Wizard Earl

Chapter 201 The Cicada Awaits

"What does this have to do with the person I asked you to find?" Listening to Ryan's explanation, Connor understood that this was clearly another matter related to wizards.

"In Leicester, we found a mentally unstable old man who kept repeating incoherent ramblings. When you handed me your portrait, sir, I immediately noticed that the person in the portrait closely resembled the devil described by this old madman!" Retrieving the snake-eyed portrait Connor had given him, Ryan pointed to the snake's eyes and said in a deep voice:

"Can this old madman's words be trusted?" Connor frowned slightly and looked at Ryan, whose face was serious.

"The reason we noticed this old madman is because he was the neighbor of one of the eleven missing people. He was a normal person at first, but he went insane for some unknown reason after the disappearances. The Metropolitan Police Department interrogated him, but those officials were really incompetent and didn't care about the lives of the missing people. After a while, they just used a lame excuse like the missing people went to the New World to pan for gold to close the case!" Ryan said with a mocking smile, clearly looking down on the guys in the Metropolitan Police Department.

"You mean...?" Hearing Ryan's description, Connor narrowed his eyes, pondered for a moment, and then said:

"That's right, I suspect it's the person you asked me to find, sir. He's connected to the Leicester City disappearance case, and there's also evidence to prove my theory. When Snake Eyes went to the bakery to buy bread, the bakery owner kindly reminded him that he couldn't eat that much by himself because he bought such a large quantity, but he didn't care at all. He paid and left!" Ryan immediately confirmed Connor's conjecture and recounted another detail.

Connor tapped his fingers lightly on the table, his eyes narrowed in thought. After a moment, his attention returned to Mr. Ryan sitting opposite him, and he asked, "What else do you know?"

Ryan shook his head and said, "I know, I've already told you!"

Connor nodded slightly, gave Ryan a half-smile, and said, "You're a smart man; you know what to do!"

"The Glazer family has its own reputation. I have never met you, sir, and you have never done any business with me!" Ryan took a deep breath and said solemnly.

"Very well! I hope we won't meet again!" With those words, Connor drifted away.

Connor walked for a full half hour. Ryan, who was in the private room, took out a pocket watch from his pocket. Seeing that the hour and minute hands of the pocket watch were aligned at the twelve o'clock position, Ryan breathed a sigh of relief as if he had survived a disaster.

If Connor were here, he would immediately recognize that the pocket watch Ryan took out was a magical item that could detect mental power.

"*****, this money is getting harder and harder to earn. If I take that last three hundred gold pounds, this wizard probably won't mind killing me on the side, right? Hehe, with this six hundred gold pounds, plus the gold pounds I've saved up, I can finally retire from this dangerous business and stop licking blood from the edge of a knife..." Ryan muttered to himself with a face full of joy as he pulled out the gold pounds Connor had paid him.

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Sitting on the sofa in his rented room, Connor had a deep smile on his lips. For him, six hundred gold pounds was not a small amount, but it was not unacceptable either. The key was that he was very satisfied with the information Ryan had brought him. So, Connor, who was very satisfied, gave this information broker a big reward - spared his life!

According to Ryan's information, Connor could quickly uncover a very clear clue: Snake Eyes, by chance, used his meditation technique to find a magic stone mine. He couldn't possibly mine the magic stone himself, and since he wasn't an alchemist, he couldn't make the alchemical golems himself, and buying them would be extremely expensive. So he went to Leicester City and kidnapped eleven young men to work as miners. As a high-level wizard apprentice, Snake Eyes was already capable of fasting, so the large quantity of bread he bought was probably for these miners.

According to Ryan's information, Snake Eyes has appeared more than once around Lake Mercedes in the western suburbs of Tunguska. So, logically speaking, the magic stone mine is very likely located around Lake Mercedes. However, he did not find the magic stone mine using the magic-detecting staff. There is only one possibility: Snake Eyes set up a disguise array at the magic stone mine to block the detection waves of the magic-detecting staff.

Thinking of this, a worried look appeared on Connor's face. Although he had been able to determine the location, how to break through the disguise array and find the magic stone mine was a big problem for him. The Demon Detector Staff was the only enchanted item he could use to detect the magic stone mine. It seemed that he would have to upgrade and strengthen the Demon Detector Staff in order to find the magic stone mine.

"Chip, combined with my current alchemy knowledge, can you come up with a plan to upgrade and enhance the performance of the magic wand?" Without hesitation, Connor realized the problem and, after thinking for a while, asked his auxiliary chip.

"Beep, in accordance with the theme's will, using the Demon-Detecting Staff as a model, the probability of designing a performance enhancement scheme is as high as 67%, and the estimated time for the scheme to be completed is six days and twelve hours!" A clear, cold female voice from the chip echoed in Connor's mind.

"Excellent, mission commence!" Satisfied with the 67% success rate, Connor issued the start command to the auxiliary chip. However, at that moment, Connor was completely unaware that in a house in Tunguska City, a beautiful woman in a turquoise robe was muttering to herself, "Lake Mercedes? Snake Eyes, my good senior brother, it seems you've really discovered something extraordinary. Mr. Erickson? I didn't expect someone to beat me to it. Well, I wish you good luck then. After all, I don't understand magic arrays. In return, once I find the magic stone mine, I'll let you die a quick death!"

With a few words, this beautiful woman in a jade-green robe seemed to have already decided Connor's fate, who was using the alias Erickson. She was clearly very satisfied with her decision. She casually glanced at a corner of the room, where several small, jade-green snakes were gnawing on a mangled corpse. Although the corpse's face was a bloody mess, it was still vaguely recognizable as Ryan, who had just completed his deal with Connor…

(End of this chapter)