Outside Yuebao City, near a leeward mountain recess on the main road, Ma Nan and four others gathered here to look for something carefully. This is the location of the recent suspected missing traveler mentioned in their mission information. The patrol team found a scattered package here containing some personal items such as changing laundry. There were also traces of barbecue nearby. They speculated that a single pedestrian was tired of walking and hid here to roast prey and eat it. As a result, he was suddenly attacked, maybe stunned or killed, and his body was taken away by the attacker.

The four of them found the obvious blood stains according to the task prompts, but judging from the size and color of the blood stains, the attacker should not have shed too much blood and was probably not dead. They are now just trying to see if they can find other useful clues.

"Why do you think anyone wants to attack these lonely poor people? The patrol team's mission said that the packages dropped by these travelers obviously have no valuable things. They are probably just wanderers who want to come to Yuebao City to work and make a living." Luolun asked the others while looking for clues among the rocks and grass.

"Who knows, maybe some unscrupulous farmer wanted to kidnap them and be free coolies?" Erinno replied casually. Her father is a big businessman, and he is knowledgeable. Although she has not been to many places, she is not ignorant of the darkness of this world.

Mu Yi kept silent as always. If he was really a woman, the title of "Iceberg Beauty" in the academy would definitely be his, and no one else could take it away.

"But in terms of mission, dozens of suspected disappearances have occurred in the past six months. What kind of black-hearted farmers need so much coolie? And just to save a few coolie money, they risk serious violation of the laws of the kingdom, which is not reasonable no matter how you look at it." Manan answered.

"That's not necessarily. You don't know how bad the farmers, miners, and big merchants have reached in order to save money. I heard my father say-" Erinno wanted to say something, but he thought of something and stopped.

"What did your father say?" Luo Ren asked on the side.

Erinno was a little embarrassed, and he said neither, nor did he say that he didn't say that. When he was in a dilemma, Mu, who had been silently looking for clues, suddenly spoke: "Come here quickly, I seem to have found useful clues!"

The other three surrounded Mu and followed the direction of his finger and saw some wounds at the bottom of a stone with a shady back.

"It's late spring now, and winter has passed long ago. If you can find ice slags in the wild, it means that an ice magician must have appeared. Combined with this location close to the scene of the crime, it is very likely that the ice magician attacked the victim and kidnapped him." Mu analyzed.

"But why does a noble ice magician sneak attack a poor wanderer? This is too strange." Luo Lun said.

"It's strange. Why are the ice magicians doing? They don't need to use the living human body to do experiments like those evil necromancers." Erino said casually.

Her words passed through Manan's mind like a flash of lightning, and he grabbed a certain idea at once.

"Hey, everyone, I have an idea. Are these cases really done by a necromancer who wants to do human experiments, a low-level ice magician, or even an ice magic apprentice?" he said.

"You mean that these were done by a certain depraved evil necromancer to collect human experimental materials? This idea is too ridiculous, right? Not to mention whether there will be noble magicians, even if they are just magic apprentices, they will be hired to do this task of attacking wanderers with severe identity, which is where the necromancers come from in Moon Castle City? Haven't they been wiped out by our Martial Association Alliance of the Kingdom of Carson?" Mu Yanci said fiercely.

Manan was wondering why he was so passionate, but he said patiently: "You are just the official statement. Anyway, I have seen a necromancer in Yuebao City. She is an old customer of the pharmacy store where I work, and she seems to live in the north of the city--"

"The patrol team also suspects that the murderer may be hiding in the abandoned wharf north of the city!" Erin Jin and Luo Lun cried out at the same time.

The four of them looked at each other, and finally Manan said slowly: "It seems that it is necessary for us to visit my old customer. But you better be mentally prepared, after all, she is an old witch with a terrifying appearance."

Abandoned wharf in the north of Yuebao City.

This was once the bustling dock of Yuebao City, but a long time ago, when floods occurred, the Sea River flooded the entire dock and destroyed most of the dock facilities. After the flood receded, there was a fierce dispute over whether to rebuild the old dock or build a new dock in a better place to the east. In the end, people who held the latter view had the upper hand. The new dock was built on the east side to the east. The early dock in the north was abandoned. Because the flood destroyed most of the buildings at that time, a large amount of mud and sand were poured onto the ashore. It was a huge project to demolish the old dock for other purposes. And there was no visible profit, so the old dock was preserved and became a forgotten place in Yuebao City.

According to the mission information given by the patrol team, there were often thieves, scammers and smugglers here in the past, but recently there are very few, as if they disappeared all of a sudden. This situation happened about half a year ago. The situation was very suspicious, but their responsibility was to protect those law-abiding people, not these scumbags, so the patrol team did not take their mistakes seriously and ignored them.

The gate of the passage to the old wharf was blocked by the official with big stones, so that the criminals would not use it as a hiding base. So everyone ensured that they would go around from a path on the side of the mountain to enter. Because the mountain was not too high but not low, the magic apprentices who were not very physically good climbed over the hill that served as a flood control embankment and entered the old wharf area, it was already dark.

"Or why we'd better go back and rest for a night first and come here to explore tomorrow? After all, the other party may be a necromancer." Laurent said in a little fear of retreating.

"We finally climbed up. Do we have to climb down again? I don't want to climb again tomorrow." Erino protested first.

"Lunlun, the necromancer is not as terrible as you think. I have seen the undead creatures they are best at summoning before and killed them. At that time, we were not even magic apprentices. Do you think it is Mannan?" She said again, and after saying that, she looked at Mannan.

"That's right, those low-level undead creatures are not more terrifying than humans of the same level. As long as you don't be scared by their appearance, it's still easy to kill them." Manan said. However, he was worried in his heart, because if the mastermind behind the scenes was the necromancer Taianna he knew, he didn't think he could deal with her by himself and others. But he didn't want to disrupt the enthusiasm of his nominal "girlfriend" Erino. Moreover, he felt that even if it was her, she wouldn't make things too difficult for him, right?

As a boy, since Eileeno, a girl, said he was not afraid, so he naturally didn't say much, so he had to keep silent as usual. The voting result is two to one, with Manan and Eileeno two votes against Loren, and the minority obeying the majority. She had to reluctantly agree to continue the adventure down the mountain.
Chapter completed!