"Can you smell anything special?" Xia Fan asked Li Dao.
The fox demon shook his head, "There is a faint smell of blood at the scene, but it does not extend. In addition, there are several kinds of strange scents, but they are basically concentrated in this area."
The scent should come from the perfume worn by the people accompanying the motorcade, he thought to himself. He had noticed it when he was in the market area. People here who were dressed a little more decently would habitually use perfume to cover up their body odor. But after Jing Li's sense of smell was amplified a hundred times, it became a mixed smell.
"The perpetrators were Qi sensers." Qian Yan, who had been watching coldly, suddenly said, "They hid in the woods at first and used long-range magic attacks. The convoy guards were killed with little resistance. As long as they didn't If it’s stained with blood, it won’t bring the smell of blood out of the area.”
Xia Fan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, "You seem to be quite experienced in this kind of thing."
"Anyone who has experienced the destruction of the Yong Dynasty has blood on their hands. I'm afraid I have killed more people than you think." Qian Yan glanced at him, "Why, are you scared?"
"No, I think you're pretty awesome." Xia Fan patted her shoulder.
"" A thousand words are stagnant.
"In that case, let's go to the woods and have a look." He took the lead towards the dense forest not far away.
The edge of the forest had obviously been searched by people from Azure Castle, and many pointed footprints could be seen in the mud. Most of these marks were left by armored boots. It's just that nothing can be found at the scene, let alone in the woods. The enemy has even taken into account the magic tracking, so naturally they will not let go of simple evidence such as shoe prints.
"It seems that we can only use the detective team's trump card." Xia Fan pondered.
"Why don't you have a trump card? I said from the beginning that Gungun should be let out, but you still have to patrol it yourself first." Li Bai glanced at him, put down the basket in his hand, and took off the cloth cover.
The plump tabby cat suddenly got out of the basket.
"Call all the wild cats nearby and ask them if they have discovered anything unusual." Li said while gesturing.
"Meow!" Gungun shouted, and then ran deep into the forest.
"Does it really understand what you are saying?" Olina asked curiously.
"The spirit doesn't understand human language, but that doesn't prevent it from understanding what I mean." Li explained, "And among the spirits, Gungun is also considered a smart one. As for the wild cats living nearby, he probably understands it as removing food. Everything else.”
"Actually, you can try to put a special ending sound after every sentence." Xia Fan said seriously, "This way Gungun will know that your words are specifically meant for it. Over time, it may be able to fully understand your words. It doesn’t necessarily mean what it means.”
"Tail sound?"
"Such as meow." He coughed twice, "The key point is to establish the corresponding relationship between languages."
"Is the correspondence like this?" Li tried to say.
Xia Fan felt that the hairs all over his body stood up. This feeling of comfort was simply difficult to describe in words. "Ahem, yes, that's it. Try raising your hands again and tilting your head slightly."
"Crack!"
Qian Yan directly summoned a piece of ice shard and stuffed it into Xia Fan's mouth.
"This person is not normal again. He is probably the sequelae of listening too much. You don't need to pay attention to it." The living dead said coldly.
"Meow!"
At this time, the first wild cat ran over accompanied by Gungun.
It opened its mouth and spit out a glass ball.
Li picked it up and looked at it, shook his head, but still took out a piece of dried fish from the basket and handed it to Wild Cat.
The latter happily ate it and ran back to the woods.
But Gungun did not move anymore, but squatted down on the spot, as if he was sitting in the center.
After a while, several more wild animals came over, including not only cats, but also dogs and raccoons.
The feeling is that after they confirmed that the strange things they picked up could actually be exchanged for food, they all became "mercenaries".
"Iron can, useless"
"The glass bottle doesn't seem to have anything to do with the case."
"These seem to be straw sandals, right?"
Xia Fan said goodbye as he picked through the rubbish one by one. Seeing that this place was deserted and deserted, there were quite a lot of man-made things, and most of them had been abandoned for some time.
"They should be left by the people who lived here before the farmland was completely abandoned." Li squatted beside Xia Fan, distributing food rations to the wild animals, "If we continue searching like this, it will probably take ten days and a half to find any results. .”
"You have to try your luck after all. Can you tell Gungun to tell them to choose something newer as much as possible?"
"Let me try." Li gestured to the fat cat, who tilted his head and thought for a while, howled several times at his "subordinate", and then stretched out his two front paws towards Li.
"What does this mean?" Xia Fan asked softly.
"It said the reward would be doubled," Li replied.
Xia Fan was shocked.
This guy really doesn't understand human language? Why do you feel more clever and cunning than ordinary children? Not only does it understand Li's instructions, but it also realizes that "newer stuff" is harder to obtain, leading to the conclusion that the rewards need to be increased. This kind of profit-seeking thinking ability is already a characteristic of strong intelligence.
After the new directives were issued, the frequency of wildlife visits became much less frequent.
The things he brought back were turned into bags, books and other items.
"Hey, what is that?" Dragon Girl suddenly looked into the dense forest.
There was a rustling sound in the forest.
The other animals fled and disappeared from sight in the blink of an eye.
I saw a black shadow swaying twice, suddenly emerging from the woods, and appearing in front of everyone. It was clearly a gray wolf. It was astonishingly big. It was probably taller than an adult when it stood. His teeth were almost exposed at the corners of his lips.
If it were an ordinary person, their first reaction would definitely be to turn around and run away. Unfortunately, no one at the scene was an ordinary person, let alone a wolf. Even if they faced the entire pack of wolves, no one would be afraid.
The gray wolf seemed to know this. It lowered its head and cautiously came to Xia Fan, opened its mouth, spit out a torn piece of paper, and then opened its big mouth towards Li.
"Ouch!"
The tone rose, clearly with a hint of flattery.
Xia Fan picked up the wet paper roll and spread it out. He couldn't help but was slightly startled, "Give it the rest of the dried fish."
"This thing looks familiar." Olina came over and said.
It's not surprising that it looks familiar.
Because this is a talisman.
Although only half of it is left, the head of the talisman and the starting path of the writing can be vaguely discerned, making it undoubtedly a Fang Shu talisman.
As an envoy from the West who has lived in Shangyuan for several years, it is normal for the dragon girl to have an impression of talismans.
"This is a mute note." Qian Yan's answer went further, "The production method is not like the current style, but more like the ancient method. It can completely isolate the sound in an area and maintain it for about a quarter of an hour. With this Talisman may explain why Azure Castle was unaware of the attack. When the killing occurred, the screams and wails were limited to a three-foot radius."
"You mean the attacker is using talismans from the Eastern Continent to commit crimes?" Olina said in disbelief.
"Is that why your Demon Empress can't find anything?" Qian Yan curled his lips, "Because this is a murder with a completely different spell system."