Mystery: Mr. Witch and Miss Hunter

Chapter 335 Chain Links
(This month, it is expected that there will be another doujin chapter for placeholders. If there is no accident, it will be on the night of the 25th, and I will take the exam on the 26th, trying to make a final struggle. There should be three more in June, but before June 6th It should be all over, I also said in the book friend group, in mid-June, probably starting from the 12th, I will double update for a week as compensation for the lack of updates during this period.)
"Dead... dead?"

Wendy said in a low voice, although it was in a questioning tone, she actually didn't need anyone to give her an answer.

So Adele didn't answer, and after confirming that there was no problem in the room through reflection, she immediately entered the room carefully.

The porthole in the cabin was opened, and the crimson moonlight shone on the murder scene, making the atmosphere here extremely strange.

Adele walked carefully to Wagner's side, checking his wounds while guarding the surroundings.

With the assassin's keen perception of the state of life, even if Adele didn't make further confirmation, she knew that Wagner was completely dead at this time, and there was no means of rescue, and she didn't even want to waste her spirituality by trying divination and psychic.

So, she just tried to check the other party's wound, hoping to get some information from it, at least to know what it was and what method it used to kill Wagner, who had become the "Assassin" of Sequence 9.

Wagner's wound wasn't too big, but the location was very precise. The fatal blow pierced through the heart directly from behind.

The assassin was easily pierced through the heart by someone's back... This is as ridiculous as a sailor drowning or a hunter being infected and killed by a rabbit bite.

What's more, the opponent didn't use any magic weapons...

"The knife is Wagner's own."

Adele glanced at the handle of the knife still stuck in Wagner's back, and recognized its original owner from the gorgeous accessories on it, "He likes to hang his weapons on the shelf at the door... I told him that this is not It’s a good habit, but the former believers of the Lord of Storms are not always so easy to listen to other people’s advice.”

As Adele spoke, she glanced around. After Nebuchadnezzar disappeared, this place became the residence of Wagner, the interim chief mate. The decoration is quite careful, mainly in bright yellow atmosphere, coffee table, sofa and other things There was nothing abnormal, only the small carpet in the center of the room was stained with bright red blood, which was slowly soaking towards Adele.

"There were no traces of struggling and fighting. Wagner didn't notice the opponent's approach, and was killed by someone behind him with his own sailor knife."

According to the traces of walking left on the carpet, Adele quickly restored some scenes at that time in her mind.

"Although he is not an excellent assassin, he has been practicing with me for half a month, and he is barely getting started. He should not make such low-level mistakes."

Adele frowned slightly, which made her feel rather uncomfortable, as if the other party didn't just kill Wagner, but slapped her on the face.

Extraordinary people on the witch path mostly protect their weaknesses, which is due to the spiritual imprint left in the potion.

In Adele's view, although a person like Wagner was enough to go to the gallows when he tried to seize the ship and become a pirate, but since he has decided to use him for something, it is not the same thing if he dies .

"So, what do we do next?"

Wendy asked timidly, even though she was used to seeing death, she still couldn't be completely indifferent to things like murder.

"Let me think..." Adele thought for a while.

Originally, she wanted to guard here personally, let Wendy notify the other people on board to stop the banquet, and immediately return to their respective cabins to guard, but, considering that Wendy's prestige is not as high as her own, let her do this kind of offending People's affairs are not very good, she still gave up the idea.

Besides, now that I am alone at sea, the murderer or the murderers may not have left the ship. In this case, it is not appropriate to let Wendy leave alone.

In the same way, he couldn't leave Wendy here alone.

After all, although Miss Pelomencia has reached Sequence 7 and is worthy of entering the mid-sequence gate, she still does not have the active ability that can be used in frontal battles, and her physical fitness is not as strong as that of the "Weapon Master" who is also a Sequence 7.

To put it more clearly, it is a blank board, and it is a blank board without much combat experience. Even Qiao Qiao in her previous life may be better than her in this regard. At least Qiao Qiao has fought against those indescribable creatures.

——It’s strange to say that when she asked Wendy about Qiao Qiao, she didn’t remember at all that she became a member of the action team. She only remembered that she had an accident shortly after arriving in the islands, but what was the specific accident? , she had been weirdly ignoring it before.

After thinking about it, Adele moved Wagner's body away and rummaged through the drawers for ritual items.

Anyway, I have already seen what I should see, even if I forget something later, I can go above the gray fog and pray to the "fool", and I can even remember the details that I saw but didn't notice at the beginning, which is very convenient.

Soon, Adele took out a huge shellfish carapace from the drawer. Unlike ordinary shells, its pattern was rotated to the left. It can be sold for a high price at collectors, and it is also a good spell prop.

Adele pulled out a piece of black hair and wrapped it around the shell, and then saw that hair burning violently, the black warm flame licked Adele's right hand holding the shell, and it was It was wrapped in it, but there were no signs of burns.

Adele looked as usual, picked up the conch shell, and said clearly to the hole:
"The banquet is suspended. Everyone should immediately find a cabin in groups of four. If there are not enough four people, more people are fine. Don't leave alone and stay prepared. If someone opens your door, I will allow you to fire first. .”

"When the alarm was lifted, we lit a small ball of black fire inside each cabin to distinguish."

"All Extraordinary people, please go to the first mate's room, which is in the middle of the sailboat. Also, don't be left alone. Those who didn't attend the banquet for some reason should stay in their respective cabins and don't walk around at will."

With the increase of black magic, her voice spread to every corner of the ship, which woke up the sailors who were still immersed in the atmosphere of the banquet, and despite their reluctance, they still took their positions skillfully.

Before the black flames on the conch burned out, Adele said the last word, and then stopped moving Wagner who was lying on the floor, and stood aside with Wendy, facing each other, paying attention to the movements behind each other.

Soon, Tracy and Constantine appeared at the door in no particular order, and both took up their weapons. Adele also saw the cloud-clad man hanging on Tracy's waist. little bottle.

The four members of the Witch Sect didn't board the ship. They were not considered combatants, and their positions were similar to Wendy's, so they were still on the ironclad ship.

"What happened... Mother God is here."

Constantine exclaimed shortly, "Is this your first mate?"

"This is not a good sign." Tracy and Adele looked at each other, and Adele could see the seriousness and worry in her eyes.

At first, both Adele and Tracy's intuition told them that there was danger here, but after all, Tracy had just become a member of the Kingdom's military not long ago, and she urgently needed to express herself. Besides, unlike Adele, she had been famous for a long time in front of There is an inexplicable arrogance towards these ships from the Southern Continent, which is why the Kingdom's military wants to use her name.

"Although he didn't die for a long time when I arrived, he was very thorough and there was no spirit body left."

Adele didn't answer Tracy for the time being, but explained to Constantine who was squatting down and trying to channel the dead body, "The other party is either very professional, or his attack has a similar effect."

"Really, that's such a pity." Constantine shrugged and stood up, "Do you think it has something to do with the ship we grabbed today?"

"There's no clear evidence, but it's very likely."

Adele nodded, then shook her head again, "However, we'd better analyze it based on this consensus. Who will set up a spiritual wall?"

The witch's black magic has its own focus. Adele needs a variety of materials to use black magic. Although she knows a lot of spells, she is definitely not as good as Constantine and Tracy in terms of creating a spiritual wall.Now that there are people, there is no need to do it yourself.

Tracy and Constantine also understood what she meant, and each stretched out their hands to swipe into the air. Two spiritual walls sealed the entire room, covering even the ceiling and the floor.

——After all, they don't know the degree of control of the ship by the possible murderers, and whether it is possible to hear their conversations, so it is best to take precautions in advance.

"As for the autopsy, I'm not as professional as you, Constantine, I'll leave it to you."

Adele nodded slightly to Constantine, and the other party quickly agreed, so Adele turned to Tracy:
"Let's re-search this cabin together to see if there are any new discoveries..."

In the middle of Adele's words, suddenly a gust of sea breeze blows in from the open window. This purely natural phenomenon will not be closed by the wall of spirituality. It blows up the straw paper on the table and flies up. Riley suddenly became confused.

But no one paid attention to those, and everyone stared at the few lines of Intis text that were originally covered by the papyrus pressed by Wagner's body with ugly faces.

Those words were forcibly carved on the wooden table with a knife, and the transitions between the strokes were blunt, as if left by a child learning to write for the first time, but they were so powerful that they were almost carved through the wood, and the exposed snow-white wood core has now disappeared. It was dyed dark red by blood, which looked quite scary.

It was a record that Adele saw once in the captain's voyage diary, but the name was changed.

"you"

"will become"

"Star."

For a while, no one was talking in the room, only the old-fashioned chime clock hanging on the wall was ticking away.

"What does it mean?"

Tracy was the first to react and hurriedly asked Adele.

"When I first boarded the ship, I went to the captain's cabin, where I saw the captain's sailing diary, which contained similar words."

Adele replied subconsciously, then seemed to suddenly think of something, slapped her forehead suddenly, and said to the others:

"I have to get that sailing diary back. Constantine, you and Wendy stay here, and Tracy and I will go to the captain's cabin to get that notebook back."

The captain's room and the first mate's room are not far away. With the speed of Adele and Tracy, it may take only a few minutes including the process of finding things, but even so, Adele still insisted on keeping the two together Team action, absolutely do not give the other party any opportunity.

The three of Tracy naturally had no objection, "Vice Admiral Illness" stepped forward, walked out of the room with Adele, and walked upstairs to the captain's cabin at the same location.

At this time, the sailors who boarded the ship in the afternoon and originally belonged to the "Snow Wind" have arrived in their respective rooms, wiped their swords, and loaded the bullets for the high-pressure steam rifle. There is no one in the corridor, and the quiet needle drop can be heard. There was only the slight creak of Adele's boots on the wooden stairs.

These voices are quite deadly during stealthy operations, but fortunately, Adele and the two don't need to covert operations now, so they don't have these scruples, and soon arrived at the captain's room.

In the captain's cabin, the huge dining table was still in place, on one side of the room, and the quartermaster's workbench was scattered with the quartermaster's nautical implements, maps, and charts.

A few sharpened pencils and a magnifying glass were placed on the table, as if the owner of the research room had just left.

"Tsk, it's really messy here, what kind of navigation notebook is that? I'll help you find it, we have to hurry."

Tracy smacked her lips irritably, and was about to urge Adele to hurry up, but Adele was stunned looking at the scene in the room.

"what happened?"

Tracy was puzzled.

"When I came in the afternoon, it was a little messier than it is now, but now it looks neater..."

Adele tilted her head, wondering why, but she soon understood:

"Someone took something here!"

The space that was originally scattered with a lot of things, after taking away some things, even if the remaining things are still scattered, it will look much neater - this is why Venata has always believed that "the best storage method is a big house" Theoretical basis.

Thinking of this, Adele subconsciously turned her gaze to the large table in the center. After seeing the last page of the voyage diary, Adele put the notes there with her backhand for the convenience of divination.

However, where is the shadow of the sheepskin-covered sailing diary on the table?

(Today’s wording is in a hurry. Shui Qun delayed for a while. I don’t have time to check it again. If there is a typo or something, everyone will reply directly. I will change it first and then change it. If it takes too long, I can’t change it.)
(End of this chapter)