Chapter 608 Sewer Beauty
Late at night, a stealthy figure carrying a small basket climbed over the outer wall of 160 Böklund Street, bent over and hunched his back, moving through the shadows between the walls. He soon came to the nearby sewer entrance, carefully moved the manhole cover, crawled in, and restored the cover.
High up in the house, Klein frowned as he pulled open the curtains and watched his butler, Walter, in a tuxedo, doing all this with agility. He felt as if he were watching a play, absurd.
Just two days ago, after he attended Congressman Macht's ball, the congressman's daughter, the arrogant and unkind Hazel Macht, crawled into the sewer from the other side of the street in almost the same way, and went on a "late-night adventure" in the intricate underground.
They were all so skilled at crawling through the sewers, unlike me. With my current status and wearing an expensive custom-made dress, I would never go in there...
He secretly laughed at his nouveau riche mentality, then picked up the cigarette box containing the gold coin with the "Blood Admiral" secret doll from the bedside table, released this "ghost", and manipulated him to jump to the glass surface of the street lamp next to the sewer, and then took advantage of his formlessness to get into the sewer and silently follow Walter.
At the same time, Klein manipulated his body to move closer to the sewer, ensuring that Senior's vengeful spirit would not be more than 100 meters away from him, so as to avoid losing this precious marionette.
At the same time, Triss's narrow eyes looked over here, as if she saw the invisible "ghost" Senior. She chuckled and said:
"After watching for so long, he should show up, right?"
Unfortunately, the person in front of you is just a dead "secret puppet", which is like flirting with a blind man...
"If you have ill intentions, leaving him behind would only mean one more person would die. Would Mr. 'Blood Admiral' Senior be concerned about an ordinary person?"
"...First of all, you have nowhere to escape!"
In the shadows deep in the fork in the road, just within the 100-meter control range of the "Secret Marionette", a weak, hoarse female voice rang out:
While manipulating Senior to ask in surprise, Klein was also thinking about how to "deal with" this witch with bloody hands.
"I don't mind adding another witch's extraordinary characteristics to my collection, but I'm also somewhat interested in what you just said. If the information you provide is valuable enough, perhaps I will spare your life."
"He will be returning to his manor in the suburbs tomorrow. There will definitely be Beyonders guarding him there. Today is the best opportunity."
Triss's tone grew sadder, as if she had truly given up struggling.
Senior said coldly, completely unmoved.
Even if you don't tell me now, I'll be able to find out everything from Angel's letter in a couple of days. But I don't know what other secrets this woman has, such as how she became the vessel of the "Original Witch" and who else is in her "investigation team"...
Klein controlled Senior to approach the shadow in the form of a vengeful spirit and stopped at the edge of his control range. Sure enough, he saw a woman in a black dress sitting in the corner. Her shoulders were simply bandaged but still bleeding, and her face was pale.
During this delay, his butler had already arrived at a dark and secluded fork in the sewer and started talking to someone in a low voice:
But Triss, driven by a deep emotion, was focused on uncovering the truth behind Prince Edessak's death. This, in turn, would inevitably lead to the secrets behind the "Great Smog" and the unidentified royal faction. From this perspective, Triss was a volunteer deminer for him and Angel.
Seeing him like this, Triss moved in the corner, put one hand into her clothes, and pulled the collar with the other, as if trying to cover her exposed shoulders, but inadvertently exuded the charm of a witch, with a faint look in her eyes and a weak expression.
The female voice chuckled and said with emotion:
"When he was alive, he had so many subordinates and so many friends, but after he died, only a few were willing to take risks for him."
After handing the basket to the woman in the shadows in the corner, Walter instructed again:
Did she find me?
Klein's heart skipped a beat, but thinking that the witch possessed a spiritual intuition no less than that of a fortune teller, and that the person before him was Chick, there was little point in continuing to hide. So he appeared directly and replied in a cold tone:
"It's almost over 100 meters. If that's the case, to avoid losing the marionette, I can only use fire jumps to leave the bedroom and go to the street. That violates the rules of the 'Marionette Master' role and exposes myself as the person behind the scenes..."
She had a slightly round chin and an extremely beautiful face. It was Triss Chick who had nearly killed him in Tingen City, then hid in Backlund, and finally escaped before the great smog!
William Sykes once served the deceased Prince Edessac. In order to investigate the truth behind the prince's death, the mysterious woman took the risk of contacting William and was injured. She hid in the sewers. Walter was also a member of this "investigation group", but he did not participate in direct affairs. Instead, he openly inquired about information and provided help.
"Do you know me?"
Walter was silent for a moment, nodded, and handed over the basket he had been carrying. Klein saw that it contained several flat objects wrapped in paper and a cup with a lid.
A graceful figure emerged from the ice, first outlining the outline, then filling in the color, and finally showing the familiar yet unfamiliar black hair, purple eyes, and faint smile.
"That's him, the pirate general worth 40,000 pounds!"
He had not forgotten the tragedy of the Alfalfa, nor the series of deaths in Tingen.
During this time, he was surprised to find that Hazel had sneaked out of her house again late at night and entered the sewer through another entrance, and was about to run into the sneaky Walter. As a last resort, he could only use the resentful spirit to "possess" the girl who possessed the magical item of "the thief", ignoring her struggles and efforts to save herself, and "sent her back" to Congressman Macht's house.
"As a royal noble, he can treat me sincerely, and I am willing to be loyal to him forever."
"Hurry back and don't let your new employer find out. This sewer is often visited by strange Beyonders, so it's actually safer than the surface. I'll hide for a day or two and leave after I recover."
"Of course, I've also traveled the seas and recently I've been following the news about pirate generals."
"Then do it, Mr. Senior. Or, do you think someone would come to save a downtrodden witch like me?"
Since Angel is involved in this matter, let her decide... Klein had just made the decision when he heard Triss continue:
Her smile became more and more obvious, causing Klein behind the secret doll to frown and have a vague sense of foreboding.
"Since you've already noticed me, why didn't you point it out to that man before he left?"
Triss seemed to share the same conclusion. She waved her hand, retracting the invisible spider silk, leaving only a puddle of frozen water. A faint smile returned to her face.
"If you're willing to listen, I can tell you everything, including the secret of Prince Edessac Augustus's death and the infighting among the royal family, but first..."
"Put away your tricks, or do you want me to 'kill' you right now?"
There was a thick layer of worry in Walter’s voice.
"Then why are you still injured? Why don't you even dare to go back to your residence?"
In the senses shared by Klein and the marionette, the sewer space beside Triss was filled with countless invisible threads, like a giant spider web. The accumulated water nearby slowly froze, forming mirrors of varying sizes. She, wearing a black dress, sat in the middle of the spider web, like a poisonous spider waiting for its prey to fall into its trap.
If you really paid attention, you should know that "I" died at the hands of a crazy adventurer... Klein chuckled secretly, trying his best to play the role of a "ruthless and taciturn" pirate general, and did not respond.
The female voice replied intermittently:
At the moment her voice suddenly rose, the ice surface in the sewer, which had long been solidified and smooth enough to reflect reflections, became dark and deep, with countless reflections stacked up inside, as if it had become a passage to another world.
Klein calmly waited for Triss's answer. He was currently in the form of a secret puppet, a puppet that could transform into a resentful spirit at any time. He could attack or retreat, so he was naturally not afraid of a wounded witch.
"What happened? The police came here this afternoon and questioned people who had contact with William Sykes. They said he died in a hotel in the West End. It was murder... Didn't you say that we should make a careful plan and accomplish this quietly?"
"I'll continue to send some food tomorrow. You can recover with peace of mind. If you leave unexpectedly, contact me using the old method."
Klein muttered silently as he watched Hazel circling in front of her house in fear, trying to find the person who possessed her. Finally, with tears in her eyes, she returned to her home along the same route. Only then did he feel at ease and control the "ghost" to sink into the ground and return to where Walter was.
"William is stronger than I imagined. He's a Sequence 5 and possesses a magical item that's quite powerful against me. This aligns with his hidden identity and also gives him the confidence to come to the city alone. Fortunately, I was able to defeat him and obtain a crucial clue...
That's the Dipsy pie I asked the chef to make this afternoon, and sweet iced tea... He opened his mouth slightly in the bedroom, and Senior in the wraith state also reacted in the same way.
Walter answered in a muffled voice, then turned and left along the same path.
Klein, who was hiding in the dark, quickly understood everything based on these conversations and his own guesses.
If he had suddenly encountered this woman who was likely connected to the "Original Witch," Klein would probably have been frightened and recalled the secret doll directly, but with Angel's previous hint, he now just felt that it was "reasonable."
Then, the identity of this woman can be confirmed based on the content of Angel's letter...
As if complaining to a parent, Triss's anxious yet gloating words echoed in the sewer.
Angel, who emerged from the mirror world, and Senior, the "Blood Admiral" who wore an old tricorn hat and a dark red coat and had an expressionless face, looked at each other, speechless for a moment.
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