13 Mink Street

"Oh, our little Karen is finally back. I heard from the radio goblin that you were found by Marvalho? That order is said to be the inheritor of Marchettini, who is good at making war tools and developing war techniques. knight?"

"Um."

"What business does he want with you?"

"For psychological counseling, Tai Xisen is his grandfather."

"Oh, then he really found the right person, probably not many people know that you used to work as a psychiatrist for rent.

So, did you pay the coupon? "

"No."

"Then did you give the spell scroll?"

"nor."

"It's a shame, meow!"

"hehe."

Karen reached out and rubbed Pu'er's back. The cat's back feels the best, especially since Pu'er has gained weight recently, so the feel is even better.

This cat is also, after wandering in the sea for so long, it is not thin but fat;

But this can't be said directly, otherwise it will be depressed for many days, and it will yell about skipping dinner.

"By the way, the radio goblin said, we'll go back tomorrow night, and the teleportation circle has informed us that we can teleport it back to the York City area directly."

"That's good, it saves you the hassle of transferring."

"Yes, and we paid our own expenses for this observation group trip, and we have to pay for the transfer expenses ourselves, but we will definitely not accept coupons for tomorrow night's teleportation, so earned meow!"

"Why do you care about the starting ticket?"

"Of course I have to care, otherwise I would feel so guilty drinking coffee every afternoon, and all of you live so simply."

"It's not too simple, I think my living conditions are pretty good."

"Only when everyone wastes extravagance together can I feel at ease, otherwise it will appear that I am ignorant alone."

"Okay, okay, no one will say anything about you, I'll take a shower first."

Karen went into the bathroom.

Pu'er immediately went to the bedside, looked at Kevin lying there, with doubts in his eyes:

what is the difference? Seems like nothing has changed?

Kevin's face tensed slightly, then relaxed again, and lay back down again.

Seeing this, Pu'er simply jumped out of bed, went to the door of the bathroom and shouted to the inside:

"Karen, I really want to eat fish with pickled cabbage."

"Okay, I'll make it for you when I get back."

"Okay meow!"

Pu'er ran back again, looked at Kevin, supported his body on his hind legs as much as possible, and made a paw-spreading movement.

Kevin rolled over.

"As long as you like to think about it, why are you so sensitive, but it doesn't matter, I will recognize Karen who made pickled fish for me."

Kevin rolled his eyes, it's too lazy to argue, because you can never wake up a woman who deliberately pretends to be asleep.

Karen came out after taking a shower and sat on the bed, but she couldn't sleep now, but there was no book she wanted to read beside her, so she could only lie on the back of the bed with her eyes open, recalling what happened in the past period of time in her mind .

Pu'er rested her head on Karen's arm, staring at Karen with a pair of amber cat eyes.

"What's wrong with you today?" Karen stretched out his hand and rolled up Pu'er's tail habitually.

"The radio goblin says you've changed a bit lately, have you?"

"Shouldn't I be the one to ask you, should I?"

"I don't know."

"If you don't see it, it's gone."

"Then what if it's a fake?"

"If you can keep pretending, what is the difference between it and the real thing?"

"It takes a lot of thinking, I don't care." Pu'er lay on his side with his belly up, "I'm homesick, Karen."

"Alan Manor?"

"no."

"The Funeral Society?"

"No, it's Mink Street."

A smile appeared on the corner of Karen's mouth, and he asked, "Why are you talking about this all of a sudden?"

"I don't know, I'm so afraid that everything will change." Pu'er felt that his emotions were inexplicably out of control, and immediately lay on his side, "Okay, let's stop chatting and go to sleep."

Looking at Pu'er's back, Karen shook his head.

At this time, a black crow appeared outside the window.

Karen got out of bed, opened the window, and the black crow said in an extremely hoarse voice: "The Whip of Order, be on standby!"

What kind of strange order is this?

Karen was a little puzzled, but said to Pu'er and Kevin while putting on the robe, "I'll go out for a while, it's safe here, don't run around for now."

"Okay meow."

"Wow!"

Karen walked out of the room, and saw that all his staff also put on the robes and came out, including Vic.

Everyone still doesn't know what happened, and they don't know who sent the black crow, but Vic said directly:

"Let me take a guess. It should be the Whipmaster who summoned us. The high priest has already left. The Whipkeeper will stay to deal with the two pirate families. It should be tonight."

"Then, what does it have to do with us?" Murray asked.

Vik looked at Murray with an unbelievable expression, and said, "Are you still a child of the Benda family? The whipman came with the high priest, and his bodyguard team must not have come with him. After all, the high priest How can the other people in front of you have the qualifications to talk about ostentation?

But now, there must be a guard of honor around the whipman, otherwise how monotonous it would be?

Now there is only one of us in the Whip of Order team on Fire Island. If we don't choose, who else can we choose? It would be inappropriate to draw people from other departments. "

Ashley shrugged: "So, are you really going to be a guard of honor?"

Karen said: "Everyone get dressed first, and go to see the mission initiator first. If you are a guard of honor, everyone should pay attention to the coordination of the queue and try to look as natural as possible, just like the previous security missions."

"Yes, Captain."

Karen led the people downstairs and came to the courtyard of the Bieyuan, where a veiled woman stood: "By order of the whipkeeper, your team now belongs to the whipkeeper's guard team."

Saying that, the veiled woman delivered a warrant to Karen.

Karen reached out to take the warrant. It was a flat black stone with a leather whip engraved on it. It was cold to the touch, exuding a strong order and majesty. This is not a feeling, but a genuine feeling.

If it is so generous, the warrant can be used as a valuable souvenir, and it will definitely be worth a lot of coupons if it is resold on the black market.

Karen held the warrant and saluted:

"The Karen team accepts the mission."

The veiled woman looked at Karen, and Karen looked at her.

"Where is the whipman?" Karen asked, "Are we going now?"

The veiled woman took a deep breath, opened her hands to Karen, and said, "Warrant."

Oh, isn't this a Tiger Talisman? Didn't it just give it to me like an official letter?

For a while, the atmosphere was a little awkward.

Karen put the warrant in the woman's hand, and the woman couldn't help laughing, "This is the first time I've seen the token of the whipman's warrant directly?"

"Yes, the first time."

"I hope to see you often in the future."

What the woman said is not a taunt, but a blessing. Only when the status in the Whip of Order system has reached a certain level can one often directly see the warrant of the whip holder.

"Thanks."

The veiled woman led Karen and the others to walk out. Outside the other garden, near the cliff, Foden, the whip bearer, was sitting on the ground, holding a bamboo stick in one hand and a bamboo stick in the other. A scented candle is provoking a small hole in the ground.

Everyone waited for a long time, and finally, a red Fire Island native ant was picked out by Foden.

"Marlene, bring me my collection bottle."

"Yes, the whipman." The veiled woman took out a small bottle from her clothes, squatted down beside Foden, and carefully opened the cork.

Foden put the ant in the palm of his hand first, then carefully put it into the bottle, and then dropped a sugar cube-like thing into the bottle, and told the veiled woman:

"It's a queen ant, take good care of it."

"Yes, whipman."

Karen thought to himself: It seems that the hobbies of the whipman are quite unique.

Foden stood up, threw the stick casually, patted the divine robe on himself, and went straight to the cliff without even looking at Karen and the others.

Ashley licked her lips. If the whipman likes this kind of thing, she feels that she has a common language. After all, her parents and herself are both researchers in this field, but she doesn't dare to go too much now. What to do, stand silently in the queue.

Marlene glanced at Karen, indicating that she is officially entering the task state.

Karen took the lead, and his subordinates followed the captain's rhythm and walked behind the whipman in a half-arc. Although Vic hadn't gotten along with everyone, he was well integrated, and it could be seen that he was very good at it.

Foden rubbed his neck on the edge of the cliff, and then stepped on it.

Of course Karen was not worried that the whipman would fall to his death, but the whipman who stepped down was still standing in front, but now he could only see his upper body.

Is there any platform below?

Marlene also walked up.

Karen and the others approached the edge of the cliff. When they reached the real edge, everyone's expression froze suddenly. Below the cliff was the head of a black dragon.

This huge dragon had been leaning here quietly before, accompanying the whipman to catch ants.

A faint layer of hoarfrost condensed on its body. If it was daytime, it would give the impression of a white dragon, but its skin color scales are definitely black.

Karen and others jumped down and landed on the dragon's head.

When Karen reads and understands the mythological narratives of various churches, including sorting out Mr. Hoffin’s notes, he often pays attention to the creature "dragon" subconsciously. From the picture, the dragon here does not conform to the image of "dragon" in his mind. , more like a "lizard dragon".

However, when a real frost dragon appeared in front of you so close, you no longer had the heart to ridicule its "ugliness". You could only feel in your heart that there are such huge and powerful creatures in this world.

Even Giragon, who had rioted the entire Fire Island before, seemed immature in front of it.

Moreover, this frost giant dragon is clearly here, but it has successfully blocked all its breath, which is simply unimaginable.

"Let's go, Augie."

The dragon's head moved away from the cliff, and Karen discovered that there was a small hole in the cliff, where the dragon's nose was facing before, and there was still hoarfrost and mist overflowing from the small hole.

So, when the whipman caught the ants earlier, did the giant dragon help the whipman to force the ants up with his snort?

Ashley swallowed, she felt that she and her parents should have no common language with the whipman.

On both sides, the white mist began to rise, but the surrounding temperature did not drop much, but in the process, the frost dragon had already flown up.

The huge dragon's body looks extremely vigorous in the sky, and its figure is also very stretched, and it can even be said to be extremely graceful.

After a while, Fire Island was already obliquely below, and this giant frost dragon was continuing to fly towards the sea.

But not long after, the speed of the dragon slowed down, and it began to circle in an area. Below it was a small island, which was incomparably larger than Fire Island. There was a pier on the island, and there were many pirate ships gathered around the pier. , should be the fleet of the Millis family or the Watson family.

Foden, who stood at the front with his back to everyone, raised his hand;

Marlene looked at Karen, who stepped forward and said respectfully:

"The Whipman."

Foden didn't look back, and said directly: "Choose one of your subordinates and let him go down and tell the two families on the island that if they choose to surrender now, I can allow them not to torture their souls after death."

Is this persuading you to surrender... not just punishing the leader and letting others go, but after you surrender and die, forgive your souls?

The two pirate families on the island, no, even ordinary pirates probably wouldn't be able to accept such a surrender condition, right?

The man who was sent down to persuade him to surrender...

Karen said, "Yes, Whipkeeper, I will go down in person."

Hearing this, Foden bent two of his fingers and said, "However, if something happens to you, I will feel ashamed."

"The subordinates feel that the most dangerous place should be visited by the captain himself," Karen said.

"I don't want my cup of tea to be spilled in vain." Foden waved his hand, "Forget it, there's no need to go down to persuade you to surrender."

Karen didn't speak, and stood by the side. When he was next to the high priest, the whipman's personal aura was covered up. Now facing him alone, he can clearly perceive what the true leader of the Cult of Kosmos' supervision department is. power.

His previous order seemed to be just to satisfy his own "fun" and "hobby". Of course, it might also be a temptation to himself?

Forget it, don't think about it, for such a big shot, he may have no purpose, but in the end he is just doing blind analysis.

"well."

Foden yawned and stamped his feet,

Said: "Augie, then I will let you let go of your stomach and have a full meal later. These are souls that violate the order and need to be erased from all traces of existence. You can eat with confidence."

"Roar!"

The frost giant let out an excited dragon cry, and snowflakes fluttered in the surrounding sky.

Down below, you can vaguely see the light spots shining on the pirate ship on the sea, but they are like cigarette butts, and they go out after a while. Obviously, the pirates below must have discovered the giant dragon flying in the sky, but they don’t know. Dare to take the lead in using the magic crystal cannon to attack.

If it is a normal battle, it means that the opponent's military spirit has been slackened. After all, the power of the Cult of Order is enough to crush the courage that most pirates are proud of.

But the order given by the high priest, to be precise, was based on the punishment order given by Lord Tai Xisen to erase all traces, so there is no possibility of surrendering and living.

Foden sat down and held up two fingers. Marlene took out a cigar box from her arms and took out a cigar from it. Karen noticed that there was a book under the cigar box.

Marlene looked at Karen and motioned for Karen to help her deliver the book to the whipkeeper first.

Karen nodded, took out a cigar from inside, picked up the cigar cutter, and cut it with a "click".

Marlene blinked, but she wasn't surprised. As a normal member of the Whip of Order, it's perfectly normal not to miss any chance to get close to the whip holder.

But Marlene was indeed wrong. Karen was not Alfred. He was not used to serving people, so he took the cigar for granted and did not expect to get the book.

After the cigar was cut, Karen didn't see the blowtorch, and Marlene pointed to the black stone in Karen's humidor with her eyes.

Karen reached out to pick up the stone and injected spiritual power slightly. The stone immediately released flames, which were very hot, but Karen subconsciously wrapped his palm with the fire of order to isolate the temperature.

The end of the cigar is then delivered and lit.

Marlene didn't know whether to laugh or cry, she just held the fire stone in her hand and lit the fire, was she so desperate?

Foden noticed something, turned his head, and saw Karen lighting the fire like this, he couldn't help laughing:

"You are really creative."

Karen delivered the ordered cigar to Foden, and Foden took it, shook his head, and said, "Actually, I don't like smoking this thing, but the high priest likes this flavor."

Marlene handed the book to Foden, and Foden reached out to take it:

"The high priest likes this book, and now the author has been 'captive' by the high priest, and he is given a fixed monthly living allowance to concentrate on writing.

But I still can't read this book, I feel so boring. "

At this time, on the sea below, violent space formation fluctuations came from the east and west ends.

"Forget it, I'll give it to you. This is my gift to you, a speculator."

Karen took the book and responded:

"Thank you whipman."

Foden stood up and stretched his waist. On the east and west sides, formation ships appeared first, constructing a teleportation formation. Soon, two small fleets appeared in this sea area, but the distance was too large. Far, it is impossible to see the flag.

Foden asked, "Guess whose fleet is here?"

At this time, the most instinctive answer should be that the fleet of order is coming, but Karen immediately denied this instinctive cognition.

After a little thought, Karen answered, "Is it the fleet of the Luna Sect and the Reincarnation Sect?"

Foden smiled, looked at Karen, and said, "Don't think that being called a speculator is a kind of criticism. A mediocre person is not even qualified to speculate."

"Yes, keep your teachings in mind."

"You're right, but I'm doing this to save some costs for the Divine Cult;

Aren't those two companies now fighting fiercely in several nearby sea areas? I asked them to dispatch a small-scale fleet to come over and work together to neutralize this group of pirates, and then go home and continue fighting.

You know what is one of the most fulfilling things about being a host? "

This question was still asked by Karen.

Foden raised a finger, drew a circle in front of Karen, and continued: "If you can answer this question correctly, I will give you this cigar."

All of Foden's previous actions emerged in Karen's mind, using these details to infer Foden's inner thoughts, and then think about the answers to his questions along these lines:

After pursing his lips, Karen replied:

"When the bell is ringing, the family dog ​​will run towards you at the fastest speed."

A smile appeared on Foden's face, he did not reply whether Karen's answer was correct, but reached out and patted Karen's shoulder lightly,

road:

"After returning to York City, do something well."