Suldak walked towards the cemetery and followed the stone steps to the cemetery halfway up the mountain. The old servant of the Benton family who guarded the tomb was sitting at the door of the cemetery with a somewhat depressed look. The place had been occupied by the knights of the Benton family.
The guards surrounded them, and there was no excitement on the faces of the knights. Suldak knew that after working for most of the night, these knights had not gained anything.
Gary Decker and Thea accompanied Suldak, followed by a team of construct knights.
Surdak walked towards the old servant guarding the tomb. The body of a native dog lay in front of him. The neck of the native dog was pierced by a sharp arrow, and the exposed blood from the wound had already condensed. It could be seen that the tomb guard
The old servant had a deep affection for the native dog. He sat at the gate of the cemetery, staring directly at the dead dog's body without saying a word.
Surdak walked to the side of the native dog and looked at it with some surprise. There was no hair on its body, and its skin was covered with wrinkles. It looked like someone had shaved off all the dog hair on its body, revealing a very ugly look.
Its body, just on its exposed skin, actually has faint lava lines. Although it can't feel any fire element breath, Surdak knows that there must be a trace of hell dog mixed in its body.
Bloodline.
This should be a hunting dog that was hybridized between hellhounds and local native dogs.
Surdak took out a dagger and tilted its sharp edge into its mouth. As expected, the sharp teeth had some demonic patterns.
The old servant guarding the tomb looked at Surdak in surprise and asked in surprise: "Sir, do you know the Neroja hound?"
Surdak shook his head, wiped the dagger on the native dog, then put it back into the scabbard and said, "I just felt a trace of demonic aura on it."
"No wonder it can withstand the pacification circle..." Gary Decker said while standing in Surdak.
"Carrie Decker, take someone to check around the cemetery and see if you can find any clues." Suldak ordered her.
Gary Decker turned around very neatly and led the construct knights to explore the outside of the cemetery.
Suldak said to Earl Allen Benton: "Can your people take me to the tomb of old Earl Benton to have a look?"
Alan Benton had been following Suldak. When he heard Suldak say this, he immediately came to the front and personally guided Suldak.
At this time, Suldak began to ask the old servant about last night's events. The old servant guarding the tomb responded with information that was almost the same as what Gary Decker said.
Suldak walked to the front of the tomb and discovered that the tomb where old Earl Benton was buried yesterday had been dug up again...
What surprised Surdak was that these gravediggers actually put the soil dug out from the grave on a piece of linen cloth. The grave was dug very neatly, and the green grass around it was not damaged much, just enough to cover the grave.
The coffin is moved out.
The gravediggers even wrapped linen around the tombstones, apparently trying to restore the tomb intact so they could steal the coffin without anyone noticing.
There were only a few simple footprints around, and it was impossible to tell whether they belonged to the gravediggers.
It's a pity that Tigo and Bonita didn't follow Surdak back to Ruit this time, otherwise Bonita could have relied on her keen sense of smell to track down the tomb robbers.
Suldak once again asked the old servant guarding the tomb about the linen on the tombstone, and confirmed that these should be done by the gravedigger, and then nodded slightly.
Seeing that Suldak took this tomb robbing incident so seriously, the Logistics Minister Alan Benton, who was completely humiliated, also showed a grateful expression at this moment.
Who would have thought that on the first night after the funeral, someone would sneak into the cemetery and steal his father's body and coffin. This simply caused the Benton family to lose face...
Gary Decker returned from the outskirts of the cemetery with the Constructed Knights, but did not find any new discoveries.
They are all soldiers who have returned from the battlefield and still lack experience in investigating this kind of case.
Before leaving the cemetery, Suldak kept comforting Alan Benton, saying that the Ruitt Guard Camp would definitely follow up on this matter and would not let these gravediggers go unpunished.
A provocation from the aristocratic circle of It City.
…
On the way back to the city, Suldak sat in the magic caravan and asked Gary Decker and Thea: "Why do you think these gravediggers dug Earl Benton's grave?"
The lush scenery on both sides keeps moving backwards from outside the car window, and the forest road here looks very quiet.
This large area of land is the territory of the Benton family.
Carrie Decker leaned against the car, blocking the window with her arm. She frowned and thought about it seriously, and said, "Maybe it's to get some valuable funerary objects in the coffin."
Surdak shook his head and denied Gary Decker's speculation, saying: "They have spent so much effort, not only using the primary magic circle, but also preparing to restore the tomb. It seems that they don't want people to know that they will
I don’t think it’s that simple to dig up the coffin from the tomb.”
"I want to visit that cemetery. Can you still find that cemetery?" Suldak asked Gary Decker.
Gary Decker nodded and said with certainty: "Of course, Samira and I just went to investigate the night before yesterday. Although the cemetery is a bit far away, I definitely remember the road."
Surdak sat up straight, reached out and pulled the bell, and the coachman stopped the magic caravan on the roadside.
Suldak pushed aside the carriages and jumped out.
The construct knights behind followed him. He took the reins of the horse from one of the construct knights and said to Gary Decker, who jumped out of the carriage after him: "Take me to take a look."
Gary Decker readily mounted another horse and rushed to the front of the team.
…
Surdak didn't expect that the so-called civilian cemetery would be built so far away from Ruit City, and it would take half a day to walk on horseback.
For the poor people in Ruit City, if they want to come to the cemetery to pay homage to their loved ones, even taking a carriage will take a whole day, and they may miss the time to enter the city and have to stay one night outside the city.
The dense forests along the road were mostly composed of red pine trees. When we got to the civilian cemetery, a patch of black locust trees was planted around it.
The cemetery is very clean, and each area is divided neatly. The tombstones are all uniform ordinary stone tablets. In addition to the name of the tomb owner, there is also a short epitaph on it. The entire cemetery is very standardized, and there is a guard at the door.
The tombkeeper was also very conscientious. When he saw someone entering the cemetery, he not only came out to greet him, but also accompanied him throughout the entire process and introduced the entire cemetery area to Suldak.
Surdak jumped off the horse, threw the reins to the construct knight behind, and then walked into the depths of the tombstone forest.
He found that there was a flat stone slab behind each tombstone, probably for the purpose of sealing the tomb...
It's just that the power of holy light overflowing from his body showed no signs of dissolution in this cemetery, because he could hardly feel the breath of death here. Large areas were empty, with the breath of death and the remaining souls.
There is no aura, or negative emotions such as resentment and hatred, in this cemetery. It is as if someone has thoroughly washed the place with a great purification technique.
If Carrie Decker hadn't said that this was the cemetery, it would have been hard for Suldak to believe that this cemetery was for civilian use.
Apart from being far away from Ruit City, there are no other disadvantages.
"Whose territory is this?" Suldak asked, because the city hall did not have this expense, so the only answer is that this land is probably private territory.
The tombkeeper with a shovel in his hand replied respectfully to Suldak:
"This is the territory of Viscount Duwe, and he also manages this cemetery. This viscount often helps the poor in the city and has a very good reputation in Ruyter City."
Suldak stopped and responded doubtfully: "Oh?"
He had never heard this man's name before in the city hall.
After walking around the cemetery, Suldak said to Gary Decker with a lack of interest, "Let's go."
"Don't you want to look again?" Gary Decker was surprised that Suldak had walked such a long way, just walking around in the cemetery, and planned to go home.
The moment Surdak walked out of the cemetery, he turned around and seemed to be looking back at the tombkeeper, but his eyes swept across the entire cemetery, and then he said:
"Forget it, there's nothing more to see."
"..."
Carrie Decker guessed that Suldak had found the answer, but she still didn't see what was wrong with this cemetery...
…
In a mansion in the noble district of Ruit City, dozens of nobles gathered in the hall.
On the table in the center of the room, a somewhat skinny middle-aged nobleman stood in the center. His eyelids were painted with thick smoky eye shadow, and even his lips were purple. He was wearing an expensive dress, attracting the attention of everyone in the hall.
All focused on him.
He held a golden cane in his hand. The handle of the cane was inlaid with a ruby. The light shone through the gaps between his fingers, dazzling the people around him.
His eyes became a little gloomy and negative, but he said in a metallic voice:
"I often wonder, what is the meaning of human life?"
He looked around and then continued:
"We are nobles since we were born. We have grown up in a privileged environment and enjoyed a luxurious life. We live like this year after year, day after day, until we grow old, then lie in a coffin and be passed down by our descendants.
Buried in the soil, our names are engraved on the tombstones, until our descendants also lie down in the cemetery, and finally the words on the tombstones are covered by weeds, and we are completely forgotten by the world."
He sighed lightly and continued:
"This is the ordinary life that many nobles will experience."
"What we are facing now is a crisis we have never encountered in so many years. It has even affected the foundation of the entire Ruit nobility."
"Yes, all of us here..."
"I don't know if you have the same worries as me. The profits of the shops we operate are almost reduced to the point where we can only sustain the workers' capital. The crops produced in the manors outside the city are also subject to price restrictions. The large areas of land in the abandoned mining areas have been reduced this time.
It was cut in half by a road. Now he can divide this land into two, and in the future it may be divided into four...eight pieces!"
"I agree that we can help the poor when we are able, but this does not mean that we have to reduce the income of our nobles, and it does not mean that we should donate the land that should belong to us..."
"So we can no longer remain silent. We must rise up to resist, for the benefit of our family, and for ourselves to make a wonderful mark in our lives."
After the middle-aged nobleman finished speaking, he poured the red wine in his hand into his mouth, and then walked down the podium in an elegant manner.
The nobles in the hall were deeply touched at this time, and they all talked about the recent changes that the family has encountered. Due to the influx of a large number of business groups in Ruit City, the business turnover of the local nobles' shops has continued to shrink.
Everyone was originally trying to find a way to boycott this group of foreign businessmen, but now Viscount Duwei suddenly stood up and loudly called out that these were caused by the new policies implemented by Governor Suldak, and called on everyone to unite to deal with Governor Surdak.
official.
"Du Wei, what are you going to do?" someone asked loudly in the audience.
"I want to reshuffle the entire city of Luyt..." Viscount Duwei sat in his seat, holding up his wine glass and shouted.
His friends around him laughed loudly, thinking that what he said was just a joke.
Some nobles even directly said loudly: "He controls an army of 100,000 lords, has the support of so many great lords, and also controls the plane of Ganbu. All of us here, even if we use all our strength, it will be difficult to compete with him."
The lord's army is confronting him! What's more, behind him is Marquis Luther. It's not like you don't know that just three years ago, Luther's army single-handedly defeated the entire Tarapa!"
Speaking of Marquis Luther behind Consul Suldak, the nobles in the hall fell silent for a moment.
In the past few years, Archduke Newman has been focusing on the war between the Bena Army and the Warsaw Plane, and has always left the affairs of the Bena Province alone. In fact, it was because the warlords kept Marquis Luther behind.
In Bena City, his legion has always been ready to go to war at any time, and in the past few years, he has repeatedly won victories in large and small plane wars in the Bena Province.
Now Marquis Luther has become a banner of the war faction in Bena Province.
Anyone who knows something about Surdak knows that he is likely to become the successor of the Luther Legion in the future.
That's why Surdak was so powerful in Ruit City, and even sent Commander Nathaniel to the town of Hatangada in the Ganbu plane, while the Mali family didn't even dare to fart.
"We can incite the poor and launch a city-wide protest. I am planning to organize a city-wide march in the middle of this month. I invite you here this time to use your influence to mobilize those around you.
Come join this march..."
Viscount Duwei said loudly to the nobles in the hall.