Chapter 69: Chapter 69: Abnormal Situation
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Within the Knight Intelligence Base.
Cass took a sip of chilled whiskey, sharing his suspicions and thoughts:
“If we connect all the information we have so far… this is all premeditated.”
One reason Cass became a team leader is due to his leadership and strength; his ability to perceive and analyze events is also impressive.
The clues at present are sufficient to put together and infer some emerging ‘conspiracies’.
“The death of the Baker family was an ‘intentional suicide’.
Someone proficient in the dark arts within the Baker clan used the dark arts to control vagrants and killed the entire family overnight.
The purpose is one only.
To draw the attention of the local security bureau.
The Beke family is considered close to ‘nobility’ on London Street, with the investigation on their mansion requiring their full efforts… thus, a large number of security personnel participated.
The point is to ‘attract a large number of people to the mansion for a period of time’.
Then through some dark art means, control them.
Only one security officer with strong willpower attempted to resist, yet with his ordinary human spirit and body, he couldn’t compete with the evil thoughts, leading to his sudden death at home that night.
It is important to note, the ones being controlled are security personnel.
By achieving this, control of the security bureau is gained, and to some extent, this can camouflage the incident, ensuring the truth won’t reach the church and the Knight Regiment in a short time.
Of course, with such a huge incident in the Baker family, the Knight Regiment’s informants definitely kept an eye out, and the security bureau didn’t entirely resort to false information.
Thus, a ‘ghost case’ based on the local residents’ narration is submitted to the church along with some actual situation.
Persuading the Knight Regiment to conclude that this case isn’t too tricky, and thus, assign an Apprentice Knight to handle it.
And we ‘happened’ to be the ‘winning’ team.”
Cass’s inference based on current clues and intelligence is compelling.
Obviously, someone is controlling all this behind the scenes… but their purpose remains unclear.
“What’s the purpose of controlling a large number of regular people?”
As Koslin asked this, Sophia – who was sitting next to him – seemed to realize something and nervously stood up:
“We can’t continue discussing here, we must report the situation and let the people of the Knight Regiment block the security bureau! All suspected controlled people must be taken to the church for baptism.
I… I have a very bad premonition.”
Han Dong glanced at Sophia, who had clasped her hands at her chest due to nervousness…
In fact, Han Dong also had this feeling… a very ominous feeling.
As the team leader, Cass understood the seriousness of the situation.
“Fiya and I weren’t attacked at the security bureau, nor did we gain enough solid evidence, only subjective judgments about the irregularities observed in the security personnel.
We’re basing it solely on personal speculations and have yet to provide concrete evidence to the Knight Regiment.
They won’t recklessly deploy to block the local security bureau as it may affect public sentiment… without evidence, there would be at most 1-2 knights sent to investigate in the guise of ordinary people.
If nothing is wrong with the security bureau and its staff are merely reacting abnormally due to overwhelming pressure, I’d be severely punished.
Also, the security bureau might have prepared to deal with the ordinary investigation team… It’s best to have evidence to allow the Knight Regiment a full blockade.
We’ll try to obtain evidence from the ‘body examination report’.” Right then.
Han Dong took out a ‘diary’ stored in his backpack for a long time.
Yes, the diary that had caused Kolsin to fall into deep contamination.
“It should record what the deceased security officer saw and heard when he investigated the Baker Mansion that day, as well as his experiences and psychological activities before his death… it might be substantial evidence.”
“Hmm.”
But… now there’s a problem.
How to view the diary.
Remember, Koslin’s protective glasses shattered when he tried to read it with them on.
Han Dong was not affected and could read as he pleases, but couldn’t reveal his secret.
“This Secret Knight Intelligence Base should provide a higher intensity ‘protective glasses’… Fiya, you can read it with the aid of your Holy Light protection, right?”
“Hmm!”
When Fiya felt she was needed by Cass, no matter what dangers she might
face, she was not scared.
Shortly after, Cass brought a pair of special ‘protective glasses’ – they were bulky and large, purely increasing contamination resistance by thickening the lenses, inconvenient for daily carry.
Fiya took out the Fate Staff and gently touched her forehead.
A golden halo circled between her eyebrows, enhancing her resistance to ‘contamination’.
The reading of the diary officially began.
During the process, Fiya made several spells to maintain the intensity of the holy light.
When reading some peculiar texts, black filthy tears flowed from the corner of her eyes and evaporated instantly when they hit the ground.
Slam!
She closed the diary.
Upon completing the reading, Fiya’s whole body was covered in white steam, and she looked extremely weak.
Cass immediately went over and hugged her, “Fiya… are you okay?”
“Brother Cass, don’t worry about me… hurry! Hurry and hand the diary to the people of the Knight Regiment, let them take action… the diary has clearly recorded that currently, half of the security personnel have infiltrated the Baker House! They all saw peculiar things.
A ‘highly contagious’ source of pollution. It may… be really related to evil witchcraft.’
“Alright!”
Just hand it to the ‘messenger’ in the Knight Intelligence Base, who will gallop to deliver evidence to their higher-ups.
Just need to wait for the decision from the Knight Headquarters to ‘alter this bounty mission’.
Cass estimated that his group would directly receive the reward for the bounty mission, followed by the Knight Regiment taking over and dealing with the matter.
Twenty minutes passed.
A staff member from the intelligence station came to Cass and the group’s room.
“Due to the provision of crucial intelligence, you can directly receive 40% of the original bounty mission reward.
The bounty mission [Ghost Case of London Street] has been changed to [Mysterious Witchcraft Event of the Baker Clan], with the execution scale now as a three-star assisting mission.
You will be led by a regular knight to perform cleansing on the Baker house.”
Cass was surprised: “Assisting mission?”
The staff member replied: “It’s a decision made by the higher-ups… due to the severity of the situation, it is necessary for at least one knight to resolve it.” “What about the besieged Security Bureau?!”
“The security bureau has been fully suppressed by a knight who was active nearby… however, those problematic security personnel had switched shifts and left half an hour ago and failed to be arrested.
According to the feedback from the residents of 37th Street.
Fifteen minutes ago, these security personnel who had left shift brought their family members and all entered the Baker Mansion.”
“What!? They brought in family members too!? How many people?”
“At least two hundred.”
The situation has become more severe than anticipated….