New Gods of North America

Wayne returned to the detective agency before dark, while Linna stayed at the academy with Willie.

After selling the prepared ingredients, Chef Parker's stall was packed up at Linna's urging, and then Linna joined Miss Ovilia and the others after their classes, planning to hang around until midnight and then find a chance to sneak into the academy's church.

Inessa and Conner's team mainly investigated the 'potion' aspect.

Since it was a non-compliant potion, the source of the raw materials and the location where it was concocted seemed worth investigating.

Today, Inessa mainly used the process of elimination, visiting the local exorcism department and pharmacies in Georgeberg, compiling the number of compliant drug purchases, and found no problems so far.

The plan is to go through all the 'compliant' channels first, then make a preliminary assessment of how big the potential 'gap' might be, and then cross-reference it with the information Linna has investigated, and start focusing on visiting some potentially 'non-compliant' places.

The detective agency's nights have been relatively 'quiet' recently.

Since Mr. Baker turned into a ghoul and 'oops' died, Cohen Pharmaceuticals hasn't organized any more attacks.

After the detective agency's public announcement 'soliciting clues' was published, although letters were received one after another, most of them were 'spam'.

Some wished Wayne to win enough games in total, some expressed criticism or approval of the 'public duel' behavior, and some asked when the detective agency would sell food again and set up a stall while selling lottery tickets.

Wayne has felt a little more secure since learning about Inessa and Linna's ranks.

He plans to observe for a few more days, and if nothing happens, he will consider lifting the detective agency's collective night-time alert and return to 'normal'.

As for continuing the public duel, if Cohen Pharmaceuticals has really temporarily withdrawn from Virginia, then Wayne can only issue an announcement saying 'there are no more targets to challenge', and then count the amount and prepare to distribute the prizes and end it.

On the contrary, the new steam train security contract, which almost 'flew away', eventually 'ran back' on its own.

So the detective agency's second 'branch' has entered formal preparation.

Since Ryan's 'first branch' has been doing well recently, after the news came back, many agents are no longer resistant to the situation of 'possibly being assigned to a branch', and are basically in a state of 'obeying the assignment'.

Wayne is a little headache instead, wondering how to transfer people this time.

The departure time of the second branch's personnel must be as far as possible after Pastor Parish's matter is 'cleared up'.

That is, we must strive to solve the matter preliminarily within a month.

Pastor Parish's matter focuses on investigation, and the matter of cleaning up the house can be left to the church to do it themselves. The number of people is more important than the number of people.

If there is a general idea at that time, let some of the agents from the branch set off first.

Wayne listed the detective agency's existing members and was drafting a plan.

Unexpectedly, the most active person in the 'new branch' was Liam, who is still considered a 'prisoner'. It can be said that he smelled the smell and came to volunteer.

This guy's recent performance is actually not bad. His positive combat power may not be too strong, but if he actually shoots a cold shot, his survival rate won't be too low.

It just feels like this guy is not very reliable... Maybe he will sell the detective agency like he sold Cohen Pharmaceuticals.

However, seeing Liam's efforts to fight for it, Wayne did not directly refuse him for the time being.

He plans to ask Linna later if she is confident in tracking traitors from a distance before considering it.

This gave Wayne a little inspiration.

Didn't Ryan get tired of staying there before? Then this time the new office is established, and the manpower will be rotated a little.

Arrange some manpower to the previous office, and then a few people will come back from there, so that both offices are 'half new and half old'. It is estimated that the work will be carried out much more smoothly at that time, and there is no need to 'explore from scratch' in everything.

As for Ryan, anyway, the request he made before was 'hoping that the detective agency would send someone to take over his work'.

Then arrange someone to take over his position as the head of the 'first branch'. After Ryan comes back, then send him to be responsible for setting up the 'second branch'...

Rounding it off, it can be regarded as the best of both worlds.

With such an allocation, the manpower of the detective agency's 'base camp' will seem insufficient again.

Wayne plans to let everyone mobilize their acquaintances again, for example, let Inessa and Conner write letters again to ask Kanks City to see if there are any idle partners.

...

Linna returned in a carriage just before midnight.

The situation she sneaked into and investigated was indeed not optimistic. The academy church now has a kind of frankness that 'prevents gentlemen but not villains'.

After nightfall, there was no one inside, and the guards on duty basically only patrolled the periphery of the church. The inside sounded as empty as Pastor Parish's kidneys. Naturally, no valuable evidence was found.

Wayne guessed that it should be his last sneak in that 'startled the snake'.

Maybe Ms. LaLaurie didn't break into the academy's church at all at that time. It was all smashed by Pastor Parish himself, in order to destroy the evidence.

There are no clues at the academy church for the time being, so to continue searching for evidence, we have to dig in more difficult places.

There are currently two directions that can be explored at the detective agency. One direction is to search Pastor Parish's residence.

Wayne knows that there are at least two places. One is actually in the courtyard of the academy church. It is the collective 'dormitory' of the church's clergy. It is not connected to the 'body' of the academy church, but many people are there at night, so there is no way to search at midnight.

The other is in the city of Georgeberg. It is said to be a mansion with a small courtyard. The specific location has to be asked.

It is best to determine Pastor Parish's location in the past few days, and then run to the farther side to search, and make a time difference.

As for the other direction that can be explored, it comes from the will that Wayne and Linna accidentally found before.

Pastor Parish designated many things in his will to others, and the names of some of these people overlap with those who have been taking drugs in the academy church for a long time.

Comparing the two, the most suspicious thing now should be on Pastor Parish, that is, his so-called 'daily pendant'.

Um...

Originally, secretly putting on a 'sack' and stealing peacefully would not be a bad idea.

But considering that the potions that Wayne stole from Pastor Parish before could not be directly identified as problematic even if they were sent to the cathedral.

The risk of doing so seems to be a little high... Wayne has seen the old man's ability to 'make a rake'.

Since the cathedral doesn't come forward itself, the detective agency should not be caught with its tail on this matter.