This is a bit strange... Ed slowly opened another piece of information, information about Poppy Valley.
Poppy Valley was originally called Henaldo Valley, which means "solitary place" in Elvish language. The information also described some information about the geographical location, but the content was not very helpful. He jumped directly to the description of the "Poppy Valley Massacre":
On June 5, 868, due to the successive victories of the expeditionary force, a large number of elven troops, composed of refugees, remnants, and wounded, fled towards the Gernaldo Valley. Facing the defeated army that had laid down their weapons and stopped resisting, Colonel Kellus still ordered to fire.
More than 8,000 people were massacred and no one survived.
This incident caused widespread controversy on an international scale. The Kingdom of Lyria suffered unprecedented notoriety, which greatly shook the authority of Richard II. At this time, Richard II was already the de jure emperor of Elysium.
For this reason, the Kingdom of Lyrea held a public trial on the "Poppy Valley Massacre". Many officers involved in the incident could not bear the humiliation and committed suicide in prison. As the chief envoy, Colonel Corus Haken did not choose to commit suicide. He attended the judgment of the Poppy Valley case and admitted his war crimes in court.
Colonel Corus Haken was not sentenced due to protection under the wartime statutes. But since then, no one has dared to continue to use him.
However, a confidential document shows that before the "Poppy Valley Massacre", Richard II sent a manuscript to the commander of the Third Expeditionary Force of Lyrea, and the order conveyed by the commander to Colonel Haken was yes--
Don’t let anyone go, regardless of status, and take no prisoners.
It seems that Colonel Corus Haken has taken the blame...
There was also an officer personnel list attached at the back, and Ed quickly found Dr. Rowan Shire in it. At this time he happened to be serving as Colonel Haken's aide-de-camp.
After the tragedy, the remaining elves on the Arcadia continent planted red poppies in the valley to commemorate the deceased. Since then, it has a more famous name - Poppy Valley.
The flower language of the red poppy is: comfort, forgetfulness, and eternal sleep.
The red valley... Ed thought of Dr. Rowan's words. Is this the knot in his heart?
As a doctor, he spent the second half of his life saving 346 lives to repay the sin of killing as a soldier in the first half of his life.
"Can a person's good and evil offset each other...?" He repeated this sentence softly.
"What did you say?" the receptionist asked.
"Oh it's all right……"
Ed waved his hand and handed the document back to him: "I've finished reading it. Thank you for your great help."
"Nothing, this is what I should do."
The other party took the document, removed the staples and threw it into the shredder. The belt caused the cutter head to rotate rapidly, and the document suddenly turned into a ball of paper scraps.
He returned to Miss Olivia's office to hand over the authorization card, but was stopped by the other party:
"I'm afraid I have to temporarily recruit you, Mr. Waikolo. We have just received reports that shooting riots occurred simultaneously in nine locations in the Central District. Similar reports have been received in several other areas. It is very likely that Kelu Colonel Si Harken and his gang of veterans are at work."
Riots broke out in nine locations at the same time, not including other areas? Is it possible that the other party wants to stage some kind of coup?
Ed didn't expect that the other party would do such a big trick. A battalion of new ordnance is enough to arm an army of nearly three hundred people, and it can indeed cause quite a disturbance in the city.
But he quickly rejected this conjecture. After all, it was a force composed of ordinary people. In addition to the agents of the Divine Intervention Bureau composed of extraordinary people, they also had to face the support of the city's garrison and the Royal Society.
Even if the situation is urgent, even the deacons of the Holy Church and the private guard of the Oakland family will join the battle. In the face of such a force, a force of three hundred people is completely insufficient. Even if they rely on the terrain to engage in street fighting, I am afraid they can only last a few hours at most.
What does Corus Haken want to do?
"Half of our manpower has been dispatched, and the remaining investigators must be on standby at any time to deal with the possible escalation of unrest. I'm afraid we will need your assistance in investigating this area."
Miss Olivia gently placed her finger on the urban map beside her. There were nine red marks on the plots in the central district, eight of which had been marked green, and the remaining one was obviously reserved. The mission for Ed——
Herbert's Drug Store.
…
Although Ed really wanted the eldest lady of the Oakland family to wade into the muddy waters with him, the current situation obviously meant that it was too late to inform Catalina.
Miss Olivia specifically approved him to equip a patrol horse as a temporary mount to quickly arrive at the scene, but Ed still refused and went out and stopped a carriage to transport him——
He had never ridden a horse before, and it would be embarrassing if he fell off.
As soon as the carriage stopped, Ed jumped out of the carriage, turned around and threw a shilling to the coachman. It's probably enough to pay the fare.
A rickety hanging sign read the store's name: Herbert's Drug Store.
It was obvious that he was not in the wrong place, and the broken windows on the side proved that the attack just reported was not groundless.
"What happened?" Ed asked straight to the point as he walked into the store.
"I have no idea……"
The boss showed his bald head from the counter, his face also at a loss:
"Suddenly I heard several gunshots, and then the glass shattered all over the floor. I thought there were robbers coming, so I squatted behind the counter to prevent them from raiding the house."
"...After waiting for a long time, no one came into the store to rob. Holy Spirit, this is just like a child breaking the glass."
"Is anyone hurt?"
"No, I feel like they don't shoot after people, more like they want to find trouble. But the conscience of heaven and earth! I always operate with integrity and have never offended anyone."
"interesting……"
Ed checked several bullet holes from gunshots. They were quite scattered, and almost all of them were shot on the ceiling. They were obviously not intended to kill people.
The ballistic directions of the 7.62mm caliber rifle bullets all pointed towards the opposite alley. After the opponent finished shooting, he retreated into the alley, perhaps just to create chaos.
But why do this?
I'm afraid we won't know until we find them.
After stretching his sore muscles, Ed knew that he was obviously not in his best condition now, but it shouldn't be a problem to deal with a few old and frail ordinary people.
"You don't seem to be in good health. Would you like to try our signature elixir?" the boss suggested in a timely manner.
"What medicine?"
If there are medicines that can relieve pain, it is not impossible to buy a few tablets and take them.
"Convenience pills. This is the best-selling medicine here."
The shopkeeper took out several spherical pills made of metal from the cupboard. Heavy metal, common sense told Ed that this thing must be unreliable.
Out of curiosity, he still asked: "Why is it called Convenience Pill?"
"Because it's a laxative."
Diarrhea through metal poisoning. He thought to himself, only a devil would buy this thing.
"And it is really very convenient. It will be excreted along with the human intestines. You can take it out and wash it before reusing it..."
"Uh...well, I have some serious things to do. I sincerely hope you have bought store insurance."
Ed lowered the brim of his hat, quickly waved his hand and walked out of the store.
