Chapter 293 Threatening Letter
Um?
She almost thought Mr. Fool was repeating her previous words, but then she remembered what she had reported to Him after praying to Him earlier in the morning, and realized that it was His response to this matter.
No need to worry. It seems Mr. Fool doesn't care about the investigation of the "Aurora Society" and the "Witch Cult". Indeed, His followers and followers are either Mid-Sequence Beyonders like Sherlock who have hidden their identities, or High-Sequence Powerfuls who can easily kill Qilingos. Naturally, there is no need to worry.
The gray fog disappeared, and in front of Angel appeared the middle-aged teacher Benny with a puzzled expression.
"Ms. Watson, is there any problem with the translation?"
"No, it's okay. I just..." She quickly denied it and said casually, "I was just thinking about the student I met yesterday. Um... She helped me find the way and was very kind. I think her name was Lily Granger."
"Lily Granger? The female student from the Department of Mechanical Engineering?"
Unexpectedly, Benny, a teacher in the Department of Archaeology, actually remembered students from other departments. This made Angel regret finding a random topic, but he could only nod and say:
"It should be her, with blonde hair and a round face."
"It is her, but Miss Granger... maybe she is kinder in front of outsiders."
Benny answered with a wry smile, as if there was something else behind his words.
Seeing Angel's confusion, he added cautiously, "Miss Granger seems to have been a little worried lately. She's been a little... a little rude to her classmates and teachers. Well, I shouldn't have said that. I'm sorry, please don't take it to heart."
Perhaps not wanting to talk about the negative news about the students, Benny quickly stopped talking, carefully folded the 15-pound note and put it away, then returned to his seat under the envious gaze of his colleagues.
Angel left the office, lost in thought. In her, or rather Cole Granger's impression, Lily Granger was a kind-hearted girl who was a bit timid. This was the case until she left Tingen for Backlund a year ago, which had once made Cole worried that she would be bullied here.
A girl like this is "not so polite" to her classmates and teachers?
Angel quickly caught the key words in Benny's words "I've been worried about something recently" and wondered if Lily's temperament had changed drastically after learning about Cole's disappearance and the death of her "cousin" Angel.
Thinking of Lily's haggard face he saw yesterday, Angel wandered and hesitated in front of the train at the college gate, and finally made a decision to return to the college.
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After class at noon, Angel followed Lily Granger out of the academy and came to a residential street in the northern district. He watched her return to a two-story house with ease, open the door and walk in.
Apparently, this is where she lives in Backlund.
Angel did not pay a visit rashly, but went around to the alley at the back, tiptoed through the window to observe the interior of the house, and quickly figured out the structure of the house and the location of the people inside.
"It's a pity that the 'Crimson Eye' was lost. Otherwise, we wouldn't have to scrape the wall to easily understand the building's interior..."
Angel complained in her heart, but fortunately, the physical enhancement of the assassin's path gave her extraordinary flexibility, and no accidents occurred during the exploration process.
Besides Lily herself, there was only a maid who was cleaning the place, and she had to prepare her own lunch. Such a simple life made Angel almost doubt that the Church of Evernight had not given her its pension.
But it could also be that Lily didn't want to show off her wealth in Backlund. After all, 8,000 pounds was not a small amount and could very well lead to unnecessary danger.
After finding a quick meal at a nearby cafe, Angel waited until Lily left in the afternoon and the maid also left, then he pried open the back door and entered the kitchen, and then went to the living room on the first floor.
The layout here is more compact than the house Angel rented in the Bridge District, and the area is only about two-thirds. Obviously, the high rental prices in the North District affected Lily's choice, and she lives alone and does not really need such a large area.
The furniture and furnishings should have been included with the rental, and they looked very old, but the entire living room was very clean. The potted plants on the windowsill and the decals on the wall also made the place full of life. It was much better than the house that Angel used only for hiding.
After inspecting the first floor, Angel came to the bedroom on the second floor and saw the upside-down photo frame on the bedside table at a glance. He was moved and went forward to pick it up. He saw that the frame contained a photo of Cole and Lily Granger, the same photo that Angel had at his home in Tingen.
"It seems that Lily has probably guessed what Cole's disappearance means..."
Angel put the photo frame back in its place and went to the study on the second floor. He rummaged through a pile of books on mechanical principles and design, but did not find any useful information. Instead, he developed a phobia of complex content and felt a headache looking at the professional books.
Fortunately, she soon found a letter in the drawer. The envelope was printed with the emblem of the Church of the Evernight Goddess and was pressed under several notebooks. Angel opened it and took a look. It was indeed an obituary sent by the church. It briefly mentioned Angel Granger's sacrifice in Tingen and the formulaic words of comfort, but did not reveal anything that should not be revealed.
Angel restored the positions of the objects in the drawer, sat down in front of the desk that Lily should use frequently, took out the magic mirror, wiped the mirror surface, and began to perform divination.
"Mirror, mirror, tell me the reason for Lily Granger's recent personality changes."
This divination word was very general, but Angel didn't have any more clues, so he could only cast a wide net and hope to see something.
The mirror remained in pure black for almost ten seconds before showing the real divination screen.
It was obvious that the divination was interfered with by some force, but the opposing force was not strong.
In the magic mirror, Lily was holding up a few letters in distress, then she threw them aside, rushed to the study window, slammed the window shut, pulled the curtains, and finally stuffed all the letters into the gap behind the desk and left the study.
Putting down the magic mirror, Angel fumbled behind the desk for a moment and took out a few pieces of letter paper. They were covered with a lot of dust, but the handwriting was still clear.
"Lily Granger, I know what your family has done!"
"I've been watching you!"
"You can't escape!"
“…”
It was filled with similar threatening words, leaving Angel confused.
The handwriting was extremely illegible, with strokes of varying thicknesses, making it appear as if it had been written by an uncommon hand in an attempt to conceal the handwriting. There were no other marks or printed letterhead on the letter paper, and no clues could be found.
"Oh, if it were an ordinary detective, he would just give up when faced with such a situation, but I am..."
Thinking of what had happened recently, she still didn't read the two words out loud. Instead, she went back to the desk, pressed the mirror on the letter paper, silently recited the spell, and soon saw the appearance of the writer.
In a sparsely furnished room, a middle-aged man was holding a pen in his left hand, writing down those incoherent threatening words one letter at a time, and then putting them into an unmarked envelope. The scene changed, and he stuffed the letter directly into the crack of the door.
Similar clips flashed several times, and the mirror returned to normal. It seemed that these threatening letters were written by the same person.
"The first divination was disrupted, but the subsequent threatening letters weren't..." She looked at the letters on the desk and analyzed the matter. "The power to counter divination is protecting Lily Granger herself. It should come from Backlund's Nighthawks. They have provided appropriate protection for the families of their fallen companions. The source of these threatening letters, the middle-aged man, doesn't have the ability to counter divination, but he does have certain anti-tracking skills. If I hadn't used divination, I might not have been able to catch him..."
Angel tried to conduct a deeper divination on the middle-aged man, but failed this time. However, the reason for the failure should be insufficient information rather than the involvement of supernatural factors.
After thinking for a moment, she stuffed the threatening letter back into the gap in the wall behind the desk, restored everything in the study, and left Lily Granger's house.
Since extraordinary means are useless, she plans to use some "traditional" methods to find more clues.
When returning to the main street from the back alley, Angel found a man standing against the wall at the door of the cafe across the street. He was wearing a thick black windbreaker and a half-top hat. He stood steadily in the cold wind, his eyes occasionally sweeping over the door of Lily's house.
She walked naturally under the other person's eyes, glanced at him out of the corner of her eye, and found that he was completely different from the middle-aged man in the divination result just now.
The windbreaker and top hat, the attention to Lily's family... Could it be that the Night Watchmen also knew about the threatening letter and were keeping a close eye on them, "fishing" for them?
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