Chapter 169: Rogue (Part 3)
Joe Wood District, inside the house where Hugh and Forth lived.
Foirth had just finalized the beginning of his new book, and was in a good mood to treat himself to a cigarette, when Hugh pushed the door and entered the study.
"Smoking is bad for your health. Hugh snorted.
Seeing the confusion on her face, Firth did not argue, but asked:
"You seem to have encountered something?"
Hugh grabbed his furry blonde hair and sat down in the chair next to him:
"The person who contacted me before was the one who sold me the 'sheriff' formula through someone else at a party called by Mr. A.
"He gave me a fairly simple assignment with an initial reward of £30, and I don't know if there is any hidden danger in it......"
Forcese recalled:
"That man...... There should be an organization behind him, but why would he want to win you over, so he is not afraid of being implicated by your IQ and causing the complete destruction of the entire organization? You don't have anything to be plotted against, your appearance is barely okay, but you are too short, and your life is probably worth more...... Uh, what's the task?"
Hugh had long been accustomed to being hit by his friends, ignoring her previous words, and directly answered the latter question:
"Investigate who has recently inquired about Gapin. ”
"Capin, the trafficker who deserves to be hanged, no, to be burned at the stake?" Although Firth was not a bounty hunter, it was a writer's instinct to gather material, so she would often ask Hugh to tell stories and rumors.
Hugh nodded: "It's him, but he's dead, and it seems that he died a miserable death." ”
"How did you die?" asked Furth with pleasure and curiosity.
"The man didn't describe it in detail, maybe tomorrow's newspaper will talk about it. "He only mentioned the special circumstances of the scene, saying that Kapin's body was sprinkled with tarot cards, and his face was covered with 'Judgment' cards and 'Emperor' cards. ”
"The 'Judgment' card should mean 'Putting Kapin on trial, and the result is the death penalty,' what does the 'Emperor' card represent?
Suddenly, she froze for a moment.
Tarot cards, corpses strewn with tarot cards, and Furth suddenly thought of the secret organization he had just joined:
Tarot will!
It can't be any of our own members, right? But there are no members with the code name "Emperor...... If so, this is the first time I've ever found traces of tarot in the real world...... We are not just a stealthy organization that exists only above the gray mist...... Fur's thoughts were churning, with surprises and worries.
............
Crane was led by the waiter into the familiar living room.
There was still only one candle in the room, and the dim light illuminated the surroundings like scenes from ghost stories, and the atmosphere was even stronger with mysterious people in black robes and iron masks.
As soon as he stepped into this place, Crane suddenly had some inexplicable feelings.
He felt the flickering candle flame staring at him.
He felt the flames burst open, igniting his hair and robes.
He felt that the curtain that hung quietly behind the convex belly window would suddenly swing up, enveloping his body, covering his mouth and nose for breathing, and forcibly suffocating himself.
What's going on? Klein was stunned for a moment, tense in height.
It's not a premonition of danger, but it's an intuition that is hard to avoid.
Crane cautiously found a place to sit down.
As soon as his butt touched the surface of the chair, he felt the chair burst open, and thick wooden thorns would pierce his body.
This reminded him of a few videos he had seen when he was on Earth - the inferior air pressure lift seat exploded, and the steel rod and splinters pierced the owner's ass and burrowed into the abdomen, and the whole scene was bloody and horrific.
Why is there always such a bad association? Could it be the negative effect of the spirit injury in the previous battle? Klein looked around thoughtfully, and realized that the chubby medicine man still didn't come this time.
What's going on?Or have you left Beckland?Klein muttered to himself silently when he heard the old gentleman "Eyes of Wisdom" announce the beginning of the meeting.
In the time that followed, Klein sometimes felt that the chandelier on the ceiling would fall diagonally and hit his head, sometimes he thought that the coffee table in front of the old gentleman "Eyes of Wisdom" would suddenly move sideways and trip over him, and sometimes he suspected that the party members around him were full of malice and could burst out at any time.
This made him restless, wary and confused, and had no intention of paying attention to the various successful or aborted transactions.
If the premonition of danger is a mobile phone that vibrates a few times once in a while, reminding you that there is a message coming in and a phone calling, then the inexplicable intuition now is equivalent to a non-stop electric drill, which "shakes" so much that I can't relax and can't pay attention to other things...... Klein tried to rub the corner of his forehead, but he touched the cold iron mask.
At this moment, he felt that his iron mask would suddenly dent, clinging to his face and remaining embedded in his brain.
Is it really because of the spirit injury, hallucination?, Crane frowned.
He originally wanted to make a request for the pituitary gland and blood of the Thousand-Faced Hunter at this party, but in such a situation, he had to give up cautiously.
- Although the party organized by the old gentleman "Eyes of Wisdom" is not of a high level, and there is a high probability that it will not involve a relatively high-level monster such as the Hunter of Thousand Faces, Klein believes that many members here have participated in other gatherings and may be able to get access to the corresponding information and clues.
In a state of trepidation, Klein attended the meeting as a bystander.
As soon as he took off his robe, took off his mask, and left the room, the inexplicable intuition that everyone and everything was going to persecute him before disappeared all at once, and the weirdness disappeared!
This...... Klein's pupils shrank, confirming that the phenomenon just now was not due to the injury of the spirit, otherwise he would not have been able to have two states, both inside and outside.
He suspected that there was an invisible, intangible, and extremely terrifying person and thing in the living room where the party was held, so he stimulated himself who had the intuition of the "fortune teller" and the premonition of danger of the "clown", but due to the suppression or peculiarity of the other party, this stimulus appeared in the form of too rich associations, and he did not make himself alert.
Who could it be? It's terrifying, and the very existence alone makes me react a little bit like a precursor to a runaway...... Crane quietly walked away from the old gentleman's house in the Eye of Wisdom and walked towards the nearest street.
Suddenly, he had a guess:
Nearby is the "Brave" bar, and me, Miss Sharon, and Steve, the "Wraith" killed by Mariage, are in charge of monitoring the surrounding area......
Their death is bound to make the high-ranking powerhouse of that Rose School angry and set his sights on here, on the extraordinaries who are active in the vicinity of the "Brave" bar......
Was that him just now?
Luckily, I used items like the "Biotoxin Bottle" and the "Sun Brooch" tonight, and left them on the gray mist to avoid being divined...... Otherwise, the results are unimaginable...... The "magician" who has just finished an impossible show will die right here......
The world of the Extraordinary is dangerous......
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In the Cathedral of the Holy Winds, Cardinal Ace Snake looked at the captain of the substitute punisher team in front of him, and asked with his silver eyes without emotion:
"Who is Kapin?
"Why is there an underground prison in his villa?"
The captain of the substitute squad immediately replied:
"A rich man, rumored to be involved in a number of disappearances of young girls, is suspected of being a human trafficker and is secretly involved in the slave trade.
"That underground prison confirms the rumors. ”
"Why is a human trafficker protected by several extraordinary people? And the sequence is not low. Cardinal Snake asked.
"Your Excellency, this is yet to be investigated, and we have tried to find clues by extraordinary means, but they have all failed. The captain of the substitute squad replied with some trepidation.
"I've tried, too. Cardinal Snake did not blame him.
The Storm Church leader paused:
"Keep pursuing this, and find the ghost of Sequence 6 or Sequence 5. ”
When his subordinates left, Cardinal Snake picked up his pen and wrote down a few things to focus on in his notebook:
"Kapin, human trade, tarot rituals, strange but not too high a ghost, a stealthy scheme. ”
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Queens, inside the luxurious villa of the Earl Hall's family.
Audrey was waiting for the maid to cut the food, when she suddenly heard her father, Earl Hall, who was accustomed to reading the newspaper at breakfast, laugh:
"Caping is dead. ”
"Who is he?" Audrey asked, her eyes wide.
In fact, she is not curious at all about who Capping is, but simply cooperates with her father, who obviously has a desire to communicate.
This is not only a daughter's specialty, but also the instinct of a "mind reader".
"A rich man who may be a human trafficker in private, he has a good relationship with certain people, heh......" Count Hall chuckled, "he was killed last night, there are obvious traces of trial at the scene, and all the newspapers call that murderer a thief, a thief 'Black Emperor', well, this is named after the code name of the ruler of the ancient Solomonic Empire." ”
Rogue Rogue "Black Emperor" ...... Audrey instantly thought of the blasphemous card that currently belonged to Mr. "Fool", the highest level of object she had touched so far.
She became interested in the murder of Kapin:
"Sounds interesting, it's not legal, but I want to say, that thief did a really good job, hmm, Dad, what about the process?"
"The police and church counterparts did not disclose specific details, and I have not met them, but the newspapers described it as this, the thief was wearing black armor, wearing a pitch-black crown, and a cloak of the same color behind him, he entered Capin's villa, and not only stole all the belongings in the safe, but also stole the lives of Capin and his criminal men, rescued the girls who were locked up in the dungeon, and he sprinkled tarot cards all over Capin's body, the most conspicuous of which were the two on his face, one was 'Judgment' and one was ' Emperor'. Earl Hall took the newspaper and described with a smile.
Tarot cards...... "Judgment" cards and "Emperor" cards...... Audrey's eyes lit up suddenly.
PS: Teaser for the next chapter, "What?Safe?" Klein looked at the newspaper and almost blurted out.