Crown County, HL North 2nd Division.

Jim Malone was sitting in his office smoking a cigar, but uninvited guests like to come uninvited at times like these.

The phone on the table rang, and Malone reluctantly pressed the call button.

"Sir, Mr. Ness is here, and he says he wants to see you at once. ”

"Let him in. Marlon hung up after speaking.

A few minutes later, Paper Man directly pushed the door in, saved himself the politeness of knocking on the door and said hello, walked to Ma Long's desk and said, "I need you to unseal a secret file." ”

"Whew......" Marlon spat out a smoke ring: "Well, why am I not surprised at all, what else do you want?

"Listen, Jim, I think I've found it. The paper man said to Malone with a solemn face: "The murderer of St. Mark's 'bloody midnight' ten years ago. ”

Malone took the cigar out of his mouth with a noncommittal expression: "You know that I work night shifts all year round just to avoid you, right?"

Paper Man still ignored the other party's ridicule: "I'm not kidding. ”

"Well, I see what you mean. Malone stood up: "Tell me about the clues you have now." ”

Paper Man said: "There was a homicide in the Bronze Parrot Tavern this afternoon, look at the surveillance video and you will understand." ”

Marlon said, "Okay, you wait. He turned and pressed the phone on the desk......

HL is very efficient and can be freely transferred to the archiving of all surveillance footage in the jurisdiction. A moment later, the two watched the incident again on a huge screen on the wall of Malone's office. After that, Malone instructed to send an investigation team to transfer all the surveillance footage of the hotel in the past week to analyze and study it to see if there could be any new discoveries.

Paper Man seemed quite excited, and said to himself: "The same height and size, cruel methods, and this style of not taking murder seriously at all, is exactly the same as the description of those mutilated clues obtained ten years ago, ......it must be him!

"So what?" said Malone, pouring cold water on it, "The DNA we got ten years ago can't find any matches in databases around the world. Even if the results of this DNA comparison are correct, we can only know that the killer came back ten years ago, and he still knows nothing else. ”

"It doesn't matter whether this kind of person has a legal identity or not, the key is that we now have more specific physical characteristics, and we can start from the entry and exit records for carpet ......" Before the paper man finished speaking, Ma Long interrupted: "This case does not need your intervention, just leave it to us HL." ”

"What did you say?!"

Ma Long said: "If you have to check, you can do it." He pointed to the door behind the paper man: "Go out and turn left, go to the end, find my secretary, and sign an inconsequential contract." ”

Paper Man said, "Jim, you know I'm not going to join HL. ”

"Then you should also know how many people do not hesitate to endure great pain every year to turn themselves into reformed people, just to be a miscellaneous role in HL. Not to mention, they also have to fill out paper documents that are calculated by the pound. I did everything for you a few years ago, and you still won't sign it today. ”

"We've talked about this topic many times, I like to be a police officer, it's freer, and it's ......"

Ma Long didn't let him speak: "Since you want to be free, you can't enjoy any HL's case-handling resources and authority, I give you information out of personal friendship, it's because I have the power to resist some things." But now we are talking about a wanted criminal with a level 4 danger level, and only those who carry the 'four words' have the right to pursue it. ”

"And what if I have to look up?" asked Paper Man toughly.

Ma Long re-lit a cigar and said: "Then you can go check, don't get in the way of HL, this is within my authority, I can give you the greatest tolerance." ”

Paper Man replied lukewarmly: "Then thank you." Before he finished speaking, he left the door.

Less than a minute after he left, Malone picked up the receiver of the desk phone and dialed the encrypted number of the HL European headquarters: "I am Colonel Malone of the Second Northern Division, please pick up the general for me...... Yes, I know it's early in the morning, so you'd better wake him up quickly. ”

............

At the same time, the Phoenix Opera House, twenty meters underground.

"Well done, this underwater reflection city, hehehe......" Blood Owl said with a sinister smile, "It's hard to imagine how much time, manpower, and financial resources it would take to build such an anthill-like complex interconnected tunnel underneath the whole of Venice, let alone the scheming of the designer." ”

In front of him lay a man whose left leg was empty below the knee, and his voice trembled with fear and despair: "Who are you?!

The Blood Owl smiled, "So your Iron Ring only sent a bunch of waste to garrison here?" Why, listen to you, isn't there anyone better than me in HL in Venice? That's a bit lonely...... The city is indeed in decline today. ”

The man seemed to understand that the blood lord was not a person sent by the upper echelons of the empire, and he shouted almost frantically: "Why are you doing this?!!

"Huh, what are you doing?" the blood owl had an inexplicable expression on his face, and he looked back at the blood and stumps that had spread far behind him: "Do you mean the clean-up? What is there to howl about? I just need a place where no one disturbs me to shelter and do some scientific research by the way." You know, when you move into a new home, you should always pack up first, so that snakes, insects, rats, ants and other things will always crawl out of the eyes. ”

"You...... You ......" The man didn't know what to say, he understood that the mad demon in front of him would never leave anything alive, so he touched his hand into his arms: "Today, you have slaughtered two high-ranking priests of the Iron Commandment, thirty-six priests, and ninety believers...... The upper echelons will never sit idly by and ignore casualties of this magnitude...... "He held a pocket watch in his hand, drew a cross on his forehead and chest, and then shouted: "If you obey my lord, you will be punished by God!"

Before he could finish speaking, the pocket watch erupted with a burst of white light.

The blood lord knew what that meant, and in an instant, he moved to the man's side, ripped the man's entire hand off his wrist, and smashed the man's head with one foot.

The light of the pocket watch gradually dimmed and disappeared......

"I wish they could come sooner. The bloodlord stared at the shattered corpse on the ground with a bloodthirsty gaze: "I prefer to experiment with living subjects. ”