"Didn't the magician Zeta get show tonight?" asked Mayer.

"Well, it's not just him, Zeta's guy doesn't know where to go," Moby Dick replied, "I guess the boss acquiesced." ”

"Moby Dick..."Mei's voice suddenly raised, as if to stop the other party's words.

Al and Li Shiyi were hiding in the ventilation ducts and eavesdropping on the conversation in the room.

Suddenly, the voices of Moby Dick and Meia stopped abruptly, and the air became quiet in an instant.

Al struggled to hear the sounds in the room, but the eerie silence made him nervous.

Li Shiyi also immediately made a silent gesture to Elby behind him, signaling him not to panic and continue to maintain his current state, in the sultry environment, Al's white shirt was already soaked with sweat and pasted on his back.

Finally, in the torment of panic, the sound of pushing the door and the clattering of leather shoes sounded from the room below, and the two people seemed to leave the room together.

"Whew", Al was just about to breathe a sigh when a dirty hand suddenly covered his mouth, Al subconsciously raised his head, but what he saw was Li Shiyi's iron-blue face.

In the dim light, Li Shiyi shook his head slightly towards Al, and with the other hand, he pointed to the vent in front of him, and the light came out faintly, and the lights in the room were not completely extinguished.

"Is there a fraud?" Al thought to himself.

Li Shiyi carefully controlled the speed of his advance, and controlled his movements with precision and force so that his movements did not make the slightest sound, and slowly, Li Shiyi approached the barbed wire fence of the vent.

Poking his head out slightly, Li Shiyi's breathing was almost restrained to a silent state, and the small void cut his vision, but he could still clearly see a warm table lamp lit in the room, Meiya and Moby Dick had indeed left, but the window was wide open, the evening breeze poured in, and the rose-colored curtains swayed in the moon shadow, cold and sad.

Li Shiyi stayed in place for a while, and found that there was indeed nothing unusual in the room, but the light from the lamp was always like an eye, secretly staring at the two people hidden in the ventilation duct.

After reorganizing his thoughts, Li Shiyi took Al and carefully walked through the vent and continued to crawl forward.

As he passed through the vent, Al glanced inside, intentionally or unintentionally, only to see a large black bird fly in through the window and land on the couch, presumably a large crow.

The empty room made people feel a little depressed, and after a brief hesitation, Al still followed Li Shiyi.

After the El and the others left, the crow suddenly raised its head to look into the darkness in the corner, and then it jumped and leaned in, affectionately nestled next to a dark shadow, the silhouette of a man, a white beard with a toothpick diagonally in the corner of his mouth, and a small pocket of his white apron full of bird food.

Without saying a word all the way, Al followed closely behind Li Shiyi, leaning over and crawling through the dusty pipes, the smell in the dense space was not good, but both of them insisted silently, and a lot of dirt had fallen on their white shirts.

After about ten minutes of travel, Li Shiyi in front finally stopped, and he pointed to the filter in front of him towards Al, meaning that he had successfully arrived at his destination.

The slow-turning exhaust fan kept cutting through the lights reflected in the outside world, the blood-red robes, the pale faceless masks, and the wide variety of magic props, apparently this was the magician's exclusive prop room, and since it was located inside the "Furaor" bar, it was no surprise that his owner was the mysterious magician named Lisa.

Creeping down the ventilation duct, Li Shiyi and Al successfully reached the floor of the prop room.

"Senior brother, how the hell did you find out about this?" Al's voice was barely audible.

"Leave it to chance. ”

"Huh, try your luck?" said Al, whose jaw almost fell to the ground, "I thought you had a lot of planning." ”

"It was difficult to figure out what was going on inside the bar in a short period of time, so we had to use some special means. ”

"Don't tell me about it, Mr. Conrad, they don't know about it, do you?"

"I haven't had time to report yet. ”

"I..."Al was almost crying, according to this script, even if their whereabouts were discovered, Andre of the "Rabbit Candy House" would not be able to rush to their aid.

"I remember you telling me to take you with me the next time I'm on my own. ”

"I said that, but—" Al scratched his head anxiously, "well, forget it, you should give your life to accompany the gentleman." ”

The layout in the prop room is very special, it is a T-shaped structure, except for the prop costumes, the most are the oil paintings framed in the photo album, and a piece of drawing paper is spread out on the drawing board facing the window, and the unwashed brushes are still on the side, and the painting is just half finished.

"Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and Katsushika Hokusai's "Surfing in Kanagawa," Li Shiyi looked at the lifelike paintings, and finally stopped in front of a dark-toned rice paper painting, "It turned out to be Wang Ximeng's "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"!"

"Senior brother, if some of the paintings are genuine, they must be worth a lot of money, right?"

Al touched the stunned Li Shiyi with his elbow and found that he was staring at the painting with oriental characteristics.

"What's the matter, senior brother, do you know this painting?" Al looked at the lower left corner of the painting, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains, looking at this kind of freehand painting technique, it should be the style of the Eastern Continent, right?"

"I don't know, I just think it's a good drawing. Li Shiyi retracted his thoughts, and in his childhood memory, the scene of the man in the dragon robe holding the true handiwork of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" and crying with joy shattered into pieces and dissipated into the air.

"Oh. Al couldn't help but pout.

"Senior brother, these paintings should have been painted not long ago, and the paint on several of them has not completely dried out. Al's fingers touched the paint lightly, and immediately his fingers were stained with a lot.

"If nothing else, these paintings are the work of the magician. ”

"Why do you say that?"

"Remember the last time he came to the candy house to buy mints?" Li Shiyi looked very determined, "I found a stained paint on his cuff, maybe he didn't even notice it, maybe the paint was accidentally touched when he was painting." ”

"I didn't expect this guy to have a wide range of interests," Al picked up a rabbit toy from a chair, "but it seems that he has a preference for landscapes, and most of the paintings here depict natural things." ”

Al walked past the strange props with a curious gaze, such as puppets, iron cages, throwing knives, turntables, and playing cards, and the small prop room almost became a small department store.

Eventually, their eyes were focused on the unfinished painting by the window, and by the flickering neon lights and moonlight, their attention was successfully drawn to the content on the paper.

The alternating use of black, white and gray pigments is different from the colorful colors of other works, and this unfinished painting feels poignant and oppressive.

Low dark clouds, towering walls, dark castles, and eerie iron windows stop abruptly as the brush paints the rising smoke of gunpowder.

"How does this painting look so familiar," Al looked intently at the zigzag lines, "this form of architecture seems to be..."

"Prison, a prison that is being destroyed. Li Shiyi answered Al's conjecture.

"I remember!" Al looked up sharply out of the window, and there was silence in the deep night, "he painted the Bastille, the Bastille prison that had been taken over by the people of the uprising!"

When encountering this situation, even a fool will think of the Sea Boundary Prison in the imperial capital.

"No, is that guy really from the Raven Order?!" Al couldn't help but get nervous, "So, the 'Fraor' bar could really be the headquarters of the Raven Order. ”

"Don't worry, this is just our speculation, and the identity of that magician will always be in doubt until we have substantial evidence. Li Shiyi carefully searched for clues in the room.

"I know why you're curious about this guy's identity," Al put the toy rabbit back in its place, "The Ministry of Information reports that this guy named Kasa has never appeared in the imperial capital before, he is an outsider, but it just so happens that since he appeared in the imperial capital, there have been a series of terrorist assassinations in Xinlan City for no reason, which can't help but make people reminiscent." ”

"You have a good memory, and that's one of the reasons why I can't put him in the Raven Headquarters for the time being, if he did all these things, then there must be a reason, a reason enough to convince the Raven Order. Li Shiyi carefully observed the details on the oil painting.

"After all, the Ravens have been planning this assassination operation for a long time, and they are playing a big game of chess, and it is impossible for an irrelevant outsider to disrupt the situation, imagine what you would do if you were the leader of Raven. ”

"If it were me, I would have ordered my Assassins to investigate the cause of the matter, and if necessary, even get rid of the culprit. Al said.

So, there must be some unknown reason that can reasonably explain this series of abnormal behavior. ”

"Hmm. Al touched his chin and fell into deep thought.

Just as the two were obsessed with finding evidence, they didn't know that the danger outside the door was gradually approaching.

"Who's in there?!" a female voice came coldly from outside the door.

Al and Li Shiyi seemed to be suddenly exposed to the spotlight, and the uneasy emotions suddenly replaced the previous excitement.

The two of them glanced at each other, and quietly moved towards the clothing rack next to them, where the dense laundry was just enough to hide their figures.

"Who the hell is it, I'm going to go in if I don't come out again!" said the same voice again.

Immediately after that, the door of the prop room was pushed open from the outside, and the dazzling light suddenly filled the small space, and in the blur, a tall woman was leaning in front of the door, and a long shadow suddenly covered the floor of the room.