Dorcas narrowed his eyes and said in a playful tone, "This is a bit interesting."
"What do you mean?" Kael looked at Dorcas in confusion.
Dorcas' lips twitched. How should he know? The reason why he said that was because he felt that there seemed to be some clues in the contradictory answer given by Black Earl. At this moment, he should say something to set the atmosphere. Therefore, he opened his mouth.
In the end, however, he met the serious Kale.
Dorcas gave Kael a meaningful smile. He didn't say anything, as if he understood what Kael was trying to say.
"Sir, you're asking if the Witch's Eye came from the underground maze?" Angor asked.
The Black Earl: "That's right."
"A Witch's Eye can't be born out of thin air. It must be related. Is it possible that the Witch's Eye was born in the outside world, so the answer is no. But its relatives, such as its father's generation, came from the underground? So we can use it to find other Witch's Eyes and find the entrance to the underground maze. "
Before Black Count could say anything, Dorcas rubbed his chin and nodded. "You have a point."
Angor ignored Dorcas and kept looking at the stone slab while waiting for Black Count's answer.
The Dark Earl fell into deep thought for a few seconds before saying, "That's possible. However, it's not only related to kinship. It could also be related to other things, or even other people."
The moment the Black Earl finished speaking, everyone seemed to have thought of something and turned to look at a certain corner of the ruins at the same time.
A short-haired woman wearing a leather jacket was sitting on the ground. She was using her hands to push against the ground, trying to leave this place that was enveloped by the terrifying aura.
Supernaturals were even scarier than that monster. She waved her hand, and a large number of arrows pierced into the monster's eyes. She had never seen anything like this before. She remembered how she tried to distract the monster earlier and felt her legs trembling. She had no choice but to use her hands to support herself.
However, before she could retreat far, the group of people with Extraordinaires turned their gazes towards her.
The short-haired woman was so scared that she stopped moving.
"Wa Yi, I told you not to wear a black cloak all day long like a ghost. Look, you scared the hell out of people." Dorcas clicked his tongue.
Vale couldn't speak, but that didn't stop him from using magic to write: She was obviously scared by you. Who would carry such a long sword with them?
Dorcas said lazily, "But she's looking at you."
While they were talking, Angor had already reached the short-haired woman.
Angor's current appearance was not as bright as his real self, but it was still better than Wai in the woman's eyes. After all, Angor had been standing at the back of the group the whole time. He looked like an ordinary person just like her.
"How are you doing? Can you stand up? "
Maybe it was Angor's gentle words, or maybe it was his calm temperament that soothed the woman's nerves. Her legs stopped trembling, and she was finally able to stand up by holding onto the broken wall.
"Hello, can we have an exchange?"
As he spoke, he used nightmare energy to soothe the woman's agitated emotions and calmed her down.
She didn't say anything after regaining her composure. Instead, she kept looking at Angor's group cautiously.
"You won't talk even if I saved your life? I don't like using force. But if you don't agree, I'll have to do this. "
While speaking, he lifted a hand, revealing a ball of flame floating above his palm.
Looking at the ball of flames, the short-haired woman immediately reacted. This was also a supernatural being!
The flame kept dancing, and she could even see an illusion inside it. It was a woman being burned by the fire … No, that was her!
Perhaps because of the nightmare power, the short-haired woman did not lose her mind even though she was shocked and threatened. She already knew what she had to do.
Fighting against a group of supernaturals with at least two of them was suicide.
"I-I'm Mia, from White Crocodile. But I'm alone now …"
The short-haired woman, Mia, began to talk to herself.
Angor didn't interrupt her. He listened quietly.
There were two possibilities. One was that the Witch's Eye's relative was the key, while the other was that there was someone or something related to the Witch's Eye. At least, as far as they knew, Mia was the most likely person to be related to the Witch's Eye. Even if they were predator and prey, their relationship was still within the scope of the prophecy.
Since Mia might be the key, Angor didn't use his supernatural power to influence her too much. After all, things like prophecies were the veins of fate and could change at any time, especially under the interference of Extraordinary powers, the possibility of change was the greatest.
As for Mia's mumbling, Angor believed that there might be some key clues in it as well, so he listened carefully.
However, he did not get any useful information so far.
While Angor had the patience to listen, Dorcas didn't. He walked to Mia and said, "Enough with the nonsense. Tell me everything about your encounter with the Witch's Eye, including where you met it."
Angor wouldn't stop Dorcas from doing so either. Maybe it was Dorcas' spirit sensing that worked.
Angor planned to treat Dorcas' actions as a result of his spirit sensing.
Miya was a little scared when facing Dorcas, but Angor's nightmare illusion helped her to keep her calm.
"We met the demon — the Witch's Eye — in the third zone on the lower left of the ruins.
"The Witch's Eye had its back to us, and our captain didn't have good eyesight. He thought it was someone wearing purple clothes, so he greeted it from afar. Then the Witch's Eye noticed us. "
Dorcas mumbled, "That's … bad eyesight, isn't it? It's not the middle of the night. Can't you see the reflection on your scales? "
Mia continued to explain what happened next. Basically, each and every one of them was given for free. Their team originally had three people, but two of them were killed, and only Mia managed to escape.
As for how Mia managed to escape, she didn't dare to lie. She simply said that she betrayed her teammates.
"I just … wanted to stay alive."
Dorcas raised an eyebrow. "Staying alive isn't a big deal. Go on."
Mia remained silent for a moment. "That's all. Then I met Sir."
Mia's silence meant that she had something else to say. However, no one asked. They could guess what she was thinking. The reason why she was silent was because she didn't dare to say that she had come here to divert the trouble to someone else.
Just like how she betrayed her teammates, it would be better if she "betrayed" them to the Witch's Eye as well to buy herself some time to escape.
They didn't want to ask about something that everyone already knew.
Dorcas: "That's all. Are there any other details? Especially when we ran into the Witch's Eye and were being chased by it. Did it do anything strange? Or did it have any other companions around? "
Mia thought for a moment but couldn't think of anything. She was about to shake her head.
Dorcas suddenly muttered, "Is your team stupid? You're the captain, but you don't have any sense of danger? Why did you go talk to the unknown?"
Hearing Dorcas's words, Mia thought of something and said, "I just remembered something. I wonder if it has anything to do with the Witch's Eye."
"Tell us then," Angor spoke up.
Angor glanced at Dorcas with a meaningful look. He had read a lot of detective stories. In those stories, the person who provided the key clues was usually reminded of something after saying a lot of useless things, and then added some additional information that they thought was not important. Generally speaking, these additional things were actually important clues.
Now, the person who had enlightened Mia was undoubtedly Dorcas.
As expected, people with good ideas were different.
Angor admired Dorcas for a moment before he continued to listen to Mia's story.
"We might have to start from when the White Crocodile Adventurer Group was first established. Originally, we had six members in the group. Later on, we slowly developed until we had twelve members. But when we were at the peak of our development, we ran into a group of hateful bastards.
"They called themselves the Hero Squad, but they never did anything heroic. Originally, the third area at the bottom left of the ruins had been occupied by our adventurer team, but they used the name of justice to forcefully intrude and snatch a lot of treasures. "
"They even brought people from other teams to search for treasures in the third section.
"How could our leader tolerate such humiliation? So, we started a war with the Hero Team … They were stronger than we imagined. Even our leader died in that battle. After that, the rest of the team left, and only the three of us were left. "
At this point, Mia's face was already filled with misery.
But Angor did not know what to say. "Booking the whole place" was not right in the first place, was it? Besides, the Hero Squad only came to search for treasures. They didn't fight with you. But your captain couldn't stand such humiliation. What kind of humiliation was that? He started a fight and lost.
Who was to blame?
Of course, Angor was only looking at it from his own perspective. Maybe "taking over the whole area" was the rule here, and Mia's team could still hold the moral high ground.
But this was a ruin that had been abandoned for many years. Even supernaturals never thought about taking over it. Yet these mortals decided to take over the whole area. How bold of them. Weren't they afraid that someone from Biren Shuting would come and clear them out?
"Ever since our captain died and our team members left, we kept getting provoked by the Hero Squad. We also ran into a lot of traps. They must be the work of the Hero Squad. And this time, we ran into the Witch's Eye. Maybe they're behind this. They want to get us killed. "
At this point, Mia had finished her story. However, Angor only heard Mia's guesses and random accusations. He didn't find any useful clues.
Could it be that the rules of detective reasoning didn't apply this time?
Or did the Hero Squad have something to do with it?
Dorcas suddenly asked, "If you already took over the whole area, how did you let other teams in?"
As a wandering Adept, Dorcas often encountered situations where precious lands were taken over by Adept organizations, Adept Alliances, and Adept families.
In Dorcas's opinion, a place should be completely sealed. Not even a mosquito could get in. Because any variable could break the balance.
Mia's "taking over the whole area" was far from what he expected.
Mia said, "That's because the Hero Squad is a bunch of gophers. When our scouts found their traces, they immediately reported it, but when we went to look for them, they were nowhere to be found even though they hadn't left Division 3. Later, we heard that they were hiding underground. Even when they first came in, they came from underground. It's impossible to guard against them. "
Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard Mia's words.
That had to be it!
An underground passage that connected all the places to the surface. It had to be an intact entrance!
According to Dark Earl's prophecy, Mia was the key!
While everyone was celebrating, Angor silently looked at Dorcas. As expected, Dorcas's Spirit Sense worked again.
It was Dorcas who first suggested to go and see what was going on.
It was Dorcas who interrupted Mia's monologue and asked her to reveal the key.
It was also Dorcas who asked her to explain.
More importantly, it was Dorcas who pointed out that Mia did not "take over the whole area" and asked her to reveal the final answer.
What else could it be if not Spirit Sense?
Angor suddenly felt lucky that he brought Dorcas with him on this exploration trip. The guy's intuition was so strong that he probably did not notice it himself and thought it was just a random question.
In fact, Dorcas always got to the point.
At least, Angor would not ask about details like "taking over the whole area".
Now that they had a clue, the next step was simple. Their goal was to find the Hero Squad and find the real entrance to the underground maze.
As for how? The answer was simple. Mia wasn't doing that.
While Mia led them to the area where the Hero Squad was active, Angor and Dorcas could release Scout Puppets or Wizard Eyes to look for traces from above.
As long as they could confirm that it was the Hero Squad, the rest was easy.
After telling Mia about the search for the Hero Squad, Mia initially thought that it was her "emotional acting" that had moved the group of superhumans and made them decide to look for the Hero Squad to take revenge for the White Crocodile Adventurers.
With such a beautiful vision, Mia naturally wouldn't reject it. She suppressed her excitement and continued on her way to District 3.
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