Wizard: Become stronger by drawing cards from the potions variety show

Chapter 243 Hostages
Of course, this kind of investigation does not require Li Daoxian to visit each one.

Just use the information collected by others to corroborate these clues with each other.

If the identities of the people involved are clear, or their behavioral trajectories do not match Fernando's, then they can be ruled out as suspects.

Soon, Li Daoxian narrowed the suspicion in this way.

These clues obviously do not match Fernando's trajectory due to time, location, etc., and Fernando now needs to control the mimicry, so theoretically, he needs a quiet environment.

After synthesizing all the information, there was a clue that caught Li Daoxian's attention.

This clue comes from the owner of the "Blood Hotel" next door.

Twenty minutes ago, she had a guest.

There were very few guests who came to check in during the day, and this guest in particular left a relatively deep impression on her.

The boss habitually releases charm magic, but the other party uses magic to counterattack lightly, with no effect at all. He can't even see clearly how the other party dispels his own magic.

At this point, Li Daoxian believes that this tenant is most likely Fernando.

Learning runes is very difficult, requiring not only time but also talent. There are very few wizards who use runes as their main means. Magic is the coping method for mainstream wizards.

Not only that, but the tenant’s movement of raising his hands at the end also has a profound meaning, which is the suffix written in the rune carving.

Not being able to understand the other party's operations means that the other party's magical attainments are much greater than yours.

Dave smiled and said: "It may take at least twenty minutes, because many devices need to unlock the compression in a special way to ensure that the instrument will not be damaged."

Dave easily entered the bookstore according to the unlocking method provided by Li Daoxian.

The bookstore door was pushed open.

Fernando controlled the mimicry, looked around the surrounding environment, and then stood at the door and said: "Just take the most important things. The other things can be modified over there. Ten minutes, I think, is enough."

After the purification rune was carved, the meaning of "counterattack" was changed and the suffix was added after the purification, which in turn gave the innkeeper a hint of "don't disturb me".

It happened that the detectives had already arrived nearby. As soon as the detectives arrived, they went to the Bloody Hotel to test it out.

Fortunately, the guest didn't think much about it and just took the key and hurried back to his room.

Although the hotel owner could not understand the tenant's methods, Li Daoxian could clearly see the other party's operations through the information recorded by the hotel owner's prosthetic eyes.

When the hotel owner saw this, he was too sensible to have any other thoughts about the tenant, let alone argue with the tenant.

However, after entering the room, all the monitoring and collection equipment installed in all rooms of the hotel were interrupted by interference. No information could be collected and fell into a downtime state. No matter it was the magic eyeball or the monitoring equipment, there was no feedback. .

Click.

On this point, Dave has a certain say. When he was hunting giant structures, he also operated a lot of large-scale equipment for experiments. These equipments were very precise. Although he had not dismantled them, he heard that they were disassembled and transported. Be very careful, otherwise any mistakes may cause the accuracy of the instrument to decrease.

When the tenant answered the boss's question, he naturally raised his right hand and spread it out, with his index finger tracing a short curve.

……

The entrance of Miracle Bookstore.

It is precisely because of this that this hint strengthened the hotel owner's impression of the mysterious and powerful tenant. He did not intend to cause trouble after the hotel's equipment was paralyzed.

This is a simplified way of writing the root of the purification rune. It can simplify writing the rune and resonate with the characteristics of the rune. It proves the other party's deep understanding and accumulation of runes. This attracted Li Daoxian's attention.

Fernando listened to Dave's words and agreed with Dave: "Okay, just twenty minutes."

Dave didn't know if Fernando's words were a test. Now he could only act according to the plan, pack things, and delay as much time as possible so that Li Daoxian could have more time to carry out the task.

According to the information provided by Li Daoxian, Dave's bookshelf against the wall triggered a magic mechanism, causing the wall to dent, revealing the downward spiral stone steps.

Dave turned around and saw that Fernando had no intention of following, so he walked into the basement alone.

The basement is kept spotless, and it can be seen that the owner here should take great care of it.

On the side near the corridor, the equipment is neatly arranged, including a biological cultivation tank, an energy dump collection device, and a magic workbench, which is equipped with three functions: a forge, a synthesizer, and a modulator.

As for why Dave knows so much, it’s because Li Daoxian has provided him with a full set of information. In order to prevent him from revealing the truth because he has no relevant knowledge, Li Daoxian even provided detailed instructions about all the equipment here, and subdivided the disassembly method into fool-proof methods. degree of operation.

On the other side is a large cold storage.

As soon as Dave's consciousness reached the top, a list of the goods stored inside appeared. After just a glance, Dave withdrew his gaze. Apart from contraband, there was nothing special.

These things will be recovered by specialized personnel after the mission is over. Of course, it is also possible to follow these things to trace their origins. This depends on the mission arrangement.

Dave began to carefully disassemble the workbench step by step according to the fool-proof disassembly method.

Soon I was sweating profusely.

"What the hell, how did you get to this point? Did I miss any steps?"

Dave stood up and looked back and forth over the disassembly instructions.

After comparing step by step, I finally found that the problem was in the first few steps.

The triple safety buckle on the fixing part of the forging furnace was missing and was not unfastened, causing the step of detaching the flame generating device of the forging furnace to be blocked.

Considering that if it is forcibly dismantled, new problems may arise, and we have to rework it and start over.

At the same time, I was very happy in my heart. Fortunately, Fernando did not follow him. Otherwise, he was so unskilled in disassembling the equipment, which would inevitably make the other party suspicious.

On the ground now.

The mimic controlled by Fernando stood on the spot, motionless, but it could be seen that his eyes were wandering around the inside of the bookstore.

And inside the bookstore, agents including Leo and Nancy are hiding at the moment, and they are paying close attention to Mimic's every move. In the next plan, they will follow Dave to see if they can find Fernando's location.

Time passed by minute by minute, and soon it was twenty minutes. Fernando looked towards the basement passage and said, "Are you okay yet?"

"It's coming soon. It's coming soon. There are more things than I expected."

Dave was in the basement. He finally dismantled and compressed the equipment into a large box half as tall as a man. He walked up from the basement and came to Fernando's side. He asked, "I've packed it up. Where should we go next?" ?”

Fernando looked at the box behind Dave and said softly: "Don't worry, there is one more thing to do..."

As he spoke, a powerful wave of magic energy gathered on Fernando's body. Starting from his elbow, complex rune engravings lit up in an instant, while the palm of his hand was facing half of Dave's body.

With such a level of energy bursting out, half of his body would be blown away.

At the critical moment, Dave immediately opened the elemental shield and quickly reacted to dodge.

But after dodging, Dave immediately realized something was wrong, because the magic energy in Fernando's hand disappeared, and the originally powerful magic wave turned out to be just an illusion.

This is a feint.

The purpose is to test myself again.

Although Dave knew that he might have been exposed, he still looked innocent and spread his hands first to blame: "What are you doing? You scared me. I thought you were going to attack me."

Fernando's expression did not change when he heard Dave's words, and he even laughed: "Interesting, no wonder I always felt something was wrong from the front. It turns out that it was already lurking around me. Tell me, who are you?"

Dave was still stubborn: "What are you talking about? I'm Sinclair! Are you going back on your word? Hey, I've already given you the information. You can't use such a lame excuse to go back on my word."

Fernando looked like he was letting you perform. He waited for Dave to finish and then said: "In that case, come over and let me check. If there is no problem, I am willing to apologize to you and give you a generous sum." How about treating the compensation as my congratulatory gift to the new members?”

Dave's mind was racing.

There is no doubt that now is the time to judge again.

Now that I have most likely been exposed, if I go there, I will be betting that the camouflage ability I gained from the hunting giant structure experiment can hide from the opponent's inspection.

The ability in the hunting giant structure comes from the strange world. Theoretically speaking, the research of that world is still in the stage of not being fully disclosed. People who don't understand the principle can basically not detect the camouflage of this flesh and blood distortion.

If you can get away with it, you might have a chance to regain the other party's trust.

Of course, if you are discovered, your completely undefended past is very risky. Allowing the other party to perform magic at a very close distance is almost equivalent to putting your life in the hands of others.

In just a moment, Dave made a judgment: "Let's check it, but agree that if it happens, the compensation will be no less."

Dave said as he opened his hand and walked towards Fernando to prove that he was not using magic.

When Dave came closer, Fernando approached him and the magic power condensed. Just when Dave was about to wait for the test results, he found that his body was imprisoned, the flow of magic power in his body was also restricted, and fine runes covered his body. Body.

Fernando said softly: "The performance is good, but the method of disassembling the equipment is still too unfamiliar."

Immediately afterwards, he loudly said to the people around him: "My lurking friends, please come out too. Judging from your magic habits, you should be from the Supervision Office? Now your agents are in my hands. If you don't want to see anyone If you sacrifice, then you’ll get the real Sinclair in exchange.”

As he spoke, Fernando hooked his fingers. Dave, who was bound like a stone statue, stood in front of him. At the same time, his right hand was placed on Dave's head. The rune engraving on his elbow lit up again, in circles. The rune aperture tightened around Dave's head.

This time it was no illusion. This runic aperture contained powerful energy. As long as it exploded, Dave, a high-level wizard, would be killed immediately.

At this moment, the agents hidden around him came out and surrounded Fernando.

"Please calm down."

Nancy looked at Fernando and said: "If you attack and kill the agents of the Inspectorate, the nature will be completely different. Moreover, don't the Emerald Thieves claim to be a just group? If you attack and kill the agents, so what? Can it be called justice?”

Fernando smiled and said: "I only give you five minutes. If you can't bring the real Sinclair here, this heroic agent who was in danger for the mission will die. Think about it, a Isn’t such a brave agent worthy of your rescue?”

"The choice is yours. If he dies, it will not be me who kills him, but you."

Sinclair was contained in Li Daoxian's body.

While Nancy contacted Li Daoxian to explain the situation, she delayed for time: "Five minutes is too short. There is no way we can bring people here in such a short time. What you do is murder for the sake of murder."

Fernando said: "There are four minutes and thirty seconds left. Five minutes is enough. This is Wanxiang City. Moving anywhere in this city will not take more than three minutes."

"But it also takes time for us to contact you." Nancy immediately retorted, "And to release the criminal, you need to ask for instructions, which all takes time."

Fernando smiled and said: "I don't care about that. I only look at the result. There are four minutes and twenty seconds left."

Nancy sighed and could only communicate with Li Daoxian more frequently.

At this time, you can only choose one, the mission or your teammates.

Unexpectedly, Li Daoxian only replied with one sentence at this time: "Wait for the opportunity and prepare to save people."

save people?

How to save this?
The rune ring relied on mimicry to maintain its stability. Even if he and others were surprisingly difficult to attack the mimicry and lost control of the mimicry, the rune ring tightly wrapped around Dave's head would still explode.

Li Daoxian's response should mean that the other side has made progress in tracing Fernando's true identity.

But in this case, Li Daoxian's response has shown that between the mission and saving people, Li Daoxian chose to continue the mission.

Although this choice cannot be wrong, this is a team member...

"There are still two minutes left. I wonder how your contact is going? Theoretically, if you intend to rescue, you should have arrived by now..."

Fernando shook Dave in his hand and said, "It seems you have been abandoned... Is there anything you want to say now?"

While speaking, Fernando removed the restraints on Dave's mouth, as if he wanted to see what Dave would say if he was given up, and would he ask the Inspectorate to save him?
Survival is human instinct. It would be very interesting if Dave asked for rescue but was ruthlessly sacrificed by the Inspectorate.

As soon as Dave was able to speak, he taunted: "What I hate most is being forced by others. You want me to beg for mercy, but I am not as good as you want!"

(End of this chapter)