Chapter 373: Mixing in
On the southwestern outskirts of Tivian, north of Shield Hill, is Lord Barrett's villa.
In the quiet night, the villa originally belonging to the royal nobles was suddenly subjected to a brutal attack. The assassins from the Eight Peaks Nest raided the mansion and all the people inside were slaughtered in a short time. Due to the success of the attack, the Eight Peaks killers encountered only a small amount of resistance during the period and they completely occupied the mansion at a small price.
After successfully occupying Lord Barrett's villa, the eight assassins immediately began a comprehensive search of the entire mansion, rummaging through every place as if they were looking for something. However, the search has not yielded any results so far, and the leader of the group of assassins couldn't help but get angry.
"Didn't you guys promise to summon Barrett's soul right after he died? It would take less than half an hour, but now Barrett has been dead for several hours? Where is your soul? Where is your intelligence?"
In the bloody and empty hallway, a man in a black windbreaker and a mask was almost roaring at the human-faced spider in his hand. His anger was clearly visible in his words. The human-faced spider in his hand was silent for a moment after the man's scolding, and then the human-faced ridges on it began to distort, and a slightly hoarse male voice uttered.
"Don't get excited, Kenke. Listen to me. Our plan has definitely been exposed this time. There are other people who are messing with it. It's not just me, but even Jeffrey and Berlitt have made big mistakes."
"I don't care about the situation of Berlitt and the others! I only know that your mission is to extract the intelligence from Barlett's laboratory from his soul after his death and give it to me! Now Barlett is dead! Where's the intelligence? Do you want us to search for things here until dawn and then run into the search hunters who come here? Don't you have specially invited a necromancer from the coffin? Even with the extra assistance, you can't even do this?"
The man named Kenk was still furious as he spoke to the human-faced spider in his hand. From his attitude, it could be seen that he was born with a bad temper. Facing his hot-tempered colleague, the leader of the Eight-pointed Nest on the other side of the human-faced spider also seemed to be suppressing his anger and responded with gritted teeth.
"Listen, Kenk... the current situation is that we are being targeted! We are being targeted by a certain 'cup' group! In addition to the 'Night Demon', whether it is Berlitt's side... Jeffrey's side... or my side, we are all being targeted! Our summoning of souls has no effect. Even the summoner from the Nether Coffin did not summon Barlett's soul. According to him, Barlett's soul has been pulled by some other force. He has been pulling until his spiritual power is exhausted. It is obvious that they came prepared. It is completely meaningless for you to blame me now! Instead of complaining to me here, you might as well spend more time looking around!"
The human-faced spider responded to Kenke in this way. After listening to what the human-faced spider said, Kenke took a few long breaths to calm down, and then continued to speak through gritted teeth.
"I have searched his house thoroughly, using both eavesdropping and searching methods... but I didn't find any clues. His laboratory has a very complete extraordinary detection defense. Unless I ask Barrett for clues in person, it will be difficult for me to find his whereabouts.
"The mission to find Barrett's laboratory... But it was entrusted to me personally by the Spider Fang Priest. It is of utmost importance. If the mission fails, both of us will be responsible! Don't think about getting away from it!"
Kenke looked at the human-faced spider with a serious expression and responded. After listening to Kenke's response, the human-faced spider was silent for a while, and then continued to speak.
"It's impossible to summon Barrett now. How about this... you continue to look over there, and I will report the current situation to the priest and see what he decides."
"Okay... In that case, I'll look for it again. If I really can't find it, I'll burn the house down and retreat. Even if I can't burn down the laboratory, at least I can cause some trouble for those black dogs later."
After Kenke finished speaking, he ended his conversation with the human-faced spider, and the human-faced spider slowly crawled back into his clothes from his sleeve.
After recovering the human-faced spider, Kenk began to frown. He quickly left the hallway and went to other places in the villa to direct his men to continue searching. His leaving figure was seen by the corpse of a maid who was lying on the ground with her eyes wide open, and was also seen by Dorothy.
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"I didn't expect... these guys haven't found the secret room yet? It seems that burying Barrett's ghost is the right choice..."
On the wilderness road several miles away from the villa, Dorothy, who was sitting in a carriage, murmured after the corpse puppet had finished investigating the intelligence of Barrett's villa. After confirming the situation inside the villa, the anxiety and heaviness in her heart suddenly eased a lot.
"It seems that Barrett's insurance measures were quite good. This group of people searched for an hour and still couldn't find it. This way, I still have a chance to enter the secret room and get the holy emblem."
Dorothy was glad that she had obtained some very useful information through the detection of the corpse doll, for example, the thing called "Night Demon".
"Night Demon... This is the trump card of the Eight Points in this operation. It bypassed my vigilance and finally successfully assassinated Barrett's assassin... I didn't expect that the newspaper would be famous as the Tivian killer."
Dorothy, who often reads newspapers, must have seen the name Night Devil. Since the middle of last year, his murders have been published in newspapers every once in a while. He mainly targeted upper-class people. This Night Devil has been committing crimes for more than half a year without being caught, and now he has assassinated a duke.
'At present, it seems that this Night Demon may be a powerful assassin trained by the Eight-pointed Nest. But the problem is that he has been committing crimes for more than half a year and has killed many people. He should not be afraid to take action. But why did they use him as a trump card in the last operation? Since the Night Demon is so powerful, it would be much easier to send the Night Demon to kill the Duke directly from the beginning... And were the people killed by the Night Demon before also instructed by the Eight-pointed Nest?'
Dorothy was thinking about the problem of the Night Demon in her mind, but she did not continue to think deeply about it. Instead, she turned her focus to the place in Barrett's villa, which was the place she should be most concerned about at the moment.
"You don't need to worry about the Night Demon for now. The more important point now is how to get these guys into the secret room without my knowledge. The current situation does not allow me to wait any longer. I must act quickly..."
Dorothy continued thinking in her heart that facing the situation where the Eight-Pointed Killer couldn't find the secret room, her safest approach was to wait slowly, because the searchers would come sooner or later, and the killer in the villa would leave sooner or later regardless of whether he found anything or not.
After the Eight-Pointed Man gave up and left, Dorothy used the corpse doll to enter the secret room herself, and took away the information and the holy emblem in the secret room before the searchers arrived. This way, Dorothy could enter the secret room and get the holy emblem with the least risk.
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