It is said that holding a ladder and wearing a work suit, you can freely enter and exit most places. No one will stop you. They all think you are a repairman.
At noon on the second day after Speaker Abel's unfortunate death, Rudolf, wearing a blue-gray work suit, a tool bag hanging on his waist, a ladder horizontally, and a safety helmet, walked towards the parliament's meeting hall.
The parliament will hold a very important meeting this afternoon, and the parliament staff are preparing for the meeting nervously. The speaker disappeared in the middle of the night yesterday. After a panicked morning, the Alchemy Parliament finally determined that the speaker could not be found.
Around the disappearance of the speaker, the parliament is preparing to hold an emergency meeting in the afternoon.
People hurried past, and no one noticed that an ordinary repairman entered the side door of the equipment room of the meeting hall.
Of course, divination is indispensable here. Entering the parliament at this time is just the shift change time for witch hunters, and no one will stop him.
Rudolf has been to the city hall before. The last time he came was to receive the title of "Outstanding Citizen of Fabro City".
In fact, Rudolf really liked the title of Outstanding Citizen, but unfortunately the Alchemy Council later took it back.
This is too much. How can something that has been given be taken back? No quality.
The Council Hall is a long hall building, with two layers of podiums on the rostrum in front. There is only one podium on the higher floor, which belongs to the late Speaker Abel. There are two podiums on the second floor, one of which belongs to the current Deputy Speaker Jem.
Jem was the former Director of the Judgment Bureau, and later promoted to become the Deputy Speaker.
There is only one deputy speaker in Fabro City, and the position of the other deputy speaker is vacant.
It turned out that old Thor was the deputy speaker, but unfortunately old Thor died. Thor's daughter, Ivy, became the general manager of Thor Trading Company. The second deputy speaker's position was reserved for Ivy. As long as Ivy is promoted to a level 4 alchemist, she can become the deputy speaker.
This also proves the importance of Thor Trading Company. This company is the main body and operator of the Alchemy Council's mining of the Ruhr mining area.
Opposite the rostrum is the pool seat of the members that rises layer by layer.
Fabro City has more than 50 councillors, who control all profitable companies in Fabro City, including trading companies, construction companies, hospitals, colleges, blood centers, etc. They are the real masters of the entire Fabro City.
The pool seat is raised to the highest point, which is already as high as a two-story building. There is also a high space above the pool seat, which is about the height of a three-story building.
Rudolf's identity is certainly not worthy of appearing in the council hall. He is a repairman and honestly entered the equipment room, and then went up to the third floor in the equipment room.
There are still many equipment on the ceiling of the council hall, such as fire hoses, lines, etc.
Staying on the third floor of the equipment room, Rudolf will continue to confront the Alchemy Council here to let them understand the sinisterness of human hearts and the complexity of society.
Waiting was boring, Rudolf took a cup of coffee from the tea room when no one was there, and returned to the equipment room. If no one sees it, it is not considered stealing, but taking it.
At 2:30 in the afternoon, the councillors entered the council hall one after another. There will be an important meeting of the Alchemy Council of Fabro City at 3 o'clock.
Soon, the tall hall was full of people. The members sat in their seats in panic, constantly arguing and shouting to hide their fear.
How could they not be afraid? The speaker died again. Every disaster in Fabro City started with the death of the speaker. Which parliament could bear this?
However, their quarrels did not have any effect. The one who died was a level 5 alchemist. Many of these low-level alchemist members were agents of big men. If the big men were dead, what could they do?
The side door of the council hall opened, and Deputy Speaker Jem stood at the door, staring at the rostrum opposite him for a few seconds. That tangled look, as if he was going to the guillotine instead of the rostrum.
All the members of the council instantly quieted down and stared at Deputy Speaker Jem in the side door. It was not until the deputy speaker adjusted his mood and walked towards the rostrum that the members of the council fell into quarrel again. They looked at the deputy speaker from time to time. Is the situation so critical that the deputy speaker can't even manage his expression?
Speaker Abel is currently missing, and he can only be declared dead after two years of disappearance. Therefore, Speaker Abel will remain missing for a long time, and two years later, the parliament will announce that he has gloriously dedicated himself to the cause of alchemists.
The night before yesterday, the witch hunter team on duty rushed to the Speaker's mansion, but found that the mansion was terribly quiet inside and outside. The witch hunters immediately began to investigate, but found that the Speaker and the three witch hunter teams disappeared without a trace.
There is a saying in Vichy County that the most dangerous profession in Vichy County is not the witch hunter who faces wizards directly, but the Speaker of the Alchemy Council of Fabro City.
Deputy Speaker Jem prepared all the cash yesterday and was going to go to the county city to do some activities so that he could become a member of the county council as soon as possible and not stay in this dangerous Fabro City.
After sitting on the podium, Deputy Speaker Jem's face was livid, and he stared at the report in front of him in silence. But what can be seen? No one knows where the Speaker has gone.
In the tea room, after being checked by the witch hunters, the female intern brought a cup of coffee on a plate to the podium.
The coffee was placed on the left hand side of Deputy Speaker Jem, with wisps of hot steam floating on it.
On the third floor of the equipment room, Rudolf drank the last sip of coffee and looked at Deputy Speaker Jem below through the small observation window.
In the seats on the side of the pool, there were attendees without voting rights. Among them, the highest-ranking one was Viscount Savan in the front.
Viscount Savan also had a report in his hand, a report on the disappearance of the speaker issued by the Tribunal.
If it were in the past, the Tribunal would not have shared such an important document with him. Now he didn't want to read it, but the Tribunal insisted on giving it to him.
There was no way, Viscount Savan was a level 3 knight, a level 3 knight who could be regarded as a level 4 apostle.
Many parliamentarians sometimes looked at Deputy Speaker Jem on the rostrum, and sometimes looked at
Viscount Savan. In the equipment room on the third floor, Rudolf also looked at Viscount Savan.
The big man who was thought to be unattainable at the beginning, the honorable Viscount, was at the same level as Viscount Paulus who died quietly after framing Rudolf, a level 3 knight, but now it seems that he is just so-so.
Rudolf suddenly felt that the city of Fabro had not changed much in the year and a half since he left. Most people were ordinary people, and it was impossible for them to improve as fast as Rudolf.
Viscount Savan turned around and said to one of the three barons behind him: "Baron Jennifer, are there any traces of toxins at the scene?"
Jennifer knew what Viscount Savan meant, and she replied: "There is no evidence. Every inch of the Speaker's mansion has been searched, and there is no venom on the ground. Scorpio wizards can poison and detoxify. The toxin of Scorpio wizards is star power. As long as the star power is eliminated, the toxin will disappear. We can only see whether it is poisoned by the symptoms of the corpse, but there is no corpse at the scene."
No wonder Viscount Savan has been suspicious, from yesterday to now. The previous speakers and vice speakers all died at the hands of Scorpio wizard Rudolf.
No matter how careful Rudolph is, as long as the speaker of Fabro City dies, he will be the first suspect.
In the more than one year since the furnace left, the furnace has been a suspect in all major events encountered by the Alchemy Council, and this time is no exception.
Rudolph was very distressed yesterday. Why do these people suspect others at random? They want to put the crime on Rudolph without any evidence. They... guessed it right.
Jennifer stared at Deputy Speaker Jem on the stage, and she also hoped that Rudolph would come back. Deputy Speaker Jem has
been focusing part of his attention on the noble seats. He noticed Jennifer's gaze and turned to look at Jennifer.
Jennifer did not give in at all and looked at Deputy Speaker Jem.
Deputy Speaker Jem suddenly felt guilty and had no confidence. He shifted his gaze. He could not intensify the conflict with the nobles at this time.
In the past year, the Rondo Trading Company, which belongs to the nobles, and the Thor Trading Company, which belongs to the alchemists, have been competing fiercely, and both sides have refused to give in. The sales of Tor Trading Company are very good. No matter how much minerals are produced, the Elba Alchemy Council is willing to take them all.
On the contrary, the sales of Rondo Trading Company are not very smooth.
The nobles want to sell the minerals to the royal nobles of Elba, but the upper house of the Royal Capital's Supreme Alchemy Council has enacted a bill to prohibit any trade with the royal nobles of Elba and announced sanctions against the Elba royal family.
The sales of Rondo Trading Company encountered problems, which made Viscount Savan and the nobles behind him very dissatisfied.
Now that Speaker Abel is dead, Jem does not want to intensify the conflict.
Even Viscount Savan noticed that Deputy Speaker Jem dodged. He turned around and said to the other barons: "Jem, this idiot, what ability does he have? Can he handle the current situation? He doesn't have this ability."
The barons only laughed slightly, and the dozen knights behind them had already laughed.
For a while, the direction of the nobles present attracted the attention of other members. They didn't need evidence to know that the nobles were mocking the parliament again, just like when Speaker Quint died more than a year ago, the nobles also mocked the parliament on various occasions.
The members of the parliament glared in the direction of the nobles, but the nobles were not afraid.
The hawks among the nobles had long ago encouraged the noble knights around them. Since the Elba royal family could counterattack the Alchemy Parliament, why couldn't the Carolingian royal family?
To a certain extent, knights are not only nobles, but also professional soldiers. Only in war can they be promoted in large numbers. Long-term peace will only make the overall strength of the knights worse and worse.
Deputy Speaker Jem on the rostrum said, "Quiet!"
Everyone looked at Deputy Speaker Jem. Jem was a little surprised. He thought that the noise in the council hall would continue for a long time. He just shouted slightly and everyone quieted down.
The members of the parliament had long been paying attention to the rostrum. Many people were curious about what the parliament should do after the death of Speaker Abel.
"The Judgment Office has sent a messenger to report the news here to the Vichy County Parliament. The parliament will immediately send support forces to deal with the disappearance of the speaker."
The congressmen looked at each other, and it seemed that they could only wait like this awkwardly.
"The murderer who murdered Speaker Abel might be a termite who couldn't stand the prosperity of Fabro!"
Jem didn't look at the nobles, but everyone knew that the so-called "termite" was the noble knight.
"It might be an assassin sent by the Elba royal family!"
The name of Fabro is getting louder and louder. As the largest mining city in Vichy County, it has undertaken a very heavy support task to support the Elba Alchemy Council.
"It might also be the dark cloud of Fabro, the bad criminal furnace..."
Deputy Speaker Jem was reluctant to mention this name. He now regretted becoming the deputy speaker. What was the purpose of trying so hard to become the deputy speaker?
This morning, his wife kept crying and crying, because his wife understood that the worst result was that the furnace really came back. According to the practice of the furnace staring at the speaker to kill, the next victim might be Deputy Speaker Jem.
His wife said that she was not as strong as Mrs. Abel. After Speaker Abel died, the speaker's wife did not shed a tear, but just frowned and looked at the people coming and going.
Jem continued:
"In order to ensure our safety, from today on, Colonel Guyton of the 56th Regiment of the Constitutional Army will be stationed in Fabro City. Before the witch hunters from the County Council arrive, he will be responsible for the security of Fabro City!
Colonel Guyton is at Speaker Abel's house, handling the Speaker's funeral.
Everyone should not panic."
Speaker Abel and Colonel Guyton have a good personal relationship, so he did not attend the council meeting.
A baron even asked the Viscount quietly: "Your Excellency Viscount, it really wasn't us who did it?"
"What are you thinking? There is no need for us to fall out with the Alchemical Council. It is not that easy to counterattack the Alchemical Council. The Elba royal family is so strong, and now they have turned it into a tense and protracted war, let alone us."
Deputy Speaker Jem continued: "The base of the 56th Regiment of the Constitutional Army will be changed from the military camp in the suburbs to the parliament, and this place will be under military trusteeship.
Colonel Gayton's Silver Flame is very powerful. Even the level 5 vampires and level 5 werewolves are not the opponents of the Silver Flame.
The dignity of the Alchemical Council cannot be desecrated. We will use the most violent revenge to let the enemy understand the power of the Alchemical Council!"
The deputy speaker's impassioned speech and the record of the Silver Flame gave the parliamentarians confidence.
It sounded so real that Rudolph was a little scared...
"Think about the Level 5 vampire Ravno who died at the hands of the Silver Flame! Even with the sonic boom and flash, he couldn't escape the pursuit of the rockets!
Think about the werewolf corpses all over the mountains. No matter how many enemies there are, they are no match for the Silver Flame!
Colonel Gayton also said that if necessary, he would ask the military for support!
The dignity of the Alchemy Council of Fabro City will end with sending the enemy to the stake!
The truth is in the hands of the alchemist!"
For a moment, all the council members clapped their hands and shouted:
"The truth belongs to the alchemist! The truth is in the hands of the alchemist!"
Deputy Speaker Jem looked at the council members who had regained their morale in the council hall with satisfaction. He picked up the coffee to refresh himself and then arranged the next emergency plan.
There were three rows of lamps on the ceiling of the rostrum. At this time, a translucent starlight water color protruded from a horizontal bar. This horizontal bar was originally used to hang this row of chandeliers.
A drop of venom fell from the fangs and hit the coffee accurately.
Amid the cheers of the parliamentarians, Deputy Speaker Jem coughed slightly, fell forward, and fell heavily on the chairman's table, spilling coffee all over the table.
The council hall fell into silence. At this moment, time seemed to slow down.
Eight witch hunters rushed out of the side door and rushed to the rostrum.
In the open side door, two witch hunters grabbed the female intern who was delivering coffee and tied her hands behind her back.
The female intern burst into tears and looked at her father, a parliamentarian.
Some of the parliamentarians were dazed in their seats, while others held their heads in their hands and stood up in disbelief.
Mrs. Jem, who had been worried about her husband, rushed out of the side door and shook her husband.
Viscount Savan was stunned, looking at Jem who was foaming at the mouth, not knowing what to say.
Is it really okay to poison the deputy speaker in front of everyone in the council hall?
At this time, a light came on, and the words on the light bulb were illuminated on the wall behind the rostrum:
"The city of Fabro does not allow the emergence of a speaker - the expectation of a certain outstanding citizen."