After confirming the thickness of the stone wall, Xia De did not continue to expend his own spirit to melt the stone wall with [Feilianna's Witch's Light], but took off the cloth strip wrapped around the scabbard, and inserted the [Night Watchman] into the arm to melt it. in the hole.

Take a deep breath, and draw the elements and spirit to the sword of [Night Watcher]:

"Witch's Light!"

In an instant, golden light radiated from the sword body, and the diffused light instantly melted a big hole in the stone wall. Satisfied, Shade drew back the [Night Watchman], then bent down and drilled into the space behind the stone wall through the unusually smooth hole of the gap.

The space behind the stone wall seems to have been forcibly excavated by some kind of external force, and the interior is not in a regular shape. The original users who wanted to come here only used it as a temporary base.

The total area is about three or four times as large as the inner space of the closet. After entering, Xia De squatted down immediately, and looked at the ground with the light of the sunset and dusk shot from behind. Sure enough, he found messy footprints in the thick dust on the ground.

He reached out and touched the dust on the ground:

"The dust means that no one has been here for many years. It is basically confirmed that it is the stronghold of Halder Ondiba, the previous owner of 'Arrow' more than ten years ago, or a safe house. The footprint should be fifteen It's left over from those two who visited Rust Lane a few days ago..."

He straightened his waist and squinted his eyes to look at the space behind the stone wall illuminated by the evening light. The footprints on the ground were extremely messy. Although Xia De called himself a detective, he didn't have the reasoning ability to restore the opponent's entire trajectory in such a mess of footprints.

All he knew was that the footprints belonged to two people, and these two people had stepped on almost all the ground here.

Apart from the dust, there is also a spliced ​​iron frame bed and a shelf welded with iron pipes in this small space. But there was nothing on either the bed or the shelves. But judging from the traces of dust, there should have been a mattress on the bed, and there should have been seven or eight kinds of sundries on the shelf.

Presumably, those two people who came here earlier than Xia De took all those things away.

They did more than that. When Xia De lit the light on his fingertips, he saw that there were very fine and small holes everywhere on the side walls of this narrow space, about the size of a sweater needle. After inspection, it was found that this was also a trace left recently, and Xia De immediately understood that the two were checking to see if there was any other hidden space here.

Although he didn't see that scene, Xia De could imagine one of them standing in the center of the ground, and then waved his hand to let the spikes shoot around, and then checked one by one whether those spikes penetrated into other holes.

"Are these people going to be so terrific, can you leave me some clues?"

Xia De complained in his heart dissatisfied, and then checked the only remaining iron frame bed and heavy shelf with a fluke mentality.

Both of these are metal products. Although there are some scratch marks on the surface, those marks are not passwords. It took him ten minutes to carry out a more detailed inspection, and then he had to admit that there were no clues to these two items, and the two people who arrived before him did not take these two items away, purely because they were too heavy.

"The clues are interrupted again."

The only thing Shad knows so far is that the material of the iron frame bed and the storage rack comes from the same batch of steel. The possible point left by this to Shade is to take them away, and then entrust Father Nobel to find the blacksmith in the city or a professional expert in the steel smelting industry to identify the source of this batch of steel, and then investigate the peddling of this batch more than ten years ago. The specific location of the steel is expected to be able to find clues to the next step by restoring the movement of Halder Ondiba many years ago.

Just thinking about it, Xia De knows that this is definitely not a matter that can be solved within a few days, and he has so many things in his hands now, but he has no intention of delaying the second trial of the Goddess of the Lake for such a long time:

"Although I'm not a very good detective, it's not that I don't have other investigation directions."

[What else do you think of? 】

"She" asked gently.

"I don't know whether Halder Ondiba is using this place as a pure warehouse or a temporary stronghold. But there are too few furnishings here. It is obvious that such a hidden and safe space has been created, but there is no Thinking about making more use of this place. For example, if I were the other party, I would definitely hide more daily necessities here."

Xia De looked here with his back to the sunset at the entrance of the cave:

"Even a ring warlock who came out of the Pantanal swamp would not care about his quality of life. I can't imagine any reason not to store clothes, food, or even extravagant sugar and tobacco here. The things that were originally placed on that shelf were bottles and cans, and this bed has not undergone metal deformation due to uneven force for more than ten years, so there must be nothing here that I expected. Considering , The final battle between the church and Halder Ondiba happened unexpectedly, and it was impossible for the other party to transfer the supplies here in advance, so there is a problem with this place."

【What is the problem? 】

"This doesn't look like a real stronghold, it's more like a disguise, a disguise that makes others think that this is a safe house."

Xia De twisted his neck to look at the dazzling sunlight outside the entrance of the cave. The setting sun had already reached below the horizon, and the half-yellow sun was slowly setting on the river bank. The heavy fog makes the setting sun show a strange color, and the sun will completely set in about half an hour:

"The two people who arrived earlier than me didn't know about this place because they got clues from Rust Lane. According to the white mouse, they already knew about it. That is to say, Halder Ondiba didn't strictly There is no value in keeping a secret here without a secret stronghold."

【You mean, this is not Halder Ondiba's secret stronghold at all. 】

"Yes, this is just a 'secret stronghold' he made his enemies and even his companions think."

[Knowing this, is it of any use to you? 】

"I just have an inference. This is used as a cover, so there must be a covered object, which is the real secret stronghold or safe house."

Xia De bent down from the hole, took a deep breath, and used [Breath of Time] to restore the hole melted by the witch's light.

"I have heard of a strange tomb. In order to prevent the tomb from being stolen, the owner of the tomb will set up a fake tomb on top of his own tomb and place some funerary objects. When the tomb thief digs the fake tomb and sees the funerary objects In the future, I will think that I have found the real tomb, so I will not continue to dig."

Xia De thought to himself, stepping on the mud on the river beach and looking at both sides of the river bank. The blood-sucking bug crawled out of the mud, and then burrowed into the mud again. The thick black boots were not afraid of the mud, and Xia De in winter changed his attire in time.

"It has been confirmed just now that there is no other space behind the up, down, left, right, front, back, front and back walls of this fake stronghold. So let me assume, is it possible that Halder Ondiba hid the real stronghold not far from the fake stronghold How about using the principle of 'darkness under the lights' to protect your secret?"

He put his hand on the restored stone wall, and then walked to the left. The palm of the hand was always attached to the stone wall on the river bank, and it was not until after walking 200 steps that it was confirmed that nothing was found before returning to the original point.

Then put your hand on the restored stone wall again, this time choose to go to the right. At step 129, "her" voice finally appeared:

[The traces of the elements are very thin. 】

Xia De smiled:

"Looks like I found it."

The sword was drawn and pierced into the stone wall, and the triggered defense immediately released a curse that could freeze the soul, but the curse couldn't even reach Shade's hands under the power of the angel-level relic long sword.

The long sword continued to move forward, and several green vines drilled out of the holes melted by the golden light, shooting towards Xia De's throat like a stabbing sword. They appeared silently and quickly, and by the time Shad's eyes caught the trace of green, the vines had almost touched his skin.

【Night Watchman】Actively turned his wrist to crush the vines hidden in the stone wall. Although the shot broken vine still hit Xia De, it only left a faint red mark on his neck. But the toxin penetrated into Xia De's skin, and with the violent shaking of the [Night Watchman] in his hand, large purple marks spread from the neck to the whole body.

At the same time, the light of the setting sun became dim in Xia De's field of vision. In his surprised expression, a huge and terrifying colossus appeared in the darkness. The giant statue made of countless plant residues slowly extended its "hand" to him. In the dark scene, the evil thing in Pantanal was about to...

The flames soared into the sky, and the colossus in the darkness was ignited, and then disappeared with a piercing wail. The light reappeared in the field of vision~lightnovelpub.net~ Xia De, who was in a trance, realized that he was still standing in front of the stone wall under the river bank. A hole big enough to let him pass was melted.

"Psychotoxin?"

He touched his neck with some concern, and the neck had returned to normal, and the toxin had completely subsided. [Primary Flame] did not make Shade completely immune to toxins, but unfortunately, [Primary Flame] regarded Pantanal's evil as firewood, and the toxin just now was probably Hal The toxin related to the evil body obtained by De Ondiba was directly burned.

"This person is really cautious."

Xia De sighed softly in his heart, bent down and touched the vines crushed by the night watchman with his fingers. After the fingers touched it, the resin-like amber viscous jelly liquid flowing out of the vine immediately ignited spontaneously, and burned to ashes directly in front of Shad's eyes.

He only left a small section of the poisonous vine, bottled it, and prepared to give it to Sister Devlin, which was considered a small harvest.

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