Twenty Five, the Last Piece of the Puzzle

() New York at night, even late at night, is logically full of traffic and neon lights.

But tonight, except for bars and other occasions, the streets are indeed deserted.

For some reason, people recently feel sleepy much earlier than before.

In the night, the windows of Jiang Rui's shop were shining brightly.

For a while, the two were silent.

Anna stood behind Jiang Rui, dazed.

After all, she understood every word of what they said, but when put together——

She couldn't understand a word.

"The night is still long."

Jiang Rui suddenly smiled: "Why don't you go on?"

"I'll give you a moment to think about it."

Lilith raised her eyes—"I'll ask after thinking about it."

Combined with what she said before, what she meant was very clear.

She told Jiang Rui that there are many forces chasing after him.

It also reminded of Nightmare's participation and the news that the other party is about to step into Angel.

In the end, I also told Jiang Rui.

She is going to London.

She doesn't participate in this matter anymore, she is cowardly and can't afford it.

In the final analysis, her whole article is just one sentence: "Just listen to the intelligence, don't meddle in it, you are a weak chicken, meddling is giving away your head."

Well, to be honest, Jiang Rui was quite surprised.

Now that she is the True Ancestor and understands the nightmare, and escaped from the ambush of the other party's men, Lilith doesn't look as weak as she appears on the surface.

At least a Sequence 5 peak, even, possibly a Sequence 4.

Although the performance is extremely proud and majestic.

But unexpectedly... Awkward and arrogant?

It's obviously persuasion, but it has to be expressed in a casual and unwilling way.

"Then I'll give you a head start?"

Jiang Rui said that you worry too much. From the heart, no one can compare with him.

He smiled lightly and joked, "After all, a story without longlongago is incomplete."

...

In the night, on the street one day, a few pedestrians pointing fingers, behind the busy police, the center surrounded by a long seal——

A dead body lay there quietly.

A group of people in night uniforms controlled the scene, but no one investigated——

Soon, a man and a woman emerged from the shadows.

The tall figure took off the crow mask on his head casually, and with a single touch, the uniform in the night slowly changed——

It turned out to be the same style as that group of special forces.

"Here you are, Commissioner Emily."

A somewhat helpless and tired middle-aged sheriff hurried over——

"From the twenty-third."

Emily casually put on the gloves handed by the other party.

"Why did you tell me about the corpse three hours ago?"

"...I don't know, maybe it's going through the process?"

Emily's wrist stopped: "I like going through the process so much? Then why don't we talk about it until tomorrow?"

Emily grabbed her collar casually, her heart cleared.

After all, I was airborne...

And... due to the manpower problem of the night watchmen, most of the night watchmen were sent to Washington to perform tasks, and the rest were people from the Iron Throne—

After all, their nature as agents is more suitable for this kind of work.

But compared to their ability to track down conspiracies and calculations... they are also good at intrigue.

She even has some doubts now, whether the task of chasing and killing the blood witch was deliberately thrown to her by those idiots——

On the side, the cooperating sheriff was a little embarrassed, so he could only cooperate with a smile.

"This is a special case, the deceased should belong to the Hidden Alliance—"

"Okay, needless to say."

Emily waved her hand coldly: "Kill him with one knife, and you will be killed with a special attack."

"There are so many, I have memorized them all."

"Three days, have the group of idiots been solved?"

"Um?"

"Could it be possible that His Majesty Nightmare should solve it in person?"

Facing the opponent's continuous output,

The sheriff's face turned dark.

He wasn't angry, it was purely because he said yes or no, and he didn't hold back his words.

He is a small Sequence 7, and he is not capable of evaluating the struggle of the bosses.

Emily threw away the materials casually, they were all useless things.

In other words, useful information cannot reach her.

Officials only had a dozen or so Sequence 5s in total, and there were not so many at once, so it's no wonder they started to intensify their efforts.

Emily's tone reveals a sneer, and she is well aware of the struggle and exclusion of her colleagues—"It must be true, the old revolutionaries of the four Iron Thrones suddenly parachuted a night watchman like me here, and I would not be happy to replace it with anyone." Bar?"

"..."

The sheriff grimaced helplessly, forced a smile on his face, and scolded all the people above him in his heart.

There is also some emotion in my heart.

That is to say, this lord is the confidant of that lord, so he dared to talk about the conflict between the Iron Throne and the Night Watch so unscrupulously——

Seeing the sheriff's aggrieved expression, Emily stopped complaining and just sighed.

I asked the subordinates behind me.

"How about it?"

The burly man who had been quietly following her all this time said in a male voice that was extremely inconsistent and soft: "There is no abnormality."

So Emily nodded slightly.

"Take me to the video."

The deceased was a blood clan belonging to the Hidden Alliance. As an extraordinary person, he was killed with a single blow.

According to the previous dozens of similar murders, every time except for special occasions, the client who was killed while interacting with others was excluded.

Most of the witnesses were walking and suddenly saw the body.

Yes, it is not that people are suddenly seen being attacked, but that people are not noticed until they are dead.

If not all the Hidden Alliance have mastered the secret technique of erasing their own existence, then that is to say, the attackers themselves should be able to erase traces of their own existence.

And according to the investigation of various related abilities, it is even impossible to find a trace.

But what's interesting is that although the murderer's abilities are weird, they will be captured by ordinary cameras--the same cannot be said of technological superhumans.

A person with high abilities who are aimed at mystery but not ordinary technology.

"But that's weird."

Emily looked at the video in front of her, and her doubts never diminished.

"It looks like the Hidden Alliance personnel who want to clean up New York."

"But... why?"

Whether they were chasing Lilith or hunting down the wanted Hidden Alliance, they were all looking for the last piece of the puzzle.

Then, killing them is not in line with the value of any organization gathered in New York under the current undercurrent.

...

"So, who owns the puzzle now?"

Jiang Rui blinked his eyes, and his face was a little weird in meditation——

It's over, it's a loss.

The other party's intelligence did not allow him to find a point to cut in, but he had some strength to persuade him to retreat.

"Who knows."

Lilith took a sip of tea lightly to moisten her throat.

The night was long, and she talked for a long time.

Anna had already breathed heavily, forcibly suppressing her drowsiness, not caring about the conversation between the two of them.

She can't sleep, in order to prevent the invasion of nightmares.

"I broke into this cage just out of curiosity and displeasure."

Lilith slightly raised the corners of her mouth——

"I never thought about it."

"They, even them."

"I will take the risk of distortion and end up in person."