At this moment, Richard had an extremely clear feeling of being peeped on. It was as if there was another person who was the same as himself, using his conscious body to go out of the body to watch himself in the cabin.
this…
Looking at the empty corner, Richard frowned. Without thinking much, the No. 1 ring on his finger flashed slightly, and "Pierce's Nerve Sensitivity Technique" was activated.
The hairs on the skin stand up, and the senses are fully strengthened. At this time, the feeling of peeping from the corner is extremely obvious.
The next moment, Richard was not polite. He reached out and took out the crystal skull and pointed it at the corner. The free energy elements in the magic source in the body began to surge, always ready to stimulate the mental impact of the crystal skull to launch an attack on the invisible peeping person.
Richard didn't think the rest of the attacks were of any use, but the crystal skull attack could definitely teach possible peepers a lesson.
After all, in the forest within the Emerald Kingdom, when the beast tide subsided, he went out of his body to explore the secret room containing the crystal skull in the mountains, but was almost killed by the power of the crystal skull.
Richard thought so, his eyes sharp, and he was ready to attack, but the peeping feeling from the corner suddenly disappeared and disappeared without a trace.
this…
Richard's eyes flashed, and he did not relax his vigilance easily. After thinking about it, he released the mental impact of the crystal skull into the air. After finding no response, he tentatively walked over and made sure again that the feeling of being spied on was gone, and he felt a little relieved.
Is it an illusion? Or was someone really peeping, but they just left in time
Richard was guessing in his mind, unsure whether that idea was correct.
However, I felt a little more vigilant in my heart. Combined with the constant murders on the giant ship, I couldn't help but guess that the peeping feeling just now probably came from... the murderer.
So...since the murderer was peeping in the cabin, could it mean something was done nearby
Richard thought, turned and walked to the cabin door, opened the cabin door a crack, and squinted towards the corridor outside.
The corridor inside was quiet and empty at night, but... there were three corpses.
Well, three bodies!
Richard raised his eyebrows and his eyes fell on the three corpses not far from the corridor.
The three corpses were stacked together, looking like a pile. The blood flowing from the wounds had solidified, and it looked like they had been dead for a while. Under the corpse, on the wooden floor of the corridor, the solidified blood outlined a pattern, a pattern similar to a pentagram, as if an evil sacrificial ritual was being performed - the corpse was the object of this sacrificial ritual. Sacrifice.
this…
Richard's eyes became serious and he saw more details.
For example, the identities of the three corpses are no longer sailors, but students, which also shows that the killings have begun to escalate, and the hunting targets have shifted from sailors to students. It is worth mentioning that these three students are related to the sailor who died before-the other three people were the ones who had been following Porter and were instructed to move and dispose of the corpses.
"Killing a person with a specific identity? Is this the murderer's deliberate attempt to make people connect the events before and after? Is the pattern added at the death scene deliberately creating an increasingly terrifying atmosphere?" Richard thought quickly in his mind. , "In that case... Well, what is that?"
Richard blinked and saw something unremarkable next to the corpse.
"That seems to be..."
Richard thought in his mind and took a step forward to walk over.
Lift your feet and shift your body's center of gravity to the balls of your feet.
When you land on your feet, shift your body weight to your back heel. The outer edge of your heel touches the ground first, and then like rolling, the entire sole of your foot sticks to the ground in a transitional and orderly manner.
Lift your feet again and your center of gravity will shift.
Settling down again, the focus turns back...
Step by step, Richard walked over quietly, like a black cat and a ghost.
Walking to the body, Richard squatted down and looked at what he had seen before. He saw that it was a small pile of black powder that could easily be ignored.
With a flip of his hand, Richard took out the glass bottle from the space iron ring. He carefully collected some of the black powder, then turned around, deliberately continued to walk without making a sound, quietly returned to the cabin, and closed the door.
As for the bodies in the corridor outside the cabin, Richard was not prepared to ignore them.
On the one hand, the body was obviously dead, and it was no longer necessary to treat it out of charity.
On the other hand, there is no point in shouting about someone's death - the body will be found sooner or later, so of course someone will do it. If you do it yourself, it will not only waste time, but may also cause some unnecessary trouble - if you find a body in the middle of the night, you have to explain why you were up late at night, right? It is inevitable that you will have to make up a lot of excuses, so why waste the effort.
With this thought, Richard sat back on the chair in front of the table, put the glass bottle containing the black powder in his hand on the table, and took a closer look.
"This thing seems to have been seen somewhere." Richard said to himself, "It seems to be..."
The next moment, Richard narrowed his eyes slightly, turned his hand, and took out a stored glass bottle from the space iron ring.
The glass bottle contained exactly the same black powder, and the label affixed to the glass bottle was - "Emerald City-Golden Wine Cup Hotel-S Incident-No. 1".
Emerald City and Golden Wine Glass Hotel are the places where the black powder in the glass bottle was originally collected.
Incident S is the code name, which is when Wall, the third-level apprentice of White Stone Tower, died. He went to the scene of death to investigate and found the black powder there.
Item 1 is the serial number, and there are items 2 and 3 in the space iron ring, both of which are the same black powder. Item No. 2 was the same as item No. 1 and was found at the scene of Wall's death. As for item No. 3, I later met the mysterious black-robed man and found it in the place where the other person's body was distorted, blurred, and disappeared.
The speculation at the time was that the black powder was somehow related to the spell that caused the black-robed man's body to disappear. It was either the effect of the spell or the material used to release the spell.
And now, it appears again.
So now there are only two explanations.
The first one: There was a person, that is to say the murderer, who had the same ability as the man in black robe at that time. He used the same spell to come to the corridor of the third cabin below the deck, killed three students, and then left. Therefore This black powder was left at the scene.
The second type: The murderer is the man in black robe!
Compared with the former, the possibility of the latter is extremely high!
After all, when he was in Emerald City, Gro said that someone was sabotaging the White Stone Tower. The third-level apprentice Hual arrived in Emerald City in advance to investigate and was killed.
Now, the other party is on the ship and continues to kill people. It is obvious that he is carrying out his original goal and completing the plan.
So…
"It seems that the previous speculation will be true." Richard's eyes flashed.
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