that Mazar died of poisoning rather than being shot, it would be enough to overturn the entire assassination. Since Vanya used her abilities and drugs to eliminate the toxins in the two victims she cured when she saved them, no toxins could be detected in their bodies, so the remaining toxins could only be removed from Mazar's body.
If a normal investigation team came to investigate this matter, Dorothy would only need to propose to them that the investigation team conduct an autopsy on the victim's body. However, in the case that the investigation team and the real assassins may be in collusion, such a proposal may cause the assassins to choose to destroy Mazar's body immediately. Therefore, Dorothy can only choose to steal the body herself, and after the autopsy, hand over the test results and the body to Evie. With this evidence, Evie can force the inquisitors to release the person.
Dorothy controlled the corpse doll Edric to wander around the lobby, observing the terrain and the guards in various directions to confirm whether there were any extraordinary signs. After a circle, she found Mazar, but the memorial ceremony seemed to be just a memorial service for an ordinary rich man, and there was nothing else worth noting. It would not be difficult for her to steal Mazar's body from here.
"There is no extraordinary detection, the guards are weak, and there are no extraordinary traces... It looks like an ordinary memorial service. Although it is not difficult to steal the body, this is not a trap..."
Sitting on the sofa in the hotel, Dorothy thought a little worriedly. Although she was a little worried that this memorial service might be a trap, she finally decided to steal Mazar's body.
"Although it might be a trap, it's still worth trying to steal it. Anyway, I'm using a corpse doll, so generally nothing will happen. Even if I'm discovered by some extraordinary person with the strength of the Red Cheng level, I can take refuge in the Pigeon Hotel. With Evie there, as long as those people don't want to tear their faces apart, they won't choose to do it in the Pigeon Hotel..."
After thinking for a while, Dorothy decided to steal the body that night. Then she led Edric out of the lobby of the Civic Mansion and headed back home. Then Dorothy began to prepare for the evening's activity.
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Time passed quickly, the sun set quickly, and night fell in Kankedal. The memorial ceremony held in the Civic Mansion ended at dusk. Since there was no custom of keeping vigil at night here, the Civic Mansion closed early. The Civic Mansion, which was usually bustling with people, suddenly became quiet.
As the night deepened, the leisure of the citizens' mansion gradually turned into loneliness. By the late hour, the huge mansion was almost lifeless. Only a few ordinary guards were keeping watch here, yawning and waiting for the arrival of the shift relief personnel. Not long after, the guards waiting outside the door saw several figures walking in from the entrance of the mansion with lanterns.
"Oh, it's finally time to change guards."
Holding coal lamps, several men in guard uniforms walked into the mansion and came to the lobby. The guards waiting there couldn't help but show a hint of joy on their faces when they saw them, and then rushed over to hand over the work to the newcomers. After a few brief exchanges and the handover, the guards on duty left one after another, leaving the guards who were taking over the shift to continue guarding.
Standing at the lobby door, the guard on duty watched the staff leave and couldn't help but smile.
Yes, these guards on duty were all Dorothy's living puppets. Not long ago, Dorothy controlled the living puppets to attack the guards who came to hand over their shifts on the way. After knocking them unconscious, she drew puppet marks on them, turned them into living puppets, and controlled them to come over to perform their duties and hand over their shifts, thus taking control of the defense of the Citizens' Mansion.
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