Returning from the abyss

Almost everyone agrees that although some risks were taken today, good progress has been made.According to this pace, it is estimated that Reynix's legacy will be found out soon, and the affairs on the island will be quickly brought to an end.

But when the morning came, everyone knew that the matter would not end so simply.

The remains of Zhai Jingqiu, Kagabo, and Orlando were hung in the hall, forming an equilateral triangle.There is no need to describe the death situation of hanging, but looking at these three corpses, the sense of victory from yesterday has disappeared, and the sense of fear has returned.

"what happened?"

After everyone came to the hall, Jack asked.

This means that the previous precautions did not prevent the murderer from killing.

"The magic doesn't respond." Gustav shook his head slightly, "This is not killing people using magic."

"It's a super power." Lista said.

They put down the three corpses.Neither Zhai Jingqiu's ability nor Kajiabo's crossbow could protect them.The murderer did not do anything to the corpse this time, so the autopsy can be carried out normally.

Lu Ning and Watanabe Fuko began to examine the body, and Lista asked them to roll up the sleeves of the body, and then pulled out the "Desperate Express" from her arms.

Most of the ability of this prop lies in the two aspects of storage and recording, and it has no offensive ability at all.Renix will give this thing to her, which probably means that he expects her to reveal the truth rather than crack everything violently.And the method for superpowers is the reuse of this prop.

There is a coat of arms on the arms of the three corpses, which are directly related to the Express of Despair, and are a method that can induce death.It can record like Dimitri's device, and it can also counter some less deadly magic, but unfortunately there is nothing like superpowers that can counter.

"...Traces of alteration." Lista took out the letter paper inside and glanced at it.This time the trace is not like it was affected before, but a piece of record was directly cut off by messy lines, and then a new piece was generated, and the new part could not be fully connected with the original part, just like the previous one. One second these three people were still sleeping, and the next second they were all hanging in the hall.

"Someone fiddled with time." Lista said, "I don't know anyone here who has this kind of superpower... But it seems that we have to go to the place related to time today."

"Shouldn't the dead be investigated?"

"The super power of time can resist recording magic." Lista said, "And this is a super power that can cover the facts. Even if I use magic to restore it, it can't be done. The incompatibility between the two is so difficult. Deal with it. To deal with time, you must get another time—of course, the scars on these three people are still meaningful, please continue to check. The magician is in charge of magic, and the mother is here to lead everyone in charge of superpowers .”

"Okay." Miria nodded, "Please don't panic, the murderers are certainly provoking us, but we can't do anything. Their crimes will expose more and more things about them, now... Doctor Lu , Ms. Watanabe, please help me. Lista, who do you need over there?"

"Gustav and Justina will be with me. In addition, I think it would be better for Uncle Escher and Mr. Jack, who discovered the problem yesterday, to go with me."

"Okay, don't you need a few more people?"

"No need, and everyone, if you encounter anything wrong during the investigation today, please ignore it, so as not to provoke new familiars." Lista quickly arranged, "What we are fighting for now is time , every day needs to be fully utilized.”

After eating something casually, the group drove to the Eagle Eye Pavilion.

As the only uninhabited annex on Yamujima, there are only servants who clean it daily. Of course, even if it is only this level of cleaning, it is enough to live in one person.

Butler Escher said that he never knew that there were people living here, and he just arranged for someone to clean it every day.Although the facilities in this annex are complete, it does not store food and other things, let alone buy some furniture for personal needs. Even if it is a place to live, there are many inconveniences.

"When the servants were cleaning, didn't they find some traces of life?" Gustav asked.

"There is no such report. I don't know what traces of life Mr. Jack found?" Escher asked.

"Some very inconspicuous signs. For example, there will be some smell left on the sheets, and there will be friction or scratches on the walls and tables. These are not traces left by cleaning, but when people live for a long time. It will leave traces if you don’t pay attention. If you think that no one lives here at the beginning, it is easy to ignore this point. After all, the servants change every year, and if it is the traces accumulated over the years, you will not be aware of it.” Jack Said.

"The servants are indeed not so careful." Escher nodded slightly.

"This is not your problem. The problem is, who can live here?" Lista frowned and said, "First of all, let me confirm that the annex where my father and the others live has always been fixed, right? ?”

"Masters and ladies have their own preferences since they were young, and this annex has never been changed." Escher said.

"Then, the Eagle Eye Pavilion has been unoccupied for a long time, who is it going to be for?"

"The Falconry...is not permanently unoccupied," Escher said.

Lista raised her eyebrows slightly.

"The visitor is a guest, and the master did not require the guests to live in the main hall. There have been several times when the guests liked the scenery of the seaside and chose to live in the Eagle Eye Hall. A long time ago, the master was in the prime of life and had not yet adopted many young masters. When I was a young lady, I would go to various annexes with my wife for leisure and recreation, and the Eagle Eye Pavilion is also a frequent visitor."

"When was the last time a visitor came to the Falcon Eye Pavilion?" Lista asked.

"Three years ago, there was a couple who appreciated the location of the Falcon Eye Pavilion very much, so the master let them live there."

"Who is it?" Gustav asked.

"You know, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley."

"What does Jasmine have to do with them?" Lista asked suddenly.

"There is a little bit of blood relationship, but I can't get too many connections. Rather, Mr. Stanley was able to know the master because Jasmine was a person supported by the master." When Escher said this, he rarely revealed With a trace of disdain, "Jasmine is a good girl, but the Stanleys are using her too much."

"You don't like those two."

"Not to mention, they squander the property left by the previous generation. They have neither the ability to expand their business, nor can they keep the family business, and they can't educate their children well. Their next generation may be even more difficult."

"Then it's not something we need to consider. The Stanleys are still safe to leave the island, right?"

"Yes, there has never been such a problem before."

After inquiring about Escher, the car stopped near the Falcon Eye Hall.

"Mr. Jack, don't go in this time. You and Ms. Justina stay together and observe the situation of the Eagle Eye Pavilion from the outside." Lista said.

"Okay." Jack didn't really want to enter such a weird place.

"Uncle Escher, you are ready for magic."

"I know." Escher squeezed the three pieces of paper between his fingers, "Ready to serve you at any time."

"Then go in."

Lista used the key to open the door of the Falcon Eye Pavilion, and a breath came to her face as the door was opened. If she smelled it carefully, it was in line with what Jack said, and there was a trace of someone's life in it.

She walked around inside first, and then explored the hidden space that might exist around it like yesterday, and the Eagle Eye Pavilion did not have a design on the surface.After checking with Gustav and Escher, Lista began to test the key to Jack's mistaken entry into another time and space yesterday.

This is actually a hard test with a result, because the person who designed this space-time change must be Renix. He did not leave any traces that can be traced through magic, but only made the switch design simpler.

It is not necessary to know that there are people living here. After repeated testing, Lista found that this is a relatively simple rune trigger spell. The key lies in "once", "life", "concealment" and "record". It will only be triggered when a clearer purpose is sought for these elements, and such a willingness is dictated.

The scene outside the window changed, and Lista smiled slightly. Renix didn't make things difficult for others in this link.

Seeing this change, Gustav was also amazed. Just as the results of Justina's test showed before, this piece of time and space is something that was fabricated and did not exist in the first place.

This magic is not a particularly advanced spell. It is similar to concepts such as "sleeve universe" and "storage bag". It is an application for storing ether. Various other ethers meet the needs of a complete space-time. This space-time is almost a skeleton built by magic, and then filled with some real things to form a space.

"We entered another Falconry Hall." Lista checked the surrounding things through a simulated identification method, and quickly made a judgment, "When no one lives here, the way the furnishings are maintained here is always the same. Yes, and the Hawkeye Pavilion in this time and space is also arranged in the same way, which makes people living in the pavilion unaware of this problem, thinking that apart from the Eagle Eye Pavilion, the time and space outside have changed."

In fact, everything has changed. This Eagle Eye Pavilion was built later, but it is exactly the same as the real time and space.The huge changes outside will make people ignore the small differences inside the museum.

"Then one question is solved." Gustav wiped his chin. "Then there are other questions. We should be able to go out, right?"

"Yes, go outside first."

Although fabricating time and space is not a difficult magic, it is also limited by the resources that can be collected.It is like the set when shooting a movie. It can only be detailed in a small range, and if it is out of this range, it is just a set board used to create the environment.Since Renix has exhausted his mind to make the Falcon Eye Hall exactly the same, how much space can he leave outside?

Walking outside, Lu Ning was able to see some subtle distortions through Lista's vision.

In the ocean, only near the shoals have undulating waves, but it looks blue in the distance, as if the image quality has been reduced.The road going up the mountain disappeared after winding into a forest.Lista raised her hand and tapped her thumb on the second joint of her index finger, but the island didn't respond any more.

"The main building and the other seven annexes don't exist either," Lista said.

"Plants can be allowed to grow naturally, but buildings can't grow by themselves. Renix probably won't reproduce a Hachimejima in this fabricated time and space." Gustav said, "Fortunately, this allows us Knowing that this seemingly omnipotent guy is actually limited in his abilities."

"Master will not waste time and money on useless places." Escher said respectfully, "I didn't even know about this project. Master secretly completed it without telling everyone..."

"What's so special about Eagle Eye?" Lista asked.

"Except for what I just said, there is nothing." Escher shook his head, "If I hadn't seen this annex, I don't think there is anything special about it. The master is very fond of it and the other seven. The attitude of the other buildings is similar."

Lista glanced at the sun here again. That thing was just a virtual product formed by magic, and it was enough to provide light and heat to the plants on an island.What's more, it's set up in winter.

Then, the three of them went to the cellar discovered by Jack and others.

Unexpectedly, just as she walked down the stairs, Lista heard a sound.

"who!"

At the same time as Lista yelled, Escher had thrown out the paper in his hand, and the three papers spread rapidly in the air, forming three doors, one blocked the exit behind him, and the other two blocked the exit. Chased into the cellar.

"I didn't catch that person! It's not safe here, miss..." Escher said hastily.

"Go in! I want to see who is here!" Lista jumped down the stairs in two or three steps. The area of ​​the cellar is not very large, but there are people living in it as Jack said, so there are some partitions between the rooms. The wall, Lista's gaze immediately fixed on the room where the voice came from.

"Come out! Don't make me say it a second time!"

"It's so strange, this time and space is not suitable for human survival." Gustav took out a piece of plasticine from his pocket and squeezed it between his fingers while descending the stairs, "You definitely don't live here, Hawkeye Are the traces of life in the museum left behind by you? Once you master the trick, you can switch between the two time and space at will, avoiding possible pursuit... This is a good choice."

As he spoke, the plasticine had already been squeezed into a head with five senses in his hands.

Gustav paused for a moment, seeing that there was still no sign of response, he took off a pin on his cuff, and pierced the tip of the pin directly into the head of the plasticine figure.

"Follow my orders."