Chapter 374 Legend

The villa of the Duke of Barrett, on the southwestern outskirts of Tivian, north of Shield Hill.

The bloody smell permeated the huge building, and the villa where the tragedy occurred was still in a mess.

The sudden gunshots from the third floor of the villa just now broke the dullness in the villa. The eight assassins who were searching around the villa were attracted by the gunshots, and many of them rushed to the scene of the gunshots within the first time.

On the third floor of the villa, by the window of a corridor, Kenke, the leader of this group of killers, was standing here, looking at the corridor in front of him with a stern face, where several bodies were lying and blood was splattered everywhere.

"What was that gunshot about? Did you see anyone else?"

Turning around, Kenke spoke in a serious tone to his men in front of him. After listening to Kenke's words, the first killer who arrived at the scene answered.

"No, first of all, when we came here, we didn't see anyone except the body, and we don't know how the gunshot came out... Maybe the gun here went off accidentally?"

"Humph... No one moved. How could the gun go off by itself? Someone must have sneaked in, or... someone is not dead yet..."

As Kenke spoke, he looked at the several corpses in the corridor in front of him, then he flicked his hand and two bats flew out from his sleeves. The two bats flew and bit the corpses around them. Through them, Kenke confirmed that these corpses were really dead.

"If he's really dead... then maybe someone sneaked in. Why did that guy suddenly open fire here? Could it be an accidental discharge..."

After confirming that the bodies around him were really dead, Kenke frowned and began to think. The sudden gunshot made him feel confused, but the doubt did not last long. He turned around and looked at a pair of his men behind him and spoke in a stern tone.

"What are you all doing here?! Keep looking for things, and look more carefully. Even if you have searched before, search the places again. Check all the bodies to make sure they are dead. If you encounter any sneakers, send a signal to notify everyone immediately!

"By the way...if you hear gunshots again, those of you who are far away should not cross the river, but stay where you are and do what you need to do."

"Yes, first."

After a brief response to Kenke, the killers gathered around dispersed one after another, returned to various corners of the villa, and continued to search for traces of the secret room. After seeing that everyone had left, Kenke frowned and looked at the darkness outside the window, with a hint of uneasiness vaguely emerging in his expression.

䀴Even the uneasiness in his expression was noticed by someone at this moment.

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"This guy...seems to have noticed something."

Several kilometers away from the villa, Dorothy, wrapped in a blanket, was sitting in a carriage on the dark road. At this moment, she was observing Kenk's expression through the vision of the dead.

'If you want to sneak into the secret room under the noses of these guys, covering up the sound when the secret room mechanism is activated is the most important thing. At present, there is nothing better than gunshots as a cover, but this kind of gunshots coming out of nowhere will definitely arouse suspicion, which is inevitable... The key is how to not find any clues after the other party becomes suspicious.

"As for concealment... it's all thanks to the combination of the Spiritual Silk Conducting and the Ring of Concealment. Otherwise, a normal corpse puppet wouldn't be able to hide from the eyes of a vampire..."

Dorothy thought in her heart while using the corpses scattered around the villa for investigation.

Except for the "Shadow" spiritual perception that cannot sense the "Shadow" that is being used in concealment, all the V-level professions have spiritual perception of the spirituality involved in themselves. Without the protection of the Ring of Concealment, vampires can easily sense the "Cup" spirituality in an extraordinarily active state on the corpse doll. This is also the other party's judgment on the cause of the gunshots. They just judged that it might be an outsider who sneaked in and a dead body, but they didn't think of the corpse doll.

"Fortunately, although this guy is suspicious, they can't find any clues for a while. Now my corpse has successfully entered the secret room. As long as we get the holy emblem, everything will be fine."

As she thought this, Dorothy turned her thoughts back to the secret room, and she controlled the things inside to start moving again.

Inside Barrett's underground laboratory, Dorothy controlled the male servant corpse to start searching. According to the words of Barrett's ghost, the holy emblem was in the drawer of the desk in the laboratory. Dorothy controlled the corpse to start looking around, looking for the so-called desk. After a while, she found the target.

In front of the rows of bookshelves on one side of the secret room, there is a large brown desk with piles of books and a small secret observation instrument on top. The size of this desk is larger than other desks in the laboratory. The matching chair is much more comfortable and luxurious, and it also comes with a desk cabinet.

Dorothy controlled the butler puppet to walk straight towards the brown desk. She did not let the puppet pay attention to the pile of books and documents on the desk. Instead, she directly opened the drawer in the upper right corner and began to rummage through the contents. After a while, the butler puppet found a wooden box from it.

Dorothy asked the puppet to take the wooden box out of the drawer, put it on the desk and slowly opened it. Then, a row of small gadgets in the wooden box appeared in front of Dorothy.

Most of these things were small metal products. The labels underneath them showed that they were unearthed from some ruins. Most of these metal products were damaged and their original shapes could not be seen clearly. Among the few that were not made of metal, one attracted Dorothy's attention.

That was a small badge. It was not complicated, just a crescent moon with simple patterns. Because of how many years it had gone through, the patterns on the crescent moon badge had become blurred, and the edges and corners of the crescent moon were worn out a lot. There was a label under the badge that seemed to be written by Barrett.

"It is suspected to be the holy emblem of the Goddess of Mirror Moon, unearthed in the priest burial pit of the Razor Mountain Ruins No. 3, unearthed on November 25, 1359."

"The ruins unearthed in the Razor Mountains... are exactly the same as what the Barrett Ghost said, this is it!"

Looking at the holy emblem in front of her, Dorothy's eyes lit up, and she immediately asked the puppet to take the holy emblem out of the wooden box. She held it in her hand and examined it carefully. She found that although the holy emblem of "Shadow" was a little worn out due to its age, it was generally intact. It did not have serious missing or damage like other metal objects in the same box. It should be no problem to use it for the ceremony.

Then the corpse puppet looked at the holy emblem, and Dorothy felt a sense of familiarity in her heart, but she did not think too much about it, because the crescent symbol often appeared in the secret items and talismans related to "shadow", and Dorothy had seen many similar ones before, so she did not pay too much attention to this sense of familiarity in her heart.

"Huh...Finally, after all the effort, I finally got this thing."

In the carriage, Dorothy looked at the holy emblem in the puppet's hand and breathed a sigh of relief. After getting the holy emblem, the next task would be to send it out of the world.