After Professor Bacon disappeared, he was followed by Xueba.

Things seemed confusing, but Sherlock wasn't panicking, because he had seen through the truth.

It's still the original burned shop, and it's surrounded by a cordon, and there are occasional citizens passing by to take a look, but the players don't have much interest in this place anymore, and they basically rummage through everything they can, but still haven't found anything.

"Master Sherlock, you don't think the top student is still here, do you?"

Blue said with some surprise:

"I can assure you that your loyal servants have carefully inspected this place, and there is no trace of Xueba at all, even if Xueba is buried in the fire, then some ashes must be left, right?"

"Ordinary fires still can't kill Xueba, as for whether he is here or not, we still need to wait until the investigation to find out."

Sherlock said, scratching the parrot Phoenix on his shoulder.

Phoenix fluttered for a moment, then flapped his wings and flew up, circled around and landed in the burning ruins, and began to rummage around with his claws.

It didn't take long for Phoenix to stop at a ruin, then stretched out a bird's leg, and said:

"This is it."

"What's going on? Sherlock-sama, will this phoenix still be able to find a trap? ”

Blue asked, somewhat surprised.

"The phoenix is sensitive to magic, just like a hamster."

Sherlock briefly explained, and walked over to the parrot.

The scene had already been cleaned up, and it didn't take much effort for Sherlock to spot the anomaly pointed out by Phoenix the parrot.

A magic rune was engraved on the floor, and even though it had been burned by the fire, the magic rune mark didn't appear to be damaged.

Sherlock crouched down, gently brushed his fingers away from the magic rune inscriptions, and then studied them carefully.

"It's really a rudimentary magic rune, was it set up by this shopkeeper?"

The black cat pineapple raised his long tail and walked around the rune magic array twice, and said with great disgust.

"Huh? What do you know? All day long you only know how to use your talent to mentally control others, will you understand magic runes? ”

Phoenix, the parrot on the side, looked at the black cat Pineapple in a mocking tone, and the latter let out a roar of rage:

"Meow~"

Then he pounced directly on the parrot Phoenix.

But by the time they came to their senses, Sherlock was gone.

"Lord Sherlock?"

Phoenix the Parrot stumbled and asked suspiciously.

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In the midst of a dreamless dream, the streets of Winterfell rippled as if they were placed in water.

Passers-by of all stripes look like the streetscape Sherlock sees, and there is a rather dreamlike sense of unreality.

"Lord Sherlock? This is...... What's going on? ”

Blue could apparently see through Sherlock's vision, with Sherlock's permission, of course.

"It's a fantasy, someone set it up here."

Sherlock looked around him, and it was the [Don't Want to Sell Clothes] store that burned down before.

"Who does this kind of thing? Didn't that magic mark just now open some secret passage or something? Just make a fantasy and let us watch a movie? ”

Blue asked, a little puzzled.

"This is not an ordinary illusion, according to the other world, this is a fully immersive environment, we directly through the magic mark, from reality to the illusion, this magic mark, in addition to leaving some information clues that ordinary people can not easily find, can also protect themselves at a critical time, of course, the premise is that the magic mark can not be destroyed."

Sherlock looked at his surroundings, the mole shopkeeper was sleeping in the shop, outside the shop was the alley before, and outside was the street of Winterfell, from where Sherlock was standing, you could faintly see the figures outside, some creatures of the fallen underworld, sitting in the box, reading books or chatting, discussing the mathematical formulas and problems of the fallen.

After the initial blurry and distorted images, the scene in front of Sherlock began to gradually become clearer, until it became exactly the same as reality.

"And what happens if the magic mark is broken?"

Blue asked suddenly.

"If it is destroyed, it will cause more terrible consequences than death, and you may not be able to get out in this life, you can only wander in the illusion and finally get lost, and become a member of the illusion."

Sherlock said without panicking.

"Let's get out of here, Master Sherlock."

But Blue panicked to death:

"Whether it's Pineapple or Phoenix, they're all convinced by you, and if they see the impact of the destruction of that magic mark, I'm absolutely sure they'll break it in the first place."

"Don't worry, they won't find out."

Sherlock had no intention of leaving, and even found a chair and sat down:

"Because this is a new technology, it has only appeared in the past hundred years, Phoenix has been sealed for thousands of years, and pineapple has been locked up in Bankazia for a thousand years, to put it simply, both of them are people who are derailed from society and will not know such advanced things."

"But Sherlock, in case ......"

Blue was still trying to persuade Sherlock, but Sherlock had already raised his hand to interrupt Blue:

"And I have a reason not to leave here."

Sherlock pointed to a skeletal shelf that came in front of him, and it was Professor Bacon, as it could be seen by the crack in his forehead.

"It's very likely that this is the clue that Professor Bacon left for the top students."

Bacon didn't seem to see Sherlock, and he hurried straight to the shop.

When Bacon walked into the shop, the sleeping mole woke up at once.

"Welcome...... Professor Bacon? ”

The mole's nose twitched, and it seemed to smell Professor Bacon.

"Long time no see, Boss Mole."

Professor Bacon's face looked a little tired, and he walked to Sherlock's side, but he was not aware of Sherlock's presence, because everything in front of him was what had happened.

"How do you have time to come to Winterfell, isn't the academy busy?"

Boss Mole very attentively fed Professor Bacon a cup of bloody chrysanthemum tea, and wiped the table in front of Professor Bacon, although Boss Mole couldn't see, his nose was more sensitive than his eyes.

"Actually, I'm here today because I have something important to hand over to you."

Professor Bacon looked left and right, and said nervously:

"Can I put this with you?"

Professor Bacon took out a box, the same box that had the Ragdoll before.

"What is this?"

The weasel boss turned out the box, sniffed it carefully, and obviously couldn't smell what it was.

"This is something I left for my student Xueba, if Xueba finds here, please give this to him." Professor Bacon said.

"Wait a minute, but I don't know your student, did you give him the address? It's not easy to find here. ”

Boss Weasel hesitated, but asked.

"I didn't give it to him, but he will definitely find it, so please give it to him when the time comes."

Professor Bacon said with a serious expression.

"Professor Bacon, have you encountered anything that has troubled you? Could it be that you're in debt for something? I don't have much money, but if there's anything I can do to help you, just ask! ”

The weasel boss said with a worried expression.

"No, this matter is something you can't solve, and it's too troublesome, and even if I'm not careful, I may be killed, I don't want to affect you."

Professor Bacon waved his hand, as if he did not want to involve Boss Weasel, but Boss Weasel was quick to say:

"Ah, that's it, that's ......"

"I really can't help you, since you want to hear it so much, then I'll tell you."

Before Boss Weasel could finish his sentence, Professor Bacon spoke quickly.

"Things have to start with the Academy of the Dead......"

As Professor Bacon spoke, the whole world suddenly began to crumble, and pieces began to appear in the whole world, and Professor Bacon's figure suddenly distorted, and he could not hear any sound.

"What's the situation?"

Blue's nervous voice appeared in Sherlock's head, and Sherlock also raised his head, looked at the world around him that was beginning to disintegrate, and frowned:

"Someone shattered the magic sign."

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About five minutes ago.

When Sherlock disappeared into place, the "loyal" black cat Pineapple and the "loyal" parrot Phoenix immediately showed an unusually nervous appearance and began to look around for Sherlock-sama.

"Sherlock-sama meows——!"

"Lord Sherlock?"

A cat and a parrot began to look everywhere, but Sherlock was nowhere to be seen.

Unable to find Master Sherlock, their hearts began to become extremely anxious.

"Lord Sherlock...... It's gone? ”

Phoenix the Parrot stood there with a confused look in his eyes, and he looked around, convinced that he had not seen Master Sherlock anywhere.

"Does that mean...... Can we go meow? ”

The cat pineapple suddenly showed a "funny .jpg" expression, and Phoenix, the parrot on the side, paused for a moment, and then suddenly shouted:

"Lord Sherlock! This stupid cat is planning to defect! Kill him! ”

But after Phoenix the parrot shouted for a long time, he did not see Sherlock, and the parrot could not help but bow his head and ponder.

"Why are you doing this!"

Faced with the black cat Pineapple's questioning, Phoenix the parrot said loudly:

"I'm just checking to see if Lord Sherlock is really gone, and now it seems like this, nine times out of ten it's the reason for that magic mark, maybe Lord Sherlock has been killed by that magic mark!"

"Hey! Dead?! What are you shouting, Lord Sherlock! That damn guy beat me so much that I didn't even know my own mother, and now it's dead! ”

Pineapple the black cat couldn't wait to stand up and clap his hands, if he could do such a difficult move.

"Lord Sherlock! Pineapple speaks ill of you again! ”

Phoenix the parrot suddenly shouted again, and the hair on the black cat pineapple's entire body stood up.

However, after waiting for a while, Phoenix still did not get any response.

"Ah, I guess I'm really dead."

"Are you a fool? Or are you playing with me?! ”

The black cat Pineapple stood up angrily, looking as if she wanted to PK with Phoenix, but Phoenix quickly said:

"Now is not the time for infighting, let's get out of this dangerous place first, I just did it to make sure that Sherlock wasn't here, but I didn't mean to target you."

"And what if Sherlock is really still around?!"

The black cat pineapple asked with sharp eyes, and the parrot lowered its head and pondered for a moment:

"Let's go, run away, together."

He said after pondering.

"No, I'll run mine, you run yours, I don't want to meow with you!"

The black cat Pineapple said this, and then picked a direction to leave, but before he could leave, the parrot behind him suddenly shouted:

"Ahh Dog, you're here just in time, I just saw that Pineapple was going to run away! It's this stupid cat, he's going to betray Master Sherlock! ”

"No, it's not me, I don't, he slanders! It's all him! ”

Almost as soon as the parrot finished shouting, Pineapple shouted and saw a black dragon dog egg dragging its fat body over.

"What are you doing here, Lord Sherlock?"

The black dragon dog came over suspiciously, and he soon saw the magic mark engraved on the ground.

"What is this?"

The parrot and the black cat glanced at each other, and then the parrot looked at the black dragon dog:

"Don't you know? You don't know where Master Sherlock is? ”

"Of course I don't know, I'm here to find Master Sherlock......"

The black dragon dog said as he moved in front of the magic mark:

"Let me see...... Master Sherlock wouldn't be right here? ”

The Black Dragon Dog raised his paw and slapped it against the magic mark.

I heard a crisp click. Then the magic mark placed on the ground shattered, or to be exact, the entire floor shattered.

"What are you meowing?"

The black cat pineapple was dumbfounded and looked at everything that the black dragon dog egg did.

"Of course, I want to rescue Lord Sherlock! Since Sherlock is a hot person who is trapped in it, if this is broken, maybe Sherlock-sama will be able to appear, right? ”

"Why do you want to do that? What if it does! ”

Phoenix the parrot shook his head frantically, looking a little crazy.

"Ahh What a thing to do! Lord Sherlock! I really wasn't going to run away just now! ”

Although Sherlock hasn't been seen yet, the black cat pineapple has already begun to explain wildly.

Just when the parrot Phoenix was about to continue to report and expose the black cat pineapple as a tainted witness, the magic mark of the black dragon dog egg Da Sui suddenly flashed with light, and then when the light disappeared, Sherlock's figure appeared in front of the black dragon, the parrot, and the black cat pineapple.

The three small animals, who were originally communicating, suddenly fell silent and looked at Sherlock.

Sherlock frowned, glanced at the three people in front of him, and then looked at the black dragon dog and asked:

"You broke the magic mark?"

"Lord Sherlock! You've been rescued by me! ”

The black dragon dog looked very excited, but Sherlock just frowned and asked:

"Who is the Lord of the Black Flame?"

"Huh?"

The Black Dragon Dog Egg showed a confused expression, and Sherlock raised his punch and smashed it towards the Black Dragon Dog Egg.

Sherlock punched the black dragon dog's body, and the fat black dragon dog egg was pierced by Sherlock's fist at once, like a hole pierced through a window paper.

But there was no blood or any wailing.

Phoenix the parrot and pineapple the black cat, who watched from the sidelines, trembled in horror, and Lord Sherlock punched the dragon to death without saying a word, which was too violent.

However, the black dragon dog egg that was punched through by Sherlock and hammered to the ground did not die, to be precise, it was no longer a black dragon dog egg.

The black dragon's body began to melt slowly like chocolate in the sun, and the melted parts were tightly adhered to Sherlock's body, and those black mud-like parts soon wrapped Sherlock's entire arm.

Bursts of white light erupted from Sherlock's arm, and the black sludge twisted painfully before falling to the ground, turning gray and hardening, looking like sun-dried mud lumps.

"What kind of meow is this?"

The black cat Pineapple quickly walked over and played with the hard lumps with his paws, and after a slight sniff, Pineapple's face changed.

"This is the family of the ancient gods!"

Parrot Phoenix said with certainty.

"It's kind of interesting."

Sherlock gathered the dried mud together with his feet, and Blue was quick to say:

"I didn't expect the old gods to be involved in this matter, so why did those imprisoned old gods stop Lord Sherlock from investigating the disappearance of Professor Bacon? Do they have anything to do with it? ”

"Who knows, probably there is, after all, the ancient gods have been imprisoned for so many years, and it is understandable to make some incidents in a leisurely time."

Sherlock said.

"But the clue is broken again, Lord Sherlock."

"No, there are still clues, let's go to the Academy of the Dead."

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Free City of Victoria.

"All ready! Attach the carriage to the horses! ”

Lancelot is outside of Moonlight Forest, or Victoria's Forest, directing a group of players to connect the freshly crafted carriage body to the horses, which was made for the expedition to York.

Occupying York Territory, Queen Victoria was clearly serious.

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