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"The chapel..." Lioness squeezed the file tightly.

"Don't worry, Andre is not in the chapel." Roy said, "The person in charge of the chapel saw a soldier with a blond-haired vampire passing by the church door, and said he would hand it over to the Pope. But the Pope didn't mention it. "

"Leave it to the Pope?" Lioness frowned. "Bernar needs Andre to stabilize his bloodline. If he did it, it would be impossible to leave Andre in his hands."

"There is a special road from the main entrance of the church to the main church, and there is no need to pass there." Roy said, "Although it can be used as a reason, it is too coincidental."

"It's like telling us specifically that Andrei will be taken to the Pope."

Roy nodded, pointed to the document and said, "Even if the church currently has the power to intervene in the affairs of the royal family, Bernal still has supreme power. It is not difficult to conceal the order to use soldiers. I don't think the news of the church can be so well-informed." .”

"Unless Bernal wants to release this news." Lyons pondered for a moment and said, "I want to see Bernal."

Everyone present looked at Lyons together, puzzled by his decision.

"Gavin's body has been declining, and he needs to change his body. But any soul transformation method needs to pay a price, so he must choose a body worthy of his exchange." Lyons said, "I don't think Bernal IV is a A very good candidate."

Roy didn't know about Gavin, and looked at the others suspiciously. Samus also didn't know much about it. He took a bite of the black bread and waved to Roy to signal him to sit down with peace of mind.

Only Dai Zhu was lost in thought.

Lyons put forward a very possible conjecture.

Soul conversion is not a simple formation, and repeated conversions will consume people's energy.Even the vampires are the same.

What's more, Gavin's goal is to become a "god" who is neither human nor blood. Without a strong spirit, he will definitely fail.So it was a foolish choice to trade with Bernal IV.

"You want to go to Bernal to confirm that he is not Gavin." Dai Zhu said.

Lyons nodded: "If Bernal is not Gavin, we are missing a lot of information. How does he control the soldiers and make the experiment run normally? Unreasonable speculation is invalid, Bernal is our only entry point .”

"But it is also possible to scare the snake away." Dai Zhu said, "But I like your proposal, and I will go with you."

"Can you explain the current situation to me?" Roy said.

Dai Zhu put his eyes on him, and seemed to have a special liking for the white priest robe: "The priest of the church?"

Roy was keenly aware of Dai Zhu's aura of blood clan, and looked at him warily.

"It's better for uninformed humans to stay with the stall." Dai Zhu said with a smile, "Well, Baron Samuel will answer your questions, my lord priest."

Under Samuel's stare, Dai Zhu pushed Lyons away from the stall

Roy looked at Samus, who was eating elegantly with black bread in his hand, wondering whether he should go back to church or not.

"Sit down, my lord priest," Samus said. "You haven't finished your offal stew. Wasting food is not what Christians should do."

"I don't know a lot." Samus said, "To be precise, it's beyond my knowledge. If you want to know, I don't mind discussing it with you."

……

Dai Zhu pushed Lioness out of the stall, and asked in a low voice, "What kind of priest is that, is it credible?"

"You made Samus tell him about Gavin," Lyons said.

Dai Zhu shrugged: "Don't you think it's too cruel to let a vampire tell the priest about the secrets of blood? Samus is a very smart human being. He should have already guessed a lot, enough for the priest to understand for a while."

Dai Zhu looked at the dark sky, turned his head and looked at Lyons jokingly: "The main city has been patrolling at night recently, and it is very difficult to hide whereabouts. Do you need my help?"

"If you mean biting Samus on the back of the neck, flying from the South District to the jungle for help. I don't need it." Reins replied.

Dai Zhu spread his hands regretfully, and followed Lioness to the center of the main city.

Lines knew all the patrol routes on the South Side.After realizing that his whereabouts were closely watched, he found the schedule and route map, just in case.

While not as fast as a bat's wing, it certainly won't be spotted by any patrols.

The main gate of the palace will be closed at night, Dai Zhu turned into a bat and easily crossed the high wall, looking down at Lioness: "Humans always have some physical defects, for Andre's sake, I can... ..."

"Click-"

An iron hook landed precisely on the side of the bat's claw, and the sharp hook scratched the fur, leaving marks on the wall, and at the same time, there were a few strands of gray-black fine hair on the tip.

"..." Dai Zhu raised his right paw, pulled the corner of his mouth, and watched Reince climb up skillfully and quickly in a funny and weird posture.

Lyons moved extremely quickly and lightly, the rope was stretched straight without making any sound due to shaking, and the location was chosen in a dead corner. When the rope and iron hook were put away, no patrolling person noticed anything abnormal.

Dai Zhu watched as Lioness slowly coiled up the rope and hung it on his waist.After the large cloak fell, it was impossible to see what kind of tools were hidden there.

"...Did Andre ever say that you are like a treasure chest?" Dai Zhu said while touching a small bald paw.

Lyons glanced at him indifferently, and jumped down: "I take it as a compliment."

The sense of smell of the vampires eased a lot of difficulty in sneaking in. Even transformed soldiers couldn't escape Dai Zhu's nose.

"Shhh, nothing will happen, and no one will show up." Dai Zhu supported the back of the head of the guard outside the dormitory, his pupils reflected the gradually absent-minded eyes of the guard.

Dai Zhu stood up, saw Lyons lingering on him for a long time, with unclear eyes, and asked, "What? Is the detective going to arrest me now?"

"No." Lyons said, "It just feels good to use."

"Hypnosis?"

"you."

Dai Zhu watched Lioness turn around gracefully, and pushed open the door of the dormitory, and instantly felt the reason why he and Andre were so good-both good at making vampires want to bite off their necks.

"Who!?" A horrified and sharp shout sounded the moment Lions entered.

Bernal opened his eyes, sat up quickly, and looked at the door warily.

"Long time no see, Your Majesty!" Dai Zhu said.

"Dai Zhu?" Bernal was stunned for two seconds, then looked at Lyons beside him, "Why are you together?"

"It's a long story." Dai Zhu pursed his lips, not wanting to explain this weird relationship.

Lyons walked to the shelf opposite the foreign bed. Apart from a few books, there was also a familiar plain vase there.Inserted inside is still a white bellflower with water droplets hanging on the petals.

Bernal followed his gaze to see the vase, his expression was dull for a moment.

"Your Majesty." Dai Zhu stood in front of Bernal, preventing him from looking at Kikyo.

"What... what?" Bernal's body tensed up with the sense of danger approaching by the senior vampire. His instinctive trembling and absent-minded pupils added to the panic.

"I'm not interested in your blood, so don't be so nervous." Dai Zhu said with some regret, "To be honest, you were more interesting when you were still a human. Now you are no different from those inferior vampires."

A sternness flashed in Bernal's eyes, but he didn't dare to do anything: "What do you want to do?"

Dai Zhu moved his nose twice, staring at Bernal's neck and chest that were exposed due to the struggle.

"Does Your Majesty like tattoos?" Dai Zhu asked.

Bernal was stunned for a moment.

Dai Zhu pointed to the space between his collarbone and shoulder and said, "Is this also there?"

Bernal reached out and rubbed frantically at the place Dai Zhu was pointing at, and lowered his head to try various angles, hoping to see his skin clearly.In a panic, he grabbed the mirror placed on the bedside table and finally saw the tattoo Dai Zhu mentioned.

"This...what...?" Bernal scratched his skin with his nails until it turned red.The tattoo didn't come off at all.

The shape of the tattoo is a small bone, the shape of a human spine, surrounded by unreadable characters.

Dai Zhu held Bernal's increasingly irritable hand, "I advise you not to be so rude, Your Majesty Bernal, otherwise you will realize something more terrifying."

"I guess since your 'resurrection', your consciousness has been unclear. Sometimes you forget something, and your mood is unstable." Dai Zhu said, and turned to look at the platycodon in Lyons' hands, "You don't remember Who put bellflower flowers in your room."

Bernal was stunned for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "He, he let it go. In my body, it's him!"

Dai Zhu let go of his hand, showing a rare look of pity to human beings: "There is no other him, Bernal. Enjoy the rest of your time while you are awake."

After finishing speaking, Dai Zhu left the dormitory with Lyons under Bernal's dumbfounded expression.

"What did you find?" Lyons asked.

"Humans may not be able to tell the difference, but vampires are very sensitive to the freshness of food." Dai Zhu said, "The one who lives in the dormitory is a corpse that has been dead for a long time. If Bernal is chasing the spell, he will Will scratch my own skin and watch my body rot."

"Charm?"

"Puppet Art." Dai Zhu said, "A very ancient technique. It can manipulate corpses. As long as it relies on the spell seal and medium, the caster can precisely control the puppet even from a distance."

Lyons looked down at the platycodon flower in his hand: "Can the puppet technique make the puppet respond or behave accordingly to certain things?"

Dai Zhu nodded: "What you said is the simplest puppet technique. Gavin uses this simplest puppet technique because of his physical decline. Different media mean different behaviors, and this platycodon should be one of the media."

"He knows about Kikyo." Lioness murmured.

"What?" Dai Zhu looked at the blooming bellflowers, "Does this have any meaning?"

Lyons shook his head, and casually threw the lisianthus flowers in the empty garden: "There is nothing."