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The bed in the mage's quarters was completely different from the beds used by ordinary handymen and guards I had seen before. Ordinary workers are equipped with a hardboard bed made of the simplest metal bracket and metal bed boards, and the bed is covered with simple bedding, which is obviously very uncomfortable to sleep on. The bed equipped by the mages is made of heavy solid wood, and the outside of the solid wood is painted in different colors according to the user's preferences, and the walls are painted with warm yellow without seeing the metallic color, making the small room look comfortable and warm. The half-meter-high solid wood bed does not have legs, but is directly connected to the ground, with only a five-centimeter protrusion at each of the four corners, which makes the whole bed and the ground a little gap.

On top of the bed is a bed board made of lizard tail gum, which is the favorite of wealthy families. The bed board is a groove made of metal wrapped in a wooden shell at the bottom and four sides of a half-finger deep, filled with refined lizard-tail gum, which is higher than the side wall of the groove, and is covered with taut Katak hides. The refined lizard gum retains its original elasticity and toughness, while at the same time becoming very soft, and the two sensations are mixed together to make it very comfortable for the person lying on it.

"Tsk, a mattress for a few hundred gold coins. Catherine stood aside and watched as Pannith and Justin prepared to lift the bed, noticing the texture of the bed board, and couldn't help but be envious: "This group of people is really rich." ”

"When we go back on this mission, we can change to such a bed at home. Lina sat on a chair in front of the desk with her legs folded, holding a small mirror in her hand, and was arranging her already neat hair in front of the mirror, when she heard Catherine's exclamation and replied casually: "With a velvet futon, such a bed is worthy of the identity of this princess." ”

"Yo, Princess Heidi, long time no see. Vivien waved her hand at Lina, "What's the matter, the wound is healed?"

"Huh?" Lina was stunned: "What wound?"

Vivien smiled very slyly: "Ha, weren't you completely exhausted from the indulgence blow two days ago? Yesterday Lord Anna told me that you fell into a state of depression all day after being beaten, and you couldn't recover from it in ten or eight years, so you recovered from your injuries so quickly?"

"Dead little ghost, too lazy to pay attention to you. Lina snorted, and turned her gaze back to the small mirror, no longer looking at Vivien's hateful face.

"Come, one, two, three, lift. Pannis gave an order, and the two of them worked together, and the heavy solid wood bed was lifted high, and the eyes of the six people turned to the space under the bed, but there was nothing under the bed.

"Strange, no. Pannis put down the bed, looked around the bed suspiciously, and suddenly raised his hand to grab the bed board and lifted it vigorously: "It's not under the bed, it's in the bed." ”

"Yikes. Rachel let out a short exclamation as the bed board lifted, and several people could see the situation under the bed board. This kind of bed, between the bed board and the bottom of the bed close to the ground, is not solid, but hollowed out, like a large box, in which all kinds of miscellaneous items that are not commonly used can be placed in daily life. But at this time, the space under the bed board was not a debris, but two mummified corpses hugging each other.

The two corpses were wearing white coats of the same standard, one of them had a small skeleton, which looked like it should be a woman, lying on its side in the space under the bed, leaning on the arms of the other corpse, with its head resting on his withered arm, and on closer inspection, it could be seen that there was a deep wound on the heart part of the female corpse's chest, which looked like it should have been pierced by a dagger. The body of another man was lying on his back facing the sky, his left arm wrapped around the neck of the woman on which he was resting, and his right hand was holding a dagger stuck in his chest, and a necklace with a crystal hanging from the dagger was wrapped around it. The two bodies showed no signs of struggle, as if they had simply fallen asleep.

The girls, accustomed to seeing all kinds of corpses in their adventures, did not show any disgust or uneasiness towards corpses, and even Rachel's brief exclamation was only surprise rather than shock. At this time, Vivien saw that the corpse of her companion finally appeared, and took a few steps forward to the bed, looking down at the two colleagues from hundreds of years ago.

"Obviously, they committed suicide. Vivian said: "I committed suicide very calmly, and it should be my own decision not forced by others." ”

"The environment in the house is not messy, it should have been cleaned up before he died. Catherine also leaned over to observe the corpse: "And seeing that they still have time to prepare for themselves this coffin-like death place, it is obviously not a sudden decision, and there is no urgency." ”

Vivien took out another pair of gloves from her backpack, put them on her hands that were originally wrapped in gloves, bent down and forcefully broke the corpse's hand holding the dagger, pulled the dagger out of the corpse, and untied the necklace wrapped around it: "This, the engram, can record a few minutes of footage, and it can be activated by entering a certain amount of mana." This is supposed to be a message they left before they died, do you want to see it?"

"Take a look. Catherine nodded, "Maybe there's something important." ”

Vivien pulled a desk down in the middle of the room, placed the engram on the desk, entered the magic to activate the crystal, and quickly took a few steps back. As the crystal activated, a pillar of light that seemed to see a blurred image inside shot upwards from the crystal. After the beam of light is ejected, it slowly spreads, and finally expands into a cylinder with a radius of about half a meter with the crystal as the center, and the blurred image gradually becomes clear as the light pillar spreads.

Appearing in the pillar of light is a middle-aged man with a short beard, typical of a research mage-thin, thin, pale-skinned, looking at the environment behind the middle-aged mage, this image should have been recorded in this room, on the bed behind the mage, a woman in a white coat can be faintly seen lying on the bed and sleeping. On the mage's face and hands, he could faintly see the tiny blood vessels that had turned black, which was an obvious feature that had been heavily polluted by demonic energy and was about to fall into demonization, but at this time, his demeanor was calm and serene, without a trace of fear.

"My name is Bell, a member of the National Alchemy Society of the Naren Kingdom, a gold-level mage from the southern border of the Naren Kingdom, and lying behind me is my wife, Susanna, who is also a gold mage of the Alchemy Society. The location where we are now belongs to the most secret location of the Naryn Kingdom, the Nala Mountains Research Institute. Time is limited, and since you can find this crystal, you should know what this place is, so I won't introduce it too much. ”

"It is said that two days ago, no, I don't know how many days ago, there was an explosion of demonic energy in the underground here, which slowly spread to the research institute. Because of the slow increase in energy concentration, no one discovered the disaster in time, and it was not until two days ago that someone showed signs of deep demonization, and the disaster was discovered by everyone. Because the frequency of special magic fluctuations that activated the teleportation circle was only mastered by the director and deputy director, and the director and deputy director delayed for two hours on the question of whether to retreat urgently or rescue the research results first, resulting in a large number of mages being demonized, gathering into a group to frantically attack all humans who had not yet been demonized, and the passage to the teleportation array was cut off by the mages who had turned into monsters. The mages who were still able to hold on organized an assault, but of the twenty mages with the highest combat effectiveness, only two rushed out in the end. ”

"From the mouth of the two mages who died soon after rushing out due to the collapse of the ** caused by the light, he learned of the accident in the research institute, and His Majesty the Emperor stopped a large team, with the goal of saving the research data and research results of many years in the research institute. I went out to visit my daughter because of the holidays, and I was not in the institute, so I escaped. But Suzanne was still here, so I volunteered to join the team. ”

"Our team of 200 people, under the leadership of the legendary master Tomar, took five hours to complete the teleportation and enter here, and when I entered, Master Tomar had already led people to start cleaning the passage through which the demons had penetrated. When we were outside, we didn't expect that the concentration of demonic energy here would reach such a high level, and it would only take one day to completely demonize an intact person when exposed to such an environment. Upon discovering this problem, I was already desperate to save Susanna, but for the sake of little hope, I went into the institute with the others and caught up with Master Tomar. At that time, Master Tommar had already broken into the residential area, but there were less than ten survivors rescued along the way, and they were all deeply polluted, as long as they left the underground, they would collapse and die like the two mages who went out to ask for help. But luckily, Suzanne was one of them, and we were able to see each other for the last time. ”

"It's a pity, just like the gods are deliberately torturing us, just when we are about to break through the residential area and arrive at the research and development area, the concentration of demonic energy has increased by leaps and bounds, and a large number of silver-level combatants in the rescue team have been directly demonized, only Master Tommar and a few gold-level professionals have been temporarily spared, but they are also polluted by different degrees of demonization, even the lightest Master Tommar may not be able to escape the fate of death. ”

"After knowing our ultimate fate, everyone has different choices, Master Tomar and the other team members want to rush into the core area to get something and fight for their last lives to send it out, and Suzanne and I are the most polluted and can't hold out for long, so we just want to come back here and enjoy the last time together. ”

"That's how it all happened, we have very little time left, Suzanne has reached the final stage before the demonization, sometimes awake and sometimes asleep, and we have decided to finally die as a human and not as a demonic creature, preserving the last dignity of humanity. ”

"In order not to destroy the corpse, we hid in the secret compartment under the bed before we died, and it is not easy for you to find our corpse in this situation. ”

"I don't know how long it will be before you see this image, but if possible, I hope you will go to No. 41 Ale Street, Briana, on the southern border, and give this crystal and a diary to Anne, who lives there, and I have hidden it under the lizard-tail gum on the bed. Teach Anne these two things, and tell her that although Father and Mother cannot be with her, they will always love her. To repay you for your help, I have put together all the 20,000 gold coins and the diary that Suzanne and Suzanne can find now, hoping that you will accept this reward and fulfill the last wish of a pair of deceased parents. ”

"Well, Suzanne has woken up, this is probably the last time she will be awake, the time is up, we should go, goodbye, unknown friend. ”

With the words of farewell, the image is fixed for the last moment, and the light from the engram gradually fades, and finally returns to dim.