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Chapter 3859 Alfred Intelligence Collection
Chapter 3859 Alfred Intelligence Collection
"Five years ago again..." Lizzie muttered, "Five years ago was really a turbulent time."
After sighing, Lizzie continued, "The Fashion Guild has quite a lot of information about Alfred. What do you want to know, sir? I'll help you search."
As Lizzie spoke, she raised her wrist and tapped her watch.
A holographic projection appeared in front of her.
She quickly clicked on a "loading" icon, and a long text message appeared.
This was the person her assistant had found out about the former noble knight from the Fashion Guild and sent to Lizzie through the communicator.
"No need to search. Just turn the page when I tell you to. I can see it."
Lizzie looked at the holographic projection in front of her, then looked around the empty office, pursed her lips and nodded gently, "Okay."
Next, Lizzie began to turn the pages slowly according to Ingres's rhythm.
All the information was imprinted in Ingres's eyes.
These materials not only include the intelligence of the former noble knight Alfred, but also his life trajectory, friendship status, and even mark which of his friends are "exploitable", "can be seduced", and "easy to rebel"... If they had plans against Alfred at the time, it would have been difficult for Alfred to escape with this information.
In addition to text materials, there are also picture materials, and Ingres also saw what Alfred looked like.
A middle-aged and elegant uncle who looks very decent.
It is really hard to imagine that under such a decent appearance, there is a heart that pursues a girl idol.
About two minutes later, Lizzie had finished reading the information. "That's roughly the situation... Is there anything else you want to check, sir?"
Angel had actually recorded all the information, but after hesitating for a moment, he said to Liz, "Turn to the first two pages... yes, the third page from the bottom."
"Look at the third paragraph of this page. It mentions a child. Do you have any information about this child?"
Lizzie locked onto the corresponding paragraph according to Ingres' description.
She took a quick look.
This page records what happened five years ago, which is also what happened before Alfred's intelligence was about to stop updating. In Angel's words, it was some of the things that happened before he disappeared.
The "child" mentioned in the information is the child who caused the destruction of the Asia Circus and was also the source of Sisley's concern for many years.
Likewise, he is also the "culprit" behind Alfred's disappearance.
"This kid..." After Lizzie finished reading, a complicated look flashed in her eyes: "I didn't expect Alfred to be related to 'it'."
"It?" There was a flash of doubt in Angel's eyes.
In the spoken language of Modern City, the third-person expressions for different situations are also different. "He" and "she" represent men and women respectively, "it" refers to all non-humans, including animals, monsters, demons... and "He" refers to gods.
Lizzie used "it" to refer to the child. In other words, in her cognition, this child is "non-human"?
Lizzie: "It looks like a human child, and it is a human child after inspection, but in our guild's definition, it is a non-human. After all, it came from the dark corner. In our guild's dark corner records, no one can come out of the dark corner. All who come out are fashion monsters..."
"So, it may just look like a child on the outside, but who knows what it is on the inside."
Angel did not comment on Lizzie's words. He had learned from Abigail before that it was indeed difficult for humans to return to the real world from the dark corners, but it was not absolute. Some humans who were extremely lucky or who were doing well in the dark corners could find the "door" to return to the real world.
And that "child" may belong to this category.
"From what you said, you have some knowledge about it?" Angel asked curiously, because in Alfred's information, the existence of the child was only mentioned casually without details. But Lizzie knew that the child came from a dark corner at a glance, from which it can be known that Lizzie should know the child's information.
As expected, Lizzie nodded: "Of course I know. At the beginning, the higher-ups asked all the free magicians to go out just to catch this kid."
"But, in the end, they didn't catch him..."
Lizzie paused and began to talk about the information she knew about the child.
"This child is called 'The Shrinker' in the guild because he first appeared in a corner. At the same time, according to the records of the Dark Round Table, when the Shrinker disappeared, he also disappeared in a corner..."
"The Shrinker was first discovered by the Dark Round Table, and then we arranged for spies inside the Dark Round Table to pass on intelligence about him to the guild. Then, we began to hunt down the Shrinker... Unfortunately, the hunt failed and he was taken away by the current Noble Knight."
"But according to the intelligence from the unexposed spies, the shrink disappeared into a corner in front of everyone and has not appeared since then..."
"Although the Shrinking Horn has disappeared, many people have seen it, and based on this information, we have classified it as an "inconclusive one."
Lizzie paused when she said this: "For now, this is all the information we have about it."
In Angel's opinion, this information should be relatively detailed, especially when compared with the information he got from Bonette, which is basically consistent.
"Did you destroy a circus when you were hunting down the kid... the Shrinker?"
Lizzie: "Sir, are you talking about the Asia Circus?"
Angel nodded: "Yes."
Lizzie was silent for a moment. "It was the era of espionage at the time, and the hawks in the guild dominated. They believed that the information about the shrinking horns must not be leaked, and anyone who had contact with the shrinking horns should be dealt with seriously."
"If there are people who are shielding this child, they may even be executed immediately. It is said that the Asia Circus shielded this child..."
"However, there are actually quite a few moderates within the guild. With their obstruction, some members of the Asia Circus still survived, including their leader Sisley."
According to Lizzie's story, the hawks had always wanted to kill Sisley, but due to the obstruction of the moderates, Sisley finally survived.
Sisley himself didn't know this.
However, it doesn't really matter whether he knows or not. Even if he knew, Sisley would not be grateful to the Fashion Guild.
Angel: "You just said that the child was identified as "undecided" by your group. What does that mean?"
Lizzie: "It literally means that we cannot know its identity for sure, so it is classified as "inconclusive"."
According to Lizzie's narration, the Fashion Guild actually has some understanding of dark corners.
They roughly divided the life forms in the dark corners into four categories: humans, monsters, entities, and indeterminate ones.
This is just a rough division. Each type has more detailed divisions. For example, humans are also divided into: wanderers, cleaners, investigators... and so on, but these are not important for the time being.
In short, these four categories are a rough division of dark corner life forms.
There is no need to explain the words "humans" and "monsters", they are literal meanings. "Monsters" refers to fashion monsters.
Entities refer to some special individuals in the Dark Corner. Some of them are native to the Dark Corner, while others are transformed from other creatures.
They are scattered in dark corners, and most of them are malicious towards humans. Their strengths vary, but even the weakest entities have some special abilities, and it is difficult for humans to defeat them.
The inconclusive ones are a little bit special. The first three categories are actually divided in this way even within the Dark Corner. The inconclusive ones are a classification created by the Fashion Guild itself, referring to individuals with no confirmed identity. They may be human, physical, or pseudo-humans possessed by monsters...
Those who shrink their angles are those whose identities cannot be defined.
Lizzie: "If the Shrinker was caught by the Fashion Guild at that time, and then we were allowed to conduct a period of investigation to determine his identity, then the Shrinker's 'inconclusive' identity would be eliminated and it would be redefined."
But unfortunately, they didn't catch the shrink.
The Shrinkers were eventually captured by the Dark Round Table, but they did not believe the Dark Round Table's data, so they defined the Shrinkers as "inconclusive".
After listening to Lizzie's story, Ingres roughly understood.
If we use dungeon terminology, demons are equivalent to monsters in the game, entities are equivalent to NPCs in the game, and humans are equivalent to players.
As for the "indeterminate person", he is a character of unknown identity and could be any of them.
Of course, this understanding may be slightly biased, but Ingres personally thinks it is pretty much the same...
……
Inside Qingshuiqu Villa.
After disconnecting from Lizzie, Angel sat back on the sofa and waved his hand. A book of about thirty pages appeared in front of him.
This book contains not only a large amount of text, but also various illustrations.
The illustrations show Alfred's appearance at different stages of his life.
There is no doubt that this book is the "Alfred Intelligence Collection" that Angel created using illusion based on the information that Lizzie had searched for before.
It contains all the opinions of the Fashion Guild on the former Noble Knight.
At the same time, it also objectively records the first half of Alfred's life from a third-party perspective.
If we put aside our stance and prejudice, this can actually be called an "autobiography".
Ingres turned the pages of the book and read them one by one.
When he was recording the intelligence before, he had actually read it once, but he just glanced over it hastily and did not take into account many details.
Now that there is nothing to do for the time being, I naturally have to take a closer look.
Although he said he was checking it carefully, Angel's speed of flipping through the pages was still very fast, taking almost ten to twenty seconds to read a page. In less than ten minutes, he had finished reading the intelligence collection.
The first half of this intelligence collection can be basically ignored, because it is all about Alfred's first half of life. That is, things that happened before he left the Seven Knights, which probably has nothing to do with his disappearance.
Angel's main focus is on the second half, especially the part about five years ago. What did Alfred do before he disappeared? Also, what friends did he meet before he disappeared?
Because according to the description in the side quest "The Disappearing Knight", Alfred must have gone to the dark corner.
Before he went to the dark corner, he sent a letter to his good friend. Without mentioning the various greetings in the letter, at the end of the letter, Alfred clearly mentioned: I will be going on a long journey in the near future, and my return date is uncertain, so don't worry.
From this, it can be determined that Alfred's departure was planned, rather than a "sudden" disappearance.
Since he didn't disappear "suddenly", the people of the Dark Round Table thought that Alfred didn't go to the Dark Corner. After all, the entrance to the Dark Corner appeared without any signs, leaving no time for you to write a letter.
However, Angel has confirmed through the information from Wonderland that Alfred went to the Dark Corner, so the letter he left to his friend is quite interesting.
Because this means that Alfred knew he would go to the dark corner before he left.
How did he know where the entrance to the dark corner opened?
Has he figured out the rules for opening the dark corner entrance?
If Alfred really figured out the rules for opening the dark corner entrance, then given his personality, he would probably keep a record of it.
This time, Ingres came to Qingshuiqu to find similar records or related clues.
However, there is no clue yet for this clue, but Angel personally speculates that the clue of Qingshuiqu will probably point to other people in the end.
If Alfred really figures it out, he might give this secret information to someone and have that person keep it.
Therefore, when Angel was reading "Alfred's Intelligence Collection", he also paid attention to Alfred's friends, especially those he had met before his disappearance.
"Galindo, Joyce, Pesic..." Angel remembered the names of these people and the corresponding intelligence information, and planned to use a God's perspective to investigate some of their homes later.
After writing down the friends Alfred had met before his disappearance, Angel turned to the penultimate page of the intelligence collection.
There was a passage in it that caught Ingres' attention.
"Alfred frequently comes to the surface, heading for unknown destinations."
At first glance, this sentence doesn't seem like a big deal. But you have to know that Alfred's various behaviors in the underground block were recorded clearly, even the number of times he went to the toilet every day was recorded, which was very detailed.
But isn’t it strange that when Alfred came to the surface, he went “towards the unknown” instead?
Logically speaking, the underground district is the territory of the Dark Round Table, so it is reasonable that Alfred lacked information when he was in the underground district.
On the surface, the Fashion Guild is the only dominant guild. With Alfred's arrival, the surface guild should be in full control of information.
But now, there is a clear reversal.
There is clearly something wrong here.
Perhaps someone has tampered with this information?