Chapter 1, Baron Cane
The bright moon hung high in the night sky, inside the magnificent room.
The wide-open window and door blew in a cold wind, causing the oil lamp on the table to flicker.
Next to the overturned chair lay a young noble in gorgeous attire.
At this moment, his delicate face was pale and colorless. His eyes were closed and his lips were purple.
A sharp arrow was openly shot into his chest, pointing straight at his heart.
"Ahem...."
Suddenly, the young man coughed suddenly and woke up. He opened his eyes and looked around blankly, only to find that it was no longer the environment he was familiar with.
"Where is this?"
"Am I not in the detective agency? Hiss.."
The memories that gushed out appeared in his mind like a tide. Kane Gerrard was the name of this body.
As a baron who had just inherited the title, he could have had great scenery, but on this night, a sudden assassination ended his life.
At this moment, Su Ming from Blue Star inherited his body.
It was also unlucky. Su Ming just took a nap in his detective office. He didn't expect to wake up and cross over.
He stood up unsteadily, but there was a pain in his chest. Only then did Su Ming remember that he still had a sharp arrow in his body.
"Damn it, I forgot there was such a thing."
Looking at the sharp arrow that had sunk into his chest, Su Ming did not know what to do, but the increasingly severe pain was warning him, either pull out the sharp arrow or keep hurting.
After being torn for a moment, Su Ming took a deep breath, endured the pain in his heart, held the tail of the arrow, and pulled the sharp arrow out.
Immediately, golden-red blood gushed out following the arrows, and Su Ming himself fell to his knees on the ground.
An unspeakable sense of pain appeared in his body, as if the moment he pulled out a sharp arrow, Su Ming's own strength also flowed along with his blood.
Clutching his bleeding chest, Su Ming slowly changed from kneeling to falling. Finally, he lost the strength to support him and fell completely. Everything in front of him also became sleepy.
But his will to survive kept reminding him that he couldn't just sleep.
Perhaps the gods were also moved by him. Under his strong will, his eyelids that were already swirling gradually opened, and an inexplicable sense of comfort rushed to his heart.
Su Ming, who no longer felt pain, relaxed his spirit in this sense of comfort and gradually fell asleep.
........
Early morning.
When the bright sunlight shone into the room, there was a knock on the door.
"Knock knock knock."
"Lord Baron Cane."
Su Ming, who remained in the same posture as last night and fell to the ground, no, it should be said that Kane opened his eyes again.
He struggled to get up from the floor and wiped his slightly moist cheeks. Only then did he realize that his whole body was covered with blood.
However, what made Kane feel strange was that his blood was mixed with a little gold, and the blood that should have dried up or solidified a long time ago was like flowing water, constantly dripping from his body.
Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, Kane tore open his tattered shirt.
After looking at his chest, he revealed a look that was indeed so.
The b****y hole left by the sharp arrow previously pulled out had long since healed, leaving only a hideous scar.
I'm afraid my body changed last night.
Kane clearly knew that even if he had the strength of the first rank in his memory, he would not have such an ability.
Looking at the large pool of blood on the floor, Kane shook his head self-deprecatingly. Yes, the person who could keep the blood on the floor was not a normal person.
At this time, an inquiring voice came from outside the door again.
"Lord Baron Cane?"
Listening to this familiar voice, Kane knew the identity of the person outside the door. It was his personal servant Eunqin.
As a servant who grew up with Kane, he was deeply trusted by himself.
When he still did not know whether the assassin came from outside or inside the castle, Eun Qin was the person he trusted the most.
Immediately, Kane pulled open the door and pulled Eun Qin into the room.
"Lord Cane, what's wrong with you?" Looking at Cane, whose whole body was stained with blood, Eunqin asked anxiously.
Kane patted Eunqin on the shoulder, signaled him to calm down, and said, "Eunqin, I'm fine. There's no need to ask more questions about this matter. You should tidy up here first. Remember to leave the arrows behind."
Seeing that Kane did not want to say more, Enqin suppressed the doubts in her heart and began to clean up.
On the other side, Kane, who had finished the order, went to the bathroom alone to clean.
After freshening up, Kane walked out of the door and led by another maid to the dining room.
After he was seated, the servants waiting at the side began to serve the morning, and the butler Jace also walked in at this moment.
In the original owner's memory, this butler Jace had assisted an old man in the family since the previous baron, and his experience could be said to be very sophisticated.
"Lord Cane, the warm red wine from Bisburg has been prepared for you. Would you like to serve it now?"
"Serve it, Jace."
"As you wish, Lord Cane."
Jace took the red wine in the servant's hand and slowly poured it into Kane's glass.
During this period, Kane also observed everyone's facial expressions, but whether it was Jace or the others, they were as usual.
It seemed that they did not know about the assassination. Could it be that the murderer came from outside the castle?
.......
After breakfast, Kane followed his original habit and went to the training ground outside the castle to start his daily morning exercise.
Wielding the longsword in his hand, Kane absentmindedly slashed at the training dummy.
While trying to maintain his original routine, Kane kept thinking about who it was to assassinate himself at this juncture.
Was it Jace? Obviously not, as the butler of the castle, he had no reason to assassinate himself.
Could that be Marcus? A robust and steady figure appeared in Kane's mind, but then he shook his head again. As his own knighthood, the other party would not make such an unwise choice.
It definitely wouldn't be Katherine. Like Marcus, she was a transcendent who had been trained by her own family. Once she fell, they would also be greatly affected.
Putting down the long sword in his hand and taking the towel handed over by the servant, Kane wiped the sweat from his forehead and continued to think that apart from all the candidates in the castle, it could only be an assassination from the outside world.
The morning exercise soon ended and Kane returned to his study.
At this time, the study had been cleaned up by Enqin. He stood aside and handed the murder weapon to Kane.
After receiving the arrows, Kane instructed, "Enqin, remember not to spread the matter inside the room."
Eun Qin nodded, "Yes, I know, Lord Cane." Then, he consciously exited the study.
After the other party closed the door, Kane picked up the arrow and carefully pondered it. There was a protruding part at the tail end of the arrow, and the arrow feather that should have been at the tail was above this part. This was a typical crossbow arrow deconstruction.
At the same time, the crossbow arrow style is also a common staple. Obviously, the assassin did not want people to detect his identity.
Putting down the arrows, Kane came to the window. Assuming that his previous reasoning was true, then the murderer probably entered the room from outside.
The window of the study looked very clean, thanks to the fact that servants came to clean it up every day, but Kane still found some doubts under the window.
Looking down, the majestic stone walls propped up the entire castle. However, at some positions below the window, Kane noticed that one or two stone bricks looked a little different.
They all lack a side foot, and the missing position is exactly opposite to both sides of the window.
If it weren't for Kane's career in his previous life, this tiny detail would definitely not have been noticed by ordinary people.
Sure enough, as he thought, the murderer came in from outside.
Then the murderer who could evade many inspections outside the fort and easily climb up the city wall to assassinate himself must be extraordinary, even higher than himself.
This gave Kane a slight headache. Transcendents all had their own unique powers and were far from existences that ordinary soldiers could resist.
Besides, now that the other party was in the dark and he was in the light, once he found out that he was still alive, he would definitely come to assassinate him again.
Kane must make a plan before the assassination.
