The Wheel of Chronos

At 12:27 a.m. on December 10, at the corner of the corridor outside the women's washroom on the east side of the second floor of the main teaching building of Eton College.

Sharon stood on the outside with a cane, and Miranda hid behind her.Their bodies basically blocked the scene in the corner.Inside the corner, Claude Williams' hands were tied behind Old Jack's tie, and he was forced into the corner, his face was ashamed and frightened, and his body was constantly shaking.Beside him, Old Jack put a hand on his shoulder, and the astonishing force almost crushed his shoulder.

"Miranda, what's your relationship with him?" Sharon asked.

"Student..." Miranda had basically calmed down at the moment, her complexion was still pale, and she hadn't completely recovered from the shock and fear, but her thinking was much clearer, "We are classmates."

"I like her, I really like her... I'm just impulsive, please let me go..." Claude said tremblingly.

"Shut up!" Sharon glared at him fiercely, and Claude was so frightened by the murderous look in his eyes that he didn't dare to speak again.

Sharon didn't intend to let him go, and said coldly: "Why did you give your bracelet to your roommate? It's not because the bracelet is broken, but because you are afraid that the bracelet will record your behavior. If the police If you come to find you, your crime is confirmed. This is not the era of Rudolph, and the wristband is no longer a tool for the government to monitor the people. It can be removed freely, but the monitoring of various parameters of your body can still be used as a very beneficial wristband. The direct evidence. If you take off the bracelet itself, it means that your intention is wrong. You have planned it in advance, and it is not a whim at all. "

Claude was speechless, Sharon looked around and continued:

"I observed that there are few people on the east side of the second floor, especially the women's bathroom. There is a sign for plumbing maintenance on the door. Almost no one would come. If I hadn't passed by here, I heard a loud noise and was Attract, I'm afraid you will succeed. Miranda, did you make that loud noise?"

Miranda shook her head in confusion: "I...do not seem to have heard any loud noise."

Xue Lun frowned, thinking that she was probably too scared at the time and ignored the sounds from the outside world, so she didn't continue this topic.

"Anyway, Claude, I don't need to take you to the police station, but you have to come with me."

"Don't...don't...just let me go..." Claude was scared out of his wits, and he didn't want to go with Sharon at all. In his opinion, going with Sharon was more terrifying than going with the police .

"If you still want your future, you'd better listen to me obediently." Sharon lowered her voice and said.

Claude swayed his body, and finally he could only bow his head in compromise.

"Uncle Jack, take Miranda back to the dormitory. I'll take this guy to the car, and we'll meet there in a while."

"Yes, Miss."

Old Jack sent Miranda away. Sharon escorted Claude all the way back to her car. She opened the door and threw Claude in. She stood by the door and said:

"Now you answer me a few questions honestly, and I will consider letting you go."

Claude could only nod desperately.

"Do you know Josephine Spencer?"

"know……"

"How did you meet?"

"She is my classmate next door. She has always been famous in school, and everyone knows it. When she passed away, I went to her funeral." Claude replied cautiously, because he already knew the terrible thing in front of him. The woman was Josephine Spencer's sister.

Xue Lun knew that Claude knew Josephine a long time ago, but she didn't expect that Claude actually went to Josephine's funeral, and she felt a sharp pain in her heart for a while.

She took a deep breath, then continued to ask:

"What do you know about the collapse of Westminster Abbey six years ago?"

This question seemed to confuse Claude. He was stunned for a while before answering:

"That... is really a tragedy that is hard to accept. Maybe there was an omission when the building was built."

Sharon raised her cane and pressed it against his lower abdomen. Claude screamed in fright:

"I really don't know anything! I don't know anything!"

"Do you really want to go to Westminster to interview the priest?" Sharon asked suddenly.

Claude trembled: "Yes... yes, I... my dream is to be a priest..."

"The Lord doesn't need people like you, don't insult the sacred profession of priests." Sharon said.

Claude blushed, speechless.

"There is a Cardinal Charles Williams in Westminster, is that your grandfather?" Sharon asked.

"Yes……"

"Give me your home address and your fingerprints." Sharon said.

Claude trembled his lips and felt the sharp sting from the tip of the cane, so he had to quickly report his address.Sharon opened her bracelet, scanned Claude's fingerprints, then pulled him out of the car and kicked him far away.Claude fell on all fours, fell to the ground and couldn't get up for a long time.Only Xue Lun said coldly:

"What you did today, don't think that you can do it again in the future. You have to remember, I will definitely know, and I will come to you when the time comes, and then I won't let you go as easily as today."

Xue Lun went around to the front of the car, sat in the cab, started the car and left quickly.

The car drove to the exit of the parking lot, just as the old Jack came back, the two exchanged places, and the old Jack continued to drive, heading outside of Eton College.

"Miss, how is the interrogation going?"

"Claude probably doesn't know anything." Sharon was a little discouraged, and then as if to comfort herself, she said, "But his grandfather was the Cardinal of Westminster six years ago, so what should he know?" .”

"Didn't we check the clergy in Westminster a long time ago? All suspicions have been ruled out." Old Jack said.

Sharon sighed deeply and said:

"Maybe we missed something at the beginning. I want to go to the address of the cardinal's house. I should be able to get in with Claude's fingerprints. I plan to visit at night and check carefully. I don't believe that all the clues are broken like this, otherwise the watchmaker Why did I ask Crowder? Unless this kid has acting skills that can fool me, my judgment will never be wrong. He really doesn’t know anything. Could it be that we came to Eaton today to prevent this kid from making a fuss about Milan? Violence?"

"Miss, I think the whole incident today is too coincidental. The coincidence makes me feel a little scary." Old Jack couldn't help saying.

Sharon remained silent, in fact, she also felt the same way.If she hadn't come to look for Claude today, hadn't taken the stairs on the east side, hadn't heard the loud noise, and hadn't gone to check the situation, then Claude would have succeeded today.However, with so many conditions, all of them were met. This coincidence... really made her a little unbelievable.She thought of the mysterious watchmaker again. Could it be that he knew that Miranda would be raped by Claude, so he deliberately induced her to save Miranda?

She shook her head, secretly thinking that she was thinking too much.Even if Miranda was really saved, she was just a friend of her sister's many years ago, so what else would she know.The watchmaker was secretive and couldn't see his purpose at all.

"How's Miranda?" she asked old Jack.

"Scared, but still calm. She said that she would come to thank us in the next day, and I left her my contact information." Old Jack said.

Just as Sharon was about to say something, the bracelet on her wrist rang. When she connected the phone, she saw the caller's image appear on the holographic screen.The man looked at her with a smile like a fox, and said:

"My lord earl, would you please visit my shop tonight?"

Xue Lun looked at her speechlessly, and said mercilessly: "No, I'm not free."

"Oh? No, you just rejected me like that?" The other party dragged out his voice and put on a stalking look.

"You know, I'm not in the mood to mess around with your cronies." Sharon was unmoved.

"Don't worry, this time it's definitely not a friend. Recently, a person who just retired from the National Security Bureau came to the bar, and there may be clues to the New World Sect." The other party said mysteriously.

Sharon thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll go over tonight."

After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone without waiting for the other party to answer.

"Miss Pister?" Old Jack said.

"Yes, alas... I really shouldn't have provoked her back then, she came to bother me every day."

"Hehehe, Missy is also looking for the New World religion. Miss Pistol is well-informed and has her network, which is not bad for us." Old Jack laughed.

"If it weren't for the fact that she is useful to me, I would have blocked her long ago." Sharon said angrily.

***

On December 12th, at 27:14, Zhaoming Palace.

Tianyang is packing her luggage. In two days, she will leave for the port in Donghai District, ready to go to sea.This is not her first time on the front line, but her mood is even worse than the excitement and anxiety of the first time.

She was standing by the suitcase, trying to figure out what to pack next, when someone knocked on her door.She turned and opened the door, and at the door stood her dear mother, Queen Lani.

"Here, bring this with you." Lanny stuffed two bottles of vitamin lozenges into her hands, "The sea is no different than the land, especially the lack of vegetables and fruits. If the logistics supply can't keep up, it will be difficult for you to even eat the leaves of root vegetables."

"Good mom." Tianyang smiled sweetly, and packed the vitamin lozenges into a box.Lanny followed her in and told her what else she needed to bring.

"Mom... I'm here to fight, not on vacation." After a long while, Lan Ni hadn't stopped nagging, Tianyang finally couldn't stand it anymore.

Lan Ni glared at her, and said: "I learned this from your mother, you mother and daughter will use this kind of high-sounding argument to prevaricate me."

Tianyang quickly raised his hands in surrender: "Mom, I was wrong."

"Huh." Lan Ni snorted softly, and sat down by the sofa.

Tianyang saw that he made his mother unhappy, so he hurried over, squatted in front of his mother, lay on her lap, blinked his big eyes and said coquettishly:

"Mom~ I promise to get there, one call every day."

"That's about the same." Lanny nodded her forehead.

After speaking, the call came in, Tianyang looked at the caller ID, looked straight, stood up and answered the call.The other party was a square-faced man in a black suit. As soon as the call was connected, Tianyang asked:

"How did you check?"

"There hasn't been much progress yet. The target went to Eton College today and had contact with a boy and a girl. We have found out that the boy's name is Claude Williams, and his family is a church family. His grandfather is The cardinal of Westminster, whose father is a priest. The girl's name is Miranda Walker, and her family background is not bad. Her parents run a chain restaurant business together. Both of them are senior students in the Department of Theology. It is currently speculated that the target should be in According to the investigation into the death of his step-sister, these two students were former classmates of the target step-sister."

"Then she went to the three-story shop on Congress Street yesterday, have you checked it out?"

"Sorry princess, we are not doing well. We only know that there was an empty room on the second floor of that building that was leased until last night, but they moved out last night. The original owner of the empty room was a watch shop. The goal should be to there."

"Okay, keep checking and report to me regularly."

"Yes. Also, the target should go to a bar called 'The Deer Hunter' tonight."

"understood."

After hanging up the phone, Tianyang sighed softly.Lanny looked at her with a smile and said:

"Why, are you stumped?"

"This person is a bit difficult to deal with. She does her own way and her whereabouts are erratic. And she has found out that we are following her, but she doesn't take us seriously."

"Hahaha, it must have been a shock." Lanny smiled gleefully.

"Mom! You laughed at me again." Tianyang complained.

"Don't worry about going to the front line. I will be responsible for following up with this person. You must concentrate on the front line, and keep a low profile. Don't rely on your status as a princess to do whatever you want." Lanny touched her cheek.

"You know, I won't." Tianyang said seriously, and then she grabbed Lan Ni's hand and said:

"Then... I'll go to the Deer Hunter's Bar tonight, you have no objection."

"Why, is it possible that you want to monitor that person yourself?"

"Well, I want to know what she's doing. I'm so hungry, I can't rest at the front line."

"Okay, you go, bring more people. Remember..."

"Be low-key, I understand."

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