Perhaps it had rained these few days, and the roads in the small town were somewhat muddy. Livestock pens could be seen on both sides of the mud road from time to time, and the smell was very heavy. Qin Lun pulled down the small felt hat he had snatched from the traveller and covered his face slightly. He bent down and walked into the town with a small bag on his shoulder.

Like all the immigrant towns in the North American continent, Monte Town was just beginning to be built, and its urban planning was neat and simple. It was temporarily an agricultural town with agriculture and livestock. Apart from the slaves on the plantations, most of the other white townspeople owned their own land and livestock.

The town was sparsely populated. Apart from the main buildings, most of the families also had forage storehouses, livestock bars, and tool houses. In particular, the forage warehouse was almost more important than the granary. Without a granary, people may not starve to death. Without their own forage storehouses, others will not use forage to feed your livestock.

Qin Lun observed as he walked. He found that there was only one main road in the town. At the end of the mud road was a church and a small square.

Compared to other buildings, the church was the most magnificent, with a three-story Gothic structure and a bell tower atop it. Around the small square, there were several wells, and a group of big-waisted village maids gathered in small circles beside the wells, chattering loudly.

Qin Lun had already discovered his target. He paused and turned into a tavern on the left side of the mud road with oak barrels carved on it.

Probably because it was still early, there weren’t many people in the tavern. The bartender behind the bar was wiping the purple-brown walnut bar with a dirty rag.

“Aggressive!” Qin Lun leaned against the bar and knocked on the table to remind the bartender of his arrival.

“May I help you?” The bartender was a young man in his twenties. He did not stop his work, only looked up at Qin Lun and asked casually.

Qin Lun glanced at the young man. He was wearing a linen sweater that was covered with stains that could not be washed completely. The cuffs rolled up on his forearms revealed several threads. The tiger’s mouth, which was holding a rag, had calluses, and the skin on the back of his hand was rough and molting.

He didn’t look like a tavern owner in terms of age or clothing. Otherwise, even if he didn’t manage well, he would still get himself a body full of pastries. It was not surprising that the tavern owner was not in the shop. It was not the peak of business, so the owner might be taking a nap and preparing to open in the evening.

“Give me a glass of beer!” Qin Lun took out a ten shilling silver coin and placed it on the bar counter. He pressed it down with his finger and pushed it in front of the bartender. “Apart from wine, answer me a few more questions. It’s yours.”

The young man looked at the silver coin’s throat and revealed a fawning expression. He whispered, “You can ask anything you want, but the news I’ve heard here is just rumors. I can’t guarantee that it’s all true!”

This world is the image world of the earth, and it is the same in many ways. In English terms, a pound is equal to 20 shillings, and 10 shillings in silver is almost half a pound.

Don’t think that money was scarce. During the first Industrial Revolution, a woman weaver earned almost a pound a week. In other words, they only earned a little more than four pounds a month.

At that time, weavers were considered skilled workers. Although they were women, they were paid more than waiters in a colonial bar. Apart from that glass of beer, Qin Lun’s ten shillings silver coin was also the bartender’s income for four to five days.

Take Hyundai’s 3000-month salary, for example, which is hundreds of oceans. The price was only to answer the news circulating in a few taverns, so the young bartender was naturally secretly delighted.

“Haha, my question is not difficult! Tell me, who is the richest person in this town, and who used to be a veteran cavalry, sailor, or officer?” Qin Lun asked with a flickering gaze.

Although Dana had found Carmen’s corpse, she had never seen the murderer before, so Qin Lun did not know that the murderer was a gentleman-dressed humanoid creature. He could only use the clues at hand to reason.

Carmen suffered two fatal injuries. One was a large hole in his chest, and the other was his neck, which had been cut flat and decapitated. Judging from the severity of the decapitation, the murderer was obviously someone who was skilled in using sharp blades and had a certain understanding of the structure of the human body.

There are many such professions, and the less conspicuous are chefs, butchers, doctors, soldiers, and so on. If this person was in Monte Town, then he was most likely a veteran who had fought and killed people. The chances of him being in other professions were much lower.

Monte Town was a new continent town developed by British colonizers. Other than the owners and slaves who came to start their own businesses, the immigrants here were mostly bankrupt farmers, small handicraftsmen, proletarians, and so on.

Britain has defeated many competitors in the ocean in this era, and has the embryonic form of the Unsetting Sun Empire in the future. The country was strong, and there was no war in the country. Chefs, butchers, and doctors all had their own skills. Among them, those with excellent skills would rarely emigrate to the New World to earn a living.

Besides, even though chefs, butchers, and doctors all used knives, kitchen knives, bone-picking knives, and scalpel knives were unable to cleanly decapitate people. The knives used for decapitation were usually long knives. Although short knives could also decapitate people, it required a lot of strength and extremely skilled killing techniques.

Therefore, the murderers were most likely veterans of war, cavalry, sailors and officers wearing cavalry knives or scimitars. In this era, ordinary soldiers used firearms and spears to stab people. The spears with long daggers could not be used to cut people.

“Well, Lord Wilson must be the only one. Not only is he the richest and most important man here, but I heard that he has fought against the French and Austrians before.” The young man blurted out without hesitation. He felt that the question was surprisingly simple.

Only with money could he arrange the ceremony, and only with killing skills could he prepare the sacrifices. The young man’s description of Lord Wilson perfectly matched Qin Lun’s profile of the murderer.

“Lord Wilson? Lord, or Sir?” Qin Lun’s eyes lit up and he asked cautiously.

The British nobles of this era were different from those of centuries later. Titles were still more valuable, unlike any cat or dog that could get a title from the British royal family in the future.

However, lords and knights are different. The former is an honorary title that has made great contributions to the country and is chartered by the royal family and cannot be hereditary. The latter is hereditary title. As for the nobles above jazz, it was obviously impossible for them to personally come to the New World to be farmers.

“This … seems to be a jazz!” The young man was a little uncertain. He had never noticed what kind of formal address other people used to greet that important person. Even if he had heard of it, his impression was still not deep.

Qin Lun nodded. Even though knights were hereditary knights, the lowest-ranked nobles would often fall from the bottom of their families and would only be able to start a new business in the New World. Although the lords were not hereditary, they were usually great figures who had both fame and wealth because of their great contributions to the country.

The property of such a big shot in the New World may be just an investment and I will not stay for long. Moreover, his every move had attracted the attention of others. It was hard to imagine that he would personally perform a blood sacrifice ceremony for a certain cult.

“One last question … where does that big shot live?” Qin Lun released his finger from the silver coin and revealed an elegant smile.

An hour later, Qin Lun saw a country manor.

Wilson Manor is located five miles outside Monte Town. It consists of a four-story Gothic main building and a bungalow. Behind it was a small hillside, on the left was a sugar mill and a small racecourse. On the right and ahead was the lush sugarcane fields.

There was a soft mud road leading to Monte Town in front of the manor, which was where Qin Lun came from. Along the mud road, he could always see some dark-skinned slaves working hard in the field.

The Gothic manor was probably where the master lived, and the rough bungalows were supposed to be for the slaves. Judging from the size of this sugar cane garden, it would probably require at least a hundred slaves to take care of it.

Qin Lun stared at Wilson Manor from afar and did not continue to approach. The clothes he wore came from a traveller, and the rough workmanship and texture showed that the dress was not so decent.

Dressed in this outfit, he was certain that the butler of the manor would not introduce him to his master.

Sir Wilson’s full name was Thomas Wilson. He was nearly 40 years old and in his prime. As Qin Lun had guessed, the Wilson family had fallen into decline more than 20 years ago.

Thomas Wilson chose to join the army when he was young in order to reorganize his family business. However, because he didn’t have any money, even if he had a hereditary title, he could only start as a low-ranking officer.

After seven or eight years in the army and participating in the cruel seven-year war, he was still unable to climb to a high position, so he chose to retire in frustration.

However, he did not expect that after retiring from the military, he would be transported here. After disappearing from the eyes of his acquaintances for a few years, he reappeared and married the only daughter of a big businessman. He also had a son and a daughter. He inherited a large sugar cane garden in South Carolina.

“Will such a person really become a pervert killer? What kind of mysterious power does he possess?” At the same time, Qin Lun couldn’t help but wonder if he had found the wrong person.

“How should we approach this important person?” Qin Lun glanced at his inconspicuous attire and couldn’t help but curl his lips. Because of the time constraint, he obviously couldn’t be prepared properly anymore, and he had to take a more direct action.

“Such plain clothes, but also a white man. “I can’t be a guest or a slave …” Qin Lun’s eyes rolled. “It’s impossible to pretend to be a doctor or a civil servant like before. Monte Town is too small. Wilson must know everyone in the town, so I can only choose a role that doesn’t attract attention, but that will definitely lead me to the manor.”

Qin Lun blindly swept his gaze around aimlessly and finally stopped at the horse house on the left side of the manor.