Silver Blade and Rose

Three days later, Zales received the closing report of the nightmare bug incident in Hope County.

The report was still delivered in a very traditional way-Sanchez drove it, handed him the mineral water bottle full of nightmare bugs, and brought a box of new dog food to Cerberus.At that time Zals was washing the car in the yard. After hearing the sound of the horn, he turned off the water pipe and wiped his hands and came to pick it up. While signing for it, he asked him, "How is the situation in Hope County?"

"Not very good," Sanchez shook his head. "Most of the surviving residents have temporarily moved away, and the number of people who choose to stay is very small. Moreover, there will be a mass funeral recently. Some relatives of the deceased are not even willing to come. They feel that Hope County If you encounter the plague, you will be life-threatening if you come here."

In order to avoid social panic, it is impossible for the police to announce the truth of the incident, so from the perspective of concealing the truth, this may be a good thing.But in contrast, Hope County may be just an ordinary semi-abandoned village with few residents in the future.

Zales accepted the report, sent Sanchez away, and went back to his room to look through it himself, feeling complicated.

He really guessed the reason. After the first death of a tourist happened, Hope County banned residents from revealing it to the outside world. It was still treated as a murder case after several consecutive murders happened in the hotel, because the dead were tourists and residents. They just stay away from hotels and other tourists, and don't pay enough attention to the dangers of this thing.Later, someone finally found the nightmare bugs, but the number of bugs had grown to the point that they couldn't handle it. The farm owner's family never showed up again, and the others stayed behind closed doors, but residents continued to die.Someone couldn't help but wrote a blog post asking for help, but because of the network interruption, this help blog post couldn't be sent out.

The location of the Nightmare Bug's nest happened to be at the entrance of the Hope County Cable. As the size of the nest grew, the cable was cut after it was connected below the ground.Perhaps it was because no one dared to call the communication company to report for repairs, or it might be because they were too panicked to surf the Internet, so the internet has been disconnected for several days.

The disaster didn't last long. It took less than ten days from the time Hope County residents began to stay at home until they began to deal with it.They could have avoided such a large number of casualties, but it is too late to say that.

The report was not long, and it didn't take long for Zales to finish reading it.He couldn't tell what he was feeling, he just felt a little sad.

The decision not to disclose it was foolish, but tourism is the means of income for the residents there, and there is nothing to criticize in his position.The sad thing is that someone finally wanted to ask for help from the outside world, but the signal failed to be sent out until death. How hard should that kind of despair be?

He knocked on Edwin's door with the report, but the latter was not sleeping, so he quickly opened the door, glanced at the document bag in his hand, and understood the purpose of his visit, stepped aside and said, "Come in."

Zals lifted his legs and walked in, suddenly realizing that this should be the first time he entered Edwin's room.

He had always talked to each other at the door before, and had never been invited in.It was different from what he had imagined. The room at the end of the corridor was a bit larger than the other rooms, but it was empty inside. There was almost no furniture, except for a simple solid-color wall wardrobe, only the middle one was big enough to accommodate three people. The bed in which the person lays down is particularly eye-catching.

Although it was empty, it unexpectedly fit Edwin's temperament.

Edwin opened the heavy dark velvet curtains casually, and the sunlight from outside streamed in, illuminating the originally poorly lit room.

"Sit." He walked to the chair in front of the terrace, and said to Zals who stood there without moving after entering the door.

There was a small round table and two armchairs made of cloth, which looked like they were specially prepared for conversation.Zals put the report on the table in the past, and felt that it was a bit awkward to just talk like this, so he asked Edwin, "Do you want something to drink?"

Edwin raised his eyebrows, as if he didn't expect him to ask such a question, but he didn't refuse his volunteered errand: "Coffee, thank you."

Zals went downstairs again, poured a cup of steaming coffee from Hannah's coffee machine, opened the refrigerator and took a can of beer, and did not forget to bring his reference books with him when he went upstairs ——It was rare for Edwin to invite him into the room, and he wanted to take this opportunity to have a good talk with him.

When he brought all his things and entered the room again, Edwin turned his back to him and was lying on the balcony looking down. Zars could still hear Cerberus barking, guessing he was teasing the dogs in the yard .He took a few steps forward, and Edwin turned to look at him as if he had eyes behind his back, and said thank you after taking the coffee cup.

"You took good care of him," said Edwin. "It's rare to see Kerr so close to a man."

He called the dog "Ker" the same way, Zals thought.

Zals confirmed that he had never called Cerberus that in front of Edwin, perhaps it was some kind of coincidence.

"It's very well behaved and everyone loves it," he said.

These words are a little watery, Cerberus's meekness and obedience are still very impressive.Edwin exposed his polite words mercilessly: "How could I not know that Hannah is incompatible with it and quarrels every day."

Zars had seen the scene of dogs and people quarreling several times, so he closed his mouth in embarrassment, and stopped praising Cerberus blindly.

Edwin also didn't seem to have much interest in the possibility of whether Hannah and Cerberus could live in harmony, so he didn't continue this topic, opened the report he brought, and nodded after a cursory look: " Pretty much what I thought."

Zars opened the tab of the beer can and waited for him to continue, but Edwin asked him in turn: "Have you seen it, what do you think?"

He was a little caught off guard by his sudden attack, but Zars didn't bother much, and told him all his thoughts.In his opinion, Edwin has been dealing with such supernatural cases for a long time, and it is not the first time he has seen such a situation in Hope County. Maybe the other party's opinion can make him adapt faster...

He was mentally prepared to be educated by the other party like he was in Hope County, but to his surprise, Edwin nodded after listening and praised: "Not bad."

"……Um?"

Zars was full of question marks.

"Your ex used to say there was a little 'humanity' in my handling, but unfortunately he didn't have it himself," Edwin said. "It's good that someone has filled that gap."

Leaving aside "humanity" or not, he mentioned people Muen hadn't mentioned in detail, which aroused Zals' curiosity again.Although the timing might not be right, Zales still asked, "What kind of person was your former assistant?"

What kind of person would he be if he opened the "door" in his room and guarded it day and night to prevent alien creatures from escaping from it?In Zars's view, the other party would definitely not look up illustrations like him when he saw alien creatures. Judging from Mun's description, he should be a very strong person.

Such a person doesn't look like he would voluntarily give up the job, so why did he leave?It's not like being killed in the line of duty, Muen used the word "resignation", and if this job is so dangerous, they probably wouldn't find an ordinary person like him to be Edwin's new assistant .

Zals had been curious for a long time, and finally had the opportunity to ask this person. Seeing that Edwin's eyes were full of curiosity, his eyes seemed to glow.

"It looks about the same as you, with two eyes and one mouth." Edwin obviously didn't want to talk more, so he fooled him casually, and threw the report back to him, "Go and write a summary, and then bring this to Han Na, she'll put it away."

Zals was still thinking about his former assistant, and subconsciously said, "Why do you need to write a summary?"

Edwin glanced at him like an idiot: "We are a formal government cooperation organization, of course we must at least go through formalities."

This form of sorting and storing cases is similar to the archives of the police station, and Zales can still understand it.As for why he wrote it, the reason is obvious: Edwin himself is too lazy to do it.

Zals took the pen and paper without any complaints, and under his verbal command combined with free play to write a summary, and then put this note in the case report, ready to go downstairs to Hannah.Before leaving, he took the empty beer can he had drunk, looked at Edwin's empty coffee cup, and asked casually, "Would you like to bring you another cup of coffee?"

"Thank you." Edwin pushed the cup in front of him rudely.

Zals went downstairs with the cup, found Hannah in the room under the stairs, handed her the report with the summary, and then poured another cup of coffee from the coffee machine—it was still hot, and I don’t know if it was Hannah. What Na Xin grinds is still the coffee machine with its own heat preservation function. If it is the latter, I feel that he should buy one for his family.

But of course he didn't take the initiative to ask. After all, Hannah didn't want to communicate with him, so Zals decided to enter the door quietly, took his things and left quietly.He was very content, but it was Hannah who stopped him and asked in confusion, "Why did you suddenly start drinking coffee?"

"Bring it to Ai...uh, the boss."

Zals subconsciously wanted to call Edwin by his name, and then remembered what she and Muen called Edwin, and changed it abruptly in the middle of speaking.

Although it seems that Edwin's name has not been called directly, but maybe there is a sense of hierarchy and more formal, he thought slowly.

"Boss isn't sleeping yet?" Hannah looked up at him suspiciously from behind the table, "Are you kidding me?"

"..." There was nothing she could do if she didn't believe it, Zars said helplessly, "Go up and see for yourself?"

"No, he will definitely order me to work." Hannah rolled her eyes, took out two packs of creamer from the candy box and threw them to him, "Boss is very picky, he often thinks my coffee is bitter, Give him some milk."

But just now Edwin finished drinking a cup of coffee without milk or sugar without changing his face, and he didn't express any opinion to him, and he didn't seem to want to add milk at all.Zals thought about it, but still didn't tell Hannah that maybe she had been cheated for a long time, put the creamer on the cup holder, and carried it upstairs.

Edwin's door was still ajar, as he had left it.Zals knocked lightly on the door panel with his coffee, and there was a vague answer from inside, and he pushed the door open and walked in.

Edwin was not in the room.

The furnishings in the room were the same as before he left, the patio door was still open, and the curtains fluctuated slightly with the incoming wind, which made Zals a little puzzled—he did hear someone answering just now, and Edwin arrived Where did it go?

He put the coffee on the table, and was about to see where the Edwin who had disappeared for no reason was, when he heard strange noises coming from the wardrobe integrated into the wall behind him.The sounds sounded a bit scary, there were sounds of hitting the closet, and there were cries of pain from people or other things, it seemed that more than one person was fighting inside, and the fighting was fierce.

Zals frowned, and approached the wardrobe carefully with light steps. Seeing that the sound inside had not stopped, he grabbed the handle and pulled the door open.

Two people rolled out of it head-butting each other.

It's a real human head, not connected to the body, it can move, it can talk, it's alive.Just looking at the head part, these two heads are no different from ordinary people, with hair and facial features, agile expressions, and the words he can understand are spoken in their mouths. If they don't have bodies, they look quite normal.

Zals didn't know what kind of magical creature it was. Standing in front of the closet, he watched two bald people with no parts below the neck collide with each other and scolded each other. Although the picture was magical, he actually I want to laugh a little bit.

The two heads scolded each other for a while, and rolled while cursing, until they hit the foot of the bed before they realized dully that someone had opened the wardrobe.They turned around in unison, glanced at Zals, then looked at each other, opened their mouths in unison, and started screaming.

"what--!!!!!"

The screaming sound was completely different from speaking, and Zars couldn't help covering his ears.