The long fairy road is wonderful

Chapter 275

Facing the corpse, Alma stepped back a little bit, watching the wind through the window on the second floor, and cautiously saw a group of patrolling guards passing by outside the house.

Although the corpse in front of them has nothing to do with them, if found by the patrol team, it is estimated that the case will be closed as a murderer directly, because the local officials' ability to handle cases is really not flattering.

Redicia looked at the busy little brother Lin, and said strangely:

"Are you drawing symbols?"

"Well, this is the Soul Return Talisman."

After death, it is not as simple as closing one's eyes and then opening one's eyes to go to the underworld. Even if one has no regrets in this life, the soul of the person who died peacefully will stay around for a period of time, usually about a stick of incense (30 minutes).

During this time, as long as it is not affected by external forces, it will not become a ghost.The soul in this state hardly has any consciousness. It is just instinct to stay nearby, and then the soul will be drawn to the underworld by a pulling force in the dark. It is subjective when it closes and opens its eyes. describe.

The soul returning talisman can temporarily return the soul to the corpse, but it must be a soul that has just died and is in a lingering state.

However, the real function of the soul-returning talisman is not to inquire about the dead, but to target ghosts.

The ghosts in Eastern China can be roughly divided into two categories, one with corpses and the other without.

No, such as Linglong (although she is a ghost cultivator), the connection between her and the corpse has long been broken, it doesn't matter whether the corpse is burned or not.

A ghost with a corpse is usually stronger than one without a corpse, but its weakness is also the corpse.

The function of the soul-returning talisman is to stick it on the corpse, so that the ghost can be shrunk in its own body, its strength will be greatly reduced, and it will be easier to be eliminated. This is the real usage of the soul-returning talisman.

Of course, it is not impossible to use it in the current situation.

"The soul-returning talisman can temporarily recall the soul of the deceased. We can ask how he died."

Redicia thought for a while:
"Soul? Oh, you mean the soul. It sounds like the soul return talisman is a bit like 'talking with the dead'. Some priests and necromancers can temporarily call back the soul of the dead to ask a few questions."

Due to the big gap with the impression in his mind, Lin Tianci has given up using the "priest" in the impression of his previous life. Compared with the priests that exist in this world, it is simply not the same style of painting.

"Also, using the soul-returning talisman can prove my guess a little bit."

"What guess?"

Lin Tianci didn't answer, he left the last stroke on the yellow paper, and then pasted the talisman on the forehead of the deceased.

"It seems... useless?"

After waiting for two seconds, the so-called Soul Return Talisman did not take effect at all.

The soul-returning talisman is one of the talismans that specifically target ghosts, but it is not able to hit all ghosts. After all, Brother Lin’s cultivation is not high. If the target ghost’s skills are too deep, he can resist or even be completely immune to the soul-returning talisman. pull.

But the man who died in front of him was obviously just an ordinary person, and the Soul Resurrection Talisman shouldn't be completely ineffective.

To be on the safe side, Lin Tianci took out the scripture of divine talismans and turned to the page of the soul-returning talisman, and checked it several times against the talisman he had drawn.

"The talisman is useless, but more troublesome."

Lin Tianci shook his head, took off the talisman and stuffed it back into his talisman box, and asked Lei Dixia next to him:
"You just said that there are similar things in magic. Is there a magic that sends the soul of the dead away?"

"Of course there are. There are a lot of necromancy schools, and some special potions have similar effects."

"Then can you see if there are any traces of those things left on this corpse?"

Redicia didn't know what Lin Tianci was doing, but she stretched out her finger and cast an unknown spell on the corpse, then nodded firmly:
"The magic power of necromancy is very eye-catching. There is no necromancy left on the corpse. I just checked with the poison detector, and there is no potion or toxin left."

After she finished speaking, she was puzzled again:
"Why do you care so much about this guy's soul?"

"Because there are a group of demons and heretics among our monks, and what they are best at is refining souls into the law."

That's right, evil cultivators.

Killing people to take blood and refining souls to become the law, this is the standard painting style of evil cultivators, and it is also the root cause of them becoming street rats.

The Soul Resurrection Talisman will fail, and after eliminating the magic factor, there is only one possibility.

The soul of the dead man in front of him has been taken away by the murderer, combined with the shape of the wound, there is a very high possibility of evil cultivators haunting him.

When the monks in Eastern China stayed at home, the evil cultivators who were driven away obviously did not stay in the gutter honestly. Their range of activities was much wider than the decent monks imagined. Evil cultivators have been active in the western continent for thousands of years, and the monks in Eastern China still don't know it.

Lin Tianci habitually took out the True Inheritance Disciple Token, wanting to send a letter to Zhang Baixi.

But infusing mana as usual doesn't work, maybe because the distance is too far, and the call you made is out of service area...

"Is the evil cultivator you are talking about your enemy?"

Redicia still doesn't quite understand what's going on between the monks. After all, Necromancy with a similar painting style has been listed as a legal faction that can be taught publicly. , it will provoke encirclement and suppression from all over the world.

"Not only the enemy, but also the enemy of life and death. The first rule of all sects of our monks is 'in case of evil cultivators, kill without mercy'."

Lin Tianci had a slight headache, no matter how far he went to the west, he could meet these guys, so he must be so damn lucky.

Alma lowered her body, returned to the two from the window and said:

"It doesn't matter who the murderer is. Let's look for the command input device first. Whether we can find it or not, we can't stay in this place anymore."

Indeed, whether the person in front of him was killed by the evil cultivator is not the point. Anyway, the murderer is not at the scene. The purpose of Alma and Redicia is to find the command input device.

Leticia looked around and said:

"That thing was not displayed outside, and we didn't see any collections related to the ancient elves on the way we came. They were either sold or..."

"There is a secret passage or secret door leading to the collection room."

After grabbing the lines, Alma raised her staff:

"Detect the secret door."

A faint wave spread out from the gem on the head of the staff, scanning all objects like a radar.

"Sure enough, it's not that easy. The detection spell didn't return any useful information."

According to intelligence, the original owner of this house is a reclusive mage. Even if there are secret doors and secret passages, he will definitely deploy spells to avoid detection.

The two girls changed two or three detection spells, but nothing was gained.

"I wish Mystra was here. That guy looks sissy, but he's really good at detecting spells."

"Who is Mystra?"

Alma continued:

"It's one of our teammates, he's waiting for us to meet up in Canso City."

That being said, it’s like saying nothing. Canso City is still far away. You can’t go to Canso City first and then turn back. By then, the body in this house must have been discovered by the guards and sealed up long ago.

For this, Lin Tianci had no good solution. There were many monks who used detection spells, but unfortunately he was kicked out of the house by Zhang Baixi before he had time to learn them.

It is the same reason that when the book is used, one hates less. Lin Tianci is always faced with the embarrassing situation that he does not have some spells when he needs them.

He stood up and took another good look at the room.

There is only this one bedroom on the second floor, and many furniture and decorations in the bedroom have been sold, so the bedroom looks very empty now.

Apart from a very luxurious double queen bed, there is not much to see.

He walked to the bed lightly, tried to break the beads at the four corners of the bed or everything that looked like a mechanism handle, but found nothing.

Recalling the size of this house from the outside, we can find that the area used is smaller, which means that there must be a problem, either the load-bearing walls and decoration occupy too much space, or there are really secret passages.

Turning around, I saw Alma and Leticia who were still using various detection spells, as well as the corpse and the fireplace opposite them.

This gave Lin Tianci a flash of inspiration.

"You said, is there something wrong with the position where the corpse fell?"

The body fell with its back to the fireplace. Did the deceased lean on the fireplace and talk to the murderer before dying?
But looking at the distance, it doesn't look like leaning on it, it's more like walking a few steps forward, being stabbed to death by a sword, and finally falling to the ground.

"Indeed, the position of the body is not right."

There was no trace of blood anywhere else in the room, as if the corpse had been dragged or the dead had struggled to move.

Alma looked at the corpse, then at the fireplace:
"I think he may have run towards the window from the fireplace, and was stabbed to death with a sword on the way."

"From the direction of the fireplace...?"

Redicia hypothesized:
"If the fireplace is the entrance to the storage room, then the murderer who killed him should have come as a 'buyer'. The deceased took him into his father's storage room, and then found that the other party wanted to kill him, so he ran desperately. Go out of the secret passage, and be caught up and killed by the murderer here?"

"There is a possibility."

The deceased was eager to dispose of his father's inheritance, and then return to Canso City to spend time and drink. Of course, his father's collections related to the ancient elves are also the most important thing to deal with. It is not impossible to directly bring buyers into the collection room to choose possible.

It's just that he didn't expect the other party to want to kill someone.

The process of guessing is roughly like this. There may be some discrepancies in details, but it is already a guess with a relatively high accuracy rate.

Most importantly, this simple reasoning pinpoints where the secret passage was opened.

The two girls, Alma and Redicia, groped up and down the red-brick fireplace, and their hands were covered with black ash. Only then did they find a movable brick in the exhaust pipe on the inside of the fireplace.

With a light touch, the three of them backed up a little to avoid danger.

They saw the fireplace split open in the middle, then collapse in its entirety, revealing a doorway through which light shone...

(End of this chapter)