Before nightfall, Roland walked three or four laps around East Main Street and had a rough idea of the scope of the quest area. It was a circle, with the center point in a very large brothel compound.
With this building as the center, a radius of about three hundred meters or so was the quest area.
In other words, the clues related to the queen's disappearance were inside.
The two magic spiders disappeared from the balcony at great speed.
Then, one or two images flashed through Roland's mind from time to time.
One went straight to the very center of the quest, the extremely luxurious brothel compound.
The other went from house to house to see if there was anything unusual.
With only two magic spiders scouting, the efficiency wasn't too high, but it was much better than Roland risking discovery during the curfew himself.
There were originally three, and Roland also kept one next to Mijil, afraid that the people of the Shadow Guild would come looking for trouble again. Only one guard puppet was still a bit insecure. If there was an informant, it would be better to know what was going on, and in case something really happened, the rescue would become more targeted.
It wouldn't be like a headless fly bumping around everywhere.
The first spider sneaked into the backyard of the brothel mansion from a shadowy corner of the street without anyone noticing. Then, it climbed along the wall to a balcony on the second floor. After confirming that no one was paying attention, it sneaked into the room.
The second spider, on the other hand, had been going in and out of the merchant buildings on the street, looking for suspicious things.
These Spell Puppets would inherit the summoner's common sense and some cognitive abilities, and the magic spiders had been specifically strengthened by Roland in these two areas, almost to the same level as Roland.
In other words, the anomalies or clues that Roland could find, it stood to reason that they could as well.
Roland sat quietly on the balcony, enjoying the night view and tasting fruit wine.
He just had to sit quietly and wait for the fragments of images sent back by the spiders.
But even so, Roland still felt that the efficiency wasn't high. There were only two … If there were a hundred, or even if there were only forty-five, then the efficiency of scouting would be greatly improved.
It was just that as a level-zero spell, the model capacity of the Spell Puppet was so large, and now it was almost at its limit. Roland estimated that giving it another sound transmission function would be the limit.
In other words, this thing could be used to scout a small area or track one or two enemies, but it was not good enough to search a large area.
How should I increase the number of scouting magic spiders?
This was indeed a difficult problem.
If he wanted to increase the number of channels, he would have to sacrifice some of them. However, whether it was the transmission of images or the simultaneous transmission of sound, they were both very important.
"Are there any specialties like Spell Cloning?" Roland muttered to himself.
Then, more and more pictures were transmitted into Roland's head, including businessmen working at desks, scholars reading books, and goblin couples fighting. And when the first magic spider completely entered the brothel compound, there were more images of fairies fighting.
Roland felt a little helpless. He really wanted to summon the first spider back, and the brothel compound was the center of the mission area, so he couldn't let it go during the search.
The efficiency of the two spiders was still too low. They almost didn't find anything useful or strange.
It was going to be dawn soon, and the sky was already turning white.
Roland estimated that he might return empty-handed tonight, but at this moment, the second spider suddenly sent over an image of several black-robed men walking into a gloomy alley with a sack in their arms.
And there seemed to be something writhing in the sack?
Kidnapping?
This world was indeed dark. At night, you could see bad things just by sending two spiders out.
Roland pondered for a moment, and before he could decide whether to go and see what was going on, the quest system was triggered again.
Side quest received: Save the Pitiful Commoners
It was a quest, and a system-certified one at that, so he had to complete it no matter what.
Roland stood up and looked outside.
Although the curfew wasn't over yet, it was close to dawn, so the curfew wasn't really that important anymore.
Besides, Roland was a Mage, and even if he was found to have violated the curfew at this time, the patrols were very likely to turn a blind eye.
Although the queen's affair was done by the Mages, it had been a few days now, and the king's anger had subsided a lot.
It was also the simple idea of a grass-roots soldier to not offend a Mage if he could.
Roland got up and left the hotel, heading straight for the location of the kidnappers.
Because the spiders had been following these black-robed men, Roland wasn't worried that they would get away.
Halfway there, Roland ran into a patrol as expected.
But as he guessed, this fully-armed patrol didn't show any hostility when they saw Roland, and the leading officer even slightly nodded at him.
Naturally, Roland also nodded lightly.
The two sides passed each other.
Roland could feel that the soldiers let out soft sighs of relief.
Coming to the entrance of the alley, Roland walked in.
It was very dark inside. Roland subconsciously wanted to use Light Ball to illuminate the place, but he was afraid of alerting the enemy, so he had to give up.
The alley was very smelly, with the smell of urine mixed with the disgusting smell of feces.
Roland pinched his nose and walked forward very slowly. After all, it was very dark. After a few turns, he stopped at a corner. He thought about how he should deal with the dozen black-robed men.
There were no houses here, only two walls. Further back was a wide wasteland, and further away was the city wall.
A dull thud came from the front.
It was also accompanied by the sound of voices.
"Sironado, now you should tell me, where the hell are you hiding people?"
"I … don't know." A suppressed voice came.
"It doesn't matter if you don't tell me, I'll kill you, then kill your wife and son." A rather mild-sounding voice said creepy words. "I'm a very reasonable person. You wronged me first, and for the sake of our former friendship, I don't want to trouble you. But now you're actually hiding people. Don't you know that this is very important to me? If I can't find them, I'll have to die. "
"I really don't know!" the voice shouted and coughed twice.
"Alas, I really don't want to do anything to you," said the gentle voice. The gentle voice said, "Even if you betrayed me, this matter concerns my life and the safety of my brothers."
This seems … a bit wrong.
Roland looked at the bar given by the system quest, then thought about the quest area, and narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Dyat, I really don't know." The voice cried. "I know I'm sorry, but I really don't know about this."
"You really don't know?"
"I don't know!" The man's crying grew louder and louder.
"Then forget it." The gentle voice sighed. "You can go now. I'll trust you one more time. If you still lie to me, you know the consequences …"
Then there was the sound of stumbling and hurried footsteps going away.
Roland looked at his system bar.
Quest failed: "Save the poor civilians."
Roland clicked his tongue inwardly. He had wanted to find clues about the queen, but he didn't expect to see a bug, or loophole, in the quest system!
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