Chapter 178 Casefile 5: Nether Festival (7)
"The potion master who died unexplained three years ago has returned to the Netherworld Festival!"
"Thirty-three dead, twenty-seven seriously injured...! No one knows where she came from, or how she left! A dark cloud obscured the blood moon, and then she vanished with a puff, and the people under her control collapsed in a heap... Knight Commander, is this the investigative report you submitted?!"
His Majesty the King was furious and threw the report in his hand at the feet of the kneeling Knight Commander. "Who investigated Mi Funa's death three years ago? Who buried her body three years ago?! How come you, the Knight Commander, don't know anything?!"
"Your Majesty..." The Knight Commander swallowed his saliva and said hesitantly, "It was your brother, the Great Magician Mebucha, who collected Mi Funa's body and buried her."
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Mebcha Huntington stood in front of his old friend's grave with a grim face. His magic stirred up a storm, overturned the soil, and pushed the coffin buried deep underground out of the ground.
He waved his hand violently, and the nailed coffin lid was instantly torn into several pieces like a fragile cardboard by the invisible giant hand, and fell to the side with a crackling sound.
Mebucha took a step forward and looked into the coffin.
However, the coffin he prepared for his friend with his own hands was now empty.
"Impossible..." Mebucha gritted his teeth, "How is it possible?"
He personally collected Mi Funa's body, arranged her appearance, dressed her in her most beautiful dress, and buried her here. However, at this moment, there was only an empty coffin left in the grave.
"Funa... where on earth have you been...?"
However, no one could answer his question.
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The strange disaster that occurred in the royal capital on the night of the Nether Festival was delivered to Buster through the shadow scouts' communication pigeons the next morning.
Because the incident was too bizarre to be explained in a few words, the detectives did not even consider using a contact book.
The ravens brought with them a thick file with a few large characters on the cover: [The Mysterious Case of Huntington's Disease].
At 8:00 PM on the evening of the Netherworld Festival, a black fog started from the outskirts of the capital and attacked the central streets of the capital's fighting area, market area, and central cultural area.
In the area where the black fog permeated, people lost control of their bodies and began to dance inexplicably, following the sounds of strange footsteps and songs.
They danced with all kinds of strange and difficult movements that ordinary people could not perform normally. They could not stop even if they hurt themselves in the process, and some were even controlled to dig out their own eyes.
The people's expressions were filled with terror, and they wailed silently, as if even their mouths, tongues, and vocal cords had lost their function. They danced until their limbs were broken, they were exhausted, and they bled profusely, unable to stop until they died. Ultimately, they became dancing corpses, disappearing into the pitch-black night.
According to eyewitness testimony, a woman who looked very similar to the famous potion master Mi Funa was the source of these strange footsteps and songs, and was also the initiator of this never-ending dance.
Her body showed obvious signs of decay, but she was still able to move freely, making her suspected to be a lich or other undead creature.
She manipulated those innocent people in some unknown way.
The knights of the kingdom tried their best, even using force to restrain those dancing, but they were unable to stop this strange dance. Those controlled were so powerful that even with their limbs broken, they would continue to dance with their remaining limbs.
By the time the High Priestess of the Moon Worship Cult, Annina, used purification magic to force back the Alchemy Master, who had been dead for several years, thirty-three people were confirmed dead. These bodies eventually disappeared along with 'Mi Funa'. Another twenty-seven injured people were successfully rescued and sent to the cathedral for treatment.
In addition to having their eyeballs gouged out and suffering fractures of varying degrees, the injured have lost a large amount of soul energy and are still in critical condition.
According to the investigation of the great magician Mebucha Huntington, the tomb where Mi Funa was buried was empty, Mi Funa's body mysteriously disappeared, and no traces were left on the outside of the tomb or the coffin.
However, inside the coffin lid, a "waning moon eye" was found, created by scratching with fingernails. Upon inspection, the bloodstains and fingerprints on the mark matched those of Mi Funa.
Buster quickly flipped through the summary page and the witness testimony, then hurried to the brewing workshop with the file. He happened to see Andre and Jiangyou squatting at the door, not knowing what they were doing.
"Boss! A strange case has occurred in the capital!" He shouted as he ran closer and found Andrei and Jiang You looking at the ground with serious expressions. He followed their gaze and found a burnt candle and ashes of pastries in the corner of the door. He couldn't help but ask curiously, "Hey, Boss, did you guys worship anyone last night?"
Then, his eyes fell on a line of words written in ashes. The handwriting was crooked and eerie, obviously the work of the dead.
[Be careful...Lich...]
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"So, Boss You was offering sacrifices to the deceased Miss Mi You last night." Buster drank soy milk and ate fried cakes, his mouth full. "Her ghost didn't appear at first, but when you two went out to clean up in the morning, you found that the offerings had been eaten, and there was a line of text left behind..."
"Yes." Andrei stuffed the meat pie into his mouth with one hand and flipped through the file with the other, speaking concisely.
"I think the person Miss Mi You said to be careful of shouldn't be Boss You..." Buster glanced cautiously at Jiang You who was busy in the kitchen. "After all, when Miss Mi You died, Boss You hadn't come yet..."
"Yeah." Andrei responded softly, "You don't need to tell me that."
He tapped on the file and said, "When Mi You mentioned being careful of the lich, he must be referring to Evil Eye Moon."
"Hmm?" Buster held the biscuit in his mouth and opened his clear eyes wide.
"Based on the clues we've uncovered, the members of Evil Eye Moon are clearly particularly concerned with several things: first, Evil Eye Moon's property. Evil Eye Moon is clearly a greedy, vindictive sect. Even though Baron Neumann once served them, when he greedily laid his hands on Evil Eye Moon's property, Evil Eye Moon still eliminated his entire family with the most brutal means.
"Secondly, it's about democratizing magic. Evil Eye Moon wants to maintain the order and traditions of the Delman Kingdom and still aims to win over the Delman nobility.
"Third, they were secretly researching sorcery, black magic, and immortality. Mi You was a test subject, designed, coerced, exploited, and ultimately killed by them... So what about Mi Funa? What role did she play in all this? Was she a victim, or an accomplice?"
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