When Lawrence followed Mr. Lambert to the living room of the main building of the Earl's Mansion, he found two inquisitors wearing pure black robes with war hammers hanging on their waists already sitting there. After greeting each other and introducing themselves, Lawrence
The servants who were left behind made tea for everyone in place of the servants who had been kicked out.
After picking up the tea cup and taking a sip, the two judges looked at each other. Then the older judge looked at Mr. Lambert and said, "How much do you know about your two nephews?"
"I know almost nothing except your name and age." After listening to the inquisitor's question, Mr. Lambert shrugged helplessly. "As a clergyman, I have a certain understanding of you. At the same time, I also believe
You must have completely sided with me before coming here. So you should know that I have had very little contact with my family since I left this home, so naturally you don’t understand what is going on with my nephew."
"Even what I know about my nephew's appearance is from the sketch I received in my brother's letter every year before the Winter Solstice. Until now, I have never seen what they look like in real life." After finishing Mr. Lambert's words.
He pulled up his priest's robe to reveal the holy symbol on his chest.
"So that's it." The two judges immediately became a lot more friendly after seeing the Holy Emblem on Mr. Lambert's chest. "Of course we know this, and at the same time we believe what you said and what we just asked you.
The questions are just routine inquiries, please don’t take this to heart.”
"Of course not, I know what your business process is." Mr. Lambert nodded slightly and said, "But since you asked me this question, can you tell me now what my two
Where are the nephews who have been missing for several days? I believe that since you can ask me this question, it means that you must have found my nephews, at least you have accurate information about the whereabouts of my two nephews."
After listening to Mr. Lambert's question, the expressions on the faces of the two judges returned to their previous seriousness. Then after they exchanged glances, the younger judge said in a very serious tone.
"We did find your two nephews from a valley near the hunting ground early this morning, but they have all passed away."
"Didn't you try to resurrect?" Mr. Lambert asked. Although the resurrection service is out of reach for ordinary people, it is not a service that cannot be enjoyed by hereditary nobles like them who have sufficient background.
Especially after calculating the time, he found that theoretically, his two nephews were still in the time of resurrection even if they were dead from the beginning and were found. That's why he asked the two judges such a question.
.However, after hearing this question, the judge's expression suddenly became much darker.
"We failed to try to resurrect your two nephews. That's because--" At this point, the inquisitor took a deep breath and said. "That's because your two nephews' heads were not found when they were discovered, so
us--"
"I understand." Mr. Lambert's hand holding the teacup shook and a few drops of clear tea splashed out. Then he took a deep breath to calm down, placed the teacup on the saucer on the table, and lowered his head.
Speaking of the head, an important prerequisite for resurrection is that the corpse remains intact. Obviously, a corpse without a head cannot be resurrected.
"Please have my condolences." The two judges also lowered their heads at the same time to express condolences to the family of the deceased. The entire living room was so quiet that you could hear a pindrop. Until Lawrence next to you interrupted the awkward silence.
"Can I ask how my two cousins died?" Lawrence asked the two inquisitors. "Or were their bodies found in the same place?"
After hearing Lawrence's question, Mr. Lambert also raised his head and stared at the two judges opposite him. It was obvious that he also hoped to get more information from the mouths of these two judges.
"Yes, your two cousins were found in the same place. We even used our internal mage to use some magic props to cast prophecy spells, but we couldn't find them. Finally, the ranger was on patrol during the patrol.
I noticed that the dog I brought had a strange reaction, so I chased it and found it by accident." The obviously younger judge said.
"And the corpses of your two cousins were not the only ones we found in that pit. We found five to six hundred headless corpses in that covered cave. Some were very fresh, but some were completely gone.
The bones of the dead have turned into white bones. According to our inspection, the death dates of the deceased range from a few days ago to twenty or thirty years ago."
"Why does this sound so similar to some cult priests?" Lawrence frowned. Such unreasonable deaths often involve a series of follow-up questions related to the lower planes.
"Yes, we did detect traces of sacrifices related to a powerful being in the lower plane at the scene. It is obvious that all the dead present have become sacrifices to a powerful being in the lower plane." Nian.
The longer inquisitor said, "This also puts our investigation into trouble."
Because in such a sacrifice, the soul of the deceased will be directly dedicated to the powerful beings in the lower planes. In this way, it is naturally impossible for the necromantic magic and spiritual summoning magic to summon the soul of the deceased. And the other
On the other hand, the power of the lower plane itself also prevents those prophetic magics from producing effects.
"This is indeed very troublesome." Lawrence shook his head. Because of the world itself, when investigating cases, we will also rely on those extraordinary powers to a certain extent. And if we remove the help of extraordinary powers, we can only rely on those who are similar to Lawrence
It was difficult to find enough clues with the investigative methods used in the mid-19th century in my previous life.
"However, based on the inspection of the corpse dumping site, we believe that your two cousins were not killed as sacrifices by cultists as shown on the surface." After giving a lot of depressing information,
The older inquisitor told Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Lambert some of the results of their previous investigations.
"Didn't you accidentally encounter a cultist during hunting and then be killed by a cultist?" Mr. Lambert asked with some confusion, because all the evidence now seems to point to this possibility. Even from a rational perspective
From a perspective, the timing of their deaths was too coincidental, to the point where it felt like it was specially arranged.
"Of course it's not that simple." The elderly judge said very seriously, "Many excessive coincidences are not real coincidences, but the result of some kind of deliberate arrangement. Under the guidance of this line of thinking, we checked
In that cave where a large number of corpses were piled up, it turned out that your two cousins were killed by sacrifices elsewhere and their bodies were dumped here."
"We tracked down the evil altar where your cousins were killed, and completely eliminated the members of that group of cult members. However, we unexpectedly discovered that all the cult members who killed your cousins before were mysterious
Missing."
"Missing?" Mr. Lambert frowned, because such a situation can't help but remind people of the word murder. Especially after asking the inquisitor, he learned that it was just a demigod-level Ba who was worshiped in the bottomless abyss.
Theoretically speaking, Luo Mo's weak cult would not seek out people like Lawrence's cousins who would seem to attract a lot of trouble as sacrifices.
"Yes, we think it was the mastermind behind the scenes who cleared them out." The elderly inquisitor said, "So I'm sorry that we can't find the whereabouts of the real murderers for the time being."