Chapter 46 CASEFILE·4: Night Bandits (13)
Andre knocked on the door, but no one answered. He waited a moment and knocked again.
There was deathly silence at the back door; the concierge who had been guarding it had disappeared.
The magic mark bound to the contact book suddenly lit up with a faint white light that only Andre could see. The knight subconsciously looked around, walked to the side of the wall, took out the contact book and took a quick look at it.
The hostages have been safely rescued, the current batch of goods has been recovered, and troops have been dispatched to track down the previous batch. Ten suspects have been identified, five of whom have been executed. The remaining five, including their leader, are traveling north of the city by carriage, their whereabouts currently unknown. However, before their departure, the leader received a secret order from a woman, apparently to eliminate the traitor, the Baron.
The executed criminals' combat power is not high, but their leader is armed with steel wire weapons and should be the main culprit and main combat force of the bloody crime. Please be extra careful.
Andrei snapped the contact book shut and took a deep breath.
It was nearly two hours ago that he notified the spies to search the Chamber of Commerce. Judging from the message sent by the Winchester Clerk, everything over there should have been settled.
The Shadow Detectives' mission was to recover the cargo and hostages, and they would naturally do their utmost to avoid a confrontation with the leader. According to Shadow Detectives' usual style, they would only deploy after the leader had left with his men, or when the enemy was about to commit murder. This time, it was clearly the former.
In a flash, Andrei had connected everything. The unresponsive City Lord's Mansion, the criminal leader leading his men north of the city...
He hid the contact book in a secret pocket inside his armor, looked around, and seeing that no one was nearby, he tightened his core, sprinted forward, jumped onto the wall, and quietly climbed into the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion.
The structural diagram of the City Lord's Mansion had always been a key focus of the Shadow Detectives' investigations. Thanks to Winston's tireless efforts, he had already explored and documented every area within the City Lord's Mansion accessible to outsiders. Andre had memorized this portion of the map upon joining the company, and now infiltrating was a breeze.
The loss of the black account was obviously a big problem that made Baron Neumann panic. All the knights of the kingdom were sent to the south of the city to search for the suspect from house to house - this was not only Andre's order, but also an order from the baron. In order to get the black account back before Andre, the baron even sent out most of his private soldiers.
In other words, the defense of the City Lord's Mansion is unprecedentedly weak at this moment.
Andrei soon found the first victim in the garden, the missing guard at the back door. His head and body were separated and hidden in the grass. The blood dripped and soaked the entire soil.
Andrei squatted down and examined his fatal wound. The fracture was unusually smooth, clearly severed by some sharp steel wire. This not only matched the wounds inflicted by the convoy guards last night, but also matched Evil Eye Moon's usual methods.
The tragic death of Count Saka suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. Andrei closed his eyes tightly and erased the scene from his mind.
"The people from Evil Eye Moon have indeed sneaked in." He muttered to himself, as if he was fully devoted to searching for clues.
A silver light silently broke through the air from behind him.
clang!
The silver-shining steel wire was originally heading towards the knight's neck, but when it was about to wrap around Andre's neck, it hit the sword that was suddenly unsheathed and was suddenly knocked away.
Andrei leaped up with a light movement and landed in front of the man in a black robe, a black mask, and holding a steel weapon. "Are you the leader of the robbers and the scavenger of the Evil Eye Moon?"
"It's me." said the leader. His voice was hoarse, buzzing like metal, low and cold.
He looked at Andrei from head to toe through the intricately patterned mask that resembled a demon. "And you, Andrei Lu Huntington, the king's lackey, Count Saka de Modor's beloved disciple... Oh, I thought I could easily take your head just like I killed your teacher."
Silver-white fighting spirit instantly ignited around Andrei, and the knight's green eyes burned with flames of anger: "The one who killed Earl Saka was you!"
"It was me," the other man replied mechanically, once again raising the steel wire in his hand that could cut through iron like mud. "He blocked my master's path, and anyone who blocks my master's path must die."
He whispered, "You must die too."
The next second, the Ghost-Faced Leader vanished like a ghost, his speed so fast that he reappeared behind Andrei the next second. However, before he could get close, he was forced back by Andrei's sword energy.
The sword energy was like a rainbow, and even though the Ghost-Faced Leader retreated in time, his mask was still swept by the sharp sword energy tail flame. As the Ghost-Faced Leader retreated, his mask cracked, and a long crack appeared.
The left half of the mask slipped off first, revealing a face distorted by the flames' burns and bites. His scar-free skin looked youthful, perhaps in his twenties or thirties.
The area covered by twisted and knotted scars accounted for almost 80% to 90% of his exposed face, making it impossible to recognize his original appearance.
Even a knight like Andrei, who had traveled all over the world and had seen a lot, couldn't help but gasp in shock at this terrifying face.
"Tsk." The ghost-faced leader took off his broken mask dissatisfiedly and threw it aside carelessly.
Without the mask covering his throat, Andre saw a strange machine fixed on his scarred throat, and the voice of the ghost-faced man came from that machine.
"Your throat is injured, and you can't speak normally?" Andrei quickly determined the source of the ghost-faced man's mechanical voice with a metallic hum. "This kind of mechanical technology is only available in the Rusman Federation. The Evil Eye Moon is indeed related to the Rusman Federation! Who is your master?!"
The ghost-faced man did not answer. He attacked Andre again. The sharp silk threads in his hands turned into thousands of bundles, wrapping Andre up like a blanket.
Among countless illusions, the only real steel wire silently wrapped around Andre's neck.
"Retract!" The ghost-faced man whispered softly, the illusion was broken, and the steel wire was retracted to the extreme in an instant, but it hit a barrier of white light heavily.
Fighting magic can be used as a weapon or transformed into a hard shield.
Four silver-white Dou Qi shields tightly protected Andrei in the middle. The steel wire was caught in a battle with the Dou Qi magic, deeply embedded in the silver-white Dou Qi shields, but no matter how hard the ghost-faced man pulled, it could not move even a little bit.
This is a confrontation between the two sides' energy and magic, will and muscles.
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