Chapter 7 The Squad

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On the dark night in Wokan Town, a group of policemen surrounded the entrance of the police station. They all looked at the corpse lying on the ground in front of them uneasily. The previously frightened policeman on guard was vividly telling the terrifying scene just now to his comrades around him. A faint sense of panic was permeating among the crowd.

At a street corner quite far from the police station, Dorothy was looking at the situation at the entrance of the police station in the distance, then silently turned around and left.

Everything had been properly arranged. Now all she had to do was wait for each side to take their actions.

From the letter she obtained from Edric, Dorothy learned the contact information of the dispatched personnel of that mysterious organization in Wokan. According to the agreement within the letter, after Edric succeeded, he just needed to put Dorothy's photo into the mailbox at 24 North Street, Wokan. Then, as agreed, the dispatched agent of the mysterious organization in Wokan would wait for Edric in the woods in the west of Wokan the next night.

At that time, they would exchange the person and the goods. The mysterious organization would obtain Dorothy, and Edric would receive the so-called reward that could enable him to step into the so-called "extraordinary realm".

Now, Edric was dead, but no one knew this except Dorothy. Even the local people in Wokan hadn't yet noticed the death of the local big shot, not to mention those outsiders dispatched by the mysterious organization.

Taking advantage of this, Dorothy, originally the kidnapped target, took a photo of herself and sent it to the designated location. The dispatched agent of the mysterious organization who received Dorothy's photo would consider this as a signal that Edric had succeeded. He would wait at the designated location for the transaction tomorrow night.

To confirm the correctness of her actions, Dorothy almost wandered around Wokan during the day, paying attention to and inquiring about news of Edric everywhere to make sure no one knew that he had an accident.

To ensure that the photo studio wasn't the base of those dispatched personnel and to avoid walking into a trap, Dorothy specifically investigated the time when the photo studio was opened in Wokan. From the letter, it could be learned that the mysterious organization didn't have much influence in Wokan before contacting Edric. Therefore, the photo studio that had been operating for nearly ten years couldn't be related to that organization.

Even when sending the letter finally, Dorothy asked someone else to send it just in case.

So far, Dorothy had been very careful with every step.

After retrieving the photo from the mailbox, the members of the organization hiding in Wokan would be lured out and go to the "transaction location" in the woods in western Wokan tomorrow night.

Of course, this didn't mean that Dorothy wanted to have a head-on confrontation with the other side. The number of the other side was unknown, and they might have some extraordinary abilities. It would be too perilous for a thirteen-year-old girl like her to handle them alone. Even with two corpse puppets and setting some traps, it wouldn't work.

Regarding this, Dorothy's countermeasure was that professional matters ought to be handled by professionals.

She thought of the two organizations that were frequently mentioned in the letters exchanged between Edric and the mysterious organization, the Hidden Security Bureau and the Church...

Judging from the content of the letter, that mysterious organization was obviously in fear of the Hidden Security Bureau and the Church, and might even be in a directly adversarial relationship with them!

My enemy's enemy is my ally. Since that mysterious organization fears the Hidden Security Bureau and the church, then I can find a way to leak the crucial information to them and set the wolves against the tigers…

Among the choices of the church and the Hidden Security Bureau, she chose the latter. The reason was that those people had mentioned in the letter that there were Hunter Teams of the Hidden Security Bureau active near Wokan…

The next difficulty was how to contact this so-called Hidden Security Bureau. In Dorothy's original memory, she had never heard of an organization called the Hidden Security Bureau, let alone knew its contact information.

Dorothy judged that, judging from the name, the Hidden Security Bureau was a government department. It should be an institution under the national power that specialized in handling extraordinary events. And as long as it was a government institution, it would be easy to deal with.

If she couldn't contact the Hidden Security Bureau, other government institutions should have corresponding channels, right?

Therefore, Dorothy forged a reply letter from the mysterious organization to Edric, wrote all the key information in it, and let a corpse puppet "die" directly at the police station entrance with the letter.

Then, all Dorothy had to do next was wait for the police in Wokan to inform the Hidden Security Bureau for her, and then wait for the so-called Hunter Team to discover the letter on the corpse puppet…

"I just need to wait until tomorrow night…"

Walking on the deserted street, Dorothy looked at the bright moon in the sky and murmured to herself.

"Then, there are still some preparations to be made…"

Quickening her pace, Dorothy's figure disappeared into the darkness. She didn't just want to be a mere spectator for the good show tomorrow.

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The night was getting deeper. The lights on the streets of Wokan gradually decreased. Slowly, there were almost no twinkling lights except for the sparse street lamps. A denser darkness shrouded the blocks of Wokan.

At the Wokan Police Station, the lights were still flickering. However, different from before, there was not a single police officer at the entrance of the police station at this time.

The lifeless corpse lay on the cold ground, with a strange smile frozen on its face. Beside the corpse, there were two figures standing, and they were not police officers.

In the cold night wind, the uniformly dressed figures stood upright in front of the police station. They were all wearing a set of pitch-black double-breasted dress-style suits. Their upper bodies were tightly constricted, the collars were standing up, and the hems of the clothes reached to their knees. They all wore gloves on their hands, and each person wore a black derby hat on their head. Under the derby hats, their faces were covered with an expressionless iron mask.

These all-black figures surrounded the corpse and carefully inspected it.

At this time, inside the police station, all the police officers had also disappeared. In the police chief's office, a figure was sitting in the position that originally belonged to the police chief.

This figure was dressed exactly the same as the black-clothed people standing at the entrance. At this moment, his feet were propped up on the police chief's desk, the mask was thrown on top of a cabinet beside him, and the hat covered his face. The whole person seemed to be taking a nap.

On the other side of the sheriff's office, another figure was standing in front of a map showing Wokan. She was also wearing the same black uniform. The obvious curves of her chest and waist could be seen from her tucked-in upper body, indicating that this was a woman.

The female Black-clad Figure scanned the police station map and occasionally flipped through the police station files, as if searching and pondering. Suddenly, she seemed to have discovered something and turned to look at her colleague sitting in the sheriff's position.

"Hey, Greg, there's..."

When she saw the man sitting in the sheriff's seat, the female Black-clad Figure was stunned and suddenly raised her voice sternly.

"Captain Gregorios! It's working hours now!"

Startled by the Black-clad Figure's raised voice, the man who was originally napping woke up with a start. His whole body jerked, and the hat on his face fell to the ground.

"Um... I said, Elena, keep your voice down. We're handling a case..."

The startled man quickly put his feet down from the table and then immediately picked up the hat on the ground and put it back on his head.

At this time, the man named Greg sitting in the sheriff's seat was a young man with short chestnut hair, brown eyes, a high nose bridge, and deep-set eyes. He was handsome. Although there was still a hint of tiredness on his face, it couldn't hide the determination in his eyes.

"You still know we're handling a case. I think you're almost falling asleep. This state is really not good, Captain..."

Standing in front of the desk, still wearing the mask, the woman named Elena said annoyedly, and Greg scratched his head a bit helplessly.

"Ah... There's nothing I can do... We were supposed to go back to Ygwynte tomorrow, but suddenly we got this case and had to work overtime. Now I'm in a bad mood inevitably. I have important things to do when I get back..."

Greg complained. Hearing his complaints, Elena paused slightly and then said.

"Yeah... I almost forgot. Captain Greg's sister is on her way and will soon arrive in Ygwynte. If you, the big brother, aren't there when the time comes, no one will be there to pick her up..."