At eight o'clock on Saturday morning, the full curfew in the city of Tobesk was lifted, making this Saturday in what should have been an ordinary Thunder Month unusually lively.
People who had been stuck at home all day went out one after another. The hawking sounds in the city and the shouts of newsboys announcing big news were louder than ever.
The hooves and wheels of horse-drawn carriages made pleasant sounds on the streets, and the hurried and mixed footsteps made the city full of vitality.
The rising mist enveloped the city, and chimneys in the distant suburbs of the city spewed black smoke into the sky. But all this could not affect people's good mood. The actions of the city hall and the church yesterday frightened the citizens who did not know the truth, and the news that thousands of people died overnight also cast a haze over everyone's heart.
But fortunately, everything has returned to normal, and Tobesk is once again shrouded in mist and sunshine. Although it is not a good day today, people are in an exceptionally good mood.
On the bustling Queen Mary Street in the west of the city, the morning light sprinkled on the street, and the pedestrians coming and going did not disturb the tranquility of the detached three-story building facing the street. Perhaps this family was still using sleep to spend this unusual Saturday.
Dr. Shade and Schneider, wearing black coats and black hats, appeared at the street corner. The two men were in a hurry, each carrying a black suitcase in their hands, but they did not attract other people's attention in the bustling crowd.
Passing by passers-by, the carriage slowly drove past them. The doctor and the detective stopped at the door of 17 Queen Mary Street one after the other. Dr. Schneider walked up the steps under the eaves, and Shade stood behind him, with his back to the door and looking around the street.
With a click, the keyhole covered by the blue-eyed doctor turned and the door was opened.
The doctor pushed the door open a crack and walked in first, carrying the briefcase. Xia De, who was on guard, held the briefcase in his right hand and put his left hand in his coat pocket. He looked around, turned around, walked up the steps, and entered the room through the crack in the door.
Click!
The door was locked from the inside, and the morning sun shone obliquely on the steps at the door. The pedestrians on Queen Mary Street did not notice what was happening at the moment.
The two men who entered Room 17 did not communicate with each other. They quietly put on shoe covers, gloves, and masks in the hallway, and then entered the living room one after another.
A fat maid wearing an apron came over with a tray and looked at the two strangers in surprise:
"you... ... "
"Go to sleep."
The doctor spoke softly, and Shade quickly took the plates from the maid and placed them on the table beside him. The doctor carried the unconscious maid to the window and threw her directly into the alley on the side of the house.
Then they found the remaining two servants on the first floor, put them to sleep, and threw them all into the alley from the side window.
Without staying on the first floor for long, the men carrying suitcases walked up the stairs to the second floor.
There were six rooms on both sides of the corridor on the second floor. The doctor walked to the second room on the left, and after making sure Xia De followed, he pushed the door open.
The young man who was sitting at the desk packing his luggage looked towards the door in astonishment:
"Who are you?"
"Her divination was indeed correct. The information my father sold me was also correct. He hired a ring wizard to protect himself."
The doctor's dull, monotonous voice came from behind the mask.
"What do you want to do to my employer?"
"Leave here. Your employer is related to the Blood Feast Lord's sect. You are a correspondence ring sorcerer of the Zaras School of Spells. If you don't want to get into trouble, leave here immediately."
"How do you know... Never mind, it doesn't matter. Everything here has nothing to do with me. It's so unlucky that I have to encounter such a thing. I was wondering why the hiring fee is so high. Damn it, I hope I won't be summoned by the academy for questioning."
The young man hurriedly closed his suitcase, brushed past the two masked men, and left without looking back.
Shade did not continue to communicate with the doctor, nor did he search the second floor, but went directly to the third floor. Shade used the Silencing Spell he got from Iluna, and then kicked open the door near the stairs.
After opening the door, Xia De and the doctor raised their guns and shot inside. The three men in the room were shot to pieces without saying a word.
"The desperadoes he hired to protect him deserve to die."
The doctor lowered his gun, smoke rose up, and the men's voices sounded muffled behind their masks.
After leaving the room together with Xia De, they came to the door of the master bedroom on the third floor.
After knocking on the door and hearing a rude man cursing from inside, the doctor kicked the door open and walked in with Shade:
"Whoever moves will be killed."
Two men pointed their guns at the four-poster bed.
The room was dark with the curtains drawn, and the air was filled with incense and a strange smell that could be smelled even through a mask. The floor was covered with thick carpet, and the clothes of men and women were tangled on the carpet, with the belt of the police uniform and the garter of the woman hanging together.
There was a curtain hanging over the four-poster bed. As Shad walked behind and turned on the gas lamp on the wall, a naked middle-aged fat man and a graceful woman were vaguely visible behind the curtain.
The doctor held a gun in his right hand and tore open the curtain beside the bed with his left hand. The woman screamed and hid in the quilt. The middle-aged man shouted and then had the doctor's gun pointed at his head. He looked at the stranger who broke in with horror.
"Mr. Anthony Wargrave, the Chief Constable of Redwich Field?"
The doctor took out Xia De's ID with his gloved hand and shook it, then fished out a black-and-white photo from his pocket. After taking a look at it, he threw it on the bed. It was a close-up black-and-white photo of the police chief taken from a special angle.
"MI6? The money is in the safe next door. Don't shoot. I am..."
"You don't have to answer."
The doctor's gun barrel trembled, and without paying any attention to the police chief's lover who was screaming on the bed, he said to Xia De behind him:
"Go search next door."
"OK."
Xia De turned and walked out of the room. A few seconds later, a sound like someone was demolishing a wall came from the next room.
Boots tapped on the floor, and Shade came back quickly, holding a cloth bag full of banknotes in his left hand and a plaster statue with ruby eyes in his right hand.
"Found it. It's in the safe."
"Woman, I give you three minutes to get dressed and leave this house, or I can't guarantee what will happen."
The doctor's dull voice came from behind the mask. The woman, who was originally paralyzed by fear, crawled to her feet, grabbed the clothes on the carpet and left the room. The panicked footsteps disappeared at the stairs.
The doctor's hand holding the gun was steady. The gun was pointed at the top of the head of the middle-aged man with his upper body naked. He raised his hands and dared not move. His brown eyes kept looking at the two masked strangers:
"Listen, gentlemen, I can give you money, I can give you... "
"Shut up! I'm going to kill you because you deserve to die."
The doctor's thumb slowly moved the hammer. The middle-aged man shook his head in despair, but when he opened his mouth, he found that he could no longer make a sound. He, who had cooperated with Mercury Blood, fully understood who was in front of him.
"Second, it's because you killed my client."
As Shad spoke, he walked to the window, drew aside the curtains and opened the bedroom window.
The sunlight entered the room, making the skin of the middle-aged fat man with his upper body naked seem to be reflecting light. The warm summer breeze also blew in, but it did not make Anthony Wargrave, who was being pointed at, feel at ease.
"Third, do you know how much time and energy we spent looking for this thing?"
The doctor hit the police chief viciously in the face with the butt of his gun, and dragged him to the window while the middle-aged man lay on the bed groaning in pain.
"You who brought me bad luck, lie down here!"
Pressing the middle-aged man's head onto the windowsill, the doctor took one of the statue's eyes from Shade. After confirming that he was wearing three layers of special protective gloves borrowed from Priest Augustus, he slammed the ruby-like glass against the windowsill, and immediately, bright red liquid seeped out from the broken glass.
The whole thing is like gelatin, but it also has some liquid components.
Xia De opened the suitcase and used the empty bottles prepared in advance to hold the liquid. The doctor observed the color of the blood-red liquid in the sunlight, then reached out and dipped some with his gloves, and roughly smeared it into the middle-aged man's mouth.
The police chief of the Redwich Field in Tobesk City immediately began to twitch, and an abnormal blue color spread from his mouth to his entire body.
"It's a fake Philosopher's Stone. The poisoning condition is the same as the characteristics given by the academy."
The doctor was relieved.
"There was still some liquid on the windowsill, and it was impossible to collect it all."
Xia De reminded, holding up a half-filled vial, and the doctor glanced at the red jelly and liquid droplets on the windowsill:
"We don't have to collect all of them. We need to tell the True God Church that we have nothing to do with the cult. We are only after this relic."
Letting go of the police chief who was twitching from the poison, the doctor opened his suitcase and took out a small bottle of brown liquid. This was the magic potion "Heart of Fire" that he had taken from Priest Augustus. It was called a magic potion, but it was actually a strong kerosene.
Xia De squatted on the ground and put the other "ruby" eye of the plaster statue, along with the shattered liquid, into his suitcase.
With a click, the two men fastened the boxes at the same time and stood up facing the sunlight outside the window.
Xia De lifted the middle-aged man who was not dead yet to the windowsill with one hand, cancelled the silencing spell, and shot him in the head.
Bang!
As the screams of terror rose one after another on the street, he grabbed the banknotes in the bag and threw them out. The flying pieces of paper were carried farther away by the wind, and the falling banknotes made the screams on the street even louder.
The doctor smashed the kerosene in his hand onto the ground, and the two of them walked out of the room carrying the suitcase. As the door was slammed, the doctor pointed his hand from his shoulder to the back, and a fierce fire exploded with a bang. Black smoke billowed from the window into the sky, and chaos quickly spread to the entire block.