Chapter 366: Night Watch Captain Mace
The undead's visits to various low-rent neighborhoods alarmed the cultists hiding in the crowd and also attracted the attention of the local gold coin church.
Mace, the operations captain of the Night Watch organization in Dutata City, raised his eyebrows when he learned that the Tarantan Undead had intervened in the local cult problem.
The Adler Territory's Night Watch headquarters was located on the East Street of Dutata City, only 80 meters away from Viscount O'Neill's Mansion. On the day when the undead raided Viscount O'Neill's Mansion, the Night Watchmen lay on the windowsill of the headquarters like ordinary people and watched the tragic scene of the fall of Viscount O'Neill's Mansion.
Viscount O'Neill's Palace was converted into a public school and adult night school open to the public. The original servants' room and stable area were converted into the city hall's public canteen. The night watchmen would also carry coins and go there to buy some Innadelli-style cooked food, which they had invested heavily in spices, as a side dish.
Captain Metz, a bachelor living in the headquarters dormitory, has a plate of sweet and sour chicken wings produced by the canteen of the City Hall Logistics Department on the table in front of him. This kind of chicken wing is a frozen product from Earth. A 300-gram portion of sweet and sour chicken wings costs 20 coppers and is very popular among the Rhine people.
"Is this news reliable?"
Captain Mace looked excitedly at the night watchman who brought back the news.
"This is a message specially sent by someone from the Ministry of Public Security. Captain, the Ministry of Public Security has previously requested the investigation files of the 'Eternal Sleepers' sect, and you said you could give them a copy." The night watchman who came to deliver the letter picked up the remaining chicken wings on Captain Mace's plate with his fingers and stuffed them into his mouth without hesitation.
Captain Mace nodded, and it was indeed he who nodded.
Except for a small amount of dangerous information that would cause chaos if made public and must be strictly controlled, the Night Watchmen possess all the other files and investigation reports, which official personnel and non-governmental organizations can apply to borrow or obtain copies of. In order to remind people to be vigilant, the Night Watchmen will also regularly disclose in newspapers the tricks and methods used by evil cults to lure sacrifices.
It’s just a pity that too many people don’t even know their own names, let alone understand a newspaper.
There are also many people who have clearly read the newspapers, but when they are intentionally contacted by cultists, they do not think that they are being deceived as sacrifices. Instead, they foolishly and blindly believe that they can get something from the cults with powerful underground forces... This leads to the fact that even though there are night watchmen in every major city to guard against and crack down on them, the cults have still revived countless times.
The churches in Adler Territory all knew about the "great achievements" of the Tarantan Undead in Innadri Territory and Moses Port, but this did not mean that the churches in Adler Territory could accept the company of the undead without any scruples - especially after the Innadri people unceremoniously stuffed an undead archon into the Dutata City Hall, the bishop of the Adler Territory diocese was so angry that he forbade anyone to have any contact with the current city hall.
Captain Mace could understand the bishop's anger, but as the captain of the Night's Watch, he hoped to quickly resolve the cult problem that had been plaguing the Adler Territory for a hundred years rather than being afraid of the black magician behind the Tarantan Undead.
So even though he knew it would upset the bishop, when the Public Security Department came to ask for information about the cult, Captain Mace still gave it to them.
"The information was taken away yesterday, and the Tarantan Undead were sent out today. It seems that the City Hall is also determined to resolve this matter as soon as possible."
Captain Mays stroked his chin and pondered for a while, then slapped his thigh vigorously and said, "The sooner the better. Let's report to His Excellency the Bishop first."
Grant, the diocesan bishop of Adler County, is a very young cardinal in white, less than thirty years old, younger than Captain Metz.
Although he was young, Grant had a bad temper... Anyway, Bishop Lee Gene of the neighboring Innadler and Bishop Cromwell of Port Moses did not get along well with Grant. Even though the three parishes were adjacent to each other, there were only a few letters between the three of them in a whole year.
Captain Mace, who knew his boss' temper well, chose to visit Bishop Grant before dinner. Bishop Grant, who was waiting for dinner, was furious and scolded the captain of the night watch...
Then he asked Captain Mays to leave before dinner was served - if he continued to see the face of this disobedient subordinate, he would lose the mood to eat.
Captain Mays, who was only reprimanded for half an hour, lost all his heavy expression as he walked out of the church. He headed to the Public Security Department with a relaxed look to inquire about the investigation.
"Tarantan Undead is investigating people who have been on leave for many days, or who are not participating in work under some excuse?"
The detectives and security guards of the Public Security Department all have an inexplicable respect and admiration for the Night Watchman. No one regards Captain Mace as an outsider, and they are especially polite in informing : "Yes, Captain Mace, the undead lady who works with Agent Stanford believes that the lured Master Rafael should have been contacted by the cultists before he disappeared, and should have been hidden by the mysterious person who contacted him after his disappearance. Considering that Master Rafael is a healthy adult male after all, it takes at least one adult man to watch over him, so it is most appropriate to start from this direction."
Captain Mace thought about it for a moment and understood the undead lady's intention. He said admiringly, "The residents who moved into the city from the slums are working hard to earn a living. Adult men who take days off from work are naturally very suspicious. This is a good way to solve the dilemma."
"Isn't it?" The detective on duty at the Public Security Division said with a smile, "The people in the block next to my house are forcing themselves to go to work even though they broke their arms. Otherwise, they will receive less meal allowance than others. How can the slum dwellers who are used to budgeting be willing to take a rest?"
Captain Mace was feeling very emotional... This method was not that surprising, but if it were the old Dutata City, such a method would never work - there were hundreds of thousands of slum residents and tens of thousands of young and middle-aged men without stable jobs, so this screening method would never work!
That is to say, the current city hall has relocated more than 200,000 people, and the remaining families have all been registered and allocated housing according to households, and arranged to live in the city, and at the same time, jobs have been provided as much as possible for those residents who remain in the city. Only then can this screening method be effective .
"Anyway, they can think of a practical way to screen out suspicious people. The Tarantan Undead are indeed not just monsters that know how to fight." With this thought in his mind, Captain Mace stood up and said goodbye.
Because the City Hall's move to evacuate the slums and relocate more than 300,000 people in one go was so shocking, even though Captain Metz himself did not know the slum dwellers who were relocated, he inquired about the resettlement policy of the City Hall out of curiosity and learned who was taking care of the nearly 20,000 slum dwellers who remained in the city - in addition to the Public Security Department, there were the Logistics Department and the Civil Affairs Department.
The Public Security Department has only recruited a few hundred militiamen. If any of them behave abnormally, they will definitely be discovered by the savvy detectives. In other words... the cultists lurking in the crowd can only be hiding in the Logistics Department or the Civil Affairs Department.
When Captain Mays arrived at the City Hall, he ran into Agent Stanford and two ghosts who were getting a list of absentee workers from the Civil Affairs Department.
"Captain Mace?!"
Agent Stanford suddenly saw the captain of the night watch come in and quickly stood up to greet him.
"Good night, agent." Captain Mace smiled and nodded to Stanford, casting an undisguised curious gaze at the two undead waiting nearby. "I just went to the Public Security Department. Are these two undead here to help investigate the cult?"
Because of the cold attitude of the local diocesan bishop Grant, the city hall had no chance to cooperate with the Night Watch, and Captain Mace naturally couldn't get the badge...so the players couldn't understand what he said.
Miaobishenghua's eyes lit up when he saw this "plot NPC" who just appeared: "Wow, I'm so handsome!"
"Are there?" He glanced at the captain of the Night Watch after giving me the medicine. "It's just so-so. Rex is more pleasing to the eye."
"Rex's model is too rough. This NPC's model should be more refined and have a more mature male feel." Miaobishenghua looked at the captain of the Night Watch with appreciation, and commented very rigorously, "Of course, the model is more refined than the pretty boy, and the screenshots are all very attractive. In the final analysis, the NPCs in this main city are not handsome, so this slightly more decent NPC looks more eye-catching."
Agent Stanford, who had his back to the two players, pretended not to understand what the two rude undead were saying and calmly asked Captain Mace about his purpose.
Upon learning that Captain Mace was interested in the method of investigating the undead, Agent Stanford took the initiative to invite Captain Mace to join him - although the agents and the Night Watchmen were not in the same system, there was a lot of cooperation between the two sides, and they were considered half colleagues and rarely excluded each other.
Suddenly, a new NPC teammate was added to the team. Miaobishenghua, who was originally quite relaxed, suddenly became alert: "Why is a teammate added now? Isn't it that the battle plot is about to start?"
He gave me medicine and said, "Then I'll call someone over now?"
Miaobishenghua urged: "Hurry up and shout, shout more, Sister Ying and Xiaotang, who are not afraid of disgusting monsters!"
Agent Stanford talked with Captain Mays about the investigation for a while, and after getting the list of people who had requested leave from the Civil Affairs Department, he left the Civil Affairs Department hall to prepare for the next step. He was shocked to see... on the abrupt earthen platform in the courtyard of the City Hall, a large number of undead appeared with bursts of white light.
"What is this--?" Captain Mace looked at Agent Stanford in shock.
Agent Stanford looked in shock at the two undead who had been his partner for the entire afternoon.
...Unfortunately, the player is not considerate enough to explain for the NPC teammates. Miaobishenghua and Give Me Medicine simply ignored the inquiring gaze of Agent Stanford and walked past them to greet the friends they had called over.
Agent Stanford was a little annoyed, but he couldn't get angry. He had to put on a straight face and racked his brains to explain to Captain Mace: "I think... maybe the undead anticipated the conflict with the cultists, so they called their companions in advance."
Captain Mace never expected that this group of undead would just treat him and Agent Stanford as insignificant "plot NPCs". He exclaimed in amazement: "They think the cultists must be on this list? It seems that these Tarantan undead are very confident."
Agent Stanford: "..."
The agent really couldn't think as highly of these undead as Captain Mace did... The more he came into contact with them, the less mysterious these guys, who were so careless with their words and actions so frivolous that they gave people a headache, seemed to be.
Sure enough, when a group of players met, they had no intention of bringing Agent Stanford and Captain Mays to play together, and just walked out - Miaobishenghua already knew the destination of the next investigation from the agent, so they could just go there in advance and wait for the NPC and that was it. There was no need to stroll slowly with the NPC!
Captain Mays, who was left behind before even leaving the city hall, looked at the agent in surprise and doubt.
Agent Stanford: "..."
Agent Stanford unconsciously crumpled the list in his hand and forced a stiff smile through gritted teeth: "The undead seem to be impatient... Let's hurry and follow them."
Captain Mace exclaimed, "Ah!" and praised again, "I didn't expect the Tarantan Undead to be so disgusted with the evil god sect. It's hard to imagine seeing such hatred of evil in dark creatures."
Agent Stanford: "..."
Just... Captain, there may be a big misunderstanding here...
