Night.

The noise of the day is over, and the peace of the night falls. Although there are still a lot of secret activities in some corners, the street where the Gin Glass Hotel is located is as quiet as a cemetery.

The death of a wizard apprentice from the continent is definitely not a trivial matter, and no one dares to ignore it, but they don't know how to deal with it.

To catch the murderer of the wizard's apprentice?

Wake up, even powerful wizard apprentices can be killed, they can be turned into stone statues, and if you really go to catch them, do you think there are too few lifelike stone statues in this world?

The officials of Emerald City considered various reasons, and finally took a cautious and conservative attitude, and sealed off the entire street where the Gin Glass Inn was located, preparing to wait for the people from the White Rock Tower to arrive and solve it in person.

As a result, the Gin Glass Hotel, which was supposed to be bustling, became cold as it connected the entire street.

In the cold, the faint sound of footsteps sounded.

"Da Da Da ......"

Richard appeared in front of the Gin Glass Inn, gently pushed the door open and walked inside, ready to investigate some of the situation.

Richard knew that if he asked Gro, Gro would find a way to open the entire Gin Inn for him to investigate, but he didn't want to do that.

Because it's too much of a self-exposure.

It's better to be secretive when investigating this kind of behavior, and the province will be targeted by the White Rock Tower or other potential people. It's better to take advantage of the darkness and come and investigate alone, which is quiet and will not be disturbed.

"Da Da Da ......"

Richard walked up to the second floor of the inn, followed the hallway to the end, pushed open the door and entered the room where the dead Wall was.

Inside the room, the stone statue of Wall stood motionless on the ground, like a huge source of fear, so that no ordinary person dared to approach the entire inn and even the entire street, which was already blocked.

But Richard was not afraid.

People tend to fear the dead more than the living, but for the sake of reason, Richard was not affected by this.

If it was a living Wall, Richard might be a little wary, but if it was a dead Wall turned into a stone statue, then there was only research value.

With a "poof", Richard flicked his fingers, and the "Ghost Hand Fire" was released, and an egg-sized oily green fire light was born on his fingertips, illuminating the surrounding area.

Holding the firelight, Richard stepped closer to the stone statue and began to observe, clearly seeing every detail on the stone statue. After observing for a moment, Richard found that the entire stone statue was truly lifelike, almost perfectly reproducing all of Wall, whether it was hair, nose, or eyes. The only difference is that these parts are now stone.

"Is it really completely turned into stone?" Richard's eyes flickered, and he muttered to himself, "So what is the principle behind this? The transformation of the elements? Or is it the injection of some special energy, which produces a specific reaction with the biological cells, causing the flesh to harden rapidly and exhibit a state similar to that of a stone?"

If it is the latter, can the reaction be reversible? Can the body be turned back into a body after turning it into a stone-like body? If it can be done, then can it be flexibly transformed in battle to adapt to the complex environment? ”

"But......" Richard raised his eyebrows, "If you want to really analyze the principle of this spell, it will obviously take a lot of time, so it's better to study it slowly later." Instead of parsing spells, it's better to figure out what happened in this room. ”

As he spoke, the oily green flame on Richard's fingers rapidly expanded in size, becoming the size of a human head, illuminating a larger area of the room, and numerous furnishings and scenes appeared:

Crumpled blankets, cracked floors, blood stains......

Richard watched carefully, and finally his eyes fell on the wrinkled blanket with the most traces, and his brain worked quickly to try to reconstruct the situation it had been.

According to the blanket, Mr. Wall, the third-level apprentice of the White Stone Tower, must have performed some kind of pleasure on it for a short time before his death, and then he stood up. Well, then he turned around sharply and pulled a lot of hair off the blanket. He should have stood for a moment, either talking, or standing up to launch a spell attack. ”

In this case, the enemy he will face should be in this direction. Richard imagined Wall's state at the time, looked in a certain direction in the room, walked up, looked at the ground, and found an undetectable, black powdery layer on the ground.

"Well, are you really standing here......" Richard squinted and muttered to himself, "but what is this powder? Spellcasting material? Or is it the mark left by the release of some kind of spell?"

Richard pursed his lips, thought for a moment, took out a glass bottle from the iron ring, crouched down to carefully collect the powder, and then put a label on it, writing "Emerald Gold City-Gin Glass Hotel-S Incident-No. 1".

After collecting the powder, Richard stood up and looked at the imaginary location of Wall, then shifted his gaze to the wooden window in the room.

"If, after a tentative search, Wall finds that the enemy is too strong to fight, then it is very likely that he will try to escape, and the nearest location is the wooden window. Richard walked briskly over to the wooden window and examined it for no signs of damage.

That said, Wall didn't try to escape. Or rather, his escape failed, and he was stopped before he could break through the wooden window. After being stopped, he fell to this place, because the force was too great, and directly cracked part of the ground. Richard strode a few steps back from the wooden window and looked at the cracked ground near the statue.

Wall then tried to stand up, but fell to his knees because of his injury, or for some reason. Richard glanced at the blood on the ground, and then his gaze fell back to the stone statue, "At this time, his enemies should have stayed where they were casting spells, or had come over...... Well, I guess I came over. ”

Richard saw the black powder that had been found on the ground near the statue again, and guessed, "So, I walked over and released the spell." After turning Wall into a stone statue, he left in the same way as he appeared. ”

Squatting down, Richard collected the black powder found again on the ground into a glass bottle, labeled it, and wrote the words "Emerald Gold City-Gin Glass Hotel-S Incident-2".

Standing up, Richard looked around the inn and exclaimed, "If there were no accidents, the battle had only been fought for a short time, or it had not happened at all, so there was no obvious damage to the decoration of the room. In this case, Wall's enemies should be very strong and have the advantage of crushing, at least at the official wizard level.

Combined with the previous information from Gro, it is speculated that this existence is at least officially a wizard, and it is deliberately retaliating against the White Rock Tower. As a member of the White Rock Tower, Wall was naturally poisoned. But what is the reason for the revenge? How did the White Rock Tower offend the other party?"

Richard muttered to himself, walked to the wooden window of the room, gently pushed open the wooden window, tried to breathe, relax his brain, and diverge some thinking.

But the moment he opened the wooden window and his eyes swept over the scene outside the window, Richard's muscles tensed.

I saw a man in a black robe, standing quietly outside the window, on the top of the double-storey shop across the street, with a pair of eyes burning with oily green flames, looking quietly.

Suddenly, the four eyes met, the air froze, and the tense atmosphere was directly pushed to the peak without any brewing.