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Through the secret passage in Buck's mansion, Dorothy finally escaped from a secret beach on the White Silver Coast. Later, she used the zombie ring to remotely awaken the backup zombie in the carriage parked in a secret alley somewhere on the White Silver Coast, and let him drive the carriage back to Buck's mansion, and finally picked up Dorothy and the zombie Brandon at the intersection of the beach.
Dorothy immediately got on a carriage and rushed to a riverbank somewhere in the lower reaches of the Iron River to collect the corpse of Edric. After placing the corpse and the carriage in place, Dorothy took an ordinary hired carriage and headed towards her home.
Finally, when the carriage stopped at the side of Nanyang Flower Road, Dorothy got off with two suitcases, then entered the apartment building and climbed all the way up. She was already out of breath when she reached the fifth floor.
"Huh...Huh...It's really a pitfall that Qi's Beyonder doesn't add any physical strength. If he doesn't have the Corpse Ring and Dragon Roar, then his ability to fight head-on is extremely poor."
After entering the house, Dorothy immediately ran into her room, locked the door, then threw herself on the bed and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Huh...it's finally over. I was almost scared to death at the very end..."
Lying on the bed, Dorothy sighed to herself and said that the sudden arrival of the hunters at the last moment was indeed very unexpected to her and was the biggest variable in her plan at the moment. If she hadn't relied on Edrick to lead them away and buy enough time for herself to try the password to open the door, she really didn't know what to do afterwards.
Dorothy had arranged Edrick in the attic as a backup chess piece in advance. When Turner broke down the door, she had no choice but to use Edrick as bait, and transferred the three people who were studying the secret room to the roof, and then dealt with them.
As for how to deal with it, I just fool people, bluff them, and tell riddles.
As long as you can confuse the other party, pretend to be great and powerful, make the other party dare not act rashly, and buy yourself some time, then you will be successful.
Dorothy has the advantage of intelligence. Through the detection of the corpse doll, she can know the deployment of the hunters. In addition, Dorothy also gave Edrick the barrier ring with "shadow" in it, so that he can block the extraordinary detection of the hunters. Together with Greg and others, they believed that the murder in the study was committed by Edrick.
The suppression of information asymmetry is the basis for Dorothy to tell riddles. Making riddles convoluted, confusing, and nonsensical is the key to shocking the searchers.
Using Edric to deal with the hunters made Dorothy feel how tiring it was to be a riddler who didn't speak human language. After this experience, Dorothy began to sincerely admire the characters in some works who could tell riddles from beginning to end. Things that could be explained clearly in two or three sentences had to be explained in a long way. How tiring it must be, and it must cost a lot of saliva.
As for the last moment, when Gregor asked about the name of the group she belonged to, Dorothy just made up a random name to deal with it. After all, if someone wanted to create a void, they had to have a name.
Of course, although the name was casually said, it was not made up out of thin air.
Rose Cross, this name is a secret organization that appeared in a work called "Holy Blood" in Dorothy's long-lost memory in her previous life. It is the villain of the whole play and the villain organization that renews the world with fire. Its full name is the Knights of the Rose Cross. It is said that this name itself also has important significance in the mysticism of Dorothy's original world.
Greg asked for the name of the bride, and this was the first name that came to Dorothy's mind, so she just used it. It was just a name anyway, no big deal.
After lying on the bed for a while and resting for a while, Dorothy stood up directly, then sat down on the edge of her seat and began to check the spoils of war.
First, Dorothy opened the boxes looted from the Buck family, and then began to check them one by one. First, there were a few pieces of jewelry that looked good. These could be sold for cash after the storm had passed. Then there was about 120 pounds in cash, plus the 215 pounds Dorothy originally had, Dorothy now had 335 pounds in cash.
Next were some talismans. Dorothy found four normal Shengku talismans and two rather strange ones. They looked somewhat similar to normal Shengku, both were "cup" talismans, but the spells on them were several times denser, making it difficult for Dorothy to figure out what they were.
"The strange 'cup' symbol, could it be related to Buck's sudden explosion? I'll ask Aldridge later."
Thinking of this, Dorothy put down the two complex versions of the "Cup" talisman in her hand, and then picked up the last special talisman.
Dorothy did not find this talisman in the secret room, but in the study, next to the wall where Buck was hit by the dragon's roar. It was obviously something that fell directly from his body.
Judging from the symbols above, this talisman is not a "cup". It depicts two overlapping symbols. After identification, Dorothy found that they are the symbols of "shadow" and "initiate".
"Heh... it's a dual domain talisman. I don't know what it's for. I'll have one more question to ask Aldridge later. If I remember correctly, the combination of 'shadow' and 'inspiration' seems to mean dreams, right?"
After thinking about it, Dorothy put away the special talisman in her hand, and then looked at the next spoils. They were two secret books, one of which was "The Taste of Red" which she had read before. It was a secret book in the form of a novel, suitable for corrupting others. Now Dorothy had a duplicate in her hand, and it didn't have any spirituality when she read it again, so she considered finding an opportunity to sell it later.
Then Dorothy looked at another secret book, which was called "Praise of the Cup Mother".
After a quick look, Dorothy discovered that the book was a collection of poems, mainly hymns to a god.
This deity has many names in poetry, such as "Mother of Cup", "Blood Cup", "Mother of Ten Thousand Flesh", "Goddess of Desire"... She is a goddess purely in the field of "cup", and is said to be the deity who best represents the attribute of "cup".
"Is this the god worshipped by the Red Communion? Since the Communion is like this, then there is a high possibility that this is also an evil god? But it is not necessarily the case..."
As she thought this, Dorothy glanced at the cover of "The Mother of Cups" again and continued thinking.
"But unfortunately, this secret book is not a carrier of poetry. If I use it to exchange for knowledge from other worlds, I will probably lose a lot. I can only regard it as a spiritual accumulation."
Dorothy thought so. She had asked the system before. The exchange of alien knowledge is classified. What kind of local knowledge is exchanged for what kind of alien knowledge, such as language is exchanged for language, and identification skills are exchanged for identification skills. So this is why Dorothy did not exchange "The Taste of Red". Because Dorothy felt that the novel might not be of much use after exchange, she tended to exchange it for specific skills. Similarly, this book "Ode to the Mother of Cups" is a poem, and she doesn't know what poem to exchange it for.
Dorothy now has very few soul books left, and can only exchange them once before the next promotion, so she needs to carefully consider what knowledge to exchange.
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