Five minutes later, a security guard patrolling the courtyard found Richard Mayden's body with a broken head.
Without a second thought, the security guard reported to Richard Mayden's security chief.
The security chief didn't call the police though, instead, he called Eisen Den.
As Richard Mayden's security chief, Eisen Den obviously knew something that others didn't.
10 minutes later, Eisen Den, the boss of the South Herders, appeared in the villa again.
This time, it wasn't just Eisen Den.
The idle Herders in the South Sector and the Herders from other sectors were also called up.
Bain was one of them.
Bain pouted in dissatisfaction when he was called up again.
"Please.
I have my own mission as well.
Don't make me do it every time, okay? "
Bain complained to Hoen.
"The fact that you are here proves that your so-called mission isn't that important.
Or should I say, you aren't irreplaceable in this mission.
I believe in Huai Cuike's ability!
Besides … "
"Based on my experience, if you complain to someone you know the moment you meet them, there is only one possibility: your mission has suffered a setback."
As he spoke, Horn pushed up his glasses.
Immediately, the lenses of his glasses reflected a different luster.
"Setback?
How can there be setbacks?
Besides, do I know you that well?
Stop joking. "
Bain turned his head away with a stiff expression.
How could he tell Hoen what happened to him?
Was he going to tell Horn that the disciple he thought highly of, who had the potential to become a sage and a prophet, had actually become a chef?
If he dared to say it out loud, he would become the laughing stock of all the Herders in Ai City before the sun rose.
But Roye's cooking was delicious!
Delicious!
He really wanted to drink a bowl of chicken soup!
Unconsciously, Bain's mouth started to salivate, especially when the late autumn breeze blew. Bain's mind unconsciously imagined himself sitting in front of the little table in Leaf Dining, leaning on the warm electric stove, drinking a bowl of steaming, aromatic chicken soup, and chatting with Royan from time to time. Although most of the time, it was Bain talking and Royan staying quiet, it felt better.
At the very least, Royan didn't refute him. He was a qualified listener.
Apart from not being allowed to drink alcohol, it was a heavenly place!
Hu!
Just as Bain was immersed in his fantasy, another gust of cold wind blew over.
Bain, who was only wearing sportswear, instantly shrank his neck.
He moved to a spot against the wall and glanced at the South Sector boss, Anderson, who was examining the body in detail. Then, he lost interest.
Ben knew he wasn't here to help with the investigation, nor was he here to help the Herders of the South Sector.
As the strongest sector in Ai City, the Herders of the South did not need any help.
The reason why he appeared here was merely to put on a show for the others.
He wanted everyone who supported the Herders financially to understand how much the Herders valued them.
That was all!
As for more?
That meant finding the person who killed Richard Mayden.
Similarly, he did not need to intervene in this matter.
The young Herders of the South Sector were eager to give it a try.
Bain, who was leaning against the corner, couldn't help but shake his head when he saw the grumpy and powerful young man hurriedly asking a few people questions.
It was good to move fast.
But no matter how fast he was, it would be useless if he couldn't get any results.
Bain was sure that the young man wouldn't ask anything, just like how the young man's daughter died.
The young man was the last person Bain wanted to get in touch with.
The young man represented big trouble.
"Hey, Bain."
Yutenta Darko wobbled his fat body and squeezed himself into the corner. The wind instantly weakened by half. The Herder of the North grinned. "This is a good place to hide from the wind."
"It would be better if you didn't squeeze yourself in."
Bain rolled his eyes when he saw half of his body was squeezed out.
He then squeezed Yutenta's stomach hard.
"Buddy, you should lose some weight."
Bain couldn't help but sigh when he felt the fat in his hand.
"This is the advice you gave me after you felt how cute they are?"
Yutenta asked proudly as he rubbed his stomach.
"No.
I just think you are raising a bunch of ingrates. You feed them with good food and drinks, but when it comes to the crucial moment, they can't help at all.
I think you should cut them off! "
Bain shook his head and said with a straight face.
"No!
I can't cut them off, I can't lose weight either!
Only food can make me feel the beauty of the human world! "
Yutenta waved his hand and pointed at Eisen Den further away. "What do you think will happen?"
"What else can I do?
In order to find the killer in the shortest time possible, I have to summon the soul. "
Bain said in an affirmative tone.
"Then …
What if something goes wrong during the summon? What do you think will happen? "
Yutenta asked, dragging out his tone.
"What do you mean?
You know something, don't you? "
Bain frowned.
"I don't know anything.
"But I still feel a little strange."
A series of things happened in the North. The South's backup just arrived and before they could investigate, something like this happened in the South.
"Twice again!"
Don't you think it's strange? "
The fat Herder asked Bain in return.
Bain was in deep thought.
He didn't refute Yutenta's words because just like what Yutenta said, it was indeed strange.
But when it came to the details, Bain couldn't figure it out.
"Is there anything in the North?"
Bain asked.
"What could there be?
I've been scouring the land for a year and I can't find a single coin.
Didn't you notice I've lost weight lately? "
The fat Herdsman sighed.
Bain rolled his eyes again.
He knew how black-hearted Yutenta was. When there were two Herders in the North, there was someone to hold him back, preventing him from going overboard, but after that Herder died in a gang war, the whole North became Yutenta's territory.
It was impossible for him to be rich, but he was definitely stronger than a common Herder.
Otherwise, Yutenta wouldn't have been able to send his daughter to the military camp for training.
One needed to know, the military camp was a place that burned money.
"Then what is going on?"
Bain muttered to himself.
Meanwhile, Eisen Den, who was further away, had scattered some crystal powder around Richard Mayden's body. The crystal powder was measured by a machine, surrounding Richard Mayden's body in a perfect circle. Then, mystical runes were written on it.
Lastly, there was a diamond the size of a pinky nail.
"Eisen Den really went all out!"
Yutenta couldn't hold back his saliva when he saw the diamond.
Bain didn't say anything, but his eyes were burning with desire.
In the whole of Ai City, only Eisen Den, the boss of the South, had the right to use such a big diamond as an offering for the Soul Summoning Ritual.
As for the others?
It would be good enough if they could use some delicacies as an offering.
Heavy incantations came from Eisen Den's mouth.
A translucent soul slowly floated up from Richard Mayden's body.
A blank look appeared on the soul's face.
The soul's mind wasn't clear.
Naturally, the things that were usually hidden in the soul couldn't be hidden anymore.
Traces of ferocious, oppressive, and uncomfortable aura emanated from the man's soul.
The Herdsmen's expressions changed.
That was …
The aura of witchcraft!
The Herders were very familiar with the aura of witchcraft!
When Bain and Yutenta sensed the aura, they shouted in unison, "North!"
Eisen Den, who was in charge of the Soul Summoning Ritual, looked extremely ugly.
His gray windbreaker was fluttering left and right in the autumn wind, his sharp eyes were filled with killer intents. He waved his hand.
The Herders in the area instantly dashed towards the North Sector.
…
"Time is running out!"
Bloody Mary calculated the time and sped up.
It had reached the last of the 'strange' locations that it got from the wandering souls and monsters.
Therefore, it was more careful than ever.
It had a feeling that this search would be as dangerous as ever!
Bloody Mary thought it had to be more cautious.
Therefore, the next moment, Bloody Mary transformed into Bain, even the sportswear was the same as Bain.
Disguised as Bain, Bloody Mary approached the sewers of the North Sector.
Although most of the public facilities and buildings on the surface were destroyed, the underground of the North Sector was still preserved from the construction of the sewers.
The people of the North Sector might be thugs, but they weren't idiots.
They didn't want to live in a big cesspool either.
Bloody Mary didn't need the construction blueprints of the sewers in the North Sector. Dirty water and walls couldn't stop it.
After turning invisible, Bloody Mary swiftly shuttled down to the lowest level.
Bloody Mary paused for a while at the lowest level, carefully inspecting the place before it went down again.
This time, it arrived at a dry place.
However, it was filthy as well.
There wasn't any dirty water or feces, but there were a lot of organs mixed in.
The organs were black and smelly.
The enclosed space reeked of a suffocating stench. Bloody Mary glanced at the way the organs were placed, especially under the organs, there were some strange appendages mixed inside. It carefully moved away from them.
Although its Mystical Knowledge couldn't tell what the appendages represented, with Kieran as an example, it knew not to touch things it didn't understand.
And in front of him, such internal organs almost filled the tunnel that was obviously dug out.
It was a simple and crude trap.
But it was undoubtedly useful!
At least for most of the people, it was.
As for Bloody Mary?
No way!
If this path didn't work, it would find another way!
Bloody Mary dived down again.
Its whole body sank into the bottom of the tunnel. Relying on its decent Intuition, it identified the direction and went around to the end of the tunnel.
Or more precisely, the place where the person who dug the tunnel wanted to reach.
It was a ruin!
It wasn't big, only the size of a basketball court.
There were murals on the walls but they were rotten to the core, leaving only some broken pictures.
In the middle of the room was a square platform the size of a billiard table. Other than the surface of the platform, which was as white as jade, the other four sides were as black as ink.
In the middle of the platform was a black rack with a gemstone the size of a red date on it.
The gemstone itself should be as transparent as glass, but the gemstone was glowing in five different colors. Bloody Mary didn't get close to the gemstone, just bathing in the colorful glow and it felt like its exhausted stamina was being replenished rapidly.
Good stuff!
No doubt it was good stuff!
Bloody Mary's eyes shone as it looked at the gemstone.
It wasn't in a hurry though.
It carefully sized up the room and extended its head to the pedestal. When it saw the decorations on the pedestal, Bloody Mary smiled.
It was a simple setup.
It was a trigger mechanism.
In simple words, when someone took the gemstone off the rack, the mechanism would be triggered without the suppression.
"How simple!"
Bloody Mary said as it dived into the tunnel above its head.
After finding a similar sized cobblestone, Bloody Mary returned to the secret room. It reached one of its hands into the platform, pressed the trigger, and picked up the gemstone with its other hand.
It then placed the cobblestone on top of the gemstone.
After everything was done, Bloody Mary heaved a long sigh of relief.
However, right away, Bloody Mary noticed something wasn't right.
It was recovering!
Its sealed power was actually recovering!
In a very slow way!
Bloody Mary was stunned for a while before it shook its head.
"It's too slow!"
Bloody Mary sighed.
The slow recovery wasn't of much use to it.
From a certain aspect, it was meaningless.
As long as it left this place, it would recover right away.
Besides, if its boss recovered, it could recover as well.
However, Bloody Mary didn't look down on the spoils of war because of that.
After all, it wasn't its spoils of war, it was its boss's.
As for it discovering the gemstone?
Was it important?
Even it was its boss's.
Let alone something that it discovered?
Holding the gemstone tightly, Bloody Mary dived underground and went back the way it came. Bloody Mary was worried that the presence of the gemstone would be discovered.
The best choice was to dive deep underground and return to the restaurant from underground.
More than 10 minutes after Bloody Mary left, the wall of the secret room was broken open.
A silhouette walked out of it.
"Philosopher's Stone!
The Philosopher's Stone is mine! "
The man shouted.
However, when he saw the cobblestone on the rack, he was stunned.
The men behind him were also stunned.
"This is the Philosopher's Stone?"
One of them asked.
"Of course!
As expected of the Philosopher's Stone, it's no different than a common stone. Common men can't even discover the secrets behind it. Do you think it's like those Sorcerer's Stones that you can tell with a single glance? "
The leader quickly came back to his senses and turned his head to scold his men.
This was the Philosopher's Stone!
He had gone through a lot of hardships to find it!
How could he allow others to slander it?
Slandering it was the same as slandering his hard work and wisdom!
The men around him couldn't help but nod when they heard their leader's words.
The divine item concealed itself!
They had heard similar rumors before.
A Philosopher's Stone like this wasn't strange at all!
Only such a Philosopher's Stone could be considered a true Philosopher's Stone!
If it was a dazzling one, it would surely be a trap!
At this thought, everyone's gaze shifted to the cobblestone.
Scorching!
Eager!
Greedy!
However, none of them moved because they knew the place where the Philosopher's Stone was placed would be filled with danger and terror.
They had to be careful!
However, at that moment, a series of footsteps came from the tunnel that they dug.
Eisen Den was leading the way. When he saw the group of men, his eyes were filled with killer intents, and when he saw the cobblestone on the rack through the gaps in the crowd, his killer intents intensified.
Without a second thought, Eisen Den drew his sword.
Witchcraft practitioners were the Herders' mortal enemies.
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