After passing through a neighborhood of low and dilapidated houses, Buck took Heidi to a secluded place that was in disrepair. The place was overgrown with weeds, and even in the daytime, it was eerie.
"This place is occupied by a small number of homeless people, but they have to run around for a living during the day, so there are no people around." Buck pointed at the crumbling wall.
After turning around several mud houses that could collapse at any time, Heidi saw the crime scene in the photo, with sewage flowing across it, flies flying around, and a stench hitting her face.
"Those homeless people have no idea of keeping their own environment tidy. Even though the entrance to the sewer is nearby, they still litter everywhere." Buck cursed. Even a detective like him who was running around couldn't help but feel this place.
Frowning, let alone an arcanist from the Atomic Research Institute like Ms. Heidi!
Although Heidi's area of expertise is not in this area, the mandatory tasks arranged by the Magic Council have given her no lack of adventure training. Compared with the lairs of ogres, trolls and other monsters, this place is as clean and refreshing as a noble lady's.
Garden, so he walked to the corner without frowning and used prophecy and necromancy magic to detect clues.
"It rained heavily yesterday, and many traces were destroyed..." Heidi confirmed her conjecture from the magic feedback.
Buck looked at her expectantly: "Yes, we are also facing such troubles, so we asked the parliament for help. Do you have any ideas?"
He did not use the full name "Magic Council" to show that he was a standard pro-magic sect.
At the serious murder scene, Heidi was neither carefree nor playful. Instead, she very solemnly took out the flesh and blood body parts of the victim and used the star system's five-ring magic "similar positioning technique".
The mass of flesh and blood in her hand suddenly melted and fell to the ground drop by drop. Drawn by the mysterious power, it pointed towards the distance.
"Originally, it can only locate living creatures. After improvement, it can also be used to trace the traces of the deceased as long as it does not exceed a certain time range. As long as the murderer still has the internal organs, it will lead us to find it."
Heidi's left hand seemed to have a layer of blood squirming.
Buck watched in amazement this miraculous and unusual magic and once again strengthened his belief in sending his son to a general school to receive basic magic education.
This time, it was Heidi who led Buck, and the two shuttled through the "Egret District", tracking the murderer's whereabouts.
After a while, after reaching a fork in the road, the blood in Heidi's hand suddenly stopped boiling and twisting. It seemed as if it had lost the last trace of vitality, and it faded away from its dark red color and emitted a putrid smell.
"Ma'am, what's wrong?" Buck asked worriedly.
Heidi looked around, with a very serious expression on her baby face: "'The connection between the same kind has been deliberately cut off. This can only be done with enough magic, magic or knightly strength."
"What?" Buck was quite surprised. This kind of serial murders against civilians would involve formal magicians and noble knights? What are they trying to do?
Heidi wrinkled her nose: "I asked before why the murderer didn't destroy the body. Now it seems that it's not that they have no ability, but that they have other purposes."
"Other purpose?" Although Buck knew a lot of secret files, he still lacked "common sense" compared to a senior magician like Heidi.
Heidi looked around and said casually: "Generally speaking, this weird situation is related to evil magic rituals or cults. When they use 'viscera,' they pay attention to the fact that the original corpse still exists..."
"Then I will submit your conclusion, ma'am." Buck wanted to back down. Being involved in such a matter was something he, a detective with only the strength of a high-level knight's attendant, could not bear. He should let the knights at the top of the police department handle it.
Well, or ask a high-level magician.
He looked at the forked roads, one leading outside the city and the other leading to the other side of the "Egret District", so he judged: "The murderers must have escaped from the city, and it is difficult to confirm their traces now.
Heidi was quite excited. It was a rare opportunity to encounter evil magic rituals or cultists. She eagerly took out the magic crystal ball and said solemnly: "I'm not sure, so I'd better confirm again."
In Rentat, she was not too worried about encountering an enemy she could not deal with. If the battle exceeded a certain intensity, she would be discovered by the Lord guarding Nexor Palace and the headquarters of the Will of the Elements.
The transparent crystal ball turned dark under the power of magic, and then a little bit of bright starlight lit up, forming a directed light belt.
"Went to the other side of Bailu District..." Heidi got feedback from astrology, but there was no specific information, "Let's go over and have a look."
Buck was slightly distressed, but he did not dare to refute, so he could only follow Heidi.
"Ms. Heidi is a near-high-level magician and a legendary student. She must have many powerful items. Even if she encounters an evil magician or a cultist, there will be nothing..." Thinking of this, his heart gradually
Comfort yourself.
At this time, he saw that Heidi had been holding a silver badge in her hand, which was engraved with the symbols of the elements. It seemed to be a miniature of the periodic table of elements - as a basic thing in the field of elements, even civilians knew it.
Many people even carve it on their doors, believing that it has magical power to protect against evil.
Heidi chuckled: "A medium for magic rituals."
"Magic ritual..." According to Buck's shallow magic knowledge, isn't this something that should be prepared long in advance?
During the conversation, they followed the path and came to a corner of the slums, where people were coming and going and it seemed quite lively.
"If it is a cultist, there must be a lot of people, which is consistent with more than one murderer, so if we ask whose house often has a large number of strangers coming in and out, or has regular noises at night, we should be able to find certain clues." Buck said according to himself.
Provide advice to Heidi on her experience.
Heidi smiled and said: "Then I'll give it to you, Detective Buck."
In front of a low house, stood a wrinkled old woman, hanging up the laundry.
"Hello, madam, I am Buck, a senior detective from the Kingdom Police Department. I would like to ask you a few questions." Buck politely showed his ID.
The old woman looked a little dull and flustered and said: "Mr. Detective, you can ask whatever you want."
Poor people like this who have never seen the world usually behave like this when they meet police detectives, so Buck nodded secretly: "You should be familiar with this road, right? Is there anyone whose house is often visited by a large number of strangers, or at night?"
Intermittently noisy, keeping everyone awake?"
The old woman thought for a while and said, "I haven't noticed that I rarely go to other places on the street."
Buck took the ID and said, "Do you know anyone who knows this street very well?"
"Well, Mr. Moro of the Black Brotherhood." The old woman said softly, as if she was equally afraid of that Mr. Moro.
Buck nodded: "Then take us to find him."
"No, no, Mr. Detective, please find someone else." The old woman waved her hands in a panic.
How could Buck compromise? Under his stern words, the old woman closed the door of her house and took him and Heidi deeper into the street.
Under the low houses on both sides of the street, there were women washing clothes, men chopping wood, and children looking curiously at strangers.
"It's really lively." Buck sighed.
Heidi frowned slightly and looked around without saying anything.
At this time, the old woman stopped in front of the most magnificent two-story building in this slum area: "Mr. Detective, madam, Mr. Moro is inside."
As she spoke, she helped knock on the door.
Heidi suddenly said: "I won't visit Mr. Moro today, we have urgent matters."
"What?" Buck asked in confusion, and Heidi's voice suddenly sounded in his mind, "Exit first, I will do it myself, otherwise I may not be able to take care of you."
"Why?" Buck suddenly became nervous. Is this the legendary spiritual connection?
Heidi laughed without a smile: "The poor people in the slums have to work for more than ten hours a day in order to survive, so there are only children and a few women during the day. Now, look at how many men stay at home. They
How do you support yourself and your family?"
Buck suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He was transferred to serve as a senior police detective. He had never had grassroots experience in the past. The ordinary police detectives under his command might have discovered the problem long ago, so he cooperated with Heidi and said: "Yes.
, I suddenly remembered that we have urgent matters to return to the police station and visit Mr. Moro tomorrow."
"Huh, you've already discovered the problem and you still want to leave?" A cold and hoarse voice came from the two-story building. The door was blown open by the strong wind, and the strong smell of blood overflowed.
In the spacious hall, the heart, intestines, spleen and other organs were arranged in a messy and strange pattern. Not only was the blood as red as ever, but it was also bulging rhythmically.
The men, women, and children all around stood up, their mouths were completely opened, exposing a whole set of teeth, their tongues were covered with barbs, their eyes became scarlet and cold, and they exuded an aura of evil paralysis.
The old woman standing next to her suddenly shriveled up, as if a balloon had been popped, and then quickly swelled up again. Her eyes were red and she uttered a hoarse male voice: "Do you still want to leave?"
He raised his hand and pointed, and Buck suddenly felt substantial black energy condensing on his fingertips, and the terrifying intention of death made him paralyzed and unable to move.
"The finger of death?" During the spiritual connection, Buck heard Heidi's voice.
The black energy condensed, and death came like a needle prick. Buck thought numbly: "Are we going to die?"
At this time, his body felt illusory for a moment, then became solid, and appeared on the other side of the street.
"This?" He came back to his senses in surprise and found that Heidi had led him to escape in a flash when the magic attack came.
At the same time, "Douglas's Spell Absorption Wall" stood out, blocking the red rays of those "slit-mouth monsters".
"You are not a high-level person, how can you use magic to trigger it?" The hoarse male voice blurted out in surprise. His old woman's body collapsed as if she could not bear the force, and the pieces of flesh and bones separated and fell to the ground.
At this time, many organs in the hall began to squirm and gather together, piecing together a strange human shape.
Heidi chuckled: "Although I am not a high-level person, who said that spell triggering can only be used by high-level people. This kind of pre-stored spells, magic triggered according to specific situations, happens to be in my research field and belongs to the storage part and the control part.
I can’t simplify the comprehensive application of the computing part, the information collection input part and the magic output part, but I can simplify some of the modules with the help of items... Maybe in the future, the fifth ring will be a high-level magician!"
She didn't look anxious at all, but her left hand kept pressing on the silver badge, which seemed to be a complex set of spell-casting gestures.
The monster whose organs were pieced together said angrily: "I don't understand, but you can't live either! Can you still use other high-level magic?"
He was about to complete his body, but those "slit-mouth monsters" densely blocked the street, and the magical power rising in the dark interfered with his flight.
Feeling the attention of those pairs of red eyes, Buck was so frightened that his legs trembled slightly, and he could only place his hope on Heidi.
After pressing the button with her left hand, Heidi suddenly threw out the silver badge and made a mysterious voice: "The cry from the stars, calling for the coming of the atomic universe..."
As soon as the monster heard the sound of the curse, it immediately jumped out, its body stretched into a long curtain of blood, corroding everything around it.
He understands very well that the power of legend is close to that of gods, so many magic rituals require summoning and communicating with different legendary planes before they can be performed. For example, many rituals of "Pale Hand" require "Silent Hell", "Skeleton Wasteland" and the Lord of the Dead.
Generally speaking, as long as it complies with the rules of these legends and pays a certain price, you can use the projection power blessing of the "Sleeping Place", unless the legendary strongman himself deliberately blocks and hides the demiplane.
What he couldn't believe was that whose magic ritual could be used in such a short way?
Pre-storage again?
The sound of the mantra stopped, and the surrounding area suddenly became extremely quiet. Darkness drooped, vastness descended, and elemental planets appeared illusoryly.
A mysterious light lit up in Heidi's hand, and the projection in the "atomic universe" magnified, and a planet that was constantly fusion appeared like the sun.
With its assistance, a vast and scorching light swept across the entire slum area, and the red-eyed "slit-mouth monsters" merged silently.