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"When I returned to Bala City, I saw that the Berg Magic Family's team had also entered the maze. The adventure groups behind them would be robbed of their treasure chests by the two magic families."
"By the way, did you see those three elves on the road? I saw them from afar when the maze opened.
I thought I was seeing things, but it turned out to be an elf."
A five-member adventure group passed by Zhang Mu while chatting.
Listening to what they were talking about, Zhang Mu was lost in thought.
It seems that they didn't find me and chose to go back to the maze. Frederica probably didn't go with them, and may have returned to Bara City.
I'll go look for them later.
Thinking about it, he walked through the city gate, asked passers-by, and came to the church in Bala City.
"I'm looking for Hagrid."
"I'm sorry Mr. Magician, but Bishop Hagrid went to the capital a few days ago."
"When are you coming back?"
"Bishop Hagrid is going to the capital to take up a post. Unless something unexpected happens, he probably won't be back."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome, Mr. Magician."
After thanking the cultist who was guarding the door, Zhang Mu ran to the tavern with a frown. He searched everywhere but couldn't find Frederica and the others.
He ran back full of anger, but ended up accomplishing nothing. He felt like a powder keg that could explode at any moment.
After a moment of silence at the door of the tavern, he ran back to the city gate.
"Mr. Guard, have you seen any residents of Cass Town enter the city recently?"
"Ten copper coins." The armored guard responded calmly.
"Mr. Guard." Zhang Mu's eyes were bloodshot and his smile was a little ferocious. "I'm very irritated now, so please answer my questions obediently, okay?"
"Ten copper coins."
"Ah."
Zhang Mu raised his hand, and the condensed ice cone pressed against the guard's throat.
"How dare you! How dare you use magic to attack others in the city!"
More than a dozen guards gathered around, shouting and waving their spears. The passing adventure groups hid aside and looked at this side in amazement.
The shocked expression seemed to be saying, it has been a long time since anyone had the courage to start a war in a human gathering place, are there really people who are not afraid of death?
The guards swung their spears and were about to stab, but were all hit by the sudden appearance of ice spikes, which hit their vital points and froze them in place.
They had been at peace for too long, and they had taken the church's deterrence as their own, completely forgetting that the magicians could kill them at will.
Taking control of the situation, Zhang Mu looked back at the guard in front of him and reached out to grab the collar of his armor: "Now, you can answer my questions properly..."
The words were interrupted by the guard's horrified face and fear in his eyes.
Zhang Mu understood where this fear came from. It was power. The guards were afraid of the power that could take their lives.
Zhang Mu's rage was quickly extinguished, like a bonfire poured with a basin of cold water.
"Learn to be calm." Avril said in the letter.
"The most important thing is to remember not to bully the weak with your great power. If you do that, both the teacher and Avril will be sad." Porter told him before leaving.
Am I bullying the weak?
He is not obliged to answer my question, right?
Zhang Mu lowered his head.
After a long while, he took a deep breath, dispersed the icicles, and loosened the guard's collar: "This is not considered part of the city."
As he spoke, he took out ten copper coins from his storage bag and pressed them into the guard's trembling palm: "Mr. Guard, have you seen any residents of Kas Town enter Bala City recently?"
"Magic, Master Magician, you don't need to pay..."
"Take it, and then, answer my questions."
"Yes, yes." The guard's outstretched hand was pushed back, and he touched his throat first, as if to make sure it was not pierced.
Then he swallowed his saliva and said: "There are four gates in the city of Bara, and I haven't seen any of them here."
"I understand, thank you."
Turn around and go back to the city.
The direction of Kas Town is closest to this city gate. If we return, there is no reason to take a detour to the other three city gates that are farther away.
Hagrid... the capital...
Zhang Mu stopped in the crowd and said, "We will see each other again soon. Don't cry then."
Otherwise, I will look down on you.
Taking a deep breath, he ran to the pub and wrote a sentence on the message board next to the door - Flames can't chat like us, I'm in the hotel.
He believed that when Frederica saw this sentence, she would understand that it was left by him.
After waiting for Frederica to return to the city to meet him, he would open the treasure chest and divide the treasures in front of her, and then go find the magic family that had blocked him during the day.
After thinking it over, he went to the hotel and booked a room. He told the receptionist behind the bar to tell the room number to anyone who wanted to see him.
Then go upstairs and enter the room, summon the portal, and return to reality.
After not coming home for a few days, a thin layer of dust had accumulated in the house. Zhang Mu was in no mood to clean, so he took a shower and went to bed.
The next morning.
After getting up, Zhang Mu was not in a hurry to go to the other world. He changed his clothes and called Song Lan.
I was a little confused when I learned that the ban had not been lifted.
After searching for so many days, there is still no trace of the immortal cultivator, and the control is not lifted yet. Are they going to seal it off for life?
After thinking about the formation, he went to the other world first, asked the receptionist and found out that no one was looking for him, then returned to reality, took the key and went out.
Wandering aimlessly on the road.
Zhang Mu discovered that this control seemed to have little impact on the citizens. It only set up checkpoints on major traffic arteries and did not restrict the movements of citizens.
Standing in the pedestrian waiting area at the intersection, Zhang Mu looked at the traffic lights, thoughts racing through his mind.
The green light has come.
He was about to cross the road but was stopped by a traffic policeman who told him that there was temporary traffic control.
Not caring, Zhang Mu folded his arms and waited.
After a while, a convoy came from the asphalt road in the distance.
kindness?
Zhang Mu looked around curiously, wondering if some important person had come, but he actually saw the investigator from the Special Investigation Bureau named Zhao Qi sitting in the passenger seat of the first car.
What the hell is that hanging on him?
He scanned with his mental power and saw Ye Ming in the back seat.
What are you preparing for?
Zhang Mu narrowed his eyes slightly and quietly retreated behind the traffic policeman to avoid being seen by Zhao Qi.
After giving the lead car a bit of mental strength, he no longer had the mind to wander around.
He turned and ran to the public restroom in a nearby park, activated shadow magic and transformation magic, and chased after the convoy.
Chapter 76 Sir, I came.
The convoy slowly stopped at the city government compound.
Zhao Qi and Yue Ruo, who was driving, pushed the door and got out of the car, and Ye Ming followed.
The three of them walked into the door side by side, took the elevator to the top floor, turned right and entered the conference room.
In the conference room, the director, who received the video and immediately decided to come to Su City in person, sat at the head of the U-shaped conference table.
Judging from his appearance, he seems to be in his sixties, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, which is in line with the aesthetic standards of his era.
He has regular facial features. If he had some Mediterranean hair and his beer belly got rid of, he could be called a handsome old man.
Ye Ming guessed that this director who interviewed him personally must have been a well-known young man in the area when he was young.
Hearing the noise of them opening the door, the director turned sideways and said, "The old leader is here... Zhao Qi, what the hell is this?"
Yue Ruo and Ye Ming looked at each other and looked at Zhao Qi at the same time.
He was still wearing the black trousers and white shirt he wore for work, but compared to his previous clean look, there was something more to it now.
He was wearing Buddhist beads around his neck and wrists, a small copper coin sword hung from a red rope around his waist, and a whisk was stuck in his back, with the whisk sticking out diagonally from his right shoulder.
His facial muscles twitched twice, and Yue Ruo and Ye Ming quietly stood a little further away from Zhao Qi.
Zhao Qi didn't notice it, and said to the director: "What a mess."
"Look, these two strings of Buddhist beads were blessed by a master, and this copper coin sword was sold to me by a Taoist priest from the authentic Taoist sect."
"The old Taoist priest also gave me a talisman..."
“Okay, okay, okay.” The director waved his hands, “Take it off quickly. An investigator from the Abnormal Investigation Bureau is practicing feudal superstition. The leaders will laugh at me when they see me.”
The director was unhappy, but Zhao Qi did not dare to talk back. He took off the things he was wearing and stuffed them into a low cabinet beside him, muttering:
"All the immortal cultivators have come out, who knows if there are any supernatural beings..."
Too lazy to pay attention to this fool, the director asked Ye Ming: "Xiao Ye, you are responsible for explaining the whole story to the leader, how is the situation?"
Ye Ming's reply was simple and direct: "He meant that a single video cannot prove anything."
"That video has been checked and has not been edited with any software!"
"Yes, but it is possible to achieve similar scenes using tools and lighting effects."
Just as the director was about to ask again, the door was pushed open again, and more than a dozen soldiers in camouflage and armed with live ammunition filed in. They checked around the conference room to eliminate safety hazards.