Chapter 176: Pressure and Motivation
"No, no new clues."
Forcibly swallowing the shortbread, Angel replied with a pretense of composure.
"Well, you continue to follow them, and in addition, also look for some guys with tarot cards, such as 'Judgment', such as 'Hanged Man', they have a high probability of hiding in the East Side, and like to sprinkle tarot cards after committing crimes, do you remember the Aurora Society's divine envoy 'Ms. D'? Just like when she died. ”
When Angel first heard the "Tarot Card", she almost thought that the Witch of Pleasure already knew about the relationship between Mr. Fool and the Tarot Society, but when Severia finished speaking, she realized that these were two completely different tasks.
The search for people who believe in the "Fool" should be revealed to the Witch Sect by the Aurora Society, and this time the search for "Judgment" and "Hanged Man" is because I dropped tarot cards at the death scene of Heras and Baron......
It seems that the military, Prince Edsak, the Witch Sect, and the Aurora Society, these guys have worked together without any scruples, and even if the military people die in the East District, the Witch Sect will help find clues......
Angel speculated.
Anyway, she wouldn't check herself for herself, and Sherman was already under Angel's jurisdiction, so he didn't have a chance to report to the next level, not to mention that he didn't see Angel spill the tarot card, at best, he only knew that he was involved in a small operation of the Witch Sect......
She casually agreed, and even tried to muddy the waters:
"Recently, the Aurora Society assassinated Duke Negan of the kingdom, so much so that Mr. A's meeting place was raided by the official Extraordinary and the military, and a friend of Audrey's revealed that the military's MI9 has been looking for clues about the 'tarot' organization, could the whole thing be related to Ms. D's death?"
Confused by this nonsense, Severia looked at Angel with wide eyes, and after a while she regained her strength, shook her head strangely, and replied:
"You may not believe it, but this 'Aurora Society' is really innocent."
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By the time Angel left Baron Langdon's mansion, it was already dark, and the moonlight was half a seeping crimson scattered by the smog of Beckland, enveloping the sparsely populated West End in an eerie atmosphere.
Sitting in the hired carriage, Angel looked back with some apprehension, and the Severia family was shrinking in her field of vision, but the "Lady of Despair" pressed on her heart was getting bigger and bigger as December approached.
While the "Hidden Emblem" provided by Lady Arianna worked surprisingly well, allowing her to never be discovered during her months in Beckland through occult means such as divination, there was no guarantee that the Concealment effect would work when confronting a Sequence 4, a demigod.
As long as the desperate lady sees that something is wrong, Sequence 6 vs. Sequence 4, and she is still a witch in the same way, she probably won't even have any chance to escape.
What about Mr. Fool's angelic protection?
From Audrey's experience, it can be seen that the protection of angels can indeed effectively prevent the official extraordinary person from watching, but that's all, if Mr. Fool can really protect all the Tarot members, then Audrey will not need me to fight for time to escape when she meets Ms. D......
I'm afraid that this level of "Lady of Despair" can only rely on myself...... Angel sighed.
Her heart for strengthening and promoting the sequence has never been stronger.
According to her past experience, even if she can't be promoted to the sequence, as long as she digests the potions of this sequence, her mastery of various extraordinary abilities can be greatly improved, and an extraordinary person who has just been promoted to the "Witch of Pleasure" and an extraordinary person who has completely digested "Joy" have completely different strengths.
Thinking of this, she involuntarily stroked the "Ring of Madness" on her finger.
"Please turn left at the next intersection and go to Minsk Street in the Jowood district."
After hesitating for a moment, Angel made up his mind and said to the coachman who hired the carriage.
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Late at night, the night watchman's station on the ground floor of St. Samuel's Church.
Several night watchmen were rummaging through the mountains of files in the data room, searching for everything related to the "Demon Summoning". This is the time when the "sleepless" are at their most energetic, with the exception of one person.
Dalie Simone yawned and helped the other night watchmen pass the file, but the copy in front of her hadn't been turned over in a long time.
"Bang-"
The door was pushed open, and two men in windbreakers walked into the data room one after the other, and several people saw the one who took the lead, and they stopped their movements and said hello:
"Captain!"
The leader of the "Red Glove" team, South, nodded in reply, and then went straight to Daly, who was sitting in the corner, followed by Leonard Mitchell, the new Red Gloves of South.
"Dali, is there anything new?"
Sitting in the chair across from Daly, Soster asked as he took off his gloves and tucked them into his pockets, removing his trademark pompous top hat.
"Most of them are cases from decades ago, some have been solved, some are still unsolved, and the perpetrators are estimated to have passed away."
The "Necromantic Master" with heavy eyeshadow pushed open the document in front of him and replied, then turned his gaze to Leonard who was standing aside:
"Leonard, if I were to leave, I would have left this guy's team earlier, you have been back to Beckland with him for a month, 'tarot cards', 'fools', and now it is a trace of summoning demons, there are a lot of cases, have you solved one?"
"Captain Sost has been working hard to investigate clues."
Leonard replied pursed his lips, his face so calm that he couldn't tell what he really thought.
"Captain Sost'......"
Dai Li was a little touched, and the subsequent sarcasm was also stuck in her mouth.
The other night watchmen didn't dare to take a breath, their eyes were glued to the documents in their hands, and for a while there was only the "whoosh" sound of paper turning in the reference room, until Sost himself smiled and said:
"You're right, Dai Li, I do have a lot of cases at hand, and none of them can be solved in the first place, but I didn't come this time to continue looking for clues, but something new has happened, maybe it has something to do with Tingen's team."
Dali's gaze instantly locked on his face.
"Three months ago, after the Tingen massacre, the night watchmen in Beckland were tasked with protecting Angel Granger's cousin, Lily Granger, by helping them change their place of residence, renting a house closer to St. Samuel's church, and using occult means to prevent general curses and divination."
Sost's deep voice echoed through the data room.
"Two months ago, Miss Granger started receiving threatening letters that were stuffed directly into her home, all of which were broad verbal threats, and we investigated and identified the suspect as her teacher, Kaliva Dupon from the Beckland Institute of Technology. Due to the lack of motive and strange behavior of the other party, we did not arrest him, but continued to send more night watchers to target the main messenger behind the scenes.
"Until the day before yesterday, Kaliva suddenly disappeared after sending the last threatening letter, and even divination methods could not find his whereabouts, and then, the Al Hasen team protecting Lily's family found that Kaliwa had reappeared nearby and followed him to his house, only to encounter a female extraordinaire who escaped after a short fight."
"Escaped? Is the other party very strong? ”
Dali asked, puzzled.
"She may have the strength of Sequence 6 or higher, and Al Hasson's attempt to pull her into the dream failed. However, when Lorota and Borgia surrounded the team, the other party only quickly disengaged and did not hurt them, as if they had some scruples.
The strangest thing came then, when Al Hasson's team rushed back to Lily's house, the student who was still at the technical college had just come home from school, but she found Lorota and another self standing in front of her house. If it weren't for Al confirming the truth of this with his dreams, he would almost have thought the girl was talking nonsense. ”
"Both are fake? Do they have some kind of way of changing their appearance, or is it a magical item? ”
Leonard asked curiously, he had also been called here by Sost halfway through, and had not known what happened to El Hasson's team before.
"To be exact, this is a potion sequence, sequence 6 of 'The Fortune Teller', known as 'Faceling'. As you can tell from the name of the potion, they can take on a variety of different forms, with no fixed face. Sost replied with a smile, "This information has not been distributed to the local teams, and it is normal that you don't know about it. ”
"Being able to change their appearance at will, disguised as someone else's extraordinary, this is very important information, why is it only kept in Beckland?"
A night watchman next to him, who pretended to be looking at the information, but had been listening intently, asked.
"This information is not very classified, but it involves a tricky organization, one of its names you may have heard, called the 'Esoteric Society,'" the Red Glove Captain said mysteriously, "but the other name, or the full name of the organization that absorbed the 'Esoteric Society', is the Eighth Bureau of the Intelligence and Homeland Security Council of the Republic of Antis, or the 'Eighth Bureau' for short, which can be said to be a complete spy agency in the Kingdom of Rune." ”
(End of chapter)