Chapter 297 Chaos
Sitivian, coal ash district.
On the edge of the coal ash area, near the western suburbs of Tivian, in a remote grove, stands a large museum. This museum has three floors and has its own courtyard and fountain. Although it is not located in the coal ash area, it is away from the busy traffic area, so there is not much dust on the building and the courtyard.
This hotel stood quietly in a remote corner of the district, with its doors and windows closed and the iron gate locked. At first glance, it looked like a deserted house. Only occasionally would a pedestrian pass by the iron gate and take a look inside.
Inside this temple, in a small dim room with bright decorations, an elderly man named Alex was sitting on a sofa, stroking a cloth-wrapped scepter in his hand and frowning.
"Hmm... still no movement. What are those black dogs interrogating? Who did they catch? Shouldn't they be arresting Adele?"
With the vision he arranged at the storage yard, Alex monitored every move of the hunters there. After the dust was blown up at the charcoal wood intersection, he lost sight of Adele and the others for a while. After the dust settled, the corpse puppets he arranged at the charcoal wood intersection could no longer find any trace of Edmund and Adele. He could only control one bird-shaped corpse puppet, and he did not have as much control as Dorothy who could monitor multiple bird-shaped corpse puppets at the same time.
After the dust settled, Alex just continued to monitor the Tanmu intersection. Edmund's men had already got on the carriage. Then he let his bird-shaped corpse doll follow the carriage to the vicinity of the storage yard, wanting to confirm Edmund's results. However, he was surprised that although Edmund did catch someone here, that person was not Adele, but another young man he did not know. This made Alex very confused for a moment.
"Who is that man? Is he also Adele's follower? And he is different from the one who followed her at the intersection. What virtue did he have to make the Black Dog Captain give up Adele and come after him instead?"
Alex thought urgently in his heart that what he wanted most at this moment was to confirm Adele's current condition. However, the number of corpse puppets he could control was limited, and there was only one bird-shaped corpse puppet that could move. It was very difficult to find Adele in the area, so he could only monitor Edmund and others who were more obvious targets.
"Hmph... this thing isn't that good. If it weren't for that bitch Adele's habit of changing her clothes to cover up her body odor, who would come looking for this kind of thing?"
Alex thought angrily in his heart, and while chewing, he took out a badge from his body and put it in his hand to look at it. On the badge was a pattern of little people holding hands. It was obviously also a corpse puppet. In the secret world, this type of extraordinary puppet did not seem to exist alone.
Although he was dissatisfied with the detective efficiency of the corpse puppet in his hand, Alex did not discard it. Instead, he continued to use it to monitor the scene in the distance and continued to spy on the hunters' carriage near the stockpile. The bird-shaped corpse puppet he was controlling was standing on a street lamp more than 200 meters away from the carriage. Fearing that it would be noticed by the hunters, he did not let the bird fly too close, so he could not hear the content of Edmund's interrogation in the car.
At this time, he finally saw the captain of the hunters getting off the carriage, and his expression seemed very serious.
"Out? Did the Black Dog Captain get anything out of him after being tortured?"
Seeing this scene through the corpse doll's vision, Alex thought in his heart, and just when he wanted to continue monitoring, he heard a whistling sound from the sky.
Hearing the voice, Alex controlled the corpse puppet to turn his head and look up at the sky, only to see a mighty eagle flying down from the sky, and his bird-shaped corpse puppet swooped down at him. Alex wanted to control the corpse puppet to dodge, but it was too late. His bird-shaped corpse puppet was caught by the eagle's claws, and even his vision began to shake and then turned completely black.
Just like that, Alex lost sight of the storage area, and from the last image transmitted to him by the bird-shaped corpse doll, he clearly saw that he was being hunted by an eagle.
"Eagle? How come there is an eagle in the coal ash area?"
Alex slapped the table and said bluntly that the scene just now was too outrageous, which made him suspicious.
"Hush... Have I been discovered by those black dogs? Is that eagle tamed or controlled by the black dogs? Or am I just unlucky and was stared at by an ordinary eagle flying by?"
Alex thought so in his heart. In order to avoid attracting too much attention, the bird-shaped corpse dolls he used were the most common small birds in the city. Although the corpse dolls using raptors for reconnaissance did not fly higher or faster, they were more eye-catching. Alex would not use them as he had a limited number of corpse dolls.
The corpse puppet he was responsible for monitoring was suddenly eliminated, which made Alex gradually feel something was wrong. However, he still thought that perhaps the black dogs had discovered the corpse puppet and did not feel that there was any problem with their own safety. So he planned to continue controlling the other bird-shaped corpse puppets and continue searching in the coal ash area.
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Just as Alex was about to continue his investigation, outside his hotel, on the top of a tall building 600 meters away, detective Ed in a windbreaker was standing there, holding a telescope and looking at the hotel in the distance, and standing next to him was Adele.
"How's the situation over there?"
Adele asked Ed beside her, and Ed put away the telescope, stared at the museum in the distance and answered.
"It's just like what you said. The area around the temple is very deserted. The doors and windows are not open. There are very few pedestrians passing by. There is no one inside the temple walls. At first glance, it looks like it has been abandoned."
Putting away the telescope in her hand, Dorothy controlled Ed to turn around and continued to ask Adele while looking at her.
"It seems like there's no security over there, so I don't quite understand why you stopped me from sending a small meat puppet in to investigate?"
"Heh...it looks like there's no security, but there are a lot of things inside. I don't know why your small meat puppets can block spiritual perception, but to deal with that guy, just blocking spiritual perception is not enough."
With her arms folded across her chest, Adele nudged Ed and said, her words aroused Dorothy's interest, and she manipulated Ed and said.
"Oh... Isn't it enough to just block spiritual perception? Why?"
"Because he is Alex Kronde, a Cretaceous-level cadre of the Wolfblood Society, and a werewolf on the Path of the Beast. You should have experienced the super strong olfactory effect brought by the Seeking Breath Seal. For werewolves, this effect is permanent and even stronger. They can easily distinguish and smell any strange smell approaching them. They can track the familiar smells they have memorized at a distance. At a relatively close distance, the werewolf's sense of smell can even smell the smells covered by the Stone Wisdom Powder."
Adele followed Ed and said this. As someone who often dealt with the Wolfblood Society, she knew the names of some important cadres of the Wolfblood Society in Tivian. Listening to Adele's words, Dorothy frowned slightly, and then let Ed speak.
"So what you're saying is that if my little meat puppet enters his hall, he will smell it?"
"That's right. Didn't you see it? There's nothing inside the walls of that mansion. Once a strange smell that he's not familiar with enters, he'll smell it immediately and become alert. You can block your spiritual perception, but you can't block the smell."
Adele said this, and Dorothy thought about it and found that it was true. What her Barrier Ring provided was an extraordinary detection shield, which could block spiritual perception and extraordinary perception, but it had no effect on smell. Although she could wrap the corpse puppets with stone intelligence powder and let them sneak in, the stone intelligence powder wrapped around them would inevitably fall off during the movement of the small corpse puppets, which would greatly reduce its effectiveness. For living things, the effect of stone intelligence powder was far less than that for objects.
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