'Squeak, squeak, squeak......'

The night is silent, the moon hangs in the sky, and the people who are noisy in the streets during the day have hid in the quilts, looking for a way to realize their wishes in their dreams, only the night insects are still whispering in this silence, pouring out the dissatisfaction of the people who are noisy during the day.

No, maybe there are still people who haven't slept at this time, or even that they've just woken up.

In the dim light, Alice woke up in a daze. After she was kidnapped during the day, she was quickly knocked unconscious by the gang, and by the time she woke up, it was already now.

"Where is this?" Alice didn't know where she was, and she was inexplicably scared. She gradually saw the situation around her clearly, the dilapidated wooden boxes and cardboard boxes were placed together, and if she looked closely, some of the boxes seemed to have goods in them. It looks like an abandoned warehouse.

"It's an underground warehouse. A deep voice rang in her ears.

The small windows on the walls are all open three or four meters high, and the windows are overgrown with weeds.

Alice was startled, and when she looked back, she saw a blurry face less than a foot away in front of her eyes. She hurriedly dodged backwards, but accidentally bumped into another person: "You...... Who are you?"

"Little girl, are you also an alchemist?"

"I? no, it's not. Alice immediately understood that these people, like her, must have been caught here because of the alchemy competition.

"Alice?" A young man's voice came from the dark corner.

Alice was stunned: "You, who are you?"

The voice said, "It's me, Hurrington." Then Hurrington's face came to Alice. Alice didn't seem to notice when she was caught.

"Ah, you've been caught by them, too. ”

"Get out of the way. Hurrington pushed away a guy next to him, sat next to Alice, and asked, "How did they get caught, you're not an alchemist, they caught you?"

Alice shook her head: "They kidnapped me and threatened Wright to abstain from the alchemy final. But I don't understand, they weishenme want to arrest me. ”

"Sure enough, it's also for the alchemy competition, and they are bound to win the first place in this competition. ”

Alice tried to stand up, but as soon as she strained herself, her body went limp.

Hurington said: "Don't try, they have sealed your liliang and abilities, including your summoning guard, and they will seal it again every once in a while, they won't give you a chance to escape." ”

Alice had no choice but to give up her efforts: "Then what are we going to do? They already know who I am, and I'm afraid they'll ......"

Hurington was silent, seemingly unexpectedly unable to come up with a good solution.

Alice was frightened, and leaned in towards Hurrington, saying, "You must protect me, Hurrington...... Brother. ”

Hurrington shuddered: "Hey, don't be like this, when will I become your brother." Haven't you always hated me and called me a liar?"

"You ......," Alice snorted, "you are a big man, why are you so stingy and scheming with me, a little girl." ”

"Little girl?" said Hurrington, touching his newly healed nose and disagreeing with the statement, "You're a little devil." ”

Alice hugged her knees and leaned gloomily on the wooden box: "It's okay, it's okay, my master will come to save me, he will definitely find a way to find this place and save us out." ”

It was still that night, at Caesar's Manor, the icy evil god was eating the food on his plate. After searching for a night, I inquired about more than a dozen taverns, but there was no news about Alice, and when I did, I found out that a few alchemists who had been allowed to participate in the finals were also missing.

The fork forked a piece of cold beef and put it to his mouth, but he didn't eat it for a long time.

"It's weird. Bing Zhiye pondered: "They have captured so many people, if it is for the first place in the alchemy competition, Weishenme will not capture Wright as well? Even if they are confident that they will threaten Alice, Wright will not dare to participate in the competition again, then they should not leave Wright, aren't they afraid that Wright will lead the guards of the whole city to hunt them down? Of course, if Wright disappears, the duke's side will definitely mobilize the whole city to find them." ”

He thought for a long time and said, "Could it be that this is their mistake?" and he shook his head again: "Unlikely." From Alice going out to being stabbed in the opera house by Leyte's mother, it shows that they are very well arranged and will not be so negligent. Unless...... Unless they deliberately didn't capture Wright. ”

Thinking of this, Bing Zhiye was puzzled again: "But what about Weishenme? From what I heard in the tavern, there are other alchemists missing, and in addition, there are also some alchemists who have prepared materials for the finals that have also been lost for no reason, which shows that there is indeed such a group of people who have the idea of winning the first place in the alchemy competition." It also shows that Wright is not lying, and it is not that he is pretending to be a ghost and has captured Alice for some political conspiracy. ”

Bing Zhixiao pondered for a long time, and thought, "If they capture Wright, I won't have any obvious clues, and I won't capture Wright...... If I didn't capture Wright, I got the clue to this 'Ancient Bone Snake'! Could it be that this clue was not left by them carelessly, but on purpose? There is a possibility, but this is weishenme?"

One, two, three...... The clock was moving little by little, but Bing Zhixiao never figured it out.

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A day later, in the early morning, Mahal Lud washed his face and changed his clothes, and one of her partners came to the door.

Mahal Lud yawned and said, "What's the matter? I'm going out for breakfast." ”

"It's nothing, I just want to tell you that the alchemists you asked us to focus on have all been done. ”

Maha Lud said: "Oh yes, today is the first day of the alchemy final, I almost forgot." ”

Accomplice Khan said: "Those alchemists who have strength and threaten us have been eliminated by us, it can be said that we are nine out of ten in the first place in the final of this alchemy competition, but there is one thing I don't understand......

"Blah blah. Maha Rud interrupted him and said, "You said it was all done, Wright, Hurrington, and ...... Did they get it too?",

The accomplice said: "Yes, Wright did the same method you said, and we used Princess Alice to blackmail him to force him to give up the game. Not long ago, he had already announced that he would abandon the competition because he was not ready for the finals, and the organizing committee of the competition had approved it. ”

"Oh, what about Hurrington?"

The accomplice said: "That guy from Hurrington, because we couldn't figure out what the plan and materials he prepared for the finals were, we couldn't steal it, so we had to kidnap his people." ”

Maha Lud nodded, "That's good." Hey, what's wrong with what you just said?"

The accomplice said: "It's the question of using Princess Alice to hold Wright hostage, I've been wanting to ask you these days, but you are going to be a zuihou and don't let you be disturbed." I wanted to ask ......"

Maha Rud raised his hand to stop him and said: "You want to ask, in the plan to hold Wright hostage, we Weishenme did not arrest Wright together, but deliberately showed his feet to let them notice." ”

"Yes, yes, that's it. The accomplice said: "It's not just that I don't understand, but our bosses are very puzzled. Although Mahal Lud, Boss Maha Lud, your ideas are always foolproof, but we really don't understand this. ”

Maha Lud smiled: "It's also blame that I didn't make it clear to you, then you can tell them for me that you must have foresight in doing things, not just see what is in front of you." ”

"What do you mean?" the accomplice was puzzled.

Maha Lud said: "Assuming, we arrest Wright together, the Duke's Palace will definitely let all the guards in the whole city look for their son, right?"

"That's right. The accomplice said, "But now that we haven't caught Wright, aren't they looking for the princess all over the city?" and they already know that this matter has something to do with the alchemy competition." ”

Maha Lud said: "We arrested Wright, don't they know that it has something to do with the alchemy competition? So many alchemists who participated in the finals have lost their alchemy materials, and several of the most powerful alchemists have disappeared for no reason, don't they think about it? Even if they are just suspicious, they will secretly control all the remaining alchemists who participated in our competition." Whoever wins the first place in the alchemy competition will be the mastermind of this series of conspiracies, isn't it?"

The accomplice was stunned: "That...... Aren't we busy in vain?"

Maha Lud said: "That's why I asked your subordinates to deliberately leak clues to them. ”

The accomplice thought for a moment and shook his head: "I still don't understand." ”

"Why are you so stupid. Maha Lud said: "If they have clues, they will naturally solve the case." If the case is solved, I will win the first place again, won't it matter?"

The accomplice was stunned, thought for a long time, shook his head again, and said, "I still haven't figured out what it means." We did this case, and let them solve the case, so why did we go to such great lengths to arrest those people?"

Mahal Lud sighed: "I have said it so clearly, don't you understand? You are so stupid!"

The accomplice had to laugh dryly: "Then please Boss Maha Lud you make it clearer and teach me this stupid." ”

Maha Lud said, "Let me ask you, are we going to design this series of programs to arrest their people?"

The accomplice wondered, "Isn't it?"

"I'm really convinced of you, your subordinates actually have a boss like you. Maha Lud said, "We are doing these things so that they can't participate in the competition." ”

"Yes, yes, yes. The accomplice laughed.

Maha Lud said: "It is impossible for us to really kidnap them, and second, it is useless for us to keep them, we just make it impossible for them to compete with me for the first place in the alchemy competition." If Wright and the others solve this case, he will really fall into the conspiracy I designed. Because only if he solves the case, I can sit back and receive the reward of the first place in the alchemy competition and go to the Holy Garden to study. ”

The accomplice said: "They solved the case, didn't they find us?"

"Stop. Maha Lud smiled: "It's not us, it's you, this matter has nothing to do with me from beginning to end, isn't it?"

The accomplice was stunned for a moment, and a smile appeared on his face: "I understand." ”

"That's right. Maha Lud said: "Just let one of our bosses carry the black cauldron of this case, among our bosses, aren't there two more finalists? So I have already arranged, when Wright and they solve this case and find the 'behind-the-scenes mastermind' I designed, our boss who carries the black cauldron has left the city safely, just waiting to come back from the Holy Garden in the future and share the fruits of the harvest from the Holy Garden." ”

"Boss, that's wonderful. The accomplice's face bloomed with joy and said, "This is simply a brilliant plan, those people must not have imagined." ”

Maha Lud also smiled: "When they were still complacent about solving the case, they had actually fallen into the step-by-step design of the boss." ”

The accomplice asked excitedly, "Boss Maha Lud, what should we do now?"

"It's simple, do two things. Mahal Lud said, "First, kidnap me." ”

"Boss, you?"

Maha Lud said: "So many alchemists have problems, I am the first to pass the semi-finals without some problems, I really can't say it, just do things like a little." It's just that it was an attempted kidnapping. ”

"And what about the second thing?"

"The second thing is simpler, which is to control the speed at which they solve the case. We must solve the case on the day of the final, early, we will still have time to compete, and if it is late, they will suspect me who won the first place. ”

"How can this be controlled?" asked the accomplice.

Maha Lud said: "How can this not be controlled, don't forget, their current clues are provided by us." I think the day they see the Ancient Bone Serpent is the day the final is over. ”

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