The villain queen eavesdropped on my inner thoughts and won't let me lie down?

“Lord Brando, please don't push yourself too hard. We are all waiting for your news. Don't delay important matters of the empire by being stubborn.”

Everyone thought he was just trying to save face, so they continued to offer kind words of persuasion.

“Rest assured, rest assured. They are just a few cultists. They will jump out on their own. The mission will be completed automatically soon.”

“???”

The cabinet ministers who had proactively offered help were a little embarrassed.

You little rascal, even if you don't want our help, why are you boasting and showing off here?

Cultists jumping out on their own? Soon?

Heh, the previous four city defense garrison commanders didn't think so!

This guarded posture makes it seem like we are trying to steal your credit. Who cares?

Go ahead and be arrogant. Just wait until you delay the Empress's affairs, and then we'll be there to laugh at you at the first moment!

The cabinet meeting proceeded swiftly. The cabinet members had already been bombed once by Roger, and now they encountered such a special event, so the agenda items were passed quickly.

After the meeting, the Empress kept the Minister of Military Affairs behind.

“If Joey Barton Jr. applies to protect Lord Brando's work, reject it.”

“As you command.”

The Minister of Military Affairs did not ask further.

The Empress's realm is beyond what you and I can imagine. She must have a deep meaning in her instructions!

The Eternal Night Empress didn't explain further, waving her hand to dismiss him.

Alone on the Star Throne, the Empress then lowered her head and muttered to herself thoughtfully, “What's so good about being large and impractical? Hmph, a perfect shape is also important!”

……

……

City Defense Garrison Headquarters, in the City of Mysteries.

Roger had already taken over the work of the commander.

Investigating the true culprit of the Midnight Bloodbath in the City of Mysteries is one of the most important tasks in the entire city.

He had received many privileges of acting at his own discretion from the Empress.

Including but not limited to directly accessing the information of many departments and requiring them to cooperate with the investigation, etc.

The *Eternal Night Empress Gazette* also provided a detailed summary of last night's events, stating the empire's determination not to be intimidated and to fight against the church to the end.

No matter who the mastermind is, they must understand the consequences of provoking the empire.

Such a resolute declaration was strongly supported by the people, who were full of confidence no matter who they would fight next.

We promise never to use the Empress first, but if the Empress personally leads the expedition, how can we lose?

Roger took over the commander's job smoothly. No ignorant subordinates jumped out to provoke him.

It's just that everyone looked at him with a bit of sympathy.

Four commanders had died before him, and all of them had died at the speed of light.

The underground black market in the City of Mysteries had already opened a betting pool, betting on how many hours this fifth commander could last.

Roger didn't care about these things.

Anyway, if I die, I can be resurrected with full health, change my identity and be a salted fish again, and not be held by the Empress's handle, wouldn't that be wonderful?

So he hoped that those cultists who attacked the commander could be more powerful and give him a quick death.

Unlike the previous commanders who hurriedly ordered a city-wide search and used various means to find people,

Roger first maintained the previous strategy, asking people to extract all the casualty files from the Midnight Bloodbath in the City of Mysteries, and to interrogate those cultists who had been captured alive.

Soon, he discovered a suspicious point.

Except for the first city defense garrison commander who was blown up by a suicide attack, the deaths of the subsequent three commanders were a bit strange.

Chapter 50: Magic Banned, Please Use Deductive Reasoning

The main thing is that the locations of the three deaths all affected the residences of conservative nobles, resulting in many deaths there.

After the three suicide attacks at the auction house, the arena, and the north camp, there was a series of intensive small-scale “attack incidents”, and all the dead nobles could be classified as conservatives.

This targeting is too strong. On the surface, it looks like cultists are making trouble, specifically killing the powerful figures of the empire.

But if you think carefully about the composition of these victims, the cultists' behavior can be given a banner with the words “Eliminating Evil for the People”.

Coincidences exist in the world, but if there are dozens of coincidences, then it is definitely the work of someone with a purpose.

And on the surface, the City of Mysteries can quickly arrange a second wave of intensive attacks in such a short period of time after the church's sudden attack. The people who have this energy do not exceed...

One.

That is the Eternal Night Empress.

Roger sighed softly, holding the tally mark on his leg, thinking in his mind: “Hello, hello…”

“Speak if you have something to say. My magic doesn't need to test the signal!”

The Eternal Night Empress's impatient voice directly rang in his mind.

So fast? So sensitive? So clear?

Roger was a little embarrassed.

The… cough, magic beacon left by the Empress can show his location and transmit directly across planes.

Using it as a walkie-talkie across dozens of kilometers is naturally not difficult.

In Roger's subjective perception, it was the first time he used this brainwave-sent instant communication method to chat. It felt quite novel, and he wasn't sure of the effect…

He subconsciously started with “hello” several times like making a phone call, and was disliked by the Empress as a result.

But since the Empress wanted him to report progress at any time, he didn't bother to talk nonsense and directly thought in his mind:

“Your Majesty, Your Majesty, are the deaths of the last three commanders related to you?”

The Eternal Night Empress replied: “That's right, I killed them. The matter of commoners entering officialdom has not been resolved for a long time, so I took this opportunity to eliminate a few core stubborn factions.”

“You… did a great job.”

Roger felt a chill down his spine, but he could only respond like this.

A few?

You have to add two more zeros after that!

The Empress is really ruthless!

Roger released the tally mark, raised his head and said to the subordinates in half the room: “These cases don't need to be investigated anymore. Put them away and focus on summarizing the remaining information.”

The city defense army was very puzzled. Lord Brando just patted his thigh and spaced out for a while, and he was able to come to some conclusions?

Roger naturally didn't dare to tell them that Her Majesty the Empress had announced that she was fully responsible for these cases.

Fortunately, he was a cabinet minister, with a large number of privileges personally granted by the Eternal Night Empress, so even an airdrop had extremely high authority.

Of course, it can also be said that he is taking full responsibility for the blame.

The subordinates didn't talk nonsense and immediately carried out his orders.

Roger didn't have time to think about why the Empress, who had been in a tug-of-war with the council, suddenly accelerated the use of violent means.

But since these attacks were unrelated to the mastermind of the Midnight Bloodbath in the City of Mysteries, the target he needed to lock on was narrowed down a lot.

Continuing to read the files, testimonies, and other information, he tried to capture the intricate relationships behind them.

When he encountered something he didn't understand or was unclear about, although there was no search engine, there were a lot of subordinates who could help him find information, which was quite convenient.

He quickly found a lot of hidden information.

As a transmigrator, he once again took advantage of his way of thinking.

Although he wasn't a famous detective, he had watched a lot of Detective Conan and online detectives, and he had played murder mystery games with friends, so he had a general understanding of modern criminal investigation ideas.

But the people in this world don't value these things.

Just like seeing a doctor, the searches and solving cases in this world are simple and crude. Magic can solve more than 90% of the problems directly.

The remaining 10% is because the magic level is not enough, so they can apply for support from higher-level magicians.

The city defense army is responsible for the security of the City of Mysteries. Although the combat level is the third line of the empire, the number of magicians supported is very large, comparable to the front-line troops of other countries.

So the daily crime-solving rate is quite high, and the speed is also particularly fast.

There are ten thousand interpretations of predicting the future, but for things that have already happened, the big shots of the divination school are like power-levelers.

Unless the other side has a super-powerful power-leveler.

Unfortunately, this time, the gods directly intervened to shield divination spells behind the Midnight Bloodbath in the City of Mysteries, which is the top level of super-powerful power-levelers.

Not to mention the magicians in the city defense army, even the Eternal Night Empress couldn't do anything and could only rely on stupid methods to search the entire city.

In this way, after removing the influence of magic, and everyone returning to the level of chickens pecking at each other, Roger, who used to play deductive reasoning, naturally had an advantage.

If they can't directly predict the identities of those suicide cultists, then they can rewind the time to see the places and scenes they passed through.

Then, by comparing the timelines, they can get a lot of hidden information.

The gods' shielding is not omnipotent. In this era, no one would spend time and magic power looking at this useless information.

What they can't think of, they naturally can't defend against.

Shielding divination spells sounds high-end, but it is actually installing a firewall to protect important information.

And Roger is a new type of virus that has never existed in this world. The gods don't know his way of thinking or his behavior, so they naturally can't defend against him.

By “checking the surveillance”, Roger also mastered a lot of the information he needed.

It's just that the surveillance on Earth costs electricity, while the surveillance in the Eternal Night world costs mana.

But now Roger can command enough magicians.

Not to mention the city defense army, as long as he needs it, the Arcane Society is also on standby 24/7.

So, through this cross-era and luxurious method, combined with the clues and testimonies already mastered by the city defense army, many seemingly unrelated pieces of information weaved a net.

The sources of these nets all pointed to the North Camp.

The densest poisonous threads all radiated out from there one by one.

“There are also smart people in the church. This wave of His Majesty has been tricked by a counter-plot. No wonder the City of Mysteries has layers of protection, but it has been infiltrated…”

Roger narrowed his eyes and deduced an action plan.

The officers who pretended to be the Restoration Army defrauded supplies from the church and had contact with the people of the church.

Someone in the church saw that the leader of the Restoration Army was an imperial spy and secretly controlled some of them.

When these officers returned to the capital to report their duties, the people of the church followed them into the city…

Taking the military's special channel, and with officers acting as internal support, it was much easier to pass the inspection, so high-level cultists successfully infiltrated the City of Mysteries.

After that, it was much easier to cause trouble.

Activating the cultists who had been hiding in the City of Mysteries, and calling on them to risk everything for God, led to the Midnight Bloodbath in the City of Mysteries.

The city defense army has mastered the information of several officers at the source of the initial suicide attack. After identification, they are not considered high-level cultists.

These are all lambs, and lambs have no brains. There must be a shepherd.

“I'm going to the wounded garrison to ask these officers for more information.”

Roger ordered people to arrange a teleportation array and took his men directly to a sanatorium.

Of course, he didn't forget to synchronize the latest news to the Eternal Night Empress.

When the Empress heard that her perfect plan had become a loophole for others to exploit, she was stunned and then sighed softly.

You can't underestimate any opponent. The church has existed for so many years. If you relax even half a point, they will seize the flaws and tear open the wound.

The Empress asked: “Is that shepherd still in the City of Mysteries?”