187

"Courage and sacrifice?"

The King of Decay put down the newspaper in his hand, looked at Amun, and asked again, "Do you want to learn courage and sacrifice?"

Amon touched his eyes: "It's not that I want to learn, I just want to understand what this is."

"Is this what your father told you?"

"Yes."

"It's simple. Let me ask you a question. The outer god calmly put his gaze back on the newspaper, "Since this is what your father expects of you, are you willing to die for your father?"

"......" Amon pinched his monocle again, with the usual smile on his face, "Is there any cause and effect?" I mean, what has happened to me to have to die, and what has I gained in exchange for my death?"

"There is no need for any antecedents." The King of Decay flipped the page of the newspaper, "You just have to answer me if you want it or not." ”

“…… All of me will die?"

"Yes."

"Will my father resurrect me in the future?"

"That's the kind of question you should ask your father when the time comes."

".................." Amon pondered for a moment, and slowly found a place to sit down, frowning, the mask-like smile on his face showing a distressed look as he thought. He was silent for an extraordinarily long time, and it was only when the outer god had finished reading the entire newspaper and changed to the next book that Amon finally spoke, "I don't know until then. ”

"I felt like I'd run away. My father was once a half-old day, so the spirit is also imprinted, forever in her path, and will return one day. Since she has survived forever, it doesn't seem to make much sense whether her physical body survives or not. I will try to avenge her, and if I can be resurrected, it is not unacceptable to die for my father. If she doesn't want to resurrect me, or if she can't survive even if I sacrifice her, then I'll run away. ”

"Hmm." The Declining King was noncommittal, "So are you interested in the so-called courage and sacrifice?"

"Aside from my father's expectations, I'm not interested."

"Hmm." The outer god replied to him, "You are a mythical creature, why do you have to make all the powers serve humanity?"

188

Late at night, on a dark and remote road in the East End, a girl carrying a large bag full of old clothes walked cautiously.

She wears an old-fashioned but neat long light blue dress with a white apron. She looked around cautiously as she walked, and tried to choose a path with gas lights, so she took a long detour and lost a lot of time. She was apparently aware of the recent rampant kidnappings. But today's work has been busy until now, and if you go back before dark, you won't be able to buy bread tomorrow. For the sake of her future livelihood, she had to work late into the night, even when kidnappers were outside.

Walk through this alley and you'll get home......

She whispered to herself, cheering herself up.

The girl stood under the dim gas lamp and looked carefully at the black alley. The light can only illuminate the mouth of the alley, and after two meters, it is dark, as if it is a big mouth that chooses people to eat, and people are panicked when they see it.

The girl took a soft breath and walked in more cautiously. Step by step, she slowly surveyed her surroundings, trying not to make any sound. By the time she reached the middle of the alley, her tense expression and body had softened, and her steps had become a little brisker.

At this moment, a closed wooden door on the left hand side of the alley suddenly opened, and a piece of ether-coated gauze was hidden in the palm of her hand to cover her mouth and nose! The girl's eyes widened suddenly, she subconsciously held her breath, and struggled violently, so another hand reached out from the darkness, hooked her neck fiercely, and dragged her whole person into the dark house.

Bang. With a soft thud, the wooden door shut, and silence returned to the alley.

"This little girl has a lot of strength."

Feeling the strength of the struggle in his arm getting smaller and smaller, someone in the darkness sneered, "Let's see how many seconds you can last."

At this moment, he felt a sticky lake cold object be slapped on his cheek, slowly sliding. Is it water? Is this dilapidated house leaking?

But it hasn't rained lately......

“…… Ahh The kidnapper screamed in a heart-rending manner, letting go of the girl he had imprisoned, and scratching at his cheek desperately, the thing was slipping and leaving a burning pain along the way! The kidnapper struggled to pull out a match and stumbled to the only broken mirror in the hut. Examine. With a soft sound, a match was lit, illuminating his vision.

He saw another human face in his face!

It turned out that what fell on his face was a piece of flesh! The piece of flesh devoured his skin, digging a crack in his body, and a strange human face grew out of it! The face was expressionless, sluggish and terrifying, constantly moving, as if trying to get out of his body.

At this moment, he heard a slight cough behind him.

The girl, who he thought had lost her ability to resist, sat up slowly, took out a bottle of irritating potion from her pocket and took a deep sip, and then snot and tears flowed out together.

"Woo...... Finally...... Whining...... Hooked......"

The girl choked and wiped tears from her eyes.

No matter how sluggish he was, the kidnappers knew they had fallen into a trap. The cracks in the human face had reached the shoulder, and half of the face had completely lost consciousness. He gritted his exposed teeth, endured the pain, and pulled out a small section of signal light from his sleeve, and then lit the match that had not yet been extinguished, and threw it into the sky.

In the dark night sky, a firework suddenly exploded.

……

By the time the person who had grown out of the crack had completely emerged from the kidnapper's body, the other party had become a skeleton taut with human skin, devoid of any blood or internal organs, as if it had been dried for several years.

There was a faint sound of footsteps in the distance, and the flesh puppet who had been given a fixed order was expressionless, and Alia, who was acting as a bait, quickly closed her eyes and fell to the ground to continue pretending to be dizzy. The flesh puppet bent down and pulled out the wallet and watch from the kidnapper's corpse, and suddenly a leather whip volleyed in the air and slammed into the flesh puppet's wrist, cutting off his hand to the wrist!

Bang bang bang! The bullets fired in quick succession, three bullets at the golem's eyes and eyebrows at precise angles, destroying his (non-existent) brain in an instant, and the powerful impact swept off his skull, sending red blood and musculature flying several meters behind him.

"No wonder he dared to come and hinder us, it turned out to be an extraordinary person."

The revolver in Katie's hand emitted birdish smoke, and the soft whip in her other hand dripped blood drop by drop. A cruel smile appeared on her scarred face, "Die here."

The flesh golem was thrown back in a backward position that humans simply couldn't balance by the recoil, but instead of falling, it slowly and slowly straightened up again. He turned his face to Katie, his skull shattered, and where it had been his eyes, there was only a mass of dirty flesh with two bullets embedded in them, the reflection of brass making them look like real eyes. Even Katie, who is ruthless and loves to torture her opponents, can't help but feel a chill.

"That's not right!"

I thought this was a low-to-medium sequence extraordinary person who was good at flesh magic or controlling corpses, but Katie's spiritual intuition suddenly sent a signal of vigilance and panic! She immediately emptied the magazine at the flesh golem, smashing him into a puddle of rotten flesh that could not stand up at all, and imprisoned him with extraordinary powers. At this time, the minions she brought with her finally arrived at the scene, and seven or eight people stood scattered outside the alley, each covering their faces tightly, like a wall through which even light could not penetrate.

Katie did not doubt him, and immediately ordered: "You guys are here to stay, and I will go back now to report to Mr. Heras......"

"Hee-hee-hee."

"Hee-hee-hee."

"Hehehahaha."

Before she could finish her sentence, the seven or eight of her men burst into a strange laugh. Katie was terrified, she jumped backwards and reloaded six bullets at a speed that was difficult for even a soldier to do, and when she landed, she took a shooting position without thinking, firing four shots in succession, and the extraordinary force attached to them, and the brass-colored bullets pierced the heads of four men with precision, blasting a large hole in their heads.

The four of them fell, and then melted together.

The other three also smiled and melted together.

Then, the flesh surged upwards and turned into a human form.

Mr. A walked out of the pool of filthy blood, and looked at Katie with a crazy and sinister look at Katie, who was like a great enemy: "Let me atone for your sins."

"The great sin of kidnapping my Lamb can only be forgiven by death."

189

Alia sent the old clothes to the people who had just been settled yesterday, and there were 9 people crowded in the warehouse, I heard that there were more than a dozen, but some people ran away at night, and there was an old woman among them.

The old woman seemed to be a devout goddess, and everyone was debating whether to move out at once, lest she report it to the priests in the church of the goddess of the night.

However, these things are in charge of the Aurora Society, and when the time comes, the people will be transferred, the sheets, bedding and clothes will be burned, and the people around will be able to cope with it by making a testimony. The flow of people in the eastern district is frighteningly large every day, and unless there are tens of millions of people lost all of a sudden, or there is a large-scale cult spread or protest, the church will only register and not pay much attention to it, let alone track down the whereabouts of the displaced people.

She looked at her precious pocket watch, it was already past ten o'clock, and the red moon was hanging high. The watch was a gift from Dean Norma to congratulate her on her admission to university, and it was silver-plated, inlaid with a circle of gold wire, and engraved with her name, one of the few things that truly belonged to her.

"Ah, Miss Maria!" Seeing the person in charge who was talking to her blue-haired uncle, Alia happily went up to say hello, "I met the kidnapper, and I successfully completed the mission!" ”

"But it seems that no one else has been kidnapped, only me...... Is it true that Mr. Ernst says I'm too skinny?"

"Did you run into a kidnapper? Are you hurt?"

Maria suddenly became nervous, strode up to Alia, and finally breathed a sigh of relief after checking up and down: "It's okay." You are indeed too skinny, and you must eat more in the years of college. ”

"The school cafeteria is delicious, but it's too expensive."

Alia, who came to work for a week, stuck out her tongue: "The bread and bacon are delicious, and it would be better to spread some cream."

"Well, you've successfully completed the mission, and you'll be rewarded with a small jar of cream." Maria smiled slightly, "Mr. A hasn't come back yet?"

"Mr. A killed the kidnapper, and when the extraordinaire who was attracted saw him and ran, he chased after him, and I took the opportunity to run back."

Alia handed a large bag of old clothes to her blue-haired uncle, helped him distribute simple and modest coats and shirts, and happily got a jar of her favorite cream, deciding to take it to the school dormitory tomorrow and rub it on toast and eat it slowly. Well, I'm going to write to Dean Norma this week, telling her that I've seen Ademisol in Beckland, and that Ademisol is now smart, a normal person, and learning to read and write very fast, and can go to a normal school!

"You can sleep with me tonight, it's too late, get up early tomorrow and go to school, I can treat you to breakfast."

After saying that, Mary's spirit moved slightly. She looked at the shadows on the wall outside the door, and her brow furrowed slowly, "Mr. A?"

"It's me."

It was a woman's voice that answered her.

Mary saw a tall, vicious-looking-looking woman with a revolver and a soft whip around her waist, like a mercenary, but her temperament was a little solemn and solemn, which was very strange.

"This is Kapin's men?" Maria felt it attentively, then frowned deeply, "A low-to-medium 'Inquisitor'...... It's the worst I expected, but isn't the judge the orthodox way of the police and the military, so why would someone like Kapin be given a job? Could it be a bounty hunter or a mercenary?...... Or is Kapin's current power and business so big that the military is sheltering?"

"That's not my business."

The woman's expression was fierce, but her eyes were glazed, and Mr. A's voice came from her chest and abdomen: "As soon as I leave her body, she will die instantly." I'll go back to Caping tonight and I'll draw you the full road map tomorrow, and I'll be there for a day, and you can help me depending on the situation. ”

"Okay."

Mary breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that she agreed, Mr. A took control of the woman's body and returned the same way, carrying the corpse and traces of the battle to the mansion in Kapin.

190

Early Thursday morning, Crane arrived at the cheap café on the East End, as promised. Old Kohler, still wearing his previous thick jacket, was sitting in the corner, pairing a strip of black bread with tea that barely tasted tea.

Crane came across from him, took out what he had prepared a long time ago, and pushed it to the other party. It was a fund consisting of two 5 sole, four 1 sole, and a handful of copper pennies specially designed to increase the effect.

Old Kohler looked straight at them for a moment before he stretched out his right hand and took it tremblingly.

He looked at it repeatedly, raised his hand to wipe his eyes, squeezed out a smile and said: "At the dock, we carry heavy goods, step on the cold and dirty water to do some troublesome cleanup, and it is only about 1 sule a day......

And here is a full 15 soles!

Crane listened silently, and said after a few seconds, "Have you heard anything lately?" What did you notice? ”

Old Kohler's expression changed a little, a little uneasy, he put away his funds, took another sip of tea, pinched the corners of his eyes, and said: "I have met many dock workers, and have reconnected with the friends I used to know when I was wandering, some of them have entered the factory, and some of them are still going back and forth between the workhouse and the corner of the park, heh, just like I used to ......

"Well, what's more, I heard that there have been cult activities in the East Side recently, but the scale is not large, and I only heard about ......"

Old Kohler was a little embarrassed, with the guilt of lying to Mr. Reporter.

This...... Beckland's well-known cult is nothing more than the Aurora Society? Could it be that after what happened to Lanewes, they began to pay attention to the poor people of the East, the Docklands, and the Eastside, hoping to use them for certain purposes? I wonder if the three major churches have noticed this phenomenon...... There should be...... Isn't Miss Maria the snake of the land here? She is so righteous and excellent, why would she let Aurora preach in the Eastern District? It seems that this may not be the case with her subordinates, maybe the Foundation actually ...... Crane sandwiched the butter between two slices of toast and took a bite of it.

Old Kohler babbled for a while and then said, "Mr. Detective, as you have told, I have paid attention to the affairs of the weavers, and in the end, with the addition of the police, their struggle failed, but, hehe, the leaders became the directors of the factory, and a third of them lost their jobs.

"Some of them are actively looking for new jobs, some of them have become street girls, some of them don't know where they have gone, and now it's chaos."

If this was the case when "Lieutenant General Hurricane" Zillingers came to Beckland, then he came to the East Side every day to quietly kill one or two people, and no one would have found out...... Crane sighed inwardly.

Old Kohler continued to tell some of his daily stories and said, "By the way, the youngest daughter of the Liv family disappeared last night. ”

"Liv?" Crane hadn't heard of the name.

Old Kohler suddenly said: "It's the washing lady you and Mr. Reporter saw last time who quarreled with people, she has been taking her eldest daughter and younger daughter to do pulp washing work at home, but yesterday, on the way back from sending clothes to her two daughters, she lost one, the younger one, it's really pitiful, she has been a widow for many years, and has been counting on her two daughters, and the result is ...... Hey, the police in the East Side will definitely not look too hard to find it. ”

There is often greater misfortune in unfortunate people because they do not have the ability to resist risks and change their circumstances...... Clan's mind flashed through this.

There is no mistake

He was silent for a few seconds and said, "Take me to see them, I'm a detective, maybe I can help them find someone." ”

“…… They don't have any money. Kohler Sr. reminded.

Crane picked up his hat and cane and said:

"I volunteer occasionally."

Old Kohler was stunned, he was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly let go of his right hand that was clenching the coin, took out 13 soles from the 15 soles, and handed them to Crane. In Crane's surprised eyes, he said almost sadly, "I know it's ridiculous, but you are a kind and good man, and it is already a great blessing that you are willing to help us." Even if you want to volunteer, Mrs. Liv won't agree to it as long as she has a little money. I, I'll give you back the money as if I were paying for Liv to ask you to find her little daughter. ”

"2 Sules, as long as 2 sules, my daughter and I will be able to eat. Mr. Detective, please take it, please. ”

TBC

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In other words, Ademisol doesn't seem to have a surname, but it's just a Tingen-limited tool man who doesn't need more settings.

Looking back at the plot requires a whole one.

By the way, there is one thing that must be said:

Aurora will not suddenly become a great good person, nor is it a change of evil, in essence, they are still lambs who only listen to the words of the true creation, if the real creation is crazy, they will follow the madness and kill people and set fires, and if the real creation wants to improve itself, they will immediately follow to do some good people and good deeds, and if they can't connect seamlessly, they are definitely not pious enough.

It's not that they have awakened their conscience, it's just that the Lord told them to do it.