"Are you sure they're here?" One of the elves spoke with a frown on his face as they walked through the forest. This time, the ones who came to capture Zion and his master were the elf soldiers. Their power level was higher than the ordinary people, and they came here under the orders of the village chief.

Truth to be told, they had already been given word that a human who was suspected to be the murderer had appeared in the nearby restaurant. They had all seen his portrait stuck to the walls across the village. So without wasting any time, the village chief gravely ordered a few soldiers by his side to find the human and lock him up.

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But who knew that once they would approach the restaurant, they would be greeted by a disastrous scene of broken furniture and injured customers? The most shocking thing was that the human's owner was a dhampir girl who had just arrived in their village a few days ago! The latter was supposed to go against a slave in normal situations and should have sided with the government, but no! She instead went against everyone to save one worthless guy!

The village chief's blood boiled after thinking of this, and he immediately assumed that the dhampir girl must have something to do with this. Otherwise, why would she save a human?! No one cared about humans anymore. Instead, he believed she was trying to save herself!

That's why, when they had appeared in the restaurant, they were shocked and followed the trail of the Lia and Zion. They had nearly lost the two when the soldiers met with an elf villager who witnessed the scene where Lia dragged an unconscious human toward the forest area.

So currently, they investigated everything from the passerby elf and marched toward the cave faster. But since they hadn't even seen a glimpse of a dhampir girl and a human, they were a little disappointed. Some of the soldiers were even losing faith and thought that the elf villager was lying to them.

But the commander or chief soldier who was in charge of this troop did not doubt those words of the passerby. He shook his head and said, "Don't doubt that villager. I can tell when a person lies and that passerby was telling the truth. If he said we would find them in this path, we will! We just have to pick up our pace and catch them off guard!"

On the other side, Lia and Zion, who had heard the voice of footsteps just now, froze and darted their heads in that direction. Just a few seconds later, Zion listened to his 'master' cursing under her breath, and she said,. "Did they find us already?"

"We should escape." The detective frowned and packed the rest of the herbs before putting them on his belt. His shirt was still tattered into pieces. So he didn't bother wearing it anymore and grabbed the piece of cloth Lia had brought before wrapping it on his chest over the area where he had applied herbs. Although he wasn't bleeding, these herbs were still necessary to heal his inner injury.

After that, he turned to Lia and said, "This time, the people who might approach us would be stronger. So we better escape soon."

Lia nodded, and just as they were about to leave, they heard the sound of people talking.

"There's a cave!"

"Do you think they're hiding inside that cave?"

"Who knows? But we can't see any other place that could shelter them. I say they're definitely hiding there!"

"Let's get them, soldiers!"

The expressions of Lia and Zion changed all of a sudden. Without saying a word to each other, they worked with a tactical understanding and rushed deeper inside the dark cave. Still, unfortunately, even though this cave seemed bigger from the outside, it was a small empty shell, in reality, having only a little space inside.

Before they knew it, they came to an end and stood in front of the wall with pale faces. They exchanged glances. "What now?" Lia asked as if she were trying to figure out what they should do.

Zion pursed his lips and thought for a while. Ever since he had decided to take up this case, he didn't get even a second of rest to ponder over the case. All he was forced to do was either practice his martial arts skill, make plans to think about the children murderer, and continue to run away from the elves who wanted to capture him!

It had been so many days, and he even failed in his previous case, but did he improve? Nope! He was quick to realize that he, a small human in his world, would find it so difficult to even survive among people from different races!

Then he remembered the first time when the system had asked him to take up the case, 007 had told him that Zion would be punished if he failed. It could be said that he was practically forced to take up the case the last time, but what about now? The system was still under hibernation, and Zion just casually decided to solve this murder case based on what? Did he think he was some super powerful and intelligent person who could solve any puzzle with a good brain?

Of course, he did have more brains than ordinary people, but at a time like this, when he was in a life and death kind of situation, he didn't know what to do anymore! It was just like he was a person who couldn't swim and still proactively decided to jump in the ocean only to drown in the next second, waving his hands and feet to find something for support as if he wanted to breathe one more time.

Just when did he become desperate? He had never been the person who would go to lengths to keep his life because he didn't need to! When he was still in his previous world, almost everyone would take care of his life and give him the ultimate protection. Other than the mistake that had occurred in the end that cost him his life, he had never faced any difficulties. Being famous, he had gotten everything easily that made him feel as if he was a spoiled young master from ancient Chinese literature.

But what was the point of becoming famous in that world? Here, in Magicae, he couldn't even save himself. What to speak of the case?!

In the present situation, did he have any other solution than surrender to the enemies and then find a way out? The elves were outside the cave and were about to enter, and Zion was standing at the dead end with no escape. Just how was he supposed to save himself?