Chapter 52: New Anthony On 21 January, a murder shocked the entire Ivorda hierarchy when a city guard officer infiltrated Anthony's home in the early hours of the morning and cut off his head, and then set a fire to him as he left.
By the time the Count of Belloc received the news and began to order a blockade of the city for the murderer, the officer had already taken advantage of his position and left the city of Ivorda, where he was missing.
The mage of the magic legion searched the scene of the murder, and the appearance of the criminal was easily restored through the development magic, and the Count of Belloc immediately issued a wanted warrant, when the city guards arrived at the city gate, the murderous officer had long since disappeared, in order to find out the cause of the matter, the angry Count Belloc took all the city guards at the north gate of Ivoda and tortured them, and the result not only found out the cause of the matter, but also found out many illegal acts done by the city guards.
According to the confession of the city guard soldiers, one of the officers who committed the murder was probably related to the incident, and the officer in charge of the investigation did not find the name of the staff member on the list of arrests, and after inquiry, the staff member had already asked for leave to go home to visit his relatives the day before the crime, and then the army in charge of the pursuit did not find him in the staff member's home.
His portraits appear on the walls of the various levels of the Inner Regions, along with the portraits of the murderous officers.
On February 11, Zhao Yannian was reading a letter in a ward in his lord's mansion when a patient with a bandaged face was lying on the bed in a daze.
"Our hapless murderer has now been caught, and he has taken your head to the Duke of Rees in exchange for asylum, but our righteous Duke of Rees has imprisoned this murderous prisoner and is about to be escorted back to Ivora to be handed over to the Earl of Belloc."
After reading the letter, Zhao Yannian shook the letter at the patient. "......"
The patient looked at Zhao Yannian anxiously, but he just nodded and didn't dare to make a sound.
"Haha, don't be nervous my friend, I was scaring you by saying that talking would make you ugly, which will make you recover faster and save you from molesting my maid."
Zhao Yannian smiled happily when he saw the patient's appearance.
"My God, Lord Count, you know that not being able to speak or move for a week in a row will suffocate you!"
The patient's voice was none other than the pervert alchemist Anthony.
"I can't hold it back, I'm crazy at most, but for the sake of my girls to marry in the future, I can only wronged you."
Zhao Yannian handed the letter in his hand to Anthony, then pulled a chair and sat on the edge of the bed.
"Lord Earl, you have wronged me, what I like is that kind of mature woman, I am not interested in those little girls at all!"
Anthony didn't read the letter with it, but complained to Zhao Yannian very exaggeratedly.
"Well, if you like mature women, there are a lot of mature and women downstairs who need to be comforted, as long as you can stand it, you can have as many as you want, I want to ask you now if you are going to stay with me or go back to the Duke of Reese?"
Zhao Yannian was quite optimistic about the ability of this alchemist, when he was building a canning factory in the northern territory before, it only took him a week to eat through the physics textbook that Zhao Yannian gave him.
"Staying here, of course!
Didn't I pay such a great price, even ruining my handsome face, just to learn your alchemy?
At least until I'm done learning your knowledge, I'm not leaving!
Anthony touched his gauze-covered face and said without hesitation.
"I didn't ruin your face, not only did I not ruin you, but I made you more handsome."
Zhao Yannian smiled and stretched out his hand to point at the gauze on Anthony's face, and the gauze exploded as if it had been cut by a sharp blade.
"Ahh Anthony was taken aback by Zhao Yannian's sudden attack.
Anthony worriedly checked his whole body up and down, and found that he was not injured, so he complained in fear.
"My lord!
Can you use a gentler approach next time this happens?
” "Don't worry, the mental power tentacles are more flexible than my fingers, and there will be no accidental injury.
Before you continue complaining, though, you'd better look at your face.
Zhao Yannian put his hands on his knees and did not move, and a mirror floated in front of Anthony.
"Is this me?!"
Anthony looked at his face and said incredulously, Anthony, who had not taken care of his beard for a week, had grown a beard on his face, and he looked like a playboy with thick eyebrows and big eyes.
"From now on you need a new name, and it's Tony Stark."
Zhao Yannian said to Anthony with a malicious smile.
"Is there something wrong with my face?"
Seeing Zhao Yannian's strange expression, Anthony rubbed his new face with his hand and asked with some confusion.
"There's nothing wrong with that, everything is perfect."
Zhao Yannian looked at the face of the original Anthony and now Tony, and maliciously thought in his heart, I will draw you a drawing of the steel suit another day, and it will be perfect.
In order to get Anthony out, Zhao Yannian used a trick to get rid of the golden cicada, the day before the case, Zhao Yannian first used enslavement to control the staff who had murdered his father-in-law, and then let the staff come up with an idea for his boss to switch to it, since he was so angry here, and the alchemist named Anthony happened to offend the Duke of Reese again, so killing him and then going to Duke Rees will definitely get a good future.
Later, before the city guard officer was ready to commit the murder, under Zhao Yannian's arrangement, Anthony had already left his residence, and the hypnotized staff was lying in Anthony's clothes and was killed by his boss, in order to prevent being tracked by the magician, the city guard officer set a fire before leaving, although the mage can develop magic, but they will not DNA test, so for the headless charred corpse in Anthony's residence, everyone has no doubts, Especially when the magician's manifestation magic saw the city guard officer leave the building with a box just big enough to hold a head, the alchemist Anthony completely disappeared from this world.
Bob Fury is Austin's father and the deputy commander of the Emerald Blood, as the leader of the Emerald Blood Barbarians, of course, it is impossible to guard an alchemist 24 hours a day, so the Barbarians will naturally go home to sleep at night, and the Earl of Belloc does not believe that the Duke of Rees will use such a despicable means as assassination, which creates a perfect opportunity for Anthony's death.
For Zhao Yannian, this plan actually has some flaws, if there are a few more female corpses around him when the staff is killed, the whole plan will be even more perfect, but Zhao Yannian has thought about it for a long time and can't let the innocent die for his plan, and after the city guard officer was captured by Duke Reese, the Anthony head was gone.
Of course, these are small details, there are not many Sherlock Holmes in this world, and there is no one Sherlock Holmes who dares to meddle in the fight between a duke and an earl, so the final result is that although the Earl of Belloc has some doubts in his heart, but in the face of this crazy criminal, he can only reluctantly admit that this incident is just a regrettable accident, and praise the noble character of the Duke of Reese in public.
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"The results of the investigation are here, sir."
The butler placed the finished file in front of the Count of Belloc, and several merchants standing in the study were shaking their legs and sweating coldly.
Count Belloc turned a few pages with a cold face, and then casually threw the file into the trash.
"Gentlemen, I wonder now, can our factory still be built?"
Count Belloc asked the merchants.
"My lord, our alchemists have mastered all the techniques, and they are already replicating the machine they built before, please give us a little time, we will definitely succeed."
The president of the Summit Chamber of Commerce summoned up his courage and raised his head to Count Belloc and said.
"Before the snow melts, I'm going to see canned food from the southern territory appear in the market in Ivorda, and you can come to me if you need any help in the meantime."
Count Belloc said word by word.
After the merchants left, the butler stood beside the earl and said with some concern, "Sir, since this matter cannot go smoothly, why don't you stop?"
” Hearing the butler's words, the Count of Belloc did not answer his question directly, but asked rhetorically: "Do you think that Anthony's death really has nothing to do with the Duke of Reese?"
” "Judging from the current evidence, it really has nothing to do."
The butler replied.
"But the timing of his death was too coincidental.
We've just finished raising money and Anthony has been burned to the ground, so where would I put my face if I stopped at this point!
As he spoke, Count Belloc suddenly slammed his fist on the table in anger.
"But sir, I'm worried about whether the merchants will be able to complete their task."
The butler has served the Belloc family for more than fifty years, and as he is loyal to the Belloc family, he does not care whether the Count of Belloc is displeased by his words.
"Can't they do it, can't I do it?
It's not a question of whether I can make money or not, it's about my reputation!
If I back down this time!
I'm going to be the laughing stock of everyone!
Count Belloc slammed the table angrily and roared.
"Yes, my lord, everything is as you wish."
The butler lowered his head again, but his face was full of worry.
In the study of the Duke of Northern Territory, the three dukes are gathering for tea.
"That's the end of it?"
Duke Fourier asked Duke Reese.
"It's basically over."
Duke Reese put the teacup down and raised his eyebrows.
"And what about the leaked technology?"
Duke Euler asked Duke Reese.
"Without Anthony, those idiots might have messed things up on their own that day, and we'll just have to watch."
Li Si shrugged and said indifferently.