Tracing powder, as an alchemical product, is useless for the vast majority of people.

But the owner of this ability is not unique.

Donald obtained this ability through demons, and others can obtain it by relying on talent potions or alchemical potions that work for a short time.

"I've contacted the Bureau of Anomalous Investigations, and as expected, there are not many stocks in the warehouse for this kind of extraordinary supplies, but they said that they would send someone to send all the tracing powder as soon as possible, so it seems that the Bureau of Anomalies values the Owen family very much, and in the past, it was all about pushing back and holding them something, but today I said that it was to find out the murderer who attacked Connery Owen, and I nodded and agreed without saying a word. ”

Putting down the earpiece in her hand, her hands folded on the table and her chin rested, Suzanne's gaze swept over the faces of the people in front of her, and finally stopped at Horn.

He was standing at the window, looking at the snow outside, his brow furrowed, as if he had thought of something.

Recently, his style of being a fool has been restrained a lot, and the stupidity of not caring about anything has disappeared from him.

"It should be valued, don't look at the villa is so big, and the interior decoration is just average, that's because Connelly Owen is an extremely simple person, the actual status of the Owen family in Demingham should belong to the first class, and it has a lot to do with the police department...... You know, the government is almost giving us more money than the police department, and we don't even have half of them. ”

Boglo stood in front of a glass cabinet that looked old, with some intricate sculptures inside.

Most of them are ceramic objects, worthless, and are placed here purely for the sake of beauty.

He seems to know a lot of the inside story of the Anomaly.

After all, I was an investigator before.

"What about the Donalds?"

Stephanie was fiddling with a bouquet of fake flowers in the house, and looked up to find that Donald had left the house at some point, and that Lilo and Finger were naturally not there.

"It seems to have gone out, and I didn't say where to go, I guess it was in the yard. ”

Pence was always eager to answer Stephanie's questions.

It's just that Donald was not in the yard as he said, but in the room where the body was temporarily stored.

This is a guest room in the villa, which is usually used for some guests, and is now a temporary morgue.

Shirley Owen was placed on the bed, her cause of death was a broken spine, crushing, and although the flesh was still attached and looked normal, it was only in the bed, if she had to be lifted up...... Maybe two people.

As for the other corpses, they were concentrated in the adjacent room, which was the spontaneous act of the servants.

Even if he is dead, his identity is still there.

In fact, according to the rules of this era, if there is a homicide among civilians, in order to facilitate the examination of the body and the arrest of the murderer, the body of the deceased generally does not choose to be buried.

But Shirley Owen has a different identity after all, as long as Connery Owen nods, a special mortuary will immediately come to treat the wounds of the corpse, restore her to her original state, and then put her in a coffin carved from expensive fragrant wood.

Even the Bureau of Anomalies could not stop this act, because this is the decency of a noble lady, and it is also the last decency.

Connery Owen's response, however, was: do as you do, and if you don't think there's any message on the body, then tell someone to clean it up.

"Lilo, what did you just say...... Can you be sure?"

Donald looked at the serene lady on the bed and had to admit that it was a very beautiful lady.

He had teamed up with Horn to examine the corpse's wounds, but Lilo had no choice but to mentally tell Donald what she had found, as she didn't speak the lingua franca of humans yet.

At that time, because there were some servants in the villa next to him, Donald did not speak.

And what Lilo said seemed a little sensational to him.

The reason why he left when everyone was gathered together was to sneak over and confirm.

"I could feel the soul in her body completely disappearing. ”

Lilo held a ball of thin ice in her hand, which she had just grabbed from the railing outside, and never let go, watching them slowly melt in her hands along the way.

Her words made Donald lean back against the doorframe with some resignation, his left foot curled against the deep stone wall.

Does a person's soul disappear immediately after death?

Not really, if that were the case, then there wouldn't be so many ghosts and ghosts in the world.

If the soul is not affected, it will probably gradually disappear in the next period of time, this time will not be long, that is, half a day, when the time comes, the soul will enter the underworld, and if you want to conjure the soul at that time, you may have to rely on the methods of Lilo's predecessor parents.

And the soul of Mrs. Owen in front of her disappeared a little quickly, and it was very complete!

In fact, if they were one to two hours late, and if nothing else, the time to see the corpse would be one to two hours late, then the disappearance of the soul would be a forgivable thing.

Or that without the existence of Lilo, a high-ranking undead, Donald would not have found this information even if he arrived on the spot, because any knowledge of the soul belongs to the most obscure and dark part of the wizarding school, which can be seen from the fact that the number of wizards who majored in the undead school has always been very small.

Of course, there are reasons why they die on their own all day, but more often than not, it is because it takes a lot of talent to reach a certain level in this area.

But there are some things that don't have to be, Donald came early, and he happened to be followed by a high-ranking undead.

This is a fact, even if it is nonsense to be surrounded by a high-level undead all day long...... That's also a fact.

Walking into the room, the velvet blanket on the floor was very soft to step on, and when Lilo followed, Donald reached out and closed the room.

"Can you confirm what caused her soul to disappear suddenly?"

There must be a reason for things to go wrong, and now is the stage of finding the murderer, and Donald doesn't want to miss the clues.

"Try it. ”

Lilo stood on the edge of the bed and placed her hand on top of Shirley Owen's head, and a gray-white energy extension appeared in her palm, touching her skull and submerging it.

Donald looked around, wondering if it was an illusion, but he suddenly felt that the light in the room had suddenly dimmed a lot.

The shadows beside the bed seem to be drawn deeper and deeper.

"Soul extraction. ”

A noun came out of Lilo's mouth, and Donald's brow furrowed.

"Soul extraction?"

Subconsciously repeating it in the lingua franca of human beings, chewing on the meaning, Donald then said,

"Someone will put the soul of Ms. Shirley Owen...... Taken from her body? But from the time she was assassinated until we looked at the body twenty minutes ago, no one had entered the room except when it was opened when the body was brought in under the watchful eye of the police. ”

As he said this, Donald's gaze swept over the entire room, observing in a state of spiritual vision, there was no secret door that could hide people, and there was no trace of the sacrifice ritual around him, he turned his head to look at the window on the side, which was large and wide, and took two steps forward, without opening the window, just looking at the window frame through the glass, without any marks.

Who took Shirley Owen's soul, or rather...... Why take her soul?

Since it was an assassination, it was not enough to eliminate her physically and make her soul disappear automatically over time, a matter of a few hours, why did you do this?

"Lilo, let me make a hypothesis, what can she do if her soul remains in her body?"

Leaning against the window, Donald asked.

"You can eat ......"

Lilo's response caused Donald to cover his face, and he said that he had asked in vain, and immediately left the room, and found a room with a telephone by asking the servants in the villa.

He didn't go to the room where the Rose Squad was now.

Toot ~ click.

"Hello?"

Delia answered the phone quickly.

"It's me, I have a question I want to ask, if a person's soul is in the body after death, what can be used for it?"

Same question, Donald's finger tapped lightly on the tabletop.

"What do you mean by the purpose of extracting souls for sacrifice or ......?"

On the other side, there was the sound of blades hitting the cutting board, and it was already lunchtime.

It's been a long time since I've eaten Anthony's food...... Woo~

"I mean information exploration, yes, that's it, can we know some information through the soul?"

Barely pulling his mind back from Anthony's delicacies, he asked in a low voice.

"Of course you can, Wizard Zebra's book "Soul Dialogue" mentions a variety of rituals and spells to be able to do this, it's not a difficult thing, if it's for ordinary people, as long as there is preparation, even I can do it, of course, only within a few hours after the person dies, after a while, the soul turns back into the underworld, unless it can communicate with the god of death...... Forget it, you shouldn't know about that wizard joke, is there anything else you want to ask?"

Delia seemed to be in a good mood, and her lightness could be clearly felt when she spoke.

"Donald, where are you? Tracing powder has arrived!"

Donald was about to ask what the wizard's joke was when Stephanie's call came from outside the door.

"Nothing more to ask, goodbye. ”

"Wait, that message of yours has been barely confirmed with the mixed fruit you provided, and the message of the Holy Maiden's Society, the tree garden is very satisfied with you, and will definitely give you a reward, the thing has been delivered to me, come and take a look when you have time, as for what it is, I'll sell it first, goodbye." ”

"Got it. ”

Hanging up, Donald left the room, thinking about what Delia had said about souls.