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Chapter 34 The Broken Promise

After waiting for three days as agreed, in order not to have any surprises within this time, Donald deliberately limited the scope of activities to the street where the hotel is located.

The only time I went to other neighborhoods was to buy a new carriage or take a look outside the workshop. I didn’t bother with it, just to make sure the craftsmen were still working.

"We will leave the city directly after we get the space ring later."

Still sitting in front of the carriage, Donald didn't sleep well in the last two nights, but just restored his state with shallow meditation.

"I haven't gone out to check the situation in the past three days, and I don't know what the city is doing now."

The collection of intelligence has stopped due to limited operations. Now there are no people who have happened in Corta City. This feeling of being out of control of the surrounding environment is not good.

"We are not here to investigate the case. There is no need to make it so clear. We won't stay here for a long time anyway. Here, this... was it like this when we came last time?"

The carriage turned around the corner, and Donald's eyes had just withdrawn from the chimney in a nearby machinery factory, but the next second he saw the doors and windows of the workshop where the craftsman who had previously accepted their commission to make the space ring were closed.

"Tsk, a bad premonition..."

Parking the carriage aside, Donald walked to the lamppost at the main entrance first, and was not in a hurry to check the reconnaissance eyes. He just glanced at and confirmed that the inscription still existed and was not destroyed by external forces, and then approached the workshop.

"The windows on the first and second floors are all closed, and the door... cannot be pushed open, as if it is locked from the inside. It is nine o'clock in the morning, and there is no reason to be sleeping at this time. What should I do? Break the door?"

Anthony stood at the door, raised his hand and pushed it inside, without any wavering, and immediately touched the short handle of the knife around his waist with his left hand.

"No rush, maybe it's a temporary purchase of materials or something urgent. It's not appropriate to force it. Liluo, let's see if there is anyone in the workshop."

While opening Lingshi to check the situation in the house, Donald asked Lilo to participate in the search.

"Donald, second floor, dead spirit."

Lilo's answer completely shattered Donald's trace of luck.

"I really like to cause trouble!"

With a gloomy face, his fingers aimed at the door lock, and directly released a mental impact. An invisible wave of air rushed directly into the keyhole. Even the metal door frame vibrated instantly, and the wall dust fell down. Donald kicked the door open, and Anthony and Lilo took the initiative to stand in front of the team and rushed straight to the second floor.

Donald, Stephanie and Julia walked behind and closed the door again.

In the second floor bedroom, Donald saw the craftsman lying on the bed. His face was soothing and his body was covered with a bloody bedding, which was obviously killed in his sleep.

Donald raised his palm and in an instant all the drawers or things in the cabinet in the room floated in the air in the room.

The mental power swept through everything, and then began to spread into the entire house, and cooperated with the spiritual vision to check whether there were secret lattices in the room.

"The space ring is gone."

Donald really doesn't care if he dies. As long as the space ring is still there, everything is easy to say, but when an open wooden box floated in front of his face in the second drawer of the bedside table, his cheeks seemed to be covered with frost.

His eyes turned to the corpse on the bed, and his mental power lifted the quilt to make it float above the corpse.

"The fatal injury is in the chest, piercing the injury. Looking at his facial expression, it should be a sneak attack while he was sleeping. When we came in, the bedroom door was locked, and there was no sign of being pried, which means that this was a mess of the craftsman's sleep before sleeping. So the person who attacked the attack could only be from the window... Donald, come and see."

Anthony quickly came to the same conclusion as Donald based on the traces at the scene. He walked towards the window. There was only one window in the bedroom. Anthony opened it with a light push. How could the craftsman who locked the doors on the first and second floors just ignore the window facing his bed.

Donald leaned over and looked at it and there were indeed traces of corrosion on the latch of the window.

"The location here corresponds to the back door. You can check the reconnaissance eyes on the lamppost of the back door. The body of the deceased is not completely stiff. There is still a little spark of charcoal in the fireplace in the bedroom. The craftsman should have been killed late last night to early this morning."

This is the importance of the reconnaissance eye placed by Donald three days ago. It can record all the conditions in a region before the inscription effect disappears.

"Sterfanie, you ride a horse to the craft and forging church to find Jacqueline, and you should be quick. When you go out, you should tell Anthony that you should check the reconnaissance eyes in the other three directions of the house to see if there are any clues of omission. Lilo, try to recall his soul again. Julia, follow me to check the other rooms in the house."

Donald has no acquaintances here, and he doesn't know the interpersonal relationships of this craftsman. Even if he finds some people from the reconnaissance eyes, he will not be able to distinguish who is who and where these people are now, so he needs someone to do the job.

After handing over the body to Lilo, Donald took Julia out of the bedroom. The first person he went to was on the workbench on the first floor. He had seen it when he came last time.

Unlike the empty space when I first came, when I came back this time, Donald saw a large number of devices on the table, including glasses worn by craftsmen before and a box of various styles of carving knives. He also found several sketches drawn with pencils in the drawer of the table. On it was the appearance of a ring and the various operating steps listed.

Including gem carving, ring body reshaping, magic circle pattern connection, etc., these steps have been hooked without exception. It seems that the craftsman has indeed helped him improve the space ring recently, and it has been successful!

The space ring that had been made was actually snatched away by a murderer who suddenly appeared, which undoubtedly made Donald even more angry.

"Donald, this drawer is locked."

Julia squatted beside the workbench, hooked her fingers to pull the copper ring outside the bottom drawer, but the drawer didn't move at all. She pulled it hard twice before turning her head and said.

It’s still the same old method. The mental impact force destroys the drawer, but after opening it, there are only a few books stacked together.

"The Beauty of Crafts", "The Art of Carving", "The Ugly of Industrialization"...

The three books were of varying thickness. Donald held the three books in his hand and looked at the names. He did not see any name from them. But since they were things that were specially locked by craftsmen, they were not ordinary things.

Turning them open one by one, Donald soon discovered the clue, and there were many folded papers in the pages of these three books.

I took out a piece of paper and opened it. It was a strange black mark on it. At first glance, it looked like a crooked five-pointed star. The so-called crooked does not mean that it is inverted, but that the line that paints the five-pointed star is itself crooked, for example, its top corner shows a state of tilting to the right, and there is a small red mark in the center of the five-pointed star, and there is a circle around it, which makes the whole composition look a bit like a vertical eye...

All the things are ~ All the things are ~
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