John gritted his teeth and endured the pain in his body. He insisted on standing up in the collapsed space and struggled to open the car door. However, no matter how he tried, the door seemed to be welded shut and could not be opened at all. At this moment, river water began to seep in through the gap in the car door.
The carriages of this era were basically made of wood, and would not sink easily even after falling into the river. However, the one John was sitting in seemed a little different. It seemed as if something had been done to it, and it began to take on a large amount of water immediately after falling into the river. After the two mad horses flapped their wings and sank into the river, the entire carriage began to sink at a speed visible to the naked eye. Just as people gathered around the gap in the railing on the bridge deck to watch, the carriage had already sunk more than half of its volume.
In the carriage, river water was gushing out from every corner and crack, and soon the water was very high, directly covering John's waist. John struggled frantically in this situation, using various methods to try to open the door, but to no avail.
As John was frantically trying to survive, he suddenly saw a figure outside the window of the carriage. It was the coachman who took him to the carriage. He was standing outside the window, silently looking at the panicked John through the glass. After seeing the driver's appearance, John immediately shouted for help and kept knocking on the window.
However, the driver outside the window was completely unmoved when he saw this scene. He silently watched the water level rising inside the carriage and gradually submerging John's entire body. He watched him being soaked in the water in despair, and then gradually suffocating while struggling, and finally losing consciousness. His face was ashen as he floated powerlessly in the carriage that was like a cage, and at this time the entire carriage had almost completely sunk into the water.
After seeing that John was motionless in the carriage, the driver nodded silently, then quickly dived and swam away, avoiding the sight of the onlookers on the bridge above, and dived to the shore in the water, leaving John and the carriage gradually sinking to the bottom of the riverbed.
Finally, the carriage, which had sunk to the riverbed, hit the river bottom, splashing up a cloud of muddy sand, just like the other waste on the riverbed.
In the turbidity, in the cage of despair, John, who was already like a dead body, was still floating silently in the darkness, like a corpse. Just when it seemed that he would never breathe again, his fingers suddenly twitched slightly.
Along with the slight movement of his fingers, John's eyes, which were originally tightly closed, slowly opened. The fear on John's face was no longer visible, and was replaced by calmness and indifference.
After reopening his eyes, John took a deep breath, sucking in the river water into his body with big gulps, and then exhaled, as if he was breathing a stream of water. Then he looked at the door that trapped him in the car, reached out his hand and pushed it hard. With a strength that he did not have just now, he forced the door in the water open and broke the padlock.
After the door was opened, John did not stop, but immediately jumped out of the car. Then, still in a diving posture, he avoided the gazes on the shore and looked at the distant scenery from the bottom of the riverbed. The place was completely opposite to the place where the driver had just been.
Just as John was escaping from danger underwater, countless people had gathered on the bridge and the shore where he fell off. The onlookers on the shore pointed at the position where bubbles kept gushing out from the river surface, and discussed the horrific scene with terrified expressions. Even the guests in a teahouse on the river bank gathered by the windows to look at the scene in the distance.
While other guests in the teahouse were paying attention to the movement on the river, in a corner, a girl wearing a brown vest, a light yellow skirt, white socks and Mary Jane shoes was quietly savoring her afternoon tea, not at all disturbed by the movement in the distance.
"In this case... you are finally safe, Professor... temporarily..."
After taking another sip of black tea, Dorothy spoke slowly. At this moment, she was controlling John in the water to dive to a safe position and prepare to go ashore, while admiring the street scenery outside the window. During her afternoon tea, she had once again unknowingly thwarted the conspiracy of the Eight Points. Of course, for now, they still thought their plan was successful.
After inferring from clues in the Crown Archives that Bajian might have known about John's existence and might even be preparing to take action, Dorothy immediately began her own countermeasures. She arrived at the port area one day before John arrived at the port, and then deployed her own miniature corpse dolls here, and began an intensive carpet search for Bajian's traces.
Dorothy first got the information of John's ship and its arrival time from the school, and then began to search for Bajian based on this information. She conducted a comprehensive investigation of the port personnel who were on duty that day and in charge of the relevant berths, and finally found Bajian's tail who was responsible for scouting the area, and followed the tail to find the secret team responsible for their operation this time.
After the person was found, things became much easier. Since the Eight Points did not want to make a big fuss and did not want the church and the Security Bureau to know that their forces had returned to Tivian, they wanted to let John die in an inadvertent "accident" like they did with Misha last time, making it an ordinary accident that had nothing to do with secrecy, so as to avoid the official secret side from noticing.
After all, it is easy for them to fool the Security Bureau now, but they really have no way to deal with the church. Once the matter becomes a big deal and the church pays attention to it, their future actions will be hindered.
Because Bajian did not expose the assassination principle this time, Dorothy also decided to save John without exposing herself and play with Bajian. This time she used some unconventional methods to save John.
To put it simply, Dorothy had her corpse doll use a general knowledge pen to write general knowledge words that only John could understand in various places in the port, in order to remind John to avoid the "accidents" that the Eight Points wanted to set up, thereby making the Eight Points' Plan A "hook falling", Plan B "chronic poison", and Plan C "accidental car accident" all fail, and finally forced them to adopt Plan D, the accidental fall into the river plan, which was exactly the plan Dorothy wanted them to adopt.
In the end, the plan was successfully implemented in Bajian's eyes. John got on the carriage prepared by Bajian and was driven into the river by Bajian. Dorothy also used the general knowledge written in Bajian's carriage in advance to let John draw the puppet mark for her.
After John fell into the river, he was drowned and suffocated. Dorothy took advantage of this opportunity to use the puppet mark to control John's body, and transmitted the effects of the water-absorbing talisman and the life-eating talisman through the spiritual thread, allowing John to breathe underwater and also have a "cup" physique. He was not easy to die and could directly open the car door and get out, and then escape from the scene by water escape. The eight-pointed humanoids did not have the ability to absorb water, and they did not continue to pay attention to John's specific situation in such deep water. After confirming that John fainted, they would leave, and they would naturally mark John as dead after leaving.
"Sheng Ku... Feast... Water Absorption... These talismans in the 'cup' are really more practical than one another. There is also a life-saving sword and the corpse ring at the beginning, and even the Deep Blue Heart. The Afterbirth Cult has played an indispensable role in my survival today... Thank you so much..."
After a rough review in her mind, Dorothy sighed in her heart that among all the enemies she had encountered, the afterbirth family always helped her the most, regardless of whether they were really willing to do so.
"After the Eight Points have completed this mission, they should have returned to report. Unfortunately, after they returned to Tivian, they only had a few small bases in the city... The real main bases were set up outside the city. This should be to avoid the prying eyes of the Rank. They have been much more cautious after returning this time..."
Dorothy thought so in her heart. She had followed the Eight Tips' minions before, trying to find their base, but in the end she discovered that the Eight Tips' important bases were all outside the city. This meant that the leader of the Eight Tips in Tivian this time was a high-ranking figure at the Red Adult level. In order to avoid being noticed by his rank, he set up his base far away from the city. Dorothy did not dare to follow them out of the city because of the Red Adult's existence.
The reason why Dorothy can easily suppress the Eight Tips in the city is because her zombies have strong reconnaissance capabilities. Once Dorothy takes the initiative in obtaining intelligence, she will be able to do whatever she wants. However, once out of the city, the Eight Tips will be able to detect Dorothy's zombies and even capture her zombies to track her back. For the sake of safety, Dorothy dare not take the Eight Tips out of the city, so she cannot obtain the core intelligence of the Eight Tips.
But Dorothy is not in a hurry now. The overall situation in Tivian is not disadvantageous to her. Now John Machison is in her hands. As long as she seizes this opportunity, she can get the information that the Eight Peaks value most.
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