Dorothy's Forbidden Tome

'Psychological manipulation?Make him my puppet?If only I had that ability.

'Give a cup of medicine to corrupt him?Does this really work for the Extraordinary of 'Stone'? '

Lying on the bed, Dorothy pondered what to do with the Black Order bonemaker captive, and after she glanced around the empty room, an idea came to her mind.

'Looks like... you can try this...'

Chapter 160 Three Bars

In Igwent in the morning, in a dark and cold alley, the sun shines in from a ray of sky between the buildings, barely illuminating the dark environment in the alley, and there are homeless and dirty clothes They huddled in the corner by the wall, or fell asleep with their eyes closed, and in one of the more remote and uninhabited corners, a figure in not so ragged clothes was lying down here.

This is a man in his thirties or forties, a little short, with stubble all over his face, a sinister face, well-dressed but covered in dust, his eyes closed, lying unconscious against a dark corner, he is walking forward I just came to Igwent not long ago. Godfrey, who was carrying out the mission of the society with his companions, a "stone" way, a bone maker of the black earth steps, now for some reason, passed out in the corner of this alley .

At this moment, Godfrey was still lying unconscious in the corner. His coma had lasted for an unknown amount of time, but there was still no sign of waking up. Just when he seemed to be in a coma forever, let him Above him, a puddle of cold water poured directly onto him.

Godfrey, who was suddenly chilled, shivered violently, and then woke up directly. He clutched his groggy head and looked at the strange environment in front of him.

"Hiss... where is this... what's wrong with me?"

Godfrey murmured with a puzzled expression that in his memory, before he passed out, he should be carrying out the task of Mr. Deer Skull, in order to destroy the stone statues in the school and fight against the Extraordinary who hindered them.

Godfrey still remembers that at the end of that battle, he used the sigil of listening to perceive the surrounding environment, and he was confident enough to deal with all the enemies who came up from the dark, but at the end he sensed something fell on him After he was at his feet, he instinctively felt something was wrong, and was stunned by a loud noise while running away.

"At that time, that thing was really dangerous. Fortunately, it escaped, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous..."

Recalling this, Godfrey continued to struggle to stand up, and then looked around more blankly.

'The question now is...how did I suddenly end up in this place?What about Mr. Deer Skeleton?What about Oswan?Did the mission succeed or fail?If I failed and passed out, why did the enemy leave me here instead of dealing with me? '

Looking at the surrounding scene, Godfrey thought in confusion that just when he was about to think about it, he suddenly felt a burst of hunger in his abdomen, and his colleague's mouth was extremely thirsty.

'Very hungry...so thirsty...no, now is not the time to think about these things, I need to find something to eat and drink...'

While thinking like this, Godfrey looked around and began to look for food and water sources around him. Of course, there are no such things in this dark alley, unless he, an Extraordinary, wants to turn around like those tramps. Trash cans, drinking gutter water.

After looking around, Godfrey decided to go out from this alley first. After looking around a few times, he found that what he was in seemed to be the end of the alley, and there was only one person who wanted to go out from here. a way.

Without thinking too much, Godfrey walked forward with flamboyant steps, walking forward along the only road. After turning a few turns, he finally saw the exit from the alley to the main road, which was even more critical. Surprisingly, beside the exit, he saw a bar that was in operation.

Seeing the bar, Godfrey, who was hungry and thirsty, let out a long sigh of relief, and then stepped forward without thinking.

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Roughly speaking, the upper and lower urban areas of Igwent are roughly divided by the Tieni River, with the north bank being the upper and the south bank being the lower. On the North Shore, there is also a considerable area that is classified as the lower city. The boundary between this and the upper city is blurred, and theft is rampant.

Night Song Bar is opened at the blurred junction of the upper and lower urban areas. It is open 24 hours a day, so there is a steady stream of customers at all times. During the day, it is mainly people from the upper city, and at night, it is mostly from the lower city. Many people come and go, and many people dine here at dusk.

If there is a time of day when the bar is the least crowded, it must be in the morning, but this does not mean that there are no people here at this time. Some people like to come here in the morning, such as now.

In the early morning, Greg, who had just finished his overtime work, was sitting on the bench in front of the cold counter in the Night Song bar, with a glass of wine in front of him and a stick of cigarette in his hand, with two obvious black spots on his eyes. Eye circles, tired look.

That's right, Greg is a frequent visitor to this bar. Whenever he finishes working overtime and puts all his equipment back in the bureau, he usually doesn't go home immediately. Instead, he comes to this bar for a drink or two. Smoke for a while, relieve the stress a bit, and then go back.

When he first came to Eagle Winter, Greg was a frequent visitor to this bar, even though he was living in the lower city on the south bank of the river, and he only got a meager salary as a worker in the factory every day, because in the Here he can get in touch with the residents of the upper city to a certain extent. At that time, he liked to squeeze out a little leisure in the nearly 12 hours of working time to come here to order a glass of the cheapest wine, and then look forward to it while drinking. Looking at the well-dressed, talking and laughing gentlemen and ladies on the street.

When he first came to Igwent, Greg had hoped to live that kind of life through struggle, but after he met too many old workers who had worked for five or ten years in the factory, he found that they were sick and tired. When Yan's body was still doing the same job as his own, he felt even more desperate.

In a gradually desperate state of mind and heavy work that weighed people down, Greg spent his first year in Igwinter. During this period, he wanted to escape from this ghost place countless times and return to the It’s okay to go to the village, but when he thinks that most of the fields in the village have been occupied, there are not many fields for him to cultivate.The hunting forest where his father used to make a living was also bought by nearby land merchants and developed into an exclusive hunting ground for rich people and nobles. After he returned, he could do nothing but burden Aunt Hannah's family, so He could only grit his teeth and keep going.

The turning point came two years ago. On a certain night, when Greg finished drinking in this bar and was about to go back to sleep in the Chase bunk room where 30 people squeezed into each other, he heard a sharp cry for help.

Then, following the cry for help, Greg came to an alley, where he overthrew the three kidnappers with his bare hands and rescued the two girls. Knowing that one of the leaders was overthrown by himself, he pasted a piece of paper on his head, and then rushed towards him like crazy.

Greg had never seen that gangster with such a fast speed and crazy demeanor. If ordinary people encountered such a thing, they would be easily killed, but fortunately, Greg was not an ordinary person. He was born very flexible. When hunting with his father, he can deal with wild animals, and when he fights with other children in the village, he can play the five of them around. He stabbed to death that unusually crazy and powerful guy.

Afterwards, Greg witnessed an incredible scene. He saw that the punk who fell on the ground turned into a haggard mummy within a few seconds.

Then, in the hospital, still in shock, he met unexpected visitors, a group of men in black.

They claimed to be official and belonged to an organization that Greg had never heard of, called the Security Bureau. They took a fancy to Greg's aptitude and invited him to join the hunter team. Afterwards he knew that the three kidnappers It was a member of an organization called the Scarlet Sacrament, and he was invited into the Security Bureau to protect him.

After entering the Security Bureau, Greg's life began to undergo earth-shaking changes. Not only did his work intensity become much easier than before, but he also received a salary that was unimaginable at ordinary times, 8 pounds a month. Relying on this With a small salary, he bid farewell to the previous life like a pigsty, and moved to a decent apartment in the lower city.

Afterwards, Greg was like a fish in water in Igwynn's security bureau. In just two years, he joined the only four in Igwynn County, the captain of the hunter team, and became a member of the hunter team under the arrangement of the bureau. For the true Extraordinary, the monthly salary has even increased to 23 pounds per month.

After obtaining such a high income, Greg immediately changed the house again, and changed the rented apartment from the lower city to the upper city, which was bigger, more spacious and brighter, and then he realized his previous dream, relocating his only The younger sister of relatives picked her up from the countryside, gave her the best education in the city, and paved the way for her, so that she would never walk on the dark road that she had experienced before.

Greg is very clear that he was able to get out of that road entirely because of the accidental result of the ingenious combination of his natural aptitude and subsequent luck in his heart. Not everyone can have it, and in the process of this combination Among them, he himself almost lost his life several times.

Therefore, Greg knew that his case was special, and his sister could not be the same as him, so he prepared a smoother and brighter path for her, called the path of education.

Now Greg is satisfied, and his sister Dorothy seems to be on the right track as he expected.But his latest work has suffered unexpected difficulties.

The repeated incidents and overtime work did not actually have much impact on him. For Greg, the big deal is to return to the previous work and rest state. Anyway, this will not last forever.

But in a recent incident, Greg suffered a major blow.

It was a guard mission on Knights Road in the upper city. His team was attacked by an unexpected Extraordinary. Three people were killed and five people were injured, two of them were seriously injured. More than half of the team was killed or injured. Greg was the leader of the hunters. It was the first time since his team suffered such a serious loss.

Although in the subsequent investigation and analysis, the bureau came to the report that the attacker was most likely to be the Black Order, because of the huge difference in strength, although Greg suffered heavy losses, he did not take responsibility, but because only a team of hunters The team was rewarded for forcing back the black-ranked mysterious Extraordinary.

However, more than half of the team members who were with him day and night were disabled and died in one breath. As the captain, Greg, who encountered this situation for the first time, still couldn't accept it for a while. He began to blame himself and became depressed, and the number of times he came to the bar more and more.Inner group 1 0 2 0 0 3 7 9 9 2

Because of the Knight Road incident, Greg's mood became a little unstable. He has to come here to have a drink or two to decompress almost every time before going home. This is not because he started to give up on himself, but because he is worried about his emotions. If it is not easy to go home, I may lose control and affect my sister Dorothy.

Sitting in front of the counter, Greg shook the ashes of the cigarette in his hand, and drank another glass of wine with a solemn expression. At this moment, his mind was full of vivid memories of the night on the Knights Road. In front of his eyes, and what he couldn't forget even more, was the figure who was caught by him but escaped successfully, the Extraordinary who caused the crime.

That night, Greg found him and took note of the other's face. Greg swore that he must find out the details of the other party and catch him, even if the other party was the black order.

Just as Greg was drinking in sorrow, the door of the bar was opened at this moment, and a short man in his thirties and forties with a stubbled face and a sinister face walked in.

Chapter 160 Four Arrests

The door of Night Song Bar was opened, and a man covered in dust walked in. At this time, hungry and thirsty, he walked to the bar counter, and said to the bar attendant after sitting down.

"Bring me a glass of water and some sausage bread."

"Good guest, please wait a moment."

Following the words of the newcomer, the waiter went to prepare the food. At this time, on the other side of the bar, Greg had already smoked his last cigarette, drank his last glass of wine, left the money on the counter, and got up to leave , walking towards the exit door, during which time, he brushed past the new customer sitting on the bar.

Greg walked to the door of the bar, stretched out his hand and was about to push the door open, and when he was walking home as usual, there was a sudden clear and loud voice behind him.

Greg turned his head and saw that a customer in front of the bar accidentally broke the wine glass in his hand, and the wine in the glass splashed on another customer, that one with a square face full of stubble He was scolding each other fiercely.

"What's going on! Kid, don't kill yourself!

"Ahaha, I'm sorry sir, I will compensate you for getting your clothes wet. Can I treat you for this meal?"

As he said that, the reckless guest paid the waiter, and Greg, who had witnessed this scene, turned his head and prepared to leave without thinking much.

But at this moment, his expression paused, his whole body froze in place, as if he suddenly realized something.

Greg, who was standing at the door, turned his head slowly, looked at the man in front of the bar who was wiping his splashed clothes, his expression became serious, and after staring at his face for several seconds, he said nothing. Fa pushed open the door and went out.

Inside the bar, Godfrey let go of the wet air splashed on his body, wolfed down the food served, drank the water, and then left his seat, thinking about what to do next as he walked towards the corner of the bar. Door.

Thinking about it, Godfrey walked to the door of the bar, opened it and walked out.

And when Godfrey just stepped out of the door, beside him, a brick that had been prepared earlier slammed at him violently, hitting his forehead hard, and the whole brick was crushed. The slapping was fragmented, and Godfrey was stunned by the shock of his head. Because of the force of the slapping, his whole body fell to one side and fell to the ground.

"Ah...ha..."

With his mouth wide open and his eyes wide open, Godfrey, who was a little dizzy, looked in the direction of the brick attack just now, and then he saw a young man in his twenties in casual clothes standing by the door of the bar, His right hand was covered with debris of bricks, while his left hand was holding a heavy steel pipe. He looked at him with an expression of indifference, and in this indifference there was even a hint of killing intent.

"Thank you Holy Son for sending you to me..."

Staring at the familiar figure in front of him, Greg murmured silently, looking at the murderous young man in front of him, Godfrey felt bad for a moment, then immediately stood up and turned around, and ran away from the young man.

Although he didn't know where he provoked the enemy, but at this time he was obviously not suitable for fighting, so he had to run quickly.

Seeing Godfrey struggling to escape, Greg clenched the heavy steel pipe in his hand, and chased after him unhurriedly. Knowing the terrain here, he knew that he couldn't escape in the direction that Godfrey fled just now. .

Soon, Greg followed up with Godfrey who had fled first. At this time, he was trapped at the end of a place, and the direction he was fleeing from was a dead end from the beginning.

With his back to the high wall at the end of the alley, Godfrey panted and stared at Greg who was gradually approaching him, and spoke.

"Hey... sir, there must be some misunderstanding between us."

"There is no misunderstanding between us."

After Greg finished speaking, he walked forward with the steel pipe and greeted Godfrey. Godfrey wanted to dodge, but Greg was much faster than him, and almost all the attacks hit him. The steel pipes kept hitting the hardened skin, making a crisp and loud bang that echoed in the tunnel.

Facing Greg's offensive, Godfrey, who has been passively beaten, wanted to fight back but couldn't touch the opposite side at all. With the agility and speed of the invisible man, in a one-on-one situation, he was a hungry man with super physical strength. Those who are thirsty are only to be teased.

Godfrey, who is a bone maker, is a black rank, one rank higher than Greg. He has a strong defense but no obvious physical bonus. He wants to catch him in close combat. It's impossible for Greg to fail completely, and he can't be Greg's opponent without the bones and ghosts.

'This speed, is it the Hidden One? !hateful!If the bones were not gone, I would have chopped you up long ago! '

Amidst the constant beatings, Godfrey thought angrily in his heart that for many "stone" Extraordinary, 80.00% of their strength comes from the equipment and structures they made, but his equipment has already been destroyed. She was stripped naked by Dorothy beforehand.

Back then on Knight's Road, Godfrey could easily play with the bone blade and ghost gear on Greg's team. Without Dorothy's intervention, it would not be a problem for him to wipe out Greg's entire team alone. It is said that he is all from the black soil class.But after losing the Ghost and the Bone Blade, he could only be beaten unilaterally by Greg.

The "stone" of the black rank has hard skin that can block bullets. Naturally, Greg's steel pipe can't cause any effective damage, but Greg also discovered that although he can't break the opponent's skin, the blunt weapon hits the opponent's skin. The shock caused can still be reflected in the tissue behind the opponent's hard skin, which may have no effect on other parts, but it is different for the head.

Although Greg's violent blunt instrumental blow could only slightly damage Godfrey's scalp, the shock of the blow could still affect the brain tissue after it was transmitted to the brain.

After many trials, Greg quickly found the best attack position. Facing Godfrey's head, Greg slammed a stick with both hands towards a place several times. He was knocked to the ground amidst the cry, unconscious.

In the alley, looking at the man who fell to the ground and became unconscious again, Greg panted heavily. After sitting on the ground and resting for a while, he began to search for ropes around him, preparing to tie him up and take him back to the bureau.

……

At this moment, above the alley, on the roof of a house, a crow was standing there ignoring the situation in front of him.And in a cafe one kilometer away, Dorothy was silently tasting the coffee in her private room.

"Good job, Greg, catching a black rank is a great achievement for you."

While drinking coffee, Dorothy murmured, yes, for her bonemaker prisoner, what she did was let Greg catch it, and give her brother a meritorious service.

Since that guy is useless to me, I might as well give Greg a credit. When he was on Knights Road, the bonemaker who controlled the bone blade caused a lot of damage to the hunter team. Definitely hope to catch him.

After all, no matter what, Greg is also his only relative in this world, so it is natural to take care of him a little bit.

There was a time when Dorothy followed Greg for a while to confirm the location of the Security Bureau, knowing that he liked to come to this bar to drink, so Dorothy used the corpse puppet to arrange the unconscious Godfrey nearby, and Wake him up when the time is right.

Afterwards, Dorothy had arranged enough corpse puppets disguised as civilians in the surrounding area, and prepared to use various operations to secretly guide the two to meet each other. The guest here is Dorothy's corpse puppet. His purpose of doing this is to make Greg, who is about to leave, notice the existence of Godfrey, and there are many similar arrangements like this.

Dorothy was actually not too worried about whether Godfrey would confess to the Security Bureau any information that was not good for her. Free didn't see anything.As for Aldrich's matter, the director of the Anyin Bureau must be more or less aware of something.

Dorothy has already spent 50 pounds to ask Aldrich to help. If the Anyin Bureau passed Godfrey's statement and asked Aldrich about the origins of the two women who defeated Godfrey that day, Aldrich would say yes A helper he hired from outside Igwent in his own name.

"I don't know...what reward will Greg get this time?" Looking at the street scene outside the window, Dorothy thought while drinking coffee.

Chapter 160 Five Home Visits

Uptown Eagle Winter, Cypress Shirt Building.

At noon, on the ground floor of the Cypress Building, the Igwent Anyin Office was still busy as usual. Among the busy crowd, Greg was walking along the promenade.

At this time, although the dark circles on his eyes are still there, and there is still something in his expression, but the unintentional curl of his mouth shows that he is in a good mood at this time.

With a brisk pace, Greg walked through the old director's office that had been boarded up, glanced at the lush and vibrant scene from the window, waved to the vine tentacles twisting by itself, and then continued to come to In front of the new chief's office, he knocked respectfully.

"come in."

After hearing the familiar voice, Greg opened the office door and entered the slightly narrow office, and then he saw James sitting behind the desk with a peaceful expression and a smile on his face.

"Mr. James, are you looking for me?"

"Sit first."

Looking at Greg in front of him, James spoke bluntly. Hearing what James said, Greg also nodded and sat on the seat in front of the desk. After seeing Greg sitting down, James did not speak immediately , but after lighting a cigar and taking two puffs, he also handed Greg one, and Greg accepted it thankfully.

"An apprentice, holding a steel pipe and a brick, beat a black soil block in an alley, and finally knocked him out and captured him. I have been in the hidden world for so many years. This is the first time I have encountered such a situation. Gray Ge, you really gave me a lot of insight."

After smoking two cigars, James said to Greg with a smile, and Greg replied quite modestly.

"It's just my luck. I don't know why the black-ranked bone knife that could be manipulated has disappeared, and his ability has lost more than half, so I can subdue him. If he is in the state when he was on the Knight's Road, I will Certainly not his opponent.

"By the way, Mr. James, how is that guy now? Is he awake?"

"He has woken up, but his brain seems to have been continuously shaken into a coma, and he still seems to have some problems with his sanity. It may take some time to ask something."

Shaking the soot, James said that he already knew almost everything at this time. Not long ago, the special envoy of the White Stonemasons Union had visited him and explained the situation about the Knight Road incident. James already knew This is a personal grievance conflict of a member of the craftsman union that has mistakenly affected the local hunters. The craftsman union expresses regret for this and is willing to compensate to a certain extent.

"Greg, I came here this time mainly to talk about your problems." Pointing at Greg with the cigarette in his hand, James continued to speak, and Greg was a little surprised when he heard it.

"I?"

"Yeah, although there are some coincidences in it, you still captured alive a black rank as an apprentice, captured a murderer with the blood of our fellow hunters on his hands, and captured a murderer who didn't know the scourge. How many civilian bone makers have been recruited? This is a great achievement. Since the establishment of the Igwent Security Bureau, it is the first time that such a large personal contribution has been made. You are embarrassing to our bureau. It was the right decision to pull in."

James smiled and said to Greg, and Greg responded quickly after hearing it.