Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery.

Chapter 121: Collaboration between Nighthawk and Mechanical Heart

Time goes back half an hour.

Max Livermore, captain of the "Mechanical Heart" team, had just finished dinner with his family when he heard a knock on the door.

Max saw through the window glass that there was a carriage with the "Mechanical Holy Emblem" parked on the street outside.

He smiled and said to his wife, "Looks like I have to work overtime."

As he spoke, Max stood up and opened the door. Standing at the door was the brown-haired Captain Ikanser, who smiled and said, "I'm going to take up some of your time tonight. I need your assistance with something."

Max smiled and said, "It's okay, I get overtime pay anyway."

As he spoke, he started putting on his coat.

Overtime pay...

Max sighed in his heart. Odysseus always liked to talk about "overtime pay". Oh, Odysseus...

Ikanser greeted Max's wife and children again. At this time, Max had picked up his cane and put on his top hat. After saying goodbye to his children and wife, he got into the carriage with Ikanser.

To Max's surprise, there was a captain of the "Nighthawks" team, Carl, on the carriage.

Ikanser introduced: "This is the liaison between Nighthawk and Mechanical Heart. We are about to conduct a joint operation with Nighthawk.

"I'm going to appoint you as the liaison for the Mechanical Heart. Keep in touch with the Nighthawks at all times."

Max was a little confused by the new appointment. When he left the Mechanical Research Society this morning, there was no sign of the operation being launched.

Ikanser then gave some explanation: "At today's gathering of the Mysticism Research Society, Odysseus received a surprising piece of information..."

He briefly recounted the entire incident, and concluded, "...I sent a telegram to the Nighthawks, alerting them that someone was investigating them.

"Lord Krestel Cesimer came to the research institute and informed me of the plans being made by the Nighthawks."

Having said that, he looked at Carl, the captain of the Nighthawks team.

Carl, with deep eyes, continued, "A month ago, we obtained an ancient seal with many dragon characters engraved on it. As long as you touch it, you can hear some strange and bizarre sounds, which can easily make people lose control.

"We had originally planned to treat it as a normal Sealed Artifact, but then a church in East Balam provided crucial intelligence: the Rose School was plotting to seize this Sealed Artifact.

"So we planned to use this seal to set a trap and wait for the people from the Rose School to seize it.

"The information your intelligence agent provided us at noon made us believe that the Rose School's action was about to begin.

"But after divination, I discovered that it wasn't the 'Rose School' that was investigating the 'Nighthawks'.

"There are other secret organizations also eyeing the Sealed Artifact, so Archbishop Anthony decided to cooperate with other official Beyonders to ambush the enemy together."

Max realized that there were more enemies than expected and the Nighthawks were short of manpower, so they had to launch a joint operation.

He asked, "Why do these secret organizations want to obtain that sealed object?"

Max spread his hands and said, "Unless they are crazy, they will attack the important stronghold of the Orthodox Church."

It would be fine if it was a remote church, but the churches located in Backlund are basically the "second headquarters" of the Orthodox Church, and demigods reside there.

Although there is an unwritten rule among the Orthodox Churches: Gods do not descend directly into densely populated cities.

But the Church of the True God has angels, and they can support Backlund in a minute or two, or even less.

"We are still studying this." Carl said, "Well, we still haven't completely deciphered the meaning of those dragon characters.

"But through divination and other means, we have determined that this seal has a powerful attraction to ancient and mysterious beings, as well as the most evil and twisted beings."

At this time, Ikanser said again: "I remember that Odysseus understands the writing of the dragon tribe, right?"

Max was slightly stunned before saying, "According to our surveillance records, he did learn Dragon Language by himself.

"But……"

However, there is a great instability in Odysseus. What if there really is an ancient and mysterious being in his body, and its true nature is completely exposed after seeing the sealed object?
But with Carl present, it’s not easy to ask this question directly.

"We have informed the Nighthawks of Odysseus's special condition, and they support our next move." As he spoke, Ikanser took out a small and exquisite mechanical rod with a red button at one end.

He said, "Just press this button, and Bishop Horamick will be on the scene within three seconds."

Max then realized that the condition for the cooperation between the "Mechanical Heart" and the "Nighthawks" was probably to use the seal to test Odysseus.

Max and Odysseus were friends, so if he invited Odysseus to decipher the dragon language, Odysseus wouldn't be suspicious. If Odysseus didn't show any problems, Max could also invite Odysseus to provide intelligence support for this joint operation, which would make things go smoothly.

Thinking of this, Max said, "Okay, let's go invite Odysseus now."

He knew very well that this was also a test for him.

Max is usually very close to Odysseus. Who knows if Max has been influenced by Odysseus?

Ikanser nodded and said, "You'll go knock on the door later."

The carriage arrived at 77 Hailin Avenue and Max got out and knocked on the door.

dong dong dong~
Odysseus, who was chatting with Bernadette upstairs, frowned. Who would come knocking on his door so late?
Bernadette said, "My hunch was right, the truth has come to me.

"We'll continue our conversation when you come back."

After saying that, the other party seemed to leave.

Odysseus didn't quite understand what the other party meant, but he guessed that what he would face next should be related to the "Moss Ascetic Order" they were talking about before.

He hurried downstairs. The spirit did not warn him of danger, so he opened the door. Max was outside. "It's so late..."

Odysseus looked towards the carriage with the "Mechanical Holy Emblem" on the street: "...Are there any clues in the previous case?"

He was talking about the case in which a member of the "Rose School" was discovered.

Until now, Odysseus still doesn't know who is providing him with clues.

"No, there's another more important case." Max said, "Captain Ikanser is also in the carriage."

Odysseus was slightly stunned: "Wait a moment."

He went back and put on a coat, then looked out at the foggy streets: "What a horrible weather."

So Odysseus put on a hat again, otherwise his hair would get wet if he walked in the fog.

When he got on the carriage, Odysseus greeted Ikanser. As for the captain of the "Nighthawks" team, Carl, he was also there, which surprised Odysseus.

He had also seen Carl. The captain of the "Nighthawks" team who had come to the fighting arena to arrest him was Carl in a dark windbreaker.

What Odysseus didn't know was that Carl later helped him hide the evidence.

Captain Ikanser briefly introduced the purpose of asking Odysseus to join the operation. He said that there was a cooperation between the "Nighthawks" and the "Mechanical Heart", and now they needed to decipher a document of the dragon clan. He heard that Odysseus understood the dragon language, so he took him to take a look.

Odysseus nodded and said, "Helping the official Beyonders investigate cases is what we ordinary citizens should do.

"Um, how is overtime pay calculated?"

Carl couldn't help but glance at Ikanser, as if asking: Is this really an ancient and mysterious being? Would an ancient and mysterious being ask you for overtime pay?
Ikanser was already used to it. "I'll pay you according to the overtime standard for 'Mechanical Heart' members. Well, if you can decipher the dragon document, I'll give you an additional bonus."

"When I heard the word 'bonus,' I suddenly didn't miss my warm bed as much." Odysseus then changed the subject: "Backlund's winter is really cold..."

He was somewhat skeptical about his own purpose in this action.

It wasn't that Odysseus had sensed Ikanser's probing, but rather that Carl was present, making him wonder if the Nighthawks had some crucial clue that could prove Odysseus was Lelouch, and so Ikanser and the other two were planning to join forces to arrest him?
He wasn't worried that the Mechanical Heart would harm him. Right now, they were both pretending to be confused with each other. The Mechanical Heart was monitoring him, but it acted as if it had no doubts about him.

Odysseus knew about the monitoring of the "Mechanical Heart", but pretended to know nothing.

However, Odysseus soon discovered that the carriage was not heading to Pacefield Street, the headquarters of the Night Watchers in the Backlund Diocese, but to the dock area, so he felt relieved.

The carriage was indeed heading towards the dock area. In order not to hurt innocent people, the "Night Watchers" set a trap in a large warehouse in the dock area.

When they arrived at the warehouse, someone had already opened the door, and the carriage of the "Mechanical Heart" went straight into the dimly lit warehouse.

There was no cargo in the huge warehouse, only a metal platform in the middle with a square stone like white jade on the platform.

Odysseus got off the carriage and suddenly looked up.

There was a huge "Holy Emblem of the Night" hanging on the top of the warehouse. Odysseus had an illusion that the "Holy Emblem of the Night" seemed to have glanced at him just now?
He turned to look at Ikanser, Max and others. None of them had any abnormal reactions, so Odysseus didn't take it too seriously and thought it was just his illusion.

Odysseus's attention quickly focused on the stone. He recognized it at a glance: "This is not an ordinary dragon language."

Rather, they are the mystical symbols used by the dragon clan. With the help of the "Wilderness of Knowledge", Odysseus became proficient in these mystical symbols after being promoted to "Combat Scholar".

In all of Backlund, only Odysseus could translate this thing.

(End of this chapter)