On the street to the docklands, a horse-drawn cart was galloping.

In order to avoid being discovered by the "instigator" Tris, the two night watchmen did not ride in a four-wheeled carriage with a police logo on it, but hired one at random on the street.

Listening to the occasional shouts from the driver outside the window, Dunn Smith, captain of the Tingen Nightmen, looked at Leonard Mitchell, who was sitting across from him.

The latter was carefully arranging his equipment, the holster under his armpit, the revolver in the holster, the spare ammunition in the pocket of the trench coat and trousers, which he carefully examined one by one before putting them back in place.

Since the target is only the Sequence 8 Extraordinary, this time they will not use the seals as they did when they captured Lady Sharon, but will only rely on the abilities of a few Night Watchers and their ordinary weapons.

Dunn didn't organize his arsenal of guns like he did, in fact he rarely used pistols in combat now, and more often than not, he used them as a deterrent to ordinary people. By the time he progressed to Sequence 7, "Nightmare", his approach to fighting had become closer to that of a true extraordinary, relying on the extraordinary abilities granted by potions rather than his fists and weapons.

Leonard stuffed the last set of spare ammunition into the loader and put it in the left pocket of his trench coat for easy access, and when he was done with everything, he looked up at Dunn, as if he was a little confused.

"Captain," he hesitated for a moment, but then asked, "why don't you bring Miss Granger, although we have a portrait of Tris the 'Instigator', she has seen a real person with her own eyes, and if Tris dares to reappear in the underground market, she is the only one who can quickly find her target." ”

"On the other hand, Tris has also seen her, a person who only declined the invitation yesterday, and today suddenly changed his attitude and approached you, wouldn't you be wary?"

Dunn asked with a grin, he had learned the details of the contact between the two of them from Angel last night.

"That's not a reason." Leonard's expression became serious, "She can be an observation post in the dark, or even directly in the lobby of the Dragon Bar, just keep an eye on the entrance, and she doesn't need to approach the other party at all." As soon as Triss shows up, we can do it. ”

"You're still suspicious of her?"

"Don't you have doubts?" Dunn leaned back in his seat and changed his legs to make himself sit more comfortably, "A wild extraordinaire who has only recently become an 'assassin' has reported the mentor of the extraordinary, and the other party even inexplicably killed the station of the night watchman, and died for no apparent reason. ”

"After joining the Night Watch with this merit, she 'stumbled' upon two other 'Assassins' and 'Instigators' in the same way, trying to draw our attention to the Gnosis through various clues. Is this a coincidence, or is it a plot? ”

Leonard tilted his head slightly, as if listening carefully, but his eyes squinted, and he did not look at Dunn opposite, and later he replied with a frown: "It is not uncommon for extraordinary people in the same path to meet easily, and it does not constitute a reason to doubt her...... And the fight against Sharon Hoy was so dangerous that I wasn't sure I would win, let alone come out unscathed, even if I had another fight in the same situation. ”

"If she approaches us with a purpose, and even a little water in the middle of the fight, you will see the remains of me and Ms. Dai Li when you return to the company."

"That's right." To Leonard's surprise, Dunn didn't contradict him, but nodded in agreement, "Daly also told me more about the battle, and she made a point of emphasizing that Miss Granger saved her twice. And this time she ran into Tris at the Dragon Bar, and if we hadn't spoken out, we wouldn't have known about it at all. And if you are wanted in the usual way, it is almost impossible to catch the extraordinary person who is good at hiding the 'assassin', just like the other 'instigator' we want, Cole Granger, has been close to two weeks, and there is no clue at all, and even the divination against him has failed. ”

"At least when it comes to dealing with the extraordinaires who commit crimes, she's doing her best."

"How did you ......?"

Leonard was even more puzzled now.

Dunn Smith lowered his voice, as if he didn't want the coachman across the door to hear: "It's not her who I suspect, but the strange attitude of the above." ”

"Did you know that I faxed Miss Granger's identity and battle with Sharon Hoy to the Templar yesterday, along with an application to make her a full member?"

Leonard leaned forward, closer to his captain, and the two whispered in the dimly lit compartment as if they were secretly plotting some kind of conspiracy.

"According to the normal process, the church will reply in about a week, and if there is a need for more information, or if the contribution is not enough, it will even be extended. Do you remember how long you waited when you joined the Night Watch? ”

"Four weeks? Or five weeks? ”

Leonard was a little confused. That was three years ago, when he had just become an extraordinary, and his first mission was to follow Dunn to capture cultists who were secretly performing evil rituals. Unfamiliar with the Extraordinary Power, he not only lost his target, but also nearly fell into the river, which caused his evaluation to drop so much that the Templar repeatedly delayed for a month before agreeing to his application for regularization.

This was a deliberate cover-up, but the Templar's strict vetting of those who joined the Night Watch was evident, and even the Sequence 9 potion distribution authority could be delegated to the level of the captain, and the official Night Watch had to wait for the Templar's approval.

"But this time, the church was separated by less than 24 hours, and I sent a telegram early this morning to reply." Dunn seemed to be unaware of Leonard's mental activity and continued to himself.

"That's agreed?" Leonard raised his eyebrows and asked in surprise.

Dunn nodded.

"Klein Moretti, who joined at the same time as her, is not yet an official member, and needs to wait for the Diocese of Beckland to send Seal 2-049 and find the notes of the Antigonus family before she can reach the contribution and become a full member."

"The difference between the two new members of the Templar is so stark, even if Angel Granger helped kill Sharon Hoy, who has been confirmed as a member of Sequence 6 and has been confirmed as a member of the 'Witch Cult', their reaction is too strange, like ......"

He tried to put together language to describe the templar's overly quick decision.

Seeing this, Leonard took the initiative to answer: "It seems that I have been waiting for you to send a telegram to apply for a long time?" ”

"Well......" Dunn opened his mouth to express in his own words, but finally repeated Leonard's words, "yes, it seems like he has been waiting for me to send a telegram for a long time." ”

"But what does that have to do with you not letting her participate in the arrest?" Seeing that the captain didn't suspect Angel himself, Leonard asked curiously, "It can't be for reasons like protecting her, is it?" ”

"Didn't I say it, she was easy to startle the snake when she appeared, so that Tris could escape early."

Dunn Smith's gray eyes were smiling, as if the whispered discussion between the two had taken place in a dream rather than in reality.

So what are you doing with all this......

Leonard was dumbfounded, still feeling that the captain was hiding something from him.

As the two stared at each other, the carriage came to a slow halt with the coachman's "whoop".

The small window at the front of the carriage was opened, and the coachman's muffled voice asked, "Two gentlemen, the road ahead is blocked, and you can only walk to the Dragon Bar, or do you need to go somewhere else?" ”

He saw that the two of them were still wearing windbreakers on a hot day, talking sneakily in the carriage, and he didn't think he was a serious person, and he didn't want to be blocked by the police in the car, so out of professional ethics, he asked in advance.

"What? Blocked? ”

Startled, Leonard ignored the driver, but pushed the door open and rushed out of the car, Dunn followed, and the two walked around the car to the front, looking in the direction of the dragon bar.

The entrance of the bar, which did not seem noisy during the day, was already crowded with people, and people kept coming out of the door, and they were only allowed to pass through after the faces of two gunmen standing at the door on the left and on the right.

It seems that most of the traders who have been driven out of the underground trading market are crowded at the door, and although they are dissatisfied, they obediently obey the order under the "command" of the guns. What's more, there are several burly men standing in the high places, dressed in standard clothes, carrying gray-white mechanical boxes, and the pipes protruding from the boxes connect to the strangely intricate rifles in their hands. The gunners held the high ground, their falcon-like gaze sweeping around, and the muzzles of their guns aimed at the crowd from time to time effectively increased their obedience.

"High-pressure steam rifles?" Leonard muttered, "It's over, with such a big battle, Tris must have run away." ”

Ignoring the sifted crowd at the door of the bar, he looked around, trying to figure out the target hidden within.

But Leonard also knew in his heart that this was futile, if he was Tris, and he was lucky enough to escape from the dragon bar and get out of the encirclement of these big men, then he would naturally run as far as he could, how dare he continue to stay here?

Dunn Smith appeared to be calmer than Leonard, glancing at the door of the bar, and when he saw someone he knew, he paced over with his hands in the pockets of his trench coat, but his frown showed that his mood was not as stable as it seemed.

"Svein, what's going on?" He asked the leader of the group standing in a group at the door of the bar, dressed in a shabby navy officer's shirt and whispering something to the others, his short messy brown hair, as if it hadn't been washed in a long time, the grease on it reflecting in the sunlight.

Hearing Dunn's inquiry, the brown-haired old man turned his head, looked at Dunn Smith with blue eyes, and paused for a few seconds before remembering the other party's identity.

"It's you, Dunn Smith, long time no see."

The captain of the Nightwatch, who also had brown hair, nodded, said hello, and asked again, "What's going on?" Arrest that 'instigator' and fail? ”

He thought about it, and this was the only reason that would cause chaos in the entire underground trading market, and even the high-pressure steam riflemen of the "Heart of Machinery" were dispatched.

Svein seemed to be holding back his breath when he was detonated by Dunn's words, and he cursed viciously a few times before replying, "It's all the Steamers' fault, there is a mechanical-hearted informant who found the 'instigator' swaggering purchases in my market, and bargained with people. He didn't inform my people, but left in a hurry to find his upline, eighty percent for the high bounty. ”

"As a result, Tris found out that there was a problem, it should be that the informant had been staring at him before leaving, and he noticed it, and before the big army arrived, this guy ran away."

The old man took a sip and stared at the crowd at the door of the bar, wondering if the informant he cursed was among them: "If he notifies me directly, informing the 'substitute punishment', he can send someone to keep an eye on it, and it won't be like this, what is the use of them screening ordinary people one by one here?" Tris is probably not in the docklands anymore. ”

Maybe because of his different identities, Svein, the owner of the Dragon Bar, can show his emotions here, but Dunn, who is a night watchman, needs to pay attention to the case itself, he thought for a while, and then asked, "Tris was still bargaining before he escaped?" Have you asked anyone who traded with him? ”

"I did this before I retired, and I asked about it a long time ago!" Svein shook his head, "No useful clues, he's just asking for Shadow Lizard Scales and Golden Mandala Flowers, and the juice will work as well." ”

None of them are extraordinary...... Dunn thought to himself, maybe it was to prepare for some kind of ceremony, so he committed the alfalfa tragedy, and hurried to Tingen to continue the crime?

Or......

Dunn thought of the "instigator's" abilities and made another, bolder guess:

Tris has already reached some kind of promotion by encouraging passengers to kill each other on the Sativa and is preparing himself for the next series of potions?