Part 1V THE UNDEAD CHAPTER 120 A SINGLE STREAK
The sun is bright in the sky, the corner of the cemetery is silent and cool, Leonard Mitchell suddenly lifted up the shovel inserted in the side.
Two piles of soil gradually increase in height, the grave a little exposed, the surrounding occasionally people pass by, but this is unaware, as if this side of the occurrence is just a dream.
Finally, Leonard gave up the shovel, leaned down, stretched out his hands, and grasped the edge of the coffin lid.
With a strong push, he lifted the heavy wooden lid, and found that the long, thick nails had fallen off at some point, and the dark coffin was empty.
Nothing!
Leonard kept his body half-bowed, silently watching this scene, not making any additional movements for a long time, as if he had turned into a stone statue.
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In a misty dream, Klein saw a stone monument, inscribed with an inscription, which stood silent among many of its kind, colored scarlet by the moonlight.
Such a scene swirled and shattered, and Klein awoke with a start, confirming that he was still Dawn Dantes, still in his master bedroom at 160 Birklund Street.
The dream just now seems to indicate something …… As a “soothsayer”, Klein holds a serious attitude towards every dream, and this time is no exception, collects the spirit, throws away the sleep, and tries to do the interpretation:
”That should be a tombstone ……
”It represents some deceased person, or matters connected with the resurrection ……
”The scarlet moonlight symbolizes the goddess, and corresponds to concepts such as the Church of Darkness and the Night Watcher …… If the moon is seen directly, it could relate to the ‘primordial moon’, the vampire originator Lilith, and the ‘ Mother Tree of Desire’ ……
”Tombstones stained with the color of near-blood suggests not a good thing ……”
Klein deciphered as he threaded the contents together, trying to come to conclusions that effectively made sense.
After careful thought, he began to believe that the revelation given by the dream had something to do with his past with the Church of Darkness.
Coupled with the events of the last few days, Klein slowly came up with an answer:
”Dawn Dantes is bound to be put on the exclusion list because of his frequent trips to St. Samuel’s Church, and if Leonard hasn’t yet left Bakerland, then this will surely catch his attention, after all, he is well aware that Dawn Dantes isn’t simple, and has mysterious origins ……
”As an angel of the ‘Stealer’ pathway, there is a high probability that the old grandpa in Leonard’s body will be able to discover that the gray mist is closely connected to the ‘Diviner’ pathway and know that the corresponding sequence 0 is called ‘Fool’ ‘ ……
”In this way, they would naturally be able to correlate the previously circulated honorific name of ‘The Fool’ with this, believing me to be a member of the hidden organization that worships ‘The Fool,’ and by extension of this line, the killing of Llanerus The man who killed Lanlus, the ‘Rogue’ Black Emperor, who also used the Tarot cards, is implicated ……
”Add to that the Germaine Sparrow clue I deliberately left behind, and the fact that Leonard had been investigating Sherlock Moriarty before, and it’s not unlikely that he threaded all of this together to identify the key suspect.
”And the early Sherlock Moriarty disguise is not too good, Leonard as long as the deep investigation continues, it is not difficult to find the big detective and his former colleagues are very similar …… So, he is to Tingen digging graves to confirm it?”
Thinking about this, Klein brought a cushion over and fumbled to sit up, feeling that he had found the answer to that dream he had just had.
He began to cautiously analyze what would happen next, considering whether or not to give up the identity of Dawn Dantes:
”Leonard couldn’t inform the other ‘night watchers’ of the speculations and results because the key parts were unexplained and it would reveal his own secrets ……
”From my experience and knowledge of him, he will lead in some other way, which will be more complicated and cumbersome and take more time, until then, finding him and doing another warning should dissuade him, after all, there was no substantial loss to the Church this time, no one died as a result.
”Well, the identity of Dawn Dantes I did pay attention to the timing, specifically faking the trajectory of the first few months of activity in the southern continent, making a certain amount of staggering with the dates of Gelman Sparrow’s reduced frequency of appearances, and that involves the Intis colony, which is quite difficult to verify ……
”That is to say, Leonard, at best, up to the level of Germaine Sparrow equals Sherlock Moriarty equals Klein Moretti, at best, thinks that I’m in cahoots with ‘them’ and belongs to that hidden organization that believes in the ‘Fool’ Organization ……
”Oh, in his eyes, Dawn Dantes should be a mysterious and powerful person who can directly detect the existence of the old grandfather in his body, half-god and half-human, which makes a significant difference from other identities.”
Klein quickly had a countermeasure, and turned to think about the incident he encountered in the afternoon at the “East Byron Veterans Club”:
”How did this arms smuggling business come directly to me?
”I’ve just established a friendship with Senator Macht, and I haven’t been tested yet, so I’m not that trustworthy. ……
”Perhaps this is a test in itself?
”The guns and artillery at the very beginning, the number should not be too much, and it will not involve too good products, and to pay first and deliver later, if I really have any problems, they will not have any loss, only need to bear a little aftermath of this small batch of weapons flowing into the area under their own control.
”Well …… for them, I, a rich man with complex experience and in-depth knowledge of West Byron, is really a good candidate, firstly, rich, secondly, courageous, thirdly, resourceful and well-connected, and can sell arms to the right people, fourthly, having no background in the upper echelons of the kingdom, and can always be thrown out as a scapegoat.
”They should send someone to secretly supervise …… As long as this ‘business’ can be successfully completed, after that I’ll be a close partner of the military… …which facilitates the investigation into the truth of the Great Bakerland Haze ……
”The problem right now is that I don’t have any substantial knowledge of the Resistance or the various tribes in West Byron …… This Anderson guy is nowhere to be found, and I don’t have his contact information ……
”Uh, Danez may have some knowledge of the situation in West Byron …… So does Ms. ‘The Hidden One’, and the ‘Queen of Mystery’ behind her, as well …… Gather information from these sources first ……”
Having decided, Klein’s thoughts gradually fell back, and sleepiness surged up again, so he slid his body down a little and got under the covers.
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Under the ground of St. Samuel’s Church, Leonard, who had returned from Tingen, caught up with the squad’s internal meeting.
Thorsten first informed about the archbishop’s conclusions and the harvest of the local teams of “night watchmen”:
”His Eminence St. Anthony, with the help of the Holy Church, has identified the infiltrator as Germaine Sparrow and concluded that the mad criminal is still alive but not in this world.
”This is such an inconsistent statement that I don’t understand what it means, and His Eminence the Archbishop didn’t explain it.
”In short, our focus will shift completely to the investigation of Germaine Sparrow.
”And according to the information provided by MI9, Germaine Sparrow is a false identity that first came from Berkland ……”
Solstice finished summarizing the clues and casually asked:
”Do you have anything to add?”
Leonard opened his mouth to speak, but his eyes flickered twice before becoming silent again.
Solstice gave him a sideways glance and named him:
”Leonard, didn’t you find any clues?”
Leonard was silent for a second, shrugged his shoulders and said:
”That clue has been ruled out.”
Solstice didn’t ask any more questions and turned to look at the rest of the team.
After a round of replenishment and analysis, he began to arrange the tasks of his “Red Glove” team.
When the assignments were finalized, Leonard Mitchell returned to the upper lounge with a list of those who needed to be dreamed of and would be cross-checked, and dropped his body onto the bed.
After sitting in silent silence for a while, Leonard raised a hand to straighten his hair and prepared to launch into action.
However, the first dream he came to did not belong to any of the names on that list.
His target was Dawn Dantes!
–After much deliberation, he decided to have a face-to-face talk with this member of the hidden organization, the undead Quatermass monster, to see if he could extract the appropriate information.
It seemed a bit reckless, but not a bad idea when each knew the other had problems and secrets.
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160 Birklund Street, Klein’s dazed sanity snapped abruptly awake, knowing that someone had entered his dreams.
Slightly subdued, he sat down to his easy chair and looked sideways at the balcony to see a dark-haired man with green pupils in a white shirt and black vest leap lightly in, none other than Leonard Mitchell.
I have not gone to look for you, but you came to the door …… Other “night watchmen” are all very polite to knock on the door and come in, only you turned the balcony …… Klein while slandering and looking at the poet. Classmates close.
At this time, Leonard’s eyes, the dream of Dawn Dantes is still dressed in formal attire, hair sideburns gray, angular, extremely charming.
At this moment, the corners of this rich man’s mouth slightly curled up with a smile, did not hide the fact that he was awake and unaffected by the “nightmare” ability.
”Hasn’t Palles Zoroaster ever told you what manners are?” Klein said in a tone that fit the image in the other’s mind.
Palles Zoroaster …… He’s warning me again …… Leonard froze for a moment, memorizing the name.
He quickly collected his thoughts and said with a not-so-standard salute in his posture:
”Please pardon the intrusion, you are on our watch list.
”Did you do this infiltration? Is that what you came to Birkeland for?”
”No.” Dawn Dantes image of Klein picked up the red wine next to him and took a gentle sip, “It wasn’t us, it was him alone.”
He struck a pose that wasn’t afraid to let you know.
”Germaine Sparrow?” Leonard asked in a low, rhetorical voice.
Klein’s dark blue eyes, which hid some of the vicissitudes of life, gave the other man a look that said:
”Isn’t that the obvious thing to do?”
”What the hell did he want? He didn’t take anything.” Leonard asked smoothly.
Klein raised a hand to touch his patchy sideburns and chuckled:
”What do you think?”