Returning from the abyss

Chapter 470 Asking the Soul
Liz's efforts were fruitless.

No matter how I searched, no other suspicious person was found in this building.After all, the students couldn't stand in a stalemate for too long, the teachers came in anyway, and immediately sealed off the scene after discovering it, Lu Ning and others were naturally invited out.

Liz stood outside the building in a daze for a long time.

"Xue Ni, I have no real feelings about Catherine's death..."

"how?"

"Although I have touched the corpse with my own hands, I always feel that Catherine is not dead—it's too strange. I don't think she will die so easily. She is a genius favored by the dean."

"Not even the most powerful magic in the world can bring the dead back."

"Except for necromancers, right?" Liz suddenly turned her head.

"Necromantic spells are not resurrection, they just endow the bones with new power and old obsessions, Liz, you..."

"But at least we can get Catherine's soul back! Isn't there a famous teacher of necromancy in the Amethyst District? We can ask her for help! This way we can find out what happened at that time!"

"Okay." Xue Ni put her hand on Liz's shoulder, "I'll go with you."

"Necromantic?" Lu Ning raised her eyebrows, "Is it really possible to know what happened to the dead through necromantic magic?"

"It is said that an excellent necromancer can do it." Xue Ni said, "Mr. Garcia in the Amethyst District is the best one we can get in touch with. Maybe she has mastered a similar method."

"I'm with you."

Going from moonstone to amethyst means crossing most of the Eva corridor, and Geoffrey still didn't follow, but Lu Ning was full of doubts about Catherine's death.

There is too much "unnecessary" in it. Catherine didn't need to take such a fierce resistance. The other party didn't have to kill Catherine. The murder weapon was an overly expensive dark crystal, and most of the people who should have existed at the scene were gone. up.

"Can that 'prince' be a breakthrough?" Lu Ning asked in the carriage.

"We don't have the ability to force him to speak up. This matter must be handed over to the college. The death of a student is a major event in Ewalang, and we will not deal with it negatively anyway. You can rest assured about that." Xue Ni suppressed With a calm tone, he said quickly, "But even if the prince is directly imprisoned and executed, this matter will not end so easily. The disappearance of the people present is an unavoidable point no matter what. Liz's reaction is already very fast. , so the question is where have all those people gone? Is the group invisible?"

"Impossible. The entrances and exits of all buildings in the college have anti-theft measures. Anti-invisibility is the most basic one. No one can leave the building invisibly." Liz said with a gloomy face.

"How long have those measures been updated?" Xue Ni asked.

"It will be changed every seven years, and the measures taken by each school are different. Is it possible that there are still people who specialize in researching anti-theft guards in order to kill Catherine? I'm more inclined... those people are all dead."

"Liz!"

"Listen Xue Ni, although you are better than me in many aspects, you are definitely not as good as us magic swordsmen in the sense of death. The more I think about it, the more I understand why I can't feel Catherine's death. Because the room was filled with a strong smell of death, which even covered up Catherine's own death."

"I can't understand that feeling." Xue Ni shook her head.

Lu Ning does know that feeling, but the problem is that she doesn't have such a strong death instinct in this world, and people like Liz are probably considered a minority.

"Yes, when I touched that corpse, what I felt was just a dead object, not the loss of life...It's hard for me to describe it to you, but I think there are a lot of strange things in it, sorry..." Liz hugged Head scratched, looking distressed and confused.

Finally arrived at the Amethyst District, Xue Ni knew the school where Garcia taught, she guided the way, and the three quickly found the place, Lu Ning raised her eyebrows slightly when she saw the name.

"Twilight Academy?"

"what happened?"

"No...Professor Garcia teaches here?"

"Yes, she usually still teaches elements. After all, there are very few students studying necromancy, and there are not many opportunities to teach this class."

There is a special teacher's dormitory building here, and if you find Garcia, you just need to report to the guard, and you can be released with the other party's consent.

The process was also very smooth.

"What should we say when we see it?"

About to meet, Liz became even more nervous. Xue Ni gave her a strange look: "To be honest, I know you are in chaos right now, so I'll just talk."

"Um……"

Soon, there was a knock on Garcia's door.As the door slightly opened a gap, Xue Ni stretched out her hand and opened the door.

The size of the teacher's dormitory is naturally different from that of the students, and it is already equivalent to a house.In the living room outside, Garcia was sitting on the sofa and was quickly recording something in a notebook with a shorthand quill. He looked up at the three people, and smiled and beckoned them to sit down.

"Teacher Garcia..."

"Although I am well-known in the Amethyst District, I won't be asked by people from other schools. There are still a lot of excellent teachers in each district." Garcia waved his hand and moved the quill and notebook aside, "First Answer me, is it very important?"

"Yes."

"Okay." Garcia flicked his fingers, and the surrounding immediately became quiet.

After the soundproofing was completed, Xue Ni stated everything she saw exactly. At this time, she still did not mix in various subjective factors, but only described what she saw.

"...We hope to use your necromantic ability to find out the truth about the death of your friend. I wonder if necromantic magic can do this?"

"Soul... yes." Garcia replied after thinking for a moment, "For us, it is very easy to control the soul and dig out memories, so necromancy once had a bad reputation. But if you must try it , I can summon Catherine's soul to ask."

As soon as the voice fell, all the doors and windows in the room were automatically closed, sealed by blackout curtains, sky blue patterns appeared on the walls, and a ghostly lamp was lit above the head, and the atmosphere immediately became ghostly.

"But I want to explain first." Garcia raised his hand and swiped in the air. Lu Ning only felt that the surrounding temperature dropped a little again.

"There are very few people who study necromancy, so there are many people who have misunderstandings about souls. People always like to equate souls with ghosts, which is wrong in a strict sense. I can put Catherine's The soul is summoned, but there are also many interference factors."

"Please speak." Xue Ni was not disturbed by the environment at all.

"First of all, the soul itself does not have a shape, nor does it have the ability to interact with emotion, memory, and reality."

"Wait a minute!" Liz stood up, "No memory?"

"Memory is a function of the body. When the soul leaves, the memory will not be taken away. Of course, the events that have passed through the soul state will remain in the soul form in some way, and we necromancers can dig it out. Because the moment of death The soul memory starts, so if you ask questions about the time of death, you can still figure it out, which is why people confuse soul memory and body memory."

Garcia paused, then continued: "Second, the soul is not an independent state, unlike when it has a body, if there are a large number of souls in an area, even we can't differentiate and call them, I can only guarantee these The scenes in the memory of the soul are the same to prove what you want to know."

"Okay." Xue Ni nodded.

"The last point is to restrain your emotions. The soul itself does not have any attributes other than magic power, but it is an existence that is extremely vulnerable to pollution. Any form of strong emotion may cause changes in the soul—— what we often call evil spirits Ghosts and monsters come from this, I am not going to carry out a spirit exorcism here, understand?"

At this moment, Xue Ni turned her head and glanced at Liz.

"Okay." Liz took a deep breath, and her eyes became calm.

Garcia closed his eyes slightly, and began to chant incantations that could not be described in words. The pronunciation was distant and empty, as if it was a whisper from another world. This is the most distinctive feature of the language of the dead.

Lu Ning suddenly felt the light flickering in front of her eyes, and looked up, and saw that the burning lamp above her head was constantly flickering, and the surrounding temperature was even lower, which even made her shiver.

"The soul has arrived." Garcia suddenly opened her eyes, filled with the surging magic power of the undead. She opened her hands slightly and lifted them into the air. The three of them could feel a vortex circling there.

"Catherine, what happened at that time?" Xue Ni asked immediately.

"No, don't ask about such a complicated thing. When it comes to details, it's best to answer in one or two words." Garcia said quickly.

Xue Ni was taken aback for a moment, not thinking clearly how to ask the question.

"Which person took the medicine bottle?" Lu Ning asked suddenly.

A cry echoed in the air, and Garcia listened for a moment and said, "Prince."

"It really is him." Liz nodded.

"Who did the killing?"

A moment later, the answer came again: "The prince and his magician."

"Is everyone dead except the prince and his magician?"

【Yes. 】

"Don't ask provocative questions! Resentment is growing in the soul!"

Lu Ning narrowed her eyes slightly.

"Where is the magic blocking potion?"

At this moment, the lights went out, and the surrounding immediately fell into darkness.Immediately, the curtains were opened, and the breeze from the outside came in, dissipating the eerie feeling in the room.Garcia sighed: "The soul can only last so far. If it continues, it may turn into a wraith. That is not the result you hoped for."

"It's okay, we have already found out the murderer." Liz and Xue Ni bowed to Garcia, "Thank you very much for your help, teacher."

"If a student has an accident, every teacher will do their best to assist in the arrest. I will write you a letter of proof, and you can take it to the guard station. They can start to arrest immediately."

"Thank you." Liz said sincerely.

Going downstairs with the letter of proof, Xue Ni and Liz discussed the next step in a low voice, while Lu Ning deliberately lagged two steps behind, thinking about the question just now.

Every answer pointed directly at the prince, without exception. Such a unified evidence can be said to have no doubts, but this can't explain her previous doubts.But neither Xue Ni nor Liz will take these issues into consideration at the moment. Their goal is to capture the prince and take his life, and they will definitely not listen to their own words.

Will Garcia tamper with the words of the undead?What is the probability that she can participate in such a thing?
When walking out of the gate of the academy, Lu Ning stopped in her footsteps.

"Xue Ni, Liz, you two go back first, I probably won't be able to help you with the rest of the matter. Now I still have some things to check."

"Okay." Both of them didn't think about Lu Ning's matter, and left in a hurry to return to the Moonstone area.Lu Ning stood at the door thinking for a moment, then turned to look in the direction of the teacher's dormitory.

"Is that what it means? But why does Garcia want to..."

"Miss Lillian?"

She was at the door, so it was easy to be seen by people passing by, and the person who called her name at this time was also a person who had met once, Pengshan Yuanzi.

"Uh...Miss Pengshan?"

Lu Ning sized her up. Pengshan seemed to always be dressed in black, but now she was also wearing a black shirt and black skirt, holding a book in her hand, which seemed quite literary.

"Miss Pengshan lives in the Amethyst District?"

"No, I'm just interested. I came here to listen to a Feng Shui theory, and to visit friends on the way after the class."

"Friend?" Lu Ning smiled slightly, "Could it be Teacher Garcia, right? She is the most famous teacher here."

"Miss Lilian is smart." Pengshan Yuanzi nodded slightly, his eyes flashed for a moment, "Meeting is fate, I wonder if Miss Lilian is interested in visiting the library on the open day?"

"Of course I don't want to miss such a thing. Could it be that Miss Pengshan is also interested?"

Pengshan Yuanzi smiled, and Lu Ning suddenly noticed her eyes, which were just like her name. Lu Ning just made contact with her eyes for a moment and unconsciously moved away.

"Miss Lilian also seems to avoid looking at me." Pengshan raised his eyebrows seriously, "Although ordinary people should look away, but you just noticed my eyes."

"Is there any kind of eye magic in your family?"

"In the Pengshan lineage, yin and yang, feng shui, mountains, medicine, divination, and ancient miscellaneous arts are all dabbled in. I dare not pass it down from the family, but it is better to dabble in a wide range. It's just that many skills use the brain and the eyes, and thus learn to destroy evil. The pupil. I don’t have the spirit of a gentleman and dare not look directly.”

"Miss Pengshan... Does that mean I'm guilty?"

"This is a blunt statement. In this world, there are very few people with nothing in their hearts. Miss Lilian doesn't need to pay too much attention to it. It's just... the scent of the soul-calling fragrance on your body, you should just leave from my friend. And use the soul-calling fragrance, Someone important to you should die."

"Why is it an important person?"

"If it weren't for this, I wouldn't come here to look for my friend and hear the words of the dead. However, necromancy may be offensive and defensive magic, but it is not very useful in solving doubts."

(End of this chapter)