Chapter 285: Ebony and Ivory

Squeak—

The heavy iron door covered with copper skin was pulled outward fiercely. The investigation team in the warehouse turned their heads in unison, looked in the direction of the sound, and saw Chief Ebnik standing at the door with a beer belly.

"You'd better give us a reasonable explanation, Chief." A man wearing straight-leg jeans and a brown leather jacket said with a gloomy face: "I said idlers are not allowed to enter here, right?"

"Ah this..." Chief Ebnik suddenly lost his momentum, and his previous aura disappeared without a trace. Just now, he was just thinking about investigating the case, so I have to go to the warehouse, I must go to the warehouse, no matter what, I must go to the warehouse...

This stubbornness that ten cows couldn't pull back disappeared the moment he stepped into the warehouse door. It was only then that he realized what he had just done. Chief Ebnik stood blankly at the door, and the eyes of everyone in the warehouse gathered on him. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe felt as if he had seen a certain Tiger Brother who didn't want to reveal his name standing on Shenyang Street and announcing to the passing crowd that he was a fool.

"This... clue, right, clue clue." Chief Ebnik hurriedly put down his hands and said repeatedly: "We found some messy black footprints in the water pool behind the stables. The intruder seemed to have stepped on coal, so..."

While the Chief was repeating the origin of the incident, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe scanned and quickly observed the situation at the scene.

There are 6 people in the warehouse, 4 men and 2 women, standing on the left and right sides of a small wooden table. It is a folding table, clearly not original furniture of Vanishing Castle, but brought here from the outside world.

It seems that something was placed on the folding table, but because the environment in the warehouse was dim and lacked lighting, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe couldn't see clearly what it was, so he had to turn to observe the investigation team members standing on both sides of the small table.

All four men were in their prime, including the man in the brown leather jacket, all tall and strong, while the two women standing on the other side of the table looked out of place.

The older woman wore neat suit trousers, a slim-fitting white shirt, a black waist-cinching vest, and thick-heeled long boots. She wore a tie on her chest, and her professional attire was full of heroic spirit. Her flaxen short hair reached her shoulders, and her overall temperament looked very capable, like a housekeeper.

The housekeeper also held a large black umbrella of the same style as the police officers, which had already been opened. Under the pitch-black umbrella cover, only a girl in her teens stood gracefully, with a head of seaweed-like black wavy long hair, wearing a golden iris flower on the side.

Cutting ice for bones, cutting jade for skin, this is the first time Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe has seen someone who can be described by the word 'ice muscle and jade bone' in reality without beauty filters. Her skin color was cold and white like snow, but she only wore a black pleated skirt embroidered with exquisite iris flower patterns on her graceful figure like a flower branch, and a wide black suit jacket draped over her shoulders, which seemed to have been taken off from the housekeeper.

All-black clothing made that cold white small face, which was only the size of a palm, even more striking, like the first touch of snow falling in the winter in the forest ruins burned by the late autumn fire, so fragile in its whiteness.

The moment he met the eyes of the black-skirted girl, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe instinctively looked away. Some unspeakable intuition jumped in his temples, which indicated fatal danger.

It seems she is the Ascended One sent to this place by the Freim family.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe silently examined the others in the warehouse, thinking about whether there would be a second Ascended One among these people.

At this time, Chief Ebnik finished explaining the reason for his forced entry, and then said: "I have asked two police officers to crawl into the clock tower along the drainage pipe. If you need it, I can connect their wireless walkie-talkies now, or take you to the scene to check the situation..."

"What did you say?!"

The people in the investigation team clearly knew the inside story of Vanishing Castle, and their expressions were different. However, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe noticed that the expression on the black-skirted girl's face did not change at all. She stood quietly under the umbrella, her eyes drooping slightly, as if thinking about something.

"Connect the wireless walkie-talkie immediately, I want to know where they are now." The leather-jacket man walked up quickly. Chief Ebnik connected the wireless walkie-talkie with trembling hands, and it was immediately snatched away.

When the wireless walkie-talkie was connected, the two police officers Kamak and John had already entered the complex secret passage network of Vanishing Castle. Although he was already furious, the leather-jacket man of the investigation team did not blame the two police officers, quickly asked a few questions, quickly determined their location based on the environmental characteristics described by the two, and ordered them to come out immediately.

Taking advantage of this time, the 6 members of the investigation team put away the folding table and left the underground area one after another. Chief Ebnik accompanied them with a smile and followed closely, and everyone prepared to leave the underground area.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe finally had a chance to see clearly that what was placed on the table before was a box of chess. An ebony box with 'Chu River and Han Boundary' carved on the lid.

Ivory chess pieces, carved with black and red clerical script Chinese characters.

There is no doubt that this is a set of Chinese chess, held in the arms of the black-skirted girl standing quietly by the table.

"A group of foreigners, playing Chinese chess in the warehouse?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe was confused, but he had a few points of certainty in his hand. This set of chess might be a special granted item brought here by the investigation team.

Perhaps because Van Daike's identity was not complete enough, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had no impression of granted items similar to this chess set, and had no idea what specific function it had.

Chief Ebnik with an uneasy mood, the 6 investigation team members with different feelings, and Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe with ulterior motives, walked out of the passage together and returned to the first floor of the castle.

In the reception hall on the first floor of the clock tower, the leather-jacket man unfolded the folding table again, placed it in the center of the hall, and the housekeeper holding the umbrella and the black-skirted girl holding the chess box walked to the table and rearranged the chess pieces.

At this time, two police officers, covered in dust, appeared at the door of the hall. They were Kamak and John who had just crawled out of the secret passage.

"Stop."

Just as they wanted to enter the door, they heard the housekeeper speak coldly. The 4 men of the investigation team pulled out their guns in unison, and the two had to stop in place, looking at each other and standing at the door.

At a glance, look at '

Only to see the black-skirted girl raise her hand to hold a red piece, pushing the 'pawn' in the center of the chessboard forward by 1 grid. Immediately after, the housekeeper nodded: "You can come in."

Kamak and John looked at each other, walked into the door with tied hands and feet, and the leather-jacket man pointed his muzzle at Chief Ebnik and Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, saying: "You two, go over and take off their gloves to check."

Chief Ebnik felt confused and resentful, but he had to do it. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe walked to the door without any psychological burden and smiled at police officer Kamak: "Sorry for the cooperation." Saying that, he took off the white gloves stained with a lot of coal cinder on Kamak's hands.

Kamak's hands were complete, without any obvious wounds, only a shallow scratch on the wrist, which should have been scraped when crawling through the drainage pipe.

"Chief, what's going on?" Police officer John asked while cooperating to take off his gloves, also complete, but when the Chief began to reach for John's left hand, a change occurred.

Click—

Police officer John's left arm suddenly exerted force, fiercely locking the Chief's throat, and his right hand held a gun against Ebnik's temple, roaring: "Don't move, all of you!"

At the same time, the 4 muzzles of the investigation team also pointed at him in unison.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe appropriately showed a shocked and fearful expression, raised his hands, took two steps back, and shouted: "Calm down, John, don't be impulsive!"

John is already a Chang ghost.

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