Chapter 488: Questioning
“What happened?”
When Marquis Joe Foster came to the border post as the person in charge of receiving the Holy See envoy, the sight before him made him feel shock.
A corpse - it looked like a militiaman dressed as an alliance member - was hung upside down on the watchtower, swaying in the wind.
Several other people dressed as militiamen were also killed and randomly dumped under the tower.
Under the watchtower, there are three church knights holding sharp blades.
They were all ready, and the swords in their hands reflected the cold light under the sunlight.
After seeing the arrival of Marquis Foster, a knight drove his horse to a place more than ten meters away from him.
Marquis Foster spoke first: "I am Joe Foster, a member of the Senate. I need a reasonable explanation."
He frowned and his shoulders slightly Trembling, obviously trying to control his excitement.
provocative! This is a serious provocation.
The special envoy of the Holy See went to the land of the Corner Bay Alliance and killed the alliance's militiamen in the name of negotiation.
This behavior is both deceptive and insulting.
"Marquis Foster!"
The knight approaching him spoke, and Foster couldn't see his face because of the hooded helmet.
"I am ordered to stay in this sinful place to inform you that the despicable behavior of the Corner Bay Alliance has completely envy the Corner Bay Church and the Holy See. We will regard it as the most serious insult and provocation! Next, you and your poor people Allies will face the most severe punishment from the church.”
What? This is simply unreasonable!
For a moment, Marquis Foster thought it was ridiculous. You came to our territory to kill people, and you said we were provoking.
But he still asked patiently: "I wonder what the provocation this knight is talking about? Let me guess, you are saying that our militia did not behave obediently when facing your butcher knife. Waiting for death and choosing to resist, is this a provocation in your eyes?"
"Marquis Foster? Are you still pretending to be confused now?"
asked the knight with great sorrow and indignation.
"Am I pretending to be confused?" Marquis Foster heard that the knight's grief and anger did not seem to be fake, and he had doubts in his heart again.
The knight shouted loudly and asked: "Didn't it mean that the Horned Bay Alliance sent killers to ambush here and brutally killed Lord Leadbetter, the special envoy of the Holy See?"
"What did you say?"< br>
Foster couldn't believe his ears, Leadbetter...was killed?
But was it someone on his own side who did it?
"If you didn't hear clearly, let me say it again. Lord Leadbetter was brutally murdered by the killers of the Horn Alliance, in that small room."
For Knights The riding crop pointed toward the cabin where Leadbetter had rested.
"Of course, I guess you know the whole story better than I do, because this was originally your evil plan."
Things are getting serious!
Marquis Joe Foster felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
It is not that he is afraid of the upcoming war, but that something like this happened before the war. If the shit basin is tightly secured, the Horned Bay Alliance will be in a quite disadvantageous position morally.
Foster said eagerly: "He is Leadbetter...where is Leadbetter's body? I want to see, there must be something wrong with it."
The knight was disdainful After looking at it, he said angrily: "How can Lord Leadbetter's body be left here and continue to be desecrated by you sinners? He has been taken to Collins."
Foster retorted: "This There must be something wrong in it. Sir Knight, I ask you to regain your sense as a guardian knight. Just imagine what benefits it would bring to us to kill the Holy See envoy in this situation. If we want to negotiate, kill the envoy. Needless to say, there will be serious consequences, and if we want to go to war, killing the envoy will not allow us to win immediately, but will arouse your common hatred, so no matter what, we have no motive to kill Leadbetter." "You are still quibbling!"
The knight's anger can almost turn into flames through the visor in front of the helmet.
He held the hilt of the sword tightly, and his body tensed up due to the accumulation of force, as if he would stab the sword in his hand hard in the next second.
The marquis's guards noticed the changes in the knight, and with a clang sound, they also drew their swords to prevent the angry knight from attacking their master.
After all, the knight did not take action, but said: "Our people saw with their own eyes that your killer stabbed that sinful poisonous dagger into the back of the special envoy. The fact is unquestionable. It must be you. The despicable people in power have deceived those citizens who are still willing to follow the path of correct belief. They are afraid that Lord Leadbetter will come to expose your lies, so they use despicable means of assassination.”
The knight has determined that what he thinks is the truth.
Forster was about to defend his side, but the knight who was speaking to him waved his hand rudely.
"Okay, Marquis Foster, I have no patience to waste time talking to you here. The Almighty Heavenly Father has already understood some sins, and you will definitely pay the price for your despicability. Brother "Everyone, let's go back and recover first."
After saying this, the knight shook the reins hard, and the horse turned around and ran towards the far side of the trade road.
The other two knights also drove their cars and followed the previous knight.
All they left for Marquis Forster was a trail of smoke.
……
Joe Foster was livid.
Who planned this assassination?
He did not doubt that the knight's words - that is, the fact that Leadbetter was killed - were false.
Leadbetter is the senior priest in charge of diplomacy in the Holy See. It would be a joke if the Corner Bay Church or the Holy See fabricated the murder of such a high-status figure to gain an excuse to start a war or occupy the moral high ground.
So Leadbetter should have been killed without a doubt.
Who did it?
Jiaowan Church? There's a good chance it's filled with rabid lunatics.
Hardliners from the alliance or allied countries? There is also the possibility that many people have been preparing for this war for a long time, just waiting to take advantage of the chaos to make a fortune.
Those landlocked countries that support the Church of the Corner? The biggest possibility is them. Inland people have always coveted the wealth along the coast, and they have always wanted to use the banner of the church to plunder the wealth along the coast.
Ah, now is not the time to reason about this. We need to inform the Council immediately.
After all, the war will break out soon.
Full of doubts, Marquis Forster whipped his horse hard. The horse squealed in pain, spread its hooves and galloped away in the direction it was going.
The Marquis’s attendants also followed closely.
People on both sides left.
Only the speechless bodies of the militiamen were still hanging upside down on the tower, swaying in the wind.
(End of this chapter)