Whispering Verse

Miss Louisa, who was looking through the information with her head lowered and using the dim light in her hands, seemed completely unaware of the situation behind her. But behind the man holding the knife, the figure of Dr. Schneider, who should have walked out of the room, appeared:

"Is it because we came too quickly? You are too easily fooled."

The rumbling thunder finally exploded at this moment.

In the darkened study room after the lightning, Dr. Schneider grabbed the wrist of the man holding the knife, while Miss Louisa, who had her head lowered, suddenly turned around, with flaming fists, like that night when the relic was out of control due to the attack. The fish-man appeared and punched the attacker behind him in the abdomen.

Flames sputtered with a muffled sound, and the strange man's left hand blocked Miss Louisa's right hand. Then, he jumped up on the spot with an incredible move. After breaking away from the doctor's control, his whole body was stuck to the ceiling like a gecko.

After simply judging the current situation, the figure had no intention of fighting the two men. He quickly left the light area of ​​the gas lamp above the desk, then immediately rushed out of the study and plunged into the silver mist that filled the corridor. This small and limited terrain is most suitable for Shade's illusion.

Shade also stood in the silver mist, watching the figures rushing in. They ran around for a while, and then stopped cautiously. He was a man with medium build and yellow hair wearing an eyepatch over his left eye. He stood in the silver mist with a knife in his right hand, cautiously waiting for the illusion user's attack.

But Shade is very self-aware and does not want to fight in close combat with a ring warlock who is definitely higher than himself. Seeing the man holding the knife stopped, the silver mist dispersed, and Miss Louisa, who had been prepared, rushed over with a huge life ring floating behind her.

The glowing rope fell from the sky and was wrapped around the man's neck. But he just slashed upward with the knife and actually cut the rope. Before Miss Louisa could make the next move, the man raised the tip of the knife, causing the blindfold on his left eye to slip off.

Behind the blindfold, the terrifying blue eyeballs were dripping and spinning, causing Miss Louisa to step back subconsciously. She warned loudly:

"Relic! Magic Eye!"

That eye seemed to be moving around in its sockets as if it was out of the man's control, and the whites of his eyes kept appearing in large swaths of the sockets. Seeing Miss Louisa retreating with her eyes closed, the man holding the knife immediately turned to look at Shade.

Unprepared, Shade looked into those eyes. The blue eyes were different from Dr. Schneider's blue eyes. The madness revealed in that terrifying eye was like the madness of the last survivor before the world was on the verge of destruction.

The lightning outside the window flashed again at this moment, and the white light illuminated the two people looking at each other. It also allowed Shade to completely see the middle-aged man's face. The vicissitudes of his face probably told many stories.

And Shade, who looked at the demonic eye... felt nothing.

"What?"

The man holding the knife was stunned for a moment, and it was this small mistake that allowed Dr. Schneider to hold the back of his head from behind. The doctor's voice was unusually soft amidst the ambient sound of raindrops hitting the window, and the palm pressing on the back of the enemy's head glowed with black light:

"Go to sleep."

The man holding the knife struggled to look at Shade. His normal right eye kept opening and closing repeatedly, reminding outsiders of his classmates in math class back home. He finally fell asleep, but when he was held by the doctor, his left eye was still open, and the blue eyeball was spinning around in the socket. The magic eye did not look like a whole body at all.

The sound of rain covered up the brief fight that took place in the corridor. The doctor neatly placed the man on the floor of the corridor, pulled up his clothes and covered his face. In fact, it was mainly to cover the constantly moving magic eye.

He looked up at the two people:

"Writer, detective, give me twenty minutes, and I will go and take a look in his dream."

When we were out on the road, the doctor had told us not to call everyone by name.

"It takes so long?"

Shade asked, bending down to pick up the short knife in the man's hand. It is a pity that although this short sword is well made, it is just an ordinary weapon.

"This is a ring warlock. Of course, it will take longer. If smoke starts to come out of my body, it means that his ability to manipulate dreams is stronger than mine. Remember to wake me up."

As he spoke, the doctor pressed his covered head with both hands and kept his body bent motionless, like a perfect wax statue.

No matter how Miss Louisa commented on this scene, Shade found it very strange.

As for the fact that the murderer did not leave, Dr. Schneider deduced it after checking the window sill and found that part of the countertop was not wet, while Shade found new blood stains after getting closer to the window sill.

The man with the knife may have heard their voices upstairs and learned that one of them could see blood. But he certainly didn't expect that even if the shoes were thrown out of the window and the knife was rinsed in the rain, the blood stains on the clothes that were invisible to the naked eye during the murder could still be seen.

You know, Shade can even capture bloodstains from a hundred years ago, let alone fresh bloodstains.

Therefore, after Shade hurriedly left the door, the doctor followed him carelessly, causing Miss Louisa to be attacked. This was not a tacit cooperation between the three of them, but a simple arrangement of the plan while the doctor was writing in the air with his glowing fingers while walking.

The most important part of the plan is that the weakest Shade will not be "killed at face-to-face". Now it seems that their luck is quite good.

"If my guess is correct, the factory owner, Mr. Ponton, must have embezzled the money entrusted to him by [Mercury Blood] for safekeeping, which is why he caused such a disaster tonight."

Seeing that the doctor had fallen asleep smoothly, Miss Louisa, who was relaxed, stood beside Shade and whispered. The sound of shoes on the floor was almost completely inaudible.

The sound of rain outside the window became quieter, and the most thrilling part of the rainstorm was over.

"That's what I guessed, otherwise I can't explain the expensive silverware and jewelry. Moreover, Mr. Ponton was checking the accounts before he died. This is also very suspicious. It seems that the murderer forced him to take out all the accounts and check them. But there was no To think that ordinary people dare to embezzle the gold pounds of the Ring Warlock Organization..."

Xia De let out a small sigh and felt that this matter was not so incredible:

"Greed always makes people behave irrationally."

"This sentence makes sense, so ring warlocks should be more cautious. Oh, Shade, do you still have a water bottle on you? It's about this big."

Miss Louisa gestured again.

"Of course."

He handed the bottle over. The blonde girl shook it and found that it was full, so she handed the bottle back to Shade:

"Take that eye out and put it in a bottle."

"What? Take?"

As Shade asked, he lowered his head and looked down, then put his right hands together and made an unsightly gesture of grabbing downwards:

"How to take it?"

"Yes, insert your fingers into the eye sockets and pull out the eyeballs."

Miss Louisa followed suit and made a grasping motion with the five fingers of her right hand together. She patiently explained to Shade:

"That eye is a magic eye, a type of special [relic]. It seems that the integration of the magic eye with his body is incomplete, so I speculate that it can be easily pulled out. The effect of the eye seems to be useless to you, That’s why I asked you to do it.”

"Oh well."

Shade knelt down amidst the sound of raindrops hitting the glass, lifted the clothes covering his head, and suddenly saw the blue eyeball in the man's left eye socket spinning around.

In order to learn thaumaturgy, he had done more than one incredible thing in this world, so although he still had obstacles in his heart, he still reached out and inserted his hand into the socket of his left eye, and then "plucked" it out. This action is simpler than turning the gas lamp in his home.

The eyeball was extremely slippery. After taking it out, Shade immediately threw it into the bottle. The blue magic eye continued to rotate rapidly after entering the water, but it stopped motionless within ten seconds. The pupils in the eyeballs lost their expression, as if they were "dead".

"Can eyes also be relics?"

He then asked, standing up and corking the bottle and handing it to Miss Louisa. The latter shook the bottle vigorously and felt relieved when he saw that the eyes inside were really motionless. He handed the bottle back to Shade and asked him to hold it first.

"Fish scales can be relics, why not eyes?"

Miss Louisa asked, and then smiled:

"Speaking of which, since I promised to be your teacher, I naturally have to take responsibility. Now I will tell you about the knowledge about the magic eyes. First of all, the danger level of all magic eyes is assessed, the lowest is the secret keeper level. (Level 3), because the magic eye needs to be implanted into the human body, which makes it very easy to lose control. Although I don’t know the function of this eyeball, it is probably at the keeper level, and the doctor will be able to ask for detailed information in a while.”

"Is this a secret-keeper-level relic?"

Shade has not forgotten how valuable the last Keeper-level relic [Inferi Bones] that he came into contact with was.

"Magic Eye relics are rare relics that can be directly transplanted to the Ring Warlock, and almost directly enhance the Ring Warlock. Most of the Magic Eyes have strong side effects, but they are also very powerful accordingly. But the Magic Eye's Transplantation is not like a universal steam engine part that can be plugged in and out at will. It requires complex and precise surgical procedures."

Shade looked at the lying man:

"I think the doctor who operated on him must not be a good doctor."

Miss Louisa shook her head. Although she was talking to Shade, her eyes were always paying attention to both ends of the corridor and the body lying in the room to prevent other accidents from happening:

"Not everyone can use the magic eye. There is also a concept of adaptability. The Sirksess Medical School, one of the three major schools of thaumaturgy, has published several good papers in the past few years, discussing the magic eye. The relationship between eye adaptability and the Ring Warlock. This man is probably not very adaptable to this eye. Forcibly using it will cause the eye itself to appear to be out of control of the body."

The blonde girl was very unladylike and kicked the lying man with her leg. Of course, the force is not strong to prevent disturbing the dreaming doctor:

"After the doctor got enough information, we killed him right here. This kind of person is really terrible..."

Shade understood her thoughts and supported this approach very much. After sniffing the moisture in the air, he raised his eyes and looked out the corridor window. There were no pedestrians on the rainy night:

"Of course, those who murder must be prepared to be killed. We can't control the financial dispute between Mercury Blood and the Ponton family, but the maid who was killed downstairs is innocent after all."