Two weeks have passed since Thanksgiving, and the new year is about to come. This year’s school year at the charity school is about to come to an end. During this period, in addition to normal studies and voluntary labor, the biggest change is the teachers of the law enforcement team.
She would disappear on campus soon after class, especially Teacher Livlan. This elf girl was rarely seen on other occasions except in class.
Hobik hasn't gone out once in the past two weeks. In fact, Mrs. Lily doesn't know what to do with Hobik. Captain Dodge has never contacted the White House during this time, and Hobik has never used the one he said he could do.
Contacting the collar buttons of other dwarves, he spent the whole day eating, drinking, and sleeping. Now that the New Year is only one month away, there are suddenly a lot more residents walking on the streets of Brighton City. Many of them are returning from the Eastern Continent to visit relatives in the Southern Continent, and there are also many
Tourists taking advantage of the year-end holidays to vacation in the Southern Continent.
After the day's class, Arthur returned to the Charity White Room with his satchel on his back. Mrs. Lily had gone somewhere and was not at home, while Hobick was standing on tiptoes on the chair to help Mrs. Lily repair the broken kerosene lampshade.
.Arthur placed his satchel on the sofa and soon came to Hobik's side to help hold the chair.
"Kid, what did you learn today?" Hobik wrapped the tape around the broken lampshade. In fact, during the past few days of getting along, Arthur already knew that Hobik was ten years old in dwarf age.
, a human would only be around fifteen years old, but a dwarf boy has already declared adulthood at the age of eight and needs to be independent and work.
Arthur held down the shaking chair and ignored Hobik's taunt: "You are the brat. If I don't tell you this, do you know what the law enforcement team has been busy with recently?"
What does the law enforcement team have to do with me? Hobik rolled his eyes and reinstalled the repaired lampshade in the center of the ceiling of the hall, but the law enforcement team seemed to be...
"A purple-skinned elf came over this morning and said something to Mrs. Lily, but I hid in the room and didn't hear clearly." He stretched out his legs and stepped out of the chair, and Hobick threw Arthur's satchel to the ground.
, commanding Arthur to put the chair back to its original position, and he sat down on the sofa.
It was Livlan. When Arthur heard this, he remembered this elf teacher. There was no class with her this morning, and he didn't see her preparing lessons in the teacher's office. It turned out that she had come to the White Room. Is there something wrong? Arthur was at work.
Thinking about it, the door was pushed open in a hurry, and the sound of Mrs. Lily's footsteps could be heard. What was different from the past was that Mrs. Lily was very anxious, even slightly panting.
"No! Mr. Hobick, is Arthur here too?" Mrs. Lily walked into the hall. Her trembling tone showed Mrs. Lily's nervousness. She first reached out and touched Arthur's yellow hair, and then walked to the hall.
He picked up his own cup and drank it in one gulp before calming down a little.
Hobik acted like the owner of the house, spread out his palms, and comforted Mrs. Lily: "Take your time, madam," Hobik ignored Arthur's eyes and continued: "I remember you were planning to go out before.
From the Law Enforcement Agency."
"Yes, Livlan told me in the morning that Captain Dodge has been missing for two weeks. Just in case, I went to the law enforcement agency in person." Mrs. Lily's speaking speed gradually calmed down.
Two weeks, which means Captain Dodge has never appeared again since he brought Hobic to the charity house two weeks ago. If this is the case, it explains the mission that Dodge was doing at that time, regarding the town of Raiburg and the water wizard Parry.
What kind of mission did it fail? But why did the Law Enforcement Agency only recently find out about the disappearance of Captain Dodge? Isn’t this the mission of the law enforcement team? Dodge also mentioned at the time that due to some special reasons, Hobby could not be brought to justice.
Ke took him back to the Law Enforcement Department, and also mentioned that Josh and others were not called for this task.
Why is this?
Arthur thought hard and couldn't come to a conclusion, so he could only continue to listen to Mrs. Lily's interview with the Law Enforcement Department today.
Mrs. Lily, who was gushing in a large skirt, was talking about walking into the Law Enforcement Hall: "Except for the little girl at the front desk, no one from the first and second teams is in the Law Enforcement Hall. They are probably looking for information everywhere.
, I could only ask the little girl at the front desk, and she said that Captain Dodge had received a support mission before, but that night, oh no, I can't say more about this..."
Originally, Arthur wanted to take over Mrs. Lily's words and continue talking about some small details of Captain Dodge that night. Suddenly, he thought of Captain Dodge's attitude of asking them to keep it secret before leaving. He suppressed the words in his heart and turned to ask the dwarf with a deep face.
Hobik:
"You know what Captain Dodge's mission is, right?"
"Yes I know."
"Then do you know where he is now?"
"I think Parrish should know, but I can't tell."
"Why, now that Captain Dodge is missing, what does it mean that we can't tell?"
"Sorry, I can't say it, I just can't say it." Hobik lowered his head and looked at the ground. No matter how Arthur pressed, he didn't say another word. His attitude was completely different from before.
Mrs. Lily signaled Arthur to calm down. Now they are the last ones to know about Dodge. On one side are the law enforcement teams who are searching for Dodge's whereabouts all over the world, and on the other is Hobick who Dodge wants to hide. After weighing the pros and cons, Mrs. Lily
Deciding to tell the children that this matter should be kept secret, there were disadvantages in it that Mrs. Lily could not explain to Arthur, and Arthur himself could not understand it.
Mrs. Lily didn't know that Hobick later told Arthur and George about the water wizard Parrish. She just considered that there were some secrets hidden between Dodge and the Law Enforcement Agency. As a retired old law enforcement team clerk, she did not investigate further.
, is their long-standing habit.
Soon, George and Catalina came back from school. Hobik didn't mention it again until dinner. Uncharacteristically, after eating the pancakes for dinner, he returned to the small temporary room and closed the door.
"Is he sick?" George stuffed pizza and cereal into his mouth and asked Arthur in confusion, but he found that Arthur was also looking at the dinner in front of him with a solemn face, neither making a move nor leaving the table.
Just sitting there blankly.
"Is he sick too?" George turned his head to look at Caterina, who happened to raise her head. The two looked at each other awkwardly and then turned their heads.
The moon is thick over Brighton.
At the top of a deserted single-family building on Balmer Street in the East District, some water flowed into the pipe along the slope, and gradually gathered into a small pool in the alley on the first floor. In the center of the small pool, a pair of hands pressed the ground and stood up. It was a
The man who doesn't look like much is wearing a long white robe, has shoulder-length brown curly hair, and has light blue eyes that attract people at first glance.
When the man's body completely emerged from the water, he pressed his hand on the first button of his collar, closed his eyes and carefully felt the attraction from the collar button.
"Is it this way?"
Soon, the man opened his eyes and looked in the direction of Clay Street in the West End.