Chapter 41 Searching for Ariel Soto
At eight o'clock in the evening, the sky was completely dark.
Workers returned to their homes after a tiring day.
And the rich or nobles returned home early. It is winter now, and the weather is too cold after nightfall.
The cold wind blew through the street like a knife, and there were hardly any pedestrians on the street.
However, a carriage appeared outside the house where Ariel Soto stored the body.
The carriage is pulled by two white horses, and the door of the carriage is open.
Looking inside from the door of the carriage, you can see four people: Fei Lin, Lindy, Julie, and Ivy.
"let's start!"
Lindy looked at Fei Lin, who was holding yesterday's bell.
"Yes."
Fei Lin responded, turned the bell of yesterday over and put it on his lap.
Behind the clock of yesterday, three knobs can be seen.
One of the knobs is significantly larger than the other two knobs, and has a butterfly shape that is easy to grip with two fingers.
This is the clockwork knob, with an elastic structure attached to it. It is this kind of clockwork that allows the clock to run without an electric drive.
Of course, today's clock of yesterday is already a cursed thing, containing extraordinary power, even if the clockwork is not turned, it will keep going.
The remaining two knobs, which are slightly smaller than the clockwork knob, are located side by side below the clockwork knob.
are the hour and minute hands of yesterday's clock.
"It's 8pm, about 99 hours before I see Ariel Soto here."
After making an estimate in his heart, Fehling turned the **** on the left counterclockwise, and immediately saw the clock of yesterday's clock start to rotate counterclockwise.
As the clock of yesterday’s clock rotates in the reverse direction, strange changes appear.
The sky outside suddenly brightened, and it suddenly dawned.
But that's impossible, it's 8pm and it's at least 10 hours before dawn.
Looking carefully, this brightened area is clearly centered on the carriage where Fehling and the others were, and a dozen meters around it.
It wasn't that it was dawn, but the sky within a dozen meters around Fehling and the others became brighter.
If you look carefully, you can even see some weird pictures.
The bird that flew through the sky actually flew backwards.
A stray cat that occasionally passed by was actually walking backwards.
This is because Fehling activated the Clock of Yesterday, the time goes back, and the surrounding images are going backwards.
one circle.
Two circles.
…
Seven circles.
Eight circles.
The hour hand has rotated eight times, and the surrounding images have returned to 4 days ago.
Felling's turning of the hour hand stopped and turned to the right minute hand, because it was almost time for him to see Ariel Soto.
Sudden.
A carriage came from the street opposite them, and the driver of the carriage was a man in black clothes, about 30 or 40 years old, with dark skin.
Fehling recognized this man, who was the one he saw that day, who was carrying the corpse with Ariel.
Then it is self-evident that this carriage is the carriage that Fehling once smelled of corpse.
Seeing the carriage, Fehling immediately stopped spinning the minute hand.
And the three of Lindy also understood that this carriage was probably the carriage that Ariel Soto rode in, and they all looked at this carriage sharply.
The ?? carriage collided with Fei Lin’s carriage, but there was no sound of the collision, but passed through and stopped outside the house.
After all, it is just an image of the past, and naturally has no substance.
From inside the carriage, Ariel Soto with a blindfold on his left eye appeared.
jumped out of the carriage, came to the door, opened the door with the key, and pushed the door open.
The man in black was driving a carriage and entered the courtyard.
"Felling, follow them."
Lindy's voice said eagerly.
The range that the Bell of Yesterday can affect is only more than ten meters. If it exceeds this range, Ariel Soto will not be able to be seen.
"I know."
Felin quickly jumped off the carriage and followed Ariel Soto into the yard.
Lindy, Julie, and Ivy followed behind him and entered the courtyard as well.
"Not only is he extremely talented in the mysterious spear, but he also has the talent to learn the second secret technique!"
Walking at the end of the three, Ivy looked at Fei Lin's back with surprise.
Because she was a member of the same group as Fei Lin, she was allowed to participate in this operation, and thus also learned that Fei Lin had learned the eye of esoteric identification.
Fei Lin upgraded the mysterious spear to the second ring in just a month. She was already surprised, but she didn't want to be even more surprised. Fei Lin actually had the talent to practice the second secret technique.
Possessing two kinds of secret arts talents is a necessary condition for the realm above the 12th ring. Does it mean that Fei Lin has the possibility to reach the realm above the 12th ring?
Her own groupmate actually had such a talent, which really shocked her.
Entered the courtyard and "locked" the courtyard door. Ariel Soto and the man in black began to carry the corpse from the carriage to the basement where there was a huge blood hexagram.
During the process of carrying the corpse, Ariel Soto and the man in black were talking to each other.
However, although I can see images, I can't hear the sound, so I can't hear what they say.
"Julie, what did they say?"
Lindy was already prepared for this, she looked at Julie and asked.
Because of her ability to remember, Julie has a strong learning ability and has learned a lot of techniques, including lip language.
Although these techniques cannot reach the master level because they do not have the corresponding master-level talent, so they can be turned into secret arts, but it is enough for daily use.
"Ariel Soto said that these corpses are very important... They were asked by Mrs. Minavar, and they should be handled with care, and there should be no damage in the slightest."
Julie looked at the opening and closing mouths of the two, and tried to read the words of the two through her lips.
"Master Minaval? In other words, there are indeed higher-level cultists above Ariel Soto..."
Lindy's eyes flashed with thought.
According to the investigation of Ariel Soto, she had long suspected that Ariel Soto was just a clerk in the gnawing teeth, not the highest-ranking gnawing teeth member in Constant City, but now it has been confirmed.
Above Ariel Soto, there is at least one cultist with a higher level, and the name of this cultist is Minaval.
There is no doubt that they have received very important information.
Following Ariel Soto's image, he went back and forth in the basement several times, but he never got any useful information.
The body has been transported, and the images of Ariel Soto and the two have already driven the carriage to leave.
The four of Fehling quickly got on the carriage and followed the carriage where Ariel and the two were.
"Let the wagons coincide with their wagons."
Lindy instructed the coachman, whom he could trust as a veteran, to speed up a little so that the carriage they were in overlapped with the carriage that Ariel Soto and the two were in.
With this, they were able to see Ariel Soto in the carriage again.
In the carriage, Ariel Soto sat alone on the seat. Because he was the only one in the carriage, he did not speak, but just sat quietly.
Even so, the four of Fehling still kept their eyes on the image of Ariel Soto, fearing that they would miss some important information.
After about ten minutes.
Suddenly, the expression of Ariel Soto in the carriage changed suddenly, as if he had heard some bad news.
"The time is close to when I sneaked in and encountered the eyeless monster. It should be that he found the eyeless monster and killed it by me."
Flynn explained to the three of Lindy.
Lindy nodded and understood the reason, and continued to stare at Ariel Soto.
Ariel Soto, whose face changed suddenly, seemed to be struggling with what to do.
After a moment of entanglement, Ariel Soto opened the curtain and spoke to the man in black.
"What did you say?"
Lindy asked hastily.
"He told the man in black to change his direction, he didn't return to his residence, he was going to divert to..."
Julie replied.
After saying this, Ariel Soto returned to the carriage and sat in the carriage with a vague look of anxiety on his face.
More than ten minutes later, the carriage carrying Ariel Soto stopped in an abandoned street.
Ariel Soto lifted the curtain and said something to the man in black, who bent over and entered the carriage.
Puff!
As soon as the black-clothed man entered the carriage, Ariel Soto covered the black-clothed man's mouth with one hand and stabbed the black-clothed man in the chest with a dagger.
Blood splattered.
Although I couldn’t hear the sound, I could imagine the sound of blood being pierced through my heart.
The man in black struggled a few times, became weak and fell down, and there was no movement.
Ariel Soto put down the corpse of the black-clothed man, wiped the dagger and the blood on his hands from the black-clothed man's corpse, said a word, and walked out of the carriage.
"Don't blame me, I can only blame you and me for having bad luck and being exposed."
Julie quickly translated what Ariel Soto said through her lips.
Feling got off the carriage and chased after the image of Ariel Soto.
I saw Ariel Soto who walked out of the carriage, quickly left this abandoned street, lowered his head to avoid pedestrians on the street, came to an old street, and entered a suite in a low-rent apartment.
This should be one of his hidden residences. The previous search did not find it.
"The door is locked, the other party should no longer be here!"
The four of Fehling couldn't help but feel refreshed, thinking that they had found the place where Ariel Soto was hiding.
But soon they found out that there was no joy in the room, the door was locked, and it was from the outside, and there was no one inside.
"Ivy, destroy the lock!"
Lindy instructed Ivy, Ivy nodded slightly, and the cross gem on the ring on her right hand lit up with golden light.
Along with the dazzling golden light, a golden cross lightsaber appeared.
Crack!
With a crisp sound, the iron lock was cut off and fell to the ground.
The four entered the room. In the room, the image of Ariel Soto was walking back and forth, looking very anxious.
The four searched the room for clues related to the gnawing teeth.
However, apart from some clothes and simple daily necessities in the room, there is no clue about the gnawing tooth.
Ariel Soto walked back and forth anxiously for half an hour, it was already dark outside.
Ariel Soto stopped walking back and forth, opened and closed his mouth, and said something to himself.
"Julie, what did she say?"
Lindy asked hurriedly, and her intuition told her that Ariel's words were extremely important.
"He said that the only way to escape the search of the security bureau is to hide with the adults!"
Julie answered quickly.
"Does the lord in his mouth refer to Minaval mentioned earlier?"
Ivy asked with a frown.
"I can't be sure, he just said the adults, he didn't say who he was."
Julie shook her head.
The image of ??Ariel Soto disguised himself, put on the clothes of an ordinary citizen, put on a wide hat that could cover most of his face, and left the suite in the dark.
Felling and the four quickly followed.
Leaving the suite, Ariel was walking down a street that was almost invisible because of the night.
Cross the streets one by one, and finally enter the streets where the surrounding houses are better decorated than other places.
"This is entering the Eastern District. The person he wants to meet lives in the Eastern District!"
Seeing better housing around compared to other streets, Flynn said.
"East Side."
Lindy's eyes flashed with cold light.
Those who live in the Eastern District are either nobles and related persons, or rich and related persons, that is to say, the adult in Ariel Soto’s mouth is either noble, rich, or their related persons.
…
In a luxuriously furnished room with a huge citrine lamp falling from the top in the East District, there are two people.
One of them was a rich man, the man who killed Ariel Soto.
The other is a lady with a seductive figure in a long black dress.
The long black dress has a V-neck, and you can see the snow-white skin on her chest, giving people infinite temptation.
Holding a pure white cat in her hand, she is exactly the person Ariel Soto called "Mena Vale".
The two of them sat on a sofa, each holding a glass of red wine in their hands.
On the coffee table between the two, there is a bottle of red wine that has been opened.
This is a bottle of high-end red wine from the famous Roussell winery with a history of 70 years.
Minnaval elegantly brought the red wine glass to her red lips and took a sip, leaving a clear red lip mark on the edge of the red wine glass.
The rich man looked at Minaval who was drinking in an elegant manner, and his throat was clearly swallowing saliva.
He has seen many noble ladies, and has had in-depth exchanges with many noble ladies.
However, there is no lady whose charm is comparable to that of Minavar in front of her.
But Minaval is different from those noble ladies who will take the initiative to run to his bed after hooking. She is someone who is not inferior to him in the organization, not something he can get.
Feeling the fiery gaze of the rich man, Minaval put the red wine glass on the coffee table, as if joking.
"If the plan of this organization can be completed perfectly, it is not impossible to spend one night with you."
"This is real?"
The man with a rich body was excited, and the heat in his eyes seemed to melt Minavar.
"I never regret what I said, though."
Minaval smiled and looked at the rich man.
"I'm afraid you have no chance!"
(end of this chapter)
Chapter 42 The Box of Flesh
"What do you mean by that?"
The desire that rose in the heart of the rich man seemed to be poured down by a splash of cold water, his face suddenly changed and he asked Minaval.
"After you killed Ariel, although you erased Ariel's smell and breath, the security bureau couldn't track Ariel's whereabouts through smell and breath."
"But the Security Bureau has borrowed a cursed thing called the Bell of Yesterday, which can be traced back through the image."
"The Security Bureau will do a video retrospective tonight to track where Ariel went before disappearing."
Minaval raised the red wine glass and said.
"You actually borrowed such a cursed thing?"
The rich man's complexion became extremely ugly.
If the Security Bureau really borrowed a cursed object that can perform image retrospective, then through the image retrospective, it must be able to find him.
At that time, his identity will be exposed, and what awaits him will be death.
However, he is not an ordinary person after all, otherwise he would not have been promoted to the current position in the gnawing teeth.
He quickly discovered the abnormality and managed to regain his composure.
"No, you're lying to me. If the security bureau will find me right away, it's impossible for you to come to me at this time."
"No, I didn't lie to you. The Security Bureau did borrow such a cursed thing. As for why I came to you at this time, it was naturally to save you."
Minaval touched the white cat in his arms and said.
"After all, if something happens to you, the organization's plan in Constant City will almost fail, which is not what I want to see."
"What can you do to save me?"
The rich man asked hurriedly.
"I have a cursed thing called the Box of Flesh that erases all traces, including images from the past."
While speaking, Minaval patted the white cat in her arms.
White hair jumped out of her arms, visible to the naked eye, and her body swelled suddenly.
In a very short period of time, he turned into a monster with a height of nearly 1.6 meters.
It has a human body, a cat's head, and four claws like cat's claws.
"Wow-"
It opens its mouth, and the abdominal muscles wriggle, spreading all the way up, through the throat, and into the mouth.
An adult slap-sized box with yellow-green mucus on it was spat out of its mouth.
It picked up the box, put it on the coffee table, and retreated behind Minaval like a guard.
Look carefully at this box, it is not wood or metal, but flesh and blood.
The dark red flesh is like the sticky wall of some kind of creature, and the surface is full of folds.
At the top, it has two eyes and a mouth full of fangs.
At this moment, these two eyes are turning, looking around strangely.
"I'm going to find someone!"
The rich man stood up and was about to find someone to use the box of flesh and blood.
The use of cursed objects requires a price, and he naturally won't do it himself.
As for whether the person selected by him is willing or not, it is up to the other party.
"The side effect of using the Flesh Box is to lose part of the flesh, and the side effects of this cursed item will vary from user to user."
"If the user's strength is too weak, even if he sacrifices all his flesh and blood, he will not be able to activate it successfully."
Minaval shook his head and said.
"In other words, it can only be activated by me?"
The rich man stopped and asked with a frown.
"That's right, you can only activate it yourself, that's why I found you."
Minaval nodded and said.
"If you can just find someone to activate it, I have already found someone to activate it to erase the traces of Ariel for you."
The rich man frowned.
If the box of flesh and blood is not used, he is likely to be exposed, and if the box of flesh and blood is used, he will lose part of the flesh and blood.
After only a few seconds of thinking, the man with a rich body made a decision and asked.
"How to use the Flesh Box?"
"Just put your hand into the mouth of the box of flesh and blood."
Minaval took a sip of red wine and said.
The rich man walked to the coffee table and handed his left hand to the box of flesh and blood.
And the box of flesh and blood seemed to sense the thoughts of the rich man, and opened his mouth full of fangs.
Puff!
With the sound of flesh being bitten, half of the palm of the man's body was bitten off by the mouth of the box of flesh and blood.
Chewed a few times and swallowed.
swallowed this half of the palm, and the eyeballs of the box of flesh and blood rolled, seeming to be quite satisfied.
An invisible wave spread, passed through the villa, and spread farther away.
With this fluctuation, all traces of Ariel Soto, including the images of Ariel Soto in the past, including the corpse of Ariel Soto buried somewhere by a rich man, disappeared.
This is not as simple as erasing traces, but to make the whole person evaporate from the world.
What if it was a living person?
Obviously, the box of flesh and blood is a very high-level curse, and the effect is not as simple as erasing traces.
Minnaval glanced at the pale man who had lost half of his palm, and waved to the monster with the body of a cat-headed man behind him.
The monster with the body of a cat head walked over to the coffee table, picked up the box of flesh and blood, and swallowed it with its mouth wide open.
Then it shrank quickly, turned into a snow-white cat again, and jumped into Minaval's arms lightly.
"Then I'll take my leave!"
Minnavar stood up and put on the black fur coat hanging on the hanger.
After saying a word to the rich man, he turned around and walked out. He quickly boarded a carriage and drove away from the villa.
Inside the carriage, Minaval's expression turned contemptuous.
"It's really useless, and I have to help to finish it off. It has been dormant for more than ten years. This is the organization's first action in these years, and it can't fail!"
Ariel Soto does not know her place but knows her name, but she is not worried that the security bureau will find her because she has been using a pseudonym for the outside world.
…
On a street in the East District, the four of Fehling were following the image of Ariel Soto, getting closer and closer to the villa where the rich man was.
Sudden.
Ariel Soto's image shattered and disappeared like a bubble, disappearing in front of the four Fehlings.
"what happened?"
Julie hurriedly asked Fehling.
"I did not stop the retrospective of yesterday's clock's image."
Fehling shook his head blankly.
He could feel that the bell of yesterday was still running, and there were still images of the past around, but the image of Ariel Soto had completely disappeared.
"I don't know how Ariel Soto suddenly disappeared."
"It should be that the other party noticed that we were tracking, and through some method, the image left by Ariel Soto in the past was erased."
Lindy looked at the surrounding images except for Ariel Soto, guessing.
"What then?"
Fehling asked.
"It can only go so far."
Lindy said slightly regretfully.
"It was obvious that a cultist higher than Ariel Soto would be caught right away, but he didn't want to let the other party notice when he was about to be caught."
Julie looked regretful.
"This shows that the opponent's situation is not simple, it must be a high-level cultist, and has a high position in the gnawing teeth."
Lindy said.
"And it's not that we didn't gain anything. We already know the name of Minaval, and we can use this name as a clue to investigate."
"I'm worried that this will be the other party's pseudonym, or that the other party uses a different name when going out to the public."
Julie was a little worried.
"Whether it's a pseudonym or not, this is an important clue that warrants investigation."
"Furthermore, it shouldn't be far from where the high-level cultist is hiding."
"You can delineate a certain area with this as the center, and conduct a detailed investigation of the nobles and wealthy businessmen in this area."
After ??, Lindy looked at Fei Lin and said.
"Felling, it's time to end the use of the Bell of the Past."
"Um."
Fehling complied, ending the use of the Bell of the Past.
With the end of use, the clock of the past clock starts to rotate clockwise rapidly.
The surrounding scenery changes.
This time it is no longer backwards, but fast forward.
Pedestrians, carriages...all moving things move fast in a fast-forward manner.
The ?? hour hand quickly rotates several times and then stops rotating rapidly, the image disappears, and the time returns to the current time.
"How is it, do you feel abnormal memory?"
Lindy hurriedly asked Ferrin who had finished using yesterday's bell.
And Julie and Ivy also looked at Fei Lin.
"I didn't feel anything unusual."
Felin felt it for a moment and then shook his head. He didn't feel any abnormality.
The total time spent using the Clock of Yesterday is no more than two hours. After the weakening of the Eye of Appraisal of the Three Rings, he only randomly lost less than four minutes of time.
Losing less than four minutes of memory has little effect on him.
"That's good."
Lindy breathed a sigh of relief.
Although based on the experience of past users, it would not have any effect, but she was still a little worried. Fortunately, Fei Lin, like past users, did not have abnormal memory.
"Everyone is tired tonight, take a half day off tomorrow and start work in the afternoon."
…
In the following days, the Security Bureau mobilized its intelligence capabilities to investigate the name Minaval and the wealthy nobles and businessmen within a designated area.
The gnawing tooth has been alerted and is no longer in action, and the tasks related to monsters have been greatly reduced.
Fei Lin didn't receive the task, so he went to work normally every day, and when he went to get off work, he took out the secret book of the mysterious gun and read it.
The skyrocketing power has been adapted to by him these days, completely controlled by him, and there will be no more cases of excessive force and breaking things.
After half a month.
"It turns out that this is the practice method of the second-order to the third-order..."
Fei Lin gently closed the hundreds of pages of the Mysterious Spear to the Third Ring of Secret Techniques. It took him half a month to finally finish reading the Mysterious Spear to the Third Ring of Secret Techniques, and got a complete picture. The second-order advanced third-order practice method.
Mysterious gun wants to advance from the second-level to the third-level, and must learn to master the characteristics of "armor-piercing", that is, let the bullet have the effect of "armor-piercing bullet".
And the method is to engrave a ritual pattern with armor-piercing properties on the surface of the bullet condensed with mysterious power.
When the bullet is fired, the ritual pattern will be activated.
The mysterious power that constitutes the bullet will be motivated by the ritual pattern, and the bullet will have the effect of "armor-piercing bullet".
"There will be a power gap of more than ten times between the armor-piercing mystical power bullet and the ordinary mysterious power bullet!"
According to the description in the esoteric book, a mysterious power bullet engraved with the ritual pattern of the armor-piercing attribute will be ten times more powerful than ordinary mysterious power bullets.
The reason for this is that the ritual pattern of the armor-piercing attribute improves the utilization efficiency of the mysterious power.
Mystical power bullets that are not engraved with the ritual pattern of the armor-piercing attribute are like hitting people with mysterious power as a stone.
And the mysterious power bullet engraved with the ritual pattern of the armor-piercing attribute is like processing the mysterious power into gunpowder.
One is "stone" and the other is "gunpowder", and there will naturally be a huge power gap between the two.
"With the complexity of the ritual pattern of the armor-piercing attribute, it is not easy for me to engrave the mysterious power bullet without the ability to remember it."
After reading the Secret Art Book, Fei Lin has realized the difficulty of the second ring and the advanced third ring practice method.
If you want to engrave the armor-piercing attribute ritual pattern on the mysterious power bullet, you naturally have to memorize the armor-piercing attribute ritual pattern completely, and reach a deep level of memory.
And the armor-breaking attribute ritual pattern is composed of many patterns, which is extremely complex, even more than the pattern of the mysterious spear enlightenment ceremony.
It is extremely difficult to memorize it completely.
It will take a very long time just to memorize it.
"What's more difficult is that in order for it to be used in battle, it must be engraved in an instant."
The mysterious power in the mysterious gun exists in the state of aggregation, and only when it is used will it be separated to form a mysterious power bullet.
And this is doomed, the mysterious power bullet with the ritual pattern of the armor-piercing attribute cannot be engraved in advance, and it can only be produced on the spot during the battle.
During the battle, the situation is changing rapidly. Under such a tense situation, it is naturally impossible to slowly engrave the mysterious power bullet with the ritual pattern of the armor-piercing attribute.
Not to mention that the inscription is completed in an instant, and the inscription of the ritual pattern of the armor-piercing attribute must be completed in at least one or two seconds.
Otherwise, the armor-piercing attribute ritual pattern has not been successfully engraved, and the enemy or the enemy's extraordinary ability has already attacked.
"If you practice step by step, even if you practice for a year, you may not be able to use it in actual combat. Fortunately, I have a shortcut to take the panel."
Fei Lin exhaled a turbid breath and called out the panel.
Name: Fehling
Eye of Appraisal: Three Rings (Upgradable)
Mysterious Gun: Second Ring (Upgradeable)
Autopsy: Master (not upgradable)
Mystery Points: 10.7
He looked at the column of the mysterious gun, and it turned out to be upgradable.
As he read the part of the second ring of the mysterious gun and the advanced third ring of the secret book, and mastered the practice method of the second ring of the mysterious gun and the third ring, the mysterious gun of the mysterious gun has changed from non-upgradable to upgradeable. .
He is very fortunate that he has a panel and has this cheating ability.
Otherwise, let alone the title of a super-talented person, he would be favored by a large-scale force like the Security Bureau, even if he joined a mysterious organization.
can only be like detective Caffy Colon, although he yearns for a mysterious world, but he can't open the door and join the mysterious organization to get in touch with the mystery.
"There will be movement in the promotion, and the mysterious gun can only be upgraded after get off work."
After get off work in the afternoon, Fei Lin stopped by a restaurant for dinner and returned to his residence.
Back at his residence, he locked the door and sat on the sofa in the living room.
After taking a few deep breaths to calm his mind, he called out the panel and chose to upgrade the column of the mysterious gun.
Shoo!
As he chose to upgrade the column of the mysterious gun, the mystery points decreased by 4 points to 6.7 points, and the word "second ring" of the mysterious gun became the word "third ring".
A large amount of memories poured into his brain like a tide.
Happy Dragon Boat Festival!
(end of this chapter)