CHAPTER XXVI

"According to the rules, I should ask the humans to recuse themselves." Zhao Zhiyan said slowly, looking for the last opportunity to make Du Zhengyi unhappy, and by the way, he kept his disdain for Guan Xinyue.

"If you're going to talk to me," Guan Xinyue struggled to keep her voice from shaking, standing firmly in the middle of her living room, "just say to my face, and don't act like I'm their pet dog." ”

"Do you need that?" Luo Qi said slowly and logically, as if he was deliberately imitating Zhao Zhiyan's tone. "Can you not act like a hillbilly who won't let your wife eat at the table? She is the granddaughter of a mage, and all humans in the mage's family have made a silent pact with the Council. ”

"Silent contracts can always be bypassed by logic, especially since their mages are dead, and the forces that bind her to keep silent to human society have almost disappeared." Zhao Zhiyan was stunned, Luo Qi was more sharp-tongued than Du Zhengyi, and the Northern Academy didn't even have a bit of the legendary boldness. He bit his lip in annoyance, and put his hope on Du Zhengyi.

Du Zhengyi was in a fugue and listened to their arguments about this matter, until the room was quiet and everyone was looking at him, and he seemed to come back to his senses.

"I was thinking just now," he smiled slightly, "if Guan Yushan is still alive now, will anyone dare to kick his little granddaughter out of his house?" If no one dares, forget it. ”

The room was completely silent, no one spoke, and no one even moved, until Guan Xinyue suddenly turned her head and walked to a chair, sat down hard, and raised her head.

Luo Qi exhaled softly, he looked at Guan Xinyue relaxedly, and then put his eyes on Du Zhengyi's body, staring at him for a while.

Zhao Zhiyan turned his head suddenly, without saying a word, his fingers rubbed on the wrench, and a cluster of flickering ancient symbols rushed out like an explosion, spinning in the air between them.

Roach swallowed, looking expectantly at the stormy whirling symbol.

Ancient symbols coalesced and shrunk into almost indistinguishable dots, the magic behind them drumming them, the dots coming together to form surfaces, two dimensions stretching into three dimensions, and then an illusion of an old man appeared in their midst.

With gray hair and a thin figure, he wore a ceremonial robe, tied with a kudzu cloth belt, and a ceremonial jade pendant hanging from his waist. He stood calmly in the middle of several people, his face calm, and his eyes were deep, as if he had come back to life. It's just a few tiny words that follow him, showing his name, history, date of birth and death, revealing the fact that he has passed away.

Roach had only seen his photographs before, but now he didn't see his charm, and the deceased standing in the house must have been a very decent old man when he was born, which did not match the image of a drunkard he had heard. But this image may have taken place many years ago, before his life was shattered.

Guan Xinyue didn't expect that the mage's image would appear in the form of a three-dimensional projection, and when she suddenly saw her grandfather appear, her body trembled violently.

Zhao Zhiyan sneezed, ignoring the little girl's emotions, and wrapped the blanket on his body tightly, "Guan Yushan, has three first-class mage licenses, and enjoys the special allowance of the archmage. He sneezed again, covered his nose and continued, "The Supreme Council level executive mage is still for life, so he is a master. As for the achievements and ...... Resume, don't you think this part is a bit mediocre? I guess a large part of his life is classified, Du Liu, do you know? ”

He deliberately asked Du Zhengyi lightly, but Du Zhengyi just shook his head, "Even if I know, I don't care, let's talk about his children." As far as I know, the trigger may have been his daughter and son-in-law. ”

"Indeed." Zhao Zhiyan made a gesture, and the symbols gradually gathered the images of the other two people in the air.

They stood beside the old man, the woman hung her head slightly, looking reserved and restrained, and the man's expression was extremely rich, as if he was looking back and forth at several living people in the room. Luo Qi secretly thought that Cunying would always record the essential characteristics of some people, and intuitively the couple of the Guan family did not seem to be suitable for being together. He glanced at Guan Xinyue, her expression was slightly disgusted, and she avoided her uncle who didn't look at her.

Zhao Zhiyan said over there, "Guan Ya, Guan Yushan's daughter, a calculation mage of the Six Institutes. ”

Roach grunted, "That's amazing." ”

Zhao Zhiyan nodded at him, "Yes, it's very powerful." The man's name is Lu Chengzhi, Guan Yushan's son-in-law, who does some jewelry business. Well, you know, business on both sides, on the side of the ordinary human he is a jade dealer, on our side he sells all kinds of energy crystals. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the symbols floating in the air gathered several vague human figures again, "Their daughter, Lu Xinchen, was supposed to start college this year, but she was missing. ”

As he finished saying this, an elf-like girl appeared in the living room, smiling playfully. Her hair was waist-length and pink at the ends. She inherited most of the advantages of her parents, and played them perfectly, both in appearance and temperament. Zhao Zhiyan smashed his mouth and said, "It's a pity, life and death are uncertain." ”

Before Roach could think about it, another woman appeared. She was about thirty years old, with big eyes and a pointed chin, a face that Roach couldn't tell, and a slender and medium-sized figure. "Qi Yue, formerly known as Qi Xiaoli. This person needs to be emphasized. She is from the village, works as a nurse in a clinic in the city, and suspects that she has an improper relationship with Lu Chengzhi. Before Guan Ya's death, he was entangled with Guan Ya for a while, and even followed Guan Ya, suspecting that it was directly or indirectly related to Guan Ya's death. ”

"That is, you also suspect that this woman is the direct cause of this series of events." Du Zhengyi said, using an affirmative sentence.

"Yes." Zhao Zhiyan said, he raised his head and looked at the image of the woman, who kept rubbing her hair and innocently blinking her long false eyelashes. Zhao Zhiyan shook his head, this woman may not be to his liking, he said with a confused face, "To be honest, I don't know how Lu Chengzhi could be infatuated with her?" It may be that the old house has found a fire, and it is difficult to make itself. ”

"That's none of our business." Du Zhengyi said disinterestedly, "There should be a complete investigation report when Guan Ya died, and the investigation is under Guan Yushan's supervision, so the investigation report should be credible, right?" ”

Archie looked at him again.

"Yes," Zhao Zhiyan replied, "but even if Guan Yushan was in charge and used our archmage and the well-known forensic doctors of the human race, they couldn't find any clues to Guan Ya's unnatural death." If Guan Ya died suddenly of a heart attack, then there would be good fortune and misfortune, which is reasonable. It's just that Guan Yushan didn't believe this for a day, he and his son-in-law, as well as his son-in-law's little concubine, can be regarded as a bond since then. ”

"You mean, you can be sure that the cause of Lu Chengzhi's death is related to Guan Yushan?" Du Zhengyi asked.

"Lu Chengzhi died in a gas explosion, but he was actually injured and fell to his death." Zhao Zhiyan said, and he quickly generated some three-dimensional images in the air. On the top floor of a human community, there is a blackened mark of damage on the gable, and the three-dimensional picture shows the hole from several angles.

"This is Lu Chengzhi's house in the city, the explosion point of the gas pipeline is close to this gable, he should have been near this wall at the time of the incident, he was seriously injured after the explosion, fell out of the broken wall hole on the seventh floor, fell on the cement platform on the first floor, and died on the spot."

Du Zhengyi frowned at the picture, "This looks a bit like it was beaten out by space warp magic." ”

"That's right." Zhao Zhiyan nodded, "But it's not, it's indeed a gas explosion." We tested it on the spot, and there was no trace of any residual energy. The police also believed that the death was caused by the gas explosion, and it was suspected that Lu Chengzhi leaned on the cabinet at that time and lit a cigarette, and then - poof! ”

Zhao Zhiyan gestured to the equivalent of the explosion, and his eyes slowly swept over the scene of death with a sticky eye. Luo Qi's attention was taken away from the data, and he silently observed Zhao Zhiyan, and he could see that death was attractive to Zhao Zhiyan.

"Neither of the two deaths was directly related to the mage." Du Zhengyi didn't notice that his attention was almost on the inference at hand, and he thought about it and concluded.

But an experienced detective thought it was murder, and finally found Guan Yushan's head. However, Guan Yushan has an alibi, and some people have proved that she has been with Guan Yushan during the time period when the gas leaked. Zhao Zhiyan hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled, tilted his head slightly, and looked at Guan Xinyue with malicious intent.

Du Zheng was taken aback, and involuntarily looked at Guan Xinyue.

"How?" Guan Xinyue said warily.

Roach came back to her senses, and was a little undecided, so she hesitated and asked her carefully, "Yes...... Are you sure? ”

"Of course," Guan Xinyue glared at him and said in an unmistakably arrogant tone, "I never lie. ”

"Grandma," Roach swallowed, "you lied when we first met!" ”

"Aren't you also full of lies?" Guan Xinyue said immediately.

"Two different things!" Roach said, "You were really with your grandfather at the time?" ”

"That's right!" Guan Xinyue exclaimed angrily, "Because I know that even if my grandfather hates him to death, he will not kill my sister's biological father!" ”

Luo Qi flinched, and in a moment of silence, Du Zhengyi also hurriedly turned his head away.

"Okay," Zhao Zhiyan took the topic back, "let's talk about Guan Yushan's death." Since the tragic death of his daughter, his alcoholism has become more and more serious, and his temperament has changed drastically, and he has had many conflicts with his family. Soon his wife often came to live with her son, and Guan Xinyue was already living at her father's house, right? Therefore, the only person who can be sure of always being by the archmage's side in the end is his granddaughter Lu Xinchen. It's an old story, and like all mages who are with humans, they will inevitably part ways in the end. Therefore, when Guan Yushan died and his granddaughter disappeared at the same time, there was not a single mage in the family, and of course no one could report his death to the committee in time. His body went into the police system, and when we realized that Guan Yushan had died, we had to look at the autopsy report, and I think at least the cause of death was credible. But our people arrived too late to tell if there were other factors at the time of the incident based on the energy residue. ”

Luo Qi didn't take the so-called alcohol poisoning too seriously, and even Guan Xinyue thought it was impossible, and the consultation with Dr. Ma Jiang gave him more confidence.

"I don't think you would have come to any other conclusion if you had arrived early." Du Zheng thought for a while and said.

"How so?" Zhao Zhiyan asked.

"There is clearly a commonality in this series of events." Du Zhengyi said, "All of them are deaths that have not been interfered with by magic, clean but one death after another, full of the smell of human murder, does this imply ...... We may have been exposed? ”

A layer of cool air walked down Luo Qi's back, and he turned his head sharply to glare at Du Zhengyi.

Du Zheng glanced at him, didn't understand what he meant, skipped him and continued, "If the mistress kills someone, the mistress can stop when she gets Lu Chengzhi." If Guan Yushan kills someone, there are many ways for an archmage of his level to kill Lu Chengzhi, and he shouldn't leave the body for people to investigate, let alone let people die so dramatically. I'm assuming that all the people we can see so far are pawns, and is there a larger group behind them that is trying to eliminate us outliers scattered in their populations? ”

Population? Heterogeneous? Exposure? There was a panic in Roach's heart, and the strange mage Li Xu from the night before came to his mind. The meaning he expressed by hiding his head and showing his tail is very similar to what Du Zhengyi said today. Li Xu once asked Ma Jiang what would happen if they were discovered by humans, and he said that humans have a natural instinct to kill aliens. His mind couldn't be sorted out immediately in a burst of confusion, Du Zhengyi continued to speak, he quickly stopped his chaotic thoughts and continued to listen.

"It's only been a few decades since we were last slaughtered." Du Zhengyi said, the left hand on the arm of the chair subconsciously patted it gently, his thoughts seemed to have gone far away, and what he said was only a limited part. Roach wished he could go through his head for a while, turning over all his thoughts and information he wouldn't disclose.

"Makes sense." Zhao Zhiyan said. Rocky looked over and found obvious satisfaction and approval on his slender face. To be honest, Roach didn't expect him to be a human being, three years ago he was just an imitation of scum, and at that time Roach thought that he would not even get the qualification to serve as an executor.

So what is he now? Is he a normal man who has grown up and returned to mainstream society, or has his old dream finally come true and entered the palace of the Lotus Burner?

As if sensing his gaze, Zhao Zhiyan turned his face and glanced at Luo Qi. He hesitated, gave Roach a smile, and showed Sensen's white teeth.