Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 41 Dream Eclipse
The empire's borders are very unsafe lately!
It was so unsafe that Ethan was called up to attend a meeting after sleeping for less than four hours. A blackboard that came from nowhere appeared in Ivy's living room, and it was covered with documents sent from Gear City. She even prepared seat cards with the code names "Alpha Wolf" and "Chicken Farmer" written on them.

But before the meeting began, Ms. Rose had to clarify one issue first.

Those beautiful eyes were filled with great confusion, "Why are you chewing hard bread again?"

Unconsciously, Ethan was almost tied to hard bread, as if he was born to hold hard bread in his hands.

"Because I came here without having breakfast...hiss? Is breakfast not allowed during the meeting?"

"Breakfast? It's almost afternoon now!"

Realizing that she had been led astray by Ethan, Ivy continued, "I didn't say that eating was not allowed during the meeting. I just asked why you only ate hard bread. How much do you like hard bread?"

Those who don't know would think that the treatment at the Ximu Town Shelter Bureau Intelligence Station is very poor, and that she, as the station chief, abuses her subordinates. If this were to be known by those who know her in the imperial capital, the Margaret family would be completely disgraced by her.

"Reporting to Ms. Qiangwei, the last time I went to the store, they were having a buy-ten-get-three-free promotion, and I bought too much!"

Fortunately, Miss Chloe was never picky about food. She was happy with anything she was fed. Ethan even observed once that she would even eat tree bark if she couldn't find food.

Ivy held her forehead with her hand. This buy ten get three free promotion was obviously a sale for hard bread that couldn't be sold. Only this guy felt like he had found a treasure.

It seems that I must invite him to my home more often to improve the food in the future.

"Early this morning, the Gear City Shelter Bureau sent us a letter asking us to temporarily suspend all investigation work and warn the residents of Riverwood Town not to leave the town easily."

"What happened again?"

Ethan's heart tightened. More major events had happened in Riverwood Town in the past few days than in the past two years. Could it be that Miss Becky and her seven old housekeepers had won the group resurrection match and were coming to film "Becky's Revenge Season 2"?
"A few days ago, investigators from the Containment Bureau witnessed the whereabouts of two members of the Dream Eclipse at the border of the Empire. They seemed to be trying to enter the Empire through a border town."

The crunching sound stopped, and Ethan, with a pale face, handed the remaining two-thirds of the bread to Miss Chloe, who accepted it without hesitation and swallowed the entire bread in one bite, stuffing her little face bulging.

"Are you talking about the Dream Eclipse?"

Ethan felt that only by adding two dots in the middle of this sentence could the seriousness of the problem be reflected.

"if not?"

Ethan knew that according to the routine, he should be lost in his memories now.

The first time he saw Dream Eclipse in the "Gryph Daily", it left a very deep impression on him. It was a murder case that happened in Gear City. The victim was the deputy director of the Shelter Bureau. He died in his mistress's house. His and his mistress' bodies were cut into 316 pieces by some sharp weapon and scattered around the crime scene.

What's worse is that the illustrations in the Daily Hippogryph are often animated, like an old black-and-white movie, allowing Ethan to witness the high-end apartment filled with blood and human tissue from a first-person perspective.

That was a case that happened not long after he traveled through time, and it left an indelible shadow on his young mind.

Since then, "Dream Eclipse" would occasionally appear in the "Gryph Daily", and each time it appeared, it was inevitably accompanied by a sensational case. All the names related to this organization were killed. Even if they hired the best local guards and strengthened the defense of the manor to the extreme, it would only result in a few or dozens of corpses at the scene.

Usually, all victims who died at the hands of Dream Eclipse died very creatively.

The crime scene is usually a scene that rarely appears even in B-level movies.

If I have to describe it, the gap between Miss Becky and Meng Eclipse is similar to that between a self-employed person and a Fortune 500 company.

Over time, enthusiastic citizens who read newspapers frequently like Ethan couldn't help but raise a question.

Why is there a group of murderers who are targeting the imperial nobles, department heads and high-ranking officials of the Church, but no one has been able to take them down?

At least in the two years he had been in Ximu Town, no member of the Dream Eclipse had ever been captured or shot dead. As a result, a rumor spread among the people.

Every member of Dream Eclipse is a saint who believes in the evil god, so wherever they go, it is like the evil god descending to the world to spread disaster.

And there were actually two evil saints like this appearing at the border of the empire at the same time?

Ethan had a bad feeling and asked tremblingly, "The police station sent us so many documents. Are they planning to ask us to deal with that group of perverted murderers?"

"Of course not. After receiving the report, the Empire is mobilizing an elite group of knights. They should be heading to the border soon. Our duty is to meet them in the town and help them understand the local situation. Now that I think about it, the witch has not taken action against Ximu Town. I'm afraid she has heard about the Dream Eclipse."

"Most likely!"

Ethan immediately agreed, "By the way, big shots like those in Dream Eclipse shouldn't embarrass ordinary people like us, right?"

"Hard to say."

"…What do you mean by hard to say? I remember that the Hippogryph Daily never published any reports about them massacring civilians."

"But they're going after the people from the containment bureau."

Ethan's expression immediately became serious. "Ms. Qiangwei, I have a plan. Should I tell you about it?"

"speak."

"Is there a way that we can withdraw from the Internment Bureau first, return to the status of ordinary residents, and then re-register at the Ximu Town Intelligence Base Station after those perverted murderers leave?"

"It's no use quitting. The Gear City Branch received a message this morning that a researcher who was fired from the headquarters a few years ago died in Hearth Bay. In fact, many former containment bureau investigators who have retired or changed careers have been assassinated."

Seeing Ethan's increasingly serious expression, she added a key piece of information, "But most of them are A-level or above investigators. I think there's something fishy about these cases, so I asked the people in the branch to send all the relevant files over. Anyway, I have nothing to do before the Wang Guojun arrives, so I can use these files to kill time."

Ivy's very obvious dark circles under her eyes said it all.

Ethan could guess with his toes that she must have been so excited after getting the file that she couldn't sleep and got up early in the morning to investigate the case.

It stands to reason that as a Class B investigator at the Ximu Town Intelligence Base Station, she has no authority to read these files, but this is Margaret's power.

"What clues did you find?"

"Three years ago, the Containment Bureau experienced a serious containment breach. In order to suppress the rioting containment objects, the former director led a team into the quarantine area and died there."

"I know about it."

The former director was the author of the "Encyclopedia of Cursed Items" and died at the age of 33.

"The former Bureau of Containment investigators targeted by Dream Eclipse are more or less related to that containment breach."

Ivy stared at the case overview posted on the blackboard and fell into deep thought.

Rather than a terrorist attack, this is more like a highly purposeful liquidation.

Liquidate those A-class investigators who survived the containment breach.

(End of this chapter)