Chapter 139 Bone Object
Knights Road is located in the upper city of Igwynt. It is a residential area with a good environment. The environment here is quiet, with townhouses on both sides of the road, tall birch trees standing on the sidewalk, and only a few horse-drawn carriages moving on the cobblestone road.
In the afternoon, the carriage Dorothy was riding in stopped at the side of Knight Road. After paying the fare to the driver, Dorothy, wearing a sun hat, carrying a small bag and a light purple dress, sat on the ground and began to look around.
“Nice environment…”
After making this comment, Dorothy began to walk along the sidewalk, looking at the townhouses beside her and slowly counting the house numbers.
"Number 24...25...26, this is it."
Dorothy nodded, walked up the stairs in front of the wooden door, and began to ring the doorbell. The jingling sound did not last long, and the small window on the door was opened, revealing a pair of eyes inside, and a questioning female voice was uttered.
"Who is it?"
"I was Anna Field's volunteer teacher at the Grace Orphanage. I was invited by the orphanage to come here to visit her." Dorothy answered slowly, and the other party responded immediately.
"An invitation from the orphanage? Please wait a moment, I'll confirm."
After the voice from inside the door finished speaking, the small window closed with a swish. After Dorothy waited quietly outside for a while, the door in front of her was opened, and in front of her appeared a maid about ten years old with yellow curly hair and wearing a black and white maid outfit.
"Come in, Miss Anna, go upstairs. Now other visitors are there too." The maid said to Dorothy. There was not much humility in her tone, which did not seem to be the attitude a servant should have. Dorothy did not feel dissatisfied with this because she noticed the maid's unusually upright posture and alert eyes.
"Thanks……"
After a brief thank you, Dorothy entered the richly decorated house, then went up the stairs. Not long after, she came to the first floor. In a living room that was more than twice as wide as her own home, she saw Anna sitting on the sofa in pajamas, with a group of people around her.
Among them were several men in suits holding pens and documents, two old nuns, and several other children in plain clothes playing around, and several people dressed like servants standing by.
Several men holding documents sat next to Anna and asked her something, and Anna answered a little confusedly. The old nun next to her occasionally added a few words. When Anna inadvertently glanced at Dorothy, a smile appeared on her face.
"You are finally here! Teacher Meshhos!"
"Well, how could I not come to visit little Anna?" Smiling, Dorothy stepped forward and started chatting with Anna and the people around her, and tried to gather as much information as possible in the process.
Soon Dorothy had a general idea of Anna's current situation.
Now Anna's mental condition has been confirmed by the doctor to be completely fine, and she can be discharged from the hospital. Because Anna is now the heir of the Field family, she is not an orphan but came here. This is one of the many properties in the city of Igwynt owned by Viscount Field. Although Anna has not officially inherited the estate, she can still use it for a long time.
Dorothy had a guess as to who asked Anna to move here. It was probably arranged by the Security Bureau. If the poison in Anna's body suddenly disappeared, it would definitely attract the attention of the Security Bureau, so she would definitely need to be monitored even after being discharged from the hospital. And if Anna suddenly became the heir of the Field family, it would definitely infringe on the interests of some people, so she needed protection.
With the dual needs of surveillance and protection, it would be inappropriate to send Anna to an orphanage. She is the heir to a noble viscount, and many public eyes are focused on her. It is even more inappropriate to lock her up in a police station.
Therefore, the Security Bureau probably selected a house from Viscount Field's properties and let her live in it temporarily, and made relevant preparations for inheritance here. For example, the men in suits and holding documents were civil servants from the relevant departments of the court and specially invited legal advisers.
"Well... I didn't expect that the Security Bureau took Anna's inheritance work very seriously. Not only did they help Anna with the government and court affairs, they also helped to hire a legal advisor. It seems that the Security Bureau is inclined to let Anna successfully complete the inheritance."
Watching this scene, Dorothy couldn't help but feel a little more favorable towards the decision-makers of the Igwinter Security Bureau.
Even though Anna has a strong right of inheritance, she is still an orphan in her teens with no relatives. It would be difficult to handle this matter if no one speaks up for her and fights for her rights. But it would be a different matter if the Security Bureau intervened.
Dorothy, who had dealt with the Security Bureau several times, knew clearly that the Security Bureau should have a very high status in the power system of the Pritt Kingdom, at least above the police system. With such a powerful organization operating behind the scenes, and Anna's strong legal reasoning, there was no legal obstacle for Anna to inherit the Field family's inheritance and title.
"I'm really considerate of them. Not only do they have to clean up after me all day, but now they're doing these things again..."
Dorothy, who was talking to Anna, glanced at the servants around her. Like the maid at the front door, they all had sharp eyes and alert expressions. They were obviously hunters in disguise. Looking at these hunters, Dorothy thought.
"Hehe... I wonder if Gregor participated in the mission to protect Anna. You, a captain of the hunters, are the bodyguard of my students? Haha..."
…
“A-choo!!”
Directly opposite No. 26 Knight Road, on the second floor of another house, Gregor sneezed violently.
"Huh... is this a cold?"
Gregor murmured to himself as he wiped his nose. Then he continued to peek through the window and saw a familiar girl in Building 26 who was talking to his target.
"If he came...Luckily I didn't hide myself, otherwise it would be terrible." Gregor said this. As the captain, he naturally didn't want to disguise himself as a servant like his men. He didn't dare to think about what Dorothy's expression would be if he was recognized as a servant in her student's home.
Gregor secretly watched the scene in the room opposite, hoping that his sister would come back soon.
At this moment, a few hundred meters away, on a section of Knight Road, a short, bearded man wearing a windbreaker was sitting on a bench beside the sidewalk with a suitcase in his hand, gazing into the distance at the end of the road.
"Let me see, what secrets do you have..."
Muttering, the man named Godfrey opened his suitcase, looked inside for a moment, and took out something.
That was a piece of bone, a hollow bone with obvious signs of processing and the center hollowed out. On the top of the bone, there were mysterious patterns engraved, and in the center of these patterns, there were two obvious symbols.
One symbol is larger, a circle with an equilateral triangle engraved in it, and the other is slightly smaller, shaped like a closed eye.
Then, Godfrey took out a small bone hammer and knocked on the hollow bone twice. After two hollow sounds, a wisp of translucent fuzzy substance emerged from the hollow bone. Then the fuzzy substance expanded rapidly, and instantly grew to the size of a person, and began to take shape, forming a human form.
After a while, a skinny man with ragged clothes, messy hair and a dazed look quietly floated in front of Godfrey. This... was a ghost.
"Teng...scout No. 26 and the surrounding areas for me."
Godfrey spoke frankly to the ghost in front of him. The ghost man nodded, turned around and flew away. During this process, its originally translucent body gradually became more transparent until it completely disappeared.
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