Chapter 70: Stephanie's Troubles
The work system of the police station in Hongya Town is two shifts, and there are also people on duty at night, but there are obviously a lot more people tonight than before.
Large and small tables are put together, and on the table are various types of magazines and weapons.
The police sat around the table with weapons in hand, most of them were ordinary firearms, mainly large-caliber shotguns, after all, it was whimsical for ordinary guns to hurt undead creatures, and only this kind of high-power firearms, even if they had no special effects, at least they could break the limbs of those monsters, and if they were lucky to shoot their heads, it was not impossible to kill in seconds.
It's just that compared to the cold and steady guns in their hands, the mental state of these gunmen seems to be a little depressed.
Donald could see the fear and panic on their faces.
In the face of those monsters, this is the emotion that ordinary people should have, and they can't blame anything.
Largely no one spoke, most remained silent, and Donald had reason to believe that at least eighty percent of these people would have left immediately and given up guarding the town if it were not their own home.
"That's what we've been looking for, and I think it's worth asking the sheriff here in detail about the incident two years ago, maybe he can give us some clues. ”
The debriefing was conducted by Donald, with Pence making it clear that he didn't want to see Horn Shelley, and Stephanie privately saying that Donald was in charge.
By any measure, the day after joining the team, Donald had become one of the most talkative, even though there were only six people on the team.
"I see, Susanna, tell them what we've learned here. ”
Horn liked to find Susanna, who still listened to him, and only needed to say a word before opening his notes and walking over to them, while Boglo Campbell wiped his two mechanical crossbows and carefully soaked the tips of the matching crossbows in the holy water bottle.
"The number of undead is higher than we expected, and the sheriff here says that based on their observations last night, it is at least in the double digits, and a significant number of them are from the cemetery outside the town of Red Cliffs, and have now advanced to a position less than 1 kilometer outside the town. ”
Suzanne took out a few more photographs, taken last night, the images on them were blurry, and some dark shadows could be faintly seen in the woods.
"Cemetery? How do they know that some of these undead creatures came out of the cemetery?"
Donald asked rhetorically as he looked at the conversation between Horn Shelley and a bloated sheriff in the office without the blinds closed.
"Some police officers recognized the body that had just been buried two days earlier, and it happened to be his relative. ”
Susanna's expression looked a little strange when she said this, and Donald quickly thought of why.
They're going to destroy the undead later, and if those guys came out of the cemetery, it means that all Donald and his party have to do is destroy the corpses of the town's inhabitants and ancestors.
In a sense, this is equivalent to a whipping corpse, and it also belongs to the more excessive category of whipping corpses.
"At least we know where the undead are produced, and if we can get to the location of the cemetery, we can figure out why some of the undead appeared. ”
Borglo made a rare suggestion, this is a good breakthrough, they are here to destroy the undead, finding the source of the corpse and purifying it is a way to do it once and for all.
"Yes, let's get ready to kill, I have brought some equipment, enough holy water pipes, and strong light bombs should also come in handy, if you need anything, come and get it, it will be a vicious battle later." ”
Pence is now full of energy, and his mind is full of meritorious service.
It was only after he said the words "killing" and "fierce war" that Stephanie's mood began to become a little wrong.
Several people agreed with him, and now waiting for the results of Horn Shelley's inquiry, Donald took Finger to the side and found a chair to sit down, and flipped through the study notes that Delia had given him.
In addition to these wizards' general knowledge notes, Donald was also thinking about his own spell learning.
Now that he has joined the Tree Garden, Donald naturally doesn't have to worry about the problem of spell scrolls, the number of spell scrolls in the Tree Garden collection is huge, and the spells of the third level and below the third level belong to the category that are completely open, Donald has entrusted Delia to help him borrow some spell scrolls with more practical effects, and this time he should be able to start learning when he goes back.
"Donald, are we going to go out and destroy the undead later?"
Stephanie moved her chair to Donald's side, looking a little nervous, depressed by the atmosphere of battle and the bloody and gloomy photographs.
"Of course, this is one of the objectives of our mission, these undead creatures must be wiped out, otherwise our mission will not be completed......"
Donald had thought that Stephanie was only nervous because of his first encounter with this kind of mission, but the expression on Stephanie's face became more and more panicked after her question was confirmed, similar to that of ordinary cops, which made Donald frown.
She's a little too "amateurish".
After a few seconds of silence, Donald suddenly took out his notes and wrote on them with a pen: "Stephanie, tell me what difficulties are there now, don't worry, I won't tell anyone else." ”
The people around were very close, Pence, Susanna and Boglo were just a few meters away, and although they each had something to do, it was hard to guarantee that they were not secretly paying attention to the situation here.
"Can you go out with me for a while, something to say...... I just want to say it to you alone. ”
Stephanie leaned forward and whispered in Donald's ear.
It sounded like an ambiguous prelude to a confession of affection, but all Donald heard in her tone was panic and panic.
"Okay, Susanna, I'll go out with Stephanie, just outside the police station, and I'll be back soon. ”
At this time, it was definitely not okay to leave without saying a word, and Donald still greeted Suzanne first.
Outside the police station, the two stood still under the street lamp.
"Do you seem to be a little flustered because of the next battle?"
Donald looked at Stephanie and asked with the help of a few words.
"Donald, actually, I ...... I...... I'm not going to fight!"
With that, Stephanie softened like a deflated ball, leaning against the lamppost, her head bowed, unable to see her expression clearly.
"What do you mean? if you don't have combat experience, it's no problem, no one is a natural combat expert, just remember to use the inscription scroll I gave you, it can help a lot. ”
Donald thought it was Stephanie who said that because she was nervous about the first fight.
His own first battle wasn't much better, and he wasn't embarrassed, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
"My talent is seduction...... There is only one charm!"
Xu simply spit out the words as soon as he spoke, and Stephanie immediately told Donald about her natural abilities.
Awkward silence.
"What? It's just a charm, so what do you ...... You've charmed the examiner?"
Donald doesn't know what to say now, he thinks that the assessment of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau must recruit outlanders with a certain foundation, and Stephanie may be a short board in combat, but she should have a good performance in other aspects.
It's really played, but it's used to cheat.
It's the first time Donald has heard of someone daring to cheat in an assessment of the Bureau of Investigation, and he succeeded.
"I thought that after joining the team, everyone divided the labor, and the battle belonged to the battle, and the intelligence gathering belonged to the intelligence gathering...... My ability to gather intelligence is really powerful, those men, even if they are Pence, as long as I really activate the charm, I can let him be influenced by me in a short period of time, and listen to my orders!"
According to Stephanie's understanding, she thinks that the work of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau team is to perform their own duties, so she passed the strength test directly through the charm of the examiner.
That's right, there is a division of labor in the team.
But that doesn't mean that those who aren't in charge of fighting don't have to fight.
She understood this in Pence's words, realizing that she would have to face more than double digits of undead next, which is why she was so flustered.
Of course, the Bureau of Anomalies has a special auxiliary outlier, and an inscription master like Donald will have a good chance of approving him not to participate in battles if he is willing to apply, and he can obtain merit just by providing inscription scrolls.
And Stephanie's seductive ability is obviously not up to the standard, otherwise she should be treated with special treatment by the Abnormal Investigation Bureau, instead of participating in the assessment in an ordinary process.
"You don't really have combat experience or skills...... Why do you want to join the Anomaly?"
As Donald spoke, he suddenly recalled the state of the relationship between Stephanie and him in the past two days.
He had been a little puzzled as to why it had gone so smoothly, and Stephanie had chosen to join him and become his companion almost without any consideration.
Or even lower your profile, give up the partnership, take the initiative to become a subordinate, and put yourself in a lower position.
Now it seems that she is well aware of her own abilities, and knows that she is actually relying on special means to enter the abnormal bureau, so she wants to find someone who can help her as soon as possible.
Even if it is at the expense.
"Because I'm being bullied outside...... Even if I don't use my talent deliberately, it will be passively triggered, there are many aliens who have bad thoughts about me, I rely on my talent to escape their chase, I joined the Abnormal Adjustment Bureau in the hope of being able to train myself and become stronger as soon as possible, I don't want to be bullied anymore!"
At this point, Stephanie was already broken and broken, looking at Donald, who suddenly fell silent, her eyes were faintly red,
"Donald, what should I do now? If the captain takes us out to fight later, I'll definitely find out that the problem is there, my charm is useless against the undead, and my weapons are just two ordinary firearms...... I know I lied to you, but can you help me?
The undead only have the living and the dead in their eyes, and the charm will have no effect on them.
It was precisely because Stephanie knew that she might not be able to mix up the next battle that she thought of asking for help.
Once discovered, it is reported.
Deceiving the Anomaly, this charge can make Stephanie unable to eat and walk around!
"You...... Do you think I'm useless too?"
After waiting for two minutes, Stephanie still couldn't wait for Donald's response, she felt that she had been given up, and her face was extremely pale.
"Stephanie, don't be presumptuous, you're the one who passed the assessment of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau, even if it's cheating, it's over!"
Donald's silence was not about giving up on Stephanie's thoughts, but about how to help Stephanie through this difficult time.
The icing on the cake is far less likely to buy people's hearts than sending charcoal in the snow!