Chapter 284 On the Road
As the sun set, Lynch stood by the window, staring at the busy scene outside the window. More than a dozen carriages were parked in the yard of the manor, and the workers were heading up one after another. There was a lot of activity as supplies and equipment were moved back and forth.
Today is already the evening of June 19th, two days have passed by in a hurry, and the time to set off has finally arrived.
The night before yesterday, Lynch rejected Walker's request without even thinking about it.
The world of the evil god is not a place where you can come and leave as you please. Without complete assurance, Lynch does not intend to enter again.
The reason is very reasonable. I am different from you. I cannot go home through your method. I consume a lot of energy every time I go back. It is basically impossible to come out again.
Lynch is actually not worried about arousing suspicion because of this. He finds it difficult for another reason.
He did not expect that when the incident began, it would be Walker and Molière on the other side leading the internal team into that world. This means that Walker will have direct contact with the followers of the evil god, which will obviously increase the risk of Lynch's identity being exposed. It all depends on whether the followers of the evil god inside will cooperate.
It is tantamount to leaving the fate to the other party to decide, which makes Lin Qi very reluctant and a little uneasy.
Fortunately, after Walker left on the 18th, he came back that night and brought back the gems, saying that everything went well and he could set off on the evening of the 19th.
The issue of Lynch's identity was not mentioned at all. It seems that the Swollen Girl and her Swollen Girls have indeed kept their promise and did not expose Lynch's true identity.
But it went so smoothly, but it actually made Lynch a little uneasy.
Evil gods are not easy to talk to, especially such insane evil gods. It is hard to say whether their willingness to cooperate is good or bad. Maybe they are brewing some conspiracy.
But the matter has come to this point, and there is no reason to back down. Even if there is some conspiracy, it is still worth trying. Anyway, the situation is not bad now, and everything is on the right track as Lynch imagined.
The next thing to do is to make the ceremony go smoothly. As long as the effect of the ceremony is achieved without actually transferring the mirror to the real world, it will be considered complete. The evidence is conclusive, Mayor Howard and Walker, who are secretly causing trouble, will never escape, and the long-term mission since Lynch's time travel has been completely completed.
Bless my neighbors, I hope everything goes well and nothing happens.
But Lynch himself doesn’t believe in this kind of prayer. Is it possible that everything will go well?
Howard and Walker are not fools. They must have backup plans, just like the two powerful wills that spied on when they arrived last night. One is Judy, and the other is still unidentified and has been lurking in the manor. , is likely to be Howard's backup force.
"Dang, Dang, Dang." A knock on the door woke up Lynch, who was in a trance. Carl Jones's voice came from outside the door, "Ms. Selene, how are you preparing? Do you need any help?"
"Coming right away."
By the way, there are six mole teammates who each have their own secrets.
It had been so many days, and the secret would have been leaked long ago, and Howard was not afraid of leaking the secret to begin with. What he was afraid of was that the mole would cause trouble after entering the ancient tomb. But now that Lynch, the representative of the evil god, has gone in with him, Howard no longer has to worry at all. Now the trouble has been pushed to Lynch's side.
The scariest thing is not knowing their true purpose.
For nearly two days, Lynch made little progress in their investigation. Everyone was hiding something deeply, but on the surface, one was more normal than the other. This left Lin Qi with no idea what to do, and he wanted to ask directly, but it was probably useless to ask, so he could only endure it for a while and see how they performed during the mission.
Anyway, as long as it doesn't affect the ceremony, Lynch doesn't care about anything else.
Sighing, Lynch took out a thumb-sized glass bottle from her long skirt and shook it against the light. A golden beetle inside waved its wings. Well, it seemed to be still alive.
The Lover Beetle, one of the standard rare and mysterious creatures, grows in pairs, lives and dies together, and can sense the direction of the other half no matter how far apart they are. The other half is of course in the hands of Miss Diana and Officer Natalie. When the time comes, they will use this thing to find their location, which is the ceremony site. Before that, everything can only be done by themselves.
It’s time to hit the road.
After putting away the beetles, Lynch walked down the stairs holding a fan. The other six people in the external team had already arrived in front of the motorcade.
Based on Lynch's understanding of archeology, after two days of familiarity, he has figured out that Howard did not find such a group of high-risk professions to raise Gu, but organized a high-end version of the archaeological team, or tomb robbing team.
It seems that entering the tomb is the biggest difficulty, and the ceremony is the second. Otherwise, just find some people to perform the ceremony.
The core of the team is archaeologist Dr. Jenna. This woman in her thirties is counting her equipment and is very professionally prepared. Lynch glanced at her and discovered four strange objects. , very characteristic of the lunatics from the Archaeological Association.
[Ocean Current in Dreams] [Eye Peeping Through the Wall] [Terrain Listener]
As soon as you look at the names, you can tell that they are all archaeological props, but the other one...
[Rick's Carbon paper is a tool used by Rick to convey love to his lover thousands of miles away. Write down your feelings, and the lover on the other end will know them immediately. 】
Tsk, holding a rare item belonging to the Archaeological Association, and also carrying a spy item that is obviously used to convey messages. Doctor, you are really not afraid of revealing your secrets. I can't stand it anymore.
Forget it, I'll close my eyes.
Turning his head to the side, he saw the explorer Carl Jones who had just gone upstairs to greet him.
The core of an archaeological team is an archaeologist, but the commander is often an explorer. There are many crises in ruins or ancient tombs, and their experience is often a signpost to survival. At this time, the handsome explorer Carl Jones was holding the hands of the two maids to say goodbye. A large number of roses suddenly bloomed at the feet of the two ladies, which surprised the two maids.
However, let’s not talk about whether the food is ugly or not. Look at the grassland under your feet that stretches all the way to the river, and then look at your ability to control plants with your hands. Do you think the so-called closed management is harmful to you? Is it meaningless?
The cautious ancient book broker Rooney is more stable. He is responsible for avoiding and deciphering the mysterious documents to ensure that the team will not be wiped out. He was lowering his head to check the pocket watch-style locator. The instrument cover was a mirror. When the sun shone, it reflected a beam of light pointing straight to the river, shaking intentionally or unintentionally with the movement of his wrist.
Alas, I can pretend not to see the light bending, but can you not use sunlight to convey the message? This makes me very suspicious that you are the guy who colluded with the Church of the Sun. Be careful that I take the account of the Valente family's house. Put it all on you.
The bearded antiquities hunter is responsible for the defense of the ruins and rare objects, and to neutralize the threats from the ruins' guardian rare objects as much as possible. At this time, he is not busy preparing like others, but is holding a cigar in his mouth. , holding up a small piece of cheese in his hand. More than twenty little gray mice lined up in front of the carriage, nibbling cheese one after another. Lynch sighed as he watched, and he had roughly guessed why Judy said he could bring things back from outside. Lynch even suspected that the ocean current in the dream in Jenna's hand was brought in by his mouse, so they pretended to have a grudge.
Judy, the philologist, is responsible for deciphering the textual information in the tomb, except for the mysterious documents. As for the folklorist Salin, who is a part-time liar, he is responsible for providing support with occult knowledge and is also an indispensable part of the archaeological team. .
It's just that unless this person pretends to be someone else, as long as he shows his identity to others, he has almost no contact with other people. Only when he becomes someone else can he use someone else's identity to normally contact the outside world.
So in the past few days, Lin Qi had hardly communicated with this tall and thin liar when he saw him. On the contrary, he could only chat briefly with the bartender Tom. With such a weird personality, it was hard for Lynch to imagine that he was actually an informant for the Rangers, but he just didn't know how he planned to control the team.
So, at six o'clock in the afternoon, with a whistle, everyone boarded the carriage, and a large convoy of more than a dozen carriages left the lakeside manor and continued walking north. .
As the team set off, by the river in the distance, two ladies retracted their binoculars.
Miss Valente and Officer Natalie looked at each other and nodded, then hurriedly ran away in different directions.
Farther away in the city, the Scarecrow Club, the Archaeological Association, the Church of the Burning Sun, the Duke's Palace... I don't know how many people's thoughts have drifted to the motorcade.
(End of this chapter)