We searched the entire library and found that there were seven notches stained with fragments of glutinous rice paper, two in the parchment stack, one in the porch, one in the hallway, and three in the corridor around the corridor.

It is clear that the opponent walked in a hurry when he evacuated, inadvertently leaving a key clue.

About an hour later, Bart returned to the stack with heavy footsteps, carrying two thick crowbars and a thick bag of glutinous rice paper.

"How's it going?"

"There is only one grocery store in Black Pine that sells glutinous rice paper, and the owner said that about seven or eight days ago, an apprentice in a gray cloth robe came to buy glutinous rice paper, and he was very tall, and when he entered the door, his forehead almost hit the lintel."

Stone and Lisa rushed forward, and I could hear their hearts churning.

The father asked again, "What does the apprentice who bought the glutinous rice paper look like?" ”

He couldn't tell. The light in the grocery store was dim, and the owner was old, his eyes were not good, and he was very confused. ”

With such a special figure, it's almost certain that Fressen! My mood hit rock bottom all at once.

Fresen didn't find the bloodthirsty magic bow in the secret room, but accidentally found the "red pupil", he immediately realized the value of magic, greed drove him to kill Zeni, without saying goodbye, hiding in the deep mountains and old forests to concentrate on cultivation - the evil of the human heart, nothing more than that, my father will think the same!

Jerome took the glutinous rice paper and covered the scattered "array eyes" one by one. The mystery is about to be revealed, and we wait anxiously, every minute as long as an hour.

When Jerome's hands left the last "array eye", time seemed to stop flowing in an instant, and the magic circle underwent a subtle change, and Kethera's guardian was torn open by an invisible hand A small crack.

The crack was confined to the stone wall of the parchment library.

"Just blindfolding the seven specific 'array eyes' to remove the influence of the blessing magic, what a precise calculation this requires an extremely in-depth study of the magic array...... I'm sure the magicians of Carbon have been here! Jerome touched the stone wall with his palm, amazed.

But the father frowned.

At some point, a disgusting rancid smell filled the air, and I covered my mouth and nose with my hands, feeling sick to my stomach. I am sure that before the "array eye" was blindfolded by glutinous rice paper, there was no such smell.

"That's the stench of decomposing corpses." Father's face became solemn. He's battle-hardened, and he can't be mistaken.

Bart pries granite at the base of the turquoise wall. This time, he didn't encounter much obstacle, and the tip of the crowbar shook and plunged into the crack in the stone, pulling out the heavy stone little by little. It was a time-consuming and laborious job, and I couldn't help but remember Dino for no reason.

Stone couldn't bear it, picked up another crowbar, and rushed forward to help.

"Be careful, the stone wall will collapse......"

Stone didn't care at all, he snorted, used all his brute strength, the stones came out of his hand, and a strong smell of corpses rushed towards him, he instinctively didn't turn his head and held his breath, his face was extremely ugly, like a crumpled piece of paper.

"Priscilla, you're right, behind the wall is a secret room, and someone is dying in it." Father let out a long sigh of relief.

With a "bang", the crowbar fell to the ground, and Stone took a few steps back, his legs and feet were weak, and he couldn't stand unsteadily. I subconsciously looked back, and Lisa's face was as pale as paper, leaning against the bookshelf, as if she had suddenly lost all her strength.

Could it be Fresen who dies inside?

Jerome wields wind magic to send the corpse roll out the window, and Bart continues to widen the gap, carefully digging a half-human-high gap.

"Let's see, what's in there......" Kozmo lit his torch, an orange-red glow illuminating the dark chamber.

To everyone's surprise, what greeted them was a pure white altar with two decomposing corpses lying in front of it.

Without waiting for his father's instructions, Bart took half a step, bent down into the secret room, and carefully examined it to make sure that there was no danger, and then the urn greeted him angrily.

I covered my mouth and nose and followed my father into the chamber, Dean Kozmo tried to stop me, but he was half a beat too slow.

The chamber was larger than I expected, empty except for the altar in the middle and the two corpses.

The altar is carved from a single white boulder, which is extremely luxurious, and the four sides are carved with relief techniques, carving the scene of the goddess Kehira conquering the people of Rydhai, with exquisite knife skills, eyebrows and eyes, and lifelike figures. On the altar, densely engraved with magic charms, the stars pointed to a protruding palm-shaped lava like a moon, the texture was between jade and glass, the color was black and bright, faintly revealing a blue-red light.

The items that had been held in the palm of the hand were gone. My heart sank, and my worst fears finally came true.

Jerome got in despite the crowd. His attention was immediately drawn to the ancient spell on the altar, and he could no longer take his eyes off it.

Bart flipped the two bodies over, revealing swollen and festering faces. He knew what to do, so he immediately tore off his sleeves, covered his mouth and nose tightly, and squatted beside the corpse to methodically check the cause of death.

It wasn't the first time I'd seen corpses, but their faces were so disgusting that I didn't dare look at them anymore.

"That's Zeni." Kozmo barely recognized one of them. He seemed to have struggled in pain, the placket of his chest was torn to shreds, his skin was covered with scratches, and the bruises clotted into purple-black blood clots.

As for the other man, judging by his stature and dress, he should have been Fresen, but he wore a small silver ring on his left earlobe and a black scabbard around his waist, which did not match Fresen's.

There is no such custom in either Eudine or Bromin, and it is to be laughed at when a man wears earrings, which I have the impression that only the natives of Carbone do. Jerome was right, he was the magician of that Carben!

"Is it Fresen?" Stone's trembling voice came from outside the back room.

Kozmo raised his voice and said, "Dean Stone, Lady Lisa, the deceased is not Fresen, you can rest assured!" ”

My father patted me on the shoulder and said unquestioningly, "Priscilla, you go out first—this bloody and filthy scene is not what you should see!" ”

I retreated, and listened through the stone wall with Stone and Lisa.

"Bart, did you find anything?"

"They were suffocated to death, with a few fragmentary scratches on their bodies, but none of them were fatal."

Stone couldn't suppress his curiosity and leaned into the secret room. He exclaimed in surprise, "That's the magic spell of the Gufrin people, it's been lost for hundreds of years!" ”

Lisa was right next to me, staring blankly forward, looking through the thick stone wall into the unknown distance. She is nearly forty years old, but she is still glamorous. Will I be able to maintain the same beauty when I'm her age?

I was a little jealous, and I didn't have anything to say: "Lady Lisa, there are two dead people in the secret room, one is Zeni......" I watched her expression carefully, but I didn't see anything unusual, she didn't seem to remember the name Zeni, "The other was extremely tall, dressed in the gray cloth robe of an apprentice, but not Fresen. ”

Lisa suddenly became nervous and screamed, "You said he was as tall as Fresen? ”

"yes." I don't understand why she's so excited.

There was silence for a moment, tears streaming from her eyes. "Fressen is dead......

"Lady Lisa, I have already said that the dead are by no means Fresen!"

They killed Fresen, put on his robes, and impersonated him in and out of the library...... It's the magicians of Carben, and they're looking for artifacts...... Fresen is dead, his body is buried in the ground, and no one can find ......"

I didn't react, "Lady Lisa, what are you talking about?" ”

Lisa whimpered, "Miss Priscilla, you are very smart, can't you figure out the key?" The murderers chose Fresson because they were of similar stature, and Fresson could enter the library anytime and anywhere without attracting attention! ”

"But...... But the murderer's body lies in the secret room! "I'm starting to understand what Lisa meant.

"The murderers are two! The other killed people and swallowed the artifact alone! Lisa's knees went limp, and she slowly slipped against the bookshelf, and sat limply on the ground.

The back of my neck was cold, and my heart was pounding.

"My child...... My boy Fresen ......," Lisa groaned in despair.