Chapter 316 Guidance
Tivian's West City and South City are densely populated areas with a large number of civilians. Since the industrial area is located in its southern suburbs, a large number of densely populated industrial populations are concentrated in the southern city area, especially its sewage ditch area has become the most polluted low-level community in Tivian.
In the northern part of Nancheng District, on the south bank of Yueliu River, at the corner between Xicheng and Dongcheng District, there is a triangular area called Lanzi Street District, where many small workshops and individual handicraftsmen live. Although the life of the residents here is also hard, it is much better than that of the workers and poor people further south. The main source of pollution they face is the coal ash blown over from the coal ash area in the west.
On the south bank of the wide Moon River, Corpse Doll Ed stood on it. He was wearing the same gray and black windbreaker. He looked at the river rolling toward the sea, the busy cargo ships on it, and all kinds of garbage floating on the water. He could faintly smell the pungent smell coming from the river.
Dorothy looked at the north bank of the river from Ed's perspective. In the mist, she could vaguely see the city wall standing on the north bank and countless tall buildings standing around it. That was the Royal City of Tivian. After turning around, Dorothy asked Ed to look at the street. At a glance, there were rows of low houses. In front of the houses on both sides of the street, there were piles of carpets and storefronts. Various shops were crowded here, selling everything. The whole street became crowded because of the large number of carpets. It can be seen that this is also a place where good and bad people are mixed.
"So... where should I start looking?"
Sitting in a carriage that stopped by the river bank, Dorothy used the zombie vision to observe the appearance of the streets in the southern city, and was thinking in her heart how to further find that Darvik. After thinking for a while, she had the answer in her mind.
Dorothy took out her magic box, and then manipulated Ed, who was not far away, to the side of her carriage. After Ed took the magic box, she quickly ran away. After searching for a while, she escaped to an empty alley. After a while, a bunch of various people came out of the alley one after another.
These people were all Dorothy's puppets. Dorothy controlled seven or eight puppets to come out of the magic box at once. They went out of the alleys one by one and headed in different directions of the basket block without stopping, and sneaked directly into it.
Ed was the last one to come out of the alley. After adjusting his hat, he walked out onto the busy street. After taking a look at the vendors hawking their wares everywhere, he squatted in front of a stall selling glass ornaments and began to play with a glass necklace.
"Hey, customer, what would you like to order? If you don't see anything you like here, just tell me. I have many other styles in the back."
Behind the stall, the thin boss wearing a headscarf saw Ed choosing things and immediately smiled and said, while Ed spoke slowly while choosing glass ornaments.
"No, I'll just take a look at these... By the way, boss, I see the weather isn't very good recently, will this affect your business?" While selecting the goods, Ed took the opportunity to ask the boss, and the boss answered immediately.
"Hey... that's for sure, but my family depends on this for food, so I can only do it when the weather is bad... Actually, as long as there is no strange wind that blows the stall down, I can still make a living any day. Although it's not much, it's still a bit of income."
The boss said this half-complainingly, and Ed rolled his eyes and continued asking.
"Oh...so boss, have you encountered any strange winds recently?"
"Well... let me think about it. There seems to be a strange wind recently, but it's not in my area. I seem to have heard that it's over on East Street..."
As the boss was reminiscing and talking, Ed was selecting small glass ornaments while chatting with the boss. The topics they talked about were mainly the weather and the strange wind. Tivian, this was a very common topic, and the stall owner didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
Finally, after the conversation ended, Ed bought a glass necklace and stood away, and similar scenes were happening in various places in the Basket Block.
Under Dorothy's control, several of her puppets were now scattered throughout the area, chatting with residents of the neighborhood about weather topics as ordinary customers and passers-by, with the focus being on the strange wind.
Strange wind is a rumor in Tivian. It refers to a strong wind that rises suddenly with uncertain wind direction. This wind appears and disappears suddenly, catching people off guard and making them confused. Some people in Tivian have experienced it but many others have not. Some people believe it but the vast majority feel that it is pure fiction, so a strange rumor has been formed. Some people think that it is a prank by little goblins, and even threaten children that they will be swept away by the strange wind if they are not obedient.
And Dorothy knew that this was not just a rumor, strange wind did exist, and its true identity was none other than the hunters of the Tivian Security Bureau. When these wind users were carrying out missions against societies, the wind generated by their abilities affected ordinary people and that was strange wind, just like what Edmund had done in the Coal Ash District before.
According to the information obtained from Gregor, Davik was secretly captured by the Seekers. This means that there is a possibility of a conflict between Davik and the Seekers. If the Seekers and Davik have had a conflict or even an extraordinary battle, then the Seekers' abilities may have caused the strange wind. In this case, Dorothy only needs to find the place where the strange wind occurred, and she can at least find the scene of the conflict between Davik and the Seekers.
As expected, Dorothy and her group of zombies asked around and got information about the strange wind. Near Dongping Lane, many people claimed that they had experienced the strange wind two or three days ago.
After getting the key information without stopping, Dorothy immediately asked Ed to go to the vicinity of East Bottle Lane. There, Dorothy in the carriage looked around with the help of Ed and the crow corpse in the sky, observing the scene in the street below very carefully, trying to find something.
Dorothy walked through the long and narrow alleys with the corpse doll, and the birds in the sky also searched for a long time, but still found nothing.
"Well... this happened two or three days ago. It's really difficult to find any traces now..."
Sitting in the carriage, Dorothy stroked her chin and muttered to herself with a depressed look. After thinking for a long time, she took out a talisman. This was the breath-seeking talisman that Adele gave her in the theater. This was the last of the three talismans.
"This thing is very useful. I've used it up all at once... I wonder if I can buy some more from Beverly or Adele."
Dorothy said as she looked at the talisman in her hand. Then she took out the dried meat that was also a storage item of the "cup" given to her by her elder Adele, and used it together with the talisman. After consuming two points of the "cup" in the dried meat, the Breath-Seeking Seal took effect.
Suddenly, Dorothy possessed the smell ability of the Beyonder of the "Cup". She closed her eyes and used her spiritual thread to transmit this buff to the corpse doll Ed in the distant East Bottle Lane.
With a strong sense of smell, Dorothy asked Ed to take a deep breath and carefully feel the air around him. Then he was choked by the pungent and irritating smell.
"Ahem... Is this the air in South City? It's so strong after being strengthened by the talisman..."
Shaking her head, Dorothy endured the pungent smell, and then tried to distinguish other useful smells from the air in Dongping Alley.
While smelling the smell, Dorothy controlled Ed and began to wander around the alleys. Finally, she distinguished the clue from the pungent smell of garbage and sewers. It was the smell of blood.
"Is this... the smell of blood? And it's quite strong..."
Following the smell of blood in the air, Dorothy controlled Ed to move forward through the dirty and narrow alley. After a while, he turned into an empty and dim alley. Here, the smell of blood around him became stronger.
Dorothy asked Ed to stand in the middle of the alley. From his perspective, the dark alley around him was normal, and there seemed to be nothing unusual, but Dorothy could smell a strong trace of blood here.
Ed's eyes swept across the walls, the ground, and the gutters in the alley... Although these places did not seem normal, in Dorothy's eyes at this moment, they had been splashed with a lot of blood. She could still smell the smell of blood in the cracks in the walls.
"There was a lot of bleeding... There had been a conflict here, a fierce conflict, but the blood was later cleaned up..."
Then Ed looked at the scene in front of him, Dorothy murmured, and then she began to control Ed to check the surrounding walls and the ground, and found many strip-shaped cuts and scratches. She had seen such cuts when Edmund used the wind blade attack and hit the ground.
'These holes are much smaller than the ones caused by Edmund. They should be left by the black-level wind users. They had a conflict with a Beyonder who can fight with claws. The result should be that the wind users won a great victory.
'This Beyonder who used the claws was a beast. Judging from his appearance, he must have been ambushed by the wind user. He was defeated in the entire battle. He had many wounds on his body and bled a lot. A normal person would have died if he bled so much. The beast is a black-level 'cup', so it's not that easy for him to die.'
Using Ed to survey the crime scene in the alley in the distance, Dorothy deduced in her mind that she was almost certain that the ambushed beastman was Davik, and those wind magicians were the hunters.
Dorothy continued to observe the scene in the dim alley and continued to think. She wanted to judge where Darvik was taken based on the scene in front of her.
The smell of blood was the heaviest in the middle of the alley, and there were the most traces of wind blades and claws, which meant that this was the main battlefield. After searching, Dorothy found that there was a subtle bloody trail extending from the main battlefield outward toward the alley entrance in front. Unlike the large bloodstains on the main battlefield, the bloodstains extending here were dripping drops of blood.
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