Chapter 007 The Four
The next day, when she was having breakfast and feeding her child complementary food, Tarona discovered that Wuqing was watching her secretly, the kind of secret observation that made his brows tighten with every glance.
Big Witch: ...
The Great Witch was speechless.
What are you doing so early in the morning?
Tarona, who seriously suspected that she was out of touch with the ancient society, shook her head secretly, forcibly ignoring the overflowing maternal love of the [Blood Nun] and the ruthlessness that suddenly observed her from behind.
Maybe it's a habit of the chief constable? For example, he would check the people around him every day to prevent someone from switching things up without anyone noticing.
Wuqing just looked at her a few more times. He had just taken the opportunity to quickly feel Ms. Luo's pulse while helping her to sit down. It was a pulse of weakness and shock, totally different from the pulseless pulse he accidentally felt last night.
Did he take the wrong pulse?
Although there are cases of arrhythmia, but...
Wuqing lowered his eyelids and took a bite of the sweet meat porridge, but he felt that it lacked some flavor.
He couldn't describe the feeling he had last night when he accidentally discovered that Ms. Luo had no pulse...that moment.
It's like...
It was like a person walking in the dark night without any starlight. After walking for a long time, he gradually adapted to the silence. But at an unexpected moment, the silence in the darkness was suddenly broken.
You are not alone, there is always another being following you.
Silent, cold and terrifying.
It was a thrilling feeling.
Wuqing had never felt this way before. This sudden horror was so inexplicable and yet so real that he couldn't figure it out all night and sat by the bed in despair for half the night.
When he saw Ms. Luo getting up early to cook porridge this morning, Wuqing was in a trance again. How could he feel frightened by such a weak woman?
A gentleman does not speak of strange things, supernatural powers or spirits. Could it be that he regarded Miss Luo as a ghost in the storybook?
This is simply ridiculous.
But can the intuition honed in the face of danger really be wrong? Or...
Suddenly, a strange light flashed in Wuqing's eyes, and the horror and suspicion lingering in his heart melted like snow in the sunlight. He reached out to take the second bowl of porridge that Luo Niangzi served him. The unexpected sight last night was no longer in his mind. The sweetness of the meat porridge on his tongue made him unable to stop savoring it.
[Ding bell——]
[Your cognitive ignore magic has been triggered, please check it in time. ]
The magic item suddenly reported this news to its owner.
Tarona patted the burp of the well-fed child and did not show any abnormality.
Cognitive Ignore Magic, as the name suggests, forces all objects weaker than the caster to ignore the abnormalities they perceive.
This magic item is used to remind the caster to eliminate loopholes in time, but because it is too noisy, the witch turned it off and did not reopen it until she went to a new mission world.
No other reason, because——
Batman is watching you.
It goes without saying how easily Batman becomes suspicious of strange and suspicious people. If he notices you, it means you are about to receive targeted plans ABCD.
It's okay if the cognitive ignore magic only works once or twice, but if it works too many times, you'll be marked in Batman's little notebook that no one knows about. The last people who received this treatment were the permanent staff in Arkham Asylum.
A bat weighing over 200 pounds is staring at you from head to toe, monitoring and investigating you in various ways. Today it suddenly goes back because of magic, and tomorrow it will definitely come back again, and its eyes will be even sharper than yesterday. Who can stand this?
There were times when the reminder sound of the magic props was hundreds of times louder than the lucky charms that some large shopping malls put up for the entire Spring Festival.
Tarona simply turned off magic and magic props together, which was one of the reasons why she became so bold and confronted Bruce Wayne for the first time.
#I'm bored, so don't think you can be idle#
With the idea of dying together, the witch embarked on a path of happy fraud and never returned.
But Batman is Batman, his precise intuition and sense of crisis were honed by Gotham's group of endlessly relentless super villains. Known as the "Bat Radar", it is more accurate than Superman's X-vision. Simply ignoring magic with cognitive awareness will only backfire. After all, he is the first person to come up with a series of physical interruption methods, and his understanding of magic is definitely not shallow.
Tarona has been in the world of British and American variety shows for too long, so long that no matter how good her acting skills are, she is still somewhat out of tune with the world of martial arts variety shows.
If acting skills are not enough, then magic will do the trick.
She knew that even the best lies would have flaws, and the magic of cognitive neglect could perfectly make up for this flaw. She was as meticulous as Wuqing, and no one had ever doubted her all along, but why was her magic suddenly triggered?
Batman thought of magic because it was not uncommon, but it was not the case for Ruthless. In the martial arts world, there was no concept of magic, so...
You are truly the son of luck.
The plain-clothed beauty smiled softly at the expressionless captain, and thanked him for his kindness in hiring a doctor for herself and her child. But she was thinking in her heart: Did I do something wrong?
Where is it?
Tarona kept reminiscing until the doctor invited by Jin Jian arrived and felt her pulse and found that "her body was weak and frightened, and her qi and blood were insufficient, and she needed careful conditioning." Only then did she suddenly realize.
A puppet is just a puppet. It is a dead object without a pulse, heartbeat or body temperature. Among her possessions, only the alchemy puppet has the same physical characteristics as ordinary people.
Tarona had never thought of this before. She had always used puppets. Alchemy dolls were too difficult to make, and they were blown up after being used once, which was the behavior of rich people who had mines at home.
The people of Ge Tan were simple and honest. When she released ten puppets, nine of them were destroyed by the explosion and one was taken hostage.
Such a minor flaw caused ruthless suspicion, even to the point of triggering cognitive ignoring magic. He is indeed the son of luck.
Speaking of which...
[There shouldn't be a superhero in the martial arts world, right? ]
The upper limit of the Alchemy Doll is not high, it can just stop Superman, and the probability of success is only 40%.
Theseus sighed and said, "Don't worry, the martial arts world is not a world of immortal cultivation. The power level is not that high. You won't meet the only person who might harm the Alchemy Doll."
Tarona asked curiously: [Why? ]
[He is currently imprisoned in Bianjing.]
Oh, imprisoned.
Tarona lost interest instantly. She had seen too many people harming others like this and now she had no interest in it at all. It would be more fun to just sit back and wait for something to happen.
Waiting for the rabbit to come out is like opening a blind box. Until the silly rabbit comes running into you, no one knows whether it is gray, black or white.
…
As Wuqing expected, after they stayed in Yanggu Town for more than a day, those poorly concealed eyes gradually turned unfriendly.
This town is extremely unwelcoming to strangers.
Wuqing spent a piece of silver to buy a folding fan of ordinary painting and material. Looking at the stall owner who suddenly smiled at him in a much more friendly way, he added another sentence to his previous conclusion -
Strangers who can't bring any benefits are extremely unwelcome.
Strip away the superficial enthusiasm and bustle, in fact the whole town is filled with a chilling indifference.
Wuqing suddenly felt somewhat fortunate. If they had not met Madam Luo, they would not have taken the main road as planned, but would have quickened their pace to Jizhou Prefecture, thus missing the big suspicious point of Yanggu Town.
He gave Silver Sword a subtle wink, and Silver Sword immediately understood what he meant. He took out the silver in his arms and went to talk to other stall owners.
The Golden Sword was left in the yard, saying that someone was left to look after the luggage, but what he was actually doing was only known to the three of them.
Tarona was not curious, she just hoped that Golden Sword would not wander around aimlessly, as that valley was not a good place to be.
He is so young, I don’t know if he would be scared if he suddenly encountered a mysterious wall.
When they reached the outside of the clinic, Yin Jian, who had been taking the silver to extract information, came back. Thinking that Madam Luo couldn't see it, he shook his head at Wu Qing openly, meaning that he didn't get much useful information out of him.
It's okay to ask a few questions, but it's not okay to ask more than a few questions. Those vendors seemed to be greedy for money, but in fact they were very strict and had some unnecessary vigilance. If Silver Sword wasn't young and deliberately spoke innocently, those vendors would have suspected him.
Wuqing frowned slightly. It seemed that conventional methods would not work. If Zhui Ming was here, things would be much simpler.
After all, Mr. Cui San was very good at tricking people into believing in him.
The investigation must be carried out as soon as possible, as they are all strangers and cannot stay in this town for too long.
After entering the clinic, the old doctor in charge saw that they were all strangers. He frowned at first, but then he saw that among the four people, one was unable to walk, one was blind, one was crying for food, and there was only one normal person. Then he visibly relaxed his attitude and put on an attitude of compassionate doctor as if for hindsight.
The old doctor asked, "Who are you here to see?"
Silver Sword took in all of his changes and snorted inwardly.
His son is the leader of the four famous detectives. So what if he is disabled? Who in this world dares to look down on his son?
Wuqing raised his hand and gestured: "Please take a look at this lady and child. It rained heavily last night and they got wet accidentally. Although they took a few emergency pills in time, I am still worried that they will develop a chronic disease."
He paused deliberately, and then said, "No matter how expensive the herbs are, as long as it can cure the disease, I am willing to pay any price."
The old doctor stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Don't worry, young master. There is no one with better medical skills than me in this area. Just follow the prescription and take the medicine. I guarantee that the medicine will cure your illness!"
Wuqing pretended to be grateful, which was three parts genuine and seven parts fake, just like a rich young man who had not experienced much worldly affairs. Yinjian understood again, took out his wallet and handed it over. The heavy weight made the doctor very satisfied.
Mrs. Luo, who was blind, sat down with the child in her arms, a little nervously, and obediently stretched out her hand to let the doctor feel her pulse.
After taking her pulse, she listened to the doctor's instructions, saying that she would take the medicine carefully and follow the doctor's orders. At the same time, she thanked the young man sitting beside her, implying that she would repay this great kindness even if she had to sacrifice her life.
He was mercilessly advised not to do so and could only sigh helplessly. There seemed to be a hint of warmth in his cold, star-like eyes.
Although the incident was going on in front of Tarona, his attention was actually on the Salesian Bureau behind the hospital.
The Salesian Bureau is an orphanage in ancient times.
The monastery of [Blood Nun] can actually be seen as an orphanage. She adopted and taught those children, so it is not an exaggeration to say that she is the director of the orphanage.
It was because of this identity that Tarona instinctively noticed something was wrong with the Salesian Bureau.
Too simple.
The Salesian Center here only has babies.
The beautiful woman in plain clothes lowered her head and "looked" at the child in her arms who was pouting and blowing bubbles, and her willow-shaped brows under the black cloth slowly wrinkled.
and……
There were exactly twelve of them, no more, no less.
Tsk.
The Great Witch cursed in her heart with an expressionless face. The twelve female corpses in the valley and the twelve babies here, if it didn't matter, she would just work for the world's consciousness for free in the next world.