Chapter 18: The Man Behind the Scenes
Charles, who decided to go to the slums alone to find clues about the munitions, walked down the street humming a ditty.
As the army continued to open the checkpoints, two or three groups of people began to come out to buy daily necessities on the cold streets, although the atmosphere of the whole city was still panicked and terrifying.
The former mayor of the colony and the local aristocratic organization established the Port Will Association, which jointly issued a statement that the lives and property of the citizens were safe.
As for whether it works or not, just ask for comfort.
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The townspeople were also well aware of the explosion of a troop carrier in the port area, and they also knew why the Imperial soldiers stationed there would throw butcher knives out of control at them.
Although these people are very patriotic, it does not mean that they are willing to foolishly provoke the enemy.
They are more willing to fight for the independence of their political and economic rights and interests under the condition that their lives and property are safe.
Stop, that's the end of the conversation.
Charles walked through the Kerr district, where ordinary people and ordinary middle-class people worked and lived, wondering how they could find out how the arms were delivered.
Charles also decided to find a way to make money, he couldn't always sell extraordinary weapons to get Golden Henry.
A huge sense of stagnation came, the air around him was as viscous as gelatin, and the air around him squeezed every inch of Charles's skin, and the sluggishness of his mind and body made Charles lose control of his body for a while.
The shrill whistle of a steam engine and the screams of passers-by came In Charles's perception, a steam locomotive with a huge kinetic energy rumbled.
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The panicked driver frantically twisted the steering wheel, but the steering wheel seemed to be rusted .......
The black steam head continued to magnify in Charles's mind, and a sharp pain came, as if a sharp object was splitting the body, and the intertwined pain affected his thinking and vision, and his eyes were bloodshot and blurred.
Damn, who is plotting against me
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Suddenly exerting all the power, he violently unleashed the sluggish feeling and ran towards the surrounding alleys, a rumbling crash. It doesn't take looking back to know that the steam car hit the house.
The excruciating pain caused Charles to look down at his abdomen, and at some point an extremely large opening was made, and the turned flesh was mixed with the strangled intestines.
Charles didn't care about such an injury. As he felt a sense of extreme danger, the suitcase quickly melted into armor and stuck to Charles's body.
The next moment, the metal collision between the armor and the bullets, the sound of explosions, the explosion outside the armor, the body shook violently, and all sight and senses were suddenly deprived.
The voices heard became more and more illusory, and everything I saw became more and more blurred, and my will seemed to be struck by a hammer, and I fell into a deep sleep with an endless sense of resentment.
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A lamp with a metal mesh shade illuminates the dimly lit room, and it is vaguely recognizable that this is the basement.
The breach in the abdomen still hadn't healed, and the new purple granules clashed with the shattered energy of the wound that was difficult to heal, bringing endless pain.
Charles was tied to an iron pillar, with a leather whip and tweezers in front of him, and a grotesque collection on a wooden table, especially a wizard's storeroom.
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Bottles and tubes of various potions were filled with all kinds of strange liquids, filled with the strange smell of potions, and many animal tissues and bone necklaces hung on the walls.
In Charr's eyes, they all exude psionic fluctuations...... , a sturdy figure blocked the light source.
The shadows cause fear, but Charles can see in the dark, a man in a leather jacket.
I don't know what is strapped to my body that makes Charr's supernatural abilities work poorly and is extremely obscure.
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The middle-aged man scraped Charles's face with a sharp knife and stabbed it down the cheek, and the irrepressible pain came.
Charles remembered who this middle-aged man was?
Double-winked at Charles on the street...... , Charles thought that he was blown to tears by the wind, so he ignored his .......
Squeezed out a stiff smile, "Big brother, it's easy to talk about and discuss, let's put down the knife, impulse is the devil, ask for money, I'll make it up for you!"
"Why is Charles avoiding me?"
Charles's eyes widened, he knows me?
"You've been able to get in and out of the police department lately!"
The middle-aged man took out the bloodstained sheriff's card in his hand and spat in Charles's face.
Tsk, Charles wants to throw up, but I'm afraid of angering this big brother and clicking me again!
"The knife is up and down, the picture is too beautiful. ”
"You also put on that skin, did you betray us?"
The sharp blade scrapes the cheeks, and the cold invades the pores and cortex.
"You pretend, you pretend. ”
Raise the dagger and stab it into Charles' legs.
Charles was really aggrieved, his strange body separated most of the pain, but it still hurt.
"Big brother, I really can't remember anything, I can't remember who you are. ”
The face of the person on the other side gradually became serious.
"Interestingly, what the organization is going to do may be known. ”
The middle-aged man muttered to himself, "Your memories have been sealed." ”
??? Charles was a little confused.
"Thanks to the organization that has encrypted your mission, I didn't expect you to be plotted. ”
With a stroke of both hands, the surrounding spirituality was pried, and the strange stickiness came again, as if falling into an illusion.
The hammer-like will was struck, and countless fragmentary memories flooded into Charles' mind, and the pain and dizziness caused Charles to collapse on the iron pillar.
In his trivial memories, Charles also understood how he had used the black cone to puncture the palm of his hand with the tip.
Grab the cone for superhuman strength and agility...... , and through this magical power, he joined the Black Hand Society in Port Elsilanter, which is said to be in the service of a great force.
Phew!
The Shire organization is still in an employment relationship, and when the organization has a task, it gives it to Charles and others...... , each time you can get gold coins that will allow him to live for a while.
The organization and his liaison was this middle-aged man, Buck. Tell him that he has a very good errand...... , after agreeing, he was sealed in the memory of the organization by this middle-aged man.
And then came the beginning of the tragedy!
Joined the army and entered the barracks, and went to the North McCann mainland ....... Originally planned to go to Port Will to disappear, and then meet in one place, but a series of accidents were left behind.
Was supposed to go to a secluded location, Street District 10.
But the soul that crossed over did not remember.
Charles gasped for breath in horror.
I quickly thought of a way to stabilize Buck temporarily, and maybe ask about the origin of the six-pointed star.
"I dare not see you, because I suspect that you are doing me harm. ”
"Once I woke up in the barracks, in the palm of my hand, there was a six-pointed star. ”
"I was sacrificed. ”
Buck's eyes flashed with fear when he heard the six-pointed star.
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His face became more and more gloomy.
"It's not something I did. It was another organization that did it. ”
"Do you remember if you had it on you or all the soldiers?"
Charles' face also became gloomy .......
Because he found that there was a force that prevented him from thinking that other people also had six-pointed stars, which was weird.
Charles thought for a moment, "Everyone. ”
"I'll report this to the organization. ”