After the pain came back a little bit, the rest of the body's senses were also ashamed.

Lifting her heavy eyelids slightly, a slender girl figure came into view in the haze.

"You ......" Joyka, who was excited, suddenly tensed up and grabbed the other party's hand hard.

"Ahh

Received this sudden attack, the other party screamed in horror. The voice sounded familiar, but not like the one he had in mind. Joyka looked closely, and realized that the girl who was being held tightly by her wrist and was so frightened that she was turned on was Sophia, not Elizabeth.

"Ah, it was you. Joyka let out a long sigh, and he consciously let go of the hand that held Sophia.

It was then that Joyka was able to look around and find herself lying in the cabin of the airship.

"You're scaring me. Sophia, rubbing her wrists, complained.

"But it's good to wake up, you've been in a coma for two days. Another familiar voice came from behind, and it turned out that Cassius was standing on the other side of the bed.

"Two days......? Uhh

"After repelling the ambush, Sophia and I found you in the harbor, badly wounded and poisoned. Thankfully, it's still too late, and if it's too late, you'll be reimbursed. ”

"Cassius, he brought it on himself. Every time he acted like this, he didn't talk to everyone, and the last time he fought a vampire, he stabbed himself in the stomach with a sword. But he never knew how to converge, and he made himself sick. ”

Although Sophia and Cassius's words were reproachful, Joyka could hear that it was a concern for herself. Joyka smiled knowingly and said, "Don't talk so much, aren't I okay now?" Hey, Sophia, you're really considerate to me." ”

"You ......" Sophia patted the "salty pig hand" that was quietly stretched out, her face was red with anger, "Hmph! every time like this, the dead nature will not change!" After speaking, she turned her head away and ignored him.

"Joika, do you really think it's okay? It's just luck. "Do you know what poison you have been poisoned? It is a very rare poison that can quickly shrink a person's heart to one-fifth of its original size, and a person will go into shock and enter a state of suspended animation." Although it is not really death, if Sophia is half a minute slower to recover the function of your heart, even if you are not dead, you may never wake up due to the lack of oxygen in your brain. But maybe it was because your heart was shrunk by the poison that the stab in your chest didn't hurt your heart, which is a great blessing in misfortune. ”

"Someone stabbed me in the chest?" Joika muttered to herself.

"yes. It should have happened after you were poisoned, and it seemed that the enemy was afraid that you would not die from poisoning, so he made up for it. Cassius said, "You're usually the most cautious, why did you cut your head this time, are those nine men really so powerful?"

"Nine men?"

"That's right. Aren't you the one who killed the nine men who died on the other side of the harbor?"

"Wait, apart from the bodies of those nine men, did you find any other bodies?"

Cassius and Sophia looked at each other, then shook their heads.

"I see. I understand. Joyka closed her eyes and sighed.

He didn't know if Elizabeth was alive or dead, but one thing was for sure, she was taken away by someone from her own organization. As long as she hasn't seen the body, then she still has a chance of surviving.

On the other hand, Joyka also knows that she survived not because of luck or the carelessness of her enemies, but because of Elizabeth's careful arrangement, which she protected him in a unique way. Although the two are on opposite sides, Elizabeth does not betray herself, much to Joyka's relief.

"Oh, I almost forgot. We found this in your clothes. Cassius pulled out a crumpled piece of floral cloth and placed it on the head of the bed, "You left us and rushed out, and almost lost your life, just for this cloth?"

Glancing at the rags, Joyka recognized that it was part of Elizabeth's dress, and he remembered that he hadn't taken it before he fainted, apparently Elizabeth had stabbed him with a poisoned knife and shoved it into his arms, so that even if it was discovered by others, it would not be suspicious, after all, it was normal to tear off the fabric of the other party's clothes during the fight.

Thinking of this, Joyka couldn't help but smile: "That's right. This is important information. It's worth my life. ”

......

At dusk.

Topless, tightly bandaged, Joyka sat alone on top of the airship, watching the western sun disappear from the horizon.

The rags of the dress left by Elizabeth were sewn with subtle patterns by needles and threads in some inconspicuous places in the corners, and those seemingly disorganized and unrelated needle drops actually hid a set of passwords.

Three years ago, when Joyka and Elizabeth were slacking off, they were thrilling along the way, and in order to successfully escape from the siege and interception, Joyka taught her a special set of contact codes, for example, when knocking on the wooden door with her hand, they are arranged in a certain order at different fast and slow rhythms, representing different numbers, and these numbers echo the words of a certain order on a certain page and line of a book, and these words are removed from the book and then connected into a complete sentence by order. Although this kind of contact method is not original to Joyka, the book used as the master book for deciphering the code was used by them during the escape, so this set of passwords can only be understood by him and her.

It took Joika an afternoon to translate the codes left on the rag one by one.

Here's a suicide note Elizabeth left him:

Elizabeth recounted her hardships and experiences when she first joined the Night Stalker.

It turned out that Elizabeth was not Avril Marcus herself at all, let alone the daughter of the Marcus family

But Avril Marcus and her mother's rebellion and flight from the Marcus family is real. Elizabeth was originally Miss Avril's personal maid named "Michelle". In order to cover the real Miss Avril Avril escaping from the clutches, Michelle pretended to be Miss and attracted most of the pursuers, even at the cost of her own life. Perhaps Michelle's fate made her meet the miraculous man Joyka, and then miraculously escaped the pursuit and successfully escaped.

However, escape does not mean the end, but the beginning of another nightmare. After parting ways with Joica, Michelle goes under the pseudonym "Elizabeth" and returns to Monisz to find out the whereabouts of the real Miss Avril, but the result is frustrated and frightened. It turns out that the three chaebols are far more powerful than she imagined, and the real Avril fails to escape from the clutches, and she falls into the control of the Marcus family again. Michelle, later Elizabeth, is captured by the Night Stalkers, who threaten her with Avril's safety, force her to be trained by the Night Stalkers, and then send her on various missions. For more than two years, this beautiful woman who disguised her identity as a casino boss killed many people for the "Night Stalker" organization, and her hands were stained with countless blood. She knew that such days would not come to an end, unless she met the "man of destiny" again.

In fact, the "Night Stalker" organization has long known about her relationship with Joyka. Long before Joyka, Sophia, and Cassius came to the Republic of Monis, Elizabeth received an order from her superiors to find a way to get Joyka and the others to abandon their original itinerary and return to St. Pope's Island. Elizabeth took one of the most effective methods, which was to poison Joyka's companions and then blame the Holy See, so as to induce Joyka and others to re-enter the territory of the Central Church in order to take revenge or save people. That's why Joika was arranged to see the president meet with the bishop of the diocese.

However, to Elizabeth's surprise, there are others who target Joyka's companions, and the uninvited intervention of the undead forces disrupts her plans. Elizabeth, who was monitoring the movements of Joyka and the others throughout the whole process, saw that the original plan had failed, so she activated the backup plan and arranged for herself to be kidnapped, believing that with the relationship between herself and Joyka, Joyka would definitely track it down and eventually lure her to St. Pope's Island step by step.

But on the other hand, Elizabeth is also entangled in her heart, she doesn't want to continue to work hard for the "night owl", and she doesn't want her loved ones to be played with by the "night owl", but she can't get rid of the control of the "night owl", behind every cadre at the level of director or above, there is a pair of invisible eyes watching, and Elizabeth also expected that Joyka has a great possibility to see through her identity, so it is only possible to deceive the eyes behind her only by a fake fight. For this reason, Elizabeth chose to use her own death to get rid of the control of the "night owl", and at the same time left the possibility of survival to Joyka.

At the end of the suicide note, Elizabeth revealed a long-hidden secret: "The masterminds behind the assassination organization 'Night Stalker' are the three major chaebols led by the Marcus family, however, these three chaebols are nothing more than slaves, and even the entire Federal Republic is just a lie." In the shadows, there is a more powerful force controlling the country and the three chaebols, and this force is hidden in the Central Church, but it cannot be equated with the Central Church. Miss Avril and her mother were persecuted because they stumbled upon this secret. Joyka, grant my last wayward plea: free Miss Avril, who is still imprisoned in Marcus's mansion. ”

......

"Elizabeth, you silly girl. Ah......h

At the same time, a growing sense of unease and crisis invaded his thoughts: "A mysterious force hidden in the Central Church? ”