Who hid my body?

The most direct reason for this was the new deal Bai Wei had made with him.

The battle tonight made Gerard realize that if he wanted to continue on this path, he would definitely not be able to do it in shackles.

So, either unlock your own shackles, or... continue to use Bai Wei's power.

And Gerard chose the former.

Since they were all violations, Gerard decided to trust himself. He always had the greatest fear of Bai Wei.

However, Bai Wei was not worried about such changes. After all, this morning, Gerard was still determined to never have a second deal with Bai Wei, but by the evening, things had changed drastically.

People’s bottom line is always being lowered, and there’s still a lot of time, isn’t there?

At this time, a noisy sound came from afar, accompanied by one light after another shining from the track of the gear car.

The Skeleton Army, which realized the situation later, finally caught up here.

Today is over.

Bai Wei was just about to take a break when he suddenly caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye.

Under the bridge connecting to the fifth district, something seemed to be wriggling.

Bai Wei immediately turned his gaze over, and then said "Oh" in slight surprise.

Gerald heard it: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Bai Wei did not say anything to Geralmin, but smiled faintly and said, "I'm just curious about how you are going to explain what happened tonight to your colleagues."

"There's nothing to explain. The evidence is already here."

Gerard looked towards the track, and soon several lights shone on him.

"Hey guys! This is the Skeleton Force! I order you to put down your weapons and shut down your metal drive!"

Gerard slowly raised his hand, and soon, Kud and Chalmers appeared in front of him.

"There's important evidence behind me," Gerard said calmly.

"Behind you?" Chalmers frowned tightly, "What nonsense are you talking about? There is nothing behind you!"

Gerard was stunned for a moment, then turned his head suddenly.

Behind him, there was nothing but a pool of blood. This made him subconsciously raise his head and look at the water under the bridge.

Under the dark water, a tentacle rolled, slowly dragging Okot's corpse, whose eyes were still open, into the endless abyss.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 85 The Tongue of Sixteen Visas

"You mean, you didn't kill the mechanic, but a man named Okot, who is also the assistant for District 4."

"Yes."

"So you chased him all the way to the gear car, and used your former authority as 'Evening Star' to stop the gear car in front of District 5, just to arrest him."

"Correct."

"Then, the other party resisted arrest, and you engaged in a fierce battle with him..." The Skeleton Knight who was in charge of interrogating Gerard leaned forward little by little, "Then, you discovered that this assistant had undergone illegal transformations. He installed six more in his body..."

"No," Gerard corrected the knight, "It's eight."

"Yes, yes, eight." The Skeleton Knight nodded repeatedly. "Eight mechanical arms, and the things he used to control these mechanical arms were... pollutants. He also implanted pollutants in his body? In the end, he was attacked by the pollutants and turned into a monster. So when you were fighting with him, you destroyed three gear train carriages in a row?"

"It wasn't me who destroyed it, it was him." Gerard explained patiently, "I was just trying to avoid his attack, so it can't be blamed on me."

…Is this the point?

The Skeleton Knight sat up straight again: "So where's the evidence?"

"His body is the proof."

"What about his body?"

Jellal raised his head and looked at the Skeleton Knight in front of him: "I have already explained this before. Before you came, his body was dragged away by some creature under the 'Chain Bridge'. My initial judgment is... contaminants."

“Why didn’t you stop it?”

"Because I had to face you, I turned my back to the body, which gave it a chance to sneak past. By the time I noticed it, the body had already been dragged into the water." Gerald said, "In fact, if you had run faster, you would have seen the last scene before the body was dragged into the water. At that time, Ocot's eyes were still open. Yes, if you had run faster, you would have seen him for the last time."

...God damn, run faster so we can see each other for the last time.

The Skeleton Knight felt like a mouthful of saliva was stuck in his chest and he couldn't spit it out. He stared at Jellal and spoke after a while: "Don't you think something is wrong?"

"I don't think there's anything wrong." Gerald said calmly, "If you think there's something wrong with what I said, you can just point it out instead of asking me."

These words choked the interrogating Skeleton Knight, who subconsciously looked outside the room.

Standing outside the room were Coode and Chalmers.

After listening to Gerard's interrogation in its entirety, Chalmers couldn't help scratching his head: "Why does it feel weird?"

"what?"

"I mean Gerard," Chalmers said, "I always feel that he is different from before. We just came back from Somme in the Rhine together, and we haven't seen each other for only one day, but he seems to have become a different person... Don't you have this feeling?"

Kud did not directly answer Chalmers' question, but quietly stared at Gerald in the inner room. After a while, he slowly said, "How credible do you think his words are?"

"The credibility of your statement..." Chalmers' eyes widened. "Are you serious? I find it ridiculous that you even ask this question."

"This is our responsibility," Kud said. "This is his argument. Even if it is irrational, you should point it out instead of assuming it. From the current perspective, his argument is at least logically consistent."

"...It is logically self-consistent, Captain. I really don't know if you are kidding me." Chalmers said, "According to him, the 'lock' on the affairs assistant named Ocot has been unlocked, and both the 'body lock' and the 'heart lock' have been unlocked. It's even more than that. He has even undergone illegal transformation and stuffed pollutants into his body. This is not a question of crossing the red line. This is simply... impossible. Even if he is really crazy, who helped him do all this? This is not something he can do by hiding at home and making some changes himself. So who is supporting him? He is the affairs assistant of District 4. Could it be that the person who helped him is the Bishop of District 4?"

Chalmers spoke a lot in rapid succession. He thought Cooder would interrupt him, but Cooder didn't. He even nodded slightly after listening to him and said, "Continue."

continue……

Chalmers was speechless, but he continued, "Then there's the pollutant that took away the evidence. Captain, the area under the 'Chain Bridge' is the inner river of Tianqin. What kind of pollutant could get here? Is the entire Fifth District and the entire Devil Army just a decoration? And according to his description, the pollutant was heading for the corpse. Why is that? Does anyone have the means to control the pollutants now? There are too many loopholes."

"So you think he staged all this?"

"Is there any other possibility?"

Kud looked at Gerald in the room and said softly, "But even you think this is a ridiculously lame excuse, so why would he use it?"

Chamos choked for a moment, and then looked at Kud with resentful eyes: "I always feel that you are scolding me, and I have evidence."

Kud ignored Chalmers. He was still looking at Gerald, thinking about something.

Chalmers stopped playing tricks and frowned as he asked, "Do you really think what he said is true?"

"I don't know, but in my impression, he has never lied, at least not like today."

"I am indeed surprised that he could make up such a story." Chalmers said, "But even if it is unexpected, a story is still a story... Maybe he has been crazy for a long time, ten years ago, otherwise he would not have caused the Vesperia incident. All of this is just the murmur of a madman. And if you think he is not a madman, and even that what he said is true, then he is crazy..."

"It's Lyra." Kud said softly.

"No." Chalmers rolled his eyes. "You're the one who's gone crazy."

Kud: “…”

Chalmers patted Kud on the shoulder and said seriously, "Be careful, Captain. When you start to wonder if a madman is telling the truth, it is very likely that you will start to go crazy. I have an uncle like this. He was fine before, but suddenly one day he felt that the world was not normal. Then he shouted that the world was crazy and pulled out all his prosthetic limbs. God knows why he had so much strength."

"But if he is crazy, how do you explain the three destroyed carriages?" Coode said, "Did he destroy them himself?"

"That's why I said..." Chalmers spread his hands, "God knows why a madman has so much strength."

Coode didn't respond, but he knew Chalmers was right.

Everything Gerard said was too shocking. Either he had gotten even crazier, or... Tianqin, or this world, had gone crazy.

And it is impossible for any normal person to consider the possibility of the latter.

At this moment, Gerard in the inner room suddenly stood up, startling everyone.

"What are you doing?" The knight immediately became nervous.

"It's time." Gerard pointed to the wall clock and said calmly, "I think I can leave now. I still have a lot of things to do today."

"Leave?" The knight was shocked. "You still want to leave tonight? What do you think we are doing now? Are we playing house? You are not allowed to leave!"

"Why am I not allowed to leave?" Gerard looked at the knight in front of him, "Have I broken any law?"

"you……"

"I am a member of the Skeleton Corps, right?" Gerard asked. "Does the Skeleton Corps have the power to enforce the law in Tianqin? Then, as someone who has the power to enforce the law, is there any problem if I see a murder case and then go and hunt it down?"

Gerard threw a series of questions at the knight, which immediately left the knight speechless.

He had forgotten who Gerard was.

Now Gerard is also a member of Tianqin's city defense force, that is, the "Skeleton", and the "Skeleton" does have the power of law enforcement.

If Gerard didn't have this identity, then what he did today would definitely make the Skeleton Army detain him until the day when the truth came out. But he happened to have this identity of a law enforcer, so everything was different. What he did was absolutely in line with the rules, even if there were some overstepping behaviors in the process, it was definitely not to the extent of breaking the law.

So, one can say that Gerard adhered to the rules, or one can say that he took advantage of a loophole, but no matter which one it is, there is no problem with the procedure.

Because Gerard had no way to prove that what he said was true, and the "skeletons" had no way to prove that what he said was false.

They had no way of detaining the law enforcer until the truth came out.

"It seems that there is nothing wrong with what I said." Gerald walked towards the door. "If you really find out something, let me know. I will cooperate."

Perhaps irritated by Gerard's "arrogant" attitude, the knight wanted to say something anxiously, but was stopped by Kud who was outside the room.

Gerard walked in front of Kude and Chalmers. Chalmers was not as patient as the knight in the inner room. He looked at Gerard and said coldly: "Gerard, you can't always escape by relying on loopholes in the program. People will eventually pay the price for what they have done."

Gerard was silent for a while, then said softly, "Yes, people will eventually have to pay the price for what they did."

After that, he no longer paid attention to Chalmers and walked away.

All the members of the Skeleton Team in the office would frown tightly when they saw him, and then quickly avoid him, for fear of having anything to do with him.

Only Kud looked at his back quietly.

Kude also felt that Jellal had indeed become different from before. Although everyone said that he had survived to this day by relying on loopholes in the program, in the year that Kude had been in contact with him, Kude had never found that Jellal had ever taken advantage of loopholes. On the contrary, Jellal was the most rule-abiding person in the team, even to the point of not caring about his life, otherwise they would not have used this characteristic of his to kill him.

But today, things are indeed different.

Kud could feel it very clearly.

If it was said that Gerard was bound by something for ten years, now he seemed to have broken free from the bondage and started running wildly towards a goal, determined not to stop until he reached it.

But what is the end of that goal?

Madness, or destruction?

Cooder didn't know either.

Just at this moment, Gerard suddenly stopped. He stood in front of a room, stared into the room for a long time, and finally walked away.

Seeing this scene, Kud frowned slightly and walked straight forward to the room.

In the room was a crying mother and son who looked familiar to Kud, and a knight was comforting them.

"Who are they?" asked Coode.

Chalmers, who caught up, replied, "The wife and children of the murdered mechanic."

Kud was silent. Not long after, the knight who had interrogated Jellal earlier came over with a stack of documents in his hand: "Captain, these are Jellal's confessions. In addition, he also made a request."

"any request?"

"He wants an immediate investigation into Carol's death," the knight replied. "He says it's not just Ocott who did it, but someone behind him as well."

Hearing this, Chalmers rolled his eyes: "What a psycho, he's still putting on a show here. Isn't he the murderer? Don't bother with him..."

"No." Kuder interrupted Chalmers, "Open an investigation."

Chamos was stunned: "Open an investigation? Who will investigate?"

"I."

……

Gerard walked out of the Skeleton Corps' office.

It was completely dark by now, indicating that he had been out all day.

It was just one day, but he felt like he had experienced countless things.

After shaking off the image of Carol asking him to leave Tianqin and Carol's wife and children hugging and crying in his mind, Jellal slowly spoke to the existence in his mind: "You saw it before, right?"

Bai Wei didn't say anything.