Dorothy's Forbidden Tome

Dorothy used the puppet as a cover to open a room in this hotel, and then lived in the room. After taking a hot shower, she lay down on the hotel bed and slept with her head covered. Not long after, Dorothy fell into a deep sleep.

After a long sleep without dreams, Dorothy finally opened her eyes and got up. The sky outside the window was still bright. After scratching her messy long hair, she stretched it out Lazy, stretched his slightly sore body, and then glanced at the pocket watch beside the bed, it showed that the current time was already 02:30 in the afternoon.

Despite the lingering drowsiness, after Dorothy put on her clothes and combed them casually, she opened the door and went downstairs to check out the room. came to the street.

On the street, Dorothy first found a telegraph office to send a telegram to Greg saying that he was safe at home, and then found a place with a relatively good environment to eat something casually. Before eating, Dorothy specially The front desk took a copy of today's newspaper, and then read the newspaper while eating butter bread in her own seat. The headline of the newspaper was as she expected, it was about the news about the New Year's party in Bishop's Square last night.

"Unexpected Situation! The New Year Party hosted by Princess Isabel suffered a sudden explosion"

"At 1:1 on January [-]st, an unknown explosion occurred in the Bishop's Square in Nancheng District where the Princess New Year's Party was being held. Princess Isabel, Duke Barrett and many other people were injured in the accident. The cause of the accident is not yet clear. The Princess and the Duke are currently He is receiving treatment, and the current injury situation has not been officially notified. Since last night, the Bishop's Square and the surrounding area have been blocked..."

'Explosion accident? Huh...It seems that the Royal Government has not yet planned to announce this incident as an assassination...If it is announced as an assassination, from the perspective of the Royal Government, a The Duke's backstab, no matter what, must find out the real culprit and catch the assassin in the end, otherwise, the kingdom's government will lose face.

'But the essence of this incident involves extraordinary secrets, so even if the real culprit is really investigated, it is not easy to make an announcement, so for the time being, I will use the reason of the explosion accident as a perfunctory excuse, and then deal with it slowly, anyway For ordinary people, the situation at that time was quite like an explosion. Even if the death of Duke Barrett was really defined as an accident later, it is not impossible at all.'

Gnabbing on the panel in her hand, Dorothy looked at the newspaper in front of her and thought that during this period, she also paid a little attention to the situation of other people in the restaurant at this time, and then Dorothy found that although many of them were facing the newspaper It is being discussed but it has not reached a particularly heated level. If the newspaper reported that Duke Barrett was assassinated, then the number of people discussing it now is estimated to be doubled.

"I guess it won't be long before there will be news that Duke Barrett was seriously injured and died. By that time, there will probably be another wave of small public opinion. Adding the previous ones, this is equivalent to a wave of public opinion." The big public opinion weakened a little and then split into two small waves. The Kingdom government is also trying to find ways to reduce the adverse effects of this incident."

Chapter 380 Inquiry

Thinking in this way, Dorothy finished the bread in her hands, and after drinking a cup of coffee slowly, she checked out and walked out of the restaurant. After returning to her carriage, she quickly drove it towards the north of the city. go.

Finally, after a few more hours, Dorothy returned to Greenshade Town in her own carriage. When she asked the corpse puppet to put the carriage in place, the sky was getting dark and it was another round of night coming soon.

Dorothy walked quickly back to her home, and when she reached her door, she saw a familiar figure, it was none other than Beverly.

"Beverly?"

"Hey, Miss Messhouse is here. It's just in time. Your dedicated postman is working."

Seeing Dorothy approaching from a distance, Beverly smiled and saluted and said, after seeing Dorothy, she waved her hand and opened her mouth.

"Okay, okay, if a postman like you who is so expensive and frighteningly works hard, I can't stand it. Let's get down to business, do I believe it again?"

"Of course~ and it's urgent." Beverly said, then she took out an envelope and handed it to Dorothy. After Dorothy took it, Beverly looked at Dorothy again. He glanced, then spoke again.

"Miss Messhorse, it seems that you didn't come home last night. It happened that there seemed to be some major incident involving the royal family of Despenser in the southern city last night. Could it be you..."

"Don't tell me... I didn't do it. I just went to the New Year's Eve with my family. Don't be suspicious." Listening to Beverly's words, Dorothy gave her a blank look and said , Beverly was a little surprised when she heard what Dorothy said.

"You still have family members who can celebrate the New Year together..."

"Of course~ Is this a surprise?"

"It's a bit...Generally, an Extraordinary like you who has been deeply involved in the hidden world will have mental problems to some extent. The deeper you go on this extraordinary road, the more difficult it is to maintain the emotional values ​​of a normal person. If you don't say that you can still have the idea of ​​celebrating the New Year with your family, I would have thought you were a madman who only knows how to study extraordinary secrets."

Beverly said to Dorothy like this, after she finished speaking, she waved her hands and turned to say goodbye.

"Anyway, I've seen that kind of madman a lot. It's rare for you to look like this, and I like it a little more. I hope you won't be driven crazy by any weird things in the future."

After Beverly finished speaking, she walked away leisurely with her hands behind her back. Dorothy, who was standing there, thought about what Beverly said just now, and her decision did make sense. In this extraordinary world, it is indeed difficult to stick to the original heart of human nature. Perhaps this is the reason why various evil associations emerge in endlessly, and there are so many heretics.

If Dorothy didn't have the "reading method" and poison immunity brought by the system, her mind would definitely not be normal after being in the hidden world for a long time.

After thinking like this in her heart, Dorothy took the envelope given by Beverly and walked into the house, then sat on the sofa and opened it to read. After a few random glances, Dorothy finished reading the contents of the letter.

This letter was written to Detective Ed, and the person who wrote the letter was none other than the anti-inner ghost team leader of the Anyin Headquarters, a royal knight named Misha.

Sending a letter at this time, Misha's purpose must be nothing else, just to ask about the situation in the Bishop's Square. They seem to have confirmed that the attack was done by the eight-pointed nest. Now Misha wants to ask the detective. Ed has urgent information about some issues. After all, in Misha's eyes, the organization that detective Ed belongs to has an insider within Bajian, so maybe he knows what key information Bajian has in this incident. .

Besides, Misha only disclosed information about Duke Barrett to Ed not long ago. Now that Duke Barrett was directly killed, Misha must ask about the corresponding situation and confirm the organization Ed belongs to and this incident. Whether there is any relationship, so Misha once again invited Ed in this letter to meet directly to discuss matters.

After reading the letter, Dorothy stroked her chin with great interest, and couldn't help thinking about it.

'Yoho... just right, I also want to know some of the current official situation, and if you take the initiative to invite me to go over there to provide you with information... I should also be able to ask for some rewards Well, it just so happens that I am so lacking in spirituality that it is not too much to give a few secret biography."

After thinking so much in her heart, Dorothy immediately put the letter aside, then took out a quill and an envelope from the magic box, and began to write a reply letter on it after infusing it with spirituality.

In the letter, Dorothy responded that she was willing to meet Misha at the old place tomorrow morning, and she also proposed some small rewards for the intelligence expenses.

"Huh... It seems that the new year will also be a busy year."

After writing the letter on the envelope, Dorothy sighed, and then she was going to get up and go out to find her exclusive "hardworking" postman.

......

Time flies, and the time of the night flies by quickly.

The winter sun shone on the spire of the church area. Amidst the steady bells, countless citizens walked across the wide square to the Cathedral of the Psalter, praying for the new year.

Although it is already the second day of the New Year, the Cathedral of the Psaltery is still very lively. The pews of the church are almost full of citizens, and many people who have no place are standing or kneeling towards the Holy Spirit of the Three Saints. The altar was praying with all his heart, and at this time, in a corner of this wide cathedral away from the crowd, two figures were standing here, they were Ed in a dark windbreaker, and Ed in a man's attire, with obvious eyes. Misha with dark circles.

"It's nice to see you again, Miss Misha, you don't look very well. I'm sorry, as a lady, you should pay more attention to getting enough sleep. This is the key to beauty."

Lifting his short hat, Ed spoke politely to Misha, while Misha, who looked tired, said softly.

"Oh... thank you for your kindness, Mr. Detective... I don't know where you came up with these theories, but obviously I don't need them. Let's get straight to the point. First, I want to make sure that on New Year's Eve Nan The case of the city square is the work of Bajian, right..."

"That's right, those blood-sucking spiders did it. I'm glad you didn't blame us, Ms. Misha. After all, I only got information about Duke Barrett from you last year."

Listening to Misha's words, Ed shrugged and said, while Misha with dark circles under her eyes continued to speak.

"Among the survivors at the scene, some had contact with or even briefly confronted the vampires who were trying to sneak in. According to their testimonies, we almost confirmed from the very beginning that the Nest of Eight Points was the mastermind of this incident, but in terms of details, we There are still many things that have not been clarified. Don’t you have an inner ghost at Bajian? Did you get any important information from that inner ghost?

"For example... Who is the killer who finally committed the assassination?"

......

Huh, I should ask for a few days off for the Chinese New Year, so please let me know in advance.

Chapter 380 Communication

North Tivian, Cathedral Quarter.

In the largest church in Tivian, the Cathedral of the Psalter, countless citizens are gathering here to pray for the New Year. In the corner of this crowded church, Ed, the puppet controlled by Dorothy, is fighting with the anti-inner secrets of the Anyin Headquarters. The leader of the ghost group, the royal knight Misha, had this secret meeting. The meeting had just started, and Dorothy learned about the current situation of some security bureaus from the other party.

"The Anyin Bureau has identified that Bajian is the mastermind behind the scenes. This is a lot of peace of mind. Think about it, too. The guards of the princess and the duke have not been completely wiped out, and the guards on other floors are far away from the scene. There are quite a few survivors, and many of them have dealt with the vampire who attempted to assassinate at close range. At least they can provide the Security Bureau with the important information that there is a vampire attempting to sneak in for an assassination. One point, the Anyin Bureau is enough to identify who is behind the scenes."

In a coffee house far away from the church area, Dorothy thought in her heart like this, and then she manipulated Ed in the distant church, and responded to Misha with a smile.

"Ms. Misha, if you ask me such a question, it seems that you really believe in our penetration into the Nest of Eight Points, and you also believe in the authenticity of our information."

"There's nothing you can do if you don't believe it... You also know that as long as that hidden nail is not pulled out for a day, we may not be able to investigate anything, and it may be risky to investigate any information immediately.. .Although I don’t say that there is no risk in the information I hope for you, it will be less.”

With a hint of helplessness, Misha said to Ed that because of the existence of that big hidden nail, the Anyin General Administration has been very passive in investigating Bajian, and almost nothing has been done. Their recent investigations into Bajian The biggest result of the investigation was the successful removal of the small hidden nail planted in the anti-inner ghost team. This was achieved based on the information provided by Dorothy. So we encountered such a major situation , Misha first thought of coming to Dorothy to obtain information about Bajian.

For Misha, cooperating with the third-party force represented by the "detective" who is full of mystery and whose truth is unknown is also a risky act. It is the only way to guarantee the confidentiality of information 100%, which is a helpless move after all.

"Thank you, Ms. Misha, for your trust. Since you trust us so much, we will be happy to share information with you. You think right. We do have a certain understanding of Bajian's assassination, and even . . . on the night of the assassination, some of us were there."

Ed continued to speak to Misha with a smile, listening to his words, Misha couldn't help but speak quite unexpectedly.

"That party...were any of you there?"

"Yes, we got intelligence from the spies, and knew that Bajian might have a big move in the New Year's Square in Bishop's Square, so we sent people there to try to stop Bajian's actions. Although we have made some efforts, It's a pity that they finally succeeded."

Ed replied slowly, Misha couldn't help frowning slightly after hearing this.

"Then why didn't you inform us then?"

"Because it was too late. By the time we got the information, the party had already begun. Our own people who carried out the actions in the past were even dispatched nearby. Although our actions hindered the original plans of those guys, we were helpless. The reserve force was a bit of a surprise, so we couldn't stop their last risky assassination."

Ed continued to speak, and after hearing Ed's words, Misha couldn't help muttering with a slight frown.

"Because of your obstruction...the original plan of those guys was hindered? So...you are the ones who alerted the royal guards?"

"Well, yes, we found the body of the poor royal guard who was replaced during the peripheral conflict with Bajian, so we manipulated him with corpse puppet props to make some articles, reminding other royal guards, Although the vampire assassins were chased away, I didn't expect them to have a backup."

"No wonder...the surviving guards said that they met the emergency medical team at the door carrying a person who was exactly the same as the guard disguised by the vampire, reminding them that the guard above was fake, and then we went to the medical emergency I asked the nun on duty there, and she said that there had never been such a person, and it turned out that these were all arranged by you..."

Misha murmured clearly, the expression on her face seemed to be that the confusion in her heart had been solved, and Dorothy in the distance couldn't help but nodded after seeing Misha's appearance, her actions just now were regarded as Successfully covered Vanya.

At the New Year's Eve in the square, because of time constraints, Dorothy asked the puppet to pretend to be Vanya's subordinates and carry Greg in disguise to remind the royal guards to be careful of the vampires around the Duke. In fact, Vanya's emergency point is There is no such a seriously wounded royal guard, so Vanya must not admit it, and the last innocent disappearance of the wounded royal guard must have a reason, and now Dorothy gave Misha the reason.

"You just said... the backup force arranged by the Eight-Pointed Nest was so powerful that even you couldn't stop it, so what is that backup force? Who was the one who finally killed His Highness the Duke? ?”

With a serious attitude, Misha asked Ed, and after Ed let out a sigh of relief, he looked at the magnificent dome painting on the ceiling of the church. The religious legend that Arthur received a stone sword from the Son, after looking at the majestic Son and pious Arthur for two or three seconds, Ed spoke to Misha.

"The one who killed Barrett in the end...was a person you are very familiar with. We don't know his name, but I'm afraid there are not many Tivians who don't know his title. According to the news in the newspaper, the title He's - Night Stalker."

Hearing Ed's words, Misha's brows were furrowed immediately, and a stunned expression appeared on her face. After maintaining this shocked look for a while, she spoke in an inconceivable manner.

"Night Demon... is actually a person with eight tops... No wonder, no wonder... If the killer is Night Demon, everything would make sense..."

"Makes sense? Did you discover anything during your investigation?"

Listening to Misha's words, Ed also opened his mouth in confusion, and Misha replied after a slight pause.

"The scene of the assassination was damaged by the extraordinary force of Feng Zhi in a very large area. Including the Duke of Barrett, many Royal Family Extraordinary bodyguards who were present at the scene were all killed at the same time. We suspect that the Duke and the bodyguards had an affair with the assassin when the incident happened. After a short confrontation, they may have seen the truth about the murderer. Therefore, we immediately carried out soul-calling on the dead at the scene, trying to restore the truth of the incident, but no matter whether it was the Duke or the guards, the soul-calling failed without exception. , our 'Sabi' Extraordinary claims that his invocation has been hindered.

"This situation is very similar to the phenomenon when the night devil committed a crime. Before the night devil killed the victim, the victim's soul could not be summoned. Therefore, we all believe that the night devil has some means to hinder the soul summoning. If you kill Duke Barrett and The other attendants are night devils, so the reason for not being able to summon souls makes sense.

"I didn't expect that the last killer was Ye Mo... Then it seems that there is a connection between the series of cases he made before and this major murder case, but where is the connection?"

Still with a look of surprise, Misha muttered thoughtfully, and after listening to her words, Dorothy in the distance also nodded understandingly, thinking in her heart.

Chapter 380 Communication

"Night Demon possesses some kind of means to hinder the summoning of souls... This is one of the important factors that he has committed many crimes but has never been caught. Obviously, he also used this method in this assassination... .

'It's still not clear exactly what this means of blocking the soul from being summoned is still unclear, but what can be confirmed is that once this method is used, even Bajian himself will not be able to summon the soul out, so they specially let Night Demon Barrett's soul is not blocked, because Bajian needs to summon Barrett himself, and get the specific whereabouts of the research chamber from him... But it is also because of this that we can use the great shaman's The power took Barrett's soul.'

Dorothy thought in her heart, now it seems that the Night Demon is either a "Sabi" Extraordinary, or possesses some kind of "Sabi" Extraordinary items, and sealed the soul with the "Sabi" Extraordinary power .

"Do you know the specific identity of that Night Demon?"

At this time, Misha asked Ed again, and Ed shook his head in response.

"I don't know. Regarding the real identity of the famous Tivian Killer Lord in the capital, it is also classified as top secret inside Bajian. Although our informants in Bajian are not low-level, they have not yet reached contact with him." With that level of information, unfortunately, we don't know the truth about that murderer.

"But from your description just now, this Night Demon can block the soul in some way, so maybe he is on the path of 'Ji'?"

Thinking, Dorothy asked Ed to speak slowly, while Misha continued to answer.

"It's possible, but it's not that big. According to the many cases that Nightmare has done before, his methods are very skillful, quick, concealed, and deceptive. He is a really powerful assassin... .This is the characteristic of a senior Extraordinary on the path of 'Shadow', I always tend to think that he holds some kind of powerful 'Sabi' Extraordinary item, and he uses Extraordinary items to achieve the purpose of sealing the soul."

"It's on the path of 'Shadow'..."

Hearing Misha's words, Ed couldn't help murmuring thoughtfully. After thinking for a while, he continued to look at Misha, and then said seriously.

"According to the information provided by our eight-point insider, it's not that no one survived in the center of the assassination scene that night."

"Yes, your information is correct. Although Princess Isabel was seriously injured, fortunately, the healing nun from the church arrived in time, so Her Royal Highness survived by luck. She is still in a coma and has no signs of waking up. "

Misha responded directly, and after hearing Misha's words, Ed asked again.

"So have you carefully checked the belongings of Her Highness the Princess? Did you find anything unusual?"

"Check Your Highness the Princess... Heh, listen to you, you are not suspecting that Princess Isabel is a night demon, right? I admit that Her Highness the Princess is the only survivor at the scene, and almost all the damage at the scene was caused by the extraordinary power of Feng Zhi , At first glance, she seems to be very suspicious, but Her Royal Highness is absolutely impossible to be a night devil."

Listening to Ed's words, Misha replied with a chuckle, while Ed asked solemnly.

"Are you so sure?"

"Of course I'm sure that Princess Isabel is gentle and kind by nature, full of strong compassion. Since she was a child, she couldn't bear to trample an ant to death, let alone kill someone. When she was asked to hunt her before, she couldn't bear to ejaculate. Killing prey, and always persuading other royal families to give up hunting, until the end, no one has a reason to take her for hunting activities."

As Misha said, she is a knight serving the royal family, so she knows quite a lot about the internal affairs of the royal family.

"Princess Isabel's kindness is well known. You can understand a little bit just by reading the princess's charity activities in the newspaper. Her kindness is innate, and it has been like this since she was a child. Besides, although Her Royal Highness has accepted it since she was a child The Extraordinary education of the royal family is also an Extraordinary, but his rank is only a black-rank wind spell user, and in terms of the performance of the Night Demon, his rank is at least above the Cretaceous rank.

"In addition, the powerful killer qualities possessed by night devils cannot be achieved without long-term training, and Her Royal Highness has been under the formal royal education since childhood, so it is impossible to receive this kind of extremely professional killer training. In the end, the princess It's not that we haven't checked His Highness's belongings, and there is nothing suspicious inside."

When Misha said this to Ed, her expression determined that Princess Isabel could not be the night devil. After hearing her words, Dorothy couldn't help but nodded thoughtfully.

'He has a kind heart since he was a child...he has been under the formal royal education...and now he is just a wind spell user...no suspicious Extraordinary items have been found on his body. .....If what the knight said is true, the possibility of the princess being a night devil is really very low...'

Dorothy was thinking about it, but in the church, Misha spoke again to Ed.

"We have dealt with Night Demon many times. He is very cautious and cunning. It is very difficult to directly find out his true identity, so this time I want to assassinate the Duke and Princess from the Nest of Eight Points even more. Start with the motive and conduct an investigation, do your informants know the motive for their action this time?"

"The motive...according to our informant, this time's action was directly planned by at least the top level of their ranks, and the lower ones are all executive levels, so our informant doesn't know much about this aspect. More, what we can know now is that this is probably related to Duke Barrett's ongoing research on the statue of the mirror moon. On the night of the incident, a team from Bajian went to Barrett's research site in the southwestern suburbs, in order to completely destroy the research results .”

Dorothy asked Ed to answer, listening to Ed's words, Misha couldn't help but sighed.

"Huh... Is it really related to that research? The villa of the Duke of Barrett, which was used as the research site, we have already visited yesterday morning, and when our people arrived there, it was already on fire. Well, the people inside are all dead, unfortunately, we didn’t find anything of value among the wreckage, and those research materials may have been burned.”

Misha said with a sigh, after getting more useful information about the eight-pointed motive without Ed here, she seemed a little disappointed, but at this moment, Ed continued to speak with a smile.

"Not all of them were burned, because in order to understand how far Barrett's research has progressed, Bajian didn't destroy all the data, but brought back part of it for interpretation, and we in Bajian The insiders came into contact with these materials through adventures, copied some of them through some means, and successfully sent them to us."

"What? Do you have some of the duke's research?"

Listening to Ed's words, Misha's eyes lit up and Ed continued to respond.

"Yeah, although it's not complete, but I think it's enough for you, Ms. Misha, to partially understand the progress of Duke Barrett's research. It involves in-depth research on the history and culture of Preet. To be honest, the Preet people on our side Although there are some, but there are not many people who study this kind of knowledge, instead of keeping this information with us, it may be more useful to you."