New Gods of North America

"To dare to steal in the Academy Church, we must severely punish such a fellow!"

After coming out of the church, Wayne, in front of a crowd, walked slightly to the side and gave Doug, who was waiting there, a task.

"Yes! Sir."

Doug was also very energetic and immediately responded.

David Mills still seemed to retain his honest man persona.

After seeing this scene, he said to Pastor Parish, who was fulfilling his duties as a host by escorting everyone to the door, but in reality greatly reducing the team's movement speed:

"Wayne and his detective agency are quite skilled in handling cases. Even Chief Bill Tench, who is in charge of case investigation at the police station, has given high praise to some of their theories and practical experience. If they can participate in the investigation, they should be able to find out the situation quickly."

That's right.

When it comes to handling cases, our detective agency should be considered quite professional in this era.

Wayne, having finished putting on his act, felt that he had made his point, so he returned to the crowd and waited for them to finish chatting and disperse.

The others around didn't seem to think there was any problem, perhaps because even though they hadn't used weapons or played it "for real," and didn't have to worry about "jianghu ethics, everyone just going in together," the agents were basically able to hold their own against their people in the arena.

So, some people in the local exorcism department now had a basic recognition of the detective agency's professional capabilities.

Therefore, seeing that Wayne seemed willing to help solve the problem, many people showed their approval and were happy to see it happen.

Wayne also acted like he knew everything, thinking, 'Don't worry, they will definitely refuse.'

Pastor Parish, however, was like a kind old man:

"Oh, let's do that then. If they are going to investigate, then I won't report it to the police. Of course, our church will also do its best to provide assistance to them."

Huh?

Why did you agree?!

……

"Sir, what should we do about the Academy Church? Are we really going to investigate?"

After everyone disbanded and continued their busy work, Doug followed Wayne towards the dormitory, secretly asking when no one was around.

Wayne was actually still pondering this matter.

According to stereotypes, after Wayne looked at the scene, he thought that Pastor Parish had destroyed the evidence under the pretext of discovering it.

But following this logic further, he shouldn't want anyone to continue investigating this matter.

Hmm……

Never mind, since I've already agreed in front of everyone, I have to put on an act no matter what, and regardless of whether others have interfered later, it's definitely more beneficial for the detective agency to participate in the investigation.

I can't let others investigate everything, what if they really find something?

Wayne thought for a while, "Didn't Seth seem to have taken a basic case handling course in the detective agency before? Let him investigate this matter first. He's a student at the academy and is familiar with the church. Our current focus is still on following up on the 'lucky coin' matter to see if there's a way to find the culprit in advance."

"Yes, I'll have Parrot find him later."

Back at the carriage,

Inesa didn't go to the meeting and had already run off to continue investigating with the exorcist pastors. Wayne was still eating dinner alone.

He got in, uncovered the lid on the dinner plate. Today's dinner, like lunch, was fried fish and chips with various vegetable leaves, and there was a homemade sauce in a small bowl next to it.

He used a fork to poke the whole fried fish and took a bite. It couldn't be said to be bad, after all, fish is also "meat"……

After Doug released Parrot and came back, Wayne couldn't help but ask, "Is there something wrong with the detective agency's kitchen? Today's food doesn't seem to be up to Parker's usual standards."

"This was made by Miss Inesa……"

Okay, then it's fine.

Delicious.

Doug then explained, "Actually, since Miss Lina went out, Parker only becomes active when cooking. The preparation of ingredients needs someone to help first."

"Today, Parker has completely fallen asleep. Miss Inesa said that Parker may not be able to wake up until Miss Lina returns."

Ah?

But thinking about it, although Parker looks no different from a normal living person in the detective agency, when going out for a long time, Lina actually tries to keep Parker in the carriage when nothing is happening.

Wayne previously thought that Lina was worried about Parker getting bumped, but now that I think about it, Lina may also be "saving power"……

Wayne's family can be considered the type that doesn't have to worry about eating meat due to economic reasons.

But thanks to Uncle Benjamin, Wayne's dietary standards from childhood to adulthood have actually been chasing the average level of the "western cowboys" in the narrow sense. Of course, sometimes he can get tired of eating meat, but the more common situation at home is still just fooling around.

Western cowboys just need wine, what's not to eat is eating……

So Wayne's adaptability is still very strong, otherwise he wouldn't be alive now.

After finishing dinner, Wayne went to join Inesa.

The exorcism department of Georgeberg temporarily borrowed an office in the academy, and a bunch of people are still busy there.

The collection and sorting of case clues is more of a technical and physical task.

In addition to questioning relevant personnel, the church must also try to eliminate the "pollution" on them to avoid subsequent effects.

Wayne and Inesa are among the more relaxed ones, so at this time, they mainly look at the first-hand records and try to find relatively key clues and clues that can directly lock the target from them.

As a result, before the clues were found, a new message came.

"That Miss Fisk was attacked?!" David Mills asked in response after hearing the report from the side.

What the hell?!

Feeling that the situation was not under control, several people rushed over to confirm the situation.

In the academy's infirmary, Miss Olivia was fine, but Miss Russell had fainted at this time. Academy medical staff and exorcist pastors were next to the hospital bed confirming the situation.

When facing David Mills' questioning, Miss Olivia did not tell the truth, but only said that Miss Russell seemed to have changed into a different person, and then suddenly became very aggressive.

As for the murder weapon she used, it was a table knife that was not very good to use.

On the table, along with the table knife used as a murder weapon, there was also a 5-cent coin found by the exorcist pastor.

When secretly talking to Wayne and Inesa, Miss Olivia revealed more details:

"Gladys was fine when she came back from her walk, that is, she seemed to suddenly be full of interest in Wayne. My intuition tells me that there seems to be a familiar 'aura' on her."

"I know you are all in the academy now, so taking advantage of her interest, I wanted to take her to you and let you confirm the situation."

"As a result, on the way, she really suddenly seemed to have changed into a different person. I tried to take her to the academy church nearby first, and then she suddenly took out a table knife to attack me - I think she was just attacking anyone who tried to stop her."

"Are you hurt?"

Wayne scanned Miss Olivia up and down, confirming as he asked.

At least he didn't see any obvious ketchup color. He shouldn't be complained about by Ian Fisk later……

"No," Miss Olivia shook her head. "I've been attacked in my dreams many times. Gladys isn't fast."

Inesa helped her roughly check the situation, and then asked, "You just said that you felt a familiar 'aura' on her?"

"Yes."

Miss Olivia lowered her voice slightly. "I think the person who influenced Gladys and the previous attacker who influenced Ms. Wahana is the same person. My nightmare seems to come from that person too."

Oh?!

Planning a kidnapping and instigating others to commit violence, it would be good if the Fisk family didn't go to trouble him, but the other party dared to come to their door again?

What guts.

"Don't worry," Wayne tried to give her more security, "We will protect you."

To dare to attack the detective agency's premium customers,

First from my corpse...呸, first pass us first.