Five minutes later, in the villa.

"Yvette isn't here?!"

Faced with the results of the wizard team's search, Lowe asked a surprised question.

It took a lot of effort for everyone to storm the evil wizard's house, but they didn't find the kidnapped Yvette?

"We searched the entire villa, even down to three meters underground, but we didn't find Miss Yvette's shadow." Wright said truthfully.

The crowd stood on the second floor, in front of the coachman's body. Apparently, he has been dead for quite some time.

Luo Wei looked at the corpse in front of him, held back his nausea and asked, "Is it possible, she has ......"

"Nope."

A sorceress in her thirties spoke. Lowe recognized from her voice that this was the other of the two masked wizards who had followed Captain Evan to test herself.

If I remember correctly, she also has the surname Clemens, and is supposed to be related to Mr. Wright.

Seeing the confusion in Luo Wei's eyes, she opened her mouth and added: "The spiritual power of the dead will remain for a period of time, and their 'spirit' can be seen through a certain method. But there were only two spirits in this villa, and they did not belong to Miss Yvette. ”

Two?

In other words, there was another person who died in this villa?

As soon as Lowe was about to ask a question, he heard the wizard say to Evan, "The 'thing' in that room has been identified, it's a young woman, about 17 years old. Wright had just gone in to see it, and it was confirmed that it was a maid named 'Daisy' who had disappeared with Yvette. ”

Hearing this, Luo Wei couldn't help but feel a sense of loss in his heart.

Sure enough, as Wright said, there was no way for him to see the "living" Miss Betty.

"Wait, what do you mean by 'something'?" Luo Wei suddenly noticed the key words in his words.

“…… You'd better not go in and see. ”

Wright was wiping his mouth with a handkerchief, his face turning blue. He had just come out of the next room, apparently disgusted by the scene inside.

"It won't be ......"

Lowe's temples jerked, and some bloody images from horror movies came to his mind.

"She was made into a block of wax by the man...... ...... vomit," Wright said this, and couldn't help but turn around and squat on the ground again and vomit.

It turns out that even a fifth-level wizard has an upper limit on his endurance.

Lowe took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, trying to calm himself down.

"Luo Wei, you can go back first, and then we will deal with it here."

Evan walked out of the room with the door covered, saw Luo Wei in a trance, and subconsciously closed the door.

He said, "It's not too early, it will take a long time to get back from here." ”

"Wait a minute."

The captain's words made him think of something suddenly, and he took out his tarot cards from his pocket.

"This is the divination tool you invented?" Evan asked.

"Yes. I'm going to take another look at Yvette's safety. ”

Luo Wei didn't say anything more, took a few steps back, found a place to sit down at the base of the wall, and shuffled and cut the cards in the afterglow of dusk.

He kept silently reciting in his heart:

"Yvette's current security situation."

Then the pile of cards was unfolded, and without hesitation, one of them was drawn.

The light and shadow reflect the image on the card:

The knight, painted golden, lay flat on the coffin with a sword lying horizontally underneath him. And directly above his eyes, heart, and abdomen, three swords hung vertically.

"Four Swords...... What does that mean? ...... healing, resting? ”

He couldn't understand it for a while, so he took another one from the deck and placed it on the right side of this "Four of Swords".

When opened, there were three sharp swords that pierced a bright red heart from three directions.

"Sword Three? Sword card again? ”

The meaning of the card of Sword Three is not difficult to understand.

Pessimistic, painful, disappointed, sad...... Emotions and hearts are being tormented and devastated. It means that the person's spirit and heart are suffering from the harm brought by the outside world.

He had a vague idea, and he reached out to pick up the two cards.

“？！”

The moment his finger touched the card, Luo Wei's consciousness seemed to have been hit by something, and he was in a brief trance.

Immediately after, many images involuntarily came to mind.

In a dark and cold dungeon, there was a stone coffin, and Yvette, who was wearing only a thin dress, was curled up on the stone lid of the coffin, her body was cold, her lips were purple, and she couldn't help but tremble.

Dungeon...... Or a tomb?

Luo Wei suddenly came to his senses and found that the wizard team had gathered in front of him, staring at him like pandas.

"I saw it! In a dungeon! ”

Luo Wei didn't have time to care about their eyes, and asked eagerly, "Is there any basement, dungeon, or tomb in this villa?" I saw Yvette being held there, and there was a huge stone coffin inside! ”

"No, I've already probed." Warrent, who leaned over at some point, said, "This house is built on the edge of the Chavir River, who dares to dig into the ground again?" I'm afraid I won't be able to dig a meter or two, and the water will reach my knees. ”

"That's it...... Not here? ”

While Luo Wei was puzzled, a big stone in his heart barely landed-

At least Yvette is still alive.

"What did you just do?"

Evan crouched down, picked up the tarot card on the ground and looked at it carefully, and asked, "I can't see any magic fluctuations in this card from my glasses." But just when you were out of your mind, the two cards on the ground seemed to be activated by magic. ”

"I don't know. I just suddenly saw the picture. Luo Wei said blankly.

Evan turned to look at the wizard, "Lily, what do you think of the explanation?" How credible is he saying? ”

"It's not like astrology, it seems to be a kind of prophecy. The sooth itself has no magical powers, but is activated by the caster. ”

The sorceress thought for a moment and said, "I haven't studied prophecy, but generally speaking, the revelations given by prophets are very likely to happen or are happening at the moment. The scenario that Luo Wei said can be used as a reference. ”

"Hmm."

Evan thought for a moment and handed the card back to Lowe: "The information you provided will be used as an important reference for us to search for Yvette's whereabouts, and it will be recorded in the case file." ”

After the man finished speaking, he stood up and began to arrange the next tasks in an orderly manner:

The villa will be seized and the body will be taken away for investigation.

The wizards will also learn about the recent situation of the prisoner from the surrounding residents in order to dig up more clues.

While listening to the captain's order, Lowe silently put away the tarot cards, said goodbye to everyone and left.

There's nothing left to help with here.

The sun is setting in the west.

In order to get home as soon as possible, Lowe called a carriage.

Today's experience of the whole day has left him exhausted. On the carriage, he couldn't help the sleepiness that came to him, and soon tilted his head and fell asleep.

……

……

In a trance, he saw the woman who had appeared in his house in white, sitting opposite him.

She seemed to be holding something in her hand, and Lowe looked over it and saw that it was the file that Captain Evan had given him.

“？！”

Lowe woke up from his sleep.

There was no woman in white in the seat in front of her.

But the file folder that was still beside me just now somehow appeared on the opposite seat, and it was in the same state as in the dream, being spread out.

Luo Wei took a deep breath, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and then took the folder in his hand.

The file was flipped to a page of records.

【…… The Church of the Death Knell is not considered a killer organization, but it has had several egregious incidents of active harm. According to the memory reading of the deceased before his death, the Church of the Death Knell attack had a symbolic precursor. 】

[i.e., the sound of the bell can be heard approaching from a distance.] So far, there have been more than three cases that have been confirmed......]

Lowe couldn't help but frown.

Let's assume that the woman in white really exists - why would she read the contents of this file?

The idea had just come to him, and he felt a flurry in his heart for no reason. It was as if the gaze of something was locking on to the back.

At the same time, a strange voice sounded in his ears.

When—

When—

Like the sound of a church bell, ethereal and distant, coming from nowhere.

Lowe immediately looked back and saw the quiet street outside the car window, the brick-paved road stretching into the distance, swallowed up by the dim night.

"Mr. Coachman?"

He was acutely aware that the carriage had stopped at some point.

The scene of the whole street was already unconscious, shrouded in some unknown darkness, with no street lights on, and no human figure in sight.

Luo Wei's heart was full of alarm bells.

"Targeted? Who is going to attack themselves? ”

The bell from the back of his head was getting closer and closer, and the frequency was more urgent than the other.

"Dangerous!"

The moment the idea came to him, he immediately moved: he grabbed the file and put it under his armpit, opened the car door and jumped into it, and then ran to the front of the street without looking back.

When—

When—

The figure, enveloped in darkness, sped past the carriage after a few breaths.

Where the figure passed, it was like a faded and decaying picture, and everything turned into black and white.

The carriage aged and decayed at an incredible rate, and then turned into a pile of wreckage with a roar.

The bell rang throughout the street.