Chapter 162 Megose
"I thought the newspapers were all lies. I didn't expect the new park to be so beautiful and even require no entrance fee."
Melissa's eyes widened immediately after getting off the carriage. She looked at the park in front of her and exclaimed in admiration.
It is no longer accurate to call it a "street park". The new park has expanded by half, occupying the corner where Red Moon Street and Zouteland Street meet, and incorporating large tracts of vacant land where no houses have been built into the park. Combined with expensive artificial landscaping, it has surpassed the park next to the municipal square in the Golden Wutong District and has become the largest green area in Tingen City.
But even so, the entire park was packed with citizens who came to visit, and at a glance there were at least several hundred people.
They strolled along the tree-lined avenue and played with their children on the lawn, while more people gathered around the podium in the center of the park, which was surrounded by colorful flags. Congressman Maynard's speech was about to begin.
It is said that there will be a raffle after the speech, and there will be prizes for participating. Many tourists with nothing to do have gathered around. They may not be interested in the speech and the election, but raffles can definitely attract anyone's attention.
"It's said that the prizes for the raffle even include tickets to the film 'The Return of the Count', which will be screened in Tingen next Sunday. If we can win the tickets, Klein will definitely be very happy."
Melissa had done her homework for this celebration. She was holding Angel's hand, squeezing through the noisy crowd and walking towards the center of the park, followed by Benson with a doting smile on his face.
"'The Return of the Count'? What's that?"
Angel asked curiously.
"That's the most popular play in Backlund this year. Every performance is packed, and various newspapers often publish reviews about it. Klein has been looking forward to it for a long time."
Melissa introduced it in a low voice, as if she was afraid that others would hear about the popularity of the drama and snatch this opportunity from her.
Is it often mentioned in the newspapers? Why don't I seem to have seen it...
Angel blinked, feeling a little ashamed of his poor access to information.
The three of them walked through the tree-lined path and approached the podium. On the other side of the stone platform, the crowd was even more noisy, as if some important figure was arriving at the scene surrounded by a crowd of people.
Soon, Senator Maynard, dressed as if he were going to a royal ball, walked onto the podium. His short golden hair was meticulously groomed and he had a perfect smile on his face.
As he looked down from above, the noisy citizens around him gradually quieted down.
"Good morning, citizens of Tingen..."
Without wasting any time, the mayoral aspirant began his speech. In an era without loudspeakers, he was able to make a loud voice loud enough for everyone to hear while surrounded by hundreds of people. It must be said that Maynard had very solid basic skills.
"It's just that the speech was so formal that I could even guess what he was going to say next, like 'improve public education and increase medical insurance'..."
Benson turned sideways and spoke quietly to Angel.
"…improve the level of public education and increase health care…"
His voice was so low that it was easily drowned out by Maynard's speech on the stage.
"This makes me more confident about the public examinations that the government will hold next year."
Having guessed the content of the speech, Benson continued, a smile on his face, but it instantly turned into a painful expression - his waist was poked hard by Melissa's finger.
"If you think it's just a formality, then don't listen. Hurry and check if Klein has arrived. He said he'd be here by 9:30, and it's almost 10 o'clock now."
Upon hearing his sister's instructions, Benson quickly straightened his back, stood on tiptoe, and looked over the crowd around him for any trace of Klein.
Angel also looked around, but she wasn't looking for Klein. Instead, she subconsciously sensed something was amiss. The crowd around them was growing larger and larger, and their emotions were being stirred by the congressman's speech. Any unexpected incident could lead to a stampede or even a more serious problem.
She turned on her spiritual vision and scanned the people around her, but did not find anything unusual that was different from the surrounding environment.
She reached out and pressed her thigh under her skirt. The holster tied to her leg gave her a sense of security. Seeing that Melissa seemed to be about to leave her and Benson and go to the open space nearby to look for Klein, Angel quickly grabbed her.
"Stay close to me, don't get separated..."
Before she finished speaking, her vision became illusory, and a thick gray-white mist surged up and enveloped her in an instant.
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"A sinister ritual that's absorbing the resentment of the entire city of Tingen. Is this the 'bomb' Lanevus mentioned?"
Dunn sat behind his desk, his hands pressed against his temples, his brow furrowed as he asked Klein in front of him.
The captain looked much better than he had a few days ago. He must have gotten over Old Neil's out-of-control self-blame...
Klein looked at his captain, feeling a sense of relief before replying:
"Yes, this is the conclusion Leonard and I came to. I think we should send a telegram to the Holy Temple for help, asking them to send an occult expert to assist us in finding this 'bomb' as soon as possible."
"Didn't you try divination first? That's not like you."
Dunn's calm tone exploded like thunder in Klein's mind.
Yes, I am a 'fortune teller'... I used to be. Why didn't I use divination to confirm this matter immediately?
Klein was stunned for a moment, then decided there was no time to lose. He plopped down on the chair next to him, ready to enter a dream and divine the exact location of the "bomb."
Wait, I should use the pendulum method, at least to confirm the safety of divination. The last time I looked directly at the "Eternal Blazing Sun" was a lesson for me... I was too impatient, was it because of fear of the unknown, or was it because...
Dunn looked curiously at Klein, who had sat down and stood up again. Seeing him roll up his left sleeve, untie the gold chain, and put down the amethyst pendant, he suddenly asked:
"Did she give this to you?"
"Hmm?" Klein was taken aback by the captain's question. "Yes... Captain, I'm going to start divination."
After signaling the other person to be quiet with his eyes, he silently recited the divination words and half-closed his eyes to enter meditation.
"Lanevers' bomb will harm me."
He did not perform divination with the bomb as the target, such as "whether the bomb will explode", but used himself as the divination object, so that the result obtained would be the most accurate.
And if this "bomb" can cause harm to him at the Night Watcher's base, then I'm afraid that "it can destroy the city" is not an empty talk.
After reciting it seven times, Klein opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was Dunn's serious face and wide-open eyes. He then lowered his head and looked at the pendant.
The amethyst was spinning madly clockwise at a speed that was almost invisible to the naked eye, and the gold chain even caused his left hand to sway slightly.
“It’s very dangerous!”
Dunn already understood the result of the divination without Klein's explanation.
He simply opened the drawer, took out the telegram book, and lifted the cover of the telegraph machine on the table.
"I'll send a telegram to the Holy Church right away, asking them to send an expert." Dunn turned on the telegraph with one hand and flipped through the telegram book with the other. "Tell Leonard to find Luo Yao and ask her what she found at the police station. You go find Angel and tell her that her leave is canceled."
"……clear."
Klein took a deep breath, nodded, and walked out of the office.
Listening to the "tick-tick" sound of the radio transmission coming from behind him, he walked slowly through the corridor, stood behind the partition of the reception hall, took out his pocket watch, opened the cover and took a look.
9:35, already past the agreed time...
Angel should be in the park with Melissa and Benson right now, so I have to go there myself and call her back.
Klein could imagine the disappointment in his sister's eyes when she heard the news.
He sighed secretly and was about to cross the partition to call Leonard to gather the other teammates when he heard the latter's surprised voice:
"Ms. Megose?"
Megose... Megose!
Klein remembered the name. It was the name of Lanevus's pregnant fiancée, who had been abandoned by him.
How come his fiancée showed up just when we were about to investigate the "bomb" left behind by Lanevus?
He felt something was wrong and walked out of the partition in two steps. He saw the door was pushed open and a blonde lady in her early twenties was entering the reception hall.
"I just happened to be passing by here and remembered that the fortune teller who helped me find Lanevus last time worked here, so I thought I'd come up and take a look."
Megose replied with a smile. She was wearing a loose skirt and had a melancholy and calm demeanor. Even with Angel as a comparison, Klein still felt that she was a rare beauty.
But the most eye-catching thing was her bulging belly. It was Lanevus's child, the one he left behind...
The one left by Lanevus?
Klein shuddered as if a basin of ice water had been poured over him. He raised his teeth slightly and was about to open his spiritual vision to observe.
But his loose jaw could not be closed no matter what. It was a strong warning from his own spirit, forcing him to open his jaw. He could not grit his teeth to open his spiritual vision, and even made his whole body stiff and dared not move.
"You can't look at it...if you do, you'll die!"
A powerful thought seemed to explode in his ears. Standing like a statue, Klein twisted his stiff neck and looked at Leonard in the reception hall. Leonard was also looking at him with a cold sweat on his face, his lips pale, and his eyes full of fear.
The only person present who was unaware was Miss Roxanne. Upon seeing a pregnant woman arrive, she hurriedly walked out from behind the reception desk, helped Megose sit on the sofa, and handed her a cup of hot water.
"No, don't go near her..."
Klein almost blurted it out, but he didn't dare to make any sound.
Yes, I dare not.
He recalled what Lanevus had said in his letter: "The bomb is getting stronger and stronger."
Recalling what he saw in Russell's diary, "the hotbed where the evil god was born."
I recalled that I had tried several times to open my spiritual vision to observe the pregnant woman, but was unconsciously stopped by the spirit.
“Do not look directly at God”…
Inside Megose's stomach, the "bomb" left by Lanevus...
It is the evil god who is about to be born.
I chose to add more words between adding more and not adding more.
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