"Looking at you, Detective, I think you have already figured out something."
"I guess so, but if we want to make any substantial progress, we need more information. Miss Adele, I remember you once said that in order to activate the ability of the Dancer, it is necessary to sense the target of the activation, otherwise it can only be released indiscriminately. So, may I ask, what exactly is this perception like? Is it necessary to see it?" Ed asked Adele for advice, and the other party answered quickly.
"For a dancer who wants to attract others, seeing is the best way to sense things. Other ways of sensing, such as smell or hearing, can only roughly confirm a direction, the direction where the smell is coming from or the direction where the sound is coming from. They cannot accurately locate the place in the first place. Seeing is the best way to determine the location."
Adele answered like this, and Ed also frowned slightly and spoke after hearing it.
"So... at least when we were at the Tanmu intersection, we... the Security Bureau... and those ordinary passers-by might have been in the sight of the man behind the scenes? Or even... he might have been at the scene?"
"We were all within his field of vision at the time, that's for sure, but the other person might not be at the scene. First of all, this is unsafe. Secondly, if the other party really controlled my teacher in some way to release his ability, then the other party must be next to my imprisoned teacher. So the one at the tanmu intersection is more likely to be a meat puppet that can provide vision. The other party at the tanmu intersection should have a humanoid meat puppet wearing a 'shadow' extraordinary item to shield my spiritual perception."
Adele said this. Having had many contacts with the Wolf Blood Society, she knew many of their methods.
And listening to Adele's words, Ed nodded.
"Hmm... this possibility is indeed greater. When the captain of the hunters stirred up the sandstorm, the impact on the people at the scene was instantly eliminated. This should be the reason why the vision of the meat puppet he placed at the tanmu intersection was blocked, resulting in the loss of the target."
Dorothy thought so. At that time, she did not find anyone acting like a corpse at the Tanmu intersection, so the other party might be hiding on the upper floor of the building and spying on the outside.
"But there is another problem here. Even if the other party was monitoring the Tanmu intersection, how did he know that there was something wrong with us? When those black dogs came, they were all wearing plain clothes. How did he recognize them?"
At this time, Adele touched her chin and murmured in confusion, "At that time, the mastermind behind the scenes accurately transferred Edmund's eagerness to find the mind controller to Adele. The premise is that he knew the identities of those plainclothes hunters and also knew Adele's identity. How did he know this?"
The "Shadow" in Dorothy's concealment ring was not missing, which proved that no one had used the "Light" to forcibly find the Extraordinary. That group of hunters were more likely to be Extraordinary "Shadows". There were enough "Shadows", and it would be more difficult to find them with Extraordinary abilities.
So… how did the mastermind determine the identities of Adele and Edmund? It is impossible that they have undercover agents in the Scarlet Heart and the Security Bureau. Adele's action this time was highly confidential. Only Ed… or Dorothy knew what Adele wanted to do in the Coal Ash District.
Listening to Adele's question, Dorothy fell into deep thought for a moment, and Ed, whom she controlled, also entered a state of thinking, but after a while, Dorothy let Ed slowly speak and utter a word.
"Police station..."
"What?"
"The police station in the Coal Ash District. We came here to investigate a case. The first thing we thought of was to go to the police station to get the criminal records of the entire Coal Ash District in the past few days. We thought so, the searchers must have thought so too, and the mastermind behind the scenes would think so even more."
With his hands behind his back, Ed murmured, and at this time Adele immediately understood what Ed meant, and she said in sudden realization.
"So what Mr. Detective means is... the man behind the scenes expected that we and the Security Bureau would go to the police station to check criminal records, so he planted an informant there. This informant received the news and immediately reported to the mastermind as long as anyone checked the recent criminal records. Through this informant, the mastermind confirmed the identities of us and the black dogs?"
"That's right... and once all these criminal records are checked out and marked on the map, there is only one place they point to, and that is Tanmu Crossing. Therefore, the mastermind knew that we and the hunters would definitely meet at Tanmu Crossing. I guess he originally planned for us to "encounter" by chance in the burnt-down building... But I noticed the arrival of the hunters and slowed down a step. Seeing that we couldn't run into them, the mastermind manipulated the ordinary people to play the same trick as before... It was really a carefully prepared plan..."
Ed said with emotion, and Adele beside him also smiled slightly.
"But now they have revealed their tracks. Since the police station in the coal ash district is sure that they have spies, we can start from there."
Adele spoke up, and Dorothy nodded along with Ed after hearing it.
…
The storm was about to stop, and the flying dust was slowly settling over the coal ash area. Countless pedestrians were talking about the strange winds.
In a teahouse near the Coal Ash District Police Station, Adele and Ed sat face to face, looking through the window at the police station building in the distance.
"I have used small meat puppets to investigate before... I didn't find anyone who looked like a meat puppet. Small meat puppets can't wear 'shadow' props to block your spiritual perception, so the eyes and ears in the police station must be living people, probably the police inside."
Drinking a cup of tea, Ed looked at the police station in the distance and continued to speak while muttering.
"I can send small meat puppets in for surveillance, but I can't monitor everyone all the time... and I can't be sure when the spy will contact his leader, so this surveillance operation may have to continue for quite a long time. We may need to wait patiently..."
Ed murmured while looking into the distance, and after hearing his words, Adele spoke with a hint of regret.
"Unfortunately, I can't go over and investigate in person now. Otherwise, my ability might be more useful against living people, but if I can't see them... there's nothing I can do."
Dorothy was slightly startled as she listened to Adele's words, and then an idea suddenly popped into her mind.
"Perhaps... we can take this opportunity to do this..."
Dorothy thought, and then asked Ed in the teahouse in the distance to speak to Adele.
"You want to gain a view of the police station? This is actually possible... Now I will give you a name, and you just need to pray to the name I gave you."
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