Wizard Earl

Chapter 761 Suspicion (1)

"Connor, I'd better go and examine your father in person!" Varga broke the silence a minute later, emphasizing to Connor:

Connor didn't immediately answer Varga's request. He pondered for a moment, then said to Varga in a deep voice, "Give me some time!"

The Milner pill he gave to old Ferguson at Ferguson's mansion, according to the auxiliary chip's calculations, was supposed to last for three days. After three days, once the effects wore off, old Ferguson's health would continue to deteriorate.

Therefore, the best-case scenario is that he can expose the mole Reyes planted in the Ferguson family within three days. If that happens, he can openly take Varga to treat old Ferguson without having to continue hiding. However, if more than three days pass, the longer it drags on, the more bleak old Ferguson's already low chance of recovery will become.

Seeing that Connor had made his decision, Varga respected it, nodded, and said nothing more.

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The next morning, Connor, who hadn't slept all night, arrived early at the restaurant of the Grand Agudro Hotel. While eating bread and grilled fish without tasting anything, he kept his eyes glued to the documents in his hands. A few days earlier, while he was preparing to sneak into Ferguson's mansion at night, Varga had also been busy. She had secretly hired two detectives chosen by Connor to investigate the Ferguson family.

The information Connor is holding now is an investigation report given to him by one of the two detectives, named Kurzawa. Although Kurzawa is not well-known in the detective industry in Frosinone and only carries the title of private detective, he is actually a well-known information broker in Frosinone's black market, known for the accuracy of the information he provides.

Kurzawa was able to produce an investigation report on the Ferguson family, a count family with hundreds of members and more than twenty properties, so quickly, within just a few days, partly because of the lure of a thousand gold pounds offered by Varga.

On the other hand, it's also because this person has a grudge against the Ferguson family. His uncle Felix and his family of five were wiped out by the Ferguson family's knights due to a conflict of interest. So, he harbors hatred and has been consciously collecting all kinds of information about the Ferguson family for years, trying to overthrow them. Therefore, he only needs a few days to organize the information he has collected about the Ferguson family over the years and then hand it over to Connor as a detective report.

Once Kurzawa provided Connor with the detective report, he became of no value to Connor and a potential threat. Connor never showed mercy to threats, so at Connor's behest, Varga killed Kurzawa and his bodyguards, a total of three people.

After receiving the detective report from Varga late last night, Connor has been studying it. According to Connor's observation, the detective report provided by Kurzawa mainly made three points!

The first point is what Connor already learned from Jack Ferguson's conversation in Eugenia's study: a major reason for the Ferguson family's declining financial situation is that Jack Ferguson, this big parasite, has embezzled the family's assets!

The second point surprised Connor: his uncle Warrent Ferguson and aunt Kelly Fabian, who should have been separated and estranged due to the transfer of assets for their illegitimate child, seemed to have reconciled in recent years. The two had been seen by Kurzawa's informants on several occasions, and were seen together in theaters, parks, and other public places.

As for the third point, which is also what Connor is most interested in, in recent years, although Butler Martinez, as a Grand Knight, has become somewhat less energetic due to his age. Although he still nominally manages the Ferguson family in place of the ailing old Ferguson, in reality, much of his power has been delegated to the deputy butler Danilo and Arbeloa, the general manager of Ferguson Minerals Distribution Company, the most important financial pillar of the Ferguson family.

Danilo is thirty-three years old and comes from a branch of the Ferguson family. At the age of twenty-one, he took over his father's position and managed a dairy farm owned by the Ferguson family. Later, because of his good management of the dairy farm, he was highly appreciated by the head butler Martinez and was taken under Martinez's wing to learn. In recent years, he has had a very good reputation in the Ferguson family for his interpersonal skills, and there are whispers in the Ferguson family that he is the successor to the head butler Martinez.

As for Arbeloa, he is thirty-eight years old this year. He graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Duhail, a local university in Frosinone. He was originally from another family, but because he married a woman from the Ferguson family, he was considered to have married into the Ferguson family. Although his abilities are average and the performance of Ferguson Minerals Distribution Company has not been good in the years under his leadership, he is good at scheming and can provide enough benefits to the elders of the Ferguson family. Therefore, he is well-liked by the elders of the Ferguson family, so his position as general manager has always been very stable.

Originally, this was just another parasite of the Ferguson family, but because of one thing in Kurzawa's detective report, Arbeloa became the most suspicious person in Connor's eyes. A few years ago, a group of notorious bandits from near Frosinone, the De Jong Black Knights, were employed by the Leo Consortium, a rival of the Ferguson family's mining business. In order to undermine the Ferguson family's mining business, they attacked the Frosinone Minerals Distribution Company's ore storage warehouse in the suburbs of Frosinone.

On that very day, Arbeloa, the company's general manager, was inspecting the Pharos warehouse. As a result, the De Jong Black Knights successfully attacked the Pharos ore warehouse, and all eleven employees of the Ferguson Ore Distribution Company, except for Arbeloa, were killed!

As for Arbeloa, who ran back, he claimed that when he saw the De Jong Black Knights coming, he realized the situation was bad and took the initiative to run away. Because he ran away quickly, the De Jong Black Knights did not catch up with him, so he was very lucky to only suffer some minor injuries and ran back.

However, the detective report provided by Kurzawa to Connor mentioned that someone had witnessed Arbeloa, as he stated, fleeing after the Black Knights of De Jong joined the order during their attack. However…

(End of this chapter)