The Death Plan of a Hero of the Empire

As for prison?People who have no money to pay the fine will go in and sit for a long time, but if they have the money to pay the fine, then they don’t have to stay there for a long time, but will be severely warned and blacklisted by the tax bureau. This blacklist They are all people with tax evasion records. For these people, the tax review will undoubtedly be much stricter than normal. It is basically impossible for this person to evade taxes for the second time.

In order not to go to jail, the priest happily paid the amount of tax evasion in the past, and paid a large fine, and then he was released.

From his looks, it seems that he still has enough energy. Obviously, besides tax evasion, he has a lot of other income and savings.

Lu Nier and the others have been busy for a long time, basically doing small things to find someone, and now they can finally take a break.

Lunil, who had witnessed almost the whole process, also had the same doubts as Fargis, and couldn't understand the purpose of the prisoner.

However, when the time came to noon today, another murder related to the real murderer happened again.

Because the method of murder at the stake is too characteristic, after hearing the report of this new homicide, Fajis rushed to the scene with all the members of the mission team.

The deceased was a priest, the priest who evaded taxes.

Not only one died, but this time the real murderer burned three people, namely the priest, the priest's wife, and the priest's son.

Three people are bound hand and foot to the central pillar, back to back in a triangular shape.

Judging from previous experience, if the priest's family did not kill wrongly, then they should not be good people, and there should be some clues left at the scene.

Because Fajis's instruction was to search for clues to this house, the three of Alonia discussed it and decided to look for clues similar to the previous two cases in the priest's house.

Sure enough, Lu Nier quickly saw a note left by the real murderer on the scene.

[There are treasures in the mezzanine of the bed in the bedroom. 】

"This is……"

The familiar information made Lu Nier report it immediately.

"The mezzanine of the bed in the bedroom?"

Hearing the news, Fajis came to the bedroom with suspicion, and then knocked on the side panel of the bed, which was indeed hollow.

Fajis directly broke the bed board violently, and then saw a large amount of cash in the interlayer, as well as some gold, silver and jewelry, in addition to some notebooks and books.

"these are……"

Fargis took them out and checked them all.

The amount of these properties completely exceeds the amount of tax evasion by the church, even dozens of times.

The priest could not have had such a large sum of money.

The investigators present also took turns looking through the notebooks in the mezzanine.

These notebooks seem to be some suspected encrypted ledgers, the content on them is very scattered, and it will only be inexplicable at first glance.

The things recorded in these ledgers are probably the secret of the source of the priest's property.

In this situation, as long as you are not a fool, you can realize that something is wrong.

Fajis quickly assigned tasks to all the investigators, and began to investigate the secrets behind these books and learn about the priest's family.

And the mission that Lunier and the others were assigned this time was not as marginal as the previous ones. Perhaps because he understood the seriousness of this mission, Fajis didn't dare to think about it any more.

The task given to the practice team is to collect information about the priest's family, with unlimited means, the more the better.

"Collecting information on the priest's family..." Alonia said, "I'm curious now, what kind of things did this priest do to be targeted by that prisoner."

"Such a large sum of money is obviously obtained from improper sources." Lu Nier guessed, "Since the priest's family has such a large sum of money, their usual expenses must be relatively extravagant, I think it is okay Let’s start looking into that.”

"Alright, Li Jie, what do you think?" Alonia asked Li Jie's opinion again.

"Me?" Li Jie was slightly taken aback, "I think Lu Nier's opinion is quite good."

"Then do it."

Lu Nier glanced at Li Jie, he always felt that Li Jie seemed to have something on his mind during this time, although she was relatively introverted and not talkative before, but in the past few days it has become particularly serious, basically not even a day Say a few words, except for mission matters, I basically don't talk to him at ordinary times.

Lunier didn't pay much attention to this matter, and after discussing with Alonia, he decided to start asking the neighbors of the priest's family.

"You mean next door? Poor people, I heard that they were all burned to death in the fire. I don't know them very well, but the owner of that house is quite nice and kind. I heard that he was a priest, but that It is not a good thing that the wife and son of the family are true, although it is impolite to say so, but I heard that the wife is a person with very strong desires..."

"Desire is strong?"

"Oh, it's that kind of desire. I think the priest is too busy to satisfy her. There are rumors that she has been to that kind of club full of beautiful men..."

"Then what do you think about the wealth of that family?" Alona, ​​you have to directly ask the question you want to know.

"Well... quite rich, but I think only the priest is poorer, because the priest's wife usually wears gorgeous gold jewelry, and even the clothes are clearly high-end, but the priest She always dresses very plainly, and I suspect that the reason why the wife can wear such nice things is not because the priest bought her, but..."

As if feeling a little out of line, the neighbor immediately changed the focus of the conversation.

"By the way, so is that son. Obviously the priest is such a kind person, but his son is a mischievous and bad-tempered, very unlovable little bastard. He is quite famous in our area, just like his mother. ..."

"What about his usual expenses?" Alonia asked, "This priest's son, what does he usually do?"

"Speaking of this, I also have the impression that he often invites young people in our area out for drinks and dinners, so the young people in our area like him very much. Thinking about it this way, it usually costs a lot of money, right? Hey, I I think it is impossible for the priest to give him so much money, probably this little bastard asked his shameless mother for it, poor priest..."

"Do you think the priest's family behaves abnormally?"

"Abnormal behavior?" The neighbor thought for a while, "I think except for the priest, his wife and son are not very normal people."

Alonia asked a few more questions, and took Lunier and the two of them to find the next one.

Similar to what the previous family said, this family basically agrees that the priest is a good man, and belittles the priest's wife and son. Obviously, the notoriety of the mother and son has spread around here, and he also expressed his sympathy for the priest, because this The neighbor was a man who said he had an affair with the priest's wife...

Leaving aside this unexpected melon for the time being, Alonya continued to ask.

Sure enough, the information I got was pretty much the same. Basically, the priest was a good person, but unfortunately, he was unlucky, married a bad wife, and gave birth to a bad son. Usually, the priest’s food and clothing expenses are very simple, but the expenses of his wife and children But they are more extravagant. They basically think that the high expenses of the wife and children are due to the fact that all the salary of the priest has been squeezed out, and it may even be the wife's...

After asking the neighbors nearby, they are naturally people who have a close relationship with the priest.

As for the people who have a close relationship with the priest, then there are only other priests in the Church of the Three Saints.

The three of Alonia directly found a believer whose usual task was to preach to believers.

"Father..." The believer's expression was a bit complicated, "To be honest, I didn't expect him to evade taxes at all, but he is really a good person, not only caring and taking care of me, but also when I encountered difficulties At that time, he lent me a sum of money to tide me over, so I think that even if it is tax evasion, he must have his own difficulties..."

"The priest is a good man. Even if he evades taxes, there must be a reason why he has to do this." The second believer said, "He is obviously such a kind person..."

The speeches of the next few believers were similar. They basically believed that the priest was a good man. They all expressed a little disbelief about his tax evasion, and most of them thought that the priest might have some difficulties and reasons to do so.

"This priest, judging from the evaluations of the people around him, seems to be a pretty good guy." Alonia said, "However, it's a bit unreal..."

Although it is a bit sad to say this, good people are indeed a relatively rare existence in the current imperial capital.

Of course, the goodness of this good person refers to the unanimous evaluation of the people around him.

It is because of the rarity that it is not so real, especially because this guy is a tax evader, and there are a lot of unidentified properties and suspicious notebooks hidden in the mezzanine of his bedroom bed.

"There's only one person left."

"The last one..." Luneil thought for a while, and after excluding the questions that had been asked so far, Martin was the only one left.

After Alonia found Martin, Martin was visibly nervous, probably because he thought they were going to pursue his "wrong things".

The matter of embezzling public funds, because after all, this public fund belongs to the church’s public funds and is a matter of the church. At that time, the priest said that he would give Martin a chance. As long as Martin repays all the public funds, he will not be held accountable, so the Bureau of Investigation did not Nosy and arrest him.

As for having an affair with a female believer?That's a personal matter.

"What? You mean him?"

When Alonia asked about the priest, Martin's expression suddenly became strange, and the emotions in his eyes were also very complicated.

"I... I don't know if I should say it or not. I think you may not believe me." Martin lowered his voice, although there was no one else here except Alonia and him.

"Huh? You just have to say it. It's up to me to believe it or not."

"Okay..." After hesitating for a while, Martin added, "Can the three of you not tell others that I said what I'm going to say?"

"Okay." Alonya agreed directly, "You can rest assured."

"That's good..." Martin swallowed and took a deep breath, "Then I'll tell you, actually... I think the priest may not only be guilty of tax evasion..."

"Why do you think so?"

"I wasn't very sure at first, but today I saw that he took out such a large sum of money, not only repaid the tax, but also paid such a large fine, I knew that what I saw before, It should be true..."

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Chapter 285 The Frenzied Trial (10)

"What do you see?"

"I..." Fear appeared on Martin's expression, "Actually, because of the misappropriation of public funds, I am very concerned about the accounts. I noticed the problem of the church's account books not being up to date very early on, so I investigated. After a while, I found out that this has something to do with the priest, so I... I just want to find some evidence, and then report him..."

"To tell the truth." Alonia's tone was a bit unfriendly.

"Well, actually, I want to collect evidence that the priest tampered with the accounts, and then threaten him and ask him to give me a sum of money..." Martin shrank his head, "I investigated the priest and followed him for a long time. To collect some evidence, I used my spare time to follow the priest for a few days during a holiday at the same time as the priest, and as a result, I discovered an amazing secret!"

"Say!" Alonia clenched her fists, her finger bones cracking.

"I saw the priest making a deal with some people!" Martin said loudly, frightened.

"The deal? What kind of deal? Where's the deal? What's the deal? How many people?"

"This... is in the backyard of the priest's house. The thing that was traded was an ordinary-looking notebook. The other party consisted of two people. They were the kind of people who... looked like ruthless characters. Anyway, they didn't look like good people. "

"Notebook? Are you sure there is only a notebook?"

"I'm sure that the two people who traded with the priest took the notebook very seriously. They put it in an iron box and locked it. After doing this, they separated. I know there is a big secret hidden in it. Secret, I'm not stupid, I know it must be dangerous, so I try to avoid the priest as much as possible afterwards, pretending that nothing happened."

"Take him, let's go back first."

Alonia quickly made a decision, and took Martin all the way back to the priest's house.

Seeing the priest's charred body, Martin almost screamed.

"What did you bring him for?" Fargis asked.

His expression looked a little ugly, not because of the relationship between Alonia and the others who brought Martin, but because of the relationship that seemed to be getting more and more complicated in this case.

When taking on this commission, he once boasted that he could solve it within a week, but now he has no such confidence at all.

"He witnessed the priest having a secret deal with some people." Alonia briefly explained.

"Oh?" Fargis' eyes lit up, and he looked directly at the trembling Martin, "Tell me about it."

Martin had no choice but to repeat what he said just now, and then he was taken to the opened bed interlayer, where he saw the large sum of belongings and a few notes.

Several investigators were opening their notebooks and began to study the contents above, trying to find patterns from the chaotic sentences and numbers.

"It's this kind of notebook." Martin said firmly, "The style is similar, and they all look like this."

"According to the current analysis of the bureau, the contents recorded in these notebooks are most likely ledgers," Fargis said.

"Ledger?"

"That's right, it's not the church's ledger, but it belongs to other unknown organizations. If this guy named Martin is right, even if the priest is not a member of that organization, he has very close ties and multiple transactions with that organization. , this amount of money is not a small amount, and the priest's wife and son are not good things. I checked the past cases and found that this wife seduced several married men and destroyed several families. As for that son, he often gathered people to fight, and even beat an innocent child into a maim, because of the huge amount of compensation and threats, the victim’s family chose to go private in the end.” Farges talked about him According to the current information, "As for this priest, in terms of reputation, he can be said to be the best person in this family, even much better than the average person, and he is very popular. He is a very kind person, and many people sympathize with him for having such a wife and son. According to our investigation, he seems to have no outrageous behavior. As far as crimes are concerned, apart from unknown secret transactions, the only thing he does is tax evasion."

After saying this, Fajis walked out of the room again, came to the charred corpse, and continued.

"Among the three corpses, both the wife and son had marks on the back of the head, but the priest was different. The priest had no marks on the back of the head, but there were many wounds on his body, which should have happened with the murderer. There was a head-on conflict, and there was a wound on his neck that penetrated through the wound, and we also found blood splatters in the room..."

"And I think that the real purpose of the murderer to let Martin escape and divert our attention is this priest. He made us divert our attention to Martin, because Martin in turn took all the people in the church, including the priest. He was summoned to the church, and then he secretly came to the priest's house, successively dealt with the priest's wife and children, and set up an ambush in advance. After the priest came back, he launched a surprise attack on him, but for some reason the surprise attack failed, and he launched a confrontation with the priest. In the end, he defeated the priest, set him up and burned him to death."

After listening to Fajis' deduction, Lunier still felt a little strange.

"However, it is completely unnecessary to use Martin as a bait. The murderer does not need to use Martin as a bait to attract our attention. If his real purpose is to kill the priest, he can go directly to the priest's house and pick the priest. Go in and kill his wife and children when he is not at home, and then ambush the priest's house, attack and kill the priest, the effect is the same, and there is less trouble."

"This..." Fajis was a little speechless, because what Lu Nier said really made sense, and this was the point he couldn't figure out the most.

That's why the killer wanted Martin to escape, to get their attention.

As far as the results are concerned, the murderer didn't need to do this at all, and his goal of killing the priest's family could still be achieved.

Moreover, the murderer notified Martin of his escape before the investigation bureau came to the church, indicating that he had predicted that the investigation bureau would come to the church to investigate.

Either the murderer is very smart and able to predict the investigation bureau's movements in advance, or the murderer is secretly monitoring the investigation bureau, so he knows the investigation bureau's actions, or there are people from the investigation bureau, and there are ghosts inside to give the real murderer pass on information.

"Anyway, it's hard work for you guys, let's take a break first." Fargis changed the subject, "If we want to catch this cunning serial murderer, we have to be in the best condition at all times."

Alonia readily agreed to Fajis's proposal, and took Lunier and Li Jie directly to a restaurant for food.

"In all senses, this kind of case is really annoying." Alonia said lazily, resting her cheek on the table with one hand.

"I still can't figure out why the prisoner let Martin escape to attract our attention." Lunier was still thinking about it.

"Since the prisoner didn't let Martin attract our attention to kill the priest's family, could it be that he wanted to stop what we were doing?" Li Jie said suddenly.

"What were you doing?" Alonia and Lunier were slightly taken aback, and then showed stunned expressions at the same time.