"The main function of meat puppets is reconnaissance. Now I think that guy must have used meat puppets to find us and monitor us. After the black dog rolled up the dust, he lost sight of us. The coal ash area is large, so if he used meat puppets, there would be no way for him to find us in a short time."
"Yeah... there are only two of us, and we are a small target. If we take advantage of the dust and hide in some house or alley, he won't be able to find us. So if he can't find us, what target should he focus on?"
Drinking a cup of tea, Ed prompted her to speak. Following Ed's prompt, Adele immediately responded smartly.
"It's the black dogs. That group of black dogs is different from us. There are many of them, and they even have a big carriage. That carriage is a big target, and a flying flesh puppet should be able to find it easily."
"Yes, it's those hunters. When they can't find us, keeping an eye on them is definitely the best option. After all, he also needs to make sure at any time whether those hunters have captured us.
"I also have a flying meat puppet hovering over the coal ash area, monitoring the hunters. They have driven their car to the vicinity of the storage yard to detain the 'mortal' they just captured. My flying meat puppet also found a suspicious bird there. It stood on the street lamp, staring at the hunters' carriage from a distance without moving. It didn't dare to approach or miss it."
Ed said so. Listening to Ed's words, Adele also asked herself in her heart.
"So, you and that guy both have bird-flesh puppets to monitor those black dogs? Then why can you spot his puppet but he can't spot yours?"
"This is easy. I controlled three bird meat puppets to take turns flying over and monitoring the area. It looked very natural, but there was only one of them standing stupidly on the street lamp without moving. I was very conspicuous from up there, so it was me who noticed that there was something wrong with it, but it couldn't notice that there was something wrong with me."
Ed said lightly that the upper limit of the number of corpses that can be manipulated by ordinary corpse puppet props is two, and the corpse puppet that the mastermind is currently monitoring the hunter is the same as the one at the Tanmu intersection. The other party is not as wealthy as Dorothy to squander the upper limit of corpse puppets at will.
'There are three bird-shaped meat puppets that take turns monitoring, and none of them stay for long. This does sound a lot... But he had at least four in the police station before, and with this one, that's seven. One person can control so many meat puppets at the same time... Let's not talk about the ability itself, but the mental strength is also ridiculous.'
Listening to Ed's words, Adele sighed in her heart, and she felt more and more how terrifying it was that this person in front of her, code-named "Detective" in the Rosicrucian, had intelligence capabilities. She was also secretly glad that the other party didn't seem to have any ideas about her.
"Such a powerful intelligence reconnaissance ability, worthy of the code name 'Detective', I wonder if other members of the Rosicrucian also have such powerful abilities..."
Staring at Ed, Adele guessed and thought in her heart, and at the same time became more interested in this mysterious society.
At this time, Ed picked up the compass and drew another big circle with a radius of three kilometers on the map with the stockpile as the origin. So far, there were three big circles on the coal ash area map in front of them.
The point where these three large circles intersect is much smaller than the previous two points. Here Adele and Ed only saw one building, which was a mansion.
"Stek Mansion"
Only from this location in the mansion can the puppets be controlled at three locations at the same time: the police station, the tanmu intersection, and the storage yard.
"Finally, I found it..." Adele murmured as she looked at the newly marked location on the map. Then she turned her head and looked at Ed and spoke.
"Should we leave now, Mr. Detective?"
"Don't be impatient, Miss Adele. It's not easy to find a place. It would be rude for us to go there by ourselves. There are people who are deliberately looking for this place now. We can give them a warning."
Facing Adele in front of him, Ed said with a smile.
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Sitivian, coal ash area, near the stockpile.
Inside the storage yard, countless people were busy inside and outside at this moment. Frightened merchants were checking their goods in the yard, exclaiming at the losses and cursing why the storm had hit this place so hard. At the edge of the yard, a huge black carriage was parked here, and at the edge of the carriage, several plainclothes hunters were standing here to guard the surroundings.
In the dim and narrow space of the huge carriage, a young man with his eyes touched was sitting in a seat with his hands tied up. In front of him was Edmund with a serious face. He looked at the blindfolded man with a stern expression.
"I'm asking you one last time. Tell the truth about yourself, the association you belong to, and your plot in the coal ash area... If you tell the truth, you'll get a reduced sentence at trial. If you continue to be stubborn, I'll have no choice but to hand you over to the headquarters. The people there don't talk like me, young man."
Sitting in his seat with his legs crossed, Edmund interrogated the young man in front of him, and the young man opened his mouth to answer.
"I told you! I won't betray the club! No matter what you do to me, I won't say a word! Black Dogs!"
"You're quite courageous, but it's a pity that you've come to the wrong place. Those cults are nothing. Don't you realize that you've been abandoned? You'd better explain the situation honestly here. Not many people at the headquarters have sympathy for cult members." Edmund continued to persuade, but Qinghe still didn't seem to appreciate it.
"No! The club won't abandon me! The instructor will definitely send someone to save me! The club won't betray me! I won't betray the club either! So I won't do anything... uh..."
Just when Qingqi was about to say something else, he suddenly stopped talking, his face turned ashen, his mouth opened wide, and his expression became extremely painful.
"Ah...ah...don't...don't...Teacher...I won't betray you...don't do this...don't abandon me! Don't kill me!"
The blue boy howled in pain. Edmund frowned at his appearance, then immediately held him down and spoke.
"What's wrong? What happened? Is your mentor interfering with you?"
"Ah...Officer...I...I..."
Qingge continued to speak in pain, his whole body trembling and twitching as he uttered unclear words. Faced with this situation, Edmund's first reaction was that the other mentor was worried about capturing Qingge and was interfering with him in some way in order to kill him and silence him.
"Hold on, I'll take you to the headquarters right now. There should be a way to save you there!"
"It's impossible to save... save... Officer... I, I say..."
With his mouth wide open, Qingxue uttered his final confession to Edmund in a painful manner.
"A-Alex...Stick Mansion..."
After uttering the last words, Qingge's whole body relaxed, his head tilted, and he fell on his seat and died. Seeing this scene, Edmund was silent for a long while. After testing Qingge, he sighed, then lit a cigarette, smoking while staring at the dead Qingge in front of him.
"If I had known this would happen, I would not have done it in the first place. May the Three Saints forgive your sins..."
After saying that, Edmund turned around and got out of the car. He now had a new mission.
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