Chapter 33: The Maid
After closing the notification from Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao felt a bit dazed. He could actually notify Councilor Jones of the eye room's location.
Was Councilor Jones on the Ghost Ring's side? Unlikely. Perhaps it involved political issues. Clearly, this crybaby councilor had no small ambition.
After weighing the pros and cons, Su Xiao decided to inform Harold of the eye room's location. After all, he had cooperated with that old schemer several times before, and he might still need the authority in the other's hands in the future.
Half an hour later, the red-haired man who often followed Harold arrived.
"Leave this to me. I swear on my life, there won't be any problems."
The red-haired man spoke. The fact that this guy was still alive after handling the matter of Harold's wife showed his importance in Harold's heart.
[Hunter has informed Monarch Harold of the location of Eye Room (Seven). You have obtained 3% World Source.]
[Promotion Mission Sixteen: Eye Rooms, completed (1/16). After finding at least five eye rooms, this mission can be completed.]
When Su Xiao walked out of the civilian house, it was already two in the afternoon. Given the current progress, the situation was not optimistic.
By four in the afternoon, Su Xiao still hadn't found a second eye room. However, there was a gain at the orphanages. The secret basements of nine orphanages were confirmed as former storage points for eye rooms. Furthermore, the child flow at 35 orphanages showed some abnormalities. Most of the adopted children were sent to relatively remote areas. Perhaps these young lives had already become delicacies for the Specters.
"Damn it, those bastards from the Joshua family. You should have captured Joshua Eddie back then. He died too easily."
Bonnie spoke hatefully, denouncing the evil deeds of the Joshua family.
"Unlikely. If we had captured Joshua Eddie alive, the situation would have been more complicated than you imagine. Political issues, connections, the interest chain of red ore, and so on. He might have found a way to weasel his way out. He's more troublesome than you think."
"Hmm, you're right. Learned my lesson."
Just as Su Xiao and Bonnie were talking, a falcon landed on the nearby fountain.
Snap, snap.
Su Xiao snapped his fingers twice. The falcon turned its head and flew away after a moment.
"Go find Reinhardt. During my absence, all Awakened ones will be under his command."
"Okay."
Bonnie didn't ask further. She knew some things were better left unknown.
Su Xiao, along with Bubu Wang and Amu, headed straight for the Parliament Palace. This falcon was raised by Harold. It had a habit: when someone snapped their fingers, it would turn its head to look.
The falcon being released was a secret signal. Harold had urgent business with Su Xiao, and the fewer people who knew about it, the better.
Soon, Su Xiao arrived at the Parliament Palace. Bubu Wang and Amu were arranged to have a big meal in the palace's restaurant, while Su Xiao went upstairs to see Harold.
In the backyard of the Parliament Palace, in the semi-underground storage room, on the third underground floor.
Last time, Harold's wife was only imprisoned on the second underground floor. This time, Harold led Su Xiao into the third underground floor.
Click-clack...
The sound of machinery came, followed by a rumble as a half-meter-thick metal door opened. This was a completely unventilated room, about 200 square meters, with metal walls on all sides.
"Is there any possibility we were followed?"
Harold stood at the doorway, his expression not looking good.
"Unlikely."
"That's good. This matter... don't make it public for a short time."
Su Xiao didn't speak, which was taken as tacit agreement. Harold was the first to enter the secret room.
The empty secret room only contained a wooden stretcher. Near the stretcher were two corpses. Judging by the wounds, they were clearly gunshot wounds.
Su Xiao glanced at Harold. The situation was probably more serious than he had imagined. This monarch had to personally silence people.
The wooden stretcher was crude, covered with a dirty white cloth. Dark red liquid dripped from the edges of the stretcher.
A pale blue crystal layer wrapped around Su Xiao's hand. When he lifted the white cloth, his pupils slightly contracted.
Lying on the stretcher was the corpse of Councilor Jones. His death was somewhat bizarre. His mouth was slightly open, his entire face wrinkled into a ball, and his right eyeball was crushed. The expression seemed to be one of both pleasure and pain.
Even more bizarre was that pitch-black eyeballs were embedded all over Jones's body. They didn't look forced in but as if they had originally been there.
"This was discovered an hour ago, at Jones's home. When his wife found him, he was already dead on the bed in the bedroom."
"An hour ago?"
Su Xiao tried pressing the skin of the corpse. It was already stiff. Someone would believe he had been dead for half a year.
"Is there a way to confirm Jones's cause of death? In the current situation in Zul City, only you and I know. I don't have many people I can trust. Jones was one, Leopold was another."
Harold looked at Jones's corpse without much grief, more nostalgia. Nostalgia for this frequently crying fat councilor. When the empire's finances were at their most critical, it was this "crybaby" fat councilor who held the line, fleecing a few major families like the Joshuas to weather that financial crisis.
"I'll give it a try."
"Alright, be careful. Jones is dead; you can't die too."
Harold turned and walked out of the secret room. He knew Su Xiao had many secrets, but he didn't want to delve into them. He only believed what he saw. This Legion Commander had beaten the Ghost Ring organization until they cried for their parents, with hundreds of Specters dying at his hands in just a few days. That was enough.
Inside the secret room, Su Xiao crouched in front of Councilor Jones's corpse. Energy threads emerged from his hand. These threads were pure white, seemingly piercing through space, extending to an unknown place. This was a temporary ability Su Xiao gained after becoming a Legion Commander: Death Retrospection, usable only three times.
Effect: When a biological corpse has been dead for no more than 48 hours, you can trace back the death process of this corpse (the retrospection process lasts five minutes).
White light flashed before Su Xiao's eyes, and in the next moment, the scene changed drastically. He saw a somewhat dimly lit bedroom, luxuriously decorated, with the curtains drawn tightly.
Councilor Jones was resting on the bed. The bedroom door was gently pushed open, and a young girl in a maid outfit entered the room. She lightly closed the door behind her and began to undress piece by piece. When she reached the bedside, she was completely naked.
The maid slowly climbed onto the bed. She stuck out her tongue and licked her lips. It was a long, slender tongue.
She crawled on top of Councilor Jones, lowered her head, and kissed him. Jones's brow gradually furrowed. In the next moment, his eyes suddenly snapped open.
"Ugh..."
Jones's body convulsed, as if trying to push the maid off, but he was completely weak. The struggle grew weaker and weaker. A young girl forcefully kissing an old councilor—the scene was very erotic. But in the next moment—
With a tearing sound, a tongue at least half a meter long was pulled out of Jones's mouth, bringing with it strands of saliva.
Jones slowly sat up. His gaze was somewhat dazed. At that moment, a golden imprint appeared on Jones's neck. His eyes quickly cleared.
"It's the Immortal..."
Jones seemed to realize the situation. He pressed one hand on the golden imprint on his neck and used the other to claw at his right eye.
The maid was a bit stunned, unclear about what was happening. But she was only stunned for a moment before immediately pouncing on Jones, intending to stop his actions.
The maid's hand had just grabbed Jones's wrist when—ssss—green smoke rose. The maid immediately let go and backed away repeatedly. Judging by her trembling body, she was barely holding back from screaming.
"You... don't even think about it. As long as Harold and I... are here, you... don't even think about it."
Pfft!
Jones crushed his own right eyeball. The maid's hand froze in midair, her expression growing uglier by the second.
Jones rapidly lost his vital signs. Pitch-black eyeballs began to emerge all over his body.
The scene ended there. Su Xiao's vision returned. He was still in that secret room.
"Councilor Leopold."
Su Xiao muttered softly before quickly walking out of the room. As soon as he opened the iron door, Harold was approaching.
"Councilor Leopold..."
"Leopold, he..."
Su Xiao and Harold spoke almost simultaneously, then fell silent at the same time. There was no need to continue. Leopold had also been killed.
Although Jones and Leopold were both politicians and lifelong rivals, on one matter, their actions were strikingly consistent: they would never betray the empire.