The sky was sunny, and the air was filled with the faint scent of girls' perfume.
Lu Sheng held a lesson plan under his arm, wearing a white shirt, yellow vest, and black trousers. His shiny leather boots slowly walked on the clean stone floor.
He kind of liked this quiet and warm environment. Or rather, if his family was here, this was the peaceful life he dreamed of.
Walking through the corridor and down the stairs, a middle-aged male lecturer in a black vest was standing at the corner of the stairs with his hands behind his back, leaning against the wall. His expression was a bit ugly.
Lu Sheng noticed that he was holding a freshly opened letter in his hand. Maybe he received some bad news.
He guessed.
Not paying much attention, Lu Sheng walked past him and continued down the stairs.
From Ysera's memory, he roughly found a possible clue.
There was an occasional rumor in the academy that every night, there would be an abrupt and inexplicable sound of the zither.
Ysera had once secretly looked at it at night, and indeed saw a slim girl with long black hair sitting quietly by the piano, her pale hands lightly brushing across the keys.
Unfortunately, the academy had invited a priest from the Vatican to take a look, but they didn't find anything wrong. Then this matter was delayed.
Anyway, as long as there weren't any negative effects, no one would care.
But just this alone didn't confirm that it had something to do with the ritual.
There was another clue. In a tavern outside of the Wisteria High School, there was once a murder. The victim's limbs and head were separated and arranged in a strange oval pattern. The surrounding walls were filled with strange runes that Lucien could not understand.
As soon as he landed, Lu Sheng couldn't wait to rush to the location of the clue.
As long as he found an opening, a crack, he could cooperate with Xining to completely open the Anti-Void Gate.
"Hello, Teacher Ysera." Some of the female students who passed by bowed politely to Ysera.
Following Ysera's habit, Lu Sheng also nodded slightly to return the greeting.
It had to be said that appearance had an advantage. From the dormitory to the piano room, in the short distance of a few hundred meters, Lu Sheng greeted at least a dozen groups of teachers and students who passed by.
Wisteria was a church school, and the Holy See of the Empire had decreed that female students were not allowed to expose any part of their skin below the neck, except for their hands.
Thus, the easiest way to distinguish between a teacher and a student here was to see their attire.
Anyone who wore a black skirt, black stockings, and a long-sleeved school uniform with no skin exposed was a student. Most of the instructors were dressed in formal attire or elegant long skirts that reached their calves.
Under the bright sun, Lu Sheng soon arrived at the piano room.
A row of six piano rooms were all teaching. Some instructors were inside instructing the students loudly, and some were personally doing demonstrations.
There were also some who let their students demonstrate while they sat at the side and rested.
Lu Sheng looked around and immediately aimed at the piano room on the far left.
That was the classroom that Ysera had found problematic.
However, there were more than ten people in class, so there was no way to go in and investigate.
As he slowly walked around the piano room, Lu Sheng investigated the karma of Ysera's wishes while carefully following the system of mysticism to look for possible traces left behind.
However, he couldn't use any of his main body's strength to avoid being discovered. But when any power or energy flowed, there would be traces left behind.
"No traces …" After a round of inspection, Lu Sheng didn't find any traces of supernatural power.
While he found nothing here, Ysera's original wish had been found.
"Restoring the prosperity of the family … this wish is a little vague. The more vague it is, the more troublesome it is. "Lu Sheng frowned slightly.
The Devanbos family had been in decline since Ysera's grandfather's generation.
The entire family had branched out into three branches, and the one that was doing the best was his uncle's family that was doing business. Now they had settled in a nearby holy city where housing was expensive.
Occasionally they would invite him over for tea parties, hunting, and so on.
Next was Ysera's own branch.
Then the third branch was his aunt. She was said to be a tutor, with a son and a daughter. Her income wasn't high, and she could barely make ends meet.
"There aren't many people, and their development is poor. How to determine what is considered prosperity in a family is really hard to do."
Lu Sheng withdrew his gaze from the piano room and turned to walk out of the school.
There was still some time before dinner in the afternoon, so he could go to the tavern outside the school where the murder happened.
The sooner he found the clues, the better. Anyway, he didn't care much about the soul benefits he would get after completing his wish.
Everything was based on solving the problem at hand.
This body was just a shell, and after achieving the goal, he would just have to reconstruct a soul.
Lu Sheng walked along the boulevard, out of the school, along the fallen leaves on the sidewalk, all the way to the tavern where the murder happened.
The tavern was surrounded by a mess of small shops that sold painting tools, and some students were still going in and out of the shops at this time.
The tavern had the sign "Nine Castle Tavern" hanging askew. Within a few meters of the tavern, passersby unconsciously avoided the tavern and did not go near it.
Obviously, the previous case still left an impression in people's hearts.
Lu Sheng walked around the tavern, and at the back of the window covered by weeds, he opened the window and jumped in.
There were spider webs and rat droppings everywhere in the tavern, and it was obvious that many rats used this place as their nest.
The messy tables and chairs had fallen to the ground, and some parts of the wood had been completely broken.
A few clear footprints were left on the side of the tables and chairs. It seemed that someone had been here not long ago.
Lu Sheng carefully looked at the layout of the tavern.
The bar counter was on the left of the entrance, and the rest of the place was filled with round tables and mahogany chairs, which were all made of wooden scraps, cheap and light.
A few beer bottles were scattered messily in the corner, and a few clothes were beside the bottles.
The most conspicuous thing was the dark red stain on the ground in the middle, and some strange red symbols left on the surrounding walls.
"What a mess. These scribbles are useless, and they can't connect to anything at all, and they can't stimulate any power … It looks more like the random scribbles of a lunatic. "
Lu Sheng frowned slightly.
This murder scene was indeed strange and mysterious, but that was all there was to it. It gave him the feeling that someone had disguised an ordinary murder as an evil cult's sacrifice.
Carefully retreating from the window, Lu Sheng had just jumped down when he suddenly heard a rustling sound behind him.
He hurriedly turned his head and saw a yellow-furred rat that was as big as a foot flashing past the grass at an incredible speed.
Lu Sheng frowned, patted the dust off his hands, and turned to leave.
The only two clues he remembered did not lead to any results.
Although there were supernatural powers in this world, it did not seem that easy to get in touch with that circle.
After the failed attempt, Lu Sheng quickly returned.
In the next few days, he followed Ysera's original lifestyle, teaching in the morning, and had his own plans in the afternoon: reading, listening to operas, shopping, or sword practice.
For more than four days, he lived according to Ysera's previous lifestyle.
On the fifth day, which was the academy's holiday day.
According to tradition, it was time for Ysera to go home and rest. Since he did not find anything, Lu Sheng followed the normal procedure, packed up his stuff in the dorm, gave some instructions to the students, and left the academy peacefully.
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"Kasha, another problem?" As soon as Lu Sheng entered the door, he saw his cousin, Kasha, who was sitting awkwardly in the courtyard.
As his uncle's daughter, Kasha had admired Ysera since she was young. She would always come to ask him questions if she had any.
However, every time she came, she would be embarrassed to see Ysera's mother in a mess.
At this moment, Kasha was wearing a light yellow dress and a white belt. She was sitting awkwardly on a stone bench in the courtyard. Sitting on the steps in front of her was an elderly lady who looked to be in her 40s or 50s.
If not for the deep crow's feet at the corner of her eyes, the lady's face and figure could still make people think she was only thirty.
Beautiful, graceful, and voluptuous, her features were like a female version of Ysera. However, at this moment, she was paralyzed on the ground, reeking of alcohol, and did not move.
"Auntie … was drunk. I just came in and saw her … "When Kasha saw Lu Sheng return, she immediately stood up and explained.
"I know." Lu Sheng nodded.
His uncle's family was much better off than theirs, and they were doing business well now. His cousin, Kasha, often came over to help Ysera in another way.
On the surface, she came to ask questions, but in reality, she often brought gifts and meat. This had been going on for years.
Following Ysera's habit, Lu Sheng walked into the main hall and picked up a grinder. He took a small bottle of coffee beans from the cabinet by the wall, poured some into it, and started grinding gently.
Kasha followed him in.
"Ysera, are you in a bad mood?"
"It's nothing. It's just a small matter, "Lu Sheng said casually. "Where's the question you prepared today?"
"It's here." Kasha quickly took out a small book from her pocket and flipped it open.
Lu Sheng glanced at it. To his surprise, it was a set of ordinary junior high questions on Earth. He only glanced through it once and easily explained it to Kasha.
Halfway through his speech, Lu Sheng suddenly paused and turned his head to look out the window.
A faint voice was transmitted into his mind.
"The great Xixas, the Digger, the King of Wind Chill, your believers are here to pray for your call …"
"The powerful King of Streams, the Illusionist, the Overseer, I offer you the most perfect body. Please grant me the power to enjoy the future!!"
The two faint chanting voices overlapped each other, as if they were being held at the same time.
Lu Sheng's expression did not change. From the spiritual shock, he could tell that the two were at least a thousand meters away from him. Moreover, the terrain around them was complicated, making it difficult to pinpoint their exact location.
"Cousin?" Kasha saw that Lu Sheng was suddenly stunned and raised her voice to remind him.
"Nothing … I just thought of some things in the past." Lu Sheng's expression was calm. "Alright, let's continue."
He planned to wait until the ritual was complete before taking the opportunity to check it out.
After all, the Star Hunters and Xining would send people down to assist him in breaking out of the encirclement. In any case, this mission would be considered a success as long as he was sent into the gray mist.
And if he still did not succeed this time, he planned to design his own ritual method and deliberately spread it out for others to use.
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