"Egrets" area.
After passing through a low, dilapidated house, Buck takes Heidi to a secluded and dilapidated place, overgrown with weeds and eerie, even during the day.
"This place is occupied by a small number of homeless people, but they have to run around for life during the day, so they can't see anyone." Buck pointed to the crumbling wall and said.
Turning around several mud houses that could collapse at any time, Heidi saw the crime scene in the photo, with sewage flowing horizontally, flies flying around, and a foul smell.
"Those homeless people have no idea of maintaining their own clean environment, even though the sewer entrance is nearby, they still litter everywhere." Buck scolded, even a police detective like him who was running around couldn't help but frown here, let alone an arcanist like Ms. Heidi at the Atomic Research Institute!
Compared to the nests of ogres, trolls and other monsters, this place is simply as clean and refreshing as a noble lady's garden, so she walked to the corner without frowning, using prophetic and necromancy magic to investigate clues.
"It rained heavily yesterday, and many traces were destroyed......" Heidi confirmed her conjecture from the magic feedback.
Barker looked at her expectantly: "Yes, we are also facing such distress, so we asked the council for help, is there anything you can do?"
He did not use the full name "Magic Council" to show that he was a standard pro-magic faction.
At the scene of a serious murder case, Heidi did not carelessly or laugh and play, but very solemnly took out the flesh and blood of the victim and performed the five-ring magic "Similar Positioning Technique" of the star system.
The lump of flesh and blood in her hand suddenly melted, falling to the ground drop by drop, pulled by a mysterious force, pointing into the distance.
"Originally, this magic could only locate living creatures, but after improvement, as long as it does not exceed a certain time range, it can also be used to trace the 'traces' of the dead, as long as the murderer still has internal organs, 'it' will lead us to find it." Heidi's left hand seemed to have a layer of blood wriggling.
Buck watched with amazement at this magical and abnormal magic, and once again strengthened his belief in sending his son to a general education for basic magic.
This time, it was Heidi who led Buck, and the two shuttled through the "Egret District" and tracked 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, and as if it had lost the last trace of vitality, it faded away the dark red and emitted a rancid smell.
"Ma'am, what's wrong?" Buck asked worriedly.
Heidi looked around, with a very serious expression on the baby's face: "The connection between 'kind' has been deliberately severed, and this must be done with enough magic, magic or knightly strength."
"What?" Buck was quite surprised, this kind of serial murder case against the poor would involve official magicians and noble knights? What exactly are they trying to do?
Heidi wrinkled her nose: "I asked before why the murderers didn't destroy the corpses, now it seems that they are not incapable, but have other purposes."
"For other purposes?" Although Buck knows a lot of secret files, he still lacks "common sense" compared to a veteran magician like Heidi.
Heidi looked around and said casually: "Generally speaking, this strange situation is related to evil magical rituals or cults, and when they use 'guts', they pay attention to the original corpse still existing......"
"Then I'll submit your conclusion, ma'am." Buck wanted to back down a little, rashly involved in this kind of thing was something that he, a police detective with only the strength of a high-level knight's attendant, could not bear, so let the high-ranking knights of the National Police Department handle it, or hire a high-level magician!
He looked at the fork in the road, one leading to the outside of the city and the other leading to the other side of the "Egret District", so he judged: "The murderers should have escaped from the city, and it is difficult to determine the 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, let's confirm again."
In Rentat, she was not too worried about encountering enemies she could not deal with, and battles that exceeded a certain intensity would be discovered by the Lord who guarded the Nexer Palace and the Elemental Will Headquarters.
The transparent crystal ball turned black under the power of magic, and then a little bit of bright starlight lit up, forming a pointed band of light.
"I went to the other side of the Egret District......" Heidi got this feedback from astrology, but the specifics were gone, "Let's go and take a look."
Buck was a little distressed, but he didn't dare to refute it, so he could only follow Heidi.
"Ms. Heidi is a near-high-level magician and a legendary student, there must be no shortage of powerful items, even if you encounter an evil magician or cultist, there is no ......" Thinking of this, his heart gradually calmed down.
At this time, he saw that Heidi had been playing with a silver badge in his hand, engraved with elemental symbols, which seemed to be a miniature of the periodic table - the periodic table as the basic thing in the elemental realm, even civilians knew about it, and many people even carved it on their doors, believing that it had magical magic to defend against evil.
Heidi chuckled: "A medium for magical rituals."
"Magic Ritual ......" According to Buck's shallow magical common sense, isn't this something that should be prepared for a long time in advance?
During the conversation, along the path, the two came to a corner of the slum, where people came and went, and it seemed quite lively.
"If it's a cultist, there must be a lot of people, which is consistent with the fact that there is more than one murderer, so let's ask who often has a large number of strangers coming in and out, or there is regular noise at night, so we should be able to find some clues." Buck advised Heidi based on his own experience.
Heidi smiled and said, "Then I'll trouble you, Detective Buck."
In front of a low house, there stood an old woman with a wrinkled face, drying her washed clothes.
"Hello, ma'am, I'm Buck, a senior detective from the Kingdom Police Department, and I would like to ask you a few questions." Buck politely showed his ID.
The old woman wiped her hands in a slight dazed and panicked manner: "Mr. Detective, you can ask casually."
This kind of poor people who have never seen the world usually behave this way when they encounter police detectives, so Buck nodded secretly: "You should be familiar with this street, right? Is there anyone who often haunts a large number of strangers, or makes intermittent noises at night, making everyone unable to sleep?"
The old woman thought for a while and said, "No, I didn't notice, I rarely go to other places on the street."
Buck took care of his documents: "Then do you know who knows this street very well?"
"Well, Mr. Moro from the Black Brotherhood." The old woman whispered, as if she was quite afraid of Mr. Moro.
Buck nodded: "Then take us to him."
"No, no, Mr. Detective, you can find someone else." The old woman waved her hand in a panic.
How could Buck compromise? Under his stern statement, the old woman closed the door of her house and took him and Heidi to the depths of the street.
Under the low houses on both sides of the street, there are women washing clothes, men chopping wood, and children looking at strangers curiously.
"It's really lively." Buck sighed.
Heidi frowned slightly, looked around, and said nothing.
At this time, the old woman stopped in front of the most imposing two-story building in the slum: "Mr. Detective, ma'am, Mr. Morrow is inside."
She said as she helped knock on the door.
Heidi said suddenly: "I won't visit Mr. Moro for the time being, we still have urgent matters."
"What?" Buck was puzzled, and Heidi's voice suddenly sounded in his heart, "Exit first, I'll do it myself, otherwise I might not be able to take care of you."
"Why?" Buck suddenly became nervous, is this the legendary psychic connection?
Heidi snorted without a smile: "The poor in the slums need to work hard for more than ten hours a day to survive, so during the day, there are only children and a small number of women.
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, and 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 still need to return to the police department urgently, and we will visit Mr. Morrow tomorrow."
"Hmph, you have already found the problem and still want to leave?" A cold and hoarse sound came from the two-story building, and the door was suddenly blown open by the strong wind, and a 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 blood-red, but also rhythmically swollen.
The surrounding men, women, and children all stood up, their mouths completely split open, exposing their entire set of teeth, their tongues were full of barbs, and their eyes became scarlet and cold, exuding an evil and paralyzing aura.
The old woman standing next to her suddenly became shriveled, as if a balloon had been burst, and then she quickly swelled up, her eyes were red, and she let out a dull male voice: "Do you still want to leave?"
He raised his hand and pointed, and Buck suddenly felt a substantial black gas condensing at his fingertips, and the terrifying intention of death pressed him down to paralyze him and unable to move.
"A finger of death?" In the psychic connection, Buck heard Heidi's voice.
The black energy condensed, death came like a needle prick, Buck thought numbly: "Are you going to die?"
At this time, he felt that his body was illusory, and then it became stable and appeared on the other side of the street.
"This?" He came back to his senses in surprise and found that it was Heidi who had escaped with him when his magic attack came.
At the same time, "Douglas's Spell Absorption Wall" stands out, blocking the crimson rays of those "split-mouthed monsters".
"You are not a high-level player, how can you use spells to trigger it?" The hoarse male voice blurted out in surprise, and his old woman's body collapsed as if it could not withstand this force, and the flesh and bones separated and fell to the ground.
At this time, many organs in the hall began to wriggle and gather, piecing together into a strange human form.
Heidi chuckled: "Although I'm not high-level, who said that spell triggers can only be used at a high level? This pre-stored spell, magic triggered according to a specific situation, happens to be in my field of research, belongs to the comprehensive application of the storage part, the control part, the computing part, the information collection input part, and the magic output part, I can't simplify all of them, but I can simplify several of them with the help of items...... Maybe the five rings will be a high-level magician in the future!"
She didn't look in a hurry at all, but her left hand kept pressing on the silver badge, which seemed to be a complex set of spellcasting gestures.
The monster with organs said angrily: "I don't understand, but don't want to live! Can you use other advanced magic?"
He was about to finish his body, and the "split-mouth monsters" were densely blocking the streets, and the magical power that rose secretly interfered with the flight.
Feeling the attention of those pairs of crimson eyes, Buck's legs trembled slightly in fright, and he could only pin his hopes on Heidi.
After pressing Heidi's left hand, she suddenly threw out the silver badge, and a mysterious and strange voice came out of her mouth: "The cry from the starry sky, calling for the arrival of the atomic universe......"
As soon as the monster heard the sound of this spell, it immediately pounced, and its body was stretched into a long curtain of blood, corroding everything around it.
He understands very well that the power of legends is close to the gods, so many magic rituals need to summon and communicate with different legendary planes to be performed, such as many rituals of the "Pale Hand" require the blessing of the projection power of "Silent Hell", "Bone Wasteland" and the "Resting Place" dominated by the undead.
And what made him unbelievable was that whose magic ritual could be used in such a short time?
Is it pre-stored again?
The sound of the spell stopped, the surroundings suddenly became extremely quiet, the dark curtain fell, the vastness descended, and the elemental planets emerged illusory.
Heidi's hand lit up with the "Mysterious Light", and the projection in the "Atomic Universe" suddenly enlarged, and a constantly fusing planet appeared like the sun.
With its assistance, a mighty and scorching light swept across the slums, and those red-eyed "split-mouthed monsters" silently fused.
"No!" The visceral monster screamed miserably.
I request a recommendation ticket on Monday, and I will start making up for it tomorrow~
(End of this chapter)