Endless Debt.

Chapter 33 They
Jeffrey stared at the documents on the desktop with a serious face, sometimes picked up a page and looked at it carefully, and sometimes looked at the other end of the room, the interrogation room behind the one-way glass.

In the oppressive interrogation room, a miserable figure sat on a chair with his hands tied behind his back.

Noam came back to life. Although the state was very bad, just maintaining a "alive" state, it was enough for the interrogation.

Beside him was an iron frame with many hanging bottles, infusion needles buried in veins, bandages on his face, his eyes were blurred, and his consciousness was between lucid and fuzzy.

"Anything else to ask?"

The voice came from the radio, and there was another person in the interrogation room. He was dressed in a dark uniform, standing next to the dying Noam, and his whole body exuded a sense of coldness.

"Ivan, please search his consciousness again, dig a little deeper, and see if there is any more information."

Jeffrey spoke into the microphone, his voice echoing in the interrogation room.

Ivan looked at the one-way glass, nodded, and raised his hand.

There are shimmering lines on the clean palm, and the light is reflected in Noam's pupils, like the god of death coming.

Norm woke up suddenly, sobbing in horror, but he just couldn't make a complete syllable. He struggled violently, but nothing could change.

The palm was pressed on Noam's forehead, and the shimmering texture could clearly be seen spreading, as if it had life, extending from the palm to Noam's body, engraving his forehead.

After a short period of calm, Noam's body trembled violently, as if being shocked by an electric shock, his eyes were plunged into gray whirlpools, he clenched his fists out of pain, his nails pierced deeply into the flesh, and the blood dripped slowly.

A spiritual storm blew up in his mind, and Norm, who was seriously injured, was powerless to resist, and could only be cut open layer by layer, allowing others to dig out the darkness hidden deep in his heart.

Jeffrey watched with cold eyes. After about a minute, Norm's body gradually calmed down. He tilted his head and passed out completely, with saliva dripping from the corners of his mouth, like a demented patient.

"No, it looks like that's all he knows."

As Ivan said, he withdrew his hand and put on dark leather gloves.

"Well, I see."

Jeffrey replied, lost in thought.

At this time, Ivan walked out of the interrogation room and stood at the door. Jeffrey thanked him.

"Thank you, Ivan, I will trouble you this time."

"It's nothing, it's just a little effort, anyway, 'Crow's Nest' is not very busy recently." Ivan walked over and sat aside.

Ivan looked at Noam behind the one-way glass and said casually.

"'Humans', I have an impression of this group, why, they are also on the agenda?" Ivan was confused, "I remember, isn't the top priority of the Field Service Department to suppress 'them'?"

Mentioning "them", Ivan's stern face showed disgust.

"It's just an episode, and it has nothing to do with the work of the Field Service...at least not now."

Jeffrey thought about it. The special operations team was still under construction and had not yet been formally included in the sequence. It seemed to be no problem to put it into the work of the Field Service Department.

Jeffrey immediately admired Ivan.

"It's really a good 'secret energy', the 'secret energy' of your 'Ethereal School' is always so easy to use."

Ivan didn't pay attention to Jeffrey's praise. As the "iron whistle" of "Crow's Nest", he is very keen and can accurately observe the changes of others. This is very useful when interrogating the enemy.

"What happened?" Ivan asked directly.

Jeffrey's eyes were a little dodged, and he glanced across the table inadvertently. Just as he was about to explain something, Ivan looked directly at the table.

The information obtained from Noam's mouth is placed on it, and there seems to be something pressed between the scattered papers.

"Jeffrey."

Ivan didn't try to take it, but asked Jeffrey. His sensitivity is very suitable for hurting enemies, but he doesn't want to do this to his friends.

"Oh, forget it, let's see."

For this old friend, Jeffrey knew that the concealment was only for a while, so he waved his hand and signaled Ivan to be casual.

Pulling off the paper covering the top, there is a document below, and Ivan read the information on it.

"Accepted by Lebius Lovisa's application, starting today..."

After reading the document, Ivan put down the document, looked at Jeffrey with a wry smile, and asked expressionlessly.

"You were appointed as a member of the special operations team?"

"Accurately speaking, it is the commissioner responsible for contacting the special operations team and the logistics department, but if you treat me as a member of the special operations team, there is no problem, after all, Lebius sent the badge over."

Jeffrey said and threw out a badge, which was the badge of "Rupert's Tail".

"Rebius knows that you don't want to go back to the front line." Ivan's tone was always so indifferent, and he didn't know whether he was speaking normally or complaining about Rebius.

"He said that I don't have to go back to the front line, I'm just in charge of the logistics, take care of all the troublesome things, and be a babysitter... But this kind of thing, who can say for sure, maybe one day in the future, we will welcome the logistics staff again It’s also about going to the battlefield.”

Jeffrey sighed.

"I'm an old man, but I haven't moved for a long time. I almost forgot how to activate the 'secret energy'."

"Why did he do this? I remember that Lebius respects your choice." Ivan said.

"I don't know, but I heard from Uriel that Lebius received a letter from the deputy director. She didn't know what was in it. After that, Lebius disappeared. When she found Lebius At that moment, he locked himself in the room and never came out."

Jeffrey picked up the badge and played with it in his hand.

"He didn't come out until yesterday morning, and he was somber. Then the appointment document was delivered to me, and I went to ask him... Wow, his face is scary."

Recalling the face of Levius, Geoffrey said calmly.

"I haven't seen Lebius like that for a long time. It's like... like seven years ago."

Ivan's body trembled slightly.

"Lebius didn't explain anything, he just said he needed me," Jeffrey shook his head helplessly, and looked at Ivan with a wry smile, "What reason do you have for me to refuse? Lebius is like this said."

"Yeah, even Lebius started to 'ask for help', I really don't know what happened to him." Ivan muttered to himself.

"You should also be careful. Lebius is speeding up the construction of the special operations team. According to Uriel, he also applied to the 'decision-making room' and transferred people from your 'crow's nest'. Maybe that unlucky ghost is is you."

Jeffrey looked at Ivan and laughed out loud. Ivan was still indifferent, and couldn't tell what was funny about it.

Ivan Krex, dressed in a pitch-black uniform, has no memorable features, except for his black leather gloves. On the back of the glove, there is a crow with an iron whistle in its mouth. This is the "crow" Nest" sign.

Crow's Nest, the name of the "Intelligence Department" of the Bureau of Order, is responsible for infiltration, intelligence collection and other work, and the staff who work there are called "Iron Whistle".

Suddenly the door was pushed open, and the two looked at the door, only to see Yas coming from behind the door, and said immediately.

"According to what you said, Jeffrey, I went to investigate the 'Kinney Theater'. I looked around and found nothing abnormal, and there was no rancid smell of demons."

Looking at Yas, Ivan was a little surprised, and turned to Jeffrey, "You still called Yas for the sake of 'loving people'?"

"He owes me some money, just let him run an errand." Jeffrey raised his eyebrows.

Yas saw Ivan, and then looked behind the one-way glass. Norm, who didn't know his life or death, probably understood where Jeffrey's information came from.

"Is Burlogo worth your trouble?"

Yas couldn't figure it out, just leave this case to Burlogo to investigate it himself, why bother them.

"Bologo is a good tool, but it can't be used casually. If I let him interrogate, Norm will be killed by him. Let him investigate the scene. Once he finds traces of demons, he is the kind who will People who killed people on the spot," Jeffrey said, "That's the agreement area, you don't want to trouble the logistics department, do you want to do a large-scale memory cleansing?"

Jeffrey sighed, it's okay to talk about other things, but this case involves Burlogo's road to revenge, and the ghost knows what he will do.

"That's not enough reason, Jeffrey, you were transferred to the logistics department, and you no longer get in touch with these crazy things, but now you come back on your own initiative, it's not reasonable enough."

Ivan, who was engaged in intelligence work, obviously felt that there was something unusual.

"Look at this."

He was not surprised to be seen through by Ivan. Jeffrey took out a potion and put it on the table. There was no external interference, but the liquid in the potion was tumbling independently.

"This was seized from Nome, and there were many philosopher's stones. I asked someone to analyze it. The composition of this potion contains a sublimated soul... This is a flowing philosopher's stone."

Jeffrey stared at the dark red potion, and the eyes of others also fell on it.

"According to the people from the 'Sublimation Furnace Core', this potion can not only suppress manic phagocytosis, but according to the analysis, it also has a certain strengthening ability... No, this is the strengthening potion, and the suppression of manic phagocytosis is only incidental."

"Strengthen?" Yas wondered.

"The 'soul' determines the 'body'. A full soul is enough to increase our 'secret energy', but this violates the 'ethical regulations'. The philosopher's stones we use today are all 'silver souls' extracted from animals and plants." ’, far less powerful than this ‘golden soul’ condensed from human beings.”

The more he thought about it, the more uneasy Jeffrey felt.

"Sell such an expensive thing to demons in exchange for money? Do those poor ghosts who have lost their souls have so much money? What's more, with this thing, is money still important?" He laughed.

Ivan realized something, and he picked up Noam's information on the desktop.

According to Noam, the technology of refining pharmaceuticals was handed over to them by "Humans", who seemed to treat them as foundries and were willing to buy this medicine at a very high price and sell it to The devil is just a smoke bomb to keep the business going.

"There are more medicines circulating on the market than we expected, and it's not clear how many such foundries there are."

Jeffrey's face was cold. He had a familiar feeling at the moment, the feeling of working in the Field Service Department many years ago.

"Ivan, what did you think of?"

Ivan fell into deep thought, and the information in front of him was intertwined in his mind, and gradually outlined a hideous appearance.

"Seven years ago, we went to war with 'them', won in a very disastrous way, drove them out of Opals, and seven years later, these guys are back again."

Ivan suddenly talked about something else, the shadow that hovered in the minds of several people.

"I still remember the scene when the war started back then. It broke out so suddenly without any warning... But when we reviewed all of this later, Crow's Nest discovered that there were actually many hidden signs at that time, but we didn't notice it.

Now, 'they' reappeared in Opals, provoking us and attracting most of the attention of the Field Service Department.

Everyone was very nervous, thinking that a new round of war was just around the corner, but secretly as the war became more active, the so-called 'human addiction' also appeared in front of them, and they were still making such a potion..."

Ivan said the worst guess.

"'Human-loving' has something to do with 'them'?" Yas's face also became gloomy.

"Well, at least that's what Lebius deduced. He suspects there is a connection between the two."

Jeffrey said, and asked again.

"Yas, your sixth group, do you have any extra people?"

"No, all of them were dispatched," Yas said.

"If it weren't for Burrogo's revenge, we might not have noticed these guys until now."

Jeffrey realized this in horror. Under the pressure of "them", the Field Service Department had no time to deal with "Humans". Contact, and with contact, so much is dug deep.

"Things are more complicated than what we saw...I will report to Crow's Nest later." Ivan said calmly.

"The same is true for the Field Service Department. I will inform other teams." Yas also nodded.

"I'll let you talk about Lebius, he doesn't seem to be in a good mood."

Jeffrey said and piled up all the papers full of handwriting in front of Ivan's eyes.

"Intelligence experts, take a closer look and see if there are any clues to follow."

Ivan scanned the paper and said, "What's the matter with the 'Kini Theater' he mentioned?"

"Noam doesn't have much contact with 'Human'. The only time he has contact is when he is handing over the goods, and the other party is also covering his face. The transaction is completely in a fork. This is when he heard the other party mention of."

Jeffrey also has an impression of the "Kinney Theater".

"I've been to this theater many times, and I love their recent performance of "The Wandering Rat."

Thinking of this, Jeffrey suddenly remembered that he also gave Burlogo a ticket for "The Wandering Rat". In his impression, the performance was today.

For some reason, an inexplicable coldness crawled across his body, whether it was a coincidence or fate.

"Entrusted by Jeffrey, I went to investigate today, and there is nothing unusual," Yas said.

Ivan didn't speak, just stared at the papers, paused for a while, and grabbed them.

"Leave this guy here for the time being, and it won't be easy to get him out of the prison." Ivan glanced at Noam, and then said, "I'm going back to the crow's nest. There's some news. I will come to you."

Jeffrey nodded, and Yas also left with Ivan. When he left, he said goodbye to Jeffrey, "I'll let my team members pay attention."

In the end, only Jeffrey was left, and Norm behind the one-way glass.

Jeffrey let out a long sigh, feeling as if he wanted to spit out his soul together.

His eyes fell on Noam, and then his appointment documents, the dark red potion... At this moment, he had an inexplicable feeling, the enemy who had made a comeback, the "people addicted" with unknown purpose...

Then think of Lebius's terrible face, and a certain "immortal body" wandering on the street.

Jeffrey's breathing was a little depressed, as if he was on the eve of a storm.

(End of this chapter)