A Wizard's Survival Guide to the 20th Century

After praising Martha, Levi hurriedly left the police station without any further delay.

Martha, who was left behind, watched him leave, and after a moment, she puffed her lips.

I stay every time...

……

After taking a public tram through Rue Reddy, Levi walked into the Lausanne Metropolitan Library twenty minutes later.

It is a fine three-story building with marble walls on the outside and fireproofing on the inside.

This is a public building and entry is free.

Levi climbed up the stairs to the second floor. The tall bookcases on both sides were neatly arranged. He walked to an area with almost no people. Here were some professional books on natural history and ecology. He walked a few steps along the bookcases. , I quickly found my target book.

"Benthos of the South Pacific"

This is a book written decades ago by a naturalist who accompanied the ship on an expedition. It is not short ago this year, and the content in it is not very rigorous, but it is enough for Li Wei.

It didn't take long for him to look for it before he saw this large, strange-looking insect.

Bobbitt worm...or sandworm.

This is a brown annelid with iridescent metallic luster on its surface. It looks like an elongated shrimp or centipede. It often lives in the sand of the seabed at a depth of tens of meters.

They will wait for prey to take the bait like fishing. When they get close, they will use the feeding organs on their heads to bite the prey hard at lightning speed, and then drag them into their caves. Due to the excessive strength, the prey will Sometimes they are even cut in half.

After this habit became witchcraft, it probably became the ability to burrow into the ground and take off the enemy like Miss Eli.

The prototype of Miss Eli's stand-in is probably the witchcraft of another characteristic of Sandworm.

That is, the breeding festival.

The sandworm will grow a milky-white reproductive node at the bottom of its body that can detach itself and swim freely, which is filled with resting egg cells. Whenever they need to reproduce, they release these breeding nodes and let them swim to complete fertilization on their own.

As for Miss Yili's stand-in, the step of fertilization is omitted and it can grow and develop into a new body on its own?

Levi couldn't help but marvel. He had no interest in living things in his previous life, but he didn't expect to have such interesting habits.

If I had known about this kind of animal earlier, I would have thought of it earlier... Levi lamented that when the book is used up, he will regret it, and he took out another thing from the space.

This is the "Encyclopedia of Characteristics and Witchcraft - Beauty Chapter", which records various qualities whose original essence is "beauty".

Ever since he saw the color of Miss Eli's soul, Levi had always guessed that her trait might be beauty, and the current evidence further confirmed his guess.

Sandworm, there should be records on it... The reason why it has not been found before may be...

Li Wei only turned a few pages according to the catalog before he saw the characteristic called Sand Silkworm.

However, the most critical "substitute" ability is not recorded here.

Sure enough, it was because the BOI records were missing.

The witchcraft of wizards is all kinds of strange. Even a wizard with the same traits may acquire many different traits. This is something that science cannot predict and can only be recorded through the witnesses of investigators or the confessions of wizards.

Because of this, the BOI headquarters actually offers very high bonuses to encourage investigators to confess their witchcraft to the headquarters, but few people do this.

Fortunately, you can also get bonuses for providing other people's witchcraft. It seems that this trait and the witchcraft encyclopedia will be added with "1920, Contributor Levi".

After carefully writing down other descriptions of the characteristics of "Lose Silkworm" in the encyclopedia, Li Wei closed the book and began to think.

Miss Ely said that "Ely the Butcher" was a monster regenerated from her double, which makes sense, since the "Festival of Breeding" could have grown on its own.

Moreover, since the "Festival of Breeding" is just a witchcraft, it has very few characteristics that cannot be regenerated like living things, and it does not have intelligence, but it can be born with "primordial essence", that is, power.

As for those insect eggs... Could it be that "Ely the Butcher" who was seriously injured by me in Redwood degenerated into the appearance of insect eggs because he could no longer maintain himself? It is originally composed of a bunch of sperm and egg cells, so it is not difficult to do this.

The evidence is... After Redwood, "Ely the Butcher" has essentially never appeared in his true form again, and it didn't appear yesterday either.

"This way, there will be one less opponent, but correspondingly, it will be difficult to find clues about Harrison and Eli the Butcher. Hiding a big bug covered in human skin at home is not as difficult as hiding a few small pearls. On a level.”

Levi picked up the pearlworm eggs from his pocket and suddenly had a new speculation in his mind.

If it was Harrison who attacked Henry, then these insect eggs were also mixed into Henry's pearls by him, or at least his men.

But once the BOI who didn't know the truth hurriedly killed Miss Eli, she would be identified as the one who killed Henry. Although there are still doubts, it can be explained directly by unknown witchcraft.

The chitin armor on Miss Eli's body has the same composition as the debris found around Henry when he died. This is enough to determine the case. The special characteristics of wizards make them destined to be a type of people who can be killed by mistake and cannot be spared.

In addition to cutting off the source of funding for the Labor Federation, he also plans to use this to make Miss Ely take the blame for him?

He dared to do this because he was sure of us that BOI would not have any contact with her other than combat?

Thinking of this, Levi couldn't help but smile slightly.

Unfortunately, he met me.

……

Reese pushed open the door of the underground morgue, and at first sight he saw Cruise leaning against the wall and smoking.

"Smoking in a closed room is bad for your lungs, team leader."

Reese sighed and walked over.

"I've already smoked and still care about this?" Cruise put out the cigarette butt, "I won't talk about this anymore. Come and take a look at this."

There was a headless corpse lying on the autopsy table. It was the substitute left behind by the "angel" the day before yesterday.

It's just that except for the chitin armor on the surface, the rest of the body seems to be infected with a disease and is showing signs of festering.

"There is nothing wrong with the way the body was preserved, but it started to rot as of yesterday at the latest." Cruise said, "The rotten parts leaked out a thick white liquid, which was the same as the one that flowed out of her body at the beginning. ."

"What does this mean? This body is actually made of this white liquid?"

"Yes, it should be..." Cruise sighed, "Unfortunately, this is not of much help to us."

"Then why are you smoking here alone?" Reese stood up and turned his head, "There are new orders coming. Go back quickly. We can't open this file unless you come."

"Wait a moment." Cruise said, "I'm thinking that maybe I shouldn't kill 'Angel' directly."