After successfully persuading Prince Schneider, he returned to the hotel in Rennes and asked for a room on the first floor. He dug up the floor late at night and continued to develop his own "underground labyrinth".
The maze extends in all directions, and the roads connecting all important locations in Storm City must be completed.
Lane is used to working all night and enjoys the process.
Continuously digging out paths in different directions like a spider web in the ground, I feel extremely satisfied every time I complete one.
Around 2 o'clock in the morning, we dug all the way to the location of the Vine Herb Shop in the city.
New blocks fell, and a clay pot appeared in front of it.
There is quite a lot of space behind the pot, and there seems to be something else.
Out of curiosity, Ren carefully took out the clay pot and found that it felt very heavy.
When I took out the clay pot, I discovered that there was a rectangular wooden box behind it.
He felt very strange. Even if he buried the clay pot, why would he bury such a big box underground?
This box is more than enough to hold an adult. What's in it?
Driven by curiosity, I first opened the clay pot and saw the golden light inside through the light of the torch. I couldn't help but widen my eyes.
Good guy!
The jar is full of gold and silver jewelry and all kinds of valuable items!
After counting, not counting the expensive jewelry on top, there are 180 gold coins and more than 70 silver coins at the bottom alone!
If you sell those expensive jewelry, you will get at least 100 gold coins!
In other words, this jar contains nearly 300 gold coins, which is scary!
The current location should be the backyard of the Vine Herbal Medicine Shop, and the clay pot should have been buried by the owner of the Herbal Medicine Shop.
Is selling herbal medicine so profitable?
Wait! What is this? Ren found a gold ring among the jewelry, which seemed to have some kind of emblem engraved on it.
I picked it up and looked at it carefully, and I thought it looked familiar.
"Isn't this the emblem of the Cervantes family?" No wonder it looks familiar, I've seen it on Monica's clothes before!
Why does the Cervantes family emblem appear here?
Is the herbal shop owner related to the Cervantes family?
With doubts, Ren turned to the wooden box and thought to himself, no? It couldn't be what I thought it was inside, right?
Speaking of which, this area does have a rotten smell, although it is covered with a stronger herbal smell. I didn't pay much attention to it before, after all, under the herbal smell, the rotten smell seemed to be absent.
Take a deep breath and step forward to carefully open the wooden box.
The moment I opened it, I was so scared that I quickly closed it.
Damn it! It’s really something from your imagination!
There were many herbs with a pungent smell inside the wooden box. Inside the herbs was a half-rotted corpse, and its original appearance could no longer be seen clearly.
Something is wrong! Something is very wrong!
Putting the body in a wooden box and burying it under the ground in the backyard of the herbal shop was wrong in the first place! It was even more wrong to have so many gold and silver jewelry buried in a jar next to it! There was a gold ring with the Cervantes family crest inside the jar, which was extremely wrong!
Did he accidentally solve a major case?
Ren's mind was spinning rapidly. He first put the wooden box back into place, stared at the jar and thought for a while, put all the gold and silver jewelry inside into the virtual backpack, and put the empty jar back into place.
Then it was buried with earth cubes to block the passage and set it back dozens of meters.
His heart was beating wildly, and he originally wanted to pretend that nothing had happened. The owner of the herbal medicine shop must have been seeking wealth and murder, and he was considered a gangster.
But then I thought about it, the person who died was a member of the Cervantes family. After all, I knew Monica, so it was not good to just ignore her.
Of course, it would be foolish to go directly to the Cervantes family and tell them that your people are buried in the backyard of the Vine Herb Shop.
So we dug all the way through the underground passage to the Cervantes family mansion.
When we get here, how to remind the other party is also a problem.
It's not difficult to write a letter and put it in a conspicuous place. No one thought that you could dig it all the way out of the ground so quickly. The problem is that writing a letter can easily reveal your handwriting, and it may be exposed wherever you write in the future.
Fortunately, I can think of an alternative without exposing my handwriting.
The method is to open the manufacturing interface and find the prompt board option.
The reminder board is easy to make, it only requires a piece of wood.
After completion, confirm through the virtual map and wait for the green dot representing the patrol to leave, dig out the corridor floor tile probe, and quickly place the prompt board in front, just blocking the road.
Then select the prompt board and the virtual input interface appears.
Ren input what he wanted to say through his consciousness, watched the words from another world appear on the board, took out the gold ring with the badge from the virtual backpack, threw it next to the prompt board, then got back underground as quickly as possible, and laid out the stone brick squares.
Go back and lay a few more layers of blocks below.
After completing a series of operations, I said to Monica, I can only do this!
The gold and silver jewelry in the clay pot may belong to the victim in your family. I can help you solve the case. Is it okay to charge a small handling fee?
Quickly leave along the tunnel and go back to dig other new passages.
Not long after Ren left, the patrols of the Cervantes family passed by the corridor again. They saw the notice board placed by an unknown person and looked at each other. They couldn't understand. After all, patrols were all over the mansion. Who would have such great ability to sneak in without being discovered?
?Isn’t it dangerous to have such ability?
The patrol leader quickly ordered the soldiers to ring the alarm bell to alert other patrols in the mansion to conduct a vigorous search. He stepped forward, held a torch to illuminate the notice board, and read out the common human language written on it: "In the backyard of the Vine Herb Shop, dig deep!
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When I saw this sentence, I didn't understand it at first.
The subordinate suddenly saw the gold ring next to the notice board and quickly reminded: "Captain, look!"
The patrol leader followed the direction pointed by his subordinates and noticed a sudden change in the ring's expression. He hurriedly picked it up and looked at it carefully: "Isn't this Madame Jacques's ring? Why is it here?"
"Captain, didn't Mrs. Jacques elope with someone and be away for more than a month?"
"Shh!" the patrol leader quickly told him to shut up, with a serious expression on his face, "What's going on?"
"In the backyard of the Vine Herbal Shop, dig deep?" The subordinate looked at the ring, then at the notice board, and suddenly his eyes widened, "Did Mrs. Jacquesny not elope with someone, but was killed? Someone deliberately misled us?"
Mrs. Jacques is the fifth wife of Bruce Cervantes. There are no restrictions on aristocrats marrying wives. Bruce, who already has four wives, fell in love with Jacques half a year ago and married her into his family, doting on her very much.
A month ago, Mrs. Jacques suddenly "eloped" with someone and disappeared without a trace. The Cervantes family searched everywhere, but there was no news. Unexpectedly, her belongings suddenly appeared. I don't know which strong man secretly evacuated them.
He entered the mansion silently, leaving a reminder board like this.
In addition to the Cervantes emblem, the gold ring also has a number 5 underneath, which represents the fifth lady.
That night, the entire Cervantes family stayed up all night. Bruce rushed to the scene and immediately led a team to surround the Vine Herb Shop all night after learning of the incident.
