Chapter 880
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Sou, Sou!
Two flying daggers broke through the air and brought out two cold glints in the cemetery at night.
"Careful!"
John reminded loudly and subconsciously shielded the middle-aged man behind him.
As for Kieran?
After witnessing Kieran's strength, John wasn't worried about Kieran at all.
Quite the opposite, he was more worried about the person who attacked Kieran.
As a matter of fact, he was.
Kieran's figure vanished in a flash, together with the two flying daggers. John who widened his eyes didn't even catch Kieran's movements.
All he saw was Kieran reappearing with two flying daggers in one hand and an unfamiliar man in the other.
John didn't get a clear look, let alone the middle-aged man from the Wayne family.
"What's wrong?
What happened? "
The middle-aged man shouted in panic.
"It's nothing, just an accident!"
John comforted the man before he walked up to Kieran and looked at the unconscious man in the man's hand.
The man was dressed in black, his wrists and ankles were tied tightly with a thin rope and there were two flying daggers and a short sword on the belt around his waist.
On the other side of the belt was a pouch.
Inside the pouch was a hand crossbow and a flintlock pistol, plus some test tubes and potions.
There was also a dagger hidden in the man's boot.
John frowned hard when he saw the items.
Common people wouldn't carry such things around with them.
Of course, the person who appeared in this place wouldn't be a common person either.
"Who is this guy?
Is he following us? "
John asked.
"We'll have to interrogate him later but he arrived here earlier than us."
Kieran threw the captive on the ground and said in an affirmative tone.
First, Kieran had absolute confidence that the captive was waiting here beforehand. Otherwise, with his Intuition, if the captive was following them, he wouldn't have missed him.
Second, the captive shouldn't be related to the Wayne family at all. Whether it was the way he dressed or the way he behaved, he looked more like someone who was involved in some secret activities.
Some people involved in secret activities were interested in the Wayne Family that was about to fall?
Kieran quickly made his way to the place where the man had been hiding.
With [Tracking], the traces left behind by the enemy were clearly visible.
In other words, the other party had only arrived a little earlier than them.
"The Revival Society has just been annihilated, and now someone has appeared here … Interesting!"
Kieran propped up his chin with one of his hands and glanced back and forth between the captives and the first generation Duke Wayne's tomb.
"How is it?"
John asked.
If it wasn't for the tomb raiding, we might have accidentally caught a big fish. "
Kieran replied.
Kieran then headed straight to the first generation Duke Wayne's grave chamber.
Without any difficulty, Kieran found the mechanism to open the tomb door.
Quack.
With the sound of a spring turning, the door of the tomb slowly opened.
Looking at the opened tomb door, the middle-aged man from Wayne family opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something but when he saw the situation inside the tomb, his mouth widened completely and he couldn't close it at all.
A simple yet fully furnished living room.
There was no coffin, let alone a body.
All there was was a bed, a study table, a chair, and a blanket made from animal fur.
Judging from the messy bowls and basins on the floor, there had been at least seven to eight people living here.
"This … This …"
The middle-aged man stuttered and couldn't utter a word.
"This is that bastard Gateli's hideout!"
John grunted coldly.
Although Gateli was really dead, even so, the chief officer couldn't raise any fondness towards Gateli who participated in the creation of the plague.
"But … But the bones …"
The middle-aged man was trying to express something inarticulate.
"Maybe they were cleaned up."
John said in an uncertain tone when he saw Kieran walking back and forth in the tomb.
John didn't forget what Kieran said just now.
"Big fish?"
John looked down at the unconscious captive, his mind was spinning non-stop.
The chief officer tried to connect what he saw and heard.
But in the end, he couldn't find anything.
"What the hell is going on?
What do you mean by big fish? "
John walked into the tomb and asked Kieran who was also thinking.
"Have a look at this tomb."
Kieran didn't answer John's question.
"It's normal, other than the lack of a body!"
John replied.
"Then have you ever thought about where the coffin and body that should have been here went?"
Kieran asked again.
"They should have been taken care of right?
After all, Gateli and his gang were here, if there was a body here, it would be weird! "
John voiced out his own guesses.
"Em."
Kieran nodded and didn't deny John's guesses.
Because it was the most reasonable explanation for the scene before his eyes.
If it wasn't for the lack of corresponding traces!
A coffin with a body inside, according to the time on the tombstone, it should have been placed in the tomb for at least 40 years. Even if it was a stone floor, there should have been traces left behind.
Let alone this kind of cold and damp tomb.
If there really was a coffin here, aside from the pressure marks, even the moss that grew over the coffin wasn't something that the later generations could 'clean' up.
At least there would be some traces left after washing.
But the tomb before John's eyes was clean as if there was nothing there.
"A tomb without a coffin and body?"
Kieran muttered in his heart, he didn't say anything else to John and walked towards the middle-aged man.
"How did the first generation Duke Wayne die?"
Kieran asked.
"He died of a sudden illness, some even said it was the plague, so the body was hurriedly sent into the tomb together with the coffin."
The middle-aged man replied.
"Did you see it with your own eyes?"
Kieran continued.
"That was 40 years ago, how could I have seen it with my own eyes?
I heard it from my elders.
There should have been others who saw it with their own eyes but after that bastard's internal strife, a lot of them died without knowing why. "
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly.
"Is that so?"
Kieran muttered to himself.
He realized more and more that the Wayne family was unusual.
Following the death of the second generation Duke Wayne … No, not following the death of the second generation Duke Wayne but the culprit himself intentionally pushed for the death of the second generation Duke Wayne.
It wasn't Gateli.
Gateli was just a pawn.
The culprit should be someone who hid deeper.
A person who not only schemed against the Wayne family but also the Church of Dawn.
"Who could it be?"
Kieran was still pondering on the matter in the wagon on the way back, his eyes couldn't help but look at the captive.
The captive who was tied up had woken up.
When the captive caught Kieran's gaze, he quickly lowered his head.
But a moment later, he looked up again.
"I'm sorry to meet you in such a way, 2567."
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