458

"Colonel, Colonel."

"Colonel!"

"Alfred......!"

Hearing this gnashing of teeth, the blonde and blue-eyed Alfred Hall turned his head. He frowned and looked at his companion, "What's the matter, Pagni?" ”

The black-haired brown boy, a companion with a typical rune face, changed his impatient appearance from the past, and looked around cautiously, with a solemn expression:

"Let's go inside and talk."

Alfred looked thoughtfully at what the young officer who had been his partner for a long time was suggesting something in his eyes, and read a little uneasiness in the other man's expression and body language, and walked ahead and led him to his office.

When I entered the office, the sea breeze raised the curtains as soon as I opened the door, and the moist and slightly salty smell of the ocean filled the office at once. Born in a noble family in Beckland, but at a young age, Alfred had already participated in several conflict battles, and Alfred, who had obtained the rank of colonel, did not have strict requirements for the environment that nobles should have.

"Thank you." Pagani breathed a sigh of relief, "I almost couldn't breathe. ”

"It's nothing, sit down."

Alfred stretched out his hand, and Pagani, who was about to continue speaking, had to sit down and wait. He watched Alfred make a cup of tea slowly, take off his coat slowly, and finally sit down on the chair slowly.

"Why are you so dismissive!"

After that, he realized that his voice was a little too loud, and he had to lower it a little, but the speed of his speech was still urgent and fast:

"Alfred, what to do? There seems to be some evil stuff mixed in with the ship! ”

"Someone today has reported an incomprehensible anomaly, and we all have to be careful when we speak! I said that the indigenous port before was not sure that there would be spies with bad intentions to drop things, and suggested that they go to the medium-range island to dock and resupply, but you didn't listen! ”

"Your Excellency the Lieutenant General is unable to go with us because of his official duties, in case something goes wrong with the Governor......"

He gasped toothlessly, not daring to continue.

Pagni, with the rank of major, was Alfred's companion and friend, and Alfred was very tolerant of his childhood playmate, and was familiar with his playmate's outspoken personality, and did not care about the bullet-like words.

He was calm: "When did you realize that?" ”

Pagani couldn't be as calm as he was, but he was forced to slow down:

“…… The next day from the port. The Major paused, his eyebrows furrowed into a thoughtful expression, "There was a deck cleaning servant who claimed to have heard the sound of falling water in the middle of the night, and when he counted the heads during the day, he found that there was really a seafarer missing next to him. ”

"We are traveling this time for the sake of the kingdom and for the sake of face, and it is impossible for a drunkard who falls into the sea and dies drunk. And the seafarer's personal origins and experiences were normal, and there were no suicidal tendencies or any vices. There was something strange about his death. ”

"So! Alfred, this is already the third person to go missing, but we don't have a clue at the moment, do we? The storm is on the way, do you want to contact a nearby bishop to help? ”

Alfred didn't answer immediately, and then suddenly said, "There are more than three missing. ”

Pagni's eyes widened, "What did you say?" ”

"Pugni, my friend, forgive me for not telling you the details of this matter in the first place." Looking at the stunned friend, Alfred's handsome face showed a hint of a mocking smile, "Because your personality is too impatient, you always express your emotions on your face, and you need a calm layout to deal with this kind of weird situation." ”

"That fair and serious Alfred can actually deceive people!" Pagani was shocked, "You must be a fake!" ”

The smile on Alfred's face vanished.

"Okay, okay, I shouldn't be kidding you." The major had no choice but to confess his mistake to a friend with a higher rank, "But who told you not to tell me?" We've been working together for so long. ”

With that, he smiled rather deliberately, leaned forward, and looked at his friend expectantly: "So you already have a way to deal with those weird things?" ”

Alfred nodded, responding to his friend's expectation: "This should be an extraordinary object, I don't know if you remember the Intis intelligence department, it is said that some excellent spies can perfectly disguise themselves as others." ”

"Of course I do." Pugani nodded, "Didn't you plan to steal the kingdom's Difference Manuscript before. ”

"That's right."

"After the first person went missing, we launched an investigation and finally confirmed that it was a seal that could change the identity of others. Because after the first person, no one is missing. ”

Pagani was horrified: "You mean ......"

"Yes, they are still on our ship, but have been quietly replaced! Those things will also detect their people, and the servants who clean the deck have become part of the seal, and even I, usually deliberately pretend to know nothing. ”

"All seals have some pattern in their movements, you don't know, the handyman who was the first to hear the sound of falling water also encountered a horrible thing, he claimed that a pair of twin maids had approached him and asked him to see how their clothes and appearances differed."

"Twin maids?!" Pagani was overwhelmed by the incoming intelligence, "Impossible! There were no twins among the more than 100 servants on board! One of the things that the servant saw must have been fake! ”

Alfred nodded.

"The servant still has work to do, and he is indeed a little old, so it is not good to look at the difference between the two ladies in the dim corridor, so he laughs and says that he can't tell the difference." The colonel's face was solemn, "He always takes this matter to heart, but he still chooses to report it with the sound of falling water." ”

"Did you find the maid?" Pugani pricked up her ears, feeling like she was listening to a supernatural story.

The window seemed to be closed, and a wisp of sea breeze blew in, making him feel uncomfortable.

"Found it."

"Although the servant identified her, the maid knew nothing about it, and explicitly denied that she did not have twin siblings, nor did she come to our ship that day."

Pagani gasped: "She's definitely fake!" ”

"I see, the way that seal corresponds to is Intis's intelligence department! This seal can be transformed into someone else's form, and maybe it can take someone else's identity just like that! That's why I feel like there are so many pairs of eyes staring at me around me, and our two neighbors are really getting more and more arrogant because the chaotic bastards of Indis want to obstruct our escort of the Governor to the Southern Continent to quell the rebellion! ”

"That's why you say 'more than three are missing'? Not many people are missing, but many more have become part of the seal, right? ”

Alfred's face showed a strange color: "Exactly, after listening to these few words, you can guess how the seal moves, Pugani, your mind is still very flexible." ”

"However, it remains to be verified whether the intis intelligence department is involved, and I have a reliable clue that such a seal corresponds to the middle sequence of that path, and it belongs to a level 2 seal, so it is a little unreasonable to throw it on our ship casually."

"Maybe Intis is helping the natives of the colony!" "Tell the natives that you just bring this thing in, and the natives won't use it anyway." ”

Alfred pondered: "It's not impossible for you to say this......"

"And what exactly are you going to do with the seal?" Pagani unconsciously lowered his voice again, "Your Excellency Lieutenant General is not here ......"

"How do you know he's not there?"

Seeing a sly smile on his friend's face, Pagani suddenly understood, and a smile appeared on his face:

"Your Excellency Lieutenant General has been guarding in the shadows? I forgive you, Alfred, if I had known about it, I would have shown confidence instead of being as anxious as I am now. ”

"I'm glad you forgave me, count the time, Your Excellency the Lieutenant General should have found it."

With that, Alfred walked to the window and opened the curtains, acting like the opening of a theater. Pagani stood up and walked over for some reason, only to see a frigate more than ten meters away outside the window.

A man stood in the bow of the boat, condescending, and a grand and serious voice came with the sea breeze:

"Disguise is forbidden here!"

"No substitution is allowed here!"

"The storm is above, it's really Your Excellency the Lieutenant General." Pagni's eyes suddenly straightened, "The seal is on that ship?" ”

As if to confirm his words, the lieutenant general fell, and suddenly three or four people on the deck fell with a thud, still clutching mops and rags in their hands, their expressions frozen, and their movements stiffened, as if an invisible hand had pushed the statues.

The other servants were frightened by the sight, and the Ritsu covered the entire frigate, so even the screams could be heard from the cabin, but they were quickly quelled with the help of the guards.

"There are so many?" Pagni's face changed drastically, "How many people are alive on that ship?" ”

Alfred also had a serious face: "Your Excellency the Lieutenant General estimates that at least twenty people died, including three junior officers, and this seal is mainly aimed at ordinary people. Before we even set foot on the land of Byron, we had already suffered casualties. ”

The "sculptures" that fell to the ground quickly decayed, bleeding and turning into a muddy object with a lake of faces, and it was difficult to distinguish whether they were once human, and the stench of these corpses was also carried by the sea breeze, as if they had been dead for days.

The fastidious and perceptive Pagani almost vomited at the smell, and Alfred had to close the window and respray the perfume to save his life.

But this little episode did not dampen their curiosity, and there was the sound of gunfire in the cabin of the frigate, and there was a flickering fire, and it seemed that His Excellency the Vice Admiral had come into contact with the seal. After a while, corpses covered with white cloths were carried out, and the figure of the lieutenant general reappeared on the deck, clutching something faintly visible.

"That's it!" Pagani was surprised and delighted, "The storm is above! Praise to Your Excellency Lieutenant General. ”

Then he was a little confused: "How did Your Excellency the Vice Admiral confirm that it was on that ship?" ”

Alfred smiled slightly and said, "Because His Excellency the Vice Admiral has searched all three ships, and finally confirmed that only the frigate has traces of its activities. ”

Pagani was even more surprised: "Your Excellency the Lieutenant General has been here!" God, didn't that mean I might have met him? ”

As they spoke, Alfred's window was knocked on, revealing a man with serious features and a face carved out of marble floating outside, holding a sketch with one hand and pressing the other hand against the window.

Alfred hurriedly opened the window, and the two of them said hello together:

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!"

The lieutenant general casually showed them what was in his hand—a small wooden figure about the size of his palm, with movable joints and facial features. Then he said: "The crisis has been resolved, alert has been restored, and I will officially board the ship at the next port." ”

He turned to Alfred: "Your clues are timely. ”

With that, the lieutenant general flew back into the distance and landed on the deck of another frigate, supervising the clean-up and pacification work.

Pugni's face couldn't hide the excitement: "Oh my God! Alfred, you've got a compliment from the lieutenant general! ”

"I almost forgot that you are such a brave and decisive person. If you contribute to this rebellion, you may soon get the rank of brigadier general, and then you will ...... as long as you have a few more years of seniority."

Alfred was also in a good mood, but he still stopped his companion from continuing to imagine the future: "Let's fight the war first." ”

"Good, good. Your Excellency the future general, I would like to ask you to bring me a lot in the future. The long-standing crisis was resolved, and Pagani was visibly overjoyed, "Let's go to the restaurant for dinner?" ”

"You go first, I'll go and change my clothes."

"Then I'll go back too."

Pagani took his leave, turned and opened the door to leave. He walked down the hallway, still in disbelief.

"That's the end of it?"

A decree concluded that there were no fish that slipped through the net, and a few circles around the other two ships were considered to have been checked? That's too rash, isn't it......

"But it's okay, anyway, it's finally over."

Pagni's expression returned to his cabin, he took off his coat, took out another piece of his daily dress from the closet, gestured at his body, and began to change.

Of course, it was best not to be discovered, it turned out that my "Finding the Difference" game was already known to them, so it was so dangerous, but fortunately I only played "hide and seek" with Pagani once...... The bodies of the three junior officers were there, and the characteristics were all there, and they didn't do anything but kill people, giving them the illusion that I had no reason. Only the characteristics of this person are still on me, so that I can smoothly disguise the "Inquisitor" path of Sequence 7 as the Extraordinary.

Pagani was captured by him, so I have no choice but to follow up now...... If I can follow the fleet into Byron, will the adults reward me with the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 7...... The doll thought to herself.

459

Godforsaken Lands, Silver City.

Chief Colin Rinriat had been debriefed by the patrol before lunch, but had not yet been prepared.

He wondered if he should tell Elder Lovia and the mother of the soon-to-be-born child about this.

The visitors wanted to see him by name, but as the supreme warrior of Silver City and the head of the Council of Six, Colin Gliat could not bet on whether the man was a monster or, as he put it, "your countrymen, the shepherd of the Lord."

But he was sure that both Elder Lovia and Mrs. Scott would be so happy that they were eager to meet the visitor.

"An old man?"

"Yes, he looks very old, a little older than you, the chief."

"Dressed in clothes you haven't seen before, but with the sign of the Lord hanging around your neck?"

"Yes, Chief. But we can't tell his way. ”

"Tell me what his characteristics are."

"He- the lantern in his hand seemed to be a seal, there was pure darkness around him, but there were no monsters, and there were faint feathers that were faintly visible......"

Colin Ngliat recalled the contents of the patrol team's report, looking at the people coming and going in Silver City from top to bottom, feeling a heavy weight on his shoulders, as if he had arrived at some important junction of fate.

He chose to summon Derrick first.

The tall young man who was called was at a loss: "Chief, are you looking for me?" ”

Colin said implicitly, "Helena Scaver says her kids like you a lot. ”

He saw that Darik was more obviously relieved, his mood became relaxed, and a smile appeared on his face: "I'm happy. ”

"Do you think there's a reason for that?"

There was a hint of confusion in Derik's eyes, and he seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then he pondered, "Maybe it's because of my path?" The Lord is the Creator and was the Sun God, but my path came from the relics of my parents......"

You kid,...... Colin shook his head inwardly, and instead of exposing Derik's imminent lie, Colin slowed down his tone and spoke to him for a while. Colin recorded Derik's answer in his heart, and the seal in the old man's hand described by the patrol team had a "warm, constant light", which also reminded him of Derik's path and purifying powers.

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door, and someone came to report, "Chief, Elder Lovia has an urgent matter for you. ”

Colin glanced at Darik, and seeing that there was nothing unusual on his face, he said calmly:

"Let her in."

The guards hurried away, and half a minute later, the silvery-white curly-haired elder Lovia came holding her skull.

When she saw that Derrick was there, she was a little puzzled and understood something. Then Lovia reached out and rolled up one of her sleeves, and said in a fluttering tone:

"Chief."

"Something seems to be calling out to me from outside the city."

Colin's expression became serious - the visitor is the "secret prayer" channel? Is it the powerhouse above Lovia? Silver City's "Secret Prayer" path doesn't have the recipe after Sequence 4, maybe this is indeed an opportunity, but it's too hard to believe.

He said......"

Lovia rolled her sleeves up to the joints, and the flesh on her pale and smooth forearms suddenly began to wriggle, and then several pieces of flesh fell off on their own and landed on the round table between them. Colin's gaze was immediately drawn to it, and Lovia lowered her head slightly, ignoring the blood gushing from her arm, and Derrick slowly opened his mouth wide-

The few pieces of flesh wriggled on their own, spelling out a few Giant words:

"I have no ill will."

TBC

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In this style of painting, who believes that your Aurora Club is not a cult! The hanged man reflects on himself!