Whispering Poems.

Chapter 9 Suspected Extraordinary
"Very good, since the direction and time are suitable, let's catch up. If you can't catch up, go directly to the church. In short, you can't be hungry on the first day of the new world. You can't think like this, otherwise I feel a little pitiful. ."

With such a "simple" idea in mind, Xia De took his own things and set off along the low wall by the street, chasing the man forward.

In order to prevent being discovered, even though the fog roaming around the city was thicker as evening approached, Xia De still did not dare to follow closely.He's self-aware and knows he doesn't have the skills to stalk others.

So naturally, after ten minutes, when they turned around the back wall of a milk delivery company and got into the alley, Xia De completely lost track of the man.

"Ha~ shouldn't I say, I really lost it."

Standing in the alley, he looked around blankly, confirming that he really lost his target, before shaking his head and giving up to continue searching.I didn't continue to struggle with this matter. Since I lost it, I went to collect "relief food", but——

"Where is this place?"

In a completely unfamiliar city, tracking others while preventing detection, Shade didn't have time to remember his route of action, only that he was in a narrow alley with a very bad smell.

On the left is the facade of a milk delivery company, and on the right is the side wall of a three-storey apartment building.On the walls on both sides, in addition to the rusty pipes crawling to connect different directions, there are also layers of filthy words and graffiti, and there is garbage and excrement everywhere under the walls.

Only near the entrance of the alley were two or three rusted thick-diameter steam pipes piled up. I don't know who abandoned them here.

"Go look at the name of the milk delivery company and find the current location on the map."

When Xia De had an idea, he no longer cared about the person he wanted to follow.

Turn around and go back along the original path of the alley, being careful not to step on the filthy indescribable things in the alley.When he was about to walk out of the alley, he carefully avoided it, because a team of police officers in police uniforms hurried across the street in front of him.

Among them, the tall, middle-aged man at the end of the team, whose face was full of stubble, also glanced at Xia De. Xia De also looked at the man with innocent eyes, so the police did not pay attention to Xia De.

"What happened over there?"

Shade stood at the corner of the alley, looking in the direction the police were running.Because I don't know which street this is, I can't identify what's in that direction of the street.

"None of my business."

He whispered and walked towards the door of the milk delivery company with the notepad in between.This is not a factory, but an office building for the distribution department. The yard is surrounded by a small two-story yellow building, and an old dog who looks a little old is lying at the door.

The dog also glanced at Xia De, who was approaching here. Seeing that Xia De was just parked at the door not to come in, he stood up lazily, and changed to a position where the setting sun could see him lying on his stomach.

The name of the milk delivery company is "Silver Parrot," a strange name, but it does appear on the map, and the former detective also marked a murder there three years ago.

The murder case had nothing to do with Xia De. He walked forward with the map that was expanded by a quarter, while constantly confirming that his position was correct.

There are not many pedestrians on the street, and you will not bump into people when you walk with your head down.Before I knew it, in the sunset and thick fog, I followed the direction of the pipe with white steam out from the wall, and came to the end of the street.There is a fork in the road ahead. According to the map, if you take the road with the dessert shop diagonally to the left, the distance will probably be closer.

But the intersection was almost blocked by the crowd at this time. Near the mailbox on the east side was a silverware store. The signboard was scrubbed clean, but something seemed to happen there.The team of police officers that Shade saw at the alley just now was maintaining order and preventing people from approaching.

While stopping to observe, more four-wheeled carriages came from behind Shade and other intersections, and more police appeared here in just a few minutes.There were even some people like school scholars who got out of the carriage, not knowing what to do.

Xia De didn't want to join in the fun, and now the food relief is the most important thing.But because there were too many people joining in the fun, he was unknowingly pushed to the front of the crowd while trying to pass the intersection.

Want to step back, but the people behind don't do it.The police in front kept shouting for people to disperse. There is nothing worth seeing here.

It was probably because he saw Xia De being squeezed over, and he didn't mean to approach. The young police officer with a pen in his chest pocket to maintain order kindly reminded him to be careful of thieves.

This made Shade a little nervous, and he subconsciously touched the tenpence note in his pocket.After confirming that it was still there, Yu Guangsao saw that there was another team of police officers with guns, escorting three men in civilian clothes into the silverware store.

The tallest man among them was unusually strong, and the young man walking in the middle had the temperament of a scholar.The last man looked familiar to Shad, like the missionary who handed him leaflets in the afternoon.

"A missionary in this world, are you still working part-time in the police?"

He thought about the conclusion he didn't believe, and clenched the coins and pocket watch in his pocket, intending to get out of here quickly, otherwise he would be late.

The moment he turned around and wanted to squeeze back, a strange warning suddenly came from his heart.Before I could understand the reason for this feeling, I heard a voice——

boom!
The explosion exceeded everyone's expectations, and the sound of almost tearing the eardrum caused the crowd to burst into screams.Although no firelight could be seen, the glass window of the silverware store shattered immediately, and the wall seemed to be skewed, causing the metal pipes on the wall to make a harsh metal twisting sound.

But fortunately the police didn't let the crowd surround the store, so no one was injured when the panicked shouts rang out.

The crowd immediately dispersed like a flood, and Xia De, who was standing in front of the crowd, kept his composure and wanted to leave. He saw a middle-aged man with brown hair running towards the door of the silverware store:
"I'm a reporter! I'm a reporter! What's going on here?"

Holding the notebook in one hand and shaking the documents in the other, he rushed towards this side more excitedly than anyone else, and was pulled neatly by the young police officer:
"The gas line exploded, sir, please don't come near."

Shard, who heard this conclusion, did not believe at all, how could the explosion of the gas pipeline be possible——

boom!
Another heart-stopping explosion resounded in the silverware store, and the oscillating air almost produced a force that propelled people.

This time, even the glass on the second floor of the silverware store shattered, and the fallen glass slag made the police officers who were maintaining order had to flee temporarily.While retreating, Xia De saw through the window that on the second floor of the explosion, there seemed to be two people fighting in a white fog, and one of them seemed to have a light on his fist.

The distance is a little too far, and the fog that comes with the sunset is also reducing the field of vision, so Xia De can't see it very clearly.

"Extraordinary?"

he thought.

【Yes. 】

The woman's voice startled Xia De, but knowing that the other party would not explain much, he did not ask, but quickly left here.

"The three people just now are definitely members of the church, and this happened after they entered. Sure enough, the church itself in this world is very likely to be a supernatural force, and it seems to be very closely integrated with the kingdom order. The probability that the Church of God can be trusted has greatly increased, and I don’t know if I have the opportunity to go through the church’s channels.”

This means that there are two choices. Not only the psychiatrist, but the five churches in the city also have the opportunity to let Xia De get in touch with the transcendent and understand the voice in his head.

"However, why did I come across such a thing so coincidentally?"

He walked in the original direction with the dispersed crowd, and the woman's voice in his mind said the sentence he had already said:
[Observe his ring. 】

Although he didn't know what the female voice in his head was, at least Shade knew that the other party had no obvious malice.Immediately listening to the voice and looking around, I saw the young man wearing a pebble ring and carrying a suitcase again, walking not far ahead.

"No matter how you think about it, you know it can't be so coincidental. Wait, the explosion just now doesn't have anything to do with him, right? How could I have such an idea, there is no evidence at all now."

With this thought in mind, Shade didn't want to follow.If the other party can create an explosion with his bare hands like the two people in the silverware store, he is almost equivalent to wanting to replicate the tragic end of the former detective.

"No, no, no."

Xia De slowed down his steps, wanting to let the other party disappear from his field of vision naturally.Unexpectedly, the young man also stopped, took out the map to check like Shade just now, and then carried the box into the side alley.

"Follow or not?"

The woman's voice in her head reminded the ring three times, it shouldn't be boring.But Shard, who knows almost nothing about the world, must also maintain the necessary caution.

He walked forward according to his original plan. When passing by the alley where the young man turned, he naturally glanced inward and saw that the man turned and disappeared at the corner ahead.

"Follow or not."

He asked himself again, and suddenly realized that the next decision would affect his life for a long time to come.

"Follow or not?"

He was asking the woman in his mind, and he heard laughter and a murmured answer:

[The road of destiny unfolds in front of you, foreign guests, are you willing to be ordinary, or are you longing for immortality?The world is like the ocean, do you have the courage to explore the terror outside the peaceful island?The path of destiny unfolds before you, one to the transcendent, one.]

"Chase!"

Shade gritted his teeth and entered the alley against the wall.

(End of this chapter)