When the last strand of piano sound completely disappeared, there was warm applause in the side hall. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Kenny pushed the door open, and in the hall, Aiden was seen leaning against the wall, clapping reverently at the young wizard.

Seeing Kenny return, Aiden straightens up, and Locke stands up and sets aside the lyre in his hand.

"This is the best song I've ever heard in Sumer!" Kenny exclaimed, "I didn't expect you to be such a good musician in addition to being able to summon spirits, it's amazing!"

"My lord, I'm smiling. Locke bowed slightly and said humbly.

Kenny sat down at the table and took a sip from his glass. "It's a long winter night, and I love that song just now," he said, "and if you can, can you talk about it?"

"It's a great honor. Locke sat down and stroked the slightly old lyre, "My mother was a famous bard, but unfortunately I did not inherit her beautiful face and beautiful voice. When she was younger, she traveled to the small town of Westein and met my father, who, like you, was a handsome man with a beard, and they fell in love and had me. ”

"There was a famine that year, and most of the people in the town chose to leave, either fleeing to Assyria or dying of starvation on the way. At first, my father and mother wanted to stay in town, but the starving corpses gradually spread to the plague, and they had to leave the town. Later, they begged all the way to the city of Nippur, and the song just now was written by their mother when she was fleeing. ”

"When a natural disaster comes, God can't stop it. Kenny muttered to himself, and then, looking up at Locke, "What's the name of that song?"

"The Wanderer's Song. Locke replied.

"Very good song, your mother is a composer who deserves to be remembered by history, and you have an obligation to pass on her work, which I am sure many will enjoy, Locke. Kenny said with a smile.

"Thank you, my lord. ”

The long winter night, in the chatting of the two gradually walked away, sleep has not visited, the morning light has come.

Perhaps to give his guests a good appetite, Kenny moved his breakfast from the side hall of the Great Hall back to the dining room in Mowinburg.

Kenny, who had not slept all night, did not feel tired, and he had been waiting for Sersi to return, but when the morning sun rose and the sky was white, he did not wait for the results of Sersi's interrogation.

Aiden and Locke looked tired, but the smell of hot wholemeal bread and fresh milk helped them recover a little.

A piece of cottage cheese rested on the bread, and Kenny had just put it to his lips when familiar footsteps could be heard outside the restaurant.

Sersi hurriedly walked into the dining room, and without saying a word, he picked up the two slices of bread on the table and stuffed them into his mouth, he glanced at the people in the dining room, swallowed the unchewed bread alive, and then he took the hot milk and drank it down.

Kenny was about to open his mouth when Sersi confided two ciphers in quick succession, not giving Kenny a chance to question him.

"Lord. Sersi rubbed his chest and said, "After a night of interrogation, Eugene said that the temple may have that demon thing, but I sent someone to the temple overnight, and those damn monks refused to cooperate, and our people turned the temple upside down, and found nothing....."

"What?" Kenny frowned, "what else? you interrogated all night and told me the result?"

"Of course..... Sersi hiccuped, "..... No. After returning from the seminary, I interrogated Eugene again, saying that Aiden knew where the demon lived. He finished looking at Aiden, who was standing aside.

"What?!" Aiden's eyes widened and he looked dazed, "Captain Selsi, that old guy is slandering me! How can I know that demon and know where it lives, crazy, that old guy must be crazy!"

Kenny gave Aiden a puzzled look, and Aiden kept shaking his head, as if to indicate that it had nothing to do with him.

Sersi hurriedly waved his hand and explained, "I didn't say that you knew that demon, Eugene said, a few days ago, you drove him back to the seminary, and on the way, he met the demon, and you drove them to a private house, that room is the residence of the demon. ”

The chill in Aiden's back faded, and he sighed and placed the bread crumpled in his hand on the table. "That place was sealed yesterday," he said, pouting, "the lord had wanted to find some evidence of Eugene's guilt from there, so that he could prove to the monks of the monastery that there were other reasons for his arrest than that old fellow taking in the spirits, but we found nothing, it was just an empty room. ”

"Did you look carefully?" asked Kenny, returning to his usual expression.

"It's almost time to lift the floor. Aiden replied.

"That means it's not careful enough. Kenny slapped the crumbs off his hands, stood up and ordered, "Give the order, get the twenty guards with their tools, and we'll go and tear down the room!"

The group arrived south of the city with twenty guardsmen, Kenny's carriage stopped at the side of the main street, and Aiden led the group into an alley, where they passed a bluestone paved path, turned two corners, and came to the house guarded by two guardsmen.

Kenny looked up at the open window on the second floor of the room and was the first to enter, followed by Sersi and Aiden, and Locke was among the twenty guards, the group of uninvited guests filling the cramped cabin.

Kenny, who led the way into the house, looked around and saw that there was no furnishings in the house, it didn't look like it had been inhabited, but more like a house for sale, and he moved away from the crowd and walked up the narrow staircase of the parlor to the second floor.

The old wooden staircase creaked, and Kenny stepped up the last staircase, only to see that the second floor was almost identical, with no furnishings except for a double wooden bed with no futon and a floor-to-ceiling bronze mirror.

He walked over to the wooden bed, the overwhelming wheezing of the old staircase behind him, and Sercy and Aiden climbed up to the second floor, with Locke standing beside Kenny with two guards armed with crowbars.

Kenny patted the stake rising from the corner of the bed. "Aiden. He asked, "Was this bed fixed yesterday?"

"I think, it should be. Aiden confirmed.

Kenny winked, and the two Guards immediately stepped forward to pry open the wooden bolt that held the foot of the bed in place, and Sersi joined in, and the three of them turned the wooden bed over.

As the sunlight shone through the undrapered window, a milky white bone comb appeared on the thick ash under the bed, and thousands of Guards picked it up and handed it to Kenny, who took a closer look and turned his head to look at Locke.

"My lord, maybe I can try it with that comb. Locke held out his hand to Kenny, a hint of urgency in his eyes.

Kenny nodded, then handed the comb to Locke.

Locke took the comb and had just turned around when he suddenly felt a chill in the back of his neck. (To be continued.) )