Heavenly Dao Formula

"Can you smell something special?" Xia Fan asked Li Dao.

The fox demon shook his head, "There is a faint bloody smell at the scene, but it doesn't spread out. There are several other strange smells, but they are basically concentrated in this area."

The scent should come from the perfume on the team's entourage, he thought to himself, he noticed it when he was in the market area, and people who dress a little decently here will habitually use perfume to cover up their body odor. It's just that after Jing Li's sense of smell was magnified a hundred times, it became a mixed smell.

"The perpetrators are those who are sensitive." Qianyan, who had been watching coldly, suddenly said, "In the beginning, they hid in the woods and used long-distance spell attacks. The guards of the convoy were killed almost without much resistance. As long as they did not If it is stained with blood, it will not bring the smell of blood out of this area."

Xia Fan couldn't help raising his eyebrows, "You seem to be quite experienced in this kind of thing..."

"Anyone who has experienced the destruction of the Eternal Dynasty has blood on their hands. I'm afraid I killed more people than you can imagine." Qian Yan glanced at him, "Why, are you scared?"

"No, I think you're amazing." Xia Fan patted her on the shoulder.

"..." A thousand words froze.

"In that case, let's go to the woods." He took the lead towards the dense forest not far away.

The edge of the forest was apparently also searched by the people of Azure Fort, and many pointed footprints could be seen in the mud, most of which were left by armor boots. It's just that they couldn't even find anything at the scene, let alone in the woods - the enemy even took into account the tracking of spells, and naturally they would not let go of simple evidence such as shoe prints.

"It seems that we can only use the trump card of the detective team." Xia Fan pondered.

"What's the bottom card? I said from the very beginning that I would let it go, but you still have to inspect it yourself." Li Bai glanced at him, put down the basket in his hand, and lifted the cloth cover.

The fat cat suddenly got out of the basket.

"Call all the wild cats nearby, and then ask them if they have found anything unusual." Li said with gestures.

"Meow!" Gun Gun yelled loudly, and then ran into the depths of the forest.

"Does it really understand what you said?" Olina asked curiously.

"The elf doesn't understand human language, but that doesn't prevent it from understanding what I mean." Li explained, "And among the elves, Gun Gun can be regarded as the smart one. As for the wild cats living nearby, they probably understand it as 'except Everything but food."

"Actually, you can try to put a special ending sound after each sentence." Xia Fan said seriously, "This way, Gun Gun will know that you said this sentence specifically for it. Over time, it may be able to fully understand what you said It doesn't necessarily mean that."

"End sound?"

"For example, meow." He coughed twice, "The key point is to establish a corresponding relationship between languages."

"The corresponding relationship... so meow?" Li tried to say.

Xia Fan felt the hairs all over his body stand on end, this kind of comfort is hard to describe in words. "Ahem... that's right, that's it. Try raising your hand again, tilting your head slightly—"

"Crack!"

Qianyan directly summoned a piece of ice and stuffed it into Xia Fan's mouth.

"This person is abnormal again. It's probably the sequelae of listening to too much. You don't need to pay attention to it." The living dead said coldly.

"Meow!"

At this time, the first wild cat ran over accompanied by Gun Gun.

It opened its mouth and spit out a glass ball.

Li picked it up to look at it, shook his head, but still took out a piece of dried fish from the basket and handed it to the wild cat.

After the latter happily ate it, he ran back into the woods.

But Gun Gun didn't move anymore, but squatted down on the spot, as if he was sitting in the middle of the town.

After a while, several wild animals rushed over, including not only cats, but also dogs and raccoons.

The feeling is that after they confirm that the strange things they bring can really be exchanged for food, they all become rolling "mercenaries".

"Iron cans, useless..."

"The glass bottle doesn't seem to have anything to do with the case."

"This seems to be... straw sandals, right?"

Xia Fan sorted through the garbage one by one and said - don't look at the remoteness of this place, there are quite a lot of man-made things, and most of them have been abandoned for some time.

"They should have been left by the people who lived here before the farmland was completely abandoned." Li squatted beside Xia Fan, distributing the rations for wild animals, "If we continue to search like this, I'm afraid there will be no results in ten days and half a month." .”

"You have to try your luck. Can you tell them to choose something newer if possible?"

"I'll try." Li gestured at Fat Cat, who tilted his head and thought for a while, then howled several times at his "subordinates", and then stretched out two front paws to Li.

"What does this mean?" Xia Fan asked in a low voice.

"It said that the reward should be doubled." Li replied.

Xia Fan was shocked.

This guy really doesn't understand human language? Why do you feel that you are more clever and cunning than ordinary children? Not only does it understand Li's instructions, but it also realizes that "newer things" are harder to come by, leading to the conclusion that the rewards should be increased. This kind of profit-seeking thinking ability is already a characteristic of strong intelligence.

After the new instructions were issued, the frequency of wild animals coming and going has decreased a lot.

The things brought back also turned into cloth bags, books and so on.

"Hey, what's that?" Dragon Girl suddenly looked into the dense forest.

There was a rustling sound in the forest.

The other animals fled one after another, disappearing from sight in the blink of an eye.

I saw a black figure swaying twice, suddenly sprang out from the woods, and appeared in front of everyone - it was clearly a gray wolf, its size was astonishingly large, it was probably taller than an adult when standing up, and the two sides of its mouth The fangs are almost protruding from the corners of his lips.

If it was an ordinary public, the first reaction would definitely be to turn around and run away. Unfortunately, no one was an ordinary person, let alone a wolf, even if they faced the whole pack of wolves, no one would be afraid.

The gray wolf seemed to know this too. It lowered its head and cautiously came in front of Xia Fan, opened its mouth, and spit out a bunch of torn paper scrolls, then Zhao Li opened his bloody mouth wide.

"Aw—!"

The tone rose, clearly carrying a hint of flattery.

Xia Fan picked up the wet paper roll and spread it out, he couldn't help being slightly taken aback, "...you can give it the rest of the dried fish."

"This thing... looks familiar." Olina approached and said.

Familiarity is not surprising.

Because it is a talisman.

Although there is only half of it left, the head of the talisman and the path of the starting pen can be vaguely discerned, so there is no doubt that it is indeed an alchemy talisman.

As an envoy from the West Pole who lived in Shangyuan for several years, it is quite normal for Longnu to have an impression of talismans.

"This is a mute note." Qian Yan's answer went a step further, "The method is not like the current one, but more like an ancient method. It can completely isolate the sound in an area and last for about fifteen hours. With this Talisman, it may be able to explain why Azure Fort was unaware of this attack. When the killing happened, the screams and wailing were all limited to the surrounding three feet."

"You mean...the assailant is using the talismans from the Eastern Continent to commit crimes?" Olina asked in disbelief.

"That's why your demon possessors can't find anything, right?" Qian Yan pouted, "Because this is a murder with a completely different magic system."