Waiting for three days as agreed, in order not to have an accident within this time, Donald also deliberately limited the scope of activities to the street where the hotel was located.

The only time I went to the other neighborhoods was to buy a new carriage or to take a look outside the workshop, not to bother, but to make sure the craftsmen were still working.

"We'll leave the city straight after we get the Space Ring later. ”

Still sitting in front of the carriage as usual, Donald hadn't slept well for the last two nights, and only recovered with shallow meditation.

"I didn't go out to check on the situation for three days, and I don't know what the situation is in the city now. ”

The gathering of information was halted due to restrictions on movement, and now that no one knew what was going on in the city of Corta, it was not a good feeling to be out of control of the surrounding environment.

"We're not here to investigate the case, there's no need to figure it out so clearly, we won't stay here for long anyway, here, this ...... Was that the last time we came here?"

As the carriage turned around the corner, Donald's gaze was withdrawn from the chimney of a nearby machine shop, only to see the doors and windows of the workshop where the craftsman who had previously accepted their commission to make the spatial ring was shut.

"Tsk, bad premonition......"

Parking the carriage aside, Donald walked to the lamppost at the main entrance first, not in a hurry to check the scouting eye, but glanced to confirm that the inscription was still there and had not been damaged by external forces, and then approached the workshop.

"The windows on the first and second floors are all closed, and the doors are ...... I can't push it open, it's like it's locked from the inside, it's nine o'clock in the morning, there's no reason to still sleep at this time, what should I do, break the door?"

Anthony stood in the doorway, raised his hand and pushed the door inside, without wavering, and his left hand immediately touched the handle of the short knife at his waist.

"There's no hurry, maybe it's a temporary trip to buy materials or something urgent, it's not appropriate to force your way in, Lilo, feel if there is anyone in the workshop. ”

While turning on Vision's vision to check the inside of the house, Donald asks Lilo to participate in the search.

"Donald, second floor, dead air. ”

Lilo's answer shattered Donald's sense of luck.

"I really like to cause trouble for people!"

With a gloomy face, his fingers were aimed at the door lock, and he directly released the spiritual impact, and an invisible wave of qi rushed directly into the keyhole, even the door frame with metal shook in an instant, the wall fell in ashes, Donald kicked the door open, and Anthony and Lilo took the initiative to stand in front of the line and rushed straight to the second floor.

Donald, Stephanie, and Julia walked behind and closed the door again.

In the bedroom on the second floor, Donald saw the craftsman lying on the bed with a soothing expression on his face and a blood-soaked bedding covering his body, apparently killed in his sleep.

Donald lifted his palm, and in an instant, all the drawers and cabinets in the room floated in the middle of the room.

The spiritual power swept through everything, and then began to spread throughout the house, with the help of the spiritual vision to check whether there was a dark grid in the room.

"The Space Ring, it's gone. ”

Donald really didn't care if he died, as long as the space ring was still there, naturally everything was easy to say, but when a wooden box that had been opened in the second drawer of the bedside table floated in front of him, his cheeks seemed to be covered with a layer of frost.

Turning his gaze to the corpse on the bed, the spiritual power lifted the quilt and made it float above the corpse.

"The fatal wound was in the chest, through the wound, looking at his facial expression, it should have been a sneak attack while he was asleep, the bedroom door was locked when we came in, and there was no sign of being picked, indicating that it was a craftsman who was locked before sleeping, so the sneak attack could only be from the window...... Donald, come and see. ”

Anthony quickly came to the same conclusion as Donald based on the traces of the scene, and approached the window, there was only one window in this bedroom, and Anthony opened it with a slight push, remembering how the craftsman who locked the doors on the first and second floors could ignore the window facing his bed.

Donald leaned over and saw that there were signs of corrosion on the latches of the window.

"The location here corresponds to the back door, you go to check the reconnaissance eye on the lamppost at the back door, the body of the deceased is not completely stiff, the charcoal in the bedroom fireplace is still a little spark, the craftsman should have been killed late last night to the early hours of this morning. ”

This is where the Recon Eye placed by Donald three days ago comes into play, allowing it to record all the conditions in an area before the inscription's effect wears off.

"Stephanie, you ride to the Craft and Forge Church to find Jacqueline, be fast, tell Anthony when you go out, check the scouting eyes in the other three directions of the house to see if there are any missed clues, Lilo, find a way to try to bring his soul back, Julia, you follow me to check the other rooms in the house. ”

Donald had no acquaintances here, let alone the craftsmen's personal relationships, and even if he found some people in the scouting eye, he wouldn't be able to tell who was who, and where these people were now, so he needed someone to do the job.

Leaving the body to Lilo, Donald took Julia out of the bedroom, and the first thing he went to was at the workbench on the first floor, which he had seen the last time he had visited.

Unlike the emptiness of his previous visit, this time Donald saw a number of contraptions on the table, including the glasses worn by the craftsman before, a whole box of carving knives of various styles, and several sketches drawn in pencil in the drawer of the table, showing the appearance of a ring and the steps listed.

Including gemstone carving, ring body reshaping, magic circle pattern connection, etc., and after these steps, without exception, they are all ticked, so it seems that the craftsman has indeed been helping him improve the space ring recently, and it has been successful!

The space ring that had been built was actually snatched away by a murderer who suddenly appeared, which undoubtedly made Donald even more angry.

"Donald, this drawer is locked. ”

Julia squatted next to the workbench, her fingers hooked the copper ring outside the bottom drawer and pulled it out, but the drawer didn't move, and she pulled it twice before turning her head and saying.

It's still the old way, the mental impact forcibly destroys the drawer, and when it is opened, there are only a few books stacked on top of each other.

"The Beauty of Craftsmanship", "The Art of Carving", "The Ugliness of Industrialization", ......

Three books, different thicknesses, Donald pinched the three books in his hand and looked at the names, and did not see any fame from them, but since they were specially locked up by craftsmen, they were not ordinary things.

Flipping them through one by one, Donald soon found the clue, sandwiching folded sheets of paper between the pages of the three books.

I took out a piece of paper and opened it, there was a strange black mark on it, which at first glance looked like a crooked pentagram, the so-called skewed does not mean that its direction is reversed, but the line that draws the pentagram itself is crooked, for example, its top corner is in a state of skewed to the right, and there is a small red mark in the center of the pentagram, surrounded by a ring, which makes the whole composition look a little like a pricked eye......

Si Xi Suo ~ Xi Xi Suo ~ The moment Donald's attention was focused on this eye, some strange whisper suddenly rang in his ears.