Forsi walked out of a room at the end of the corridor on the first floor, holding a fist-sized pure crystal ball in her hand. The bright starlight gradually dimmed. By the time she walked to the living room, the light in the crystal ball had already converged.
Putting the crystal ball given by Teacher Dorian into the cushioned wooden box, she yawned and threw herself on the sofa. It was not until she heard footsteps coming from the corridor that she moved with difficulty.
"When did you learn the purification ritual? The effect is better than if I drank 500 ml of holy water directly!"
Hugh Dilcha, who was wearing a knight's training uniform, walked over with the almost transparent human skin mask that kept changing colors, his youthful face full of curiosity.
The extraordinary item in her hand is easy to use, but every time it is used, it requires a purification ritual or taking at least 500 ml of holy water to eliminate the negative effects. The former is too troublesome and expensive, but holy water has become a
As a formal member of MI9, she can purchase it from within every day.
And with her promotion, the length of time she can use it has increased significantly. It is no longer limited to one hour, but it cannot exceed three hours.
After returning from MI9 today, Forsi said that he would try to arrange a purification ritual. Anyway, he had a large dose of holy water around him, so Xiu didn't worry about the negative effects of the ritual failure, not to mention that Forsi used a crystal ball for divination.
I used it several times to make sure there was no problem.
"I haven't been inspired to write these days, so I looked through the book my teacher gave me and found a way to use spiritual materials to arrange a purification ceremony. After preparing the materials, I thought about whether it would be effective."
"How much will it cost?"
"Well...just counting the materials I purchased, I spent 8 pounds. These can probably be used for five to six ceremonies. On average, one ceremony costs about 1 pound 10 suler."
"Huh..." Xio breathed a sigh of relief and threw the mask in his hand on the coffee table, "That's not bad, at least it's cheaper than holy water."
500 ml of holy water costs about 10 pounds on the black market, and it is much cheaper in MI9. But no matter how cheap it is, it cannot withstand her high demand. Even if she can reimburse part of it during the "Torture and Pre-Trial Team",
But most of her salary was spent on buying holy water.
That is to say, she was recently promoted to "Interrogator" and was transferred from the original team. She does not need to keep disguising her identity in order to save her salary.
"But I plan to charge you 3 pounds, no, 5 pounds each time, so that I can pay off the money I owe." Forsi's upper body suddenly bounced up, with a smile on his lips.
"Then I might as well spend money on holy water."
Xio walked over angrily, pushed Forsi on the shoulder, and asked her to lie back down again.
Forsi didn't take it seriously either, and asked in a drawled voice:
"Why did you go to MI9 again today? Have you got a new mission?"
"No way, I just went back to take a look." Xio sighed, but suddenly there was a bit of excitement on his face, "Fortunately I went today, don't you know what happened today?"
"Didn't Duke Negan be assassinated? I told you before that there have been rumors among us that there may be personnel from MI9 secretly cooperating with this case. Anyone who knew Duke Negan's itinerary that day was temporarily detained.
Get up and let our team take charge of the interrogation."
Forsi nodded. She knew about this. Xio was dissatisfied for a long time because she was not selected to participate and was temporarily transferred to investigate the Aurora Society.
"But I just found out today that our team has never submitted the interrogation results. So today, Duke Negan's son Philip Negan came with the 'Punisher' deacon of the Church of Storms, and even our rarely seen punishment
Chief Selt has come forward, and he wants to interrogate those people personally.
I don't know the specific process, but after Philip Negan left, my original team leader, Alex Gibson, was relieved of his duties and was then detained in a solitary room to await processing. Even the 'Torture and Pre-Trial Team' was temporarily disbanded.
, waiting for subsequent orders."
…
"... Judging from the results of the interrogation, Lockhard Sikayam was the one who leaked my father's itinerary, but he did not say who was the person who instigated him. Mr. Selt thought that someone had imposed a ban. And Ai
Because this secretary was from MI9, Leakes was afraid of being involved in political strife, so he chose to delay."
In the study, as Philip told the story, Prime Minister Agushid, who was sitting next to him, looked extremely ugly. What he least expected to happen happened.
"Besides detaining Alex and disbanding the 'torture and pre-trial team', what else did Selt say?"
"He said he would report the matter to His Majesty, and the specific handling measures still need to wait for His Majesty's opinion."
Philip pressed his hands on the desk, and a heart-wrenching squeaking sound was heard. He was very dissatisfied with the way Selt handled it, but he couldn't do anything.
MI9 is very special in Loen. It was originally modeled after Emperor Russell's Intis CIA and was responsible for collecting intelligence from various countries.
But Roen does not have a large number of "faceless men" and cannot place spies in key departments of various countries like Intis, so it can only develop into police stations in extraordinary worlds, collect intelligence, handle extraordinary incidents involving nobles, and arrest enemy countries.
Spies, cooperating with military operations, etc.
When the Intis CIA was established, Russell was still the consul and handed over the responsibility of this intelligence agency to the Secret Order, but it was impossible for the Augustus family to do this.
When MI9 was first established, it recruited some extraordinary people from the military and aristocrats, but it was mainly members of the Augustus family. Although it nominally collects intelligence for the military, it is not affiliated with the military.
Even now, the number of members of the Augustus family in MI9 is very small, and they no longer even control the core department, but their allegiance and responsibility are still to the king.
This is why Philip and the deacons of the Church of Storms can only negotiate with Deputy Director Morrison outside the MI9 office building.
Agushid was silent for a while, then turned to look at the young man beside him:
"Rolls, what do you think?"
What you care about is not what I think, but you want me to persuade Philip not to act out of emotion. But now that he is sitting here, not directly attacking the Celtic Director in MI9 proves that he will not, at least under George III
He will not go crazy until the specific results are given... Rolls held his chin and looked at Philip behind the desk, and then said after a while:
"...Actually, this matter will not conflict with our previous plan. In any case, the assassination of the Duke is definitely not just the brain disease of an extraordinary person, or an 'Apostle of Desire'. After all, there was another one before
Pirate General, we have known this for a long time, but we are not sure who led this assassination.
Although the existing evidence involves MI9, we are still not sure that the person who ordered the assassination of the Duke is from MI9, or is someone who can command MI9. Rushing to attack MI9 will only make us passive.
.
In fact, it is MI9 that is panicking now. Once this matter is not handled well, it will only be trouble for them. We only need to proceed according to the previous plan and wait until the status of the Negan family is stabilized, then we can do better
resolve this matter."
Agushid did not express his opinion. He kept observing Philip and breathed a sigh of relief until the other party nodded. He knocked on the armrest of the chair and said to Rawls with a smile:
"Thank you for your hard work. With your help, Phillip, I don't have to worry."
From the corner of his eye, he saw Phillip's face turning a little darker. Rawls couldn't help but sigh in his heart, stood up and said:
"This is what I should do. I still have work to do in my office, so I'll leave now."
Agushide stood up and nodded without holding back.
After Rawls left, he sat down again, pinched the corners of his eyes and said:
"The assassination of Pallas probably has little to do with MI9. You also know the investigation results given by the Church of Steam, Lockhard..."
"He is from MI9!" Philip interrupted, "Selt must give us an explanation."
"Humph, I guess Selt has been waiting for you a long time ago, otherwise he wouldn't have detained Alex so simply, and also disbanded the 'Torture and Pre-trial Team'. As the director of MI9, he has to restrict his people
There are really too many. The royal family has always been in control, and the nobility, military, and church are also constantly exerting influence."
Agushid rubbed the armrest with a slight sarcasm:
"But a team leader is nothing. He is just a brigadier general. There are seven deputy directors in MI9, not counting people like the chief of the palace guard who also have corresponding authority."
…
Rawls leaned back in his chair and recalled the MI9 director Celt mentioned by Philip. In his memory, this demigod appeared in the original work, but there were very few descriptions related to him.
Knowing that he possesses a sealed artifact of the "Gate" pathway, he is most likely a "Traveler".
But as a demigod who controls a huge organization like MI9, he seemed to have handled his subordinate's suspected assassination of Duke Negan too hastily. Not only did he detain his subordinate, he also disbanded the corresponding department.
Even though Duke Negan has a high position of authority, he would not allow Selt to do this. If he really cares about this matter, he should deal with it early and cannot let Alex delay it so obviously.
Is this more like making excuses?
The only source of information for MI9 is Hugh, but Hugh is just an ordinary member now and has no access to the upper echelons of MI9.
However, judging from the original work alone, there are many factions in MI9. Some people, such as Qonas Kilger, obviously know the secret of George III and choose to support it. Others, like Hugh's father's subordinates, know a little bit and choose to
There are those who are watching, but there must be some who don’t know.
Even after the death of George III and Prince Govington's accession to the throne, he did nothing to restore Hugh's father's reputation and make Hugh a senior executive of MI9. It can be seen that the situation within this intelligence agency is quite complicated.
One emperor and one courtier can be established anywhere.
Rawls shook his head and closed his eyes to rest. This matter had nothing to do with him for the time being.
The carriage clattered and arrived at Adrian's office. He really had to handle some internal work in the office.
As time gets closer to the end of the year, heavy smog may occur at any time, and he cannot bet that it will happen next Tuesday.
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On the outskirts of Queens, a low-key and luxurious carriage drove out of Red Rose Manor.
Klein, who was wearing a black woolen coat, leaned against the wall of the compartment, holding a 1 penny coin in his hand, resting his elbow on the window, his eyes wandering on the scenery outside the window, as if he was thinking about something.
After a while, the coin in his hand was tossed up and landed on his palm, with the number facing up.
A smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, but he still couldn't hide the sadness on his face.
He came to this manor at the invitation of Prince Edsac, not just today. Since he came with Alan for the first time on Monday, the only time he didn't go was yesterday. Counting today, it was already the third time.
The reason why he was invited was that His Highness the Prince was suddenly curious about him, the recently famous detective, and wanted to know the specific work of the detective and the stories of the cases he was involved in.
In this regard, Klein just told the prince that he was forced to get involved in "serial murderers" and "devils". What he really took the initiative to take over was to investigate cheating and help others find it.
thing.
But he couldn't help but that His Highness the Prince was generous and even vaguely revealed that there was a problem with his previous reimbursement, so he could only bite the bullet and make up a story based on various stories he had seen in his previous life.
However, Klein was a little skeptical about the strong interest shown by His Highness the Prince. He thought it was more likely that the civilian girl the Prince liked was more curious about this, but that girl was well protected and had never been seen.
Just arrived.
He originally thought that he was just a storyteller and that even if there were any royal family conflicts, it would not affect him. However, the current situation made him have to worry about his situation.
He discovered that someone had been snooping or monitoring the manor. Whenever he left the manor, he could detect it through divination. Fortunately, he was not the focus of attention. As long as he left the manor for a certain distance, the person monitoring him would automatically disappear.
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In order to prevent himself from being involved, he would go to the gray mist for a divination every time he was invited to make sure there were no problems before heading to the manor.
Klein put the 1 penny into his pocket, closed his eyes slightly, and moved his lips slightly:
"Fortunately it's over soon."
He has gained a lot these days. He has gathered all the materials for the "Faceless Man". He can brew the potion tonight and be promoted to a Sequence 6 "Faceless Man".
After being promoted, Klein planned to stay for two more days, and then leave Backlund to go to the sea to look for mermaids on the pretext of going to Dixi County for vacation.
Thinking of this, he stretched and yawned. Momo Huhu saw a gap near the window, and there seemed to be a note stuffed inside.
He immediately looked away and looked to the other side, then simply closed his eyes and fell asleep.
As the carriage drove into the city and turned into Minsk Street, Klein opened his eyes and looked at the note.
I only take one look at it, and then put it back after finishing it.
Seeing that he was about to arrive home, he took out the note with the speed of a "magician" and a "clown" and carefully unfolded it quickly.