Age of Heroes, 10-game winning streak

In front of a stone statue, he showed the royal blood soul crystal in his hand.

The stone sculpture looked like a knight who was committing suicide. It cut its throat and shed bright red blood. The blood overflowed and flowed on the ground, turning into a bright red carpet along the steps.

This opened a path to the upper level of Opal Palace.

"How long can this road last?" Bai Yu stepped on the suspended red carpet staircase. This thing is not only a staircase, but also an ancient magic that expands space.

"It can be maintained forever."

"It was also turned on when the prince was killed?"

"No, it's closed."

"Then how did you know that the prince had been killed without opening the passage?"

"I mentioned before that the Opal Palace itself is an underground city, right?" Mussel said: "On the night the prince was killed, the Opal Palace underwent a change. Its appearance transformed into a high tower and activated Gargoyle Guard."

"Did you judge that something must have happened based on the changes in the appearance of Opal Palace?"

"Yes, after the mutation occurred, within ten minutes, a veteran on duty brought the blood soul crystal of the royal family to quell the commotion."

Mussel continued: "There were five blind dates downstairs, but Peggy Frankimir was not among them."

She raised her head and said, "So the Knights speculated that she assassinated the prince and then entered the subspace where the dungeon is located."

Bai Yu frowned: "Is this too arbitrary?"

"It's not arbitrary. Just like the problem you just noticed, this 'staircase' is the key to isolating the upper and lower floors. Only the royal family or the blood soul crystal of the royal family can open it, and the blood soul crystal dropped after the death of the prince can on his body while the 'stairs' were closed."

Mussel said, "You know what that means."

"Is this another secret room?" Bai Yu raised his eyebrows.

To put it simply, you can think of the blood soul crystal as a key and the stairs as a door.

After the prince dies, he drops the key, which is needed to open and close the door.

The problem now is that the body is inside the door, the key is inside the door, and the door is locked.

Then the five people downstairs have almost no suspicion. Only Paige, who stayed upstairs and disappeared, is suspect, and only she can do it.

But Bai Yu knew very well that Peggy could not assassinate the prince.

So, this is still a secret room.

Or, think about it another way.

What if the murderer committed the murder and was caught by Peggy, and then Peggy took the initiative to close the stairs to prevent the other person from coming up?

No, there should be no such possibility.

If this was the case, there was no need for Paige to escape, let alone leave the blood soul crystal next to the body.

"Emmm..." Bai Yu was thinking, having already walked through the corridor and reached the upper floor.

The private residence of the Blood Prince.

Push the door and enter, a luxurious one-bedroom apartment with hundreds of square meters.

A month has passed, and no cleaning has been carried out. The body is still there, but there is no tendency to decay. It should be that the veteran-level vampires used magic to preserve all traces.

Bai Yu looked at the vampire prince and couldn't hold back at the first sight.

Subconsciously, I thought of an ancient Eastern nursery rhyme.

——Brother Ni’s head was like a ball; he kicked it to the department store.

Bai Yu asked: "Where is the head?"

The female knight's eyes dodge: "I think... maybe it's because she died so tragically that she has no face to see others."

Chapter 720: Clues, getting better and better

The assassination of the Blood Prince.

Not only a secret room, but also a beheading case.

Bai Yu walked on the scene, glanced around, and asked: "Have you ever used magic to restore and infer on-site?"

"I have checked them all, but apart from the blood prince and the six blind dates, there are no traces left at all." Mussel shook his head.

"What is the process of blind date?"

"Everyone enters this room alone, meets the prince, and spends some time with each other." Mussel said, "They come in order."

"What's the order?"

"From front to back, they are Lumina (beautiful), Reina (17), Rebecca (black hair), Stella (witch), Julia (corpse), and Paige (missing)." Mussel remembered these details clearly without looking at her notes. It seemed that she really put her heart into investigating the case.

"So their breath and traces are left in this house, but apart from that, there is no trace of the eighth person?"

"Correct."

Bai Yu touched his chin and continued to ask: "What was the cause of the prince's death? Beheading?"

"No." Mussel denied: "There were two fatal injuries on his body. The first one was his heart being punctured, and the second one was beheading."

"So he actually died from being pierced through the heart?" Bai Yu thought for a while: "If it was beheading, there is no need to add a sword."

"That's what we speculated too." Mussel looked at the corpse: "But I don't understand, why beheading is unnecessary? Is there any necessary reason? But the murderer only took away the head, not the blood. Soul Crystal."

"There are many tricks to decapitate people." Bai Yu paused and said, "But we are not sure yet. Has the prince's head never been found?"

"Not found." The female knight said: "It was either destroyed or taken away."

"The incision on the neck is very neat." Bai Yu said: "If it were a headshot, the wound would not be so complete. If the head was destroyed, some traces would be left. Even if it is burned by flames, there will still be traces. ash."

Mussel asked: "So the head was taken away... but does that matter?"

"The head was taken away, and naturally it had a purpose... If you think about it for a moment, you will understand that since the piercing of the heart is the fatal injury, then beheading the head and taking it away, which is unnecessary, must be to hide something or cover up something."

"If this was done by the murderer, then this head may be the key to revealing her identity."

Bai Yu said firmly: "Obviously the key breakthrough in this case lies in the missing head."

Mussel sighed: "We have been searching for a long time and have not found the head at all. Maybe it is in the Opal Palace, but there are a large number of composite subspaces inside, which is a huge maze in itself."

The labor cost of further search is too high and it is very dangerous. No one knows how many traps are hidden in the subspace.

If you are not from the Belmont family, how would you dare to just break into Castlevania for excitement?

Bai Yu was still spinning around the room.

"What are you looking for?" Mussel said, "There are no traps or secret rooms here."

"The murder weapon." Bai Yu glanced at Mussel: "Haven't you thought about it?"

"What murder weapon?" Mussel asked doubtfully.

"Whether it is piercing the heart or beheading, it is necessary to use weapons." Bai Yu asked: "The murder weapon is one of the important evidences."

"We found no murder weapons or weapons at the scene." Blood Knight speculated: "Is it possible that there is no murder weapon at all? If the murderer is a mage, the most effective way to assassinate is through magic."

She opened her palms, and the flowing red blood gathered and took shape. After a moment, it turned into a blood-red crystal sword: "As long as you are proficient in blood magic to a certain level, it is very simple to create a weapon."

After releasing the spell, the long sword turned into blood and flowed back into the body, without wasting a drop.

"If you were to behead an enemy, what kind of spell would you prefer?"

"Me?" Mussel thought for a moment, then clasped his hands together, raised his left and right hands and spread them out: "I would prefer to use silk thread. The refined magic thread can easily cut off the flesh."

"In other words," Bai Yu glanced at her: "In the blood knight's opinion, using spells is more convenient than using swords?"

Mussel nodded very definitely and naturally: "The Blood Knights are said to be knights, but we are still mages in essence, but we are more inclined to close combat. We do not know how to use the fighting spirit that human knights are good at."

Among the Vampires, this is common sense. They prefer to use spells rather than weapons.

"But it's a pity." Bai Yu looked at the corpse, shook his head and said, "This time your guess is wrong. There is no doubt that it is a weapon, not a spell... Even if the spell can bring a window similar to the weapon, but Some parts are inimitable.”

"How to say?" Mussel didn't understand.

"If the heads are cut off with weapons made with magic power, then these weapons will inevitably be stained with blood, and you usually don't waste your blood and will take it back after use, so here's the problem!" Bai Yu raised her index finger: "When you dispel the spell, your own blood and the blood of the corpse will be mixed, right? What will happen if you put it back into the body at this time?"

"Indeed!" Mussel suddenly realized: "If this is the case, the murderer will inevitably ingest the blood of the royal family, which will inevitably not escape the previous blood test."

She then asked: "What if it's an air slash? Something like a wind blade with wind attributes."

"When the corpse was decapitated, the position was less than half a meter away from the wall. The strength of the wind blade must be controlled so that it can decapitate the head without leaving traces of the attack on the wall. With this level of control, it is impossible to say much. He is a fourth-level magician." Bai Yu shook his head: "The level of strength of the six blind dates does not meet this characteristic."

Mussel said: "So it must be a cold weapon attack?"

"Well, because the incision is very smooth, I am a person who is good at using swords and I am very familiar with this kind of wound." Bai Yu walked towards the door: "So I concluded that there must be a murder weapon at the scene, but it was also missing. Fly, like the head.”

Standing at the door, looking towards the wall of the deep corridor.

The walls are covered with portraits of princes from past generations.

But in fact, this is a disguise, and behind it is the entrance to the subspace deeper.

Bai Yu felt that the answer was there, but its scope was too wide. If he stepped in rashly, although his life would not be in danger, he might be trapped for a while.

Don't be too reckless in life.

……

Walked through the red carpet and returned to the living room on the first floor.

Jeanne was bored.

Bai Yu returned the notebook with the records to her.

Jeanne took a look and saw a few more clues on it.

——The prince died from being pierced through the heart, but was decapitated with a sharp weapon. The sharp weapon and head disappeared, and it was suspected that they fell into the subspace of the tower.

——If the stairs leading to the upper floor were not closed by Peggy, then it would form a secret room.

The saint tilted her head: "It seems that the situation is a lot more complicated?"

"Yes, but not entirely." Bai Yu gave up: "To me, the situation has become a little clearer."

Regardless of the reason, since the key physical evidence has been hidden, it is most likely the answer to the truth.

Mussel looked at the bedroom: "How are they?"

"Not very calm," said Jeanne.

"Next, it's time to go and inquire one by one." Bai Yu said, "Come over together, my dear."

The saint's body froze, she touched her arm, and she seemed to have goosebumps, and rolled her eyes at Bai Yu.

But in Mussel's opinion, it was simply a joke between lovers, with angry little eyes trying to resist but welcoming.

The female knight of pure love couldn't help but remind: "Don't be busy showing affection at this time. After the matter is resolved, let me show you how affectionate you are. I can introduce you to a few holy places for dating! Now concentrate on handling the case. "

Bai Yu glanced at this girl and thought, how come you think the white eyes are acting like a spoiled child?

……

Enter the first bedroom.

This is the bedroom of the seventeen-year-old girl Reina. She keeps no personal belongings in her room. At most, she keeps a few books to pass the boring time.

The young aristocratic girl does not have a strong personality. She is rather submissive and is used to judging people's faces. She is also not a strong personality and has no clear plans for the future.

She is a very ordinary girl, so she does not know much information.

Because of this, it's easy to break through her defenses.

Reina also directly revealed a key piece of information.

"The week before Julia was killed...she was acting a little nervous and even came to sleep with me in a shared bed."

"Although she didn't say anything about what she encountered, she always acted very scared when she went to bed at night."

"Did you ask her what specifically she was afraid of?"

"She thinks that the prince died unwillingly. The ghost surrounds Opal Palace and will curse everyone who sees his body."

Reina said softly: "There are indeed some strange movements in this palace from time to time... I suspect that she may have seen something and was frightened to death."

Musser could not help asking, "So what did she see? A ghost? A dead soul?"

"I don't know." Reina shrank her neck: "That's all I know."

……