Dorothy's Forbidden Tome

"No need...I'll do it myself..."

While talking, the man in black put his free hand into Corey's pocket, and then fumbled for a pocket watch. The man in black opened it with one hand, and soon saw the engraving on it. with the name.

"Who came to pawn this watch to you, do you know each other?"

Looking at the pocket watch in his hand, the man in black asked directly, and after listening to his words, Corey also answered directly in a panic.

"Yes, it's a man, a little tall, wearing a black windbreaker and a hat, with a gun and his face covered, I can't see his face clearly, I don't know him at all!"

"to be frank……"

"I, what I'm telling is the truth, sir! Well, that guy even used a gun to force me to take this watch forcibly! I really have nothing to do with him, and I can't see what he looks like! Please let me go pass me!"

Corey said as if begging for mercy. Hearing his words, the man in black nodded slowly. After putting the pocket watch in his pocket, he put down the knife on Corey's neck, and then killed him. pushed forward.

"Stand there and don't move, don't look back."

"Yes, yes, I will not look back!"

Corey quickly promised, the man in black nodded after hearing Corey's promise, and then turned his head and walked away. However, Corey, who was humiliated for the second time today, would not just listen to him like this. He stood where he was, with angry eyes Stare at the drawer of the cabinet ahead.

Without further ado, Corey immediately took two steps forward and pulled out the drawer, and then took out a revolver from it. He immediately turned his head and pointed his gun at the man in black who was about to leave, ready to pull the trigger.

"Go to hell……"

Before Corey could finish his sentence, a throwing knife flew out from a dark corner of the room, and directly inserted into Corey's neck impartially. He fell down with his eyes wide open.

The notorious loan shark on White Pearl Street, Corey Cross, died in his shop just like that.

Then, in the dark corner where the flying knife flew out, another masked man in black walked out. He stood beside Corey's body with the man who was about to leave before, and said with a sneer.

"Everyone in White Pearl knows that Corey Cross' promises are worthless..."

After finishing speaking, a man in black took out a piece of straw paper the size of a slap from his body, knelt down and patted it on the forehead of Corey's dead body with a big mouth, and then the straw paper burned quickly, leaving a scar on Corey's forehead. Faint imprint of "cup".

Then every inch of flesh and blood on Corey's corpse spontaneously transpired strangely, festering and spreading rapidly, from the skin to the muscles to the internal organs, every bit of blood and flesh was evaporating and turning into green smoke.

In a short period of time, only bones and clothes remained where Corey's body had been lying.

"Hurry up and deal with it, Mr. Clifford is still waiting for us..."

A man in black took out a bag and put all the bones and clothes left by Corey in it, and then the two of them took the bag and turned out through a side window, taking advantage of the cover of night He escaped into an unoccupied alley.

However, what they didn't know was that the gecko who had been lying on the ceiling had seen everything they did in the store before, and while they were collecting bones, the gecko who had been smaller all the time inadvertently... The room had already crawled into Corey's trouser legs and was packed away by them.

At this time, in a dark corner on the street, Dorothy slowly opened her eyes.

"Finally... caught your tail..."

Chapter 61 Bookstore

Igwent in the night, White Pearl Street.

After cleaning the scene, the two men in black quickly left the scene. They jumped out of the window, sneaked into the shadows, and then quickly turned left and right in the alleys of Baizhu Street, turning forward.

After carefully walking around in the dark for a long time, the two men in black finally moved towards their goal. They walked to the end in a long and narrow alley, and then entered a building through a back door middle.

After passing through a dimly lit corridor, the two men in black came to a wide room. There were many bookshelves in this room. There were old books lined up on the bookshelves, and a decaying smell radiated in the air. .

At this time, there was a bald and hunchbacked old man standing among the bookshelves. When the two men in black saw his figure, they immediately knelt down on one knee and spoke.

"Mr Clifford..."

"How's the situation?" Hearing the words of his subordinates, Clifford said slowly, and the two men in black in front of him also answered quickly.

"We went to Corey, and he did receive Mr. Burton's belongings. It was this thing at noon today..." While speaking, a man in black handed over a pocket watch in his arms to After picking up Clifford, Clifford took it and observed it carefully, then he opened his mouth with a slight frown.

"It's indeed Burton's stuff, so did that fellow Corey see the seller's face?"

"No, Corey said that the other party was a slightly taller man with a mask and a gun. He was a ruthless character, and Corey himself was robbed by him." The man in black continued to report, listen Clifford couldn't help replying with a cold snort to his words.

"Hmph... Mostly because I wanted to cheat the other party, but I ran into a hard stubble. Where is the Cory now?"

"That guy was disobedient and wanted to fight back. We have already killed him. The body was dealt with with a sigil." The man in black continued to reply, listening to his words, Clifford nodded slowly.

"That guy asked for it himself. The information he got this time is indeed a bit small, but at least it is confirmed that those guys may sell their stolen goods on Baizhu Street... You continue to pay attention to the recent disturbances around here, especially those who sell stolen goods. Pay attention, and you will definitely catch those guys by their tails."

Clifford gave instructions to his subordinates, and the men in black under him also nodded in response.

"Yes, sir."

……

At this moment, on the front of this building, at a roadside corner across the street, Dorothy was standing there quietly, confirming the location of another stronghold of the Holy Communion in the distance through the positioning of the gecko corpse.

"Finally...found another..."

In order to find the hidden stronghold of the Communion on White Pearl Street, Dorothy directed this fishing scene.

Dorothy first identified Corey Cross, the notorious loan shark on White Pearl Street, through the investigation results of the three days on White Pearl Street, and then went to him with a corpse pawn to get it from Burton. pocket watch, and then spread the word through the streets with other corpse puppets to get the word out.

The purpose of doing this is to attract the attention of the eyes and ears of the Holy Communion and White Pearl Street. They are all on the same street. The stronghold of the Holy Communion is bound to hear the rumors. They will not let go of such a clue, and they will secretly send someone to Corey Cross to verify this message, trying to get clues about the unknown enemy from Corey's mouth.

And this is what Dorothy expected to see. She used the animal corpse to monitor Corey all the time, waiting for the people from the Holy Communion to find him, and then followed these people to the stronghold of the Holy Communion on White Pearl Street.

"So... Now that I have found another... What should I do?"

Under the moonlight, Dorothy leaned against the roadside wall and began to think about it. It is good to find a new stronghold, but how to deal with it afterwards has become a problem.

Dorothy can carry out raids as before, but once the stronghold is attacked, the remaining strongholds of the Holy Communion must be alerted, and it will definitely be much more difficult to reproduce the previous routine, after all, how many days have passed , A few weeks ago, the companion who disappeared from the mission suddenly came back and would be suspicious and alert no matter how he recruited.

If you don't engage in sneak attacks, Dorothy actually doesn't have much chance of winning against a stronghold of the Holy Communion.

And you can't report it directly. There are ghosts in the Anyin Bureau. If you report it, you will only scare the snake and let them evacuate early.

So what to do about it?

For a moment, Dorothy was in a dilemma. He looked at the building diagonally across the street as a stronghold, carefully looked at its front door, and at the signboard illuminated by street lights.

"Barnard Old Book Collection"

'Is this a bookstore?Or... this bookstore should be the disguised facade of this stronghold. "

Looking at the signboard of the bookstore not far away, Dorothy thought for a while, and then some thoughts slowly surfaced in her mind.

"Maybe...you can try a little..."

Nodding slightly, Dorothy murmured, then she turned around and walked towards the direction of leaving White Pearl Street. Today's investigation has come to an end, and now she needs to go back and have a good rest.

……

The sun rose in the east, the night dissipated, and the night passed quickly.

Early in the morning in Igwent, above the apartment building on Nanyanghua Road, Greg, who had worked an extra night, was climbing the stairs with a slightly shaky figure under his tired eyes.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..."

Complaining in a low voice, Greg has a lot of resentment in his heart at this time. Since the Burton case, he has been working overtime frequently for a while, either analyzing the case in the bureau, or because of various things. The intelligence was rushing around, which made him a little exhausted these days.

"Before I left, I received information that someone on White Pearl Street was selling the dirt on the Burton case... It's the first time I've heard similar information, and this time it's probably false again... Anyway, it's fortunate that Mr. James sent another team to go there this time." , I have to take a good rest today. '

While thinking, Greg came to his door, opened the door with a key, and saw his sister sitting on the sofa in the living room having breakfast.

"Good morning Greg, are you back from the night shift?"

"Well... good morning Dorothy..."

Greg nodded, then closed the door and entered the room. Dorothy asked curiously after glancing at the tired Greg.

"Greg, you've been working a lot of overtime recently. Is it because of something?"

"Isn't it because of the Burton Weir case that killed seven people but still hasn't been caught? Many rich families feel unsafe, so the need for security has increased. We are so busy these days. Because of this..." While speaking, Greg took off his coat on the hanger, then sat heavily on the sofa, and drank milk.

Listening to Greg's words, Dorothy also said in an uneasy tone while clutching her chest.

"Burton Vail... I also saw it in the newspaper. It's so cruel. It's disturbing that such a vicious murderer is still at large. I don't feel safe on the way home from school..."

"Don't worry... Although the murderer is still at large, he should not be interested in ordinary people... Well, I mean, he might only target the rich." Putting down the milk bottle, Greg said, understanding With inside information, he knew that this was an assault and murder case between a secret association, and the victim was far from a good person.

"Dorothy, you'd better not be influenced by the public opinion of this case, and remember that learning is the most important thing."

"Well, don't worry, I'm studying hard every day."

Dorothy replied with a smile, thinking that she was worrying about tuition every day.

Then Dorothy thought again, and asked Greg, who was eating bread.

"By the way, Greg, do you know... White Pearl Street?"

Chapter 62 Buying Books

"White Pearl Street? Why are you asking this?"

Sitting on the sofa, Greg, who just took a bite of bread, frowned and said that he only heard the rumors there before he got off work.

"This, Greg, you know, because we girls can't take evening classes, so our grades are always worse than boys." Dorothy said to Greg naturally, Greg After listening, he nodded in response.

"Well... I understand this. The current unfair education of boys and girls is a very common phenomenon. St. Amanda is already considered very good, so I sent you to study here... But this is not the same as White Pearl What does the street matter?"

"It's like this, as for me... I'm not very satisfied with the results of those boys who are always ahead of me, so I like to study by myself in the school library recently, in order to keep up with the progress.

"In the past few days, I have been relying on the books in the library for self-study, but after a long time, I found that some sets of books were incomplete and missing, which made me very embarrassed, and my self-study was also affected. When I was young, I went to the bookstore in the city to look for the missing books, and wanted to buy them to make up for them, but unfortunately, most of the books in the school library were very old, and the bookstores only sold new books, so I couldn’t find them for a while. .

"Afterwards, I asked the teacher in the school to see if there was any place where I could find those missing old books, and then a teacher suggested to me that I could look for them on White Pearl Street, which is said to be a second-hand market."

Dorothy explained to Greg seriously that the more Greg listened to Dorothy's words, his expression became more dignified. After listening, he took another sip of milk before speaking slowly.

"Dorothy, your idea of ​​improving your grades to catch up with boys is very good. I'm glad you can be so self-motivated, but I still want to remind you, it's best not to go to White Pearl Street."

"Don't go to White Pearl Street? Why? Isn't there a second-hand market?"

After listening to Greg's words, Dorothy tilted her head and spoke in a puzzled tone, while Greg replied in a serious voice.

"It's not as simple as a second-hand market, it's also a gathering place for countless wastes who dream of getting rich overnight, it's a street of usury that eats people, and there are many gangs there... All in all, the security situation there is not very good Well, it's not safe for a girl to go to that kind of place, so it's better not to go."

Greg warned, while Dorothy complained in her heart that she had been there for four days.

"That's it...then I won't go..."

Listening to Greg, Dorothy continued with a lost expression and tone.

"It's a pity, if I don't have those books, I'm afraid it will be very difficult for me to learn to surpass those boys..."

Sitting on the sofa and drinking milk, Greg couldn't bear to see his sister's disappointed expression for a moment. He put down his cup and thought for a while, then said with determination.

"Huh... How about it, I should have half a day off this weekend, and then I'll take you to White Pearl Street. If I accompany you, you'll be fine."

"Ah, really? Thank you so much Greg!"

Listening to Greg's words, Dorothy's expression suddenly became joyful, and Greg also said with a smile.

"You're welcome, who called me your brother?"

"Well, then I'll go to school first, bye."

"Walk slowly."

After eating the last piece of bread, Dorothy walked out of the living room. After she closed the door, there was still a vague smile on her lips.

……

Igwinter by day, on a street somewhere.

On the weekend, Dorothy and Greg, dressed in casual clothes, came out from the door of a restaurant. Dorothy was wiping her mouth with a tissue, while Greg stood aside and asked.

"How do you feel about the taste of this place?"

"It's okay, so now it's time to go to the destination after eating and drinking."

"Well, of course..."

While speaking, Greg walked to the side of the road and stopped a carriage, and then the two of them drove forward together in the carriage. After walking through the city for a while, they finally arrived at White Pearl Street.

After getting out of the carriage, Dorothy glanced at the familiar scene before her and spoke.

"Is this the White Pearl Street? It seems that there are fewer people than other streets. The things in the store look so strange."

"Well... here it is, remember to follow me closely all the time, don't run around, you understand?" Looking at the sneaky people wandering in the cold street with vigilant eyes, Greg warned, and more Rosie nodded in reply.

"Oh, I see!"

Then, Dorothy, who had completely changed her clothes, followed Greg on the familiar street. She saw Corey's Pawn Shop with its gate closed and a group of people gathered at its door, and listened carefully to the content of the quarrel. In other words, it can be found that they are all people who originally supported Corey's gang, and they are arguing loudly about how to divide up the property left by Corey. Looking at this posture, there is a possibility of filming at any time, and there is no police investigating around.

"Heh... It seems that no one cares about where the missing guy went. They only care about how to divide the things he left behind. I'm afraid they didn't even report to the police. No wonder those guys can silence without saying a word... ...'