The biggest headache for the staff was the place they found according to the clues provided by the eccentric adventurer.

In fact, the very existence of that strange adventurer, Miss Lei Ruoya, was a headache for the staff--this person behaved very strangely, doing things every day that ordinary adventurers would not have done at all.

The staff had been suspicious of this person's origin for a while, until she arrived at the barracks and showed the staff the arm...... It was an arm that closely resembled a human, but was covered in gray feathers.

Only then did the staff let go of their suspicions about her.

The eccentric adventurer tells her staff that she has found a large number of corpses of unknown origin, and the staff is thrilled to learn of this.

It's rare for a large number of corpses of unknown origin to appear in the same place in the Azure Continent - after all, this is a legalized continent.

So when the staff heard Lei Ruoya say this, he almost instantly thought of the recent disappearance of the soldier...... Those corpses are the remains of missing soldiers.

The eccentric adventurer gave the address of the place to his staff, and insisted that he must go and confirm it himself.

To be honest, such a request is a bit strange, after all, this kind of thing must be reported to the city lord first, but out of trust in the other party, the staff did not report the matter to the city lord, but brought a few of their own personal guards to investigate in person.

A few people went to the place that the strange adventurer said and walked into the cave, and the consequence was that a large number of corpses were found in the depths of the cave.

Hundreds of corpses completely occupied the passage of the small cave, and the air was filled with a disgusting smell of decay.

Judging by the degree of decomposition of the corpses, it is clear that they arrived in a sequence of sorts - some of them are almost intact, some of them have begun to decompose, and some of them have only a pile of bones.

Several guards stepped forward to confirm the identity of the corpses, and found that they were indeed the remains of missing soldiers, as the staff had suspected.

They recognized the tattered clothes on the corpses as military uniforms, and found familiar faces among several nearly intact corpses.

Although the unpleasant smell in the air made the staff extremely uncomfortable, he still showed an excited expression when he finally found the clue.

Although this is only the place where the perpetrator of the disappearance of the soldier dumped his body, it cannot be used as a direct clue to find the real culprit.

But judging from the situation in the cave, the murderer should have used this cave as the only place to dump the body, that is......

As long as you keep squatting here, you can always wait for the murderer to come and throw the corpse!

At that time, the murderer can be taken down in one fell swoop!

The staff left a few of the best guards lurking outside the cave, keeping an eye on the situation here, and they immediately rushed back to the barracks to draw men.

He had planned to report the matter to the lord of the castle when he returned, but for some reason, he inexplicably remembered the words that the strange adventurer had said to him:

"I also hope that the staff will go and confirm it in person."

When the other party said this, he bit the word "personally" very hard.

After thinking about it for a while, the staff finally decided to hide the matter from the city lord.

Anyway...... If you transfer a little more manpower, how can you catch the murderer, it doesn't matter if the city lord knows it or not.

He comforted himself in his heart.

However, this matter did not develop according to the staff's expectations after all, so it became the most troublesome thing for the staff.

In the beginning, the staff sent out by the staff to squat at the entrance of the cave in shifts for several days, but no one was found entering or leaving the cave.

This could not help but greatly shock the staff, because there were still incidents of missing soldiers in the barracks in the past few days.

The staff had confirmed that the cave should be the only place where the murderer threw his body, but in the past few days, the soldiers have disappeared one after another, but no one has gone to the cave to throw the body.

Could it be ...... The murderer has already found someone squatting?

With such doubts, the staff led the people into the cave again.

only to find ...... On the outside of the pile of corpses in the cave, there were obviously dozens of more corpses.

The guards who stayed behind all swore that at least one person was staring at the entrance of the cave at any time in the past few days, even if it was eating, sleeping and going to the toilet, they would call someone to replace them in advance, and they did not dare to relax for a moment.

"Perhaps...... It's stealth or something. After discovering this, the staff calmed down, after all, this is a high-level military plane, and this kind of thing that is slightly contrary to common sense is not difficult to explain, "But since he still chose to throw the body here, it should be that he didn't find us." ”

After a moment of silence, the staff decided to change tactics and sent a soldier who was good at disguise to pretend to be a corpse in the pile.

No matter what kind of ability the other party uses to circumvent the surveillance of the soldiers, they always have to show a little bit when throwing the corpse. Sending soldiers to pretend to be corpses, even if they can't catch them red-handed, they can always get some clues by observing the process of throwing the corpse up close.

The staff who had already planned for themselves also prepared a military flare for the soldier - this was the product of the owner of the magic supply shop, and it was used silently, and it emitted not fireworks like regular flares, but invisible magic that could penetrate many barriers.

When the magic rises into the sky, it turns white, like an extra star in the night sky, but it is still inconspicuous in general, and most people will not notice it if they are not close enough to say it in advance.

This is usually the case for secret military operations, and the aides gave it to the soldier who was pretending to be a corpse, telling him to release flares if he thought there was any hope of catching the killer red-handed, and to match the soldiers who were lying in ambush outside.

But things still didn't go in the direction that the staff had hoped.

……

The soldiers, disguised as corpses, waited in the cave for an entire day, without waiting for the killer to enter the cave and dump the body.

After a day without food or sleep, he felt tired and hungry, and what made him feel even more upset was ...... He spent the whole day with corpses.

He was a veteran of the army for many years, and his reaction to corpses was much smaller than ordinary people - he had participated in the suppression of bandits, killed people, and seen a lot of corpses.

But the feeling of lying in the pile of corpses for more than ten hours was really uncomfortable.

It was okay at the beginning, after all, his psychological quality is really good.

But as time went on, he felt the rotten smell all around him come over him, the disgusting smell rushing unreasonably into his nostrils, and his stomach gradually began to spasm.

At one point, he felt as if something was crawling on his face, so he subconsciously reached out and grabbed it on his face......

And then he caught a handful of huge white maggots!

Watching the maggot's fat body constantly wriggling on his hands, he almost threw up on the spot!

In such an environment, his nerves were always at a high level of tension - he was always on the lookout for anything unusual around him, and he was always on guard against disgusting maggots landing on him.

He tensed his strings for a whole day, but nothing unusual was seen in the cave.

When night came, and sleepiness gradually came to his mind, the soldier blinked vigorously to prevent himself from falling asleep.

The soldier lay sideways facing the hole, and before blinking, he could clearly remember that there was only a bumpy rocky pavement in front of him.

But the next moment after he blinked, he suddenly realized that there seemed to be something more in front of him!

He thought he was hallucinating, so he blinked his sour eyes again.

Although it was frighteningly dark in the cave, when he opened his eyes, he was sure that there was something more in front of him.

He shifted forward, faintly seeing the outline of the surface of the thing in front of him......

That's a human face!

A human face with a frightened expression, facial features that are close to distorting, and eyes that almost stare out of their sockets!

And this thing in front of me is actually a human corpse!

The soldier's heart was beating wildly, and his body was trembling unconsciously with fear!

There is nothing to be afraid of in the corpse itself, you must know that there is a huge pile of corpses in itself, but this corpse ......

There was no human figure in the cave at all times, except for the sound of maggots crawling and feeding, and their own faint breathing.

The corpse appeared in front of the soldier in the blink of an eye without warning!

Not to mention the corpse thrower, the soldier didn't even know how this corpse appeared in front of him!

He didn't care about hiding it, and quickly sat up, and found that there were more than a dozen corpses around his body at some point!

A terrifying feeling suddenly enveloped his heart, and he hurriedly took out the military flare handed to him by the staff and sent a signal to his comrades outside without hesitation.

Outside the cave, a white spot of light suddenly appeared in the night sky.

"Signal!" The soldiers outside the cave immediately reacted when they saw the point of light, and they quickly got up and rushed into the cave.

But what made them feel strange was that they rushed all the way to the corpse pile and did not see the shadow of the corpse thrower, only saw the soldier dressed as a corpse sitting on the ground trembling all over, looking like he was not dying, and there were obviously several more corpses on the side.

"What's going on? We didn't even see a single figure along the way. The soldier at the head frowned and looked at him with some confusion.

"I didn't even see a single figure...... Hehe. The soldier disguised as a corpse suddenly laughed nervously.

"What's wrong with you?" The soldier at the head sensed that something seemed to be wrong with the other party.

The body of the soldier who pretended to be a corpse trembled even more: "I haven't even seen a human figure...... But ah, these corpses...... These corpses ......"

He looked at the newly appeared corpses beside him with a fearful gaze: "These corpses still appear!" They suddenly appeared in front of me without warning! Without a hint...... It was just a blink of an eye that they appeared in front of me! ”

The soldier at the head thought for a moment, "Could it be space magic?" ”

"If it's really space magic...... Would I be so scared? Even if it's space magic, there should be fluctuations in mana. The soldier's voice trembled as the corpse, "When I say 'without warning' here, I really don't have any warning at all...... There were no mana fluctuations, and no magic circles appeared. ”

"If I hadn't been 100% sure that these bodies had just appeared in front of me...... You say they've been here all along, and I believe it. ”

“…… Rather than appearing out of thin air, it's more like they've always been here! How could there be such a hell of a thing!? ”

……

After receiving the report about the incident, the staff did not say anything, but only instructed their subordinates to remember to change people every day to continue to enter the cave to monitor the situation.

But his face was so gloomy that he was almost dripping.

Unlike the soldiers, he knew that this wasn't a hell of a thing—it was not uncommon for him to cast magic without any fluctuations......

If the caster's strength is terrifying, it is indeed possible to completely collect the magic power in the body without releasing the slightest bit of it.

But the magic of the spatial attribute is notoriously violent and difficult to control, if there is anyone who can use spatial magic without exerting any magic power......

Judging from the power system of the human beings on the mainland, this person is also at least an eighth-level mage.

There is only one level 8 mage in the whole of Belial City, and that is the owner of the magic supply shop, Priest.

…… Could the murderer be him?

If so, what is the purpose of doing this?

The staff thought about it for only a few days and put it aside—not because they figured it out, but because he was in a more difficult situation.

On the morning of the seventieth day after the Miracle Game began, on the tenth day of Act II, the staff went to the cave as usual.

As soon as the staff reached the vicinity of the cave, they bumped into a panicked guard.

When the guards saw the staff, they hurriedly saluted, and then hurriedly said to the staff: "The staff...... My lord! A subordinate has something to report! ”

"What kind of system is so panicked!" The staff opened their mouths and scolded the soldiers, then frowned and asked, "But the number of corpses in the cave has increased again?" ”

In recent days, the disappearance of soldiers in the barracks has continued to occur, and the number of missing people is increasing every day.

However, the guard shook his head vigorously: "If this matter is not so fussy for the subordinates...... Staff Chief, this morning, the corpse in the cave ......"

The guard swallowed hard as he said this, and there was a hint of fear in his eyes: "...... It's all gone! The brother in the cave, who was pretending to be a corpse, is gone! And just like when the number of corpses increased before, we didn't find anyone in the cave! ”

"Gone!? When did it happen? The staff's face changed.

"The specific time is not clear, but when we sent someone in the morning to change shifts...... I found that all the corpses inside were gone! All that remained was a pile of rubble, and there was no trace of the corpses being piled up...... Not a single hair, a bone, a rag, not even a single maggot left! ”

The guard paused, and his face became very strange: "And...... The subordinates also found that it seemed that black gas was constantly seeping out of the gravel of the cave! ”

“…… Black gas? ”

The staff frowned and thought for a while, and then seemed to remember something, and suddenly his face changed drastically.

He was about to speak, but the ground shook!

The violent shaking made the two of them almost unstable on their feet, and the surrounding mountain walls and trees trembled incessantly, and there was a roaring sound in the stone walls during the violent shaking, as if the stones inside were gradually breaking apart in the continuous shaking.

I don't know if it's a delusion or what......

The staff felt that there was a roaring sound, and there seemed to be a low roar coming from the stone wall!

The sound of a roar sounds like it's coming from a lot of different places, and it's sometimes loud and small, and sometimes multiple roaring sounds overlap!

The sound was not loud, but when it fell into his ears, it seemed as if something was violently stirring his eardrums.

It's as if there are countless unknown beasts roaring between the stone walls!

"Did you hear that...... The sound of a beast roaring? The staff member asked the guard beside him.

The ground was still shaking, and the guards' eyes suddenly widened in the shaking: "Did you hear it too, Lord Staff!?" I thought it was my hallucination! ”

As soon as the guard's words fell, the space around him changed again!

Wisps of black gas slowly seeped out from the cracks in the stone wall!

The speed at which the black qi was oozing out was not fast, but the same black qi was oozing from almost every crack in the stone wall, so it was only a moment later......

The space is covered in darkness!

Strangely, the pitch-black gas seemed to cause an unprovoked chill, as if it had a chill.

"Staff Chief, this is the black gas we saw before!" The guards let out an exclamation.

But the staff didn't seem to hear it, just stared at the dark gas.

"Black gas...... Human corpses...... A roar that stirred his eardrums...... "His face was very ugly, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying, and his mouth was constantly muttering, "They ...... They...... They ......"

“…… They? ”

The staff member did not stand still in the violent shaking, and his eyes fell to the ground in distraction, but his focus was clearly not on himself - the guard reached out to help the staff up, but found that the staff had no intention of standing up at all.

It took him a long time to come back to his senses, pushed away the guard's arm, and said to the guard in an unusually serious tone: "Go and inform the city lord, just say ......"

"They...... It's back! ”

As he spoke, the stone wall was constantly emitting a cold black gas, and every time a little black gas was revealed, the stone wall would let out a roar.

The sound of roaring and roaring is superimposed on each other, and it gives people an auditory feeling like the sky is falling apart!

It seems that the surrounding stone walls, trees, and earth ...... Even the sky collapsed at this moment!

The black gas is like a cloud of thick ink poured on the paper, constantly spreading in all directions, no matter what color it is, it is dyed black at the moment.

The morning sunlight could not penetrate this strange blackness, and could only watch it obscure the sky and the sun, almost obscuring all the light.