"The guard responsible for guarding the supplies reported to me for the first time that a small bag of jaggery was missing from the temporary warehouse. I didn't pay attention at the time... I thought he had remembered it wrong, or that the bag of jaggery had been left behind during the march."

Several wooden chairs were placed in the open space next to the carriage camp. Everyone sat on their chairs and formed a circle. Charlotte reported the abnormal situation in the camp to His Highness Randall.

The blond female knight lowered her head in shame. She did not realize that alchemy humans were meticulous in their work and would count supplies several times every day. The guard reported that a small bag of raw sugar was missing from the temporary warehouse. It must have been lost in the camp, and it was from that day.

Things that happened.

The expeditionary force carries a large amount of jaggery, and it doesn’t matter if there is one more bag or one less bag. However, if the expeditionary force’s camp is invaded, and the other party can steal things without anyone noticing under everyone’s care, that is extraordinary.

Average.

Charlotte pursed her red lips and continued to introduce to Victor: "In the next ten days, there were 6 incidents of missing items in the camp. Almost every other day something would disappear inexplicably. Lost items

Including sugar, salt, coffee, fresh fruits, wine, preserves and condiments... We found that something was wrong in the camp, but we did not conduct a large-scale search. Instead, we pretended that nothing happened and observed in secret, hoping to find the thieves.

.”

Victor couldn't help but have a funny look on his face, and said in a relaxed tone: "You thought the thieves in the camp were Bertina and Caligula, and you deliberately allowed them to play."

Everyone also laughed, but their smiles were a little embarrassed and frustrated. Charlotte explained: "The theft happened after Bell and Aka came back. We all mistakenly thought it was a prank by them and didn't take it seriously.

superior."

"How were the suspicions of Aka and Bell removed?"

"On the twelfth day of the theft incident, Aka's most precious spice bag and iron pot were stolen. He searched everywhere anxiously, and then cried loudly and sadly... We interrogated Bell, but her guard confirmed that she

I was playing by the river behind the camp at the time, so it couldn't have been stolen by her."

Charlotte paused and said seriously: "Aka himself couldn't find his lost items. Only then did we realize that there were intruders in the camp."

She glanced at Victor and emphasized: "A very scary intruder."

Victor was silent for a moment, looked at Nelson, and asked: "My commander, how did you handle this matter?"

Nelson habitually touched the back of his head and said in a deep voice: "I still pretend that nothing happened. I stopped practicing the secret method of Portanos myself so that I would not lose my perception. Then the guards and I

Guarding the warehouse together..."

Seeing that Nelson remained silent, Victor sat up straight in surprise and asked, "Have the supplies in the warehouse been stolen under your nose?"

Nelson shook his head and said depressedly: "My own tent was visited by thieves, and a fine gold knife and a silver spoon were lost."

Victor couldn't help but gasp. Although the thing Nelson threw was small, the thief could avoid his ambush and touch his tent. It was definitely not something ordinary people could do. The other party's psychic perception must be at least stronger than Nelson's.

Only Erson will do.

Victor thought for a while, shook his head and said: "Nelson, there are outsiders invading the camp, and you still have to ambush quietly... This is not like the style of the Bear of the North."

Nelson glanced at Dane next to him out of the corner of his eye, and what he meant was: This guy taught me to do this.

Dane smiled bitterly and said: "I don't believe that there was an invasion by foreign enemies. I think it was our own fault... Lord Nelson also didn't believe that enemies could sneak into the camp, so he followed my advice and downplayed the matter. Your Highness

, you know, some people, in special circumstances, in order to relieve stress, will engage in some weird behaviors that are different from usual, such as stealing. Moreover, the things lost in the camp are ordinary supplies. If we make a big fuss about this trivial matter,

It wouldn't be good to find him and make him lose face, right?"

Dane suspected that there was a "house thief" in the team, which was a reasonable guess. No wonder Nelson and Charlotte adopted his advice.

There are four gold-level Argonians stationed in the expeditionary camp. Most of the remaining two hundred or so people are alchemy militiamen with a perception attribute of 15 or above. There are also alchemy dragon lizards, alchemy war mastiffs and bear dogs everywhere.

Patrolling. In addition to the Razorbeasts trained by Imerson, Philip II and Philip III - these unnatural alienated monsters are naturally hungry for flesh and blood and are particularly sensitive to living things. They can even dig up horned frogs hiding underground.

Come out and eat.

From Victor's perspective, the expeditionary force's perception method is three-dimensional and rigorous. Suppose he personally sneaks into a camp with the same conditions and commits theft, the possibility of not being discovered is extremely slim.

Victor looked at Charlotte again and saw her gently nodding.

There were two sword-wielding maids in Nelson's tent. They had received the strictest training in sleeping, and they had to take turns to be vigilant while their master slept. Charlotte apparently questioned them afterwards, if Nelson's sword-wielding maids

If it's not a "house thief", then there really is an intruder in the camp.

The "foreign thief" can steal things from the sword-wielding maid, and he can poison or assassinate family members who are unconscious due to practicing the secret method of Portanos.

That's why Charlotte said that the intruders in the camp were very scary.

Nelson said angrily: "Stealing things from my tent is an act of provocation. I don't care who the thief is, and I conducted a comprehensive search of the entire camp... There were no footprints, no smell, nothing. Just

It seems, there seems to be a ghost wandering around the camp...but I can't feel it, and neither can Aka."

Victor turned back to Laila behind him and asked, "What about you? Don't tell me, you didn't do anything."

The master's accusation was harsh. The dragon maid Laila pursed her charming red lips and said aggrievedly: "The things lost are not my king's treasures...the same treasures that my king asked me to guard."

Nothing is lost."

"Charlotte asked us for help. Our sisters searched carefully and couldn't find the thief." The dragon maid Fulgeri added next to her.

Charlotte nodded in approval and said: "The sisters searched an area of ​​300 square kilometers, but unfortunately we couldn't find any clues. In the next few days, we set up traps, but the thieves did not touch the food in the traps at all.

Instead, crystal lanterns, ropes, shovels, scissors and other tools were lost one after another in the camp.”

Laila suddenly thought of something, so she took out the Hydra Orb from her waist pocket, held it in her delicate white hands, and looked at Victor eagerly, indicating that the treasure she was guarding had not been stolen.

The Argonians have the talent of hindsight of the dragons. If the treasure they guard is stolen, they can use the ability to look back into the past to locate the thief and the treasure, and then chase the thief to death. However, the taste of the Argonian maids is not that simple.

A bit of food and tools were marked as "the Dragon King's treasure", and the personal belongings lost by others had nothing to do with them.

Mei Wen blinked her charming blue eyes and said, "I'll go find Bell..."

Belle is also the "treasure of the Dragon King", and Mei Wen wants to use Belle to prove that they have not slackened on their guarding duties. Victor smiled bitterly and shook his head, stopped Mei Wen, and told the dragon maids: "You all go back to the car and wait for me.

"

"Yes." The four sisters of the Dragon Maid said in unison.

When their tall and graceful figures disappeared into the carriage house, Victor wrinkled his slender sword-like eyebrows and said thoughtfully: "Are they really ghosts?"

As His Highness Randall asked himself, the atmosphere suddenly became cold and strange. Nelson and Charlotte seemed to have the same idea.

When encountering unexplainable situations, it is human nature to attribute the problem to ghosts and gods. However, the shepherds of the Lord of Radiance will never openly support the rumors of the terror of the undead. Dane said firmly:

"The naturally occurring undead have no support and cannot survive forever, unless the wizard gives the undead a carrier of parasitism through witchcraft. Even so, the undead will not exist for long because they are all maintained by the wizard's magic power, and the wizard's magic power is

It is limited and it is impossible to control the undead all the time. Moreover, even if ghosts can steal things, they must show up when they take the items and will be hit by others, otherwise the ghosts will not be able to pick up anything. In addition, what about the stolen items?

?Ghosts don’t need food, they don’t need water... they don’t need anything. Those who need these supplies are the people who control the ghosts.”

Victor nodded and asked, "Pastor, what do you think of these thefts?"

After Dane pondered for a moment, he raised his head and said: "I still think the problem lies within the camp... I suspect it is Bell, because His Highness said she is a little wizard, but she has never shown her witchcraft ability. If she is a mental wizard,

Maybe she can manipulate others to help her steal some items... Of course, when the little wizard awakens his talent, most of them don't know what is going on? I mean, Bell may be unintentional. She uses witchcraft in her dreams.

, but I have no evidence.”

He wore anaconda skin armor specially made by the Randall family, and a gray priest's robe on the outside. This simple outfit very eye-catchingly highlighted his identity as a shepherd.

In the realm of devils, wizards and the undead, priests undoubtedly have the most authoritative right to speak. In fact, 99% of undead incidents in the human kingdom are related to wizards. Naturally, there are also many undead, but their activity time is very short.

The souls of the undead disappear naturally without the person involved feeling it, and there is no need to ask a priest to expel them.

Dane has no actual experience in dealing with the undead, but it does not affect his authority. At least in the eyes of Nelson and Charlotte, the priest's views should be accurate.

Charlotte has a delicate mind and has a noble master behind her. She does not completely believe Dane's statement. She asked cautiously: "Your Excellency Dane, can't you tell whether Bell has awakened to witchcraft?"

"I can't answer this question." Dane spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders. Facing Lady Charlotte's question, he put on an indifferent attitude. He was not afraid of Charlotte being angry or being ridiculed.

Because he told the truth.

At the beginning, His Majesty the Pope personally used True Sight to examine the source of Bertina's disease. However, even the Pope was unable to detect Bell's identity as a wizard, let alone a fifth-level priest?

Dane believed that Lord Miller, the Glory Waiter, had made some arrangement for Belle to hide her identity as a wizard; he also believed that His Highness Randall, who was extraordinarily intelligent, must know about Belle's special features. Whatever Lord Miller told His Highness,

Or maybe it was something your Highness thought of himself.

Sure enough, when Charlotte was about to raise her eyebrows, Victor held her slender and soft jade hand and asked: "When was the last time it was stolen?"

Charlotte smiled lightly at her beloved owner and replied: "The afternoon before yesterday, the guard reported that two dried prairie grouse were missing. Aka was the first to run over and look for them, but unfortunately he couldn't find them."

Victor stretched out his slender fingers, rubbed his eyebrows, and sighed: "Is this the work of an intruder or a 'house thief'? This matter must be investigated... Dane, do you have any good ideas?"

Dane thought for a while and tried to say: "I think we can send someone to keep an eye on Bell, and also ask His Highness and four ladies to search outside the camp. If it was an intruder, he just stole the wind chicken at noon the day before yesterday, and he should not have escaped.

How far."

Victor stood up immediately, nodded and said: "Okay, without further ado, the dragon maid and I will go out to search the camp to see if we can catch the thief, but Laila wants to stay... I will leave the search work here to the camp.

Dane is in charge."

Soon, Victor left the camp with three dragon maids and searched in different directions for possible clues left by the intruders. Dane followed Victor's instructions and sent Bertina to the carriage house and handed her over to Xia.

Lot and Laila took care of him. Then, he wandered around the camp and inadvertently came outside Imerson's tent.

Philip II, III and a group of razor beasts lay sleeping on the grass around the tent. The two alien beasts were like two hills, giving people a strong sense of oppression even if they lay motionless. Dane involuntarily slowed down and cautiously

He walked through the gap left by the alienated beast, approached the tent, and called softly: "Imosun, Imogen, are you there?"

The wizard of the Randall family bent over and emerged from the tent, followed by two beautiful sword-wielding maids with slim waists and long legs. As soon as he saw the military chaplain, he greeted the military chaplain enthusiastically: "Dane,

You're here...well, Bell, how is she?"

Dane glanced at him and joked: "You guys can actually give birth to such a cute daughter."
To be continued...