Chapter 41 Criminals
Backlund, Cherwood District, a house
"Find a few scammers, the reward is 200
Pounds?!" Fowles blurted out after hearing the commission that Xio had just received.
"Who is so rich? Wait... a liar? Isn't he a liar like Lanevus last time?"
"No, not that kind of liar." Hugh shuddered when he thought of the last time Miss Audrey asked them to investigate that terrifying liar who possessed the divinity of the [True Creator].
"It's just a common swindler who stole a thousand pounds' worth of cloth."
"The client is the butler of Mr. Dawn Dantes of 160 Böklund Street. As for why it costs 200 pounds instead of 20 pounds to get back the goods worth 1,000 pounds, I don't know."
"That doesn't mean anything!" Fowles pointed out. "Last time, when we investigated Lanevus, we thought he was just a fraud who opened a fake steel company! The time before that, when we investigated Qilingos, we only did a rough investigation! What was the result?"
"As a result, we are all in bad luck...Fowles recalled the terrible mumbling during the full moon and said with lingering fear.
"Luckily there is a patient, otherwise I would have turned into a monster and been killed by the [Mechanical Heart]
"Ahem..." Xio was a little embarrassed. "No matter what, I don't intend to give up the 200-pound reward. If you are worried, why don't you come with me?"
"Okay." Fors shrugged and took the "Lemanno's Travel Notes". "Fortunately, there are some useful abilities in it."
Such as teleportation, fireball and summon flame.
'Hmm....It would be nice if I could ask everyone in the Tarot Club to help me record some extraordinary abilities...
Fors looked at the travel notes in his hand and couldn't help thinking: "In that case, I won't be afraid even if I encounter a Sequence 5 strongman."
'But how can I do it without spending money?
How to do this in this case?'
The moon is as red as ever, and the moonlight is full
The dark streets of the East District.
The two people were walking in a hurry, turning back and forth in the alleys, as if they were pursuing some target.
"The sheriff's hunch tells me that the target is
We are getting closer," Xio turned back to look at Fowles, "you should be ready to support me at any time."
After saying that, Xio stuck his head out of the alley and looked at the people on the other side of the alley.
The guy had a filthy look on his face and was talking to another person. The person he was talking to then took out his wallet and was about to pay.
Xio noticed with his sharp eyes that there were several boxes next to his search target, which undoubtedly contained the batch of fabrics.
"Stop it!!" Xio walked out of the alley and stared at the man, "Stop what you are doing!!"
As he spoke, the majesty of the [Arbitrator] was unconsciously revealed, and in an instant the wretched businessman was frightened to the point of not being able to move, while the person who was doing business with him seemed to be a little better, but only a little.
"I cheated others out of their money and now I want to sell it.
"Stolen goods?" Xio put his hand on the hilt of the three-edged thorn and walked over with big strides. "Do you think you are so lucky?"
"I...I...I...I...I...I...The liar was so frightened that he dared not move. "I will never dare to do it again...Never dare to do it again!!"
"Hmm?" Xio looked at the other
The man was no longer flustered, "You seem to have a different opinion?"
The man didn't say anything, but took out a dagger.
"Hmph." Seeing this situation, Xio kicked his left leg, approached the man in one step, and drew the triangular dagger directly out of its sheath.
She swung her arm and chopped it down diagonally, straight towards the dagger in the man's hand.
The man was not willing to be outdone, and swung his sword upwards diagonally in an attempt to block the sword.
"Dang!!" The two swords collided, making a crisp sound.
sound.
The dagger fell weakly to the ground, and the man collapsed to the ground.
A cold light flashed, and the sword stopped at his throat.
In front of him, he looked at the short but powerful young man in extreme fear.The girl in front of him, who was not tall but had amazing strength, didn't even dare to breathe.
"My verdict is, get out of my sight and never come back."
Xio said coldly, retracted the triangular spike, and the man fled away from the place.
"As for you," Hugh looked at the swindler again, "hand over all the money and cloth you cheated, not a penny less."
The robbery scene of a 1.5-meter-tall girl.
"I spent £200 and only have £800 left
After seeing how strong Hugh was and feeling her majesty, the liar completely lost the courage to resist and could only shrink there into a ball.
"Give as much as you have."
The man who was forced to give up the dagger fled far away like the wind. He didn't dare to stop until he was sure that he had escaped far away, and then he gasped for breath.
"This is impossible… He looked at his still shaking hands, "I'm a Sequence 9 Broker! How could I lose to a young girl in terms of strength?!"
"Could it be that...she is also a Beyonder?!" He couldn't help but tense up. "Damn...if I can complete this deal, I can ask for more blessings and become a Sequence 8.
"I can't forgive her!!" His face twisted.
"When I become Sequence 8, I will take revenge on her! I will tie her up at home, tear her clothes off, and take my anger out on her every day!!"
"What a dirty and depraved desire." Suddenly, a voice came over, and he turned around and looked to the side, "You are very suitable."
He was a man with bronze skin, brown hair and pale eyes.
"Who are you?!" The man felt something was wrong and started shouting, "Help!!"
"It's useless. No one can hear your voice. My ability can prevent the victim's voice from being spread." The brown-haired man showed a bloodthirsty smile, "This is my unique ability."
"Who... who are you?!" The [Broker] stepped back again and again, shouting in fear, "Who are you?!"
"I'm Beth Andrellad, a [serial killer] who will create a new future for the Andrellad family," Beth grinned and licked her tongue.
"Contribute your life to help me digest the potion!!"
"No!!!"
The heartbreaking howls should have resounded through the night sky, but tonight, no one noticed or could hear them. When the last echoes faded away, all that remained was the crimson moonlight and the equally bright red blood.
While Backlund had one more [Criminal], it also had one less criminal.service Chapter 42: Nightwatchman's interrogation
"Vahana, I heard that you are still the etiquette teacher of Mr. Dwayne Dantes. What kind of person do you think he is?"
"A true gentleman, warm-hearted, generous, kind, educated, graceful, and knowledgeable."
"Well, I'm going to invite him to the dance this weekend."
Klein looked at the newspaper. The headline on the newspaper was about a brutal murder case.
[A man in the East District was murdered last night, his body lying on the main road, his death was horrible... The murderer's method of committing the crime was extremely vicious... The murderer has not been caught yet... It reminds me of the serial murders last year.
"Was it done by a demon?" Klein muttered to himself. He took a sip of the black tea. "Someone from the demon family? Or just a wild [Criminal] or a Beyonder?"
"I don't know which church's Beyonder will take over this matter in the end...
"Sir," Walter knocked on the door and quickly opened it, "the servant of the Macht family has brought you an invitation to attend the dance they are holding on Saturday."
"No problem, we will accept it." Klein said to his butler, "I just had a sudden thought and wanted to go out for a walk without a destination. Prepare a car and go around Backlund."
"Yes, sir."
Klein quickly changed his clothes and walked downstairs. Just as he was about to get in his own carriage, he noticed something.
It was a policeman who was trotting up to 160 Böklund Street and waving his hand, indicating that he had something to ask.
Seeing this situation, Klein had no choice but to give up getting in the car and stay there honestly to see what the policeman wanted to do.
"Mr. Dwayne Dantes," the policeman cleared his throat, "you are suspected of a murder case. Please cooperate with our police investigation."
"Murder case?" Klein repeated strangely, "Which murder case?"
"This case," the policeman took out a newspaper and pointed to the headline, "this East District corpse case. Please come with me and cooperate with our police investigation."
"What's going on?" Klein muttered to himself, "How am I related to this case?"
But Klein reacted quickly.
He turned to look at Butler Walter beside him.
"Go get my lawyer," he said.
After that, he looked at the police again and said, "No problem, I will go to the police station with you, but I won't say anything until my lawyer arrives."
He then stretched out his hand and gestured to
carriage.
"Get in the car, Mr. Policeman," Klein said.
With a polite smile, he said, "I was planning to go out for a walk so I prepared a carriage. It's just right that we can go to the police station together in my carriage."
"Uh..." The policeman obviously didn't expect such an invitation, "Alright...?"
"I repeat, I am a bounty hunter
I took a commission of 200 pounds to recover a batch of cloth and a deposit of 1,000 pounds," Hugh stared at the nagging policeman in front of him, "I have repeated it 4 times!!"
"I know," the policeman said, "but our witness hasn't arrived yet, so until then we can only keep questioning you."
"You are illegally detaining me!" Xio protested loudly, "What evidence do you have to prove that I have anything to do with the cause of death of that dead man? What evidence do you have to prove that I have anything to do with that killer?!"
While speaking, Xio even released the majesty of an "arbitrator". Under this majesty, the police couldn't help but lower their posture.
"Okay..." The policeman gave in. "In that case, let the special team confirm it once? If the team finds that you are fine, you can leave."
"No need, Mr. Policeman,"
At this time, the door of the interrogation room opened and Dwayne Dantes walked in with a kind face. "I, the witness,
Already arrived. "
"Let me introduce myself," Klein looked at Miss Xiu, "I am the publisher of that commission.
Dwayne Dantes, a kind-hearted wealthy man.""This is your lost wages," Klein said as he took out 200 pounds in cash and handed it to Miss Hugh. "Consider it as compensation for the trouble I caused you to get into with the police."
"You are bribing the client!" The police stood up immediately upon seeing this, "And in front of us!!"
"I'm just doing my duty as a gentleman," Klein said, still smiling kindly. "Mr. Policeman, my lawyer should be here soon, and we can discuss any charges then."
"Before that, why don't we have a cup of tea and wait patiently. Or, just let your special investigation team investigate us."
"What a strong aura," Xio said, looking at the gray-haired gentleman in front of him, "so calm, so elegant, just like a chess player who is in control of the overall situation."
"This kind of aura is definitely not something an ordinary rich man can have."
"Ah," Klein looked towards the door after a while, "My lawyer is here. Let's start the interrogation."
"Me? Interrogate him?" Daly looked through the window of the interrogation room at Dwayne Dantès who was talking inside. "Are we Nighthawks so short of manpower?"
"It is indeed scarce, Deacon Daly," said a member of the Nighthawks next to him helplessly, "You also know that a lot of extraordinary events have emerged in Backlund City recently."
"First, there were several cases of wild supernatural beings getting out of control, then a [scammer] pretended to be a patient's family member to make money, then a [criminal] imitated the [thief] Black Emperor to commit crimes, and finally this one today.
"This is just what I know. There are many more that I don't know. All the Nighthawks are running around and are extremely tired..."
"We should recruit more people," Daly muttered, "10 teams of Beyonders are too few for a metropolis with a population of 5 million."
"I have to report this matter..." Daley shook her head and pushed open the door of the interrogation room.
"I'm from the special investigation team," she said immediately, "I'll take over your interrogation from now on."
"Official Beyonder!" Xio unconsciously tensed up, "Good morning, Miss Investigator."
'Daly... Klein narrowed his eyes, but his expression remained calm. "Good morning, dear lady."
"Good morning, Mr. Dantes and Miss Hugh." Daly said, taking out a candle. "The weather is really good this morning. It's a pity that we have to sit here and look at each other. Otherwise, we might be drunk and dreaming with our lovers.
~" Chapter 43: Angel of Destiny
"Good morning, Mr. Dantes and Miss Hugh." Daly said, taking out a candle. "The weather is really good this morning. It's a pity that we have to sit here and look at each other. Otherwise, we might be drunk and dreaming with our lovers.
"Since we are finally sitting here, we have to pay attention to the atmosphere, such as some smooth, blushing and charming
"I…I........................" "No matter whether the atmosphere makes people blush or not, at least Xio has started to blush.
It was obvious that she had not expected to encounter such a flirtatious interrogator.
"Candles symbolize romance. I like romance, so I hope I can conduct the interrogation in a romantic atmosphere," Daley said as she placed two candles on the table. "I also like incense because they
"And the scent is also suitable for creating a romantic atmosphere," Klein smiled and continued, "What a perfect combination."
"Yes," Daly smiled charmingly, and dripped two bottles of pure water into two candles, "This fragrance is very suitable for creating a romantic atmosphere, and it is also very suitable for creating a gentle and moist atmosphere. I like each of them."
"Although I'm mentally prepared," Klein's eyes looked inexplicably guilty, "but every time I talk to Daly, I can't avoid being flirted with by her."
The ethereal sound of poetry came from outside the door. Everyone inside was immersed in an unprecedented tranquility under the poetry, and the incense pure water undoubtedly strengthened this effect.
"Now we have created a good atmosphere..." Daley was satisfied to see that the lawyer beside him was almost asleep under the power of the incense and the sound of poetry, "Let's get to the point."
"Let me get acquainted again, Investigator, Ms. Daly."
"Hello..." Klein and Hugh replied in a daze, although Klein was pretending.
"What a familiar feeling," Klein thought with emotion, 'The first person who communicated with me was Daly.
"The real purpose of your recovery of that batch of fabrics
What is it?" Daley's disembodied voice came, "Tell it out, no one will hurt you for it."
"For the 200-pound reward," Hugh confessed everything. "This mission is too simple and too rewarding.
. "
"To help my etiquette teacher, Waha
"Na," Klein confessed, "This is a gentleman's good deed."
"Miss Xiu," Daly chose a person to interrogate, "Why do you want the 200-pound reward?"
"In order to buy the main ingredients for the [Interrogator] potion," Xio confessed everything under the influence of spiritualism, "I can use my merits to exchange the formula from MI9, but the ingredients are more expensive than the formula, so I have to buy it from you.
"MI9's informant?" Daly muttered to herself, "Really? What achievements have you made?"
"There are many..." Xio thought carefully, "My greatest achievement is reporting a fraudster named Lanevus to the Church of Evernight.
"Laneverus... Hearing this name, Daly's beautiful eyes darkened instantly, her brows trembled, and she stopped trying to investigate Miss Xiu's secret.
She turned to look at Dwayne Dantes, "Mr. Dantes, are you offering a reward just to help the etiquette teacher?"
"That's all." After thinking it over, Klein decided it would be better to be conservative. "That's all."
Klein was very sure that after hearing Lanevus' name, Daley would lose all interest in continuing the investigation, and when Daley communicated with him,
I didn't see any clues, let alone now?
The incense and candlelight faded away, and everything returned to normal.
"My investigation is over," Daly stood up and smiled kindly, "Look at you guys, you actually fell asleep while I was investigating. If you do that, it will be easy for girls and boys to catch you~"
"You all go back. After examination, you allNo problem. "
"You still call this no problem?" Leonard asked incredulously, "We just found out there's another story behind Lanevus's death!!"
"Keep your voice down," said Daly Simone, who had just returned to the office. She made a shushing gesture, "We haven't reported this yet!!"
"Okay, okay," Leonard said in a low voice, barely suppressing his excitement. "Why just let her go? If we follow her, maybe we can find Klein's whereabouts!"
"That girl is an informant for MI9," Daly replied calmly. "If we rashly follow her, we may uncover MI9's affairs. Considering that we have been doing private work so far, the risk is too great."
Leonard took a deep breath, closed his eyes, calmed down, and realized that his behavior was a bit too impulsive.
Although he has a lot of secrets, he is limited by the inertial thinking of an official Beyonder, so he sometimes cannot figure out the detailed differences between official and private work in some aspects.
Although he had taken on many private jobs in the past and made a lot of money from them, most of those private jobs were to help some wealthy businessmen and nobles who had little knowledge of the extraordinary world to exorcise ghosts and demons.
These private jobs are generally easy to perform and highly rewarding, because those nobles and wealthy businessmen, due to their ignorance of the extraordinary world, are easily frightened by low-level ghosts and are willing to offer unreasonably high prices for exorcism.
Leonard saw this business opportunity and promoted himself to them, offering to perform exorcism services. With his strength at Sequence 7 at the time, Leonard had nothing to fear unless he encountered a terrifying evil spirit formed after the death of a high-sequence expert.
In this world, the most extraordinary way of exorcising ghosts has always been controversial, but the objects of controversy are always [Death], [Night], and [Sun].
It is precisely because of his strong ability to restrain various spirits that Leonard, who is a Sequence 7, can still fight against Sequence 6 or Sequence 5 ghosts, not to mention the lonely ghosts that haunt the wealthy nobles?
After completing the extremely simple exorcism, Leonard could charge unreasonably high prices without complaint - those prices were set by themselves, not by Leonard.
Not only will those rich people give a large sum of money, they will also thank Leonard after the event.
It is precisely because of the simple and lucrative private work for a long time that Leonard has left some inertial thinking, making him feel that private work is basically just a show.
No need to worry about getting involved in anything serious.
Now, it was this inertial thinking that caused him to make a wrong judgment.
"Although we can't follow the girl, we can try another method," Daly took out a piece of paper, "Take a look at this."
"This is her home address. I got it from the police station," Daly explained her method. "As long as we stay in her dream for a long time, we can monitor her. This way, we can find out where Klein is."
"Alright," Leonard nodded slowly, "Let's get back to business. When should we go to contact [that person]?"
"That Person" is the abbreviation that Leonard and Daly now use to refer to Will Auceptin, just in case one day they are discussing privately and are unlucky enough to be overheard by a member of the Nighthawks.
It was possible that they were unlucky, after all, this was in the church of the Goddess of Night, the queen of misfortune.
"We'll go make the contact tonight, but we still need to do some cover-up before that," Daly instructed. "It's easy to find an excuse. After all, the Church of Storms has already sent us a request to assist in the search for Sherlock Moriarty."
"If the Red Gloves and Nighthawks question our whereabouts tonight, we can use the excuse of investigating Sherlock Moriarty's past whereabouts to cover up our true purpose."
"Well, let's do it this way," Leonard said, and then he stuffed a talisman into Daly's hand. "As long as we can get the kindness of [that person], it will definitely be of great benefit to our subsequent plans... As long as
At this point, Leonard showed an embarrassed expression.
".....But wouldn't it be inappropriate for us to visit empty-handed?" Leonard
He said something that had been bothering him,He is the leader of a secret organization!"
"Wouldn't it be too rude for us two Nighthawks who are not even demigods to just go there empty-handed?"
"Then what gift do you think we should bring to Him?" Daly looked at Leonard's equally green eyes with her emerald eyes, "What can we have that can impress a Sequence 1 angel?"
1
ice cream
"Uh......" Leonard scratched his hair, "Crib? He was a baby when he was born, right?"
"................" Dai Li covered her head with her hands speechlessly, and couldn't help but start thinking about what gift she should give.
Perhaps, for this powerful Sequence 1 angel, only the existence of other Sequence 1s can be called a gift?
"Welcome, great Lord Ouroboros."Chapter 44 J, X and Z
"Welcome to you!! The great snake of fate, Lord Ouroboros!!"
In a certain base outside Backlund, all the high-ranking and quasi-high-ranking members of the Aurora Society in the entire Backlund region gathered here.
The Aurora Society's top leaders present included [Dark Saint] Xesma, as well as three divine messengers.
Some of them were divine messengers stationed in the Backlund region, some happened to be in nearby areas, and some heard the news and traveled a long way to come and see Ouroboros.
The silver-haired Angel King nodded, his expression gentle and indifferent. He just sat there, wearing an ordinary linen robe, with no layers of wings visible behind him.
But every Aurora member present knew that this was the great angel closest to the True Creator, and His honorable name resounded in the ears of every Listener.
'The lingering heroic spirit...
'The followers of the true Creator................
"Look into the eyes of fate...
Mr. J half-knelt in front of Him, lowering his head in awe. At this moment, he was extremely excited. He could directly feel the inviolable sacred aura of this great being!!
Mr. X swallowed his saliva, not daring to look directly at this great angel who had surpassed Sequence 1. At the same time, his heart could not stop beating wildly, and he kept reflecting on whether he had been negligent or delayed in his recent work progress.
'There shouldn't be any problem... No! Not "should"!! There should be absolutely no problem at all!!' he thought tremblingly.
"My subordinates and I have been working at several times the speed since we heard that Lord Ouroboros is coming! There is no way we can be negligent! I have checked it ten times!"
Next to Mr. X, Mr. Z recalled the serious mistake made by Tingen City with fear.
If his subordinates, Sirius Arepis and Heinus Vincent, had not foolishly sold the Antigonus Family Notes, the great defeat of Tingen City would not have happened at all!!
When he heard that the birth of the Son of God had failed miserably, he could hardly believe it. Yes, he wanted to welcome the birth of the Son of God in Tingen, but his plan had not yet begun!!
He personally went to Tingen to investigate the causes and consequences of everything... He couldn't believe that his two subordinates were so stupid and failed miserably in such a ridiculous place!!
Due to negligence, the spell was seen by a female student, which led to the night watcher's discovery; when borrowing a book, he left his identity information, which led to the night watcher's discovery; he trusted a [scammer], which led to the coming of the Son of God being used by others.
These are all very basic mistakes!! So basic that they are ridiculous!!
But when he investigated more deeply, he found that things were beyond his expectations...his divination had suffered a catastrophic failure. If he had not been given a special secret skill during his time as "The Listener", he would not even have been able to discover that his divination had failed.
There was no doubt that this involved something at a higher level, so he immediately reported the matter. As expected, he came to the conclusion that the absurdity of all this came from a Level 0 Sealed Object, and the revelation that the mastermind behind this was Ince Zangwill.
Since then, he has been frantically searching for Ince Zangwill, intending to make this blasphemer who took advantage of the Son of God pay the price in blood at all costs, but to this day he has found nothing.
"Lord Ouroboros must have come to punish me for my terrible failure..." His tears flowed down involuntarily, "I am guilty... I confess
"This time," Ouroboros looked around
The Aurora Club's top leaders slowly spoke, "We are looking for someone, someone hiding in Backlund."
"He is in a weak state, in order to recover his
State, hiding in some corner of Backlund."
Mr. Z's eyelids trembled. "He?!! Lord Ouroboros is... is... is looking for an angel?!"
"Your mission is to find Him."
"We, the gods, are fortunate enough to participate in this
Mr.
I thought, 'This is such a great honor...