Liz's efforts were fruitless.
No matter how much they searched, no other suspicious person was found in this building. After all, the students could not remain in a stalemate for too long, so the teachers came in anyway and immediately blocked the scene after discovering it. Lu Ning and others were naturally invited out.
Liz stood outside the building stunned for a long time.
"Xue Ni, I have no real feelings about Catherine's death."
"how?"
"Although I have touched the body with my own hands, I always feel that Catherine is not dead yet - it's so strange. I don't think she would die so easily. She was a genius spotted by the dean."
"Even the most powerful magic in the world cannot bring back the dead."
"Except for the Necromancer, right?" Liz suddenly turned her head.
"Necromancy is not resurrection, they just give the bones new strength and old obsessions, Liz, you..."
"But at least we can recover Catherine's soul! Isn't there a famous necromancy teacher in the Amethyst District? We can ask her for help! This way we can figure out what happened at that time!"
"Okay." Xue Ni reached out and held Liz's shoulder, "I'll go with you."
"Necromancy?" Lu Ning raised an eyebrow, "Can we really know what happened to the deceased through necromancy?"
"It is said that excellent necromancers can do it." Xue Ni said, "And Teacher Garcia in the Amethyst District is the best one we can come into contact with. Maybe she has mastered a similar method."
"I'm with you."
Going from moonstone to amethyst meant crossing more than half of the Evar corridor. Jefni still didn't follow, but Lu Ning was full of doubts about Catherine's death.
There are too many "unnecessary" things here. There is no need for Catherine to resist so fiercely. There is no need for the other party to kill Catherine. The murder weapon is a crystal of darkness that is too expensive. Most of the people who should have been present at the scene are missing. .
"Can that 'prince' be used as a breakthrough?" Lu Ning asked on the carriage.
"We don't have the ability to force him to speak. This matter must be handed over to the college for accountability. The death of a student is a major event in Evarang, and it will not be dealt with passively in any case. You can rest assured about this." Xue Ni suppressed With a tone of voice, he said quickly, "But even if the prince is imprisoned and executed directly, this matter will not end so easily. The disappearance of people present is an unavoidable point no matter what, and Liz's reaction was already very fast. , so the question is where did those people go? Is the group invisible?"
"Impossible. The entrances and exits of all buildings in the college have anti-theft measures. Anti-invisibility is the most basic one. No one can leave the building invisibly." Liz said with a gloomy face.
"How long have those measures been updated?" Xueni asked.
"It changes every seven years, and the measures taken by each school are different. Is it possible that there are still people who specialize in watching the fog in order to kill Catherine? I am more inclined...those people are dead."
"Liz!"
"Listen Xue Ni, although you are better than me in many aspects, your sense of death is definitely not as good as those of us magic swordsmen. The more I recall, the more I understand why I can't feel Catherine's death. Because the room was permeated with a strong aura of death, even covering up Catherine's own death."
"I can't understand that feeling." Xue Ni shook her head.
Lu Ning knew that feeling, but the problem was that she didn't have such a strong death intuition in this world. People like Liz were probably in the minority.
"Yes, when I touched the corpse, what I felt was just a dead thing, not the disappearance of life... It's hard for me to describe it to you, but I think there are a lot of strange things in it. I'm sorry..." Liz hugged her He was holding his head, looking very painful and confused.
Finally arriving at the Amethyst District, Xue Ni knew the school where Garcia taught. With her guidance, the three of them quickly found the place. Lu Ning raised her eyebrows slightly when she saw the name.
"Twilight Academy?"
"What's wrong?"
"No...Professor Garcia teaches here?"
"Yes, she usually teaches elements. After all, there are very few students studying necromancy, and there are not many opportunities to teach this course."
There is a special teachers' dormitory building here. If you find Garcia, you only need to report it to the guard, and you can be let in with the other party's consent.
The process was also very smooth.
"What should we say when we meet?"
As they were about to meet, Liz became even more nervous. Xue Ni gave her a strange look: "To be honest, I know you are in chaos now, so just let me do the talking."
"Um……"
Soon, there was a knock on Garcia's door. As the door gently opened a gap, Xue Ni stretched out her hand and opened the door.
The size of the teachers' dormitory is naturally different from that of the students. It is already equivalent to a house. In the living room outside, Garcia was sitting on the sofa and using a shorthand quill to quickly record something in a notebook. He looked up at the three of them and smiled as he asked them to sit down.
"Teacher Garcia..."
"Although I am somewhat famous in the Amethyst District, I will not be asked by people from other schools. There are still a lot of outstanding teachers in each district." Garcia waved his hand and moved the quill and notebook aside, "First of all Answer me, is it something very important?”
"Yes."
"Okay." Garcia flicked his fingers, and the surroundings immediately fell silent.
After the soundproofing was completed, Xue Ni stated everything she saw exactly. At this time, she still did not mix in various subjective factors, and just described the scene she saw.
"...We hope to use your necromancy ability to find out the truth about the death of our friends. I wonder if necromancy magic can do this?"
"Soul...yes." Garcia thought for a moment before replying, "It's very easy for us to control souls and mine memories, so necromancy magic once had a very bad reputation. But if you must try it, , I can summon Catherine’s soul to ask.”
As soon as he finished speaking, all the doors and windows in the room were automatically closed and blocked by blackout curtains. Sky-blue lines appeared on the walls. A ghost lamp was lit above the head, and the atmosphere immediately became spooky.
"But I have to explain it first." Garcia raised his hand and swiped it in the air. Lu Ning felt that the surrounding temperature had dropped a few points again.
"There are very few people who study necromancy, so there are also many people who have wrong perceptions of the soul. People always like to equate souls with ghosts, which is strictly wrong. I can divide Catherine's The soul is summoned, but there are also many interfering factors.”
"Please speak." Xue Ni was not disturbed by the environment at all.
"First of all, the soul itself does not have an appearance, nor does it have the ability to interact with emotions, memories, and reality."
"Wait a minute!" Liz stood up, "No memory?"
"Memory is the function of the body. When the soul leaves, it will not take the memory with it. Of course, the events that have passed in the soul state will remain in the soul form in some way, and we necromancers can dig them out. Because of the moment of death Soul memory begins, so if you ask questions about death, you can still figure it out, which is why people confuse soul memory and body memory."
Garcia paused and continued: "Second, the soul is not an independent state, unlike when it has a body. If there are a large number of souls in an area, even we cannot distinguish them and summon them. I can only guarantee these The scenes in the soul's memory are the same to prove what you want to know."
"Okay." Xue Ni nodded.
"Last point, restrain your emotions. The soul itself does not have any attributes other than magic, but it is an existence that is easily contaminated. Any form of strong emotions may cause changes in the soul - what we often call evil spirits. , ghosts all come from this, I am not going to carry out an exorcism here, do you understand?"
At this time, Xue Ni turned her head and glanced at Liz.
"Okay." Liz took a deep breath, her eyes becoming dull.
Garcia closed his eyes slightly and began to recite an incantation that could not be described in words. The pronunciation was distant and hollow, as if it were a whisper from another world. This is the most distinctive feature of the undead language.
Lu Ning suddenly felt the light in front of her eyes flicker. She looked up and saw that the lamp with a faint fire above her head was now flickering on and off. The surrounding temperature was even lower, which even made her shiver.
"The soul has arrived." Garcia suddenly opened her eyes, her eyes filled with surging necromantic magic. She opened her hands slightly and held them up in the air. The three of them could feel a vortex swirling there.
"Catherine, what happened at that time?" Xueni asked immediately.
"No, don't ask about such complicated things. It's down to the details. It's best to answer in one or two words." Garcia said quickly.
Xue Ni was stunned and didn't know how to ask the question.
"Who took the medicine bottle?" Lu Ning suddenly said.
A cry echoed in the air. After listening for a moment, Garcia said: "Prince."
"It is indeed him." Liz nodded.
"Who did the killing?"
A moment later the answer came again: "The prince and his magician."
"Is everyone dead except the prince and his magician?"
【Yes. 】
"Don't ask irritating questions! The resentment in your soul is beginning to grow!"
Lu Ning narrowed her eyes slightly.
"Where is the magic blocking potion?"
At this moment, the lights went out and the surroundings immediately fell into darkness. Immediately the curtains were opened, and the breeze from outside blew in, dissipating the gloomy feeling in the room. Garcia sighed: "The soul can only hold on to this point. If it continues, it is likely to turn into a wraith. That is not the result you want."
"It doesn't matter, we have already found out the murderer." Liz and Xue Ni bowed to Garcia, "Thank you very much, teacher, for your help."
"If something happens to a student, every teacher will do their best to assist in the arrest. I will write you a letter of certification and you can take it to the guard station. They can immediately start arresting you."
"Thank you." Liz said sincerely.
Taking the letter of certification and going downstairs, Xue Ni and Liz discussed the next step in a low voice, while Lu Ning deliberately fell two steps behind, thinking about the problem just now.
Every answer pointed directly at the prince, without exception. Such unified evidence left no doubt, but this did not explain her previous doubts. But neither Xue Ni nor Liz would care about these issues at this moment. Their goal was to capture the prince and pay for it with his life, and they would definitely not listen to themselves again.
Will Garcia tamper with the undead's words? What are the odds that she would be involved in something like this?
When walking out of the college gate, Lu Ning stopped.
"Xue Ni, Liz, you two should go back first. I probably won't be able to help you with what happens next. I still have some things I want to check."
"Okay." Neither of them thought about Lu Ning and hurriedly left back to the Moonlight Stone Area. Lu Ning stood at the door and thought for a moment, then turned to look in the direction of the teachers' dormitory.
"Is this what you mean? But why would Garcia..."
"Miss Lillian?"
She was at the door and could easily be seen by people passing by. At this time, the person calling her name was also a person she had met once before, Pengshan Yuanzi.
"Uh...Miss Pengshan?"
Lu Ning looked her over. Pengshan always seemed to be dressed in black, and now he was also wearing a black shirt and black skirt. He was holding a book in his hand, which seemed to have a literary atmosphere.
"Miss Pengshan lives in Amethyst District?"
"No, I just came here out of interest to listen to a Feng Shui theory and drop by to visit friends after the class."
"Friend?" Lu Ning smiled softly, "It can't be Teacher Garcia, right? She is the most famous teacher here."
"Miss Lilian is smart." Pengshan Yuanzi nodded slightly, with a look in his eyes, "Meeting means destiny. I wonder if Miss Lilian would be interested in visiting during the library's open day?"
"Of course I don't want to miss such a thing. Could it be that Miss Pengshan is also interested?"
Pengshan Yuanzi smiled, and Lu Ning suddenly noticed her eyes, which were just like her name. Lu Ning only made eye contact with her for a moment and unconsciously moved away.
"Miss Lilian seems to be avoiding looking at me." Pengshan raised his eyebrows and said seriously, "Although it is common courtesy to look away, you just noticed my eyes."
"Does your family have some eye magic?"
"In the Pengshan lineage, Yin and Yang, Feng Shui, mountains, medicine, fortune-telling, and ancient miscellaneous arts are all involved. I dare not pass it on to a family, but it is better than having a wide range of skills. It is just that many skills are used with the brain and eyes, and thus I have learned to destroy evil spirits. His pupils. I don’t have the magnanimity of a gentleman to look directly at him.”
"Miss Pengshan...does this mean I feel guilty?"
"This is a blunt statement, and there are few people in the world who have nothing to do with their hearts. Miss Lilian does not need to care too much. It's just... the smell of the soul-calling incense on your body must have just left my friend's place. And using the soul-calling incense, Someone important should die around you.”
"Why is he an important person?"
"If this were not the case, I would not have come here to look for my friend, just to hear a few words from the dead. However, the art of necromancy may be used as offensive and defensive magic, but it is of little use in solving doubts."
