Part 1 The Joker Chapter 186 – The Handsome Captain
Uncountable shimmering lights came to his face, and the chaos of millions of people murmuring at the same time poured into his ears, but Klein didn’t care about them at all, the ability of the “Joker” told him that his spiritual body was being enveloped by a rapidly expanding and spreading black shadow.
This black shadow is a huge cross, on which there seems to be a person hanging upside down!
Ka-ching!
The chaotic and terrifying storm of thoughts all turned outward and became unified, and Hoodoo’s “mind world” disintegrated inch by inch.
Kraven found himself flying at the highest speed he had ever reached during that day’s test, and his spiritual body had been strengthened to a certain degree after briefly combining some of the power of the mysterious space above the gray mist!
Just as the black shadow of the cross was about to envelop him completely, he broke out of the hazy “world” and sensed his own physical body.
With a skillful and rapid descent, Klein’s eyes were suddenly filled with a long, thin-faced, yellow-haired Hood Orgen, and with three candles burning quietly on the windowsill.
He was out of the psychic state just in time!
In a flash, he saw black scale after black scale grow on Hood Orgen’s face, and his blank pupils stood up and became unusually cold and unfeeling.
Oops! He’s going to lose control! Klein’s pupils just shrunk, and before he had time to react, he found a figure wearing a knee-length black trench coat and a silk bowler hat of the same color taking two steps in front of Hood Organ, raising the special revolver in his hand against his opponent’s head.
Bang, bang, bang, bang!
Dunn Smith snapped five shots in a row, and Hood Orgen’s head swelled open at once, like a watermelon crashing to the ground from a great height, showering every corner of the room with a storm of red and white.
He grabbed Hood Ogan and finished him off before he lost control completely!
Nearly within fifty centimeters, Klein’s face and body were covered with blood spots and stains, and he looked at Dunn-Smith in a daze, only to realize that the captain was so handsome at this moment.
As long as we do not talk about memory, the captain is still very trustworthy …… He heartily praised in his heart.
”What’s the accident?” Dunn put away his revolver and watched as Hood Ogan’s near headless body slowly went limp.
Crane was just about to organize his words to reply when he saw the body reduced in a few breaths to a puddle of bloody flesh and the insane asylum gown that covered it, seemingly tragically destroying even the most basic of structures.
Hood Orgen’s body was soon left with few things intact, dozens of scales that shimmered with a black shimmer, and his heart, which was tinted a pale blue and became crystalline.
This heart flowed with a dreamy color, like a diamond receiving a light.
It was sometimes quieting, sometimes manic, sometimes creating tightness, and sometimes chaos, but other than that, there were no special manifestations.
”This should be a controllable item.” Dunn put away his revolver, took out his black glove and put it on his right palm, then half squatted down and picked up the crystalline heart.
An item that can be controlled …… Then according to the captain’s previous statement, this can be used as the main ingredient for the Sequence 7 “Psychiatrist” formula …… But, will this make the extraordinary people who have been promoted as a result more prone to losing control? The extraordinary people who have been promoted as a result will be more prone to losing control of themselves. Klein took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood stains from his face and body, and retrieved the deck of special tarot cards and cleaned their surfaces.
He looked to the ground and asked curiously:
”And what item do these black scales belong to?”
”This is a material tainted with a certain extraordinary power, it can be used to create items with long-lasting effects, for example, our Demon Hunting Bullets, as long as it exceeds three months, the ability to harm monsters such as Necrotic Spirits will significantly decrease, only a little bit of the hunting characteristics that the material itself possesses will be left, if similar black scales are used as the material, the effect will be maintained for a year or even two years Above that, and the effect itself will be better, of course, due to the characteristics, these black scales are obviously not suitable for making magic hunting bullets.” Dunn explained as he took the paper from Klein and wrapped the pale blue heart around the black scales.
”Like the parts of a transcendent species’ body that can be used for something other than the main ingredient of a magic potion?” Klein asked rhetorically, by way of example.
Dunn straightened up and nodded softly:
”Yes.”
Out of control and you really become a monster …… Klein sighed and hurriedly recounted the previous encounter while the room was still sealed by the wall of spirituality:
”When I was communicating with Hood Orgen’s spirit, I saw from the level of his mind a shadow similar to that of the real Creator, but unlike the mainstream, not a giant bound in chains, hanging upside down, or eyes behind a curtain of shadows, but one similar to the one you saw in the dream of Haynas Vansant, Captain.”
Linus Vicente was a member of the Aurora Society, who was investigated by the Night’s Watch after Selene peeked at his spells and performed a full “Mirror Divination”.
Dunn Smith saw an image in his dream that was close to the real Creator, but different from the widely publicized image of the other, resulting in one being injured and the other strangely dying.
Klein had anticipated what had happened when Hood Orgen turned over the Tarot card “The Inverted Man”, but he had not expected it to be presented in that way, and of course, it was an indirect contact, not a direct “peek” as he had. Of course, this is an indirect contact, and can not be compared to his direct “peek” at the “Eternal Sun”, the worst that can happen is to suffer some injuries, or to be slightly contaminated.
Hearing Klein’s description, Dunn’s expression immediately became grave.
He frowned slightly and said in a low voice:
”Huge cross, black iron nails, naked blood-stained upside down man?”
”I didn’t get a very good look, which is why I wasn’t harmed, I only noticed the huge cross and the suspected upside down hanging figure.” Klein replied politely.
He was focused on “running away” ……
Dunn nodded as if in thought and said:
”The matter of Lanlus visiting Hood Orgen has something to do with the ‘True Creator’? Something to do with the Aurora Council?”
Klein was busy describing the conversation and the images he saw during the séance as they were, and ended with:
”…… What Lanlus used to seduce Hood Orgen was the ‘Playing Law’, a supposed bit of immortal divinity, but I can’t understand why he would say that this is the worst of times and the best of times, well, maybe, that’s is the peculiar style of speech of the ‘swindler’?”
”…… Hood Orgen offers help involving eerie, dark altars …… I suspect Llanerus is plotting something terrible …… ”
Said the man, as a thought crossed his mind:
”Captain, do you remember that letter to Mr. Z? The letter that was on the Aurora Society member I shot!”
”He said in the letter that when the time is right, as if some kind of day of destruction is coming, he will dedicate the entirety of Tingen City’s lambs to the so-called Lord. Could this have anything to do with what Lanlus is plotting?”
”Could Lanlus be Mr. Z of the Aurora Society?”
Dunn-Smith said thoughtfully:
”I don’t really think so, Lanlus wouldn’t be Mr. Z, otherwise he wouldn’t be setting up fake steel companies and defrauding people out of their money while he was doing the right thing for the Aurora Society, it would make his main mission fraught with variables, well, the slightest mishap in the running of the steel companies would expose him to the police and us, and he would have to flee from Tingen and interrupt his plotting. ”
”Of course, if he’s a complete madman, then doing anything illogical is normal.”
”But judging by the calmness and cunning with which he set up the scam and rolled away with the money without panicking, he’s not really a madman.”
”That’s why I don’t think he’s Mr. Z of the Aurora Society, although of course he did most likely get involved in what was mentioned in that letter, the dedication of the entirety of the lambs of Tingen to the so-called Lord.”
At this point, Dunn paused and paced back and forth twice saying:
”This matter may be quite serious, we will have to re-investigate Lanlus and try to find some clues, well, let’s process the scene and cover up the place, let everyone know that Hood Orgen is dead but can’t figure out who killed him as a way of jumping on the Psycho-Alchemy Society or any other extraordinary people who are watching the madhouse and who may know something about it. ”
”The Llanerus fraud case is either still with the police department or has been transferred to the ‘Vicarious Punishers’, we intervened in the case on the grounds that we had gotten a lead while investigating the Aurora Society, and worked with the ‘Vicarious Punishers’, and with the ‘Mechanical Heart’, concentrate the power of Tingen City, carefully line up the people and things related to Lanlus, and if necessary, ask the Diocese of Beckland, and the Holy Church, for assistance!”
After speaking, Dunn turned his head sideways, looked at Klein, and said with deliberation:
”Do you have anything to add?”
Captain, it’s all been said by you …… Klein solemnly shook his head:
”Nope!”
He grasped at straws and, with the help of the rudimentary altar that had yet to be cleaned up, used ritual magic to remove the necessary traces to ensure that no one would normally be able to find out that he and the captain had taken out Hood Orgen.
Then he retrieved the materials, extinguished the candles, deactivated the Wall of Spirituality, and left the ward with Dunn-Smith without a sound, tumbling out of the asylum.
”You go back and rest.” Dunn stood in the corner of the fence with no streetlights and clicked his black silk bowler hat, “A lot of things won’t get underway until tomorrow.”
”Good.” Not being an insomniac who used only two or three hours of sleep a day, Klein immediately excused himself and left, heading back toward Daffodil Street in the exclusive carriage of the night watchman’s party waiting a short distance away.
Before he entered the carriage, he glanced back, only to see that the captain was still standing in the darkness where even the moonlight was blocked out, seemingly quietly thinking about something.
The streets were cold and deserted in the early hours of the morning, and the carriage sped along, sometimes going straight and sometimes turning corners.
Crane was wondering about Lanlus when a sudden trance came over his spirit.
He saw the colors before him become instantly more intense, redder and blacker, like an abstract painting.
Everything around him slowed down, as if the carriage had entered a bizarre world.
Klein gripped the “Yang Yan Charm” with a brush and drew his revolver.
At that moment, a huge white bone palm penetrated the window of the carriage and dropped the folded letter paper.
As this palm retracted and disappeared, the oil-painted scene returned to normal with a flourish, and the carriage still traveled smoothly through the streets.
”…… really in a stealthy way ah ……” Klein froze and looked at the letter paper at his feet, the corner of his mouth twitched.