0113 Employee who died mysteriously
As soon as Jialan led the Teenage Arbitration Team out of the University of Science and Technology, a thief wearing a two-headed dragon badge on his chest hurriedly greeted him and whispered a few words to him respectfully.
Frowning, Jialan grabbed the excited Alan and told her that she would be responsible for leading the team to visit and study the Mercenary Branch of the Great Adventure of Kemo, and that she had other things to deal with and could not lead the team there.
Because she had just learned that her elemental talent was still "saved", the girl was still immersed in excitement, although she was a little surprised that Jialan was going to leave temporarily, but she didn't take it to heart because of her simple mind, she just nodded obediently, and said with a sweet smile that she would definitely bring the members of the arbitration team back safely.
This time I went to the adventure branch to investigate, and I was accompanied by the personnel of the Mercenary Guild throughout the whole process, so Jialan naturally didn't have to worry about the safety of this group of girls, so after seeing the girl arbitration team leave, Jialan used the teleportation technique (a kind of 0-order spell to transmit short messages from a distance) to inform several old mercenaries of Iguana Fang to come quickly, and asked what happened.
“... President Clark and Head Kenmet are also on their way to Fort Doom, which should have arrived by now. ”
The silver thief respectfully recounted the events that had happened, Jia Lan frowned, last night there were several hired workers in charge of the night shift in Fort Doom who died mysteriously, but there were no traces of struggle and struggle found at the scene, and the deceased's face was even frozen with a smile of happiness and satisfaction.
The scene has been cordoned off by the golden two-headed dragon mercenaries on duty, and the dead have been covered up under the pretext of being transferred, which has not affected the operation of the Collei Potion Production Workshop for the time being, but the situation is too strange to remind people of the infamous horror legend of Doom Castle.
As a spellcaster who studies the nature of things and believes in truth, Jialan certainly doesn't believe in horror legends. However, according to the accounts of the silver thieves, the dead hired workers died on the way to the medicinal herb warehouse.
However, in that area, the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group arranged at least three groups of night watch teams to patrol crosswise, and the patrol interval would not exceed five minutes, and there were no signs of anomalies in advance, and the investigation after the incident did not find any suspicious points, as if the night shift hired suddenly died of illness, but this was obviously impossible.
A deputy head of a golden two-headed dragon stationed at Doom Fort, after cordoning off the scene. Someone was immediately sent to inform President Clark and Jialan, and waited for them to arrive before dealing with it.
The four old mercenaries who arrived after receiving the teleportation message from Jialan followed Jialan into a carriage that had been waiting outside the gate of Kemo University for a long time, and the group quickly rushed to Doom Castle.
At present, the 100,000 pyeong castle complex under the name of Doom Fort and the surrounding mountains and forests of about 12 million pyeong (about 40km2) have been secretly used by Jialan under the name of "Kovalare Mystery Group". It cost a huge sum of 8 million Quinthalan to buy it from the property management office of Kemo University. It is used for the infrastructure construction land under the future development of Keao Group.
So by the name of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon. A large number of hired workers were hired to level the mountains and build houses, turning this barren land into a large number of noisy and busy construction sites, which should not lack popularity.
According to the general belief, ghosts do not appear in popular places (but usually ghosts don't think so), so the hired workers, who were originally a little afraid and repulsed to work in the Doom Fort area, gradually let down their guard because of the large number of people.
Now there is a sudden paranormal event of the mysterious death of a hired worker. Once it is exposed, I am afraid that it will be a serious blow to the Doom Fort under construction, and it is estimated that all the hired workers will run out within half a day.
No matter how generous the wages are. There is no preciousness of one's own life.
From this point of view, the Golden Two-Headed Dragon is not a loss to an experienced mercenary group, both in terms of the speed of response to the incident and the means of dealing with it afterwards, it is very skilled, and the means are extremely spicy.
Although it is somewhat unfair to the families of the hired workers who were killed, in this era of strict social class, who cares about the lives and deaths of a few ant-like civilians?
The thinking mode gradually accepted the memory of the exotic soul in her mind, although there was some vague resistance, but in the case of being the master of Doom Castle, she could only have reservations about this way of dealing with it for the time being.
The conflict between the two different concepts in her mind made Jialan feel that her recent behavior had begun to become a little strange, and as a spellcaster, she had begun to sympathize with a civilian?
Historically, in the spell confrontation of the spellcasters, it is normal for the civilians of any spell plague to be released, and it is normal for civilians to die in a city, when have you ever seen a spellcaster compensate the civilians?
Otherwise, why are the nobles in the secular world so respectful and fearful of the caster? Mass destruction methods like the spell plague should not be too much in the list of spells of the mages! If it is used in war, it is definitely a strategic-level map killing effect.
Who to provoke and not to mess with the mage has become the common knowledge of the people of Jialan's era.
Passing through the noisy construction site around the castle of Doom, the carriage they were riding in galloped along the newly built dirt road into the castle, and the mercenaries guarding the gate saw the silver thieves acting as the drivers, and immediately pushed open the newly replaced heavy log gates, allowing them to go straight to the warehouse complex at the back of the castle complex.
Because of the expansion of the scale of production, the demand for medicinal materials for Collei Potions has also increased, so several castle buildings have been specially cleared out for use as medicinal material warehouses, so as to facilitate the storage of raw materials purchased in large quantities through the channels of the Mercenary Guild.
When Jialan and they arrived, the warehouse area had been under martial law, and the medicinal materials were completely transported by the mercenaries, although the hired workers felt that the atmosphere was a little strange, but they didn't think much about it, because the recent production tasks have become heavier and heavier, and when they are too busy, the mercenaries in their spare time will also help with the work.
Casey, Div, and the Mercenary Guild's Clark Leader, and the Golden Two-Headed Dragon's Kenmet Regiment were all at the scene, and the bodies of the dead hired were parked in place and did not move.
“... There was no sign of a struggle or struggle at the scene, and the distance between the four hired workers was five or six meters apart, which means that they didn't even notice that someone was attacking them when it happened... It's a lot like a thief's trick!"
Seeing Jialan's arrival, President Clark greeted him and directly talked about the results of his experienced thieves' search for the scene.
"However, there were no external injuries on the body, and it was not poisoned after testing, as if... It's as if they had suddenly lost their lives..."
President Clark could be regarded as an experienced mercenary, but even he had never encountered such a bizarre thing.
Jialan squatted down one by one to look at the bodies of the four hired workers, and found that they were all in a backward posture, except for their pale and lifeless faces, as if they were asleep, some of them still had a hint of a smile on the corner of their mouths, and some of them had half open lips and teeth, as if they were happily chatting with their workers about something a moment ago.
This scene looks too weird, people can't help but feel chills in their hearts, this can be seen from the faces of the mercenaries guarding the scene of the crime, even if they all have silver-level strength, but for this unknown strange event, it is still difficult to resist the fear in their hearts.
"Although I don't know how these hired workers died, I suspect that this matter is probably inseparable from the Jin Quan Society!"
President Clark, who had no clue about the cause of the employee's death, frowned and said, "In the last few days, the atmosphere in Coran City has been very strange, and a large number of neighborhood gangs are as excited as if they have smoked 'devil's leaf' cigarettes, and at least hundreds of fights break out every night..."
"The prison cells of the city guards are almost filled with captured neighborhood gang members! This is so abnormal, although these neighborhood gangs often fight each other for turf in the past, but they are far less frequent and unscrupulous, there must be someone behind the scenes!"
President Clark looked at Jialan: "If nothing else, I'm afraid it's the power of the Golden Power Council that is making trouble behind the scenes, but I don't know what they want to do!? Attack us by force, disrupt the market, and use city security to force the Civil Council?"
Jialan nodded and shook her head, and began to whisper some detection spells around her: Detect Toxin, Detect Secret Method, Detect Alchemy, Detect Enchantment, Detect Undead, Detect Immortal......
When the "Detect Immortality" spell was released, a strange fluctuation was sensed by Jialan, which made his brows furrow slightly, but he said quietly: "It's not the toxin that caused death, it was someone who attacked them from behind..."
Jialan gently sideways the head of a hired man's corpse, asked him to face to one side, brushed away his loose hair, pointed to the skin under the ear, and said, "Look here." ”
When everyone came to take a look, they saw that there were two small red spots on the neck of the hired man's corpse, about an inch apart from each other, which looked like swollen bags that had been bitten by mosquitoes.
President Clark and the others were puzzled for a moment, but they immediately reacted, although the current season is not as cold as before, but there is still a long time before spring, and the cold climate at night should definitely not infeste mosquitoes!
Jialan reached out and took out a bottle of alchemy solvent from his pocket, unplugged the plug and gently tapped two drops on the corpse's wound, if it was a living person, these two drops of alchemy solvent were enough to poison him, but it didn't matter to the corpse.
As soon as the two drops of alchemy solvent fell on the two red spots, the red spots began to emit faint white smoke, and even began to flow out black pus and blood, as if they had been corroded by strong acid......!