The cold-faced earl doesn't want to trigger the plot

"Plague..."

The report was written in great detail and attached a lot of pictures, which made Riber feel physically uncomfortable.

But in short, this report also explains why this "toxic" patient had regular attacks during his lifetime.The reason is that some tiny strange insects, which are difficult to detect with the naked eye, destroy and pollute the patient's body at regular intervals, making her look like she is suffering from Stanger's disease.

"Monsieur Riber..."

"Well, I thought of that too."

Once together in the Nancheng District in the foggy night, Riber and Chris, who were attacked, looked at each other and immediately connected the "pest plague" with various incidents.

The woman's body, as the researchers put it, became a "worm nest" at the time of her death.And these invisible insects should not have escaped from the nest, because the strength of the insects themselves is limited, and they do not have the conditions to let them leave.

However, the foggy night is very special.

Just like the ordinary "night devil", it also possesses destructive power beyond common sense.If these bugs were bred by a serial killer in a mysterious organization, and existed as his abilities, they had been amplified in the foggy night.The plague will start to spread from that corpse.

This can also explain why after that night, Ribel and Chris, who were beside the woman when she passed away, both suffered from a strange disease that was enough to make them fall down.Moreover, Lysa is still unconscious.

Therefore, the mysterious organization would send killers one after another to attack Ewenna's hut.The purpose is actually the "worm nest".

Presumably there will not be only one "worm nest", and there will not be only one way of spreading the plague.

This led to a large-scale coma in Nancheng District.

The drowsiness event itself was a harbinger before the outbreak of the plague.

That is to say, even though most of the people who have fallen asleep have already woken up, if there is no mistake in the speculation, except for Riber who has the blessing of the moon, the rest of the people who have fallen into sleep may have already suffered from the "Stanger" disease. Toxic disease" is very similar to the pest plague.

"How is it, is there any gain?"

Seeing that the faces of the two of them suddenly became very ugly, Erhard asked quickly.

"Before the harvest...we are in big trouble, Captain Erhard..."

Probably thought of the tragic situation when the plague patient who was very similar to Stanger's disease died.Chris was pale and had trouble keeping a smile on his face.

"If the mysterious organization composed of serial killers doesn't have multiple 'insect messengers'. Then...the traitor we are facing now is very likely to be someone who can kill others through insects at any time, control The 'King of Bugs' who is responsible for the lives of countless people."

"Insect King?"

Erhard frowned at Chris.

So, Chris made a long story short, explaining the current situation.

When Erhard heard it, Dang even froze with an expression of disbelief.

The joy of capturing "Night Stalker" was almost instantly diluted by this horrific news.

Erhard even figured out why the mysterious organization had no sign of action except for "Night Devils" on the rare foggy night the night before.

Most likely, they acted.Quietly, the plague spread over a wider area.

After swallowing hard, Erhard maintained his composure.

"Don't panic, maybe the situation is not as bad as imagined. Judging from the current situation, the bugs controlled by the 'Insect King' are also divided into different types. Whether it is the bugs that burst out of the body of the 'Blast Demon', or quickly The bugs that devoured Isenbach’s team were all the size visible to the naked eye. And the tiny bugs that may infect many plagues have limited destructive power in a short period of time.”

Erhard looked a bit concerned about Chris, who might have been infected.

"Please rest assured, leader, I have no signs of losing my mind. However, we still need to hurry up. After all, in the foggy night, anything can happen. Maybe the 'Bug King' thought that the infected If there are enough people, the next foggy night will choose to let everything explode."

"Yes! Moreover, we now have clues! If the traitor is the same person as the 'Bug King', he has already been locked into a relatively small range. Now, the most important thing is to distinguish the four teams that have died. Among the members, which one is the traitor who suspended his death?"

After going around in a circle, the key point is still to go back to the link of identifying traitors by choosing one of the four.

Compared with before, the search for the traitor seemed to have been given a vague time limit, and the matter suddenly became urgent.Both Erhard and Chris are eagerly looking at Riber, hoping that he can provide excellent wisdom.

Riber, whose scalp was a little numb from the sight of the two, took from Chris the information of the four members of the Knights who had been identified as dead in the line of duty by the Knights.

After simply flipping through a few pages, Riber couldn't help frowning.

Volume Two: Chapter 120 Seven, Halla White

The first file he opened, and the photos of the members of the Knights attached to it, made Riber appear the scene of the last arrival.

Among the five plot screens, three important characters confront the existence of serial killers suspected of being mysterious organizations.However, except for the "skinned man" who confronted Ewenna in the original plot and attacked Chris and Riber in reality, the identities of the other two are still a mystery.

And now, Riber knows the identity of the member of the mysterious organization who was supposed to confront Chris in the original plot.

Hannah White.

As the chief graduate of the 22nd class of the Knight Training Institute, he has been working in the Knights of Greenwater City for five years, and he is an impeccable elite from any point of view.

Judging from the photo, the squinted Hannah is showing a gentle smile that is harmless to humans and animals.

But in this way, his appearance is almost identical to that of the man with the gloomy and reflective round glasses on the opposite side of Chris in the plot screen.

Could it be a coincidence?

How can it be!

If there are no complicated reasons, Halla is very likely to be the "Bug King" who intends to spread the plague in a wide area, and at the same time escapes as a traitor of the Knights by feigning death.

While his heart was shaking, Riber calmly began to turn the page backwards.

The question now is how he can make other people present accept that Hannah is the "Bug King".

Although, as before, he can show an unquestionable and unquestionable posture like before, and no one else will ask him if he thinks about it.However, if he didn't come up with a convincing reason, it would be very difficult for the Knights to fully mobilize for it.

Silently flipping through Hannah's information, Lieber briefly looked at the information of several other members of the Knights.And looking at it, he really found out some information that might be used as an excuse.

"The Knights should have collected information about the sleeping people in Nancheng District, right? If possible, please bring that information and the map of Nancheng District."

Faced with Riber's request, Erhard naturally had no reason to refuse.So, the deputy head, who had been only in charge of wiping sweat all this time, finally got a job, and went to the archives room with Abbech.

Not long after, the two returned with a bunch of documents, and at Riber's request, roughly marked all the addresses of the sleeping people in the southern city on the map.

"Sure enough."

After glancing at the marked map, Riber said pretending to be deep.

"Mr. Riber, did you see any pattern from the place where the sleeping person appeared?"

Chris leaned over and stared at the map beside Riber.

"I don't see a pattern. But rather, it's the absence of a pattern that's the most useful information."

Riber said, pointing to the place where several red dots gathered on the map,

"Look at these places, there are so many sleeping patients to an unnatural level, and one of them happened to be the place where we were attacked at that time, that is, around Ywenna's hut. Obviously, these places are the 'worm nests' during the foggy night. 'Where it is."

Now Riber recalled that the reason why he felt the surrounding atmosphere was particularly weird in the foggy night for the first time.There was a huge commotion when they were attacked, and few people came out to watch.Presumably, it was because of the spread of the plague that most of the residents had fallen into a coma.

"Where is the 'worm nest'? Isn't it too late to go now? If the so-called 'worm nest' is that corpse-like thing in the knight order, it's not difficult to move."

Erhard was a little puzzled, why Riber talked about these things.

"It's really too late to find the 'worm nest' now. However, my focus is not on the infected patients around the 'worm nest', but on the entire southern city. It seems almost unrelated, but the number is no less than that of the 'worm nest' There are a large number of comatose patients around."

While Erhard and the others were still puzzled, Chris understood what Riber wanted to say,

"I see, Mr. Riber. You mean the way the plague spreads."

Riber nodded.

"That's right. Since the 'Insect Nest' can only spread the plague in foggy nights, when and by what means did these infected people get sick? Usually, the way of spreading the plague is things like water sources. But obviously, if there is a problem with the water source in Nancheng District, which still uses well water, patients should concentrate in places with wells."

"What the hell is..."

"It's food. And it's the food that the knights distribute to the residents of Nancheng District, relief food."

Facing the answer given by Riber, Erhard was stunned.

Beside Riber, Chris flipped through the documents quickly, and then showed a dazed expression,

"So that's it! Among the other four knights who were ambushed together with Ethan's vice-captain, only one was still serving in the fifth reserve team responsible for distributing relief food until two months ago."

As Chris said, he took out a document and put it on the desktop.This information, of course, belonged to Hannah White.

"That is to say!"

"'Bug King' is very likely, this is Mr. Halla White!"

"Okay! Go, go and notify all the teams immediately, temporarily put down the work at hand, and go all out to hunt down Hannah White!"

Erhard, who slapped the table and stood up, decisively gave orders to the deputy head who was suspected to be the temporary secretary.

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Under Erhard's order, the Knights immediately began to operate at full capacity.

For Hannah White's search, the first thing to lock down was naturally the mansion where he lived with his family.

For Hannah, who escaped by feigning death, his own house, which would not be disturbed under normal circumstances, is undoubtedly an extremely safe place.

Of course, the premise of this safety is that his family will not betray him.

And because the criminal "Bug King" is extremely dangerous, and among Riber's acquaintances, Chris, Lysa, and Veronica are very likely to have been infected with the plague.Therefore, after naming the direction for the Knights, Riber did not leave in a hurry, but stayed at the headquarters of the Knights, waiting for new progress.

While waiting, Riber tried to do some analysis on Hannah White.However, no useful conclusions were drawn.

Because, as a member of the Knights who has died, Halla's life is easy to understand and quite satisfactory.However, after adding the identity of "Bug King", everything about him became a mystery.

After all, why did Halla spread the plague on a large scale and try to kill a large number of residents in Nancheng District?Even as a serial killer, killing people is not something that should be taken for granted. After all, there needs to be a purpose.

Could it be that when he was doing the work of distributing relief food in Nancheng District, he had some hatred with the residents of Nancheng District?

Also, why did he kill all the team members except Isenbach on the first foggy night?

It is more beneficial for him to continue to lurk in the Knights.

Could it be some grievances from work?

In a sense, Riebel still hopes that Halla is so superficial.In this way, at least let him have a trace.

I am afraid that Halla White will do all kinds of evil deeds for reasons that cannot be understood by common sense.

After frowning and studying Halla's information for a while, Riber, who really didn't gain much, walked out of Erhard's office with a stretched waist, and wandered casually at the headquarters of the Knights, looking for Bridget. .

It didn't take long for Riber to find the leader of the Phantom Thieves who was so bold that he dared not pretend to be any disguise even in the headquarters of the Knights.

When they came to the roof, Bridget was sitting on the wheelchair as if in a daze, looking into the distance.

Following Brigitte's gaze, Ribel, who didn't see anything special, coughed lightly and then said,

"What are you doing?"

"Hey!...What, it turned out to be the Earl, it really surprised me."

Even though Riber had made some foreshadowing, his sudden utterance still caused Bridget to make some exaggerated body movements.

Pressing her hand on her chest, Bridget calmed down the agitation in her heart.And Ribel's gaze became sharp instantly, because he saw how intense the other's "heartbeat" was from Bridget's actions.

It's not that Riber has been surrounded by women who have grown up more tactfully, and at best can only be regarded as average, so that he can't help but lose his composure.

But Bridget is undoubtedly the person with the most intense "heartbeat" after his time travel, no, counting the previous life.

Therefore, he couldn't help but focus on it, which was almost an instinctive reaction of him as a man.

"This is the main stronghold of the Knights, and the defenses are so lax that it's unbelievable."

Bridget, who seemed to have calmed down, did not answer Ribel's question, but said such a meaningful sentence.

Then, without waiting for Ribel to ask the meaning of this sentence, Brigitte spoke again,

"My lord, what does 'can hear the sound of bugs' mean?"

"Why do you ask this question?"

Hearing Bridget's question, Ribel was stunned for a moment and then asked back.

"I can hear the sound of insects", these are the last words of the serial pyromaniac who died in the knight order, "Blaze Demon".Isenbech, who was briefly awake, also said similar words.

But no matter which party it is, it belongs to the category of confidentiality.Bridget, there is no reason to know.

"So, the defense here is too lax—"

Bridget spoke in a long tone, then leaned on the back of the wheelchair and closed her eyes as if she had let go of her mind.

For this lady who has a lot of strange things, Riber is also quite confused.

Perhaps, wanting to have a serious conversation with her is itself a luxury.

After seeing Bridget suddenly seem to fall asleep, Ribel, who felt like he was boring himself, turned around and planned to leave.