In the dream space, Black Dog transformed into Grego sat together with Little Fox, jointly watching the vision screen of Grego's main body before them. They watched that Aka believer who called himself a "Detective" using Grego's body to perform a series of operations inside the compartment. From the first-person perspective, they watched as the assassin's flesh and blood rapidly vaporized into smoke. The horrifying scene of flesh and blood diminishing and a skeleton appearing seemed to make Little Fox feel a bit uncomfortable.
"Hmm... Is this Seal so disgusting to use?"
Little Fox murmured, while Grego, in his Black Dog form beside her, focused on watching his own hands on the screen carefully dismantle the assassin's white bones and place them into the large suitcase nearby. He couldn't help but ponder in confusion what this Detective intended to do.
"Also... this guy who assassinated you feels really poor. Besides a Corpse Transformation Seal, he doesn't seem to have any other Extraordinary items."
Continuing to watch the live feed, Little Fox complained, while Grego answered from the side.
"It's normal for him not to have any. As soon as I arrive in Tivian, I will be immediately taken to the General Bureau for basic screening. Therefore, I cannot carry any Extraordinary items of unknown origin on me. They must have known this, which is why they didn't carry more Extraordinary items."
Grego explained. For an organization like the An Yin Bureau, basic screening for new members is necessary. Due to the limitation of "Light" resources, the strictness of such screening won't be particularly high, but personal belongings must definitely be checked, at least by passing them under a Hui Jian Lamp while away from the body.
Grego explained to Little Fox, while in reality, Dorothy, dressed in pajamas, was sitting on her bed remotely controlling her older brother's body in the train compartment far away. Under her control, the assassin's bones, which had been turned into a skeleton by the Corpse Transformation Seal, were picked up one by one and neatly placed inside the suitcase. After a short while, the entire skeleton was dismantled and packed inside. Afterwards, Dorothy also had Grego's body stuff the remaining hair, clothes, and shoes into the box. Finally, with the suitcase closed, the body of the assassin disguised as a train attendant was no longer in the compartment, only the sound of the wind howling in the dark night outside the half-open window.
After packing away the assassin's bones, the next thing Dorothy had to do was search for the assassin's accomplice still hiding on the train, which was relatively simple for her.
Dorothy's main body took out her magic box, opened it, and took out a Seal from within. This was a Finding Breath Seal. When she helped Adele solve the theater murder case, she had given Dorothy three such Seals to find the scent of the murderer. Dorothy had used one, and now two remained.
That's right, Dorothy planned to use scent to find the assassin's accomplice, and the scent sample was this large suitcase.
These people's plan was to turn Grego's body into a skeleton and put it into this suitcase, then have it taken off the train by accomplices disguised as train passengers. Therefore, this suitcase specifically used to hold bones was likely brought onto the train by the accomplice disguised as a passenger.
After all, this assassin was disguised as a train attendant. The living space for train attendants on a steam train is very limited, with only a few rest rooms where attendants work in shifts. With limited private space, the space for storing things is also limited. Furthermore, train attendants' homes are usually at the starting or ending station of this train route. When they come to work on the train, they only bring some daily necessities. Being on the train is for work, not travel, so there is no need to carry excessive items, and they would not use such an obviously travel-oriented large suitcase.
It was inconvenient for the assassin disguised as a train attendant to carry such a large box. Therefore, this suitcase was very likely brought onto the train by the accomplice hidden as a passenger, handed over to the assassin at some opportune moment, brought up by him, and then taken down by him. All of this would be very reasonable and wouldn't make people feel anything strange.
So now Dorothy only needed to identify the scent on this box and then follow the direction to find that accomplice.
Paying two points of "cup", Dorothy used the Finding Breath Seal in her hand, and then transmitted the state of the Seal through spirit threads to Grego's body, giving him an Extraordinary sensitive sense of smell as well.
After transmitting the effect of the Finding Breath Seal to Grego, she had Grego's body lean down and carefully sniff the scent on the box. After carefully distinguishing the scent information within, Grego's body slowly stood up, picked up the coat placed on the sofa and put it on, then lifted the suitcase containing the white bones.
Under Dorothy's control, Grego's body, carrying the suitcase, walked out of the compartment door, came into the carriage corridor, and then began sniffing the scent in both directions. After smelling something, he walked towards the rear carriage.
"Hey, Black Dog, that Detective just used your nose to smell that box. Could it be that you Black Dogs also have a very sensitive nose like dogs in reality?"
In the dream space, Little Fox watched this scene on the screen and asked Grego beside her curiously, while Grego replied with a click of his tongue.
"How is that possible? That Detective must have done something to my body. Don't talk nonsense now, watch carefully..."
Grego answered Little Fox sternly, then focused on the screen before him. He saw that his body was currently moving forward along the train aisle, crossing the carriage connection interface, and arriving inside the second first-class carriage. As if following something, he walked all the way to the end of the second carriage and stood in front of a compartment door. Then, after taking out a bunch of keys and sorting through them for a while, he began to open the door.
These keys were from the assassin who had been disguised as a train attendant. He had a set of spare keys for the first-class carriages specifically for opening Grego's compartment door. Now, Dorothy benefited from them.
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Inside the train speeding through the dark night, almost all the first-class passengers were now in deep sleep due to the food in the dedicated dining car being drugged. Of course, this wasn't everyone...
In a certain compartment of the first-class carriage, a middle-aged man in a well-fitted suit was sitting on the compartment's sofa, holding a document in his hand. On it were a lot of words and a photo. The photo was a black and white ID photo of a young man, and the content of the document was his basic resume.
"Gregorius Meshaus... If everything went smoothly, he should be gone by now."
Adjusting his glasses, the middle-aged man murmured softly. Just then, the sound of keys opening his compartment door came. Hearing this sound, the man was slightly startled, and then immediately put away the document in his hand. With vigilance, he looked towards the door, reaching his hand into the shadows to grasp a weapon.
The compartment door opened, and then he saw a familiar young man standing at his door. It was the one he had just seen in the document. This young man was smiling, and in his hand, he was carrying a suitcase that was even more familiar to the man.
The moment he saw the young man, the man's heart tightened, and he almost drew his weapon. However, after seeing the suitcase in the young man's hand, he suddenly suppressed his impulse. He looked at the young man at the door with suspicious eyes, then tentatively asked.
"Mr. Yadlin?"
Listening to the man's words, Grego, under Dorothy's control, kept his smile and walked directly into the compartment. After closing the door, he directly handed the suitcase in his hand to the man and said.
"It's already taken care of. Take it."
Hearing "Mr. Yadlin's" words, the man immediately took the suitcase from Grego's hand. After placing it on the table, he gently opened it a little to look inside. Seeing the white bones inside, he smiled.
"Is that guy already inside? That was fast, Mr. Yadlin, your skills are truly efficient."
"Heh... It was just killing an Apprentice who was in such a deep sleep that he had no room to resist. It's not about skill, just picking up the bones took quite some time."
The man said to Grego in a flattering tone, and Grego responded indifferently. As he spoke, he directly sat down on the compartment's sofa.
Next, Grego began to turn his head and look at his blurry reflection on the glass, gently touching his face, as if checking something, and softly asked the man.
"Is there any problem?"
"Problem? Well... are you talking about your disguise? There's no problem, it's exactly like the photo on the file! It's practically the person himself!" Seeing Gregorius's question, the man immediately spoke again, comparing the photo on the file he held. Hearing the man's words, Gregorius nodded slightly.
"It's good if there's no problem..."
Looking at Gregorius before him, the man's eyes were somewhat complex, containing both a hint of awe and a hint of doubt. Borrowing that doubt, the man hesitated for a while, then tentatively asked Gregorius,
"Congratulations, Yadlin, on successfully completing the mission. However, when Captain came back just now, why didn't Captain knock according to the agreed-upon code, but instead opened the door and came in directly? That really startled me."
With a strange look in his eyes, the man asked the young man before him. Although from all the previous signs, this young man should be the result of his superior Mr. Yadlin's disguise and transformation, the man still felt some disharmony that didn't feel right, causing him to have doubts. One of the main sources of these doubts was that when "Mr. Yadlin" entered the private room just now, he didn't use the specific knocking frequency code.
Listening to the man's question, Gregorius's expression hardened, then his gaze became sharp as he stared at the man. He spoke in a pressing tone,
"When I do things, I don't need to consider the feelings of henchmen. As a henchmen, you just need to do what you should..."
Gregorius said sternly to the man before him. At this moment, the man seemed to feel an irresistible sense of pressure from the "Mr. Yadlin" before him. Although this feeling wasn't profound, it was very familiar. In the society, only true superiors could give him this feeling.
"I'm very sorry! Mr. Yadlin, for asking something I shouldn't have! This is my mistake!"
Facing Gregorius's words, the man immediately bowed and apologized, while instantly dismissing all doubts about the "Yadlin" before him, not daring to harbor suspicion. All of this was because of the sense of pressure he had just felt.
Seeing the man's actions, Dorothy, who was sitting on her bed far away controlling things remotely, also breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the man's reaction.
'Phew... the effect of the queen insect's queue really works. These guys are indeed from the Eight Point Nest... It seems I guessed right.'
Dorothy thought to herself. After witnessing the assassin's disguise ability and identifying him as a Shadow Masked Man, Dorothy immediately began to suspect that this group was sent by the Eight Point Nest.
When dealing with that Vampire at the school, Dorothy had already witnessed the infiltration ability of the Shadow Masked Man path. She also knew that among the Extraordinary societies in Prit, the society that currently controlled this path seemed to be only the Eight Point Nest. Therefore, the possibility that the assassination targeting Gregorius on the train was organized by the Eight Point Nest was very high. Just now, Dorothy had confirmed this point using the Queen Bee Queue.
To facilitate the control of their subordinates, the Eight Point Nest would show all members a special secret transmission called the Queen Bee Queue. This secret transmission is divided into many chapters, from the lowest 'Chapter of the Henchmen' to the highest 'Chapter of the Queen Bee'. People who have read the secret transmission of a lower rank will feel reverence for those who have read the secret transmission of a higher rank and will be unable to resist their might.
At that time, Ci Rong, who was a Black Rank Shadow Masked Man, had read the 'Chapter of the Soldier Insect' and then had the students of the Secret Knowledge Society read the 'Chapter of the Henchmen', spiritually controlling the Secret Knowledge Society through the effect of the secret transmission.
After Dorothy completely removed the Eight Point Nest's influence from the King's Campus, Dorothy found a detailed annotation book of the Queen Bee Queue on a White Rank Vampire. To annotate, one must first list the original text. This annotation book explained the function of the 'Queen Bee Queue' series of secret transmissions, containing a large amount of original text, including the 'Chapter of the Henchmen', 'Chapter of the Soldier Insect', and part of the 'Chapter of the General Insect'. After reading this annotation, Dorothy had pretty much finished reading the original text of these chapters.
At this moment, although the subordinate of this assassin named Yadlin was talking to Gregorius's body, he was essentially facing Dorothy. Dorothy could use spirit threads to transmit the state of reading the 'Chapter of the Soldier Insect' to Gregorius's side.
In this train assassination attempt targeting Gregorius, the Eight Point Nest dispatched one Black Rank, while the other accomplice, who only served as a contact to help carry things out, was clearly an Extraordinary below Black Rank.
The scale of the Eight Point Nest society is not small, but Black Rank Extraordinary are not few for them, yet not many either. Since Dorothy killed three Black Ranks and one White Rank in a series of incidents at the King's Campus, their manpower in Tivian would definitely be temporarily scarce, so they wouldn't send too much combat power to execute this plan. One Black Rank plus an Apprentice had no reason not to be able to handle Gregorius, who was an Apprentice.
The moment she saw the assassin's accomplice, Dorothy judged from his tone and reaction that his status was lower than the assassin who took action, possibly an Apprentice. And in the Eight Point Nest, a Black Rank like Ci Rong read the 'Chapter of the Soldier Insect', so this Apprentice could only have read the 'Chapter of the Henchmen'.
Therefore, after Dorothy transmitted the 'Chapter of the Soldier Insect' buff to Gregorius, the man who had read the 'Chapter of the Henchmen' immediately developed a feeling of reverence for Gregorius.
Although for this man, the actions of the "Mr. Yadlin" before him had many suspicious points, when Gregorius displayed the effect of the higher chapter, the affected man immediately dispelled the doubts in his heart, no longer having any suspicion towards the "Mr. Yadlin" before him.
"Alright, alright, just remember it next time."
Listening to the man's apology, Dorothy controlled Gregorius to wave his hand and speak. The man breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.
"Thank you for your leniency, Mr. Yadlin..."
The man thanked Gregorius, while Gregorius leaned back on the sofa and changed the subject, speaking indifferently.
"So now, it's time to talk about serious matters. Although things went relatively smoothly on my end, there were some unexpected situations. I found a problem when I went through this Black Dog's files after killing him..."
"Problem?"
"According to the files he carried, if I arrive in Tivian under the identity of this Black Dog named Gregorius, I will be taken directly to the Black Dog's headquarters there for review. The time for this review seems to be longer than we estimated." With a meaningful look in her eyes, Dorothy manipulated Gregorius to speak to the man before him as Yadlin. The man, upon hearing this, frowned slightly and spoke.
"The review time will be longer? That means... Mr. Yadlin, it will take Captain longer to get free time to move around... If that's the case, should we change the time of our next meeting?"
The man said with a frown. Listening to his words, Dorothy's eyes lit up, and she immediately had Gregorius speak.
"Yes, we need to change it. And since the time has changed, let's change the location as well. How about we meet at Harren Restaurant at the Stone Bridge intersection in the East District at 5 PM on the 25th?"
Gregorius said directly to the man. The man immediately nodded after hearing this.
"On the afternoon of the 25th in the East District? Understood... After getting off the train, I will relay your words back. The Black Dog's review has become stricter this time, please be sure to be careful.
"By the 25th, if nothing unexpected happens, it should be me who meets with Captain. At that time, I will bring Captain the tools to directly contact the society. In the meantime, please be extremely careful in your actions."
The man spoke solemnly to Gregorius, and Gregorius responded with a nod. At the same time, far away, a slight smile curled up on Dorothy's lips.
"Success... If the contact method is settled, Gregorius can successfully infiltrate the Eight Point Nest in return."
Sitting on her bed, Dorothy smiled and murmured. Her recent manipulation had successfully turned Gregorius into a double agent.
Facing this opportunity, Dorothy didn't expect to get any valuable intelligence from this little henchman before her. However, if she could have Gregorius replace Yadlin's identity and become a spy planted within the Eight Point Nest, the value of the intelligence she could obtain in the future would be quite significant.