Chapter 371 – Agatha understands
Chapter 371 – Agatha Understands
With nervousness and curiosity, Agatha surreptitiously surveyed the place.
It looks like just an ordinary residence, most of the furniture is slightly old, but it was cleaned up, the air in the room is fresh, perhaps the window was opened through the wind not long ago, the sound of boiling water comes from the direction of the kitchen, it sounds like the movement of a tea cooker.
This is not like a “descent place”, it is completely a residential house.
Of course, Agatha knew from the start that this was really just an ordinary house – until a few days ago it was listed in the Citizen’s Help Center’s registry as a house to be rented out – and she just thought …… that since an unknown visitor had chosen to make this his temporary home, it would be a good place to stay. to make this place his temporary home, shouldn’t there be something more or less special about it?
But she found nothing.
“Tea? Or would you like some coffee?” Duncan asked casually as he came up beside Agatha.
Agatha snapped out of it, looked at Duncan sitting across from her in surprise, reacted for a moment before realizing what the other party meant by that, and hurriedly waved her hand, “No …… thanks, I’m not thirsty.”
“There’s no need to be formal, just like in your own home,” Duncan smiled and sat down on the sofa opposite Agatha, speaking in a casual manner, “Let me think …… If I’m not mistaken, you should be this city-state’s The gatekeeper? It’s unlikely to be an ordinary Gatekeeper who takes the initiative to come to the door at this time of night.”
“Gatekeeper Agatha,” Agatha immediately nodded, trying to look as calm as possible, “You knew I would come?”
“You were sure to come, either that or some other church hierarchy,” Duncan said lightly, “Anne will tell that keeper about me, and that keeper will report the situation to the church, and I’ll just have to wait here so I can meet with the church hierarchy of this city-state above. ”
Agatha adjusted her sitting position slightly and gazed at the lanky figure in front of her in a more solemn manner, “I would like to know …… your true purpose. Who exactly are you and why have you come to Frost?”
“Did I not say?” Duncan raised an eyebrow, “It’s to solve the problem that happened here – I thought I made that clear in that letter of report.”
Agatha opened her mouth, obviously still a little uncomfortable with such a simple answer, and it took two or three seconds before she spoke hesitantly, “Really …… that’s all?”
“If you are in need of a darker reason and a more complex conspiracy to feel that the matter is plausible enough, then I can make one up off the top of my head,” Duncan said casually, “Which style do you prefer? Armageddon or King’s Landing Conquest?”
Agatha’s body tensed up as soon as it was visible to the naked eye.
“Ahem, you’re scaring her,” Vanna suddenly coughed twice behind Duncan, “This Miss Gatekeeper will take it seriously.”
“Will?” Duncan turned back slightly in confusion, “I thought the joke was fairly obvious ……”
“In my experience, it will,” Vanna sighed helplessly, “In this line of work, nerves are always on edge, no jokes.”
Duncan did not know what to say for a moment, while Agatha looked suspiciously at the extremely tall woman; for some reason, since entering the room she had always felt that the other woman’s gaze had fallen on her intentionally or unintentionally, as if …… she were watching something with interest.
But this is not important, the important thing is that she confirmed that the superior being in front of her was just playing a joke with herself – a bad and scary joke.
“Forgive my sensitivity,” Agatha said sincerely, “the anomalies in the city-state have been getting worse lately, everyone’s nerves are on edge, and I even suspected for a moment that ……”
She hesitated to say the rest of her words, but Duncan took them lightly, “Suspected me for a moment? Don’t be nervous, it makes sense, after all I showed up at just the right time and dealt with the Annihilationists and the ‘fakes’ the first time I came here.”
Agatha didn’t say anything, just looked a little embarrassed.
“I’d like to know what progress you’ve made with all your investigations,” Duncan didn’t care about the other man’s reaction, just spoke to himself, “Any leads?”
Agatha hesitated for a moment, not knowing whether she should reveal too much information about the Frost’s inner circle to this mysterious “visitor” in front of her, but after a few moments she still spoke while weighing her options: “After we received your warning, we did capture some Annihilationists, but we got almost no effective information! –Those heretics who are in deep symbiosis with the Profound Demons are extremely tough-minded and often choose to destroy themselves at the last moment, and the few who are captured alive are marginal characters who don’t know the full picture of the plan at all ……
“Until now, we can only be sure that the phenomenon of replicas frequently appearing in the city is indeed those heretics are playing tricks, and they have indeed built a hidden and huge lair in Frost City, but as for the specific location of this lair …… still have no clue. ”
Saying this, Agatha paused for a moment and continued, “As for the Dagger Island …… that you mentioned in that letter even more disturbing is that it has disappeared.”
“I know.” Duncan said faintly.
“You already knew?” Agatha spoke with some surprise, “This news should still be blocked ……”
Duncan’s tone was bland, “I have my own intelligence channels in the earthly world, even if I don’t leave the city-state, I still know some of the things that happen on the Outer Sea.”
The intelligence channel was of course Tirion – after all, Dagger Island had disappeared right in front of the Sea Mist Fleet, and Tirion would naturally report this to the Lost Country in the first place. But even after learning of this shocking news firsthand, Duncan could only follow the shock for a moment – he couldn’t figure out how an island of that size just disappeared out of thin air.
From what Tirion had conveyed, the process of the island’s disappearance was not a sinking, but more like it had directly melted into the sea water, and before it disappeared there had been a continuous big explosion, very much like the people on the island had activated something – but other than that, there was no more information.
Intelligence is scarce, the manner of disappearance is too bizarre, after the disappearance of no clues and traces remain, Dagger Island from a mystery to another bigger mystery, no one knows what happened there, and no one knows where the island went.
“Do you know where Dagger Island went?” Agatha’s voice interrupted Duncan’s thoughts as the Keeper of the Citadel looked up with a sincere gaze, “Do you know what happened to it?”
Duncan thought for a moment, feeling that it might be a bit of an affectation to just admit that he too had been searching all night and hadn’t figured it out, so he mused for a moment and reached out to point at his feet.
“Below?” Agatha froze for a moment, “You mean, Dagger Island did sink into the sea …… but the eyewitness reports at the time said that there was no vortex phenomenon generated by the sinking of the island on the sea surface ……”
How could Duncan know how to answer that – he was still curious how an island of that size could just disappear into thin air!
He just continued to reach out and point at his feet.
“You’re not talking about Dagger Island …… is the clue at your feet?” Agatha seemed to respond, and almost instantly, she recalled her most recent conversation with Bishop Ivan about the “second waterway” deep underground!
The city hall and the church had searched the entire city-state, the strict curfew system and one large-scale investigation were theoretically enough to catch a large number of hidden cultists, but the Annihilationists who had been caught had only been a few fringe characters …… The First Waterway, subways, pipe shafts and other places that could be used as hiding places had been searched, and there were no clues! ……
The city-state was this big, if there was no sign of those heretics in any of the above places, then that only left the second waterway as a possibility.
Those collapsed areas, those caves plunged into darkness, those shafts and pipes covered with pollution …… may indeed be unsuitable for survival, but what if those Annihilationists really survived in those places?
Of course, the search for the “second waterway” had been in the plan, but she had never been sure if there was any point to the destined and incredibly exhausting search, and now she had finally found the strongest support for it – a friendly god-like being who clearly stated that it was time to look down. A friendly god-like being had made it clear that the search would have to go on down the road.
“I see – I see that we’re on the right track,” Agatha said, rising suddenly to her feet, with a tone of dawning realization and joy, and looking across the table at Duncan with a sudden attitude of extra sincerity and respect, and bending deeply “I see–thank you very much for the reminder!”
Duncan kept his fingers on his feet and stared a little blankly at the suddenly agitated bandaged woman in front of him.
What did she understand?
“We will immediately launch the next step in our search, and this time we will be sure to root out those heretics’ nests,” Agatha, however, didn’t notice Duncan’s frothing, she simply spoke confidently and quickly made to take her leave, “I won’t take up any more of your time, then- -pardon my intrusion on this occasion, I am leaving.”
“Uh …… well,” Duncan said subconsciously as he was half a beat slow to get up, “take your time then ……”
Agatha thanked him and turned towards the door, but then immediately stopped abruptly as if remembering something.
Alice, who was about to get up to see her off next to her, almost bumped into her.
Agatha’s gaze swept over Alice, but this time she didn’t pay too much attention to the blonde woman without a heartbeat or breath – a God-like existence with some rarities in the followers around her was of course a very normal thing, and it wasn’t worth making a big fuss about.
She turned her head to Duncan.
“Rest assured that I will instruct the church’s guardians that no one will disturb you,” Agatha said very seriously, “I hope you will enjoy your stay in the Frost – and if anything new comes up, I will come myself. ”
“Ah, that is certainly very good,” Duncan smiled, which he was rather pleased with, “I do not wish to be disturbed.”
Agatha nodded, before turning towards the door once more, though just two steps later she stopped as if she suddenly remembered something.
“There’s one more thing, I almost forgot.” This gatekeeper pressed the corner of her forehead in some embarrassment and looked at Duncan and said.
Duncan with doubt, “Oh?”
Agatha hesitated for a while and finally asked the question that had been troubling her and many others for a long time, “About the …… ‘secret number’ you left at the end of that ‘report letter’ last time ‘, what exactly does that mean? Please forgive us for our shallow intellect, we have deciphered it for a long time, but we are still unable to understand the puzzle you left behind.”
Duncan: “…… Huh?”
(Push book time, a book from a group friend, book title “Cyber Cultivation of Immortality for 5,000 Years”, future sci-fi cultivation + Cyber monopoly, Taoist priest from 5,000 years ago to classical cultivation of the heart to reverse the future world of cultivation of Immortality, non-traditional text and saint protagonist – in short, milked the sacrifice of the sky.)
(End of chapter)