hero?it must be me

And in this way, Zheng Qi's room 913 naturally had a new resident.

Of course, Zheng Qi and the others did not waste the intelligence resources that Polnareff possessed.

"I'm not sure about this, but I did meet a substitute envoy sent by Dior in the hotel. His purpose was to assassinate you as well."

In Erjo's room, Polnareff said.

"Oh? Do you know who the other party is?"

"He calls himself [Cursed Dipo], a strange man with scars all over his body."

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"Well……"

Everyone exchanged glances.

"It seems that Dibo wants Polnareff to act as cannon fodder to spy on us, and he is waiting for the opportunity."

Er Qiao touched his chin.

Abdel agreed: "Well, that's indeed the feeling."

"This, uh, Dibo, is he famous?"

Seeing that most of the people had [really] expressions on their faces, Polnareff asked in confusion, "You all seem to know him quite well?"

"Cursed Dipo."

Abdel explained to Polnareff: "He is a professional killer who does business under the guise of an indigenous wizard. He uses his ability as a stand-in messenger for the killer. The mafia, the military, politicians, wealthy businessmen, hired He's all over the world, in multiple fields, and he's a pretty scary guy."

"I happened to meet him once before."

"His body is full of scars, and those scars were caused by him actively provoking his opponent and letting the opponent do it first. By letting the opponent hurt himself first, he will generate a strong resentment towards the target, and then use this resentment to go Manipulating the actions of his own substitute, this is one of the operating principles of Dibo's substitute, [Ebony Wood Demon]."

Listening to Abdel's explanation, the confusion in Polnareff's eyes disappeared a little, replaced by surprise and curiosity.

"I had this vague feeling when I fought against Zheng Qi before. Isn't your ability to collect information a little too strong? Have you even investigated the opponent's substitute and the ability of the substitute in advance?"

Hearing this, after a few people except Zheng Qi and Polnareff looked at each other, they smiled in unison.

Even Jotaro had a faint smile on his face.

"It's not just you, in fact, we have also felt this way."

Er Qiao smiled and patted Polnareff on the shoulder.

"what?"

After hearing Er Qiao's words, Polnareff didn't understand why.

What is [We have also felt this kind of emotion]?

"Let's put aside such trivial matters for now."

Zheng Qi waved his hand.

Hey?Is it a small thing?

Polnareff looked at Zheng Qi blankly.

"The top priority is to be careful of Dibo's sneak attack."

"Having said that, Dibo's stand-in should first let the other party hurt him before he can generate enough resentment to drive him to complete the assassination, right?"

Kakyoin spread his hands: "As long as you know this, you can defeat Dibo when he shows up and tries to provoke us."

"According to my original plan, I was going to do this..."

Zheng Qi raised his head slightly, and said seriously: "The premise is that that guy hasn't had time to accumulate enough resentment."

Hearing this, everyone's expression tightened.

"You mean... But, we probably haven't even seen Dibo's people—"

As soon as Er Qiao was halfway through speaking, everyone had already reacted, and Qi Qi looked at Polnareff.

"Uh."

Suddenly being watched by several strong men, Polnareff subconsciously shrank his shoulders.

"Polnareff, with your personality, even if you didn't kill Dibo on the spot, you probably wouldn't let him go easily."

Zheng Qi looked at Polnareff: "If you want to talk about the object of resentment, I'm afraid you have already been ranked in Dibo's mind."

"This...not really, it's just a small cut on his neck..."

Polnareff smiled sarcastically.

He really wasn't lying, relatively speaking, it was really a small hole.

"If we fight head-on, Dibo won't be the opponent of any of us, but the problem is that Dibo is a professional assassin who is rotten to the bone, and a stand-in messenger with no bottom line. Likely to affect innocent people, at worst..."

Zheng Qi glanced at the ceiling.

"Anyway, let's try—"

Zheng Qi, who was about to say something more, suddenly stopped talking and looked towards the door of the room.

Just when everyone was wondering why Zheng Qi was like this, a doorbell sounded from the gate.

Everyone's expression froze immediately.

After making eye contact, Zheng Qi took the initiative to stand up and walk over.

At this stage, in this team, he is the person who can best deal with emergencies.

"Who is it please?"

"Guest, I'm a waiter at the hotel. I'm sorry to disturb you. In fact, some incidents happened in the hotel. The police officer is investigating. I hope you can cooperate with me."

"event?"

Zheng Qi raised his eyebrows, turned his face to the side and nodded to the guarded people behind him, then opened the door.

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After opening the door, there was indeed a hotel service staff and two genuine police officers waiting outside the door.

And the reason why they went looking for the guests room by room like that was because there were two vicious cases in this hotel.

One is that someone died in the men's room on the first floor of the hotel.

The second is that in the process of investigating the incident, the police who searched the hotel found explosives installed by unknown persons in several places in the hotel.

Fortunately, it was discovered in time, and professional bomb disposal personnel rushed to the hotel early.

After professionals confirmed that the bombs were not complicated to set up and would not blow up as soon as they were dismantled, in order to prevent the bombs from causing panic, the hotel did not choose to broadcast, but asked the service staff to accompany the police officers one by one. Go to the room with check-in.

While this move was intended to evacuate the guests, it also made it easier for the police to conduct follow-up investigations on each floor to prevent explosives installed on different floors from being leaked.

Zheng Qi and the others were naturally taken politely to the lobby on the first floor, which was temporarily confirmed safe.

In the process of being transferred, Huajingyuan sneaked into the murder scene temporarily sealed off by the police through the Emperor, and saw the body that had not been bagged.

It was the corpse of a man whose head had been chopped off.

When seeing this corpse, Kakyoin was quite shocked.

Not because of its tragic death, but because of who he recognized as this corpse.

"Unexpectedly, Dibo died."

Abdel whispered.

After finishing the transcript under the consolation of the police, Zheng Qi and his party, who had not had many suspicions, left the hotel that was too "lively" because of the homicide and the bombing, and came to a coffee shop on the street.

Anyway, I won't be able to go back for a while. If we want to discuss things, we must find a place where we can talk about things.

"Polnareff..."

Er Qiao looked at Polnareff.

"No, no, I really didn't do that!"

Polnareff shook his head vigorously.

"The incision was very neat, and the head was severed with one blow. According to the police officers at the scene, there didn't seem to be any signs of struggle and resistance."

Kakyoin summarized the information he had received from the Emperor in the men's room.

That's right.

The man who died in the men's room on the first floor of the hotel was Dibo!

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"In this case, it really shouldn't be Polnareff's handwriting. This decapitation method doesn't match the shape of the silver chariot's sword."

Zheng Qi frowned and said in a low voice: "If you want to cut off a person's head so neatly, you must first have certain requirements on the shape of the cutting tool you use."

"Not only that, if you want to make a clean break without leaving any room, you need to meet some necessary conditions."

Zheng Qi raised two fingers.

"One, the chopping action must have sufficient force."

"The other is to be able to find the gaps between the bones and flesh, avoid the hard neck bones, and accurately cut the blade into those small gaps."

"As long as one of the above two points can be satisfied, generally speaking, the head can be chopped off neatly."

"Of course, it's easier said than done. Even with a device like the guillotine, there will be situations where the prisoner's head cannot be chopped off with a single knife."

"The executioners of the old days often had both of these conditions."

"Effective training, and long practical experience, the two add up, and thus accumulate a knife that can behead a prisoner neatly."

"However, if you want to determine the conditions under which Dibo's head was beheaded, you must directly examine his body, starting from the fracture of the head and neck."

Having said this, Zheng Qi's voice became a little dull: "To be honest, I care more about another clue."

"Did you mean [no sign of struggle]?"

"Correct."

Zheng Qi nodded towards Huajingyuan: "No matter how you think about people like Dibo, they don't seem to be the type who will honestly give up resistance and have their heads cut off."

"Could it be that someone took advantage of him when he manipulated the substitute?"

Polnaruff put forward his own conjecture: "Listen to what you said before, when he manipulates his substitute, the main body seems to be defenseless, right? And he is also a professional killer. There are many people who want to kill him." Is it okay?"

"That's not certain."

Zheng Qi shook his head: "After all, intelligence is just intelligence. In fact, when he was manipulating the ebony demon, I'm not sure what happened to his body."

"However, it is indeed a possibility."

Er Qiao pondered for a while: "Perhaps, he might have secretly prepared those explosives with a stand-in."

"But in this way, it means that his death is probably related to another substitute messenger."

Zheng Qi said.

"Is it because of the strangeness of his death?"

Abdel asked.

"That's one of the reasons."

Zheng Qi shook his finger: "But, I would say that, there are other reasons."

"Thinking about it carefully, if the men's bathroom where Dibo's body was found is the place where he was killed, it means that Polnareff just walked away, and the murderer went into the toilet and saw Dibo. .”

"And after meeting...Kakyoin, in the bathroom, when the police officers drew white lines, did they divide into two areas?"

"You want to ask if the body has been moved."

Kakyoin replied: "No, judging from the scene at that time, there was no trace of the corpse being moved."

"now it's right."

Zheng Qi said: "This means that unless the murderer has the ability to instantly kill Dibo before he reacts, Dibo probably never thought that he would be killed when he saw the murderer."

"In other words, if Dibo can die without any resistance, the murderer must either be a master of swordsmanship or swordsmanship, or be an acquaintance of Dibo, or...a substitute envoy with some powerful substitute ability."