The Last Alchemist

Chapter 124 The Demonic Shadow Appears (14)

"Get up. Don't kneel naked on the ground in the middle of winter."

Due to the effect of the drug, Rosen's voice was still low and hoarse, but his tone was much softer. Although it still sounded a little cold, it was a little warmer than at the beginning.

Pétain was used to facing a doctor with a bad temper. Now that Rosen's attitude had improved a little, he actually felt a sense of comfort like a spring breeze: 'Oh~ Although Dr. Pasteur has a domineering personality, he still has a good heart. ’

He stood up, put on a thick fur cloak, and asked, "Doctor, what should we do now?"

Rosen's eyes swept around Pétain's room, with a vigilant look as if there was a terrifying evil force hidden in some corner. He also began to talk about crooked logic: "Evil power is an invisible magic power. If it wants to exist in the world, it must be attached to a tangible object. Therefore, there must be an evil thing somewhere in this villa!"

"Evil thing?!" Pétain got goosebumps in fear. His eyes subconsciously followed Rosen's sight. Where Rosen saw, he also looked there, fearing that a terrifying guy would suddenly jump out of a corner.

'Bang'

Rosen stood up suddenly, and because he used too much force, he knocked over the chair behind him, but he was unaware of it and walked straight to the east wall of the room.

Pétain asked hurriedly: "Doctor, what did you find?"

"Shh~~"

Rosen interrupted him, he walked to the east wall, tilted his head, and put his ear to the wall, his expression was very focused, as if he was listening to something.

Pétain dared not breathe.

After a long while, Rosen's whole body suddenly shook, and all the bits and pieces on his body also made a "ding-ling-dang-dang" sound. His face became serious and gloomy, and his hands were clenched into fists, and his knuckles were cracking.

There were only Pétain and Rosen in the room, the curtains were still drawn, and the light in the room was very dim. Rosen suddenly became so strange that the atmosphere in the room became weird.

Pétain felt as if his heart was pricked by a cold claw, and it was difficult to breathe, and his body was shaking uncontrollably: "Dr. Babababa Pasteur, what happened?"

His teeth were shaking so badly that he couldn't speak clearly.

Rosen suddenly raised his hand, signaling Petain to be quiet, then he walked along the east wall, walked to the door of the room, opened the door and walked out. Petain saw him and hurriedly followed him out.

When he arrived in the hall, Rosen walked to the door of the room next to Petain's room and said to Petain: "I didn't find any evil things in your room, but I feel that the evil breath is coming from the east wall. It is very likely that the evil things are in the next room."

"Okay, I'll open the door now." Petain said immediately. He only hoped that Rosen could get rid of the evil things as soon as possible. As for whether Rosen could do this, he didn't consider it at all.

In other words, he instinctively thought that Rosen had the ability to exorcise evil spirits, because there were still many witch doctors in this era. In many people's impressions, doctors and wizards are actually similar professions. Wizards can exorcise evil spirits, and doctors should also be able to do so.

When Petain opened the door, Rosen was also fully focused, and his heartbeat accelerated slightly.

Shadow demons are very good at disguise and like to attack by surprise. From the clues obtained by Annie, it is very likely that there is a shadow demon hidden in the Blackthorn Villa. Before, if Rosen was just treating Petain, it would not be a big deal, but now, he is exorcising evil spirits, which is likely to alarm the shadow demon.

So, if the shadow demon really exists, then from now on, Rosen may face the danger of being attacked by surprise at any time.

Taking a deep breath quietly, Rosen grasped the handle of the musket hanging on his waist with his right hand.

This musket is not a spiral spray gun, but his latest creation. It does not need alchemical power to stimulate, and can be used directly by pulling the trigger. It does not fire shotguns. There are rifling in the barrel. It fires a special silver alloy bullet. After the bullet penetrates the target, it will split into more than a dozen pieces of broken metal pieces in the rolling, and the lethality is very strong.

Rosen called this musket a "meat grinder". In order to conceal its weapon attributes, the meat grinder has a very gorgeous appearance, which looks like some kind of ritual implement.

With the gun handle in his right hand and a flash bomb in his left hand, Rosen would throw the flash bomb as soon as there was any movement in the room to break the Shadow Demon's stealth.

'Click~'

Pétain opened the door, and sunlight shone in from the glass window. The light in the room was relatively bright, but because the window was not big, the room was spacious, and there were a lot of furniture, there were still many dark corners in the room.

Rosen stood at the door and asked, "Who usually lives in this room?"

Betain was very uneasy under the influence of Rosen. He lowered his voice and said, "It's the room left for my father. He usually lives in Boudin City (the capital of Cowell), but occasionally comes to Nirogard to relax."

Rosen's mind trembled, and he asked, "In other words, this room is usually unoccupied?"

"Yes, except for the servants who come in every three days to clean, there is usually no one."

"I understand. I'll go in and check, you follow me, and don't go far." Rosen took the musket meat grinder in his hand and walked into the room carefully.

Pétain was almost scared to tears. He followed Rosen closely, not daring to breathe.

When he arrived in the room, Rosen was extremely focused. His hearing, vision, and smell were all in a state of high excitement. Countless information poured into his mind, and he even had the illusion that time was slowing down.

'The room was cleaned very frequently and there was only a small amount of dust on the furniture. The quilt on the bed was folded neatly, with no human marks. No one had slept here. There was a very faint musty smell in the air, which is common in unoccupied rooms. ’

‘The light in every corner is not too dim, no one is hiding, wait, there is a big wardrobe, enough to hide several people. ’

‘Besides Petain and I, there is no third creature in this room, unless this guy can pretend to be a motionless corpse. ’

Rosen walked towards the closet, stopped 1 meter away from the closet, raised the meat grinder and aimed it, then activated his alchemical power and opened the closet door.

‘Bangdang~’

With a sound, the cabinet door opened. There was a lot of space inside, but only one-third of the space was filled with clothes. The other two-thirds were all empty. It was about one meter and a half long and half a meter wide. It looked like a small picture. Like a bed.

The moment the cabinet door opened, Rosen smelled a very light smell in his nose, which was similar to sulfur and a bit fishy, ​​very special.

Rosen's heart skipped a beat: 'It's the shadow demon's body odor! ’

Veronica and Annie are both natives of the world and monster experts. They have a very comprehensive understanding of various monsters. Therefore, before taking action, Rosen had a very comprehensive understanding of the Shadow Demon. Now when he smells the scent, he Recognized.

The smell proved that Shadow Demon had been in the closet recently, but he was not in the closet now.

"Where does this guy hide during the day?"

Rosen's spirit was tense and he was multitasking. While watching behind him, he activated his alchemical power and carefully explored the closet, looking for more traces of the Shadow Demon.

The detection of alchemical power is at the molecular level. No matter how careful the Shadow Demon is, he cannot completely remove his traces.

Seconds later, Rosen found more information,

'When he was in the closet, the shadow demon was lying down and resting. He was about 1.6 meters tall. Judging from the deformation of the wood of the closet, he was lying on his side, with his legs curled up and the soles of his feet facing the back wall of the closet. ’

‘The Shadow Demon’s feet are hoof-shaped, similar to those of a goat. Since it is a hoof, the perception will be much slower, so it will leave some marks that even the Shadow Demon himself cannot detect. Well, a small dent, this is the Shadow Demon's footprints. ’

The rooms in Blackthorn Villa were all paved with floors, and hooves could easily leave marks on the floor. Rosen started from the marks in the closet and traced them all the way, and sure enough he found a series of footprints.

He began to follow the footprints.

"Master, have you found anything?" Petain asked in a low voice.

Rosen nodded slightly: "I am now convinced that there is something evil in the villa, and it is not an ordinary evil thing, but a devil hiding in the darkness, which once lived in this closet."

"The devil is still in the closet. Oh, God!" Pétain was going crazy. He never thought that there was a devil hiding in his house. When he thought that there was a devil living next door, he felt that Ice cold.

Elsewhere, Rosen began analyzing the hoofprints on the wooden floor.

There were many hoof prints on the floor, which were messy and everywhere. This meant that the shadow demon had been staying in the villa for a while. Among the messy hoofprints, Rosen suddenly discovered a pair of hoofprints extending out from the room.

‘There’s a situation! ’

Rosen followed the hoof prints out of the room, to the hall, and finally stopped at the door of Magic Brown's room.

"Well, this magician is indeed related to the Shadow Demon!"

Seeing Rosen standing motionless at the door, Petain hurriedly asked: "Doctor, what's going on?"

"This devil once entered the magician's chamber."

"Ah?" Petain was startled: "You mean, the magician is in danger?"

Rosen shook his head and said: "Two possibilities. First, the magician is in danger. Second, this devil may know the magician."

Petain came back to his senses: "You mean?"

"The truth has not been found out yet. Now, anything is possible."

As soon as he finished speaking, Petain opened the door of the magician's room: "Then you can investigate and find the devil!"

Petain had always known that the magician Brown was very dissatisfied with him. There were many times that Brown did not hide his disgust in front of Petain. The day before, he expressed his dissatisfaction directly.

Originally, Pétain was suffering from a terminal illness and had no time to argue with Brown about this trivial matter, but now, Dr. Pasteur came, and under his treatment, his condition improved greatly. While Pétain's hope was restored, the natural distrust of nobles toward their servants also returned.

Therefore, after Rosen mentioned a few words, Pétain concluded that Brown wanted to harm him.

Rosen stood at the door, still hesitant: "I'm afraid the magician will be unhappy if we do this. Maybe we should call him back and investigate together."

Petain shook his head repeatedly: "No, this magician is insidious and cunning, we must find out while he is away!"