Chapter 4: The Ring
At the bottom of the dark valley, at the crime scene on the river bank, Dorothy sat on the cold wet stone and looked carefully at the letter in her hand. Her brows were slightly wrinkled, and she was thinking carefully about the contents of the letter and analyzing the information read from it. To be honest, the content of the letter surprised her.
From the content of the letter, it can be interpreted that the guy who was shot by himself and looked like a bandit leader was Edrick, who should be the leader of a local underworld force in Wokkan.
It seemed that Edrick wanted to join a certain organization before, and he even wrote an application. The letter in Dorothy's hand now was the letter. The organization that Edrick longed for gave Ed a special test. The content of the test was to kidnap a white-haired girl of about thirteen years old at a specific time and place. This girl was obviously Dorothy herself!
The primary purpose of this gang of robbers in robbing a car was not for money, but for Dorothy, an ordinary farm girl! ? What the hell is this?
Thinking of this, Dorothy pressed her forehead and carefully searched the memory of the owner of this body again, and found that there was nothing special. Dorothy had been obedient, smart, diligent and serious since she was a child. She had no money, no special abilities, no strange patterns in her eyes, and no messy things were sealed in her body. It was just that her hair and eye color were a little rare... Why would a mysterious organization target her?
Dorothy was puzzled for a moment. After thinking fruitlessly, she shook her head and then turned to analyze other information in the letter.
The specific information of this mysterious organization is currently unknown, but what is certain is that they are definitely not good people. Not only do they have dealings with robbers like Edrick and let them kidnap him, but they also always hide from the Secret Security Bureau and the church. Let's not talk about the church for now. The Secret Security Bureau sounds like a government agency. Any organization hiding from the government must be some criminal organization, otherwise the robber Edrick would not think of joining.
In addition, the letter also mentioned extraordinary areas and extraordinary items...
Thinking of this, Dorothy looked at the pile of "trophies" that she had just dug out from Edric. After searching through the "trophies" for a while, she found a ring that she had taken off Edric's hand before. She had been thinking about whether she could get a good price for it.
Dorothy held the ring under the light and examined it carefully. She saw that the ring was made entirely of copper, with a circle of fine patterns faintly engraved on the outer ring. If you looked closely, the patterns looked like a circle of little people dancing strangely hand in hand.
Judging from the content of the previous letter, Edric has a corpse puppet ring, a special item that can manipulate corpses. Could this be it! ?
Thinking of this, Dorothy put the ring on her index finger. The moment the ring was on her hand, she felt something unusual.
All of a sudden, Dorothy felt as if her spirit extended outwards, condensing into two lines stretching into the distance. The end of the extension was exactly the two strange hounds lying motionless on the ground.
Seeing this, Dorothy took a breath, and then her mind moved. The two hounds that should have been dead actually began to twitch, and then stood up, slowly approaching Dorothy. However, it seemed that because they had been knocked to the ground by the dragon's roar at close range, the two hounds had suffered serious fractures, and they walked limping and very slowly.
Sure enough...were these two dogs originally corpses? Edric used the power of this ring to control them to move. No wonder they didn't move after Edric died. This bandit leader actually possessed such an extraordinary item...
Seeing the two hounds standing up, Dorothy was surprised. In her memory, she had never seen such a strange phenomenon. The extraordinary phenomenon in front of her was beyond her experience...
"It seems that this world is not as simple as it seems..."
Touching the strange ring on her hand, Dorothy sighed to herself, then she shifted her gaze to another envelope in her hand.
Dorothy opened the second envelope and began to read the letter inside. The content of this letter was much shorter than the previous one.
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Dear Mr. Edrick:
We have received your reply, and we know that you will not miss this rare opportunity. We have immediately sent someone to Wokan with the reward that will belong to you. They will arrive soon. After you get it, you only need to take a photo of the target and then send the photo to the mailbox in front of the abandoned house at No. 24 North Wokan Street.
Our people will confirm whether you have succeeded based on the photos. If confirmed, they will wait for you in the center of the woods west of Wokkan at around 12:00 a.m. the next day after you submit the photos. When you bring the target to us, we will also give you the generous reward.
Our people will be waiting for your news for three days. We wish you a smooth operation.
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After reading the letter, Dorothy put the two letters together in the envelope. This was obviously another letter from the mysterious organization after Edrick replied to it. Dorothy also got considerable information from this letter.
"It seems that the mysterious organization has someone in Vukan now. Isn't Vukan the town I'm going to later? It seems that I have to be careful when I enter the town. Although I don't know what this organization wants Dorothy for, if it is a gang, it must be bad..."
Dorothy thought so, and then she used a dagger to cut a piece of curtain cloth from the overturned carriage. Dorothy cut the cloth into two halves, one part to wrap the collected "trophies", and the other part to wrap a head to cover her hair when she entered the town later.
After all preparations were completed, Dorothy set off. Just in case, she used the corpse ring to continue controlling the two zombie dogs as bodyguards. However, the two dogs' fractures were too severe and they were not comfortable at all.
"I didn't expect this section of the Unbreakable Force to be so powerful. Although these two dogs can still move, they can no longer be used as a fighting force..."
Dorothy thought so as she looked at the two zombie dogs in front of her that couldn't even stand due to severe fractures. Then she pondered for a while and tried to release the control of the two zombie dogs. After watching them fall down again, Dorothy shifted her gaze to Edrick's body beside her.
During the attempt, Dorothy successfully connected to Edric's body with the "spiritual line" extended from the corpse ring, and manipulated him to stand up shakily. Looking at the bandit leader in front of her who had revived, with dull eyes and a pale face, Dorothy took a deep breath.
"Let's use it temporarily..."
As Dorothy spoke, Edric, who was a silent corpse, silently picked up the gas lamp on the ground and held up the black umbrella again to shield Dorothy from the drizzling rain, just like a servant serving a noble lady.
Afterwards, Dorothy packed up her luggage and left the scene of the tragedy with her "servants".
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