Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 250: Post-mortem analysis

Obviously, no killer jumped out of the waiting crowd at this time to attack Lawrence and them. The two people took the train to Rusttown smoothly, and when they walked out of the railway station in Rusttown and got on a carriage for purchases in Fir Town, Nora's voice appeared in Lawrence's mind.

"My brother, I have found some clues from the dead bodies of these killers and the things they carry with them. Do you want to hear them now?"

"Of course, I really want to know where these people came from, and why they came to kill me?" Lawrence felt very strange about this assassination, because he didn't offend too many people besides offending the disease church. And the number of assassinations of this group of people is obviously not the kind of method used by the disease church.

After all, if the disease church wants to kill Lawrence, it will definitely use their most common methods to poison or cast disease-related spells or divine arts, because only in this way can it demonstrate the power of the church and the gods to warn others. It's not assassination as it is now.

"These people are likely to be professional killers, because most of the guns and weapons they use are common goods. There are even several guns that are pieced together with multiple gun parts, and the inscriptions on the parts are all Worn out. Basically impossible to track down.” Saifeier said that the first characteristic of these people did not exceed Lawrence’s expectations. One of the most basic knowledge in the killer line is to not carry the kind that easily reveals your identity when you kill. s things.

"The stabbing sword used by the extraordinary man before the battle temporarily applied some special potion grease to give it a magical effect during the battle, but the sword itself is only a piece of steel with good overall data. It's just an excellent cane stabbing sword among ordinary weapons."

"Because the steel used to make thorn swords has a wide range of applications, almost all walks of life have users. And we don't have metallographic samples of steel from various places as a comparison. So it is impossible for us to obtain more information by analyzing materials." After talking about this, Nora suddenly became excited.

"But I can be sure that the opponent should be a group of organized hands and not a mob. Because when I took apart the hilt, I found an engraved three-digit number on the sword that was previously covered by the hilt."

"That is to say, this kind of stabbing sword, at least the body of the stabbing sword is mass-produced." Lawrence subconsciously tapped his thigh with his index finger and thought. "And this means that the other party has a relatively complete logistics system behind it."

"Yes." Nora's voice echoed in Lawrence's mind. "Besides, the firearms that were all assembled from several gun parts also revealed the same information. After all, the exchange of different gun parts will affect the performance of the firearm. If one or two of the firearms seized are very Normal. But every one is like this, which seems a bit overwhelming."

"In addition to these weapons, the medicines they carry with them are obviously also standardized products. However, they carry very few things except for the things needed for the assassination. Even the few people who came back from the same airship as ours carried with them. The suitcase I carried was empty, obviously it was only used as a prop to cover people's ears." Nara finally summarized the items carried by these people, and then said the biggest discovery found from these personal items.

"Although these things are the products of industrial production, I found some medicines for repelling mosquitoes and concealing odors on the group of people who ambushed you. At the same time, I also found a lot of them in the mud stuck to the soles of their shoes. Only in the wild. Something, so I suspect that this group of people should have been active in the wild before."

"Except for the two teams that ambushed me and Syfier, they probably came from the same tightly organized organization as they may have been in the field before. Did you find anything from those corpses?" After discussing what those people carried Lawrence asked further.

"I suspect that these people have served in military service before." During that period of time, Nara not only carefully checked the things carried by these killers with the help of the jackals, but also performed an autopsy on the corpses. Through the detailed dissection of the dead bodies of these killers, Nora gained more clues.

"Did you find that they have calluses on their index fingers, shoulders and knees?" Lawrence asked. In this era, because of the rate of fire of guns, soldiers often practice shooting in line. Even the Britons proudly call the queue of soldiers in red uniforms an insurmountable red line.

In such a situation, a soldier who often practices combat will leave obvious marks on his shoulders against the **** of the rifle, the index finger that pulls the trigger, and the knees that often touch the ground when practicing shooting in a lined up kneeling position. That's why Lawrence asked whether Nora had detected any differences from civilians in those parts.

"You guessed wrong, my brother." After listening to Lawrence, Nora's voice suddenly became naughty. "Or I didn’t guess everything correctly, because I didn’t find too many marks on their knees after practicing kneeling shooting. But they have calluses on the inside of their thighs, and they both have index fingers on both hands. Have cocoons."

"The most important thing is that I found that all the left arms of this group of people have a trace of being scalded by a soldering iron. According to the residual pigments and traces on those traces of scalding, I restored a small half with a horseshoe. Coat of arms."

"In other words, they probably had been cavalry before and had not received regular infantry training. They were probably some kind of special cavalry." Lawrence immediately guessed the possibility of the other party after hearing the pattern of the last coat of arms. identity of. After all, there are only certain churches, gangs or military units that have tattoos on certain parts of the body.

At least in the Commonwealth and the western part of the Old World, different types of organizations are basically selected in accordance with the heraldic rules of the western part of the Old World when they choose their tattoo designs, and this type of shield with horseshoe tattoos belongs to Cavalry troops.

Of course, the information that can be inferred from the remaining part of the tattoo is limited to this. Because the coat of arms of the cavalry unit basically adds a horseshoe pattern on the shield, it is impossible to further lock the opponent's identity through the residual tattoos after the burn.

But from the fact that the opponent has received two-handed shooting training, it can be inferred that these killers are not ordinary cavalry, because now even the cavalry has to undergo certain infantry training, and only some special troops can be exempted. At the same time, ordinary cavalry needs to free a hand to control the mount when fighting on horseback, and there are not many people who can use weapons with both hands. "

"Brother, you are right. And based on the memory of the entire battle that you sent to me plus the information obtained from the autopsy, I think the opponent was probably a scout before, and that group of people is still a success. Organizational scout squad. Because ordinary people in the army are the only ones who can formally practice this close-range small-scale combat technique."

"A squad that is formed, are you sure?" Hearing this, Lawrence frowned suddenly and asked. After all, the nature of hiring and leaving scattered soldiers as a killer after training is completely different from the nature of having a whole team of elite troops as a killer. The former approach only requires enough money, but the latter approach not only requires enough money, but also enough power.

Once a certain force is involved, the complexity of the events hidden behind Lawrence’s encounter with the killer will inevitably exceed his previous imagination, and it will also be more difficult to lock the true identity of the other party ~lightnovelpub.net~ is not 100% sure. It may also be a group of killers who have spent a lot of energy specially trained in accordance with the internal training methods of the army, and then branded this kind of tattoo on the body to confuse other people's sight. Because I hadn't read anything from their souls before, this is probably the result of being restricted by some kind of soul magic. "Nara said, "But don't you discover that these two possible hidden facts actually point to the same fact for us?" "

"Yes, you are right." Lawrence also reacted at this time, whether it was commanding an entire retired or even active military elite team or a team trained in that training method. It all shows that there are very complicated things behind this assassination of oneself.

"Although I have offended a lot of people, I thought about those people either did not have the ability to send such a small team to assassinate or were capable, but they would never attack me in this way." Lawrence thought, " It feels like the situation is getting more and more complicated now."

"Don't think about the back of these killers, my elder brother." Nara comforted after seeing Lawrence frowning and thinking. "Don't forget that this assassination happened after your father suddenly sent you a letter. After you get home, you may be able to figure out what happened after asking your father."