A time coordinate emerges from the sky, starting at 4821.211, marked by the death of Lukin Peak.

“4821.211？” Guan Xinyue said in surprise, "What time is this?" ”

"It's our way of dating." "It means the 211th day of the year 4821 after the first year of our world," Roach said. ”

"Oh." Guan Xinyue said, "Our history is 5,000 years! ”

"Then why don't you use the five-word prefix for the year?" Roach looked at her slyly.

She was just about to explain, when she suddenly came to her senses, "You had a mature civilization four thousand years ago? ”

"Four thousand years ago we were your gods." Roach said with a smile, "Many human legends depict our history, our wars, our blessings - think of Cangjie, think of Prometheus." ”

Guan Xinyue opened her mouth in surprise.

"Four thousand years ago was a time when magical civilization flourished, but there is nothing to be proud of, because we haven't changed since, at least not as much as humanity. Humanity is about to land on Mars, and our past, present, and future will probably have to be on Earth. ”

"And what about further on?" Guan Xinyue asked curiously, "What about four thousand years ago?" Don't you have a legend of your own? Do you have your own gods? ”

"Our gods are also your gods, the earliest civilizations are all of the same origin, and we are human too, aren't we? In our earliest records, there was also a great flood. Roach said. He modified the coordinates and extended them forward by ten years, and many events of the Guan and Lu families appeared on the coordinates, but there was no overlap.

Roach began to concentrate on reading quickly, no longer chattering, and one blurry cloud after another unfolded in front of him, adjusting their positions, shrinking and unfolding new clouds of information. Guan Xinyue also stopped talking, she was dazzled and watched the light and mist of information flicker and disappear in the air, and Luo Qi's slender fingers deftly flipped and guided, becoming more and more like a magician.

"This is the approximate time coordinates." Roach suddenly waved his hand, and a group of characters flew down a branch like a bird, perched on a golden coordinate, and a few dots were particularly conspicuous. "4821.211, Lu Jinfeng was killed. 4821.275, Guan Ya died of illness. 4823.42, Lu Chengzhi died in a gas explosion. In 4823.65, Guan Yushan died, and Lu Xinchen disappeared at about the same time. It's the beginning of 4824. ”

"This is indeed clearer than Zhao Zhiyan's description." Guan Xinyue said, "It turned out that my aunt and Lu Jinfeng died in the same year, and the time of death was only two months apart. ”

"Yes." Roach said, leaning back in his chair and watching the information float lightly in the air, breathing as if something really was about to be poured out.

"Could it really be related?" Guan Xinyue took two tentative steps forward, stretched out her fingers, and gently traced the golden link between the two information clouds floating behind the coordinates. But now the two ends of this link are only in time. "Are mages dying so easily?"

"Nope." "We usually live a long time. ”

After a while, he whispered again, "It's hard to die in an accident. ”

He stretched out his hand and once again extracted Guan Ya's birth information, and the information poured out in front of him like water. "Arithmetic, scholars, scholars among mages." He muttered, "No bad habits, quiet, focused." There is no intersection with the scum among the mages. ”

He gave up Guan Ya's information cloud and grabbed Guan Yushan's information cloud again, even if it covered a lot of information, Guan Yushan's cloud was still very thick. "It started with Guan Ya, and finally Guan Yushan and Lu Xinchen, Lu Xinchen is just a child, and Guan Yushan is the top priority. The focus must be on Guan Yushan. Xinyue, if it were you and wanted to kill an archmage, what would you do? Don't think about your grandfather if ...... If you want to kill Du Zhengyi, what will you do? ”

"Kill him?" Guan Xinyue rolled his eyes, "I can't even think about it." And unlike my grandfather, he doesn't have any bad habits and never talks about his personal affairs. I don't know anything about him, and I don't even know if he's your friend or not, if he cares about you. If you're friends, I'll probably find a way to kidnap you first, and you seem to be better off with it. Then I'll use you to blackmail him again - if you don't kill yourself, I'll kill his friend! ”

Roach laughed, "You've watched too many TV series." ”

Guan Xinyue snorted, "Indeed." Sticking a knife in the ribs for a friend, that's a bridge where children don't believe it. ”

"yes." Roach said, lost in thought, and muttered, "That's impossible, and it's too easy to be self-defeating, and if you're not careful, you'll be caught and killed by the archmage." ”

"What do you think of?" Guan Xinyue looked at Luo Qi's face. "Speak up and listen."

"You said you don't know Du Zhengyi, so you can't grasp his weakness and prescribe the right medicine?" Roach said thoughtfully.

"Hmm." Guan Xinyue said, "That's it. ”

"But if you know a strong person and know what he values, you can look for opportunities by destroying his emotions." Luo Qi's eyes lit up, "If you want to kill Guan Yushan, first create an embarrassing family problem, and kill his only daughter in this dirty way, so as to destroy his spirit, this is indeed the way." It's really bad. Would anyone really go to the expense of killing a few lives and scatter such a long line to lay out? ”

Guan Xinyue opened her mouth in shock, Luo Qi's words made her hands tremble slightly, "After my aunt died, my grandfather began to drink heavily. He used to be a little greedy for cups, but his aunt kept watching him and didn't drink much. And then...... My sister ......" Guan Xinyue suddenly bit her lip, and Luo Qi looked at her, vaguely guessing the part of the thing she didn't say. Human beings are always like this, whether they are human or mage humans, they are full of weaknesses and are good at hurting each other.

Guan Xinyue took a deep breath and said, "My grandfather kept saying that my uncle killed my aunt, but my sister refused to believe it, and she quarreled with my grandfather. When my uncle died, my sister refused to believe that it had nothing to do with her grandfather, and she kept saying that her grandfather was an archmage who could easily kill others. She had been away from home for a while, but she had come to live with me, she said...... She said in person that she hated her grandfather. Grandpa is actually a little short-tempered, and after my aunt's death, he was even more irritable that ordinary people couldn't accept it, and sometimes I hated him a little. But I ...... I don't really hate him, either. He and his sister quarreled so much that neither of them could calm down. In the two months before he died, he drank so much that he was unconscious every night, my sister wouldn't let him drink, and he once accidentally injured my sister in order to grab a bottle. ”

Guan Xinyue shook her head painfully and said, "But my dad said that he had already started to get alcohol poisoning at that time, and he had a withdrawal reaction when he didn't drink. But my sister can't forgive him, and he doesn't forgive himself. By the way, I told you that he was delirious and started talking nonsense. I'm not entirely lying, he always seems to feel like he's around a lot of people, and he keeps talking to them, sometimes apologizing to them. My sister said he was completely insane...... Anyway, he died soon after, my sister ...... I don't know where to go. ”

"There's still a long way to go from alcohol poisoning to death from alcohol poisoning." Roach whispered.

Guan Xinyue nodded, "My dad said the same thing." ”

Luo Qi stayed quietly with her for a while, but soon his mind turned, "I'll try again to see if there is any intersection between Lu Jinfeng and Guan Yushan's lives." ”

And yet still nothing. Luo Qi looked at the data in the air in disappointment, and knew very well in his heart that this was an inevitable result, and the executor must have already compared it like this.

But he still refused to give up, staring at the data and pondering. If this series of murders were all driven by the same hands, killing Lu Jinfeng was very simple, not as complicated as a series of later acts. Lu Jinfeng's killer is still serving his sentence in prison, and the execution mage has also investigated him. But at the stage of Guan Ya, Lu Chengzhi, and Guan Yushan, the murderer did not really appear, and the methods of the people behind the scenes became more sophisticated, and their behavior became more meticulous, and even the scapegoat was wiped out. Whether the mistress is a murderer or not, she is a key link, and her disappearance leaves the executors with no way to go any further.

Suddenly realizing that he might have found something, Roach sat up straight again and began to carefully track the clouds that had sprang out of Lukin Peak, the details of his killer.

Roach quickly navigated the life of mankind, just an ordinary and frustrated life, as everyone was. He adjusted the angle of the message, searching for the name of the executor who investigated him. If you follow these names and open the lives of these mages, all of them are second-level execution mages, and there is no problem. He scanned their investigative reports, and finally, his attention stopped at a report submitted by a mage requesting a mind test of the murderer. The instructions stamped at the back of the report are: Approved, dispatched immediately.

He immediately set out to find the mage who had been sent to read other people's brains as if they were an open book. But there was nothing more, and Rocky knew that telepathic mages were a taboo, that they had a lot of dirty work to do and were suspicious, so telepathic mages, although registered, often worked anonymously. The Committee protects the privacy of telepaths from outside discovery, which in turn is somewhat of a tool of control.

Roach was not trapped by the door, and almost immediately made a detour to find the return report of the Master of Ideas. He rummaged through the chaotic data cloud for a while before he found a succinct report stating that the murderer's brain had not been interfered with by external forces. Again, the report was unsigned, but Roach found a timestamp.

"4821.219," Roach said, converting it, "August 7, 2014." Do you have any impressions of this day? ”

"Yes." Guan Xinyue nodded gloomily.

"What?" Roach couldn't believe his good fortune, "What made you remember such a day a few years ago?" ”

"Because it's my birthday." Guan Xinyue said, "My grandfather doesn't know where he went, he didn't come back for a day, and he said that he would take me to Disney, of course I can't forget this kind of thing." ”

"Oh." Roach sighed and threw himself back into his chair, unable to contain his inner excitement. "So, I probably know why your grandfather didn't accompany you for your birthday. And maybe I found the starting point for everything. ”