Chapter 104 The Tail of July
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Backlund, in front of a burnt house.
The blond man with gray eyes glanced at the ruins of the house, a satisfied look flashing in his eyes, and then sighed like any other passerby.
This was the fourth arson case in Backlund in recent days, and the most serious one, because although the previous three arson cases caused some financial losses, no one died, but yesterday's arson case, which had just occurred, burned to death a family of three living in the house.
After sighing, the blond man with gray eyes turned out of the street, hailed a carriage, as if he had only come to take a look at the ruins of the house.
"Go to Pritz Harbor.", the blond man with gray eyes said, while subconsciously reaching out to touch the ship ticket he had already bought in his pocket.
He was about to leave Backlund and venture out to sea, looking for opportunities for advancement.
"Alright, sir."
The coachman replied, judging from the voice, he was not very old. The blond man with gray eyes was naturally not surprised by this—he had carefully observed the coachman before getting into the carriage, basically confirming that the other party should be from the East Borough, and could only find such a job to support himself because he had no education. Backlund had no shortage of young people like this.
The carriage set off. The blond man with gray eyes finally lifted the curtain and glanced at the street he had just left, then put down the curtain and began to close his eyes to rest.
He didn't intend to really sleep, but after a while, suddenly, the blond man with gray eyes felt his thinking become sluggish.
There…was…danger…that coachman…has…a…problem…
The blond man with gray eyes immediately realized this, but even completing such a "thought" took him several seconds.
He instinctively wanted to save himself, but almost at the same time as his thinking became sluggish, his body became stiff and his movements became slow.
This made it difficult for the blond man with gray eyes to even raise a hand, let alone save himself.
After a while, the carriage was still moving, and then a voice came from the carriage.
"Stop the car."
"Alright, sir.", the young man with black hair and black eyes responded, then turned the carriage into the nearby alley and stopped.
He then lifted the curtain, looked at the blond man with gray eyes sitting there in the carriage, who was no different from a living person under his control, and shook his head.
"I have to say, as a hunter, you are really unqualified, you don't even have the most basic vigilance, no wonder you can make such an outrageous performance…no, you probably don't even know what role-playing is."
The blond man with gray eyes, who had already become a marionette, looked at him with an innocent expression and said, "I don't understand the acting method, you can't ask too much."
"Might as well wear a sign that says: I'm a puppet..."
After "talking" with his marionette for a while, the young man with black hair and black eyes, who was Lin Ruo, satisfied some kind of dark humor in his heart, and then lifted the control over the blond man with gray eyes, took out bottles and jars, and began to prepare for spirit channeling.
Without a doubt, the blond man with gray eyes was an Arsonist, and also the culprit of the four arson cases in Backlund recently.
Lin Ruo came specifically to hunt him down, the purpose was also very simple, on the one hand, to eliminate harm for the people, on the other hand, he was greedy for the other party's Arsonist characteristics and Arsonist formula.
Soon, Lin Ruo set up a wall of spirituality, and used the traditional skills of a Seer to start spirit channeling.
This time, nothing unexpected happened during the spirit channeling. Lin Ruo successfully obtained the Arsonist's potion formula, and also gained some understanding of the other party's identity. This clumsy Arsonist was really a serious wild extraordinary, without any background, just lucky, all the way to the present, and then unfortunately met Lin Ruo.
But what disappointed Lin Ruo was that the other party did not obtain the Conspirer's potion formula, which meant that Lin Ruo had to continue searching.
No, be optimistic, maybe when Klein advances to Clown in two days, he can get all the remaining formulas after seeing the Three-Headed hotpot spirit!
Although it feels like dreaming, but people, always have to have some dreams!
Lin Ruo smiled self-comfortingly, took out his pocket watch and glanced at it, it was just eight o'clock in the morning.
More accurately, today is July 31st, eight o'clock in the morning.
That's right, today is already the last day of July.
In the past half month, Lin Ruo rarely lived a peaceful life. Besides acting, studying, and teaching Klein, he was communicating with Salted Fish—actually, he didn't communicate much, after all, Salted Fish's reply progress was touching, but the relationship between the two, besides being a fisherman and a fish, also had some taste of pen pals.
In addition, Lin Ruo naturally did not neglect the investigation of the secret society, but what made Lin Ruo's head bald was that during this period of time, he did not investigate any clues related to the secret society, as if besides the Blade Assassin and the Moth Believer he had discovered before, there were no other members of the secret society in this world.
The investigation of the original owner's enemies has made progress. Thanks to the cooperation of Justice Audrey, Lin Ruo has locked in a guy who may have participated in it, but in order to prevent alarming the snake, he has not moved him.
Thanks to the acting in the past half month, Lin Ruo's Provoker potion has naturally been digested almost completely, basically only a little tail is not completely digested.
But in the past half month, Lin Ruo has not been able to buy the Arsonist's potion formula through various channels. Fortunately, [Truth] is still powerful, allowing him to find clues in so many newspapers in Backlund and lock in the culprit of the recent arson cases. Now he has also obtained the Arsonist potion formula and Arsonist characteristics as he wished.
Of course, not only Lin Ruo digested the Provoker potion almost completely, Klein, who has been in special training during this period of time, has already digested the Seer potion yesterday, which is a few days faster than in the original work, but it is not surprising.
—By the way, Alger, the Hanged Man, gave Lin Ruo the maritime intelligence he bought during the last Tarot Gathering, which was very informative and made Lin Ruo very satisfied.
"It's time to prepare to go to sea…", Lin Ruo put away the Arsonist characteristics extracted from the blond man with gray eyes, stretched his waist and handled the scene, leaving a note on the man's body saying "This person is the culprit of the recent four arson cases", and switched from Marionettist to Traveler.
He came to the Blackthorn Security Company in Tingen.
Because it was still early, there were not many people in the Blackthorn Security Company. Besides Dunn, who was already in the office upstairs, only Rosanne was Lying down on the table, struggling to resist her sleepiness.
Lin Ruo greeted the other party, skillfully found a chair to sit down, and picked up the newspaper on the table to read.
After a while, Klein, wearing a black trench coat, a semi-high silk top hat, and carrying a silver-inlaid cane, walked into the Blackthorn Security Company leisurely.
"Good morning, Klein, are you ready?", Lin Ruo put down the newspaper and asked with a smile.
The preparation he said naturally refers to submitting a special application to advance to Clown.
Because Lin Ruo, the Favored of the Goddess, endorsed him, Klein naturally didn't need to deliberately delay for half a month after digesting the potion before submitting a special application as in the original work. In fact, yesterday, the two had already discussed the matter of submitting a special application today.
"Yes, I'm ready.", Klein nodded, took a slight breath, and walked towards the room where Dunn was.
Knock knock knock.
He knocked on the door of Dunn's office.
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