Chapter 1192: Mystery

After the old king learned of the sudden change in the royal palace, his expression didn't have much fluctuation. He had experienced all kinds of big storms in his life, so he had long ago developed the habit of not showing his joy or anger.

The old king sat down, threw the empty wine glass in his hand onto the table, and pulled a napkin to carefully wipe the wine stains on his hands.

"Iron Hand, if this matter continues to be handed over to you to handle, how long will you need."

The old king spoke regardless of others. The banquet hall was dead silent. Those officials or big wealthy merchants, although they all pricked up their ears, they all maintained a sideways or back-facing posture, and no one dared to look directly at the old king.

"Three days."

The quest deadline was only three days, so Su Xiao answered very simply. If he couldn't find the murderer within three days, his identity as Iron Hand would be stripped.

"Good, I'll give you three days."

The old king was also very simple, but he didn't say what would happen if Su Xiao couldn't find the murderer within three days. Some things didn't need to be said so directly.

From the old king's previous 'momentary loss of composure', it could be seen that the development of the matter, up to now, had exceeded the old king's control. The little princess dying in the back garden of the royal palace was already strange enough. If her death was just a provocation, then the suicide of the Queen and Legion Commander Karen was a huge conspiracy.

Su Xiao took Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and five imperial guards and walked out of the banquet hall. These five imperial guards were completely under Su Xiao's command in the near future, and they were the top-level cannon fodder + thugs.

While walking out of the banquet hall, Su Xiao began to think about the general situation. From the current situation, in order to cover up the tracks, the other party had almost cleared all the witnesses except Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and the five imperial guards.

Legion Commander Karen died of self-slaughter by throat-cutting, and the rest of the witnesses all committed suicide by drinking poison. According to Su Xiao's observation, the poison taken by the Queen was the same as the poison taken by those royal direct guards, which meant that someone provided them with the same poison.

Covering up the tracks meant that the killer dared not confront the royal family, at least not in the royal palace, so they would hide their heads and show their tails, and destroy the corpses.

There was one thing Su Xiao could never figure out: the killer went to great lengths to arrange a series of plans, even involving the Queen and the Legion Commander, just to kill Shalin Herbert?

What was different about Shalin Herbert? At least in Su Xiao's view, except for 'hey hey hey' with men too early, she had nothing special. Her physical fitness was only at the level of an ordinary person, her appearance was clear and beautiful, but she couldn't be counted as too beautiful. As for her figure... what kind of figure could a 13-year-old girl have.

Shalin Herbert had no special energy in her body, nor was she an important figure in this power struggle.

Su Xiao thought quickly, and various possibilities appeared in his mind. After a series of thoughts, Su Xiao was surprised to find that he hadn't found any valuable information. Sure enough, his reasoning ability was only average.

Discovering this situation, Su Xiao was not surprised. He originally didn't think he could find the murderer by his own reasoning ability. No one was perfect.

Su Xiao indeed didn't have very strong reasoning ability, but he had the position of Iron Hand. The Holy Sodin Kingdom was a huge kingdom. It was pieced together from the territories of five kingdoms. Plus the land was fertile, so the population of the Holy Sodin Kingdom was between 300 and 500 million. As for the specific population, it couldn't be counted at all with the current technology level.

With the technology level of the Hia world, this number of population was already an exaggerated number, but considering the huge area of the Hia continent, it made sense to have so many people. After all, this was the total number of humans. The Holy Sodin Kingdom was the only human kingdom in the Hia world.

Even with hundreds of millions of people, the Holy Sodin Kingdom was sparsely populated, so the royal family vigorously advocated childbirth. For the Holy Sodin Kingdom, which had perverted farming technology, a large population might lead to poverty, but the possibility of starving to death was not high.

The Holy Sodin Kingdom had a farm crop similar to potatoes, named 'Keba'. The survival ability of this thing was at the level of wild grass. If the land was fertile enough, Keba could grow to the size of a basin.

Not only that, regarding the planting of wheat and other crops, the Holy Sodin Kingdom also had very advanced technology. Things similar to plows had long been invented, and what was even more strange was that the civilians of the Holy Sodin Kingdom actually knew grafting technology.

If the technology level of the Holy Sodin Kingdom was similar to medieval Europe, its farming was at least hundreds of years ahead.

Because of this, the Holy Sodin Kingdom could maintain a huge population base and fight against the Undead race for thousands of years.

In this huge population base, of course, there would be talents in all aspects, such as detectives with explosive reasoning ability.

Detective was a popular profession in this world. Some great detectives could even get the recognition of the royal family. Their status was lower than officials and higher than merchants and other industries.

There were many famous detectives. As long as Su Xiao gave an order, all detectives in the royal capital would be forcibly dragged here.

Not only detectives, Su Xiao also needed other people. This quest was not to kill a specific target, but a reasoning quest. His own reasoning ability was not strong, so he used the power in his hands to make up for it.

An excellent detective was a necessary condition. Of course, Su Xiao also needed a 'know-it-all'. The other party had to have an understanding of the size of the forces in the royal capital.

Not only detectives and 'know-it-all', Su Xiao also needed a perfect and safe information channel.

Su Xiao, of course, wouldn't go to find detectives personally; that was too wasteful of time.

"Take it, go find Joe Valentine, and let him get the most excellent detective in the royal capital within 2 hours."

Su Xiao tossed the gold lion pendant to an imperial guard. The imperial guard soon disappeared from Su Xiao's sight. Su Xiao's gaze looked at another imperial guard. These guys all wore metal helmets, only revealing a pair of eyes, and they had no names.

"You go to the Second Princess, and just say that Iron Hand temporarily needs her information network in the royal capital."

Su Xiao, of course, wouldn't be stupid enough to investigate this matter alone. He wanted to mobilize all the means he could use to complete the hidden side quest.

Now there was no clue to this matter at all. The only thing Su Xiao needed to do was not to search for clues all over the world, but to wait, wait for the killer to come to him voluntarily.

This was not Su Xiao's delusion. The people who witnessed the first scene of the murder were almost all dead. Only Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and the five imperial guards had been to the scene and checked the little princess's corpse.

If the killer wanted to silence them completely, they would definitely come to get rid of Su Xiao. As for Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and the five imperial guards, the imperial guards had some value to get rid of, but the possibility of Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang attracting hatred was not high.

As long as the other party had the idea of getting rid of Su Xiao, they would definitely send someone to assassinate him. As long as someone came to assassinate, Su Xiao's opportunity would come.

Su Xiao was not good at reasoning, but he was good at fighting. Once the other party chose to solve this matter by force, Su Xiao had the confidence to complete this hidden side quest.

As for the other party fearing the identity of Iron Hand, stop joking. The other party dared to kill the little princess in the royal palace; they wouldn't fear Iron Hand at all.

And now, Su Xiao wanted to give the other party a chance, so he sent away the force beside him and stayed alone in a place that looked safe but was actually not safe, and that place was the Iron Hand mansion. ===== CHAPTER 1193 =====