Chapter 49 Tracing
After class, the crowds were as dense as ever. Under the sunlight that was gradually shining westward, the streets were bustling with moving students.
The end of this road leads to a station with transport vehicles. After class, students will go to this site to use the four-wheeler provided by them to their respective destinations. Therefore, every day after class, the road will be filled with apprentices who come to play and become extremely crowded.
Although he was stopped by Jon and spoke for a while, Liqi still barely discovered Danfoss who were mixed up in the crowd. The dense crowd not only blocked her footsteps, but also made him unable to move forward. The crowd of shoulder to shoulder was undoubtedly the best cover. Liqi mingled among the crowd, staring at Danfoss not far away.
Among the bustling group of students in the theory department, his uniform in different colors was particularly conspicuous. He did not use ancient magic props to dress himself up in a mysterious way today. He was walking among the apprentices calmly and leisurely, just like an ordinary apprentice walking on the walk.
However, Liqi doesn't think he just came here for a walk, and recalled his past study in this building. According to the information collected before, his life in the theory department was not satisfactory. After he transferred to the element department, he almost never contacted his past classmates again.
Moreover, the distance between the teaching building of the Elements Department and the Theory Department is not close in two directions, one south and one north. If you walk, you will take about three minutes. He has already transferred to the department and left, and he will not waste so much time back here without any reason.
Walking on this road, Danfoss's goal seemed to be heading to a stop not far away. He kept a regular pace and walked through the crowd for a while before turning on the trail next to the road. With him, he also left the crowd with several apprentices in different departments and dressed in different departments.
Just now, Liqi's attention was always on Danfoss, and she didn't notice that there were apprentices from other departments except Danfoss in the crowd. In the end, there were about a dozen people following him on the trail, all of whom were apprentices from different departments, including several seniors from the theory department.
There are very few people on this trail, and it seems that it was opened up by pedestrians. No one else stepped into it except the apprentices who followed him. It was too conspicuous to follow him rashly. No matter how brave Liqi is, she would not follow her directly and openly.
In fact, she was not afraid of being besieged, but was just worried that they would change their behavior due to their actions. Her target was not Danfoss, but the mastermind behind his every move. Now that she was shocked, the previous investigation was gone.
In the past, the tasks that the two of them tracked when they were working together were handed over to Curt. Liqi couldn't help but think about what he would do if Curt was there.
According to his usual experience, he should first pretend to look around and see the scenery, then walk to a secluded place and jump on the surrounding big trees, and use the shadows between the hedges to hide his figure to track them. These big trees have a certain age, and the lush canopy makes it difficult to see the situation between the branches.
There is undoubtedly a good place to hide, and a little bit of disguise can easily cover the figure for tracking. Unfortunately, only Curt, who has good movement ability, can leaps among these branches. Liqi's desire to complete such an action is tantamount to dreams.
She had no choice but to move her eyes to the nearby small building.
This is a small brick building that is not too tall, which looks surprisingly young compared to the old houses around it. It is said that this building was just built a few years ago and is used as an art building on weekdays. However, there are too few art classes, so this building has been idle for a long time.
The corridor was cleaned very clean, and there was no one in the classroom at the end of get out of class. At its height, looking from the corridor on the second floor, it was just enough to bring the movement trajectory of Danfoss and others into their field of view, and they would not easily find someone peeking.
Through the window next to her standing position, you can see the figures of those people gradually moving away. Danfoss slowly led them on the trail. The scattered formation when he walked out of the crowd just now had already moved closer, and apprentices from different departments were communicating in a low voice.
This distance is too far, even if they communicate with normal volume, they may not be able to hear clearly, not to mention that they deliberately lowered their voices and whispered. Liqi knew that it was not particularly valuable to just watch them from afar, and it was the key to figure out the content of the communication between them.
This is not very troublesome. You just need to use a simple servant spell to send a terminal that can collect sound to them. Liqi takes out a piece of paper from her pocket, simply folds it into a butterfly, and prepares to impose a spell that provides movement.
Buzz —
Just as she tried to use her spell to eavesdrop on those people's words, the small stone in her pocket suddenly vibrated slightly. This wax stone was made by her own and would only react when Curt, who held the same wax stone, injected corresponding magic into it.
It was at this moment... Liqi couldn't help but tickled.
Curt's connection must have its purpose, so Liqi had to put the matter of attaching magic to origami first, and first open the soul connection to Curt. This kind of spell is quite troublesome to use. It looks calm on the surface, but it requires extremely high concentration and consumes a lot of magic power.
"Hey, is there anything wrong?"
Liqi has tried many times before that Curt also mastered the spell of soul connection, so the two of them could communicate at will. However, Curt really did not have the ability to cast this kind of spell. No matter how she taught her, he did not successfully cast this spell at any time.
Now, Liqi can only unilaterally deploy this spell to contact him.
"I originally wanted to report my investigation results to you," Curt's giggling voice came from the other side, "But from your tone, there is something wrong with you."
Liqi paid attention to the actions of Danfoss and others, and responded to Curt: "It's almost the same. I'm following Danfoss now, and he took a group of people to a sparsely populated place. So what are the results of your investigation? Except for the toxins you got from Grosted."
Liqi had already roughly looked at the fragmentary items Cott collected yesterday. In addition to the toxins that may be sampled and analyzed, there was no way that could get her attention in these "evidence". Could it be that Cott collected valuable information overnight? She was very interested in this.
"The objects were not collected much, but if you talk about intelligence... you can't say there is no one." As if you were deliberately keeping it in hiding, Curt's voice was dragged very long. "Do you remember that Hepburn told us that day what the pattern on the cover of the notebook in Danfoss' hand was?"
When Liqi heard Curt's words, her curiosity was suddenly hung up: "Are you talking about that eye? Have you found information about it?"
"Almost, although it's just second-hand information," Curt said. "When we were fighting that monster yesterday, a large warehouse where casting materials were stolen on Warehouse Street was attacked."
"Speak east and attack west?"
“There is no evidence that these two things are related.”
Although Curt said this, his tone was basically convinced.
"According to nearby witnesses, the attackers he saw were a group of weird men dressed in old-style robes. They used strange spells they had never seen before to knock down the warehouse guards, and then ransacked all the supplies in the warehouse. And there was an eye-shaped pattern behind their robes."
Upon hearing Curt's message, Liqi felt a little unbelievable: "You mean... the Danfoss community may have something to do with these criminals?"
"It's hard to say at the moment, after all, I have no evidence," Curt said. "It is impossible to rule out that Danfoss is also kept in the dark."
Liqi looked at Danfoss, who was leading the apprentices forward in the direction facing a small courtyard.
This courtyard seems to have not been taken care of for a long time. The fence originally planted with flowers and plants isolates the interior and the exterior. A dilapidated wooden cottage is housed in the center of the courtyard full of weeds. It stands alone in the courtyard, exuding a lonely atmosphere.
The wooden house seemed to collapse, and the gray wooden boards were covered with traces of mold. Most of the tiles laid on the red roof were broken, and the setting sun shone, and a few rays of sunlight passed through the broken roof, leaving a mottled mark on the slightly cleaned floor.
A dozen people entered the cottage one by one. After a while, the cottage that was not big was filled with apprentices. Danfoss, as the leader, stood in the upper head, and the rest of the members sat in a row. Looking from a distance, he could still be seen talking loudly under the crowd.
She could not think of any involvement with the criminal.
"If they are really involved with the criminals, we need to be a little more alert." Liqi shared the scenery in her sight with Curt through consciousness. "There are not necessarily all members present, and even if there are only these members, there are still many members of this group."
After only after that accidental contact and Hepburn's introduction, Liqi thought that this club that studies ancient spells was just a small group composed of Danfoss with several elemental apprentices. Unexpectedly, this "small group" had developed to the point where it might be related to a criminal group.
Danfoss, who was as bad as her in the past, changed his entire person in a short while. With the ability to cast spells, he seemed to have a rapid communication ability. Now he is leading a small-scale organization, and this change is indeed a bit abnormal.
"I will stare at them before you come, please try to get faster."
Liqi ended her contact with Curt, and then divided up a portion of her magic into the origami that had been prepared before.
Chapter completed!