At eight o'clock in the evening, the sky had completely plunged into darkness.
The workers returned to their homes after a tiring day.
The rich or nobles returned home early. It was already winter and the weather was too cold after nightfall.
The cold wind blew through the streets like a knife, and there were almost no pedestrians on the streets.
However, a carriage appeared outside the house where Ariel Soto's body was stored.
The carriage is pulled by two white horses, and the carriage door is open.
Looking inside from the carriage door, one can see Felin, Lindy, Julie, and Ivy.
"let's start!"
Lindy looked at Felin who was holding the Clock of Yesterday and said.
"yes."
Felin responded, turned over the yesterday's clock, and put it on his lap.
Behind yesterday's clock, you can see three knobs.
One of the knobs is obviously larger than the other two knobs, and has a butterfly shape that is easy to hold between two fingers.
This is a clockwork knob with an elastic structure connected inside. It is this spring that allows the clock to still run without electric drive.
Of course, today's Yesterday's Clock is already a cursed object, containing extraordinary power. Even if the clockwork is not turned, it will keep going.
The remaining two knobs are smaller than the mainspring knob and are located side by side below the mainspring knob.
They are the hour and minute hands of yesterday's clock.
"It's 8 p.m. now, about 99 hours since I met Ariel Soto here."
Feilin made a mental calculation and turned the knob on the left counterclockwise. He immediately saw the hour hand of yesterday's clock begin to rotate counterclockwise.
As the hour hand of Yesterday's Clock rotates in the opposite direction, strange changes occur.
The sky outside suddenly became brighter, and it was dawn all of a sudden.
But this is impossible, it is 8 o'clock in the evening, and there are at least 10 hours before dawn.
If you look carefully, you will see that this brightened area is centered on the carriage where Felin and the others are, and is surrounded by more than ten meters.
It wasn't that the sky was getting brighter, but that the sky was getting brighter within a dozen meters with Felin and the others as the center.
If you look carefully, you can even see some weird pictures.
Birds flying across the sky actually fly upside down and backward.
A stray cat that happened to pass by was actually walking backwards.
This is because Felin activated the Clock of Yesterday, time went back, and the surrounding images were moving backwards.
One circle.
Two laps.
…
Seven circles.
Eight circles.
The hour hand rotated eight times, and the surrounding images had returned to four days ago.
Felin stopped turning the hour hand and turned the minute hand on the right because it was almost time for him to see Ariel Soto.
Sudden.
A carriage drove from the street opposite them, and the driver was a man in black clothes, about thirty or forty years old, with dark skin.
Felin recognized this man. This man was exactly the man he saw that day, the man who carried the body with Ariel.
It goes without saying that this carriage is the carriage that Felin once smelled the stench of corpses.
Seeing the carriage, Felin immediately stopped spinning the minute hand.
Lindy and the three others also understood that this carriage was probably the carriage Ariel Soto was riding in, and they all looked at this carriage with sharp eyes.
The carriage collided with Felin's carriage, but there was no sound of collision. Instead, it passed through and stopped outside the house.
After all, it is just an image of the past and naturally has no entity.
From inside the carriage, Ariel Soto appears with an eyepatch on his left eye.
He jumped off the carriage, came to the door, opened the door with the key, and pushed it open.
The man in black drove a carriage into the yard.
"Felin, follow them."
Lindy said with some urgency in her voice.
The range that Yesterday's Bell can affect is only more than ten meters. Beyond this range, Ariel Soto will not be visible.
"I know."
Felin quickly jumped off the carriage and followed Ariel Soto into the courtyard.
Lindy, Julie, and Ivy followed him and also entered the yard.
"Not only is the talent for the mysterious spear extremely high, but he also has the talent to learn the second secret technique!"
Walking at the end of the three, Ivy looked at Felin's back with surprise.
Because she was a member of the same team as Felin, she was allowed to participate in this operation, and thus learned that Felin had learned the secret eye of identification.
Felin had upgraded the Mysterious Spear to the second level just a month ago, which had already surprised her, but what surprised her even more was that Felin actually had the talent to practice the second secret technique.
Possessing two kinds of secret skills is a necessary condition for the realm above the twelfth ring. Doesn't it mean that Felin has the possibility of reaching the realm above the twelfth ring?
She was really shocked that someone in her group actually had such a talent.
After entering the courtyard and "locking" the door, Ariel Soto and the man in black began to carry the body from the carriage to the basement with the huge blood hexagram.
During the process of carrying the body, Ariel Soto and the man in black were talking to each other.
However, although I can see images, I cannot hear sounds, so I cannot hear what they are saying.
"Julie, what did they say?"
Lindy was already prepared for this. She looked at Julie and asked.
Because of her photographic memory, Julie has a strong learning ability and has learned many techniques, including lip reading.
Although there is no corresponding master-level talent, these techniques cannot be master-level and turned into secret techniques, but they are sufficient for daily use.
"Ariel Soto said that these corpses are very important... they are wanted by Lord Minaval. They must be handled with care and there must be no damage at all."
Julie looked at the mouths of the two people opening and closing, trying hard to read what they said through lip reading.
"Lord Minaval? In other words, there are indeed higher-level cultists above Ariel Soto..."
Lindy's eyes flashed with thought.
Based on the investigation of Ariel Soto, she had long suspected that Ariel Soto was just a clerk in the Gnawing Fang, not the highest-ranking Gnawing Fang member in Constant City, and now it has been confirmed.
Above Ariel Soto, there is at least one higher-level cultist, and this cultist's name is Minaval.
There is no doubt that they obtained very important information.
Following the image of Ariel Soto, I made several trips back and forth to the basement, but no more useful information was obtained.
The bodies have been moved, and the images of Ariel and Soto are already driving the carriage and preparing to leave.
The four Felins quickly boarded the carriage and followed the carriage where Ariel and two others were.
"Let the carriage coincide with their carriage."
Lindy ordered the coachman, who was absolutely trustworthy as a veteran, to speed up a little so that the carriage they were in coincided with Ariel Soto's carriage.
Through this, they were able to see Ariel Soto in the carriage again.
In the carriage, Ariel Soto sat alone on the seat. Because he was the only one in the carriage, he did not speak, but just sat quietly.
Even so, the four Felins still kept their eyes fixed on Ariel Soto's image, fearing that they would miss some important information.
About ten minutes later.
Suddenly, Ariel Soto's expression in the carriage changed suddenly, as if he had heard some bad news.
"The time is close to the time when I infiltrated and encountered the eyeless monster. It should be that he discovered the eyeless monster and was killed by me."
Felin explained to Lindy and the others.
Lindy and the other three nodded and understood the reason, and continued to stare at Ariel Soto.
Ariel Soto's expression suddenly changed. His face was changing uncertainly, as if he was struggling with what to do.
After a moment of confusion, Ariel Soto opened the car curtain and spoke to the man in black.
"What did you say?"
Lindy asked hurriedly.
"He asked the man in black to change direction and not return to his residence. He wanted to change his route..."
Julie replied.
After saying this, Ariel Soto returned to the carriage and sat in the carriage, with a vague look of anxiety on his face.
More than ten minutes later, the carriage carrying Ariel Soto stopped at an abandoned street with no one around.
Ariel Soto opened the car curtain and said something to the man in black, who bent down and entered the car.
Poof!
As soon as the man in black entered the carriage, Ariel Soto covered the man in black's mouth with one hand and stabbed the man in black in the chest with a dagger.
Blood splattered.
Although I couldn't hear the sound, I could imagine the sound of my heart being pierced and blood spurting out.
The man in black struggled a few times, became weak and fell down, making no movement.
Ariel Soto put down the body of the man in black, wiped the blood from the dagger and hands on the body of the man in black, said a word, and walked out of the carriage.
"Don't blame me, I can only blame you and me for being unlucky enough to be exposed."
Julie quickly translated what Ariel Soto said through lip reading.
The four Felins got off the carriage and chased the image of Ariel Soto.
Ariel Soto stepped out of the carriage and quickly left this abandoned street. He lowered his head to avoid the pedestrians on the street. He came to an old street and entered a suite in a low-rent apartment.
This should be one of his hidden residences. Previous searches failed to find this place.
"The door is locked, the other party should not be here anymore!"
The four Felins couldn't help but get excited, thinking they had found the place where Ariel Soto was hiding.
But soon they discovered that the door was locked from the outside, and there was no one inside the house.
"Ivy, destroy the lock!"
Lindy ordered Ivy, who nodded slightly, and the cross gem on the ring on her right hand lit up with golden light.
Along with the dazzling golden light, a shining golden cross lightsaber appeared.
Katcha!
With a crisp sound, the iron lock was cut and fell to the ground.
The four people entered the room. In the room, the image of Ariel Soto was walking back and forth, looking very anxious.
The four people searched the room, looking for clues related to the Gnawing Fang.
However, apart from some clothing and simple daily necessities, there were no clues related to the Gnawing Fang in the room.
Ariel Soto walked back and forth anxiously for half an hour. It was already dark outside.
Ariel Soto stopped walking back and forth, opened and closed his mouth, and muttered something to himself.
"Julie, what did she say?"
Lindy asked hurriedly, her intuition telling her that Ariel's words were extremely important.
"He said that the only way to avoid the search by the security bureau is to hide with the adults!"
Julie replied quickly.
"Could the lord he is referring to refer to Minaval who was mentioned before?"
Ivy frowned and asked.
"It's impossible to be sure. He just said "sir" and didn't specify who he was."
Julie shook her head.
The image of Ariel Soto disguised himself, put on the clothes of an ordinary citizen, put on a wide hat that covered most of his face, and left the suite in the night.
Felin and the four others quickly followed.
After leaving the suite, Ariel walked down the street where there were almost no people at night.
Passing through streets one after another, you finally enter a street where the surrounding houses are better decorated than other places.
"This is entering the East District. The person he wants to meet lives in the East District!"
Feiling said that he saw better housing than other streets around it.
"East End."
There was a cold light in Lindy's eyes.
Those who live in the East District are either nobles and related people, or rich people and related people. In other words, the gentleman Ariel Soto mentioned is either noble, rich, or related to them.
…
In the east area, there were two people in a luxuriously decorated room with a huge citrine lamp falling from the top.
One of them was a wealthy man, the man who murdered Ariel Soto.
The other person is a lady wearing a black dress and an attractive figure.
The long black dress has a V-neck, and you can see the white skin on her chest, which is infinitely tempting.
Holding a pure white cat in her hand, she was the person whom Ariel Soto called "Lord Minaval".
The two of them were sitting on a sofa respectively, each holding a glass of red wine in their hands.
On the coffee table between the two of them, there was an opened bottle of red wine.
This is a bottle of high-end red wine produced by the famous Roselle Winery with a history of 70 years.
Minaval elegantly brought the red wine glass to her red lips and took a gentle sip, leaving a clear red lip mark on the edge of the red wine glass.
The well-built man looked at Minaval who was drinking in an elegant manner with intense eyes, and his throat made obvious swallowing movements.
He has met many noble ladies and had in-depth exchanges with many noble ladies.
However, there was no noble lady whose charm was comparable to the Minaval in front of her.
But Minaval was different from those noble ladies who would take the initiative to run to his bed just because they were flirting with each other. Minaval was someone whose status was not lower than his in the organization, and was not something he could get.
Feeling the fiery gaze of the wealthy man, Minaval put the red wine glass on the coffee table and said as if joking.
"If the plan of this organization can be completed perfectly, it is not impossible to spend a night with you."
"This is real?"
The rich man had an excited face, and the heat in his eyes seemed to melt Minavar.