Ian knows who he is, he's just a gatekeeper, not a king.

Ms. Dujia treated him out of politeness, but if he really violently enforced the law, then his reputation would be miserable, and in the eyes of others, it would be almost the same.

"Since it's legal, then I'm relieved."

Before leaving, Ian took the confused Alice with him, and glanced at the smiling Lady Duggard.

Lady Duggard was reluctant to say, but she didn't show hostility, otherwise Ian would have sensed it.

Perhaps, the other party is not lying, but is just unwilling to disclose his secret.

This is also the reason why Ian took Alice.

Alice has memories of Ms. Durga before she was 16 years old, and through Alice's answers, you can compare the two to find out who lied.

Ian walked out the door.

"President." Blanton stepped forward and asked, "Did the puppeteer answer anything?" ”

Ian shook his head.

Blanton frowned slightly: "Maybe you can use special means?" ”

"Not really."

Ian refused.

Special means refer to violent law enforcement, but the problem is that they are not qualified, and it is better to act covertly than to act blatantly and arrogantly.

He has a way.

"Disbanded."

……

……

Alice is in a bad mood, she is a doll, and she is already a little inferior.

This time it was identified as a "monster that may be a necromantic disaster", not to mention how uncomfortable it was.

This is a direct change from a friend to an enemy, and you will almost be killed on the spot.

Ian pushed the door in, still performing maintenance work, and the amount of exercise today was small, not as cumbersome as yesterday.

His unfastening of Alice's clothes was only slightly hindered by the other party.

But Alice knew it was useless, and Durja had now put her in stock.

"Gatekeepers, puppets...... Is it really a monster? ”

She asked.

"This question hasn't been answered yet, maybe it's just that the dead puppets are being controlled by the necromancy, maybe it's still unclear."

Ian replied, "You don't need to think about it, I still need your help." ”

Alice was stunned.

She raised her face and met Ian's gaze, "Help?" ”

"Use the memories in your head to steal some information."

Ian said, Alice's expression stiffened.

She was familiar with the structure inside the mansion, but it was the first time she had taken an outsider to steal.

A bit of a crime?

Either way, Ian had made up his mind.

He began to sequence the information obscuration of the ability "The Agnostic", obscuring the information of himself and Alice.

Alice, like Grizzly Bear, is a puppet and is not really a free unit, but rather his summon puppet.

The two of them ate the bonus of the sequence ability, and took advantage of the night to touch Ms. Dujia's mansion.

Ian climbed over the wall first, it was easy, his agility and strength attributes were very high, and as soon as he jumped over the wall, he climbed over the outermost high wall.

Someone else is coming, but there's a puppet lady outside.

Alice stood on the ground stupidly, looking up at Ian, who was sitting on the edge of the four-meter-high wall.

Ian tilted his head: "Come up?" ”

Alice suddenly felt weak and shrank her head:

"Ling...... Even if you let me climb the wall, I'm just an ordinary puppet......"

With a low-quality doll like her, who has to be maintained after a few steps, how can she learn from Ian to climb over the wall so easily, isn't it difficult to be a puppet?

Ian noticed this.

He sighed, pulled the rope out of his backpack, and hung down the wall.

"Hold on, I'll pull you up, it'll always work."

He has long been accustomed to superhuman abilities from heaven to earth.

Suddenly met Alice, who was a 60-year-old grandmother with a worse physique than ordinary people.

Ian realized that he had gotten stronger.

Alice grabbed the rope and tried to climb up with her foot against the wall, but she forgot gravity - she was wearing a dress.

Ian pulled her up with force, and after reaching a height of three meters, he grabbed Alice's left hand and pulled her against a high wall.

The cool breeze blew in the moonlight, and Ian looked into the mansion, but Ms. Duggard didn't turn on the lights.

Some self-patrolling puppets roam the yard.

Their eyes are rubies, which shimmer red at night, and their temperament suddenly becomes a little crazy.

Ian now thinks of the 'Dirty Spirit Gem' in the meat pile when he sees the rubies.

I have to admit that the meat pile is very likely to be a puppet, and the power of the natural disaster has polluted the spiritual gem.

"Let's go, be careful."

Ian turns on Eagle Vision and actively flags the puppets as enemies so that he can sense their warning range.

Centered on the grizzly bear puppet, it is a dangerous area within 10 meters, and it will be attacked by a grizzly bear if you enter.

Alice doesn't know how to sneak in, and is pulled to the workshop by Ian in a daze.

Click-

Ian first creates darkness with a dark crawl, pushes open the door, and the two creep in.

The maids in the mansion have rested, and the dolls are standing on the edge of the corridor, monitoring everything in the mansion.

"Is the mansion so strict?"

Ian asked.

Alice nodded in Ian's arms: "It seems that it was due to the mistake of a certain family head in the previous generations, which caused him to be killed by a puppet, and the subsequent family heads are very cautious." ”

"They divide the dolls into teams so that if one team gets out of control, the other puppets can protect them."

The hallway is flanked by burning candle lamps that glow faintly, and various bookshelves are placed on both sides.

Ian's "Agnostic" information obscuration is only effective against targets whose rank and sequence are lower than his.

Ms. Duggard is very strong, and he needs to move lightly.

Open the cabinet.

Based on the memories in her mind, Alice helps Ian search for the information he needs.

She's a little weird...... Not quite right?

This is her home, and even if her mother doesn't like her, she shouldn't help Ian......

"Did you find it?"

Ian pressed his hand against the counter so that it wouldn't shake and make a sound, and his wide body enveloped Alice, giving her a sense of security.

Alice took a manuscript out of the depths of the counter and handed it to Ian, staring at his face in a daze.

She really wants to be an ordinary human woman, and Ian is willing to help her mother when she neglects her......

That's enough.

She is not a grizzly bear, she will carry out orders when she is given, and will never disobey her master's orders.

She is a better puppet, and she has the power to act according to her own will.

Zizi –

The golden spirit gem hidden in Alice's body burst into sparks at this moment and began to glow slightly.

Ian read the codex.

The harvest is small, and it is written on it that the previous generation of family heads made bold attempts in puppetry.

She bought a number of condemned prisoners and experimented with them to find out the flaws of classical puppetry and improve it.

Here's what the previous head of the family thought:

"Since our ambition is to create humans, we have to understand human beings...... It's more than knowing about dolls. ”

Ms. Duggard may have inherited her mother's ideas.

Human experiments?

Ian pondered, looking to the other cabinet.

The two of them were cautious, keeping an eye out for movement in the dark.

The cabinet was locked with a lock, and Ian guessed that it contained important information, and he handed the manuscript to Alice and told her to put it back in its original place so that Lady Durga would not notice the anomaly.

Ian needed to pick the lock, and he looked at the cylinder of the lock, which was very unfamiliar...... He won't pick the lock at all!

How is this going on?

Ian and Alice looked at each other, and Alice understood what Ian meant, and she pointed to the potted plant at the end of the aisle.

Ian whispered, "Do you know where the key is?" ”

Alice nodded, and took Ian to fetch it.

The memories in her mind told her that the cupboard contained the knowledge of previous generations of family heads, and those were precious.

She went to the potted plant and pressed a bulge next to it, and the small wooden drawer was pushed out from under the cabinet.

In a drawer, there is a golden long-handled key.

That's it.

Alice handed the key to Ian like a treasure, relaxed and released the hand holding the button.

At that moment, a silver cross-pointed nail came out of the side of the potted plant and was about to pierce Alice's neck.

No.

Alice immediately panicked, once she broke down, maybe her mother would not choose to repair her, but choose to abandon it or something......

The diamond-shaped silver spikes, almost touching her skin, lifted Alice's head.

She saw a hand outstretched and gripping a spike.

Whew-

As the wind began to rise, Ronroo's passive helped Ian resist the damage, and the spikes automatically retracted.

"Be careful, decades have passed, and it's normal for there to be changes in the mansion."

Ian said Alice was relieved to grab his hand in fear and find that there was no wound on it.

"It's a Demon Breaker." Her tone was heavy, "This is a trap used to attack mages. ”

Mages generally have magic shields, but the Broken Spike will break the magic shield, dealing damage to the mage and poisoning the mage.

This is a very dangerous trap, but it can be found everywhere in the mansion.

The warm mansion in her memory, this is what it really looks like?

With the key in hand, Ian opened the locked cabinet.

The cabinet is also full of stacked manuscripts, and it is up to Alice, who knows how to do puppetry, to sort them out.

It's something that requires patience, and Alice tenses her spirits and hands over her defenses to Ian.

The manuscripts were opened one by one, and Alice was taken into the eyes.

Ten minutes later, she put down the book, took a deep breath, and handed the sorted record to Ian.

Ian looked surprised when he looked at this part of the material.

It's actually ...... An upgraded version of the Magic Thread?

The name is "puppet control thread", which literally strengthens the ability to manipulate the puppet.

You don't need skill points to learn, and it will replace the original magic thread skill.

Ian chooses to learn, he needs to try his skills, and his eyes are on the grizzly bears and pigeons in the aisle.

"Test, let's use it on me."

Alice tugged at the corner of Lai Ian's clothes: "It is possible that the puppet silk thread will fail, and even if it succeeds, it will trigger the alarm left by the mother in advance." ”

The dolls inside and outside the mansion all have built-in alarm capabilities, whether they are destroyed or the enemy is detected, they will call the police as soon as possible.

They had sneaked in, and they needed to investigate the puppetry in depth tonight, so they couldn't be exposed now.

"Okay."

Ian put away his heart and raised a finger to release the skill "Puppet Control Silk Thread", and the other end of the silk thread was attached to Alice's right hand.

At this moment, Alice lost control of her right hand, but she did not feel that part of her body was mutilated.

"The control was successful." She whispered.

Ian tries to manipulate Alice's right hand, which feels a bit like a wheel.

By pushing in a specific direction, the puppet follows and makes various movements.

"Whether it's a magic thread or a puppet thread, it can manipulate humans and dead things."

"But compared to the former, the puppet silk thread is more violent, it belongs to the magic with malice, and it is better at attacking."

Alice said.

She was right, if Ian was hit by the Silk Thread during the fight, it would not be as simple as losing a body part for a short time.

The puppeteer could have allowed Ian to fight left and right, and even forcibly wring off some of his limbs.

Ian finished the test in a proper manner, and did not do anything out of the ordinary, which surprised Alice a little.

"I thought you'd ......" Alice looked at her free right hand, her eyes wandering.

"Huh?"

Ian understands, his personality has been insulted!

"I can do it if you want, dear Miss Alice."

"Then you don't have to." Alice laughed dryly.

The cabinets on both sides of the hallway are fumbled.

Ian returned them to their rightful owners and sneaked upstairs.

At the crossroads, a pigeon stands in the middle, always watching for any intruders.

It blocked the way of the two.

"You can't destroy it violently, the pigeon itself can't find me, but there is a good chance that Ms. Duja behind the pigeon is very likely."

Ian pondered and realized that he still needed to seize control with the puppet thread.

"Alice, how can you control Lady Durgar's puppet without triggering the alarm?"

The puppet will call the police as soon as it loses control, which is really difficult for Ian to deal with.

Alice never thought there was such a possibility.

But they're stuck here, and they have to figure out a way out.

"How about an accident?"

Ian asked suddenly.

He thought of the worst-case scenario: "The recent fluctuations in the leylines in Changmian Town will cause a faint earthquake. ”

"The pot that had been placed high was shaken down, and the pigeon was smashed very coincidentally."

After listening to this, Alice nodded slightly:

"It's a bit far-fetched, but as long as we don't expose it and be cautious afterward."

Case......

Ian used the Communication Gem to communicate remotely with the mages in Eternal Sleep Town, asking them to turn the mana coordinator up three gears and down three gears.

Boom –

Soon, due to the floating magic power in the leylines, a faint vibration appeared in the mansion.

Ian moved quickly, and immediately used the puppet control silk thread to push out the flower pot at the height.

Syllable!

The pigeon, standing in the middle of the aisle, was smashed by the flower pot, and the ruby eyes were dim.

It's dead.

"Who?!"

A shrill voice rang out, and with a cold wind, a gloomy Lady Dugga flew out of the darkness.

She rode a broomstick, ten silk threads wrapped around her ten fingers, glowing with a reddish and dangerous light.

"Leyline mana floating?"

Lady Duja sensed the nearby leylines and frowned slightly.

Is that really the case? She was skeptical.

It's all too much of a coincidence.

With a swing of her staff, the pot that had fallen to the ground flew upside down and was intact, the dirt and flowers returning to their place.

The broken dove was a doll and could not be repaired by magic, so Lady Duggard pinched it up and squinted her eyes to examine it.

She found no trace of the intruder.

Ms. Duja put her hand in her bosom and took out a new pigeon and released it, and the pigeon flew around the mansion and landed on the broken pigeon.

That should be the case.

She waved her staff, and the broom beneath her glowed a faint red, carrying her away.

"Hoo ......"

Ian breathed a sigh of relief.

He and Alice hid in the cracks of the lavish bookcase, and Madame Durga could see them directly if she looked back.

Once this happens, even the 'Agnostic' will not be able to shield targets that are stronger than Ian, and they will be exposed.

"Alright, Ms. Duggard is gone."

He picked Alice out first, and then walked out himself.

Cleared the pigeon, and there are a lot of puppet monitoring in the back, but there is no dead angle monitoring like the pigeon.

Alice recalls the memories in her head.

She closed her eyes and strolled through the wide mansion from memory, stretching out her hand like a hostess and laying it flat on a neat wall.

Knock –

A small voice came out, very close to Ian, and he pinched the sound-dampening gems given by the mages and erased them.

Everything went on silently, the wall cracking open a boxy gap, and an unsettling red light shone through the crack, unlike Alice's memories.

She panicked and looked back at Ian.

With the idea of 'it's coming', Ian grabbed the seagull's wings and threw it in.

If there is something to do with the seagull, he will be on the same thing, and the division of labor is clear.

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