Tuesday, July 17th.
Early in the morning, Klein hurried out and took a carriage to Zotland Street.
After entering the "Blackthorn Security Company", he simply said hello to Luo Shan, the civilian employee in charge of reception, and went directly into the captain's office without stopping.
"Captain, I discovered something that may be serious."
As soon as he entered the door, Klein went straight to the point, "I suspect that Old Neil is showing signs of losing control."
Before Dunn could ask further questions, he explained in one breath:
"When I first became a 'divineer' and learned spiritual vision for the first time, I once saw a pair of almost transparent, unusually cold, eyelashless, weird and illusory eyes behind Old Neil. "
"At that time, Neil told me not to worry about it."
"But yesterday afternoon, I suddenly remembered this matter and had a bad premonition. So I performed a divination on this matter, and the result was very bad."
What Klein told was entirely true, but he deliberately ignored why he remembered this incident, why he felt something was wrong, and he did not explain where he performed the divination.
These all happened above the gray fog, and they were secrets that the captain must not know.
"'Hidden Sage'?" Dunn's gray eyes became deeper.
Compared to the quasi-regular member Klein—whose application for regularization has not yet been approved by the temple—as the captain, Dunn’s level of confidentiality is obviously much higher.
"Don't make any noise, let's investigate secretly first." Dunn quickly made the safest decision, "Ask everyone about Old Neil's recent situation."
"Be careful not to let Old Neil find out and avoid irritating him."
…
When it was approaching noon, Klein and Leonard found an opportunity to enter Dunn's office together.
"Are you sure?" Dunn stood up, his expression becoming very serious.
Leonard put away his usual casual look, and before Klein spoke, he solemnly replied: "There are obvious signs that are difficult to detect."
"Yes, his words and deeds are inconsistent with those in the past."
Klein quickly told him about the abnormal situation he discovered.
"When Old Neil was teaching me ritual magic, I saw a piano in his living room, and he told me that his deceased wife loved music."
"But Roxanne told me that in the first half of the year, there was no piano in the living room of Old Neil's house, and she also said that the reason why he remained single was that he had not met the woman who made him want to get married."
As an old teammate who has worked together for more than fifteen years, Dunn has a better understanding of Old Neal's situation.
He knew that when Old Neil was young, he actually had a couple who was about to get engaged, but she suddenly became seriously ill and was difficult to treat. Even though Old Neil risked leaking the secrets of extraordinary people and tried to save her with ritual magic, he could not. Still didn't succeed.
"We must control Old Neil immediately, use ritual magic to stabilize his condition and curb his deterioration."
Dunn walked to the door of the office and walked in front of Klein and Leonard. He frowned and tapped his temple several times before finally remembering the following words:
"Go to Chanis Gate first. After I take out the sealed object '3-0611', we will go to the weapons depot to find Old Neil together and apply for it later."
…
Just after 3:30 in the afternoon, Valli pulled off the carriage and was greeted by Christine with a smiling face and led into the living room.
From a few words of greeting, Valeela could sense the approachable attitude of this young lady.
There were about eight or nine guests sitting on the sofa in the living room, and Audrey had already arrived and was sitting in the middle.
With a smile on her face, Valeela took a quick glance and recognized two of them, Viscount Greylint and Murray Becker.
As for the other people, although they don't know each other, judging from the harmonious atmosphere in the living room, they should all be Audrey's friends.
"She is Valila, and she also likes mysticism." Christine stood next to Valila and said with a smile, "We met at Murray's afternoon tea."
"Good afternoon everyone." Valeera greeted with a slight smile.
Audrey also stood up at this time, walked to her side, and said like half the host of the banquet:
"Welcome to join us for afternoon tea today. These are my good friends."
As she spoke, she began to introduce Valeela one by one from left to right.
"She is Jane, she is..."
Valeela nodded and smiled, "Hello."
"He's Murray...oh, I forgot you knew him."
Valeela still nodded and smiled, "Good afternoon."
"He is Cons, the youngest son of Viscount Learson, who works in MI9."
"Hello."
"Viscount Greent, you know him too."
"good afternoon."
…
"He is Maximi, my second brother." The last gentleman was introduced by Christine.
Valeela still nodded and smiled, and replied "Hello".
She was calm on the surface, but secretly she was a little surprised.
Because Audrey was a little too enthusiastic, even Christine was a little too enthusiastic.
Judging from her hidden and natural catering last time, it is understandable that Audrey would treat her as a normal friend, but this time she seemed to directly treat her as a good friend, and even personally introduced her to her circle of friends. This is a little too much.
If Christine is particularly close to her because of her brother, then why is Audrey?
Although she was a little confused, Valeela would not refuse such a good thing.
She let nature take its course, giving full play to the eloquence of the "instigator" and the appearance of the witch, and soon left a good impression on Audrey's good friends.
The theme of this afternoon tea was mysticism. In terms of professionalism, Valila was the best among the others.
She controls the level of her performance to gain the attention and admiration of others without reaching an overly high-profile and attention-grabbing level.
After chatting for a long time, everyone was inevitably a little hungry, so they all took a tacit understanding to take a break and began to eat pastries and enjoy top-quality coffee and black tea.
This period lasted about ten minutes. During this period, there were no group topics. Everyone only talked quietly with a few people around them.
Sitting next to Valeela were Audrey, Christine and Maxime, while Murray sat further away.
When the frequency of everyone's feeding began to slow down, Christine couldn't wait to urge:
"Okay, okay, Audrey, take that thing out and let's try the newly found ritual to see if it works."
Valila's heart moved when she heard this, and she looked at Audrey.
"Don't worry, Christine."
Audrey's face was filled with a smile, and her green eyes, which were brighter than gemstones, turned to Valeera and said:
"We have a new friend who doesn't understand the situation. We should explain it to her first."
