Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery.

Chapter 114: Lelouch is offered a reward of 3600 pounds

Viscount Wade's bodyguard, Beavis, is not good at investigating extraordinary cases. After the clues are broken, he can only go back and report to the Viscount.

Viscount Wade, who was already somewhat exhausted at this time, sent someone to notify the "Manufactured Punishers" team, asking them to find the murderer.

Conant, the senior deacon of the "Manufactured Punishers" team, was so angry that he almost cursed when he learned that Viscount Wade asked the "Manufactured Punishers" to investigate who gave him the laxative.

He kicked a table in the bar away, feeling a little relieved.

At this time, Conant was in the Passion Bar, leading a team to investigate the "Lelouch" case.

However, to be on the safe side, Conant asked his subordinates to perform divination, and the result was: it was not Lelouch or his accomplices who gave Viscount Vader the laxative.

Mr. Gar's subordinates are certainly not Lelouch's accomplices.

Conant thought that the Viscount had offended someone at some point and the other party took the opportunity to retaliate, so he didn't take it too seriously and just asked the police to conduct a thorough investigation.

He is currently in charge of Lelouch's case, and this case puts him under a lot of pressure. The chief of the police station even came to him personally last night and told him to capture Lelouch alive during the arrest process.

Because City Hall and the Backlund Police Department are now facing tremendous pressure, if Lelouch dies at this time, regardless of whether he was the one who arrested him and died, the situation will become more difficult to control, and it may even lead to political events such as marches and demonstrations.

What the police chief didn't know was that when Conant found the Passion Bar, the clues were basically cut off.

Lelouch's agent Simon is missing, and several surrounding gangs have received the news of Simon's death, so they started fighting for the Passion Bar yesterday.

Several of Simon's capable subordinates also died in the gang fight, and the remaining bartenders and others did not provide any valuable clues, and they didn't even know how Simon and Lelouch knew each other.

Now there are only three clues left. One clue is how did the surrounding gangs know that Simon was dead?

In order to avoid police investigation, Simon had not appeared for a few days, and the surrounding gangs were already ready to make a move, but the night before yesterday, they clearly received the news that Simon was dead.

As for the person who spread the news, some gang leaders said it was a mysterious man with part of his face covered by a hat, while others said it was a man with a full beard. In short, the man's face could not be seen clearly.

This clue was not without results. Last night, when we were investigating the surrounding gangs, we actually caught a fugitive.

During the arrest, the Beyonders of the Mandated Punisher used their Beyonder abilities, which is why a thunderclap unusually sounded in the sky above Backlund last night.

However, this harvest is of no help in finding Lelouch!

Another clue is the address where Lelouch committed his last crime, 176 Riverbend Avenue.

They contacted the landlord of the house, but were disappointed again. The landlord actually signed a rental contract with the other party through letters.

The rent is slightly higher than the market price, but the condition is that the landlord cannot check the house during the lease and promises to pay a deposit of 100 pounds. If the house is damaged, the loss can be deducted from the deposit.

The landlord was very tempted by such a large deposit and agreed to these conditions.

Over the past two years, the landlord had also looked at the house that Lelouch rented from outside the door and found that no one seemed to live there. However, because the rent had always been paid on time and there was a deposit of 100 pounds, equivalent to three years' rent, in hand, the landlord did not make any further inquiries as agreed.

Now, the house has caught fire, and I'm not sure if the £100 deposit is enough to cover the renovations. On top of that, someone has died, so it's going to be hard to rent it out anytime soon.

The members of the "Manufactured Punishers" team, of course, did not care about the landlord's troubles. After taking a few letters, they planned to use them to conduct an investigation.

But they soon discovered that both the envelopes and the letter paper of these letters could be bought in ordinary stationery stores.

The mailing locations of the letters were spread all over the post offices in Backlund, so there was no clue at all.

The third clue was Simon's family. After making inquiries from many sources, we learned that Simon's wife and daughter were staying with a relative of Simon.

However, when the "Substituted Punisher" went to look for them, he found that the mother and daughter had been taken away on the day when the Lelouch case occurred.

The three people who came to pick up the mother and daughter also covered their faces in different ways. The relative knew that Simon was running a shady gray business, so after the three people showed Simon's ancestral pocket watch, he did not ask to see their faces.

The only valuable clue the Mandated Punisher obtained from this place was a picture of a taxi carriage. However, all the taxi carriages in Backlund were similar. An investigation based on the license plate number confirmed that it was a taxi carriage with a forged license plate.

When Viscount Wade sent someone for help, Conant was struggling for clues to the case and had no energy to investigate who had given the Viscount the laxative!

Judging from the rental records, it was hard for him to imagine that someone had been secretly planning to destroy Backlund's fighting arena for over two years!
Is it really for the sake of something illusory like justice that you support Lelouch in completing such a long conspiracy?
Thinking of this, Conant felt that he could start from the victim's family and perhaps find some clues.

In addition, Lelouch's anti-detection ability is too strong! He actually cut off all the clues.

Finally, Conant, with no hope left, asked the bartender and others at the Passion Bar, "Has anything special happened at the Passion Bar recently?"

Several people squatting on the ground under the supervision of the "Manufactured Punishers" team enthusiastically provided clues, but nothing they said was worth paying attention to.

Until one of Simon's subordinates said, "A few weeks ago, a man won three fights in a row in the fighting arena."

At first, Conant thought it was just another useless clue when he heard it was from a few weeks ago, but then he thought: Three wins in a row? Lelouch is always winning too. So he asked again, "What's that person's name?"

"do not know."

"Where did Simon find that?"

"do not know."

"Has Simon kept in touch with him after the game?"

"do not know."

"I..." Conant raised his hand and slowly lowered it.

Finally, the Mandated Punisher used extraordinary means to obtain a portrait of a young man. Conant was stunned. Isn't this Odysseus Garr?
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When Odysseus went to Simon's underground fighting arena, he had not yet considered destroying Backlund's extraordinary fighting arena.

So he inevitably left some traces, but with the protection of the "Wilderness of Knowledge", the official Beyonders' divination had no way of using those traces to find him.

Even if he was found, he could use his identity as an informant of the "Mechanical Heart" to prevent the "Manufactured Punisher" from arresting him. Without the Beyonder power to interrogate him, Odysseus was not afraid of the official Beyonders' inquiries.

Because he had fabricated an alibi in advance.

At this moment, what Odysseus was most concerned about was not this matter. He didn't know whether the "Mechanical Heart" would strengthen its surveillance on him again. The only thing he could do now was to continue doing what he had to do and not show any abnormality.

Odysseus was quite familiar with this lifestyle. After all, he had been closely monitored by the "Mechanical Heart" for more than a year.

There was to be a meeting of the Occult Research Society this morning, and Odysseus, as usual, took a hired carriage to 77 Hilton Avenue.

Here, he changed into the "leader's" clothes, used the "teleportation array" in the basement, and came to No. 199 Hairun Avenue.

After coming out of the basement, he sat in the "leader's" position and watched the members enter one by one.

At exactly nine o'clock in the morning, Odysseus said, "Let's get started."

Before trading intelligence, four members again bought potion formulas from Odysseus, which made him earn 920 pounds at the beginning of the party.

At the same time, as Odysseus expected, members such as "Peacock" and "Wolverine" also began to sell potion formulas, but at this time only two members had not purchased the potion formulas, and they were obviously more interested in the potion formulas from Odysseus.

Soon, some people began to ask to buy the main ingredients used in the potion formula. However, there were not many extraordinary transactions at this gathering before, and now so many people suddenly wanted to buy extraordinary materials. No one had these things, so only one transaction was concluded at once.

Only after the extraordinary transaction is over will everyone start trading intelligence or issuing tasks.

The Hound was the first to say, "A high reward for information leading to Lulu's whereabouts!"

Female member "Peacock" asked: "How high of a price are you talking about?"

"Someone has offered a reward of 200 pounds for information on Lelouch's whereabouts, and a high price of 2000 pounds for Lelouch's head." The "Hound" replied:

"In addition to that gentleman's reward, the police department will also pay a substantial bounty. If you can kill Lelouch, you can get a total reward of 3600!"

This bounty caused several members to discuss in low voices. The bounty was indeed very high, but they did not know what Sequence Rank Lelouch was, so they did not dare to respond.

Odysseus thought to himself: Oh, Viscount Wade only offered 2000 pounds after his son died? And the official Beyonder only offered a 1600-pound reward? Who is he looking down on?
"You haven't even figured out Lelouch's whereabouts, have you?" Peacock said with a grin, "The high bounty proves how difficult this mission is."

The Hound didn't answer Peacock's question, but continued, "Also, anyone who provides any clues about Lelouch will receive a reward of 30 to 100 pounds."

The entire living room was silent for two seconds. The final bounty offered by "Hound" almost meant that they currently had no clues about Lelouch!
Wolverine lamented, "A Beyonder set a fire in Backlund, where so many powerful people gathered, and the official Beyonders couldn't even find any clues about him!

"This... this is a great feat!"

It is worth learning for their "Aurora Society".

"Chief" Odysseus nodded and agreed deeply.

The other members had also seen news about Lelouch in the newspapers, but the newspapers mainly reported Bishop's crimes and did not describe Lelouch in much detail. However, everyone who had read the reports knew that Lelouch must be an extraordinary person!
In their imagination, this Lelouch had already been captured by the official Beyonders and imprisoned in a special prison.

Unexpectedly, the official Beyonders didn't have any clues about the other party?

The attendee "Giraffe" asked the question everyone wanted to know: "What is Lelouch's Sequence Number?"

Hound took a deep breath and said, "Sequence 8."

Many members gasped, especially those Sequence 8 members: They are all Sequence 8, so why is there such a big gap?
(End of this chapter)