Find a Troubled Girl after leaving the Guild-Chapter 352 - 203: Slumberer Beneath the Ground

When leaving the cave, the group didn’t bring much along.

The materials from the Soul devouring Spider aren’t particularly valuable. Their most essential material is the Strong Dissolving Venom, which can be used in Alchemy to produce certain specific potions.

In terms of Equipment Creation, the venom is mainly used to process some difficult-to-handle materials.

The spider’s materials themselves can only be stacked to make armor with less-than-ideal performance.

However, they can still be sold for some money, so Li Ang put these materials in a rundown small house, covering the more valuable Whiteflower Wasp material. The spider wasp’s egg sac was placed in his backpack.

The hidden location on the system map—Engineer’s Basement—isn’t far. Finding the special merchant and high-risk places was merely along the way.

Li Ang estimated the time; a round trip shouldn’t encounter anyone coming over.

As long as it’s not someone with an exceptionally rare Space Container or a Tier Nine Powerhouse who can open dimensional seams to store items, there’s no way to quickly move the materials.

So, for now, he left the materials there and led the young girls towards the hidden location, which was the key spot.

Based on the conditions on Satus Island, Spark Port, and Flashing Field, the hidden location’s returns aren’t small, which oddly fit Li Ang’s needs.

Could the hidden location be determined by the system based on my situation?

Though Li Ang had this thought, he couldn’t confirm it.

What can be obtained there will be known once they arrive.

Calming the impact brought by the battle, the young girls slowly walked together.

When they arrived near the hidden location, there were more residents here, but it also had a suburban feel. The spaces between houses were quite far, lacking developed commerce, with various scattered vehicles and cleaning tools placed outside the courtyard gates.

The spot marked by the system map was a small courtyard, with cloth seals affixed to the gate.

These seals had some years on them, with the text and insignia suggesting they were set by the Order Knights, indicating something had occurred inside. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Li Ang glanced around; no residents were looking this way, much less any curious bystanders who would directly explain the past incidents here.

He pointed at the courtyard wall and was the first to climb over.

The young girls followed suit.

Once they landed, it was just an ordinary small courtyard.

Zoe glanced around: "Is there really a treasure here?"

"Let’s check inside the house first."

The plants in the courtyard had long died, and there was only a single small house within.

Before the house and scattered in the yard were some wooden signs. After picking one up, it turned out to be a placard.

"Cormac Engineering House?" Dorothy read from one of the signs.

Li Ang held some smashed sign fragments and said: "Offering services including building demolition, home appliance repair, pipeline unclogging, Flying Airship adjustments, various designs... his business scope was quite broad."

The door and windows of the small house were also sealed.

"The Order Knights serve as the official maintainers of law and order, indicating a serious incident occurred inside, right?" ALulu speculated.

Zoe reached out to pull off the seal, but Dorothy stopped her, looking to Li Ang: "If you remove the seal and enter, won’t you feel guilty towards Lady Elaphia?"

"I will."

Li Ang replied, and then a gust of wind blew the seal onto the ground.

"What a coincidence, it got worn out with age and fell off by itself. Fate spared us from a self-contradictory decision." Li Ang chuckled.

"Smart move." Dorothy pouted.

"I don’t understand what you’re saying."

Actually, even if intruding, there wouldn’t be serious consequences. Based on Li Ang’s understanding of the Order Knights, they would guard important places for a long time, at least sealing them with Magic Rune seals.

This place only had ordinary seals, implying that at least on the surface, it was a routine event.

Li Ang pushed open the house door, and the smell of oil hit them.

Andasu looked up; she hadn’t contributed during the earlier fight and was now dispirited.

Yet, it was a familiar scent, which relaxed her a bit, her ears just slightly raising.

Though many years had passed, the oil smell lingered, indicating the homeowner truly filled the small house with related items. Upon entry, various machines and tools of indistinct Purpose were visible.

On the floor inside the house was a human-shaped outline made with white powder.

Li Ang wasn’t trained in trace detection, yet by carefully observing, he saw some faint dark splatter marks.

"What is this?" Zoe asked.

Li Ang turned to see the four all looking puzzled.

"It indicates this might be a murder scene."

"Huh?"

The young girls didn’t understand the drawing marking the spot where the victim lay.

Li Ang knew from his Earth memories, but imagining Nebis beyond the Holy City and bustling cities, which might lack even law enforcement, somewhere akin to medieval development, it wasn’t surprising they had no concept.

Explaining the situation to them, Zoe asked: "So the homeowner was murdered here?"

"Highly possible."

Dorothy crossed her arms and sighed: "If I didn’t trust our leader, I’d be doubting the truth of your supposed treasure map."

"Small deviation, don’t sweat it."

Compared to the previous Island Heart World, the city’s underlayers, and Drakegrave Hollow, this murder scene indeed had a drastically different style, which Li Ang hadn’t anticipated.

He initially thought it might be some gang’s treasure spot or a certain organization’s warehouse.

"If you date other girls in the future, don’t bring them to a place like this, okay?"