Miss Louisa, who was looking through the documents with her head down and using the dim light in her hand, seemed to be completely unaware of the situation behind her. Behind the man holding the dagger, the figure of Dr. Schneider, who was supposed to leave the room, appeared:
"Is it because we came too fast? You were too gullible."
The rumbling thunder finally exploded at this moment.
In the study room that returned to darkness after the lightning, Dr. Schneider grabbed the wrist of the man holding the knife, while Miss Louisa, who had her head lowered, suddenly turned around and punched the attacker behind her in the abdomen with her flaming fist, just like she had attacked the fishman that appeared because of the out-of-control relic that night.
With a muffled sound and flames splattering, the stranger's left hand blocked Miss Louisa's right hand. Then, he jumped up on the spot with an incredible movement, broke free from the doctor's control, and clung to the ceiling like a gecko.
After simply judging the current situation, the figure had no intention of fighting with the two people. He quickly left the light area of the gas lamp above the desk, then immediately rushed out of the study and plunged into the silver mist that filled the corridor. This narrow and limited terrain was most suitable for Shade's illusion.
Xia De also stood in the silver mist, watching the figure rushing in. He first ran around for a while, then stopped cautiously. It was a yellow-haired man with a medium build and an eye patch on his left eye. He stood in the silver mist with a knife in his right hand, cautiously waiting for the attack of the illusion user.
But Shade was very self-aware and didn't want to fight a ring wizard who was definitely higher than him in level. Seeing the man with the knife stopped, he dispersed the silver mist, and Miss Louisa, who had been prepared, rushed over with a huge life ring floating behind her.
A glowing rope fell from the sky and was wrapped around the man's neck. But he just slashed the rope upwards with his knife and actually cut it. Before Miss Louisa could take the next step, the man used the tip of his knife to make the eye patch on his left eye slide off.
Behind the blindfold, the terrifying blue eyeballs that were dripping and spinning around made Miss Louisa step back subconsciously. She warned loudly:
"Relic! Demonic Eye!"
The eye seemed to be moving around in its socket as if it was out of the man's control, and the white of the eye kept appearing in large patches. Seeing Miss Louisa retreating with her eyes closed, the man with the knife immediately turned his head and looked at Xia De.
Shade was unprepared and looked into those eyes. The azure blue eyes were different from Dr. Schneider's blue eyes. The madness revealed in those scary eyes was like the madness of the last survivor before the world was on the verge of destruction.
The lightning outside the window flashed again at this moment. The white light illuminated the two people who were looking at each other, and allowed Xia De to see the other person's middle-aged face clearly. His weathered look probably told many stories.
And Shade, who looked into the magic eye... felt nothing.
"What?"
The knife-wielding man froze for a moment, and it was this small mistake that caused Dr. Schneider to press the back of his head from behind. The doctor's voice was unusually gentle amid the ambient sound of raindrops hitting the window, and the palm of his hand pressing on the back of the enemy's head glowed black:
"Go to sleep."
The knife-wielding man struggled to look at Shade, his normal right eye repeatedly opening and closing, reminding the stranger of his classmates in math class back home. He finally fell asleep, but when the doctor held him, his left eye was still open, the blue eyeball rolling around in the eye socket, and the evil eye looked like it was not a whole with the body at all.
The sound of rain covered up the brief fight in the corridor. The doctor swiftly laid the man on the floor and pulled up his clothes to cover his face, mainly to hide the constantly moving evil eye.
He looked up at the two of them:
"Writer, detective, give me twenty minutes, I'll go take a look inside his dream."
When we go out, the doctor has asked us not to call anyone's name.
"What takes so long?"
Xia De asked, bending down and picking up the short knife in the man's hand. Unfortunately, although this short knife was well-made, it was just an ordinary weapon.
"This is a ring sorcerer, so of course it will take longer. If smoke starts to come out of my body, it means his ability to manipulate dreams is stronger than mine. Remember to wake me up."
As he spoke, the doctor pressed his hands on his covered head, and remained bent over without moving, like a perfect wax figure.
No matter how Miss Louisa commented on this picture, Shade felt that it was very strange.
Dr. Schneider deduced that the murderer did not leave after checking the windowsill and finding that part of the countertop was not wet, while Shad discovered new bloodstains after approaching the windowsill.
The knife-wielding man may have heard their conversation upstairs and knew that one of them could see the blood. But he certainly didn't expect that even if the shoes were thrown out of the window and the knife was washed in the rain, the blood stains on the clothes that were invisible to the naked eye when the murder was committed could still be seen.
You know, Xia De can even capture bloodstains from a hundred years ago, not to mention fresh bloodstains.
Therefore, when Shade rashly left the door, the doctor followed him carelessly, causing Miss Louisa to be attacked. This was not because the three of them cooperated tacitly, but as they walked, the doctor wrote in the air with his glowing fingers and simply arranged this plan.
The most important part of the plan was that Xia De, the weakest player, would not be killed when they met. Now it seemed that they were quite lucky.
"If my guess is correct, the factory owner, Mr. Ponton, must have embezzled the money that Mercury Blood entrusted to him for safekeeping, which is why he encountered such a disaster tonight."
Seeing that the doctor had fallen asleep smoothly, the relaxed Miss Louisa stood beside Xia De and whispered, the sound of her shoes stepping on the floor was almost inaudible.
The sound of rain outside the window became a little quieter, and the most thrilling part of the rainstorm was over.
"That's my guess, too. Otherwise, there's no way to explain those expensive silver wares and jewelry. Also, Mr. Ponton was checking his accounts before he died, which is suspicious in itself. I think the murderer forced him to take out all the account books for verification. I just didn't expect that an ordinary person would dare to embezzle the gold pounds of the Ring Warlock Organization..."
Xia De sighed slightly, and then felt that this matter was not so incredible:
“Greed always makes people act irrationally.”
"That makes sense, so ring sorcerers should be more cautious. Oh, Shad, do you have any water bottles with you? They're about this size."
Miss Louisa gestured again.
"Of course."
He handed the bottle over. The blonde shook it and found it was full, so she handed the bottle back to Shad.
"Take that eye out and put it in the bottle."
"What? Take?"
Xia De asked as he lowered his head and looked down, then put his right hand together and made an indecent downward grabbing motion:
"This way?"
"Yes, insert your finger into the eye socket and pull the eyeball out."
Miss Louisa followed suit, putting her right hand's five fingers together and making a grabbing motion. She patiently explained to Xia De:
"That eye is a demon eye, a special kind of relic. Apparently, the demon eye is not completely integrated with his body, so I guess it can be easily pulled out. The effect of the eye doesn't seem to work on you, so I asked you to do it."
"Oh well."
Xia De squatted down to hear the sound of raindrops hitting the glass, lifted the clothes covering his head, and immediately saw the blue eyeball in the man's left eye socket rolling around.
In order to learn thaumaturgy, he had done more than one incredible thing in this world, so although he still had obstacles in his heart, he still reached out and inserted his hand into the left eye socket, and then "pulled" his left eye out. This action was simpler than turning the gas lamp at home.
The eyeball was extremely slippery, and after taking it out, Shade immediately threw it into the bottle. The blue magic eye continued to spin rapidly after entering the water, but it stopped after only a dozen seconds. The pupil in the eyeball lost its expression, as if it was "dead".
"Can eyes be relics?"
He asked, standing up, corking the bottle and handing it to Miss Louisa. The latter shook the bottle vigorously, and was relieved to see that the eyes inside were really motionless, and handed the bottle back to Shade, asking him to take it first.
"If fish scales can be relics, why can't eyes be too?"
Miss Louisa asked back, then smiled:
"Speaking of which, since I promised to be your teacher, I naturally have to take responsibility. Now I will tell you about the knowledge of the magic eye. First of all, the danger level of all magic eyes is rated as the lowest level of the Secret Keeper (level 3), because the magic eye needs to be implanted in the human body, which makes it very easy to get out of control. Although I don't know the function of this eyeball, it is probably the Secret Keeper level. The doctor will be able to ask for detailed information later."
"Is this a Secret Keeper-level relic?"
Xia De has not forgotten how valuable the last keeper-level relic he touched, the remains of the Yin corpse, was.
"Mystic Eye relics are rare relics that can be directly transplanted into a Ringwitch and almost directly enhance the Ringwitch. Most Mystic Eyes have strong side effects, but they are also very powerful. However, the transplantation of Mystic Eyes is not like the parts of a universal steam engine that can be plugged in and out at will. This requires complex and precise surgical operations."
Xia De looked at the man lying there:
"I think the doctor who performed the surgery on him was definitely not a good one."
Miss Louisa shook her head. Although she was talking to Shade, her eyes were always on both ends of the corridor and the body lying in the room to prevent other accidents from happening:
"Not everyone can use the Magic Eye. There is a concept of adaptability. The Serkses Higher Medical School, one of the three major thaumaturgy schools, published several good papers a few years ago, discussing the relationship between the adaptability of the Magic Eye and the ring magician. This man is probably not very adaptable to this eye. Forcibly using it will cause the eye itself to be out of control of the body."
The blonde girl was very unladylike and kicked the man lying on the bed. Of course, she didn't kick hard enough to avoid disturbing the doctor who was sleeping:
"After the doctor gets enough information, we'll kill him right here. This guy is terrible..."
Xia De understood her idea and supported this approach very much. He sniffed the moisture in the air and looked out the window of the corridor. There were no pedestrians on the rainy night:
"Of course, if you want to kill someone, you must be prepared to be killed. We can't intervene in the financial dispute between Mercury Blood and the Ponton family, but the maid who was killed downstairs is innocent after all."