About ten minutes later, the police finally arrived at the asylum at a leisurely pace.
Then they saw the terrifying sacrificial scene and the massive amount of cash.
These policemen were shocked beyond belief, their eyes practically glowing green.
If not for the bizarre scene and Silas standing nearby with his revolver, covered in blood, these guys would definitely have crowded over for a thorough "inspection."
If that had really happened, how much cash would be left was anyone's guess.
After all, even if money went missing, they could just claim externally that it was "inadvertently lost during the investigation."
The Ruen police had only a mediocre reputation. Silas believed they really would do something like that.
(/n: is Ruen or something else?)
Another six or seven minutes passed before Dunn arrived in a hurry with Leonard and Frye in a carriage.
"Captain."
Silas had been guarding a large sum of cash, bathed in countless greedy yet fearful gazes, his nerves taut the whole time.
Only when he saw Dunn's steady face appear did he breathe a sigh of relief.
"Two Beyonders tried to use a ritual to pray to an evil god to bring down a divine heir in a lady's body.
I killed one; the other escaped. The one who got away is called Lanevus.
He's a con man who's been in the papers. His portrait should be easy to find."
He quickly approached Dunn and shared the important information concisely.
"Lanevus carries the aura of an evil god and is extremely dangerous.
I suggest we pursue him immediately."
After listening to his description and carefully examining the scene, Dunn got up to negotiate with the police inspector in the distance.
After chatting for a few moments, the inspector nodded, called his officers to formation, and left.
After dismissing the police, Dunn began handling the scene.
"Silas, go communicate with the asylum and have them stay away. Frye and Leonard, you two get the body bags down from the carriage."
"Yes."
All three responded simultaneously.
Before leaving, Leonard deliberately winked at Silas and said with a smile, "That's three now. Impressive, impressive!"
He was probably referring to the fact that Silas had now killed three people.
Like I wanted to...
Silas shot him a look and walked over to Dr. Wilder.
"Mr. Londor, you really do have connections with the police! But what on earth is going on here?"
"I'm very sorry, Dr. Wilder, but I can't answer that.
Please be sure not to spread word of tonight's events. Someone will come to question you and take your statement in a while." Silas replied.
"Also, we need you to clear the scene... Oh, right, it would be great if you could provide a bag. We need it to carry the money."
After persuading the asylum staff to leave, Leonard and the others didn't rush to put Hood Eugen's body in the body bag.
Instead, they stood guard by the corpse, quietly waiting for something.
In the middle of the night, several people were silently watching a corpse—the scene was truly eerie.
Like some kind of evil gathering.
Silas grumbled internally.
So he also imitated the others, folding his arms and staring at Hood Eugen's corpse.
Before long, tiny golden points of light appeared on the surface of Hood Eugen's body.
These small light spots detached from the corpse and floated up, then gathered together, forming a scene like a vortex at the center of a storm.
Soon, all the golden light points separated from the body and assembled together. The light gradually intensified, accompanied by a low hum that shook one's heart.
Suddenly, there was a flash of bright light. Then the glow dispersed, and something like an eyeball floated in mid-air for a moment before dropping to the ground with a plop.
Wait, looking carefully, this really was an eyeball.
The eyeball had a golden vertical pupil, like the legendary eye of a dragon, quite majestic and imposing.
However, for some reason, the eye's color wasn't quite pure. Within the gold was also a familiar tinge of blood red.
"There's a corrupted feeling."
Silas sensed it and frowned. "It should have been eroded by the True Creator."
This was the third time he had witnessed such a scene.
He more or less understood now that when Beyonders died, they would precipitate their Characteristics.
"Mm."
Dunn also agreed. "For the precipitation of Characteristics alone to cause a commotion on this scale, this person was probably at least a Sequence 7 Beyonder."
"Sequence 7? Doesn't that make him the same as you, Captain?"
Silas couldn't help but be startled. Good thing he'd fired without hesitation; otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
However, for Hood Eugen, a Sequence 7 powerhouse, to have been played by Lanevus and himself, he really was too stupid. His death wasn't the least bit unjust.
"The Captain isn't this weak."
Leonard laughed and turned his head to ask Dunn, "Right, Captain?"
Dunn ignored him.
Instead, he took out an iron cigarette case from his chest, bent down, and carefully placed the eyeball inside, sealing it with a spiritual wall.
"We can collect the body now. Frye, it's up to you."
He said.
Since they needed to conceal the secrets of the Beyonder corpse, they didn't have the police help this time and could only handle the scene themselves.
The expressionless Frye looked more like a corpse than the actual corpse.
He calmly lifted the terribly dead Hood Eugen, placed him in the body bag, his movements skilled and professional.
Seeing that he couldn't help, Silas picked up the bag Wilder had given him and turned to collect the cash.
"So much money... Lanevus really deserves to die."
He sighed as he packed. In addition to stacks of 10-pound banknotes, this pile also included many bearer deposit certificates, drafts, and banknotes.
A rough estimate put the total value at over eight or nine thousand pounds.
After handling the scene, Frye returned to Blackthorn Security Company with one corpse and the unconscious Megose.
As for the others, under Dunn's leadership, they began pursuing Lanevus.
It wasn't just them.
Because of Lanevus's danger level, Dunn had already commissioned the police to notify Tingen's two other groups of official Beyonders—the Machinery Hivemind and the Mandated Punishers.
Add to that the mobilized police, and that night, the entire city of Tingen could be said to be extraordinarily lively.
But even with so many people practically turning Tingen upside down and trying all sorts of mysticism methods, Lanevus still wasn't caught.
Finally, after forty-eight hours of citywide manhunt with no results, the Tingen Police Department publicly issued a warrant, seeking Lanevus on charges of fraud and murder.
This person, who just three days ago had been in the papers and called a "representative young entrepreneur," quickly made the papers again as a wanted criminal, displaying a kind of boomerang-like humor.
And Silas's greatest gain from this whole process should be the mystical item he'd secretly stashed away—namely, that bell that could hypnotize people.
Based on his private research, he had thoroughly figured out this extraordinary item's function.
As long as he infused it with spirituality and rang the bell at a target, the sound produced by the bell could hypnotize the target and make them obey commands.
The hypnotic effect was very strong on ordinary people and could last a long time, but if the other party was a Beyonder, the effect would only last a few minutes. The higher the opponent's Sequence, the worse the effect.
In the end, Silas named this bell the "Servant's Bell."