Ling was dressed in a white coat. She had no extra decorations except for a simple bracelet and a black hairband. But Lloyd noticed something on her waist when he first looked at her.
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Noticing Lloyd's gaze, Ling lifted up half of her coat without hesitation, revealing the delicate hilt of her sword.
"Ah, this? It's just a decorative foil. Even if you don't apply for a gun license, it's not a big problem to equip a cold weapon, right? I remember that there is no knife control law in Crossbell."
"Is it fencing? I've heard that this is quite popular recently. The new fencing gym in the sports area just opened not long ago." Randolph did not doubt Ling's words. After all, this petite purple-haired girl even though she was wearing thick clothes
His coat is also very thin, and he doesn't look strong at all. He doesn't exude an aura that makes people instinctively vigilant, nor does he have any murderous aura.
"That's right, I applied for the Jinyao membership over there. Well, let's get down to business, you are here to investigate, right? I happen to know something about the situation, let's exchange information."
Ling has no interest in pursuing this matter to the end. Apart from exploring unknown academic research and martial arts practice, other things have a very low priority in her schedule. She came here just out of curiosity and a rare visit to Cross.
Jeno, the trapper from the Bell Autonomous Prefecture, just wanted to do something. Since things were over there, of course she planned to go home and cook.
So if someone could finish the things she didn't intend to do, she would be happy to pass on the clues she had.
"that……"
From the perspective of Lloyd Bannings, it feels a bit awkward to let the Imperial people temporarily living in Crosby assist him in the search operation. It is not that there is any prejudice against the Imperial people, although the Erebonian Empire is considered the suzerain of the Crossbell Autonomous Prefecture.
One, but his focus is on the other parts.
"Xiaoling, are you a commoner? I think..."
As soon as Lloyd was halfway through speaking, he was lightly tapped by Tio with his elbow.
"I am eighteen, the same age as Ellie. Just call me Ling. As for civilians...ah, it seems that I am still the first-class secretary of the empire?" There is nothing going on at the Armed Forces Committee recently.
Ling rarely goes there, but the convenient status she obtained from His Majesty the Emperor is still in effect. Of course, the allowances paid into her account are negligibly small.
"Huh? Is Ling still an official of the empire..."
The one who was surprised by this information was Tio.
"No! I thought you knew." Lingcai found it incredible that Tio didn't know about this. Until the end of last year, the two of them still got along day and night.
But thinking about it carefully, it seems that she rarely talked about what she was doing in the empire in Rozenberk's workshop.
Ming Ming lived in the same building every day before, but most of her interactions with her close friends for many years were in academic research, and their interests only overlapped the most in this aspect. But other than that, personally
There is not much communication about life situations. In addition, Tio is a magician and not very interested in the martial arts circle. She did not go to the live or broadcast of last year's martial arts competition. So this is actually the first time today.
Only then did I find out that Ling was actually still working for the imperial government.
"Hey, isn't that even worse?" Randolph scratched his head, "For officials of the overlord country to act in a vassal country, does this count as interfering in other countries' internal affairs?"
Ling didn't know much about the international laws of Samlia. The topics she usually discussed with Ian were more economic issues, so when Randolph talked about it, she was a little dazed.
Because Tio was exposed unnecessarily by Rei, it seems that she is troubled now.
"……Yeah."
Ling answered as if she wanted to escape reality and sighed.
"This time it may not just be Crossbell's problem. Even so, do you insist on using the police's position to persuade me not to join?"
"Ling, are you serious?" Ellie frowned.
"About that...Ling, we'll talk about the identity later. Let's exchange information now. How much do you know about the Jesta Hunter Regiment?"
Tio told the clues that Randy had previously analyzed from the clothes badges. Ling looked at a few people with a little surprise. Ling and Tio have known each other for so many years, but her penetration into the other world was limited to going to black
When the studio made the gospel, Tio neither joined the Body-Eating Snake nor had any contact with the Chasseurs. Even every time Kenparela came to Ling to do something, he carefully avoided it according to Ling's wishes.
Tio. Tio actually doesn’t know much about the relationship between Ling and Levi, Ken Parella and the Jesta Chasseurs.
Ling thought for a moment about what she could say that would not cause her unnecessary worry, and decided to use Ayo's letter as an introduction to answer her question.
"The day before yesterday, I received a letter from Joshua and Estelle. They also met people suspected of being remnants of the Jesta Hunter Regiment in the empire. But unfortunately, because of an ancient relic,
All the chasseurs involved in the incident died on the spot, leaving no survivors."
"Who are Joshua and Estelle?" Ellie asked curiously after hearing the unknown name.
"Joshua is... Mr. Reinhardt's younger brother, right?" Because he has been to Rozenbelk's workshop several times, Tio is somewhat impressed by Xiao Yue's existence. Although he is not very familiar with it, he can still recall it.
His face.
"B-level regular guerrilla Joshua and B-level regular guerrilla Estil, who belong to the Regram branch of the Erebonia Empire, were still serving in the Crossbell branch until the second half of last year. Because Ellie, have you returned to the country?
How long, so I don’t know. Mr. Orlando over there seems to have heard their names.”
"Randy?" Lloyd looked at his red-haired companion after listening to Ling's words.
"No, it's more surprising that people living in Kezhou don't know about it. But considering that Lloyd, like the eldest lady, you just came back not long ago, it's not surprising. They were the guerrilla partners who were very active in Crossbell last year. Average
It is able to complete more than twenty commissions every week and is deeply trusted among the citizens. It only took just one year to upgrade from C-level to B-level. This is also the chief culprit that our police station has been compared with by the citizens.
One of the culprits."
"Sounds like a formidable enemy."
Ling clapped her hands to draw everyone's attention to herself.
"You will have plenty of time to talk about Joshua in the future. The police department also has a lot of information about their files for this year. Let us continue to exchange information now. Let's get back to the subject, what did those guys do?"
"Baya was stolen. Regarding this matter, isn't Ling here for this?"
"That's right. Even you policemen who usually only perform tasks in the city rushed here in a hurry. It seems that the matter is very big, but according to my speculation, this is a scam? Maybe this is the real truth of the person involved.
The purpose is uncertain."
"Huh?" Lloyd and Ellie said in surprise at the same time, while Randolph turned around and searched the camp.
"There is no Baya in this abandoned camp. If you don't believe it, Tio, you can also check the air composition."
After listening to Ling's words, Tio nodded, took out the force guide and started calculating. Soon the analysis results came out. Just as Ling said, the theft of Baya seemed to be a scam.
"As expected. It seems that we have to go to the Selander factory to search again. Damn it, I hope the witness hasn't escaped yet." Lloyd summarized the information and immediately thought of meeting a panicked person during the previous investigation.
"It seems like you have an idea? Then I won't disturb your work."
Ling doesn't care about the inside story at all. It's just an ordinary criminal case. It shouldn't be a big problem for the Special Agent Support Section, which has sufficient combat capabilities.
When Ling explained to Tio that she did not plan to go with a few people, she looked at her with doubts.
"Aren't you going to take action over there?"
"I have no reason to act at the moment... But even if you put this matter aside, your combination is indeed quite interesting."
The same four-person group as in the plot. Apparently there was a person named Ronald Griffin on the initial roster that I saw before, but he did not join. Ellie, who was not on the list, joined instead. It can only be said that it is really
What a coincidence. However... the Sleeping Beauty, who is the most critical to the support class in the plot, is still with Ling, so it cannot be said that the real development will end as the plot. She is looking forward to one day waiting for Xiao
After Chia wakes up, how much can her specificity help him? In terms of improving the completion of the titanization plan, it may be more than Altina who was sent to monitor Koroval by her.
Is it easy to use?
"Did you think of something good? It's rare to see you smiling so happily." Tio tilted her head and asked in confusion.
"No." Ling looked away.
"Really?" Tio didn't ask further.
"I'd like to send you an extra piece of news. As far as the current situation is concerned, the Imperial Military Intelligence Bureau has no reason to act. Since it is an issue whose nature is not clear, if you can show your skills to solve it before it expands, you can also tell Cross
Will the citizens of Bell prove the usefulness of the police?”
"...Ah, let's do it like this." Lloyd nodded and replied, "Just like that, I'll do it for you to see."
Hey, the sense of confrontation has arisen inexplicably? Ling felt that she didn't say anything strange.
Maybe it wasn't against himself, but he was competing against something else. Maybe he was thinking of his deceased elder brother.