Wang Xiaohai waited for half an hour before the two knights, the Watson brothers, knocked on the door and entered.
"Marquis, what do you want from us?"
"Now that you two are here, there is a lord here who needs to ask you about what happened in Clay City that day." Marquis Sean took a sip of the liquor in the thermos to keep warm.
"This..." The Watson brothers saw Wang Xiaohai standing aside with a solemn expression and immediately understood. "I am guilty. In a moment of urgency, I drew my sword and killed those who were obstructing law enforcement. Everything I did was in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Marquisate, and I did not overstep the boundaries in the slightest. If the Marquis insists on blaming me, I have no recourse."
"I'm not blaming you. You know, the adults are not wrong, so you two can commit suicide. There's no need for the adults to do anything." Sean's majestic voice resounded throughout the main hall.
"Marquis, my brother and I are loyal to you. No matter how difficult the situation is, we will..." the Watson brothers knelt down and said.
"Stop talking, I know." Sean interrupted them. "You two have made tremendous contributions to the Marquisate of Sean. Your wives and children will be made barons. From now on, all your living expenses and tuition will be covered by the Duke's Mansion."
This sentence carries a clear threat - I can give it to you, or I can take it back.
"The Watson family has no way to repay the Marquis' kindness. We can only thank him with our death!" The Watson brothers kowtowed and then drew their swords to commit suicide, with blood splattering three feet.
"Someone, come and clean it up!" Marquis Sean shouted.
The doors on both sides of the Marquis's Mansion opened instantly, and a team of ordinary guards ran in, carried the Watson brothers away, and some people took buckets to wash the floor and mop it clean.
The entire guard team acted quickly and efficiently, taking less than two minutes in total. This shows that they were extremely efficient, or perhaps - they often encountered this kind of situation?
"My lord, the two knights who killed the woman from Clay City have committed suicide to apologize. I was in the Marquis' Mansion when this happened. I can only blame myself for not disciplining my subordinates properly and not enforcing strict discipline. I am also guilty. Please blame me, my lord!" Sean put down the pen in his hand, closed his eyes, and waited for Wang Xiaohai to take his life.
"Forget it. The two real murderers have confessed their crimes, and I'm not someone who kills indiscriminately." Shana didn't owe him any favors, so it was good enough for her to do this for her wet nurse. After all, she couldn't be like Lin Yiyi and give up the wealth of countless countries for the sake of something. "I have another question for you. What does the treasure file say?"
"This is the red secret of our Dingwen Church. Logically, I cannot tell you." Sean said, "If you must know, I have no choice. To save my life, I can only tell you." No secret of the Church is more important than his own life.
"Tell me and I'll leave," said Wang Xiaohai.
"A strange thing happened in the western part of my territory, Marquis Sean," Sean said slowly. "Last month, one of my knights led a team of warriors and a supply team across the western Sean Desert to carry out a mission in a neighboring country. Two-thirds of the way through the journey, a member of the supply team became stuck in the quicksand."
Marquis Sean took a sip of liquor and continued, "The supply team member was just an ordinary person. The team originally planned to give up on him, because no matter how strong he was, he would be useless if he was trapped in quicksand. The team didn't have any long sticks or anything like that, but one warrior came up with a plan. He tore up some cloth and braided it into a rope, then tied the two ends into a long rope. He threw it over to the man to grab. The man was slightly lighter and was pulled up in an instant. By the time he was pulled up, dark clouds had arrived and night was about to begin. At night, it was impossible to locate based on the stars during the day, so the team set up camp to rest. However, that night, they discovered something unexpected!"
"What accident?" Wang Xiaohai thought that the most likely accident in the desert was wind and waves, but since Sean said so, it was definitely not an ordinary wind and sand accident, so he had no choice but to listen to what Sean said.
"The lower body of the person who was pulled up earlier was covered in sand, and the supply team members who came with him helped to brush it off. But that brushing caused trouble. That night, everyone who came into contact with the strays mutated and turned into half-human, half-beast monsters, as if they had been exposed to some kind of radiation." Sean's eyes seemed to be recalling. He didn't see it with his own eyes, so it was difficult to describe. "Several mutated supply team members had scaly bodies and pus oozing from their hands and feet. They attacked others like crazy in the middle of the night. Anyone touched by the mutants was quickly infected and became the same kind. Then the virus spread throughout the camp in a very short time. Fortunately, the team's knight captain discovered it in time and killed everyone in the camp to prevent the virus from spreading. Although the supply team members' strength increased greatly after being infected and mutated, they were still no match for the knight captain. After all, the gap in rank is difficult to make up for with numbers."
Wang Xiaohai thought of the ancient castle where he had stayed before, and memories came flooding back, as if it was just yesterday - however, this should not be the work of Wu Ciren, that guy's personality should not be hiding in the desert, and this virus is not like the evil spirit virus. Evil spirits are difficult to kill. It is estimated that the knight cannot be defeated easily. Wang Xiaohai remembered that those infected with Wu Ciren's evil spirit blood were able to beat Cheng Yan and others across levels. Of course, it was because they were at a low level. The higher the level, the greater the gap between levels, just like the awakened and the demigod. Even if all the awakened people on the entire continent united, they would be vulnerable in front of the demigod!
"When the knight returned, he reported everything to me. I then sent several knights with equipment to investigate," said Marquis Sean, who was familiar with the matter. "Among the knights leading the team were the Watson brothers. Sadly, they used simple excavation equipment and wore isolation gloves. A week later, they unearthed a weathered skeleton and a statue that still shone brightly. A researcher who approached the statue was exposed to the light and immediately became infected and mutated. The knights present were well prepared and immediately killed the researcher."
"The treasure you are talking about is the statue?" Wang Xiaohai asked.
"The statue is one of them. I packed it in a box that can block radiation, and then sent a team of knights to deliver it to Pope Ding Wen over half a month. After hearing the story of the infection and mutation, the Pope didn't dare to open the box easily. Pope Ding Wen thought that the treasure might be hidden somewhere else, so he asked me to unite more than a thousand nearby countries to excavate. However, we can't reveal it to ordinary people because ordinary people might gossip about it and spread it. It wouldn't be good if other churches knew about it, so I asked the people from the Magic Guild to cast a spell on the document."
"Did you dig out any useful items?" Wang Xiaohai asked.
"Nothing found." Sean's voice was slightly different.
Wang Xiaohai knew he was lying and must have discovered something.
"Then I'll take my leave." Wang Xiaohai said, and walked out of the Marquis's Mansion.
"Will you not wait a moment?" said the Marquis. "I would like to give you a dinner."
“No need.”
Wang Xiaohai pushed open the door and left.
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