"Where is your evidence? Just because I know it, I can also say that you two have sufficient time and motive to commit the crime." Dean held on to the last line of defense and never let go.
"I think you should know very well that I can take you back based on witnesses and physical evidence alone. If you insist on resisting, I also have the right to kill you on the spot." Arthur pointed the gun at Dean.
said coldly.
Dinah tugged on Dean's sleeves, her eyes red: "I asked my brother to do this. If you want to arrest me, arrest me."
Lynn reiterated: "We will not arrest you, all we want is the truth."
"Don't you think it's ridiculous that the Sheriff found the murderer but didn't arrest him?" From Dean's point of view, Lynn and Arthur's promise was even worse than a child's lie.
"You have no choice." Arthur shrugged.
After more than ten seconds of silence, Dean opened Dinah's hand that was holding his sleeve, took a deep breath, and said with an ashen face: "I killed him."
"Why kill them?" Linn frowned.
"It's pretty much what you guessed. Ever since the Barzel brothers took control of this place, they have become arrogant and domineering, and they don't take anyone seriously." Dean said through gritted teeth, looking like he wanted to hurt the Barzel brothers again.
The body was broken into thousands of pieces. "My sister was also targeted by him when she was working in the tailor shop diagonally across from the tavern. She was forced to the tavern and forced to play cards with him... Those bastards deliberately played a game, which was no different from robbery."
, my sister owes a large amount of money. If she can’t pay it off, she will have to stay with him for the rest of her life..."
"So you decided to kill them." Linn said.
"Yes, in a place like this, this is the only way." Dean's face was gloomy.
Linn felt that things were not that simple. Dean's corruption value was as high as [130], which was the highest he had ever seen.
It is really incongruous to have fallen to such a level, and when clarifying the truth, you act like you were forced to kill someone.
"This money...is what you owe, right?" Linn asked tentatively.
Dean was obviously startled.
Arthur also sensed that something was wrong: "You will know who owes it, just ask. I emphasize it one last time, tell the truth, otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences."
There was deathly silence in the restaurant for more than ten seconds, and then Dean slumped, as if he had accepted his fate: "...I owe it to you."
"Since you owe it, what does it have to do with your sister?" Lin En then asked.
"They deliberately played a trick. Not only did they defraud me of all my money, but they also made me take on a lot of debt. I... I wanted to win it back so much that I mortgaged my sister... to them... No
I finally imagined that I would owe more, and I won’t be able to pay it back even if I carry the plate for the rest of my life..." Dean sat aside and said weakly.
A bad gambler, in order to win money, he did not hesitate to mortgage his sister to the casino owner.
This is what a rotten person with a corruption value of [130] would do.
Dean is still telling: "They come to me every day to collect debts, and my sister was also arrested to serve them. I was really desperate, so I thought... This can not only save my sister, but also turn my debt into death."
account……"
"A man who can even sell his sister said that he killed the Bazel brothers to save his sister... It's really interesting." Lin En didn't believe it at all, "You saved your sister just to make her cooperate with you in killing Bazel."
Brother Zell, it is no different from her being your gambling chip, but she has become a tool for you to turn your debt into a dead debt."
"He said he would change. Please believe him and let him go. We can give you money..." Dinah stood up to defend Dean and took the dozens of copper coins she was carrying with her hands.
It was presented tremblingly.
Arthur stepped forward to accept the money very calmly.
"I, I know the money is not much, we will work hard to thank you." Dinah kept praying.
"Do you want it?" Arthur asked Linn.
"No." Linn shook his head.
A man addicted to gambling, even mortgaging his sister for gambling money, and dared to plan and commit murder, almost to the point of using any means necessary.
An infinitely indulgent brother, who was even willing to accept the humiliation of his brother mortgagorizing himself, and even led him to kill someone in order to turn his gambling debt into a dead debt, and he continued to defend him until the end.
Dinah may still be saved, but Linn doesn't feel that he is qualified to be a 'savior'. The only thing he can do is to stay away from this group of depraved and incorrigible people, and not to have any contact with them outside of the mission.
contact.
Just when Lin En had just come out of his mind from this murder case involving all villains, and the suspicious mission was over, but the mysterious voice still did not appear, his vision suddenly became blurred.
Two seconds later, his vision became clear, and he was already in a huge library containing countless books.
Directly opposite him, the kind old man sitting at a desk closed his book, slowly took off his glasses, and smiled: "Congratulations, you have found the murderer of Bazelle Burton and Bazelle Chad.
"
"Who are you?" Now that things have developed, Lin En can finally remain calm in the face of the sudden changes in time and space.
But when he looked at the old man, he saw that neither the [Corruption Value] nor the [Awakened One] logo was displayed on his body, which still made him uneasy.
"You can call me curator." The old man said.
Lynn didn't just want a worthless answer: "Why am I here?"
"Because you have completed the task, I need to give you a reward." The curator looked very nice and spoke.
"Where's Arthur? The one who completed the mission with me." Linn looked around, but did not see Arthur.
"He's here too, but you can't see each other. Okay, this time you got a reward of two hundred points. What do you want to redeem for it?"
Lynn still has many questions to ask: "Earth?"
"I don't understand what you are talking about. You can try to explain it more clearly."
It seemed that the old man didn't know that Lin En had traveled from the earth.
Lynn wanted to know more: "Can I ask more questions?"
"I may not answer that," the curator said.
"Okay. The first question is, corruption value, awakened person, what do these mean?"
"I think you already know what the corruption value represents. It is related to everyone's psychology and behavior. The Awakened are the lowest-level personnel responsible for cleaning up contaminated areas." The curator replied.
"The lowest level? Is there anything more powerful than the Awakened?"
"certainly."
"What is it?"
"No comment."
Linn thought for a moment and then asked: "Why do these things exist? What is their purpose?"
"No comment."
"So, why did you choose me?"
The curator kept smiling: "No comment."
After three "No Comments" in a row, Linn was not discouraged: "Did you do all this?"
"No comment."
Lin En compromised: "Okay, let's go back to what we were talking about just now. You said points can be redeemed for rewards? Is there anything that can be redeemed?"
"Extraordinary power, lifespan, wealth, items... everything you can think of can be used, it's just the level of the points these things have," the curator said.
"Extraordinary power..." Lin En thought of something, "This shouldn't be the only clean-up mission, right? Does this mean that there will also be extraordinary powers in future clean-up missions?"
"No comment." The curator still did not disclose.
"There's another thing I'm not sure about. Am I the only one who can see other people's corruption values and signs like awakened ones?" In front of the curator, Lin En didn't hide another secret of his.
The curator's smile grew wider: "This only shows that you are lucky."
lucky.
The answer was very vague. Linn was not completely sure that he was the only one with this ability, but it was enough to show that it was very special and extremely rare anyway.
"So, let's go back to the topic of redemption. What are the extraordinary powers? How many points are needed to redeem them?" Lin En's doubts were not solved much, so he could only study the redemption rewards again.
First of all, what he values most is naturally extraordinary power.
Just being able to see the [Corruption Value] and the [Awakened Person] logo was a big help to him, otherwise he would not have been able to cooperate with Arthur with confidence in such a short period of time, and quickly find the best one among dozens of people.
The suspected murderer.
If you can exchange it for a powerful extraordinary power, no matter what you do next, you will get twice the result with half the effort.