Lord of the Oasis Chapter 864:

Chapter 861: The impermanence of changes in the world

And most of the hotel guests stood there hesitantly, not knowing what to do.

They were all arranged to stay here by acquaintances in the town, and they didn't walk around the hotel very much on weekdays, so naturally they didn't know anything about Kant and others.

Judging from the conversation between Kant and the orc man, the reason why this group of attackers came to the door was indeed because their target was Kant and others.

Are you going to continue participating in this mess without knowing the situation?

This is the thought in the minds of the homeless wandering in the lobby and between the escalators.

"I don't know anything. I'm going back to my room to pack my luggage. What does your conflict with those people have to do with us?" A dwarf walked out of the crowd and said to the Calradian soldiers.

The leading soldier glanced at Kant sitting on the chair and intercepted the dwarf who turned and was about to leave.

"Please wait," the soldier said.

"What? You still want to keep others?" There was a hint of annoyance in the dwarf's tone.

"Those who want to stay stay, and those who want to leave can leave." Kant said lightly: "Some people are worried that they will get into trouble, such an idea is inevitable. But on behalf of Calradia, I promise all No one who left, who participated in the discussion. What you said, we will not leak it. And, as long as you choose to stay in the hotel: we can guarantee the safety of all of you until you leave the town.”

After Kant said this, the noisy scene became quiet.

After a while, the travelers stuck in their choices all found a chair near the dining table and sat down.

"Okay then." The dwarf who was stopped by the soldiers agreed after frowning for a while.

The soldier on the side saw that his attitude had loosened, and immediately took him to a chair near Kant and sat down.

"Thank you for your trust." Kant nodded, moved his gaze to the dwarf beside him, and asked, "What's your name?"

"Moliere." The dwarf responded with a glance at Kant.

"Well," Kant raised his head and said to all the homeless people, "perhaps you didn't know who we were before today. So now let me introduce myself first. My name is Kant, and I'm on another continent. Above, the lord of the oasis country named Calradia. These people with me are soldiers and generals from Calradia."

"Hello everyone, my name is Bandak. I'm the commander of Calradia's army." After receiving a wink from Kant, Bandak briefly introduced.

"Hello everyone, my name is Abel. I'm a soldier from the elf country. Our army of the elf country and the soldiers of Calradia were sent to this small island to carry out the mission." Abel After the voices of the two fell, they said consciously.

"It's you!" A passenger in the crowd screamed in surprise: "You went up the mountain to rescue the dwarf clan before. I have heard the names of you and the other two human captains."

"Well." Abel nodded with a smile, and said, "Then do you know what's going on with Corey Dave?"

Even the last time I met the dwarves, I never heard Corey Dave's name mentioned by the dwarf chief. Now that he met someone who knew the inside story, Abel couldn't help but ask.

"I heard that he has been dismissed by the inspection station." The tenant thought for a while and replied, "But after that, no one has seen him. I don't know if the dwarfs imprisoned him, or he Where did you run away?"

"That's right," Abel said. "If that person was simply dismissed, the punishment for dismissal was too light for what he did."

"Is Corey Dave the one who set a trap to make the world think the dwarfs disappeared?" Kant asked, raising his eyebrows.

"Yes, we came to this island. Probably because of what he did," Abel said angrily.

"So it is," Kant responded.

"Stop talking about this, let's all tell what happened to us today." Bandak recalled the letter written by DeWitt before, which did mention Corey Dave. The name of this person is taboo. It's just that the most important thing now is to integrate the clues in everyone's hands, so I hurriedly opened the host and said, "Who will speak first?"

"Everyone's experience is similar, I think," a traveler said in the crowd.

"Yes, yes." All the rest of the passengers, even a few waiters, agreed.

"Are you staying together?" Bandak said, taken aback.

"Yes." Another passenger explained: "Everyone was called to the lobby by a young waiter, saying that some of the leftovers this morning were found to contain toxins. The breakfast man goes downstairs for a health check."

"Has any of us received such news?" Bandak confirmed to the soldiers behind him. After receiving a negative answer, he turned to the tenant who spoke, and asked, "What time was it when you were called to the lobby?"

"Around seven in the evening," the tenant responded.

"So it is." Bandak murmured in a low voice, not knowing what to think of.

"We were still eating in the restaurant at the time," Abel mused, "but why didn't we hear anything downstairs?"

Kant pondered for a while, then asked, "What does the waiter who brought you the news look like?"

"It's thinner than the other half-orc waiters, and there's no blood on his face," the tenant replied while recalling.

"Is it the same person?" Abel and Kant looked at each other with doubts in their eyes. Then he shouted: "Right? Where did that waiter go? We didn't see him in the cellar?"

"If he is a member of the dark side, I guess he has escaped from the inn by now." Bandak said: "If he is a staff member who was held hostage in the store"

Because of the lack of patience, Bandak did not say the rest.

"Do you know the waiter that the tenant spoke of?" Kant asked the others.

"Of course they do," Bandak said lightly at this time.

"Bandak?" Abel asked suspiciously. "Have you seen this waiter with other waiters before?"

"Yes, just tonight when I went to the backyard to cook medicine." Bandak looked coldly at the two or three waiters in the field, and said, "He still has him, and is bullying that with his fists and feet. waiter."

The two waiters named by Bandak looked embarrassed.

Chapter 862: Helpless Status

After Abel heard the words, his expression became solemn. He opened his mouth and said, "I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen in this store. It seems that this basket of things that happened today has finally found the source. You two, you have to explain it to us."

The two half-orc waiters looked at each other, and the waiter standing opposite Kant said, "My lords, the attack by outsiders really has nothing to do with us. Whoever is to blame is the waiter who committed the crime. It was a mistake, and the attackers took advantage of it."

"Don't fart me!" Abel frowned and yelled, "Is it up to you to decide what's right or wrong? I hate you the most to bully weak **** in a group. Now give me what you know. The timeline has been straightened, and ask others where you are wrong!"

"Yes." The waiter pursed his lips and responded, "This waiter is an orphan brought back by our boss from the outskirts of the city. He is weak and withdrawn. We usually just play with him casually. I didn't expect this kid to poison our food. But it is considered that God took care of us. This morning, everyone went to the city gate to help unload the goods and had breakfast at the pub on the street. The staff meal was dumped. "

"And then?" Bandak asked coldly, "When did you find out?"

"When we came back to the store at noon, we didn't know that there was such a thing." The waiter continued to state: "It's just that people from the health clinic on the street came to our store and said: The kitchen will send it over. The leftovers were poisoned. At that time, the accountant was also panicked, and immediately asked us to go to the back kitchen to search to find out who and how."

"You didn't notify the occupants of the store immediately?" Abel asked suspiciously.

"At that time, even if we notified everyone, we couldn't explain it clearly." The waiter standing in the corner responded.

"You continue." Kant said lightly.

"Then we discovered that kid's actions." The waiter paused and continued: "Before we brought him to the accountant, we were in the backyard and gave him a lesson. pause."

"It's probably not just a little heavy hand." Bandak recalled the scene he saw, took a deep breath, and said, "Didn't that waiter faint?"

"No! That kid is definitely pretending to be dead. When he sees your presence, he will" the waiter defended.

"If I didn't show up in the backyard, the waiter would have been knocked out by you." Bandak interrupted him, saying, "Tell me what happened next."

"Yes" The waiter's face is not good-looking, after all, he is used to being majestic among the guys, but he was suddenly taught a lesson, and he couldn't refute a word. Inevitably upset. However, Kant and others took good care of their hotel. What Bandak said, as a waiter in the hotel, he had to endure it. At this time, he replied in a low voice: "After you left, Lord, we will send Jackie to the accountant and let him handle it. At this time, Jackie woke up again and cried to the accountant how we usually treat him. The gentleman said: After this matter is dealt with, we will be dealt with."

"Then we started going to each guest room to call all the guests, saying that it was for a sanitary inspection." Another waiter answered.

"Then what? Why didn't you inform us? When was the accountant killed?" Kant asked.

"Because everyone, apart from dinner time today, the main object of our investigation is the guests who have eaten breakfast or lunch in the store. They have not eaten in the store. The only one who has eaten, Mr. Kant, so The dishes ordered are prepared by the chef of the restaurant. The ingredients used by the chef are purchased and stored by himself.”

"So it is." Kant nodded and said, "Then how did Mr. Accountant get killed?"

"It's that kid Jackie. I heard Mr. Accountant talking to him alone in the back kitchen. After a while, I heard the news of Mr. Accountant's murder." The waiter's eyes seemed to be breathing fire, and he gritted his teeth.

"Jackie?!" Bandak exclaimed.

"At that time, there were only him and the accountant in the back kitchen. It must be him." The waiter nodded.

"Who was the first to discover the scene?" Kant raised his hand and asked everyone in the lobby.

The homeless people who listened intently to the story were taken aback for a moment, and then they identified each other.

"I remember Mr. Dewitz"

"No, I heard it from others too," denied the named person.

Until the end, the source of this news was not found.

The expressions of everyone became distressed.

"If everyone is not lying," Kant lowered his eyes and said, "It seems that the first person who discovered this scene was one of the group of people who were kidnapped just now."

"Your Majesty, what do you mean?" Abel's eyes widened, recalling what he saw in the corridor when Jackie came to deliver the message. Immediately, he asked the waiter in a hurry, "How did you get kidnapped by that group of people?"

"Mr. accountant died of suffocation because he was strangled by the rope." The waiter said, "The back kitchen can only lead to the backyard except for the accident that leads to the lobby. All of us conduct searches in the backyard. We were assigned to attack us from behind. So we didn't know who the attackers were until the attackers revealed their identities."

"It seems that Jackie has chosen to cooperate with the interested people of the dark side organization in a panic." Kant nodded.

"The other party's offer was probably something like 'will send you out of the town safely' or something." Bandak sighed and said.

"Jackie should have escaped from the inn after I broke their plot." Abel said, "He's penniless now, don't know where he's going?"

"I don't know." Bandak responded in a deep voice.

"I think he will still go back to the inn. After all, this is the only place he can hide in this town." Kant said, "Is the person killed by him? When you have time, ask him in person. Just do it."

"Hmm." Bandak nodded.

"My lords, we have told you everything that happened today." The waiter said, "Since you already know what happened, can you let us go back to rest?"

Abel glanced at the waiter, walked to the tea table, and said to everyone: "Everyone has worked hard, please go back and rest."

Chapter 863: Search of Fragmented Clues

"If there are any more personal details, you can tell any of us in the army later. We will not delay everyone's rest today. After all, most people should be tired too," Kant added.

"Sir." A homeless person in the crowd said, "I hope I can leave the city within tomorrow, can you please send a few soldiers to protect me? Just send it to the city gate. After that, I will let an acquaintance. Come pick me up."

"Me too." "Me too!"

After him, several homeless people asked.

"Your Highness," Abel said hesitantly.

"It's okay, all the residents who need to leave the city within tomorrow, register with Moliere and hand them over to me tomorrow morning." Kant promised: "I will assign a group of people to **** you out of the city. ."

"Thank you, thank you." The resident who spoke first thanked him.

"It's fine." Kant stood up and waved his hand, turned and left the Tang Dynasty, walking towards the stairs leading to the guest room.

"Your Highness, are you going back to your room to rest?" Bandak asked, following Kant's footsteps.

Kant walked to the steps of the stairs, stopped, and said, "Well, too much happened today. I have to clean up the room myself. You and Abel will search the hotel carefully again. Gather all the missing information together, and when the innkeeper returns, at least give them an explanation."

"Yes!" Bandak nodded.

"After doing these things, you and the soldiers should hurry back to your room to rest. Thank you for your hard work." Kant nodded slightly.

"Yes."

After watching Kant go up the stairs, the residents also returned to their bedrooms.

Bandak gathered his soldiers together and ordered: "All soldiers! Divide into five groups and search the hotel. Except for the part of the occupied guest room. No corner should be missed. !”

"Yes!" Calradia's soldiers answered in unison.

Seeing this, Abel also began to lead the elven soldiers to conduct a detailed search of the hotel. It even flew over the roof tiles to see if anyone had slipped away from the roof.

The soldiers were busy until late at night before returning to the lobby to gather.

"Anything found?" Bandak asked solemnly.

"Second Squad!" A Calradian soldier stepped out of the queue, Hong Shenghui reported: "We found the rope the killer used to strangle Mr. Accountant."

Another soldier handed over half of the rope that was charred to black.

"Where did you find it?" Bandak asked, holding the rope lightly in his hand.

"In the pyre under the back kitchen stove," the soldier responded.

"Well," Bandak nodded and continued, "Anything else found?"

The squad leaders shook their heads in silence.

"We found traces of someone climbing on the roof," Abel said at this point.

This news was reported to him by his soldiers: the roof tiles were messy, presumably the waiters liked to sneak up to the roof for parties, but from the elf's point of view, it was quickly recognized that a line extending to the Footprints in the hallway window on the second floor.

"That row of footprints proves Jackie climbed the roof alone," Abel said briefly.

"Yes." Bandak nodded and said, "Everyone has worked hard, let's go back and rest."

"Yes, Commander!" the soldiers agreed.

After disbanding, Bandak followed behind Abel and walked back to the guest room. The half of the rope was still held tightly in his hand.

"Lord Kant and I are very strange, why did you seem unhappy when you heard the news we said before the meal. It turns out that you met the group of waiters." Abel took off at the entrance As he took off his boots, whispered to Bandak, "You stopped them, didn't you?"

"At the time, I hesitated for a while until I heard Jackie's voice gone," Bandak replied.

"Alas." Abel shook his head and said nothing.

"Your Highness." "Your Highness."

After seeing Kant sitting at the tea table, crouching under the candlestick and depicting something, Abel and Bandak bowed in greeting.

"Are you back?" Kant put down his pen, raised his head and asked, "Did you find anything?"

"The murder weapon was found, and Jackie did leave the scene, walked across the roof, and walked to the second floor to inform us." Abel responded.

"Well, what is the murder weapon?" Kant asked, stroking his forehead.

"The rope was thrown into the burning pyre," Bandak explained, holding the rope in front of Kant.

Kant stared at the half of the rope silently for a while, and said, "Okay, put this rope in a package and seal it up. When the innkeeper returns, give it to him."

"Yes." Bandak nodded.

"His Royal Highness, if we need to send someone to take the guest out of the city tomorrow, the staff from the West City side" Abel said worriedly.

"It's fine, I'll go tomorrow too. We have enough people." Kant shook his head and said.

Not long ago, Mollie sent a list of guests who wanted to leave town tomorrow.

"Aren't you out of town?" Kant asked slightly surprised after reading the list.

"No. Those who leave the city first are idiots. Those who organize the assassination will definitely find them." Mollie responded disdainfully: "What's more, I want to stay and see how you deal with that group of people. Go to jail."

After Moliere left, Kant made a rough calculation of the number of people he needed to send tomorrow. This task is not as labor-intensive as you might imagine.

"Your Majesty, are you going tomorrow too?!" Abel said in surprise: "No, that guild is not a serious place. What if Pique and the person who contacted him talked about the lord?"

"It's almost the end of the month, I still have to find out the specific situation of this guild." Kant raised his eyebrows and said, "I'm not you or Bandak, and Pique has no need to look around him. The person mentioned me. Besides, the day we met Pique was two weeks ago, and he left the city after that. There was no chance to meet the people in the guild."

"But I still don't think it's right," Bandak shook his head and said, "The tree is big and the wind is blowing, and we've come all the way. We've seen leaders of all races all over the place. The town is such a big place, It is estimated that many people already know our identity."

"Well, that's fine. I won't go into the guild myself, but you still have to send someone to inquire in the guild. At least find out where the way to buy medicine is." However, the two in front of them compromised.

"Yes," Abel replied.

Chapter 864: The shopkeeper who arrived late

"Are there soldiers in our ranks suitable for such a task?" Bandak was distressed again after agreeing to Kant's request.

"This is something you need to arrange yourself." Kant shrugged: "I will give you one day tomorrow at most. The day after tomorrow is the last day of this month, which is the day to start the bottom-seeking operation."

"We're sure to find the right person," Abel responded.

Kant glanced at the two helplessly and said, "Just keep thinking about it, I'm going back to my room to rest."

"Yeah." Bandak nodded in response.

Kant ignored the two, but got up and left the main hall.

Able and Bandak stood where they were, thinking hard for a while. Still no results.

Bandak sighed helplessly: "I didn't expect that I didn't know the soldiers so well that I couldn't even think of their respective strengths."

"I know this group of people under my command very well." Abel shook his head dejectedly and said, "None of them are suitable for this kind of reconnaissance mission. When they introduced something, they fell asleep."

"No way." Bandak sat down at the tea table, took out two teacups, and filled them with tea.

"Thank you." Abel sat opposite Bendak, raised his teacup and said to Bendak, "If it really doesn't work, just let me get in there."

"As far as your suggestion is concerned, do you think His Majesty Kant will agree?" Bandak responded with a sip of hot tea.

"What can I do then!" Abel sighed, leaning over the tea table.

"Isn't there a day left for tomorrow? Let me find out if there are any suitable ones in the team." Bandak replied, turning his head to look out the window.

"That"

"Dong dong dong!" A knock on the door interrupted the conversation between the two.

"It's so late, who could it be?" Bandak stood up, put down the teacup in his hand, and walked towards the entrance while muttering.

After opening the door, a relatively unfamiliar face appeared in front of him. The other party's clothes were very luxurious, and he was obviously not a resident of the hotel.

"You are" Bandak struggled to remember, and said suspiciously.

"My name is Trubin, and I'm the shopkeeper of this inn." The half-orc in front of him seemed very depressed, and at this time he replied in a low voice, "I want to see your highness."

"The innkeeper?!" Bandak shouted: "When did you come back? Come inside, His Highness, he went back to the bedroom to rest."

"I want to see him, and if I don't see him today, I have no reason to enter your room." Trubin turned his eyes away and said slowly.

"Then I will immediately notify His Royal Highness, please come into this room first. Prepare some hot tea in the room." Bandak noticed the frost on Trubin's jacket: it should be in a hurry I came back from outside the city immediately.

"Yes." Trubin nodded slightly, took off his boots, and walked into the main hall with Bandak.

Abel was worrying about the plan of action for the day after tomorrow, and was a little surprised when he saw Bandak coming with a half-orc. He hesitated and asked, "May I ask who this is?"

"We've eaten together before." Trubin's eyes looked back and forth between Bandak and Abel, and explained, "I'm the shopkeeper of the inn."

"Ah," Abel immediately stood up, bowed and said, "I'm sorry, the shopkeeper. My memory is not very good lately."

"It's fine." Trubin patted the water droplets on the coat and said, "Please go and inform His Royal Highness Kant, I want to see him."

"Okay, okay." Abel and Bandak looked at each other and nodded.

Then turned around and walked to the bedroom. After seeing the candlelight in the room, he knocked on the door softly and whispered, "His Royal Highness Kant."

"What's the matter?" Abel breathed a sigh of relief from the sound from the bedroom, Kant hadn't rested yet.

"The owner of the inn is here, and he said he wants to see you." Abel explained to the crack of the door.

After a while, the bedroom door was opened by Kant. Before Kant had time to put on his coat, he was wearing a single shirt and asked Abel, who was standing in front of the porch, "Where is the shopkeeper?"

Able folded his hands respectfully in front of him and replied, "Sit and rest in the main hall."

"Yeah." Kant nodded and immediately walked towards the main hall. After seeing Trubin's figure, he quickened his pace, walked in front of him, and greeted: "The shopkeeper."

"His Royal Highness." Trubin politely stood up and replied, "I got the message"

"I'm sorry, because we're staying here and causing you so much trouble." Kant said apologetically.

This time, although the items in the store have not suffered any damage, the death of the bookkeeper will become a shadow covering the reputation of the hotel.

"It can only be said that your luck and mine are not very good." Trubin's eyes were a bit sad.

"The people at the Inspectorate have taken away the raid. They also carried Felit's body away." Kant said: "It is for official investigation, I hope you can understand."

"I saw it in the inspection office, Fei Lit he should not be like that" After speaking of Fei Lit, Trubin's voice brought a whimpering cry.

"Please condolences." Kant sighed and lowered his head.

At noon, when he was traveling with the owner of the inn, he also heard Trubin tell the story of how he settled in this small town with Philit~IndoMTL.com~ At the end of the story, Trubin Bing said to Kant: He was three or four years older than Felit, so when he was wandering outside, Felit was the one who was protected. Therefore, Felit, who has entered the middle-aged threshold, has always maintained a child-like state of mind. And Trubin has been running around so that they can continue to live peacefully. Deal with the various forces in the town.

Only in the past few days, Felit suddenly mentioned to him: I want to go out alone.

Trubin, of course, immediately rejected Phylt's request for various reasons.

As a result, Felit has avoided him for several days.

"It feels like a little daughter's story," Kant commented at the time.

"Hehe," Trubin laughed, "I'm used to him being protected by my side, and without such a person, I don't know if I'd lose the idea of ​​hard work. ."

At the tea table, Kant stared at the innkeeper who covered his face and sobbed in front of him. His heart was also aroused, and he didn't know what to say.