Night, turbidity in the town

Cheese and the others hiding in the alley silently observed the small building suspected of holding Heather. Unlike the quarantine area, which is deserted, there are two pairs of guards patrolling the side of this small house, and the front and back doors are also guarded. To add insult to injury, there was a condescending sentry on the second floor next door.

"It's not easy to do, I'm afraid we won't have a chance to get in this lineup. Looking at the defensive layout with almost no dead ends, Leon said.

"It's really troublesome, and the guards here are a little too tight. Cheese also felt very tricky when he saw this formation, and the number and quality of the guards here exceeded his imagination.

"Well, is there a way?" the Blood Lion asked himself if he had the ability to sneak in, so now he had to ask the mage if he had any means.

Cheese thought for a moment, but shook his head, it was too difficult to sneak into this small building without being discovered by these people, not to mention that it was not clear what the situation inside the building was, judging from the tightness of the external defenses, it was not impossible to try to bypass the external defenses, and end up crashing into someone's trap. After much consideration, the mage decided to give up the idea of sneaking in for now.

"It's too heavily defended here, let's go to Baron Gray's office first. "Since there is no way to get in touch with Heather, we can only move on to the next target.

Without saying anything more, Leon turned and led the two men into the shadows of those alleys once more. And just as the three of them had left, a man came out of the building, dressed in purple robes embroidered with gold patterns, and walked out into the street surrounded by a large number of apothecary apprentices. The knights around them all consciously touched their chests and saluted when they saw this man. The man waved his hand casually to the apprentice, and soon a carriage with the mark of the Kingdom Apothecary Association drove out of the backyard of the small building, and the purple-robed man slowly walked up to the carriage, and with the coachman's drink, the two horses pulling the carriage took a step and disappeared into the end of the street.

On the other hand, finding the home of the Apothecary's Guild is not a problem, and the houses with flags embroidered with their insignia are considered landmarks in Turbidity Town. According to Leon, before he left, it had been the Knights of the Kingdom's temporary command post in Turbidity, but it appears that it had been vacated to house the Apothecaries after the arrival of the Apothecary Guild.

"That's not right. In the darkness of the night, Cheese said as he looked at the buildings in the distance. Compared to the place where Heather was suspected of being held before, the defense here is much more lax, but think about it, it is unlikely that there will be hostile forces in the current Turbidity Town, so except for guarding the Knights of the Hammer, which is powerful in their own force, there is really no need for too many guards in other places.

"What's wrong?" the other two knew the truth, so when they saw the sparsely guarded Apothecary Guild residence, they didn't have any doubts like Cheese. However, out of her usual trust in the mage, Elsa asked about the cheese anyway.

"No, nothing. I hope it's not what I thought it would be. The mage narrowed his eyes, a habit he had when he felt a bad premonition. Thanks to the practice of magic, Cheese sees the world in a slightly different way than ordinary people, and this difference allows the mage to know things from further afield that others are not aware of. However, the information obtained by this observation is often obscure, and although Cheese is sure of what he feels, it does not serve as substantial evidence for anyone else.

Although Cheese said it was nothing, both Leon and Elsa could clearly feel the mage's anxiety. The direct evidence of this feeling is that Cheese changed his previous cautious style and directly let Leon sneak over and stun a guard. Cheese himself recited a spell and waved it at the other guard, and the second hapless guard fainted inexplicably. Then the three of them marched all the way, knocking out and tying up the guards who were blocking the way, the mage was so unscrupulous that even a few guards who were alarmed because of the movement was too loud were stunned on the spot by him with unknown magic when they arrived. Looking at the guards piled up in the corner, both the chief knight and the proprietress suspected that Cheese was capable of killing all the guards who had been guarding the two-story building just now.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Leon said to Cheese after knocking out the last guard. The other party's sudden change of behavior made him a little confused.

The mage did not answer the knight's question, but walked silently into the building. And perhaps it was such a high-intensity continuous casting that also took a toll on him, and Cheese's footsteps seemed to be extremely scattered, and even on one or two occasions he almost fell without Elsa stepping forward to help him. To be able to make the usually calm mage so out of shape, it was clear that Cheese had discovered something very important.

Entering the building, the first floor of the building was occupied by the pharmacists on the spot, and all kinds of paper documents were randomly and scattered on the table and floor, and the half-opened books and even uneaten food showed that this was not a place where secrets would be hidden. Qi Sima didn't stop, he didn't mean to delay on the first floor, he didn't care that the other two people were still surprised by the clutter here, and walked straight to the second floor.

Considering that there may be people left behind at night, both the Blood Lion and the proprietress tried to control the volume of noise they made when they moved, but at this time, Cheese did not think about this at all, and his footsteps seemed unusually loud in the unmanned corridor. This made the other two teammates really sweat, but fortunately, no one came to check after a long time, so it can be seen that there is really no one in this building now. In this case, Elsa and Leon didn't have to think about it so much, and they hurried to keep up with the mage, the unmanned apothecary station, which also made them very curious about the situation here.

The second floor of the small building soon appeared in front of the three of them, and the number of rooms in this house was much smaller than that of the first floor, and there were only five or six rooms to see from the stairwell. Leon knew that although the number of rooms was relatively scarce, the reason for this was that the rooms here were basically used as offices for important people, so each office was very sizable. As for the pharmacists, it is estimated that nine out of ten of these offices have been converted into temporary laboratories.

The doors of these rooms were hung with fist-sized copper locks, and although the guards who were guarding them might have keys on them, they did not search the guards' belongings in a hurry when they had just entered. So at this moment, Cheese could only frown and look at these copper locks in a daze, if these metal door locks were usually placed in him, it would not be difficult for him, but the mage had just overcast the spell and his body was in a weak state, so there was really no way to take these locks temporarily.

Just as Cheese was in a hurry, Leon pressed his shoulder to signal the mage to back off, and then the chief knight raised his foot and kicked the door hard, and with a scalp-tingling popping sound, the heavy wooden door was kicked down by Leon's kick near the lock.

"Sometimes it doesn't take that much trouble to solve a problem. Pushing open the wooden door, which had lost its lock, the Blood Lion said.

Although he wanted to say something, in order to verify his bad premonition as soon as possible, Cheese entered the room as quickly as possible. What do you say about this room, which was supposed to be used as a laboratory, came into the mage's eyes...... To sum it up in four words, it is empty. This is obviously unreasonable, and Leon and Elsa, who enter the room later, are also aware of it. Without the Cheese's order, the chief knight opened the doors of the other rooms in the same way, and most of the rooms were in the same condition as the first, except for a few pieces of wooden furniture, which had no paper left. The situation in the last room is more peculiar, as there are three corpses in this room in addition to the furniture......

Three human corpses.