Earl Ent died tragically at home. His death condition was almost the same as that of Prince Venos. He was wearing a lady's dress, a pair of blue high heels, and his face was painted with messy makeup.
At the crime scene, Yang Ming squatted in front of a footprint in the corner, slightly lost in thought.
Several veteran police officers were extracting physical evidence at the scene. One police officer brought a panoramic camera to convert all the details of the scene into data to generate a holographic virtual crime scene.
"Sir."
Yang Ming stood up and looked at the police officers on the side: "Speak."
The police officers spoke one after another:
"Same as the previous case, there is no satellite data, nearby surveillance data, or module memory data."
"Not only the data, but no relevant biological information can be detected on site, and the number of microorganisms is also at an extremely low level. It has obviously been processed."
"This footprint is the only thing left by the other party."
Yang Ming nodded, looked down at the footprints, and whispered: "They are military boots."
Yang Ming's watch vibrated slightly.
The great elder smiled and said: "Go back and send a few people to keep an eye on the white ghost. If he wants to enter the palace, we will go together to ask for an audience with His Majesty. Remember, we must arrive at the palace a few minutes before him."
"Just arrest them," the elder said with a smile, "Didn't you hear? I just asked them to go back and assist in the investigation."
…
He doesn't want to see the old emperor now.
Catherine closed the door, leaned her back against the cold metal door, and frowned slightly.
"I expected that the Elders Council would fight back today, but I didn't expect that the elders would dare to directly kill the young elders appointed by the emperor.
At this stage, the two sides are still in the preliminary stage of the confrontation. The Council of Elders should not directly attack the white ghost. This is the Emperor Star, and the imperial power is supreme.
【10】,
【9】,
【8】……
"Don't you dare?" an old man sneered, "The military department reports directly to His Majesty. No matter who wins in the end between the aristocracy and the imperial power, it has no impact on them. They want money and ships. Who can limit them?
them?"
The great elder sighed softly: "This white ghost is too young and energetic."
The Council of Elders' counterattack was tantamount to riding on someone's face. The old emperor must be furious now.
Yang Ming lowered his head and got in, set the path forward, and the hover car smoothly slid into the fast lane, turned a corner, and merged into the busy main road.
Catherine pursed her lips slightly, said softly, "Yeah", and asked in a low voice: "Everything we do now is beneficial to the people of the empire, right?"
at the same time.
"Great Elder, what should we do next?"
'C02: The White Ghost seems to be confronting the Elders. Will he be our enemy?'
Soon, there were more than thirty avatars in the chat room.
Spiritual power surged from the center of his eyebrows, and a crimson wave rushed outward against the traffic flow.
"All the information about the last crime scene is kept confidential. We have not announced the number, location, and angle of the stabbing of Prince Venos to the public, but the injury status of Earl Ent... This is too similar.
Yes, is it really a gang that commits crimes?"
"I'm just young."
"But, sir."
'N02: What a good death...'
"The super reformers have to postpone the thought imprinting thing again."
Emperors kill princes, they kill earls.
‘N02: Not really.’
…
The group of old people fell into silence again, seeming to be thinking about something.
Through her turtleneck sweater, Yang Ming gently stroked her back and looked out the window, slightly lost in thought.
He thought that this was a crushing game and that the imperial power could easily win. Unexpectedly, these usually cowardly elders suddenly started to become ruthless.
Yang Ming said: "If the Presbytery asks you about me, don't hide it from them. Except for the details of the prince's case, you can tell them everything else."
Catherine asked gently.
Tsk, this Elder's House is much harder to deal with than I thought.
Yang Ming deliberately kicked in the door last time and left some obvious clues, with the intention of knocking down the mountain and shaking the tiger.
‘D04: Stop joking! White Ghost, he can beat a group of us! Why would such a person break up with the Presbytery? Didn’t he just get a title from the Presbytery?’
More than a dozen anonymous chat messages popped up on Yang Ming's communicator.
"You mean, the Presbytery asked the super-modifiers to take action?"
"Don't ask why, just do as I say. The murderer is obviously not something you ordinary police officers can deal with."
"Earl Ent was killed. We are all heartbroken. We focus on finding the murderer first." The elder took a sip of tea. "Later, the elders issued an order and sent several elders to the police station to supervise the progress of the case. What do you think?
How about it?"
Buzz, buzz!
But he had to go to the emperor.
"Maybe he's breaking something."
[White Ghost, aren’t you the strongest imperial warrior? 】
A relatively young-looking police officer said in a low voice with some hesitation:
"Many of the people we arranged in the palace module have been eliminated. Now there are only a few informants who can contact His Majesty. It is impossible to observe His Majesty all day long."
The elders nodded in agreement and left the smoky lounge in a hurry.
'I06: This has nothing to do with us. We are only controlled by the Presbyterian Council and are not their killing machines.'
"But……"
"There is no clear law prohibiting these. On the contrary, according to the Supplementary Regulation No. V2304 of the Presbyterian Council, when crimes involving nobles are involved, the security teams of the Emperor Star and the Emperor Star Circle, after receiving special permissions, can directly arrest suspects in power departments and in public places.
people."
This should be.
However, Catherine couldn't help pacing back and forth, with a bit of anxiety in her eyes.
Are you still recruiting people?
He waited on the side of the road for two minutes. A black hover car slowly parked in front of him, and the rear door opened on its own.
"The defense forces have announced a rotation of closed training. To put it simply, they will not get involved in the surface affairs of the Emperor Star for the time being. They dare not get involved."
Catherine looked at Yang Ming who looked troubled in front of her, and her pretty face became a little nervous.
Presbytery.
"Your Majesty may have made some promises to the military."
The alloy door at the scene was also kicked open, and the force of the kick was quite strong. The person who took action was not an ordinary reformer.
Didi!
What Yang Ming can do, they can also do easily.
【4】,
【3】.
Yang Ming said: "Compile all the information on the scene, be as detailed as possible, and then report it."
"Your Majesty thinks that if he has an ancient god transformer, he can scare us old men."
Since the emperor wants to go to war, the elders representing the great aristocratic groups in the empire are happy to accept the challenge.
"Of course, if we can make these nobles who suck the empire's blood live a little more peacefully, the welfare that the people can get will naturally increase."
"We still need to find a way to stop the eyesore of the White Ghost from wandering around on the Emperor Star. The temple on the Emperor Star is small and cannot accommodate him, the ancient god's reformer."
"It's not like he doesn't understand."
More than 20 old people were standing or sitting. The place was filled with smoke from the "water pipe" smoked by the elder, and most of them remained silent.
One person said: "It may be that the victory over the Zerg and the New Federation allowed His Majesty to taste the pleasure of having all eyes focused on him."
None of the elders dared to speak.
All the elders spoke one after another:
"This is the first time in the history of the empire that a mere police force from the Public Security Bureau dares to break into a legislative court."
Yang Ming kicked his right foot fiercely, and the hover car flew out of the express lane, smashed the arched glass of the suspended lane, and flew into the relatively empty space on the ground.
Yang Ming made himself laugh as he spoke.
An elder laughed and said: "Young people don't understand the political situation, stability, and rules, but it's actually understandable."
'C01: What a good death.'
The only relatively ‘intelligent’ machine on the Emperor Star is the driverless hover car.
"They can't do anything to me. If you want to help me, you must learn to protect yourself wisely now."
Yang Ming and Catherine's dormitory suite.
The police officers were silent.
"Well, don't worry about me, you are the one who needs to be careful most," Catherine whispered, "My golden visor not only prevents mental shock, but also improves my nerve reaction speed and sensitivity to the environment.
I’ll just keep wearing it later.”
The Emperor Star is cut off from communication with the outside world, and every avatar in the chat room represents a super-modifier currently on the Emperor Star.
Yang Ming sighed:
[There is a shaped bomb under the car. It will be detonated after the countdown ends. You have ten seconds to escape. 】
"It's okay," Yang Ming said warmly, "You just need to understand one truth, no one is invincible, and all the ultimate weapons of the empire are ultimately in the hands of the emperor."
The other party left such traces because he wanted to tell Yang Ming in turn:
White Ghost's personal strength is not worth mentioning in the eyes of the Elder Council.
Catherine watched the group chat turn into meaningless copying, copied it and sent it again, then closed the chat room.
There is no one idle inside or outside the house, and there are two layers of light-shielding film inside and outside to ensure that there is no risk of leakage of conversations here.
Yang Ming raised his eyebrows slightly.
Yang Ming smiled, held her face with both hands, lowered his head and kissed her lips hard, saying softly: "Be safe."
The Presbyterian House, the Legislative Chamber, and the Grand Elder's Lounge where Yang Ming stayed.
Next, the two sides continue to fight, you kill one and I kill the other?
If you have a good relationship, it's completely a 'hundred-year project to eliminate harm for the people'. It's best to kill a bunch of nobles on both sides, so that you, an outsider, can take more credit.
"Yes, this change is too sudden."
"I usually see these old guys being so respectful and respectful in front of the emperor, and don't even dare to breathe. I didn't expect them to be so rebellious at heart."
'D04: What a good death.'
Yang Ming turned over and shook his hands, letting out a low roar. The hover car was lifted two meters high by his mental power.
Catherine's eyes gradually lost their doubts, and she leaned on Yang Ming's shoulder, enjoying the silence of this moment.
The communicator in Yang Ming's arms vibrated violently.
'B02: Tsk, tsk, tsk, another perverted honorary earl has died. What a good death.'
"Mr. Ghost..."
"yes."
"Super Modifier?"
"It's okay to take him back. Earl Ent died tragically at home. The manner of death was the same, the signs were the same, and all three of them have alibis. Even if the white ghost wants to frame him, he can't provide any evidence."
Yang Ming said: "Katherine, pay attention to your own safety when patrolling recently. This storm is expected to last half a month to a month."
"Don't the military have a sense of crisis? If His Majesty really wants to untie the shackles and take back the legislative seats in the Presbytery, the next step will be to reform the military system."
She smoothed the wrinkles of Yang Ming's dress, walked Yang Ming to the door of the house, and watched Yang Ming enter the elevator of the building.
A group of old people laughed a few times each.
The great elder narrowed his eyes slightly:
"He is very knowledgeable and thorough!
"Before, he was standing here, in this position, raising his head and telling me that the murderer was here.
"Well, judging from the traces at the scene, it can only be a super-modifier who attacked Count Ent, and not just one super-modifier."
Yang Ming raised his head suddenly.
"I should be the one to say this to you," Catherine sighed softly.
"What if they use super-modifiers to deal with you?" Catherine pursed her lips tightly, "The emperor has ignored political affairs for decades, and now he wants to take back power so fiercely, it will definitely cause shock."
Yang Ming looked down at the footprint again and sighed in his heart.
However, this kind of floating vehicles are on fixed routes and depart at fixed times. They are similar to small buses and are not very intelligent.
He reacted in almost a second. He jumped up and smashed the ship-grade tempered glass of the sunroof with one punch. He emerged like a cannonball and grabbed the edge of the hole in the car with his backhand.
"What was the reaction from the military?"
It seems that the power of the Council of Elders on the Emperor Star is not sufficient.
"The Emperor Star does not allow such a powerful existence. His Majesty asked us to transfer all the super-modifiers. It really suits our wishes."
"Are you going to get busy?"
Yang Ming smiled and said, "What's wrong with you?"
"What do you think our great Majesty will do?"
Yang Ming turned on his communicator and began to review Earl Ent's files, thinking about how he should classify the Earl's death and the murder of the prince as 'copycat crimes'.
"Look carefully, what is this?
“Do you think he is threatening us that if today’s election is not the result he wants to see, he will arrest all the outstanding elders we elected?
"You are wrong. He was telling me that he was the one who killed the prince. His Majesty gave the order. If the Council of Elders does not cooperate, Prince Vinos will be our fate. He is threatening me."
Catherine bit her lip and took the initiative to hug Yang Ming.
After thinking for about four or five minutes, Catherine probably didn't come to any conclusion, and the worry in her brows did not dissipate.
The Great Elder sighed: "The problem now is that we still don't know why Your Majesty did this. We all respect Your Majesty extremely. Your Majesty's orders are the highest instructions followed by the Council of Elders, but Your Majesty wants to turn the knife on you."
Aim at us."
…
‘A01: Has anyone received, or heard of, the murder order from the Elders’ House?’
She took out her shell-shaped communicator and sat down at the dining table.
Carrying Catherine on his back, Yang Ming picked up his watch and saw the message from Lu:
"Why?"
The group of elders each nodded.
Yang Ming smiled and said: "Don't worry, I know it well. If you want to get benefits, how can you not take some risks?"
Yang Ming stared at the police officer and said slowly: "Just treat this as a murder case. Don't combine the two cases for the time being. I will reduce your authority in the future."
The ride in the car doesn't take long, and you can reach the palace module in about three minutes.
The shell popped up on a projection screen with a light black background. Catherine entered a dozen commands in succession, entered an encrypted chat room, and sent a summons message.
[Boss, the Council of Elders has mobilized twelve unregistered super-modifiers outside. These super-modifiers are riding a supply ship transporting food to the Emperor Star and are expected to land on the Emperor Star tonight.]
Every time he entered the palace, the most time-consuming part was to pass through the surface security system. Every time he was scanned by more than a dozen scanning instruments, it was not known whether these instruments radiated much radiation.
An elder suddenly slapped the handrail and cursed: "I didn't expect that this hateful white ghost would still take our people away under such circumstances!"
【1】.
Buzz!
The air is vibrating.
The blue-white light ball illuminated several modules on the surface of the Emperor Star!
A huge air wave suddenly surged in the direction of the hover car. Half a second later, an even more violent air wave spurted outward from the light ball. The light ball expanded violently, and the strong light chased Yang Ming, who was rushing to the other side of the express lane.