I seriously doubt there is something wrong with my Chaldea

The professor shook his head, left him alone, and continued reading.

…………

And Li Xiang, who had just walked out of the museum, was stopped by another professor.

"Oh, [(Master) Master] who saved humanity! Where are you going?"

Although he wanted to make the atmosphere a little more relaxed, it was really suspicious to say hello in the magic fog where the visibility of the museum was only three meters.

Especially an old man who looks very much like a bad guy.

Lixiang felt that even if he had never met and understood Professor Moriarty, the first time he saw the old professor he would think that he was a human trafficker who specially lured children with sugar.

"I'm so sorry, Mr. Human Trafficker, who looks very suspicious."

Lixiang couldn't hide his words in his heart, so he directly said what he wanted to describe Professor Moriarty.

"As you said, in order to repair the singularity, of course I have to quickly understand the situation."

"I told you I'm just a little bit of a bad professor! I'm not some nasty old human trafficker!"

The white-haired old professor couldn't help but knocked on the ground with the crutch in his hand to express his dissatisfaction, "Besides, as an evil boss, how could I do such a cheap thing—?"

"I see--"

Li Xiang raised his hand to plug his ears, expressing that he would not listen to the old professor's rhetoric at all, but he looked like a young man who was in a rebellious period and was angry with his old father.

"Ah, no matter the age, the young man doesn't want to listen to the old man's preaching? It's too much."

The old professor was greatly disappointed.

"You should be thankful that the handsome guy who doesn't want to listen to you and wants to push you down the waterfall is not here."

Li Xiang snorted.

"It's too much! You! You know I was already very old at that time, and it's not shameful to be pushed down the waterfall by a young boy... It's just... a little..."

"Not reconciled?"

Although he said that the professor was very suspicious, Lixiang had no choice but to follow if the old professor insisted, so the two walked and chatted while bypassing those dangerous alleys.

"But, no matter what, you are an ordinary mathematics professor, but you do control the evil leaders of the whole of Europe behind your back, and it is only natural that you will be sanctioned after committing all those crimes."

Lixiang said while walking.

"Well, yes...Evil, maybe this is the only thing I can't deny, but in comparison, you are a bit naive, Lixiang, will evil be punished for sure?"

Moriarty's words made Lixiang pause, "This..."

Regarding Lixiang's pause, the old professor showed a "exactly so" expression: "Power, wealth, power, these things produced by longing make people want to have them. This is greed, and it is also human. Inferiority."

"This is the evil in human hearts. Of course, more people can see the evil in others, and not all those who commit evil will encounter such annoying guys as Sherlock Holmes... This is probably called bad luck. , but correspondingly, there will naturally be villains with strong luck and power."

"They will wrap themselves in bright packaging, like a cocoon that a butterfly larva uses to protect itself, except that it is not a butterfly that emerges from the cocoon, but a spider."

"There are too many spiders in the world, one here and one here... isn't it, and..."

The professor's smile gradually became gloomy, and he said coldly: "There are too many spiders in this world, so many that no amount of detectives can kill them."

"Did Holmes win the duel with me? Although he didn't want to admit it, he won, right? But he eliminated one spider, but he didn't have the energy to eliminate more, more spiders."

"This is evil, the evil that can never be eradicated."

"Hmm...and then?"

Li Xiang's words were still calm.

"Oh, nothing, I just wanted to let you know."

Moriarty couldn't help but rolled his eyes, why didn't this young man play his cards according to the routine?

'Oh——this is really difficult. I thought I could become a chess piece for myself, but unfortunately I can't do it now. He is an unexpectedly kind person. '

The evil professor was planning a new plan in his mind, and at this moment, the two who were walking and chatting had already reached the mouth of the sea in the eastern part of the Venice Canal.

It's probably only a few hundred meters away, and there should be a small island there, but now because of the dense fog, Lixiang can't even see anything three meters away, let alone the small island outside the canal.

He didn't come here to see the island, but to take a closer look at "some" things.

"........."

The silent Lixiang raised his hand, and his fingertips slid in the air, leaving runes flowing with golden light. Then, because of this small rune, his fingertips ignited a flame.

"Are you testing the concentration of magic power?"

The professor beside him couldn't help asking.

"Yeah, the concentration of magic power here has not changed. What has changed is that this kind of magic fog is everywhere here. They block most of the magic power connections, making it impossible for magicians to use magic at all."

"Then what's your situation?"

Moriarty, who hated the Magic Association very much, saw that Lixiang's fingertips were still burning, and asked.

Lixiang shook his head, "Original Rune" magic of the Age of Gods is not so easy to be restricted casually.

"I'm not the same as them. I use the real Age of Gods magic. Logically speaking, it shouldn't be affected by this environment at all, so the explanation is..."

"Oh----"

The old professor showed an expression of sudden realization: "Your mud can't support the wall."

"You can't support the wall!"

Lixiang would respond with some displeasure, and only then did the professor notice his right hand, which was exposed with the three command spells and was not covered by the gauntlet.

Densely dense, magic circuits as complicated as electronic circuits covered the back of his hand as densely as spider webs, connected to the blood-red command spell, which was very conspicuous.

"This seems to be the thing called the magic circuit? The magician I hate the most treats it as a treasure."

Moriarty looked at the dense magic circuits on the back of Lixiang's hand, and murmured in a somewhat complicated way: "But after all, are the magicians of the future already so powerful? These vein-like patterns are densely packed everywhere. .”

"Uh………"

Speaking of this, Lixiang said with some embarrassment: "This is just my personal talent... that's all."

"Then you are really...a genius...ah."

The professor stared intently at the magic circuit on Lixiang's body for a few seconds. Suddenly, he saw a tiny crack appear on the back of his hand, and then healed quickly.

"Although I have a magic circuit of sufficient strength, the magic mist here seems to be isolating the magic power all the time. If the magic circuit is used to drive magic, the power of Rune will also be weakened."

"That is to say...you can use this method to judge the concentration of magic fog in various regions, right?"

As an evil leader who can compete with that great detective, Moriarty guessed Lixiang's purpose almost immediately.

"Well, if you can know the specific concentration distribution of the magic fog, you can go to some areas with a lower concentration of magic fog to contact Chaldea and Mash."

Li Xiang waved his hand, different from the red rune just now, this time flying in the air is a cyan rune, the moment it flew into the air, the rune melted, following the airflow of the Venice Canal, soon It will reach every corner of the city of Venice.

The original rune, which represents "nature" and "wind", is different from the scorching fire rune. Wind represents an invisible fluid, which can bring magic power to every place, and then be recovered and analyzed by Lixiang, which is almost impossible The method is noticed by others, and even if it is discovered, the enemy has no way to determine the position to use him.

"Well, then you're done."

Li Xiang exhaled a breath.

"Yeah, I also saw some incredible things."

Professor Moriarty said.

"The power of Rune will come into play soon, but we don't need to wait here, let's go back along the Venice Canal."

Lixiang nodded. It will take some time before the runes of the wind can completely fill the whole of Venice, but fortunately Venice is a real city of water, full of rivers that can make the air flow smooth, and the wide Venice canals are interspersed from the city. However, according to his estimation, it only takes about an hour to know the answer.

Now the magic mist is everywhere, Li Xiang didn't stay too long before planning to leave again.

In the next period of time, you can carefully investigate everything around you, including the distribution of those monsters, whether there are enemy servants, and... looking for Mash.

A gleam flashed in Li Xiang's eyes, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

…………

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Chapter 12: A criminal must become a detective

"Well, so that's where you're going to go?"

Moriarty pointed to the streets and lanes divided by the canal and said.

"Of course it's going this way."

There was a melodious melody coming from the left, and Li Xiang turned right without even thinking about the corner and jumped over the river between the streets. Of course, he couldn't be so stupid as to go directly into the doll's nest, and he didn't want to investigate Venice. so investigated.

"Hey! I said, should you take care of the legs and feet of an uncle in his 50s who are no longer convenient! Young man!"

In order to take care of the elderly, Lixiang deliberately slowed down so that the old professor could keep up with Lixiang's pace, but the old servant with a bad waist still expressed dissatisfaction with Lixiang who was walking along the river.

"Looking at you, it doesn't seem like it's as simple as investigating Venice? Are you separated from someone important?"

"Hmm... wait, how do you know?!"

Lixiang, who was on his way, gave an absent-minded "hmm", and then he noticed that he turned his head, narrowed his eyes and stared at Moriarty, and asked.

"Huh? What's so strange about this?"

Moriarty shook his hands nonchalantly, indicating that this was nothing to him.

"First of all... that Assassin has always been by your side, right?"

The professor looked around the surrounding buildings and found nothing unusual, but in such an environment, beside them, a very dangerous assassin was lurking.

"..."

Li Xiang closed her eyes, then slowly opened them again, as if sighing: "Does this have anything to do with you knowing that I'm looking for someone?"

"of course!"

The professor nodded, and said deeply: "As the last [(Master) Master] to save humanity, I think it is impossible for Chaldea to send only one who is good at assassination but not good at frontal combat and protecting the Master. Assassin came over... No, I checked your state just now, maybe this Assassin is also the place you temporarily summoned in the entire singularity."

"------!"

Suddenly, a gust of unexplained cold wind blew past the ankles of the two, but it did not come from the air current from the Venice Canal.

"——I now regret that I didn't kill you yesterday, Professor."

Li Xiang's eyebrows twitched, and he said helplessly.

"Huh? Get rid of me? You?"

The professor suddenly opened his blue eyes wide, and looked him up and down as if he wanted to get to know Lixiang again. He circled Lixiang several times, then shook his head and said, "I'm still very relieved about this. Yes, you are not the kind of person who would kill someone just because of a little doubt."

"…………"(stare----)

"Hahaha! Well, let's talk about the topic just now."

Seeing Lixiang's appearance, the professor couldn't help laughing.

"So - it is impossible for an Assassin to follow the last [(Master) Master] in Chaldea, and of course it is even more impossible for you as the Master to come to the singularity, then the remaining answer is - ——When you and a certain servant came to the singularity, you encountered some kind of accident, which separated you from it."

"Then after you come to the singularity, you will probably be hunted down by assassins soon, right? They are very scary in this magic fog. In order to protect yourself, you can only choose to carry out the assassination here." Summoned by the Raider, and successfully summoned the Assassin, right?"

"And Lixiang, what you most want to do now is to find the servant who lost you, right? That's why you are so anxious to investigate the singularity..."

Seeing Lixiang's eyes slowly filled with shock, Moriarty couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth, showing a confident smile.

"Of course, you can't talk too much. After all, if you want to eliminate the singularity, the sooner the better, it's not so much that you are looking for the lost companions, it's better to say that the current situation forces you no matter what you are in. The purpose must be to find out the current situation of Venice as quickly as possible, then defeat the enemy, recover the Holy Grail, and restore the singularity, right?"

The professor explained Lixiang's behavior sentence by sentence, making it impossible for Lixiang to refute.

"Uh... That's right... By the way, how did you do it?"

"Huh? Do I still need to ask?"

Moriarty blew the white hair between his eyebrows, made a flirtatious gesture on purpose, and then said to Lixiang: "Of course it's the keen observation of an evil boss! I'm an old spider in London ( Old spider) ah! Good at discovering everything, destroying all evidence that may lead to the discovery of one's crimes, this is the basic element necessary for a villain!"

Speaking of this, the angry old man couldn't help laughing triumphantly: "It is said that a famous detective cannot become a criminal, but a criminal can definitely become a famous detective... Wow ha ha ha ha ha!!!"

"... I don't know why, but I suspect you're belittling some famous London detective, but I have no proof..."

Li Xiang looked at the old professor who was about to go to heaven in front of him and couldn't help complaining.

"You can't say that!"

Moriarty glared at Lixiang, and said very seriously: "And judging by the way you are anxious to find your lost follower, it must be someone you care about very much, right?...It's a female follower Is it? A female Servant, right? It's like... a girlfriend relationship?"