Chapter 358: Faith
Nantivian, Episcopal Square.
On a cold winter night, the new year party started in the square. Joyful and wonderful programs were performed one after another on the stage, causing the crowd below to laugh and cheer. Amid the constant applause and shouts, people's enthusiasm was getting higher and higher. In such an atmosphere, people could even forget the biting cold wind in the winter night.
While the crowd in the square was silent in laughter, Dorothy was frowning with an indescribably heavy expression on her face. When she realized the great crisis lurking among the crowd, she could no longer concentrate on the show on the stage.
"These guys hid a bomb among the audience, intending to detonate it at a meaningful moment... They are really crazy. If they want to carry out a terrorist attack, they choose a place like this instead of looking for a more meaningful target..."
Dorothy thought with a hint of annoyance in her heart that through Capac, she also knew that the inhabitants of the New World were severely oppressed by the colonists. It was understandable that they had hatred in their hearts, but every grievance has its perpetrators. No matter how much hatred there is, at least vent it on the colonists who carried out the oppression. Why are they picking on these lower-class civilians?
This party was held in the South City, and the audience was mainly Tivian's lower-class citizens, a large majority of whom were white people, who were also oppressed. Dorothy didn't understand why Sadow chose this place as the target of his attack?
"If it's just like what Capac said before, this Sadow is a madman who is completely blinded by hatred. This guy didn't choose this place because he saw so many people gathered here and he could kill a lot of people... It also feels like he was fooled by the mastermind behind the scenes."
Dorothy thought to herself at this moment that she could no longer find out why Sadow chose this place as the attack site. Her top priority now was to find the bombs set among the audience.
Now, the best way to find the bomb is to continue eavesdropping in order to find more clues in the conversation between Saduo and others.
After calming down her emotions, Dorothy concentrated her attention and began to eavesdrop on Sadow and the others' conversation using the bird-shaped corpse doll.
At this time, in the smoke-filled attic on the rooftop next to the square, Sadow was continuing to comfort the other residents around him who seemed restless because of the long wait.
“Please be patient, everyone. I know many of you are eager to make those celebrating white people bleed and make them feel fear, but the more we have to be patient at this time, we can’t act rashly.
"We have already made arrangements before. Kum and the others will sacrifice themselves at the scheduled time. What we need to do is to rush out after they sacrifice themselves and take advantage of the chaos to cause more casualties. Kill as many people as possible and teach those guys a painful lesson!
“I know that all of you gathered here have been severely oppressed by the white-skinned demons. You have gathered here from various tribes for a common desire for revenge, and you want to make those guys pay the price.
"I feel the same way as you all. I understand that when I hear these guys celebrating, I want to rush out and beat them to death. But we have to be patient. Once the plan is made, we must abide by it. Otherwise, we won't be able to maximize the pain of those guys! So now, please continue to be patient for my sake."
In the not-so-big attic room, Sadow stood there and comforted the other residents inside. Under Sadow's comfort, the restless crowd calmed down again. These brown-skinned residents sat on the ground again, smoking while enduring the laughter coming from the square. Each of them had a rifle beside them, and it was obvious that they were ready to rush out and start killing.
Next to the skylight in the attic, an inconspicuous bird was secretly staring at the interior. Just now, Dorothy obtained key information with the help of the corpse doll.
'A designated moment... sacrifice... bomb... these guys are acting like human bombs. Some of them have already sneaked into the crowd of spectators, waiting for the right moment to detonate the bombs on their bodies.
"I heard from Saduo that they were going to detonate the bomb at the climax of the celebration, creating terror at the climax of the party. If I think about it carefully... the climax of this party should be at midnight when the new year arrives. They should be preparing to take action at that time..."
Dorothy thought so in her heart, and then she took out her pocket watch and looked at it. The watch showed that the time was ten twenty, and there was still one hour and forty minutes until midnight.
"We need to find a way to find the suicide bomber hiding in the crowd during this time..."
Dorothy put away the pocket watch and glanced at the crowd around her. There were at least several thousand people gathered in this square. It would be very difficult to find two or three guys with bombs hidden on them.
At first, Dorothy planned to use the bird-shaped corpse doll to find the suicide bomber in the crowd. According to Sadow's previous statement, those people who were responsible for sacrificing themselves were also the inhabitants of the New World. The skin color of the people there was generally brown, so she only needed to find the brown-skinned people in the crowd.
But Dorothy soon found that this method was not practical, because it was very dark and there were few photos in the square where the audience was. In such dim light, it was difficult to identify the skin color without looking closely, not to mention the bird's-eye view. Because it was winter, most of the audience wore hats and were wrapped tightly. From above, it was impossible to identify the specific skin color of the people below, nor to confirm who had a bomb tied to their body.
"This is a bit hard to find... I guess I have to think of some other way to find it..."
The bird-shaped corpse puppet could not detect the flesh bomb in the crowd, so Dorothy began to think of other ways to find people. She thought of using smell to find people. Due to the different living environment, the breath of these New World residents was different from that of the Tivians. As long as these differences could be distinguished and added with the smell of gunpowder, the flesh bomb could be found from the crowd.
This was a very good idea, but when Dorothy was about to implement it, she discovered a fatal problem, that is, the Breath-Seeking Talisman she got from Adele had been completely used up. Without the extraordinary sense of smell brought by the Breath-Seeking Talisman, she would not be able to distinguish the scents in detail among these thousands of people.
"Tsk, the Seeking Breath Talisman is very useful, but it's a pity that there are too few of them. Adele had been dealing with the Wolf Blood Society for so long and only had three of them... Now they are all used up..."
Dorothy thought with regret in her heart that after another plan was rejected, she couldn't think of any good way to find the person. In desperation, she could only continue to use the bird corpse doll to monitor the situation in the attic, trying to get more clues from Sadow.
As Dorothy observed the bird corpse more carefully, she soon discovered some subtle clues in the attic. For example, she found that there seemed to be more than just new residents in the attic. In the corner of the attic, there were two or three masked men away from the other residents. These men seemed to be deliberately distancing themselves from the other residents in the attic, and there was a hint of vigilance in the eyes of those residents when they looked at them.
In addition, there is a more important discovery. On a wall in the attic, Dorothy saw a spider lying on the wall. Although this spider looks ordinary, it is very eye-catching in Dorothy's eyes because she has seen similar ones in the King's Campus before. When Dorothy was fighting an intelligence war with the Thorns, the other party used such a spider to track her corpse. This is a special extraordinary creature used by the Eight-pointed Nest, which has the function of surveillance.
"These guys are the masterminds...Are they the Eight Points?"
Seeing this scene in front of her, Dorothy was quite surprised. Because the one who tricked Sadow into coming here for revenge was the resident Banu who had joined the Order of the Underworld, Dorothy once thought that the mastermind behind all this was the Underworld, but she didn't expect it was Bajian.
'It's not that Bajian is the one who is instigating these guys to come here to cause trouble. It seems that they should have reached some kind of cooperation with Mingguan. But... why would Bajian let these local residents carry out terrorist attacks in such a place? What good will this do for them?'
Staring at the spider on the attic wall, Dorothy thought in her heart about why the Eight-Pointed Nest manipulated Sadow and others to launch a terrorist attack here. At this time, she already had some guesses in her mind, but she did not spend energy to think about it, because her primary goal now was to find out whether the flesh bomb in the crowd was something else.
Dorothy continued to have the puppet eavesdrop on the attic, trying to collect other more useful clues to help her find someone, but unfortunately, after Sadow had appeased the other residents, there had been no major communications in the attic. Dorothy eavesdropped for a long time but didn't hear any key clues, which made her anxious.
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