Chapter 294 Inference
Sitivian, coal ash district.
In the afternoon, on a sparsely populated street, a yellow horse was galloping forward at a high speed, its hooves constantly kicking up dust. The people in front of the horse saw it and quickly got out of the way.
Riding on the horse galloping at full speed was a figure wearing a black cloak. The figure held the reins and kept speeding up the horse. While the Mercedes-Benz kept moving along the street, he kept looking back. Behind him, there was a rolling dust that swept over quickly and swallowed up the entire street.
The people who were panicking to avoid the running horses had not even had time to curse at the riders driving dangerously before they were engulfed by the flying dust that followed closely behind. In the blowing sand, all the people on the street could not help but cover their faces and find places to hide. The street vendors shouted and covered their stalls to prevent them from being blown away by the sudden strong wind. No one could see clearly for a moment.
So no one saw that, above the dust, a figure was flying down the street at high speed, its target being the rider running wildly in front.
Riding the wind, Edmund quickly caught up with the fleeing target in front of him. He stared ahead with his eyes and waved his cane, which blew up a strong wind that swept forward. The strong wind stirred up a larger amount of dust and blew the rider's horse over. The horse fell to the ground sideways with a neigh, and the rider on it was also thrown off directly.
The cloaked figure screamed and fell to the ground, but immediately struggled to stand up and prepared to continue to escape, but at this moment Edmund swooped down from the sky and hit the figure hard with the cane in his hand. The figure screamed in pain and fell to the ground again. The hood on his head fell off, revealing the face of an ordinary young man.
"Don't move. Kneel on the ground. Turn your face away. Put your hands up. Don't look at me. If you don't want to get your head moved, just slow down."
He pointed the cane in his hand directly at the young man, and the young man showed a look of panic but did not resist. He turned around and knelt on the ground with his hands raised as Edmund said. Seeing this, Edmund could not help but smile.
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On the other side, when Edmund turned around to pursue other targets, Adele finally escaped. After getting rid of Edmund's pursuit, she immediately fled into the urban area of the coal ash area, weaving back and forth in the narrow alleys. When she saw that Edmund really didn't catch up, she breathed a sigh of relief at the end of an empty alley.
But not long after, a sudden sound made her nervous again.
"It was a close call, Miss Adele. We almost had a head-on fight with the Security Bureau."
Adele looked in the direction of the voice and saw a familiar figure appear from behind a corner, a man in a windbreaker and a short hat. It was Detective Ed.
"Huh...yeah...I was almost caught by that mad dog. Thanks to you, the great detective...ah no...I should say the great director."
Adele breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Ed show up. She was still wearing sunglasses. She knew that the group of civilians who seemed to be under mental control at the cargo storage yard just now were obviously meat puppets controlled by Ed. When she was in the theater before, she had seen Ed's talking meat puppets, and she had also seen the lifelike performances put on by Ed's meat puppets. So when those "hostages" appeared, she immediately knew that it was Ed who used his ability to help her out.
"Whatever you say... Fortunately, the captain of the hunters is still concerned about the safety of civilians, so this trick works on him. If it was a crazy cultist, then things would be a bit difficult to deal with."
As Ed was talking, he walked to Adele's side. At the charcoal wood intersection, Edmund suddenly attacked the culprit he thought was Adele in order to protect ordinary people. This made Dorothy certain that the other party was concerned about the life and death of ordinary people.
If Edmund had not cared about the ordinary people at the charcoal intersection who were affected by the ability, he could have kept his troops in place, secretly followed Adele and cooperated with his men to secretly investigate or launch a siege, instead of taking action from the beginning and alerting the enemy. However, under the circumstances at the time, Edmund believed that if he did not act immediately, the lives of those people at the intersection might be in danger.
After Dorothy realized these two key points, she immediately made a plan to use the puppet to act to attract Edmund's attention. Since the path of "Revelation" is completely missing, in the secret world, only Dorothy's puppet can speak and move like an ordinary person, so Edmund can't help but believe in Dorothy's directing.
After using an ordinary corpse doll to lure Edmund away, Dorothy has been using the crow corpse doll to overlook and monitor the city from the sky, tracking the escaped Adele, and then letting Ed reunite with her.
"Anyway, thanks to you, I finally got rid of that mad dog... But why did he suddenly target me? And what happened at the intersection just now..."
Adele murmured with a frown, her expression was very serious now. After this wave, she also realized that the current situation was a bit strange. The timing when ordinary people at the Tanmu intersection suddenly became controlled and the hunters targeted her was just too coincidental. For such a situation, Adele had a series of uneasy thoughts in her mind.
Seeing Adele's face becoming grim, Ed spoke seriously.
"Although you may not want to listen, Miss Adele, I still want to say that, judging from the current situation, the series of events in the Coal Ash District may be a trap set for you, Miss Adele. The Wolf Blood Society may have already controlled your teacher and used her abilities to attract the Security Bureau to come over and have you hunted down by the Security Bureau to achieve their goal."
Ed said this, and Adele nodded silently, then spoke in a deep voice.
"Well... you're right, it's true... judging from the current situation, we have been led into a trap..." Adele murmured with a serious expression, and Ed continued to speak.
"Yes, the incident in the coal ash area was a trap set for you, Miss Adele. Now we have luckily escaped the other party's trap. To be safe, retreating immediately is the best option now."
Adele was slightly startled after listening to Ed's words, then she looked at Ed and smiled before speaking.
"If you wanted to escape, Mr. Detective, you would have grabbed me right away, not told me this here... So, Mr. Ed, what other plans do you have?"
Adele said to Ed, and Ed shrugged and answered.
"Heh... Miss Adele is really perceptive. That's right, in my opinion, it's not the time to escape yet. These guys set up this trap in this area, which actually carries the risk of being exposed. Now that they didn't succeed in their first wave, it means they gave us a chance. I have never been a person who would waste opportunities. When their round is over, it will be our turn."
Ed straightened his collar and spoke with a calm expression. Looking at the man in front of him, Adele paused slightly, then continued to answer with a smile.
"You are still so reassuring. Your confidence is always the most attractive thing. Detective, I am very happy to hire you."
"Thank you for the compliment. Let's wait until the current situation is over before we discuss this kind of thing. Our most urgent task right now is to find the guy hiding in the dark and attacking us."
Ed said this, and after hearing what Ed said, Adele's expression returned to being serious. She dusted herself off and looked at Ed and spoke.
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