The long fairy road is wonderful

Chapter 274

Frank Fort is indeed a very important trade node, the gates of the city are open almost all day long, and merchants coming and going from north to south make the city very lively.

The residential area is relatively quiet. After all, everyone needs to sleep. Walking around here, you can obviously feel the decrease in the flow of people. The deeper you go, the more obvious it becomes. I can no longer see any pedestrians other than the three of them, only the occasional guards patrolling nearby will come out to show their faces.

Alma checked the building numbers in front of each house and searched one by one, and finally found a two-story building that looked richer but also relatively low-key near the city wall.

There is a small garden in front of the building, and there is also an iron gate.

The door was not closed, and the three of them confirmed that the house number was correct, and they came to the gate downstairs.

Alma stretched out her hand and pressed the doorbell next to the gate. The thing was actually very scientific, not magic, but it used springs and gears to convert the vertical pressing force into a horizontal force, and the hammer in the house was driven by a lever to strike. Hit the copper bell to achieve the effect of a doorbell.

The sound is not small, even if it is outside the door, it can be heard through the door, and the people inside the house must be able to hear it.

But after Erma pressed the button four or five times, no one in the house came out to answer the door.

Redicia guessed:
"Would that prodigal son go to the tavern to get drunk?"

Lin Tianci tilted his body, glanced in through the frosted glass window next to the door and said:

"I saw a faint candlelight, there should be someone."

Alma clicked and clicked several times, but still no one came out.

Then she waved to the other two, and Leticia turned around understandingly, and looked at the street outside the small building.

There was no one around, not even patrolling guards.

Lifting the staff lightly, Alma aimed at the keyhole and whispered:

"Tap technique."

There was a crisp click, and the door lock opened in response.

"Are you going to steal?"

Leticia said disapprovingly:
"How can an adventurer's business be called stealing? It's the fault of this family for not knowing how to keep someone on guard. We're just borrowing it, and it's a big deal to pay the bill later."

This is stealing!
Lin Tianci didn't reject this kind of thing, anyway, according to the report, that prodigal son is not a good thing, so he just steals from the rich and helps the poor.

Then Redicia patted Alma and Lin Tianci on the shoulders, and used a 'soft voice' spell, which could completely disappear the sound of footsteps.

Alma also used a magic trick to empty the dirt and dust from the three people's feet, ensuring that no evidence was left behind.

The cooperation is so proficient and tacit, it is the first time to do it, who will believe it.

Everything was ready, before the guards patrolled here, the three of them rushed into the residential building in front of them.

The room is covered with light green wallpaper. After walking through the corridor in front of you, the first thing you see is a relatively wide hall, which must be the living room.

It's just that the living room looks very empty, because the sofa and other furniture that should have been placed here have disappeared completely, and they should have been sold for money. The silver candlestick, the candlelight that Lin Tianci saw just now came from the candles on it.

On the other side of the living room is a kitchen connected to the dining room. The small garden outside the house can be seen from the wide-angle glass window of the dining room. The owner of the house must have put a lot of effort into designing the home.

Of course, there are also many traces of moving here, but all the valuable furniture and decorations should have been sold.

Lin Tianci looked around and whispered:
"Will that prodigal son sell what we need?"

Alma also looked around and replied after hearing the words:

"I hope not, otherwise we will have to ask him about the buyer's whereabouts, and it will be even more troublesome."

Leticia went to the back of the cooking counter. She saw a lot of wine bottles piled up on the floor over there. She looked at the label and said:

"What a prodigal. These are famous wines with a very old age, and they can also be worth a lot of money. It looks like they are being drunk directly as cheap wines."

It's no wonder that the White Hands Association described it in the newspaper as "ignorant and incompetent". It doesn't matter if you have a rich father, but your son is a cheater, and he will lose all his money.

There was nothing to pay attention to in the kitchen. The three of them withdrew a little and were going to go to the second floor to have a look. After all, the command input device they were looking for was a very valuable collection, so they probably wouldn't throw it away casually.

At the other end of the kitchen there is a staircase that turns upwards. Next to the stairs is the bathroom, and the upper part is probably a bedroom or something.

But as soon as he approached the stairs, Lin Tianci sniffled and said:

"I smelled blood and it was new."

These words made Alma and Leticia a little nervous, and they all picked up their staffs and pinched their spellcasting gestures, ready to deal with danger at any time.

Lin Tianci also increased his vigilance, he walked in the front, even with the assistance of soft voice technique, he still lightly stepped on the stairs, taking the lead step by step.

The smell of blood became stronger and stronger as it approached. Not only the more sensitive Lin Tianci, but also Alma and Redicia could smell the pungent smell.

The three kept a cautious formation and walked up slowly. After walking through the stairs, there was a corridor in front of them.

The corridor is not big, it just connects the only room on the second floor, which should be the master bedroom.

The door facing the stairs was ajar, and the bloody smell came from the door.

The three of them stood quietly outside the door, Lin Tianci turned his head and winked to confirm that the two girls were ready, and then pushed the door open by himself.

This should be the master bedroom, with a fairly large double bed and a fireplace of the same style as the living room downstairs.

The source of the bloody smell was a person lying about one meter away from the fireplace.

Judging by his appearance and figure, he was a man, and the scarlet blood formed an irregular pool of blood under his body.

In addition to the strong smell of blood, this person also smelled heavily of alcohol, and the smell mixed together was simply irritating to the eyes.

Alma and Redicia had long been used to seeing corpses, so of course they wouldn't scream like the female characters in some detective works, at most they were taken aback.

And it is even more impossible for Lin Tianci to be frightened by the corpse, otherwise how would he deal with ghosts?
He was lucky first, and looked around to see if there were any traps or spell effects. After confirming that there was nothing wrong, he walked over quickly, and stretched out his hand to test the man's neck.

"He's pretty much dead."

Alma looked at the blood, and boldly picked up a little bit and rubbed it on her hand to verify the consistency, and also reached out and tried the neck of the deceased.

"The blood didn't show any obvious signs of drying up, and there was still some body temperature on his body. He died in the last ten minutes or so."

Leticia walked around the pool of blood and turned the man's body over as much as possible without touching the blood.

He was about 30 years old, with a shaggy beard, and the pain and despair before his death still remained on his face.

But this also made Lin Tianci see his fatal wound.

The wound was in the middle of the neck, at the position of the Adam's apple, and there was a straight "one"-shaped wound. The striker's movements were clean and precise, but the murder weapon was extremely sharp, and it only precisely destroyed the deceased's trachea. He was suffocated to death bit by bit by his own blood.

Alma also saw the wound, and said doubtfully:
"This wound doesn't look like it was caused by a dagger. It's too flat and neat. Is it some kind of special weapon?"

Lin Tianci said:
"Not a dagger, but a sword wound."

"Sword wound?"

The two girls saw Lin Tianci shaking the Qingyun sword on his waist.

"This is the sword of our Eastern Shenzhou. It is different from your western sword. Its blade is straight, and with the help of extremely fast swordsmanship, it can cause such wounds."

Lin Tianci simply squatted down next to the corpse, took out the yellow paper and brush and drew amulets and said:

"To be able to cause such a quick, precise and ruthless wound to kill with a single blow, the murderer must have a high level of swordsmanship. He is by no means an ordinary mortal warrior, maybe a monk."

Redicia said strangely:

"But didn't you say that monks generally don't kill people?"

"Generally it is."

But this is clearly not the case now.

Lin Tianci's salty fish-like system sent a reminder after he saw the wound.

【Task activation】

[Find the murderer. 30 points of fixed experience]

This is very unusual.

Because of being thrown to the west, Lin Tianci's system seems to have entered the 'matching task mode', that is, rewarding experience points based on his experience during the period between leaving the safe zone and going to another safe zone.

However, there are still some unsolved mysteries in this mode. For example, when I went to the Arthropod Forest to confront the Phantom Spider, I didn't move at all. Lin Tianci guessed that it might be related to time. If the time is too short, I have no experience.

As for the journey from Lan Luoya to Frankfurt, because he didn't encounter any danger on the road, he was finally given more than a dozen experience points, which was better than nothing, which indirectly proved this guess.

In other words, the system has changed to the matching task mode, and there should be no prompts for 'activate tasks'. This kind of prompts usually only appear when Lin Tianci runs to various sects and factions to challenge during the grand tour.

But there are exceptions.

When I was in Eastern China, the only exception to the task activation was when I met Linglong, which once made Lin Tianci puzzled.

Combined with the murder case in front of me, judging from the wound, the person who did it is likely to be a sword cultivator, and monks usually don't commit murder, and killing people has karma, although it won't have much impact on practice , but it is still very obvious in the eyes of other monks.

You can tell by seeing Lin Tianci's strikes. When he deals with people, his strikes are always wounded but not dead.

There is only one kind of monk that is not included in this list, and that is the evil sect.

Linglong also had evil sects involved that time, and Lin Tianci also reported this to the master's sect, causing the Shenfu sect to unite with a large number of sects to encircle and suppress.

It can be said that the only thing in common between Linglong's activation mission and this current activation mission is that there are evil factions haunting them. Perhaps this is also an important condition for the system activation mission.

Of course, it is still not 100% certain whether it is true or not, because as Alma said, the peculiarity of the wound may be caused by some special weapon, not to mention that the West is not without superb martial arts, and everything is evil. It's too far-fetched to pull on Pai.

The talisman that Lin Tianci was drawing was an important reference to verify whether his guess was right or not.

(End of this chapter)