In fact, Qiu Xuan originally expected a considerable part of the possibilities, and she didn't think about Ya.

Because of what? may be because Ya left too deep an impact on them in the first shootout, so in the hearts of everyone, she has always been the invincible spear king of the desperate Dark Star.

It may also be because the trials in this world seem to have a relatively low mortality rate from the beginning to the present. In addition to the first executioner who was killed in the spirit world, the rest of Song Shuang also died because of the chainsaw man's indulgence, and just when everyone gradually lowered their vigilance, the trial ground gave them another heavy blow.

She crouched down, lowered her eyelids and looked at Ya's almost completely shaved head, with only a thin layer of skin left on her neck, and her eyes widened, and there was no trace of the look she had yelled at her before.

Ya had a communicator in her hand.

Qiu Xuan took some effort to break the corpse's fingers, and saw on it a piece of tidying up that she had sent her when she was waiting outside the operating room. Underneath that collation is a message that was not successfully sent.

Just one short sentence:

Watch out for Kiara.

If there was still a possibility of suspicion in Frey's previous warning of "Beware of Roses", now Ya's last words-like sentence is completely and completely recognized.

Qiu Xuan held the other party's communicator in his hand, it was still warm, and together with the blood oozing from the corpse, it was even more vivid to the touch than Ya's usual cold body temperature.

Aside from the incision in her neck, she found no other clues on the body.

And she didn't need any other clues at all, because Ya's bulging eyes were full of bullet openings above and around her face, as if someone had vengeed against her.

All of them are special bullet holes left by the open weapons, and the cross rose pattern on them is engraved on the bullet casings without any disguise, for fear that others will not know what kind of weapon the murderer used.

Qiu Xuan didn't think that ordinary firearms could hurt Ya, at least not like this, and it looked like he died under someone else's gun without even the slightest trace of resistance and fighting. Looking at the marks of the wounds, she was more inclined to have someone cut Ya's throat first, and waited until she was dead or lost the ability to resist before shooting her.

But why did that murderer do this?

Her lips pursed tightly, and in the dead silence she heard a few faint doubts about why the elevator was broken. He took out a body bag and put Ya's body inside, temporarily placing it in the accompanying space.

Then she began to try to contact Eddard.

The communicator over there was quickly connected, and Ed's face appeared in mid-air, and the background behind him seemed to be still in the city hospital. "What's the matter, I'm being chased now, it seems like a bunch of plainclothes hunters! But I'm getting rid of it for the time being, how about your side! ”

"Was Ya with you before?"

Qiu Xuan exhaled, her tone was quite calm, but the look on her face was saying that it was not the same thing.

"I got separated from her." Ed's answer was quick, "Didn't the hunters chase you out when you were on the thirteenth floor before, I was going to say to help you, but Ya asked me to stay here and keep an eye out for the clues of those two seraphims." One of them, called the steel wool ball, I felt like he was really mentally abnormal, and he kept saying something that no one could understand, or he was sick and had seizures and laughed. ”

"So Ya gave him an injection, after all, it would not be good if the doctor was brought in. As for the other seraph, the disfigured uncle, he woke up once. After opening his eyes, he didn't act excessively, he just said that he wanted to drink water. During this period, Ya hurriedly went out after receiving a message from someone I don't know, and I had to pour water for him. But the water dispenser in the room ran out of water, and he kept yelling for a drink, so I had to go out and pour it for him. ”

Qiu Xuan looked at him for a moment, "Then when you came back, you found that the 'Serapher' was gone, and then Ya never came back. ”

"Uh, that's right." Ed scratched his head a little embarrassed, "I don't know what's going on, I was trying to look for you outside, but I didn't take two steps out of the door when I was spotted by a plainclothes hunter who hid from them until now." ”

"You're coming to B2 now."

Qiu Xuan took a deep breath, "Get down to the freight elevator position in B2, I'll wait for you there." Don't take the elevator, take the stairs down. ”

"I'll be right here!"

Qiu Xuan didn't pull out the fire axe embedded in the door, and walked straight out of the elevator range. She turned the corner and waited for a moment in the stairwell of the next safe passage, and after a few minutes, Ed's red face dripping with sweat appeared in view.

"It's dangerous."

He took several deep breaths, "I just saw someone from the Hunter Bureau on the side of the freight elevator on the nineteenth floor!" Do you think they're idle, why are they everywhere? ”

Others may not know that Qiu Xuan got off the elevator at that time and saw with his own eyes that the floor where the other party stopped after separating from Frey was the nineteenth floor. I don't know if it's Frey's office, but it's possible that he just had a patient there to see.

"Get out of the city hospital first."

Qiu Xuan continued to run towards the next floor with Ed, who followed for some reason, and asked after thinking of something, "By the way, Ya?" I can't reach her, she should be with you. ”

Qiu Xuan closed her eyes, "She is indeed 'with' me." ”

Ed pushed open the exit gate, and looked at the person in front of him in a wheelchair with his eyes closed. He reacted quickly, and with a sudden brake, he quickly retreated back as he came, and said to Qiu Xuan with palpitations: "I'm grass, I'm grass, am I wrong or what, I actually saw the bishop who was smiling very fake over there just now!" ”

A bishop with a fake smile turned around and raised an eyebrow at Ed.

"You said you were going to pick up this kid if you had something?"

"He's just in passing." Qiu Xuan dragged Ed Ed's sleeve, who was full of horror, and pulled him out of the stairwell, covering Qin Jiuyuan's wheelchair handle with one hand. "Where's the special passage?"

"Come with me."

The three of them began to quickly shuttle through the garage on the second floor below, and the special passage that Qin Jiuyuan said was actually for those patients who were dying to bypass the queue and enter the consultation room directly, but later it was rejected because the air quality in the dark tunnel opened up was not up to standard, and now only some insiders occasionally take this passage.

At the other end of the passage, they went directly to the back door of the city hospital, during which they also made a special watch to see if the people from the Hunter Bureau would be ambushed there in advance. It didn't turn out, those people didn't seem to know that such a passage existed, and the back door of the city hospital couldn't even see a few ordinary patients.

They got into the car and within half an hour they had touched the threshold of the central church.

To be exact, I almost touched the threshold of the outer door.

A clergyman, supposedly from the Pope, stopped the group when they arrived at the main entrance, with a smile on his face that was even stiffer than that of a cardinal with a fake smile, and said: "The Pope is already waiting for you in the inner chamber, please don't worry, you will be safe here, please come with me." ”

Qin Jiuyuan leaned back slightly, leaned closer to Qiu Xuan's ear and said something.

The latter looked a little surprised.

"Please come with me, Lord Asaphil." Seeing the group standing still, the smile on the priest's face remained unchanged, but repeated it in a regular manner.

"I don't think I've ever seen you in church, this parishioner." Qin Jiuyuan smiled decently, as if he was not only in a wheelchair and pushed by people now, but still the cardinal who used to walk with the wind. "Are you the one who Jemoth brought in, and what is your name?"

"I'm just an ordinary believer, just lucky enough to work under Lord Yemo." The priest's answer couldn't find anything wrong, he opened his mouth and just wanted to say something, and the next second he saw Qiu Xuan, who was originally standing behind the wheelchair, walking straight to this side, holding one of his shoulders in one direction.

"Come on, come on, let's go over there and communicate."

"This ...... Parishioners? The smile on the priest's face finally cracked a little, "What are you trying to do......"

A few minutes later, Qiu Xuan walked alone from the edge of the green belt and continued to walk towards the central building in a wheelchair.

"He is not one of Yemoth's men." Qin Jiuyuan explained, "It may not even be someone from the Central Church, I don't know how he got in...... I've been out on assignment for a long time, and I haven't been back to Central Church for a long time. It seems that Chiara is right, and for the current situation, a re-election shuffle is indeed necessary. ”

"Under what circumstances do you think Chiara would betray her faith?"

Behind him, Qiu Xuan suddenly said at an extremely fast and light speed.

"What did you say?" Qin Jiuyuan didn't hear clearly, and asked with a slight tilt of his head. The latter shook his head and said nothing more.

Ed, who was walking aside, looked a little hesitant.

"I don't know what kind of person that Kiara is, but I think ...... She shouldn't be like those extreme madmen who betray or deliberately misrepresent their beliefs. ”

He also specially opened a noise barrier and said to Qiu Xuan, who was noncommittal, but just asked: "Even if she is very likely to kill us with a knife and get rid of us one by one, do you still think so?" ”

"This ......," Ed hesitated, "she's a saint of the church, would she really do that?" ”

"Who knows." Qiu Xuan removed the noise barrier, and his tone was inaudible. "Firearms Rose, 'Firearms' is in front of 'Roses'."

"Asafir!"

Everyone stopped, and at the end of the palatial corridor, a middle-aged man who looked extraordinary strode towards him. He approached, his falcon-like gaze scanning Qiu Xuan and Ed a few times, and then squatted down in front of the wheelchair with a frown.

"I didn't believe it when Frey told me just now...... the middle-aged man stared at Qin Jiuyuan's broken leg, "Who did it?" Did you see it at the time, old friend, I don't believe in any like divine punishment, is it that someone in the Hunter Bureau is deliberately trying to mess with you? ”

"Calm down, Yemoth."

Qin Jiuyuan sighed, "This mission really has nothing to do with those people in the assault team, they were injured in the beast tide. ”

"The border has always been good, why is it so coincidental that there is a problem now! I really don't believe that there is no human push behind it. The archpope of the contemporary Central Church, a middle-aged man named Yemo, looked indignant, "Don't worry, I have already sent someone to investigate, and this matter will definitely give you justice." If it's really the Hunters Bureau who did a good job, I won't let them go. ”

"If you want evidence, you can start with Lidgar."

Qiu Xuan suddenly interjected, and everyone's eyes were focused on her for a while. "Hunter Chief Lidegar, do you know anything about him? If you don't believe me, you can ask Chiara, she has more evidence than I do. Now that the time is calculated, the two conjoined sisters of the Carson family should have already made a move, so why not send someone there to keep an eye on it, and save the time for the police to go out at that time. ”

"Lidgar?"

Yemo frowned, "What happened to him?" What does this have to do with the Siamese sisters? ”

It seems that Chiara hasn't said it yet.

"But Kiara is in the side building." Yemo answered, "She has just arrived, just one step ahead of you, and she specially asked me to ask someone to go to the city hospital to take Asafel over and watch it." I didn't expect you to arrive first, and the movements were quite fast. And...... You're talking about Lidgarh, he's also in the Central Church, in the conference room next door. ”

Qiu Xuan was stunned for a moment.

She suddenly turned and took two steps towards the meeting room that Yemoth had spoken, and before the clergy could react, they heard a loud bang at the end of the corridor, and the arch made of special metal was kicked open from the outside.

Yemo opened his mouth, looking unresponsive.

"What's the matter with you, little friend?" He squinted his eyes at the man in the wheelchair, "Feng Shui takes turns, Asafel, I never dreamed that you would have such a miserable day." ”

Qin Jiuyuan gave him a skillful smirk. "When the time comes for you to be pulled down, I can pass on my wheelchair to you."

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Qiu Xuan raised her head and looked at the wall in the center of the corner conference room.

A man was crucified on an inverted cross with his hands upright, his head hanging crooked, his arms outstretched, like an eagle soaring through the sky and being imprisoned in a cage.

Tiny streams of blood meander down the way and slowly flow through the lines of the wooden floor in the direction the arch was kicked open.

Qiu Xuan took a few steps forward and picked up a baton to provoke the man's face.

His face was full of bullet holes, densely embedded in it, as if it had been shot out by someone in malicious revenge. But people who are familiar with facial features can still identify the owner of the face from above.

Lidgar, Director of the Hunters.