Part 4 The Undead Chapter 174 Leonard’s Reminder
Bakerland, North District.
On the night when the red moon was covered by layers of clouds, everywhere was dark, except for the gas street lamps on both sides of the street that gave off some light, illuminating the road ahead and the doorways of the nearby houses.
The letterbox at No. 7 Pinster Street was quietly tucked away at the junction of light and darkness, bathed in the cool breeze blowing from the side, and seemed to have fallen asleep.
It was at this moment that a newspaper, a bill and a letter from who knows who suddenly poured out of its delivery port.
As if held by invisible hands, these things floated in mid-air, flew toward the doorway, and burrowed through the cracks.
Inside the house, in the foyer, the papers unfolded themselves, turning quickly until they reached the end page, and then they dropped casually onto chairs, stacked on top of their previous counterparts.
The bills and incoming letters continued their flight inward, and entered the parlor, where the former soon ceased, shook a few times, and then wobbled and floated to the surface of the coffee-table, where they were neatly spread, while the latter, with envelopes, stripped off their envelopes, and, without them, opened themselves quickly, and showed themselves up in mid-air.
After a while the incoming letters flew partly to the shelves of the first-floor study, partly rushed to the scissors, assisted each other in quartering themselves, and then poured in arranged rows into the lavatory, and cast themselves into the toilet bowl.
Whoa!
The toilet’s mechanical button sank of its own accord, flushing the paper fragments down the drain.
With that, No. 7 Pinkster Street returned to normal, quiet as any other uninhabited house.
South Continent, East Byron, Gulain City.
Leonard Mitchell, who had just arrived here not long ago, was resting inside the residence arranged by the local Black Night Church.
Suddenly, the slightly aged voice within his mind rang out:
”Kid, you have an important letter.”
”What letter?” Leonard inquired in a low voice while already having a guess in his heart.
There was only one, no, two people who could send an important letter to No. 7 Pinkster Street without caring whether there was anyone there or not:
Crane Moretti and Dawn Dantes.
As for how the old man called Palles Zoroaster was able to clearly read the contents of those letters received at 7 Pinkster Street across the Raging Sea, halfway across the Northern Continent, Leonard could probably guess a thing or two because he had helped the other man catch a ghost.
Of this, his judgment was:
The old man must have sent out a “worm of time” to parasitize the ghost, so that it would become his eyes, ears and mouth in the North Continent.
At this time, Palles Zoroaster answered his question:
”A letter from Klein Moretti, who said that Dawn Dantes, on her way to the southern continent, had found traces of Ince Zangwill on the island of Cheng in the Sea of Rage.”
Leonard was silent for a moment, and his mouth opened, but he could not utter a word.
Only after a long interval did he whisper in a slightly hoarse voice:
”He really has not forgotten revenge ……
”What can I do?”
”What can you do? You’re only Sequence 6, even if Ince Zangwill hasn’t mastered ‘0-08’, you’re not qualified to take revenge on him, he only needs to partially reveal his Mythic Biomorph to make you lose control or turn insane on the spot. The probability of you succeeding in taking revenge is, 0! This is the qualitative change brought about by divinity.” Parleys Zoroaster said in a rather serious tone.
He paused for a moment and then laughed:
”Fortunately, you are more able to recognize yourself than before, if it was in the past, you would have said, I want to pass the information of Ince Zangwill to the church and join the team that tracks down and captures him, but now, you know how to ask what you can do.”
Leonard tried several times to retort, but no words came out.
Palles Zoroaster continued:
”All you can do at the moment is give Klein Moretti some information, wait for him to get back to you, and then match it accordingly to what’s in there.”
”No excuse to inform the Church of Ince Zangwill’s whereabouts?” Leonard asked in a low voice with slight consternation.
Palles Zoroaster chuckled:
”There’s no need to rush, wait for the critical moment before doing so.
”‘0-08’, as much as it enjoys getting its possessor killed, prefers not to go back to its sealed state; as long as you inform the Church of Ince Zangwill’s whereabouts and open the appropriate pursuit operation, it will immediately be able to know about it and make adequate arrangements.
”At this point, you need to prompt Klein Moretti.”
Leonard was stunned for a second and said:
”Old man, you seem to be familiar with ‘0-08’.”
It hadn’t even shown before!
Palles’ slightly aged voice gave a laugh:
”Of course I’m familiar with it, during the Fourth Age, ‘0-08’ was responsible for the fall of angels.
”I can’t tell you too much about it, because, if you know about it, it knows about you, and the more you know about it, the more likely you are to become part of the story.”
From the old man’s vague words, Leonard truly savored the horror of “0-08”, which was beyond the occult he could understand!
Thinking for a moment, Leonard habitually asked:
”So how do I tip off Klein Moretti without the ‘0-08’ knowing about it, or, even if it does, it’s a cursory understanding that only leaves me as a passing pedestrian in the story …… ”
Before the words left his mouth, Leonard clenched his hands for a moment and clenched his teeth, not waiting for the old man to answer, and said to himself:
”A side tip? Tell him that I will not be forwarding Innes Zangwill’s whereabouts to the Church for the time being …… I think he’ll be able to understand from this situation that there is a certain amount of questioning going on here, understand that we have to be more cautious than prudent, and that, even if he can’t decipher it, there are members of his covert organization who know enough about the Quatermass to offer help.
”Also, write a sentence normally, ‘You know it, and it knows you,’ without mentioning ‘0-08,’ and use personal pronouns so Klein can guess what exactly it’s pointing to… …”
Palles Zoroaster listened quietly and laughed in a low voice:
”Man, you just have to have pressure to grow.”
Leonard exhaled, rolled over and sat up, found a pen and paper, and dropped what he had just meant onto the letter.
Immediately afterward, he set up the ritual and summoned Gelman Sparrow’s messenger.
……
Berserk Sea, Middle Range Island, on a passenger ship stuck at the docks.
Many of the tourists had not disembarked and were huddled in the bottom cabin, waiting to arrive on the southern continent and begin a new life filled with hope.
–Even with only a few days’ worth of ship fare, they had had a very hard time piecing it together and belonged to the population of Ruin who had been pushed into having to make such an adventure.
Unlike them, Klein, who played the role of the rich Dawn Dantes, lived in a spacious and clean first-class cabin that could be considered luxurious, and by the light of the candles, opened the letter that Renette Tinnikol had just delivered.
”For the time being, the Church will not be informed of Ince Zangwill’s whereabouts …… For Leonard, although the question of the source of the information will put him at some risk, it is not at all to the extent that it cannot be done …… He joined the ‘Red Gloves’, wasn’t it for revenge? In other words, he has reasons why he can’t report Ince Zangwill right now …… “Klein pondered while looking at the remaining contents of the letterhead, “You know it, and it knows you.”
Suddenly, Klein let out an “eep”, thinking that the description looked a bit familiar!
”This is very much like the Twilight Hermit Society, ah, where there is a word, it will be known …… So, ‘0-08’ is the seal of the audience pathway? By not informing the church of the matter, Leonard has concerns in this regard and wants to wait for a better opportunity? This should be what that old grandpa inside him told him …… “Klein nodded thoughtfully, somewhat glad that he hadn’t asked for Renate Tinicol’s help before.
That would have been a very dangerous thing for Ms. Messenger to do, all the same.
”Moreover, the most important thing is that I haven’t prepared anything yet, and if I only rely on the help I’ve invited, there’s a high chance that the plot will be detected by ‘0-08’ in advance, so that I can create a series of coincidences and make a targeted arrangement… … “Klein sighed silently, feeling that he should do something but not knowing where to start.
From the perspective of improving his own strength, the acquisition of the corresponding materials for the Trickster Evil Monster and the Spirit World Marauder depended on the follow-up request from the Chief of Silver City, and on how soon Ms. Magician would be able to get the location information from her teacher, all of which belonged to the external forces, and could not be accelerated just because Klein wanted it to be accelerated.
The only thing he can do is to digest the “Master of Puppets” magic potion as soon as possible.
After the “Playing Code” was almost complete, the actual operation was even more important.
Therefore, Klein thought that he needed to get two Secret Puppets in a short period of time!
He had been dragging his feet before because he didn’t have a good target, because he was in Birkeland, surrounded by a group of servants, and it was hard to hide the existence of non-specialized secret puppets. Now that he was almost to the southern continent, he decided that no matter what, as long as he was sure that it was a scoundrel good enough to go to the gallows, he would first transform it into his own secret puppet, and then replace it when he had a better target!
Maybe using ordinary secret puppets to accomplish more difficult things can also speed up digestion …… Heh, my requirements for secret puppets are now minimized, as long as I understand the Duttan language, that way there is no need to find a separate translator, and anyway, I can share my senses …… Klein quickly made a decision, intending to write to Leonard Mitchell afterward when he had further plans.
……
East Byron, the city of Gulain.
Carrying his suitcase, Klein boarded the pier and ascended to the land of the southern continent.
He looked out towards the layered city center built on the mountains and silently said in his heart:
”There have to be two secret puppets when we leave here.”
Before that, he still had one more thing to do, and that was to get rid of the secret “followers” arranged by the military.
Those two gentlemen’s spying skills were actually quite good, but in Klein’s eyes, they were as distinct as fireflies in the night, because no matter how much they disguised themselves, Klein would be able to recognize them instantly with the help of the “Faceless Man’s” ability to observe and remember human physical characteristics and facial features.