Chapter 263, 264 Queen of Roses

Rose Forest New World, Forestry Bureau.

A blue-eyed wind-winged falcon slowly slid down from the sky, converged its wings, and landed steadily on the shoulders of an old man with a Chinese character face.

The uncle with the Chinese character face was none other than Liu Tiejun, director of the Forestry Bureau of Qiangwei Town. He was also the uncle Jiang He met when he escaped from the Qiangwei Forest when he traveled through time.

"Choo Choo Choo!"

Wind Wing Falcon seemed to be telling Liu Tiejun something.

"Boss, what's going on?"

Seeing this, another tall and thin ranger next to him asked.

After something happened in the reserve, the rangers sent out their own animal guards to patrol day and night.

"No, the murderer was very cautious. He has not been seen since that night attack."

Liu Tiejun sighed.

He feels that the road to development of the beast-taming tourism industry in Rose Town is really bumpy.

The missing tourists last year have brought the burgeoning tourism industry of Rose Town to a freezing point.

After a year of development, the popularity has finally rebounded a little. As a result, another incident occurred in the reserve where the beasts were inexplicably turned into bones.

Liu Tiejun had no choice but to order a stop to all tourist visits. Although it was an iron-horned rhinoceros that turned into bones, no one dared to take this risk until the real culprit was found.

What if the next person to be attacked is a human?

"I hope the two investigators from the Supervision Bureau can find the real culprit."

The tall and thin ranger took a deep breath of cigarette and said in a low voice.

On the night of the accident, Liu Tiejun reported the incident to the Hangzhou Supervision Bureau.

The Supervision Bureau immediately sent two investigators to investigate the incident. Because no clues were found at the incident site, the two investigators set off to the depths of the Rose Forest early this morning.

"I hope so."

Liu Tiejun also sighed, but his tone showed that he didn't have high expectations for the two investigators.

"Is anyone here?"

At this time, there was a knock on the door outside the office.

Liu Tiejun opened the door and saw a young man who looked like a college student, followed by a burly man nearly two meters tall.

"Are you - Jiang He? Why are you here?"

Seeing Jiang He, Liu Tiejun's eyes were filled with emotion.

Who would have thought that the boy who just contracted his first beast a year and a half ago would now be the champion of a national competition and a genius researcher?

At that time, when he saw Jiang He coming back from the depths of the Rose Forest and contracting a moonlight elf, he felt that this kid could do it in the future and might become a powerful beast master.

I just didn't expect it to grow so fast.

"Uncle Liu, long time no see!"

Jiang He smiled and then directly explained his purpose.

"My professional animal master's practical test is to investigate the truth about the iron-horned rhino turning into bones in the protected area. Can you take me to the eucalyptus discovery site?"

Although he already had a rough guess in his mind, he still wanted to confirm it.

"Okay, you come with me."

Liu Tiejun summoned a wind wolf, mounted on the wolf's back, and began to run wildly on the grass.

Takiyue transformed into the form of Yunqiu and followed easily. Wang Meng also summoned his own beast to follow closely.

Soon, the three of them arrived at the scene of the eucalyptus discovery.

Four white skeletons over 3 meters long were displayed on the grass, surrounded by a cyan wind barrier, and above them was a wind-winged falcon with gorgeous silver feathers.

Liu Tiejun's other Wind Wing Falcon, Silver Wing.

"Choo Choo Choo!"

Seeing Liu Tiejun, the wind-winged falcon hummed affectionately twice and settled on Liu Tiejun's other shoulder.

"Meow!"

Seeing the mountains of bones, Ziyue's eyes showed sadness and anger.

It couldn't help but think of its parents.

"Investigators from the Supervision Bureau came to see it before, but the murderer didn't leave any smell or hair, and they didn't find any clues, so they set off to the depths of the Rose Forest early this morning to look for other clues."

Liu Tiejun said.

"Uncle Liu, were there any red roses next to these iron-horned rhinoceros skeletons?"

Jiang He suddenly asked.

"Rose flower? Probably not. On the night of the accident, after I heard the screams of the iron-horned rhinoceros, I rushed to the scene with my beast as soon as possible. I didn't see any other creatures, but these four iron-horned rhinos The rhinoceros had turned into white bones, and then I asked Silver Wing to seal off this area with a wind barrier."

"What? Do you suspect it is the Queen of Roses?"

Liu Tiejun took a deep breath and asked.

He actually had doubts about the Queen of Roses.

To be able to swallow the flesh and blood of four iron-horned rhinoceroses in such a short period of time, and to be able to float away under his nose, must be an extraordinary creature that can command a high-level or above.

The only one nearby with such strength is the Rose Queen deep in the Rose Forest.

However, Queen Rose has always had a friendly attitude towards humans. When the new world was developed a long time ago, Queen Rose took the lead in signing a friendship agreement with human beast masters.

Over the years, things have been going smoothly.

In addition, the Queen of Rose did not seem to be a carnivorous beast, so Liu Tiejun quickly gave up his doubts.

"It's just speculation at this point."

There were no roses next to the corpse, which surprised Jiang He a little.

But it doesn't matter, he can still pass the synesthesia verification.

Synaesthesia is a magical skill for detecting the real murderer!

As long as the spirit on the iron-horned rhinoceros has not completely collapsed.

Jiang He closed his eyes and extended his spiritual power outwards. There were still weak spirits on the four skeletons, which had not completely dissipated.

These four iron-horned rhinos are all warriors of the first and second levels, and their spirits can be retained for about 3 days.

"Uncle Liu, my beast control talent can see what happened not long ago. I may need to come into contact with the bones of these iron-horned rhinos next, is that okay?"

"Please."

Liu Tiejun nodded.

Jiang He then touched the animal bones, selected the last fragment of the spirit, and activated synesthesia.

The sky darkened instantly. It was night, and the moon above his head was not very bright. A dozen iron-horned rhinos appeared in Jiang He's field of vision.

In his ears were the sounds of purring one after another, like a septet of souls.

I don’t know how these iron-horned rhinos fell asleep listening to the snoring of their companions and themselves.

Suddenly, the iron-horned rhinoceros with Jiang He synesthesia felt a sharp pain in its abdomen, as if something sharp had pierced its heart!

Moo!

It wails in agony.

Also wailing like it were three other iron-horned rhinos.

In other words, the "murderer" attacked four iron-horned rhinos at the same time.

Soon, the bodies of the four iron-horned rhinos shriveled up visibly to the naked eye.

Their flesh and blood is being swallowed by some kind of existence!

Jiang He slowed down the "playback speed" and focused on the belly of the iron-horned rhinoceros. Then he saw a bright red branch.

"Master, it's the Thorn Demon!"

Jiang Yuan analyzed the results and displayed the picture of the Thorn Demon on the screen.

It was a weird tree that was 5 or 6 meters long and shaped like a willow tree. The branches were all long green strips, and each strip was covered with densely packed, extremely sharp bright red spikes.

Jiang He opened his eyes and ended his synaesthesia.

With his increased mental power, he is no longer under any pressure as a beast master at the level of a synaesthetic warrior.

He is finally worthy!

"As expected, I have nothing to do with the Queen of Roses."

The Thorn Demon can be said to be the companion beast of the Queen of Roses, or the scout beast.

Their relationship is like the queen bee and the worker bee in the hive. The Thorn Demon devours the flesh and blood of the Iron-horned Rhino, most likely to prepare food for the Rose Queen.

"Master, this Rose Queen most likely wants to take the advanced route of the bloody banshee, which requires devouring a lot of blood and life energy."

The mechanical Rubik's Cube opened its mouth and said that its database happened to contain this part of the information.

"How's it going? Did you see what attacked the Iron-Horned Rhino?"

Seeing Jiang He open his eyes, Liu Tiejun couldn't help but ask.

"It's the Thorn Demon. This matter has nothing to do with the Queen of Roses."

"It's difficult to handle. If it is really the Queen of Rose, we need to ask the master beastmaster to come forward."

Liu Tiejun said in a deep voice.

"Uncle Liu, do you know what's going on in the bloody jungle?"

After confirming the murderer, Jiang He asked Liu Tiejun again.

The second task of the actual test assessment was to investigate the bloody jungle that appeared deep in the Rose Forest.

Now Jiang He has unconsciously associated it with the Queen of Roses.

The two are most likely related!

"I'm not sure about this. The bloody jungle was first discovered a week ago. An experienced college student claimed to have discovered a scarlet jungle deep in the Rose Forest. The plants in this jungle were not flowing with juice, but with blood. "

"I didn't take it to heart at first. After all, I have been to the depths of the Rose Forest many times and have never seen the so-called bloody jungle. But later, several witnesses claimed to have seen the bloody jungle, so I took a few A ranger went to see the place and looked around, but still didn't find anything strange."

The Iron-Horned Rhino incident had already made Liu Tiejun so busy that he had no time to care about other things.

"Liu Bureau!"

At this time, a weak male voice suddenly came from the distance, and a giant four-winged bat slowly landed in front of them.

Lying on top of the purple lightning bat was a tall, thin, middle-aged man wearing a Supervision Bureau uniform. The man's body was stained with blood, as if he had gone through a fierce battle.

There was another chubby man next to him, but this fat man had lost an arm, had a big hole in his chest, his eyes were closed, and he had lost all vitality.

"Officer Ji, what's wrong with Officer Lin!?"

Seeing this, Liu Tiejun asked quickly.

There were two investigators in total, one named Lin and the other named Ji, the one in front of me.

But I didn't expect that he was fine in the morning, and now he is like this!

"Old Lin died."

The police officer surnamed Ji had tears in his eyes and said sadly:

"We went deep into the rose forest and finally found the real culprit who killed the iron-horned rhinoceros next to a small creek."

"It's a blood moon demon wolf that leads the third level. When we met it, it happened to swallow the blood essence of another wind wolf."

"Old Lin and I tried to kill it, but we didn't expect that this evil beast was extremely powerful and could recover from injuries by absorbing blood. Old Lin accidentally penetrated his chest with its claws. Fortunately, this Blood Moon Demon Wolf In the end, he was killed by me."

Officer Ji said sadly.

Liu Tiejun sighed.

He saw that Officer Ji's expression didn't seem to be fake.

But just now Jiang Heming said that the murderer was the Queen of Roses...

Liu Tiejun was actually more willing to believe what Jiang He said. It was impossible for the Blood Moon Demon Wolf, who commanded the third level, to kill and devour four iron-horned rhinos in such a short period of time without leaving a single clue.

But now that Officer Lin was dead, he couldn't say much. He could only pat Officer Ji on the shoulder and say his condolences.

"Officer Ji, where is the body of the Blood Moon Demon Wolf?"

At this time, Jiang He suddenly asked.

"Are you... Jiang He's classmate?"

Officer Ji recognized Jiang He and his expression changed slightly, but he quickly regained his composure and just said calmly:

"The battle was too fierce. The Blood Moon Demon Wolf's body was completely torn apart by our beast master, leaving only the soul crystal."

After saying that, Officer Ji took out a bloody soul crystal from his backpack.

Jiang He and Ziyue looked at each other but said nothing.

Others might be fooled.

But his synesthesia is unmistakable, which means that everything Officer Ji just said was a lie!

There is no doubt that there is a big problem with Officer Ji in front of me!

Could the death of another investigator also be related to him?

Jiang He silently guessed in his mind, but he couldn't get any useful clues if he asked again, so he didn't say anything more.

"Officer Ji, let me take you to treat your wounds first!"

Liu Tiejun said.

"No, it's just a minor injury. I have to go back quickly to report on the mission, so I'll take the first step."

Officer Ji didn't stay long. The purple thunder bat beneath him waved its wing membranes and left.

After Officer Ji left, the eyes of the three people became subtle.

"Does Queen Rose have any charm skills?"

Jiang He asked.

Officer Ji had no interaction with Queen of Rose beforehand, so it was impossible for him to take the initiative to help her conceal the crime.

So it's very possible that he was possessed by a skill like charm.

"I don't know. The Queen of Rose is quite mysterious. I have stayed in Rose Town for more than ten years and I have never seen the Queen of Rose. It is said that she is a beast in humanoid form and an extremely coquettish woman."

"Brother Wang, how about we go to the depths of the Rose Forest this afternoon?"

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Hexiang Wang Meng suggested.

He decided to go deep into the Rose Forest to check the situation, and he had a preliminary plan in mind.

"It's better... forget it. The development of things now is far beyond our control. As you said, if the murderer behind the scenes is the Queen of Roses and also kills an investigator, we will be sent away if we rush in rashly. . "I think you passed this actual test."

Wang Meng shook his head.

"I am confident that I can escape from the Queen of Rose! If the master beast master takes action, the Queen of Rose will most likely escape, and then we will be in trouble."

"Okay! If you insist on going, I will accompany you for a while!"

Wang Meng said loudly.

So after lunch at the Forestry Bureau, Jiang He and Wang Meng set off to the depths of the Rose Forest.

Liu Tiejun originally wanted to go, but he still had to inspect the protected area, so he had to give up.

In order to find clues to the bloody jungle, this time Jiang He did not ride on Takiyue's back, but chose to hike.

Soon, he and Wang Meng continued to move deeper into the Rose Forest along their original escape route.

After revisiting his old place, Jiang He's mentality changed completely.

A quarter of an hour later.

Jiang He stopped and asked Wang Meng beside him:

"Brother Wang, have you noticed anything strange?"

"Something strange? No?"

Wang Meng was a little confused.

"We walked all the way but didn't see a single living thing."

Jiang Heyouyou said.

Not to mention the beast, there is not even an ordinary bird or beast!

The last time he escaped from the depths of the Rose Forest, there were many beasts on the road.

Such a vision indicates that... something bad must have happened here!