The hall was not so gloomy. Instead, all the lights were turned on. The mess caused by the familiar's attack in the morning had been completely cleaned up, and even the glass had been replaced with new ones. A sumptuous dinner was placed on the table, which made Lu Ning feel a little confused for a moment. She just remembered that Pan Shen was not dead this time.
"what happened?"
"The chef felt that everyone needed to soothe their spirits after what they had gone through, so he cooked a big meal for everyone." Escher explained to her, "Do you want to have dinner, Miss Lista? I think you have I need to replenish my strength."
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"Everyone is here?" Lu Ning looked around, "No..."
"The head of the house is discussing the next matters with Mr. Gustav and Ms. Justina. If the young lady is interested, she can go there. They are in the head of the house's room. In addition, Mr. Makelov is unwilling to leave his room." Scheer replied immediately.
"Okay." Lu Ning nodded to express that she understood, then walked to an empty seat and sat down. Soon Jasmine came over and asked her what she wanted to eat.
"A piece of cake, a glass of milk, nothing else." Lu Ning ordered, then turned her head and looked at the people present.
The servants are basically all around, coming to serve whenever anything happens, and are responsible for delivering dishes to Pan Shen. Tsuburaya Temple Sora, Schlitt, Shinmiya Asaka, Jack and Delores were together, and they seemed to be having a happy conversation. Yin Asong huddled gloomily in the corner alone, and no one paid attention to his behavior.
Kajiabo, Yu Guiting and Lian Qingyi were eating and drinking in the central area. The three of them seemed not to be affected by the situation in the morning at all. They were among the happiest people in the room.
Zhai Jingqiu and Lu Ning were sitting near Lista, and they were talking about last night's affair without avoiding others. The discussion was very serious, but it was a pity that Lu Ning didn't get the idea at all.
Arisa Saotome was asking Watanabe Fuchiko how to prepare more nutritious food, but she didn't seem to be affected at all. Han Xizhe just sat there and listened with a straight face, but he looked like he was ready to prepare a meal for himself after listening.
Finally, there were Subobia, Kuzumi Heima, Orlando and Kanzaki Takaya. These people were discussing some with serious faces, and judging from their gestures, they should be preparing to solve some problems by force.
"oh?"
Lu Ning nodded slightly. It seemed that there was some gap between the tourists' acting skills. There were actually many people with average acting skills like her.
Thinking this, she let go of control.
Lista waited until Jasmine brought the food over and then began to eat slowly. She was not too anxious and was somewhat happy to see people's mood improve.
After all, if nothing unexpected happens, after Milia and others discuss it, they will unite everyone to find the anomaly on the island and deduce the legacy of Rennix. In Lu Ning's view, compared to the previous round, people in this round are actually more able to be united together. First of all, the Howard family, who had different opinions, all died, and Milia took over the position of temporary patriarch. , and Lista and Arisa Saotome aligned with her position, and the most vocal parts of the island were unified. Secondly, Lista took the servants to deal with the familiar in the morning, which was also an act of establishing power. Except for senior magicians like Gustav, everyone else should consider Lista's own strength. What kind of fighting power can the servants who are loyal to the Howard family unleash?
From this perspective, Lu Ning had to say... The Howard family died quite well.
After Lista finished eating the food, she obviously regained a lot of energy. She didn't have as much additional information as Lu Ning. What she was thinking about now was how the murderer would act at night, how he would kill people, and what countermeasures she should take.
At this time, Milia came down from upstairs together with Gustav and Justina.
"Everyone."
Hearing Miliya's voice, everyone stopped what they were doing and turned their eyes to Miliya.
"I had some discussions with two senior magicians about the current situation. At present, there are two main problems we need to face. The first is the murderers who committed crimes on this island. The second is from the previous head of the family. Rennix has made some arrangements for his legacy. Among them, the first item is an issue that needs to be solved urgently. We believe that the most important thing is to ensure everyone’s safety tonight and formulate a suitable prevention strategy. Tomorrow, we Then we can gather everyone's strength to investigate the whereabouts of the inheritance. I can guarantee here that there will be no obstruction to the discovery process of the inheritance, and the establishment of the official patriarch will also follow the family rules, and the person who discovered the inheritance will be responsible, regardless of whether it is For members of the Howard family.”
"That's why you're being polite, Madam." Lian Qingyi said, stroking his beard, "The Howard family's things cannot be lost like this, and everyone will help you no matter what. As for the head of the family, how can we outsiders do it for you? What? Haha."
"Mr. Lian, thank you for your integrity, but I still stick to my original point of view. You don't have to be too polite." Milia said, taking out a piece of paper from her sleeves, "Now, I will first tell everyone about the preparations for tonight. means."
Hearing this, everyone gathered around, even Makailov was cleared from the room upstairs by Escher.
"After our discussion, since the murderer was able to kill eight magicians and arrange a ritual of that level, he must be highly accomplished in magic. At the same time, he was able to kill the father who owned the entire island, so we have reasonable doubts. There are also situations where people with superpowers are involved, so the murderer may be more than one person. The murderer is hidden among us. Although this is a hiding method, it also gives us a way to counterattack. First of all, I hope everyone will wear a A magic warning rune, the effect of this rune is that once the wearer uses magic, the maker can sense it."
"In other words, is it an alarm?" Yu Guiting asked.
"Yes, we are not trying to restrict everyone from using magic, we just need to know who has used magic. Of course, in order to prevent someone from trying to take it off, this rune is painted directly on the body, and only the caster can wash it off. "
"I have a problem." Zhai Jingqiu raised his hand, "Who is the caster? How can we be sure that there is nothing wrong with the caster?"
"Mr. Gustav, Ms. Justina and my daughter will each make such a rune. In this way, the surveillance will be shared by all three parties, unless you think that there is something wrong with the three people we selected." Mi Leah said.
Zhai Jingqiu nodded, indicating that he had no objection.
"Early warning is only the first step, and the second step is containment. First, I will use my authority as the head of the family to make all the magic power in the main hall fall into an inert state. In this way, all magicians except me will be restricted. The possibility of using external magic power - this will be done after we make the runes, so don’t worry about it. In addition, I am not a magician myself, I believe you know that."
"So what about props or runes that take effect after being preset?" Tsuburaya Temple Sora asked, "I have seen this kind of Dingxi. After they are pre-infused with magic power, they only need to be activated."
"So before that, we will conduct a magic scan for everyone to check what magic-related things you have on your body. Of course, after that, please don't do any suspicious behavior to steal anything. We will let everyone retain their protection. Props, but not the more aggressive ones.”
Milia bent the paper in her hand and continued: "After going through these steps, we have limited the possible criminal methods to only using the magic power in one's own body, using super powers and ordinary ordinary people's crimes. Among them, , ordinary people’s crimes can be prevented by being on duty at night, which is relatively easy, and then using their own magic power to activate magic. This will not only expose that person to early warning, but also trigger one of our preliminary defense methods. , in order to prevent the murderer from carrying out targeted cracking, I will not say it clearly here."
"So, what about superpowers?" Jack asked.
"Unfortunately, for now, magic does not have the ability to absolutely suppress superpowers, so we have prepared another method..."
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In the short term, the degree of unity this time is much higher than the fragmented unity and cooperation in the previous round.
Except for some tricks involving magic, Milia basically told the whole plan. However, since it is a plan, there are risks. This is not a strategy that can guarantee everyone's safety 100%, but at least Milia can The traces of the murderer were found, and everyone agreed with this.
Naturally, she rested in the main building at night. Milia asked the servants to simply renovate the rooms on the first floor. In addition to separating men and women, everyone lived together. Then, they set up early warning, protection and other measures. In the end, Milia made all the magic in the main hall inert.
Lu Ning suddenly felt a sense of heaviness, as if he had suddenly arrived on a planet with a higher gravity coefficient, and felt a little uncomfortable. She knew that this was a magician's instinct. After all, Lista was used to the feeling of active magic all around, and there was basically no chance to experience it in this environment now.
However, Lista was only slightly affected. Even in this state, she still has quite strong magic power to release the killing moves of Chaos Ether. She knew very well that the current preparations had taken into account almost all kinds of possibilities. As long as the murderer was smarter, he would not take risks.
——I really didn’t take action.
Early the next morning, when Milia and Gustave woke people up, counted the number of people and brought them to the hall, they found that there were no new dead people. The long-planned strict defense seemed to have really stopped the murderer. The possibility of committing murder at least made them afraid to take the risk of killing someone at night.
"It seems that we have done a good job." Milia looked at the rain outside, "The next step is to explore the inheritance. Everyone, I don't intend to interfere too much with how you want to act, but please Be careful, the murderer can kill during the day, especially now when everyone may be separated."
"In this way, even if we are separated, it is best to form a team with more people." Subobia said thoughtfully, "Master, I suggest that the servants also come together. In addition to being a protector, We can supervise each other.”
"I do have a suggestion." Lian Qingyi stroked his beard and smiled, "I believe you all have some plans in mind about the direction of the investigation. In order to avoid conflicts, you might as well tell us everyone's destination today. We have also decided who to go with. In this way, even if something goes wrong in the middle, we can narrow down the scope. For example, I had a discussion with Master Yu yesterday and learned a lot. Today I plan to talk to Master Yu and Kagabo Sir, how about we let a servant lead us and go to the Eye Shopping Center to search for something?"
"Ha, you old boy..." Jack snorted coldly, "Dimitri just died."
"Mr. Jack can also put forward his own requirements." Milia said, "Mr. Lian's statement is not unreasonable, but it is best for us not to conflict with each other."
"Humph, forget it, just the few of us." Jack pointed at the four people chatting together yesterday, and then pointed at himself, "We are going to go to the Eagle Eye Pavilion at the beach. Rennix built eight villas. But there is no one living in it, which is a bit strange no matter how you think about it.”
"No problem." Milia nodded, "Does anyone else have a clear goal?"
Subobia and Zhai Jingqiu raised their hands at the same time.
"Master, Mr. Kusumi, Mr. Orlando and Mr. Kanzaki and I are planning to go back to the Lingmu Mansion. In any case, I'm still wondering what reason Felicia was induced to leave at that time. I think no matter what it was, she was You must tell me before leaving, this thing is still a bit weird."
"As for my side... we plan to search some of the things mentioned in Mr. Rennix's will. We are tentatively scheduled to search around the main library today." Zhai Jingqiu said, "Me, Dr. Lu, Lawyer Han, and Watanabe Madam, we will not leave the main building."
"Well, then I'm here too." Yin Asong said hurriedly, "I don't understand this, and I don't want to inherit any inheritance. I have to take care of the flowers. If it rains for such a long time, they will get damaged easily."
"In that case, Mr. Escher will take care of the main hall." Milia glanced at Escher, who bowed slightly and responded.
"We will return to the guild hall to sort out Enwood's belongings, and then probably go to the guild hall to see if Cynthia left anything behind." Milia said, "Rosemary will follow us, Long Shiba is with Subbia, Iris is with Mr. Jack, Bayleaf is with Mr. Lian Qingyi, Lavender is with Mr. Zhai Jingqiu. The rest of the servants will be on standby with Mr. Escher in the main hall, if Mr. Zhai Jingqiu needs it If so, you can also come to the main hall to summon more people to help. Normally, the servants will help you if you ask."
"Thank you for your kindness." Jack said with a smile, "So, I wish you all good luck?"
"I wish you all good luck. In addition, no matter what you find, please return to the main building before half past five. If you don't come back after the time, we will not go looking for you. Do you understand?" Milia? Said again.
Everyone naturally agreed. This was not only to ensure safety, but also contained a certain warning.
