In the carriage, Dorothy thought to herself that due to various reasons, she could only go to Barrett's villa alone.
Vanya was the first person to discover the assassination of the royal family, the chief healer and commander at the scene of the accident. She had too many tasks to cooperate with the Security Bureau, so she definitely couldn't leave. Greg was also summoned back by the Security Bureau at this moment and couldn't help. And Nephnis had overused her abilities, so she couldn't be put in danger again. As for the last Capac, he was just an apprentice of "Ji". In this situation, he couldn't help much even if he went there, not to mention that he had a bunch of compatriots who needed to be comforted.
In the current situation where no more manpower can be mobilized, Dorothy can only go to Barrett's villa alone. All she hopes now is that she can move fast enough to reach her destination before the Eight Peaks' people.
In this way, Dorothy sat in the dark carriage wrapped in a blanket, controlling the corpse to drive the carriage all the way to the Mercedes outside the city. As it was late at night, waves of sleepiness kept coming into her mind, making Dorothy yawn even while forcing herself to stay awake and continue to drive the carriage.
If Dorothy's mental strength as a scholar was not strong enough to effectively suppress her sleepiness, her fatigue driving would have caused problems sooner or later.
The horse's hooves stepped on the neat streets, and the wheels rolled over the stone-paved road. Amidst the slight shaking and clicking sounds, Dorothy's carriage quickly drove towards the southwest. Since she had memorized the entire Tivian map and used the bird-shaped corpse doll to navigate in the sky, Dorothy was not afraid of getting lost at all. She chose the most convenient and shortest roads along the way, so she left the city very quickly.
After nearly two hours of trekking, Dorothy's carriage finally drove out of the city, and then drove on the dirt road for nearly an hour, and she finally approached her destination.
Since Dorothy's control range for a small number of corpses was nearly ten kilometers in radius, after leaving the city, she let her bird-shaped corpse fly to the front of the carriage for reconnaissance. Finally, after several hours of driving, the bird-shaped corpse farthest from Dorothy flew to Shield Hill.
Through the vision of this bird-shaped corpse puppet which was eight or nine kilometers away from her own body, Dorothy could already see the large villa at the foot of the northern slope of Shield Hill. Looking down from the sky, Dorothy could clearly see the brightly lit building in the dark grass.
"How could it be so bright... The servants in the villa shouldn't turn on so many lights at night when the master is not at home... Could it be..."
Seeing the bright scene of the villa below, Dorothy felt uneasy. She then controlled the bird-shaped corpse doll in the distance to descend and began to observe the scene of the villa from a close distance. Her heart sank after one look.
In the brightly lit courtyard of the villa, there were several corpses lying in all directions. All of them were dressed in clothes, and although the causes of death were different for each of them, they all looked very tragic.
Some had their limbs torn and their faces were filled with fear, some were covered in blood and flesh. These bodies were lying all over the courtyard, with large pools of blood everywhere. There were scattered guns around the bodies. Combined with their uniforms, these people should be the guards of the villa.
"Oh no... all the guards were killed... those guys have already been here... are we going to be late?"
Seeing the scene in the courtyard, Dorothy frowned and thought that since the Eight-pointed Nest had planned to assassinate Barrett for a long time, they should have been prepared for the cleanup of Barrett's villa. Compared with herself who rushed here in a hurry after receiving the news, they who had been prepared for a long time would obviously be able to reach the destination faster.
Dorothy had thought about this on the way here. She also thought that the probability of her arriving earlier than the people from the Eighth Point was very low, but she was silently hoping that the people from the Eighth Point would accidentally make some mistakes and arrive late. But now it seems that the miracle did not happen.
Looking at the corpse in the yard, Dorothy felt heavy-hearted, but she did not give up. Instead, she let the bird-shaped corpse doll fly towards the villa, landed on the street lamp and looked into the brightly lit windows of the villa. This sight made her raise her eyebrows slightly.
From the bird's vision, Dorothy could see several figures moving around in the villa. Looking closely, she saw that they were a group of masked guests in black. They were moving around in the rooms of the villa through the windows in a hurry.
"These guys...are they from Bajian!? They haven't left yet? They're still in this villa looking for something!? "
Looking at the group of people in the villa through the perspective of the bird-shaped corpse doll, Dorothy's eyes lit up. She originally thought that after killing the people and finding the things, they should all have left, but she didn't expect that they were still inside.
Seeing this scene, Dorothy's mood couldn't help but change. She controlled the bird-shaped corpse doll to fly up again, and began to circle around the villa. She began to observe the situation inside the villa from each window. She found that there were many black-clothed and masked men running around in the villa. They were rummaging through every room, and the whole villa was a mess.
At this time, the interior of the villa was in a mess. Everything was knocked over, vases were broken, and every book on the bookshelf was thrown to the ground. Some walls were even broken. On the floor of these messy rooms, there were many corpses of various shapes. Their deaths were similar to those of the guards in the courtyard. They looked like male and female servants in the villa. In addition to the bodies of these servants, one or two bodies of men in black could be seen occasionally. They should have been killed by the villa's own defense forces in the gunfight.
Seeing this scene in the villa, Dorothy planned to enter the villa for investigation. However, she did not take the risk of letting the bird doll fly in to investigate. Instead, she used the vision provided by the bird doll to detect the corpses in the villa.
After Dorothy made the corpse puppets in the villa move, she did not let them move. Instead, they lay motionless on the ground and continued to pretend to be corpses. Using the auditory senses of these corpse puppets, Dorothy began to eavesdrop on the sounds inside the villa.
During Dorothy's eavesdropping, she discovered that the people in the villa didn't talk much, but were searching everywhere in the villa with concentrated expressions.
In response to this, Dorothy chose to use the current line of sight of the puppet that she had already controlled, and without making any big moves, continued to switch and control the puppets in other locations in the villa in order to eavesdrop on more places.
Finally, after Dorothy found the body of a young maid who died at the entrance staircase, she heard a voice from the maid's ear, a man's voice.
In the middle of the hallway, in a large pool of blood, a man in black, wearing a black windbreaker and a mask, was standing there. At this moment, he was talking to a human-faced spider in his hand, and his tone revealed obvious anger.
"What? You haven't summoned Barrett's soul yet! I've been waiting here for more than an hour!? Just waiting for information about the exact location of his laboratory! So you guys haven't succeeded in summoning his soul yet? What are you doing!"
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