Chapter 84 Another ghost?
"Bonn is not the first person to suffer. After the incident, we sent a person to find the Jinpao at the scene to inquire about the information. We heard from them that there have been countless such incidents in Flea Bottom these days. ." replied the messenger.
"Golden robe? Are there still golden robes in Flea Bottom?" In such a humble place as Flea Bottom, golden robe patrols usually go around.
"When we first arrived at Flea Bottom, we were quite surprised to see a gold cloak patrol, but later we found out that the reason why the Royal Council deployed a gold cloak brigade to Flea Bottom was to ensure that Jon Arryn The Duke's funeral will be without incident."
"Isn't Lord Arryn's funeral over?"
"Those golden robes complained about this. As soon as Lord Arryn's funeral was over, the king took half of the royal council north. Lord Renly, the minister of justice, never cared about anything. As a result, their group was forgotten. It's been in Flea Bottom, and I haven't waited for a new order."
"Uh" No wonder Robert is eager to go north to find his good friend Eddard Stark. In such a large King's Landing, there are either conspirators or water ministers. Once Lord Arryn dies, there is no one who can really do anything. .
"Ahem," Ian changed the topic, "Have you ever found out what the 'such things' Jinpaozi mentioned are?"
"They are all murders, and the characteristics of the deceased" said, the messenger glanced at Ian and said stiffly, "The characteristics of the deceased are almost exactly the same as those you want us to hunt. They are all hired knights and mercenaries. Or other loners.”
Sure enough, it was the player’s actions! Someone has cast a net over the flea bottom! Ian suddenly thought of the number of remaining players that had started to decrease in the past two days. It seemed that the newly eliminated players were all produced in King's Landing.
"The most terrifying thing is," the messenger saw that Ian was not going to explain, so he did not hesitate and continued, "There were no signs of fighting at the death scenes of the deceased, and they were clearly in a flea nest where people came and went. There was no witness who saw the suspicious person entering and exiting the death scene."
"You mentioned a word called Stranger's Curse before? Where did this term come from?" Generally speaking, shouldn't such strange murders be attributed to ghosts or devils first? Why is it blamed on God?
"This" the messenger was asked, "I don't know, that's what they said, but I don't know why."
"Find out a way to find out clearly and report to me next time," Ian's intuition told him that this clue was very important. "Now let's talk about something more specific. Were you one of the people guarding that dead end at that time?"
"I am the person in charge of the hut in the alley. This is why the captain sent me to find you. There are many things that only I can explain clearly."
Unexpectedly, the "naughty jokes" are quite thoughtful, "from e" Ian originally wanted to say bait, but he soon realized that it was not polite to say this to a person who died for him, so he changed the other person's name, "from e" Bonn goes back to the dead end and tells the story of everything that happened."
"Okay Sir, at that time in Bonn, after he finished wandering on the main road, he returned to the house he rented alone. After he entered the alley, we kept observing by the window. There was no one following him at all, let alone anyone. Go to the compound where he lives.”
"How did you find out that he was dead after that?" Ian asked doubtfully.
"It wasn't us. The first person to discover that Bonn had been killed was his landlord, a very fat old woman."
"He lives with the landlord?"
"Of course not. At the end of the alley is a small courtyard with about three or four rooms. All of them belong to the old woman. Bonn only rented one of them."
"In other words, that courtyard is your blind spot?"
"What are you blind for?" The messenger seemed to have never heard of this word.
"That courtyard is not within your sight?"
"Yes, because the old woman's asking price is very high, and her house can't be rented out at Flea Bottom. This is information that can be easily obtained nearby. Renting it there will not only make Bonn look suspicious, but also lure him. Make the target feel at ease and attack him...after all, there is no one else there."
"Is that why you didn't arrange for anyone else to enter that yard?"
"Yes."
"Apart from Bonn and the old landlady, there's no one else living in that yard?"
"Yes."
"What was the landlord's reaction when he found Bonn dead? Did he scream? And then you broke in?"
"No," the messenger shook his head, "the landlord didn't react at all and just walked out of the yard silently. At that time we saw her leaving. Although she left in a hurry, we didn't pay much attention to it. Until she brought a small team of The golden robe was brought back to her yard and we realized something might have happened.”
"How did she stir up those golden robes?" Ian found it quite unbelievable. These gangsters from the City Guard never liked to take care of things.
"Maybe it's because too many things like this happened in the past few days, and the captain in the golden robe also felt the pressure?" the messenger guessed.
Ian nodded, he thought the same thing as the messenger.
This kind of continuous concentration of murders, even if it occurs in a humble place like Flea Bottom, the golden robed leader who is responsible for the security of Flea Bottom must be careful, otherwise if the commander of the garrison or even the Minister of Justice is alerted, Even if he won't be held accountable, he will inevitably be labeled a 'trash'.
"In short," Ian continued to ask, "no one has entered the yard where Bonn died except himself, the old landlord and the golden robe, right?"
"Yes, Sir"
"But you can only monitor the gate, right? What about the wall? Is it possible for the enemy to climb over the wall and get in?"
"Both sides of the yard are made up of the walls of the house itself. The only separate walls are the front entrance and the two walls facing the main road. We are watching the front entrance, and the wall on the back is also under the surveillance of another group of us. .Although the wall is very short and easy to climb in, it is not easy to hide from our sight!"
So is the killer another ghost? "How did Bonn die?" Ian continued to ask.
"The brother we sent to communicate with Jinpao took a quick look and saw that there were wounds caused by an ax on Bonn's body. The other party penetrated his mail armor from the front, causing a huge wound on his chest."
"Where is his body?"
"They were taken away by the golden robes," the messenger explained immediately. "Our people pretended to be onlookers and passed by. It was impossible to ask the golden robes to take away the body."
"Is there anything weird you want to add?"
"No more, ser."