Miss Witch's Forbidden Book Secret

Marshall was leading Tia out of the confessional, and was enthusiastically introducing her to the various icons in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, as well as the industry leaders she could visit in the future at Saint Laurent University, the respected and amiable professors, and the successful seniors who were willing to help her.

By the way, I told her that if she went to Silver Castle to buy holy wood, she could find her old classmate at the Royal Capital Cathedral, and help Silver Castle Royal Capital Cathedral clear out its inventory.

As they walked into a corridor, the old bishop was still enthusiastically introducing the portraits of saints from past dynasties on the wall to Tia, when they heard "bang bang bang bang" and "bang bang bang" coming from the corner.

A nun with platinum hair and a stern gaze, wearing light power armor and iron boots, came from around the corner.

The nun, who looked to be in her thirties, had a melta-alloy sword strapped to her waist. She slapped her breastplate and said, "Bishop!"

"Little Isa is here. Little Sulph, this is the Isabella I told you about..."

Tia turned her head and looked over. She recognized this Isabella. She was Vera's "aunt" when she first raised the Inverted Temple to trade with Vera.

Of course, they should have met for the second time.

It's in a nightmare.

Isabella said helplessly, "Bishop, you call Vera Little Vera and me Little Isa now. But I'm already over thirty, heading for forty. Calling me Little Isa is not appropriate in any way."

Marshall laughed and said, "Isa, you have a really bad temper. Even when you are as old as me, half buried in the ground, you still have to have a young mentality. The most terrifying thing is not the dying body, but the twilight of the soul. By the way, you are not young anymore, are you..."

"Stop! You're right."

Isabella quickly called a halt and said, "There's another missing child labor case in the Greater Harbor District, and then in the North Harbor District, the police found the remains of missing children in several abandoned factories. They suspect cultists are conducting ritual sacrifices again—after all, it wasn't that long since the last mass self-sacrifice."

Bishop Marshall's expression was slightly solemn.

I also heard, "The Anti-Suppression Bureau is short on manpower, so they pushed this matter onto us. Furthermore, the cultists are rampant in the city and we really can't ignore them. I bribed two thugs from the factory area."

“Any results?”

"Yes, but it has nothing to do with the cultists..." Isabella paused, her chest rising and falling slightly, revealing a simmering anger. "We've discovered that several factories employ child laborers doing intensive labor. These child laborers typically don't survive past the age of 16. This is common, I know, Bishop."

"But these factories refused to give them a proper funeral, no, not even a proper one! Instead, they sold the children's bodies to the snake gang in the Greater Bay Area! This is the root cause of their disappearance!"

The Snake Gang is the underground gang alliance in the Greater Bay Area. Together with the Justice Gang in the North Port Area and the Lawrence Security in the King's District of the Clock Tower Area, they are all the legacy of the "Black Fire Gang" during the Great Plague period.

The Snake Gang is the most unique of these. It's not a single gang, but rather a mafia platform and alliance comprised of dozens of other gangs and hundreds of smaller peripheral organizations. When the larger gangs struggle to handle certain tasks, they outsource them anonymously to peripheral personnel.

These outsiders are highly mobile, with no fixed residences, and they commit crimes randomly, making them difficult to prevent. Eradicating them is as difficult as cleaning a bedroom infested with cockroaches.

The remaining gangs were not very large, so they moved around very quickly.

After finally destroying a gang, the gang members will have nowhere to go and can only become peripheral members, which is like knocking over a cockroach nest, which is not worth the loss.

The old bishop also sighed deeply and said, "No wonder Roman said there are not enough people."

"Bishop! Even if the hospital needs a body, our church has a bank of bodies donated by priests over the centuries."

Isabella said indignantly, "The Snake Gang must be making deals with the cultists, otherwise they wouldn't be buying corpses for no reason! But if we end up like this, those gutter rats will definitely be cut to pieces!"

The church is not a police station. They can suppress people violently and smash them into pieces, but they really can't capture people alive and interrogate them.

The power hammer will flatten the person with one blow, so why bother asking?

——But if the enemy is the Snake Party.

Tia interrupted, "Are you sure it has something to do with the Snake Party?"

"Who is this girl?" Isabella then noticed that there was a girl behind Marshall.

Tia gave Isabella a good first impression, especially because she had a warm and wonderful aura, as if it emanated from her bones and blood, rich and intoxicating.

This is the extraordinary characteristic of "light in blood". Tia's blood will be particularly attractive to spiritual creatures. In a sense, ordinary extraordinary people are "half-finished spiritual creatures", and therefore have a weak effect on extraordinary people.

"I'm Tia Sulph. A commissioned hunter from the Suppression Bureau, and a consultant to the Newlondon Police Department."

"You are Sulf? You are so young!"

Isabella was slightly surprised and said, "I've heard your name at the police station. They said you were appointed by Roman himself and that you were very capable. I thought you were about my age—ah, sorry, I didn't mean to question your ability, Miss Sulph."

"this is nothing."

Tia's eyes sparkled as she said, "If this case is related to the Snake Gang, then maybe I can do you a favor."

Isabella said with a hint of doubt, "This is very troublesome, really troublesome. Are you sure you can really help?"

"Of course, is being the leader of a Snake gang enough?"

"Boss?!" Isabella was startled and immediately said, "That's enough, definitely enough. This kind of boss-level information is shared, and he must know the inside story of the transaction."

Tia nodded slightly and said, "I can get you a snake gang leader, but I need some help."

Isabella glanced at Bishop Marshall and nodded, "Please tell me. As long as it is within our ability, we will do our best to satisfy you."

“Actually, not much aid is needed.

"I need ten kilos of holy wood—the kind you don't have to pay for."

Volume 1: Chapter 38: Tia Solf of the Groove is still chasing me!

Isabella felt relieved to have a senior hunter from the Anti-Suppression Bureau to help her.

As for the ten kilograms of holy wood - it really wasn't much.

What’s more, there are thousands of kilograms of holy wood piled up in the church warehouse, which can never be used up!

Just give it to others as a favor.

"That's no problem at all. You can leave your address later and I'll have someone deliver it to you."

Isabella agreed immediately and asked, "As long as we can get the exact location of the leader of the snake gang, that will be enough. We can go in and capture the rest alive."

Tia said, "It depends on the situation. Let's not talk about that for now. I need to understand what this child labor case is all about."

"no problem."

Isabella immediately recounted the entire case. "This case spans a long period of time, starting three months ago and still not concluded. The missing persons are all child laborers, and some of them were from workhouses."

"Poor relief center? It's a poor place! Go!"

Tia was slightly stunned when she heard the name.

The workhouse, or "poor relief vocational training house," was a joint venture between the municipal government and some entrepreneurs. Its purpose was to "teach the poor the necessary survival skills." Children aged 14 and above in the welfare home would generally stay there for two years.

But in fact, it is just the official version of a black-hearted factory. The treatment for working here is almost the same as that of students on Earth who were packed up and sent to the factory by garbage schools.

It is called "learning skills", but in fact there is no salary at all.

But even in institutions like this where the city hall is involved, the bodies of child laborers are being stolen and sold. This is extremely outrageous.

Tia and Isabella briefly learned about the specific details of the missing child laborer case, although Tia had little experience as a police officer.

But she has criminal experience!

The good thing is to draw inferences from one instance to another. The processes of smuggling herbal mixtures and smuggling people are similar. No matter what is smuggled, there must be a source manufacturer, a transaction location, a customer, and possibly a middleman.

As long as you can figure out one of them, the rest will naturally follow.

Tia's questions, one after another, immediately made Isabella feel confused and intimidated. The two chatted until three or four in the afternoon, when Tia said goodbye and left - picking up the week's free bread and milk from the door.

It was getting late, the sun was setting, and most of the believers who had come to worship at the Cathedral of Our Lady had dispersed.

Isabella followed the old bishop and said with emotion, "This Miss Sulph is truly remarkable. Although she's a consultant, I feel she's much more professional than those idiots at the Newlondon Police Department!"

Marshall said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "She's not professional, she's just experienced. The officers in the police station aren't amateurs, they're just not paid enough."

The nun thought about it carefully and felt that this was true.

The current chief of the Grand Harbor District Police Station is the famous Sir Roman. If Miss Sulph was not experienced enough, she would not have been recruited by the famous chief.

Besides, the police salary is really pitiful...

"Oh, I forgot to ask Miss Sulph just now. Isn't the Anti-Japanese Suppression Bureau short of people? Is she going to transfer people from the police station?"

Isabella was curious.

The Snake Gang is an extremely vicious gang organization. Even if the police want to deal with it, they will suffer heavy losses. The Anti-Suppression Bureau must intervene.

But where do people come from?

The old bishop, walking in front with his cane in hand, looked up and said with amusement, "Little Sulph is experienced in this area. She wouldn't rashly call in the police and only alert the enemy and make matters worse. "

"She doesn't have a helper either—if you must say, maybe one. A kid who hasn't been formally trained yet."

"Just two people, a wife and a wife?"

Isabella was stunned when she heard that there was only one helper, and he was not a regular employee at that.

She thought Tia could directly call on the police force, but she didn't expect there were only two people in total!

Two people!

Capture the leader of a giant gang that has been entrenched in the Greater Bay Area for more than ten years?

This was definitely a gift from the past, right?

A girl who was probably only twenty years old—not even twenty years old—ran into the lair of a gangster!

She couldn't imagine what would happen next.

Isabella took a deep breath and immediately went to find Tia, who had not gone far, to stop her.

Marshall held the cane, and the copper tip of the cane struck the ground slowly and rhythmically, like an iron bell ringing in a bell tower.

Two sounds of "bang" and "bang".

Isabella was forcibly restrained as soon as she took a step forward and was not allowed to continue.

The old bishop smiled with narrowed eyes, runes flowing in his cloudy pupils. "Don't worry about her. Roman is a man who knows the importance of things. No matter how much of a scoundrel he is, he wouldn't let an underage child take such risks."

"Little Sulph is also someone who knows what's important. Even though she's still young, don't underestimate her. She won't do anything she's not sure of."

Marshall put away his cane, and in front of him stood Isabella, who wanted to argue but had her mouth sealed.

But before his eyes, there was another vision - in St. Vincent's Church, two girls were sticking to the wall, one pointing at the wall and the other placing a detonator.

Someone bold enough to kill the alchemist head-on with explosives and detonators.

But I will not be intimidated by a weak prophet.

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Soon, the bells rang from the bell tower of Notre Dame Cathedral.

On the side of the clock tower, there is a clock embedded in the wall, which is operated by a steam engine and a spring. As the bell rings, the hands point to five o'clock.

Vera had just finished class. Her church school was in the bell tower area, but very close to the cathedral.

Unlike the neighborhood middle school that Tia attends, the church school has the terrifying existence of cram schools, and classes have to be held on weekends.

After class, Vera stopped by the cathedral to attend church and visit her aunt Isabella.

Vera was now dressed completely differently from when she first met Tia, or when she sat at the stone table in her nightmare. She was wearing the church school uniform: a white long-sleeved shirt with a black vest dress that resembled a priest's robe over it.

If Vera used to be more or less like a hot-blooded idiot from the streets, now she has become a very intellectual, cute and bookish girl.

To be honest, ever since she visited the Cathedral of Notre Dame in her last nightmare, she has had a somewhat different feeling towards it.

——But this feeling did not last long.

As she turned the corner, Vera saw a familiar figure walking out of the main entrance of the cathedral.

It looks familiar, but I can't put my finger on it.

When I reached the main hall and found Aunt Isa, I asked:

"Are you talking about the guy who just left... the one with black hair?"

Isabella suddenly realized and said, "That's Tia Sulph, a new recruit from the Suppression Bureau."

It really is that guy!

Vera's pupils suddenly dizzied. She didn't expect that guy to come directly to the church.

Buhao! Could it be that she already knows my family background?! Impossible, we only met once, and I was drunk that night!

Before Vera could think about it, she saw Aunt Isa looking at the girl with disgust and said, “Don’t stand there like an idiot. Have you finished your homework?

"You should learn from others. I heard that Sulfu is only seventeen, about your age, and has good grades. I think getting a recommendation from Saint Laurent will be no problem. Look at yourself again. Don't always think about your extraordinary sequence. If you can't get into university, be careful or I will tell the bishop about your alchemy career."

Tia Sulph of Grooves is still chasing me!

"Sorry, Auntie, I have to go home early!"