"Huh... Anyway, there has been some progress. I should tell Neveu about the situation..."
With a long sigh, Dorothy opened the contact page with Nephnis again, ready to inform her of the situation on her side. After all, she was investigating the case and the family members had the right to know.
On the contact page with Nefernis, Dorothy wrote down the current progress of the investigation, including the identity and purpose of the robbers, as well as the clues and progress she had obtained.
Since she received the urgent call from home, Nephnis had been sitting in her hotel room, restless and worried. After receiving Dorothy's reply, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. After seeing that the power of the Rosicrucian in Tivian had intervened in the matter, her worries were finally relieved a little.
Then, Nefernis immediately replied to Dorothy with her own text, thanking her for her efforts. However, Nefernis had her own opinion on the fact that Nunot might have been killed and his soul summoned. In her response to Dorothy, she directly proposed that Nunot's soul might not be so easy to summon.
"What? You said Nunot's soul is protected?" In her room, Dorothy couldn't help but respond with some surprise after reading Nefernis' words in the "Hydrograph of the Sea of Literature". This was the first time she heard of the saying that the soul was protected.
"Yes, this is what I read in my grandfather's notes. According to my grandfather, the treasure thieves of Beiwu often haunt dangerous ruins and tombs. The main dangers they encounter are various mechanisms, creatures, spirits, curses...
"Although these four are all deadly, they are also different. Although the mechanisms and creatures are not deadly, they often do not hurt the soul. After the treasure robbers die as the tomb guarding mechanisms and tomb creatures, their souls usually sink normally into the netherworld and go to the end of the nether river. Well... that is what they say in the New World, returning to the great soul. If you encounter the dead and the curse, the situation is different. These two are not only deadly, but also hurt the soul...
"After killing treasure hunters, the spirits in the ancient tombs often devour their souls. The souls of those treasure hunters who died from the curse will also be enslaved by the curse, and will be confined in the tombs to become earthbound undead spirits guarding the tombs, and will be tortured by the curse every day. In addition, when treasure hunters fight each other, they also have the habit of summoning each other's souls. As extraordinary people of Silence, treasure hunters have developed many methods to protect their own souls based on their long-term accumulated experience.
"The treasure thieves hope that even if they die one day, their souls will not be tortured or played with, but will be able to sink into the netherworld like ordinary people and go to the place they call the end.
"My grandfather is a leader among treasure thieves. He knows these methods. In his notes, he claimed that he had learned to make a soul-protecting mark. When a person with this mark on his body dies, his soul will be protected and sink directly to the depths of the underworld, where it is difficult to summon his soul or enslave him.
"These marks are specially developed for treasure-stealing Extraordinary people. They use the power of the Extraordinary people's bodies. They are not very useful to ordinary people and other Extraordinary people, but they have a strong effect on the Extraordinary people of Silence.
"Grandpa Nunot is also an apprentice of Silence. Since my grandfather knows how to use this mark, he definitely doesn't just use it on himself. The loyal Grandpa Nunot must have it as well.
"So, Miss Dorothy, you don't have to worry. As long as the mark is still there, Grandpa Nunot's soul will be protected. Even if those robbers kill him, they won't be able to summon his soul. They can only kill Grandpa Nunot after removing the mark. But one of the reasons for the birth of this mark is that treasure robbers would summon each other's souls after fighting each other, and it won't be removed so easily. So I think Grandpa Nunot should still be alive at this time!
"Those robbers who want to get the secret of the scepter can either torture Grandpa Nunot or kill him and summon his soul after removing the mark on him. Both of these require a lot of time. Miss Dorothy, I think we should have enough time!"
On the "Wenhai Hangzhi", Nefernis's handwriting quickly appeared in front of Dorothy's eyes. Looking at these words, Dorothy nodded secretly, and her heart suddenly felt a lot more at ease.
"A mark to protect the soul? That's right, how could a Beyonder of Silence who is good at playing with other people's souls not know how to protect his own soul? It's not surprising that he has such means...
"According to Nefernis, Nunot should not be dead yet. If that's the case, then I should find him out as soon as possible... I must find him before Nunot's mark is removed, or before his will can no longer bear it..."
Dorothy thought so in her heart. Having said that, she was not in Tivian at the moment, so all she could do was wait, waiting for news from Adele and Greg.
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Time flies, and a day has passed quickly. The sun and the moon alternate in the sky above Tivian, and the day and night change non-stop. A day passes in the blink of an eye.
In order to coordinate the work at Tivian's side, Dorothy, who originally planned to go out for fun, had to stay in the hotel for a whole day. She stared at the "Wenhai Hangzhi" every moment and stared at the information that the two parties kept sending her. It must be said that the efficiency of the two parties' simultaneous actions was extraordinary. Dorothy obtained a lot of valuable information about the robbers within about a day and a half.
The first were the police from East Tivian. They followed Greg's advice and went to the port area to look up information about the North Ukrainian people. Finally, they found the corresponding clues at the dispatch point of the horse-drawn carriage company in the port area.
According to the answer of a coachman at the dispatch point of the carriage company in the port area, he had seen foreigners with similar description at noon the day before. They rented two carriages and took a large bag of tools to the block near Yinlan District. The coachman could not understand what most of them said, and only one of them could speak Putin with a heavy accent. The coachman complained that one of them had a bad temper and was making a lot of noise in the carriage, as if complaining about the air and temperature. The coachman's carriage door was scratched by the tools they carried, but seeing that the other party was tall and strong with a bad temper, he did not dare to argue with him and could only swallow his loss.
Afterwards, based on the information provided by the coachman, the police went all the way to the block where the other party got off the car. After checking there, they found a clothing store where similar foreigners came to buy thicker clothes. Near this clothing store, the police found the hotel where those people had stayed. However, the owner of the hotel said that although those people had only stayed here for a few days, they checked out two nights ago and have not been here since then. The incident happened two days ago, and on that night, Boyle's house was robbed.
From then on, the police did not find any relevant clues nearby. Dorothy was certain that this group of treasure robbers would never stay in a hotel in public after kidnapping someone. Whether they were torturing Nunot or removing the mark, they had to find a safe and secret place that could not be exposed to the public.
On the other hand, since they have not yet got the golden scepter in their hands, they will not leave Tivian at night, but hide somewhere, waiting to get the specific information of the golden scepter from Nunot's mouth before taking it from Boyle's mansion.
The whereabouts of this group of people became secretive, and the police could not find any clues for a while. So Dorothy passed the information obtained from the police to Adele, asking Adele to let her men search the area where the group disappeared.
Adele had many more ways to go in public. Through the local gangs, Adele quickly locked down the whereabouts of the gang. In the area where they disappeared, there was a small gang called the Express Gang. They had some rented carriages that were not registered with the carriage company. They usually helped people transport some shameful things or took people to dangerous places that ordinary carriage drivers dared not go. They were a small link in the huge smuggling chain that spread throughout the East City District. There were many similar black carriage driver gangs throughout Tivian.
When Adele heard from Dorothy that this gang wanted to transport the ticket collector, she directly asked her men to signal a larger gang to question the coachman gang in that area, also known as the Express Gang. The members of this small gang were completely frightened in front of the boss of the larger gang and answered no questions, and honestly confessed all the business they had done recently.
This included the time two days ago when they were hired by a group of foreigners with dark skin to pull a bag with a struggling cargo in it. Out of professional ethics and the huge sum of money in the hands of the other party, they did not ask any questions and directly transported the cargo and themselves to a place they designated, Heishui Street in the South City District.
It was one of the most chaotic places in the South City, where the law and order had always been bad. It was also one of the places in Tivian where good and bad people mixed together and the law had the weakest deterrent effect. If one wanted to hide something illegal or do something shameful, it would be the perfect place.
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Wow... Tomorrow is the beginning of the month, and it is the first of the month. I saw that I have completed all the classes this month, so it is the right time to take a rest.
I've been having a serious writer's block lately, so I'm going to take a break and relax, just like before. Please forgive me.
That's it. Let's take a day off tomorrow and come back as early as possible the day after tomorrow. Finally, I wish you all a happy birthday~
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