After she simply agreed, the coachman drove the carriage forward quickly, shuttling through the city and quickly approaching the destination. In the shaking carriage, the woman looked at the scenery outside the window, thinking worriedly about what she had just experienced.
Amidst his messy thoughts, the carriage quickly arrived at his destination, a residential area located on the riverside north of Troyes. The environment here was quiet and it could be seen that the people living here were well off.
After arriving at the destination, the woman decisively got off the carriage, paid the driver the fare and walked into the community. After walking for a while among the green spaces with scattered flowers, she came to a residential building. After stepping on the mud piled in front of the building due to digging pipes for the flower beds, she walked in.
The woman quickly walked up the stairs to the fourth floor. When she arrived at a door, she skillfully took out her key and used the key to open the door.
After entering the room, the woman immediately closed the door. After leaning against the door and breathing a sigh of relief, she took off her hat to reveal her short chestnut hair. After hanging the hat on the hanger, she planned to go to the kitchen to put away the things she had just bought. However, before she took a few steps into the house, a voice suddenly rang out.
"Ah, you're finally back."
Hearing this figure, the woman was startled, then she looked suddenly in the direction of the sound, and then she saw a strange male figure on the sofa in her living room.
He was a handsome young man with short hair and wearing well-fitting clothes. At this moment, he was sitting on a comfortable sofa with his legs crossed, sipping a cup of steaming hot tea. There was an opened tea can on the coffee table. The woman could see that it was her collection of tea.
"Who are you?! How did you get into my house?! Get out of here, or I'll call someone!"
Faced with the uninvited guest who suddenly broke into her home, the woman took several steps back, grabbed the knife nearby, and shouted at the man on the sofa, with obvious fear in her eyes.
"Don't be so anxious to send me away, Miss Wuyan. My name is Brandon, and I came to you specifically to understand something. Since it's not convenient to talk about these things on the street, I decided to visit you at home and talk slowly. Don't worry, I have no ill intentions."
Looking at the frightened woman, the young man named Brandon said bluntly. Hearing the young man in front of her saying his unknown code name, the woman was slightly startled, and then still spoke with caution.
"You...know my name...are you also a person under the surface?"
"Of course, I am a secret researcher like you, but I am from outside. Since I just arrived in this city and am unfamiliar with the people and places, I want to find a local to understand the situation, so please trouble you for a moment."
With a faint smile, Brandon said this to the woman in front of him. Listening to Brandon's words, the woman continued to speak vigilantly.
"You said...you came from somewhere else? Then how did you know that I was a person who studied secrets? How did you know my title? How did you know where my home was?"
"How did I know you were a secret researcher... It's very simple. Before, you bought night glow grass from an old medicine shop in the west of the city. You also had dried tide fish powder and the scent of red stripe fruit on you. These two things plus the night glow grass you bought can be used to make a calming tea that can slightly soothe the symptoms of poison recognition. This kind of thing can only be obtained when you need to absorb secret knowledge, so I determined that you were a secret researcher at that time."
Sitting on the sofa, Brandon looked at the woman in front of him and spoke easily. After listening to Brandon's words, the woman paused slightly, then continued to speak with her eyes wide open.
"You were following me? Where were you at that time? No, that's not right. There were exactly two people in the drugstore at that time. You shouldn't have been there."
"Ah... 'following you'... although it's a good term in nature, I like the phrase 'paying attention to you' more."
"Follow me?"
"Yes, I did notice that you were involved in secrets at that time, and I have been following you ever since. I followed your monthly secret meetings and saw you chatting with the members. I also heard your name at that time. After that, you stopped a taxi on the way home, and told me your home address while you were in the car. When I heard your address, I found that it seemed to be quite close to where I was at the time, so I came here in advance to wait for you.
"As for how I knew the exact location of your home... it was because when you got on the carriage, I saw the soles of your shoes were covered with Madonna petals. I looked everywhere in this neighborhood and found both Madonna petals and mud at the exit of an apartment building, so I looked around there for a while and smelled the familiar smell of medicinal herbs. Then I saw that you would be home for a while, so I decided to come in and sit down and have some tea."
Sitting on the sofa, Brandon smiled and said to the woman in front of him. After the woman heard what Brandon said, the fear on her face gradually turned into astonishment.
"You...you said you were near this neighborhood, and then paid attention to me who stopped a car in the west of the city? This is... an extraordinary ability! You are not just a secret person, but also a true extraordinary person who can use extraordinary abilities!"
The woman looked at Brandon in astonishment, and Brandon just smiled silently without saying anything. After confirming that the person in front of him was actually a true Beyonder, the woman's hostility almost disappeared, because she knew how stupid it would be to show hostility in front of an Beyonder.
"Um...Mr. Brandon, please forgive my courtesy just now. It is my honor to have you, a Beyonder, visit my humble home."
Letting go of the knife held by her daughter, the woman looked at Brandon and said respectfully. Her daughter's expression changed from fear to uneasy panic. It was obvious that she understood that a true Beyonder was not someone she could afford to offend.
"Oh, there's no need for you to be so nervous. I've said it before, I have no ill will towards you. I just came to Troyes and wanted to find a local to get some information."
Brandon was talking while drinking tea, and the woman continued to speak while listening to Brandon's words.
"Are you looking for information? What do you want to know? If I know the answer, I will definitely answer..."
"It's nothing, I just wanted to ask if you know the White Stonemason Union..."
"The White Stonemasons Guild... I know about this. This is the Extraordinary organization that Mr. Jieshi belongs to. Mr. Jieshi is a very famous Extraordinary person in Troyes. According to what Mr. Jieshi said before, he is a member of the White Stonemasons Guild. He organized several Extraordinary gatherings in the city, and I was fortunate enough to have the right to participate in one of them."
In response to Brandon's question, the woman responded directly. Dorothy, who was far away, heard the woman's reply and thought about it in her heart.
'Step Stone... Belongs to the White Stonemasons Guild, organizing low-level extraordinary gatherings in the city. It feels like the role played by Aldridge and Igwynter. Does the White Stonemasons Guild have a tradition of organizing other people's gatherings?
"And it seems that this step stone should hold a rally tomorrow, but I don't know why there is no movement, I don't know why they postponed it... Don't the White Stonemason Union emphasize contracts and credibility? They won't easily let people down, right..."
Dorothy thought to herself, and then continued to control Brandon and talked to the woman.
"Ms. Wuyan... do you know where the White Stonemasons Guild headquarters in Troyes is?"
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