Chapter 760: Investigation
Ophelia still smiled calmly.
Thor was sure that beneath her bright red lips, she was gnashing her teeth.
But the Sky City Lord remained silent for a few seconds before continuing, "Yes, Krum did find a way to evade my surveillance in the White Glazed Castle of Sky City."
She looked at Pearl, whose mouth was covered, and said, "But I have also thought of a way to deal with it. Do you want to hear it?"
Pei'er opened her eyes wide and whimpered twice.
"But I don't want to tell you."
Olivia's words made Pearl's eyes flash with ferocity again.
Thor stepped forward to stop Pearl, "Do you want me to continue to help you study the biography of the water god that Krum read before he died?"
Ophelia shook her head. "Although you are a genius, the knowledge of the water god is not your area of expertise. It would be better to ask you to help me with the research than to ask a few ordinary scholars. In fact, I only found the first half of the biography on the dead Krum, and the second half was hidden by him."
She couldn't help but raise her head a little, revealing her soft, white, curved neck that didn't look like a neck.
"I am now secretly searching for the second half of those biographies. At the same time, I have closed most of the passages out of the city and monitored the abnormal conditions of the entire island. So I can't cooperate with you now."
"I understand what you mean." At this point, Thor finally knew what Ophelia was busy with. "Investigating the cause of Krum's death and retrieving the hidden biography. After completing these, can you help me contact Pearl in the Fantasy World?"
Ophelia finally nodded.
"Then, our deal can begin." Thor nodded and saluted, then turned and left. "Please have someone take me to the place where Krum died first."
Thor walked to the gate and it was opened by an invisible hand.
The sunlight outside shone in tentatively.
The wizard Ona, who had brought Thor here, was still standing at the door, like a graceful sculpture.
"Oona, you will temporarily serve as Thor's assistant. He can retrieve any information that does not involve top secret information."
Ona, who had been able to salute naturally before facing Ophelia's clone, trembled all over, then bent her knees stiffly, "Yes, Lord Mayor."
Thor looked back, but there was only the white porcelain bottle left on the throne, and the Lord of the Sky City inside was nowhere to be seen.
Probably went back in.
The door closed immediately after Thor left the main hall.
"Lord Thor, what do you need to do now?"
"I'm going to see where Wizard Krum died."
Aona was stunned, and the smile on her face was not as good as before.
"So the city lord has given this task to you."
Thor observed Ona's expression, and when she was almost sweating, he said, "Does Krum's death have anything to do with you?"
"No, not at all." Ona lowered her head, but she didn't look panicked.
Then she was nervous and afraid about other things.
Krum died in a room inside the White Glazed Castle.
This place is quite remote, and the surrounding area is mainly filled with some less commonly used materials and goods.
As Thor and Ona approached, they felt a chill.
He found a small house in front of him, with a thick layer of frost on the inside of the door. The cool air was coming from the room.
Thor did not enter immediately, but looked around. "Although this room can isolate the surveillance of Lord Ophelia, won't his appearance in such a remote place arouse suspicion?"
"No. There are many places like this in the castle." Ona had calmed down along the way and answered Thor with a smile, "There are many wizards living in the White Glazed Castle. Most of them are scholars who are very good at studying, but they also have very strange tempers. Sometimes they just like to go to strange places to study and read, saying that this can inspire their inspiration. So there are many rooms in the castle to provide them with places to study."
Thor nodded slowly. "Plus, the city lord can monitor the entire White Glazed Castle and even sense the entire Sky City, so she doesn't care where these wizards are doing research. I just didn't expect that someone would use ice to seal the surroundings of the room to block her monitoring."
Oona's face turned pale, and she lowered her voice unconsciously. "So we have been secretly investigating the cause of Krum's death and the whereabouts of the things he stole. If I hadn't brought you here, you normally wouldn't be able to enter this place."
Thor thought back to the scene along the way, and he didn't find any facilities to prevent others from entering, not even any props of mental suggestion.
But he soon understood how Lord Ophelia prevented others from entering.
Because while they were talking, Ophelia in a sea-blue dress walked out of the frozen house.
"Your Excellency the City Lord." Ona saluted immediately.
When facing Ophelia in a skirt, she was not as nervous as before.
She seemed to mistake the Ophelia who was everywhere in the castle and the Ophelia in the main hall with only her head and neck exposed as two different people.
"Well, you wait outside." Ophelia in the blue dress didn't smile, but she didn't look as oppressive as Ophelia in the white porcelain bottle.
"Hello, Lord Mayor." Thor stepped forward and spoke proactively.
Ophelia in front of him still nodded quietly, then turned and entered the frozen room.
"Come in and talk."
Thor followed him in.
The door of the house closed immediately, turning this place into an ice world again.
The frozen room can isolate Ophelia from surveillance, but it is impossible for the other party to allow Thor to investigate without paying attention to his movements.
So the Ophelia in the blue dress in front of us was deliberately left in the room. It is a more accurate camera probe with independent signal transmission.
"It seems like you know why I came here? Was it your previous preparation, or was it the news passed to you from the main hall?" Thor asked curiously.
Ophelia in front of him didn't show much emotion. "Are you asking whether the information transmitted between different Ophelias is synchronized?"
Sol held his chin and did not deny it.
"But I'm not obliged to tell you." Ophelia said, walking to the side of the room, making room inside and allowing Thor to see the body in the inner lounge.
Although he had been dead for more than two days, the body lying on the ground still looked fresh and did not have the pale and bloodless look of a deceased person.
Thor squatted down and pressed Krum's skin with his fingertips. It was also soft and elastic, not affected by the icy cold here at all.
Thor raised his hand and pressed again, and this time his fingertips turned into translucent gray skin.
The skin immediately sank into the body when it came into contact with the deceased, leaving only the bones outside.
Ophelia in a blue dress stood behind Thor, watching him quietly, not hiding her intention to monitor him at all.
Thor slowly closed his eyes.
“Gurgle…”
He heard the sound of bubbles in the water.
After a moment, Thor opened his eyes and stood up again, facing Ophelia, "His body did die from drowning, but the water in his body is different from the water stored here."
Thor was a little confused. "The water has a high salt content and there is some algae. It seems to come from the deep sea."
He turned around and looked at Krum's seemingly living corpse again.
"Only a little consciousness remained in his soul, and his body was gone. In his remaining consciousness, I heard the sound of water."
(End of this chapter)
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