Saul chose to track the airship’s attendant not only because he was genuinely interested in the white porcelain cat, but also for another significant reason.

Crum’s death bore a striking resemblance to the merchant Mike’s death.

They were the only two corpses Saul had encountered within a month, leaving him with a particularly vivid impression of both.

Both had drowned.

A third-rank wizard had met the same fate as an ordinary person, unable to escape death’s call.

Moreover, both had lost their souls after death.

When Saul searched for their consciousness, he had heard the sound of water in both cases.

Combined with the third-level wizard apprentice Paul’s warning on the airship that the white porcelain cat could cause people to drown, Saul began connecting the two deaths.

Since it was approaching dusk, there were few pedestrians on the streets.

These people appeared hurried and weary, like office workers.

Saul felt as if he’d returned to Gorsa’s wizard tower.

He continued concealing his aura and magical fluctuations, walking along the street’s edge like an ordinary person.

The guide stones Kate had left along the way were crude, but they contained no magical power. To the wizard apprentices on the street, they were just the most unremarkable stones.

After walking for a short while, Saul found the attendant’s residence in a small alley near the airport.

It was an old but independent two-story building. Perhaps to match Sky City’s overall decorative style, even this old house had been painted with tea-colored walls and sauce-colored roof ridges.

This made it look less shabby.

However, even so, this didn’t seem like a house an attendant could afford.

Saul noticed that only one living person’s aura emanated from this two-story house.

The attendant lived alone.

Saul looked up and saw the orange cat crouched on the roof ridge.

He smiled at the orange cat, then jumped directly through the half-open second-floor window.

The window opened into the attendant’s bedroom, where the attendant was currently tinkering with something.

Despite facing the window, he seemed blind, completely oblivious to a soft body squeezing through the barely half-open window crack.

After Saul entered, the orange cat followed a step behind, jumping in silently.

Two beings existed openly yet failed to attract the attendant’s attention.

Saul approached the attendant, who kept his head down looking at something, and suddenly pressed his hand against the back of the man’s head.

The attendant immediately collapsed without warning.

“Lord Saul, aren’t you going to interrogate him?”

“Too troublesome. I’ll just look directly.”

After speaking, Saul seemed to freeze in place.

Kate glanced at him and didn’t dare move carelessly.

The orange cat didn’t know that Saul had already entered the attendant’s dreamscape.

Although Saul had knocked him unconscious, with the nightmare butterfly’s operation, the attendant still obediently began dreaming.

His dreams were very realistic.

After watching for a moment, Saul saw they mostly involved striking it rich overnight, buying an airship, and scolding those usually high-and-mighty senior attendants, guards, maids, captains, and others.

All these people knelt and prostrated before the attendant, kissing his toes.

“Had enough fun? Think about something useful now.”

Saul waved his hand, and the scene before him changed.

The attendant returned to this room, but it was now filled with white porcelain cats. These cats’ eyes were also white and hadn’t been painted red.

They weren’t exactly the same as what Saul had seen at merchant Mike’s place.

The attendant hadn’t yet recovered from his pleasant dream. After being dazed for a while, he remembered where he was.

However, he still maintained his earlier excitement.

“Work hard, keep working hard! I’ll have enough money saved to buy an airship soon!”

He crawled under the bed and dragged out a small bottle filled with red paint of unknown composition.

He opened the bottle, dipped a brush in a small amount of paint with one hand, picked up a white porcelain cat without red eyes with the other, and carefully painted the cat’s eye areas completely red.

Saul noticed that after painting the cat’s eyes red, the attendant would very carefully grasp the cat’s body and place it in the bedside cabinet.

The cabinet already contained more than ten white porcelain cats with red-painted eyes.

Saul stepped forward and picked up a white porcelain cat without painted eyes.

The dream’s details told Saul these were indeed inferior craft products.

He then picked up a cat with red-painted eyes. Neither the paint nor the cat showed any abnormalities.

Saul even imitated merchant Mike’s actions, stroking the white porcelain cat’s head.

But he still felt nothing, nor did any fortunate events occur.

“Is it because my strength is beyond what the white porcelain cat can influence, or is this just a dreamscape where the other party isn’t their true self, unable to affect dream people and objects?”

Saul put the white porcelain cat back. Throughout this, the attendant showed no reaction.

“This isn’t right either.” Saul waved his hand again. “If his most exciting moment isn’t right, then what about his most frightening moment?”

The attendant’s dream transformed into several scary scenarios, such as falling into water or an airship exploding.

But none of these dreams contained any abnormal events.

“Quite clean indeed.” Saul waved his hand once more. “Let me see what your most unforgettable day looked like.”

This time, Saul and the attendant came to the street together.

The streets here were unfamiliar. None of the streets Saul had passed today looked like this.

The most distinctive building was a broken tower in the distance.

The tower’s top consisted of crumbling bricks and protruding beams.

A tall boy stood beneath the broken tower, appearing fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing the most ordinary wizard apprentice robes with frayed edges at the bottom hem.

But the attendant immediately ran over.

Saul followed behind the attendant like a shadow.

He heard the attendant say to the boy, “I’m almost out of goods.”

The boy replied expressionlessly, “You can’t come to me before I find you. If this happens again, we’ll terminate our cooperation.”

“It won’t happen again, it won’t happen again. I’ll never seek you out on my own again.”

The boy didn’t make things difficult for the attendant, seeming to have never had any expectations of him.

“Be obedient, or I can replace you at any time.”

The attendant nodded repeatedly.

The boy turned and left. In the end, he didn’t produce anything resembling the “goods” the attendant had mentioned, showing considerable principle.

Saul wanted to follow the boy, but since this was the attendant’s dream, when the boy reached the street’s edge, his figure began to blur and fade.

Just as Saul was considering whether this boy was the person he sought…

“Gurgle… gurgle…”

He suddenly heard the sound of water bubbling again.

In an instant, Saul’s expression changed.

“Found you.”

Saul exited the attendant’s dreamscape.

The attendant was still lying face-down on his bed, fast asleep.

“Lord Saul, did you find what you were looking for?”

“I can only say I used a small shrimp to hook another small fish. It’s still unclear whether this small fish is the real culprit. However, a wizard apprentice doesn’t seem like someone who could control the white porcelain cats.”

“Do you need me to search this room?”

Saul shook his head.

“The cat’s owner is extremely skilled at concealing traces. He even erases abnormal information about the white porcelain cats from people’s consciousness. If it were anyone else investigating, no matter how thoroughly they searched, they’d only find that the white porcelain cats are ordinary craft items. All information related to their anomalies has been completely erased.”

Saul interlocked his fingers.

“Interesting. Since we can’t find it using high-level methods, let’s use the most primitive approach.”

“Meow?” Kate didn’t understand yet.

“Just like how you carved the most ordinary stones into shapes to guide me. Those who are invisible at the magical level can often be seen with the naked eye.”

(End of Chapter)