The development of events was obviously beyond everyone's expectations - in just one hour, all the staff of the Imperial Capital Library experienced the theft of the collection in the rare book collection room, the Count of Phoenix was furious, and the young alchemical genius identified the deputy librarian Drake as an inner ghost.

The big guy's head hasn't turned yet, but that's not the end of it.

Soon, when Drake revealed that the person who instructed him to steal the book was not a foreign power, but a 'big man' from Uptown, the entire library fell silent.

The big man in Shangcheng is not really a big man for the Count of Phoenix, isn't he? Even if it was the eldest prince, he dared to pull the other party to His Majesty's side to complain.

But the problem is that cases involving such old colleagues or acquaintances are not something that the Count of Phoenix can solve by his own strength, and the matter is estimated to be completely big, and the emperor may not pay too much attention to it, but the eldest prince who is resident in the imperial capital will definitely come forward.

And, most importantly.

A big man would actually send someone to steal books, instead of going to a relationship to borrow them himself......

This means that there must be a bigger conspiracy behind it!

Thinking of this, Count Phoenix couldn't help but gasp: "Things are in trouble!" ”

It was indeed troublesome, and Ian began to feel that this trip to the muddy waters did not seem to be easy to stir.

But since you have already started to stir up, let's stir to the end - otherwise, I am afraid that your situation will be even more embarrassing.

So, he found the other party while the Count of Phoenix was pondering and made a suggestion.

"You said you wanted to observe Drake and maybe find a clue?"

The old earl glanced at Ian, who had now known Ian and the level of the young genius—if nothing else, he could be a great accomplishment on the path of appraiser and alchemist with this psionic ability alone.

So, after pondering for a while, the Count of Phoenix said something that cared about the junior: "Don't be, you're too weak, if there is some psionic prohibition in Drake's head, you can investigate and die, how can I explain to Avena and Mikael?" I can't even explain the three fairy elves behind you. ”

"Forget it. Don't worry about what will happen, stay behind obediently, I will guarantee you this time, it will be absolutely fine! ”

Although he was indeed very concerned about Ian's words, Count Phoenix's words and demeanor almost made Ian not hold back.

In the end, he still took a deep breath and said slowly: "It's not to probe the soul, my spiritual energy doesn't have this effect—Lord Earl, I just want to see where he has been in the recent past." ”

"Just look at the clothes and the surface of the body. Because I found out that there is a book that has only recently been replaced, and if there are no accidents, I can see some clues. ”

The Phoenix Earl hesitated for a moment - he certainly didn't want Ian to be in danger, and he didn't even plan to add Ian's name to this incident, so he wrote that the elves watched and left, no one cared what the elves were doing, they would definitely tell all the news anyway.

But if you just look at the clothes, maybe it's not a big deal?

So he nodded, then turned his head to Mo Feng and Hua Di and said, "You don't persuade? ”

"Huh? Why persuade. "I believe Ian."

"Yes." The Count of Phoenix felt like he was talking nonsense—he was trying to make the elf's nerves not very good, which was too ungoblin.

And after getting permission, Ian directly turned on the silver chip.

Of course, the Foresight Horizon does not have the ability to 'observe the traces left by time'...... Hmm, maybe watching a movie from the past counts? But that obviously won't work for people like Drarank.

Ian simply traced where Drake had been in recent times by reading some of the details in the silver chip.

It's not a difficult thing to do.

So far, Ian has not figured out the source of the information about the silver chip, it seems to know everything, even if it is very secret information in theory, it can still clearly give things that few people in this world may know.

But even common sense, which seems to be known to everyone, the silver chip will give an uncertain answer, a very vague and uncertain description.

Originally, Ian was too lazy to think, but after going to the Void, he understood a little, and guessed that the 'Master of the Labyrinth' that Inaga II wanted to become might be the master of the Great Labyrinth of the Void.

And the various characteristics of the silver chip may be the 'Void Entity' brought out by Inaga II from the Void?

Then, the source of information for the silver chip is likely to be the Imaginary Realm...... Or rather, the soul subconscious of all mankind.

In this way, it can also explain why some information is very crisp and clear, while some information is vague - because there are so many people involved in cognition that it is impossible to give a clear definition.

Now, of course, Ian doesn't plan to continue exploring the origin of the silver chip.

He just stood up, then turned back and gave an answer to the Count of Phoenix.

"It's the Gnostic."

When Ian said this word, he felt as if he was framing him - but it was true, Deputy Curator Drake had been to the Gnosis Courtyard the most, except for the three trips to the 'Uptown' in recent times.

Therefore, even though the birch who knew the contradiction between Ian and the Gnosis Academy cast a puzzled look, the boy still blinked, gave a 'believe me hint', and then continued to the Phoenix Earl who raised his eyebrows: "Is it a big man in the Gnosis Academy—maybe a professor?" I could only feel a strong smell of books in him, and Mr. Drake was in awe of him. That should be a big shot. ”

"I see."

Such rudimentary, vague, and even almost nonsense information in the eyes of others seemed to the Count of Phoenix, and even some of the members of the Knights of the Book Protector, as if they had directly found their target.

The old man suddenly realized: "I see, it's the idiot of Idur." I just said that the last time he asked to borrow "City of Faith" and "Attila's Messenger", why didn't he bother me for half a year, it turned out that he had planned to steal it if he couldn't borrow it, right? ”

"Obey!"

Raising his hand, the Count of Phoenix gave the order—and in an instant, all the members of the Book Guardian Order stood up from their kneeling position, raised their weapons, and responded in unison: "Yes!" Sir! ”

"Let's go, go to the Gnostic Academy, and get the book back for me!"

"Grab it back!" Another echo in unison.

Ian stood still, silently watching the scene of the Count of Phoenix leaving the library with the Knights and heading towards the headquarters of the Gnosis Imperial Capital, feeling that he still didn't seem to know much about the internal operating system of the Imperial Capital.

This scene, at a cursory glance, looks like a big hooligan leading a team to smash the opponent's field, take a closer look...... If you look closely, it's the same big hooligan leading the team to smash the field.

- Isn't it? What about the etiquette of the nobility? What about the rules? Is it possible to solve the contradiction by fighting? What about the exchange of interests, compromises?

Is this the case for Count Phoenix alone, or is it the case for the entire Terra world to fight in the upper echelons?

At this moment, Ian's inner feeling is like thinking that the business war is 'hostile takeover', 'breaking the capital chain' and 'low-price competition', while the actual business war is 'stealing business seals', 'hiring someone to beat the other party's boss' and 'cutting the other party's product cushion'......

But also, in the hellish place of Terra, if there is no sublimator's strength in charge, bullying you is bullying you, what other words can there be?

"Wow."

At this moment, Birch was sitting on the left shoulder of the white-haired boy, Frost Butterfly was sitting on the right shoulder, and the ink wind was wafting in front of Ian, and she said with some emotion: "It's still Lazer's funny—I haven't seen such a scene in almost two or three years." ”

"Two or three years?" Ian asked suspiciously, this was obviously too frequent, and Mo Feng misunderstood: "Actually, in recent years, because of the tense external situation, the imperial capital has been relatively peaceful-according to the predecessors, when Inaga II was still there, there were nobles and children of the imperial faction fighting every day in the upper city, and in the years when Axel was still the prince, he often duels with the children of all kinds of nobles on the street. ”

"It's just that the imperial capital is relatively strong and can hold on, and the general city has long been collapsed."