On the first day, neither Lux nor Ino gained anything.
Lacus didn't have enough data and the results couldn't be analyzed, so she had to continue visiting.
Ino's side depends on Vayne's condition and when the devil's seed will sprout.
It is really not an easy task to find the entrance to the Shadow Realm and catch the clues of the demon's movements.
The next day, Lux and Ino continued to go their own way.
Lux, still serving as a trainee missionary, visited the families of patients suffering from elemental erosion in Forsbarrow one by one.
Since the holy water at the caravan had been distributed yesterday, when I visited today, several patients with relatively mild symptoms and relatively shallow infection levels had gradually regained consciousness.
Asking the patient's family members was obviously not as straightforward as asking the patient. Through these sober patients, Lux finally got a clue about the entrance to the Shadow Realm.
On Ino's side, Vayne, who was searching around, seemed to have sensed something, and gradually narrowed the scope of her search to a narrow area - she sensed something unusual here, but could not find anything specific.
The problem lies.
When the sun set in the west and Lux and Ino gathered together, they summarized what they had learned today. Comparing the two, they suddenly discovered that whether it was the patient's movement trajectory or the area where Vayne was lingering,
They all pointed to the old camp in the southwest area of Forsbarrow.
The old barracks, as the name suggests, is where Forsbarrow's garrison was once located.
But this happened hundreds of years ago - later, gravel occasionally rolled down the cliff next to the old camp, and it was not safe to live in the camp, so Forsbarrow's garrison moved to another place to live.
At that time, the nobles of Forsbarrow were also declining. After the garrison left the old camp, they simply moved into the inner city manor of the former noble lord. Anyway, the transportation here is convenient, it is condescending, and there is enough space for training.
, isn’t it beautiful?
After the garrison moved away, the old camp was naturally abandoned - although it was uninhabitable due to the rockfall, that area was within the city anyway. The Forsbarrow people opened up farmland and built a building on the site of the camp.
A vegetable patch.
Most people who show symptoms of elemental infection have been to that vegetable patch.
Some of these people go there to work, some go there to buy groceries, and some are just passing by.
Although the vegetable patch was full of people on weekdays and was not a secluded place, and many people who had been there did not suffer from elemental infection, but considering the proportion of the sample, Lux still thought something was wrong there.
And this is also reflected in Ino's side - Vayne wandered in the southwest of the city for a long time, but found nothing.
After reaching this conclusion, Lux and Ino agreed that they needed to go there and take a look.
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While Vayne was beginning to rest exhausted after a busy day, Lux and Ino set off together towards the old camp.
Along the way, the two of them suddenly discovered that although this place is located in the southwest corner of Forsbarrow, it is not remote at all.
Since this is a relatively large vegetable garden in the city, it can supply a lot of fresh vegetables. The place in the old camp that was originally used as a military camp residence has now been transformed into a market.
When Lux and Ino came here, it was the busiest time of the night market - summer is the gathering of trade, and merchants who went to various places to do business have returned to Forsbarrow in recent days, so this time
In the night market, in addition to the usual small vendors, there are also many big businessmen who are also clearing out their goods.
Even in the night market, Lux and Ino saw the members of the caravan when they came. They set up a large stall and sold various goods brought back from the capital of Demacia.
One of the waiters recognized Lux and waved to say hello to her. Lux also smiled and exchanged greetings with the other person.
From these guys, Lux learned that the summer market in Forsbarrow seemed to be a bit sluggish this year - perhaps because many families spent their savings to buy holy water, and many daily necessities and supplies came in from Xiongdu.
Some exquisite gadgets are hard to buy.
Obviously, for Forsbarrow, the impact of elemental infection is quite large. If this problem cannot be solved, the city may be further destroyed, and eventually the entire Forsbarrow will be completely turned into a military camp.
Rejecting each other's gift, Lux and Ino walked arm in arm from the street to the corner.
Although it looked like the two of them were wandering around the night market, in fact, every time they passed a hundred steps, they would consciously check the concentration of elements around them to see if there was anything wrong.
As a result, after walking around, neither Lux nor Ino found anything wrong. Everything seemed to be normal here, nothing was wrong, and the element concentration was relatively low like most places in Demacia.
In this environment, there will absolutely be no elemental contamination!
Could it be that this is just a coincidence?
The night is getting darker.
The sheriff beat the gong and began to urge the vendors to close their stalls.
Listening to the clear sound of the gong drifting farther and farther in the night, Lux and Ino looked at each other, and both of them suddenly understood.
Maybe the location is right, but the timing of the two is wrong!
In a night market where people come and go, if there is a high concentration of elements or the entrance to the Shadow Realm appears at this time, there will be more than a hundred patients infected by the elements.
It must be because only at specific times, the element concentration will be too high, leading to elemental infection!
Realizing this, Lux and Ino quickly returned to the hotel and began to compare the data investigated by Lux and the time when the patients came here.
Then, what made the two people helpless was that some of these patients came to Laoyingfang in the morning, some came at noon, and some came in the afternoon. The time could be said to be uneven and irregular.
Looking at the data she had just painstakingly summarized, Lux was dumbfounded.
"Although there is no pattern, it seems ridiculous, but sometimes, the pattern just seems to be irregular." Just when Lux doubted herself, Kalya finally said, "Now that the most suspicious part has been confirmed, then
Why don't you just wait and see?"
"Sit back and wait?"
"The opening of the secondary plane may not be regular in time, so if you want to find clues, sometimes it's not a shame to use some stupid methods!"
"..."
Lux did not agree immediately, but carefully checked her own record data and compared Vayne's previous abnormal movements. Finally, she determined that it was indeed the old camp that was the most suspicious.
In this case...
Then just follow what Kalya said and use stupid methods and wait and see!
Leaving Ino looking at Vayne, Lux left the hotel alone and went straight to the old camp.
When she arrived, the night market had already dispersed, and the garbage on the floor had only been roughly collected and piled casually in the corner.
Finding a low platform, Lux leaned on it with her cloak on, and then closed her eyes slightly.
Time passes minute by minute.
Unknowingly, the time was already at the zenith of the moon - when a breeze blew, Lux, who had seemed to be in trance before, finally frowned and opened her eyes.
She noticed a very uncomfortable feeling.
Stretching out her hand, a shadow enveloped her like ink. The moon was bright and clear, but she couldn't see her fingers clearly.
Even without conducting an element concentration test, Lux has already determined that the element concentration here definitely exceeds the standard!
Just when Lux stood up and started looking for more clues, the sound of someone's footsteps was heard at the entrance of the market.
"There is a bright moon in the sky." Vayne, who was carrying a crossbow, held up a torch and tore apart the sticky darkness. "I came at the right time!"