The detective is dead, I did it.

Chapter 28 The Seemingly Ordinary Maid

"Then... we'll have to rely entirely on Miss Holmes." He wiped the sweat from his brow and sat back down in his chair.

"However," he then remembered something else, "that wretched thief said he's coming to steal another piece tonight. What do you think…"

"I'll take responsibility." Charlotte stood up. "I'd like to see what they really are."

She walked to the door, glanced back at the viscount still sitting in his chair, and said, "Tonight, tell your servants not to wander off. I won't be responsible for any mistakes."

"Yes, yes, yes." The viscount nodded repeatedly.

The two arrived on the third floor, where the Viscount had prepared guest rooms for them. However, Li Ang did not return to his own room but went back to Charlotte's room with her.

"Why don't you contact the armed detectives? After all, who knows if they have any offensive capabilities?"

To be honest, Li Ang has always felt that being a detective is a pretty dangerous job.

Their combat strength is not high. Although generally speaking, ability users do have certain physical enhancements, their reasoning abilities are only slightly stronger than those of ordinary adults.

Although Li Ang has never met any detectives other than himself and Charlotte, he imagines that those armed detectives who call them "weaklings" probably aren't much better in terms of combat ability.

Even Charlotte, who possesses the ability to resurrect, judging from her apparent combat prowess, her greatest offensive capability is probably the small pistol hidden under her opponent's skirt.

Whether the other party has hidden anything else is another matter.

Take that group of cult members for example. If it were any other detective, they would probably have had no choice but to wait for the armed detectives to provide support and would not have dared to make any unusual moves.

"Aren't you an armed detective?" the detective said, looking at Li Ang.

"I won't be responsible if anything goes wrong."

"I don't care! I can be resurrected anyway, but as for you, Pochi, that's hard to say."

"..."

Damn it, I forgot this woman gets free resurrection coins every day. Does that mean I'm the one in the most danger?

Kids, this is not funny.

"Actually, I don't think it's a bad thing to notify the armed detectives in advance." Li Ang said seriously after pretending to ponder, his face full of the desire to "live".

"I wonder who was it that had the audacity to say that I could find the culprit all by myself? I'm curious."

Charlotte tilted her head, tapping her temples with her fingers, seemingly recalling the scene just now, but the smile on her face was harder to suppress than AK's.

"Yeah! Who said that? I don't know," Li Ang said, feigning ignorance.

Anyway, he's thick-skinned, so he can just deny it to the death.

"But what you said does make a good point." Charlotte's tone suddenly became serious. "Besides shapeshifting, we don't know anything else about that thief's abilities, so we should be careful."

"So you really don't plan to contact the armed detectives?" Leon could tell that Charlotte had no intention of contacting the armed detectives at all.

"Not for now," Charlotte shook her head. "Generally speaking, contacting armed detectives requires confirming the general identity and specific abilities of the ability user, including their rank."

"Only in this way will the association send out suitable armed detectives."

"If we rashly send out armed detectives, and the other side is stronger than the armed detectives or has very troublesome capabilities, it will only cause meaningless losses."

"I see." Li Ang walked to the window, looking thoughtfully at the servants walking back and forth in the garden below.

"What are you thinking about?" Charlotte asked.

"I'm looking at those maids." Li Ang didn't turn around.

"What? You want one too?" Charlotte teased.

"Don't joke around." Leon knew Charlotte was joking. "I was just wondering, is there really a mole among them?"

"There must be." Charlotte pulled a gilded pocket watch from her pocket, glanced at the time, and said, "Digging a tunnel isn't a matter of just a day or two. Judging from the dryness of the cave walls, it's been at least two weeks."

"The straight-line distance from the garden to the collection room is nearly 500 meters, and the distance of the tunnels dug out will only be longer."

"Where will the excavated soil be transported? It's impossible to do it so cleanly without the help of others. Besides, I've already asked the butler, and this mansion doesn't usually assign single maids to tasks."

"That means there's at least one person with the ability and one assistant."

"There might be more than one." Charlotte put away her pocket watch and walked to Leon's side. "So tonight we need to keep a close eye on everyone. No one is allowed to leave the mansion."

She turned her head and glanced at Li Ang. "Are you confident?"

Li Ang did not answer immediately, but looked at the busy maids downstairs, "I would like to move around freely for a while first."

"Sure," Charlotte naturally agreed.

So Leon took a walk alone in the garden of the mansion, while Charlotte stayed in her room alone, doing something unknown.

He saw many maids along the way, and he quickly glanced at them—

[Maid, ordinary person, no special abilities]

[Maid, ordinary person, no special abilities]

[Maid/Cook, ordinary person, no special abilities]

……

After scanning the area, all the people were ordinary; there were no people with special abilities.

It seems we haven't encountered the mastermind yet.

So Li Ang first walked around the garden to make sure no one was following him, and then went around to the servants' entrance on the side of the mansion.

All the servants pass by here, making it convenient for me to use my abilities to look at them one by one.

As time went by, maids came and went through the door, each with a line of silver text floating above their head.

They were all ordinary people, but the prompts for one of the maids were different from the others.

Amy, a maid, an ordinary person.

[Assistant. Has a contractual relationship with the fourteenth pillar of the Witch's Guild, the Cradle Maiden.]

The maid, named Amy, was in her early twenties, with brown hair, a thin face, and thick calluses on her fingers, clearly indicating that she often did heavy work.

Because he noticed Li Ang's gaze, the other man's shoulders tensed slightly as he passed by him.

"Please wait a moment, miss," Li Ang said, stopping her.

Amy turned her head away in a panic, not daring to raise it. "Sir, you're too kind. Just call me your maid."

She naturally recognized the dark-haired man in front of her; he was the assistant to the famous detective Charlotte Holmes, whose status was far higher than hers. She was surprised that he would address her as "Miss," which made her feel incredibly flattered.

It's important to know that most guests don't use such a formal term for these maids; calling them "maid" is considered quite polite.

"What's your name?"

"Amy Herry".

"Yes, Miss Amy. How long have you been at this mansion?"

"It's been four years," Amy answered honestly, though her heart was already pounding wildly.

Why would this assistant specifically ask me this? Did she see through their plan?

But they haven't even officially started their operation yet, so how could they possibly be exposed?