On the other side, at midnight.
A ray of light streaked across the sky, moving at extremely fast speeds.
But slowly, the brightness of the light became lower and lower, until it became as dim as a candle, and seemed to be extinguished at any moment.
Then a gust of wind blew through the wilderness, the light suddenly went out, and a figure fell from the sky.
"boom!"
With a sound, a strong man's feet came into contact with the ground, and then he stood up swaying. It was Urus, or Chikafu.
After successfully completing the investigation plan of the mine, the will of Urus and the angel were all forcibly suppressed to the deepest part of the body. At this time, only Chikafu's will occupied the high position.
At this time, Chekafu was holding a heavy metal box of mineral powder in one hand, his face was unusually pale, he looked around with a deep frown, then locked a position and walked over quickly.
Bending down, one hand kept groping on the ground. After groping for a while, I didn't know what switch I touched. The ground cracked with a "click" and a downward passage appeared.
Without any hesitation, Chikafu carried the metal box of ore powder and walked in along the passage.
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"Ta-ta-ta..."
Accompanied by the sound of footsteps, Chikafu walked in near Delan, the branch base of the Truth Society.
Ignoring the scrutinizing expressions of many people in the corridor, Chekhov walked straight into Steward Canon's office and placed the metal box containing the ore powder on the ground with a bang.
Kanon was processing documents at the table. He raised his head when he heard the sound. When he saw Chekhov walking in, he was slightly startled and asked aloud: "Are you..."
"Canon is in charge, I am Chekhov." Chekhov spoke.
"Inspector Chekhov?" Kanon confirmed, his eyes flickering, doubtful.
"Yes." Chekhov nodded, then paused, and then said, "Actually, in a sense, you can't say that I am completely Chekhov, because now I am only a part of him - only the incomplete soul fragments. , relies on the power of an angel feather to maintain life, so it turns into this ghostly appearance."
Kanon opened his mouth slightly, not knowing how to answer. After a while, he said: "Inspector Chikafu, can I ask, how did you become like this?"
"I don't know the specifics." Chekafu spread his hands and said, "After all, with the death of my body, I lost a lot of memories, and now there is only an extremely incomplete part. But I can be sure of one thing, that is, and It’s related to what I’m investigating.”
"Investigation? What?" Canon asked.
"That is the abnormal situation in the mine near the small town of Shambala." Chekafu said, looking directly at Canon, "Steward Canon, you have seen the document before, so you should have an impression. That document reported to you that Shambala The mine near the town was abnormal, so I went to check it out out of curiosity. I must have discovered something extraordinary there, and was attacked by someone, causing me to die there. Fortunately, before I died, I retained my soul. The fragments were resurrected with the help of angel feathers. I used some means to complete the interrupted mission and found out some details about the mine."
"Have you seen this box?" Chikafu spoke, gently kicked the metal box on the ground next to him, and explained, "This box contains extremely valuable things in the mine. As expected, there is a big secret, and I spent a lot of effort to get it. As long as I figure it out, I should be able to figure out everything."
"Then... Inspector Chekhov, how do you want me to cooperate with you?" Canon asked.
"It's very simple. Just do two things." Chikafu raised his hand and extended a finger. "The first thing is to send someone to investigate the mine as soon as possible."
Then he stretched out his second finger: "The second thing is to identify what is in this box."
Looking at Chekhov's expression, Kanon nodded slightly and said: "Inspector Chekhov, don't worry, there is no problem with these two things. You can rest here now, and I will send someone to deal with it."
"Okay." Chikafu nodded in agreement, "Sorry to trouble you, Canon is in charge."
"No trouble."
Canon walked out of the door quickly, but instead of immediately ordering people to do things as he said, he took out a crystal ball and tried to contact someone.
Holding the crystal ball with one hand, mana is injected, light flashes, and the signal is transmitted.
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the other side.
The person who received the signal, Rommel, the director of the Pravda Society, was located in Pompeii at this time. To be precise, it was located underground in Pompeii.
Underground, an underground river was flowing slowly, and Rommel was in it.
However, what flows in the underground river is not water, but hot magma - this is a magma river, a lava branch of the volcano near Pompeii.
These lava spurs are a bit like blood vessels. If the main lava channels of a volcano are compared to arteries, they are branch vessels or capillaries. Because the volcano is in a dormant state, the "blood" in these "vessels" flows very slowly, almost stagnating, but the temperature is still as high as thousands of degrees, enough to burn the flesh to ashes.
Rommel was wearing a gorgeous gold robe as usual. Invisible force surrounds the body, supporting a force field with a radius of several meters, isolating all destructive magma, and walking easily in the lava branches like blood vessels.
After walking a few dozen meters, Rommel stopped at a curved position in the passage and took out something from the golden ring.
The thing was a twenty centimeter cube, all white, and seemed to be made of some kind of metal. The surface is engraved with magic patterns and exudes obvious energy fluctuations. It is obviously a special magic prop.
After Rommel took it out, he installed it directly on the stone wall of the lava branch.
The surrounding high-temperature magma surged in and wrapped the metal cube, but the metal cube showed no trace of melting. Instead, it continuously emitted energy fluctuations and was transmitted to the distance along the viscous magma.
At this time, Rommel took out a crystal ball, injected it with magic power, and saw a three-dimensional image appearing inside, which was all the lava channels of the dormant volcano near Pompeii-including the branch channels and the main channel.
At this time, one of the forks lights up, showing a healthy green color.
After Rommel looked at it, he nodded with satisfaction and prepared to put away the crystal ball and move on.
Suddenly, the crystal ball shook and flashed with several colorful lights.
Rommel looked at the light and was slightly stunned. After quickly reading the information conveyed in it, he murmured: "Chekav has returned? And he asked to cooperate in investigating some things, but it has nothing to do with members of the branch organization?"
After thinking for a while, Rommel injected mana into the crystal ball and began to recover.
"As long as it's not targeting members of the organization, just cooperate with them. Also, if there are any changes during the investigation, please notify me immediately."
After replying, Rommel put away the crystal ball and continued working.
He said silently in his heart: "I hope there will be no changes in the investigation..."
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