Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 489 Riverside
Rhodes never thought that he would become a man with "big flower arms".

After breakfast, Rhodes was going to explain the situation to Michel, and went to the Chief Grand Maester to ask what happened to the golden pattern on his arm.

When he went upstairs, he felt a severe burning sensation coming from his right arm. After rolling up his sleeve, Rhodes found that the mysterious golden pattern on his right arm had disappeared.

Did it sense that I was looking for someone to look at, and then disappeared?
Rhodes carefully observed his right arm, the golden pattern disappeared not only suddenly, but also completely, leaving no trace.

This reminded Rhodes of the previous time when he had a fever and asked his teacher for sick leave, but was taken to the hospital by his parents for an examination.

Now that it's gone, it's better to wait for the group of golden patterns to reappear before going to the Chief Grand Scholar.

Rhodes walked towards the study while thinking about what he experienced last night.

"A lot of people died by the river last night, should we go and have a look?" Michelle, who was sitting on a chair, asked after seeing Rhodes enter the study.

"By the river?" Rhodes sat in his seat while thinking.

He still had some impressions of what happened by the river. The owner of the body obtained by the Lord of Radiance died by the river, and he didn't know the specific cause of death.

So Rhodes asked Baron to hire a group of capable mercenaries in the tavern to investigate by the river.

"A group of mercenaries died?" Rhodes asked.

"Yes." Michelle nodded.

Baron left the territory yesterday, and the mercenaries he hired had this kind of accident that night...

"I think it's still necessary to take a look. I asked Baron to hire those mercenaries. They should still have some strength, but they had an accident that night. The creatures in the river are definitely not something ordinary people can deal with." Rhodes stood up again.

"I'll go with you." Michelle stood up, picked up a few pieces of paper from the table, and followed Rhodes to the door.

Rhode glanced at it, and what she was holding seemed to be an investigation report or something. It wasn't the mercenary's description of the river monster, but the investigation report of the mercenary's corpse.

"Look at these." Michel handed the documents to Rhodes.

"There are no wounds on their bodies?" Rhodes looked at the investigation report and said to himself.

"Yes, but those people didn't check the inside of these mercenaries, maybe they died from internal injuries." Misaier said.

"I think their souls may have been swallowed by that monster in some way." Rhodes shook his head.

"What is the reason, let's discuss it when we get there." He walked down the stairs while talking.

Afterwards, Rhodes and Michel drove towards Hewang City in a carriage.

Not long after, the groom took Rhodes and the others to a river bank not far from Hewangcheng, and the surrounding martial law soldiers respectfully let go of the road after seeing Rhode's carriage.

Rhodes got out of the carriage and saw the corpses of eight middle-aged men lying on the river bank, and there was no blood around the scene.

"Do you have any new findings?" Rhodes turned to Hamer next to him.

Hamer's expression was not very good, because he had always been in charge of the law and order near Hewang City.

It was the first time in such a long time that so many people died at one time. Since Riverview City was upgraded from a small town to a small city, even fights rarely happened in the city.

The most serious one was because of a conflict between two medium-sized mercenary regiments. The group fight quickly turned into an armed fight, and only three people died in the end.

"There is no updated investigation result, and all the clues we know have been given to you." Hamer replied.

Rhodes nodded: "Go and do other things, I'll be in charge here."

Hammer sighed, turned around and left here with a few soldiers. In fact, he was busy every day, and he handled the affairs of several factories every day.

He gets fat because he sits in the office for too long every day and has little time to exercise.

Rhodes turned to Michelle and said, "Try using healing magic on one of the corpses."

Misaier handed over the documents in her hand to a young clerk next to her for help, and then she stepped forward, and after a few prayers, a golden light shone in her hand, and the golden light condensed into beams and flowed into the ground. a corpse.

With the influx of golden light, pitch-black smoke continuously overflowed from this corpse.

"My God!" Rhode heard someone exclaim in a low voice.

It didn't take long before the dark smoke was no longer overflowing from the corpse, and Michel turned to look at Rhodes.

Rhodes is thinking now, the smoke gives him a very familiar feeling, very similar to the sea monster he encountered in the conscious world yesterday, but a little different.

Could it be that the offspring of the sea monster ran into this river from the sea?

Or is the monster in the river a follower of the sea monster?

There are too many possibilities, and there is no need to figure them out. Rhodes decided to think about how to find the monster in the river first.

"Did any strange things happen to people who passed by this area by boat recently?" Rhodes turned to look at a middle-aged official next to him and asked.

"It seems not, my lord." The middle-aged official replied a little nervously, "We have never received any reports about this kind of thing before."

Rhodes nodded.

How about I come and watch by the river at night?
I suddenly gained so much mental power yesterday, it should be difficult to fall asleep tonight.

"Take all these corpses back, don't bury them in the soil, lock them in the sarcophagus, and then arrange some people to guard them." Rhodes said to the middle-aged official.

Then he took Michelle into the carriage and prepared to return to the castle.

"Should we just go back like this? Shouldn't we find the monster in the river and go back?" Michelle sat in the carriage and looked at Rhodes and asked with some doubts.

"Even if we search for a day, we will definitely not find it. Did you feel any strange aura there just now?" Rhodes replied.

Michelle showed a thoughtful look, and then she shook her head: "No, you mean that monster is very good at hiding, right? As long as it doesn't take the initiative to attack, we can't find it?"

"Almost, and I feel that this monster is not necessarily a creature in the river. Although it always kills people by the river, maybe it actually lives on land, but it just so happens that each time it kills people in the river. side.

Let's go back now, I'll ask someone to ask another partner of the little girl who was killed by this monster about the specific situation at that time. " Rhodes said.

……

　The index finger of my left hand is still not healed, and it is a bit uncomfortable to lose such a crucial finger when coding.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)