After Professor Bacon disappeared, the top student also disappeared.

Things seemed to be confusing, but Sherlock didn't panic because he had already seen through the truth.

It's still the same burned-out shop, with a cordon around it. Occasionally, there are citizens passing by to take a look, but the players are no longer interested in this place. They have basically rummaged through everything they could.

, but still nothing was found.

"Lord Sherlock, you don't think the top student is still here, do you?"

Blue said with some surprise:

"I can assure you that your loyal servants have checked this place carefully. There is no trace of the top student at all. Even if the top student is buried in the sea of ​​fire, there must be some ashes left, right?"

"An ordinary fire can't burn the top student to death. As for whether he is here or not, we still need to wait until the investigation to find out."

Sherlock said, scratching the parrot Phoenix on his shoulder.

Phoenix was stunned for a moment, and then he flapped his wings and flew up. After circling around in a circle, he landed in the burned ruins, and then started to rummage around with his claws.

Not long after, Phoenix stopped at a ruins, then stretched out a bird leg and said:

"right here."

"What's going on? Lord Sherlock, can this phoenix still find the trap?"

Blue asked in surprise.

"Phoenixes are more sensitive to magic power, just like hamsters."

Sherlock explained briefly and walked towards the parrot.

The scene had already been cleaned up, and Sherlock didn't spend much effort before discovering the anomalies pointed out by Phoenix the parrot.

A magic rune was engraved on the floor. Even if the surrounding area was burned by fire, the magic rune engraved seemed to be undamaged.

Sherlock knelt down, gently swept away the dust on the magic rune engraving with his fingers, and then studied it carefully.

"It's really a simple magic rune. Was it set up by the owner of this shop?"

The black cat Pineapple raised his long tail, walked around the rune magic circle twice, and said with great disgust.

"Huh? What do you know? You only know how to use your talents to mentally control others all day long. How can you understand magic runes?"

The parrot Phoenix on the side looked at the black cat Pineapple with a mocking tone, and the latter roared very angrily:

"Meow~"

Then he pounced directly towards Parrot Phoenix.

But when they came to their senses, Sherlock was gone.

"Lord Sherlock?"

Parrot Phoenix jumped up and asked in confusion.

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In a dream of nothingness, the streetscape of Winterfell is as if it were placed in water, with ripples.

The various passers-by were just like the street scenes Sherlock saw, and they looked quite dreamy and unreal.

"Lord Sherlock? What...is going on?"

Blue could obviously see the scene in front of him through Sherlock's vision, of course with Sherlock's permission.

"This is an illusion, someone set it up here."

Sherlock looked around and saw that it was the [Don't Want to Sell Clothes] store before it burned down.

"Who does this kind of thing? Didn't the magic seal just open some secret passage? Was it just an illusion for us to watch a movie?"

Blue asked with some confusion.

"This is not an ordinary illusion. According to another world, this is a fully immersive environment. We directly come to the illusion from reality through magic engraving. This kind of magic engraving can leave behind some things that ordinary people cannot easily discover.

In addition to providing information clues, you can also protect yourself at critical moments. Of course, the premise is that the magic seal cannot be destroyed."

Sherlock looked at the surrounding environment. The Mole store manager was fast asleep in the store. Outside the store was the alley before, and outside the store were the streets of Winterfell. From where Sherlock was standing, he could vaguely see

I saw figures outside, some depraved creatures from the underground world, sitting in boxes, reading books or chatting, discussing depraved mathematical formulas and problems.

After the initial blurry and distorted picture, the scene in front of Sherlock gradually became clearer until it became exactly the same as reality.

"Then what will happen if the magic seal is destroyed?"

Blue suddenly asked.

"If it is destroyed, it will have consequences more terrible than death. You may not be able to get out in this life. You can only wander in the illusion and finally get lost, becoming a member of the illusion."

Sherlock said without panic at all.

"We'd better leave quickly, Lord Sherlock."

But Blue was panicking to death:

"Whether it's Pineapple or Phoenix, they are all convinced by you. If they see the impact of the destruction of the magic seal on you, I absolutely believe that they will smash it immediately."

"Don't worry, they won't find out."

Sherlock had no intention of leaving. He even found a chair and sat down:

"Because this is a new technology that only appeared in the past hundred years. Phoenix has been sealed for thousands of years, and Pineapple has been imprisoned in Bankazia for a thousand years. To put it simply, both of them are people who have derailed the society and will not

Know such advanced things."

"But Sherlock, what if..."

Blue still planned to persuade Sherlock, but Sherlock had already raised his hand to interrupt Blue:

"And I have a reason not to leave here."

Sherlock pointed at a skeleton walking in front of him. It could be seen from the cracks on his forehead that it was Professor Bacon.

"It's very possible that this is the clue Professor Bacon left for the top student."

Bacon seemed to have not seen Sherlock, and walked straight into the shop in a hurry.

When Bacon walked into the store, the sleeping Mole suddenly woke up.

"Welcome...Professor Bacon?"

The mole's nose twitched, and he seemed to smell Professor Bacon's scent.

"Long time no see, Boss Mole."

Professor Bacon's face looked a little tired. He walked to Sherlock's side, but he did not notice Sherlock's presence because everything in front of him was what had happened before.

"Why do you have time to come to Winterfell? Isn't the academy busy?"

Boss Mole very diligently poured Professor Bacon a cup of bloody chrysanthemum tea and wiped the table in front of Professor Bacon. Although Boss Mole could not see, his nose was more sensitive than his eyes.

"Actually, I came today because I have something important to give you."

Professor Bacon looked around and said nervously:

"Can I leave this with you?"

Professor Bacon took out a box, which was exactly the box where the Ragdoll cat was placed.

"what is this?"

Boss Weasel picked up the box and sniffed it carefully. Obviously, he couldn't tell what it was.

"This is what I left to my student Xue Ba. If Xue Ba finds this place, please give this to him." Professor Bacon said.

"Wait a minute, but I don't know your student. Have you given him your address? It's not easy to find here."

Boss Weasel hesitated for a moment, then asked.

"I haven't given it to him explicitly, but he will definitely find it. Please be sure to give it to him when the time comes."

Professor Bacon said with a serious expression.

"Professor Bacon, have you encountered anything that makes you embarrassed? Did you get into some debt? Although I don't have much money, if there is anything I can do to help you, please just ask.

Got it!"

Boss Weasel said with a worried look.

"No, you can't solve this matter, and it's really too troublesome. Even if I'm not careful, I might be killed. I don't want to implicate you."

Professor Bacon waved his hand, as if he really didn’t want to implicate Boss Weasel, but Boss Weasel quickly said:

"Ah, if this is the case, then even..."

"There's really nothing I can do against you. Since you want to hear it so much, I'll tell you."

Before Boss Weasel could finish speaking, Professor Bacon said quickly.

"Things must start from the Academy of the Dead..."

While Professor Bacon was talking, the whole world suddenly began to collapse. Pieces of fragments began to appear in the whole world, and Professor Bacon's figure suddenly became distorted, and no sound could be heard.

"what's the situation?"
To be continued...