Volume 3: Artifacts Chapter 147 Stealing and Buying
Minotaur Mendes did not refuse the request of the Dragon King to investigate the assassin in Deep Well City. He believed that the Shadow Assassin Group had no clues at the moment, and a group of foreign dragons had not even figured out the situation in Deep Well City, so it was simply a fantasy to want to investigate the assassin.
Mendes was not sure what the Dark Chief's attitude was towards the Dragon King. Instead of letting these dragons do nothing and cause trouble, it would be better to give them something to do.
As for Chief Romanchenko's body, the Shadow Assassins have already checked it, and this time they will return the body to the Scarlet Banshee Tribe.
Mendes made a series of promises, then withdrew from the Dragon's Nest and summoned a group of soldiers and shadow assassins to strengthen the guard of the Dragon's Nest.
The door of the dragon's nest was closed. After Luke calmed the harpies, he squatted down and examined Romanchenko's body.
The fatal wound was a puncture through the chest, and the murder weapon should be a sharp weapon with a narrow blade. The assassin attacked from behind and stabbed three times in a very short time, stabbing the trachea, artery, and heart respectively. The triple insurance ensured that Romanchenko died completely in a short time.
The skull was opened and the brain was removed cleanly.
The brain of the Shadow Clan is where the Shadow Parasitic Element resides. Now it can be confirmed that Chief Romanchenko's Shadow Parasitic Element has really been tampered with.
The Lost One knew that Romanchenko had come to Deep Well City, and also knew that her body would be examined. By then, the secrets of Chief Romanchenko's Shadow Parasite would no longer be hidden, so the Lost One chose to silence her.
But why would Chief Romanchenko leave the Dragon's Nest alone?
You have to know that she decided to stay with the dragons because she was worried about being assassinated, so she would never go out quietly, which would be tantamount to seeking death.
Chief Romanchenko is under control!
Luke came to this conclusion.
Moreover, everything Chief Romanchenko saw and heard could have been received by the Lost One, which is why the other party knew about the physical examination and was able to accurately control Chief Romanchenko to leave the dragon's nest when the dragon and the harpy were resting.
After examining the body, Luke stood up and burned the blood off his hands with fire.
Eiffel asked beside him, "King! Deep Well City is not safe right now. We should leave here and return to Dragon Country. We should wait until the Shadow Clan catches the assassin before visiting again."
Luke said: "Now the Shadow Clan may not only be facing the problem of assassins. The Shadow Assassins can't find any clues about the assassinations. Maybe these assassinations were randomly selected. The dead have no commonality, so it is difficult to infer the assassin's motives and identity.
I suspect these assassinations were part of some experiment."
"Experiment?" Eiffel was puzzled.
"If it's an experiment, then it's troublesome!"
Luke asked the Twilight Dragon to freeze Chief Romanchenko's body, and then passed on what happened here and his own speculations to Clear Sky.
Saint-London City.
Qingkong, who was still in class, announced that school would be dismissed early. She did not go back to her room to change out of her magic robe, but took a carriage directly to the Institute of Supernatural Biology.
On the way, she delivered an order to the Imperial Secret Service.
After Qingkong arrived at the Extraordinary Biology Research Institute, he first ordered to suspend all experiments with the Shadow Parasite Iterative Body, seal all related experimental materials, and send all experimental data and information. Then Qingkong drove all the personnel out and read the information alone in a closed room.
After receiving Qingkong's order, the Imperial Secret Intelligence Agency transferred out all the former researchers from the Institute of Supernatural Biology who were in custody, and sent people to summon those who had left the Institute of Supernatural Biology.
After Queen Christina learned about this, she personally supervised the interrogation of the relevant personnel.
Now the Prime Minister of Meteorite is nowhere to be found, and the eldest princess Agatha has not returned from her visit to Dragon Country. Qingkong, who has always refrained from interfering in the affairs of the Empire, suddenly overstepped his authority and gave an order to the Imperial Secret Service. Something big must have happened.
The imperial machine started up, and more and more information related to the shadow parasite element gathered towards the clear sky.
An experiment is urgently launched, and the subject is... the sheriff.
Melkan was taken to Deep Well City.
Malken was once a senior researcher at the Imperial Extraordinary Biology Research Institute, mainly responsible for the research of shadow parasitic meta-iteration bodies. Later, for some reason, he left the Imperial Extraordinary Biology Research Institute and opened a private Extraordinary Biology Research Institute in the Lower City.
Now he is mainly engaged in the breeding business of extraordinary pets.
During this period, Malken never stopped his research on the shadow parasitic meta-iteration body, and also tried to steal the defective products of the Imperial Extraordinary Biological Research Institute.
But Melken never thought that one day he would come to Deepwell City, which is the center of Gruzerei's underground world and the lair of the Shadow Clan.
There are walking shadow parasites everywhere.
And he also met the new king of Dragon Kingdom.
Melkan followed the dragon into the dragon's nest and saluted respectfully to the king who was sitting on a pile of gold and gems.
"Great King of the Dragon Nation, I am an ordinary human. I wonder why you brought me from the Golden Shield Empire's Saint Lun City to the Deep Well City of Gruzerei?"
The lofty Luke said to Melken in a majestic voice: "I heard from the Prime Minister of Meteorite that you are an excellent extraordinary biological transformation master, and you have your own unique ideas and achievements in the research of shadow parasites."
Melken did not dare to admit in Deep Well City that he was engaged in the research of shadow parasites. He defended himself by saying, "Your Majesty, I am now an extraordinary pet breeder and have not been engaged in the research of shadow parasites for a long time."
"You are what I say you are!"
Facing the rude Dragon King, Melken could only smile bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, you brought me to Deep Well City, what do you want me to do?"
"Originally, there was a friend from the Shadow Clan who wanted you to help check her body. Now... you can only check her body."
Chief Romanchenko's ice coffin was carried out by the Twilight Dragons.
Eiffel stepped forward, cast magic to melt the upper layer of ice, and quickly moved the melted water away. Romanchenko's body lay on the ice, just as she had been when she died.
The black dragon Barie who went to pick up Melken took off the box he was carrying, which contained all the equipment and tools needed for the extraordinary transformation.
When a corpse of a Shadow Clan member was placed in front of him, Malken immediately forgot that he had just said that he would no longer conduct research on Shadow parasites.
He quickly set up the operating table, picked up the scissors and removed the clothes from Chief Romanchenko's body. After doing a detailed physical examination and recording, he began the autopsy.
Chief Romanchenko's body was cut open, his internal organs were taken out piece by piece and stored in special containers.
Malken was a man of many talents, performing surgery and recording at the same time. He was so absorbed in his work that he completely forgot about the outside world and only had eyes for the rare Shadow Clan corpse on the operating table.
Ding Dong!
A pocket watch fell to the ground from among Chief Romanchenko's tattered clothes.
Luke walked up and picked it up.
He opened the dial and found that the pocket watch was wiped very clean inside and out, which showed how much Romanchenko liked this pocket watch.
Luke closed the pocket watch and placed it next to Romanchenko's body.
Then he said to Malken: "After the inspection, everything was restored to its original place. She is the chief of the Scarlet Banshee tribe and deserves a decent burial."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Melkan answered but did not raise his head and did not stop the work in his hands.
A few hours later, the inspection was over.
Malcolm breathed a sigh of relief, took off his surgical gloves, wiped the blood off his arm, and handed a stack of forms to Luke.
"The deceased was a harpy, and her arms had undergone extraordinary biological transformation, which allowed them to change between eagle wings and human arms. This level of transformation required the laying of new nerve transmissions and necessary adjustments to the central nervous system.
There should be a control chip embedded in her brain.
Unfortunately, her brain is gone and I can't check the control chip."
Luke looked at the form in his hand and asked Melken, "I heard that the Golden Shield Empire has brain modification technology. It can enhance the brain's memory ability, add and delete memories, and control human behavior.
Can you tell the general function of the control chip in the dead person's brain?"
Malken glanced at the corpse's opened head, shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, Your Majesty. The control chip and the brain are gone. I can't make a judgment without any basis."
It seems that the Lost Ones did a very clean job.
But at least from a technical point of view, it was confirmed that something was really placed in Chief Romanchenko's brain.
"You've done a good job." Luke didn't force Melkan to do anything. After looking through the examination records, he said, "Do you think the deceased was already in a state of near death when he was stabbed?"
Melken replied: "Yes! When anyone is assassinated, even if the body does not react, the internal organs will definitely react. At the same time, as a shadow clan with powerful magic power, the magic power in the body will also change.
But the reaction of the deceased's internal organs and magic energy showed that when the deceased was stabbed, her body functions had been lost, like a walking corpse. In that state, any child could kill her.
The deceased was a member of the Shadow Clan. The Shadow Parasites live in the host's spiritual body and are concentrated in the brain. Therefore... the Shadow Parasites of the deceased may have lost control of their body for some reason."
Realizing that what he said was too unbelievable, Melken immediately explained: "Of course, this is just my guess and cannot be used as a check inference."
Luke did not respond to Melken on this topic. He handed the form in his hand to Eiffel beside him and asked Melken: "I heard that you once tried to smuggle the Shadow Parasite Meta-Iteration Body from the Golden Shield Empire's Extraordinary Biological Research Institute."
Malken immediately denied it: "That is not a Shadow Parasite Iteration Body, it is a defective product among the iteration bodies, and it was lost during transportation."
"I don't care about the process of this matter. I want to know, besides you, who else has smuggled shadow parasite meta-iterations."
"How could I possibly know about this?"
Malcolm denied it, but Luke didn't think he was telling the truth.
Luke stopped probing and said directly: "The research on the Shadow Parasite Meta-Iterative Body is the most top-secret in the Imperial Extraordinary Biology Research Institute. There are few researchers in it, and even fewer people who can access the storage and transportation of the Shadow Parasite Meta-Iterative Body.
The Imperial Secret Service is investigating the missing Shadow Parasite Meta-iterations, but the relevant personnel are missing. However, it can be found that the smuggling of Shadow Parasite Meta-iterations is not the only one, and not only defective products, but even perfect ones may have been transferred out.
Even Shadow Parasite has been stolen more than once.
Malcolm, if you know anything, you'd better tell me. I promise to keep you safe as the King of Dragon Country, otherwise you will be arrested and interrogated by the Imperial Secret Service after you return to the Empire."
Melken used to be a big boss in the Lower City of Saint Lun, but that was because the Empire did not pay much attention to this slum. Now the Lower City is an important source of tax revenue for the Empire, and the Imperial Security Bureau and the Imperial Secret Intelligence Bureau have both moved into the city.
Especially after knowing that Mr. Luke was the fallen star of the empire, the former bigwigs were busy whitewashing themselves and dared not touch any illegal things. They just kept their tails between their legs and made money.
Of course, there were also some foolish people, but the Imperial Secret Service soon taught them what the Royal Eagle Claw was.
Malcolm is now a wealthy man, and is more afraid of the Imperial Secret Service than before.
He knew the crime of smuggling Shadow Parasite Meta-iterations, so he quickly told everything he knew.
"It is true that someone else once smuggled Shadow Parasite Meta-Iterations out of the Imperial Extraordinary Biology Research Institute. It was only because I accidentally discovered their transaction that I learned that Shadow Parasite Meta-Iterations can also be purchased.
The person in charge of stealing these experimental materials out of the institute was Biram..."
Luke interrupted Malken: "Biram has disappeared, and I am not interested in who stole the experimental materials in the institute. I want to know... who bought the Shadow Parasite Iteration Body."
"I don't know." Malcolm said emphatically, "I really don't know. People who do this kind of business will not publicize it. Unless you find Biram, he is a very shrewd man. He will definitely pay attention to the identity of the buyer."
The Imperial Secret Service has been searching everywhere for the missing Biram.
Although the information provided by Melken is not much at present, it confirms some speculations and inferences.
Who stole and bought the Shadow Parasite Meta-iteration?
Luke had a vague idea in his mind, but there was not enough information to support his inference.
I hope Qingkong’s experiment can produce results as soon as possible.
Luke said to Malken, "Although the mission of bringing you to Deep Well City has been completed, in order to prevent other accidents, I need you to stay here as my advisor and provide me with your knowledge and wisdom at any time."
Hearing that he would have to stay in Deep Well City, Melken was both happy and worried.
"It is an honor to serve the King of Dragon. May I know what surprises may arise ? What counsel may I offer you?"
Luke told Melken the truth: "This assassination of the Shadow Clan is not the only one. Before this, there have been many assassinations of the Shadow Clan in Deep Well City, and there will definitely be more in the future.
Perhaps there will be another corpse of the Shadow Clan in the near future that you will need to dissect and examine."
