Chapter 383 The Scapegoat in the Historical Scene
"Master, come and see." Xia Zuo waved to the bald head.
Rexor walked over and was immediately attracted by the historical scene in the space-time container.
He turned his head left and right, and his eyes swept back and forth over the historical scenes and the images recorded by the magic circle. His expression became more serious, "The warning magic circle didn't even notice this guy..."
Rexor pointed to the space-time container, "Let's see when he leaves the biological alchemy room."
Xia Zuo continues to inject non-attributed energy, pushing historical scenes to play out according to the normal flow of time.
"Isn't this Letunia?" Xia Zuo was stunned and watched in amazement as the man in white cloak passed by Letunia and left the room when she opened the door.
During the whole process, Retunia, as an eternal mage, had no reaction at all to the cloaked man passing by.
Rexor tapped Xia Zuo on the shoulder, "Can you move the space-time container while maintaining the historical scene in the container?"
Xia Zuo knew what the other party meant, and the bald man wanted to track down the cloaked man in the historical scene.
"Maybe, Master. I haven't done that before. Let me try."
Xia Zuo stretched out his arms and put his hands on the space-time container, making a hugging gesture.
He used attributeless energy to weave two chains to tie up the space-time container, and then, under the action of muscle power, he pulled the energy chains little by little, pulling the space-time container forward.
The process is both easy and difficult.
The space-time container was as light as a feather, and Xia Zuo pushed it away without any effort.
The difficulty lies in reading the time and space information recorded on the Sands of Time in real time. Xia Zuo feels like his head is like a computer operating at full capacity, processing data in large batches and dynamically rendering historical scenes.
His thinking ability determines that he will be very slow in tracking the cloaked man, and the historical scene is severely lagging, making it especially easy to lose track of the target.
I think only people like Master Tyson who have installed a thinking amplifier can increase the frame rate of historical scenes to more than 30 frames.
Xia Zuo pushed the space-time container and walked around, while Rexor cast a magic curtain on the side to cover the two of them.
The two of them walked along the corridor to the spiral staircase, then went down the stairs to the fountain sculpture square, and finally stopped in front of the door of a teleportation room.
"Where does this teleportation room lead to?"
Rexall came to the door and stopped to look at the inscription on the door plate.
"BC-43~89 area, this is a wide-area public portal, and all temple territories can use it. This is troublesome..."
Being public means a large flow of people.
The two of them stood by the door for less than a minute before more than a dozen mages arrived at the teaching area through the teleportation room, or left the teaching area.
"Xia Zuo, when the cloaked man entered the teleportation room, did he open the door by himself or follow others?"
"Let me see..." Xia Zuo said after observing for a few seconds, "He opened the stone door and walked in alone."
"This is good news." Rexor took out a secret message ring and said while flipping the pick on the ring, "Disband your time and space container, and I will ask the temple's security center to retrieve the transmission records. We will soon know where he has gone and what his identity is."
The two of them waited there for a while, and then the reply from the security center came.
After inquiry, it was found that the cloaked man's name was Baman, a very old alchemist who was 87 years old and had never received any alchemical transformation.
When the cloaked man walked, he didn't look like an old man at all. At the same time, the security center verified that the old alchemist Barman was teaching in a local school at this time and was not wandering around the teaching area of the outer temple.
Obviously, the cloaked man forged Baman's identity crest to activate the teleportation crystal, and his teleportation destination was Cape Storm, the southernmost city in the Kingdom of Wildhammer.
Let’s not explore how the cloaked man forged the identity crest for the moment. Xia Zuo and Rexor teleported directly to the Storm Point and continued to use the time and space container to track the target.
"Master, this guy disappeared."
In the corridor outside the teleportation room, Xia Zuo pointed to a stone brick in front of him and said, "Right here, he disappeared. His body became pale and transparent, as if melting into the air. It seemed that he had cast some kind of illusion." .”
Rexall took out the sand, water and a bag of ash used for casting spells, and cast a detection spell to search for any remaining traces of energy.
Since the entire Kingdom of Wildhammer is steaming with heat, the energy environment here is very extreme, with 46% fire energy, 32% earth energy, and the rest being wind and a small amount of water energy.
Rexor found nothing, he could not detect any energy anomalies.
This thread ends here.
Rexor was not distressed. Instead, he was in high spirits, as excited as if he had discovered prey.
He put his hands on his hips and circled the stone bricks in the corridor, muttering:
"Okay, okay. It really opened my eyes.
"The warning circle arranged by the tower mage was useless to this guy; he forged his identity emblem to fool the temple guards; and then used superb illusions to make himself disappear without a trace, successfully escape tracking, and take away the blood of Kallus. Power.
"If you take any of the things this guy has done, he will be stripped of his skin by the Inquisition and thrown into a prison cell for serious crimes."
Rexor stopped and clenched his fists in front of him.
“I have a hunch that behind this guy is an illegal organization that has penetrated widely into the temple.
"Although the tower mage's warning array is very sensitive and can accurately detect suspicious persons, no one can tell whether the array has been tampered with or whether a so-called white list has been set up.
“Not to mention forging identity badges.
"The right to create identity emblems has always been in the hands of the Holy Emblem Department of the temple. Each emblem is produced under the supervision of the Tribunal, and the manufacturing process and materials are top secrets.
"There have been cases of forged identity emblems in the history of the temple, but this is the first time that fake emblems can be used to activate teleportation crystals. Usually, fake emblems are just used to deal with ordinary city guard inspections."
After listening to Rexor's analysis, Xia Zuo also realized the seriousness of the matter.
"Master, what should we do now? Our focus is on the Pseudo-Blood Mage Legion, and we may not have so much time to pursue such a complicated case."
"No, Xia Zuo, we have plenty of time."
Rexor took out a parchment roll from under his leather armor and handed it to Xia Zuo.
"This is a new trend discovered by the Legion's spies at the headquarters of the Strange Demon Church.
"Contrary to what we thought, after Nuk'alofa's death, the shriveled blood vessels did not resume work. The incubation process of the strange demons is still at a standstill. The strange demon church seems to have given up on promoting the incubation work. The church headquarters has Most of the strange demons have been driven out of the flesh wall, allowing them to carefully search for our traces in the forbidden magic field. "
Rexor patted Xia Zuo's arm, "Thanks to the blood magic disguise you taught me, the Legion spies were able to obtain this information under the eyes of the strange demons.
Xia Zuo glanced at the words on the parchment, raised his head and blinked, "So the two of us are now the most leisurely people in the pseudo-blood mage army? We don't need to watch the usual training, we just need to go over occasionally to improve the spells. ,Is it right?"
"Yes." Rexor put his hands on his hips, "In fact, maintaining the unity and stability within the temple is what the demon hunting school should do. Fighting against the alien demon army is just my part-time job."
Rexor waved his hand and walked towards the teleportation room, "Let's go back to the biological alchemy room. I need to use the space-time container to restore the process of that guy extracting the power of blood."
"What about forging identity badges?" Xia Zuo asked as he walked.
"We don't have to worry about this. The Holy Pattern Department will investigate this matter. They take it much more seriously than we do. I believe there will be results soon."
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Bioalchemy room.
Kallus has been taken away by the Inquisition.
Yes, the Inquisition, not the other law enforcement agencies of the Temple.
According to the Inquisition guards who came to escort Kallus, it was the Holy Pattern Ministry that requested the Inquisition's intervention.
This biological alchemy room will also be sealed by the Inquisition.
Fortunately, Rexor had a good relationship with the Holy Pattern Department and the Tribunal. He obtained permission from the Tribunal guards and was able to take Xia Zuo into the biological alchemy room for in-depth investigation.
Xia Zuo released a space-time container and inspected every corner of the house inch by inch. The playback start time of the historical scene was set at around 4:30 pm.
Rexall's investigative approach is more conventional.
He uses detection spells, witcher senses, alchemical tools, etc. to look for clues.
However, in the face of the convenience of the space-time container, his investigation speed was obviously much slower.
The bald head simply gave up his plan to investigate on his own, and instead guided Xia Zuo to use the space-time container to search for places that were easily overlooked.
An hour later, six image orbs filled with historical scenes appeared on the operating table.
These six orbs record the entire process of the cloaked man extracting the power of his blood from six angles.
"There are more clues than I thought, Xia Zuo."
Rexor pointed at one of the images.
On the screen, the cloaked man was setting up the ceremony site.
The power of Kallus's bloodline is the blood pattern, and the carrier of the blood pattern is blood. The physical and chemical properties of the blood will affect the quality of the blood pattern.
Although alchemy has not delved much into the microscopic realm of blood, it still has some understanding of the various changes in blood after it leaves the body.
The cloaked man first cast a detection spell to find the place where the blood power of Kallus's body was thickest.
Then, he took out a special needle and cranial tube, inserted the needle as thin as a hair into Kallus' heart, extracted the bright red liquid, and directed it into the cranial tube.
The picture was frozen at this moment. Rexor zoomed in on the image and enlarged the cover image of the head cap tube to the maximum. A relatively clear inscription appeared on the edge of the cover.
[Gabison brand custom-made head cap tube, specification 13x77mm, shelf life 32 hours, content bloodline power attenuation rate \u003c1%. 】
"Xia Zuo, if this guy didn't use a forged identity crest, our investigation would be over here."
Rexor gestured on the inscription, "Following this clue, we can narrow the scope of the investigation to less than 30 people, and the Inquisition will find the criminals among these 30 people."
"But I'm afraid it won't work now." Rexor hugged his arms and said:
"Since this guy can forge identity badges, it's not difficult to forge a hood tube. This clue will probably lead us to a scapegoat."
Xia Zuo asked, "Then there's nothing we can do against him? He forged all the clues and fooled us around."
"No, no, no, Xia Zuo." Rexor shook his hand, "Chasing after a suspect to investigate for clues is just what ordinary people do. We are mages, so of course we have different methods."
Rexor pointed at the video screen, "Let me ask you a question, why do you think this guy needs the power of Kallus' bloodline?"
Transforming Rexor’s problem, it becomes this:
What kind of person would need the power of Kallus' blood?
A thought popped into Xia Zuo's mind, "Could it be done by the bloodline research team that studies the power of artificial bloodline?"
"You can think of it, and so can the Holy Pattern Department and I."
Rexor raised two fingers and said:
"I just made a guess that the clues in the skull tube inscription will point to a scapegoat.
"Now, I am making a second guess. The Holy Pattern Ministry has already arranged for the Tribunal to review everyone in the bloodline research group. In the end, nothing will be found. This group may hide the problem deeply, or it may be just another scapegoat."
"Let me ask you another question." Baldhead asked, "Why was it that Kallus had the power of his blood taken away?"
Xia Zuo glanced at the biological alchemy room, "Because he is the only one who will be in a coma from time to time in the past few days, creating opportunities to extract the power of blood. I and other pure-blood mages have always been awake and will not leave it to others. An opportunity to take advantage of. The most important thing is that none of us will allow others to take away the power of our blood."
"Well, that's true, but" Rexor lowered his voice, "But, Xia Zuo, do you think all pure-blood mages can be as determined as you?"
Xia Zuo frowned and fell into deep thought.
Rexor spread his hands and said, "You have communicated more with Retunia, Symphiya, and Crystal, but you don't know much about their descendants. The cloaked man we are tracking will not ask you and Whether Retunia and the others are willing to trade the power of their bloodline, and whether the cloaked man will come into contact with the descendants of Retunia and others, that’s not certain.”
"Oh~ I understand." Xia Zuo nodded, "You want me to check the pure-blood mage camp myself. The cloaked man may have contacted some descendants of pure-blood mages, but they were all rejected, so Only then will he take desperate risks to extract the power of Kallus’ bloodline, even if it exposes some secrets and attracts the attention of the Holy Pattern Department and the Tribunal.”
"Yes, that's what I want to say."
Rexor put the five image orbs into his pocket.
"Let's go out and split up. You go find Retunia and the others and ask clearly. I will go to the Ancient Sea Fortress and recall some master demon hunters to help with the investigation."
The two left the biological alchemy room.
Rexor used illusions to make a copy of the images in the six image orbs, handed them to the Tribunal guards who came to investigate, and then left here with Xia Zuo.