Chapter 372 – Unusual Scent

Chapter 372 – Unusual Scent
Coming out onto the street, the cold wind rolled across the open space between the buildings and blew head-on on her face, bringing Agatha completely to her senses.

Yet still lingering in her mind was the litany of questions that had nearly shaken her outlook and reshaped her perceptions –

“Don’t any of you Frosts give out bonuses to eager citizens who actively report clues about cults?

“You’ve never used a bank account? None of your church’s usually touch the lives of ordinary people?
“You don’t see that it’s a bank account?”

Agatha never thought in her life that her biggest faux pas in dealing with a transcendent being would be in this situation.

Moreover, she was quite convinced that Bishop Ivan of the Cathedral and the group of cryptographers and soothsayers still gathered in the church to study the “Secret Numbers” would not react much differently than she did at that time.

The sound of footsteps came from the side, a few subordinates who had been staying in a sheltered place near the building came out, and one of the black-clothed guards noticed the trance in Agatha’s demeanor, and immediately became a bit worried: “Are you all right? That house ……”

Agatha raised her hand, interrupting her subordinate’s words, she looked back, then carrying her cane, she slowly walked towards the steamer not far away, while slowly speaking, “Do not disturb the occupants of this house, notify the churches in this district, and tell the guards to stay away from this place – the Grand Sanctuary of the Silence will take over the work of interfacing directly with this place for docking and communication.”

“Yes, Gatekeeper,” the black-clad guard immediately bowed his head and led the order, and immediately afterward couldn’t help but ask, “Do you …… need to take a rest?”

Agatha paused in her footsteps and sighed, “Alas …… if I could, I would seek out the nearest church to seek psychological counseling or consult with one of the more renowned psychiatrists ……”

The ministry froze, “Huh?”

“Never mind, I don’t need the rest,” Agatha waved her hand, “Go back to the cathedral, we need to begin our search of the city-state’s underground as soon as possible.”

……

“The churchmen left,” Maurice stood at the window and watched the commotion in the street outside, after seeing the gray and blue steamer pull out of the intersection he turned his head to Duncan, “I would have thought that they would have left at least a few ‘eyes ‘.”

“The Gatekeeper’s position in the Church of the Dead is equivalent to that of an Inquisitor of the Church of the Deep, and she has to keep her word – and since she said she wouldn’t be bothered, naturally, she won’t be up to any little tricks,” Vanna said in an aside, “What’s more , she knows that those ‘little moves’ are meaningless.”

Duncan raised his eyelids and glanced at Vanna, “I thought you’d be looking for that Gatekeeper to talk to more, you’re fellow travelers at least.”

“…… can’t really think of anything to communicate,” Vanna shook her head, “I’m in a somewhat awkward position, whether it’s as an Inquisitor of the Deep or as a member of the Lost Country, and at a time like this establishing a relationship with the Frost Church would be nothing but trouble. communication are only troublesome.”

Duncan hmmmed and didn’t say much, but it was Nina next to him who suddenly broke the silence with curiosity, “That ‘Gatekeeper’ sister looked a bit excited before she left, as if she had some kind of plan …… The search plan she was talking about What is it? Uncle do you have a thought?”

Vanna and Maurice’s gazes coincidentally fell on Duncan, while the latter nodded gently after a brief moment of contemplation.

Though confused at first, he had reacted to what was going on by this point – Agatha’s reaction indicated one thing, after a fruitless search of the main areas of the city-state, the Frost Church’s attention had turned to the dark underworld by the looks of it.

Second Waterway.

In the past, limited by high costs and difficulties in practical implementation, the Frost authorities had been letting the Second Waterway left behind from the Queen’s era lie dormant quietly in the depths of the city-state’s underground, at most doing some symbolic purification and sealing work in the upper zones connecting to the waterway, but it seems that …… they finally couldn’t be bothered to think about the costs now.

Duncan raised his head and said to Vanna, “You should make another trip to Nemo’s tavern this afternoon and remind him that there may be an operation against the Second Waterway on the part of the Church in the near future, so that he and his ‘colleagues’ should be aware of it.”

The second waterway is huge in scale, and what Nemo and his ‘colleagues’ control is actually only a small part of the entire sewer system, which is very hidden and consciously hidden and blocked, theoretically it won’t be noticed by the authorities and the church, but no one knows how determined the church will be, so it’s better to It’s good to be reminded.

“In addition, the matter of Dagger Island is also very concerning,” after a slight thought, Duncan added, “the process of that island’s disappearance is obviously not normal, I worry that there will be some subsequent changes that will happen – Morris, you recently Keep an eye on all sorts of news in the city, especially the urban areas close to the eastern harbor, to see if there are any unusual rumors going around.”

Morris nodded: “Understood.”

“And remind Tirian afterward as well, so he can keep an eye on the changes in that part of the sea ……”

Duncan stroked his chin, thoughtfully muttering to himself while pondering if there was anything he had missed, and just then he suddenly saw Shirley coming up from the side. Tiptoeing around, she looked furtive.

“What’s wrong?” Duncan asked casually at the sight.

“It’s not me, it’s Dog,” Shirley waved her hand hurriedly, then raised her arm – dark chains emerged from the air, and Dog, who had been hastily hidden earlier due to the appearance of the Gatekeeper, then appeared in front of Duncan, “Dog said that There is a situation to report to you ……”

“Situation?” Duncan frowned and looked at the shrunken spectral hound, “What situation?”

Dog shook his big ugly head, and cautiously looked up in the direction of the doorway before speaking, “I don’t know if my senses are wrong, just now that ‘gatekeeper’ called Agatha …… I always feel that There is a familiar aura on her body ……”

The surroundings were instantly a bit quiet, and Duncan’s eyes immediately became serious: “A familiar aura? What are you referring to? The Profound Demon?”

“No, it’s not the Profound Demon,” Dog immediately shook his head, “I can’t say for sure, you know, my memories of the time before I obtained the ‘Heart’ are actually a bit fuzzy, but that scent …… reminds me a little of the atmosphere I felt when I was around the Profound Holy Lord, well, when I was around the Profound Holy Lord.”

As soon as Dog said this, everyone looked at each other in disbelief, while Duncan immediately spoke with a serious expression, “Why didn’t you say that just now?”

“I didn’t dare to show my face just now!” Dog shrank his neck, “That’s at least a Gatekeeper–of course, she’s definitely not your opponent, but right now Frost is searching for Annihilationists and Profound Demons all over the city, so I’m afraid that I won’t be able to say anything once I show up, and I’ll still be delaying your business in the end… …”

Dog’s explanation was reasonable, and Duncan didn’t look into it, but the situation it reported was obviously beyond everyone’s expectation.

How could the Frost s Gatekeeper Agatha …… have the aura of the Profound Holy Lord on her body?

“Could it be that …… that gatekeeper has fallen? Or has been contaminated?” Maurice’s expression was grave, “But she’s acting all normal, there’s nothing wrong with her speech and demeanor ……”

“Maybe she doesn’t even know it herself?” Shirley beside her cautiously interjected, “Isn’t it said that cognitive contamination is the hardest to detect, especially by the person herself.”

Duncan didn’t say anything, just looked up at Vanna.

“It doesn’t look like it’s been corrupted or tainted, and it’s obviously not a ‘fake’ of any kind,” Vanna frowned, speaking slowly as she carefully recalled all the details of what had just happened to Agatha, “And I don’t at all feel anything unusual about her – Dog, are you sure you’re feeling right?”

“As I just said, I’m not sure if I’m feeling it wrong,” Dog said, his tone looking extraordinarily weak, “There’s just a little bit of a particularly weak aura that reminds me of the deep, deep sea. …… It might not even be her own emanation. Maybe it’s not even her own emanation. By the way, didn’t she say that she recently captured some Annihilationists? Although none of them are important people, but recently she has been dealing with them every day, so it’s normal for her body to be tainted with some aura from the Profound Deep Sea, right? ……”

Duncan, however, was still frowning.

Dog’s explanation sounded reasonable, but he always felt that things shouldn’t be so simple – would a professional goddess officer, the “gatekeeper” of the city-state, forget to purify herself after completing the interrogation of the cultists? Would she allow herself to walk around with the scent of a cultist on her breath?
Vanna stepped forward, “Should we bring the Gatekeeper back and ask her about it? Or should we take it upon ourselves to find her?”

“Neither, if she is truly at risk of falling, or has established a connection with the Psi-Force, any frontal contact could potentially spook her,” Duncan shook his head while looking up in the direction Agatha had just left from, “I will be keeping a covert eye on this, you will not be going to make contact with her. ”

Covert attention?

Vanna was stunned for a moment, and was about to ask Duncan what he meant by ‘covert attention’, but then something seemed to come back to her – some memory surfaced in her mind, and she instantly knew what was going on.

“You …… have left a mark on her?”

“She has already seen me.”

Duncan nodded gently, while in his other vision, a small green flame was pulsing gently in a location already some distance away.

That was the exact direction Agatha had left.

(End of chapter)