Chapter 165 55: Murder under the Tower
December.
A blizzard with early signs spread across Europe with the westerly wind from the Arctic.
In London, Augustus’ research has hit a bottleneck from the beginning.
The reason is simple. The "spiritual detection technique" he painstakingly constructed cannot detect the soul.
But because he knew about the soul crow and the soul lamp from Jeremy, he was sure that the soul must exist.
Then there is a problem with his research direction.
It may be that the little animals in the experiment do not have souls, or are too weak. His psychic detection structure is not accurate enough, so it cannot detect them.
So he skipped the small animals and instead conducted detection in the hospital. There were also many ordinary people, but no traces of souls were found.
Either there is something wrong with the spirit detection technique, or the technique is locked.
Combining the matter of the soul crow and the soul lamp, he guessed that the things involved in the soul were too advanced and were not yet something he could study.
After all, the soul has a destination, and his approach is equivalent to competing for business with the destination of the soul.
But if the soul doesn’t work, what about the brain?
Looking at the pink brains in the remains of the mice on the experimental table, he came up with an idea.
The west wind is howling and the snowflakes are dotting the cold night.
An abandoned warehouse somewhere.
A drunkard was tied to an iron chair.
In the darkness, Augustus’ gloved hand slowly covered the other person’s bald head.
A piece of knowledge about the "burning technique" was wrapped in the energy of divine grace and passed into the other party's brain.
“Uh, ah-”
Snap——
The screams stopped abruptly the moment they started playing.
The drunkard’s head exploded like a watermelon stuffed with two kicks, and red and white things splattered all over the floor.
Augustus was silent, and opened his palms to the slightly twitching corpse. A stream of flames spurted out, reflected in his cold pupils, and instantly devoured the corpse.
Throwing the blood-stained black robe into the fire, he slowly walked out of the abandoned warehouse, thinking about how to further improve the structure of the "Spirit Infusion Technique".
"The risk of finding experimental targets in the surrounding area is a bit high. Is there any way to reduce the risk? In other words, expand the scope of my activities."
As a city with the highest density of surveillance in the world, London City does not count on himself His behavior can be concealed from the outside world, and he relies on nothing more than superficial transformation skills.
Looking at the thin layer of snow on the ground, he stepped on it nonchalantly, leaving a series of footprints leading to nowhere in the wind and snow.
Paradise Node.
Augustus returned to Jeremy as if nothing had happened and continued his research.
"I just went back outside to test the transformation technique, but I didn't seem to see you?" Jeremy asked casually.
"It's snowing on the street. I went out for a walk to see if I would have any insights, just like those scientists who are accidentally blessed by inspiration." Augustus' tone was slightly self-deprecating, "But obviously, I am not one of them."
"Inspiration is hard to come by. Pursuing inspiration is putting the cart before the horse. The most important thing in scientific research is constant trial and error. Haha, sorry, in school The old habit of teaching has come back again. I am still very confident in your patience. Let’s put aside psychic detection for now. The soul must exist, but it is not that easy to detect. We must start from the lowest structure."
Augustus did not refute, and nodded along with Jeremy's words to show that he understood.
"By the way, a new person has arrived, and Heathcliff has also arrived. Do you want to go say hello to them?"
"Huh? Okay, I'll be back as soon as I go."
"Don't be in a hurry. Chatting with them who focus on different research directions may inspire you to come up with new ideas."
Ogu Stuart floated out of the laboratory. At this time, they had expanded the hall of Paradise Node by a lot of space, dividing it into a communication area, a public experiment area, and a landscape area.
There were two benefactors he had never seen sitting in the communication area.
One is completely black, with only bright eyes, and the other is a brown tauren muscular man.
"Hello, hello, I'm Mr. Li, and I feel honored to join the big family of Divine Graces." Mr. Li's enthusiasm and politeness are not in line with the image of a tauren.
After introducing each other, Mr. Li continued to talk about the topic he had just communicated with Heath.
Augustus listened to the meeting and got a general understanding of Mr. Li’s thoughts. His point of view is that there should be an overall program for studying divine grace. For example, different research directions are divided into "boundaries" and "under the boundaries". It is divided into "factions" and "departments" under the factions, so that latecomers can see clearly at a glance and choose the direction they are interested in researching.
According to what he said, he should be planning to dabble in them all, which made Augustus stand in awe.
He felt like his head was going to explode just by studying a soul and transformation, mixed with a less skillful burning.
Mr. Li talked about the same thing. Seeing that the two people seemed to have something to communicate, he took the initiative to end his topic, said goodbye and returned to his research room, which Jeremy helped him build not long ago.
"I heard the owl mention that you have researched on transformation techniques?"
"A little bit involved."
"How about making a deal?"
“Do you want to exchange the spell structure?”
"Yes."
"The transformation technique is very complicated, and you may not be able to learn it."
"After the transaction is completed, I won't trouble you if you can't learn it. I can use two The exchange of spells, one is a destructive spell, and the other is a speed assist spell."
Augustus thought for a while and agreed to the deal. He really needed some destructive means.
“Let me state in advance that this transformation technique is not perfect at present, it can only last for about an hour, and it can only change local body parts, and it must not involve the brain and internal organs.”
"That's enough."
The two put their palms together and passed on the structure of their spells one after another.
The two spells traded by Heath are both related to the wind. One is to use the wind to speed up walking and destroy footprints. It can also be used to accumulate energy to assist jumping. The other is to compress the wind into a sheet and sprinkle a handful of sand and iron sand into it, which can easily cut the human body and metal.
Not gorgeous, but very practical.
At least, the conditions that Augustus originally wanted to expand the scope of the crime were met, but looking at the "Avenger" in front of him, he had a new idea.
"Perhaps, we have some other common language."
Augustus made a proposal.
Heath, who was about to leave, slowly turned around, sat down, and listened quietly.
Augustus is not a bloodthirsty maniac, but there is always no shortage of scum in any city.
For the sake of eternal life, he didn't mind using the lives of these people as paving the way.
William was still in the capital of Gaul.
Some time ago, he met Abdul both sides, but he was watched throughout the communication process. He mainly left an impression on the other party and tested the source of his abilities.
Perhaps considering how much information should be disclosed to Japan and the United States as a sign of sincerity in subsequent intelligence transactions, William gained a little.
For example, I learned that the person who gave Abdul the ability was an old Asian man with white hair, clean clothes, and very kind.
This information is simply not too familiar to the ears of William, the intelligence chief.
Supreme.
The Supreme who has never appeared again since giving Inagaki Miki the so-called "cherry tomato".
Because of Inagaki Miki's low threat level, she has always been on the fringes of research.
But it is still a transcendent person who clearly exists. William has come across no less than a hundred analysis reports on him.
In addition, Abdul revealed that the fruit is red, which is almost 90% confirmed.
Unless someone is deliberately pretending to be the Supreme, there is currently very little information about the Supreme, and there is nothing about his relationship with other extraordinary forces. There are only some unfounded speculations.
So assuming that the source of Abdul's ability is the Supreme, what about Gabriel? Is that true too?
The Supreme gave the two of them abilities, allowing them to conflict and decide life and death. But what are the benefits?
There is another more convincing hypothesis. Gabriel was given power by a force that did not deal with the Supreme, so the Supreme found Abdul and made him his pawn. Fight with each other.
The two truly extraordinary ones are like chess players, standing behind the scenes and making no extra moves.
Why choose Gaul for the showdown?
They can’t be here for tourism anyway, so could it be that there is something they want here?
Based on the information I learned when I communicated with the Holy Infant before, "What you want is in the future," it is quite possible that Abdul is a chess piece prepared by the Supreme Being in advance.
As the dual representative of the United States and Japan, William compiled the report, and then received instructions to further exchange information, and began to get involved with Olivier, who was personally involved in negotiations.
Everyone wants to exchange as little information as possible for information of greater value to themselves.
But Olivier doesn’t have many intelligence cards and even fewer strategic chips.
However, because he controlled the extraordinary world of Abdul, he had a ticket to understand the extraordinary world. In the end, an exchange of information was reached on a condition acceptable to both parties.
During this period, William was conducting investigations and analysis in Gaul based on this batch of intelligence.
The overall gain is not great.
In the morning, just when he got up, looked at the white snow, and made a cup of coffee, thinking it was another peaceful day, his subordinate came over.
“A strange murder occurred under the Giant Hand Tower in the early hours of yesterday morning.”
“How strange is it?”
“The murderer disappeared at an alarming speed, and it seemed that The victim's entire head was blown open with his bare hands."
William was silent for a few seconds: "Is the victim an immigrant?"
The person opposite was shocked: "Yes, as expected of the section chief, I guessed it right away."
"It's not difficult. There are so many hidden places to choose from. I chose this place specially. It seems that Ollie Weyer is in trouble. Oh, and me, and you, get ready to work overtime."
William immediately entered work mode, changed his clothes, and walked out of the guest room.
Soon after, he braved the wind and snow to arrive at the scene of the incident.
“The deceased was a West African immigrant who had been in Gaul for three years and had multiple criminal records. According to surveillance, he was coerced to come here and may not have known what he was going to face.”
The subordinate reported the information obtained from the Gallic police.
William glanced at it, remembered it in his mind, and then observed the scene of the incident, roughly simulating the scene at that time.
The criminal first forced the deceased to come to the bottom of the square, and then forced him to sit on a plastic chair he brought with him. He looked around and saw that there were newly built street lights and cameras. It was very good. Just be a party member. .
"Section Chief, the surveillance video has been sent."
Perhaps as a signal to strengthen cooperation, Olivier did not block William's intervention and even strengthened cooperation.
Turn on the video recording, and the video footage from several cameras will appear split.
You can see, amidst the falling snowflakes, a suspected biological male about 1.9 to 2 meters tall, dressed in black and wearing a clown mask, pointing a gun at the victim, and placing a picture on the ground. plastic chair and sit him down.
The victim sat down tremblingly and said something in a supplicating posture.
The man looked up at one of the surveillance cameras, and gently put his hand on the victim's Tianling Cap. Then, the screen seemed to shake, and the man's head exploded open, and part of it was even covered in sticky Surveillance footage.
There is no doubt that such a method must be related to the extraordinary.
Otherwise, with an explosion that could break open the head at such a close range, the murderer would not have been able to stand there so calmly.
William narrowed his eyes and zoomed in on the video.
Although it was night, he could indeed see that there was not a trace of blood on the murderer.
(End of this chapter)