The surface of the city of Innocence, the third secret room of the hand of shadow.

The secret room is in absolute darkness, without a trace of light. The secret room is very large, about sixty square meters. There is no unnecessary furnishings inside the secret room, only seven high-backed seats are surrounded by a circle, which is a symbol of the hand of shadows to remove the supreme power except for the three presidents.

Inside the Hand of Shadow, everyone is called by a code name and will never reveal their real names. These code names are not taken casually, but are granted by the previous level. The lower the internal status, the more complex the code names, and the higher the status, the simpler the code names. For members of the Hand of Shadow, it is a shame to have a code name similar to a dexterous hand, or a crazy and bloodthirsty madman, and only a simple title like passionate indulgence is enough to show off.

The Shadow Hand Guild has three presidents, codenamed thorns, thieves and shadows, representing the highest achievement of the three main development routes of the thief profession. Below the president are seven captains. These seven people have the main rights of Shadow Hand, and are not subordinate to each other and are only responsible to the three presidents. The third secret room is the conference hall dedicated to the seven captains. Except for the cleaning staff, only the captain is qualified to enter, also known as the seven-person conference room. The seven chairs are written with the code names of their owners, elegance, madness, cruelty, curiosity, suspicion, enthusiasm, and indulgence. Any of the seven code names is the nightmare of intelligent creatures in the Yara continent.

"The meeting begins." It is hard to imagine that the person with the weird code name of Crazy is actually a woman, and her voice sounds gentle and calm, not like the code name she has: "I will take the turn this month, isn't it a suspicion yet?"

"Sorry, I'm late." The door of the secret room opened. There was no light in. Even the outside of the secret room was absolutely dark. Although there was no light, the top professionals in the thief profession were present. If you couldn't even walk in darkness, it would be better to find a place to hide. It would be better to save embarrass the shadow hand. Suspicion just walked leisurely to your seat in the darkness: "I've been delayed."

"Curious and elegant both went out for a mission and haven't come back yet, so only five of us participated." The meeting began with a crazy knock on the armrest of the chair. "Since you are all in one place, so I'm sorry, you should speak first as the convener of this meeting."

"I suggest." Suspicious cleared his throat and whispered: "Temporarily relieve his enthusiasm and be responsible for investigating the sacrificial incident."

"Reject." The rotating speaker said madly without thinking, mechanized: "The task is issued by the president. According to the rules, the seven-person meeting has no right to be terminated."

"Request for a re-examination." The suspicious and crazy reaction was not surprising at all, and said calmly: "According to the Shadow Code, the Seventh Party will have the power to temporarily suspend a certain task and hand it over to the President to re-weight it."

"Use the task termination right?" said madly and seriously: "A detailed explanation is allowed."

"Since three days ago, a small commotion suddenly appeared on the periphery of the underground base." Listening to the subtle differences in the voice, suspicion was turning his face to the direction of enthusiasm: "The commotion was manifested as the lingering sound of the battle continued to be transmitted back from the periphery of the base, indicating that outsiders entered the underground space. According to the intelligence team's preliminary judgment, the intruders should have entered from the entrance of the abandoned headquarters. And the day before the commotion, someone saw the two passionate and indulgent bring strangers into the location of the abandoned headquarters in the dark alley area, with unclear intentions. In summary, there are sufficient reasons to doubt. Passion and indulgent use the convenience of the mission to assist outsiders invade underground space and erode the interests of the guild. The explanation is completed."

"Apply for a replacement speech." The indulgent and charming voice finally rang.

"Enthusiastic?" said completely mechanized without any emotion in the crazy voice.

"Agree to be replaced." said enthusiastically and indifferently.

"Application for alternative speeches." Crazy, as the rotating speaker of the meeting, must remain neutral at this moment: "Time is one minute."

"This group was invited by the president after approval, and was also recognized by the president after invitation." Indulging slowly said: "This group is used as a helper to assist in investigating the evil god sacrifice incident, not outsiders."

"Apply for a speech." Suspicion remained calm.

"Approve the speech." said crazy: "The time limit is one minute."

"The president approved the support license is limited to investigating the City of Innocence. It has nothing to do with the underground base, so enthusiastic has no right to bring non-guild people in. Even if it is support." Suspicious said: "In summary, we insist on the original proposal and request the use of the right to terminate the task."

"Apply for a speech." said, rubbing his fingers gently on his lips as if nothing had happened.

"Approve the speech." said frantically: "The time limit is one minute."

"According to the investigation, the executor who suspected the exercising of the evil gods hid in the underground space." said Indulgence: "It is necessary to enter the underground space by working together to investigate, so that the group can enter without any fault."

"Both sides have explanations." After waiting for a few seconds, I found that no one applied to speak again. I lashed at the armrest of the chair and thought for a moment and said, "The explanations are possible, so the seven-person meeting cannot be determined, so I am ready to start the meeting to vote."

"The meeting begins." Crazy said, pounding on the armrest of the chair again: "Start vote."

:I object. ""I also object. "Obviously, both enthusiasm and indulgence voted against it. According to the rules of Shadow Hand, the right to terminate the task must be passed by more than half of the captains attending the meeting before it can be exercised. That is to say, if another person opposes, the right request will be lost."

"I agree." I doubted that I would agree to the request I made. Now the conference room is only crazy and cruel. Oh, Taylor.

"I agree." The first statement was the madness of being the rotating speaker. Although as the speaker, you must remain neutral, you can still express your opinions during the voting: "I also think it is inappropriate to allow outsiders to enter."

"I..." Cruel hesitated for a moment before saying, "I object."

"Voting ends." The frantically voice was not disappointed: "No authorization to use the task termination right. As the convener of the meeting, do you have any other proposals?"

"No." said suspiciously and disappointed.

"Apply for a speech." said unexpectedly.

"Approve the speech." said crazy: "The time limit is one minute."

"As the failure of suspicious proposals may lead to prejudice." Indulgence took the initiative to attack: "Apply for suspicious tasks to avoid the evil god sacrifice related tasks, which lasts for three days."

"Reasonable." Crazyly hit the armrest of the high-back chair: "Apply for approval, and the meeting will be dismissed."

"Catherine, Vivian, you two must come on, we can't delay much time." Indulgence and enthusiasm sat in their own position and remained silent, looking forward silently in their hearts.

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"Miss Catherine!" Pansy shouted in despair, watching the giant puppet's fist begin to fall toward Catherine's head. If this punch from top to bottom hit, it would not be knocked away like the previous time, but would be directly smashed into meat sauce. But Catherine, who was already seriously injured, could no longer perform any effective avoidance and defense, and even felt a little dazed. There was only a white area in front of her and she could not see anything clearly.

The sour metal friction sound from the giant puppet's arms seemed to be coming from the extremely distant horizon. This represents the friction sound of the arrival of death, and ultimately it could not recall Catherine's consciousness that was about to fall into chaos.

"Catch." The sudden voice from behind almost scared the maid sister who was already in a state of high tension. A shiny card flew out from behind the maid sister and flew in the air to the confused Catherine: "Catch it quickly."

"What a familiar voice, am I dreaming?" Catherine, who was conscious, raised her head and tried her best to control the focal length of her eyes so that she could restore her faint vision. In Catherine's chaotic mind, she no longer knew what she was doing. The card that suddenly appeared in front of her was indescribable and could not understand what it meant: "What a strange card, what is this?"

"Catch it quickly, stupid." The owner of the sudden voice was almost dying of Catherine's unconscious reaction, and shouted loudly in anger: "That's a gold coin, catch it."

"Gold coin?" Catherine's eyes lit up in confusion. Her movements, which had already become extremely slow due to serious injuries, suddenly became flexible. Her right hand, which was hanging weakly, quickly lifted up, and accurately grabbed the card that happened to fly to her: "What a strange gold coin, why is it silver? Also, whose voice is it, why can't you remember it suddenly?"

Theoretically, a small card cannot change any status quo, cannot block the hammer of the giant puppet, and cannot save Catherine's life. But miracles often happen inadvertently, such as now.

The moment Katherine held the card, the giant puppet behind her suddenly emitted a drip sound again. After the sound was over, a series of complex goblins were heard from the pronunciation device.

Attracted by the sound behind her, Catherine was confused and reluctantly turned around. Only then did she see that behind her, the giant puppet was still holding her right limb, maintaining an attacking posture of swaying fists and hammering, but the attack did not come, but stopped less than fifty centimeters above her head, maintaining this posture as time stopped at this moment.

Catherine blinked, and her brain, which was seriously injured, could no longer understand the meaning of everything in front of her. She just raised her hand curiously like a child, touched the cold fist of the giant puppet, and then smiled unknownly.
Chapter completed!