Chapter 193: Capturing the Ghost-Faced Man (Part 2)
Ghost-faced Man No. 4 was currently wandering around East City with a headache.
He and his 'brothers' were all personal soldiers trained by Princess Drecy, her shadows, guards, and servants. The princess was their master, their infallible 'mother,' the deity they worshipped... As long as the princess spoke, they would do their utmost to clear any obstacles for her.
——Even if it means sacrificing one’s own life.
Number Four excelled in shadow magic and was a master at lurking, gathering information, and investigating clues. He arrived with great confidence, but hit a wall in East City.
The hut, supposedly guarded involuntarily by countless undead, was completely empty. The five guards, either thieves or otherwise eliminated, had vanished. The tunnel door had clearly been tampered with, and the treasure room below had been completely emptied. Not even a speck of dust, let alone gold, had been left behind.
When No. 4 thought about the mountains of gold and silver in the treasure house disappearing without a trace, he felt a sense of difficulty breathing.
Even he was like this, not to mention how angry and painful the real owner of these riches, Princess Dracy, was.
What made him even more frustrated was that this was clearly not the first time the other party had committed such a robbery, and they had completely eliminated all traces. He released shadow insects that tracked magical auras and circled the mausoleum for three hours, even getting himself dizzy, but still couldn't find any trace of the enemy.
Unable to move underground, he returned to the surface. Surely, moving so much gold would leave traces? But there were no wheel tracks or indentations anywhere, and with so many undead on the ground, he didn't dare get too close. He could only lure the undead away before investigating.
After several trips, he was exhausted and out of breath, with sweat dripping down his face and back. He successfully led away five undead and advanced... two hundred meters.
"That's not right...!" Number Four frowned. "These thieves and bandits, how on earth did they manage to get through all these layers of wandering undead?"
The last time the gold jewelry was replaced by Baron Neumann, it was No. 4 who captured the aura of the divine amulet and followed the clues all the way to find Baron Neumann who had replaced the gold jewelry.
But this time, there was no divine amulet, and no trace of magic left... It was as if those people had just swaggered through the defenses of the undead who were determined to take a bite of everything, took away the gold and jewelry, and left again in a swagger!
——It’s outrageous!
"It's impossible for something like this to happen. I must have overlooked something..." He was so engrossed in the search that he didn't notice the undead around him gradually approaching him, slowly surrounding him, and then opening their bloody mouths at the same time.
“Ahhhhhh——!” The screams pierced the sky, startling a flock of flying birds.
The whistleblower felt an inexplicable sense of sympathy when he saw Ghost-Faced Man No. 4, who had lost at least 90% of his energy, lying on the ground with a pale face and breathing but not exhaling.
"How tragic..." he murmured, but his hand swiftly pulled out the rope, tied up the ghost-faced man No. 4, and together with his companions lifted him up and threw him onto the cart.
"Okay, then we'll go back first. We'll deliver the offerings as rewards tomorrow morning." He said respectfully to the undead with extraordinary combat power, "Please continue to help keep an eye on this place. If there are still people like this..."
He pointed at the unlucky ghost-faced man and said, "For every one we catch, we will give a sack of offerings as a reward."
The undead burped with joy, as if they had agreed to the deal.
The Whistleblower and his companions were escorted out by the undead. They stuffed the heavily tied up ghost-faced man into a huge empty sack, covered the cart with a layer of waterproof cloth, and secretly transported him back to the west city of Eston, directly imprisoning him in the deepest dungeon.
Andrei, who received the news, rushed over quickly.
Ghost-Faced Man No. 4 had been stripped of his mask and disarmed, and was tied up in the dungeon with iron chains that had been cast with sealing magic. No matter how he tried to shuttle or jump into the shadows, he would be restricted by the chains and unable to move.
"I won't say anything!" Ghost-Faced Man No. 4 said fiercely, "I will never betray my master!"
"Oh." Andrei replied nonchalantly, "It's okay if you don't tell me. We didn't expect you to confess anyway."
"What...what?" Ghost-Faced Man No. 4 choked suddenly, and countless complaints flashed through his mind in an instant. Finally, the big question mark in his mind turned into a big exclamation mark after he saw a white skeleton crawling out from behind Andre.
Ghost-faced man number four: “!!!”
"Hey!" Jiang You happily waved his bone claws at him: "I'm going to eat your soul fire~ If there's something you don't want me to know, you must, must not think about it~"
Ghost-faced Man No. 4: "..." Even if you say so, this kind of thing is simply impossible to do!
Humans are strange creatures. The more they're told not to do something, the more they'll want to do it. After being warned by the skeleton, Ghost-Faced Man No. 4 instantly reviewed all the secrets in his mind.
This instinct is simply uncontrollable!
Then, he watched helplessly as the white skeleton hooked its finger bones and pulled out a large, strong, colorful soul fire from his chest.
Ghost-faced Man No. 4: “……!”
He had a terrible feeling that came from the depths of his soul and made his whole body feel hollowed out.
"This is simply... too much!" He protested weakly, but Andrei and Jiang You ignored him.
"Is this all right?" Andre leaned close to Jiangyou and whispered beside her ear hole.
"That should be it." Jiang You nodded. "Next, I just need to find a quiet place and consume this soul fire. I should be able to see all my memories."
I have to say, this is too convenient to investigate cases. There is no need for complicated reasoning. You just need to catch a criminal and then devour his soul fire.
...Well, but doing so would cause great harm to the person who took out the soul fire. If this were done to an innocent person, it would obviously be a bit too much. As for taking the soul fire from the Ghost-Faced Man, who was obviously an important figure in the Evil Eye Moon Organization... Jiang You just felt that this was the retribution they deserved.
People who do bad things should pay the price for their actions.
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