Chapter 38: The Sage's Premonition
In the middle of the night, Ian, who was lying on the bed in his room, jumped up and began to put on his usual black trench coat. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Neither Phil nor Tina showed up in the academy during the day today. Such an abnormal situation made Ian really unable to bear the bad premonition in his heart.
He felt a voice in the dark telling him that the tragedy of the Northern City Guards was related to him, and the absence of those two girls today was absolutely inseparable from this matter.
He decided to go to the scene of the tragedy to find out.
Moments later, Ian, dressed in his hood, jumped out of the window of the room, closed the window door softly, and sped off the roof in the direction of the Giant Wall defender's stronghold.
The number of guards patrolling the city has increased significantly tonight, and the stronghold of the defenders of the Great Wall is even more impenetrable.
Ian hid his form in the shadows outside the colony, his consciousness sublimated, and began to observe the distribution of guards and the spacing of patrols, preparing for the covert infiltration.
However, just as he was analyzing the best route and preparing to break through, he suddenly felt a cold breath coming from behind. Ian was horrified, at this moment, he had sublimated his consciousness to a state where everything around him was in the air, who could actually escape his own detection and deliver such a secret and then fatal blow?
He didn't have time to draw his sword, so he turned sideways and pressed the hilt of the sword directly on his waist with his left hand, and the scabbard was raised to meet the attacking thing, just to protect the key point.
"Not bad!"
The expected collision sound did not sound, and the other party suddenly withdrew the long sword that was stabbed at high speed, and praised softly in a slightly hoarse voice.
"Phil!?" Ian let out a whisper, "Do you want to scare me to death?"
"Who made you sneak here. Phil, who was also wearing a black trench coat and a hood covering her face like Ian, whispered.
"Aren't you the same yourself?" Ian only felt his muscles jump, if this girl used this way to greet him in the future, he would really lose his life.
"That's right. Why didn't you come to school during the day?" Ian asked, relieving himself.
"It has to do with what's happening here. Fei'er pointed to the garrison stronghold and said, "After the news reached Shangcheng, my father asked me not to come to Xiacheng for the time being. ”
"So you snuck over at night to see it?"
"Hmm. Phil nodded, and then said to Ian, "I have a bad feeling, so I must come and have a look." ”
"Me too. Ian muttered, "And, Tina's mother works here, and I'm afraid she may have ......"
"Tina?" Phil was stunned, "Who's that?"
"Ugh. Ian was speechless, and he looked back at the girl beside him in disbelief: "You don't know?"
"Should I know?"
"Shouldn't you know?"
"Hmm......" Fei'er lowered her head in contemplation, "I think I've heard this name somewhere." ”
At this point, Ian felt ridiculous, one side regarded the other as an enemy, and the other party couldn't even remember the other's name.
"That's the class leader's name. He reminded quietly.
"Oh, that's the girl!" Fei'er looked up in realization.
After covering his face, Ian began to rejoice that the other party was covering his face with a hood at the moment, otherwise such a slightly surprised tone with an expressionless face would definitely give him nightmares.
"What happened to her mother?" asked the natural maiden.
His mother, a military physician here, may have been one of the victims of the tragedy. Ian explained.
"You care about her?"
"I'm not a cold-blooded animal, and it's always a little uncomfortable when someone misfortunes happen to those around me. Ian smiled wryly and said, "And I have a vague feeling that this incident seems to be related to me, so I must find out about it." ”
"It's hard for you to survive in this world. Fei'er reminded lightly. She knew that the existence of crossing the Sage's Gate was often extremely accurate. Ian was just a stowaway, but he was already standing behind the door.
"I know, but I can't change it now. ”
"Understood. Knowing that the other party was extremely stubborn in some aspects, Fei'er gave up lecturing the young man, and she looked up and said, "Let's go in." ”
With that, the girl jumped out first, cutting through the gap in the defense of the stronghold, and Ian immediately followed and walked around very lightly. After the sleepy guards felt two gusts of breeze, the two were already standing in the room where the tragedy had taken place.
As soon as he smelled the unabated breath in the room, Ian's brow furrowed tightly.
"Demonic breath. He pressed his hand to the wall of the room, where some of the solidified black liquid remained. After wiping some off, he rubbed it between his fingers, then put it under his nose and sniffed it.
"That's not all. Fei'er came to the side of the bed and felt some strange power remaining on the bed with her consciousness: "This is the power of mental imagery." ”
"Minds?" Ian asked softly.
"Hmm. There was a demon and a capable person at the same time. Fei'er nodded, and then said with some uncertainty: "They teamed up to kill the people in this room. ”
"Joining forces? how is this possible?" Ian suddenly felt ridiculous, not to mention that demons are instinctive animals, and it is impossible to have the concept of cooperating with people. How could a capable human being whose mission was to fight against demons join forces with demons?
"Possibly. Thinking of a possibility, Fei'er affirmed, "If that demon is controlled by the capable, it is possible." ”
"Is it the ability to control the class?" Ian remembered that there seemed to be such a capable person in a team that had been rescued.
The two of them let go of their consciousness and carefully scanned every corner of the room, but found no other clues.
"Let's go to the morgue. Ian suggested, "Maybe something can be seen from the bodies of the dead." ”
"Hmm!" Fei'er nodded approvingly.
It didn't take long for the two to find the location of the morgue. After stealing the key from a sleepy guard, he sneaks into the morgue.
Originally, Ian thought that the morgue in this world was similar to the previous world, but it wasn't until he actually came in that he found that the space here was unusually large, and it was almost like an underground labyrinth.
Almost all of the walls were filled with long hollows, some containing corpses wrapped in white cloth, while others were empty waiting for their future owners.
Patiently stooding the smell in the air, the two searched for a long time before finally finding the corpses they were looking for in a particular room. They were placed together temporarily, apparently awaiting follow-up by the coroner.
"There are marks of being bound around the neck. Phil uncovered the white cloth on several of the corpses and examined the cause of death when she saw the strangulation marks on the necks of the deceased: "But they were not strangled to death, they were dead before that." ”
"What's that?" Ian, who had his back to Phil examining the other bodies, looked over. Xu was used to seeing demon corpses, and now when he saw human corpses, the discomfort was not as strong as he had imagined.
"The soul was eaten. The girl replied quietly.