The sun is high

Early the next morning.

Most of Salem City was secretly spreading rumors about what happened last night.

After working hard for most of the night, Shuge successfully returned to his temporary residence and "learned" from Mrs. Wendy the horrific story that happened around the Legal Committee's residence last night.

A sword-wielding hermit known as the Blade of the Legal Committee was treated inhumanely in a shop near the headquarters of the Legal Committee on a rainy night with lightning and thunder.

According to the descriptions of some idlers and police officers who had seen the scene, the sword-wielding hermit was entangled in layers of hair that exuded a horrible stench in a clothing store. When he was rescued, all the holes in his body were His body was filled with hair, even his eye sockets and mouth. According to eyewitnesses, those hairs had probably penetrated into his body and filled his internal organs.

Of course, under the control of the Legal Committee, news about this matter did not appear in the latest newspaper of Heping Daily.

As Shuge expected, today's newspaper still spared no effort to exaggerate the hostility in Salem City. On one of the pages, Shuge saw his "masterpiece" that had been revised by Philip's editor-in-chief.

Philip was really good at stirring up people's emotions.

This time, he directly published this article as the editor-in-chief of the Peace Newspaper. In the article that has been greatly revised and adjusted, as a newspaper editor-in-chief who has lived in Salem City all year round, he expressed his views on the long-standing existence in Salem City. The "conflict between the two countries" in Salem City was analyzed "sincerely" but without any actual basis. His remarks seemed to take care of the emotions of the Votel people and the Delan people at the same time, but in fact they were everywhere. They are all insinuating and attacking the Kingdom of Votel and its culture's opposition to the Kingdom of Deland.

At the end of the article, he did not forget to issue an appeal as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, hoping that the residents of the city could exercise restraint when the armistice celebrations came and get along as friendly as they had in the past two hundred years.

Only if we can get along well with each other is there a ghost!

Shuge felt a little nauseous when he looked at these words that were very characteristic of Philip. He rubbed the newspapers in his hands and then threw them aside. Reading too much of this kind of thing will contaminate people's brains and eyes.

The familiar mage's hand appeared in the room. After the door opened, the female mage Wei Lin, who was disguised but still looked haggard, appeared at the door.

She carefully checked the room with magic and made sure there was no problem before walking into the house.

She was probably too tired, so she dropped a heavy bag in her hand and sat down on the chair, not even bothering to remove the camouflage magic on herself.

"Mr. Sugar, I always thought you would keep a low profile."

Wei Lin's tone at this moment was even colder than when they first met: "Now everyone in the city knows that there is a wild mage in Salem City who directly confronts the Legal Committee."

Her body leaned forward slightly, her camouflaged red hair hanging down from her cheeks, and her voice squeezed out from between her teeth: "As a collaborator, Mr. Sugar, should you explain to me that you What method was used to deal with the sword-wielding hermit?"

Xiuge's body trembled slightly, he turned around and instinctively began to compile a relatively reasonable story in his mind.

However, Wei Lin's eyes were focused on him first: "Mr. Shuge, don't force me to use magic to ask you."

"Alchemy bomb."

Xiuge admitted it very directly. He spread his hands and said, "I was forced to have no choice, Miss Weilin... I have never tested that thing, and I never expected that it would have such a result."

However, Wei Lin's gaze made Shuge feel a little hairy on his spine, so he smiled sarcastically, spread his hands and asked, "Miss Wei Lin, is there anything else you want to ask?"

"Oh, writers are very good at telling the truth."

The female mage curled her lips, and then leaned back on the chair a little tiredly: "It's just that you are all very good at controlling the weight of 'truth,' right?"

Xiuge sat upright and did not dare to move.

Fortunately, although Weilin seemed to be in a bad mood, she did not want to continue to delve into this matter. She waved her hand, removed the magic disguise from her body, and returned to her original appearance. After using the mage's hand to pour herself a glass of water, she said: "Don't worry, Mr. Shuge, I will maintain a certain amount of trust in you before leaving Salem City. As a new spell caster, But you were able to single-handedly deal with a sword-wielding hermit. If the details of the matter were reported to Merlin Lehe, it would probably be enough to put the entire Van En on a wanted notice for you. You should be proud of this."

"..."

Xiuge was not happy.

Although the confrontation with the sword-wielding hermit last night was very short, the terrifying ability to suppress magic displayed by the other party has impressed him. He only has one alchemy bomb left, and what it showed before The effect has also proven that this thing can only be most effective in a confined space. If it is only detonated in an open place, then as long as the opponent reacts quickly enough, he can escape to a safe location in advance.

In other words, although he still has a trump card, the fault tolerance rate of this trump card is almost zero.

After all, Wei Lin did not struggle with this matter for too long. She quickly adjusted her state and began to exchange the information collected last night with Xiuge.

Xiuge first explained what he found in the secret room of the Legal Committee. However, after hearing the name "Golden Boots Caravan", Weilin frowned: "Golden Boots Caravan...well, I know them, It's just that these merchants never stay in one place for too long. They leave after delivering the goods. It's impossible to be sure whether they have left the city. But you can try to find a caravan organized by a group of giant-eared goblins. , it’s still very easy to find.”

Shuge nodded, and then asked: "What about you? Miss Weilin, what did you find?"

Hearing this, bitterness and helplessness appeared on Wei Lin's face. She said, "The situation is not good. The group of mages who followed me to Salem City have all disappeared from the Legal Committee's headquarters."

"They...escaped?"

Wei Lin glanced at Xiuge lightly: "Everything has been dealt with."

Xiuge is sure that in the minds of the members of the Legal Committee, the word "handling" will not be too mild.

"However, I found a magical secret message left for me in the warehouse where the magic crystals are stored."

"Does anyone know where you're going?"

"Well, that's right..."

Wei Lin nodded slightly and said, "The person who left that secret message even prepared something for me, or for us."

As she spoke, she took the rather delicate-looking bag and dumped the contents on the desk. They were several carefully polished magic crystals, although Xiuge had never actually used them. But you can also feel the strong magic contained in these ores through the shimmering light on them.

Next to these crystals, there is a slightly smaller magic book and a new type of crystal gun, accompanied by two brand new magic ink pens and a small bag of crystal bullets dedicated to the crystal gun.

Weilin didn't even look at the crystal gun, and directly put it and the bag of bullets in front of Xiuge. She picked up the spell book and checked it, and then continued what she said before: "The person who left the secret message should be There is an informant hidden among the top officials of the Legal Committee. He is very aware of our current situation. In the secret text, he repeatedly warned me that the situation has changed beyond prediction, and let us not try to leave Salem City now... …The Kingdom of Delan and the Legal Committee have completely blocked the city. They have even set up a large number of checkpoints and ambushes around Salem City. Once we try to leave, no matter whether we can pass through the ceremonial ground that they have tampered with, we will He will definitely be killed on the spot.”

"Other than that?"

"No more. There is only so much content in the secret text. It seems that the hidden informant doesn't know what to do now. Probably things beyond their expected plans are indeed happening in and around Salem City."

Hearing what she said, Xiuge couldn't help but sigh. He stretched out his hand and pressed it on his pocket, where the magic pass he had obtained from Editor-in-Chief Phillip was stored. Now it seemed that the nobles of the Kingdom of Deland were very interested in Phillip. His promise was a blank check. Under the current circumstances, not even a dog would be able to escape from Salem City!

Just when Xiuge felt confused about his bleak and desperate future, a crystal that was slightly smaller in size and relatively dim in magical power was placed in his hand.

The female mage picked up the remaining crystals and said: "Continuous magic loss is likely to cause irreversible damage to the caster's spirit. Try to resonate with the magic in the crystals... just like you manipulate the engraved magic. Just do it, magic is like water, it will flow to the 'depression' on its own."

After saying that, she set up a series of protective magic on herself, then leaned on the back of the chair and held one of the crystals in the palm of her hand. Within two seconds, the crystal began to flicker slowly. As he stood up, the magic power began to flow into Wei Lin's body.

"Oh, okay."

Xiuge glanced at the crystal in his hand, and then at Wei Lin, who was already concentrating on recovering her magic power. Then he walked to the small bed in the corner and sat down, turning his attention to his spiritual world.

Wei Lin's warning seemed to be true. Xiuge found that the magic power in his spiritual world had become extremely thin at this moment. The metal disc was basically in a stagnant state, and even the dark green piece inlaid in the center of the metal disc was The spar also became extremely dim.

"It seems that I used too much magic power yesterday... My own magic power recovery alone cannot support such consumption."

Xiuge silently made a judgment in his heart, and then held the crystal in his hand. After closing his eyes, he clearly felt a stable and rhythmic vibration of magic coming from the darkness. Under its influence, the metal disk in the spiritual world began to rotate again, and the dark green crystal in the center trembled slightly like a heart, seeming to be rejuvenated with vitality.

The process of the magic slowly flowing into the body makes people feel very comfortable. Under its effect, the fatigue that had been suppressed by the magic finally fully emerged. Unknowingly, Shuge held the magic crystal in his arms. He lay down on the bed and fell asleep like this.

…

"Click, click, click!"

The splendid dancing light and shadow, the dense and crisp knocking sound, the chaotic sound coming from the front...

Xiuge felt as if he had returned to a distant afternoon that he could never go back to. He was lying on the lazy sofa in the company's "fishing corner" for a midday break. Not far away, his bad friends and colleagues were having a passionate affair. to conduct daily fighting game confrontations.

They are always like this, and sometimes they like to shout and yell. They have been complained by people from other departments more than once.

"Keep your voice down."

Xiuge turned over and muttered dissatisfiedly, preparing to follow his body's instinct to fall asleep again. However, at this moment, an unreasonable feeling of panic came over him. The feeling was so real, just like when he died suddenly. .

"etc!"

He immediately came to his senses: "I've been dead a long time ago, where did my colleagues come from?"

Stimulated by this idea, he jumped up from the lazy sofa in the dream world, his heart beating wildly at this moment, and when he looked in the direction of the sound, he found that he was not far away. In front of the game console, a tall and thin black figure was sitting. He was wearing a black dress and a top hat. He was holding a controller in his hand and was concentrating on operating the game characters on the screen.

As if knowing that Xiuge had woken up, the figure suddenly raised his left hand and patted the cushion beside him twice.

After completing this action, the weird black figure started to control his character again, and a set of gorgeous combos were immediately displayed on the screen, making the character controlled by the computer scream in the sky.

This scene was really too strange. Xiuge couldn't help but look around, but saw that the rest of the dream world was as quiet as ever. The only difference was the area in front of him, and the one used to leave the dream. That door was also closed at the moment.

"It seems that the other party is not planning to let me go directly... Forget it, let's go over and see how scary a monster that can play games can be?"

Xiuge assessed the current situation, and then bravely walked towards the figure.

At this moment, the battle on the screen ended again, so the black figure turned around, his face wrapped in thick black mist shook slightly, he raised his hand and pointed at the handle in front of the cushion.

"You want me to play a game with you?"