Chapter 26: Round-up (Part 1)
At the Valorant's Bar, Caspars limped across the bar and into the bar's kitchen. Then he paused suddenly, knocked on a rather hidden door, and waited for permission before pushing it in.
It's a card room with more than a dozen people playing poker.
Seeing Caspars enter, a man in a white shirt and black vest stood up slowly, while the others playing cards stopped moving, and none of them made a sound. This is the temperance of Marić and the corpses he manipulates.
Even though it wasn't the first time Caspars had seen a similar scene, his scalp was still tingling, he swallowed his saliva, and said, "Mr. Marić, there's news about the Jason you're looking for, he recently killed a few people in Jowood, and a friend of mine told me that the police have transferred the case to the punisher squad." ”
The pale-faced Mariki nodded when he heard this, and asked, "When did this happen?" ”
"Someone has been missing since last week, and it wasn't until noon today that detectives helped the police find the alley full of broken human tissue, and then the case was transferred to the penalizer." Caspars seemed to know the story in great detail, and told it to Marić before leaving.
After Caspars left, the figure of Miss Sharon, the resentful spirit, suddenly appeared beside Marić, she held her right cheek with her hand, and said expressionlessly, "What do you think, Marić?" ”
"Jason may have been injured too badly in a previous encounter to control his desire to eat human flesh." Marić is also bland and authentic. Although he used the word 'maybe', his tone was affirmative.
Even when he wasn't hurt, he never controlled his desires. Injury just makes it 'hungry' faster. Sharon, with a pale but delicate face, spoke in a very determined tone.
"Although the indulgent people are reckless, they are not crazy or foolish, and since Jason dares to commit crimes in Jowood, it means that he has a certain degree of certainty to avoid the punishment and our pursuit!" Marić calmly analyzed.
"I'm going to Joewood next and follow the substitutes." Miss Sharon's body faded away, and she said in an illusory voice.
"Be careful, the captain of the Beckland Punisher Squad has contracted the Hallows...... And it's possible that Jason has called a helper. Marić admonished into the empty air.
"I see!" The ethereal voice came back from nowhere.
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On Saturday morning, since the abandoned manor in the northern suburbs had been sold, and Miss Wraith might still live there, Abner and Hugh did not dare to go there to practice their guns again.
However, Abner had helped the police department solve two disappearances before, and he also had some face with Sheriff Fassin, so he was qualified to borrow a police officer to shoot at the range.
It was the foul-mouthed Officer Edith who received them and led them to the police station's underground shooting range.
"Who is this young lady? Are you engaged? Why brought her here? Edith asked strangely as she looked at Hugh, who was following Abner. He'd never seen anyone come with a girl to shoot a target.
"She's my shooting and martial arts instructor!" Abner replied with a glance at him. At the same time, he keenly found that the spirit of this second-generation police officer was not very good, and he was not so beaten when he spoke.
"Oh, you're still going to make excuses for dating!" Edith didn't believe it at all, but fortunately he was not in high spirits today, otherwise he would have been full of gossip at this time.
After that, there is no need to repeat the process of practicing shooting, but Miss Hugh is happier, because she finally does not need to be reimbursed for the practice bullet because she is shooting at the police station.
In the following combat training, Abner asked Hugh how to use the long sword. Although Hugh is not very proficient in swordsmanship, he still knows the basics of using swords, after all, it is also a part of knight training.
Time quickly slipped away in Abner's swing of the sword.
At noon, Abner said goodbye to Hugh and stopped by Grant's clothing store. Now that the investigation has 'results', he naturally has to talk to Jane.
When Jane saw Abner coming to her, she naturally knew that the other party had something to say. It was inconvenient to be in the store, so he immediately took Abner to a nearby café.
"Abner, is there a result?" Jane asked, a little nervously.
"Well, your father didn't go out to cheat...... He's just, volunteering......" Abner replied, considering the words. In a sense, collecting the body is also a volunteer, and he is not lying.
"Volunteering? In the middle of the night? Jane was a little incredulous, and even complained directly, "Don't tell me that the goal of the volunteers is to comfort the empty single woman!" ”
This groove is really sharp! Abner sneered, but fortunately, he had already thought of his words, and said calmly: "He is going to help the poor people in the East District, and try to help them have a place to stay." "Although after death.
"Then why go at night?" Jane was still puzzled.
"Because only those who are still homeless at night and can only wander are the ones who need help the most!" Abner replied.
"I see...... That's my fault for him! No wonder he was busy opening a branch, and today he said that he would rent some cars for the night...... I thought it was for his mistress! Jane still trusted Abner very much, or she didn't want her life to change, so she immediately believed that her father was not cheating.
After solving Jane's commission, Abner immediately devoted himself to reading and learning all kinds of knowledge.
Time flies, and it's June 12 in a blink of an eye.
It was a Tuesday, and Abner was reading in the public library as usual in the morning. Today he was holding a copy of the Apocalypse of the Night, and although he was already a believer in the god of knowledge and wisdom, he could not be ignorant of the teachings of the goddess in Rune.
"The Creator awoke from the chaos, broke through the darkness, created the first rays of light, and Himself became completely integrated into the universe, incarnated into all things, His body became the earth, became the stars, His eyes became the sun and the red moon, and part of His blood rushed into the sea and rivers, nourishing and giving birth to life......"
"His lungs are transformed into spirits; His heart evolved into a giant; His liver evolved into a tree man; His head evolved into a dragon; His kidneys evolved into a feathered serpent; His hair grew into an immortal bird; His ears evolved into wolves; His mouth and teeth evolved into a different species; His remaining bodily fluids evolved into a sea monster, the essence of which was the Naga; His stomach, his small intestines, and the evil parts of his body evolved into demons, evil spirits, and all sorts of unknown evil beings, and his spirit became the eternal sun, the lord of the storm, the god of knowledge and wisdom......"
When Abner saw this, he thought to himself: Since everything in this world is the original creation, it is equivalent to the source of everything pointing to Him! So, if I have accumulated enough prior knowledge, will I see that everything can be analyzed back to the original person after the Pure White Eye's analytical ability becomes stronger and stronger in the future?
As soon as he thought of this, Abner's pure white eyes suddenly opened on his own, and his body, mind and spirit entered a strange state, and an illusory sound of shattering suddenly sounded in his ears.
He was stunned to find that something seemed to be dissolving in his body, and was merging with his own spirit under the effect of the pure white eye.
It was an indescribable sensation that Abner experienced in silence with his eyes half-closed.
At this moment, he didn't need to be explained by others, he knew that this was the reader's potion that had been completely digested.
"Two weeks!" Abner muttered.
……
At the same time, a battle was taking place in the southwest of Jowood District, with its effects unfolding.
This is a battle between the punisher and the Rose School indulgence.
Running in front of him was the living corpse Jason of the Indulgence Sect, with a few inconspicuous dark spots on his face, as if the traces left by the healing of a rotten wound, and the malice in his eyes was so condensed that it could stop a child's night cry, completely undisguised and unsuppressed.
He was faster than a steam train at its peak, and with a whoosh, he crossed a block. It's a pity that although his speed is fast, this vicinity seems to be completely blocked by a powerful force, and even isolated from reality, so that he can't escape the pursuit of the two punishers behind him!
Those were two wind-loving people who were surrounded by the storm and flew in mid-air!
Seeing that several more wind blades hit him, Jason gritted his teeth and wandered around desperately, trying to find a hole in the blocking power. The healed dark spots on his face had swelled and shiny at some point, as if there was rotting liquid about to drip out.
And everywhere he passed, the puddles on the ground and the liquid in the dirt quickly condensed into hoarfrost, freezing inch by inch. The leaves on the side of the road also withered in an instant, rotting and decaying at a speed visible to the naked eye as they slowly fell.
Just after Jason forced the wind blade to go around the entire range of movement, he finally discovered a loophole in the blockade power. He was overjoyed, and with all his strength he tore a hole in the hole, and was about to leap away and escape. But what he didn't see was the sneer on the faces of the two wind-loving people in the sky.
Sure enough, a silver-white lightning suddenly fell from the sky and hit Jason's body, shattering a large piece of his seemingly rotten corpse! This blow alone left him completely seriously injured.
"Although it is indeed a loophole, it is also a preset trap......" Jason, who was struck by lightning and fell to the ground, suddenly understood the trick.
Seeing that the ambush was successful, the two wind-loving people were about to go up to mend the sword. But at this moment, a werewolf suddenly entered the loophole, and it picked up Jason and turned to flee, ignoring the angry attacks of the punishers on it, and the speed was beyond the reach of the dust.
The substitutes were not flying as fast as they could, and they had to watch in disgust the direction in which it had fled.
At this moment, the invisible barrier around the block quietly shattered, the frozen puddles, withered and rotting leaves were gone, and everything returned to its original state.
"Captain, I'm sorry, we let them run away......" The two wind-loving men said with some guilt when they saw the captain who had only appeared after the barrier was broken.
"I'm the one who underestimated the enemy...... I didn't expect the Rose School to send a resentful spirit to haunt me......" The leader of the substitute punisher team shook his head, his face solemn.
At the same time, in the window pane of a house on the side of the road, a resentful lady also quietly left, as if she had never been there.
……
On the other side, the seriously injured werewolf ran halfway, could no longer control his injuries, spat out blood and fell to the ground. Jason, however, replied a little at this point, picking him up and jumping into the backyard of a clothing store......