Chapter 529: Suspicion of the Talisman

Talisman, ancient method, Xiji... these words appearing at the same time is really a bit unexpected.

Xia Fan first thought of the An family.

"The An family does know how to make talismans with ancient methods, but there are also many people in the six countries who know it." Qian Yan shook his head and said, "This obsolete painting technology is not a secret."

"There is also the Black Gate Sect," Li added, "After all, they have been passed down from Yongguo to the present."

"I don't know if the evil forces that instigated Fei Nian and the Black Gate Sect are the same. If not, then they are also one of the suspects." Xia Fan scratched his head. By this calculation, there may be quite a lot of forces involved.

"I don't think we should complicate things from the beginning, such as whether there are external alchemists involved in this matter." Qian Yan said calmly, "Leaving their hometown and attacking the Xiji Church? There is really no reason for ordinary Qi-sensing people to do this."

"Then what do you think..."

"The simplest guess is that a businessman bought this batch of talismans, and then they fell into the hands of the perpetrators."

This idea made Xia Fan's eyes light up.

In theory, it is indeed the easiest possibility to achieve. The Privy Council had conducted relevant research decades ago, believing that Qi is ubiquitous in the world, but it has been given different names due to differences in cognition in different places. For example, the magic power of Xiji, the ether of Shazhou Country... are essentially the same thing. However, due to different cognitions, they have produced great differences in the use of techniques and actual effects.

After corresponding learning, the Qi sensor can make up for the gap between them with personal ability.

If this theory has also been studied in Xiji, someone must have mastered the method of using magic to stimulate the talisman. Therefore, it is not ruled out that the murderer is one of them - the other party deliberately used the Eastern talisman to attack the convoy, relying on a completely different magic system to disrupt the pursuit of the prophecy, and finally completed the hijacking in the Blue Castle without anyone noticing, and Lord Cleveland was helpless.

"But this is just speculation, there must be more solid evidence..." Olina frowned.

"Let's look at the talisman itself." Qian Yan picked up the mute note in Xia Fan's hand and raised it to the afternoon sun. "Have you ever thought about why it was abandoned in the woods?"

Talismans are like medicines. Once the spell is successfully cast, it will immediately turn into nothingness.

"Its talisman seal has been diluted... so that it has become a useless talisman?" Xia Fan guessed after looking at it for a while.

"Indeed." Li nodded, "There are traces of ink flowing in the pen path, which has destroyed its overall structure."

"It was stained with water when transporting the goods!" Xia Fan suddenly had an idea in his mind, "If there were alchemists involved, the talisman should be carried close to the body. And it was just packed in a box and sailed across the ocean, and it became ineffective because of the water."

The first thing the perpetrator used was this mute note.

After finding that it could no longer be activated, he immediately replaced it with another one.

But the delay shortened the attack window by a few minutes.

In a hurry, the thrown out useless talisman was abandoned in the forest. The perpetrator forgot about it after he succeeded and did not return to recycle the talisman paper.

After hearing this, Li and Olina both expressed their agreement.

"But how can we check this?" The Dragon Girl raised a new question, "The Mage Tower will definitely not tell us who has studied Eastern magic."

"If only Fang Xiandao was here." The fox demon couldn't help but sigh, "This case does not involve Xia Fan, and the magic used is just right, he should be able to easily predict it."

"Forget it," Qianyan curled his lips, "That kid can vomit all over when sitting on an inland ship. Letting him come to Xiji is equivalent to asking for his life."

"Tell this news to Laserin and let him check it out." Xia Fan was confident Zhu Dao said, "This case involves trade between the East and the West. First, find out which ships have been to the East Continent recently, and then we will start with the merchants to whom these ships belong. One thing is certain, the magic talismans are not daily necessities that can be put on the shelves for public sale. It must have its own trading channels, or even further... the perpetrators and the merchants may know each other."

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"Sir, the group of people in the morning are here again."

The report from his subordinates made Laserin, who was pasting the wall, tremble slightly, and there was another fingerprint on the originally smoothed hole.

Damn, why is this Eastern ambassador so troublesome?

He wiped the mud off his fingers and sat back at the desk, "Let them in."

Well, he just happened to have a debt for a gold pen to collect.

Seeing Xia Fan and Olina walk into the room, Lathein decided to take control of the initiative in his own hands first, "Why, wasn't I clear enough this morning? Azure Castle can only provide so much information. If you don't have any clues, I can't help you-"

"We have found a new breakthrough clue."

"Poof!" Lathein spurted out the tea he had just drunk, "New, new clue?"

They set out at noon, and they got something at four in the afternoon. Is this guy serious?

That was a mystery case that the lord had mobilized all the knights in the city and high-level scrolls, but there was no progress. As a result, a foreign ambassador claimed to have found a breakthrough in four hours. Doesn't this comparison make the knights seem particularly incompetent?

"Miss Okan," he covered the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, "This is not a joke."

"Ambassador Xia is telling the truth. We found this in the woods north of the crime scene." Olina placed the discarded talisman in front of the defense officer. "There is reason to believe that the perpetrator prepared the Eastern talisman before implementing the attack plan, so all the merchants who sailed across the Endless Sea are suspected."

After listening to the Dragon Girl's explanation, Laser's heart was filled with a huge wave.

This discovery is really a breakthrough clue!

At least it turned the case from nowhere to traceable - the customs office has a complete record of ships entering and leaving. As long as the statistician checks it, it is not difficult to find out that several ships have been engaged in Far East trade recently.

In general, the route across the Endless Sea accounts for only a very small number of all trade routes, and there is no fixed caravan exchange between the two places. Even if the date is pushed back to within a year, it is estimated that it can be checked in about two days.

Of course, this is not the case.

The other party is just an Eastern ambassador, not Earl Cleveland. If he behaves wholeheartedly, doesn't that mean he has become an Oriental man's subordinate?

"I understand." Lathein pondered, "This is indeed worth investigating. I will arrange for people to investigate these ships and the merchants they belong to."

"How long will it take?" Olina asked.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He didn't know what the lady of the Okan family was obsessed with, and she actually helped a stranger so much. "Five days."

"So long?"

"There are only so many people in the seaport, and five days is already quite tight." Lathein shrugged, "You also know that the ships going to the Far East are basically private ships, or even temporary caravans that disband after doing a job. My people have to spend time to investigate. In short, once the results are obtained, I will immediately ask the guards to send them to your house."