Almost everyone agreed that although we took some risks today, we also made good progress. If we continue at this pace, we will soon be able to find out Rennix's legacy and wrap things up on the island as soon as possible.
But when morning came, everyone knew that things would not end so easily.
The bodies of Zhai Jingqiu, Kajiabo and Orlando were hung in the hall, forming an equilateral triangle. There is no need to describe the state of death by hanging. Just looking at these three corpses, the sense of victory that occurred yesterday has disappeared, and the feeling of fear has returned.
"what happened?"
Jack asked after everyone arrived in the hall.
This means that previous defensive measures could not prevent the murderer from killing.
"Magic has no response." Gustav shook his head slightly, "This is not a murder done using magic."
"It's a superpower," Lista said.
Everyone lowered the three bodies. Neither Zhai Jingqiu's abilities nor Kajiabo's crossbow could protect them. The murderer did not touch the body this time, so the autopsy can be carried out normally.
Lu Ning and Watanabe Fuchiko began to inspect the body. Lista asked them to roll up the sleeves of the body, and then took out the "Despair Express" in her arms.
Most of the capabilities of this prop are in storage and recording, and it has no offensive capabilities at all. Rennix will give this thing to her, which probably means that he hopes more for her to reveal the truth instead of violently cracking everything. The method to target superpowers is also the reuse of this prop.
There is a coat of arms on each of the three corpses. They are directly related to the Desperate Express, which is a means that can use death as an opportunity. It can record like Dimitri's device, and can also counterattack some less deadly magic. Unfortunately, there is nothing like superpower that can counterattack.
"...marks of alteration." Lista took out the letter paper inside and glanced at it. The traces this time do not seem to have been affected before, but a section of the record was directly scratched out with messy lines, and then a new section was generated. The new section was not completely connected to the original existing section, just like the previous section. One second these three people were sleeping, and the next second they were all hanging in the hall.
"Someone has manipulated time." Lista said, "I don't know who among you here has this kind of superpower...but, it seems that we must go to the place related to time today."
"Aren't you going to investigate the dead people?"
"Time-based superpowers can resist recording magic." Lista said, "And this is a superpower that can cover the facts. Even if I use magic to restore it, I can't do it. The lack of interoperability between the two is so difficult. To deal with it. To deal with time, you must get another time - of course, the scars on these three bodies are still meaningful, please continue to check. The magician is responsible for the magic, and the mother will lead you here to be responsible for the super powers. .”
"Okay." Milia nodded, "Please don't panic. The murderer is provoking us, but there is nothing we can do. Their murders will reveal more and more about them. Now... Doctor Lu , Ms. Watanabe, please help me. Lista, who do you need over there?"
"Gustav and Justina will be with me. In addition, I think it would be better for Uncle Escher and Mr. Jack, who discovered the problem yesterday, to also go with me."
"Okay, don't we need a few more people?"
"No need, and if you encounter anything wrong while investigating today, please be sure to ignore it to avoid provoking new familiars." Lista quickly arranged, "What we are fighting for now is time. , every day needs to be made full use of.”
After eating something casually, the group drove to the Eagle Eye Pavilion.
As the only uninhabited annex on the island, only servants clean it on a daily basis. Of course, even if it is just this level of cleaning, it is enough for one person to live there.
But the housekeeper Escher said that he had never known anyone living here, and he only arranged for someone to clean it every day. Although the facilities in this annex are complete, it does not store food and other things, let alone add some furniture that is needed by individuals. Even living there is still a lot of inconveniences.
"When the servants were cleaning, didn't they find some traces of life?" Gustav asked.
"There is no such report. I wonder what traces of life Mr. Jack found?" Escher asked.
"Some very inconspicuous signs. For example, there will be some smell on the sheets, and there will be friction or scratches on the walls and tables. These are not marks left when cleaning, but when people live in them for a long time. The traces you will leave if you are not careful. If you think that no one lives here from the beginning, it is easy to ignore this. After all, the servants change every year, and you will not be aware of the traces accumulated over the years." Jack said.
"The servants really aren't that careful." Escher nodded slightly.
"This is not your problem. The problem is, who can live here?" Lista frowned and said, "First of all, let me confirm that the annex where my father and his family live has always been fixed, right? ?”
"Young masters and ladies have their own preferences since childhood, and this villa has never been changed," Escher said.
"So, the Eagle Eye Pavilion has been unoccupied for a long time. Who is it intended for?"
"The Eagle Eye Pavilion...has not been unoccupied for a long time," Escher said.
Lista raised her eyebrows slightly.
"The visitor is a guest, and the master does not require the guests to live in the main building. There have been several times when the guests liked the seaside scenery and chose to live in the Yingmu Pavilion. Longer ago, the master was in the prime of life and had not yet adopted many young masters. When I was a young lady, I would go to various annexes with my wife for leisure and entertainment, and the Eagle Eyes Pavilion was also a frequent visitor."
"When was the last time a visitor came to the Eagle Eye Pavilion?" Lista asked.
"Three years ago, there was a couple who admired the location of Yingmu Pavilion very much, so the master let them live there."
"Who is it?" Gustav asked.
"You know, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley."
"What does Jasmine have to do with them?" Lista suddenly asked.
"There is a little bit of blood, but we can't have too many connections. Rather, Mr. Stanley is able to know the master because Jasmine is the sponsor of the master." When Escher said this, he showed a rare expression. A trace of disdain, "Molly is a good girl, but the Stanleys are taking too much advantage of her."
"You don't like those two."
"It's hard to say that they are squandering the property left by the previous generation. They have neither the ability to expand their careers nor the ability to maintain their family business, nor can they educate their children well. I'm afraid their next generation will have even more difficulties."
"That's not a problem we need to consider. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley are still safely off the island, right?"
"Yes, this has never happened before."
After asking about Escher, the car also stopped near the Eagle Eye Museum.
"Mr. Jack, don't go in this time. You stay with Ms. Justina and observe the situation of the Eagle Eye Hall from the outside." Lista said.
"Okay." Jack didn't want to enter such a weird place.
"Uncle Escher, prepare your magic."
"I know." Escher held the three pieces of paper between his fingers, "I'm ready to serve you at any time."
"Then go in."
Lista used the key to open the door of the Eagle Eye Pavilion, and a smell hit her face as the door opened. If you smell it carefully, it is consistent with what Jack said, there is a smell of someone living inside.
She first walked around inside, and then explored the possible hidden spaces around it like yesterday, and the Eagle Eye Pavilion did not have a design on the surface. After checking with Gustav and Escher, Lista began to test the key to why Jack accidentally entered another time and space yesterday.
This is actually a hard test with a result, because the person who designed this change in time and space must be Rennix. He did not leave any traces that can be traced through magic. He just designed the switch to be simpler.
It is not necessary to see that there are people living here. After repeated tests, Lista found that this is a relatively simple magic text triggering spell. The key lies in "past", "life", "concealed" and "record". Someone needs to come to Only when you seek these elements with a relatively clear purpose and verbalize such wishes will it be triggered.
Lista smiled slightly as the scene outside the window changed. Rennix was not embarrassed at this point.
Gustav saw this change and was amazed. Just as Justina's previous test results showed, this time and space was fabricated and did not originally exist.
This magic is not a particularly advanced one. It is similar to concepts such as "The Universe in Your Sleeve" and "Storage Bag". It is an application for storing ether. The difficulty is that your own magic type may not be suitable, and you need to collect a large number of various kinds of magic. Various other ethers meet the needs of a complete space-time. This space-time is almost a skeleton built by magic, and then filled with some real things to form a space.
"We entered another Eagle Eye Pavilion." Lista checked the surrounding things through a simulated identification method and quickly made a judgment, "When no one lives there, the furnishings maintained here are always the same. Yes, and the Yingmu Pavilion in this time and space is also decorated in the same way, which makes the people living in the pavilion unaware of this problem, thinking that apart from the Yingmu Pavilion, the time and space outside have changed."
In fact, everything has changed. This Eagle Eye Pavilion was built later, but it is exactly the same as the real time and space. The huge changes outside will make people ignore the small differences inside the museum.
"Then one question is solved." Gustav wiped his chin, "Then there are other questions. We should be able to go out, right?"
"Yes, go outside first."
Although fabricating time and space is not a difficult magic, it is also limited by the resources that can be collected. It is like a set when shooting a movie. It can only be detailed within a small range. If it leaves this range, it is just a set board used to create the environment. Since Rennix has gone to great lengths to build the Eagle Eye Pavilion exactly the same, how much space can he leave outside?
Walking outside, Lu Ning could see some subtle distortions through Lista's vision.
In the ocean, there are only undulating waves near the shoals, but from a distance it is just blue, as if the image quality has been reduced. The road going up the mountain also disappeared after detouring into a forest. Lista raised her hand and placed her thumb on the second joint of her index finger, but the island did not respond.
"The main building and the other seven annexes don't exist either," Lista said.
"Plants can be allowed to grow naturally, but buildings will not grow on their own. Rennix will probably not recreate an eight-eye island in this fabricated time and space." Gustav said, "Fortunately, this allows us to I know that this guy who seems to be omnipotent actually has limited abilities."
"I will not waste time and money on useless things." Escher said respectfully, "I didn't even know about this project. I completed it secretly without telling everyone..."
"What's so special about the Eagle Eye Hall?" Lista asked.
"Except for what I just said, there is nothing." Escher shook his head, "If I hadn't seen this annex, I don't think there would be anything special here. The master has nothing special about it and the other seven. The attitude of the villa is almost the same."
Lista took another look at the sun here. That thing was just a virtual product formed by magic. It was enough to provide light and heat to the plants on an island. What's more, it's set in winter.
Then, the three people went to the cellar discovered by Jack and others.
Who knew, just as she walked down the stairs, Lista heard a sound.
"who!"
At the same time that Lista was shouting, Escher had already thrown out the pieces of paper in his hand. The three pieces of paper quickly expanded in the air, forming three doors. One blocked the exit behind him, and the other two opened. Chased into the cellar.
"I didn't catch that person! It's not safe here, Miss..." Escher said hurriedly.
"Go in! I want to see who is here!" Lista jumped down the stairs in two or three steps. The cellar is not very large, but as Jack said, there are people living in it, so there are some partitions to separate the rooms. The wall, Lista's eyes immediately focused on the room where the sound came from.
"Come out! Don't make me say it a second time!"
"It's really weird. This time and space is not suitable for human survival." Gustave came down the stairs and took out a piece of plasticine from his pocket and pinched it between his fingers. "You definitely don't live here, Hawkeye." Are the traces of life in the museum left by you? Once you master the know-how, you can switch between the two time and space at will to avoid possible pursuit... This is a good choice."
As he spoke, the plasticine was shaped into a head with five features in his hands.
Gustave paused for a moment, and seeing that there was still no sign of response, he took off a pin from his cuff and pierced the tip of the needle directly into the head of the plasticine man.
"Follow my orders."
