"I'm sorry, I just said it casually just now, don't take it to heart" Ayton waved his hand embarrassedly, he found that this woman imagined the world too beautifully, and she must not have been exposed to the sinister nature of human nature, so he hurriedly changed the topic.

"But if you have to catch the murderer and appease the emotions of the people in the Eastern District, then what if, I say, that woman has escaped from Huangyao City?"

In this world where vindictive magic is rampant, the gap in individual strength, and the lack of corresponding means such as investigation and monitoring, it is too difficult to catch a strong person, and it is no wonder that those ordinary people in the southern region want to cultivate vindictive magic.

Cexily knew this very well in her heart, and her voice was like a deflated balloon weakened, even if it was Huangyao City, there were too many similar things, she was recently transferred to the reserve of the security team, and her original job did not have any contact with these low-level events, and now she finally found that she was really powerless...

Seeing that she almost understood the reasoning, Ayton asked tentatively, "You said that you contacted the Assassin Guild and the Halle family, and neither of them reacted, so you didn't say anything?"

Cecily came back to her senses and shook her head: "No, I just observed from the outside, and it's still the same as usual, but the people of the Carlyle family don't seem to plan to continue to delve into the matter of Shelley's flower." ”

There is no close contact, that's good, Ayton secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that this nervous female knight would expose Clementine's mention of him, and so far, the only thing that could connect him to the mad woman was this woman in front of him.

"Hey, by the way, I haven't asked you yet, how did you get in touch with that woman, why would she talk to you, and do you have any grievances?" After pondering, Cexili suddenly realized that something was wrong with the process of the case, what happened to that woman? Is it really the major family forces in Huangyao City?

Ayton chuckled in his heart, and the other two women raised their heads slightly, with a slightly strange look flashing in their eyes, as if they were weighing something. This is the rhythm of killing people!

Ayton straightened his waist instantly, and said in a righteous and sonorous tone into the eyes of the female knight: "We met by chance, when Ariel and I were shopping for food at the South End vegetable market, and suddenly saw her passing by, wearing a gray robe, and looking sneaky. ”

"I had the feeling that she wasn't a good person, and that she must be engaged in a shady machination" Ayton raised his hand and slammed the table, leaving Ariel and Angel next to her dumbfounded.

"So I consulted with Ariel, and decided to sneak up and block her way, and I stared into her eyes, and soon I noticed—" Ayton leaned forward slightly, and his determined gaze succeeded in attracting all of Cecily's attention to him, and the latter also sensed that it was likely to contain important information, and listened intently.

"She was afraid, she was afraid, and she smelled of blood, the smell of an innocent person, and based on my years of experience in punishing rape and eliminating evil, I concluded that she was by no means a good person, so I silently remembered her appearance, and then secretly followed"

Ayton took a deep breath in the air, and the female knight was a little skeptical at first, but the thought of his unpredicted rescue of Bazaar from the Southern Sector headquarters left an indelible first impression on her.

This act of kindness made me think that only I was upholding fairness and justice, and I felt a little more hated in my heart. After that, he took the initiative to help them lead the way, and he was admired by what they did.

"Originally, she was going to hide in an underground pipe, and by the way, I still remember the location of the underground pipe, near a hotel. ”

"Really?" said Cersylly's eyes with surprise, and she almost got up from her chair.

Ayton was slightly stunned, and then nodded vigorously: "That's right, but I don't think she'll be hiding inside after she is discovered." ”

“... You have a point," Cecily quickly agreed, continuing to listen.

"At first I thought she must be hiding something, such as some children who don't abduct them, we have encountered them before, some degenerate forces will take the better developed boys among them and train them to be dead, the defective ones will break their limbs and make them beg on the streets, and the women, when they grow up, will be directly... Hey, I've seen too much of this, but I can't do anything about it..."

Ayton let out a long sigh, which successfully resonated in the heart of this nervous female knight, her eyes drooped, and a long sigh came out of her mouth.

Ariel and Angel, who were sitting around the table, had grown their mouths and were speechless in shock, so in order to prevent Cerseily from discovering the strangeness of the two, Ayton slammed the wooden table again, and his tone was quite storytelling.

"It was the afternoon, and Ariel and I saw her go down the sewers, but she seemed to have spotted me too, and I was afraid of an ambush, but I was worried about the safety of the poor civilians below, so I didn't follow immediately."

Cecily nodded slightly, this was the right way, if the woman squatted at the mouth of the manhole cover, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"And then—" Ayton took a deep breath, looking like he was about to make a big discovery, but in fact he was making up crazy nonsense in his heart.

"Ariel and I weren't willing to let her get away with it, so we went down through another manhole cover to find out, but I have to say, that sewer stinks" Ayton touched his nose with palpitations, and Cerseily knew that she was almost there, and her hands couldn't help but close.

"Ariel and I walked and walked, and we did find clues. ”

"What track?" asked Cecily intently.

"A lot of footprints... It wasn't just the woman, so I now suspect someone else followed the sewer as well. ”

"Well, then what?" the red-haired female knight looked serious again.

"After walking for a while, we found a little girl about twelve years old. ”

Cecily glared: "Could it be that she also abducted and trafficked children in the Southern District, I must contact the headquarters for this matter." ”

Ariel: "......"

"Wait. Ayton silently wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "Actually, she was not trafficked, but temporarily lived in the sewers." ”

"Living in the sewers?" Cerseili's face was full of suspicion, and a touch of sadness appeared in her eyes, the huge Huangyao City, the people in the other three districts were glamorous, but there were girls living in the sewers in the southern district, it was really pitiful.

"I thought she was pitiful" Ayton slapped his thigh, his tone becoming more fluid as he thought about the storyline.

"I asked her if she wanted to come with us, and she refused, and I could tell by her eyes that she was distrustful of all strangers, so I told her afterwards that there was a very dangerous person in here, and by the way gave her some food, and she spoke to us"

Raya, who was stealing from a house in the East End, suddenly sneezed...

"After some conversation, she told me that this place has been abandoned for almost a year and a half, even if the pipes are blocked, no one will find out, and the hired plumbers are just for show, and those nobles have no one to manage and maintain them, and it is indeed a good place for murderers to hide" Ayton's vivid storytelling completely attracted Cerseily.

"It's a pity that we didn't know the strength of that woman at the time, otherwise, hey..."Ayton let out a long sigh, and Cecily then remembered that the woman had at least fifth-order strength, could the two of them be able to deal with that woman?

"After some leading the way, we finally found the woman, who was protecting a brocade box in her hand and was wounded, and she told us to be nosy, but how could I agree, the moment we gave our names, she suddenly attacked, and we had a big fight..."

Cerseili swallowed, her voice trembling a little, "How is that girl?"

"She's fine, and ran away while our fight was raging. Ayton exhaled and said in a deep voice: "Fortunately, she also seemed to be injured at the time, just when Ariel and I were about to hold on, she escaped from the sewer, we were below, and we also heard the noisy footsteps above, it is likely that she was discovered by the enemy as soon as she went up." ”

"After that, we didn't see her, probably because we drove her out of the sewers, she was forced to hide somewhere else, was injured by the enemy, and then met you in the Troubled Valley" Ayton told the ins and outs of the matter very rationally.

Angel's frozen expression next to her began to melt, and Ariel had a long mouth and didn't close it for a long time.

"I see... Thank you for the information, it looks like I'll have to investigate the sewers again, I wonder if you can help me point me to the location of what happened to you."

"Of course!" Ayton agreed without hesitation. After all, that glorious image has been established, and there must be no mistake now. Ariel and Angel tilted their heads at the same time, looking at him with surprised expressions

"Thank you so much, I will..."

"But..."Cecily just wanted to stand up and thank her, but Ayton stopped her, and her face showed embarrassment: "It's just that the academy is going to start a magic competition recently, and we must work hard to cultivate magic..."

"Magic Tournament?" Cersyli looked at the three people sitting around the table in surprise. Although he is not a student of the Magic Academy, he has also heard of the deeds of the Light Department Branch, how can he participate in that competition with just these three people?!

Ayton gently kicked Angel's calf on the left, and the black-haired girl with a black belly immediately understood, with a particularly gloomy look on her face: "In this competition, the prize for third place is my father's relic... I have to attend. ”

"Third place?" Cerseili's eyes were full of consternation, she knew that the Light Branch had not participated in that magic competition for several years, how could she want to win the third place as soon as she participated?!

"That's right... Because the prize was a relic of her father, but it turned out to be used as a prize by those greedy house tutors, as students of the same house, we can't swallow this bad breath" Ayton turned her attention to the prize while quietly kicking Ariel on the right.

Don't pretend to be dumb there!

"Third place prize?" Cerseiri said suddenly, hesitating, "But do you three really want to compete?" I heard my aunt say that there must be at least five people in an academy, and I remember that you only entered the branch of the light department not long ago?"

"But we're going to be vindictive," Ariel finally spoke, as if she had gotten used to the sprawl atmosphere.

"Fighting? Cecily understood, and sighed for their ambition in her heart, and then said: "I have a friend who will come to our magic academy in a while, can I let her help you when I see it, oh, by the way, she is a fourth-order water magician"

Ayton was overjoyed, and her words undoubtedly conveyed a signal: foreign aid can be used. Before you know it, the topic has successfully shifted in another direction.

"Thank you so much for your help, just... Time has been a bit of a run for lately, and I don't think she'll be hiding in the sewers anymore."

Cerseiri then recalled that if she continued to investigate, it was very likely to waste the other party's precious time, and it was really not necessary to do so, and the reason why she was bent on pursuing it was more because she didn't want to give up the oath she made that day...

"Well, well" There was a silence in the red-haired female knight's eyes, and she didn't know that the person she was looking for was in the secret room at her feet: "Anyway, when she came to the magic academy, it was almost time for me to leave the security team..."

Ayton didn't know why, and continued to flicker: "It's okay, I've seen it from you, as a glorious knight, you should have justice and persistence, I believe that what you do will not be talked about by others, but compared to those inactive security forces and nobles, the people will definitely admire you." ”

"Thank you" was encouraged and recognized, and Cecily smiled, got up and stretched out her right hand: "It's a pleasure to meet you." ”

Ayton was stunned for a second, then stood up and shook it...

......

"Hey, don't laugh, okay, a lot of passers-by are watching you" Ayton gently pushed his elbow against the girl who was smiling happily next to him, and the passers-by around him cast strange glances from time to time.

"Hahahaha, brother, I can't see it, so you are so good at making things up" Ariel restrained slightly, and patted him on the shoulder with an unnatural expression.

"Alright, well, go home and don't let anyone else see you," Ayton said with a smile as he tapped the tip of her little nose with his finger.

"It's been an afternoon, so how excited you are?"

Ariel gradually eased her breath: "But that woman is really stupid, this is actually fooled by you, haha." ”

“... Don't say people are stupid, she's just, hey... I didn't care about the details" Ayton didn't want to laugh at this time, because others at least sincerely wanted to help him... By the way, she wouldn't really go into a sewer alone, would she?

Fortunately, it was no one else, if Raya who had been mixed in the South District all the year round, or Bais, who had a lot of experience, would definitely be full of loopholes, not to mention the extremely unnatural expressions of her two girls at the beginning, she would definitely be suspicious.

"Brother, what about that magic contest? If it's five, then we're one short of us, and that Cerseiri is also an unstable factor, what should we do if she is exposed? ”

Ayton was slightly stunned... What does it mean to be reluctant?

"We'll talk about the game tomorrow, and if there's that magician named Toby, Glenn still dares to find a helper to deal with us?"

......

Back at home, in the front yard of hundreds of square meters, the young people of the South District were still meticulously training under the guidance of Bais, Ayton could see that there was rolling sweat on both sides of their faces, their bodies were exhausted, and they were still gritting their teeth and persevering, but Vea was missing from it.

Bais also noticed that the two of them were coming back, but he nodded faintly, letting them stop in place and quickly enter a state of concentration, feeling the fighting qi in their bodies, absorbing and running, and finally storing it in the fighting qi space in their abdomen.

Through the nervous sweat on their heads, it can be seen that their talents are not so different, so that they have to constantly temper their bodies, and the fat man Reiner has even been taken care of, and the sweat has almost wet all his clothes.

Ayton walked unhurriedly to Bais's side and whispered about the day, and the latter briefly recounted it, and there was no surprise that Starry Night had been sitting at home studying the enchantments, and her daughter Erin was by her side.

Via went in to prepare for tonight's dinner, she still mainly put herself in the position of a maid, learning to fight only a little bit to exercise her weak body.

In addition, although these people in the southern district are cultivating hard, their foundation is weak, except for Reiner, who has a better family environment, almost everyone is a little malnourished and thin, and after exercising for a day, they are all pale and look like low blood sugar.

"By the way, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl watched outside the door for a while this afternoon," and just as he was about to leave, Baiss suddenly spoke again.

Another woman, sixteen or seventeen, and Ariel, who followed next to Ayton, had a delicate look in her eyes.

Ayton was slightly surprised: "What does she look like?" ”

"Probably not," Biase shook his head, his tone a little uncertain, "She may have had some contact with you, dark brown hair, but what impressed me the most was her amber eyes, and the depths were extremely empty emotions. ”

Ayton couldn't help but turn his head to look at the girl beside him, and then frowned: "Did she say anything?"

"No, just as I was about to ask, she ran away, they were all cultivating with their eyes closed, and they didn't see what the woman looked like" Baiss said softly, at this time, many people sitting cross-legged on the ground noticed the return of the two, and there was a trace of gratitude in their eyes, Ayton nodded at them, and then whispered to the middle-aged man: "Are you still used to living here?"

"Very well, this may be the best result for me" Biase sighed, turned his head to look at a room on the first floor, and the corners of his mouth showed a hint of relief: "Erin likes the new sister very much. ”

This is his true words, first of all, the tragedy has happened, if he escapes alone with Erin, with his strength, it is difficult to say that it is not difficult to survive in other places, but the security is definitely much worse than this Huangyao City, and most of the outside world is the nobles covering the sky with one hand, not like here to contain each other.

What's more, when Erin was alone at home before, she had no playmates and was very lonely, but now she finally has someone who can accompany him.

And he doesn't have to stay in that gloomy tavern every day and wipe his boring wine glass or dagger, just now... The middle-aged man set his sights on a desolate hill to the south.