On a winter morning, a cold wind blows at the entrance of the street in Highlandsa and carries the icy snow grits, and the occasional pedestrian passes by, all of whom are holding their hands on the collar of their coats, shrinking their heads and walking briskly, no one wants to stay outside for too long in such a cold weather, even the leather shoes on their feet will freeze hard.

The cold wind blew on the rooftop pennant, which had faded under the wind and rain, and even some of the flags were torn, but they were still conspicuous enough, and the guards with longbows stood on the watchtower, wearing thick leather coats and two layers of leather boots on their feet, and they patrolled the watchtower, and if it weren't for the occasional walk back and forth, they might have been used as stone statues.

The sky is gray, the sun is hidden in the thick clouds, there are few pedestrians at the entrance of the Hylanza Opera House, this time of year is the most popular time for the opera house, because in the long winter, people can choose not many activities, listening to the opera is definitely a good choice, every afternoon the opera house will be busy, here is the most lively social scene in the aristocratic circle of the city of Hylanza in winter.

It's just that this year is different, the opera house was closed a month ago.

Since the members of the Dark Arts Retreat appeared in the opera house, not only the law enforcement team of the Magic Union went to the opera house every once in a while to investigate, but even the knights of the guard camp occasionally went around here, during the period when the Hylanza Opera House was closed, many things happened in the city of Hylanza, and Dominic, the owner of the opera house, received the news of Samia's death in the morning, and it was a knight of the guard battalion who came to inform him.

As the owner of the opera house, Dominic has the responsibility to go to the guard barracks, and he has to collect the dancer's body and deal with the subsequent punishment.

"Hey......!" Dominic sighed in frustration, who would have thought that such a light dancer would actually be a dark mage of the Dark Arts Retreat.

He carefully calculated the time when Samia joined the opera house, when he first met Samia, she was still a skinny young girl, but when she danced, her body seemed very light, like a swift skimming on the water, and it was her outstanding talent that made Dominic choose her at a glance from more than a hundred candidates.

He tightened his neckline and took two quick steps to the magic caravan on the side of the road at the Opera House.

Behind him Dominic is Levi, the manager of the opera house, and in the past month, Levy, who originally weighed almost 300 pounds, has lost a lot of weight? Looking like the eye socket is collapsing now? The fat on both cheeks and chin is gone, leaving only loose skin? Makes him look like a furless vulture? With a pair of big eyes that looks a little scary.

The two are old friends who have known each other for more than twenty years, and the two are sitting in a magic caravan? There is still a remnant of the smell of rouge perfume from a month ago in the carriage, but now these two people are not in that mood? Dominic sitting on the couch in blue deerskin? sighed: "Sameya has been in the opera house for seven or eight years!" No one in the opera house knew she could do magic......"

Levy, who sat across from him, held up his drooping eyelids, he had spent almost half of the last month in the interrogation room of the Magic Guild Enforcement Corps, and the rest of the time crouched in the prison of the guard camp, although there was no evidence that he had any connection to the Dark Arts Hermitage? But whether it's a law enforcement regiment or a guard battalion? None of them thought he would be able to dissociate himself from the Dark Arts Hermitage.

If it weren't for the fact that Dominic had a few councillor friends in the city of Highlandza, I'm afraid he would have been in prison in the guard camp at least until spring, and maybe would have died in prison.

Levi leaned over and asked Dominic, "Did you say she joined the Dark Arts Retreat first, or did she join the Opera House first?" ”

A sneer on the face of Dominic, the owner of the opera house? Like mocking the incompetence of the Hylanza guard battalion, or mocking himself for his own difficult situation? He said:

"Who knows! Good end-to-end ...... Why did you want to cause the bandit group to sack the manor outside the city, now one counts as one? As long as you have a little bit of contact with the Black Magic Hermitage Society, you will guard the camp and pick up the skin? This time, I was kind of miserable by the Dark Arts Hermitage. ”

Does Levi know what kind of pressure Dominic is under? The entire opera house has almost 200 people? Even if these people are confined to their homes, the opera house will have to pay their salaries on a monthly basis, and it may not be long before this huge expense will bring Dominica down.

"If you don't need to organize a dance company, you can do a ......tour of the cities of Pena," Lévy suggested to Dominic, saying that the city of Highlanza is forbidden, so it would be better to go to another city than to sit back and eat like this.

Dominic, the owner of the opera house, smiled wryly and said, "I would like to!" The Magical Guild Enforcement Corps issued a notice that all opera house members had been placed on a grounding order, and if they left Highlandsa City at this time, they would be wanted by the Magical Guild Enforcement Corps. ”

Levi has been in the prison of the guard camp these days, so he is not aware of the grounding order.

Levi frowned and said, "You can't keep doing this ......"

Dominic rubbed his stiff face with both hands, and said: "I'll go to the guard camp first to probe the wind, but it is estimated that there will be no turnaround, this time Samia is considered to have caused us a lot of trouble, she is actually targeting Miss Hoyle, the bandit group destroyed the Hoyle Manor, not to mention, this time they actually sneaked into Christie's Castle quietly, and almost robbed Miss Hoyle from the castle. Lord Christie, the Archon, was offended to death. ”

"Now I can only take one step at a time!"

……

As soon as Surdak walked into the gate of the guard camp, he saw two aristocratic men, one fat and one thin, walking down from the magic caravan, while Captain Sauron stood at the door of the main building of the guard camp for the first time, quietly watching these two nobles.

"Sauron." Dominic, the owner of the opera house, stepped out of the carriage and strode up the steps, where he hugged Captain Sauron as he stood on the steps.

The courtyard was full of knights of the guard battalion, not specifically to welcome the owner of the opera house, but today was the day of Baron Grenfell's execution, and in the afternoon Baron Grenfell would be guillotined, and if anyone wanted to rescue Baron Grenfell, there was only the last half day.

"Dominique ......" Captain Sauron squinted his eyes, looking at this man who was once very influential in the aristocratic circle of Highlandsa City, who would have thought that in just one month, the opera house would fail like this, this opera house owner was almost like 'bad luck' this month, and the nobles who were close to him were more or less unlucky.

Captain Sauron didn't have anything to say, and took Dominic and Levi directly to the cold morgue next to the prison, it was winter, and the morgue was like an ice vault, the morgue and walls inside were covered with a thick layer of frost, and a column of corpses lay on the morgue, each covered with a layer of linen.

Surdak rushed to the guard barracks, also to get a glimpse of Samea's body.

He and Carl walked into the morgue, only to find that Captain Sauron and two noble men were already standing in the morgue, and they were gathered around the morgue where Samia's body was placed, and the linen had been lifted to reveal the delicate one that had been almost scorched by the fireballs. The little corpse, although she was wearing a layer of tight leather armor, had basically been carbonized under the scorching fireball, and her whole body was crumbled and curled up, looking like a black monkey.

The two aristocratic men beside Captain Sauron just glanced at it a few times before they couldn't help but retch.

Karl also had a bitter face, and didn't want to take a second look at it at all, but Surdak was used to seeing dead people on the battlefield, so he didn't think how disgusting this charred corpse was, he walked into the carbonized corpse, the corpse was burned so badly that it was difficult to tell whether it was Sameya even if it was up close, it was certain that it was the charred corpse of a woman, but Surdak always felt that this matter should not be so simple.

Samia escaped from Christie's Castle with two assassins last night, and she is also good at 'shadow hiding', so there is no reason to run around the city, and she is finally blocked in the alley by the magicians of the Law Enforcement Corps, which is why Surdak is in a hurry to see Samiya.

"This is Samiya's necklace, this is a gift I gave her after her first time, and she wears it all the time." Dominic said, pointing to a necklace next to the morgue.

This necklace was found on the body of the corpse at that time, and the whole chain had been burned black, but the necklace pendant was not burned, Dominic said with great certainty.

"If there is no doubt, you can bring the body back, and if no one claims it, the guard battalion will take care of it itself in a week!" Captain Sauron was unhappy with the law enforcement team for sending such a completely worthless corpse to the guard camp, so he wanted to dispose of the corpse as soon as possible.

Since the law enforcement team has determined that this is the body of the absconding dancer Samiya, the guard battalion has not carefully checked it, and if Dominic hadn't personally run over the old corpse, Captain Sauron would not have come to the morgue in person.

Surdak showed a puzzled face, he and Karl looked at each other, and seeing that Karl also showed a hint of suspicion in his eyes, Surdak mustered up the courage and said:

"Wait a minute!"

All eyes in the morgue fell on Surdak, especially Dominic who looked at Surdak with a look of distrust.

Surdak saluted Captain Sauron, and then said to Captain Sauron in a tone of inquiry: "Captain Sauron, I have some doubts about this corpse, the corpse is so badly charred that I can't recognize the physical characteristics of the corpse, I saw Samia at Christie Castle that night, when she disguised herself as a maid and sneaked into the castle, she was also wearing a maid's costume when she got out, I didn't see her wearing leather armor......

Captain Sauron raised an eyebrow, glanced at Surdak with a somewhat solemn expression, and asked him, "Do you have any way to identify her?" ”

Surdak stepped forward, and just as he wanted to touch the wrist of the corpse, he was stopped by a knight of the guard battalion who was following Captain Sauron, and he said to Surdak with a straight face: "I'll ...... it"

When he had finished speaking, he lifted up his shirt to reveal a wide belt around his waist, and on this wide belt of raw cowhide hung more than a dozen tools such as tweezers, saws, hammers, and small files, and the knight did not mind the stench of burnt smell emanating from the corpse, and turned his head to look at Surdak, and asked him, "You just wanted to peel off the leather bracers from her arms?" ”

Surdak nodded.

The knight carefully peeled off the charred bracer with tweezers, the leather bracer had been completely charred, and though it had been very careful, it had broken into pieces, like charred bamboo charcoal.

Karl stood beside Surdak and whispered to him, "Eugene is the best coroner in our guard battalion. ”

After Knight Eugene peeled off the charred bracers on Samia's corpse, revealing the charred linen shirt inside the bracers, because the bracers were tightly wrapped here, although the bracers were charred, but the sleeves of the linen shirt on the cuffs were not completely burned, but only burned a little yellow, Eugene saw Surdak nodding and continuing, so he took out a pair of scissors from the tool belt.

Knight Eugene cut open the sleeve of his shirt that had been scorched on his wrist, and finally revealed a piece of his wrist that had not been burned, Surdak took a closer look, and then Karl also noticed that something was wrong, if the body was Somerad, there should be a black eye on her right wrist, but unfortunately now her arm does not look like there is any trace of the tattoo.

The atmosphere in the morgue became a little solemn for a while, and Sauron pondered for a moment before he said to Dominic, "Dominic, is there anything that can identify Samia?" ”

Dominic thought about it for a moment and said, "Three years ago, Sameya broke the tibia of his right leg when he was rehearsing for a new dance, and even if it healed later, there should be a seam on that leg bone......

Eugene heard Dominic say this, and quickly peeled off the burnt leg bone, and sure enough, the leg bone was very smooth and there were no broken marks.

“…… It seems that this is not Sameya! Dominic said, and he and Levi looked at each other.

"Carl, you go and ask someone from the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Corps to come over." Captain Sauron closed his eyes and commanded Karl with some irritation.

Karl hurriedly replied, "Yes, Lord Sauron! ”

As he spoke, he walked out of the morgue with Surdak, and heard Captain Sauron behind him, and said to Dominic: "I'm sorry for letting you run away in vain, the matter of the Black Magic Retreat is very involved, and the guard camp is also under great pressure, if there is anything that is not done well, please forgive me!" ”

Surdak didn't expect that Samia would have deceived the magicians in the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Corps by some means, if it weren't for the fact that the Magic Guild was busy and threw Samia's body to the guard camp, I'm afraid that this matter would be directly identified by the Magic Guild's side, in that case, Samia would have become a dead person from now on, as long as she changed her identity and left Hylanza City, she could live again......