Four patrol squads of the Knights of Punishment, a total of twenty-eight men, converged, and traced all the way northwest to the foot of the city walls, but found nothing new.

The smell stopped under the walls here, and the hounds did not respond, and the members of the patrol team walked down the foot of the walls with kerosene lamps, hoping to find some new clues.

"Will, isn't it a ghost that your team witnessed? I haven't heard of a human who can crawl up a building while dodging five muskets. Or maybe the members of your squad are too bad at shooting? The leader of a patrol team joked.

"Hehe, your ghost will use an axe?" Will retorted.

The captain of another patrol team said, "And we haven't received any reports of victimization. Besides, who would kill someone and throw an axe into the street with such fanfare? Will, there are so many unreasonable things about your story, and you said that your head was almost chopped off by an axe! It's not like the head is still standing on the neck. ”

The captain of the third patrol team smiled: "Maybe it's a parasitic ghost on the axe, not a creature in this world at all." Specially came out to scare our little Will and told him not to doze off when he went to work. Hahahaha! ”

Will was about to continue arguing with his colleague when something suddenly caught out of the corner of his eye. So he shouted, "Wait...... You're all coming and seeing. What is it? ”

Hearing Will's shout, the crowd gathered.

Will pointed to the walls of the city by the light of the kerosene lamps, and he shouted, "Look at the traces on the walls! It's still new! ”

The trail is nearly two meters high, and if you are not careful, you will miss it.

One of the four captains said, "It looks like some kind of axe mark or blunt knife." And it's new, why is it here? ”

Will held the kerosene lamp in one hand, he chanted a spell, and the illumination magic of "Magic Light Pillar" was emitted in his hand, and the pillar of light shone towards the city wall, only to see that the axe would be notched a few meters away, until it reached the top of the city wall more than 20 meters.

"With just an axe, I easily climbed the nearly thirty-meter-high wall." I don't know who said that.

Will said, "I'm right! ”

The other three captains looked at each other, also aware of the seriousness of the problem.

The patrol team on the city wall is quite tightly structured, and there have been drills before, and no matter how much you climb from the city wall, it will only take more than a minute to be spotted by the patrol force on the city wall.

This means that the man with the axe can climb over the city wall in less than a minute with just one axe as an aid. Even if a professional soldier has a special climbing claw, only a few people can climb the wall more than 20 meters high in one minute.

"But what about victim reports? No one has been reported killed yet! Otherwise, it will be displayed on the magic crystal. One of the captains pulled out the magic crystal from his bosom.

"Yes, Will, I agree you are not exaggerating. But what was that guy's motives? ”

Will was speechless for a moment, and he couldn't answer.

The guy with the axe appeared and disappeared mysteriously, and he didn't know what his purpose was other than that the axe was stained with blood and that he didn't cooperate with their investigation.

"I can't think of it." Patrol Captain Will honestly admitted.

"So what do we do? Let's go back and report this to the top. Let them bother. ”

Everyone nodded, and although Will wanted to catch the axe wielder who scared him, but now that the clue was broken, he couldn't do it.

Just as the knights of the patrol were about to go back, the sound of horses' hooves and running could be heard in the distance, and the fifth patrol team, seeing the light of the cyan flares, arrived to join them.

Will looked at the leader on a horse and holding a lamp from afar, and Will knew him: "Keent, why are you here so late?" ”

The leader of this patrol team, Genent, pulled the reins of his horse, and he stopped his horse four or five meters away, with a serious expression: "I'm late." He paused and then continued: "Something big may have happened." ”

Will asked eagerly, "What's wrong?" Our team had previously encountered a mysterious dangerous person. So you fired a cyan flare, what happened to your team? ”

"Mysterious dangerous person?? What's going on? ”

"A mysterious guy with a blood-stained axe, extremely agile. You guys, what's going on with you? Did you meet that guy too? ”

Kidt's face changed slightly: "Axe? We didn't meet the man you said we were. However, we have received reports from residents of Rue de Briani that someone has kicked and broken the glass of their windows in their sleep. I thought it was a prank, but when I went up to the roof, I found some axe-like nicks and a lot of black burns. And there are remnants of magic fluctuations, someone who used magic there not long ago. ”

"What do you mean by 'something big'?"

Keen shook his head, he said: "I was standing on the roof of that house, and I found that the window of a private house seven or eight meters away was also broken, and there seemed to be something messy inside. When I asked who lived in the house, the couple told me that the house seemed to have been rented by a beautiful female student from St. Pherland's College. ”

Will's face also changed: "Schoolgirl? So could this be a kidnapping? Most of the students at that academy came from the proud family, and if the resident couple was right, the impact would be unpredictable! It is not impossible to alarm His Holiness. ”

"That's right, I saw the flares after that, and I left three people to protect the scene, and I rushed over. By the way, what exactly did you say about that guy with a blood-stained axe? ”

"Lead the way with the hound, and follow the guy with the axe all the way here, and now I find that he seems to have climbed over the wall!"

"Could that guy with a blood-stained axe be the perpetrator of the riots on Briani Street?!"

"If he really did it, I'm afraid this matter is more than just kidnapping. Blood-stained axe! That St. Phelan college girl is probably dead in the room! ”

A cold wind swept through the late night of early winter, and the figures of everyone were gloomy.

The five patrol leaders on horseback looked at each other in silence, and they all knew that the mysterious incident that had happened tonight was completely beyond their purview.

Will proposed, "Let's split up!" ”

So they divided into three patrol teams, some of them went to the city gate to ask if the patrol force on the city wall had encountered any accidents or seen or heard anything during the patrol, and some went to the rue de Briani to investigate the house of the so-called "schoolgirl" of the Collège de Saint-Pherland, and if necessary, broke down the door. The last part went to the General Security Office in College City to report on tonight's incident.