Attack on Titan's Silent Watch

If we act rashly, they will be wiped out completely, without our own hands. "

"Then what if they didn't want to explore the secrets inside the wall at all? When are we going to wait?" Icarus asked impatiently.

Niobe just smiled and said nothing.

At this time, a tall man in black came to visit.The man was taken by the servants to the room where Niobe and Icarus were, and took off his hat. "It's really lively here." He looked at the mess and said.

Niobe covered the lower half of his face with a round fan: "It's really time, Captain Kenny Ackerman."

As soon as Icarus saw the stranger, he immediately stood up, "Who are you?"

"This must be the Earl of Sterling. He's been famous for a long time." Kenny grinned and helped up an overturned chair as he spoke obviously contrary to his will, and sat on it self-consciously.

"This is Kenny Ackerman, the captain of the Central Gendarmerie, the leader of the human suppression force I just mentioned, and his strength is even higher than that captain." Niobe introduced to Icarus road.

"It's you?" Icarus looked at Kenny suspiciously, and his attitude towards him was not as aggressive as before.

Kenny leaned on the back of the chair with his legs crossed, "It's right here. Today I came here specially to thank the Sterling family for their support of our anti-personnel suppression force." As he spoke, he glanced at Niobe and thought : It turned out that I was called here just to coax this brat.

"Support?" Icarus didn't know, so since he became the head of the family, although his mother had let him take care of things, it was basically an internal matter of the family. As for what the Sterling family did to the outside world, he didn't know very well.

"You don't know. Since your father, the Sterling family has been providing us with materials for the development of three-dimensional mobile devices for human combat. The new three-dimensional mobile device was successfully developed last year, thanks to you and your mother."

"Really?" Icarus's eyes lit up, "Then that is to say, the reason why my father smuggled the three-dimensional mobile device back then was because..."

Kenny nodded, "If the batch of goods could be successfully delivered back then, the research and development process would have been shortened a lot, unfortunately..." Kenny shook his head and didn't say any more.

"Isn't His Majesty the King's order to set up an anti-personnel suppression force? Why use that method to obtain a three-dimensional mobile device?" Icarus expressed his doubts.

Kenny put his legs down and changed his sitting position, "Even within the Central Gendarmerie, not everyone knows about the existence of the anti-personnel suppression force. In order to keep it strictly confidential, we can only do this."

Hearing this, Icarus' eyes became moist, "It turns out that my father is not a person who is just looking for money, he is doing it to complete the task assigned by His Majesty the King..."

Seeing that the timing was right, Niobe patted Icarus on the shoulder and persuaded him gently: "As the current head of the Sterling family who has assisted the royal family for generations, you must be loyal to the king like your father, even if you are notorious. No hesitation."

"Yeah." Icarus nodded vigorously, wiping away the tears that hadn't flowed yet.

Niobe gave Kenny a wink, and Kenny understood and stood up, "It's getting late, I have to go back first." He put on his hat again, and when he walked to the door, he suddenly turned to Niobe. Said: "I hope we can cooperate happily in the future."

"Of course, if you don't mind your own business." Niobe stared at Kenny and responded coldly.

After Kenny left, a servant who had been waiting outside the room walked in tremblingly with his head bowed.

"Has anyone been found?" Niobe asked coldly.

"No...no." The servant replied obediently.

"Go on, no matter what method you use, you must find me back before next year!"

"Yes!" Facing the calm master, the servant did not dare to say a word, and hastily left Niobe's sight.

Unlike Niobe, Icarus was not interested in finding 'that person' at all, "Mother, I haven't found it for so many years, maybe I starved to death on the street long ago."

Niobe didn't answer, just worried about this son who had no sense of crisis.

clue (1)

Since the last cigarette killer committed a crime, there has never been a similar vicious case in Alford.Benson's usual work is basically to help the grandfather find cats on the way of patrol, help the old lady to cross the road and other common things.Although physical fitness and three-dimensional mobile device training is required every month, compared with the training corps period, the training time is so small that it can be ignored. Only shooting training is carried out every day.

When he heard that the Survey Corps was going to investigate outside the wall, Benson was a little worried about those friends, so he specially wrote a letter to the Survey Corps to inquire about the current situation of Fei Qi and others.Knowing that they were all still alive, Benson couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and he felt a little proud in his heart, "As expected of my teammates, I don't even need to investigate outside the wall." He really wanted to show off to others that his friends came from outside the wall He came back alive during the investigation, but when he saw other people's resistance to the investigation corps, he silently shut up.

While Benson was sitting in the office on duty, a senior member of the Gendarmerie informed him, "Field, there is another case."

"Yes!" Benson stood up immediately, took out the tools and a shotgun for the survey site, and followed to the bottom of a clock tower.There were already many people watching around, and Benson and another military policeman broke through the crowd before entering the cordon.

The inside of the bell tower was very dark. After climbing up the narrow stairs step by step for an unknown amount of time, Benson's eyes suddenly opened up, and most of the town had a panoramic view.Just when he was about to sigh, Durand, who had arrived at the scene early, reminded him: "Be careful not to step on blood stains."

Only then did Benson come back to his senses and look at the ground. It was another corpse that had been stabbed in the heart, but the murder weapon was still taken away by the murderer.Since the platform on the top of the bell tower sloped towards the stairs as a whole, the blood from the chest of the deceased spread all the way to the stairs.Right above the corpse is a big bronze bell with five people hugging each other.At noon and early morning, the keeper of the clock tower would shake the crank below the big clock, causing the big clock to shake back and forth and emit a loud low chime, and today's noon was no exception, only to find out such a horrific scene.

"No murder weapon was found." Benson walked around the corpse cautiously, then approached the corpse, and began to collect physical evidence, among which, the cigarettes from before appeared again.

Durand was also carefully observing the scene of the crime. The deceased fell on his back with his head facing the stairs and his feet facing the fence, but the pool of dried blood happened to be blocked at the stairs, congealing into a pool of dark brown stains with rounded edges. The exit is the stairs, but there is no blood on the surface of each step of the stairs.Although the murderer could indeed escape from the stairs without getting blood, Durand always felt a little strange.

If we can figure out the modus operandi and process of this 'cigarette killer', we may be able to find clues to identify the murderer, and even obtain evidence of his connection with the Sterling family.

While Durand was still thinking, Benson had already collected physical evidence, and another military policeman also recorded the situation at the scene.

"Squad leader, can we move the body away now?" Benson asked.

"Okay." Durand nodded in affirmation of their work, "Go back and sort out the things collected today."

Back at the Alford Division of the Gendarmerie, Benson wrote the report, put all the collected items into evidence boxes, numbered them and put them in the warehouse for storage.This time the case was also listed as an 'unsolved case', and he always felt a little reconciled, and he didn't believe that Durand would really help that nobleman cover up the truth, because he would order him to investigate the scene in detail every time, and told him to take The evidence is sealed and stored, giving people the feeling that they are ready to go, waiting for the opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the enemy.

clue (2)

After packing up the evidence and coming out of the warehouse, Benson rearranged the report and came to Durand's office with the report under his arm. "Squad leader, this is the investigation report of the Bell Tower case."

"Thank you for your hard work, let it go first."

"Yes." Benson walked to Durand's desk, and when he put down the report, he found that there were 6 other 'cigarette killer' files on Durand's desk.Sure enough, he did not give up on the 'cigarette killer' investigation.Putting aside his doubts, Benson inadvertently breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing Benson's expression, Durand probably guessed what he was thinking.He did not deny that he had actually intentionally not allowed Benson to participate in a more detailed investigation, because according to later investigation results, those victims seemed to have some kind of inextricable connection with the Field Chamber of Commerce.For example, after investigation, the first deceased was the leader of the theft gang who went to the Trout District Training Corps to steal the three-dimensional mobile device and kidnapped a trainer three years ago in the winter.

Although Durand did not directly intervene in the case back then, but he heard from the same period of investigation of the case that he was taken over by the Central Gendarmerie in the middle of the investigation. All he knew was that the leader had confessed that people from the Field Chamber of Commerce hired them to steal the three-dimensional mobile device. of.Given that Benson's elder brother Joseph is the president of the Field Chamber of Commerce, Durand dare not easily disclose too much information to Benson.

"Squad leader, then I'll go first." Benson was about to turn around and leave when Durand suddenly stopped him, "You have always been concerned about the progress of these serial murders, can you tell me your opinion?"

"I don't know anything about the previous case..."

"Here, take a look and give me an answer tomorrow. But this is not allowed