The Trial Game of Life

The blood on the floor has been completely wiped off, only a little remains that seeped into the cracks in the floor.And the floor of this rental house has been trampled on by countless people, the color is dull and in disrepair, and the color of blood is covered up smoothly.

Jin Cheng scraped some sawdust from the cracks in the floor with a dagger, looked at it carefully, and said, "The bloodstains should have been there for a long time, at least not recently."

Tang Cuo continued to search the room, and finally, he came to a conclusion, "Do you think the distribution of bloodstains looks like a magic circle?"

This statement aroused Jin Cheng's interest.

He simply scooped up a basin of water and used water instead of writing to connect all the bloodstains in series.After the connection was completed, he touched his chin and looked at the picture carefully, and said, "This is indeed a bit like a magic circle, and do you know which one it looks like?"

Tang Cuo understood, "Unfinished painting?"

"Crack." Jin Cheng snapped his fingers, "That's it. Although some bloodstains are incomplete, judging from the overall distribution, this picture is very similar to the magic circle in the painting."

But what does this point to?

Although the bloodstain had been there for a while, and it might have been left by the previous tenant, but such an obvious clue, if it didn't point to Buzz, would be a bit unreasonable.

But how could such a kind, enthusiastic and cheerful person as Buzz have anything to do with the magic circle of the Rose Sect?

Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo immediately conducted a more detailed search of the rental house, and finally found a piece of letter paper between the bed boards.To be precise, it is called a suicide note.

[Today is finally a sunny day, the wind pushed open the window, and the wind chime rang again.Jingle jingle, really nice.

The cold will always pass.

When this winter is over, there will be good music on the street again.There will also be new flavors for the jam tarts at Babe's House, as the Yorkshire berries start to ripen again.

I am so looking forward to it.

Everything will be fine.

And the news of my death, I hope only the wind will know. 】

This was not a suicide note, it did not explain the funeral, nor signed it, but Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng agreed that its owner was Baz.

Pushing open the window and looking out, the black messy houses seem to be in danger of collapsing all the time, and the people living inside are like weeds.What weed sincerely looks forward to the music and misses the jam tarts at Babe's House?

Buzz with red cotton hair.

"He must have been ill and wrote this letter when he was about to die. The time was last winter, that is, half a year ago." Jin Cheng said, his eyes fell back to the only wooden bed in the house, as if he was watching from there. To the lingering sick bed Buzz.

He continued: "This can explain why he knows Dr. Albert. Dr. Albert is also related to the Rose Sect, so there is a magic circle in his room."

The clues were connected one by one, and the truth gradually surfaced.But if this series of things is a chain, then they still lack a few important nodes.

For example, did Dr. Albert finally heal Buzz, so the magic circle was erased.For example, whether the matter of Buzz has anything to do with Lisa's matter, and the issue of Dr. Peter's faction.

The two then left the rental house, bought some food on the street, and discussed their next actions while eating.The main quest has not been updated yet, so it may be that they need to conduct investigations in the White Leaf District, and wait for the results of the investigations to trigger the next plot.

Jin Cheng squatted on the curb in a disfigured manner, and asked, "You're a detective, where do you think you're going next?"

As a noble knight, Tang Cuo naturally stood upright, even eating the cheapest pancakes would not damage his temperament.After thinking for a while, he said, "There are also magic circles. Lisa is dead, but Buzz is alive. What do you think is the difference?"

"The guides are different? Lisa corresponds to Pastor Peter, and Buzz corresponds to Doctor Albert. In other words, they are not from the same faction?"

"Maybe."

Tang Cuo bit the last bite of pancake and said, "I'm going to see Lisa's body."

After more than 20 minutes, the two arrived at the small courtyard where the corpse was collected.

Still following the same route, Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo squatted on the roof next door to the small courtyard, taking in the situation inside from a height.However, Jin Cheng only glanced at it and said, "The corpse has been transported away."

It was dusk at this time, and it was about five hours since Jin Cheng found out that the corpses were traded, and it is possible that the corpses were transported away in a centralized manner.According to the man with the mustache, the corpse would be transported to the Kingdom of Locke and sold to a noble necromancer.

"Using dead bodies to experiment with necromantic magic?"

"Other than that, there seems to be no other explanation. The necromancers in Sicily don't seem to be beaten up like in some Western fantasy stories. They also use money to buy corpses. Although this business sounds inhumane, it can be Thinking about it carefully, they didn't dig graves, and they didn't use any living people, so it's quite formal."

After finishing speaking, Jin Cheng rolled his eyes and went down to knock on the door openly.

Tang Cuo was still watching from the roof.

The servant who came to open the door was responsible for dusting the corpse. Jin Cheng put on a bitter face and said that he had a corpse to sell and came to ask the price.The servant quoted the price, but he was not satisfied and said he wanted to see the boss.

The servant's attitude was cold and impatient, and in the end he only said that the boss had delivered the goods at the dock, and sent Jin Cheng away.

The pier is in the White Leaf District.

The Principality of Farland has a wide river that runs through most of the country, called the Honeywind River. Most of the cargo transportation in the entire Principality relies on this river.To the east, you can reach the Little Windmill Harbor, and to the south, you can go to the White Flower Kingdom, which is better than land.

The two then rushed to the dock area.

After nightfall, the pier is still brightly lit, as if the lights of the entire Baiye District have been gathered here, becoming the only light in the dark night.The hard laborers in coarse clothes carried the goods back and forth, one ship after another, one car after another, and the steward of the dock could be heard yelling reprimands from afar.

"Be careful, if you accidentally drop the goods, the nobles will blame you, can you afford it?!"

From a distance, Tang Cuo couldn't see the specific face of that person clearly. The evening wind was mixed with the faint smell of river water and sweat, which was not so pleasant.

The two searched for a long time but failed to find the target task.I asked the NPC on the sidelines, but I didn't find out whether the boat that bought and sold the corpses left or not.

Instead, the old boatman smoking inferior tobacco reminded them, "Young lads, don't inquire so much, or if the body is not found, you may become corpses yourself."

Tang Cuo was thoughtful.

Jin Cheng went to a nearby tavern to buy a bottle of wine for the old boatman, and said with a smile, "I just want to ask you a question, did you really not see the boat transporting the corpse?"

The old boatman took the wine and grinned, showing his black and yellow teeth, "Well, I've been here for more than ten years, and I've never seen a boat transporting corpses."

Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo looked at each other with a tricky look.

The two got up and walked back, Tang Cuo said: "Someone is lying."

Jin Cheng folded his arms, interested, "Who do you think is lying?"

Tang Cuo: "The person who collects the corpse."

Jin Cheng: "Do you think they never transported the corpse out of Fran?"

The old boatman was just a passer-by NPC they picked at random, not a key person, so there was no need to lie like that. What does "never saw a dead ship" mean?It means that merchants have given up the more convenient and fast waterway and chose land.

Corpses are not something that can be easily transported like candlesticks. If they go by land, how many carriages do they have to prepare?Walking on the road with a lot of corpses is too weird, and no one with a brain would choose land.

Therefore, the corpse must still be in Fran, and the real purpose of those people buying and selling corpses is very doubtful.

Does this really have something to do with the Necromancer of the Locke Kingdom?

The assassination of the grand duke, the attack on the church, the corpse being transported away... everything that happened in this day flashed in Tang Cuo's mind one by one. He frowned suddenly and rushed to the small courtyard just now.

Jin Cheng probably guessed what he was thinking, and the two returned quickly, only to find that it was still too late.

The small courtyard has been empty.

Tang Cuo's face darkened, he didn't know whether they had scared the people away, or these people were already ready to retreat.

At this time, Jin Cheng slowly followed up from behind. Seeing this situation, he couldn't help raising his eyebrows, and then he had a flash of inspiration, and asked with a smile, "Don't you want to see the corpse? Do you know that there are still corpses in Baiye District?" Is there a body somewhere?"

Tang Cuo: "Church."

Pastor Peter was killed in the church after the assassination of the Grand Duke today.His body was handled by the guards, and the church was temporarily taken over by the guards. After just half a day, the body should still be in the church.

Tang Cuo was afraid that something would happen if he went late, so he even used his sprinting skills.Under the moonlit night, two figures parkoured on the roof. Within 15 minutes, they ran from the courtyard to the church, startling the soldiers guarding the gate.

Tang Cuo acted resolutely, took out the badge of the Ivy League and flashed it in front of his eyes, then pushed the door open and went in.The soldiers reacted a little too late, but they didn't step forward to stop them.

People from the Ivy League, as the above said, this matter is under their control.

In the silent church, only a few soldiers dozed off with their swords in their hands.The sound of hurried footsteps woke them up, and they drew out their swords in fright and looked around blankly, facing Theodore's handsome face.

"Where's Peter's body?" he asked.

"In, in the court, we just buried him." Someone recognized him and stepped forward, "The Grand Duke ordered him to be buried in this church, and we also prepared a coffin for him." .”

Already buried?

Tang Cuo frowned slightly.

Seeing this, the man asked cautiously, "I don't know what you want his body to do, Sir Knight? Peter's body has been checked and there is nothing unusual, otherwise we would not have buried him."

Tang Cuo didn't answer.

But Jin Cheng's voice came from behind him, "If it's buried, dig it out, if it's a big deal, then bury it back."

"what?"

The doubts of the guards lasted until the climax of the moon.

Five soldiers, each with a shovel, worked hard to dig the soil in the center of the courtyard, digging out the buried coffin again.And the two masters who insisted on digging the grave at night stood on the left and the right to supervise the whole process.

The atmosphere was quite eerie.

What's even more strange is that when they pushed the coffin lid away together, they found that the coffin was empty.

"Where's the corpse?!"

"How could this be? I clearly saw him being buried!"

"See, hell!"

The soldiers dropped their shovels and backed away in fright.Tang Cuo walked to the side of the coffin, stretched out his hand to carefully touch the wall of the coffin, and observed the blood stains on the bottom of the coffin.

Jin Cheng held the lamp for him, "Peter's wound is on the back of his heart, the location of the bloodstain is correct, and there is no problem with how dry the bloodstain is."

Tang Cuo: "Where do you think he went?"

Jin Cheng shrugged, "Maybe he is spying on us in a certain corner."

This statement was too frightening, and several soldiers were frightened and took a few steps back, looking around, as if a ghost would come out of them in the next second.

Tang Cuo opened the system panel and found that the main task had finally changed.

Jin Cheng also saw it, and asked, "Mine is to find Peter and tell Celtic the clues, what is yours?"

Tang Cuo didn't want to talk.

【Moon Hidden Kingdom】

Ring Two: The Song of the Wind

Main line: Back to the rented house to recuperate, waiting for Buzz

The author has something to say:

Jin Cheng & Tang Cuo: Professional grave digging for 100 years.