Supreme Alchemist-Chapter 2462 - 2452 Analysis

Not only Long Yan, even the mouse-headed person standing outside was baffled. What’s the mayor saying? Who is Rat 2?

Several quick-reacting individuals followed the mayor, directly stepped over the threshold, and pinned down Rat 2 who was still standing dumbly in the inn’s corridor.

"A mere Demon Race member dares to commit murder on our Human Clan’s territory, harming two lives, yet you refuse to confess."

"Mayor... I..."

Clearly, Rat 2 was referring to the mouse-headed person. He wanted to say something, but the mayor stepped out first, looking at Rat 2 with a face full of regret, even the fingers extending from his wide sleeves were trembling slightly.

"I kindly allowed you to reside in this town, yet you dared to kill these two merchants for money in the middle of the night. Tell me! Where’s the money?"

Even if Rat 2 was confused, he understood the mayor wanted him to take the blame. Not to mention that the mayor had just entered the crime scene, and was now outside the corridor, indicating he had prepared for this from the start.

"I haven’t solved the previous disappearances. It seems you killed them and disposed of the corpses, right?"

The mayor didn’t even give Rat 2 a chance to speak, his booming voice echoed. If Long Yan hadn’t been standing there, one might think this mayor was a righteous person.

"Sir, I..."

Rat 2 wished to say more, but seeing the anger on the mayor’s face, a nearby attendant slapped him, silencing him. It seems this wasn’t the mayor’s first time doing such a thing.

Then, with a wave of his big hand, he indicated the guards to escort Rat 2 to the official residence here. In the Qin Dynasty, each town or city had a special yamen, evidently the person capable of judging life and death was the mayor himself. If Rat 2 followed these people, it might truly be a wrongful conviction.

"Hold on."

Long Yan couldn’t resist speaking up. Although his voice wasn’t loud, it startled the mayor’s team, who then turned around. Rat 2 didn’t dare to speak, every time he tried, a nearby burly man would slap him, preventing him from uttering a word.

Now Rat 2 gazed at Long Yan as if seeing family. The mayor flinched, his overweight body shook as he turned, and Long Yan feared the mayor might crack the floor and tumble down from the second floor.

"Do you have anything to say?"

The mayor looked down on Long Yan with disdain in his eyes, evidently not taking Long Yan seriously. Not to mention, the town only had a few Heavenly Level mercenaries who were at best equal to him. Even traveling merchants showed respect.

This mercenary town’s main income source was tasks, after all, it borders the Demon Beast Forest, lending materials or other things from Demon Beasts, enough to make a fortune. Thus, the mayor was always domineering without anyone daring to oppose.

"Little person Long Yan, I noticed you barely inspected the crime scene before concluding Rat 2’s guilt. I’m curious, where did you get that answer?"

Long Yan clasped his fists in respect. After all, he wished to avoid unwarranted conflict with the mayor, merely reminding him not to take lightly the value of Demon Lives.

"Hmph, this mayor resolving a case, needn’t your white-haired kid’s guidance. Besides the shopkeeper, Rat 2 was the only one in the inn. There’ve been disappearance cases earlier too, but without evidence. Now there’s a murder case, who else, if not Rat 2?"

The mayor casually fabricated a flawed deduction, then turned around with affected elegance, his fat trembling. The master’s mood seemed extremely pleased.

"As expected of the mayor."

"Indeed, indeed, absolutely brilliant."

"Exactly, as long as we have the mayor, there won’t be any wrongful convictions in our mercenary town."

Long Yan, angered and amused, watched as these burly young men fawned over the pig-like mayor, finding it amusing.

"An utter nonsense, wrongful convictions aren’t scarce in this mercenary town."

Upper beam isn’t straight, so the lower beam is crooked, Long Yan scoffed, causing the previously merry group to fall silent instantly. The mayor’s face quivered with fat in anger, turning to roar at Long Yan.

"You bold kid, so boastful! Why don’t you investigate yourself, let’s see?"

The fat fingers pointed at Long Yan, his angry voice causing the run-down inn to tremble, even several bits crumbled from the ceiling.

"It’s easy, simply eliminating Rat 2’s suspicion is simple."

Long Yan smiled slightly, gesturing towards the room with two corpses on the floor. Just by this glance, the flaws in the case stood out.

"The deceased are two young men, maybe even two cultivators. Setting aside how Rat 2 is easily restrained by ordinary people, last night in the nearby room, I didn’t even hear any screams. How could a demon who barely has a humanoid form kill them?"

"Well..."

The mayor’s eyes darted frantically, evidently searching for an excuse, seeking a retort against Long Yan’s point. Long Yan remained silent, coldly smiling at the mayor.

"Perhaps Rat 2 knocked on the door and launched a sudden attack, killing one first and then dealing with the other."

Before the mayor could finish, Long Yan started laughing. Not to mention whether this rationale holds, Long Yan pointed to the long sword visible under the table.

"Both carried swords. How could Rat 2 first kill one then the other, as they both hold swords and venture out, how could they sit idly by?"

Rat 2 looked at Long Yan with hopeful eyes, but Long Yan sighed inwardly. The reason he was confident these two weren’t killed by Rat 2 was the clothing indicating they belonged to a Cultivation Sect and their identity wasn’t low.

The mayor’s hasty conclusion appeared to cover something up, probably involving the mayor. Today, Long Yan alone might not be able to protect Rat 2.

Indeed...

"Enough nonsense. When I say who’s the culprit, he is the culprit."

The mayor furiously declared, then glanced at his subordinates, evidently instructing them to quickly escort Rat 2 out, lest dreams prolong.

"I wonder what identities these two have, from which sect might they be?"

Long Yan’s measured voice reached the mayor’s ears.

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