Chapter 663: Reconnaissance Tool

Taking advantage of the lunch break, Lu Mian used the excuse of going to the washroom to circle around to the front of the yellowish-brown house rebuilt by "Siso" Tevanaco.

After passing through the vacant, wall-less ground floor along the wooden stairs, he took out a new half-length wire and pried open the door.

This floor was in a state of being completely opened up, leaving only pillars. Looking at it, it was very spacious and quite crude.

Stepping on the wooden floor, Lu Mian circled around once, only finding traces of long-term vacancy, and found nothing worth further investigation.

Suddenly, a voice came from behind him:

"Is there a problem here?"

This voice came from Camus Castilla, who had seen Lu Mian enter the house rebuilt by Tevanaco from the restaurant window, so he also found an excuse to leave the dining table and ran over here.

Lu Mian was not surprised or unexpected at all as he looked around and said:

"No."

While speaking, he climbed the stairs to the third floor.

Camus sighed silently and followed.

He felt that when he was with Louis Berry, his mentality had aged a lot, like someone of the age of Vice Captain Reyasa.

"Mother Goddess of Earth," I'm not even twenty-four yet!

Although I came to Matani State when I was just over eighteen, joined the Patrol Force, handled many supernatural events, participated in many dangerous battles, and accumulated rich experience, I am still just a young man, a young man who is lazy and doesn't pay attention to his appearance in daily life!

With a heavy, vigilant mentality, Camus followed Lu Mian and walked through every room on the third floor twice, looking through all the items.

"There's nothing discordant." After putting down a pen holder in his hand, Camus stated his judgment to Lu Mian.

Lu Mian also had no gains.

He thought for a moment and said:

"Wait, bring Colobo over and ask if there are any areas here that make him feel uneasy, feel dangerous, or feel uncomfortable."

We've only cooperated once, and you're already skillfully applying Colobo's specialness... bringing Colobo here... how does it feel like a police officer from the police headquarters asking a certain police officer to bring a police dog... Camus complained a few times and nodded:

"Okay."

Lu Mian, while re-examining the surroundings, was thinking, "Wait, bring Ludwig over too and ask if there is any special scent of ingredients."

He and Camus returned to the restaurant and continued to enjoy the roasted beef, roasted chicken wings, roasted snake meat, roasted spiders, roasted blood-sucking worms... with complex and rich spice flavors, along with "Guadal" beverage.

After eating and drinking his fill, Lu Mian held Ludwig's hand and brought him to the house of "Siso" Tevanaco. Camus, Lugano, and Colobo, who was wearing sunglasses and walking sideways like a crab, followed closely behind.

After walking through every corner here again, Lu Mian looked at Ludwig and asked with a smile:

"Is there anything delicious?"

"No." Ludwig shook his head.

Lu Mian immediately took this little boy down to the second floor, looked at Colobo, who had suddenly turned his back to him, and Camus beside him, and asked:

"Do you have any special feelings?"

The thin Colobo hesitated for a moment and said:

"This house is a bit cold, which makes me uncomfortable."

"Specifically, which location?" Lu Mian asked with a calm expression.

Colobo answered very concisely:

"All of it."

The whole house, and even this piece of land, has some problems? "Siso" rebuilding his former home definitely wasn't for nostalgia and memory. He wasn't the original owner of the body and shouldn't have much affection for this place, and he was a true "Cold-Blooded One"... Lu Mian thought for more than ten seconds and said to Lugano, Camus, and the others:

"You guys guard against accidents here."

He himself returned to the third floor of the house and lay down on the wooden bed that had traces of a human having slept there.

Crackle, crackle, large, black mosquitoes flew over, but one after another were ignited in the flickering sparks, turning into charred corpses and drifting to the side of the bed.

Lu Mian quickly entered a state of deep sleep.

In a daze, he slowly woke up.

Slap! Lu Mian took out the gold-cased pocket watch from the Breeze Ballroom, pressed it open to take a look, and muttered to himself in a low voice:

"Slept for about two quarters of an hour, didn't have any special dreams..."

He had always felt that the "Dream Festival" should be related to dreams, so he deliberately slept in "Siso's" house, but nothing happened.

Looking at the noon sunlight shining through the window, Lu Mian stood up thoughtfully:

Could it be that the time point is wrong?

Must one sleep at a specific time and in a specific place to have a chance to participate in the "Dream Festival"?

Therefore, the vast majority of people in Tizamo Town are unaware of the existence of the dream festival...

When Lu Mian returned to the spacious but crude second floor, he found that there were three more people beside Camus and the others.

One was a man in his thirties with some oil paint patterns on his face. He had light brown skin, thick lips, and a fairly clean face. His black hair hung down to his shoulders, and a relatively strong, pungent smell came from his body. One was a young woman wearing deep leather armor, her brown hair divided into two strands and draped down, her skin was light brown, and her features had a wild beauty. On her back, she carried a hunting bow and a leather bag for arrows.

There was also a man who was dressed similarly to Camus and the others, wearing a shirt and thin trousers. He was tall, over 1.9 meters, and looked like he was from the Feysac Empire, with short light-gold hair and light-blue eyes. His face was not lacking in traces of being exposed to the sun and rain.

"They are my colleagues and Colobo's, members of the Tizamo Town Patrol Force." Camus made the introduction.

He pointed to the man with white oil paint patterns on his face and said:

"Local Patrol Force Captain Maslow.

"His teammates..."

Camus turned to look at the wild woman carrying a hunting bow and arrows and the Feysac man and said:

"Rhea.

"Loban, used to be an adventurer."

He used Intis language throughout.

Finally, Camus said to the three local Patrol Force members:

"This is the great adventurer Louis Berry.

"The other two are his assistant and godson."

"Great adventurer..." Maslow repeated this term and cast his gaze toward Loban.

The Feysac man Loban shook his head, indicating that he had not heard of him.

Maslow withdrew his gaze and asked Lu Mian:

"Are you here to hunt?"

Tizamo Town has had a history of several decades as the favorite hunting ground for those gentlemen in Port Pylos. There is no lack of people in the town who have mastered Intis language, and the Patrol Force members transferred from outside have requirements for language, otherwise how would they handle the requests of gentlemen?

Lu Mian answered with a smile:

"You could say that."

Hunting "Siso's" legacy and hidden problems is also a kind of hunting.

Camus saw that Maslow and the others all showed skeptical expressions and hurriedly explained:

"Do you remember the telegram sent last night?"

"You mean..." Rhea, carrying the hunting bow and arrows, couldn't help but look at Lu Mian again.

Clearly, she and Maslow and the others had just arrived and hadn't had time to communicate the detailed situation with Camus and Colobo, and the information that the telegram could carry was limited.

Camus nodded solemnly:

"Mr. Louis Berry is here to investigate what problems are hidden behind Tevanaco."

He then used the excuse of checking the house again to take the three local Patrol Force members upstairs.

Lugano poked his head to look at the stairs and asked Colobo, who was facing away from them:

"There's a local Patrol Force in Tizamo Town?"

According to his experience, in small cities similar to Port Pylos in the Northern Continent, surrounding towns and villages should not have official Beyonder squads stationed there. It is basically a mode of sending people to handle problems when they arise.

Colobo, facing away from Lu Mian and Ludwig, answered tremblingly:

"Most other towns don't, but this place is special. We often encounter attacks from primitive tribes. Not only did our Patrol Force split a squad to be stationed here, but the General's Guard also has Beyonders in the military camp outside the town."

Lugano looked at this strange official Beyonder who was a part-time coachman and asked with difficulty-concealed curiosity:

"Why are you always facing away from us and wearing black sunglasses?"

Is there something wrong with your eyes, and you don't want others to find out?

Colobo fell silent instantly, not knowing whether to answer this question.

Just then, Camus led Maslow and the others back to the second floor of the house.

When looking at Lu Mian again, the eyes and expressions of Maslow, Rhea, and Loban were much more solemn.

Lu Mian smiled and asked in a relaxed manner:

"Have there been any abnormalities in this house?"

"No." Maslow had already recalled the relevant details.

Lu Mian nodded slightly and said:

"You were transferred to Tizamo Town after the attack last year?"

He remembered that the incident file mentioned that the three Beyonders stationed locally all died in that primitive tribe attack.

"Yes." The former adventurer, the Feysac man Loban, answered in a rough voice, "It's been almost a year. It's very quiet here, and we haven't been attacked again."

According to records, there were two or three attacks by that tribe in the primitive jungle every year for so many years before... The response of General Queralir sending additional Guard members and affiliated troops made that primitive tribe not dare to take risks and really retreated into the depths of the jungle? Or, did the prank of the "April Fool's Day" cause some changes? Lu Mian perceived a trace of abnormality.

After communicating for a while, Lu Mian prepared to take Ludwig and Lugano to the hotel to check in.

Maslow stepped forward a few steps and took out two things from the small leather bag hanging from his waist.

One was a brownish candle, and the other was a small glass bottle containing light yellow liquid.

"Mosquito-repellent candle and calming essential oil, I hope you can have a good sleep." Maslow said in Intis language with a foreign accent.

Camus helped add:

"He means that this place is close to the primitive jungle, and there are mosquitoes and poisonous insects flying everywhere. Although you are Beyonders, if you are accidentally bitten, it will also be very uncomfortable, and you won't be able to sleep peacefully, always being bitten awake.

"The mosquito-repellent candle is made from plants that those mosquitoes don't like, and the calming essential oil comes from certain animals. Both can make those damn, buzzing guys not want to find you."

Speaking of this, Camus, Maslow, Rhea, and the others suddenly discovered that there was not a single mosquito in the entire second floor.

Lu Mian turned his head to look at Ludwig and took the candle and essential oil with a smile.

Then, he pinched his nose lightly, confirming that the pungent smell on Maslow and the others all came from the calming essential oil.

After Lu Mian, Ludwig, and Lugano left Tevanaco's house, Maslow looked at Colobo, who was always facing away from everyone, and asked in Dutan language:

"What's wrong with you?"

ps: Thanks to friend freyjun1552 for the Silver Alliance reward~

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