"Shadow, what are you going to do? Miss Bettany said that their brother and sister were separated when they were five years old. Although they are the same age, I doubt that Albert Bennet now remembers what happened when he was a child.
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"Cyris can help restore those deep memories, but the problem is, we don't know if that boy is also part of the dove."
Shade withdrew his gaze from the window and looked at the small cherry cake on the plate in front of him. Little Mia was not taken out. The cat likes to eat this kind of thing the most:
"Margaret, are you sure who killed Miss Bettany? Who are the two mysterious people talking in the alley?"
When talking about this question, Her Royal Highness the Princess hesitated obviously before telling the answer:
"There are already clues, but I'm afraid we won't find the truth in the end. I checked the people related to the abandoned lumberyard, and finally tracked down the Gray Gloves agent.
The other party's codename was 'Sage'. He was working in Vista City when Miss Bettany died three years ago. I checked the files with my authority and found that his mission was to come here and exchange with the agents sent by MI6.
intelligence."
Although Gray Gloves and MI6 are opposed to each other, they sometimes contact each other to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings. This is a tacit understanding between the two parties:
"Miss Bettany probably happened upon a meeting between the two countries' agents, so she was shot and dumped. In the diary left by 'Sage' after she died in the line of duty two years ago, she mentioned that she was shot by a man during their meeting.
Ordinary citizens bumped into him, and he said it was someone from MI6 who fired the shot."
This was just the unilateral statement of the southern agent. Then Shade returned to the hotel with Flora and Margaret. After the duchess gave the approval note, Shade returned to Tobesk to search for the unsealed MI6
Office action files.
The North Country agent who went to Vista City to meet "Sage" three years ago was codenamed "Sea Coral". Although it sounds like a female nickname, he is actually a strong man who is taller than Shade.
It's just a pity that Mr. "Sea Coral" died in a top-secret operation last winter, and his body was buried as an unknown hero in the town where he was born in northern Delrayon.
As for the mission three years ago, "Sea Coral" also left a mission record, and claimed in the record that it was a spy from the South who shot and killed civilians in their country.
Obviously, even if they are performing top-secret missions, "Sage" and "Sea Coral" do not want to be accused of indiscriminate killing of civilians. As for which one of the diary and the report is more credible, this is a matter for both parties.
Now that he is dead, he is destined to remain a mystery.
"Whether a royal princess living among the people is shot and killed by her own spies or agents of another country, this is no less big news than the infighting of the royal family."
At the dining table that night, Carina summarized the matter. Margaret also sat at the dining table, and she nodded solemnly:
"The investigation into the truth behind Ashley Bettany's death cannot move forward, and Albert Bennet's current status is not suitable for telling others."
"I'm very curious. If the two siblings were already five years old when they were separated, why would the neighbors think that the boy was the biological son of the Bennet family? Isn't it strange that a five-year-old boy suddenly appeared?
?”
Dorothy wiped her mouth with a napkin and handkerchief and said, Shade looked at Miss Bell. The pale girl had investigated this matter:
"The local hospital has a complete set of Albert Bennet's birth certificate, and the neighbors also have memories of Mrs. Bennet's pregnancy and childbirth. However, they also said that Albert was weak when he was a child, so he rarely went out for activities before he was five years old.
.In our previous investigation of the Bennet family, we never suspected that the child was not a member of the Bennet family."
"Is it the power of cognitive change?"
Luvia then asked, and Shade was not entirely sure:
"Now I can only say that the information I got from the devil is accurate. But don't there be other suspicions about the Bennet family? Are they really hiding it so well? Miss Bell, their family's life in the city
and work trajectory, are everything normal?"
"Actually, there is still a doubt."
Miss Bell said again, and Flora raised her eyebrows:
"Charlotte, I've never heard you say that before."
"I'm sorry, miss, this is something that was discovered in daily life after we determined that something was wrong with their family. With the authority given by Her Highness Margaret, we checked the tax return records of the Accordion Hotel. The daily business operations on the first floor of the hotel
The hours are from 7:30 in the morning to 8:00 in the evening, but only on Saturday nights, the Accordion Hotel closes early and has no business. It provides dinner to the residents and no longer entertains guests."
Xiwei asked Flora curiously:
"You and Professor Danist have been living here for two months. Is this the case?"
Miss Owl is very confused. The red-haired girl is not here now, so she can only recall by herself:
"Why don't I remember this? Does the first floor of the hotel close early every Saturday? Shade, do you remember this?"
Luvia gave Shad the answer:
"Shad certainly doesn't remember that he had trysts with Dorothy every Saturday night in Tobesk City."
"It's class."
Shade corrected, glancing at him with his purple eyes:
"Yes, classes. Except when Dorothy came here recently, he must have spent every Saturday night at home in Tobesk. But after Dorothy came, Miss Elisa came too,
He rarely enters the first floor of the hotel at night. Even if he wants to get something to eat in the kitchen, he always goes directly to the ship's kitchen through the portal.
But that’s not right. If the Accordion Hotel is closed every Saturday, it’s impossible for the Witch’s followers to be unaware, right?”
"The hotel kitchen is on the first floor. When I went to the kitchen to help the lady serve hot tea last Saturday night, the first floor was indeed empty, but there were no other problems."
Miss Bell added, thinking that today was Friday, Shade decided to go to the first floor of the Accordion Hotel tomorrow night to check out the situation. If this was just their carelessness, then he would have to use other means to test the Bennet family.
This Friday is the closing day of the half-week "First Snow Music Festival". The reason why this celebration is not celebrated for a whole week is because the church forced the city hall to reduce the duration of all recent large-scale celebrations to prevent more
People come to the city of Vista.
If it weren't for the enlightenment factor caused by the city's prosperity, which at this critical moment has become one of the important pillars to maintain the fragile temporal stability of the entire region, this time the church even thought of evacuating the residents of the entire city.
Unfortunately, this kind of thing cannot be done for the time being, and the official has not given a reason for the early closure of the music festival. So citizens have speculated that this is related to the recently rumored domestic military conscription.
According to the request of Speaker Adele Isabella, the witches also made great progress this Friday in their mission to contact those Old God Orders who were familiar with them in the past.
Vanessa still didn't want to do something that required showing up, so it was left to sisters Megan and Audrey. The two sisters were also the older members of the parliament, and they had unique physical talents.
With the body deformation ability brought by it, they don’t mind doing things with various faces——
Shade only found out afterwards that Megan had transformed her face into Vanessa's, and Vanessa once thought it was Flora's transformation.
However, the contact between the witches and the Old God Cult has nothing to do with Shade for the time being. After bidding farewell to the worried Margaret that afternoon, he got together with Bella and Luvia, and based on the information obtained by the fortune-teller ladies,
The results of divination can be used to arrange the next "War of Paradox Bugs".
It's just that the results given by the church and the academy were very bad. After consulting the documents provided by the elven clans and analyzing the remains of the paradox bug obtained in the "Dream Tree" incident, the church believed that the power of the "Watcher"
It doesn't really matter, but it should have the ability to forcibly awaken all the bugs in the entire forest.
This is the worst thing, which means that the hunt for the "Watcher" cannot be carried out immediately. Either this matter should be put to the end, and the ceremony of the chosen one should be held immediately after the "Watcher" is solved, so that time can pass.
The chosen ones can suppress the insects in the entire forest; or they can wait for the church and the academy to discuss a better method of killing insects, but this is certainly not something that can be completed in a few days.
In short, the hunt for the "Watcher" has been put on hold for the time being. Today, the Vesta Grove is shrouded in a huge cloud. Everyone knows that there is an ancient and evil terrifying existence hidden behind the cloud, and even knows that it is looking from behind the cloud.
It worries people, but the clouds cannot be dispelled for the time being.
"Since the war against the Paradox Bug cannot begin for the time being, let's wait for Miss Isabella and Sister Devlin to arrive. I will deal with the Bennet family's affairs in the past few days."
After having dinner on the boat that night, Shade took little Mia back home. Originally, he wanted to prepare some relics that might be used in the near future, and to see if Miss God's letter at the beginning of the month had arrived. But when he got home
After that, facing a house where maids came to clean and light the fireplace every day to pretend that there was someone at home, he thought it would be better to visit Dr. Schneider:
"It has been five days since the ceremony was held on Monday. I don't know how the doctor's condition is now."
When he returned to Tobesk on Monday, Bill Schneider still looked like he was recovering from a serious illness, and when I saw him in the reception room of the psychology clinic tonight, he at least appeared to be recovering well from the outside.
The doctor did not ask the clinic servants to help, but poured Shade a cup of tea himself to express his gratitude:
"Although I haven't completely controlled that new power, at least I can now cast spells at will."
As he spoke, he sat on the single sofa opposite Shade. The firelight of the fireplace reflected the life ring emerging from the back of the doctor in black formal attire - he was still seeing patients just now.