Chapter 428: Has the border city been infiltrated by demons?

Walking into the government hall of the Border City Government Office, Ryan saw at first sight a red-haired man with a resolute face and wearing armor sitting in the first seat handling government affairs.

Hearing the noise, the man raised his head and a smile appeared on his red bearded face: "You are Grand Duke Ryan, right? Please take a seat!"

Ryan nodded slightly and sat down at a random place, while Yazhi stood obediently beside Ryan.

"Ms. Yazhi, right? Please take a seat too!"

From the fact that he handled government affairs in a suit of armor, it can be seen that after the previous city lord arranged by Fina was assassinated, this city lord became very vigilant.

He had also heard of Ryan's reputation, so when Ryan arrived, he felt like he had seen a savior.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Hullen Olcott, and I am the younger brother of Duke Fina."

Hu Lun scratched the back of his head and smiled innocently.

"Dean Fina's...brother?"

Yazhi, who was sitting next to Ryan, looked at Hu Lun's face, which looked like a middle-aged man, and couldn't help but whispered in Ryan's ear: "My lord, how old is Dean Fina?"

Ryan was also a little hesitant: "If I remember correctly, he should be only thirty years old..."

"Haha, I just grow up fast. I'm only twenty this year."

Although he didn't hear the conversation between Ryan and Yazhi, Hu Lun guessed most of the content and quickly began to explain.

"Oh……"

Ryan suddenly realized and nodded: "Does Fina have a grudge against you? Not only did she arrange for you to stay in this poor and remote place, but she also specially chose this time to arrange for you to come here."

"No no!"

Hu Lun waved his hand quickly: "My sister and I have a very good relationship. I volunteered to take the position here this time. After all, it is not appropriate to let someone else be the mayor at this time, and that force does not seem to want to tear its face with the Olcott family for the time being. It is just right for me to take charge."

"Well... let's get straight to the point. When was the last time someone went missing?"

Seeing that Ryan didn't say any more nonsense, Hu Lun also sat up straight and said seriously: "The most recent one was two days ago. The missing citizen was a peddler. I didn't rush to investigate. I just kept the scene and some items related to the missing person."

"Smart, just take me to the scene."

Hearing Ryan praising him, Hu Lun smiled naively, scratched the back of his head, stood up and said, "Grand Duke Ryan, please follow me."

A quarter of an hour later, Hu Lun, Ryan and Yazhi arrived at a simple house.

There is a stall in front of the house.

"This merchant has no wife or children, and makes a living by selling dragon eggs. Recently, the economy of Border City has improved, and his income has gradually become considerable."

Arriving at the stall, Hu Lun began to describe the situation of the missing person to Ryan.

In order to avoid attracting attention, Hu Lun did not bring any guards.

But with Ryan here, why would I need to bring guards?

"It happened at noon two days ago. There were about seven or eight people lining up in front of the vendor's stall. The vendor had sold out his earth dragon eggs and went back inside to get more."

Having said this, Hu Lun paused, his expression became a little strange, and continued:

"About a quarter of an hour later, the people who were queuing in front of the stall saw that the vendor had not come out for a long time, so several people who were familiar with the vendor went into the house to look for him, but found that the vendor had disappeared."

"You mean, not only did the disappearance happen during the day, but it also happened under the eyes of seven or eight civilians? The interval between returning to the house and disappearance was less than one minute?"

Ryan pinched his chin and led Yazhi into the house.

The space of the house is very small, and the whole view can be basically seen from the door. The only blind spot is a partition.

Ryan walked into the compartment and found it was full of sweet potatoes. There was also a half-filled basket in front of the pile of sweet potatoes.

By the way, sweet potatoes are actually earth dragon eggs.

There was no sign of disorder or struggle at the entire scene.

After observing the area for a while, Ryan found that there was no back door or other special passages here.

After the observation was almost complete, Ryan asked Hu Lun, "What's the physique of the vendor?"

"He is rather thin, but he is quite strong. After all, he can carry a basket outside the city every day to dig for dragon eggs."

After understanding the situation, Ryan asked Yazhi again: "Yazhi, can you kidnap such a person without using magic and without alerting anyone when there are seven or eight people guarding the door?"

Yazhi shook her head without thinking: "It is definitely impossible to do it without alerting anyone."

If even Yazhi can't do it, then it must be magic.

Ryan squatted down, took out two sweet potatoes from the basket, and used magic to examine them, but did not find any other traces of magic.

I checked other sweet potatoes one after another, but still found no clues.

Ryan had no choice but to look at the pile of sweet potatoes beside him and sighed, "Let's go find it!"

Hu Lun was puzzled: "Grand Duke Ryan, what are you looking for?"

"Find the red...earth dragon egg that the merchant touched before he disappeared. As long as it is contaminated with a trace of magic, I can detect it, but this is just a matter of luck."

Ryan asked as he turned over the sweet potatoes, "By the way, you said you had found some clues about the demons before. How did you find them?"

"Ah, it was discovered by a magician at the scene of a missing person's disappearance. However, there was only a trace of it, and it disappeared very quickly. The magician even thought it was an illusion."

After hearing what Hu Lun said, Ryan was confused about the situation and could only continue to touch the sweet potatoes helplessly.

Finally, his hard work paid off, and Ryan soon detected a trace of magical fluctuations on the edge of a sweet potato.

Ryan closed his eyes and carefully analyzed the magic power, and finally determined the identity of the perpetrator in his heart.

It’s the demon clan!

Standing up with the sweet potato in his hand, Ryan turned to Hu Lun and nodded: "It's not an illusion, it's definitely a demon."

Hu Lun showed a happy expression: "Does that mean we can definitely catch him?"

Hearing this, Ryan shook his head: "I'm not sure, I can only try."

After saying that, Ryan closed his eyes again, and following the magic fluctuations on the sweet potato, he instantly covered the entire border city with detection magic.

As soon as the detection magic was released, Ryan's heart suddenly shuddered.

The entire border city, from the streets to every corner, is filled with such almost imperceptible fluctuations of magic power!

Has this been infiltrated by the demons? !

Ryan calmed down and carefully explored several places where the magic fluctuations were relatively strong, and finally decided on two.

It's said to be quite strong, but in fact it's about the same as the sweet potato in Ryan's hand...