Asura of Tomorrow's Ark

"No, that's too inefficient." Magellan replied in a natural tone, "I'm going to investigate all the local hotels first, if outsiders come to this city, there is a high probability that Go to a hotel and we'll be able to track down their whereabouts soon."

"……Good for you."

Li Ang was a little speechless, "Yeah, it's very efficient, but it's just as fast to die."

"I'll just ask you a question. If you were the one who murdered Professor Nauman, or a member of that organization, and suddenly heard someone inquiring about Professor Nauman in public, what would you do?"

"I will... silence that person."

At this time, Magellan realized how stupid what he was going to do just now.

If the person who murdered Professor Nauman was still in Hammerfest, what she just did would be no different from sending her to death.

Maybe Magellan is very good at exploration, but she is not good at things like this kind of intrigue.

"Then what should I do?" Magellan asked modestly.

"Next, I'll go with you. You can ask any questions I ask you, and don't say a word if you don't want to."

Chapter 50 People from Yan Kingdom

The temperature in Hammerfest is very low, even the midday sun is cold, as if there is no temperature at all.

The residents here have long been accustomed to this climate, and if they can't adapt, they have already tried to move out of the city.

In short, it's a slow-paced city where little in particular changes most of the year.

But not long ago, the visit of a group of guests injected a different vitality into this border town. It was a team composed of forty or fifty people from the Yan Kingdom. Quite a stir.

You can't even see a single foreigner here, let alone the more mysterious Yan people.

Because there are always some strange rumors about Yan people spreading on the Terra continent, the residents of the small town have shown a considerable degree of curiosity about these Yan people, and more than one person wants to come and see the excitement.

However, these people from the Yan Kingdom acted in a very low-key manner, and did not give the locals a chance to intervene at all.

After entering the city, they booked a hotel directly, and everyone lived in together.

No one came out of it at all these days, all the hotel curtains were drawn tightly, and no one knew what they were doing in the hotel.

But in fact, there are people coming in and out of the hotel every day, but most of them are not strong enough to detect their existence, and those who are able to detect it also know how difficult these Yan people are, and they will not let it go. looking for trouble.

It was like a breeze blowing in the open space, and most people couldn't detect anything abnormal at all. A person wearing a bamboo hat sneaked into the hotel along the slightly open door.

At this time, the lobby of the hotel has completely changed its appearance. After some drastic renovations, those people from Yan Kingdom have transformed it into a temporary office.

I don't know what these people are thinking. They actually took out a lot of documents from their luggage and started working in this kind of place.

If you know the language of Yan Kingdom, it is not difficult to see that these documents are related to Sami, and even include some secrets that only high-level Sami officials can know. For some reason, all of them fell into the hands of these Yan people .

The Yan countryman who returned from the outside ignored the other busy companions, but went straight through the hall and came to the table in the center of the hall.

He half knelt on the ground, lowered his head and said to the person at the table, "Ting Wei, those people still don't allow us to enter the mountain."

The person he called Ting Wei was an excessively young woman who looked about [-] or so at the most.

Her blond hair, as bright as gold, fell loosely on her shoulders, and the horns on her head seemed to be an Elafia at first glance, but a closer look revealed that this woman did not belong to the Elafia clan .

After hearing the other party's report, the woman didn't even raise her head, she was still slowly reading the documents compiled by other people in her hand, and said lightly, "What else did they say?"

Hearing the woman's voice, most people in the hall subconsciously glanced in the direction of the woman. Their eyes were full of respect and...a kind of deep hidden fear.

When they saw that the woman hadn't noticed him, they looked away guiltily and buried their heads, pretending to be serious about their work.

"They said that the snow priests will come here soon to preside over the ten-year sacrifice. No one... even the queen can interfere with the sacrifice, so only after the sacrifice is over, will the road leading to the mountain be opened for us. aisle."

Hearing this, the woman finally put down the document in her hand and stared at the man half kneeling in front of her.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but there seemed to be a flash of lightning between her golden hair, and the originally fluffy hair became soft all of a sudden.

"Is this the result of your work during this time?"

Everyone was silent for a moment, not even daring to make a sound.

After scanning these people back and forth, the woman sighed slightly, "Forget it, I can't blame you for this."

"I know this matter is not that simple, otherwise, His Majesty would not have let me come here in person."

"Go back and continue to communicate with the city lord here, and tell him that this is what the Emperor of the Yan Kingdom meant. If he continues to be so obsessed, I will truthfully report everything that happened here to His Majesty."

This is already a very blatant threat. There is no comparison between a small country like Sami and Great Yan. Although Sami seems to have defeated the army of Ursus, it was also when Ursus and several countries went to war at the same time. The premise.

What's more... If a big country wants to take action against a small country, it doesn't just use force.

Obviously, the woman was getting impatient with waiting.

"Find a few more clever people and go out of town to see if there is a way around the Sami people. We can't completely rely on these guys to know the times."

After receiving the woman's order, these Yan people acted quickly, and quickly selected three most skilled people to go out of the city to investigate how to bypass the surveillance of the Sami people.

It's just... the person who reported to her at the beginning was still kneeling on the ground, showing no intention of getting up.

"Why don't you leave? Is what I said just now not clear enough?" The woman frowned and her voice became cold.

"It's not like this, Captain Ting, there is one more thing I haven't had time to report,"

The man paused, and then continued, "Besides us, there is another group of people who have also arrived here."

"Oh? Do you know the identities of those people?"

Hearing what the other party said, the woman's tone softened.

"The ones who came were a Ripoli woman, a Caprini woman, and a man of unknown race. He was wearing a full-face armor, and no obvious features could be found." The man replied, "They come here His purpose is unknown, and he is currently staying in an inn in the west of the city."

"I think they are very suspicious. It is necessary to tell the adults about this."

"You did a good job."

The woman nodded lightly, "It's really suspicious to come to Sami at this time."

They are because of the emperor's order, what about those three people?

"Find someone to keep an eye on those three guys, and if they do anything suspicious, come back and tell me right away."

"promise."

At this time, Li Ang didn't realize that not long after he came to this city, someone had already been following them.

Chapter 51 You are late

Originally, seeing that Adele was not in a good condition, Li Ang planned to let her stay in the hotel to rest, and he was responsible for watching Magellan go out to collect information.

But Adele insisted on personally participating in this matter. In the end, none of the three of them could rest. They could only pack up their luggage for a while, and then went out together to inquire about Professor Nauman.

The place Li Ang chose first was actually the only high school in the local area. There is no university in such a small place, and the high school is already the most advanced place here.

But Magellan couldn't understand, why did Li Ang come to this place to investigate information, is there anything special about this school?

"It's not surprising at all." Li Ang explained, "Think about it carefully, if two professors visit this small town, besides the hotel, where are they most likely to go?"

Without waiting for Adele and the others to think about this question, Li Ang directly told them the answer.

"Local government, library or school."

Knowledge in the world of Terra is valuable. Unless a certain ruler has a brain attack, a good thing like compulsory education cannot appear in this world.

For various local news, or information about the dark mountains nearby, there must be detailed records somewhere, and there are only a few places that Professor Nauman can go to.

There is no public library in Hammerfest, and they don't know whether the murder of Dr. Nauman is related to the local government. It is not a good idea to contact them rashly.

Therefore, this high school is Li Ang's only choice.

"It seems to make sense..." Magellan nodded thoughtfully.

Her information was mainly collected with the help of Rhine Life's information department, and there were very few parts that she needed to sort out by herself.

Besides, most of the places she went to fight were unexplored places, otherwise how could she be called an 'explorer'?Intelligence gathering did touch her intellectual blind spots.

"However, if you want to investigate the information on that mountain, shouldn't it be faster to ask the locals? For example, herdsmen and hunters? Not all the information will be recorded, right?" Magellan asked.

At this time, Magellan already knew that the Naumans died not long after they came out of the Dark Mountains. If nothing else happened, Li Ang and the others would probably go into the mountains to find out, which made Magellan even more motivated.

"Probably because it would be more troublesome."

At this time Adele suddenly said, "Even if I want to collect information from the locals, I am more inclined to ask for official assistance and let them help."

Adele has a deep understanding of this.

There is no such thing as simple folk customs, but there are many unscrupulous people. These unscrupulous people don’t care what your origin is. Find a way to kill you.

A soft and weak person like Adele has no deterrent effect. After suffering a loss once or twice, Adele will keep this kind of thing in mind.

What these troublemakers are afraid of is not the law, but the fist that is as big as a casserole. The ability of the local authorities to manage this area well represents a fist that is as big as a casserole in the eyes of the troublemakers. +

"Yeah, that seems to be the right thing to say."

Hearing what Adele said, Magellan couldn't help scratching his head.

"And don't forget, our current identity is scholars from Leitania, and visiting the local school is also very suitable for our identity."

Li Ang wasn't lying. He and Adele were indeed scholars in Letania. Adele even carried her degree certificate with her.

However, if someone tried to do something through this clue, he would have to think carefully about how to explain it to the Twin Queens.

……

Magellan asked a passer-by casually, and then confirmed the location of the school.

After explaining to the guard what he and the others came for, the guard informed the principal suspiciously.

The principal is a very ordinary Elafia old man. He readily agreed to the request of Li Ang and others to borrow school materials, and even found a teacher to assist them in their work.

But in exchange, the principal hoped that Li Ang and the others could give an open class to the school children before they left here.

For the three of them, this is not a difficult problem. Whether it is Adele or Leon, it is no problem for them to teach a group of high school students, even Magellan is the same.

Don't look at Magellan's appearance of dying everywhere all day long, she is also a highly educated person, a graduate of Columbia University, and it will never be a problem for this degree to kill 90.00% of the people in the world.

It was precisely because he realized that their speech was extraordinary and their clothes were not cheap, the principal was willing to believe their words.

Because Adele mentioned that her research direction is geology, the principal called the only geography teacher in their school to assist them in their investigation.

"Jonah, these are scholars from Letania. Although they are very young, this lady has already obtained a doctorate." The principal patted the young man on the shoulder and said meaningfully, "Opportunity It has been given to you, how much you can learn depends on your own ability."

The teacher named Jonah doesn't look very old, about 40 or [-] years old, but he doesn't seem to have enough sleep, and there are a pair of thick dark circles on his face.

After hearing the headmaster's remarks, Jonah yawned and put away the contempt in his eyes.

"Come with me first, if you have any questions, you can talk to me in my office."

This guy also knows a little bit of Victorian. Although he doesn't speak very fluently, there is no problem with simple communication.

After leaving the principal's office, the three of Li Ang followed Jonah to his office.

As soon as he entered the office, Jonah didn't even ask them to sit down, so he said, "Let me guess first, don't you all come here because of that mountain range?"

Seeing the surprise on Adele's face, Jonah knew that he had guessed correctly, and muttered in a low voice, "It's really strange, what's so interesting about that broken mountain, why are everyone running here?"

"Also?" Li Ang sensed Jonah's overtones and asked, "Are you saying that besides us, there are other people investigating this mountain range?"

"That's right," Jonah smacked his mouth and said, "One or two years ago, some people came here to do research, and they left a lot of research materials. If you can come half a month earlier, I don't mind giving it to you. Look at those documents."

"But it's too late now, someone has already taken away those materials."

Chapter 52 乾坤……

That is the information left by my parents!

Hearing Jonah's words, Adele almost couldn't help shouting.

More than a year ago, the research was still on the Dark Mountains. Apart from Adele's parents, is there any other possibility?

Li Ang poked Adele's arm lightly to calm her down temporarily, and left the matter here to him to solve.

I saw Li Ang pretending to be surprised and said, "Is there anyone who has studied the mountains here before? Is it a local here?"

"You don't know?" Jonah scanned them once, and then yawned deeply, "Those two are also from Letania, I thought you knew about it."

"You're joking, Letania is so big, how could we know everyone's situation?"

"It's not important," Jonah waved his hand. "What's important is that the materials are no longer in the school. If you want to investigate the Skadino Mountains, then I can't help you."