Dorothy's Forbidden Tome

"It's the police station on the side of the soot area. I want some files from it."

Looking at the police station outside the window, Ed spoke, and Adele nodded with a smile after seeing it.

"Well...I see."

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Next, Ed and Adele went to the police station in the soot area, under the control of Dorothy, Ed lied that he came to check the files and needed to enter some file rooms, assisted by Adele's charm Under the circumstances, Ed easily fooled the policemen who were collectively demoted, and then successfully entered the police file room, where Dorothy successfully found the file she was looking for.

After using her ability to write down all the contents of the file, Dorothy controlled Ed to quickly evacuate, and then quickly found a box in a coffee shop with Adele to sit down. Not long after sitting down and serving coffee, Ed directly took out a large map in front of Adele, unfolded it and put it on the table. Adele took a closer look and found that it was a map of the nearby urban area.

"Mr. Detective, what are you doing with the map? Do you want a pendulum? I have tried it, and the relevant information about my teacher has been incorporated into an anti-divination system. It is very likely that it is the Wolf Blood Society. The pendulum is it's useless."

Looking at Ed laying out the map, Adele said this, and Ed responded lightly to her.

"This is not for divination, it's just positioning..."

Ed said this, and then he took out his pen and began to mark one point after another on the map on the desktop. Looking at these points, Adele spoke again with some doubts.

"Positioning? What positioning?"

"Crime location, didn't you say it? The consequence of your teacher's loss of control is not only the four murders on the street, but also the crime rate in the soot area in the recent period. That is to say, in the past half a month Every case that happened in the soot area may be affected by the ability of the dancer to attract, so mark the location of all the cases, then maybe we can get some useful information."

Ed said so, and then continued to use a pen to mark points one by one on the map. Each point above represented the location of a crime, including theft, robbery, fighting, wounding, and even There are streaking...they are all criminal acts caused by uncontrollable emotions.

These are all recorded by Dorothy from the file room of the police station just now. Dorothy tried to use a small corpse doll to steal the files before, but all the files inside are shrunk in the iron cabinet. The small corpse doll There is no way to steal it.Fortunately, Adele was here, and finally relied on her charm ability to get these files without making any big noise.

"The location of the crime?"

Listening to Ed's words, Adele murmured, and as Ed pointed out more and more points on the map, her eyes couldn't help but light up.

"This is……"

"Ah, look, as long as the points are fixed, a lot of information will be clear."

Putting down the pen in his hand, Ed said that there are countless points on the urban map at this time. If you observe carefully, you can see that the distribution of these points has a certain pattern. These points are all based on a single origin. As the center, the middle is dense and the periphery is thin, presenting a diffuse radial pattern.

According to what Adele said before, the ability to attract dancers can expand its range by consuming additional spirituality, but this ability still shows a trend that the closer the distance is, the stronger it is, and the farther it is, the weaker it becomes.

If the reason for the abnormally soaring crime rate in the Coal Ash District is really due to the out-of-control ability of the dancers who want to attract the dancers, then the closer the place is to the source of the out-of-control ability, the greater the impact will be, and the more crime will be concentrated. The dotted map in front of you is is a good proof of this.

Now, both Ed and Adele focused their attention on the center of the cluster point on the map that radiated trends, and then Ed circled the place name marked "Charcoal Crossing" on the place name there. .

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Just as Ed and Adele were staring at the map and analyzing the information in the cafe, there was another pair of eyes staring at a similar map at the police station in the Soot Ash District they had been to before.

In the police station in the soot district of Sitivian, in the chief's office, the originally mighty chief is standing tremblingly beside his desk. On the office chair that originally belonged to him, another people.

This is a middle-aged man in his 30s, wearing a loose overcoat, with shoulder-length messy yellow hair, dirty stubble all over his chin, a contemptuous expression on his face, two legs They were all placed on the director's desk in front of him.Although the sitting posture was extremely indecent, the police chief on the side did not express any dissatisfaction, because he knew very well that the person in front of him was something he could not afford to offend.

This man is Edmund, the garrison captain of the Tivian Anyin Headquarters. At this moment, he is leading a team to the coal ash area to investigate the strange phenomenon of the abnormally soaring crime rate here. Ann's abnormal situation has already attracted the attention of the Anyin Headquarters. Not long after Ed and Adele left, Edmund broke into the police station with someone.

At this time, in the chief's office, Edmund was sitting in the center, and the police chief was beside him tremblingly, while in the rest of the place, there were many hunters in black who were busy looking through the files that had just been retrieved from the archives. After carefully reviewing the piles of files brought out, and sorting out information from them, black dots began to be marked on the city map of the director's office.

With the gradual increase of black spots on the map, Edmund's attention gradually focused on an area with dense black spots. It can be seen from the map that there is a crossroad.

Chapter 290

Sitivian, Soot District.

In the afternoon, in front of the police station in the coal gray area, a large black carriage was parked by the side of the road. In the chief's office of the police station, Edmund, the garrison captain of the Tivian Security Headquarters, was sitting lazily on the chief's seat. Above, look at the city map on the wall ahead.

At this time, the hunters under Edmund are busy sorting out the criminal files brought from the file room, and marking the crime locations in the map. Looking at the map, the center is dense and the periphery is sparse, showing a radial pattern. Edmund couldn't help but silently nodded at the distributed map.

"The center is dense and the periphery is thin, this radial distribution... a typical phenomenon of the extraordinary ability that gradually decreases in strength according to the distance, hey... It seems that this wave is really within the scope of responsibility, and responsibility cannot escape..."

Looking at the situation on the map, Edmund said with a sigh, the situation presented on the map in front of him is very clear, the densest spot on the map is the source of some kind of extraordinary power emission , it may be a certain out-of-control Beyonder, or it may be some kind of damage to a certain Beyonder item there, but no matter how you say it, it is my own responsibility.

"Then, my lord, may I ask why so many crimes in the soot area have skyrocketed recently because..." At this time, the police chief standing next to Edmund spoke nervously, while Edmund spoke casually.

"It is indeed because there are hidden factors in it. Don't worry, we will deal with it."

Edmund responded that it was obvious that the incident this time was caused by an extraordinary ability capable of long-distance and large-scale spiritual influence. It was either some kind of extraordinary person or some kind of extraordinary item.

Hearing Edmund's words, the chief of police let out a long sigh of relief. The sharp deterioration of the law and order environment in the Coal Ash District over the past half month has put him under great pressure as a police chief. The density of so many crimes is enough for He was charged with a grave dereliction of duty.

But simply, the above also saw that this series of events was unusual, sent professional personnel over, and confirmed that there was indeed a secret intervention that was not known to ordinary people, so the main responsibility would be It was no longer on the ordinary policeman, and the frightened police chief breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay... This series of cases is very bad. We will try our best to cooperate with your investigation. If you need anything, just ask."

The chief of police said to Edmund with a relaxed expression, and Edmund waved his hand lightly in response.

"Generally speaking, there will be no need. You are as usual, stick to your posts, do what you have to do, and don't mess around." Edmund said, and the chief of police responded with a smile, And here, a searcher team member walked over here and reported yes to Edmund.

"Captain Edmund, we have sorted out all the files."

Listening to his subordinate's report, Edmund put his feet down on the desk, stood up from the chief's position, and walked slowly to the map of the office, with the police chief following closely behind.

Looking at the map on the wall, Edmund focused his attention on the most densely populated central area. After staring at the place names above, he asked the chief of the police station beside him.

"Charcoal wood intersection... is there anything suspicious here?"

"The charcoal intersection... a suspicious place? Let me think about it, ah... Your Excellency, there was a house that was burned because of a fire at that intersection. The fire was very dangerous. It seemed that a family was directly burned to death. Fortunately, it was extinguished in time and did not spread further to other houses. Now it has been empty for a long time and no one lives there. Generally, only homeless people will go to sleep in it."

The chief of police reported this to Edmund, and Edmund nodded after hearing this, and then spoke to his hunters.

"Go and change into plain clothes, let's go there and have a look."

"Yes, Captain."

Soon, Edmund left the chief's office with his hunters, and the police chief couldn't help but relax after Edmund left, and then he walked to the window and looked at the The hunters got into their carriages and drove all the way to the distance, the expressions on their faces became serious.

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At this moment, in a dark, small but luxuriously decorated room, a middle-aged man in his 50s and [-]s with white hair was sitting on the sofa in the room.

A glass of red wine and a dinner plate were placed in front of the man. On the dinner plate were bloody pieces of fresh meat. He held a huge strange scepter in both hands. The scepter was as thick as an arm. , the head of the stick is spherical, as big as a basketball, and covered with red canvas. The man closed his eyes and rested his mind, while stroking the spherical stick head wrapped in canvas with his hands.

"Heh... I didn't expect the black dog to come so soon. Coincidentally, the action with the big star and her followers... It seems that the soot area is not small..."

While stroking the scepter in his hand, the man murmured, he looked at the table in front of him, and beside the red wine was this city map of the Coal Ash District. wooden intersection.

"In this case, how about arranging a 'encounter' for you?"

The man continued talking, and then a faint smile appeared on his lips.

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Sitivian, Soot District, Charcoal Junction.

The charcoal wood intersection is a triangular intersection in the coal ash area. Like other places in the coal ash area, the ground and houses are covered with a layer of light fine ash. There are not many pedestrians and carriages passing through the intersection. It's not a particularly lively place here.

On the side of the road at the Tanmu intersection, there is a scorched stone building that is particularly eye-catching. This three-story building that has been on fire is very conspicuous among the buildings, but due to the surrounding people I am used to the existence of this building, so I didn't attract any extra attention, except of course, except for some people who just came to this intersection.

On the side of the charcoal intersection, wearing hats and sunglasses, Adele and Ed, who have undergone cross-dressing, are standing here, looking at the burned-out small building on the side of the road not far away, and Ed is looking at it After taking a few glances at the scorched floor, he spoke in a low voice.

"The most suspicious place at this entire intersection seems to be here, Miss Adele, do you feel anything?"

"No, as far as I'm concerned, I don't feel anything unusual. There doesn't seem to be any sign that the dancer's ability has been used. We may have to enter that building to find anything."

Adele responded by Ed's side. Catching Ed's eyes and looking at the small black building in front of her, Dorothy in the distance thought for a while, and began to use the flying crow puppet from the sky. He observed the situation at the entire intersection, and then flew into the small building for a preliminary observation, and found nothing unusual, so he asked Ed to continue speaking.

"Hmm... The source of this out-of-control extraordinary power should be near here. The small building is most likely. I have already let my animal meat puppets go in to investigate, and there are empty ruins and homeless people inside. Straw beds, nothing special."

"Perhaps... there is something or mechanism that uses extraordinary power to hide inside? Maybe we can go in and have a look inside. Many extraordinary traces cannot be felt by relying on meat puppets." Adele responded like this, after hearing Adele Ed also nodded in response to the words.

"Well, then we can find a deserted place now..."

Just as Ed was about to continue talking, the crow puppet Dorothy arranged to conduct a bird's-eye view in the sky suddenly discovered something. Under the vision of the crow puppet, Dorothy saw A black carriage came from the road in the distance.

Chapter 290

Although the appearance of this black carriage is simple, it seems to be no different from other carriages, but if you look closely, you can find that its carriage is a few sizes larger than normal carriages, and the horses pulling the carriage seem to be stronger than the horses of ordinary carriages Many, the carriage chapter is not covered with soot, and it is cleaner than the general carriages driving in the soot area.

Seeing such a special carriage parked at the charcoal intersection from a high-altitude perspective, Dorothy immediately stopped Ed's proposal to Adele to enter the house to check, but continued to observe the black carriage. In the carriage, I saw a few men in regular clothes get off from the carriage. After they got off the carriage, they immediately cast their eyes on the charred house, and some people began to discuss something.

"what happened?"

Seemingly aware of some abnormalities in Ed beside her, Adele asked in a low voice, while Dorothy asked Ed to answer in a low voice.

"Don't worry, someone else is coming now, and the target seems to be that building, we can wait."

Ed reminded Adele like this, and then glanced at the people next to the black carriage on the opposite side of the intersection. After sensing the existence of the other party, Adele froze, then nodded slowly and obeyed Ed. suggestion.

After noticing the appearance of the black carriage, Edmund and Adele decided to stand still and continue to wait and see what happened. On the other side, Edmund, who had just got off the carriage, chatted with his subordinates for a while , eyes fixed on the scorched black house in the distance.

"Is that where it is, huh... this area is the most suspicious place... let's go and have a look first..."

Saying that, Edmund led his men to go directly to the charred small building, while in the dark among the crowd, Edmund and Adele silently watched everything in front of them, intending not to have any trouble with these mysterious visitors. Contact, observe first and plan later.

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In the dimly lit and luxuriously decorated small room, the man who was stroking the scepter in his hand and resting his eyes with his eyes closed suddenly opened his eyes slowly, and there was a tinge of sensuality in his brown eyes. shine.

"It's very sensitive, Ms. Xingxing... the black dog actually noticed something when he came, and he has some skills...

"But if you do this, you won't be able to bump into each other. If that's the case, let me give you a push..."

Whispering, the man continued to close his eyes, then stood up from the sofa, and then raised the very abnormally huge scepter in his hand, the ball-shaped head covered by the cup of red canvas, and at this moment there was a burst of strangeness. shimmer.

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At the charcoal intersection, Edmund was about to lead the team to the downstairs of the scorched black building for further inspection, but at this moment, a loud noise attracted his attention.

"Hey! How do you walk! Lean to me, are you plotting something wrong!"

"I'll go mine, it's none of your business! Are you finding fault on purpose!"

Hearing two loud voices, Edmund stopped in his tracks, and then looked towards the place where the voices came from. He saw two young men clashing with each other at the intersection, and were fiercely scolding each other.

"Tell me! Did you just try to plot against me!"

"So what if you plan to do something wrong! I've seen you upset for a long time!"

The two men were arguing loudly in the middle of the intersection. While arguing, they also took out the knives they carried with them, and made gestures with each other, as if they might strike at any time.

Although the two people quarreled so fiercely that it seemed that they had deep grievances, but if you listen carefully to the content of their quarrel, you will find that the quarrel is completely trivial. The reason for the quarrel between the two parties is actually Dislike each other when passing each other on the street! ?

Not only these two people, after these two people, some other pedestrians on the intersection suddenly quarreled with each other loudly, some pedestrians were arguing with beggars, some tavern waiters were arguing with customers, and some were arguing with each other. Husband and wife are arguing, and the owner of a fruit stand is arguing with customers.

"Hey! Hey! Why do you only give this little money! Seeing that you are dressed so well, why don't you give me a little more, miser!"

"It's good to give it to you! Do you want to eat fists? Stinky beggar!"

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"What kind of service attitude do you have! Have you ever talked to a customer like this?"

"What do you think about my attitude?"

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"Damn ghost! Did you glance at another woman just now! That woman wearing sunglasses! I'm going to kill you!"

"Come on! Ugly woman! Watch me kill you and marry a new one!"

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"There is something wrong with your scale. How can you get 16 pounds?"

"You are deliberately finding fault, right? Just say whether you want it or not!"

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All of a sudden, the whole intersection was full of noise, and people suddenly quarreled with red faces over trivial matters, and the quarrel became more and more intense. It rose to a death threat, and then took out the weapon he carried with him and began to gesture.

At the small charcoal intersection, more than a dozen groups of quarreling objects suddenly appeared out of thin air. The conflicts between the two parties in these quarrels escalated rapidly, and it seemed that they were about to fight each other and lead to bloody cases.

Ed and Adele, who were on the side of the road, couldn't help frowning when they saw this scene. Adele looked at the scene at the intersection and couldn't help but speak seriously.

"This is the ability to attract dancers..."

"To lure the dancers...cause so many conflicts at once...Is your ability so powerful?"

"Well... this is what we are good at. It instantly stimulates and expands the tiny desires generated by a moment of dissatisfaction into a sea of ​​​​blood and deep hatred, making complete strangers feel as deep as the sea, and swords and soldiers face each other...

"With this scale of ability, sure enough, my teacher is nearby! Wait until I calm down the desire intensified in their hearts."

Adele said so, and then she started to stare at the noisy crowd in front of her, and began to use her ability to calm the boiling hearts of the crowd.

On the other side, the sudden abnormal situation among the crowd also attracted the attention of Edmund and his hunters. Edmund turned his attention to the frantic crowd, and his originally relaxed brows frowned.

'This...is an extraordinary ability, and it is an extraordinary ability that has recently affected the soot area, but it is now appearing on a large scale? '

Looking at the scene in front of him, Edmund thought in his heart that in the face of a series of conflicts that were rapidly intensifying and continued to cause a large number of casualties, he couldn't help tightening his heart and began to feel a little anxious.