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Therefore, when she saw Karasuma Ying on that flight, Mary was delighted, because the appearance of this child almost confirmed all her previous speculations.
But what Mary didn't expect was that just when she didn't look at Wu Wanying for a while, the child disappeared?
Such a small negligence could be caught, does this mean that he has always been by her side?
Detectives, maids, officers, nobles... Mary's eyes swept through the banquet hall again, and the expression on her face was extremely gloomy.
Who could you be?
"beep--"
At this moment, a long alarm suddenly sounded in the annex.
On the other hand, not long ago, after Uramaru Ying learned from Belinda that the dungeon of the royal palace had previously imprisoned an Asian assassin named Shirakawa, she immediately decided to go and take a look in the dungeon.
Of course, they couldn't go in openly. After all, the soldier named Hans had reminded them before that the kingdom's dungeon was not open to the public and the consequences of trespassing would be serious.
So Karasuma Ying decided to sneak in.
And her luck was pretty good. When she quietly arrived in front of the dungeon castle, she happened to see the guard officers headed by Birun arguing with the kingdom police headed by Barry in front of the dungeon gate.
The two sides were arguing heatedly, speaking back and forth very intensely, but because they seemed to be speaking Andronic, Wu Wanying couldn't understand a word.
She only saw the red-faced and thick-necked Birun waving the cane in his hand and shouting something at the one-eyed Barry in front of him, while Barry had a gloomy face and one hand was on the pistol at his waist.
It seems that the relationship between these two people is indeed not very good.
Finally, after a few minutes of arguing, Commander Barry gave in. He put down his hand that was holding the pistol, raised his hand and waved, calling on the other policemen behind him to leave, including the guards guarding the dungeon door.
Birun was very proud. He raised his hand to adjust his suit tie on his chest, said a few words to the guard officers behind him, and then walked into the dungeon alone.
These officers also had smug expressions on their faces. After Birun entered the dungeon, they smiled and said something to each other, then walked towards the annex together, arm in arm.
In this way, the gate of the palace dungeon was left unattended for a short period of time.
He immediately realized that the opportunity had come, and after these officers walked away, Wu Wanying quickly sneaked into the dungeon through the gate.
Perhaps because this dungeon was converted from a castle, the environment inside the dungeon is somewhat different from what Karasuma Ying had expected.
As soon as I entered, I found that the space inside was very large, like the hall in a castle, with several corridors connected to it, leading to different directions inside the dungeon.
The air was filled with the pungent smell of dust and the odor of decaying buildings. Wu Wanying looked at the passages around her and was at a loss for a moment.
There were no such thing as road signs in this dungeon, so she had no idea where to go.
And she didn't have enough time to walk through them one by one, because Barry and others who had left earlier might come back at any time, and she didn't know if there were any secret passages in the dungeon. If she was accidentally blocked in here, it would not be so easy to get out...
Must be quick...
With his mind working rapidly, Wu Wanying ran to the entrances of each corridor, lay on the ground, and quickly and carefully observed the conditions at these corridor entrances.
Both Birun's villa and the dungeon of the castle were located in relatively remote areas of the palace, with a dense artificial forest nearby.
At least there was a stone pavement in front of Birun's villa, but the dungeon of this castle was completely a dirt road.
Therefore, people who enter the dungeon from the main gate will have some traces of mud on their feet. If a little bit of mud accumulates, if it is a place in the dungeon that people often walk on, there will be some traces of mud left there.
Wu Wanying thought, there shouldn't be anyone who would be so bored as to come and clean this dungeon?
And this is indeed the case. Among the corridors around the entrances, less than half of the corridor floor tiles have traces of mud.
As for the remaining half, there were almost no traces at all. Even some of the corridor entrances had begun to accumulate dust, and a light wipe with the hand would leave a mark. It was obvious that no one had walked there for a long time.
In this way, the targets she needed to search were reduced by half, but this was the best she could do. From then on, she could only rely on luck.
Karasuma Ying randomly picked a corridor with traces of mud and walked quickly forward, sticking to the wall.
There were no windows facing the outside on this corridor, but fortunately the dungeon had electricity. Thin electric wires were hung on the walls on both sides, lighting up orange lights, so the road could be seen clearly.
The shadow behind him was constantly stretched and shrunk by the light. Wu Wanying walked quietly along the corridor and saw many empty and abandoned rooms along the way.
These rooms did not look like prison cells, they had normal doors. Wu Wanying opened a few of them and took a look. They were empty and there was nothing inside. They looked like vacant rooms that had not been used yet.
After closing the door gently, Wu Wanying wanted to move on, but at this moment, a deafening alarm suddenly sounded in the castle.
"beep--"
The long alarm sounded continuously along the corridor throughout the castle. The broadcast also contained Andrew's language, which Karasuma Ying could not understand. The voice seemed to be saying something in a hurried tone.
What is going on?
Confused, Karasuma Ying thought she was exposed at first, but she quickly calmed down.
Impossible, she had no reason to be exposed, so the alarm should have nothing to do with her. It was probably because something big happened in the palace...
We must hurry up.
Thinking of this, Wu Wanying just took two steps forward and felt something suddenly pressing against the back of her head.
Chapter 200 The old man has no moral principles
"beep--"
The deafening alarm echoed in the corridor of the dungeon. Karasuma Ying kept moving forward, and all the hairs on his body stood up at this moment.
Something hard pressed against the back of her head. Feeling the cold touch, she almost knew what it was without even having to think.
It's a gun.
"A little bit."
The person behind her spoke a language she couldn't understand, but at this moment, even if she didn't understand, she knew what she should do.
Slowly raising his hands, Wu Wanying straightened his body, then tentatively turned around and looked at the person behind him.
It's Barry.
The man who suddenly appeared behind her and pointed a gun at her was none other than the one-eyed Barry, the highest commander of the kingdom's police, whom she had met twice before.
Looking at Barry in front of him, Wu Wanying showed a very surprised expression on his face.
[When? When did he come back? ]
Before turning around, Karasuma Ying thought that the person appearing behind her would be the guard in the dungeon, or even Birun who had noticed her whereabouts.
But she never expected that it would be Barry?
Didn't this man leave with the Kingdom police before? How come he came back so soon?
"Are you... Commander Barry?" Uramaru Ying raised her hands, looked at Barry who was pointing a gun at her forehead, and asked tentatively.
She spoke in English, but Barry did not respond. With a stern face, he pointed at Karasuma Ying with one hand, gestured to the corridor behind him with the other hand, and said something, probably in Andrews.
Well, it seems that this old police officer can only speak Andronic, and the two of them can't communicate at all, let alone get information from each other.
After confirming this, Karasuma Ying sighed softly, continued with his hands raised, and walked behind Barry.
Although they couldn't communicate normally, she still understood Barry's actions just now. He probably wanted her to go back.
And just as she had guessed, Barry didn't say anything after seeing her actions. He just took two steps back to distance themselves from each other, with the gun still pointed at her head.
If things continued to develop in this way, Barry would probably want to take her with him all the way and lock her up in a cell in this dungeon.
This is not possible...
As for going to jail, she had to wait until she had a clear understanding of the situation in this dungeon and found the assassin named Baihe before she could consider it...
So, without much hesitation, Wu Wanying made a decision in his heart.
Sorry, old officer.
With his head slightly tilted forward to avoid the muzzle of Barry's pistol, Wu Wanying suddenly jumped forward, grabbed Barry's right wrist holding the gun with both hands at an extremely fast speed and twisted it hard.
"Well."
The severe pain in his arm caused Barry to groan, but his wrist did not loosen as Karasuma Ying had expected, and he still held the pistol tightly in his hand.
[Really hard]
The surprise attack failed, but Karasuma Ying did not let go. Instead, he continued to pull Barry's right arm hard, trying to destroy Barry's center of gravity.
Barry immediately stepped forward with his right leg to stabilize his balance, and raised his left hand to grab Wuhuan Ying's shoulder. Wuhuan Ying, who was prepared, quickly bent down and turned sideways, changing his steps quickly, and while avoiding Barry's attack, he grabbed Barry's right arm with both hands and twisted it again.
The amplitude of this circle of twisting was very large, and Barry finally couldn't help but let go of the pistol in his hand due to the severe pain. And without his pistol, Wu Wanying, who was eliminated as the biggest threat, no longer fought with him in close combat.
She quickly stepped back to create some distance, and when Barry was unable to counterattack, she stepped on the wall of the corridor to gain momentum and then knocked Barry down with a heavy knee strike.
"call……"
The movements were smooth and flowing, and Wu Wanying breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at Barry, who was lying on the floor motionless, with a hint of apology in her eyes.
Beating an elderly person is a very immoral act, but she had no choice because she had things she had to investigate.
Of course, she knew when to strike. The two blows she just struck would at most make the old man unconscious, but would not put his life in danger.
After apologizing, Karasuma Ying stuffed the gun back under Barry and turned around to continue the investigation.
"Bah!"
Then at this moment, a gunshot suddenly sounded behind her, and a bullet passed by her, leaving a bullet hole of medium size on the wall next to her.
Her pupils suddenly shrank, and Wu Wanying turned around in disbelief, and saw that Barry, who was supposed to have fainted, had stood up again, holding the pistol that she had just put back in his hand, and aiming at her again.
Didn't you faint?!
Being looked at with such an unbelievable look by Karasuma Ying, the unsportsmanlike Barry did not feel embarrassed at all. He still had a stern face and pointed forward with the muzzle of the gun expressionlessly. His meaning was very clear.
After looking at him deeply, Karasuma Ying opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she said nothing. She raised her hands and continued walking forward as Barry said.
Having experienced being knocked down by Wu Wanying just now, Barry deliberately increased the distance between them this time. While maintaining enough space for reaction, the pistol in his hand was always aimed at Wu Wanying's back, obviously not intending to give her another chance to sneak attack.
At this distance, even if Karasuma Ying could dodge the first shot, Barry would have enough time to fire the second or even the third shot.
In addition, the corridor was small, and in this environment where one could hit a target with a high probability even if one shot with one's eyes closed, it was almost impossible to successfully launch a sneak attack and counterattack like before...
Just like that, without any suspense, Karasuma Ying was threatened by Barry with a pistol and slowly walked to a cell deep in the corridor.
This is a large cell, which houses more than a dozen prisoners with sallow faces and weak wills.
These prisoners had dull eyes and blank expressions, looking as if they had suffered inhuman torture.
Barry looked at them, and a hint of pain flashed across his originally indifferent eyes.
But in just a moment, the strange look disappeared. He used the key to open the door of the cell, motioned for Wu Wanying to go in, and then locked the door.
After that, he did not leave immediately. Instead, he made a phone call using the landline next to the cell, and then sat in front of the cell and waited quietly.