Charlie said, “I once heard my father’s old subordinate saying that back then when my parents died, they were besieged by a group of dead soldiers. After they succeeded, all of them bit the poison in their mouths and died on the spot. The method they used is the same as that of the group of dead soldiers that we met at the stadium. Although there is a span of twenty years between the two incidents, considering the fact that the other party is an organization that has lasted for hundreds of years, I think that these two events are probably done by the same organization.”
Merlin asked curiously, “Young Master Wade, how did you know that this organization has a history of hundreds of years?”
Charlie said, “I caught someone alive and asked him to give me some information about the dead soldiers.”
With that said, Charlie then told Merlin all the information that he had gotten from 547 at that time.
Merlin was so stunned that he could not speak for a long time after hearing this.
He murmured, “For hundreds of years, many countries in this world have ceased to exist, and there have been countless global wars and disasters in the middle. The two world wars and Spanish influenza affected the whole world. In addition, Europe has fought countless wars from the Seven Years War to the Napoleonic War, the Franco-Prussian War, and then to the birth and disintegration of the Soviet Union. Asia has experienced the Opium War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the establishment of New Oskia. The United States also fought the Civil War... The entire world has been in chaos for the past two or three hundred years, and many countries and regimes have been unable to protect themselves. How did a mysterious organization survive for so many years?!”
Charlie spoke up and said, “This is also a question that I have been curious about. Not only has this organization existed for hundreds of years but its strength has continued to grow and develop in the past few hundred years. The drastic changes in the international situation you mentioned have nothing to do with it and it doesn’t seem to matter to the organization at all. This is what surprises me the most.”
With that said, Charlie looked at Merlin and said, “Your situation is quite special. All the people in this organization who have seen you are dead aside from the one whom I kept alive. Your presence at the scene that day itself was also a chance event and certainly not part of their plan. So, I believe that the organization will not focus on you for the time being. Since you have been a detective for so many years, you must be superior in tracking clues, so I hope you can help me find out the relevant clues of this organization after you return to real life.”
Merlin nodded and said without hesitation, “That is not a problem. I will do my best, regardless of whether it is to repay your life-saving grace or out of my friendship with the Acker family.”
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