Chapter 14: Discovery

Early in the morning, Cook and Highlander parted ways early on, and it was still an unknown mystery where the beasts in the city were hiding, so Highlander was busy all day.

As for Cook, he stayed in the hotel room and continued to compare the data, writing down numbers on the map from time to time, just to number those viewers.

Now the information he compares is the list of audience members who went to watch the performance during the first performance, which is also the easiest set of data to number, not only the smallest number, but more importantly, because it is the first performance, it has not been affected by the phenomenon of repeat customers, and there are no duplicate personnel, and it is quite easy to number.

It was only half an hour before Cook had numbered the first 100 or so spectators in Area A.

After writing down number 143, Cook looked at the numbers marked on the map, and the secret path was indeed true.

The Dragon Circus and the Central Plaza are both located in the western part of Hajigis City, but the location of the Dragon Circus is a little more north, but it is not too far from the central square, just bypass a few streets to reach the central square.

The 143 audience members currently marked as living near the Dragon Circus all live near the Dragon Circus, and recall that the numbers of the three Extraordinary Beings on that day were all between 200 and 400, which shows that the audience at the first performance was basically citizens of the western city.

Then, the puppets in the western city alone are likely to reach as many as five hundred. But why did Jared only send three puppets to deal with me at the time?

Anyway, let's continue to choreograph it so that we can be completely sure.

After calming down, Cook continued to compare the materials and began to number them one by one.

Then, about half an hour later, Cook wrote down the number 203 on the map, and then looked at the information in his hand, which was the serial number of the enhanced ability that day.

It seems that this number is indeed correct. Cook thought to himself.

After all, there are thousands of puppets, and it is impossible for Jared to use too complicated methods for the sake of convenient numbering, so he can't get along with himself.

In this way, the feasibility of this plan is very large. Cook couldn't help but get a little excited.

After that, Cook continued to number them one by one against the list, and when he wrote 239 and 399, the whole person wanted to go out and yell a few times. Since 239 and 399 were the other two Abilities of the day, his guess was completely correct.

But it's not completely certain yet, and more data is needed.

Feeling excited, Cook picked up the list of spectators and continued to circle and write on the map.

It is worth mentioning that the further he writes, the more Cook's eyebrows are wrinkled, which is not the kind of thing that is bothered by anything, but a special state of great tension and excitement.

So, after maintaining this state for two hours, Cook finally stopped his pen and looked at the red dot numbers on the map, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became more and more uncontrollable.

On the left side of the map, there are 618 numbers written from top to bottom, which are exactly the numbers of all the audience at the time of the first performance. There are about 400 of them numbered at the Dragon Circus and the central plaza alone.

If the citizens at that time were divided into two factions and divided the two parties, then there were only a few dozen puppets mixed in them, which is a bit far from 400.

Besides, there were nearly fifty of the Adept puppets in the neighborhood, and in the end Jared only controlled three Adepts against me.

It's really a strong outsider. Cook couldn't help but secretly laugh, they had been deceived by Jared for so long.

What kind of all-encompassing umbrella is simply a piece of tattered paper soaked in water, which will break when you poke it.

It's no wonder that if you want to incite the citizens of the city, there are thousands of puppets, and if you want to hold a riot, you can just let your puppets parade in the streets.

After all, you can't control so many puppets at once, can you? Cook only felt that the boulder pressing on his heart suddenly exploded, and the whole person felt as if he had been liberated, and his body and mind were happy.

Forget it, let's wait for Sister Lan to come back and talk about the specific things, the work at hand hasn't been dealt with yet.

Thinking about this, Cook continued to work with his head down, the audience of the first performance had already arranged the serial number, and it was the turn of the audience of the second performance.

The room gradually became quieter, except for the rubbing of paper and oil-based pens.

At noon, at the hotel table, Cook and Highlandore were talking about something.

I saw Hylando frown slightly, and said in disbelief: "You said that Jared will not control more than 100 people at a time? ”

Cook also nodded slightly, and said, "It's true that he did apply abilities to thousands of people, but he never activated abilities on a large scale, right?"

Applying an ability and activating an ability are completely different things, the former consumes much less ability energy than the latter, and listening to what Jared said, his seeds will leave a serial number, but it will not be shown to him, this is probably his biggest limitation, and it is also this limitation, he can plant thousands of seeds, and then he needs to sort it himself, after all, it seems that he is very likely to be only a first-order ability, if the ability is too strong, the restrictions will become more and more harsh.

"Hear you say that, it does. Highlander thought carefully and nodded.

Cook continued: "In my opinion, Jared can control a maximum of dozens of ordinary people at the same time, and a maximum of three Aliens. ”

After all, the life energy of the ability is several times higher than that of ordinary people, and the efficiency of the ability will be greatly reduced.

Highlander nodded slightly, motioning for Cook to continue.

Therefore, although Jared will have a large number of puppets to control in every area, the amount of control is very limited, and if he wants to hold a street riot of citizens, he can't rely on his puppets alone, so he needs to give speeches and incite public opinion. ”

"I fought with him before, because I didn't know how many puppets there were in that area at the time, but I saw a lot of puppets mixed in the people, thinking that he had exposed a loophole, and I didn't want to give up this opportunity, so I shot at him directly, but now it seems that the number of puppets in that area is not only those, in fact, there are many, but even so, he doesn't have a large number of control puppets to deal with me, it is obviously a great chance to kill, and in the end he only controls three abilities. ”

Cook's guess made a flash of history flash in the depths of Highlando's eyes, and said, "So, Jared's umbrella is simply a layer of torn paper?"

"That's right, the strange phenomenon of repeat customers has always made people think that he can control hundreds of puppets at the same time, and he is now standing in the open without scruples, which has indeed given us a lot of misconceptions, and I am afraid that even the fact that he is no longer involved in the speech is to mislead us and make us mistakenly think that he is withdrawing the protection net. Cook is now quite sure of Jared's methods.

Even though Cook had guessed that the repeat customer phenomenon was only due to some of Jared's abilities, he couldn't be as sure as he is now, so he was still a little constrained.

But now it seems that Jared is probably far less terrifying than they thought, and most likely only a first-order ability.

Above all, the seeds of usefulness that Jared spoke of that day! The ordinary citizens didn't seem to have fallen into his eyes at all, and he just used them to create the illusion of confusing the Lys.

Hai Landuo's eyes flickered at this time, and said, "In that case, how about directly sending a large number of troops to arrest him?"

Cook shook his head slightly, and said: "If you do this, you are indeed very sure that he will be arrested, but with my understanding of him, he will definitely resist in the end, for example, before he is imprisoned, it is still very possible to control dozens of citizens to tie up regular bombs and carry out a terrorist attack on the street or something." ”

Although he had only met Jared once, Cook was already pretty sure that the guy was a madman.

Moreover, the most important thing is that the other behind-the-scenes murderer has not surfaced until now, at that time, with the secret help of this behind-the-scenes murderer, it is still unknown whether they can successfully arrest Jared, and if they are unsuccessful, Jared is likely to send them another "return gift".

As soon as he thought of this, Cook's eyes couldn't help but darken, and his face was full of murderous intent.

"But by doing so, you can arrest Jared with the least casualties and the greatest chance of success, doesn't it?"

Highlando's words made Cook a little stunned for a moment, but after seeing Highland's serious expression, Cook understood that Highlando's really wanted to do this.

Cook, too, was silent, indeed, this might be the best way. Since Jared can't control hundreds or thousands of people at once, it means that they may only need to sacrifice a few dozen people to arrest him.

However, I still want to try!

At that moment, Cook solemnly said to Hailando: "Sister Lan, believe me once, this matter will be handed over to me, okay?"

Highlander frowned slightly, looked at Cook solemnly for a long time, and said: "Little Cook, because we didn't know the distribution of Jared's puppets very well, we always thought that you caught his loophole at that time, but now it seems that not only did you not catch the loophole at that time, but even rushed in very stupidly, and almost lost your life there, do you think, can I hand it over to you again?"

"While this does give us important information, if Jared can really control a large number of golems at the same time, excluding the group of people in Central Square, there is a good chance that the rest of the others will die because of your recklessness. ”

"After all, you were still in a hurry. ”

Cook lowered his head a little ashamedly, Sister Lan was right, did he really think that there were only so many puppets in that area in the central square? The purgatory on earth that day may have really given him a great shock.

In any case, he shouldn't have made such a reckless move, thanks to Jared who didn't seem to be able to control so many people at the same time, and participated in that speech with all the people he could control, he didn't make a big mistake, otherwise, if there was a little deviation in this, it might have been a different ending.

But even so, he still wanted to give it a try, and he really didn't want to watch Jared the whole world.

Because if they continue like this, whether they win or lose, they will sacrifice the citizens of the city, and he is really unwilling to do this.

"Sister Lan, I also know that my previous actions were too reckless, and at that time, I only wanted to arrest him with all my strength to remove his ability, and it doesn't matter how you want to punish me after that, so this time, I beg you, be sure to believe me again. Cook looked up, his gaze more determined than ever.

"Impossible!" Hylando refused.

Cook hung his head very gloomily, and now he was really not qualified to ask for anything more.

"Unless, if you tell me all about your plans, I will decide whether I should trust you again. ”

Hylando's next words rekindled Cook's heart, which was about to give up, and his eyes were full of tears of gratitude.