Chapter 62: Door-to-door

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"Hah!"

The mark on Lumian's right chest flashed, and his spirit body vibrate, and a yellowish light flew out of his mouth.

It instantly hit the "Guillaume" in a dark shirt and black trousers. Bene", so that the other party was directly unconscious in a surprised, stunned, and confused expression, and fell to the ground.

"Hum Ha Technique"!

Fake! Seeing this scene, Lumien's eyes narrowed slightly, and he made a judgment without being particularly disappointed.

This is certainly not the parish priest, not to mention Guillaume. Is it possible that Bennet's Sequence 5 "Life Hunter" was stunned on the spot by the Hum Ha Technique, just the confusion and confusion he revealed when he was attacked made Lumian suspect that the "double" was originally an ordinary person with no understanding of supernatural abilities and the occult world.

Not caring to deal with the stunned butler, Lumian turned around and ran out of the small living room.

As he ran, he whispered, "Go to 'dill'!"

Franca's hooded and black robe with leather armor silhouetted in front of Lumian. "

Lumian grabbed her shoulder, causing the black mark on her right shoulder to glow.

In the chaotic cascading sheer blocks of color, the two appeared on the balcony at the end of the sixth floor of the "dill" brothel.

- When he sent Janna here and told Albus that he could leave, Lumian was already "familiar" with and remembered the coordinates of the place.

Seeing the arrival of her companions, Jane, dressed as a female mercenary, walked out of the shadows, pointed to room 602, and said in a suppressed voice, "It's not over yet."

"Damn, it's really a toss!"

"I'm afraid this is the second round, right?" Lumian chuckled.

According to Albus, the person in room 602 should have vented once before he had time to have afternoon tea, and as a result, it started again.

"Isn't it nice to have sound insulation?" Curiously, Franka tilted her head and listened to room 602.

Janna pursed her lips as she watched as Lumian stretched out her hand to wipe her face and turned into an ordinary "dill" brothel attendant:

The woman inside screamed every few moments.

"Damn, that nymphomaniac priest doesn't have abusive tendencies, does he?"

As an underground singer, Jana frequents bars and dance halls, and the image she creates is hot and unrestrained, and she does not lack understanding of similar things, and she has a good relationship with Franca, who is in charge of several dancers in major dance halls, and what she sees and hears is much richer than that of normal girls, so although she herself has no practical experience, the breadth of knowledge and the depth of theory are not bad.

Franka understood as soon as she heard it, and struggled to control the volume "tsk".

Lumian, who had used the "Face of Nisser" to complete the transformation, looked at Franca, wanting to borrow the fluorescent powder and sprinkle it on the hallway outside Room 602.

This was to deal with Guillaume. Bene's "stealth" ability!

As far as Lumian knew, that "stealth" had no effect on removing marks and scents, and if Guillaume Bernet had disappeared and fled into the hallway during the battle, the glowing powder would have left him with a clear footprint that would have given him a clear direction for his attack.

But after thinking about it, Lumian felt that the glowing powder was too obvious, and it was easy for Guillaume to make him. Bennet sensed the anomaly in advance and used his strange abilities to escape before he could launch a surprise attack.

After a moment's thought, he whispered to Franca:

"You 'stealth' in the hallway, leaving the target's doorway covered in that invisible spider silk, from the floor to the ceiling."

In this way, any "stealth" will not work, and "slow flight" will also be entangled!

"No problem." Francara pulled on her black hood and stepped forward into the hallway.

Her figure vanished, as if the snowman had been sunburned.

Seven or eight seconds later, Lumien felt his legs caressed a few times by wisps of breeze.

He was stunned at first, but then understood:

"It's Franka telling me with invisible spider silk that she's ready.

"After this dude became the 'Witch of Pleasure', everything she did gave me the feeling that she was teasing...... Also, she has just been promoted, and she can't completely control the power of potions, and she will be affected unconsciously......"

In a silent mutter, Lumian turned his head to Jana and said:

"You're hiding in the shadows here, Guillaume. If Bene escapes from here, you can either give him a shot, or complete an assassination, and if that doesn't work, return immediately.

"If he runs from the other direction, you don't care."

"Okay." Jaina already had some insight and didn't insist on getting involved.

She felt that with her own sequence and strength, she could do an assassination when the conditions were right.

After arranging his companions, Lumian turned around and looked at the wooden door of room 602 again.

He took a deep breath and exhaled it slowly, calming his emotions a little.

With that, Lumien carried a chair on the balcony into the hallway.

With the help of the invisible spider silk, he came to a place far away from room 602 and placed his chair in an empty space.

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In the next second, he gently patted the back of the chair, letting the red fire flow out of his palm, and the snake creature swam to every corner of the chair.

As the chair was set on fire, Lumian trotted up and ran to the outside of 602 without concealing his movements, slamming the wooden door.

"Do what?"

A suppressed angry voice came from room 602, seemingly at a critical moment.

"It's on fire! It's on fire!" Lumian shouted in a deftly panicked voice.

"Sows raised!" The man in the room cursed in a Leston provincial accent.

This was accompanied by a movement out of bed, which was very noticeable to the "Hunter".

After two or three seconds, the door opened a little halfway, revealing a man wearing an iron-colored half-face mask, wearing a white shirt, and a bare bottom.

He also had a brown-haired woman in a tulle nightdress.

Damn, I can't afford to part with this? Franca, who was in a state of stealth diagonally opposite, saw this scene and sneered amusedly.

Lumian was highly concentrated, and when he saw the suspected Guillaume. The man in Bene appeared, looked at the chair emitting smoke and fire, and immediately opened his mouth: "Ha!"

Another yellowish light flew out, enveloping the man in the iron-colored half-face mask and the woman in the tulle nightdress.

Suspected Guillaume. Bennet's man unconsciously looked stunned and panicked, apparently with some understanding of supernatural power.

His eyes vanished, he lost his look, and fainted, half a beat slower than the girl.

In the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, Lumian seemed to fall into a dream:

Impossible, Guillaume as a "life hunter". It is impossible for Bennet to be directly stunned by the "humming technique" of the "person who has been contracted.......

Is he a fake?

The one at 50 Vincent Street is obviously a fake!

Where is it really?

Lumian quickly came to his senses, crouched down, and lifted the man's iron-colored mask.

The face under the mask was unusually familiar to him, and it was indeed Guillaume. Bennet's face with a hooked nose. With a calm face, Lumian pushed away the half-naked woman who was pressing on the target man, and ripped the white shirt straight away.

In the next second, he saw three black marks on the upper body of the unconscious man, which looked like a seal, on the left chest, the right chest, and the abdomen.

This is not Guillaume. Bene!

Guillaume. Bennet has more than three contracts, at least a dozen!

Are they all fake? Are they all stand-ins? Lumian clenched his fists, and an invisible flame burned in his eyes.

He stood up and took the one and Guillaume. Bennet's identical-looking man dragged him back into room 602, then found a quilt on the bed, wrapped the unconscious girl, and threw her down the hallway.

At this time, Franka also noticed that the prey seemed to be fake, so she withdrew from the stealth state, condensed the frost, and extinguished the flame on the back chair.

As she moved the girl in the hallway to an empty room nearby, Lumian reached out his right hand and grabbed the fatalistic bounty by the throat.

With a click, he directly pinched the other party's neck, causing him to lose his life in a coma.

Immediately afterward, he closed the wooden door, pulled out the ceremonial silver dagger, and simply sanctified it, creating a "spiritual wall" covering room 602.

Then, he danced the "Dance of Moves", which was to do a preliminary, purposeful channeling in this way.

The reason why he didn't ask Franka for help was because he didn't know what strange creatures the deceased had contracted with, which was likely to bring corresponding pollution, and only he, who had long been a fatalistic gifter, would not be affected in the psychic process.

As for the elixirs and the last of the "elixirs" obtained from the "Blessed Society", he intended to use them on the real parish priests.

Diagonally opposite 50 Vincent Street.

Climb to the second floor of the building, hide in a hidden place, and monitor the target's Anthony. Red saw a beautiful lady in a pale green dress hurrying out with a manservant, maid, and butler, and in a carriage that had been transferred from the rear to the main entrance in advance, toward the end of Vincent Street.

Anthony didn't rush to follow it, but wrote down all the details of the horses in the carriage.

In the frantic and twisted dance, the spirits of the dead detached themselves from their bodies and floated into the air, looking at Lumian with hatred and blankness.

Lumian stabbed out his own blood and commanded him to possess him.

The flames of longing and hunger burned within him at the same time, and he was unmoved, sensing his other extra brain: "Summoning the Abyss Demon Flower......

"Stealth....

'Transfiguration'...... !"

As soon as he could tell this, Lumian couldn't help but scold.

He probably understood what was going on!

The one at 50 rue Vincent is supposed to be the product of the "art of substitution", while the brothel of "dill" is the product of Guillaume. According to the characteristics of his negative influence, Bennet "cultivated" a stand-in with the help of the ability of "Transfiguration".

He was on guard against others looking for him based on those negative influences!

- "Transfiguration" is a contractual ability that can change a person's appearance, body, and temperament, and possess

For a certain anti-divination effect, the price to be paid is "one's own face", and the negative effect is "the desire to abuse others".

Lumian calmed down, and in his mind remembered the real Guillaume. Bennet's appearance and mannerisms resonate with the most impressive memories of the spirits of the dead, and look for clues.

Soon, there were seven or eight memories that fluttered slightly, and Lumian chose one of them, trying to zoom in.

—————— door-to-door

The waiter looked at the large handful of gold coins and the banknotes that seemed to smell the special scent of ink, and his eyes involuntarily straightened, and he instinctively held his breath.

After a few seconds, he hurriedly looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he calmed down a little. "

"Both, all for me?" The waiter swallowed his saliva with difficulty.

Albus directly threw a gold coin worth 5 Filgin over and let it fall accurately in the palm of the waiter's hand, and then said with a smile:

"It depends on whether the information you provide is useful or not, but either way, you'll get another 20 Feldin."

The waiter lightly bit the gold coin in his hand, looked back at the road from which he came, and said in a suppressed voice:

"The southerner in room 2 on the 6th floor is similar to you, every time I come, I look for the most famous courtesan, I like to order food in advance, and let us deliver it to the room every half an hour."

Southerners, looking for the most famous courtesans, like to order food in advance, room 602...... Albus did not hesitate and threw two more 10-fil gold coins engraved with warships to the attendant.

Next, he took advantage of the fact that the most lively time period of the city wall street had not yet arrived, and took advantage of the opportunity for everyone to laze under the afternoon sun, sneaked to the sixth floor and hid in the balcony at the end of the corridor.

In less than ten minutes, the waiter in charge of delivering food took the steam-powered mechanical elevator and pushed the silver-white metal dining cart to room 602 and gently rang the doorbell.

Albus stood up, found a spot on the balcony where he could see the doorway to 602, and cast his gaze.

The door was opened by a man of less than 1.7 meters, wearing an iron-black half-face mask, a white shirt and light-colored boxer shorts.

Take off your pants and don't take off your clothes...... To cover up tattoo marks on the upper body? The more Albus looked, the more he felt that the man in room 602 was Guillaume on the wanted list. Bene.

Without "bothering" the other party, he sat back in the chair with a white board in the balcony and pulled out a gray, thick-haired mouse from his coat pocket.

This is one of Christo's pets as the "Beast Tamer"!

Lumien brought in the "rat" in order to use his pets, which can communicate easily, to complete the communication between team members more covertly and effectively.

Of course, this must rely on Christo as a transit point and "translator".

Albus patted the rat's head, and as agreed, he made a gesture in which his thumb and forefinger were clasped into a circle, and the other three fingers were erected.

This represents the discovery of prey with a highly suspicious target.

The rat squeaked, jumped out of Albus's hand, and searched for the owner who had been hiding in a nearby beer hall.

After learning from Christo's pet parrot that the members of the Predator had found the parish priest, Lumian fell into a brief moment of astonishment and confusion.

If they do find Guillaume. Bennet, who am I seeing?

If the man in that house at 50 rue Vincent was indeed Guillaume. Bene, where did the fakes they saw come from?

In the flash of thought, Lumian suddenly thought of a possibility: "Substitution Technique"!

Guillaume. Bene has held a ceremony called "Substitution"!

It was one of the five special ritual spells that Lumian had acquired during the "Dervishes" phase, and the parish priest who had already become a Sequence 5 "Fortune Hunter" would obviously do too.

Its function is to make the recipient perceive the danger and find another person to live in his or her name for a certain period of time, to gain the approval of those around him, whether genuinely or not, to establish sufficient occult connections, and then perform a ritual to complete the substitution.

If the "substitution technique" is successful, in the eyes of others, the stand-in will be exactly the same as the main body, and although his self-perception and actual performance will be affected to a certain extent, he will still be the original self for the most part.

When the avatar is engulfed by a foreseen disaster, the recipient of the "substitution technique" will have their fate changed and be completely freed from the corresponding danger.

Provided, of course, that the "catastrophe" arrives without knowing that it is a stand-in.

This would be quite effective for other extraordinary, but Lumian, who knew what it was like to have an "alternate technique", would not be deceived as long as he thought of it.

For him, the most critical questions now are:

Which side is the real Guillaume Bennet and which side is the stand-in?

The forces that Lumian has organized so far must be gathered in order to have any hope of inflicting heavy damage on the parish priest and capturing him, so he must choose one side to attack first, and not at the same time.

- Gardner. Martin only promised to help find the "prey", and did not promise to provide other help, because of this, most of the official and peripheral members sent by the "Predator Cross" were low-rank, even ordinary people.

Of course, if Lumian really went to Gardner. Martin, the other party may agree in the spirit of buying people's hearts, but the problem is that it will take several hours for the "Predator Cross" to mobilize enough forces to come. Bene is not an iron man, and that courtesan is not a "witch of pleasure", how can it last so long? He was bound to leave early.

Guillaume. Which choice will Bennet make, will he let the stand-in stay at home, attract firepower, and go out to fool around on his own, or let the stand-in out, show his characteristics, and "strangle" the danger outside the house? Lumian felt that both possibilities were there, and he couldn't really rule them out.

He thought for a moment, looked at the green and white parrot and said:

"You look for 'Red Boots' Franca, and ask her to tell Guillaume at 50 rue Vincent. Bené and Guillaume on the other side. Bene, who is real and who is fake. ”

The parrot looked at Lumian with a foolish look and said, "I'm just a parrot."

I'm talking about something too complicated to understand and to memorize completely? After a few thoughts crossed Lumian's mind, he quickly made a decision:

"Take me to 'Red Boots' Franca, no, take me to Christo first."

There was still some time, and the team at 50 Rue Vincent couldn't get away, so the team in charge of the operation could meet briefly and exchange information.

They are hiding in the shadows, and the enemy is moving in the open, so as long as they don't disturb them, they can wait a little longer, of course, in the case of Guillaume, who is a famous courtesan. Bennet finished venting his desires before he finished, after all, stalking a person is at risk of being exposed, and even more so following a parish priest with a large number of strange and unknown abilities.

Inside an alley near City Wall Street.

The afternoon sun shone on the half-toppled barricades, making the wind want to stop and rest for a while.

Franca, who changed into an assassin "suit", Jane, who was dressed as a female mercenary, was still Anthony in army green clothes and trousers. Red and Lumien, dressed in a peaked cap, black waistcoat, and white shirt, meet in this secluded no-man's land.

Lumian briefly mentions the situation, but for the sake of time, he does not elaborate on the "art of substitution", and refers to the witchcraft of creating living stand-ins.

Without waiting for him to ask, Franka took out a mirror and stroked the surface as she chanted the incantation.

Soon, the mirror glowed with water, and an old voice came out:

"It's all true." 62

It's all true...... Franka tilted her head in surprise and looked at Lumian.

The witchcraft that made the stand-in is very powerful.,The make-in looks and fates are the same as the real thing.,It's hard to distinguish by ordinary divination methods!

It's all true...... Lumian had expected this answer, and was already thinking of another way.

Seeing that he was silent for a moment, Franka took a breath and said hesitantly:

"Yes, do you need me to change the person I ask about?"

She was going to ask for an answer from the one who had the most accurate divination.

But then she had to be in front of Jana, Lumian, and Anthony. Rhett's face answers a question that could have caused her social death.

She sensed that the man would probably ask, "Do you often think about doing that kind of thing with Jana?"

This makes her how to get along with Jana in the future!

Lumian shook his head and said:

"No, I have a solution."

He then said to Jane:

"You hide in the shadows diagonally across from room 602 of 'Dill', and keep an eye on that Guillaume. Bene's move.

"If he's completely done and ready to leave, and we haven't arrived yet, don't follow him rashly, just observe his whereabouts from a distance and know which street he has probably gone."

"Okay." Jane nodded, rehearsing in her mind what she was supposed to do.

Lumian turned to look at Franca and Anthony. Red:

"We went together at 50 rue Vincent and I went straight to the door to 'visit' that Guillaume. Bene, Franca, you follow me in stealth, and try not to make a move until you confirm the authenticity.

"Anthony, you stay outside, if that Guillaume. Bennet is fake, we rush to the 'dill', you spy on the mistress there to see where she goes, and after that, if the 'dill' Guillaume. Bennet's successful escape will be an important clue for us to follow.

"If the one at 50 Vincent Street is real, and there is a fierce fight, you will creep in and provide assistance."

Franca has no opinion on this arrangement, she knows that Lumian has a "teleportation", and once she is sure that the one on Vincent Street is fake, she can let the main force of the battle rush to the other side before the real and fake Guillaume "exchange messages".

Anthony analyzed the risks he needed to take and said that there was no problem.

50 Rue Vincent, near the off-white three-storey building.

After seeing that Franca was "invisible" without materials, Lumian raised his right hand and wiped his face.

He instantly turned into a man in his thirties in a black uniform and wearing an inspector's epaulettes.

"Nisser Face"!

After confirming his condition, Lumian walked to the target building and rang the doorbell.

The door was opened by a man dressed as a butler, who looked at Lumian and asked suspiciously:

"Officer, what's the matter?"

"There is a case of a homeless man who has disappeared on this street, and I want to meet your man." Lumian began to make up nonsense.

The housekeeper's expression changed slightly:

"Officer, wait a minute, I'll ask our master."

After a while, the butler returned to the door and said to Lumien:

"Officer, our lord invites you to go to the small living room on the first floor."

Lumian bowed his head slightly, followed the butler, and walked into 50 Vincent Street.

The living room is spacious, with blue-gray cats huddled in corners, caged birds chirping, and black dogs suspected of being hounds crouching in the aisle, warily watching strangers as they enter.

After bypassing the elegant set of sofas, the butler turned into the small living room at the back, where a man with black hair and blue eyes, a slightly hooked nose, a dark shirt and black trousers was sitting on a single sofa, caressing the head of a large brown-haired dog, with a leisurely and slightly arrogant posture.

"Officer, what's the matter?" The man asked as he got up slowly.

It's him, it's him, Guillaume. Bene! Priest Guillaume. Bene! After Lumian saw the appearance of the man clearly, his eyes shrank slightly, and he took a few steps forward, narrowing the distance between the two sides to within five meters.

Immediately after, he opened his mouth directly and made a sound:

"Hah!"

Only by really doing it can you determine who is the stand-in and who is the person!

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