In the afternoon, at the intersection in the center of Heishui Street, many poor people gathered here. The originally deserted intersection was now extremely lively.
Poor people from all over Heishui Street were gathering at this intersection. Some of them were happily taking the supplies they had received home, while others were looking at the empty center of the intersection, regretting that they had received the news and arrived too late.
"Is this... gone? Did those guys finish distributing the stuff so quickly?"
Standing at the edge of the intersection, a man wearing a cloak named Hardy looked at the scene in front of him and murmured in astonishment. The convoy that was distributing supplies here a few minutes ago had now completely disappeared, and the old butler who was originally directing the team on the roof of the carriage was nowhere to be found.
By relying on the souls of the locals he had killed, Hadi, who knew the Prit language, could hear from the discussions of the people around him that the charity convoy was not only doing charity in one place, but they had already driven to the next stop.
"I just saw a man in the convoy who looked exactly like the old butler. Although they are gone now, I definitely did not lie to you."
Turning around, Hardy explained excitedly to a companion who was also wearing a cloak. After listening to Hardy's words, the companion did not respond directly, but stared at the empty space at the intersection in silence.
Afterwards, Hadi and his companions returned to the stronghold and informed Atif of the situation at the intersection. After hearing their words, Atif was silent for a while, and then began to think in his heart.
"Two people who look... exactly the same?"
"If these aren't real brothers, then they have some kind of extraordinary ability, the ability to change their appearance. If it's really an ability, then maybe that means... we've been discovered?"
Atif thought so in his mind, then he took out a piece of bone from his body, and then released countless translucent ghosts from it.
Atif controlled these ghosts to cross the barrier and conducted a detailed search of the surrounding two or three thousand meters. After collecting all the souls, he obtained the search results from these souls. After finding nothing abnormal, he breathed a sigh of relief.
But to be on the safe side, Atif regained his seriousness after a brief relaxation and continued to speak sternly.
"Let's change positions tonight..."
Just as Atif said this, a small eagle that was barely visible to the naked eye was circling in the sky about seven or eight feet above their hiding place.
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For Atif and his men, changing their base was not a difficult task, because they had already determined a backup base before hiding here. It was still in the Blackwater Street area, in an abandoned warehouse not too far from the cellar where they originally hid.
This warehouse was located on the edge of Blackwater Street, close to the factory area. The environment here was even more unbearable, more sparsely populated, and more hidden. Atif and his men didn't have much stuff with them to begin with, so they moved everything here quickly.
After moving to the abandoned warehouse, they quickly began to settle down. After a while, the magic circle for removing the mark was drawn in the warehouse, and Nunot was thrown on it. Countless enslaved invisible ghosts began to float around the warehouse. As long as strangers approached here, they would sound an alarm that only the extraordinary "Silence" could hear.
Among Atif's men, Hadi was arranged to guard the periphery of the warehouse in order to more flexibly control the alert ghosts. Hadi did not see any point in this because it was originally his turn to keep watch today, and her duty itself was to pay more attention to the movements outside the stronghold.
Soon the dusk faded and night fell. While the ceremony to break the mark was being carried out in the warehouse, Hardy, who was in charge of lookout, was patrolling around the warehouse with many invisible ghosts.
Under the moonlight in the sky, Hardy walked around the abandoned warehouse again and again, and just as he yawned out of boredom, he suddenly heard a crisp sound coming from the dark bushes in the distance.
'What's that noise?'
Hearing the voice, Hardy stared into the darkness in the distance. Suddenly, he felt a little curious. He wanted to know what was hidden in the darkness in the distance. Then he took a step towards that side.
This behavior is very aggressive for a "Silent" Beyonder, because he can completely control a ghost to go for reconnaissance and then report back on the reconnaissance results, so he doesn't have to go to such an unknown place.
But the moment Hardy's curiosity arose, when the thought of wanting to know the truth about the voice in the darkness emerged in his mind, he did not think about other things too much, and he could not stop the impulse and rushed into the darkness. After abandoning any cautious principles, he left the range of the ghost patrol and rushed into the darkness. All he wanted at this time was to see what happened to the person who made the sound. He had never been so curious about something in his life, and wanted to know what something was like.
So, on impulse, Hardy stepped into the dark woods and came to a tree, where he saw a broken glass bottle.
"Oh, that's the sound of a glass bottle breaking."
Looking at the broken glass on the ground, Hardy said in his heart. Just when he satisfied his greatest curiosity, a pair of hands suddenly came from behind him, restrained him and covered his mouth.
“Ugh…wuwu!!”
Hardy, who was attacked by surprise, began to struggle hard, trying to use his own strength to break free from the restraints, but at the moment when he exerted force, a tingling and numbness that he had never experienced before ran through his whole body.
Amidst this powerful numbing sensation, Hardy's entire body began to twitch violently, but the twitching soon stopped. In the electric current that penetrated his body, he completely lost consciousness.
Seeing that the bound body in front of him had no resistance at all, Gregor, who was dressed in black, loosened his hands and put Hardy on the ground. After confirming that the other party was still breathing, he couldn't help but sigh.
"Is this the ability of the detective master? He can use my body to make Kurotsuchi lose his ability to move so quickly, and without hurting his life. It's really scary..."
Gregor murmured with a face that did not belong to him, and soon another voice responded to him.
"Yes, the strange and terrifying abilities, the sharp mind, the unexpected nature, no matter from which angle you look at it, that detective has a unique charm."
Adele, wearing a slim and simple dress, a wide-brimmed hat and a mask, slowly emerged from the darkness, fanning herself with a folding fan as she spoke. After listening to her words, Greg turned around curiously and spoke.
"The nature of the unexpected? My powerful lady, do you know the nature of the detective?"
"Ah... I know a little bit, but I can't say I know a lot."
Adele covered her mask with her folding fan and responded as she spoke. She thought to herself that at least she knew that the detective could not be called a master.
"Okay, Shadow Mask, go ahead. Time is running out. I won't say anything else. Let's start tonight's performance. Please take your roles."
Adele continued to speak to Gregor, and Gregor nodded after hearing what Adele said, and then stared at the fallen Hardy. Then, Gregor's face began to move, and after a while of changes, he turned into Hardy's appearance.
Afterwards, Gregor got down and scratched Hardy's unconscious hand away. Then he took out a seal from his body and pressed it on the skin of Hardy's hand. After the seal was removed, a mysterious pattern of an inverted star appeared on Hardy's hand.
After a while, Hardy slowly opened his eyes, stood up and stood beside Greg. At this time, two identical people appeared on the scene.
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