Chapter 204: Puppet of the Wire-Based Puppet
The body of the erudite was taken out of the stargazing room by the mages, and the rotten food in the vestibule was also cleaned up.
Ethan could see that since he was named, Mr. Silver Fox has been in a state of ease. If it were Kogoro Mouri, he would have been able to make a judgment now - the murderer is the guilty Silver Fox!
This may rule out a wrong answer for reasoning.
He signaled the Silver Fox to sit opposite him, and the vestibule of the Boss became a temporary detective firm, and it would be vacant until the next Bossess took over the mess of the Mage Tower.
Ethan asked the person opposite again, "Mr. Silver Fox, when was the last time you met a erudite?"
"... Last night."
This time, The silver fox finally said a word hesitantly.
"Where is the location?"
"When I was stargazing, I would submit a report to the erudites."
The silver fox was calm and his hands folded on his knees moved uneasily. He knew that this would make him the number one suspect, but after he was injured and returned to the wizard tower, the erudites might be for the sake of their family. He gave him the job of the promotion exam, which is an important job without showing off.
Statistical list, formulating test questions, organizing invigilators and review teams are all real powers, and a group of people will flatter him at that time.
Of course, the premise of all this must be based on the fact that the erudites are not killed and everything in the Mage Tower maintains daily operation.
He met many people when he submitted his report, and it was the rest time after dinner.
"Can you describe the situation at that time?"
"The erudite asked me to come in and put the materials for the promotion exam on the table."
The silver fox staggered his eyes as he spoke.
This is a person who almost wrote the "suspect" on his face. Ethan found the written materials mentioned by Silver Fox on the table. It was a thick stack, and it had not been turned on. sign.
"That is to say, you came in this room last night."
"Yes."
"Then you should see the rotten pumpkin pie on the table. Don't you think it's very abnormal for someone who just talked to you to have a rotten food in the laboratory that had been rotten for several days?"
Hearing this, the silver fox tensed his body. He opened his mouth, but couldn't even say a word.
Just a while ago, he found the vice president and called all the great mages, just to take advantage of the vice president's hatred for Rowena and push the blame to Rowena.
However, this was not a careful plan at all. Until today, he had no idea that Ethan and Rowena would visit the Mage Tower.
Silver Fox felt that he must have drunk too much potion, and his brain was damaged, his thinking and reaction became dull, and he could also hear the echoes coming from nowhere from time to time. Those echoes would make some decisions on his behalf, and when he came to his senses, his body had already taken action.
This has been particularly serious these days.
His memory has many faults. Sometimes he was in the laboratory the previous second, and then he had already appeared elsewhere in the next second, and at this jumping point he met I can’t remember who and what I did, and I have to roughly infer my own path of action through conversations with others.
Reason tells him that he should not take the concentration potion anymore, but his body and spirit are like an addiction.
So, can these facts convince Ethan?
When thinking of this problem, Silver Fox became more and more anxious.
He had a grudge with Ethan. Although he believed that Ethan, as the winning party, might not regard him as a thorn in his side, he would never have any favors for him. Coupled with his behavior with the vice president, Ethan might have pushed the charge directly onto him - just like him!
However, at this moment, Silver Fox hoped that Ethan was a sensible person and would not put the charge on someone like the vice president.
In the Astrological Guild, there is no more serious crime than murdering a polymath.
People who commit such crimes will also suffer severe torture before death comes.
"Answer me, Mr. Silver Fox, what do you think of the rotten pumpkin pie on the table?"
Ethan's question once again brought the Silver Fox back to reality.
"I... it's not me, it's not me!"
The silver fox suddenly became excited. At the last moment, he heard the familiar echo again, the invisible The voice reminded him to stop having unrealistic fantasies in a playful tone.
Ethan will definitely use this to kill him!
Escape, this is his only chance.
The silver fox suddenly attacked. He held the wand hidden in his sleeve and swung it to his head. A blue lightning flashed out of the wand, hitting the bookshelf behind Ethan. The books and collections on it immediately fell towards Ethan. Almost at the same time, the silver fox's body changed into a stream of black smoke, floating outside the stargazing door.
All this happened in the flash of lightning. The mages waiting outside the door for "interrogation" stood there. The only one who reacted was Rowena, who had been observing the silver fox. .
The red lightning chasing over hit the silver fox, and the shapeshift curse was interrupted again during the casting. The silver fox's body was pulled away by the lightning in the air for several meters and fell heavily. On the wall.
The Silver Fox didn't have time to cast the protective wand. As a weak magician, this blow was enough to make him lose his ability to move.
However, as Ethan's temporary assistant, the detective did not speak, and she did not kill her. Otherwise, the silver fox would have been knocked away so lightly. He would have found that he was cut into a while in the flight. Two pieces.
The silver fox lying on the ground was kept by the mages. He opened his mouth and gasped quickly.
He also saw the vice president's face extremely gloomy. "It seems that the truth has come to light." The vice president stared at him coldly, his face bulging, and his facial features twisted together as he spoke, "I'm sorry, Miss Lovina, I misunderstood you."
These words were squeezed out from the gaps of their teeth. This was the most shameful and reluctant moment in his life.
However, the Silver Fox attacked Ethan during the interrogation and fled for fear of guilt was a fact that everyone witnessed with their own eyes. Although he took the lead in this fierce questioning, it was the Silver Fox who brought them all together.
It was the Silver Fox that made them believe that Rowena might be detrimental to the erudites.
In this way, everything can be explained.
"Mr. Ethan, let us leave the next thing."
The vice president poured all his anger on the Silver Fox, "I will let him respond with it." Some of the costs, his family cannot protect him."
The silver fox must die.
But death was too light for him, and he should use a spell to leave some traces on the silver fox.
The angry voice echoed.
Silver Fox seemed to have lost his language ability, his eyes were turbid, as if he had accepted his fate.
Ethan did not comment.
The mages looked at the silver fox being carried away with complex eyes. Until now, they all had an unreal feeling and had not fully accepted the fact that the erudites were killed.
When the mages left and returned to silence during the stargazing, Rowena asked, "Is it him who did it?"
She always felt something strange.
The Silver Fox looked scared and every judgment he made revealed a strange aura - did this man really think he could escape in front of Ethan and so many mages?
Rowena finds it hard to believe that a murderer who dares to murder a erudite can bear such a bad mental capacity.
Although she has always been inconsistent with the erudites, she has to admit that the erudites are one of the greatest magicians of this era. It is hard to imagine that such a great magician would die at the hands of a coward like Silver Fox.
"Not necessarily, but at least he knew last night that the erudite was dead."
This is why the Silver Fox has a ghost in his heart. He can't explain why he was corrupt. Pumpkin pie turned a blind eye, maybe he was scared away, or he saw the body of a erudite.
This made the Silver Fox's spirit fall into a state of confusion, and coupled with the black potion, he made many reckless judgments in a trance.
Ethan suddenly looked to the left, and a book that fell to the ground disappeared under his nose.
"Teacher, help me watch in the detention room. If the real murderer was in the mage tower, he would definitely find a way to make the silver fox confess."
Lowina was frightened by the sound of the cat jumping onto the desk and making a sound. Jump, but when I think about it, it also fits the character of Winter who likes to join in the fun - after all, there is probably nothing more explosive news in this world than the murder of a psychic scholar. If this matter spreads to the imperial capital, it will immediately become hotly discussed by everyone. topic. "I know, Detective."
The cat in an invisible state said lazily.
"...I didn't expect you to be a good person. Have you ever been a detective before?"
After a while, Rowena said.
Ethan once again proved that he knew everything. If it were her, she would have been too lazy to use her brain to waste the conversation with the people in the Mage Tower.
Detective is one of the most dangerous professions of this year. The closer you get to the truth, the closer you are to the danger.
She has seen many assassinations of detectives with excessive curiosity and sense of justice in Mengyi’s reward announcement.
"This is the basic quality of the shelter investigator."
Ethan was not in a relaxed mood. He always felt that things would not develop in such a simple direction. Perhaps until the end, there would not be a real "murderer" to force the Silver Fox to confess his guilt. "Let's go, go to the cafeteria." "Calendar? Are you hungry?" Luo Weina rubbed her stomach, and after Ethan said this, She was also a little hungry, but having supper in the mage tower is not a good idea. With her reputation in the mage tower, it is normal for someone to poison the food.
Nevertheless, she followed Ethan.
There are no ordinary people in the mage tower. Even the servants who clean and the chefs in the kitchen are at least third-level magicians. In addition to spells used for fighting and killing, many magicians have used their creativity in their daily lives in recent years. ——The spell of automatically sweeping and mopping the floor, peeling and cutting vegetables does not require the noble magician to do it themselves. They only need to hold a recipe and give orders through the spell, and the ingredients will be combined in the most precise way.
It's almost dinner time now, and the fragrance of the restaurant has aggravated Rowena's hunger. "Sorry, she is not allowed to eat here." The magician in the kitchen recognized Rowena, the extremely sinful person, and said with a cold face.
This is the drawback of the academic system.
Rowena did not take the attitude of this young magician to heart. Most of the people who can enter the mage tower are descendants of a pure blood family. They have learned from their tutors since childhood. In addition to magic skills, there are many things about their tutors. Attitudes will continue to them. "We're not here to have a meal," Ethan said. "A few days ago, the erudite ordered a pumpkin pie and asked someone to send it to her laboratory." >
The young magician nodded, "That's the case."
"I want to know the specific time."
"A night five days ago."
The erudite has been dead for at least five days.
Ethan came to the preliminary conclusion, imagining that night the erudite ordered a pumpkin pie, but before enjoying the food, she decided to meditate for a moment.
No mistakes, one poem, one post, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one read!
The investigation finally made substantial progress. The reason why no one noticed this was because five days after his death, the erudites appeared in front of the mages in different ways. Observation, the mages at the Mage Tower do not seem to like socializing, and they stay in their respective labs except for public meals.
It is normal for them to not see someone for a few days.
"Yeah, just leave like that?"
When Ethan saw that he walked out of the cafeteria without looking back, Rowena hurriedly said, "You don't have to worry about me, I won't eat here." That's it, they dare not harm you."
"I'm not hungry. If you're hungry, you can go and eat."
With a "bang", Ethan's hand A hard object appeared in it. Before Rowena could come back to her senses, the cold and dry hard object was handed to her.
This thing should be called "magic bread".
Rowena looked at the bread in her hand and looked at Ethan again, but the latter was serious, "If you are hungry, just use this one to pad it first."
She hesitated for a while and then , try to put the magic bread to your mouth.
"Crack".
A strange sound was made when biting the bread.
She failed, the surface of the bread was intact, as hard as the oath and sword of victory on the other side, and the saliva on the "Sword Blade" seemed to mock her for being overestimated.
Only Miss Croy can bite this thing.
But no matter what, this was Ethan's intention. Rowena put away the ebony wand and held the magic bread in her hands in her hands with swords. She felt that this thing was swinging someone. The effect should be great. With the magician's fragile small body, they can't find it if they get a bread.
Now it's Knight Rowena, a mage who is good at using powerful physical attacks.
"Detective, what should we do next?"
"Find the motive of the murderer."
"Motivation? Perhaps it is a question of the inheritance of the erudites."
Lowina subconsciously said, "Every heir is designated by the erudites himself, Others have no right to interfere. I heard that assassinations against erudites occurred during the transfer of power, but they basically failed. "
Once erudites died before appointing a clear successor. , on the issue of candidates, it will become a voting system, and the pure blood family, whose power is deeply rooted in the Mage Tower, can control the right to speak.
"This possibility is not ruled out, you will be responsible for the investigation of this part."
"Ah? Me?"
Lovena was stunned for a moment before hesitating, "Okay, I'll try it."
She was planning a preliminary plan - if anyone didn't cooperate with her After investigation, she invited the other party to eat magic bread!
Without Rowena following, the mages he met on the road became much more talkative.
They generally believe that the erudites were killed last night. During this period, they saw the erudites in more than one place in the Mage Tower. Sometimes they were sorting out spell casting materials, and sometimes they went to the cafeteria to have dinner.
When Ethan asked if magic could achieve the effect of a deceptive method, the mages fell into deep thought.
No, this is not a fool.
The mages mostly became a little excited, as if their authority was being questioned.
They will first explain to Ethan that there are indeed many magicians in the "change" spell that can make people hallucinate, but they are all the best magicians in the world, and even the "change" system. The textbooks for mantras were compiled by them.
No one could confuse them with hallucinations, but they still fooled them for five days!
Ethan did not refute it, at least it showed that the caster's methods were extremely clever and reached the point where they were perfect, and even these long-famous masters could not see any flaws.
In addition to the silk thread hanging faintly on the Silver Fox and the vice president, he made him more determined to make his guess.
However, Rowena said that there have been no saints among the believers of the God of Scheming for hundreds of years.
Even the current erudites who are highly anticipated fail.
As her death, all this was decided.
However, Ethan learned an unexpected important message from the mages—they mentioned that since the erudites returned to the Mage Tower, they have locked themselves in the stargazing room and meditated almost every day, before that, A erudite has not been so keen on meditation for more than a decade.
As the age continues to grow, the erudite himself seems to have given up the unrealistic fantasy and started to work on the expansion and development of the guild.
Ethan returned to the stargazing again.
The books and collections of the erudites are scattered everywhere, most of which are manuscripts left by the erudites, which are written incomprehensible language. Rowena mentioned that this is the wizards. The encryption method, especially the pure blood family, does not like to share their research results with others, so they created such a spell.
Only the writer can understand the experience.
Ethan found the recent manuscripts of the erudites from the messy pile of books, and the dense symbols on them confirm the mages' statements.
After the turmoil of the imperial capital, for some reason, hope rekindled in the hearts of the erudites.
However, her soul had completely dissipated and was burned to pieces in the backlash of meditation. Before Silver Fox and Vice President brought people to him, Rowena had tried to use the spell of the dead communicating spell to make the dead Bo Scholars reveal some key information to them, but the spell does not work.
The person who murdered the erudite hoped that she would shut her mouth forever, and also made these manuscripts full of unknown symbols a heavenly book.
Ethan spread the manuscript flat onto the desk and studied it carefully for a long time.
Unfortunately, he is not a master of linguistic semiotics, and he cannot infer the meaning of it through the brushstrokes of symbols.
He felt that the truth of the death of a erudite was hidden in these symbols.
Even besides the truth, there might be something else, which contains the purpose of him and Rowena's initial visit to the Mage Tower.
Ethan closed his eyes and recalled his last meeting with a erudite.
That was an old lady with a very energetic spirit.
It seemed that he was not affected by the turmoil in the capital and the dissolution of the seven-member parliament. After he accompanied the queen to inform the remaining seven-member parliament members that the parliament was about to be dissolved, the old lady gave up all her power very casually. She looked very excited that day. After the meeting, he couldn't wait to pull him aside and invite him to the guild as a guest.
Yes, the erudites are very interested in the three questions he asked.
The first one, Ethan gave her a positive answer to the news that the right and middle gods were most likely to have fallen.
The second one is about Saint Mary. As the leader of the believer of the God of Scheme, she showed a strong interest in the Saint of Life Church. After communication, Ethan learned that the erudites were learned by the lecherous scholars. What is really interested is the title of "Divine Chosen", who consciously distinguishes their relationship with the saints.
The erudites are trying hard to understand what higher powers the God-selected and the Medium-selected God have, as a more noble being than the saints.
This topic was ultimately not answered.
Ethan had never been to Ophera at that time, nor did he understand the grudges and entanglement between Ampalis and the Lord of Tides, so the erudite invited him to come to the Mage Tower to discuss this issue later.
If she was still alive, she would definitely be very willing to meet Ampolis.
The third one, a new issue extended by the two when discussing the first two topics, was almost immediately excited to get out of the chair when the erudite heard that Ethan had used the rules set by the Knight Lord. Stand up.
Relics, trials and those who get the holy sword are the ways to advance left by the Knight Lord.
As long as she finds the rules left by the God of Scheming, she may be able to break the situation where no one has been promoted to a saint for hundreds of years.
The old lady wrote down all the theories mentioned by Ethan, and she needed to return to the Mage Tower to check for more information.
If she was still alive...
Before leaving, Ethan was ready to discuss these three issues with the erudites. Ophela's trip gave him a lot of gains , He believed that after returning to the Mage Tower, the erudite must have searched for many information left by the God of Scheming.
Ethan has a certain good impression of this old man who is full of curiosity.
But now it seems that perhaps these three topics have killed her.
"…'The Fall of the God of Scheming and the Thoughts on Komori's Rules Theory'."
The sound from the opposite desk made Ethan open his eyes in surprise. It was A very weak voice.
Ethan looked in the voice and the green-haired girl appeared opposite him at some point, and the bangs on her forehead covered her beautiful golden eyes.
The literary girl avoided her eyes with him and explained in a lower voice, "That's what the manuscript is written."
(This chapter ends)