Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 170

2021-07-06

Chapter 170 Three people in a rainy night
The light rain continued in the afternoon and continued until the evening There is no stop, there is even a growing trend. Shade hoped that the rain would stop before the night's action, but until Dr. Schneider and Miss Luisa came to the door, the rain was still pouring down.

A curtain of rain falls under the eaves of Shade's house, like a falling bead. The warm yellow gas lights in the courtyard were on, blurred by the rain. In a strange halo, the doctor in rain boots arrived at No. 6 St. Teresa Square first on this humid night, followed by Miss Luyisa who came by the carriage.

"Good evening, Shade."

The doctor was surprised when she called Shade by her first name. But nothing is said, middle-aged man doesn't care about the relationship between youngsters.

Tonight there are two targets, Mr. Ponton of the Chengdong Steam Engine Special Screw Factory and Mr. Roosevelt, the accountant of the Star Grass Public Tobesque Nursing Home. After the three meet, in Shade's study, they plan the route of action against the city map.

The final decision was to go to Mr. Roosevelt, the accountant.

According to Mr. Schneider's survey during the day, the accountant would stay in the nursing home on weekdays and would only go home on Sundays, and the Xingxingcao nursing home is closer to St. Teresa Square.

At the expense of Dr. Schneider, the three of them got on the carriage and rushed to the nursing home. The rainy summer is exceptionally cool, the city is silent in this rain, the gas lamps in the upper city, the candlelight in the lower city, these are all part of this era.

Xingxingcao Nursing Home is a public nursing home, of course, it also needs to spend some gold pounds to enter. The three got off the bus at the intersection, Shade and Miss Luysha held guards on both sides of the street with umbrellas, and Dr. Schneider entered the nursing home alone.

There are no pedestrians on such a rainy night, and the surroundings seem to be surrounded by moist air and darkness. When Shade stood at the intersection and looked all around, he also thought that if the act of peeping into the door in the alley when he visited little Sophie on Saturday night was like a horror story, then the scene now is probably very similar to detective or special agent novels. picture.

It took only fifteen minutes for the blue-eyed doctor to walk out of the nursing home in his coat, looking like he was going well.

"I entered his dream and saw what the blood of mercury had him keep. A black cloak, and a colorful cookie tin that could never be opened. The former could not touch the sun, I have the impression of the latter, it is a poet-level relic [Cannibal Biscuit Box], which can devour living people and turn them into biscuits. These are not what I am looking for."

He lowered his voice in the rain and said. , waved to the two of them:
"I got other information in my dream, the Roosevelt accountant helped [Blood of Mercury] sell the stolen goods, and I don't know anything about them. There are no more clues here. Let's go, The next goal."

Dr. Schneider's dreaming skills are very convenient in dealing with the ordinary person.

Mr. Ponton, who owns a screw factory for steam engines in the east of the city, is not a powerful rich man in a place like Tobesque. He has his own big house in Tobesque East, about twice the size of Shade's.

This is a dedicated residential area, and people who can live here at least cross the bottom line of the so-called "middle class".

Shade and Miss Luisa were still on guard outside. Dr. Schneider neatly climbed over the fence outside the yard and followed the gravel path to find the direction of the bedroom.

This time he came back faster. Shade has the ability of [Time Perception], so he knew exactly that it took him only two minutes and eighteen seconds.

Not only Shade was surprised, even Miss Lu Yisha was surprised by the doctor's quick action. The three of them held umbrellas and listened to the sound of the rain. When they met at the gate of Mr. Ponton's yard, Miss Luyisa congratulated: "Doctor, your Mystic Art is getting better and better. Half an hour. It took ten minutes before, but now you can get information from dreams in 3 minutes."

"What's getting worse? There's a major event."

A thunderous streak in the air However, the suddenly bright white light illuminated Miss Luisa's wet hair, and illuminated the heavy disbelief expression on Dr. Schneider's face.

Then, the rumbling thunder sounded from a distance, and the sound seemed to shake the entire world.

Shade, who was also in the rain, looked at the dark street from the corner of his eye, and felt the tremor of the dense raindrops hitting the umbrella in his hand holding the umbrella. The light of the gas street lights on the street becomes even dimmer on rainy nights, and the light can only shrink in a small area under the street lights, and you can't even see Flying Insect flying around the street lights.

Shade doesn't like this kind of weather, and now he is very envious of cats who can rest on the windowsill and listen to the rain in a warm and dry home.

Ignoring it was still raining, the doctor stretched out his finger to the mansion behind him in the night rain, Shade came back to his senses, and Miss Luysha followed closely:

"The inside People are dead."

Correspondence ring warlock generally speaking, will not actively participate in troublesome things that have nothing to do with themselves. But for the sake of the [Forged Sage's Stone], the group of five almost faced Evil God directly at Lake View Manor. Now even if all the people inside are dead, the doctor will not give up the investigation.

On the contrary, the death of the ordinary person related to the blood of mercury just means that there is a very high possibility that he has important clues.

In order to prevent the Orthodox Church from making trouble on the grounds of "destroying the crime scene", the doctor prepared shoe covers, gloves and hats for everyone before entering the house with only dead people. Miss Sha tied her long hair with a rope. Of course they can't predict what will happen tonight, but according to the doctor, it is his habit to carry these things when going out.

Shade has a hard time imagining what kind of "major event" Dr. Schneider did.

The house is divided into three floors, and the doctor just turned in through the window. But since it was now certain that there were no living people inside, they entered directly from the main entrance. Instead of using Mystic Art or spells to open the lock, the female writer poked a few times with a hairpin, and the lock was opened.

Entering the main entrance, the moisture immediately poured into the interior of the house. The house was dark, and suddenly another thunder pierced the night sky. In the light of the lightning, they saw a woman dressed as a servant collapsed in the hallway, with a dark bloodstain under her body.

"Dead for at least two hours."

The psychiatrist crouched down to examine the body, Shade and Miss Luisa hid their umbrellas in the shadows by the door and entered the house . Closing the door blocked the sound of rain and prevented passers-by from finding clues.

The psychiatrist's test for Corpse Water is also quite good. He uses the light in his hand to check the fatal wound. The light spell is really a common spell:

"Similar to short The blade's weapon stabbed directly into the heart, killing him with one blow. The technique is very sophisticated."

"Could it be that the short blade relics he kept were out of control?"

Because of last week's "fish scales" incident, Shade thought of this probability, and Miss Luyesha seemed to think the same way.

"This possibility is not ruled out."

The doctor looked at the surrounding darkness and asked again:
"Your other me, do you feel the Whisper element? "

Shade and Miss Luisa are both in a listening position:
"No."

Both said.

But that doesn't mean much, even if the relic is out of control, it doesn't make the element feel eight hundred miles away. The last time they faced the murloc, Shade and Miss Luysha only got a hint when they saw that guy.

Dr. Schneider stepped aside, and Shade and Miss Luisa stepped forward to examine the body. But they couldn't find anything either. Shade's fingertips lit up with a faint silver light, and under the rays of light, he looked at the dead body with eyes wide open.

He thought of something and blinked his eyes. Although the moisture of the rain pouring in from outside the door had diluted the bloody smell, he could still see very light bloodstains in the air, extending towards the interior of the house. .

As a murder weapon, there is no reason not to be stained with blood.

Then I tried Mystic Art [Echoes of the Past], but unfortunately all I heard were messy fragments of life. This kind of place where people live is not a good scene for this spell to work.

"Did you see the blood?"

Seeing Shade staring straight ahead, Goldilocks, who worked with Shade once, asked in a low voice.

Shade nods, taking advantage of Miss Luysha's efforts to explain to the doctor, he turned his head and looked towards the door, pressing his voice so that the sound of the rain outside:

"There is no blood in the direction of the door. The blood extends to the inside of the house. This shows that the possible murderer continued inward and never came back."

He analyzed in a low voice. .

"As expected of a detective!"

Doctor Schneider also lowered his voice patted Shade's shoulders:

"Very well, then go in the direction of the blood. We have already destroyed the scene, so if you can't find the [forged Sage's Stone], write down the clues you have found and leave it here, so that the church can also know that our correspondence ring warlocks are not all troublemakers."

This is actually a disaster.

Shade is in front, the doctor walks by Shade's side, and Miss Luisa is at the end. With the silver moonlight at Shade's fingertips and the sound of the rain getting louder outside, they continued deep into the house.

The second body was found in the restaurant. The fifteen-year-old boy was lying on the dining table. After careful inspection, he found that this time his neck was cut off by a sharp weapon.

"There is no confusion around the bloodstains, which means that after the knife was brought over, it was killed with one hit and then left immediately, so the trajectory of the knife was not cluttered nearby."

Shade said, turned to look at the restaurant, except around the body, there was no obvious blood left today, and the murderer did not stop here.

"The killing technique is very sophisticated."

Miss Luyissa commented, while the doctor examined the corpse's eyes, she looked around the dimly lit kitchen.

"Look, there are two sets of silverware here. It's really rich. No, it's not ordinary silverware, it's."

Goldilocks frowned as she opened the cupboard brow.

"An antique from the Norov dynasty? This factory owner still has this?"

(end of this chapter)