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It is said that before dawn is the darkest. （hua-79-

In this darkest hour, three figures appeared in the deserted, empty streets of Monis.

They walked to the 'door' of a casino. Casinos usually close until around 3 or 4 a.m., and for them, now is the time to enter the casino.

"Is this the place?" looked up at the sign of "'Kiss' of the Devil", Cassius asked Joika beside him.

"That's right. "You two stay outside, and I'll go in myself." ”

"No, let's go in. Sophia objected.

Joika smiled and agreed, "Okay. You and the fat man also have the right to know first-hand. ”

So, the three of them pushed open the big closed 'door' of the casino.

A few days ago, Sophia, Joyka, and Cassius, while repairing a flying ship that had been placed in the mountains of Kuka for half a year, were inexplicably attacked by the "Night Stalkers", the "elite" British assassination unit of the Monis Republic, so that Cassius was poisoned and collapsed. When Joika left to investigate the information about the "Night Stalker" and find an antidote for Cassius, Sophia was sniped by two undead forces successively, and it can be seen from the words of the other party that these two forces should belong to the Necromancer of the Lich King and the Death Knight of the Nairo City-State, and what is even more puzzling is that these two undead forces are actually enemies of each other, and Cassius was unbelievably detoxified by the necromancer. At the same time, Joyka inquired that the power of the Holy See seemed to be involved.

As a result, in the whole incident, there are at least four major forces competing in it, namely: the "Night Stalker" organization, the Island of Death, the city-state of Nailo, and the Central Church. And there's a lot of weirdness and illogic in it. In order to solve the puzzle, the partners decided to gather all their forces and form a fist, following the traces left by the enemy, and finally in a destroyed forest in the Fayele Empire, they tracked down one of the enemies that attacked Sophia that day, a 'female' black knight from the death city-state of Naelo, and 'engaged' with it. [hua.

When he was about to defeat the enemy and capture him, he did not expect a powerful reinforcement from the other side. If it weren't for Sophia's temporary recovery of the power of the "Stigmata" in a very short period of time and breaking through the "domain" of the other party, they would probably all die in that wood.

Although a life was retrieved, the target escaped. That clue was cut off from there. They had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and went around in a circle to get back to square one. The partners return to the city of Monis to repeatedly investigate an important figure that Joyka "accidentally discovered" while infiltrating the presidential palace: the diocesan bishop of the Republic of Monis, Casaranforlu

However, after several days of follow-up investigation, the partners failed to find any abnormalities in this slightly blessed middle-aged clergyman. This couldn't help but make Joyka feel that something was wrong. He recalled the coldness and impatience with which the diocesan bishop had met President Manedor Herbert when he infiltrated the presidential palace that night, and it seemed that the diocesan bishop had been forced to come to the presidential palace of his own free will. And what makes Joyka even more puzzled, why do these two big men stand outside the 'door' when they 'talk' and don't go indoors?

Joyka shared her inner mystery with her two companions. Cassius said directly, "Could it be that there is something wrong with your intelligence source?" and Joyka immediately denied it, he was very confident that the source was correct. And Sophia's words made him very concerned: "Could it be that the president already knew you were there, and he deliberately let you see it?"

Thinking back to what happened at the beginning, it seems that this is really possible. Because Joyka knew how to read the 'lips', and although his hiding place was far away at the time, his good eyesight and homemade "telescope" allowed him to "see" what the president was saying: "All right, Lord Bishop...... Those three people...... We've ...... it Soon they will be able to 'hand' over to ......"

Next, his observation was interrupted by Wing 'Spirit' Lingbis.

The President's words indicate one thing: the Central Church seems to have some kind of "trade" with the Republic of Monis, and the "trade" is a certain "three people". Whether these "three people" were him, Sophia, and Cassius, Joyka could not be completely sure, but he was very sure at the time that the Central Church must have something to do with it. However, Sophia's words opened up another angle for his thinking: what if the other party deliberately made him feel that the matter had something to do with the Central Church?

Because Joyka recalled that he had only seen the president talking from beginning to end, and the diocesan bishop had his back to the place where he was hiding, he had not seen what the bishop was saying or whether he had spoken, and besides, it was the president who decided where the two men were standing at that time. And when Joyka looked back, he noticed another unusualness that had been overlooked: the way he went from infiltrating the heavily guarded presidential palace to finally being forced to flee was so smooth that even he felt a little unbelievable.

In this way, if the other party had known that Joyka would infiltrate the presidential palace and then arranged for the president and the diocesan bishop to play a play for him, it would not be completely impossible. Who knows if there had been no Bez to stir up the situation, and what would have been said from the president's mouth that would have "surprised" Joyka?

With this suspicion in mind, Joyka spent another day and a half conducting an in-depth investigation of President Manedor Hurbert's personal information, and found that the information she had obtained was very different from what she had heard from the information.

All the suspicions are closer to Cassius's conjecture, which Joyka was reluctant to suspect at first, that is, there is something wrong with his intelligence source. In order to solve the doubts, so now Joyka and her two companions will choose to come to the "'Kiss' of the Ghost" casino at this time. Because Joyka also considered that only when such guests were gone, if something unpleasant really happened, it would not cause too much trouble to the 'woman' inside.

The three of them pushed the 'door' in, and the inside of the casino was pitch black, and they couldn't see their fingers. And usually at this time, it should be the small workers in the casino, busy cleaning and cleaning up the 'messy' gambling equipment with the lights, why is it so quickly black?

The second strange thing that happened immediately afterwards was the olfactory sensation that followed the vision. The noses of the three of them smelled an extremely ominous smell at the same time: a strong smell of blood.

Sophia hurriedly poured magic into the silver cross, illuminating the darkness with light.

However, the sight of a qiē in front of them stunned them!

As far as the eye could see, in addition to the messy gambling equipment and garbage all over the ground, there were more than ten corpses scattered horizontally. Joyka recognized them as the casino's labourers, thugs, and loan sharks. They all had fatal knife wounds on their bodies, but there was only one wound, which means that the murderer's method of killing was quite professional. In addition, Sam, the middle-aged maître d'être maître who had been embarrassed by Joika but had Choika's ears cut off and only sucked his ears, was found dead on the stairs leading to the second floor, head down, apparently killed in a hurry to go downstairs.

The three of them, who had experienced many bloody battles, immediately tensed up in the face of this scene, and Cassius immediately sent magic power to his magic wand, and Joika also pressed his hand on the hilt of his sword. Sophia, on the other hand, was still carrying the cross, and while vigilantly watching her surroundings, she squatted down and reached out to 'touch' the neck of a surrogate young 'girl' lying beside her.

"I can't save it anymore. Sophia shook her head politely, "But there is still a trace of body temperature, and it should have been less than an hour after being killed." God of Light, why is the murderer so vicious?"

"Isn't that obvious? In order to cover up some unspeakable secrets. Joyka looked up at the attic above the stairs, "Elizabeth, don't you ......?"

"Oh no! Hurry up!" Cassius' face changed, and he suddenly shouted.

He was wearing a magic robe given to him by Regunor, a treasure that was extremely sensitive to the water and fire elements. At that moment, he sensed a sudden strong 'wave' movement from the fire elemental in the nearby air.

However, Cassius's warning came too late. Only a loud "boom" was heard, and the three of them failed to escape in time, and the "'Kiss' of the 'Yan' Ghost" had been swallowed up by the sky-high flames, along with several nearby houses, turned into dust in this earth-shattering violent explosion......

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