Genshin Impact: Teyvat Travel Guide

"'Hotch'...who is that?"

"I've never heard of it... Why should you give him such a large amount of money?"

The name was a bit unfamiliar to the onlookers, but Laura, who was present at the trial a few years ago, would not forget it.

Villette will not forget it either.

He asked, "Hotch was the guard who testified against Vlad?"

"It's him." Nan Yang twitched the corner of his mouth, not daring to look into Villette's eyes, and just said:

"Hodge works as a guard at the entrance of White Chamber of Commerce. I have talked with him several times and learned that his family situation is not good and he has a mother who is suffering from illness. It is also for this reason that he would rather be angry than quit the job. Because the price offered by White Chamber of Commerce is a little higher than other places.”

The audience was talking a lot:

"So it seems that Secretary Kaya used the money to do good things?"

"This kind of character... is as good as her sister!"

Nan Yang was expressionless, and she continued: "Then I said that as long as he does one thing for me, I will give him a large sum of money to treat his mother."

The admiration around him stopped abruptly.

Villette had already predicted something. He seemed to want to sigh, but still asked: "What is it?"

"I just asked him...to add Karin's name to the White Chamber of Commerce's warehouse access records, that's all."

The audience was in an uproar.

"Karin didn't do it?!"

"She didn't go to the warehouse at all?!!"

"Then who did this? How did the security agency lose control?!!"

"Carlene White... was actually framed!"

Villette paused, and Funina's expression went blank for a moment.

Finally, Navilette said with some difficulty: "The case of the security agency losing control a few years ago... was it you who did it?"

Nan Yang was dumb and asked half-mockingly: "Otherwise? With Karin's useless brain, can she really understand how to replace parts?"

She closed her eyes and forced herself not to recall that feeling, "Obviously Karin chose her father after her mother's divorce, but her mother still loves that loser, so I, I just..."

"I didn't want to kill her. She was still a minor at that time. Even if such a crime is placed on her, she will only be given a lighter sentence. She will not be sentenced to death. That incident will only make you! Laura! Let you know Karin is a vicious person, that’s all.”

Everyone understood.

Someone murmured: "...What a tragedy."

There was silence in the opera house.

"Then how did Karin die? Just tell me, Kaya." Laura's eyes were red and she asked angrily, "Did you change your mind later and let Hotch kill her?"

Nanyang doesn’t have it.

"I gave that generous sum of money to Hodge and asked him to take his mother to seek medical treatment in another country. The rest is enough for them to live a good life."

That was one of the few consciences she had at that time.

Nanyang said: "He left in a hurry. I know how much he loved his mother. I have also seen that sick woman. She loved her child very much... So I told them that when I left Fontaine , it’s better to change your appearance and never come back.”

She lost her strength and stood precariously on the spot, expressionlessly revealing what she would do next——

"After he left, I barely recovered from my injuries after three months of recuperation and returned to work at Momang Palace. I expected Karin to leave Fontaine because she lost face - that's how it should be."

"But one night in the third month, Karin slipped out of the house where she was confined and came to see me."

"She said she had never been to the warehouse and didn't understand why the charges were pinned on her. She also begged me to believe her and clear her name - ha, is it ridiculous? She didn't even know that I was the one she was begging for. That culprit!"

Villette asked: "Since she had never been there, why didn't she refute it immediately when she was in front of the court?"

Nanyang paused.

She showed a fragile smile: "Villette, you may not know that although I am a mixed race, Lex will also have a certain effect on me."

"I didn't know we were mixed-race at the time, but it didn't make any difference - after all, regardless of whether Karin was mixed-race or not, Lex would be effective on her."

She added: "As long as you use money to bribe a few maids, and mix a little bit of harmless Lex into her breakfast black tea, that's okay, right?"

It just so happened that Karin was not good to the maid, and the maid was not that loyal.

Karin must have had the feeling of confusion and sluggish thinking.

Since it is impossible to think, then as long as the people at the time said something to each other, and after a while of discussion, Karin, who was standing in the defendant's seat, couldn't remember clearly. Wouldn't she be wrapped up in the rumors, and then self-doubt, and she would be in a daze and have no time to deny it?

What a simple truth.

"But I didn't expect that after being grounded for three months, without Lesi's influence, she would actually remember for the first time whether she had gone to the warehouse that day!" Nan Yang murmured, "This is not okay... If she complains, This is not okay..."

"So...you kill her." Laura's voice trembled, and the look she looked at Nanyang was so unfamiliar.

"Yes, I killed her." Nanyang twitched her lips, "Didn't the serial disappearance of girls cause panic at that time? Since the murderer has already killed so many people, he doesn't mind adding such an additional charge, right?"

"That's what I thought...and then I killed her."

She finally said this.

"That's it. There is no reversal, no grievance, no hardship, and I was not forced to...I killed her. Because I was afraid that the matter would be exposed, that's all."

Laura fell to the ground, tears streaming down her face for a moment: "Why... why is this like this..."

"You got the answer you wanted. Are you satisfied, mother?"

The whole place was silent, as if you could hear a pin drop.

In the silence where no one spoke for a long time, Villette's heart was heavy and he asked again: "I have also read the case file of Miss Karin White. It is the same as the case of the serial disappearance of girls. There is no trace of the way of disappearance at all. how did you do it?"

"This is easier." She said, "I graduated from the Order Academy."

"Xumi scholars pursue knowledge. Once it reaches a certain limit, human nature becomes weak. I thought I was normal, but when I saw the scholar's notebook——"

She once threatened Karin, saying that she had seen an interesting point of view in a scholar's notebook that she accidentally saw.

——If you can turn people into some kind of powder, can you completely make them disappear from this world?

Although it was to scare Karin, she even gave Karin a bottle of handmade emollient ointment, but...

"Actually, the scholar's note also included a method for turning people into powder. I gave it a try, and guess what - I made it."

"That kind of thing...I actually made it!" Nan Yang's face was stained with madness, "I used that thing on Karin, and after one night, she had turned into a puddle of powder like yellow sand. ."

Since it is a powder, it is very convenient to solve.

"I commissioned a caravan heading to Xumi and asked them to scatter the yellow sand-like powder when passing through the desert. No need to give a reason - everyone in this world has it anyway. No one would have thought that, Those sands are actually a person.”

The panel said objectively: [You have gone crazy in the pursuit of knowledge, host. 】

"Okay, the explanation is over." Nanyang ignored the panel and only raised his eyes to look at Villette, "I deliberately killed people, is it the death penalty?"

The guards around her swarmed over and surrounded her.

Villette closed her eyes.

He seemed to have made some determination. When he opened his eyes again, he handed over the case to the cardinal for ordination. After a while, the result was presented——

"I now pronounce Kaya White...guilty."

Discussions broke out like waves. Amidst the commotion, Nanyang was in a trance, feeling like the world was far away from her.

At this moment, obsessions, wishes... everything was crushed into mud and turned into dust colder than fine snow.

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Momanggong dossier records:

【xx month xx year

The serial disappearance of girls was solved. The murderer was Marcelle, the owner of the Cabriere Chamber of Commerce, whose real name was Vachet. He died at Fontainebleau Spring. 】

【xx month xx year

The case of wounding by White Chamber of Commerce security guards was solved. The murderer was minor Karin White. She will serve a twenty-five-year sentence in Merlot Petersburg when she becomes an adult.

(xx month xx year) Revision:

The case was directed and acted by the original victim, Kaya White. Kaya White committed intentional homicide and pleaded guilty in court. She was escorted to Merlot Petersburg and sentenced to death, which was to be executed one month later. 】