Mystery: Mr. Witch and Miss Hunter

Chapter 386
Laila put down her work and came to Adele's desk.

"This is the scene I got from divination."

Adele took down a picture obtained through ritual magic from her desktop. It was the outer picture of the house where Sotos was seen in the magic mirror divination.

"The Intis spy I killed lived here, and he may have left a key magical item in this house. Now you gather people, find this house in Port Behrens, and make a two-story surrounded."

This is the common search mode used by Loen's official Beyonders. Ordinary policemen and low-sequence Extraordinaries initially block the scene of an important Extraordinary event, and then secretly assign mid- and high-sequence Beyonders to ambush possible suspects. .

"Can I apply for assistance from the church?"

Laila hesitated for a moment. After all, as a wild Extraordinary who was once caught underground by the officials, now she suddenly wanted to cooperate with the authorities, and she felt somewhat awkward.

"Of course, we are very short of manpower now." Adele nodded, "Even the church can hardly help you, so you must pay attention to your own safety and do as many things as there are people, understand? ?”

Anyway, she was working for the government. Now that she knew that one of the people contacting Sothoth was Nebuchadnezzar of at least Sequence Five, Adele would naturally not allow Laila to participate in the follow-up ambush mission with a Sequence Eight.

"I understand." Lila nodded, took the picture in Adele's hands, and looked at it carefully for a while, as if she wanted to keep the appearance of the house in her heart.

"It doesn't matter if no one shows up. The house can be sealed if accompanied by extraordinary members of the church. People from the Church of the Mother Earth know how to properly handle those things."

Adele continued to exhort, "If you are not accompanied by someone from the church, don't break in by yourself. It is enough to surround the house and wait for me to come back to deal with it."

"I see." Lila didn't try to be brave, and after agreeing obediently, she asked Adele curiously, "You just said, 'wait until you come back'?"

"That's right, I'm planning to go back to Port Indo. Gagran asked me to find a craftsman to recast the 'whitewashed wall' and transform it into a simple and portable magical item. After the transformation is completed, I can travel freely from north to south mainland."

Adele didn't intend to hide anything, and told Lila about her upcoming arrangements in detail.

"So, Gagran... really became an angel?"

Lila, who heard some rumors, asked Adele in a low voice, "I feel that you have become a lot more relaxed in doing things recently, as if someone can give you the bottom line."

"Am I being so obvious?"

Adele didn't deny it either, she touched her chin and asked back, taking it as her acquiescence.

But after Leila mentioned this, Adele realized that she had indeed relaxed a lot during this period of time. When she was working as a privateer, she always thought that the results of the plunder were closely related to Emlyn's position. I always feel that there is a rock in my heart, and now that I have Ge Gelan as my backstage, the rock has finally fallen to the ground.

"It's too obvious."

Lila curled her lips, "I've seen it since I first met you, you just pretend to be too many things in your heart."

"Because you have too many things in your heart, so there are too many things that need to be balanced. As long as you stay by your side for a long time, you will be inexplicably infected by your pressure and become irritable."

"Really?" Adele smiled and didn't care too much. "Thank you for the reminder, I will pay attention to it in the future... maybe."

……

Meanwhile, in the port of Indo, the longshoremen's association.

During the implementation of the economic recovery plan in the Jianhai area, this area once restored its previous prosperity, but was soon brought back to its original shape due to the re-closure of the port, and suddenly became depressed and withered.

Among the seven wooden hybrid ships purchased by the Queen's Island Shipping Company, only the "Justice", "Spirituality" and "Sacrifice" are still operating as cargo ships, and the other passenger ships are out of service. The waves sway gently.

Venata wore a thick sweater, a black jacket with lapels, and a simple bonnet, making her image closer to those workers than the head of a multinational corporation and the biggest local gangster— —that attire had cost her a full sixhorns.

At this time, she didn't bring any extra jewelry, only a "Heart of Rose" necklace hidden in the sweater, her wheat-colored face was a little pale by the cold wind from Feysac.

And the people who followed her this time did not include those vicious family members before. After all, this time she was not looking for trouble, so she only asked the gentle-looking Azik Eggers to go to the pier with her Trade unions, listen to the basic demands of workers.

Looking at the two-story building ahead, Venata walked across the street while talking with Azik Eggers beside her.

"Did you experience similar things when you were in Ruen before? If so, I would like to hear your advice."

Venata asked a little awkwardly. Although she didn't know the details of this middle-aged gentleman from Loen, Azik's temperament always reminded her of her own university lecturer, so she often subconsciously Use honorifics.

"Unfortunately, when I was in Ruen, I was just an ordinary university lecturer, and the small town where I lived didn't have so many workers, so neither unions nor parades happened."

Azik shook his head and replied in a gentle voice.

When I was a death consul in the Balam Empire, I had experience in dealing with similar problems...

As Azik answered, he thought to himself.

Although there were no trade unions and strikes during the Balam Empire, there were rebels and slave uprisings.However, under the thin-natured Azik rule at that time, some of these people were pulled to build the pyramid, while the other part was directly used as consumables and built into the pyramid. Obviously, it was not an experience that Venata could learn...

"Is that so, that's really..."

Venata hesitated for a moment, not knowing what adjective to use here. It seemed a bit wrong to use "regret" that there was no workers' demonstration in the other party's hometown.

"……never mind."

However, Venata didn't hesitate for a long time, because she realized that it's just a trivial matter not to mention these things. Even if there is a problem with her rhetoric, Mr. Azik is not her university teacher, so she won't correct these details. I didn't have any grade points deducted from him.

She pushed open the door and found that the layout of the trade union was quite crude. The receptionist was an elderly-looking lady who was sitting by the stairs leading to the second floor, knitting a sweater. On both sides were corridors densely packed with offices, and the floor was not covered with wooden boards. , not to mention blankets, not even cement masonry.

Venata slightly lowered the brim of her hat, walked to the lady who looked 50 or [-] years old and said:

"I'm Venata Sevens, the director of the Queen's Island Shipping Company, and this is my assistant Azik Eggers. I made an appointment to meet you today."

The lady was wearing a jacket with many patches, some corners and even dirty cotton wool, and only a linen shirt was left inside.

The wool she used for knitting was also of poor quality, and Venata could even smell the pungent dye on the wool.

She became visibly flustered when she heard the title "Supervisor of Queens Island Shipping Company."

"Then, then you should go to Mr. Mosley, he is our publicity committee member, turn left, the third room on the left."

"Thank you."

Venata didn't ask the other party to react more calmly. After becoming a Sequence Six Extraordinary, there will naturally be some good things. Sometimes even the aura alone can suppress ordinary people invisibly. .She bowed slightly and gave a salute, then motioned for Azik to follow.

She walked unhurriedly to the door of the room and knocked on the door of the corresponding room.

Tuk tuk, knocking on the door echoed in the corridor, but no one answered in the room.

"Is he not in the room?"

Venata raised her voice with some doubts and shouted to the lady in the hall.

"Mr. Mosley's legs and feet are not convenient, and he should not go out casually."

The lady was also a little surprised, "I have the key here, let's take you in first."

Venata took two steps forward, took the bunch of brass keys from the other party's hand, and walked to the door of Mosley's room, ready to open it.

However, just as the door was about to open, Venata heard a slight "boom".And she often heard this sound in Feysac's army, it was the sound of booby trap trip wires being broken!

If it were an ordinary Extraordinary, at such a short distance, even with the ability to protect himself, it would be too late to react.But Venata is now a Sequence Six conspirator, and her ability to control flames is no longer comparable to that of a Sequence Seven arsonist, so even though she doesn't have a substitute or similar abilities, she won't be caught off guard.

At the moment when the flames and high-temperature gas of the explosion spread, Venata had already pushed forward her left hand that was pressing on the door, displaying her enhanced ability to manipulate flames.

Although the flame manipulation of the "arsonist" and the flame manipulation of the "magician" have the same name, the upper limit of the former is higher, the temperature of the flame that can be controlled, and the control over the shape of the flame are far superior to the latter.

After being promoted to Sequence Six, the "conspirator" can even control the high-temperature air produced by the explosion, and can manipulate, plasticize, and heat up molten metal, high-temperature air, and other fluids with flame properties, and achieve more incredible operations.

The flames and shock waves of the explosion just shredded the door panel in front of Venata, and then stopped briefly in front of Venata. Venata could even see the dazzling fire rolling in front of her, like her fingers There was an invisible wall before.

Afterwards, Venata gradually clenched her left hand into a fist, compressing the fireball produced by the explosion a little bit inward until it was the size of a washbasin, allowing herself to see the situation in the room clearly.

In the room, a man with thinning hair was hung from the ceiling, his eyes were protruding, his face was bruised, and there was a large group of dark yellow stains on his pants. It was obvious that he couldn't survive.

Venata sighed, slowly compressed her fingers inward, and clenched her fist completely, and the fiery fireball that was pushed back by her was directly crushed by her with a "poof".

Seeing that Venata solved the explosion by herself, Azik quietly pulled out his hand from his trouser pocket, and pretended to be dazed when Venata turned her head.

"what's going on?!"

The lady in the hall exclaimed, quickly put down the sweater in her hand and ran towards the two of them, but was blocked by Azik who took a step forward.

"There has been a murder here, please inform the police and the teacher..."

Azik was about to ask the other party to notify the police and the church, but then remembered that the Extraordinary of the church had already evacuated from Port Indo, so he quickly stopped talking.

"Just go to the pier and find the police. If there is no man there, go to the shipping company to find Ms. Anne."

At this time, the residents who heard the movement opened the office door one after another, saw the corpse in the room from close, and immediately screamed, attracting more residents, a group of ragged poor people surrounded Venata and the two of them. In the middle.

Venata felt that her dress was as close as possible to the poor in the dock area, but now surrounded by these poor people, she realized that her understanding of these residents might still be too optimistic.

In her impression, the residents of Fusac were still what they were before the war. Although they were not considered rich, due to the sparsely populated land and the low degree of industrialization, they could at least maintain basic food and clothing.

However, the trauma left by the war on the residents of Feysac was obviously far beyond her expectations. After she was defeated, she was directly abandoned by the army and thrown in Backlund. After staying in the victorious country, she understood the situation of the defeated country after all. is limited.

Fusac's original economic situation was not as good as that of Ruen and Intis. Under the coercion of the two countries, he participated in the world war in the Northern Continent, which caused a serious economic crisis. Nearly one-third of the population became refugees and hooligans. , and even pick up food in the trash can to satisfy their hunger.

At first, in order to persuade people of the right age in the country to join the army, Fusac promised quite generous national benefits before the war, including disability insurance and retirement insurance.

However, after the war, with the acquiescence of the Einhorn family, the administration demonized the parade groups composed of veterans, teachers, workers, etc., claiming that they held seven or eight times the compensation of other countries but did not know how to be grateful , However, according to Feysac's law, they will not be able to get the compensation after seven years, but it is difficult for those disabled and retired soldiers to survive that year, let alone seven years.

For a Extraordinary like Venata who knows the doomsday prophecy and knows that there are less than five years left before the predicted end of the world, the empty promise promised by the Fusac government will only sound more ironic.

(End of this chapter)