In other words, there is now a [criminal] relic missing. As a museum handler, Jiang Chenchuan is obliged to track and recover it.
"Okay, now that your matter is settled, it's my turn." Ethan turned his head and said to this ordinary-looking watch repairman, "Professor, the college said that the museum's monitoring equipment has There are some issues that I need you to take a look at.”
"When you go out, you have to pay based on working hours."
Heyman was not polite to Ethan. He slowly packed his tool box and began to bargain.
"Professor, you know, the recent funding of the Alchemy Institute..."
"This is not negotiable."
"Okay, professor, your pick-up car is over there."
Ethan replied resignedly.
Seeing the usually proud and indulgent Ethan so deflated, Jiang Chenchuan couldn't help but feel a little funny. Of course, this also confirmed his previous suspicion that the identity of this watch repairman was not that simple.
Professor of Alchemy Academy?
Jiang Chenchuan didn't say much.
Ethan took Heyman away and got into the car. Heyman paused and looked back at Jiang Chenchuan:
"Ethan, please help him when the time comes. I remember that I seemed to have invented a... device that traces the source of the relics based on their remaining power. It should be useful."
"That device has been loaned to the museum, but..." Ethan showed a hearty smile, "I made a portable one for my last project, maybe I can try it."
The car starts and goes away.
The monitoring station where the accident happened is a bit far away from here. The car has driven a long way and we can chat a few words on the way. Ethan took this opportunity to discuss several points with Heyman that he couldn't figure out. Professor Heyman also gave them one by one. Answer.
"By the way, one more thing, professor, about the customer who just came to see you, Evel..."
Ethan hesitated for a while, but decided to tell Professor Heyman.
"What's wrong?"
Professor Heyman straightened up and listened carefully.
"Do you still remember the corpse of a stranger that the Sheriff's Department asked us to recover some time ago? The corpse was in a very strange state. It has not decomposed yet. Moreover, Professor Erwin said that the corpse recently had the ability to slowly repair itself. Function, I used the alchemy of soul searching, and the one guided by the alchemical compass... was the person just now."
"soul?"
Professor Heyman's cloudy eyes lit up. From ancient times to the present, no one has been able to prove the existence of the soul. Even if there is, there has never been a case of rebirth outside the body.
Of course, part of the reason why Ethan has not started writing the thesis is that he is afraid that exposing his soul will have another impact on the gods and belief culture.
"I have some different conjectures, Professor. Since I have proved the fact that the soul can survive without the body, then the World Tree..."
Thick black smoke rose up ahead, interrupting what Ethan was going to say next. He hurriedly stepped on the brakes. Pedestrians on the street stopped and looked in the direction of the black smoke.
"what happened?"
Ethan stuck his head out of the car window to take a look. The road ahead was basically blocked. He could see mounted police coming from a distance. Whistles spread throughout the streets and alleys, and the smell of burning smoke filled the air. .
"Professor, wait for me."
Ethan pushed open the car door and walked towards the place where the smoke was coming from. He squeezed through the crowd watching the excitement and saw that people from the Sheriff's Department had set up a cordon and everyone could only stay outside the cordon.
Even if I stood on tiptoe and looked in, I could only vaguely see the outline of a dark tram, still burning with flames.
"Excuse me, what's going on here?"
Ethan caught someone and asked directly.
"I don't know, I was shopping there. I didn't know what was going on, but I heard a very noisy sound, and then something exploded with a 'boom'."
"Obviously, I saw that the tram was on fire first, and then I heard the people on it shouting. Let me tell you, it was obvious that they would not die. It was so strange. The driver didn't open the door. I didn't know what to do after that. Things exploded all of a sudden.”
"It's almost the same. I saw the same situation, but the time interval is too short, and they haven't arrived at the station. Even if the door is opened, they won't be able to run very far and they will still be bombed."
"Oh, it's really, really scary. I just saw the doctor carrying them out of the tram, and they were all burnt..."
As if a chat box had been opened, passers-by began to discuss. Ethan listened briefly and found a gap to squeeze out.
Got in the car.
"It seems like there's been an explosion. It won't be possible to get through here for a while. We have to find another way."
Ethan was about to start the car and leave, but Professor Heyman raised his hand to stop him:
"Let's wait for a while, I don't think something is right."
"Professor, are you suspicious of...a relic?"
Ethan understood what he meant, but relics were not commodities and could appear anytime and anywhere.
Seeing the billowing black smoke and the fire becoming more and more intense, Professor Heyman stretched out his hand from the car window, caught the floating ashes, and squeezed it gently, leaving only a light ash and an almost invisible faint Purple light.
"It's most likely so. Go find out where the museum's nearest monitoring station is and notify them. The guys from the Sheriff's Department probably won't be able to intervene until tomorrow."
Professor Heyman explained.
Ethan immediately prepared for action.
"By the way, ask them to bring people from the medical department as well, and try not to let ordinary people from the Capital Hospital come into contact with the corpses."
Ethan nodded, and while everyone's attention was attracted by the fire, he got into a deserted path, and used broken stones to draw a not too complicated circular pattern on the ground. If there was an alchemist present, , you can see that this is a common alchemy circle.
He took out the compass from his pocket and placed it on the pattern. After a while, a blue-green light appeared alternately, and the pointer on the compass began to rotate crazily.
Finally, stop in a certain direction.
This is the advantage of man-made relics. They can be used regardless of whether they are awakened or not, or whether they are in the wrong sequence.
It's just that the function is much worse than the real thing in every sense.
"Yes."
Ethan grabbed the compass, rubbed the patterns on the ground with his feet, and quickly ran in the direction pointed by the compass.
…
Jiang Chenchuan carried his small iron box and prepared to go home.
After thinking about it,
In order to prevent accidents, it is better to hand over the Heart of the Woye River to the museum first.
He came to the platform and waited. After waiting for a long time, no tram arrived. Just when he was surprised, a uniformed staff member came to him.
"I'm sorry, sir, there were some accidents ahead. We have just been notified that the trams will stop running today."
"ACCIDENT?"
Jiang Chenchuan raised his eyes and looked into the distance. There seemed to be countless ashes dancing in the sky.
