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All afternoon, Hobert was in a wonderful mood and worked with great enthusiasm, accepting interviews from a magazine and a newspaper.
During the interviews, he produced many quotable lines, often prompting the reporters to take rapid notes. The reporters were very satisfied with the interviews.
In addition to this, Hobert also researched the case he had just taken on and formulated a corresponding defense plan.
He also began processing the second batch of letters he had received, working with astonishing efficiency.
When it was ti to leave work, Hobert stretched luxuriously, picked up his cane and briefcase, and went ho.
Back in his rented apartnt, Hobert only found Fors.
Upon asking, he learned that Xio had received a contact signal from the Masked Man and had gone to the agreed eting place.
Hobert nodded, trying hard to recall. Why did he rember Xio wouldn't receive the Masked Man's commission until much later?
...
The heavy fog in Backlund blocked the sun in the sky early, and the not-so-wide street imdiately beca dim.
Xio arrived only a dozen seconds earlier than the agreed ti. The Masked Man had not yet arrived, and she crossed her arms, vigilantly observing her surroundings.
A little over a minute later, the Masked Man appeared.
Xio said, "You're late!"
"No, I arrived earlier than you," the Masked Man said. "You seem to be a 'Sheriff' now."
Xio understood what he ant. The reason he arrived early was to use the opportunity to observe her.
"Yes," Xio admitted frankly.
"I'm curious, what is your relationship with General Christian's eldest son?"
"Does this question have anything to do with the task you're going to give ?"
"No, it doesn't," the Masked Man said gently. "You may not know, but three months ago, General Christian's eldest son was very ordinary. He seems to have been very active in the last three months, as if he suddenly beca a different person."
Xio asked again, "Does this have anything to do with the task you're going to give ?"
"Still no," the Masked Man said. "Alright, let tell you about the task I'm giving you today: track Rafter Pound, here is his information."
Xio took the Masked Man's information but did not imdiately look at it. "How long do I have to track him? What is the level of danger?"
"Track him for two weeks initially, the reward is 20 pounds!" the Masked Man said. "There may be no danger, but the level of danger could also be very high."
"However, you are only responsible for tracking. If you discover any danger, you can imdiately end the mission and contact using the ergency contact thod."
Xio nodded: "Okay, I accept this task."
The Masked Man took out 10 pounds in cash: "This is the deposit. When you report the tracking results in two weeks, I will give you the other 10 pounds. If any abnormalities are discovered during the mission, the mission ends, and the reward will still be paid. Oh, right, the tracking results should preferably be in the form of a written report."
...
Hobert sat on the sofa, reading the "Backlund Evening News" he had just bought. On the second page, he found the report about the chaos at the Roselle morial exhibition this afternoon:
"...Regarding the chaos that occurred at the Roselle the Great morial exhibition, staff claid that it was a farce caused by a baronet because he could not buy a VIP ticket. It is reported that the exhibition area was not greatly affected, and order was quickly restored, and the exhibition reopened.
"So viewers claid that they saw an old man flying over their heads, and others seed to see the outlines of two large doors in the air. As expected, Roselle was full of mystery, and his morial exhibition was also full of mystery..."
Because it had just happened, the report on the incident was very short.
Hobert couldn't help but smile. It seed that the Church of Steam and Machinery planned to deal with the matter lightly and did not even plan to publicly announce the theft of the "Creative Manuscript".
Holding up the newspaper, Hobert considered that, in order to show his frankness and what he had said to Ikanser before, that he was very interested in Roselle the Great, Hobert planned to visit the exhibition in the next few days.
Fors had already prepared dinner, but Xio had not yet returned, so she could only read magazines and wait.
It wasn't until around 7:30 that Xio ca back with a file bag: "Thank goodness, there's such a delicious dinner waiting for . My stomach is almost empty."
She put down the file bag and helped Fors serve the food while saying, "You don't have to wait for ."
Hobert put down the newspaper: "If we wait until eight o'clock and you still haven't returned, we'll eat first."
All three were hungry and quickly finished their dinner, then sat around the table, chatting and drinking tea.
Xio talked about the task she had just received. She would be monitoring a baronet nad Rafter for the next period of ti and might rarely co back for dinner.
Through Xio's description, Hobert learned that Rafter had been released.
The consequences were better than Hobert had imagined. He had originally thought that Rafter would not be able to withstand the "interrogation" and would go crazy.
He believed that the Church of Steam and Machinery would also send people to monitor Rafter. For Hobert, this baronet no longer had any value. For safety's sake, he didn't plan to observe him through the stars in the future.
The next morning, Jessica went to work as usual. Hobert held a small eting to remind them of the precautions for the cases they had on hand.
After the eting, Hobert had just returned to his office when Jessica knocked on the door and ca in: "Lawyer Hobert, thank you again for the VIP tickets you gave us. My friend has prepared a gift for you."
As she spoke, she opened a small box, inside was a keychain with a golden badge, on which was drawn the symbol representing the "Eternal Blazing Sun": "This is a small thing my friend made herself, it's not much."
Hobert did not refuse: "Thank your friend for ."
Taking the keychain in his hand, he imdiately felt the warmth of the badge.
Hobert imdiately judged that a small amount of extraordinary materials from the Sun pathway had been added during the making of this keychain, giving the keychain so Beyonder characteristics of that pathway.
Although it does not have active abilities, so undead creatures will stay far away after sensing the existence of the keychain.
This was made by himself...
Hobert thought of the lady he t at the "Eye of Wisdom" gathering who was looking for the "Barbarian" potion and had contact with a wild craftsman. Could that be the combination of Jessica and Carrie?
Hobert did not expose them. He chatted with Jessica for a while. During the chat, Hobert learned from Jessica that George III had also arrived at the scene yesterday!
Hobert imdiately realized that George III was attracted by himself or rather the "Nation of Disorder". It was because George III learned of this incident that he ordered people to start monitoring Rafter again.
It is estimated that the Masked Man is just one of the forces monitoring Rafter.
Thinking of this, Hobert mourned for Rafter for three seconds, no, one second. He had finally tricked the monitors by pretending to be crazy, but he didn't expect to be monitored again.
However, this monitoring should not last long, because the process of Rafter being used as a pawn is too obvious.
Then Hobert thought that in the future, the use of the power of the "Nation of Disorder" in Backlund should be restrained. Although George III's process of becoming a god was a bit hasty, and his state must be very bad, he rembered that he seed to have used a loophole to jump directly from Sequence 5 to Sequence 1.
But with Adam's blessing, George III's current state should be very delicate, possibly more easily attracted by the power of the "Nation of Disorder" than the "King of Angels."
After talking for a while, Jessica said goodbye.
Looking at the keychain in his hand, Hobert didn't think much about it and put it in his briefcase. Although these two female Beyonders had shown enough friendliness, they were not very familiar with each other.
After a fulfilling day of work, Hobert left the office with his briefcase. He was wondering what to eat for dinner when he saw a carriage with the "Dark Sacred Emblem" blocked at the door.
Lorreta opened the door and smiled: "Ti to work!"
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