There are at least a few hundred army soldiers in a fortress. They possess firepower that the aboriginals cannot match. Unless the Valentines fight for their lives, it is still unknown whether they can defeat thousands or tens of thousands of people.
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The indigenous people simply cannot produce their own firearms and ammunition, and the only firearms they have were picked up from the Serbian army.
But such a strong defensive force was destroyed in just one sentence from Kino.
The young man in the cell swallowed his saliva and continued to narrate the past.
"That day, because our camps were so close, we were also affected. My mentor died in random gunfire, and I was also shot three times. My chest was full of blood, and I was in so much pain that I couldn't breathe."
"So, it was really the Valentines who attacked the fortress?" Henry asked.
Kino nodded hurriedly, with some hesitation and uncertainty: "Maybe it's not just them, there are others. I heard the sound of galloping horses, and someone threw lit explosives into the fortress. There are very few people in Valentine.
Know how to use explosives."
"Okay! What's the result? You were still a human at that time, how did you survive?" Victor continued to advance the focus of Kino's story.
Kino shook his hands in panic: "I don't know either! Then I woke up like this, and then I found that there were dead people around me. The smell of blood was so tangy that it would have made me sick in the past, but at that time... then
But I found that I actually had an uncontrollable...appetite for these dead bodies!"
Kino will never forget that night. He woke up in a corpse pit, and the white and cunning moonlight shone on his turbid body. An uncontrollable instinct took control of him, ordering him to lower his body and lower his head.
He buried his face in the mangled bloody remains and feasted to his heart's content.
He felt very hungry, quite hungry. Although he was aware of his madness and abnormality, he just couldn't get rid of this violent appetite.
Victor's eyebrows furrowed into the Chinese character "Sichuan" and he felt very uncomfortable in his stomach. Henry next to him also twisted his face.
"So, you became a ghoul at that time?" Victor touched his chin and thought repeatedly, "The crow said that you were the product of a failed ritual. Was there any ceremony being held at that time?"
Kino shook his head hurriedly, indicating that he didn't know.
"Where were those who attacked the fortress? Did you see them?" Henry asked.
Kino still said he was not clear, but he thought about it later and suddenly said: "The pit where we were buried at that time was dug in the atrium of the fortress. When I looked up after eating, I seemed to see some people.
Standing on the surrounding city walls, they were talking and seemed...arguing about something."
Upon hearing this, Victor and Henry hurriedly asked Kino what he heard.
Kino racked his brains for memories, and then said: "I don't know if my memory is accurate, but I seem to have heard them shouting a few words - Conor...Joshua, Hannah...your responsibility...stop...
You're crazy and so on."
As soon as these words were spoken, Victor and Henry suddenly understood at the same time.
Conor is the surname of Augusta. From this, it seems that the Conor gang must have participated in the attack on the fortress.
Perhaps, they used some kind of trick to deceive the gate of the fortress, and then cooperated with the Valentan people inside and outside to wipe out the army in one fell swoop.
However...why do they do this?
As soon as the question appeared in Victor's mind, he thought of what Crow said.
Augusta initially deceived the trust of the local indigenous people and cooperated with them. Could it be that destroying the army fortress was part of the cooperation?
Judging from the current fact that Saiguo has not retaliated against the Valentines, Augusta is likely to have taken all the responsibility for the massacre of the fortress and severed its relationship with the Valentines.
Did he sacrifice so much just to obtain the secret information of the aborigines?
This logic seems to be consistent with what Crow said.
"I'm not sure. Apart from Conor, several other words also look like people's names." Henry wanted to find out more. He stared into Kino's eyes. "If you think about it carefully, it's best to recall it."
A complete paragraph."
Kino felt that his brain was about to explode. He was afraid of the powder in Victor's hand. He was also timid and had no intention of transforming and breaking free.
After a long time, he hesitated and said: "There was a quarrel... Someone was quarreling on the city wall. I saw a group of people and heard the laughter of the onlookers. There was a tall guy pulling another man by the collar and pointing at him.
Roar in the other person’s face.”
"The words just now came from his mouth. I really can't remember the complete conversation."
Kino continued to rub the back of his neck and suddenly raised his head: "Yes! The other party retorted. The man who was dragged retorted. He said something... Oh, yes, yes! He called a name." "Arthur!"
"Arthur! I can't hear the rest clearly, but I remember this name! That angry tall man must have this name!"
As soon as Kino finished speaking, Victor stood up immediately. Henry also shook his upper body and looked at him in shock.
Father Sang coughed and looked at the two young men, as if he had seen something.
"Arthur...it's him!" Henry's lips moved slightly.
Arthur Delevingne!
This partner helps Victor solve the problem of wine sales.
He was a member of the Conor Gang in the past!
"Catch him! Maybe we can find out what Augusta wants to do! We can even directly find the hiding place of the other party!" Henry was about to go out after saying that, seemingly preparing to inform Chief Inspector Josh.
But Victor grabbed him and told him that it was not convenient to alert him now.
"Last question." Victor stared at Kino, "I was shot in the room. When I got up, I saw a ghoul eating the body of a male prostitute. Was that ghoul you?"
After he finished speaking, Kino looked embarrassed. He nodded and said, "I'm sorry, I was really hungry at the time, and I happened to see someone shoot you."
"I thought both of you were dead, so I attacked the other one first. Who knew you were not dead later, which shocked me at the time. It wasn't until the sheriff knocked on the door that I realized how to run away immediately." This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading!
So on the Kaleidoscope, Kino said there was a secret he wanted to tell Victor, and this was what he was referring to?
Kino must have witnessed the murderer, and he may want to use this to get Victor to beg Thomas for mercy.
But he didn't know that Mark was already dead.
……
Coming out of the cell, Henry wondered why Victor stopped him from reporting to his superiors.
Victor analyzed: "With Arthur's current state, he has obviously broken away from the Conor Gang and wants to live a good life. If the Police Bureau sends a large force to arrest him directly, it will definitely cause resistance from the other party. He
He doesn’t look like the kind of person who would just surrender.”
"So?" Henry raised his eyebrows.
"We should find an opportunity to negotiate with Arthur." Victor blinked.
"Negotiation?"
"That's right, tell him that he can make amends... If you think about it, he must have had a dispute with Augusta before he left the gang. The guy Chino mentioned who was scolded by him is most likely Augusta. The two of them
There is obviously an old grudge. All we need to do is tell him that by cooperating with the Prosecution Bureau a little bit, we can erase his past criminal record, and in this way we should be able to get clues from the other party."
Victor suggested.
"What if that guy is a deadbeat? Even if he leaves the gang, he will not be with us." Henry expressed doubts.
"We'll fall out again then!" Victor shrugged nonchalantly, "If you just report it directly, you'll fall out. Why don't you give it a try?"
At this time, a cough came from behind the two of them. Father Sang, leaning on a branch and cane, wandered to the two of them and handed them the portrait painted by Kino.
"Perhaps... we should confirm this first... ahem, what do you think about this matter?"