Liszt suddenly realized.
"That's right... Miss Norm took you into the car, so he must have known that Copperfield was hiding! So he used Miss Norm to threaten him! It's even possible... Because you are close to him, Copperfield suspects that you are not trustworthy!"
He really hit the nail on the head.
Ethan didn't look very happy.
This would never have happened in the past.
But Nan Xinze had just been involved in such a huge scandal... If Eugenie Kopperfield had access to the inside story, it would be reasonable for him to doubt the loyalty of the Shadow Lion agent.
"but……"
Then Liszt frowned again.
"But Miss Norm has nothing to do with him...why would he--"
"I'm afraid so."
This time, Hitzfeld looked at Jerry with a playful look.
"Their relationship may be progressing much faster than anyone thought."
Jie Li's face gradually turned red, and for a moment she didn't know whether fear or joy was better.
The people she cares about care about her too.
It is certainly a heart-pounding beauty.
But, with everything that is happening now...
She is worried...
"If that's the case, why would they want to throw out the real Tang Meng's body?"
Old Barr spoke in a muffled voice.
He was displeased with the girl and just wanted to find fault with her.
"Isn't it obvious?"
Darent rushed back to him.
"Let Luke disappear first, and then dump the body. Luke can hide temporarily, and by the way, he can clear his suspicion from Copperfield - just like when we used traditional thinking to investigate the alibi and found that Tang Meng was sleeping in the room during that time - we all thought the body was Luke, so naturally we wouldn't consider that he could instigate the real Luke to do this, and he can also clear his suspicion from us at the same time!"
Liszt slapped his forehead and showed an expression of "So this is how it can be done".
He was truly shocked.
"Then why did he do that? Why did he throw it into the pigpen?"
Old Barr still refused to give in.
"Didn't you tell them before that this place also has a special meaning?"
"Whether there is any special meaning or not, you know this better than any of us."
Hitzfeld replied coldly.
"It's not like there haven't been deaths in this town before, but you didn't want to avenge them."
"Because they were not killed by the fire dragon!" Old Baal roared loudly.
"Being killed by a person, dying in an accident, and being killed by a monster! Isn't there a fundamental difference between these two?"
"Are you still going to remain silent?"
Hitzfeld ignored him and went to see Duke Gran.
“Why is it that the whistling sound that no one has ever heard before was heard as soon as we went up there?”
"Why did the hoof prints that hadn't appeared for decades appear again after such a long time?"
"Aren't you going to explain?"
"because……"
As others watched, Duke Gran slowly spoke in a hoarse voice, "Because we created it on purpose."
"Purpose……"
He raised his head, glanced at Old Bal quickly and fearfully, and continued to speak under his gaze: "The purpose is to make you believe that evil species really exist."
"And I will make you believe that it is outside, in the mountains and forests."
Suddenly, the door opened and a pale but definitely handsome young man walked in and helped him complete the last part that he had concealed.
"Instead of hiding in the manor."
"Inside the wall!"
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Chapter 44: Fairy Tale Town
"Mr. Copperfield!"
When she saw this person, the first person to react and even stand up and exclaim was Jie Li.
Her face was full of surprise. She staggered around the table and almost tripped over a stool. She rushed to the young man and looked at him with a flushed face.
"You...why are you suddenly..."
"Because I'm always here." The young man steadied her shoulders, took a step back, and took off his gray coat that was covered in dirt and dust, revealing a clean linen shirt.
At this point, the last trace of the cleaner's temperament also faded from him. He stood there like a javelin, and his sharp eyes were like two scalpels, coldly sweeping across the faces of Duke Gran, Chikalia Noan, and Old Barr.
"I must express my sincere respect to you." Then he turned to Hitzfeld, bent down, and bowed deeply to her. "My original intention was just to attract a well-connected detective here, because I know very well that most police systems are not as convenient as private detectives in operation. By the time they confirm that Miss Norm is not teasing them and really intends to send forces to investigate Green Town, I am afraid that the matter here will have been settled."
"So you thought of me." Hitzfeld accepted the gift calmly without refusing. "Is it because you have only heard of my name?"
"Your name left the deepest impression on me."
"It seems you know a lot of inside information, Mr. Copperfield. Can you tell me what your real occupation is?"
"Same as you." Eugenie smiled, reached into his trouser pocket, took out a small black wallet, and threw it directly on the table.
"But the subject they serve is different, although I think the difference is very small."
Ethan walked up to pick up the small wallet, opened it, and saw an agent's ID card carved out of cardboard and a precision printer embedded on the transparent rubber side.
"Name, Eugenie Copperfield..."
"Serve the one you belong to, Talignan..."
"You joined the Fire Dragon Alliance?" Ethan looked up suddenly and was finally a little surprised.
Talignan is the name of the Fire Dragon Alliance, a name that was personally chosen by its current monarch, the ancestor many generations ago. It means "fire dragon" or "dragon" in more than three languages, and if the pronunciation is changed, it can be doubled.
"I've been a member for a long time." Eugenie nodded. "It's not just Sara that has evil followers, so I understand how cunning and dangerous my opponent is."
This is an explanation. It explains why he has been hiding for so long and is unwilling to come out.
"You are the one who poisoned the snacks, right?" Hitzfeld's next words made almost everyone in the room change color.
"It's me." Even under Jerry's shocked gaze, Eugenie admitted calmly.
"He was too strict in taking care of Jerry... He would arrive almost every time you guys left. I wasn't sure if you guys were trustworthy at the time, so I could only think of ways to hide myself and try to speed up everything according to my ideas."
"So that's why you chose to poison?" Lister looked at him as if he was a madman.
"My enemy is lurking just like me, but he doesn't need to disguise himself like me." Eugenie spread his hands. "I am at a huge disadvantage compared to him. I don't want to delay the process too long, so I want to test your true attitude. It's most efficient to put the blame on him this way."
"Do you want us to suspect the people around Jerry?" Darent understood a little.
He glanced at Hitzfeld, wondering if she was the "Tang Meng" he had started to suspect from that time.
"Then how can you guarantee that everything you do will develop as you want?" Ethan looked at him with a very stern and unfriendly look.
He also felt that Eugenie's mentality was too crazy... Yes, of course he could guess that the person who bumped into Tonks at that time was Eugenie, and he deliberately used this method to remind him.
But what if? What if Jie Li woke up in these few minutes? What if she happened to feel hungry and went to eat cakes?
Wouldn't that create another tragedy?
"Oh, well, actually she won't eat it no matter what." Hitzfeld hurried to help explain.
"why?"
"Because..." The girl was a little speechless, "Because it's a vegetable cake."
"what?"
"It's made of ground vegetables... and there's lettuce mixed in." The girl spread her hands helplessly, "She doesn't like eating this kind of thing... I don't need to emphasize it again, right?"
this--
The group of people were stunned.
They then remembered that Jerry Nome was a person who never hesitated to show her hatred for vegetables at any time.
"Mr. Kopperfield talked to her a lot on the train, so it's not surprising that he knows some of her little quirks." Hitzfeld continued, "So he is absolutely sure about this matter... There is no need to blame him for this."
"Copperfield..." Jie Li looked at him blankly.
"In fact, you can just wake me up and take me away from here..."
"I'm afraid not." The young man pursed his lips, "One is that it's too dangerous, and the other is that I can't shirk my responsibilities."
"Explain what you meant by evil seed, young man!"
A roar like thunder sounded in the room.
That was Old Bal. His face had returned to being very calm, but his eyes were narrowed into slits, making him look even more dangerous than when he was furious.
"And you." He looked at the trembling Duke Gran, "Explain what you mean by 'created evil species'?"
"And Miss Hitzfeld..."
When he turned to the last person, he finally couldn't help but reveal a hint of hidden fear.
"You said before that their goal is to... awaken the magic hidden in the blood of Gralant and make the sealed fire dragon appear again..."
"But their target was me."
"What does this mean? What's going on..."
"Tell me... tell me!!!"
"I have always respected you, Mr. Grarant." Seeing his body trembling slightly, Hitzfeld sighed.
"I don't want to treat you as a fool, so I think you actually understand who you are."
"And what exactly caused the Baines family to be killed forty-one years ago, and who killed them."
When she said this, Old Barr's body trembled even more violently.
He was like a drowning man trying to grasp at the last straw, sweeping quickly and sharply at Duke Gran, his lips moving, his whole face filled with pleading.
“…My father did it.”
Duke Gran kept his head down, not daring to respond to his gaze.
"My father, Borini Gran, planned the accident because he could not tolerate those two evildoers. He could not tolerate them daring to try to get the dragon blood in that way..."
"lie!!!"
His words were interrupted by Old Barr's roar.
"fraud!!!"
"madman!!!"
"What dragon blood??? Are you saying that I am an evil species? How could the sacred blood of Gralant be defeated by the curse of a mere fire dragon!?"
He rushed over, grabbed Duke Gran's collar with his extraordinary strength, and lifted the man high from the ground, his face distorted like a monster.
"Don't be impulsive, Mr. Mayor!"
"Let him go!"
