Chapter 319: Ambush
The small, dimly lit carriage was shaking slightly. In the middle of the carriage, Davic, dressed in a hospital gown, was sitting. He was leaning against the carriage with his eyes closed. Next to him was Sister Vanya, who looked a little nervous. In front of them, sitting opposite each other were Edmund and a group of hunters, who were staring at them with serious expressions.
"The atmosphere is tense and awkward... I feel uncomfortable..."
Sitting in her seat, Vanya glanced at the stiff scene in the car and thought nervously in her heart. She didn't expect that she was suddenly brought here. Facing the serious garrison captain opposite, she felt a little uncomfortable in her heart for a while.
After looking around like this, Vanya finally set her sights on Davik who was sitting next to her with his eyes closed. As she was sitting closest to him, Vanya understood that he was not "resting with his eyes closed" but was actually in a coma.
"Ms. Dorothea has temporarily released the control. It seems that her extraordinary ability to control humans will continue to consume spiritual power if it lasts for a long time... She is saving spiritual power..."
Checking the condition of the patient beside her, Vanya thought to herself that she would wait in the carriage with trepidation in the end. She didn't know how long she had waited, and the carriage carrying them had traveled an unknown distance before finally arriving at the destination.
After a long downhill tilt, the entire carriage finally stopped. Then Edmund, who was sitting there, immediately stood up, opened the door and walked down. He shouted loudly into the car.
"We're already here, everyone hurry down."
"Hmm...are we there yet?"
Hearing Edmund's words, Davic opened his blank eyes, and then he was carried out of the carriage by two hunters, one on each side, and Vanya followed closely behind. When she got out of the carriage, she saw a wide underground carriage parking lot with countless horseless carriages lined up on one side and countless uphill passages leading to nowhere.
"The Evidence Department is already prepared, let's hurry up."
After a brief word, Edmund led the way forward, and his hunters followed with Davic and Vanya on their shoulders. Soon they walked into a corridor with a visible light at the door.
In her own carriage far away, Dorothy used spiritual thread to transmit the effect of her barrier ring to Davik, and temporarily blocked the detection of extraordinary effects by the Brilliant Lamp by consuming the "Shadow" spirituality. There was only one Brilliant Lamp here, and although it passed through the area it covered very quickly, Dorothy still paid 1 point of "Shadow" consumption.
'I'll have to pass through here when I come back, which will consume another 'Shadow' point, so at least 2 'Shadow' points...hiss...I hope there's no Huijiandeng ahead.
"This time, I've been manipulating the meat puppet for a long time, and I've consumed more and more 'cups'... Although I had some spiritual power left by pretending to sleep on the way to release the control, I've already consumed 3 'cups' on this Davik. I've consumed so much spiritual power this time... I hope I can really gain something..."
In the carriage moving fast in the distance, Dorothy thought so in her heart. Her living puppet would consume 1 point of "Cup" and "Start" just to start it, and then consume another point of "Cup" and "Start" every twenty minutes or so for maintenance. Unlike ordinary corpse puppets, living puppets cannot be maintained for a long time.
Under Edmund's leadership, they went deep into the Security Headquarters, and soon came to the underground hall of the headquarters. Here, Dorothy saw something surprising through Davic's perspective, that is, the statue of the goddess standing in the center of the hall.
"Is this... the Mirror Moon Goddess? Or is it the Mirror Moon Goddess with its head intact, which has not been replaced by the Eight Points? I didn't expect there is one in the General Administration, and it seems that this one is bigger than the ones in other places. Did the belief in the Mirror Moon Goddess have such a profound influence in the former Putuo?"
Looking at the Mirror Moon statue that appeared in the Anyin General Office, Dorothy thought with a hint of surprise, and at the same time, a trace of doubt arose in her heart.
"The Eight-pointed Nest is a 'shadow' society that worships the Spider Queen. The Anyin General Bureau is also an organization based on 'shadow'. The Eight-pointed Nest targets the Mirror Moon Statue, and there is a very large statue in the Anyin General Bureau. The Eight-pointed Nest has a very high degree of infiltration into the Anyin General Bureau... Is there any connection behind this series of manifestations?"
Dorothy was thinking like this in her heart, but the situation at the moment did not allow her to think much, because Edmund had already walked out of the hall with Davic and the others, and Dorothy's thoughts followed them.
After walking out of the hall, Edmund and Davik quickly came to a room locked by a thick door, where several civilian staff were already waiting. Various items were arranged on the floor in the room.
Following Davic's gaze, Dorothy looked at the things in the room, which included books, human bones, a blanket with magic circles drawn on it, stones with strange carvings, a wolf-shaped emblem, and all kinds of mystical items.
"These are all your belongings. You can look at them carefully and see if you can remember anything."
Edmund spoke to Davic, and listening to his words, Davic took weak steps forward and began to walk through these items, checking them step by step.
Controlling Davic, Dorothy examined the items in front of her, many of which were inexplicable research materials and mysterious artworks. Among them, Dorothy found a parchment scroll that could identify poisons, and a painting that could identify poisons but whose contents were unclear. Dorothy picked them up and examined them for a while, then used her scholar's ability to memorize the contents, preparing to perform spiritual extraction later.
Dorothy controlled Davic to patrol among the items on the ground, looking for her target. Finally, she saw a stone tablet in a corner of the room, a gray-black square stone tablet. The stone tablet was square and smooth without a single defect, but there were countless messy scratches on the front of it, as if someone had carved them randomly while holding a child.
When Dorothy saw the image of the stone tablet, she was stunned, although she immediately controlled Davic to stare at the stone tablet seriously.
In the vision that Davic transmitted to Dorothy, the randomly carved marks on the stone tablet began to twist like snakes and worms, and began to distort on the surface of the tablet, slowly turning into the Pratt letters that Dorothy was familiar with, and turned into the sentences that Dorothy recognized.
Just like the ruins left at the King's Campus that day, the Star Book Society's promotion stone tablet appeared before Dorothy's eyes again. The general text on it showed Dorothy the information it contained, and Dorothy witnessed all the contents on it.
"Why...did you think of anything?"
At this time, Edmund, who was standing aside, put his hands behind his back and said to Davik who was in a daze in the center of the room. After hearing Edmund's words, Davik seemed to react from his daze, and he began to cover his forehead with his trembling hands.
"It's familiar... these things are familiar... ah... what is this? I, I seem to hear a woman screaming in pain... it hurts... my head hurts!"
Bending down, Davik covered his head with his hands and cried out in a painful tone, while his whole body began to tremble slightly.
"It hurts... my head hurts... the blood... the sound... the piercing sound... it hurts..."
Shaking his body, Davik shouted in pain, and it seemed that he would fall down at any time. Upon seeing this, the hunters nearby immediately rushed over and helped him up. After being helped by the hunters, Davik persisted for a few more times, and finally seemed to be unable to hold on and fainted. His whole body went limp, and he did not fall down because of the help of the hunters.
"Captain, this guy seems to have fainted."
The hunter reported to Edmund. Edmund frowned when he heard it, and then asked Vanya, the only medical staff here.
"Sister Vanya, what's wrong with him?"
"Um... I'm not sure about that. Maybe the things he just saw reminded him of some intense memories, so he fainted again..."
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