Chapter 18 : Chapter 18
Chapter 18 : The murderer is most likely insane
And when Iphilia hurriedly rushed back to school, as expected, the second class was about to begin.
To prevent her sudden intrusion from being too awkward, Iphilia secretly cast a small cognitive impairment magic on herself and slipped back to her seat without anyone noticing.
“You're back? What took you so long? Did something happen?”
As soon as she returned to her seat, Aimiya, sitting next to Iphilia, noticed Iphilia's arrival.
This kind of extremely basic small magic could at most fool ordinary humans.
To them, angels, it was like a magic trick performed by a three-year-old, seen through at a glance.
“Nothing, I just simply forgot the time…”
Iphilia coughed awkwardly twice, silently blaming a certain blood bag lady who showed off her affection regardless of the occasion.
If it weren't for Lina's constant cheap tricks, she would have finished talking with Nolen and returned long ago. How could she have ended up being late for class?
“My side was quite smooth, at least I got some somewhat useful information. What about your side?”
To prevent disturbing other classmates by talking during class, Iphilia even specially cast a similarly simple isolation magic before speaking. Ai, look how considerate and kind she was!
“Because the Church's influence in China is not as strong as abroad, I mainly notified the Night Watch. However, I learned an unexpected piece of information from them. Guess what it is?“
Aimiya playfully kept her in suspense. Iphilia glanced at her, her eyes signaling that she was very serious right now, and to not pull any tricks.
“This is already the fifth similar case this month. That's right, before this, there were four other murder cases as heinous as the one we discovered at noon today.”
When Aimiya said this, a rare look of seriousness appeared on her face.
Iphilia's heart immediately jolted upon hearing this: The fifth one? How could this be possible?
For such a heinous incident, theoretically, even one case would make the Night Watch go crazy.
But according to her own observation, in the past month, the Night Watch's actions had basically remained normal.
They had neither increased manpower nor taken any drastic actions. How could they tolerate it?
The most crucial thing was, this was already the fifth case, yet not even a little bit of related information had leaked out.
Abnormal, this was too abnormal!
“Yes, that's the expression. To be honest, I had the same jaw-dropping expression of surprise when I was first told this news. Therefore, I know what you're wondering about. You can't understand why such a big deal hasn't even a tiny bit of gossip leaked out, right?”
Aimiya looked at Iphilia's small, shocked expression and shrugged helplessly, indicating she felt pretty much the same.
“Indeed, after all, with the current speed of information dissemination on the human internet and the current frenzy of human reporters for this kind of thing… this is indeed somewhat unlikely.”
“Nothing is impossible, after all, it also involves foreign guests.”
“Foreign guests?”
“That's right, the victims in four of these five murder cases were humans, and in one other… it was an elf.”
“Huh!? Elf!? Those pointy-ears!?”
This information caused Iphilia's brain to instantly shut down.
After a long while, she somewhat cautiously and tentatively asked Aimiya: “You mean… an elf, died in a human city, is that right?”
“Yes, and I heard that the other party was not an ordinary elf, but someone with a status similar to an envoy.
They originally came to the human world with a friendly attitude to exchange and learn with humans but who would have thought that someone would attack the envoy's residence?
The elven rangers responsible for guarding were almost all killed, and that envoy, along with the remaining elven attendants, disappeared without a trace.”
Iphilia gasped upon hearing this.
It wasn't that she was frightened, but the murderer's audacity was truly somewhat beyond her imagination.
You know, those were elves! Elves whose birth rate was so low it could rival the dragon race.
Usually, if one or two ordinary members of their race died, the elves would get angry with you directly.
Now, not only did a large number die at once, but even a high-ranking elf who was an envoy had disappeared.
If this news got back to the elven race, wouldn't they go completely mad?
The elven race had always attached great importance to etiquette.
Although not to the extreme extent of the Bloodkin nobility, it could be seen from the fact that the envoys they sent were always quite important high-ranking elves within their race how much they valued diplomatic etiquette and the proportion of high-ranking elves among the already sparsely populated elven race was less than one-tenth.
Therefore, there had always been a consensus among all races that no matter how intensified the conflicts between various parties became, the elven embassies were absolutely untouchable.
This time, it was great.
Not only did more than half of the elves in the envoy die, but even the high-ranking elf who was an envoy had disappeared.
Presumably, the human high-ups must have been tormented by this matter to the point of being brow battered recently, right?
They probably also issued strict orders to those below, which was why not a single bit of news about this entire serial murder and disappearance case had leaked out until now.
“Eh, wait, but in this case…”
Suddenly, Iphilia seemed to remember something.
Her whole person was instantly stunned, and her brain once again entered a shutdown state.
“Hmm, can't figure it out, right?
According to our previous speculation, the murderer should be an ordinary Bloodkin commoner but now, the information from the Night Watch directly overturns this conclusion—let me ask: how could an ordinary Bloodkin commoner, who most likely hasn't even mastered blood magic, single-handedly defeat an entire elf envoy? Especially when there was a high-ranking elf in the envoy.”
Aimiya shrugged, a troubled look also appearing on her face.
This matter had been bothering her all afternoon.
Long before Iphilia returned, she had thought of many hypotheses, but they were all overturned by herself one by one.
“However, the Night Watch did tell me one more piece of information, which is that the reason the five incidents were treated as serial cases is because their methods and crime scene situations were extremely similar. In particular, in every incident, besides the deceased at the scene, there were also relatives related to the deceased who went missing… And besides these five cases where people died, in fact, this month, many non-human individuals who were originally under the surveillance of the Night Watch suddenly disappeared, including beastmen, dwarves, and so on. Before I left, they even specially reminded me to be careful during this period.”
Humans, dwarves, beastmen, elves… Iphilia rubbed her brow with a headache.
Abducting so many people of different races at the same time, and committing such heinous crimes, she really couldn't figure out what the perpetrator wanted to do anymore… And from this perspective, the missing commoner Bloodkin Carl, whom she heard about from Nolen, was most likely also a victim of this incident.
But this created a new problem.
If the murderer wasn't a Bloodkin, why would Uncle Wei turn into a blood slave?
So troublesome… I'd better call stinky old dad later and ask him to check the karmic chains of the souls that died these past two days, to see if he can trace the murderer through the souls of the deceased.