In Felik's impression, the imperial capital was the richest place in the empire, and the people of the imperial capital should be quite good off compared to other regions.

But unexpectedly, in some areas of the imperial capital, people's living conditions are only average, and it is very difficult to eat and clothe themselves.

The place where he lived was no different from the village wooden houses outside the imperial capital, some of them were made of stones, and some of them were made of irregular wood, and the gaps were filled with clay to prevent rainwater from leaking.

The vendors on the street sell mostly vegetables and rarely see meat, so it is clear that the sales of meat on this street are not high.

As soon as the vendors saw the richly dressed Howell attendants, they all eagerly clamoured to sell them, trying in vain to rely on their voices in exchange for this rare reward.

But it's a pity that Felik and the others didn't come out to buy food.

Presumably, it is more important to help these traders and get those murderers to stop hunting.

"I didn't expect the future brave to have to find people for others, it's really a troublesome job."

Felik walked down the street with a frown, followed by Belina and one of the Howells' helpers.

Afra and Odelia were patrolling a different area, far from Felik's area.

"Lord Felik, what do we do now in the first step?" The Horwell helper asked.

His name is Eddie, and he is the captain of the third team of the Howell family, and he is ordered by the head of the family to accompany the operation and assist Felik in his plan to find the vampire.

In fact, Jon gave him the task of not only helping Felik find the vampire, but also spying on the teenager in front of him.

Although he didn't understand why the head of the house attached so much importance to Felik, since it was an order, there was no reason to disobey it.

He wants to imprint the other party's every move in his mind, and report it to the head of the family when he returns.

"Anyway, let's go to the scene of the crime first."

Following the routine of the detective novels in his memory, Felik plans to start with the scene of the death, although the body must have been disposed of, there may be clues left.

Then they came to an attic.

A very dilapidated attic, I heard Eddie say that the owner of this house moved out of this place a long time ago, and it has been uninhabited here, and it has been abandoned for a long time, and I don't know why the person who died here came to this attic.

Stepping on the dusty wooden planks of the attic, the creaking sound came from under the feet, and the slightly curved planks seemed to break at any moment.

The dried blood solidified on the board, filling the gap between the boards, like a pitch-black stain, and Felik lowered his head and reached out to touch it lightly, his brow furrowed.

"There is no trace of magic." He spoke.

Eddie looked at Felik curiously and asked incredulously, "How do you know?" ”

"I'm just sensitive to magic."

Felik said casually, he only said half of it, in fact, he was very sensitive to the magic in blood.

Belina also leaned down and stroked the bloodstains, and nodded, agreeing with Felik's statement.

"The victim was a woman who was hung in this attic when she died, her neck was cut, and there was not a drop of blood left in her body, and we also invited a high-level magician to the scene to see it, and there was no trace of the use of magic.

In this way, there are only two possibilities, one is that the killer is a very powerful magician, so powerful that he can hide the traces of magic after the fact to hide the eyes of high-level magicians.

The other may not be a mage, but a human, but he has a special means to extract all the blood from the human body in a real sense. ”

Speaking of the back, Eddie's expression also became solemn and cold, if the murderer is a powerful black magician, it's okay, but if it's the latter, it will be terrible.

Sometimes a strong enemy is not terrible, what is terrible is ignorance of the enemy's strength.

A human being who can suck human blood dry by bizarre means is a complete heresy.

"Captain, it's strange here, isn't it?" Belina raised her head in confusion, suddenly stretched out her hand to the ceiling, and said, "Look, why is there blood on it?" ”

Looking up, sure enough, there was also a small pool of black-red coagulated blood on it, which looked quite weird.

"Strange, there wasn't at the time." Eddie stared at the black-red traces, and a strong sense of disobedience rose in his heart.

Felik glanced at it and quickly looked away.

"Maybe it was the murderer who splashed it when he killed the deceased, don't worry, our mission this time is not to find the murderer, but to squat, I just want to confirm what kind of guy the target is.

Oh yes, help me remove the bloody planks on the ground, and it will be useful later. ”

Felik didn't care about the blood on the ceiling, but more about the blood on the ground.

Although Eddie thought it strange that there was blood on the ceiling, when Felik was leaving, he had to follow closely and follow the other party out of the attic.

After watching the scene, Felik had a little idea, he also has a particularly strong control over blood, and naturally knows this kind of crime very well, if he can do not leave a drop of blood from his body, then there will be no small pool of blood on the ground.

It is clear that the other side is provoking the Howells, and through this feature, they have put all similar cases under their own name.

The killer is a nasty guy with extreme self-confidence.

Will there be such heresy in the imperial capital? It's incredible.

Felik bit his nails and frowned and muttered to himself.

"Well, Lord Felik, it seems that you have a good understanding of magic residues."

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little silent, Eddie took the initiative to open the topic.

Felik shook his head: "It's just that I'm a little sensitive to blood, as long as I have more contact, I will always have experience." By the way, Eddie, you have time to take this plank to the Holy See and let the priests inspect it. ”

"Why?"

"Let's see if the demons did it." Felik said expressionlessly, in his opinion, if he really did not rely on magic to draw blood, it was very likely that the perpetrator was not human.

Although I don't think the demon clan will be in the imperial capital, there is no absolute in everything, for example, he is the best example.

After that, the three of them went to the highest clock tower and watched the neighborhood, and before they knew it, night was falling.

Stars dotted the sky and moonlight poured onto the earth, a lightless area that contrasted with the bright lights elsewhere in the Empire.

The dim environment made it particularly difficult to carry out the monitoring mission, and if it weren't for the presence of the elves with outstanding eyesight, I am afraid that they would not be able to monitor this night.