Overturning the Road to Rebirth

Overturning the Road to Salted Fish Sixteen

Just as the room fell into a strange silence, there was a knock on the door, which was not light or heavy.

Lils hurriedly got up to open the door. Everyone saw Emma carrying a small tray filled with black tea and small desserts. It might be because the air flow was too stagnant. She asked a little uneasily: "...what happened? Yet?"

"No..." Xiao Liang welcomed her in, saw her put the tray on the small round table, and asked, "Emma, ​​can I ask you something about this town?"

The most well-informed places are often places where people gather, such as casinos, hotels, etc. Often the operators of these places have the most mainstream news, and they are very polite to the guests, and it is easy to inquire from them. to the information you want to know.

Sure enough, the hostess agreed very enthusiastically, and proudly said: "Although my small hotel has no business, no one knows the affairs of the town better than me."

But since she wanted to look at the store, they moved to the lobby, where there are soft sofas, which are also very suitable for conversation.

Seeing Liers help her make tea, Xiao Liangyi casually grabbed a pillow and hugged her, and asked, "Do you know Alice, the daughter of the photographer Mela? And her lover Bailey."

"Oh, Elise, Bailey, of course I know." She showed a reminiscing expression, "When their relationship was envied by people, I was not yet ten years old, and I heard people in my family talking about it every day. Like a straight tree and a beautiful flower, the tree shields the flowers from the wind and rain, and the flowers decorate the vision of the big tree, their relationship is so good that even I, a child, am full of longing for love."

Xiao Liangyi: "How much do you know about them?"

"A lot." Emma gathered the shawl on her body and put on a sad expression, "My biological brother Gore has a passionate crush on Elise. When Elise was killed and thrown among the tulips, He became crazy for a while, you don't know, he is usually a very calm person, during that time he went out to find people to fight every day, and came home with a bruised nose, we were very worried about him and wanted to ask him All his thoughts were refused outside the door of his bedroom."

She paused for a moment, and suddenly said something rather shocking: "To be honest, the reason why I learned about Elise in detail is because my brother disappeared shortly after Elise and Bailey died. , I had a hunch that my brother's disappearance was related to the two deaths, so it took me a long time to investigate."

—Another missing person!

Xiao Liang hurriedly took out a small black leather notebook from Ares, and the other party handed over a pen in a considerate manner, and he asked: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry about your brother's matter first, but can you tell me Who are the missing people in my town?"

"Very much." Emma also looked very solemn, "Because I suspected that my brother found the murderer who killed the two people, but was killed by the murderer, so I investigated all the people who had contact with my brother during that time. In the hotel business, it’s very convenient to ask about some things—but what I didn’t expect is that all the people I suspected disappeared one by one!”

"For example, Peter, the son of Nad, the bakery owner who brought you here, he is very smart and cheerful, and he is also very close to my brother, but he also disappeared two months after my brother disappeared; and investigating Elise and Bailey Mendel, who was in charge of the death, and Rinai, who was in charge of the furniture store...a total of 17 people!"

Emma provided a series of lists, and each name seemed to have a strange smell of blood after being written in black ink. Losing so many people in such a small town is by no means a trivial matter.

It is impossible for such a thing to happen, and the church has not received any news for more than [-] years. He turned his head to look at Ares and Rouren. Did you tell the church about it? As long as you submit the application, it is impossible for the church staff not to help you investigate."

Emma shook her head: "No, my parents asked, because a person in the small town joined the church, so we went to ask him, and he did bring two people to help, but it didn't take long for him to say he was missing. The survivors left voluntarily, there was no trace of fighting anywhere, and there was no trace in every corner of the town... The existence of similar corpses can only be judged as voluntary disappearance. Maybe the young people are tired of the poor and boring life of the town. Life, moved to a better place...abandoned us."

"Young man" Rou Ren narrowed his eyes, "By the way, why didn't I think of it, I just said why there is something incongruous in this place."

Xiao Liangyi: "What's wrong?"

It was Ares who answered him, "The incongruity is that there are very few young men in this small town, it can be said that there are almost none."

Rou Ren was robbed of his words, and almost rolled her eyes inelegantly.

The character of the high priest also seems to be very strange, he always seems to be restraining himself from doing some actions, this makes Xiao Liang think that Lu Xiangsheng is not OOC in maintaining the image of Ares, but the most important thing at present is to check case, so he put this doubt aside.

The two of them are right. In a place, no matter how serious the aging or age gap is, the labor force accounts for a certain proportion.

However, along the way they walked, they saw almost no middle-aged men—there were very young children, youthful young people, and old people with different tempers, but there was no middle-aged man who was necessary to carry the burden of the family !

If Bailey is still alive, he is a middle-aged man in his forties, and most of the missing are his peers. This may be a very important clue!

Because his mind is full of vampires recently, Xiao Liang wanted to find the old nobles, so he was very careful and sensitive to these guys. Almost as soon as the clue came out, a little black winged little girl popped out of his mind. Bats, they are just like humans. Humans have different preferences for food, and they are outrageously picky eaters. Maybe there was a vampire hidden in this town back then. He preferred the blood of young men, so for a short time How could so many people go missing?

But there is one thing that can't be explained clearly. There are two saints and two knights sent by the church. These four people came not long ago, and they also disappeared.

Could this vampire have been hiding in the town for more than 20 years just to wait for this bite?

Could it be that this is also a disabled vampire like himself?Get out of this town without legs?

It's not right, vampires have no legs and wings, if it doesn't work, they will transform into their original form and fly away. Could it be that they have no legs or hands?

fantasy!Such a useless vampire, even an ordinary young man with fangs can easily kill it, let alone a church member!

Ares patted his head, pushed a cup of hot black tea in front of him, and rarely asked others: "Do you have a picture of your brother?"

"Yes, I'll look for it, the photo album should be put away by my parents."

Emma obviously realized that the group of people who inquired about what happened back then were not ordinary, although there had been some guesses before that they were completely different from ordinary people in terms of clothing and manner.

Maybe, these people can really tell her the truth!

Thinking of this, she hurried to fetch a hard-shell photo album. Within 5 minutes, a dried flower was still completely stuck on the photo album.

Ares reached out to take it, he seemed to have a purpose, flipped through it quickly, and finally stopped on a group photo, which was exactly what they saw in Mela's photo studio, with Bailey as the center A photo of a group of young people.

Ares pointed to the photo and asked, "Come and compare, are all the people who disappeared that year in this photo?"

Emma took it hesitantly, quickly glanced at the bright smiling faces, and then was taken aback: "...how, how?!"

Ares took back the photo album and put it in front of Xiao Liangyi, "It seems to be true. Although I don't know whether it is this group of people or this photo that is targeted behind the scenes, at least we can match the face and name of the missing person." Number one."

So under the introduction of the hostess, they gradually connected the list on the black leather notebook with 17 of them in the photo. There are 23 people in the photo, all of them are young people in their 20s. Some of those who moved away with their families are still alive, but according to Emma, ​​she also asked these few remaining middle-aged people, and they really didn't know anything about what happened that year.

Xiao Liangyi: "At least in this way, we can be sure that the murderer is not targeting this photo, but some people in it."

If a crime is committed because of a photo—it’s not that there are such things. With the development of technology, many psychology will also change. As a new appearance of a photo that can best preserve the state and image of a person or thing at that time, it can trigger many people. Problem, like some pretty paranoid psychopaths, if he cares a lot about his image and you happen to take a photo of him with a rough look, even if the person usually looks good, he may fly into a rage because of it, and he won't blame it If you are a dead object, you will vent your emotions on the photographer, which is due to privacy and self-identified dignity.

Or an inadvertently taken photo that happens to expose the criminal's evidence of the crime will also attract silence.

However, because this group photo is too focused on the characters, and there is only a small piece of sky in the scene, the latter speculation is obviously untenable.

But the previous item was also overturned in what Emma said. After all, the youths in this photo were not all wiped out, and some of them lived well. If the suspicion that these survivors are criminals can be ruled out, then The truth has nothing to do with the photo.

After learning important clues about the disappearance, the sky gradually turned dark. After thanking Emma and eating, they returned to their room.

Rou Ren asked Ares what he was thinking about next, Ares and Xiao Liang looked at each other, and said: "When we were in the barber shop, we noticed that there seemed to be something hidden in the stairs, and we might check it out late tonight. "

Rouren nodded: "I didn't find out about it. But because you said you met Mercury and the others, I plan to take Lils to investigate. Even after so many years, they haven't found the old bat. It's hard to guarantee that they won't be lucky." Once... must not let them succeed at this critical moment."

After all, he is the high priest of the church, and the time he can go out for a walk is limited——Xiao Liangyi has never figured out why he followed him. Shouldn't this one of the three bosses guard his base camp and plan every step of the way?

Xiao Liang guessed that the "critical moment" he mentioned should be related to the conversation that was suddenly interrupted in the afternoon, but he didn't pursue it. After the two saints left, he could ask Ares whatever he wanted.

Rouren meant that if it was determined that there was no progress on the vampire side, he would return to the church the next day. The investigation of this disappearance would be entrusted to Ares with full authority, and he would send additional staff to help after he returned.

The four assigned their jobs and separated in the middle of the night.

He and Tong Tong made sure that the mirror was always in the dark, and when Ares's pocket watch jumped to one o'clock in the middle of the night, when people were sleeping soundly, they secretly jumped out of the window and rushed to Bailey's barber shop.

There is a wind chime at the door, and it is facing the street. It is easy to cause accidents when entering from here. They went around the back of the house like thieves and jumped onto the balcony on the second floor. Fortunately, they had prepared in advance and quietly left during the day. The lock on the window was unlocked, so with a slight push, he entered Little Berry's room.

Xiao Liang breathed into Ares' ear when he closed the window, and laughed softly: "Do you think we two look like mandarin duck thieves?"

Ares froze his hands, almost crushing the window frame, and warned in a hoarse voice, "...don't make trouble."

Because Nad lives next door, and this is the house where the owner has all dogs, they can't turn on the lights, but Xiao Liang's blood of zombies works, and the two eyes are like the two green light bulbs in the middle of the night, which can see better than incandescent lights It is also clear that Ares also has a trace of vampire blood that has not been awakened, and the two are like ducks in water in the dark.

The two of them went downstairs, and after groping, they found that there was a movable floor. After carefully pulling it away, Xiao Liang comforted himself not to scream even if he saw a grimace, and looked down from the top, but he did not. stunned.

——As they guessed, the bottom is not solid, there is a cubic space of about [-] meters.However, what is different from their guess is that there is nothing inside, just a black hole.

The prime minister crawled out of his pocket again, if it wasn't for Xiao Liang's quick glance, it would have fallen into it.

However, it behaved uncharacteristically, excitedly squeezed out from between Xiao Liang's fingers, as if sniffing something.

Ares put the wooden planks back, and climbed the stairs again with Xiao Liangyi on his back. Afterwards, the two exchanged eyes in amazement—the sound of the wooden planks on the stairs changed again. Sure enough, something was hidden before, but it was taken out up!