New Gods of North America

I sent a pigeon to Ryan's office, asking them to pay more attention to the extraordinary criminals in the western mountainous area of ​​Virginia.

Handle what you can, and the detective agency will only take a proportional share of the profits.

If you can't handle it or can't spare the manpower, the detective agency will send someone to solve it, and then the office won't get the lion's share.

Doug and Seth regularly update the wanted list from the local police station.

For now, do a screening and pick out the suspected extraordinary criminals, even if they are far away, you can consider giving them a sudden 'divine justice'.

If we only talk about efficiency in this regard, 'protecting the steam train lines' is a good job.

After all, ordinary criminals may run away after committing a crime, and it would be very troublesome to track them down.

But guarding along the steam train lines, criminals who are confident enough will keep coming to your door, and you can just pick from them.

This can also maintain a certain distance from the church that mainly guards the 'town', which is a kind of 'differentiated competition' in a sense.

After pretending to listen to the sermon in church on Sunday, Seth had the parrot bring a new message:

——Wayne's dormitory 'resident director' Macken Rieve is awake.

To be honest, compared to dealing with possible upcoming foreign extraordinary invaders, Wayne has now lowered the priority of continuing to investigate this matter by one level.

From Wayne's perspective,

Pastor Bazini or Pastor Paxir, they are probably like 'leaders of brother units' who have private grudges with the detective agency. Their level may be higher, but they have no subordinate relationship with each other and cannot directly do anything to the detective agency.

Fighting with them is part of 'workplace competition'.

It feels less important than 'resisting foreign enemies' or 'upgrading yourself'.

But now that he's idle anyway, and some structural contradictions are difficult to improve, then he should continue to follow up, just as helping classmates see a doctor.

Go to the manor and call Miss Ovilia to do a 're-examination' for Macken Rieve.

Then Wayne found that his situation was a bit bad now.

According to the situation obtained by Miss Ovilia using extraordinary abilities, the 'shadow' created by Madam LaLaurie has been eliminated and has not reappeared.

And Macken Rieve's inner 'house' is still the same as before.

The 'seven rooms and one hall' has collapsed 'three rooms and one hall', and theoretically there should be four personalities left.

However, according to the respective self-reports of the 'Macken Rieve's at this time,

All the personalities said that they had not drunk the potion given by Pastor Paxir after 'Washington' disappeared—the previous time they tried to vomit it out, but failed to bring it out successfully, and the last time they reported to the college church, they were not required to drink the potion.

But 'Missouri' and 'Tennessee' still disappeared.

That is to say, all his personalities believe that only 'York', 'Kansas' and 'Georgia' are left.

The number doesn't match, one is missing.

From the correspondence of the 'rooms', the gentleman's residence should belong to 'York', the hunter's cabin looks most in line with the temperament of 'Kansas', and the lady's room is more like 'Georgia'.

But what about the personality representing the slaughterhouse?

Judging from the point that 'someone killed a cat, but other personalities can't find the murderer', the memories of Macken Rieve's personalities are not common, at least not of the 'fully shared' type.

This is easy to understand.

But why can other personalities know that a companion is missing, but don't know that the number of companions doesn't match?

Is there a personality hiding and never appearing? Or is the correspondence wrong, and the personality corresponding to the slaughterhouse has never been hidden?

After listening, Wayne looked at the notes Seth had taken next to him, pondered for a while, and felt that there were still too few effective clues, and this aspect of things was too mysterious, and needed to wait for the appraisal results of all the potions to come out before looking at it.

For the time being, he can only ask David Mills to have the exorcist priests focus on him, and also ask Miss Ovilia to help secretly check him regularly.

Wayne also kept a little eye out and did not tell the 'Macken Rieve's about the situation that Miss Ovilia perceived with her extraordinary abilities.

At least keep a control group for yourself.

The inspection came to an end. Wayne told Macken Rieve to rest well, cooperate with the treatment, and strive for an early recovery.

Before even leaving the small office building in the college that was temporarily requisitioned by the church, Wayne saw someone coming to report the situation to David Mills again.

Wayne couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for David Mills, feeling that the church's exorcism department was actually busier than he imagined.

Respect, blessings.

"A prisoner has escaped from the monastery. He is involved in an incident that was previously defined as a Class III threat..."

Wait a minute,

Escaping should be a serious crime, right?

Wayne quickly leaned over, "I see that most of the people in your exorcism department are still busy with things in the college. Do you need our detective agency to assist in arresting the fugitive?"

Here comes the work.

Arresting earns contribution points, killing earns materials.

I feel that the cathedral should secretly provide support in this regard now.

"You don't have many people right now, do you?"

Hearing this, David Mills turned his head to look at Wayne, first asked a question casually, and then quickly turned his eyes back.

His eyes quickly scanned line by line on the briefing.

Then he seemed to stare at it with some disbelief.

After reading the briefing in his hand, David Mills was silent for a while, and then handed the briefing over, "You participated in this case before. If you want to assist in the pursuit, I have no objection."

Wayne took it and took a look.

The criminal participant/controlled person who originally belonged to the church was involved in the case of the "Georgeberg Church Holy Emblem Pollution Incident".

Huh?

Isn't this the "Seven Deadly Sins" case?

His eyes continued to glance down, and the name of the escaped criminal written above was actually from an "acquaintance" Wayne knew—

Roy Stampler.

In that case, he seemed to be affected by the polluted holy emblem. He claimed to be able to see the "sins" on others, and then he was arrested on the spot by Wayne and others at the crime scene.

As for his extraordinary ability, Wayne remembered that Roy Stampler could exert a relatively strong hypnotic control over people within a certain range around him. He didn't know whether extraordinary people could resist with their own will. Wayne had always been outside the circle before and had never been hit by his move.

Thinking about it a little more, David Mills became the head of the exorcism department in Georgeberg from the state special team leader,

It seems that it was because he defended him and then won the lawsuit and was demoted...

Um...

Wayne glanced at David Mills' face, which didn't look very happy at this time.

The prisoner who was saved because he defended him has now escaped without obeying the sentence. If this is written into the lawyer's resume, it is considered a so-called "stain"...

This at least proves that the prisoner does not recognize the sentence itself, or it shows that the prisoner's "nature" may not be worth a light sentence.

From the perspective of church personnel, that is "not repenting piously".