Chapter 23: The Missing Sonya

"As you can see, I don't have any tea or coffee, but there are a lot of chairs."

Angel invited the "provocateur" who seemed to have not slept for a day and a night, and watched him sit in the nearest chair, and his whole body collapsed.

"I'm sorry, but I wouldn't want to visit you if I didn't really have a choice." Dominic lost his usual sharpness, and said dejectedly, "When you were renting a safe house before, I found Ling's residence, and this time, in order to wait for you, I have been squatting next to you and followed you to the new safe house. If it weren't for the fear of being easily recognized by the crowd during the day, I would have knocked on the door a long time ago. ”

"I'm more curious than stalking, why you're still in Beckland, shouldn't you have sailed last week and taken Sonia to the Rorsted Islands, where you've long been in your heart, and settled in Byam?"

Angel also pulled a chair and sat across from him, it had just been rented, there was no tea, let alone coffee and hot water, not to mention that even if there were, she had no intention of serving this uninvited guest.

"I was going to leave with the £600, although it was less than I expected...... Dominic paused, his gaze narrowed to Angel, and continued, "...... It's enough to live in Byam. But Sonia said she wanted to see her uncle again before leaving, the same relative who had been imprisoned for the crime, and who had taken care of her for a while when she was young. ”

"Yesterday we went to visit him in the West End, and when we got back to our accommodation in the East End, Sonia packed up my things and I went to the steam train station to buy a ticket to Port Prietz."

"Damn, just for a while, less than two hours!"

Dominic suddenly became irritable and reached for his black hair, as if to pull them all off.

"When I came back, the apartment was a mess, there were slight signs of a fight on the floor and furniture, and the room was turned into a mess, but there was no blood, and nothing was missing, except for Sonya, who was gone."

"I didn't lose anything, it shouldn't be a common burglary in the East Side, then it should be a purposeful kidnapping," Angel analyzed, "What about your traps?" And your Sequence 9 is a hunter, and I haven't even noticed it after me, so why don't you use your extraordinary abilities to track them? ”

"The trap was triggered, but it didn't hurt the other party, I also tried to track it, but they handled it very professionally, and all traces that could leave clues were cleaned up, either the other party also had a 'hunter' or a well-trained hand."

Dominic replied in frustration that it seemed that Sonia had been taken away while he had let his guard down, and that it had hit him quite hard.

"At first, I thought of reporting the case and letting the authorities investigate it, but this is the Eastern District, and no one cares about a few or dozens of people missing every day, let alone ......"

He hesitated for a moment, then continued.

“…… Not to mention the fact that the official may have been involved in the matter. ”

"Do you mean the police, or the official extraordinary?"

Unexpectedly, the disappearance of the little soothsayer was so wide-ranging, Angel leaned forward and asked.

"Neither, it's MI9, the special department of the Kingdom of Rune, who is responsible for the intelligence of the military, as well as the fight against the infiltration of foreign extraordinaires. I used to be a member there, a peripheral member ......"

Is this kind of state secret really something I can listen to?

Angel raised an eyebrow, but did not interrupt the frustrated man's narration.

"My 'Hunter' potions were obtained from MI9, and as peripheral members, they are not stingy with the distribution of potions, but they are managed as strictly as full members, and I missed a mission and was punished too harshly, so I applied to quit in a fit of anger and left there."

"After being exiled to the port of Enmat, I met Sonia, who was only fifteen years old at the time, and asked me if I was an extraordinary, hehe......" The corners of Dominic's mouth turned up, as if caught in a memory, and he paused for a moment before continuing, "I never left the port of Enmat until Mr. Hansen Claude died at the hands of the Witch Sect, and then I took her to Beckland. ”

You wouldn't be, fall in love with Sonia, would you? Oh my God, she doesn't even look like she's an adult...... Angel was a little stunned, but she knew that the current focus was not on this, so she interrupted Dominic's memories and asked:

"You've told me about this before, but why do you think the authorities are involved in this kidnapping case, and do you have any evidence?"

"Evidence? My analysis is proof! The provocateur became emotional again, as if he was the one who was provoked, "I don't even know the whereabouts of Sonia and I to her uncle, but the guy who helped us come to Beckland to hide from the Witch Sect and give us a fake identity knows that he is also a member of MI9, and this guy must have leaked secrets." ”

"Their purpose must have been that manuscript, the blueprint of the third-generation differential machine! I should have guessed that Intis wanted it, Vrsack wanted it, and Rune didn't want it? ”

Taking a deep breath, the anger on Dominic's face faded, and a pleading look appeared in his favor, which surprised Angel, who was used to hearing the man's prickly words.

"It's been less than 12 hours since she's disappeared, and the gang shouldn't have done anything to her by now for the sake of the manuscript of the difference machine, but it won't be the case after a long time."

"I came to you to ask for your help, to use divination to find Sonya's location, to help me rescue her, rest assured, I will give you a satisfactory reward."

Looking at the fragility and helplessness in the other party's eyes, Angel fell into deep thought.

She instinctively wanted to refuse this trouble, although Dominic had cooperated with her, and even the manuscript of many concerns was sold to Mr. A together, but in essence, it was just a relationship of interest, and the two of them had divided the spoils and parted ways, and it would not matter after that.

But Sonia is just a little girl who is not yet an adult, whether she is captured by those foreign spies who infiltrated Bakeland, or as Dominic said, with the involvement of official personnel, if she is not rescued in time, it is easy to imagine what will happen next.

It is considered to be a personal favor for a future soothsayer......

Angel closed her eyes and nodded.

"My magic mirror is damaged, although you can use an ordinary mirror to divination, but the effect is not as good as it, you go back to your previous residence and wait, I'll go home, and I'll rush over when I'm ready."

……

After making sure there were no trackers behind her, Angel returned home, using the ointment she had saved earlier and made from her own blood, to remake a magic mirror, and the stunt wand that she used last night would take more time to boil, and it would take more time to choose specialized materials, and it would be too late to replenish it today.

Holding the freshly baked magic mirror, she first tried to divinate Dominic's movements, first, to confirm the sincerity of the other party and ensure that he was not following her; The second is to judge whether there is a high-level extraordinary force involved in this matter.

The Magic Mirror divination soon came to fruition, and he was preparing his equipment in his apartment in the East End, short knives, revolvers, and groups of ammunition were placed on the table like a display of arms.

And the divination went very smoothly without any interference.

This shows that there is no high-level extraordinary person to carry out anti-divination in this matter...... Or is it so high that you can't even feel it?

After hesitating for a moment, Angel left the house with his gear and headed for the East End.

It was late afternoon, and as factory workers in the suburbs of the East End were returning to their homes in droves, the already noisy, crowded streets were now even more chaotic, Angel walked through the most congested streets, avoiding would-be pickpocketing pedestrians, to the arch-like four-story apartment building.

"I didn't expect you to really come......"

When he opened the door, Dominic had a strange expression on his face.

"I've never seen a witch who keeps her promises like this?"

Angel teased, entering the two-bedroom room, this time her magic mirror did not warn.

"Bring me an item that Sonya often uses, or clothing, and I'll use it for divination."

Pulling out the magic mirror and placing it on the table, Angel commanded.

Dominic quickly brought an item, the kitten mask that Angel had used.

Taking the mask, Angel stroked the magic mirror, sent it into the spirit, and silently recited the divination words.

"The Magic Mirror tells me where the owner of this item is at the moment?"

The magic mirror flashed with familiar water streaks, quickly turning pitch black, then the black faded back to reflect the scene in the room.

Failed in divination?

Angel was stunned for a moment, looked at the kitten mask in his hand, and moved his gaze to the "Hidden Holy Emblem" on his wrist.

Could it be that because I used this mask, the anti-divination effect interfered with the divination of the magic mirror?

Putting the item down, Angel went into Sonya's neatly furnished room and took a dress from the closet.

The magic mirror was used again for divination, and this time it went very well, and the picture of activity soon appeared in the mirror.

The little girl with her brown hair was half-lying between the wooden box and the tin cabinet, her hands bound by ropes, her eyes closed, as if she had fallen asleep.

The screen pans to leave the warehouse-like room and go outside, where the red brick floor has cracked in many places, and the low, dilapidated houses on both sides are connected to the Tasok River in the distance.

The picture faded, the magic mirror returned to a smooth surface, Angel told Dominic what he had just seen, the latter frowned and thought for a moment, and then suddenly, gritted his teeth and said:

"That's the Red Brick Alley of the East End, the warehouse of the Zmanga Party!"

(End of chapter)