Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 253: Big trouble

Due to the fact that the information at hand is not very comprehensive, Lawrence has no way of judging what the Earl’s accidental death and the accidental disappearance of the Earl’s two sons represent. But based on his intuition and the data collected before, it can be roughly judged that this series of events should have a close connection with the previous incidents where he was besieged by a group of killers.

But in any case, the most important thing for Lawrence and the others is to go to the Sauer County of the Holy Visby Empire in the Old World to go to the funeral, and to make Mr. Lambert, who is the highest in the rank succession sequence, the family power Temporary agent in order to organize the power of the family to investigate the apparently abnormal cause of death of the previous owner.

So after eating dinner that night, Lawrence ran to the Coburg’s farm outside the town’s fence and said hello to Seifer that he needed to travel for some time because of something at home. Fortunately, during this time, Safir also planned to stay on the farm to accompany his parents who hadn't seen each other for four years, so there was just time to be able to help with Lawrence's few businesses.

After doing all this, the three of Lawrence got up early the next morning and rushed to the train station, and then took the train to Phoenix, the largest city in the central part of the White Eagle Federation for 12 hours. From here, take the teleportation array to Eagle Fort, and then use the international teleportation array at the Eagle Fort port to pass through Dingshuang Island directly to Piran Port, the largest port city of the Holy Visby Empire. Finally, take the train to Sauer, the capital of Sauer County.

While stopping at Eagle Fort, Lawrence briefly went to his residence and greeted Fatina, who was instructing members of his new clan to complete various tasks, and then took it from his room. A large pile of wooden boxes mailed from Huguang City.

Although this is the most time-saving journey, the whole journey still took two full days. When the three of them arrived in Sauer with a look of exhaustion, it was already time for the sun to sway westward the next day after departure. .

After entering the city, Lawrence and the others went straight to the Earl's Manor on the outskirts of the city. As soon as they entered the manor Lawrence, they found that the overall atmosphere in the manor was a little abnormal.

"Why are you panicking? What about the countess?" After entering the gate of the manor, the butler Baier directly stopped a knight who seemed to be the count's retainer and asked.

"Madam, he fell ill the day before yesterday, and the two sons of the family were not found either." The retainer said with excitement after seeing the questioning by the butler, Byer. "Now the house is messy. For the time being, I can only rely on Joseph Knight, Owen's deputy butler and Rena's butler to maintain the situation. It is great that you can come back now."

Having said that, the knight saw Lawrence and his son returning with the butler Bayer. Probably because the knight came to the earl's house after Mr. Lambert left the house, he could not recognize the identity of Mr. Lambert who had left the family long ago. But because of the similar appearances between the brothers, he asked the Butler Bayer curiously. "Mr. Bayer, may I ask if these two behind you are—"

"They are Mr. Conrad's brother and nephew." The Butler by Bayer briefly introduced, "I went out these days to go to the New World to call back Mr. Lambert, who had left the family, to take charge of family affairs."

"Mr. Earl's brother? This is simply wonderful." The knight immediately showed a happy expression after listening to the butler's introduction. "It's great to have someone at home to take charge of the overall situation. Now this chaos is really detrimental to the honor of the family.

The return of Mr. Lambert is a great encouragement to the entire earl's house, because it represents the death of three male owners in the family, the disappearance of the disappearance, and the countess was sad because of the news. After being unable to get up, I finally have someone who can grasp the overall situation.

So soon after Mr. Lambert came to the earl's house, the whole mansion became well organized, and by early the next morning, the whole mansion was running as smoothly as before. Obviously, the previous chaos was purely due to the fact that there was no supervisor in the family that caused everyone's heart to panic. Now that someone can take charge of the affairs, these stable earl servants can easily restore everything in the entire mansion. order.

Just as everyone had just finished their breakfast and was preparing to start a new day of work, a group of paladins from the Church of God of War were led by a priest to the earl's mansion and asked to inspect the earl's body.

"Didn't you have checked the body of Lord Earl several times before?" The deputy steward of Owen, who was assigned to the door to greet the guests to mourn the guests, asked the leading priest somewhat puzzled. "It took three days from the death of the earl to the resurrection ceremony to be held afterwards, and after you checked the body of the Lord's earl from the capital Wendo Bona to us. Haven't you finished the inspection yet?"

"I'm very sorry, this is indeed our fault." The leading priest said with a very embarrassed look on his face. "But we have to check the remains of the Earl again. This is an order issued by the high priest and His Majesty the Emperor at the same time. We are only observing the order."

After speaking, the technician who led the investment took out a piece of parchment with the order of the superior and handed it over. After checking the contents of the parchment and the final lacquer seal, the deputy steward of Owen took the church personnel to the temporary morgue.

Soon after receiving the notice, Mr. Lambert, who was training Lawrence on an assault on family history, took Lawrence to the room where the Earl’s body was parked. For such an earl family with many inheritances, the family's controller actually has not much to do by himself except for making decisions on certain important events. This is the reason why Mr. Lambert can spare time to educate his son in the family.

"What's the situation?" After entering the room, Lawrence asked the deputy steward of Owen who had accompanied these church personnel here before. At this time, the priest was holding a similar one that looked like a silver metal cast. The ping-pong racket is explored around the remains,

"The priest just told us that another baron had passed away inexplicably in another dance in the capital two nights ago. After the Lord Lord passed away, they found more problems in his body. . Therefore, they came to examine the body of Lord Earl this morning—"

While Owen's deputy butler whispered to Lawrence about the current situation, the magical instrument that looked like a metal ping-pong racket in the priest's hand suddenly buzzed. At the same time, the magic pattern above lit up in red at this moment~lightnovelpub.net~ It was the same situation as expected. "After seeing the reaction of the magic instrument in his hand, the priest's face immediately became serious. Then he turned his head and asked the earl family members in the room, "Who can be the master of your family now?" "

"Me." Mr. Lambert, who chose to stand at the door because he thought the room was a bit crowded, came in and said. "I am the first brother of the earl, and now I can completely call the shots."

"Salute you, friend." After discovering that Mr. Lambert was wearing the uniform of a clergyman of the Church of Knowledge, the priest immediately put his right hand on his left chest and gave a salute, then stood up and said. "I'm sorry, we need to take your brother's body to the church because there is something very abnormal about him."

"Are you talking about something abnormal? Where is it?" Mr. Lambert immediately seemed a little excited when he heard the cause of his brother's death was involved.

Although the education of a child without inheritance rights is different from a child with inheritance rights from an early age, so that the two people's personalities and hobbies are very different, and the relationship is not particularly close, but after all, the two brothers are close relatives. So as soon as he heard news about the cause of his brother's death, Mr. Lambert immediately asked the priest.