Dashu Town is a temporary town built by refugees who migrated to the Kingdom of Teresa in their early years. It was abandoned several times in the middle. Later, it was re-opened because of a shortcut to climb mountains. After so many years of development, it has become a large town.

Although Dashu Town belongs to the Kingdom of Aden on the south side of the high-walled mountains, in fact, its controller is the Kingdom of Teresa. Even the guards in the town are the army of Teresa. Only the mayor is appointed by the Kingdom of Aden. However, the mayor has no real power, but is just a nominal manager.

Just like other kingdoms around the high-walled mountains, the Kingdom of Aden is also a vassal state of the Kingdom of Teresa. The Kingdom of Teresa's control over these vassal states, let alone the jurisdiction of a border town, even if it is completely annexed these vassal states, after all, most of the troops and officials of these vassal states are troublesome and scholars from the mercenary groups of the Kingdom of Teresa and the academic city.

Although the mayor of Dashu Town is just a fig leaf and a disguise, the Kingdom of Teresa also attaches great importance to this layer of disguise, so it is extremely preferential to the previous mayors of Dashu Town. The salary alone is close to the governor of a province, not to mention the fragmented income of other caravan taxes.

And more importantly, Dashu Town controlled a shortcut to enter the Kingdom of Teresa. Although the road was rugged, it could shorten the passage of ten days and half a month, which made most caravans in a hurry choose to take this shortcut.

However, in order to make the road smooth, the Kingdom of Teresa made some arrangements for the caravans that traveled to this shortcut and set up quotas. The caravans needed to line up according to the arrival time. However, as the mayor of Dashu Town, even if he did not have real power, he still had several quotas to use for the queue, which also allowed him to indirectly help some caravans gain considerable benefits.

Because of these visible and invisible interests, for the officials of the Kingdom of Aden, the mayor of Dashu Town is definitely a shortage, so that every time the position is vacant, it will cause competition among all forces in the Kingdom of Aden.

However, this situation has undergone some strange changes in the election of these mayors of Dashu Town. Although the position of Dashu Town mayors in the Kingdom of Yadian is still fiercely competing for the position of Dashu Town, the arrangement of candidates for Dashu Town mayors has been unable to give a result for a long time. Several candidates who have been selected have each found an excuse to refuse this position, and even one of them simply did not even want to be a public office in the Kingdom in order to resign.

The reason for such a strange situation is that the recent mayors of Dashu Town did not leave their post safely after their term of office expired. They all died in a bad life shortly after they just served as the mayor of Dashu Town. Not only did the mayor die, but the mayor's family also died one after another after the mayor's death. Moreover, the cause of death is very strange, and they die naturally in their sleep.

So far, neither the investigation team of the Kingdom of Teresa or the relevant departments of the church have found any clues. All the deaths of the mayor of Dashu Town look like suicide, and no trace of extraordinary power was found on the mayor of Dashu Town. As for the death of his family, there is no trace of his family. Even if they transfer their families to the church's church of Justice, the Church of Knowledge and other churches and protect them with divine magic, they still cannot stop them from dying in their sleep.

Therefore, the position of mayor of Dashu Town is equivalent to a death notice. Once you take that position, not only will you die, but your family cannot escape. Naturally, no one will even want to live for the sake of any benefit, so that the mayor of Dashu Town has been vacant for two consecutive months.

Fortunately, the mayor of Dashu Town is just an empty position and has no real power. The operation of Dashu Town will not be suspended because there is no mayor. For the villagers of Dashu Town and the caravans who come and go, they only have an extra topic of conversation after dinner.

After the communication team led by Delkan came to Dashu Town, he heard the rumors about the cursed mayor of Dashu Town from the dormitory management personnel set up in the school town where they lived that night. Delkan himself, the team's mentors and exchange students were curious about the rumors. So that night, these curious apprentices and mentors decided to take advantage of the time when they were waiting for the passage to participate in the investigation, which was considered a social practice of the school town.

Because of the arrival of the first snow, the shortcut Dashu Town, for safety reasons, has been temporarily closed. Dashu Town and the Redwood Town at the other end of the shortcut both sent special personnel to the mountains to check the road conditions. Only when these people report the situation and the weather does not deteriorate further, the caravans and other people blocking at both ends will be able to pass. Otherwise, they will have to take a long way or risk over the mountains in the wind and snow.

The communication team where Delkan is located does not intend to detour. Even if the mountain is blocked with heavy snow, it cannot be passed through, because taking a detour will not only increase the time and distance. Even if you enter the Kingdom of Teresa, you still need to cross a few snow mountains to reach the Academic City. If you pass by this shortcut, you can go directly to the mountainous area where the Academic City is located, and you don’t need to cross the extra snow mountains.

So on the day of arriving at Dashu Town, the mentors of Delkan and other exchange teams had already decided that if the road was not opened again, they would simply spend the winter in Dashu Town and wait for the spring of the next year to set off. As for how to survive the winter in Dashu Town, the administrator of the dormitory of the School City just gave a good goal to pass the time and investigate the cause of the death of the mayor of Dashu Town.

Therefore, scholars such as Delkan and others in the school town did not only investigate the mystery of the cursed mayor of Dashu Town, but were more to pass the waiting time.

As for investigating the security of this matter, they also considered it. Although Dashu Town and its family died very strangely, the official investigation team, church forces and civilians, who participated in the investigation of the curse of Dashu Town, did not encounter any danger. Therefore, they speculated that even if there was a death curse, it would only be the mayor of Dashu Town, and would not cause harm to others.

The day after the decision was made, the mentors of the communication team asked the apprentices to inquire about the relevant information about the curse of the mayor of Dashu Town, and the mentors went to the mayor of Dashu Town to investigate.

When they arrived at the mayor's residence, they entered the residence without any obstacles. It was not that there was no one guarding it here, but that the guards had already regarded the unoccupied mayor's residence as a money tree. Anyone who was curious about the mayor's curse could spend a Clover coin to visit and investigate, so before the scholars of these exchange teams came to the mayor's residence, everyone else in the town had visited the residence.

Although we know that even if there are clues in the official residence, it may be destroyed because a large number of people have visited it, scholars still adhere to a rigorous attitude and choose to enter the official residence to check the situation and collect any useful clues as much as possible.

After Gu entered the official residence, scholars began to check the situation of each room in the official residence according to their own expertise, especially the mayor's office, bedroom and study. Delkan himself was not good at investigating things, and he was better at mysticism, so he specifically looked for the seemingly ordinary decorative patterns in the official residence to see if there were any runes containing mysterious power hidden.

Soon, Delkan's investigation direction was transferred to the mayor's study, but after he arrived at the study, he found that there were other people in the room.

Because, I had known in advance that ordinary paper only needs to spend a Clover coin to enter the town mayor's residence to visit, so Delkan was not surprised to see other people here, and he also knew the two people in the study.

"Mr. Leo, Ms. Sylvia, are you also interested in the mayor being cursed?" After seeing the two people in the study clearly, Delkan walked forward enthusiastically and greeted him actively.

If it were other people who knew Delkan would definitely be extremely surprised by the attitude Delkan showed now. In the eyes of others, Delkan was definitely a taciturn guy. Even a scholar from the same school town rarely showed any emotions, let alone enthusiasm. But now he showed such obvious enthusiasm for two strangers who had just met for less than a few days. It was really incredible.

However, for other colleagues who are also mentors of the communication team, Delkan's current attitude is reasonable, because they all think that the two people in the mayor's study are definitely worthy of Delkan's treatment with this enthusiastic attitude, and even think that enthusiasm is not enough, and you must be respected to be correct.

The two people in the study were met in a small town on the road a few days ago. The caravan where the two were located chose to follow the exchange team in the school city, just like other caravans heading to Teresa's Kingdom, because there was enough force in the exchange team to protect them from attacks by bandits.

In order to broaden the mind and horizons of apprentices, the tutors of the communication team usually take the communication students to the caravans following behind for academic exchange after the team camps. They say that it is academic exchanges. In fact, they ask the caravans to ask various questions to make it difficult for the students, so that these students know that knowledge is not only recorded in books, but also in life. Therefore, from the beginning, they never thought that anyone in the caravan would raise any formal questions.

However, accidents often happen inadvertently. After a series of strange questions, two people suddenly raised more than a dozen related and unrelated subject issues such as medicine, interpretation, politics, theology, etc. Their knowledge level covers almost all the disciplines established by the school city, and those questions are not ordinary questions. Each question involves very advanced academic knowledge. Not to mention students, even the tutors who follow them may not be able to answer them.

Therefore, a course on thinking development for apprentices turned into a knowledge exchange meeting, and then it became the lecture time for the two of them. From apprentices to tutors, they became students who listened to the lectures.

Therefore, in just a few days, the knowledge of these two people has completely convinced the tutors of the school city. In the eyes of Delkan and others, their status is almost the same as that of the subject tutors of the school city, and even comparable to that of the great tutors. Especially when they learned that the two were also planning to go to the Academic City, they felt that once the two joined the Academic City, it was almost no difficulty to become a great tutor, so it was normal to show respect for the two in advance.

On the other hand, Leo and Sylvia were a little surprised that they could be recognized and respected by the Academic City mentors in such a short time. Before they came into contact with the scholars in these Academic City, they had studied in advance what methods to make these scholars feel attentive, but they did not expect that just by impressing them academically, they had achieved or even exceeded the set goals.

After leaving Cape Westport, Leo and Sylvia headed north. Although they passed through several countries covered by war and famine, they did not encounter any twists and turns on the way because they were walking with the caravan. They came to the Kingdom of Aden, a vassal state of the Kingdom of Teresa. They happened to meet the Academic City exchange team that was returning to their country with exchange students, so that they could communicate with the people of the Academic City in advance and learn about some things related to the Academic City.

During this process, Sylvia did not reveal his surname. After all, the surname Belmont has some special objections in the Kingdom of Teresa. Once the surname is revealed, it will inevitably attract some unnecessary attention. Sylvia is not in a hurry to contact the Belmont family in the Kingdom of Teresa. After understanding the situation of the Belmont family, she will consider what to do next.

During the communication with scholars in these academic cities, they found that it was very simple to become friends with these scholars quickly, which was to get their recognition directly at the knowledge level. Once they were recognized, then as long as they did not ask a particularly taboo question, they would answer it without hesitation, and even actively disclose the content that was not asked, giving people a sense of ignorance.

However, if someone really thinks that these scholars are innocent and simplistic, then this person will probably not know that they will eventually be sold by these seemingly innocent scholars.

When Leo and Sylvia communicated with these scholars, they could clearly feel that while answering their questions, they were constantly testing their details. Their methods of testing were very obscure. They often mentioned a little inadvertently and cooperated with each other. In this case, ordinary people would easily reveal some of their own information. Obviously, these scholars should have received espionage training such as interrogation and interrogation.

Since these scholars performed hard in front of themselves, Leo and Sylvia naturally cooperated with each other. They revealed some word-of-word information in the conversation like two ordinary travel scholars. These information were prepared long ago and were also what these scholars wanted to know.

In exchange, they also learned a lot of information from these scholars about the Teresa Kingdom, the City of Academics and the Belmont family, but these information is obviously much more real and detailed than the false information they paid.
Chapter completed!