The moon was dark and the wind was high, and a crow with red eyes streaked across the sky, fluttering its wings and falling into the hands of the magician. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The crow has a note tied to its paws, and the magician removes the note and releases the crow.

The note read a line of words: "The Forest of Grievances, the Cave of Hidden Corpses."

"Why are you meeting here this time?" What is Michelle thinking?" the magician frowned at the typesetting, and handed the note to Angel beside him.

At 8 p.m., Angel arrived at the magician's stronghold. Because the magician is his guide, if you want to go to the transcendent party, you must first meet with the magician.

But what he didn't expect was that it wasn't until it was close to the wee hours of the morning that the note from the meeting place arrived.

"Who is Michelle, is it her real name?" Ingres took the note and glanced at the location, completely confused about the location it said.

"I don't know if it's my real name. "He's the leader of this gathering, and we've had a leader for every transcendent gathering, and this time it's his turn." ”

Angel frowned and doubted: "With such a rotation system, aren't you afraid that someone will set a trap and ambush at a designated point?"

The magician shook his head: "It's impossible to set a trap. For us, communication is the only way to promote strength. ”

Ingres originally wanted to ask, aren't you afraid of killing people and robbing them? But considering the net worth of this group of people, it is estimated that there is nothing worth robbing, and the only place they can make good use of is probably only -- live well. Only by living can we communicate, and communication can grow.

"Let's go, if I hadn't introduced you to it today, I wouldn't want to go when I saw this place. The magician grumbled, taking the lead and leaving.

"What's wrong with this location?" asked Angel.

The magician shook his head: "It's fine, it's just that the legend is that it's haunted." I've been there before, and it's not weird, but it's too dark and it doesn't smell good. ”

Ingres muttered, "Hiding the Corpse Cave, this name seems a bit inappropriate?"

"What's wrong, it's a big corpse cave at all! The Resentful Forest is in the Byzantine Mountains, and the corpse cave is actually the place where the forest keepers dispose of corpses. Poachers, or people killed by wild animals, the forest keepers will throw the corpses of these people into this hole, and the corpses will be countless over the years. The magician grumbled.

Ingres remembers the magician mentioning their gatherings, almost most of which consisted of champagne and feasts. Occasionally, it is more low-key, and it is also the first time to find a first-class castle, and it is also the first time to go to a corpse cave to party. No wonder he looked disgusted.

Angel also felt that this party seemed to be a little different, a good exchange party, why did he choose the Dead Man's Hole?

When the two of them left the city, their feet began to speed up, and they ran all the way in the direction of the mountains and forests.

The more he ran, the more familiar Ingres felt...... Isn't this the same road he walked when he left the mountains and forests?

When he arrived at the Forest of Grievances, a ghostly light flashed in Angle's eyes.

This forest happened to be a section of the forest that Ingres had passed through after he came out of the forest keeper's cabin. When he first passed by this place, he had doubts about this place.

Because of this wood, the plants are so dense that the trees are tall and leafy, blocking all the sunlight, even at noon, walking here is as dark as night. But that wasn't enough for Ingres to take to heart, and he was impressed by it because of a faint resentment.

At the time, he also speculated whether there were many people buried underground...... Now it seems that his guess was not wrong, but it was not underground, but a corpse cave.

"When we get there, this is the corpse cave. The magician pointed to a dark tunnel.

The hole is located in the middle of several luxuriant trees, with an opening of about five or six meters, and it is dark and bottomless. Angel hadn't even gotten close enough to smell a strong smell of decay.

"The plants here can flourish so much because of this hole. The magician looked at the cavern with disgust, and the strong stench made him not want to step into it.

However, thinking that Angels would inevitably provide a kind of knowledge when he joined the transcendent party, he pinched his nose and jumped into the hole.

Angel jumped down with it. However, after jumping into the hole, he secretly alerted Toby, and he still felt a little hypocritical when the magician complained when he received the note. When he actually came to the cavern, saw the environment here, and felt the filth around him, he understood why the magician was angry...... The choice of a wizard's gathering in such an environment is indeed very problematic.

"Damn Michelle, I'll make sure he knows what a wrong thing it was to choose this party later!" the magician cursed as he landed on the ground, preparing to light the fire.

"Wait, don't light the fire. "Angels smelled a strong, pungent smell in the air, rancid and gas.

With a thought, Angel used the Light Technique.

With the illumination of the Luminoluminescence Technique, the surrounding situation instantly became clearer.

There were corpses all around, some of them had turned to white bones, some were still rotting, and the magician found himself next to a half-decomposed corpse, with maggots crawling on the corpse, and the ground was covered with small black-shelled insects carrying carrion.

The magician kicked the corpse's head away: "In this kind of place, who has the appetite to eat at tonight's party!

Angel silently glanced at the magician: You still want to eat?

"Is the meeting place inside?" Ingres saw a winding passage in the cavern in the ground, illuminated by the light spell. At the end of the passage was dark and faint, like a huge mouth waiting to be devoured, exuding a strong stench.

"It should be. The magician walked towards the passage first, while Ingres lowered his hat, lowered his presence, and followed the magician.

"It's light, isn't it?" the magician looked at Angel enviously as he walked, "It's good, you can do a lot more tricks than I do." ”

Angels smiled and didn't answer.

The magician originally wanted to blackmail him to see if he could get some information about the light spell, but Angel didn't even reply, so he had to be silent.

This cold atmosphere lasted until the end of the passage.

At the end was a large door, which had been opened, and it was clear that there were already several people sitting outside the round table inside, and only one place was still empty.

The people sitting at the table, everyone looked at the magician with a smile.

"Magician, you're so slow to come, you're left alone. The brown-haired young man sitting in the main seat greeted.

The magician scolded the young man viciously: "Michelle, what the hell are you doing, why did you choose to meet here?"

Michelle, a brown-haired young man, said with a smile: "Every time it's a lavish banquet, this time it's a little different." Surprised, surprised?"

"Unexpected fart. The magician scolded.

"You're a good kid, I haven't seen you for half a year, but you can actually light up the arts. Michelle didn't care about being scolded, and walked out of his seat, grabbed the magician's arm and dragged him through the door.

"Illumination is ......" The magician turned around to introduce Ingres, but found that there was no one behind him, and the illumination disappeared.

At this moment, Michelle had already dragged him into the room. When the magician entered the house, he tried to break free of Michelle's hand and was about to look back to see where Ingres had gone, but before he could get out, Michelle stopped him.

The corners of Michelle's mouth hooked up a weird smile: "Here, don't go." ”

This sentence, combined with Michelle's expression, made a trace of alarm rise in the magician's heart. He looked around at the rest of the room, all of them smiling at him, but the expressions of both men and women were stiff like puppets.

"You ...... What's the matter?Pooh?Commander?Long-Eared?Pluto?" The magician called out one by one, but no one responded, until he finally got a response when he saw a man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, "Shadow?"

The man took off his hat and smiled and waved at the magician: "Ahhh ”

"Shadow, what's going on?" the magician had a terror in his eyes, he sensed something was wrong, and stepped back.

But when he retreated to the back, he was stopped by Michelle. However, at this time, Michelle's expression also changed to be as sluggish and wooden as everyone else, but with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.

"What's going on? Gathering, take a seat, I'm going to tell you something useful today. Shadow pointed to the only empty seat and said to the magician.

The magician trembled and refused: "No need, I, I have something to go back first." ”

However, before the magician could turn around, the door behind him slammed shut. The heavy bronze gate made a violent noise and also set off dust waves on the ground.

The magician ran to the door and tried to pull it open. But I found that the door was locked and could not be opened without a key.

"What are you going to do? robbery? I don't have anything on me!" the magician remembered that not long ago, the mask had asked him if he was not afraid of being set up in a trap and ambushed?

By the way, the magician's eyes lit up, didn't he still have a mask? Where was the mask? Did he notice something was wrong in advance, so he hid it aside?

Think of this possibility. The magician shouted: "Fake ......" to save me!

But before he could utter the words, the magician saw a small black shadow descend from the sky and sweep in front of him. Just as the magician was about to say something, he saw the little black shadow gently reach out and pull out a struggling shadow from the magician's body and put it into the gray cloth bag......

Seeing the shadow in his hand, the little black shadow let out a strange laugh of "hee-hea-hee-hea-hee-hea-hee-

The Shadow touched the little black shadow's head, as if to compliment.

"What's that?" the magician felt weak, but he didn't faint like the others who had lost their shadows.

The Shadow touched the small cloth bag, "This is my trophy." ”

The magician seemed to think of something, and looked down at the ground.

"My Shadow...... Sure enough, the person who stole the shadow in the city is you!"

Shadow raised an eyebrow, "Huh, when did you find out?"

The magician gasped: "Blonde...... You always sit next to Kabasha and Little John......"

The shadow suddenly realized: "So it's because of this...... Unexpectedly, you are still the smartest person in the room. Well, now it's time to give a little reward to the smart. ”

As he spoke, the shadow suddenly opened his hand, and white lines emerged from his ten fingers, and with a surging magic, the white lines rushed into the gray cloth bag containing the magician's shadow.

A miniature black figure was dragged out of the sack.

If you look closely, you can see that this palm-sized black figure is similar to the size of a magician, but it is black and whirring, without any distinguishable features.

The Shadow pinned down the black figure with a white thread, slowly moving across the table.

At the same time, the magician's expression suddenly became wooden, and he followed the dark shadow on the table, slowly moving...... When the shadow comes out with his left foot, he comes out with his left foot, and when the shadow raises his right foot, he raises his right foot.

It's like a real puppet.

And the puppeteer is the Shadow!