When Roland ran to the edge of Mingjing Lake, he saw a group of people gathered on the beach by the lake.

He hung the violin's box on the branch beside him, took out the flint ring from his pocket and put it on, and walked towards the crowd. He was about to ask, but a familiar voice came from the side.

"I am Amitsu, the escort wizard of the academy. What exactly happened here?"

Roland turned around and found that it was Ametheus, the escort wizard of the academy.

When Ametheus saw Roland, he nodded at Roland, and continued to walk towards the crowd. Roland followed the right back of his body, full of vigilance.

A young man in a gorgeous sky blue robe walked over quickly: "Come here, Mr. Ametheus, someone has been drowned here."

"Drunk?" Roland felt slightly relieved. Although this was not a good thing, it was an accident and would not cause panic.

He followed Ametheus into the crowd and saw a man lying on the beach by the lake. No, to be precise, the body of a young man.

His face was soaked that he turned white, his lips were purple, and he had no fatal wounds on his body. His mouth and nose were covered with mud and aquatic plants. He wore ordinary printed silk clothes, and his fingers and neck were all wearing jewelry of ordinary texture.

Judging from the surface details, this is an ordinary drowning person.

While Ametheus was checking the body, Roland walked to the other side of the body and observed it carefully.

The young man was about twenty-five or six years old, and there was no darkness on his body. When he got closer, he could smell a faint smell of wine. There were several faint blood marks on his face, which seemed to have been scratched by someone with his fingernails.

After Ametheus's examination was over, he looked up at the young man in the sky blue before: "Where did you find him?"

"It was the first time Emily saw it. He was floating in the shallow water behind the red willow tree, his head was slamming down into the water, motionless. When we dragged him up, he was dead, and his hands felt as cold as ice."

Ametheus walked towards the red willow tree, and Roland followed.

When they arrived next to the willow tree, the two began to look for clues separately.

After searching for about three or four minutes, Roland first discovered a clue on a grassland: "Mr. Ametheus, come here. I have many messy footprints here, it seems that two people have fought here."

Amites immediately came over to check.

There was a broken wine bottle on this beach, and there was still wine left in the bottle. Roland dipped it with his finger and put it next to his nose and smelled it, and felt a spicy smell of wine.

"The smell is very strong, it is the tequila with great enthusiasm."

Some pieces of clothing were sprinkled on the ground, some of which were consistent with the clothes of the deceased, but there was another part, which was lavender, and the material was generally used to make women's long skirts.

Ametheus' observation also resulted: "One of the footprints on the ground corresponds to the dead. The other footprints are petite, and the heels are on the deep side. They are stepped on by high-heeled leather boots that women often wear."

Roland was also observing the footprints. He agreed with Ametheus's result and added: "From the footprints, the two of them were walking side by side at the beginning. They came over from the bonfire and stood here for a while. Then, their steps became very messy, as if they were fighting. As they fought, they got closer and closer to Mingjing Lake."

The situation seems to be getting clearer.

Ametheus said: "A young man and woman, drunk, had a quarrel, began to fight by the lake, accidentally rolled into the lake and drowned."

Roland nodded in agreement with him: "That seems to be the case. But what about that young woman? How is her situation?"

Although the possibility of drowning in drunkenness is the most likely, the suspicion of homicide cannot be ruled out before the young woman is found.

Ametheus looked up at the lake and frowned: "The footprints on the ground showed that the woman did not turn around and leave. I suspect that she also fell into the lake and had a high probability of drowning."

"But where is her body?"

"Will it be washed away by the water flow or sink to the bottom of the lake? You know, many women carry a lot of jewelry on their heads. If they drown, they will sink in a moment and have no room for struggle."

This is very likely.

The cause of death seems to be very clear, so the remaining question is to confirm the identity of the young man and woman.

Roland turned to look at everyone: "Does anyone know drowning people here?"

He asked several times, and finally a young man came out and hesitated: "I...I know, the man is Tomine, his father is Haradi, a businessman in the reed market, and is said to be a livestock seller."

Are vendors in the reed market?

Roland picked up a piece of lilac clothes he picked up on the ground and asked, "So, do you know who the owner of this purple dress is?"

The young man said, "Tomien's fiancée is named Yara, and she is wearing this color dress today."

Well, now the identity of the deceased has been confirmed.

The son of a businessman and his fiancée attended the 300th anniversary celebration of the academy. The son of the businessman drowned in Mingjing Lake while drunk. His fiancée disappeared, his life and death were unknown, and he was most likely drowned.

It's so unlucky.

At this time, many patrol guards around the Golden Auditorium also arrived.

Ametheus walked over and briefly told the guards what he found. The guard captain nodded and waved his hand to his subordinates: "Come on two people quickly and carry the body away."

After the body was carried away, Ametheus said to Roland: "Let's go, Roland, this matter is handled."

Roland was stunned: "It's done? What should I do if the missing woman?"

Ametheus spread his hands: "What else can I do? She fell into the lake and sank. Who knows where she is?"

Seeing Roland's disagreement, Amithyus reached out and patted his shoulder and advised: "Young man, there is no need to be so serious. They are just small people, and we are just part-time guards, so we don't have to work so hard. Of course, if you still insist on finding the truth, you might as well wait patiently for a few days. After the body rots, it will naturally float."

Ametheus's words were right, and Roland had no good idea for a while, so he could only nod.

No one wants such an accident to happen, but since the matter has already happened, we naturally have to deal with it quickly. But how to deal with it in the future has nothing to do with Roland, which is the affairs of the senior management of the college.

He said goodbye to Ametheus, then retrieved the violin from the branch, and prepared to find his mentor Locandi.

After walking a few steps, Roland had a thought in his mind: "Wait, don't I know the shield of Agnan? This spell supports underwater breathing, why not just go into the water to find it and retrieve the body."

Only by living must see people and dead must see corpses can we truly restore the incident. Although most of the evidence at present points to drowning when drunk, it is a matter of two lives. Roland always feels that this is too hasty to deal with it.

If the young woman's body could be found and the scars on both sides were verified, it would almost 100% restore the accident that happened at that time.

This is his personality. He either doesn't do it or does it well. If he doesn't follow the truth, he will feel very uncomfortable.

When he was on Earth, this problem was not very serious, but now, the longer he learns spells, the more he likes to go deeper, and he has almost become paranoid.

Thinking of this, Roland hung the piano case on the branch again, turned around and walked towards the drowning point.

When he arrived at the shore, he picked a corner that no one noticed, first put a few big stones in his pocket, then released an Agnan water shield for himself, and sneaked into the lake.

There was almost no light at the bottom of the lake and it was very dark. Roland simply closed his eyes and extended his mana tentacles to all directions to carefully search for the situation at the bottom of the lake.

The water at the drowning point was very smooth. Roland believed that the woman's body should be near the drowning point and would never float away.

He did not look for it, but instead extended it outwards with the young man's drowning point as the center. The width of each circle was about 10 meters. This is the ultimate safe distance extended by Roland's mana tentacles. If it is farther away, it will be dizzy and prone to accidents.

This kind of searching can ensure that he will not search repeatedly. As long as it takes a long enough time, the possibility of finding the woman's body is very high.

However, the situation was beyond Roland's expectations.

According to his expectations, he could find the woman's body by walking back and forth a few times at most. But now, he has been searching for more than 20 minutes. It has been more than 80 meters away from the drowning point, but there is still no trace of the woman.

"It's strange! The water flow in this area is very smooth and cannot be pushed at all. People who just drowned should sink directly to the bottom of the water. Why can't they be found?"

"The bottom of this lake is filled with mud and corpses, especially the corpses of young women, dresses, and hair. The corpses are likely to be entangled by worms. It should be very easy to find."

"Is it because there are carnivorous fish in the lake that eat the woman's body? If this is the case, there should be a clear smell of blood in this lake, but I didn't feel it at all."

Of course, the smell of blood cannot be felt by the human nose and tongue, but with the keenness of mana tentacles, it is not difficult to find the smell of blood. Even if the smell is extremely light, it cannot escape perception.

The more Roland looked for it, the stranger it became.

He touched the bottom of the lake for more than ten minutes, but still found nothing.

The effect of the Agnan Water Shield was about to disappear. There was no way, so he could only give up and walk towards the shore of the lake, step by step, shallow and deep.

As he walked, about 30 meters away from the shore, Roland suddenly stopped at his feet and fell into a mud pit. The pit was a little deep, which almost made him fall at the bottom of the lake.

"How could there be a pit at the bottom of the lake? I almost hurt me... Wait, no, it's not a mud pit, it's footprints that people step on!"

"It's not what I just stepped on?"

Roland's first thought was to step on his own footprints, but he soon discovered that the situation was different from what he imagined.

"The size of this footprint is slightly smaller than mine, and it is definitely not something I stepped on! Wait, there are more than these footprints, there are also them in front, as if they are extending all the way to the shore."

"How come someone's footprints at the bottom of the lake? Who is this person?"

Roland was curious. He followed the footprints at the bottom of the lake and walked forward. As he walked, he got on the shore. The place where he got ashore was very far from the Golden Auditorium, about 300 meters away, and was surrounded by tall and dense reeds.

Looking at the Golden Auditorium from here, the sound coming from the direction of the auditorium was already very light and the light was very dim. No one would notice the situation here in the direction of the auditorium.

Soon, Roland discovered that there were also footprints on the wet mud in the reed grass. The shape and size of these footprints were exactly the same as those of the mud at the bottom of the lake, but they were very deep, nearly one centimeter deeper than the footprints Roland stepped on.

This detail made Roland feel like hell: ‘How could it be so deep? In the academy, I have one of the best weights. Even if someone is stronger than me, it shouldn’t be so deep. Unless......’

He suddenly felt a sudden stern in his heart: "Unless this man carries extra heavy objects?"

What is this heavy object?

Could it be the disappearing female corpse?

Why did someone sneak into the bottom of the lake and take away the female corpse?

The more Roland thought about it, the more terrifying he became!
Chapter completed!