After saying so much in one breath, Alder also seemed a little tired, paused for a moment, and then continued. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"So, after I visited the painters, I went straight to this part of the old town to find some clues. In fact, it is very easy to know which abandoned houses have been recently entered. ”

Speaking of which, Alder paused again and said, "Look at the lock in your hand that you just picked, can you see anything wrong?" ”

After taking a closer look at the lock in his hand, Liu Ling really found something not quite right.

"Too new?" Compared to the rusted door, the lock was a bit new, as if it had just been replaced.

"Yes. This is the easiest place to see, because some people who engage in shady activities sometimes pry open an abandoned house and lock it again, so that the abandoned house becomes the location of their activities for the time being. Of course, there are also people who don't need to use a door to get in and out of these houses at all, and can get in with a jump, which I didn't think about for the time being. ”

"Because for the time being, I assume that the murderer is the painter or some mage, and these people must have entered through the door if they wanted to enter these houses. In fact, when I came here today, I thought about what I would do if I couldn't pick the lock. ”

As he spoke, Alder pulled a brand new lock from his pocket.

"That's my backup. I could also learn from those people to break the lock first and then replace it with a new one, but that way it wouldn't be as hidden. ”

"Continuing from the previous one, this evening I wrote down all the abandoned houses in the neighborhood that have been re-locked, a total of eighteen. However, since there are some people here from time to time in the evening, I didn't start my plan for the time being, and waited until now. ”

"But I didn't really think about starting to look at these houses so late, I had expected it to be more than two hours earlier than I was now, when the people in the neighborhood were almost asleep, and I could start my project. However, because I didn't sleep much last night after returning to school in the evening, I was a little sleepy, so I closed my eyes and squinted for a while, but I didn't expect to oversleep directly, and I came here more than two hours later than expected. ”

"With these two hours missing, I guess I won't be able to finish the inspection tonight as quickly as possible. So there's no rush now, and if you can't finish the inspection, you have to leave it for tomorrow night. ”

With all said and done, Alder began to carefully examine the inside of the house. After entering the room, Alder took out a small lantern from his pocket that was functioned by magic crystals, the brightness of this lamp was quite limited, and under its illumination, even the things under his feet could barely be seen, and he didn't have to think about seeing the whole room at all.

However, Liu Ling knew that the lamp was not broken, but that Alder deliberately set it like this. This kind of lantern with the function of magic crystal has been used before, and the brightness of this lamp is completely adjusted by the user himself, and such a faint light is also adjusted by Alder himself.

Although he hadn't asked Alder, Liu Ling knew that he must have done it because he didn't want the light coming from inside the house to be seen by people outside. It's true that the light coming out of an abandoned house is easy to attract attention, and even if there aren't many people living around, it's almost the middle of the night and no one passes by, but it's better to be careful.

This house was the third one Alder had pried open tonight, but there was nothing out of the ordinary except that the lock on the door had been changed.

Even the inside of the house was covered with a thick layer of dust, and it looked like no one had been in it for a long time. In one of the cabinets in the house, Alder found several large bags of dry food for storage, and when he opened one of the bags, the contents had long since broken down, and even the small insects that grew in the dry food had died of being in it for too long.

The small one-story house was almost inspected and almost safely inspected, and it was almost certain that no one had entered it for at least a few months. It may have been a temporary base for a gang of thieves who had been here for a while before abandoning it.

Liu Ling and Alder, who had not gained anything, walked out of the house and re-locked the lock that had been picked before, and if they didn't go in to look at it, the house looked like no one had ever entered.

Although Liu Ling originally wanted to go back to school to sleep, he was delayed for a while after meeting Alder. Look at the sky, there are only a few hours left before dawn at this time, and it is not close to the school, and it is estimated that I will not be able to sleep if I go back now, because Liu Ling will have to get up early tomorrow to hand in the task.

Thinking about it like this, Liu Ling simply decided not to leave, although staying here couldn't help Alder too much, but after the previous attempts, Liu Ling felt that his lock-picking skills might still be better than the current Alder. And after Alder's introduction before, Liu Ling also became a little interested in this matter, so he was ready to follow Alder to slowly inspect these houses until dawn.

In addition, this place is also close to the corpse management office, and after accompanying Alder to check it, you can go back to the corpse management office to find Drake to return the task, which is a lot of money.

So Liu Ling told Alder about his idea of wanting to stay here to help him, and Alder was also a simple person, so he directly agreed with Liu Ling to stay without much thought. Anyway, he had already told Liu Ling almost all the details of this task, and there was nothing unremarkable about this mission.

It's just that Alder was a little embarrassed when he picked the lock and was seen by Liu Ling before. Now that Liu Ling is here, he will be able to enter those houses more easily, after all, he has already seen Liu Ling's lockpicking technique before.

After a while, Liu Ling and Alder came to another abandoned house not far from here, the lock of this house was newer than the previous one, and it didn't seem to take more than a week to replace it, so Liu Ling felt that the chances of finding clues in this house were greater.

If you can find clues in this house, you don't have to go through the trouble of looking at other houses, but I hope you can find something in this house.

It's not that Liu Ling doesn't want to use his mental power to scan the whole house, if he can really do that, it can't be simpler. However, because Alder was looking for some details that ordinary people might not notice, Liu Ling did not think that his depth of observation could be compared to Alder's, so at this time he honestly acted as Alder's locksmith......