The next day, Anila asked Hans and Christian again for questioning, trying to find any flaws, but both of them were blowing their beards and staring at each other, allowing Anila to ask any questions, but insisted that they did not touch Monica. vellus hair.

One day passed, and the matter did not make any progress. Anila could only detain the two as criminal suspects and continue tomorrow.

When Legolas went to find Anila, he saw her lazily lying on the bed, looking hopeless.

"Legolas?!" Seeing Legolas coming in, Anila sat up quickly and smiled awkwardly, "What's the matter?"

"It's nothing, just come and have a look." Legolas tilted his head slightly, "Still wondering who the murderer is?"

"I can't help it." Anila sighed heavily.

Whenever she thinks of Monica's mother and Mayor Pierce's expectant expressions, Hans and Christian's expressions of resentment because of being wronged—one of them must be true, Anila feels very sad.

"Judging from the current situation, it is very likely that Hans is the murderer, but there is no evidence to prove it..." Anila seemed to be muttering to herself.

"You think Hans is the murderer?" Legolas asked.

"From the motive point of view, yes, of course Christian is also very suspicious. Why did he lie to us? It doesn't seem like he simply remembered the wrong date." Anila pondered for a while, and suddenly looked at Lai curiously. Golas, "Speaking of which, what if something like this happened to the elves? Don't elves ever commit murder?"

"Generally speaking, such things rarely happen. Our natural restraint is much stronger than that of humans, and we rarely kill each other on impulse. At least since I was born, Mirkwood has never This kind of thing happened." Legolas replied, "However, even if this kind of thing really happened, it shouldn't be so troublesome. Usually, we can judge the other party from the look in their eyes. Did you lie or not?"

"It's really enviable." Anila chuckled wearily, "Then can you tell if Hans and Christian are lying?"

"That's what seems wrong to me," said Legolas. "Velodyus, I don't think either of them is lying."

Anila put away the faint smile on her face: "You mean someone else is the murderer?"

"It's just my feeling..." Legolas hesitated slightly.In fact, his intuition seldom makes mistakes, and he has always been quite confident about it, but when his intuition is contrary to Anila's judgment, the hell he trusts Anila even more.

"Well, so..." Anila seemed to attach great importance to Legolas' opinion, and frowned seriously, thinking, "Could it be that the perpetrator was someone from outside the town? But how does that explain Monica's incompatibility at night?" What about going out in a normal way? Obviously, this is definitely not a temporary idea for money, Monica should know the murderer..."

The room fell into silence for a moment, except for the occasional crackling sound of sparks from the only candle, emitting a faint and flickering light, reflecting Anila's profile on the wall.

Anila's face shape and facial features are typical of Westerners, with a high forehead and deep eye sockets, and a high and straight nose.She has thick and slightly curly flaxen-colored long hair, a pair of gray-green eyes that are hazy in the night, and red and thin lips that are extraordinarily charming when she smiles. A few years ago, she was once a well-behaved and lovely standard American sweetheart, and now she is alive and well. Become an out-and-out unruly ranger...

Of course, it is impossible for Legolas to know what Anila looked like before, or even if he knew, he would not be touched.He still has a rebellious spirit in his bones, and girls like Anila or Tauriel who are heroic, daring to love and hate are far more attractive to him than those weak and elegant princesses.

Just like now, when he caught a glimpse of Anila's serious and focused thinking, he was almost fascinated again if he didn't pay attention.

Snapped!Anila snapped her fingers suddenly, bringing Legolas back from his unconscious daze.

"What do you think?" Legolas asked.

"Not at all." Anila shrugged, "There must be something I overlooked..."

She stood up and rushed downstairs without hesitation.

"Where are you going?" Legolas was stunned for a moment, then chased after him.

"I'm going to take another look at the place where the body was found." Anila had already reached the entrance of the tavern. "There must be other clues there!"

"Go now?" Legolas looked at her in surprise. "It's already so dark."

"If, as you said, the murderer wasn't Hans or Christian, then it would be bad if the real murderer took advantage of this time to destroy the clues. To be honest, I suddenly remembered... At the time, I thought it was just an ordinary The scratches, just under the scars of the tree where the body was found..." Anila suddenly fell silent, looked around vigilantly, leaned into Legolas' ear, and said in a volume that can only be heard by elves what.

Legolas lowered his face: "I want you to go alone, I won't go."

"Eh? What's the matter?" Anila lowered her face, and begged while tugging at the elf's sleeve, "Go, go, it's late at night, and going to that kind of place again, I'm scared by myself."

"Are you afraid now?" The elf sneered, "I told you not to meddle in other people's business and waste your time. What does this matter have to do with us? Since you have taken care of the matter yourself, don't pull me." Go into the water, that place is too cloudy, so I don't want to go there a second time."

"But..." Anila blinked helplessly and aggrievedly, and could only turn to look at the other people in the tavern, "Well, is there anyone willing to accompany me to the place where Monica's body was found?"

There was silence, no one answered.

Just kidding, who wants to go to that kind of place in the dark at night?It's no good, not to mention that even the elves say it's unlucky there, maybe there's something there.

"This is really important, the sooner the better." Anila emphasized earnestly, "Or, who knows who might be willing to take me there, can you convey it to me?"

Still no one spoke. During the stalemate, Hans' old friend Alice suddenly stood up and said softly, "In that case, let me go to the town for you and ask if anyone is willing to accompany you."

"Thank you." Anila replied with a grateful smile, "I'll be waiting for your message from Miss Alice anytime."

Alice nodded and walked out of the tavern quickly.

Legolas snorted coldly, turned and walked upstairs.

"Legolas..." Anila chased after him.

"What shall we do next?" Legolas asked after closing the door of the room.

"Run there as soon as possible after the murderer finds himself approaching." Anila replied, walking to the window, "In order not to startle the enemy, let's go another way."

"Are you sure that man will come, Velodis?" Legolas asked Anila in a low voice, hiding some distance from the tree.

"50.00% sure." Anila also replied in a low voice, "If the murderer is really someone else, he should pay close attention to the news of the two of us, so he should hear the fake news I released. Once he can't Make sure that the news is true or not, just in case, he will come to verify and destroy the so-called evidence, and it must be tonight, because I will come over tomorrow during the day, and then it will be too late."

"What if no one comes?"

"Then consider yourself unlucky and honestly search for clues nearby." Anila said.

"So..." Legolas was speechless for a moment.

"Hush!" Anila suddenly held her breath and concentrated, "Someone is coming."

In the dark night, far away, there was a figure walking towards this side quickly. The man was holding a dimly lit lantern in his hand and wearing a cloak that covered most of his face.From a distance, Anila and Legolas couldn't see the man's face clearly, but judging from the man's slim figure and the long strands of hair protruding from the cloak, there was no doubt...

"Woman?" Anila said in astonishment.

Not because there were no footprints of women other than Monica at the scene, but the footprints of men's shoes were quite obvious, so Anila took it for granted that the murderer was a man, and did not strictly question the women in the town. From this point of view, But she was negligent.But why are there man's footprints?Is there more than one murderer?Or the killer is a woman, but wearing men's shoes...

Anila's brain was running fast, but Legolas couldn't help it: "Aren't we going out yet, Velodis?"

"Ah? Hmm!" Anila came back to her senses, "I'll go straight there, you go behind and block her."

"Be careful yourself." Legolas didn't object, and disappeared without a sound.

The woman walked to the grassland, looked around cautiously, and finally came to the big tree. She held a lantern in one hand and a machete in the other, and looked at the scar on the tree seriously. After looking again and again, I didn't find any special traces for a while, and my figure suddenly stopped, and I turned around to leave.

But before she took a few steps, she saw Anila quietly appearing in front of her like a ghost. She wanted to turn around and run away hastily, but found the blond elf watching her calmly behind her.

But the woman obviously had no intention of arresting her without a fight. She looked back and forth between Legolas and Anila nervously, and naturally chose to run away from Anila. After all, this elf had shown his skills and violence more than once. Got angry.

She froze for a moment, and let Anila approach her step by step. When Anila was less than ten meters away from her, the woman suddenly rushed towards Anila with all her strength, trying to slam her away by surprise. Anila then ran away.

But there seemed to be something wrong with her judgment. Anila didn't dodge or dodge. After being hit, she just took a wrong step and stabilized her body. Then she directly grabbed the woman's shoulder. Getting hysterical, he raised the machete in his hand and swung it at Anila without hesitation.

clang!Anila quickly pulled out the dagger at her waist and firmly blocked the opponent's attack.To be honest, the woman's strength is not small, but she just slashed with brute force, which is not a threat to Anila at all. The two confronted each other for a few seconds, Anila suddenly pushed forward forcefully, and the woman moved backwards. He staggered back a few steps, sprained his feet and sat down on the ground, the lantern in his hand rolled out and went out.

"Put down your weapons, don't do unnecessary resistance anymore." Anila's low voice was very clear in the silent night, "I don't want you to get hurt."

The woman neither made a sound nor did she make any subsequent movements, she just panted, showing a posture of non-violent non-cooperation.

Anila hesitated for a moment, and slowly stretched out her hand, but just when she was about to touch the hood that covered most of the woman's face, the woman suddenly raised the machete again, and Anila wanted to withdraw her hand very quickly. , but the hand retracted halfway but paused, and quickly stretched out towards the woman again, one hand tightly clasped the wrist of the woman's hand holding the handle of the knife, and the other hand held the blade firmly.

That woman didn't want to attack Anila this time, she actually wanted to commit suicide!

"Velodys?!" Legolas saw that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly ran towards this side.

The woman dropped the machete in her hand, pushed Anila away, and ran away.

If it weren't for the fact that the elves couldn't swear, Legolas really wanted to swear now, so he bent his bow and set an arrow, and was about to shoot it.

"Legolas!" Anila quickly stopped him, "Don't kill her!"

Because of Anila's voice to stop him, Legolas' arrow missed by a few inches and grazed the woman's arm, causing her to escape.

Legolas didn't care about chasing, and quickly squatted down to check Anila's injuries: "How are you, Velodis? You—"

"It's just a flesh wound, and the wound is not deep. It will heal within a few weeks." Anila replied.

"That kind of person is cheap for me to shoot her to death with an arrow!" Legolas said angrily, "Velodys, you shouldn't have stopped me just now!"

"Stop being angry." Anila smiled, "If you really killed her, what about the case?"

"Case, case, do you only care about the case?" Legolas was indignant, feeling that his good intentions really fed the dog. Who was he so angry for?As a result, the parties seemed indifferent.

Anila opened her mouth and closed it again. She understood what Legolas was angry about, but she was right, right?If she really killed that woman just to vent her anger, wouldn't her injuries be in vain?Wouldn't it be over if the woman wiped her neck at the beginning?

The two fell silent for a while, and could only hear the sound of the blood on Anila's hand dripping onto the grass every few seconds.

"Let's go back first." Legolas couldn't help breaking the silence.Alas, why is he angry with Anila, this is not the first day he has known this person.

Back at the hotel, because Anila was inconvenient with one hand, Legolas did his part to help her clean and bandage the wound.

She really has the ability to make herself miserable, Legolas sighed, and naturally thought of Anila's "tragic" appearance after the Battle of the Five Armies, that's all. After all, it was a war, and even Thranduil was defeated, but this time the opponent was just a peasant woman with a machete, and she was injured again!

"It's wrapped beautifully." However, Anila was still smiling, and she didn't even frown from the beginning to the end. She seemed to be like this during the Battle of the Five Armies, and she turned into that miserable appearance. I guess No less injuries, but she joined the carnival crowd that night, dancing around the campfire endlessly.

Legolas was a bit regretful. Speaking of half of the dance that night, he took the initiative to invite Anila to dance, and Anila did not refuse. At that time, he never thought about whether Anila was injured. No need to rest yet.But then he thought again, even if he didn't drag Anila to dance, that guy was just going to drink with Thranduil, and it wasn't good for the wound to heal.

"Velodyus."

"Ok?"

"Do you get hurt a lot?" And are you used to getting hurt?

"Well, I'm a ranger. If I'm a ranger, I'm bound to fight a lot. How can I not get hurt at all?" Anila scratched her face embarrassingly, "Besides, I'm not good at martial arts, like Legola You shouldn't have suffered any serious injuries, have you?"

Indeed, not to mention bleeding so much, the number of times he even saw his own nosebleeds can be counted on the fingers of his fingers.

"You must have been injured not only because of the war, right? If you cared a tenth as much for yourself as you do for others, you wouldn't have suffered so many injuries." Legolas said with a stern face, which was something he couldn't understand In other places, Anila not only likes to "nosy", but once she manages, she will become a desperate Saburo.

"This time is just an example. If I didn't stop that situation at that time, that person would have chopped himself with a knife."

"I think she is so unscrupulous because she is sure that you will stop her." Legolas was very disdainful.

"This... is indeed possible." Anila was slightly stunned, unable to refute, she could only smile wryly.

"How have you survived for more than 20 years?" Legolas was amazed. With Anila's fearless spirit of sacrifice, it is not uncommon for her to die a hundred times.

"Okay, okay, I will pay attention to it in the future, Legolas, you are really nagging." Anila finally couldn't take it anymore, and started to yell at people.

"That's right," Legolas gritted his teeth, considering that Anila was a wounded person, he didn't say anything more, "Forget it, then go to bed early, and call me if you need anything, good night."

"Well... then if I called your name in my sleep at night, would you come over?" Anila asked with a straight face.

Her answer was Legolas slamming the door.

After Legolas left, Anila fell back straight on the bed.

You should be able to sleep well tonight, right?After all, it was obvious who the murderer was, and the matter was finally resolved.

Thinking of this, Anila closed her eyes and soon fell asleep.

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