Mystery: Big Alarm Clock Ghroth Path

Chapter 126 Sharon's Rejoining
Hearing Roger's question, Klein looked around and immediately spoke:

"Let's talk after we go out."

"Ok."

Roger understood and left the Cherwood District Police Station with Lawyer Jurgen.

"Lawyer Jurgen, will you return to Minsk Street with us?"

Roger stopped and looked at Jurgen Cooper with a smile.

"No, I have to go to the office, so I won't accompany you."

Jurgen, a professional lawyer, was very conscious of not prying into his employer's private affairs. After all, the profession that detective Sherlock Moriarty was in determined that his life would not be dull.

As long as Detective Moriarty paid him on time, nothing else mattered to him.

Seeing Jurgen leave, Klein finally relaxed.

"I finished my investigation in the East District this morning and was about to go home when I felt someone following me."

"Following you?" Roger paused. "How many people?"

"To be honest, I don't know."

Klein shook his head: "I thought it was an illusion at first, but when I passed a certain street corner, I noticed someone looking at me from time to time.

“At that time, I had a strong premonition of danger in my spirit, and I suspected they were going to attack me.

"Then I started running, and the people behind me immediately started chasing me. Fortunately, I stopped a patrolling police carriage at an intersection..."

When he mentioned these things, he still felt a little scared.

In the situation at the time, Klein didn't know how many people were lying in ambush for him, so he didn't dare to start a conflict rashly.

In contrast, seeking help from the police is indeed a sensible approach that is consistent with the cowardly god's style.

"Then the police took you in for investigation, found a pistol, and detained you for illegal possession of a gun, while the people who were following you escaped?"

Roger glanced at Klein and continued what he was saying.

"Correct."

"It seems you've been targeted."

Roger waved down a rented carriage and entered with Klein.

"Be careful when you go out to investigate cases in the future, and try not to walk alone at night.

"Also, take this with you. It can protect you when necessary."

As Roger spoke, he tore off his right index finger and handed the bloody severed finger to Klein.

At the same time, he was particularly careful not to let his blood fall on the deck of the carriage.

Klein was startled. He subconsciously stepped back a little and looked at Roger with extreme vigilance.

"Are you the 'Rose Bishop'?"

After a series of encounters with the Night Slayer team in Tingen, Klein had gained a certain understanding of the Hanged Man's abilities.

The fact that Roger is the "Rose Bishop" is very consistent with his persona as an Aurora Order cadre, but it contradicts what he said before: "My extraordinary ability is related to sound."

"Ah, this."

Roger laughed and replied vaguely, "I can be the Rose Bishop, or something else."

Recently, as Roger's digestion of the "Singer" potion has deepened, his integration of the "Shepherd's Evil Heart" has also increased significantly.

But Roger didn't think there was any connection between the two, because when he integrated the abilities of "Secret Prayer", "Listener" and "Hermit", the digestion of potions through the "Judgment Star" pathway was almost not involved.

In any case, the flesh and blood magic ability of the "Rose Bishop" has already emerged in him, and the act of handing his index finger to others as a talisman is very similar to what Mr. A did to Roger himself before.

Of course, Roger also considered giving Klein the Sequence 5 severed finger gifted by Mr. A, but he was worried about the personal qualities of the Aurora Society's messenger... so he had to settle for the second best and choose his own flesh and blood.

Klein was bewildered by Roger's words, but in the end he still accepted Roger's severed finger.

"What about your fingers?"

He looked at Roger's white bones with concern, but the next second, a new finger with whiter skin grew out there.

"...What a strange ability."

Klein exclaimed.

"But then again, the person following you today is most likely from the Iron Cross."

Roger shook his head. "Although I don't know why you provoked them, if one or more Sequence 6 'conspirators' were secretly plotting against you, it would likely be very disadvantageous to you... Those guys are more sinister than the other."

"What should I do?"

Roger's words immediately alerted Klein.

After the Bakerlund incident, he had been trying his best to avoid conflicts and contradictions with other large organizations, but he did not expect that he would have another conflict with a transnational terrorist organization like the Iron Cross within a few days.

"Why don't we go investigate them together." Roger made his suggestion.

"you?"

Klein hesitated after hearing this, but ultimately nodded in agreement.

With Gray Mist's "Separate Talk" function, he wasn't too worried that Miss Justice would tell anyone else about the details of her missing person mission. In fact, as of now, Miss Justice's personality meant she wouldn't do that.

Compared to these things, with a powerful helper like Roger, Klein at least doesn't have to worry about being forced to trigger that strange resurrection mechanism again.

Although Klein didn't know how many times he could be resurrected, it seemed like it wouldn't be more than three times. He would never put himself in a desperate situation unless it was necessary.

In fact, Roger also had reasons to investigate the Iron Cross.

This was not just because of Ince Zangwill, but there were two other important reasons.

First, since Roger came to Backlund, he had only met Mr. A. His real superior, the "Dark Saint" Xesma, seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth and had never contacted him on his own initiative.

Considering that the other party had previously said that "Roger will become the carrier of the true creator's arrival", Roger couldn't help but doubt Xesma's true motives.

But rather than meeting with Yorksma directly, Roger felt it would be better to start the investigation from the Iron Cross, which also believed in the "True Creator".

After all, the recent series of unusual movements by those "hunters" were indeed very abnormal, and Roger's intuition told him that there was a big problem.

Secondly, ever since the "Hot Pot Angel" Soren Einhorn Medici left the ruins of the Fourth Epoch Tudor-Trensost United Empire, he has remained in the Greater Backlund area, and has occasionally changed locations. It is unknown what he is doing.

Considering the aggregation effect between them and the "Hunter" path, it is difficult to say whether the series of activities of the Iron Cross are related to them.

"By the way, Ms. Sharon came to see me recently... the bodyguard lady."

Klein suddenly remembered Sharon approaching him at the Brave Bar when he was attending a Beyonder gathering. "Really? What did she say?" Roger raised an eyebrow.

"She said she wanted to return to the ruins to search for anything valuable... and was willing to provide me with protection services free of charge," Klein recalled.

"And then, do you agree?" Roger asked.

"No, I'd like to ask for your opinion... although Miss Sharon said she was sure the evil spirit inside had gone far away."

Klein answered honestly. After all, in his opinion, Roger was an expert on the Fourth Epoch. Furthermore, he had faced the evil spirit head-on, so he didn't want Sharon to take risks unless necessary.

"It seems that the lady is either quite timid or has a strong sense of contract."

Roger laughed.

In fact, Sharon could have gone to the room where the evil spirit was and searched for the things that Soren Einhorn Medici had missed, but she didn't go. Instead, she chose to seek Klein's opinion first.

Then he nodded again:

“I think it’s no problem. We can go to Tiemen Street later to find Ms. Sharon and agree to her request.

"It just so happens that you've been in a lot of trouble lately, so one more helper means one more hope."

Seeing Roger say this, Klein breathed a sigh of relief.

He was originally worried that his roommate would disagree, but now it seems that his worry was unnecessary.

After returning to 15 Minsk Street, Klein took the initiative to prepare lunch and cat food, while Roger lay on the sofa, flipping through the Backlund Daily and the Backlund Post.

The East Side Federation of Labor launched a new wave of protests against the government, putting forward new demands on minimum wage and labor protections...

"In response to this, Mr. Black, a member of the 'Kingdom Air Pollution Investigation Committee', publicly expressed support, claiming that current industrial production processes and raw materials must be centrally optimized..."

This is a bit of a fuss. And judging by the signs of an impending riot, it does seem a bit like what Backlund, the intelligence chief, has been doing in Backlund...

Roger thought to himself that reducing air pollution was a good thing, but he smelled a hint of "conspirator" activities in it.

"Klein, has Mrs. Mary Gale been seeking to join this 'Air Pollution Investigation Committee'?"

Roger thought for a moment, found a point of entry, looked up and asked Klein.

“Yes… She is one of the shareholders of Coim Corporation and has been trying to push for the introduction of relevant bills.

"That company has patents on anthracite and high-quality charcoal, so if they can implement a smokeless policy... they should make a lot of money."

Klein sprinkled a little coarse salt into the stewed lamb, which had almost dried up, and turned off the heat.

"time to eat."

Roger said "hmm" and got up from the sofa.
"Look at this news."

He placed the newspaper he had been holding on the dining table and pointed to the previous report with his new, white fingers.

Klein wiped his hands, picked up the newspaper and read it, his brows slightly furrowed.

Because this matches the information he obtained when he used Williams' blood for "dream divination"!
"It seems that the Iron Cross and the Zmanger Party have begun to take action..."

Klein calmly put down the newspaper and looked at Roger:

"what do you want to say?"

"This is in line with the Iron Cross's approach."

Roger picked up a bowl, scooped two spoonfuls of the stewed mutton for himself, drank a mouthful of the soup, and then continued:

"I mean, this doesn't rule out the need to play the role of a 'conspirator'.

"In fact, the core of this approach is strife and unrest...using certain common values to build an 'army' that obeys one's own will, and then using the collective legitimate demands to achieve one's own ulterior motives."

Roger made a "fist" gesture to illustrate "demonstration".

"Conspirator? Sequence 6 of the Hunter pathway?"

Klein reacted immediately upon hearing this. As a veteran internet user from Blue Star, he naturally understood what Roger meant.

"Well, what you said is indeed very important. This demonstration may become a direction for our investigation."

Klein placed the cat food on the ground, invited Bandit to eat, and then sat down at the table to eat.

After eating, the two cleaned up the restaurant and kitchen. When it was almost five in the afternoon, they left and took a rented carriage towards the Backlund Bridge area and Iron Gate Street.

Arriving at the Brave Bar, they went straight to the bar and found Kaspars.

"Mr. Kaspers, I'm looking for Maric or Sharon."

Klein made his demands directly.

"Maric isn't here. Ms. Sharon is downstairs. Please speak in a low voice. She doesn't want too many people to know of her presence."

Caspers made a hushed gesture; he seemed quite afraid of Sharon.

"Ok."

Klein nodded and went with Roger to the room where Maric had played cards with his zombies.

"Ms. Sharon, are you here?"

Klein spoke softly, and soon saw a figure gradually moving towards him from the glass at the end of the room.

Sharon's figure emerged and nodded at Klein:
"I'm here."

"Well, we discussed the deal you proposed earlier and we think there's no problem with it."

Klein finished his decision and then said:

“But considering that the entrance to that underground complex has been blocked, you’ll need to find what you want on your own.

"According to our previous agreement, regardless of whether the results you ultimately achieve are good or bad, they are fully equivalent to the protection you provide."

Klein means that if you make extra money, I won't ask you for it, and if you lose money, I won't be responsible.

"of course."

Sharon nodded, seeming to be quite confident in her "treasure hunt".

"Okay, in that case, the deal is done."

Klein nodded, and Roger smiled and said:
"You are welcome to join us again."

Sharon nodded, and her figure in the mirror gradually dimmed and then disappeared completely.

　End of today

　　
　
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