Viscount Field is really the leader of the Holy Communion Society? The Mentor Bill mentioned?
Dorothy hadn't entirely expected this point. To be honest, she wasn't very willing to believe that Viscount Field, a nobleman who genuinely engaged in charity every year, could be such a huge two-faced person.
Dorothy had indeed had suspicions about Viscount Field before, such as his practice of adopting one child each year, the secret transmission songs the children sang, and his return to Igwinte six years ago, while Clifford had once told Dorothy that he had encountered the taste he was seeking exactly six years ago.
But it wasn't until she saw Bill, who had just discovered the problem, head straight for Viscount Field's private room, that Dorothy could basically confirm that Viscount Field was likely the Holy Communion Society's Mentor.
Actually, Dorothy could have directly relied on divination a long time ago to verify the Mentor's location, but when she prepared to divine, the system prompted that the information she wanted to retrieve had shielding protection. This meant the other party also used anti-divination items composed of ""Shadow"" and ""enlightenment"" Spirituality, so Dorothy did not proceed with the divination.
Although she could forcefully perform multiple divinations and compete with the other side to see who had more divination resources, Dorothy wasn't sure if her meager foundation could win. If it couldn't, it would all be wasted. Her ""enlightenment"" could recover, but ""Lamp"" was used up little by little.
Moreover, even if she won the competition, the other party would become alert due to the consumption of divination resources because they would know they had been divined. Dorothy, not wanting to alert the enemy, thus did not initiate divination targeting the Mentor.
However, after tonight's events, Dorothy could roughly confirm it even without divination.
'It seems I need to continue the actions against the Holy Communion... But for now, I should go listen to what exactly they are discussing...'
Thinking this, Dorothy manipulated the gecko to crawl towards Field's private room. She found the gap under the door was very small, too small for the gecko she was controlling to crawl through. Just as Dorothy was about to try controlling the gecko from the private room's windowsill, the door suddenly opened again, and Bill walked out.
'Damn, is the report finished already? That fast.'
Seeing Bill leave, Dorothy didn't think much more about it. She manipulated the gecko to continue climbing to the private room's window to eavesdrop and monitor.
However, to her slight disappointment, Viscount Field inside was just watching the program while chatting and laughing with the two children beside him. The butler was serving them. Dorothy did not obtain any particularly valuable information.
Time flowed, and soon, the evening party reached its end. At this time, inside the private room, the old butler standing behind Field poured Viscount Field half a cup of tea, then leaned down and said softly.
"Lord, it's about to end. It's your turn to go on stage."
"Oh, I see, Luer."
Responding, Field drank the half cup of tea on the table in one gulp. After saying goodbye to the two children beside him, he got up and left the private room, heading towards the backstage of the stage accompanied by the butler. Seeing this scene, Dorothy couldn't help but think.
'Is the evening party about to end? What a pity, I didn't gather any useful information...'
Not long after, the final program on the stage finally finished. The host continued to walk to the center of the stage.
"Wonderful times always slip away so easily. Ladies and Mr.s, this beautiful time has finally come to the final segment, which is the fundraising segment where you can show your love.
"First, as per tradition, we invite our esteemed Viscount Field. He will adopt his seventh foster child from among the children who performed this year and will initiate the fundraising! Please give him a round of applause!"
Amidst a round of warm applause, Viscount Field walked onto the stage with the assistance of the butler. At the same time, the orphanage children who had performed earlier also came onto the stage and stood behind Viscount Field.
"First of all, I am extremely grateful for your presence once again. By the grace of the Holy Mother, we are gathered again..."
Then Viscount Field began to say some very polite pleasantries. After speaking, he turned around and, under the expectant gazes of countless children, began to slowly pace in front of them, examining them one by one.
Finally, Viscount Field's steps stopped in front of a little girl. He smiled and asked the little girl.
"Lovely lamb, what is your name."
"My name is Anna! Your Excellency Viscount!"
Anna, whose name was called, suppressed the surprise in her heart and replied while holding her little white dress. Viscount Field smiled, took Anna's hand, and walked to the front of the stage amidst the envious gazes of the children. At the same time, thunderous applause erupted from the audience.
Anna's small face, held by Viscount Field's hand, flushed with excitement. She waved her other hand towards the audience in front, her eyes looking in Dorothy's direction.
In the audience, Dorothy and the other spectators also smiled and applauded together, but at this moment, her heart felt unusually heavy.
'It seems I need to act quickly...'
...
After the adoption segment ended, the donation segment followed closely. Soon, led by Viscount Field, people from all sides present generously opened their wallets and donated what they could. Dorothy also followed the crowd and donated 10 pound.
Finally, Viscount Field gave his concluding remarks. At the end of his speech, he stated that he would go to Cien Orphanage tomorrow to pick up his seventh foster child, Anna. Finally, the host excitedly announced the conclusion of the charity event, marking the end of this year's Igwinte Charity Event.
As the event dispersed, Dorothy left her seat immediately. To avoid Bill blocking the entrance and sniffing for scents, she climbed out directly through an unoccupied window on the side of the first floor, and then made her way to her carriage.
Dorothy got into the carriage and then released the crow Corpse Puppet to circle in the sky, monitoring the theater entrance. A short while later, she saw Viscount Field being helped out of the door by the butler among the crowd at the entrance.
Then, Dorothy saw Viscount Field and the butler get into a luxurious carriage pulled by three horses parked by the roadside, and then drive forward. Dorothy followed behind all the way, using the crow's view in the sky to begin long-distance tracking.
This time, the tracking started smoothly, but gradually, Dorothy discovered a problem.
That was, the carriage she was in was a single-horse carriage, while Viscount Field's luxurious version was pulled by three horses, moving much faster than hers!
'Ah, this... the carriage's horsepower isn't as high as the other side!'
For tracking, at least the speed of both sides must be equal. Field's carriage was a bit too advanced, and Dorothy's ordinary carriage was gradually being left behind.
With insufficient horsepower, she had no choice. She couldn't just gallop wildly down the street. Not only would that be too ostentatious and easily expose her, but the police would also stop her first. When Dorothy bought the carriage, it was just for convenience within the city. For her at the time, a single-horse carriage was enough, and she hadn't anticipated this situation arising now.
'Next time, I must buy a carriage with high horsepower...'
Dorothy thought with some helplessness in her heart. Just like that, due to the difference in horsepower, Dorothy was left further and further behind, until the distance between them exceeded three kilometers, which was the control radius of Dorothy's Corpse Puppet.
Finally, due to Dorothy's slow movement as a signal tower, her remotely controlled crow Corpse Puppet could no longer continue tracking the carriage. She could only watch as Viscount Field's luxurious carriage drove all the way north out of the city, heading towards the mountains north of Igwinte.
Rumor has it that Viscount Field's mansion and several villas he built are located in the forest on the northern mountains of Igwinte. Viscount Field rarely invited people to his mansion. This old nobleman always maintained a sense of mystery to the citizens of I-City.
The tracking failed. Dorothy stopped the carriage, then leaned back on the carriage seat and let out a long sigh, before starting to organize the information, thinking
"Phew... Tomorrow is the adoption time, is it? This might also be an opportunity... It seems I'll have to send some flowers to my older brother's side again."