Early the next morning.

Most of the city of Salem was secretly rumoring about what happened last night.

After exhausting most of the night, he managed to return to his temporary residence, and "learned" from Mrs. Wendy about the horror story that had taken place around the Law Commission residence last night.

A sword-wielding hermit known as the Blade of the Judiciary was subjected to inhumane treatment in a shop near the Ordinance's premises on a rainy night of lightning and thunder.

According to the accounts of idlers and police officers who had seen the scene, the sword-wielding hermit was wrapped in layers of hair that emitted a horrible stench in a clothing store, and when he was rescued, all the holes in his body were stuffed with hair, including his eye sockets and mouth, which eyewitnesses speculated to have probably burrowed into his body and filled his internal organs.

Of course, under the control of the Legislative Committee, news about the matter did not appear in the latest newspaper of the Peace Daily.

As Hugg had predicted, today's newspaper was still sparing no effort to exaggerate the hostility in the city of Selen, and on one of the pages of Hug saw his "magnum opus" that had been edited by Philip.

Philip is really good at stirring people's emotions.

This time, he directly sent out this article as the editor-in-chief of the Peace Newspaper, and in the article, which has been greatly revised and adjusted, as the editor-in-chief of a newspaper who has lived in the city of Seren all the year round, he has made a "sincere" but unsubstantiated analysis of the "contradictions between the two countries" that have existed in the city of Seren for a long time, and his remarks seem to take care of the emotions of the Waters and the Durands at the same time, but in fact, they are alluding to and attacking the Waters Kingdom and its culture's tilt towards the Duran Kingdom.

At the end of the article, he did not forget to make an appeal as the newspaper's editor-in-chief, hoping that the city's inhabitants would exercise restraint in the face of the armistice celebrations and get along with each other as they had for the past two hundred years.

Only when you can get along with each other can you be friendly!

Schug felt a little disgusted when he looked at these very personal words of Philip, he rubbed the newspaper in his hand, and then threw them aside, the kind of things that would pollute one's brain and eyes.

The familiar hand of the mage appeared in the room, and when the door opened, the female mage Verin, who had been disguised but still did not hide her haggard look, appeared at the door.

She cautiously magically checked the room to make sure there were no problems before entering.

She was probably tired enough to leave a heavy pocket in her hand and sit down in her chair, not even bothering to remove her disguise magic.

"Mr. Shugg, I always thought you would keep a low profile."

Wei Lin's tone at this moment was even colder than when they first met: "Now everyone in the whole city knows that there are wild mages in Seren City who are directly confronting the legal committee. ”

Her body leaned forward slightly, her disguised red hair falling down her cheeks, and her voice squeezed out from between her teeth: "As a collaborator, Mr. Shuge, should you explain to me what you did to deal with the sword-wielding hermit?" ”

Xiuge's body trembled slightly, he turned around, and instinctively began to make up a relatively reasonable story in his mind.

However, Wei Lin's gaze was nailed first: "Mr. Shug, don't force me to ask you with magic. ”

"Alchemy Bomb."

Xiuge admitted very directly, and he spread his hands: "I am forced to be helpless, Miss Weilin...... I've never tested that thing, and I didn't expect it to come out like this. ”

However, Wei Lin's gaze made Xiu Ge a little hairy, so he sneered, spread his hands and asked, "Miss Wei Lin, what else do you want to ask?" ”

"Heh, writers are very good at telling the 'truth.'"

The female mage hooked the corners of her mouth, and then leaned back in her chair a little tiredly: "It's just that you're both very good at controlling the proportion of 'truth', right?" ”

Xiuge sat upright, not daring to move.

Luckily, although Wei Lin didn't seem to be in a good mood, she didn't really want to continue to delve into this matter, she waved her hand, removed the magic disguise from her body, and changed back to her original appearance, and after pouring herself a glass of water with the mage's hand, she said, "Don't worry, Mr. Xiuge, I will maintain a certain trust in you before leaving Salem City." As a fledgling spellcaster, you should be proud of the fact that you were able to dispose of a sword-wielding hermit on your own, and if the details of the incident were to be passed on to Merlin Lehe, it would be enough to put the whole of Van En on your wanted warrant. ”

“……”

Xiuge couldn't be happier.

Although the confrontation with the sword-wielding hermit last night was very short, but the other party's body, the terrifying suppression ability of magic has impressed him, his alchemy bomb is now only one, and the effect it has shown before has also proved that this thing can only play the strongest effect in a confined space, if it is only detonated in an open place, then as long as the other party reacts quickly enough, it can escape to a safe position in advance.

In other words, although he still has his hole cards, the margin for error is almost equal to zero.

Wei Lin didn't dwell on this matter for too long, she quickly adjusted her state and began exchanging information with Xiuge that she had gathered last night.

Xiuge first explained what he had found in the secret chamber of the Law Council, but after hearing the name "Golden Boot Caravan", Wei Lin frowned: "Golden Boot Caravan...... Well, I know them, but these merchants don't stay in one place for long, they leave after the goods are delivered, and they can't be sure if they're out of the city, but they can try to find them, a caravan organized by a giant eared goblin, it's still very easy to find. ”

Xiuge nodded, and then asked, "What about you?" Miss Verin, what have you discovered? ”

Hearing this, bitterness and helplessness appeared on Wei Lin's face, and she said, "The situation is not good, the group of mages who followed me to Salem City have all disappeared from the residence of the Law Committee. ”

"They...... Fled? ”

Wei Lin glanced at Xiuge lightly: "It's all dealt with." ”

Hug is sure that the word "handling" is not too mild in the minds of the members of the Legislative Committee.

"However, I found a magical cipher for me in the warehouse where the mana crystallization ore is stored at the station."

"Does anyone know you're going there?"

"Well, that's right......"

Wei Lin nodded slightly, and she said, "The person who left that cipher even had something for me, or for us. ”

As she spoke, she took the delicate-looking pocket and dumped the contents on the desk, which were several carefully polished crystals of mana, and although Xiuge had never actually used them, she could feel the magic contained in them by the glimmer of light on the ores.

Next to these crystallized ores are a slightly smaller magic book and a new type of crystallized gun, along with two new magic ink pens and a small bag of crystallized bullets for crystallized guns.

Wei Lin didn't even glance at the crystallized gun, she directly dialed it and the bag of bullets in front of Xiuge, picked up the spell book and checked it herself, and then continued with her previous words: "The person who left the cipher should be an informant hidden in the upper echelons of the Judicial Committee, and he knows our current situation very well. In the ciphertext, he repeatedly warned me that the situation had changed beyond what was predicted, and that we should not try to leave the city of Salem now...... The Kingdom of Teresa and the Legislature have completely sealed off the city, and they have even set up a large number of checkpoints and ambushes around the city of Seren, and if we try to leave, whether or not we can pass through the ritual grounds that they have tampered with, we will be killed on the spot. ”

"What else?"

"No, there's only so much in the ciphertext, and it seems that the hidden informant doesn't know what to do now, probably something is happening inside and outside of Seren City that is beyond their expectations."

Hearing her say this, Xiuge couldn't help but sigh, he reached out and pressed it on his personal pocket, there was still a magic pass that he had obtained from Editor-in-Chief Philip, and now it seemed that the promises made by the nobles of the Kingdom of Deland to Philip were empty promises, and in this situation, I am afraid that even a dog would not be able to escape from the city of Selen!

Just when Xiuge was confused about his bleak future, a slightly smaller crystalline ore with a relatively dim magical brilliance was placed in his hand.

The female mage picked up the remaining crystalline ore and said, "The continuous loss of mana is likely to cause irreversible damage to the caster's spirit, so try to resonate with the magic in the crystallized ore...... Just do it the same way you manipulate the inscribed magic, the magic is like flowing water, it will flow to the 'depression' on its own. ”

With that, she set a series of protective spells on her body, then leaned back in her chair and held one of the crystalline ores in the palm of her hand, but in two seconds, the crystalline ore began to slowly flicker, and the magic in it began to flow into Wei Lin's body.

"Well, okay."

Xiuge glanced at the crystal ore in his hand, and then at Wei Lin, who had already begun to regain her magic power, and then walked to the somewhat cramped bed in the corner and sat down, turning his attention to his own spiritual world.

Wei Lin's warning seemed to be valid, and Xiuge found that the magic in his spiritual world had become extremely thin at the moment, and the metal disc was basically in a state of stagnation, and even the dark green spar embedded in the center of the metal disc had become extremely dim.

"It seems that yesterday was indeed overused...... My own mana recovery alone is completely unable to support such an exertion. ”

Shuge silently made a judgment in his heart, and then held the crystal ore in his hand, and after closing his eyes, he clearly felt a steady and rhythmic magic tremor from the darkness, under its influence, the metal disc in the spiritual world began to rotate again, and the dark green crystal in the center trembled slightly like a heart, as if it was rejuvenated and energetic.

The process of the magic slowly flowing into the body was very comfortable, and under its effect, the tiredness that had been suppressed by the magic power was finally completely revealed, and before I knew it, Xiuge lay down on the bed with the magic crystal, and fell asleep like this.

……

"Bang da, bang da!"

The brilliant light and shadow of the beating, the dense and crisp tapping, the chaotic sound coming from the front......

Xiuge felt as if he had returned to a distant afternoon that he could never go back to, and he was lying on the lazy couch of the company's "fishing corner" for the afternoon, and not far away, his friends and colleagues were passionately engaged in the daily fighting game confrontation.

They are always like this, and sometimes they like to shout, and they have been complained about more than once by people in other departments.

"Be quiet."

Xiuge rolled over and muttered dissatisfiedly, ready to fall asleep again following his body's instincts, but at this moment, a sense of panic for no reason came up, and the feeling was so real, exactly the same as when he died suddenly.

"Wait!"

He immediately came to his senses: "I'm dead a long time ago, where is my colleague?" ”

Stimulated by this thought, he jumped up from the lazy couch in the dream world, his heart beating wildly at this moment, and when he looked in the direction of the sound, he found that in front of the game console not far away, there was a tall and thin black figure, he was wearing a black dress, wearing a top hat, holding the controller in his hand, and intently operating the game character on the screen.

As if knowing that Xiuge had woken up, the figure suddenly raised his left hand and tapped it lightly twice on the cushion beside him.

After doing this, the strange black figure reinforces his character, and a gorgeous combo is displayed on the screen, beating the computer-controlled character to the point of screaming.

This scene was a bit too strange, Xiuge couldn't help but look around, but saw that the rest of the dream world was as quiet as ever, the only difference was the area in front of him, and the door used to leave the dream was also closed at the moment.

"It seems that the other party does not intend to let me go directly...... Forget it, let's go over and see, how terrifying can a monster that can play games be? ”

Shuge assessed the situation for a moment, and then boldly walked towards the figure.

At this moment, the battle on the screen ended again, and the black figure turned, his face shrouded in a thick black mist shaking slightly, and he raised his hand and pointed to the handle in front of the cushion.

"You want me to play a game with you?"