After taking the black cat home, Ahes treated its wound with alcohol and tied a bandage.
After placing a raw fish next to it, Ahes returned to his room and summoned the Book of Ashes.
"At that time, something similar to a trial appeared after a drop of blood was dropped. The Book of Ashes was born with me, so I should have never conducted a trial on the Book of Ashes. Could it be that I wanted to obtain the Book of Ashes?
Do you still need to go through trials to gain all your strength?" Ahs thought to himself, biting his finger and dripping his blood on it again.
But strangely, there was no response from the Book of Ashes this time, and no illusion similar to a trial appeared in front of Ahes' eyes.
Downstairs, Rui came to the door. He wanted to open the door, but because the cat's body was too short to reach the door handle, he could only temporarily change back to his human form.
"Why, why can't you open it? Is it locked?" Ruiyi pulled the door and found that it seemed to be locked, but now there was no time to find the key. Ruiyi took out a short knife and was about to lock the door directly.
Cut off.
"Hey." A voice suddenly came. Rei was startled, turned her head, and found Ahs standing behind her.
"That's destroying private finances, Miss Reay." Ahs said with his arms crossed and looking at Reay.
Ruiyi clicked his tongue and prepared to go directly to the window and break the glass to escape, but the fog man appeared from behind Ahs and quickly stepped forward and pushed Ruiyi to the ground. This press made Ruiyi recover a little bit.
The wound opened again.
"Well..."
"If you dare to turn into a cat, we will have no room for negotiation. I will kill you directly." Ahs stepped forward and looked at Rui Yi and said, Rui Yi nodded unwillingly.
Later, Ahes ordered the fog man to tie up Rey with a rope. Ahes knew that Rey had the book of soul-changing, and if she accidentally touched her, she might change her soul.
"So, you still came to assassinate me. That black shadow and your injuries were all your fault?" Ahs asked, sitting opposite Rei.
"No, that black shadow has nothing to do with me!" Rui Yi said immediately, "It's the person who sent me to assassinate you. Whether it was the curse you encountered in the royal capital or the black shadow, it was him who caused it, as well as my injuries.
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"I'm not sure if you're acting to win my sympathy. After all, if you act like a cute girl, I might soften my heart. In this case." Ahs stood up, "I'll take some coercive measures.
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"You, what are you going to do."
Ahes did not speak, but walked up to Ruiyi and hit Ruiyi on the neck with a knife, causing Ruiyi to faint.
Then Ahs found Claire.
"This is the killer. Please use the Book of Insight to read her past." Ahs said to Claire.
"You can't just ask her directly."
"In the past, I could easily make up stories about this kind of thing. There was also an employer who hired her to assassinate me. I can't be sure whether it's true or false just by relying on what she said. It's better to rely on your insight." Ahs said.
Claire sighed and looked at Rei.
After a few minutes, Claire's pupils shrank slightly.
"It's really incredible..."
"What's wrong."
"This guy's full name is Rei Gardner." Claire looked at Ahs and said.
"Rei...Gardner? This guy's last name is also Gardner? Is it a coincidence?"
"Of course not. He is the child your father Daniel Gardner had with a female orc after purchasing orc slavery more than ten years ago."
"Huh? Humans and...orcs?"
"Don't be so surprised. Orcs are no strangers to humans under normal conditions. The slaves they buy are obedient to their masters. It's not uncommon to have that kind of relationship." Claire said, "You were not born when Daniel bought the orc, and he had a relationship with that orc.
Not long after the orc had sex, the orc became pregnant. In order to prevent this matter from being known to his wife and other family members, he drove the orc out of the Gardner family. The pregnant orc gave birth to Rey in the forest.
, Rey died when she was five years old, and Rey didn't know these things. Later, Rey was adopted by other orcs and trained as a killer." Claire explained.
"It was a really miserable childhood, but it has nothing to do with me. She doesn't even know how you figured out these things?"
"The book of insight is not essentially about retrieving memories, but the insight comes from what this body has witnessed, so even if she doesn't know, I can see that the things before she was born were also fragments of her mother's memories while she was sleeping.
If it were not so, I would not be able to see your body, which is the past of Ahes, right?"
"That's right, then, who hired her?"
"It's a guy named Breed Yerkes. That guy is the manager of a noodle shop in the suburbs. Haha, I even met him once, but this identity is probably just a cover for him to hide his true identity."
Claire shook her head and said.
Ahes walked up to Ruiyi again and took away all the daggers on her body. Ahes also found a few gold coins on her body.
"My head is really valuable. One gold coin is equivalent to several thousand karks." Ahes said, holding up the gold coin.
"Her last memory was indeed of being attacked by that employer. According to that employer, someone offered her head for twenty Kraken coins," Claire said.
"The Kraken Coin...that's the currency of Bilcost, right? One Kraken Coin is equivalent to more than 5,000 karks. Haha, it's really a waste of money." Ahs said.
, "Stop talking about that, take me to find that Breed. I would like to know why he wants to kill me so much."
However, when Claire brought Ahs to the store, it was already empty.
"Did you run away?" Ahes said, looking at the messy shop.
After some random rummaging, Ahes found the purchase record of the boat ticket in the drawer, which was for Bilcost.
"Isn't the route between Helworth and Bill Coster now closed? How can he still..."
"Smuggling ships are usually cargo ships that know the people at the port." Claire said, "Do you still want to pursue them?"
"Of course, I have to figure out why you want to kill me, otherwise I won't be able to sleep, but not now." Ahes said, "Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, I will ask Douglas to get me a boat to Belcost.