Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery.

Chapter 102: Backlund Has More Than One Lelouch
Audrey and her friends stood there in shock for two or three seconds, unable to come to their senses. Then, Lelouch disappeared right before their eyes!
"It's incredible!" said one of the noble sons.

Another nobleman said, "He must be an extraordinary person!"

At this time, the soldiers chasing Lelouch finally caught up. They asked cautiously, "Everyone, are you okay? Did Lelouch hurt you?"

"No." Joels, the eldest son of Earl Donat, said, "Go and help the others."

After the guards left, several noble children began to discuss again, and Audrey was almost impatient to read tomorrow's newspaper.

At this moment, a loud thunderclap suddenly broke out in the sky. In Backlund's November, the snowy season, a torrential downpour came without warning, soaking everyone in the fighting arena, but also extinguishing the fire.

But the fighting arena was in ruins. One of the stadiums had collapsed, and the trees and flowers were almost burned.

……

When the Mandated Punishers arrived at the scene, the Nighthawks had already conducted a preliminary investigation and cordoned off the scene.

The Church of the Storm held a conclave tonight, so the Archbishop of the Backlund Diocese, "Singer of God" Ace Snake, did not arrive at the scene. The person in charge of this case was Conant, a senior deacon of the Church of the Storm.

Conant asked Carl, the captain of the Nighthawks, curiously, "Why are you here?"

This is the jurisdiction of the Mandated Punishers, and the deceased also believes in the Lord of Storms. Theoretically, other official Beyonder organizations have no right to interfere in the investigation of this case.

Carl briefly described their investigation into Lelouch's case, as well as the long-standing practice between the fighting arena and the official Beyonder organization regarding criminal contestants, with the support of some nobles.

Conant knew all these things, so he began to inquire about the case.

Suddenly, all the extraordinary people looked above the fighting arena, where a very elegant aristocratic woman in an evening gown appeared.

All the extraordinary people present greeted her. She was the royal demigod, Georgina Augustus.

Georgina slowly raised her hand as a response, and then her eyes slowly swept into the distance.

But after looking around, she found nothing.

The next second, Georgina appeared not far from Conant and Karl. She said leisurely, "I don't mean to interfere in this case. I just came to ask what happened here."

So Carl told the demigod about the case again. At this time, the "Manufactured Punisher" had already asked Bishop's bodyguard for some key clues and learned that the shield used by the murderer Lelouch had once "shed its shell".

The location of the murderer can be divined by the fallen shell, but no shield shell was found at the scene.

Members of the "Manufactured Punishers" team came over to ask Carl if the "Nighthawks" had collected the shells first?

"I can't find it." Carl said.

"Can't find it?" Conant was a little surprised: "How could you not find it?"

Karl said: "I don't know, maybe someone took him away. We were limited in manpower at the time and couldn't seal off the scene immediately."

Conant frowned: "The murderer has accomplices at the scene?"

Carl fell silent and did not participate in the discussion of this issue.

Conant thanked Carl for his description of the case and officially took over the case.

After Carl and other members of the Nighthawks team left, Georgina suddenly said, "He lied when we talked about that key piece of evidence just now."

Although the captain of the "Nighthawks" team is well hidden, Georgina is a demigod of the "Arbitrator" path, and her spirituality is very sensitive to other people's lies.

Conant was slightly stunned: "Does he know who took the shield's shell?"

Georgina shook her head. She needed to use extraordinary abilities to interrogate Karl about the specific aspect in which he lied.

But even though she was a demigod and the Duke of this country, she could not interrogate the church's Beyonders at will.

More than half an hour later, the Mandated Punisher finally found the shield's shell in the woods outside.

However, the murderer had already escaped for over an hour and might have left Backlund and made some counter-divination arrangements. The shield's shell was no longer of much use.

Later, Donat speculated that the shield shell was most likely obtained at Carl's instruction, or even that Carl himself had hidden it in the woods, but because the scene was very chaotic, no evidence could be provided for this speculation.

By the time he thought of this, it was already beyond the time of some ritual magic, and he could not accuse Carl through mystical means.

But Donat really couldn't understand why Carl, who never showed mercy to extraordinary criminals, would help hide such crucial physical evidence?
……

After using the "teleportation array" in his coat to leave the fighting arena, Odysseus appeared in an alley on a street more than ten kilometers away.

It was just past nine in the evening, and there were still many pedestrians on the street, but they were all attracted by the explosion and fire at the fighting arena, and no one noticed that there was an extra person in the alley.

But Odysseus was still very cautious. He hid in the dark corner of the alley and quickly hid his backpack, waist bag, weapons, shoes, knight clothes, etc. in the "Wilderness of Knowledge" using the "Space Array".

At the same time, he took out the clothes, shoes, coat and top hat that had been prepared long ago from the "wilderness of knowledge". After completing the disguise, he simply climbed over the house on one side of the alley and appeared in another alley.

Then he walked calmly out of the alley and hailed a horse-drawn carriage.

As soon as he got on the carriage, Odysseus felt as if someone was looking at him from behind. Many pedestrians on the street had a similar feeling. They all stopped and looked towards the fighting arena.

That was the scrutiny of a demigod, something not only Beyonders could sense, but even ordinary people with a stronger spirituality could feel it. However, as the scrutiny quickly faded, ordinary people would simply think it was an illusion.

Odysseus didn't take it too seriously, because he had already completed his disguise and could face such scrutiny calmly. If he felt guilty at this time, he would be noticed by the demigod.

After the carriage had gone seven or eight blocks, Odysseus got off, walked for a while, and then took a rented carriage back to No. 77 Hailin Avenue.

When he got home, he made himself some noodles as a midnight snack.

While eating noodles, Odysseus was thinking again, wondering if the newspaper could withstand the pressure. After all, this was a scandal involving a nobleman, and ordinary newspapers would not dare to report it.

……

In the editor-in-chief's office of the Daily Observer, Editor-in-Chief Regino finished his work and was about to turn off the lights and leave work.

At this time, Mike Joseph, a reporter with blue eyes and a handsome mustache, knocked on the door with a thick document bag in his hand. "Editor-in-Chief, I found this in the mailbox when I went downstairs just now."

He handed the document bag to the editor-in-chief and said, "I've seen it. It contains evidence of Viscount Wade's second son, Bishop, hiring a killer to murder a girl and assassinating striking workers."

The more Regino listened, the more frightened he became. He put on his glasses and took a quick look.

Then the editor-in-chief fell into deep thought. Mike did not urge him, but stood there waiting quietly.

After more than ten seconds, Regino took a deep breath and said, “I will have a car accident soon, and then go to the hospital without knowing about this.

"And you didn't know that Bishop was the Viscount's son. According to the newspaper's work procedures, this information was adapted into a report, and tomorrow's front page headline was removed and replaced with this report.

"By the time we discovered all this, it was already too late. You found out that Bishop was actually a noble, and you regretted it deeply."

Mike nodded: "This is the best way to deal with it."

Based on past experience, if Viscount Wade learns that someone has placed these materials in the newspaper's mailbox tonight, he will likely send someone to come to his door. Whether at home or at the newspaper, Regino will have to face the pressure of an aristocrat. Under the other party's coercion and inducement, this report may very well be shelved.

So in order to deal with such situations, newspapers have their own set of procedures: the editor-in-chief has to find a place to hide, and the entire operation is completed by reporters.

In this way, the other party will temporarily be unable to find the person in charge of the newspaper, and they can also pretend to dismiss the reporter afterwards to give an explanation to the nobles.

Mike then added: "Please be mentally prepared."

After seeing these reports, Viscount Wade will definitely take action against the newspaper.

"There's no need to worry too much." Regino smiled and said, "These old nobles are very respectful. To show their generosity and kindness, they won't do anything to us.

"Well, of course, that's not necessarily the case if they have the opportunity to completely shut down the newspaper."

Then he looked at Mike deeply and said, "You have to be mentally prepared too."

Mike smiled easily and said, "The era of the old aristocracy has passed, and Viscount Wade's 'theory of aristocratic bloodline' is long outdated.

"People need to see the truth, which will help awaken the public's hearts and unleash the power of public opinion."

He glanced at the name written on the outside of the file bag and said, "There's more than one Lelouch in Backlund."

……

No. 77 Hailin Avenue.

After Odysseus finished his noodles, he went back to his bedroom and read for a while.

In fact, he had no intention of reading the book, and didn't even read a single word.

However, the long-term experience of being monitored had made Odysseus develop the habit of thinking about problems under the cover of reading.

He was mainly wondering if there were any flaws in his actions or if he had left any clues.
The only thing that couldn't be recovered in time was the shield's outer shell.

However, he is protected by the "Wilderness of Knowledge" and cannot be found using abilities such as divination.

After reviewing it and seeing that there was indeed nothing missing, Odysseus lay down on the bed to rest, and like any other weekend, he entered the wilderness composed of illusory light and shadow.

He was familiar with the route and came to the depths of the wilderness, to a tall tower composed of balls of light.

Odysseus doesn't plan to do any research this week. He plans to finish writing the "Outline of Fighting" in this space.

But before that, Odysseus took a look at the three weapons captured in today's battle.

Alva has been the leader of the 3N Party for more than three years and has a lot of good things in his hands, which were all seized by Odysseus today.

That silver-white sword was a magical item corresponding to Sequence 7, but Odysseus's spirit could not sense which path it corresponded to.

At this moment, he suddenly looked at the ball of light in the center of the room and had a bold idea.

So he held the silver-white sword in one hand and pressed the other hand on the ball of light. Just as he guessed, with the power of the ball of light and the status of the "Wildness of Knowledge", the ability and negative effects of the silver-white sword were clear at a glance.

(End of this chapter)