Chapter 21: The Trap

He met with the doctor, expressed his sincere gratitude to him for his willingness to heal a peasant like himself for free as a mage, and obtained permission for Su to use his hospital bed temporarily, making a promise that he would repay it one day. After Dr. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info also said a few polite words, expressing deep concern and understanding for Sal's disappearance, and repeatedly instructing Brunei to avoid strenuous exercise that could cause the wound to rupture, Brunei left the doctor's multi-purpose residence where he worked and lived together.

There was no such thing as the police in Garth City, and Brunei certainly couldn't think of going to that kind of place for help. All he could do was investigate the incident himself, as all capable people do. Usually the competent people mentioned here definitely do not include mage apprentices who have just obtained their status, but he still has a system.

According to Sal and Sue's travel plans at the time, the three of them would spend three days in Garth City. Nowadays, it is impossible to play, but the room they live in is still theirs, and everything remains the same as when Sal disappeared. Although the system seems to be disdainful of this, it is really a backward sense of service. It also has to admit that this situation has really helped Brunei a lot.

The interior of the room was very chaotic, and the things that were originally neatly arranged were scattered everywhere at the moment. Several of the poorly made wooden stools had mostly fallen to the floor, while the rest had been split into several pieces, the windows were wide open, the paper was tattered, the wooden skeleton was broken in several places, and there was a clear burn mark on the wall.

Brunei looked at it for a while, but didn't come to much further conclusion: "System, use 'observation'." ”

【Okay.】 Then, the observation test of the room situation: 45<60, success. 】

[There are obvious signs of break-in on the windows, and it is suspected that a strong wind pressure may have disturbed the interior of the room.] Footprints on the ground and a few new scars on the furniture suggest that there may have been an unfair fight not long ago, and several dark brown blood-staining marks support this hypothesis. The black mark on the wall also looked abnormal. 】

Brunei roughly understood the meaning of the system's words, and couldn't help but sink his heart. After carefully following the instructions of the system and re-reading the places mentioned by the system, he thought for a while and leaned down on the window.

Naturally, this low-cost hotel with a low fee does not have the money to support much of the hardware conditions, and it is only three floors in total, so that the second floor where their rooms are located is easily accessible from above or from the ground. Probably the most bizarre thing is the so-called "wind pressure" mentioned by the system, which is probably the effect of some kind of magic.

So there are two problems. First, this kind of window locked by a thin wooden bolt is really not sturdy, but if you want to break in, you don't need to use the kind of magic that will make a mess inside, and second, how can a strong person who can use this kind of magic with an effect far beyond level 2, and only to break the window, be interested in them.

[Hey, don't you believe the kind of deceptive nonsense you say? 】

Brunei swallowed, his heart was very irritated, the more he looked, the less hope he had left, just now he had finally found a little evidence to support his best-case hypothesis, but the system ruthlessly denied him.

Reluctantly, Brunei reluctantly looked around the room, but perhaps because the windows had been open for too long, and any possible clues had been blown away by the wind, he found nothing new. In the end, he could only walk up to the strange black mark that had always made him uncomfortable, and examine it carefully.

The first thing you notice is an unusual smell that is clearly not produced by burning the wooden board.

Although he had not smelled it before, Brunei subconsciously believed that it was the smell of blood when it was burned.

This is evidenced by the fact that the shape of this mark is too regular, a boxy piece, with no undulations around the edges, and it is clearly not the normal burning of flames on the wallboard, or the appearance of ordinary burning. It's like something weird has been smeared beforehand. But it's not black pigment, because the whole area is baked crispy.

Brunei put his hand in and fumbled, and the gray-black carbon ash "trickled" down, and soon spread a layer on the ground.

It's been at least ten hours, and the soot inside is still a little warm.

Suddenly, Brunei felt a pinprick-like stinging pain in his hand, and pulled out his hand suddenly, bringing away a large piece of ash, revealing the situation inside. On a strangely textured rectangular board, a sharp spike protruded, and the blood of Brunei hanging on it did not drip down, but was sucked in. Then, the light on the board flickered a few times, and dark red letters appeared.

"Brunei, it's just an ordinary revenge. This passage is written crookedly, and it seems that the person who wrote it does not seem to be very good at writing. And what follows is like a seal, and the content is a pattern of a monster with three heads. The heads of a snake, a tiger, and a monster worm, of about the same size, were crammed into a narrow circle.

[Oh, things seem to be getting interesting, aren't they, little Brunei?]

Brunei didn't find it amused in the slightest, just felt a cold chill rise from behind him.

............

Sal Xavier is a genius.

There is no doubt about that. It is rare to see a person who designed his own design at the age of seven and drew a magic emblem that could be worn. If it weren't for this, it would not have been possible to alarm a long-established Second Turning Mage, who had traveled all the way to such a small border village, and promised to take him as an apprentice in advance.

This genius status has brought him a lot of benefits. For example, the Master gave him a surname, making him one of the few people in the village who had a surname, and for example, there were many people who brought their own rations and volunteered to do chores for their families in exchange for the opportunity to become his mage's attendants in the future, and he chose only two honest and reliable people.

But neither the genius who had completed the magic emblem at an early age, nor the surname, authority, and other things he had received as a result, could not change the fact that he was only eleven years old this year, and that he had been living in a backward village and had never seen the world.

Whether it was a shocking glimpse of the monster that had broken through the window at that time, or the abnormal environment of waking up to find himself bound in the darkness with limbs bound and hanging in mid-air, he was extremely frightened.

If he hadn't been here for hours, he wouldn't have been so calm when Bell showed up.

Bell introduced himself briefly, and naturally took a cup of tea, taking a sip from time to time, as if he were sitting in a teahouse chatting with an unknown passerby, not at all like communicating with a person who was naked in mid-air. His calm attitude and unusual circumstances combined with the fear in Sal's heart to flourish. With little resistance, Sal answered all of Bell's questions in one by one.

Brunei did not have any abnormalities in the past. It's just that lately he seems to like to make some bad jokes, such as the night before the last time he tested the magic emblem, he told himself that the magic emblem was not done well. However, there are no particularly outlandish performances either.

The information that was asked in the middle of a bunch of other questions didn't mean much to Bell, to be honest.

Originally, he didn't doubt Brunei's thoughts at all, and this trip was just a routine, but the abnormal aura he suddenly felt made him stay here for two more days, and that's it. However, the part of Brunei that repelled and killed Qiang suddenly made this person full of suspicions.

According to Jean's testimony, Brunei used at least one first-level spell, a large number of zero-level spells, and two super-magical techniques in that battle, including the second-level spell Fireball that was downgraded by the super-demon. Jean, who is not very clear about magic, only describes the phenomenon, which makes his testimony more believable.

Even if Brunei really worked extremely hard, and his learning ability was strong enough to be able to use these spells and supermagic techniques, the biggest problem in this process was that as a mage apprentice, he could use too much spiritual power. Even if he was allowed to explode in extreme circumstances, Bell had never heard of a precedent for anyone who could burst out several times his spiritual power.

It was because of the heightened suspicion of Brunei that Bell decided to take the action he is now.

Therefore, the suspicion that Sal is raising now, although it is indeed a doubt, does not make Brunei more suspicious. So, after repeatedly confirming that Sal and Brunei were on good terms, Bell left the room and continued to throw Sal into the room.

Of course, to say that Brunei is the kind of person who wants His Majesty the Emperor to be treated like that, Bell still instinctively can't accept it. In contrast, Bell thought of another, more plausible hypothesis. Since he didn't have a mage attendant, he had so much mental power to squander, and more than he should have mastered the level of knowledge, combined with the news that his original magic emblem production had failed. He was supposed to have been tricked by a Federation spy that night and became a semi-federal mage like Cleveland.

In that case, when he comes, use Sal to find out the truth, and then dispose of the spy, the matter will be over.

That poor old Sid also made a contribution before retiring, Brunei Dareith was spared the fate of being killed inexplicably, and he Bell also completed the explanation of Boss Lance very well, such a happy ending is rare in the long history of the Special Management Department.

As for Thrall - anyway, the second-turn free mage has a bad relationship with Boss Lance, so let him suffer a little, which is part of the money earned in this matter, otherwise, there is no need for Ben to implicate this kid.

After summing up the results of this operation, Bell felt a little proud. Next, as long as Brunei sees the message, or senses the suspicion of breaking through the window and tyrannically and unnecessarily destroying it, under the guidance of the innkeeper who has been bought, he will naturally suspect the Gars Gang. When he comes here, let him rub it round and flat, and nothing will happen again.

Now, the only question is, what if that Brunei guy is stupid enough not to come to the door himself?

Bell frowned and sighed, it seemed that he could only hope that the federal spies would not see people too badly.