Keeper Program

"Can't I be a normal person?" Ed raised his eyebrows.

"Normal person? Then I'm afraid you should go across the street."

He smiled presumptuously, and the cream and powder on his face fell all over the floor.

"Okay, no matter what, you are still welcome to join the gang. I hope you can live longer, so that everyone can remember your code name."

The man grabbed Ed's palm, patted him on the shoulder, turned his head and said to Eaton:

"What's next, detective?"

"I think it is still necessary to ask other people's opinions and inform all team members to come to the conference room for a meeting."

Eaton still had that calm and peaceful demeanor.He pondered for a moment, then added:

"Ed will follow along, and get to know everyone by the way."

"Ah."

"Then let's go, buddy." Bai Ya suddenly leaned over that over-painted face, and said mysteriously, "Be careful not to be scared."

Scared?How scary can it be?

Ed didn't take this to heart.Since the subway massacre, I have seen ghouls, rats, werewolves, and evil spirits. Could the investigators of the God Investigative Bureau be more terrifying than these things?

The hallway was narrow and damp, and the wooden siding had begun to swell and warp.Judging from the layout of the bar and corridors in the lobby, it seems that this place was not specially built for the agents.

"This used to be an inn?"

"That's right, until the city government built a mental hospital across the street. As for why it was deserted... There was a rumor that a lunatic escaped from across the street one day and claimed to be the deputy director of the Patent Office: Shop Everyone in it has a head, violating his patent."

Bai Ya gave a smirk sneer, there is no need to continue the story after telling this point:

"We people are not afraid of bad luck anyway. It is rare to say that there are more unlucky people than investigators in the world. If there is, it is the investigator of Team Dong."

"That's not enough... By the way, isn't the special operations team a battle order? Why is the official title of the members 'investigators'?"

"Who knows?" The other party shrugged, "Maybe it's the tradition of Lyria - we still call the place that only accepts noble students a 'public school'. Well, it's easy to go up three floors from this staircase. There are people living here, I will leave this side to you, and I will inform the people on the other side."

Seeing Ed nodded in agreement, 'Bai Ya' left him and went to the other side.Standing at the door of the first room, with a note with the agent code on it——

'anvil'.

Well...how scary can it be?

With his toes lightly tapping the ground, he rubbed his palms, cleared his throat, and imagined himself as a salesman.

Dong dong dong, with three knocks on the door, the door of the room opened with a "bang".A strong man with a height of two meters stood at the door, condescendingly and glaring at him.

"Hello, Mr. Anvil. Eaton and Baiya invite you to the meeting room downstairs." Ed was polite.

Blonde hair with long braids and beard, typical appearance of northerners.Although it looks a bit fierce, it doesn't seem to be that...

"Are you the new one?"

"Yes, I am studying the secret text of "Puppet". I don't have my own code name yet. If you want, you can call me——"

Suddenly, someone grabbed his collar, and he was almost lifted from the ground:

"You smell like a cat."

"Uh... what is this, some kind of confession?"

Ed smiled and raised his hands to his shoulders, signaling that he was harmless.

He didn't want to fight with someone on the first day of work, let alone when he couldn't fight.

"I hate cats, especially black cats with three legs."

The other party ignored Ed's humor, he glanced at Ed's cane, and threatened in his characteristic, northern accented lingua franca:

"We have such a cat in our hometown, and I built it into the wall later. You don't want to be like that, huh? This place is not suitable for you, where you come and go."

Just as he was thinking about how to return this sentence, a flying knife flew between the bridges of their noses and pierced into the opened door of the room. The handle was decorated with ivory and abalone shells.

"Want to fight, big man? I'm always available."

A familiar cold voice came from the end of the stairs. Quinn's left eye was still bandaged, and only the lower half of his right eye was exposed.

But even so, the arrogance of the anvil subsided immediately:

"Ah... Quinn, that's not what I meant—"

His hand loosened Ed's tie, and it dangled in front of his knees, looking like he wanted to defend himself.It's just that Quinn ignored him:

"I told you to go to a meeting, you shouldn't be deaf."

She pulled the butterfly wing jackknife out of the door, pushed the anvil with the other hand, and drove him downstairs, then turned to Ed and asked:

"Is the sissy calling you here?"

The sissy was obviously talking about 'Bai Ya'.Ed nodded, only to see Quinn sigh helplessly:

"That's wicked enough. Just wait, there's always someone to look at."

She kicked back and kicked the door of the anvil, and went downstairs angrily.

Don't go, you're introducing me... Ed feels like crying.

Of course, he also knew in his heart that if he relied on Quinn to stand up for him, it would only make everyone look down on him even more.

For the next few people, I still have to visit them in person.

With trepidation, he knocked on the door of the second detective's room.The code name is also marked on the front of the door——

'Sea Monster'.

There was a strong fishy smell coming from the crack of the door, combined with the name Sea Monster, was it a fisherman or a sailor?

"Excuse me, is anyone there?" He decided to be more cautious this time.

"Come in, the door is unlocked."

There was an almost grunt sound from inside the door, as if someone was speaking to him underwater.

After getting the other party's permission, Ed gently opened the door.The scene in front of him startled him——

I saw that there was no bed in the room, but a huge tin bathtub instead.

At the bottom of the bathtub, there was a monster with scales all over its body, its eyeballs were protruding, and the gill sacs on its neck opened and closed in the water.It can only be vaguely distinguished from the remaining appearance that this was once a human male.