Chapter 29 Revisiting the Hometown and Reuniting Part Four
When Ling returned home with the oil bottle, Sharon was already making arrangements in the kitchen. Although she hadn't been there for a while, it seemed that the automatic cleaning doll that had been installed at home was working well.
"Sharon, do you need me to help you?"
"That's perfect. The last time we cooked together was in the home economics club. Well, who is this kid coming with you?"
While peeling fresh vegetables with a small blade, Sharon also noticed a strange aura behind Ling.
"She is the executor candidate for the Six of Swords. She came to contact me because she has an investigation mission from Uncle Pokai."
"Thousand Ringbreakers..."
Sharon repeated the name slightly. As a former member of the Moonlight Trojans, Sharon did not expect to hear news from her former boss.
"Why, are you also concerned about the business over there? I heard that the kid said that the more executors the better for this task. There should be someone else called besides me."
"No, I have no plans to join the work there for the time being."
Sharon shook her head. She still adhered to the policy of suspending business.
"That's right, that's understandable."
The girl outside the kitchen tried her best to suppress her curiosity. Her sixth sense made her hair stand on end, and the sister in the maid costume inside gave her a very dangerous feeling.
Ling walked out, handed Seria a recipe, and asked her to sit on the sofa to rest. Then she took off her white coat and put on an apron and returned to the kitchen. She occasionally cooked in Rozenberk's workshop.
, she can no longer fry substances in the pot recently, which is gratifying to say.
"Then Ling will be responsible for cutting the vegetables. Your knife skills are much better than mine."
"Well, on the other hand, Sharon is responsible for controlling the heat. Originally it was for three people, but now it seems that it will be for four people tonight. Do you have enough ingredients?"
"Don't worry, I have redundancy prepared."
Ling and Sharon worked in the kitchen together for an hour. When it was almost dark, Joshua's figure appeared outside the house.
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At the dining table, Ling held up a dark brown soda and toasted to Sharon, who was holding red wine.
Under the soft light of the eye-protecting power lamp and on the dining table in pure imperial style, the little girl silently chewed the juicy bear meat.
Joshua, who was on her left, looked helplessly at the luxurious food in front of him. In fact, it was quite delicious when he put it in his mouth?
Noticing that Joshua was looking at the suspicious little girl without any trace, Ling felt that there was no need to hide and choke.
"She is the executor candidate Six of Swords, and her real name is Ceria."
Can you tell me that? After looking at the violet-haired girl with such eyes, she realized that the other people's reactions seemed too bland.
"I told Sharon about it, so Joshua isn't too surprised."
"You can probably guess it from the small movements."
Joshua put down the tableware and took out his guerrilla badge.
"First time we meet, I am Joshua Bright, a B-level guerrilla from the Regram branch."
The fact that Ling and the club still maintain contact is not a secret among the two people who often visit the doll workshop.
Estelle still had some objections to Ling's unwillingness to leave the association. But Joshua would no longer persuade her. For Joshua, the person who really needed to be persuaded was Levi.
Not Ling. In his opinion, if he could persuade Levi to leave the association, it should be easy for Ling to solve the problem. But unfortunately, persuading Levi is not easy at all.
"Seraya, looking at the confused look on your face, it seems that I didn't tell you any more information."
"We at the bottom are not told what we need to know outside of our mission."
In addition to the Golden Butterfly, three of the four ace killers of the Body-Eating Snake are here. Of course, all three of them have washed their hands. Ling has not killed anyone for five years, and Joshua is seven.
There has been no killing since the year, and Sharon has been there for almost seven years.
"Yeah, it doesn't matter if you don't know. Anyway, just think that you are here to make a living."
After hearing the instructions, the little girl looked down and continued to concentrate on finishing the dishes. After enjoying the feast, Sharon packed her things and returned to Luray. Serea was stuffed with a few books by Ling and sent to the guest room to rest.
Joshua came to the study room and had some information that was not suitable for others to hear. It was the content of his private chat with Ling.
Ling first talked about the events mentioned in Joshua's previous letter to her.
"When you were recycling the Ring of Judgment, you encountered the Red Glory Stone, the number one Guardian Knight of the Star Cup Knights. I don't know much about the Guardian Knight's information. Apart from what I told you before,
There is news about Waji lurking in the old town of Crossbell. In addition, the Box Warlock, the second guardian knight of the Star Cup Knights, will teach at Thorz in the name of history instructor starting from the new semester of this year. In terms of personal experience, of course
It’s a forgery, but Dean Van Dyke seems to know the inside story and still agrees to let him enter the academy.”
"The second one has a very unfamiliar name. He probably wasn't active in the empire before. Ling didn't have any conflict with him, right?"
"Of course not. They also hide themselves well in front of the teachers and students. They don't seem to be aware of my identity behind the scenes. However... the matter of Rozenberk's workshop director should not be hidden, after all, I am also
We have not conducted any special intelligence operations in this regard. We can find out by just collecting some information."
"Is the purpose of the canonization province the Gray Riding God you told me before?"
"This is only the highest possibility, and it cannot be ruled out that it is to obtain other information."
Because Ling and Reinhardt had become Purple Activators and Gold Activators respectively, they explained the general situation to Joshua after he promised to keep it secret from Estelle and Cassius.
The layout of the association is almost complete. In the first stage of the Phantom Flame Plan, only the awakening of the Gray Rider God and the Scarlet Rider God can begin. Although there seems to be something wrong with Alberich at the juncture of the launch.
What's the problem... You'll know this when you go see Po Jie.
Next, Ling and Joshua explained Xiaodi's situation, how she was taken as a hostage by the remnants of the Jesta Hunter Regiment but counterattacked them instantly. Then they talked about the Sword of Wind Saint Arios in Ere
The mission of the Bonian Empire. Because it had been a long time since I came to the Empire, the people of Crossbell all missed the patron saint of that city, so Ling asked Joshua, who belonged to the association, to inquire about the situation there.
I learned from Joshua that Arios accepted the escort commission from a certain big businessman in the empire, but in fact, there is also a Guerrilla Association based on Arios's feedback to evaluate the empire's current attitude towards guerrilla actions.
.On the surface, it was commissioned, but actually investigated, to investigate the attitude of the imperial people towards the guerrillas, not the attitude of the imperial government towards the guerrillas.
"The imperial government does not need guerrillas to disrupt the rule, but the imperial people need guerrillas to solve problems. This is the possibility of the Guerrilla Association returning to the empire. Although only the Regram branch is left as a stronghold now, there is a possibility in the future
We hope to return. But a very important point is that according to the instructions from the Lehman headquarters, we can neither stand on the side of the reformists nor the aristocrats."
After listening to Joshua's words, Ling nodded. Recalling what she knew about the game's plot, it seemed that in 1206 the empire's association was about to reopen.
It is said that the two factions cannot help each other, but in fact, neither faction can do it, and of course they cannot join the Oribat camp. Only by adhering to the principle of non-interference with the official government can there be room for negotiation with the imperial government.
Considering that it was getting late, Joshua accepted Ling's invitation to stay overnight. In fact, when this villa was first built, rooms for Reinhardt and Joshua were set aside, which was based on the fact that they once lived in the countryside of Tutunrk.
The interior settings of the room have been set up before, but they have never had the opportunity to use them. Today is the first time it has been put to use.
After giving Joshua a copy of the key and saying good night to him, Ling went to the basement where multiple complex isolation barriers were set up to prevent outsiders from easily entering.
Ling injected magic power into the transfer array. The next moment, the scene in front of her eyes changed, and what came into view was the underground dome of the dim black workshop.
Before going to gather at the broken ring, she planned to come here to investigate the situation. However, it was a dead version of silence here, which was completely different from the last time she came here to wake up Altina.
There was no sound of mechanical bearing transmission, and there were no tactical shell guards who used to patrol everywhere. Both the S weapon production line and the tactical shell production line had stopped operating. Ling Jiang visited everywhere and found that the place was almost empty.
Nothing is left, only a shell.
"Maybe he went to the son of Danu (Tuhad Danan). This is going to be difficult."
Of course this is just a guess.
Alberich never told Ling which phase the Fantasy Mobile Fortress was hidden in. With a void battery installed to allow it to regain mobility, it would be extremely difficult to capture its location.
After the initial investigation, Ling found nothing, so she had no choice but to go back home and follow the path she came from to her villa.