The red moon returns

Chapter 326 The Light of Miracle (two chapters in one, one update today)
It's an extremely dangerous world, especially Charles Square in the Rhineland.

Last night, in addition to the strange figure disappearing out of thin air, there was another strange story in Charles Square.

Crazy guy who repeatedly hits a streetlight.

There is no doubt that Lynch just learned to flash last night and started practicing immediately. He accidentally hit the gas street light on the roadside several times and was seen by others.

I'm really ignorant. Who hasn't hit a street light a few times?

But Lynch's hunch was right, flash is indeed a useful skill.

Teleport within five meters of sight, cool down in fifteen seconds.

It can be called a strategic skill. It is very useful in both offense and life-saving. Even if it is used for traveling, it is no problem. However, it consumes a bit more. If you use it frequently, you will soon be exhausted and can only be used as a trump card.

The only regret is that this secret method cannot penetrate the conceptually closed area, that is, even if you can see the fence on the opposite side, you cannot penetrate it, let alone enter the room through transparent glass. The broken piece of glass on the first floor of the apartment That's the evidence.

And the bag on the forehead.

The landlady who had just been shocked that the cat could talk was shocked again. With little Martha's gloating smile, she dragged Lynch and scolded her for a long time. He couldn't help but sigh, it's scary for a mature woman to be angry.

In short, Lynch spent the whole night until he ran out of energy and fell asleep with a severe headache.

Early in the morning, he went to practice fencing and shooting for an hour. After this period of hard training, Lynch's marksmanship has improved significantly.

Half of his bullets hit the target.

The coach tore up the suicide note on the spot and cried like a child in his thirties.

You cried too early. I will come to see you tomorrow.

Ignoring the shooting coach who rushed out to buy champagne, Lynch left the Police Club, but instead of going to the Hall of Order, he found a taxi waiting for guests and went straight to the riverside manor in the northern suburbs.

Yes, Mayor Howard was not in jail at all, but was under house arrest in his own manor by the Governor's Mansion, which made Lynch smell something strange.

The riverside manor is still the same, but unfortunately things and people inside have changed. The scene of those people drinking and laughing in the entertainment room seemed to still flash before Lynch's eyes. He had been in this world for more than forty days, but he was still not used to this kind of scene of separation and death, and he felt quite sad when he thought about it.

There were many police officers standing guard around the manor, which consumed a lot of police force, which made Lynch even more murmuring. Moreover, as soon as he informed his name, the police officers ran inside to report, and when they came out, they let him in directly.

It's like standing guard for Howard.

When Lynch met Howard, the former mayor was reading newspapers and eating breakfast in the garden, and there were even original servants serving him.

It was approaching July, and the flowers were in full bloom in the garden, with their fragrance overflowing. Howard was sitting among a few delicate flowers, surrounded by the breath of nature, and it was extremely pleasant to watch.

The problem is how this place looks like a big performance venue.

As Lin Qi walked along, he felt dozens of eyes peering at him. It's normal for someone to monitor me, but this is too exaggerated. This is no longer surveillance but onlookers.

Seeing Lynch, the former mayor did not have the slightest grudge. Instead, he took off his unilateral glasses, pointed to the chair opposite, and smiled politely: "Please sit down, Mr. Leviev. I didn't expect you to visit so early and didn't give me anything." You prepare breakfast. I will ask the chef to prepare another one for you now."

"No need."

The corner of Lin Qi's mouth twitched, and he felt quite unhappy in his heart, so why did I risk my life to fight with him in a battle of wits and courage to bring him down?
This made him unable to control his emotions and said sarcastically: "I didn't expect that the mayor would be able to maintain such a good living condition after his retirement. It's really amazing."

"Haha, money and status, as long as you have one, you can enjoy a superior life, and I happen to have both, so I can do this even if I fail." He said, lighting up a cigar, "It's very unpleasant, But this is reality, it has never changed since the fifth century, and it will obviously not change in the foreseeable future.”

Lynch knew that what Howard said was right. Even in his hometown, the reality was so cruel. But he still shook his head and sighed: "Aren't they afraid of you running away?"

"Oh, if I wanted to leave, I would have left that night and wouldn't have stayed at all." The former mayor chuckled softly, "Actually, both Rudolf and Wayne dreamed that I could escape. They might be willing to hold a farewell party for this. Unfortunately, I have no plans yet. My staying here will be their biggest trouble."

Lynch frowned, realizing that what the other party said might be true. Miss Valente had said yesterday that the Royal Capital's attitude towards Prince William was also very ambiguous, so he temporarily put away his hostility and asked: "Why?"

"If you haven't reached this position, you will definitely not understand, because I am a member of the Parliament." Howard said calmly, "No matter what crime I committed, no matter whether there is conclusive evidence or not, given Rand's current environment, no, It should be said that given the environment in the entire Middle-earth continent, attacking the mayor elected by the parliament would risk going to war with the parliament. But unfortunately, Rudolph and Wayne are obviously not ready for war."

Why the hell don’t I understand it? I understand it too well. Isn’t this the dispute between the parliament and the royal power after the times develop to a certain stage? To put it bluntly, merchants and nobles compete for the right to speak.

The Rhine City Strange Object Incident. Lynch has already thought of a title for future history books.

No wonder they asked me to investigate privately, no wonder the guards were dispatched in the end, no wonder the attitudes on both sides are so ambiguous.

For a time, most of the related questions in my mind have been answered.

"Now Wayne is most afraid that something will happen to me, so they won't be able to explain clearly. Those policemen outside are just to protect my safety." Howard smiled gloomily, "I guess he has been very uneasy these days, worried about me. He died here inexplicably, and he will come to me in person in a few days to beg me to run away. "

"Someone wants to kill you?" Lynch frowned, "Someone from the parliament?"

Howard was stunned and looked at Lynch in surprise: "If you think so, you must have really understood the relationship between us. It seems that I underestimated you. But it's not to that point yet. The council doesn't want me to die." , the one who really wants me to die is the League of Shadows.”

"Quiet?"

"No, it's more complicated than that." Howard hesitated for a moment and waved the servants away. Lynch understood and simply turned on the ability of phantom sound. Then Howard continued, "We are not actually from the League of Shadows. , It’s just a cooperative relationship, they provide me with business intelligence, and I do things for them that are inconvenient for them.”

"Even if these things mean rebellion?"

"Of course, do you know how much I can earn from their information?"

Lynch felt his eyes twitching. The capitalists really had no bottom line.

"So I know very little about them. They don't need to kill me to silence me. They want me dead because of one of their plans."

This is it! Lin Qi's breath was suffocated, his heartbeat accelerated, and he asked, "What's the plan?"

"I really don't know about this. I only know that this plan is very huge and involves many forces, even some of the Lord God's Church."

Lin Qi nodded. Behind the black spider was a certain god.

"As far as I know, their plan is divided into several parts. The first part seems to have been completed with the cooperation of a ignorant wretch. The second part has just begun, and my death is probably a result of the second part. This is exactly why I asked you to come. Cooperation is cooperation. They want to use my life as a stepping stone for their plans. They underestimate me and I will never tolerate it. Unfortunately, I only learned about it recently. , otherwise we must have prepared early.”

Well, the poor guy should be me. Although I don’t know the specific content yet, I have at least touched the tip of the iceberg. Lynch thought thoughtfully and asked, "I don't quite understand. In this case, why don't you just leave? The League of Shadows wants you to die here. If you just leave, won't they lose the reason to let you die? Their plan It will naturally fail.”

"I'm not sure whether their plan is for me to die here or outside. I don't want to use common sense to bet on their plan. Anyone who has done this before has failed." Howard suddenly showed a gloomy expression and raised his eyebrows. He said from the corner of his mouth, "And why should I leave? If I stay here, I can torture Wayne and Rudolph."

"This is a bit ugly." Lin Qi said sarcastically, "If you lose, you lose."

Howard curled his lips and then explained: "This place has been carefully arranged by me for many years, carefully protected by fifteen knights of the four major churches, four guards directly under Nolin, and special people from the private guard of the Governor's Mansion. There are centralized guards, and there are seven-level experts invited from the Secret Art Seminar to personally guard the place. Not to mention the Shadow Alliance, even if someone invites the evil god to come, these people together can give it a try. So why should I have such a safe lair. Leave voluntarily, haha, as long as I stay here, the League of Shadows can't do anything to me. I, Howard Hoffman, have lived for forty-eight years, and it's not that easy for me to die."

"Then what do you want me to do?" Lynch asked, "Add a layer of protection?"

"No, I just want revenge now, I want them to regret it." Howard smiled, with sinister malice in his eyes, "I guessed from their conversation what the Miracle Light item had planned for them. It has a great influence. They are looking for it, and even the evil god is helping them find it. And I remember that your other identity is very interested in this thing."

"In other words, even though we don't know the specific content of their plan, as long as we find the light of miracle, we can influence or even destroy their plan?"

"It can only be said that there is a possibility, and the worst result is that it has no impact on the plan."

Lynch narrowed his eyes and stared at Howard. The authenticity of his words was unknown, but now it sounded logically self-consistent. When compared with Lynch's own information, it was very likely that he was telling the truth.

It is better to stir up the boiling water than to draw fuel from the bottom of the cauldron. Since I am worried about their conspiracy and can't find a clue, I might as well aim for the light of miracles.

"Okay, I believe you this time." Since there is a common enemy, alliance is natural, "Where is the light of miracle?"

"I only know a few clues." Howard leaned over and held Lynch's hand, whispering, "In... poof."

Just between the two of them, a ball of blue smoke suddenly appeared. The smoke vaguely condensed into the shape of a beast lying on all fours. Two pairs of light spots lit up from what seemed to be its head. He glanced back at Lynch.

Looking into each other's eyes, Lin Qi seemed to see the passage of time.

In a moment of confusion, the smoke turned around, spitting out a long tongue-like smoke from his mouth, and pierced Howard's chest directly. No blood flowed out, but Howard screamed, and his body began to age rapidly. In an instant, his hair turned gray, and he fell to the ground completely silent.

In the blue smoke, there seemed to be a roar coming from the soul, and then it exploded and dissipated into the air as abruptly as it appeared.

All that was left was standing there, looking at the old and withered body on the ground with a gloomy expression.

At this time, Lynch seemed to have returned to the day he just traveled through, even more than that day, because Lynch felt extremely dangerous from the blue smoke.

Damn, here we go again.

Lin Qi's heart was beating wildly, and the strange scene inevitably made him nervous.

Reliving the nightmare, will the clues we just obtained have to be cut off again?

No, I'm not the same person I was then.

I am a soul-changer.

Lynch suppressed his fear of the blue smoke and suddenly reached out and pressed down on Howard's body.

[Power, death, ability, deathbed resonance]

He was in a daze for a moment, and there was severe pain in his consciousness, but in the midst of the pain, a voice came.

Wilson Town, Milt's House, Wilson Town, Milt's House...

Then the sound stopped suddenly, Lynch was kicked away, staggered back a few steps, and then watched Howard shriveled up.

Looking at the body of a centenarian, Lin Qi felt cold all over. Although he had seen many strange deaths, it was still difficult to get used to it.

Why is this happening?

Assassinated?
No, the timing was too coincidental. Something happened just as he was about to tell the message about Miracle Light. It would be difficult for an assassination to grasp the timing so accurately.

Rather than saying that someone killed him, it was more like his act of telling the information attracted something weird that killed him.

Hiss, doesn’t that mean that my act of asking him for information directly caused his strange death? And then... the goal of the Shadow Alliance was achieved?
So they don't have to do anything but watch me come to him and kill him through me without revealing the secret.

If this is the case, these guys are too dangerous and impossible to guard against.

Is this what Earl Hathaway said, not what I did wrong, but what I did right is their purpose?

Fortunately, I had the dying resonance, so I didn't lose everything and got back half of the game.

The mutation quickly attracted the security personnel Howard mentioned, and soon the entire manor was completely sealed off.

Such a strange death left everyone in a daze.

There was no sign of attack and everything happened so naturally. How could anyone explain this?

And what is that thing that popped up?
So, these people grabbed Lin Qi and interrogated him. Lin Qi didn't blame those people. Who made him the most suspicious?
However, the benefits of being careful about his identity for more than forty days finally came to light. After questioning to no avail, the guard respectfully sent Lynch out of the manor.

After all, everyone saw that he had indeed done nothing, and no one wanted to see the spectacle of a red moon in the sky in broad daylight.

But standing outside the manor, Lynch hesitated.

What should we do now?
I don’t know what the light of miracle is. What's the use, I don't know, where is it, I don't know.

Everything is unknown.

All I know is that it is an advent-level wonder related to the power of light, and even the Swollen Daughter is interested in it.

That's right, a big guy with the same danger level as the Gate of Illusion and Reality.

The only clue currently known is the information about the Milt family in Wilson Town, and one person has died mysteriously because of this. There is no doubt that this matter is quite troublesome and dangerous for Lynch.

But now that he realizes that he may have done something unintentionally, and has received confirmation from Howard, although he is not responsible, he still has an obligation to avoid bad consequences.

I have opened the door to destruction, so I will close it with my own hands.

Men cannot run away from problems, no matter what dangers they face.

Lynch decided to try his best to find the light of miracle. No matter whether it was useful or not, he would hold it in his hands first.

Then the Milt family in Wilson Town should at least go to this address to explore the situation.

However, the situation was unclear, and there was even the possibility of a trap. It was still a bit reluctant to rely solely on one's own strength.

Do you need a helper?
However, this cannot be said to anyone.

Not only is it a matter of trust, but Howard's example is there. Lynch doesn't know to what extent the revelation of the Miracle Light will trigger an attack by that strange entity. He doesn't really want to risk his life to test it, so he can only do something. No more words.

The problem is, if you don't explain clearly, you will let people follow you to risk your life. How can there be such stupid people in the world?

Maybe?

So, Lynch appeared in front of Scarecrow Club 304 on time at noon.

Officer Natalie, who had just woken up, had disheveled hair and red marks on her face. There was a hint of confusion from just waking up in her capable appearance. The contrast looked quite interesting.

She had just woken up after spending the whole night reporting the incident at the girls' school yesterday, when she was blocked at home by Lynch.

Wearing lace pajamas, she opened the door in a daze. When she saw the person outside the door, she immediately picked up the pillow and smashed it a few times. Then she turned around and returned to the living room to mind herself. She sat down on the sofa and woke up in a daze. Lynch followed.

Hey, I didn’t scream or hide anything this time, that’s weird.

"busy?"

Officer Natalie looked down at her pajamas, showing concern for the mentally retarded.

"Then come with me. I'm going somewhere."

"Oh." The police officer shook her disheveled hair vigorously and rubbed her face, "Where are you going? What are you doing?"

"can not say."

"Huh?" The police officer raised her eyebrows, "When will you come back? I'll tell you."

"If everything goes well, we can come back tonight or tomorrow. We just need to check out the situation first."

"It's not going well?"

"It's hard to say. It depends on when the police will transport us back."

The air was silent for a second, and then a scented pillow hit Lynch's face. The sleepiness on the police officer's face disappeared, and her expression became serious: "Is this dangerous?"

"Well, maybe, someone has died from this."

The tall figure suddenly disappeared from the living room, and in an instant he had changed into a full uniform and appeared in front of Lin Qi holding a sword.

"Let's go, I'll go with you."

Phew, woman, you make me feel very subtle.

(End of this chapter)