Lan rode her horse and galloped all the way from the Forest of Qiyao to the official road of the imperial capital.
The snow-white skirts were flying in the air, Lan's face was solemn, and the bad feeling in her heart became more and more serious.
Teigu user!
From the clueless corpse scene, Lan immediately realized that this was just a dumping site.
Only things that appear out of thin air will have no clues.
Teigu Dimensional Square [Shangri-La].
Lan could only think of this Imperial Equipment, or even the Imperial Equipment that Heaton had mentioned.
"Deng Deng Deng."
The horse's hooves stepped on the cement-paved official road, making a crisp sound. Lan's heart became more and more uneasy with the sound of the horse's hooves.
The son of a minister, or just the murderer who accidentally obtained Shangri-La?
Heaton once issued an order to search for the Imperial Instrument [Shangri-La] and pay attention to Shura's whereabouts.
But there have been no clues in the past few years, and Heaton has not urged the progress of this matter, so no one has deliberately searched for it.
How could Lan have thought that clues about this Teigu would suddenly appear, and that it would even be implicated in the pedophile criminal?
Could it be that Shura, the minister's son, is the criminal?
Lan thought about the possibility of this matter. Judging from the time, it was extremely likely.
They galloped all the way, from outside the city to the outer city, without any obstruction, and arrived at the Imperial City Guard.
When he learned that the visitor was an imperial interior officer and His Majesty's most trusted interior officer, Oka, the new captain of the Imperial Guard, came out to greet him respectfully.
"Take a team of people and go to the slums!" Lan ordered with a serious face.
"Yes!" Ouka took the order and ran non-stop to the security team to summon his men.
From the moment she saw the victim's clothes, Lan probably analyzed the murderer's perverted hobby.
As Heaton and Gozzi said, the killer prefers cute children.
The victims were not in rich areas. It was in Beicheng, so even if the crime was committed, it would be more difficult to commit it.
After all, what rich family doesn't hire a few bodyguards to protect the courtyard?
The Imperial Guard also patrols every night to prevent refugees or criminals from causing trouble. Foreigners who want to stay for a long time or stay overnight must register.
The place close to the slums in District XC, and away from the border of Beicheng District, is a mixed bag of homeless people, beggars, fugitives, and petty thieves. No one cares about this place, and there is no way to control it.
"Lord Lan, the assembly has been completed!" Ouka trotted all the way, with a very unmatched flattering smile on his rough face.
"Set off."
A total of about fifty security guards, dressed in neat security uniforms, carrying guns and long swords hanging on their waists, set out for the Xicheng slums in a mighty manner.
"How many cases of missing children have been reported recently?"
On the way, Lan asked Ouka that the only official organization in the outer city that manages the people and is responsible for public security is the Imperial Guard. If a child is missing, he can only report it to the guard.
"Thirteen children are missing." Ouka reported truthfully, but secretly murmured in his heart that he was here for this matter.
"What was the result of the police investigation?"
"Sir, the situation..." Oka's heart trembled and he was a little nervous, "The police team searched the 13th Street in Beicheng District and all nearby blocks, but found nothing."
"What about the slums?"
"This..." Ouka hesitated. It was obvious that there was no such thing. Even the 13th Street was searched hastily.
The first reporter reported the case five days ago, which was when Oka first took office. Such a case did not attract Oka's attention.
Ten children are lost in the slums every day. Who do you think you are?
Maybe the child was playing too crazy and forgot to go home.
What's more, he had just taken office and had a lot of tasks to hand over. Ouka didn't even send anyone to investigate, and just let the reporter go home and wait.
Just two days ago, there were more and more people reporting the crime, and more and more missing children, even from ordinary neighborhoods in Beicheng District, so Ouka paid a little attention to it.
But it's only "slightly".
Although this ordinary neighborhood is called ordinary, compared with the housing prices in Beicheng District on the banks of the Grand Canal, the housing prices here are obviously more affordable.
Many mistresses of wealthy officials may live here.
Oka didn't dare to make a big show of it, so he sent a dozen team members to search for a whole day, touch for fish, paddle in the water, and make a show.
We dare not use force to search, even in slums. People died in the last riot!
This incident happened not long ago.
"Sir, the slums are some distance away from the 13th Street where the reporter came from, and the current slums are very uneasy."
"The riots some time ago?"
"Yes, the captain of the garrison died in that riot. The people in the slums suddenly asked the West District Mayor for relief funds for some unknown reason.
This kind of thing is obviously not allowed. Relief funds are not given to this group of criminals. Afterwards, they spontaneously formed a protest group, and the Imperial Guard was responsible for suppressing it.
However, on the second day of the crackdown, the captain of the police force died at home, and the protest group subsided under the conditions promised by the oil merchant Jamai."
"Oil dealer?" Lan frowned, listening to Oka's account of this bizarre and inexplicable riot.
"What conditions!"
"Well, it seems like they hire low-income people from the slums to work, take care of their food and housing, and even give them subsidies."
"You know him?"
Lan turned her head suddenly, startling Oka.
"No...I don't know him."
"To be honest, why didn't you go to the slums to investigate the case of missing children? I believe it's definitely not because of fear. In the past, when the police went to the slums to find scapegoats, you weren't afraid of this." Lan's tone was cold, her eyes slightly narrowed, and she looked at Ou.
Card.
Oka was extremely nervous. He held his hands tightly, his palms were full of sweat, and his heart seemed to jump into his throat.
Lan put great pressure on him. The highest official position Ouka usually saw was the district chief of the outer city.
The guards themselves didn't even know that there was a person like Gozichi who was close to the emperor among them.
As an independent organization, there is actually an intermediary agency responsible for management and control.
The garrison was rarely used by Gozki. It was not used for general special tasks. In his eyes, the garrison was just an information collection team, even just collecting information about the imperial capital.
"It's Pali, the mayor of the West District. He asked me not to come to the slums. He said that the matter in the West District has been resolved."
Ouka could not withstand Lan's pressure and spoke very fast.
"It's not just that. Did the oil dealer give you money?"
"No, no, absolutely not, no, no."
Oka tried his best to deny it, but his panicked expression had betrayed him.
"Okay, let's not talk about this for now. Let me ask you why the oil dealer went to the slums to recruit people and why he bribed the district chief."
"Sir...Sir, I don't know, I really don't know, they didn't tell me anything."
"Come here, you must have heard this. Take down your captain. When this matter is over, I will interrogate him personally."
The conversation between the two was very loud, and they did not conceal the presence of the security team members behind them.
Heaton and Goszczy would tolerate such corrupt people because they knew that everyone was the same, but Lan would not tolerate it and he would not be lenient if there was evidence.