At night, Angel and Du Shan explained that they would be away for a few days, then left some gold coins, and went out again.
The main reason for his return to Waterglass this time is to report a news. The time he agreed with the shadow is tonight, and the location is... The Grudge Forest, the corpse cave.
Just when Angel stepped out of the door and was about to leave by boat, a lonely crescent boat came from afar.
Angel stopped the pace of leaving.
Under the soft moonlight, a man's vicissitudes of life was revealed.
The damp sea breeze lifted the slightly white hair.
"In just a few days, the count's face has changed a lot." Angel said in a low voice.
The person who came was Li Onrique. In Angel's eyes, he was a middle-aged man with good spirits, but in just a few days, Li Onrique's face was full of wrinkles, his temples were pale, and his eyes were cloudy. An old man in his seventies and eighties.
Leon Rick put the oar into the boat, his expression was powerless and obscure.
"Master Mask..." He hesitated before speaking, his voice carrying the vicissitudes of approaching dusk.
"You came to me alone, are you prepared for the worst?"
Leon Rick shook his head with a wry smile, "I've been thinking about what to do these days. It's impossible for me to make this big gamble with the lives of all the people in the city."
Leon Rick lowered his head: "But I really want to know who that person is. I toss and turn every day, and I can't sleep at all. I finally fell asleep, and all I dreamed of was my daughter Magda accusing me with blood and tears, saying that I was not. A qualified father. And those who lost their shadows, all climbed up to me and criticized me for not being qualified to be the lord of this city."
"In this life-or-death torture, I decided to come alone. I won't go to trouble with that lord, but I want to know his identity, can I?"
Angel looked at Leon Rick, who was full of tears. He understood how entangled the people in front of him were. One side was the righteousness, and the other was the ego. The ego wants to sacrifice righteousness, but secular ethics tells him that righteousness cannot be sacrificed by the ego.
If Angel were to face this question, he might be condemned by his conscience, but he would still not hesitate to abandon the righteousness and choose the ego. He has a bottom line, but he is also selfish.
However, it is precisely because of people like Leon Rick that he can maintain the peace and tranquility of the city. This is what Angel admires most about Leon Rick.
"Yes. I just contacted him recently, what do you want to know?" Angel had no guilt for betraying the information of the shadow.
"Why did he steal the shadow?" Leon Rick asked the question he wanted to know the most. If he could help solve this problem of the adult, would he be able to make the shadow of the people disappear
Angel sorted out his wording: "Criminals kill people, which are roughly divided into three categories. Some are forced and some are involuntarily. In addition, there is another type of criminals. The reason they kill is because..." He pointed his finger at his temple: "I'm sick."
Leon Rick didn't understand why Angel was talking about this, but he still followed Angel's train of thought: "Sir, do you mean madmen kill people
"A madman kills people because of his own involuntarily. When I say disease, I mean mental health and mental illness. There is about one word to describe this group of people, perverted."
Angel: "You ask why you steal shadows, then you can imagine what the murderous philosophy of perverted murderers is? They will all pursue a reason that can satisfy their own mental illness to kill, and the specific expression is... a sense of ritual or unity. ."
Being able to transform a place with dark folk customs like Watergrass into a city where everyone is polite today shows that Leon Rick is not a stupid person, he immediately reacted to what Angel wanted to say: "Sir means blond hair and blue eyes. ?"
Angel nodded: "A pervert who is obsessed with blonde hair and blue eyes, and the filming is just to satisfy the psychological condition."
"Then... what happened to those shadows?"
"Probably become some kind of collectible, like some people's secret hobby."
Leon Rick originally thought that if he could help the adult solve the problem, he might be able to exchange "him" for letting go of the shadow. But after listening to Angel's words, he was completely desperate. He was a pervert and couldn't be persuaded by worldly values.
That's right, Leon Rick thought about the books he'd read about wizards. They were basically perverted, and if they disagreed, they would destroy the city and destroy the town... Thinking of this, Leon Rick stole a glance at Angel. Fortunately, although this adult is sometimes inhumane, he does not regard human life as a must. Even if Magda once offended him and Tyrell pointed his nose to scold him, he would only impose a light punishment.
"What else do you want to know?" Angel asked.
Leon Rick: "Can you tell me who that lord is?"
Angel snapped his fingers, and a faint illusion covered the two of them, and the phantom of the shadow slowly appeared in front of Leon Rick.
"He is the person you are looking for." Angel pointed to the shadow and said, "I don't know his real name, but the code name is Shadow."
Leon Rick was startled by the sudden figure, but soon he calmed down and carefully observed the appearance of the shadow.
Shadow's appearance is extremely handsome, the thin short hair is brown and almost black, and the facial features are very cold, especially the slanted eyebrows that go into the temples, with a sharpness like a cold front. From the appearance, Shadow seems to have a cold personality. But in fact, the shadow is more of a ruffian, and this kind of ruffian is difficult to show from the outside.
"I'll give you one last warning, he's very strong, just look at it, it's best not to touch him. You know, perverts are actually very unreasonable, especially for ordinary people, he even talks to you There is no chance." After that, Angel left by boat.
Leon Rick looked at Angel with a hint of prayer in his eyes. He wanted Angel to save those who lost their shadows and save his daughter, but he couldn't say it.
Seeing this look, Angel sighed slightly and didn't say anything more.
…
When we arrived at the appointed place, it was already in the middle of the month.
However, the plants in the Forest of Resentment, the corpses buried in the ground were so lush that they covered the sky and couldn't see a little moonlight.
Angel cast a light spell and jumped into the corpse cave.
Put on a high hat, and when the purification field is fully open, the rotten breath is shielded from the outside. Angel stepped on the corpses and maggots all over the place and came to the small stone room where the extraordinary gathering was held a week ago.
"You're finally here, I've been waiting for you for a long time." Shadow laughed, and behind him stood eight puppets, all of them pale and with weird smiles.
"Start now?" Angel asked.
Shadow nodded, "Follow me, the formation is still ahead."
Shadow led the way, and a group of puppets followed behind them.
Angel thought that the end of the corpse cave was here, but he followed the shadow and walked forward, only to find that there was a small gap on the other side.
"The magic energy array that has been lost for thousands of years is inside." The shadow took the lead in drilling past.
Angel remembered that when Shadow came to the forester's hut in the morning, the filthy aura in his body was exactly the same as the aura behind the gap. He can be contaminated with such a strong filth, and he wants to stay inside these days.
After passing this gap, the convenience is a deep road.
Although there is no smell of rotting corpses on this part of the road, Angel feels that this place is more dirty than maggots and corpses all over the place.
Even if the purification force field is turned on, it is difficult to completely expel that ubiquitous filth.
"Even if this hat is placed in the auction of the Sky Machine City, it can sell seven or eight thousand magic crystals." Shadow said with admiration: "You shouldn't be the seed that the barbaric cave focuses on cultivation? It's not right, I remember Savage Caverns had no elite seed program, it was all free-range."
"Or, are you from some rich wizarding family?"
Angel didn't say much about this, but pointed to the puppet behind him and asked, "What will you do with these people in half a month?"
Shadow shrugged: "What can I do with it, I can't take it away, I can only let it go. And none of them meet my aesthetics. If there is a puppet like you, I will be punished by the teacher's whipping. Bring him back to Sky Machine City."
Angel: "I thought you would kill them."
"I'm not interested in bullying these scumbags."
"My enlightenment mentor once told me, don't bully the poor. Maybe one day, they will counterattack, and you will become their stumbling block." Angel recalled some networks stored in the holographic tablet, The worse the qualification, the more counterattack.
"Don't bully the poor, I agree with this sentence. But if it is widely used in the wizarding world of cannibalism, it would be a bit naive."
After walking for about ten minutes in a filthy atmosphere, the two arrived at a hidden secret room.
As soon as he stepped into the secret room, Angel felt a strange breath, but these strange breaths rose from the lines under his feet.
Angel is no stranger to the magic energy array, which is a typical activation-type magic energy array. I can't see the level, but the texture is very primitive, it should be a very ancient magic energy array.
"Do you see what's coming?" Shadow joked when he saw that Angel was looking very seriously. He doesn't believe that Angel can see anything. Magic energy array is an extremely complex subject. According to Angel's age, even if he is studying magic energy array, it is estimated that he will stop at the magic pattern stage.
"This magic energy array has existed for at least ten thousand years."
"What's the meaning of this statement?"
"The writing style is very primitive, and the illustrator may not have learned the 'Three Crossings of Bantu', but many places can actually be simplified. For example, this horn, although I don't know what this magic energy array is, but this horn is recorded in the book as For a typical waste horn, you can use six stacks of magic magic to control the amount of magic power and change it to a horizontal stroke." Angel pointed to one of the complicated horns and talked eloquently.
"Have you studied Magic Energy Array?" Shadow said in surprise. He didn't know if what Angel said was true, but that's why he didn't realize it.
"No, I just read it in the book."
Shadow took a deep breath and looked at Angel with a slightly solemn look. He pointed to the magic energy array on the ground and said, "This magic energy array was created when the Kura Kuka tribe suffered the greatest genocide disaster thousands of years ago. It was started by a wizard from Castle Black, who brought the Kurakuka into the middle world from here, and gave them a peaceful life."