Chapter 88: Rosicrucian
"If I were a member of the Eucharist, then all of you here would have suffered the same fate as those corpses in the study below."
On the spire of the roof of Buck's mansion, under the sky blew by the gloomy wind, a man in a gray-black windbreaker stood there quietly and uttered dangerous words. Hearing these words, Gregor and others couldn't help but raise their vigilance to a higher level and gripped their weapons tighter.
"Are you threatening us?"
Listening to Edrick's words, Turner continued to shout loudly, and Edrick continued to respond.
"Threat? No, no, no, I don't have to threaten you. I'm just stating the facts again."
"You..." After hearing what Edrick said, Turner couldn't help but wanted to take action for a moment, but was immediately stopped by Greg.
"Wait, don't be impulsive."
After stopping Turner, Greg looked seriously at the man not far away, then turned his head and whispered to Elena beside him.
"Elena, is your spirituality enough? Take a look at his condition."
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Listening to Greg's words, Elena fixed her eyes on Edrick. As she looked focused, a hint of orange-yellow light appeared on the edges of her pupils.
Just like that, Elena stared at Edrick intently for a moment, then her brows frowned slightly.
“No, I can’t see any spiritual traces. I can’t tell what kind of spiritual extraordinary person he is. He is either a ‘shadow’ or has a ‘shadow’ extraordinary item on him. His spirituality is not low. At present, I can’t see through him at all…”
Elena said seriously, and Greg and Turner became more serious after hearing her words.
Elena's detection was ineffective, which proved that the opponent's anti-detection ability was very sufficient. With Elena's current spiritual reserves, she could not see through it at all. In a situation where the opponent's situation was completely unclear, all choices had to be made more cautiously.
"Heh... Actually, you don't have to be so nervous. I'm not your enemy. Put down your guns that are aimed at me. If they go off accidentally, it will be troublesome."
Edrick chuckled and then looked around. Although it was just a normal look, he saw the hunters secretly aiming at his sniper position. This made the two captains who knew the arrangement of the hunters startled.
That guy knows our defense deployment and he has a clear grasp of the current situation. How did he do that?
The hunter captains were shocked at the thought of this, and the atmosphere on the scene became even more tense. People knew me but I didn't know them. The information gap made the hunters more cautious. They all raised their psychological expectations of the man in front of them, which made them dare not act rashly.
For a moment, there was silence for a few seconds, and then Greg broke the silence and spoke.
"Those people in the study downstairs... were all killed by you?"
"It was just a simple cleanup, and there was a small accident." Edric continued to respond, while Gregor continued to question.
"Did you come here specifically to kill the Communion? Were you responsible for the Burton case last time? Were you the one who sent the police twice?"
"Yes, are you satisfied with my intelligence?" Edric said with a smile, spreading his hand slightly. After listening to his words, the three of them looked at each other, and then Gregor continued to speak seriously.
"You... or are you guys using us as pawns?"
"Not really, but we think that since we are in Igwinter, we should give due respect to the secret rulers of Igwinter. Those flowers are just a small reminder with good intentions. We think it is impolite for Igwinter to do something without notifying the owner of this place."
As he spoke, Edric fixed his gaze on Grandpa Gregor and continued.
"Please don't misjudge our goodwill, otherwise we cannot be sure who will pay the price for the misjudgment in the end. Please believe that we have always been happy to cooperate with the authorities. Didn't the flowers help you avoid losses this time? Mr. Meschos..."
Edrick's words were so confusing that they confused the three of them at first. However, when he called out their names in the end, Gregor and the two people beside him were shocked.
"He knows our true identities. This organization knows much more than we think..."
Such thoughts emerged in the minds of the three people, which made their nerves collapse to the extreme and raised the alert line to the highest level, but they also dared not to take action directly.
"What is your purpose in coming to Igwinter?!" Gregor continued to ask with a serious face, and Edric waved his hand in response.
"Our goal is... Haha, it's not impossible to tell you, if you are not afraid of the risk of being controlled on the spot..."
Edrick finished speaking lightly, and the three of them and the hunters around them were all startled, and then they quickly figured out the meaning of this sentence.
The purpose of this organization involves a huge secret, which includes forbidden knowledge. Listening to him talk about the purpose is equivalent to passing on the secret knowledge orally. At their current level, if they listen to all the words, they may be infected and controlled by the strong consciousness poison, which is very dangerous!
What on earth is this, with the ability to identify poison? For a moment, the hunters were filled with fear and curiosity, and of course, some did not believe it.
"Hmph... How big a secret can there be when it comes to a small Holy Communion?" Turner said. Although the Holy Communion had done evil things for Igwynte, it was far from being an ancient society with great influence. It was hard to imagine what big secrets could be hidden in their activities.
In response to Turner's words, Edrick's expression and tone did not change at all and he continued to speak.
"Only the tip of the iceberg floats, and only the morning star is visible. The ship will never think that there are only a few small reefs on the water and move forward safely. If you only look at the surface, it will be bad. As the captain of the hunters, you should know this better, Mr. Turner."
Listening to Edrick's words, Turner was speechless for a moment. He was originally prepared to ask the other party to tell him what his purpose was, but it would be terrible if he really could detect poison.
At this moment, although Edric did not take any action, his words alone put enough pressure on the three hunters. Even Turner, who was more reckless, did not act rashly at this time.
"The tip of the iceberg... What he meant was... Is the water of the Red Communion deeper than we thought before? Is there more unknown and deep things involved?" Thinking about Edric's words, Elena thought, and at this moment, Edric smiled at the silent scene in front of him, and then spoke.
"What I just said was a warning... I am waiting for you here to convey this warning. Now I have to leave. See you later..."
As he spoke, Edrick turned around. Seeing this, Gregor quickly asked one last question.
"Hey! What's the name of your association?"
Listening to Greg's words, Edrick paused slightly, then spoke slowly with his back to Greg and the others.
“You can call us...
"Rose Cross"
After saying this, Edrick jumped down from the spire in full view of everyone, and jumped from a very high position to the bottom of the house, disappearing from everyone's sight, and over there was the tumbling iron mud river.
…
Somewhere on a riverbank on the bank of the White Silver River, in a hidden place with dense grass, there was a dry sewer pipe. Along with a sound that continued to grow louder from the inside of the pipe, a small hand finally pushed open the rotten iron fence at the pipe.
Dorothy struggled to climb out of the dry sewer pipe, stood on the ground, dusted herself off, took a long breath, and looked towards the Buck Mansion standing in the distance.
"Huh... Telling riddles is so fucking tiring, I'd better get out of here right away..."
After saying that, Dorothy picked up her suitcase and ran away from the Buck Mansion, followed by Brandon.
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