Gou learns witchcraft in another world

Chapter 58 A Bad Premonition

After rejecting Smith's offer, Luo Qiu encountered no more strange or unusual things for the next ten days.

In the department store theft case, Luo Qiu found two informants and instructed them to keep an eye on the nearby black market.

Every day after arriving at work, he would clock in at the Investigation Bureau, then disappear for most of the day under the pretext of contacting an informant.

During this time, another case was reported: a wealthy woman's pet cat had gone missing.

Luo Qiu naturally wouldn't put in any effort on this kind of case. Most of the time, he stayed in the old car, letting Smith drive it from one street to another.

Luo Qiu spent most of his time studying runes.

After mastering the Lightness Technique, he also mastered the Silent Technique and Dynamic Perception in just a few days.

It allows you to reduce the sound of your breathing while hiding so you won't be detected, and it allows you to deal with moving objects more easily, which is quite good for improving combat effectiveness.

Luo Qiu had tested it; at night, hiding in the shadows, he could be approached within two meters without being noticed. Fighting the blond-haired youths, which previously required four to five moves to subdue them, now only required two moves to strike their vital points and incapacitate them.

This feeling was like he had become a martial arts master.

A simplified version of wall-running + enemy slow motion + super long breath-holding + clear vision.

Unfortunately, this was the wizard's method; he didn't have any martial arts manuals, and the moves he used were just punches and kicks.

However, at this time, he also tasted the benefits brought by his second talent.

In the twenty days since his promotion, his mana has increased by 48 points. With various expenditures, he has maintained a daily increase of about 2.5, bringing his mana to 95 points.

With 95 mana points, he can activate Lightness, Clarity, and Dynamic Vision simultaneously and maintain these abilities for over 6 minutes.

That's enough for him to deal with more than a hundred ordinary people.

However, in addition to this, the cultivation also encountered troubles.

The first thing to consider is the choice of witchcraft.

After completing the chosen sorcery, he mastered eight runes.

Sequence 1 allows for a maximum of 40 runes to be inscribed, but since he just entered Sequence 1, he only has about 21 runes available for inscription. In other words, he still has 13 runes to fill.

However, with so many rune capacities, he didn't know how to choose.

The phone had a lot of runes listed, with hundreds of them just for everyday use. But because the phone didn't store any magic spells above the third ring, he didn't dare to inscribe them randomly.

His previous speculations about the systematization of witchcraft only reinforced his belief, especially as he learned more about it. Furthermore, the clues he gleaned during the concert incident further solidified his hypothesis.

There's no such thing as free bread. Perhaps the Freedom Alliance, in distributing "cell phones," also considered screening those who squandered the opportunity and became cannon fodder, while those who seized the opportunity would be lured into becoming part of their group.

Luo Qiu was helpless in this regard. At this moment, apart from the 'life-saving' rune that he had to inscribe, he could only cautiously turn his attention to the runes required for 2nd-circle sorcery and defensive sorcery.

The selected second-circle sorcery has seven or eight runes that can be inscribed, but they won't provide immediate combat power. Defensive sorcery can only inscribe runes to form a basic mage shield, with minimal effect…

On the other hand, without the need to cultivate mana, the practice of mental meditation also yielded no good results.

The meditation method provided by the "phone" increases the daily practice rate by 0.1 during Sequence 0. However, this rate is halved to 0.05 per day during Sequence 1.

This brings the time required to advance from Sequence 1 to Sequence 2 to 400 days.

In these twenty days, he only increased his mental strength by 1 point, bringing it to 21.8.

……

wow-

A newspaper was placed on the desk with a crisp sound.

Luo Qiu raised her head, looked at the sunlight outside the window that was slowly becoming brighter, and gently exhaled.

Recently, there have been more reports of strange occurrences in newspapers. From banknotes and food disappearing without a trace, to someone suddenly becoming delirious and taking off their clothes on the street...

The Bureau of Investigation received many more death cases. Luo Qiu didn't have the data to compile statistics, but every time he passed by the autopsy room, it was never deserted.

This is good news, indicating that his days of taking advantage of the chaos are numbered.

In addition, there was something in today's newspaper that bothered him.

The Leap Jewelry Exhibition ended yesterday, and today, the jewelry will be transported away.

To be honest, after paying attention to this matter for so many days, receiving this news was unexpected for him.

Was Mr. Moran just joking?

Luo Qiu felt the business card in his pocket; it was still taut, but the name on it seemed increasingly difficult to make out…

"Good morning, senior. I brought you a sandwich."

Suddenly, something appeared in front of Luo Qiu's eyes.

Wrapped in waxed paper, it exudes a warm, fragrant aroma of flour, along with a hint of bacon fat.

Smith hasn't been behaving well lately.

He wouldn't bring these things to people before, but he's been doing it for three days in a row now. Also, Smith has been arriving at the Bureau of Investigation later than him these past few days. Although his work performance remains the same...

Looking up, Luo Qiu's gaze fell on Smith, wanting to see how he was doing today.

But the next second, Luo Qiu's eyelids twitched.

Luo Qiu actually caught a glimpse of red light on Smith, right in his pocket.

This made him instantly serious.

"Smith, what happened...? It's been like this lately, do you have a girlfriend?"

Luo Qiu could detect a scent of perfume on Smith, which gave him a clue. But to his surprise, after this brief probing, Smith immediately nodded in confirmation.

"Senior, you noticed."

"Actually, I'm also conflicted. I recently ran into Miss Moran again, and then... I don't know what to do now."

"Moran!"

Upon hearing the name, Luo Qiu was startled, but then realized that Smith was referring to Martha Moran, the girlfriend of Mr. Winslow who had disappeared after the concert.

Having figured all this out, Luo Qiu's expression turned strange.

"She was very enthusiastic? You didn't refuse? Did she even give you a gift?"

"How did you know, senior...? Our relationship hasn't reached that stage yet. But when I asked Mr. Winslow yesterday, she said he had already left, and then she handed me a pocket watch, saying she wanted to get a different watch..."

As he spoke, Smith pulled a pocket watch from his pocket and recounted with a helpless expression:

"Right now, I don't know what to do. Senior, if you have experience..."

"I can't help you."

Luo Qiu refused outright. After seeing the pocket watch clearly, he no longer wanted to know anything about Smith's experiences and immediately got up to go for a walk.

Offering advice on matters of the heart is out of the question for him.

In addition, Luo Qiu increasingly felt that something was wrong with Smith, and it was best to stay away from his private affairs.

However, just as Luo Qiu got up, another voice called out to him.

"Luo Qiu, come to my office."

Looking back, he saw Lake calling him, and the other man's serious expression gave him a bad feeling.

……