demon godfather

According to the location shown by GPS, Dominique and Chris came to an apartment building not far from the university.There are six floors in the apartment building. Although GPS can determine the plane location of the tracker, it cannot show which floor it is on.In addition, there is an anti-theft door at the entrance of the apartment building, which can only be entered by swiping the card or opening the door remotely.

Chris had a hard time. "According to my investigation, the student's name is Vincent Bedworth. This should be the house he rented off-campus. He hid the stolen goods here. But how do we get in? Do we have to wait for Vincent Come out, follow him quietly, find out what floor he lives in, and get the key from him?"

"Your plan is still not thorough enough, Chris." Dominic gloated a little.

Chris glanced at him. "Don't you have a better way?"

"You should be lucky, fortunately you brought me here." Dominic rubbed his fists, "I can enter that door from Limbo Prison. There is no naturally locked door in Limbo Prison."

Chris' body shook, as if struck by lightning. "Can you enter Limbo Prison?"

"Of course!" Dominic said proudly, he finally had a chance to show himself in front of Chris.

"You... do you need to prepare anything? Like ritual utensils or medicine?" Chris still couldn't believe it.

Dominique waved his hand to indicate no need, turned around and sneaked into Lingbo Prison.In Lingbo Prison, he didn't even need to swipe his card to enter.The door was ajar, but he opened it with a slight push.Then he returns to the real world.In Chris's eyes, he seemed to disappear suddenly, then the door opened inexplicably, and then Dominic suddenly appeared on the other side of the door.

"You can really do it!"

Dominic pushed open the door from the inside and welcomed Chris in. "Impress you?"

Chris looked at him with complicated eyes. "how did you do it?"

"Probably innate." Dominic shrugged, "It's like someone learned to swim as soon as he jumped into the swimming pool."

"This talent is really rare. Even in the Demon Hunter Association, there are not many people who can do what you do."

I don't know if it was Dominic's illusion, but he always felt that Chris's tone was a little jealous.

"Now that we're in, what do we want from that Vincent Bedworth?"

Chris thought about it. "Theoretically, human actions will leave traces in Limbo Prison, just like humans leave footprints on the ground when they walk. Vincent hasn't been back for long, so the traces he left should be obvious, right?"

"Then I'll try it."

Dominique sneaks into Limbo Prison again.In a gloomy world, there is a bright white shadow and several darker shadows extending from the porch to the stairwell, which means that someone has been out not long ago.

He followed the brightest shadow upstairs and found it came from Room 205.Each apartment is equipped with security doors and peepholes.He couldn't push the door directly to enter. Although the door in Lingbo Prison was not locked, when he opened the door, the door in the real world would also open.If Vincent Bedworth saw that something was wrong, he would probably run for the door.

Dominic returns to the real world to tell Chris what he has found.

"What shall we do now?"

"It's very simple, you go in and check, and I will guard the door to prevent him from escaping."

"But he lives on the second floor and can escape by jumping out of the window."

"Well then, I'll knock on the door, and you stay under his window. If he jumps out of the window, you catch him."

"...I always feel that such a plan is a bit simple and crude."

Although Dominic complained, he still obeyed Chris's order and stood by under the window of Vincent's house outside the apartment building.After the two confirmed that each other was in place through the mobile phone, Chris knocked on the door of Vincent's house.

Vincent knew Chris, and when he came to the door, he knew that something was wrong.He would not open the door for Chris, let alone call the police. There are stolen goods hidden in his house, and it would be bad if the police found them.So he has only two options: play dead or run away.

Dominique waited downstairs for a long time but did not see Vincent jumping out of the window and fleeing.It seemed that he was planning to play dead to the end.That being the case, Dominic just broke through the door of Limbo Prison.

Just then, his cell phone rang, and it was Chris calling.

"What's the matter?" he asked.

"Come on," Chris said.

"What's wrong? Where's Vincent?"

"You'll know when you come up." Chris hung up after finishing speaking.

Dominique suppressed his curiosity (the human trait the Godfather hates most), entered the apartment building from Limbo Prison, and went to the second floor, only to find that the door of Room 205 was open, and there were screams and screams coming from the room.

—Could it be that Chris was attacked? !

Dominic broke into the house and shouted, "Don't worry, Chris, I'm here to save you!" But he saw Chris standing in the middle of the living room, and a young man knelt in the corner of the living room with his head in his hands, wailing in pain: "No! Why is this happening! That painting turned out to be fake! No, no, no! You lied to me! I don't believe it!"

"Uh, what happened?" Dominic hid behind Chris, watching the young man secretly, not daring to approach him at all.

Chris explained: "He was Vincent Bedworth. I knocked on the door and unexpectedly he opened the door and said..."

"I knew you'd find this sooner or later."

Vincent opened the door with no surprise on his face, "I think you are capable, so it's not surprising that you found me."

Chris put his foot against the door frame to prevent Vincent from closing the door suddenly. "Why did you steal the painting?"

"That's what I love collecting."

Chris narrowed his eyes.

"You do not believe?"

Vincent moved away from the door, making an inviting gesture.Chris wasn't stupid enough to step into the enemy's lair, so he just took a quick look inside.However, just this one glance is enough to make him dumbfounded - Vincent's house is full of all kinds of weird objects: painted wooden busts, strangely shaped specimens made of fur, full of postmodern The paintings in the socialist style, the golden chandelier, the Arabian oil lamp, the armor and the sword that seemed to come from a fantasy movie... just dazzled Chris.Compared with these things, the painting "Ship on the Ice Sea" is as inconspicuous as a crow in the dark night.

"My collections." Vincent said proudly, "All of them carry legends or supernatural stories."

Chris looked gloomy: "It should be your 'swags'."

"I paid for most of them!" Vincent defended himself.

"Why are you collecting these things?"

"Can't I have a hobby?"

"I don't think 'stealing other people's things and hiding them in your home' is a hobby. That should be called 'crime crime.'"

"How much does it cost to shut you up?"

Chris showed a serious expression. "I think a billion dollars should be about the same."

"Are you kidding me?!" Vincent was furious.

"Actually, I tricked you with another thing: the painting you stole from my dormitory is not a work of Benjamin Tristan at all, it is a cheap thing I bought casually."

"And then he became like this." Chris pointed to Vincent who was huddled in a corner of the living room, talking incoherently and looking crazy.

Dominic looked at his companion suspiciously: "Did you really not do anything to him?"

"Of course not. I'm a decent man."

Vincent's wailing made Chris' words sound unconvincing.

Unable to do anything about the maniacal thief, the pair finally decided to turn to law enforcement like any law-abiding citizen would.But Chris also called the local Witcher Association to tell them about the case and ask them to come over and deal with the house full of magic items.According to Chris's judgment, although most of those things were rubbish, about one-tenth of them really contained magic power, and a few of them had the real curse power, which was enough to kill them on the spot.It is too inappropriate to hand over these things to public servants of the people.

Therefore, the police and the Demon Hunters Association arrived on the scene one after another. The police took away the crazy Vincent, and the Demon Hunters Association took away those dangerous magic items.Dominic and Chris went to the police station as important witnesses.They had already made up their confessions.What Chris told the police is basically true: he placed a GPS tracker in the painting he bought, and after discovering that the painting was stolen, he tracked the GPS to Vincent's rented apartment.But he didn't mention opening the door from Limbo Prison (the police wouldn't believe it even if he mentioned it), but said that he was Vincent's friend and knew his family. A thief, he confronted Vincent, who was driven mad when he revealed that his painting was not genuine by Benjamin Tristan.As for Dominic, his confession was simpler: "I don't know anything. Chris said he would take me to catch the thief, so I followed him. He asked me to wait outside the apartment before telling me to go in. I also Don't know any Vincent. What? Chris said Vincent was his friend? God, he was so careless with friends!"

The police found stolen paintings and materials for making Molotov cocktails from Vincent's house, which he bought online, and he was convicted of theft and arson. "Ship on the Ice Sea" was returned to the university gallery, and the painting Chris bought was eventually returned to its original owner.However, he later felt that it took up too much space, so he donated it to charity.

This is where the incident came to an end.A few days later, Dominic was called by Chris to the gallery of the Academy of Art.

Benjamin Tristan's posthumous painting "Ship on the Ice Sea" hangs on the gallery wall.The canvas is slightly damaged because it was roughly cut and folded. Although it has been restored later, signs of damage can still be seen.Next to it was another painting, but the frame was covered with a piece of cloth, so Dominique didn't know what it was.

Chris pulls Dominic closer to him.

"Dominic, let me introduce you. This is Professor Hyman Congleton from the School of Art. He is also Tristan's tutor."

Professor Hyman Congleton has gray hair and rimless glasses.Dominic shakes his artist's hand respectfully.

"This is my friend Dominique, and he is also the one who helped to find "The Ship on the Ice Sea"."

The old professor smiled and patted Dominic on the shoulder: "Thank you, young man."

"You're welcome, you're welcome, this is what a law-abiding citizen and a student of our school should do."

After exchanging pleasantries, the old professor turned to face the painting on the wall and sighed. "Well, it's Ben's last work. Ben was an excellent student, not the most gifted, but he possessed an artist's sensibility, and in time he's bound to make a difference. It's a pity he died young... what a Sorry!"

Chris asks, "Have you heard the rumor about 'There's magic in Tristan's painting'?"

"I've heard of it, but I think it's all nonsense. It's just a meddlesome person entertaining the dead. Even if there is a 'magic' in his paintings, it is 'the magic of art that immerses the audience in it'. "

Dominique gave a thumbs up: "The professor has insight!"

"Although," the old professor changed the subject, "sometimes when I see his paintings, I do have a strange feeling in my heart... But I think that is not some witchcraft or supernatural power, but the original power in the paintings. I was moved by the effort put together. Not only this Ship on the Ice Sea, but there is another painting kept in the academy, but it has not been exhibited because it has not been completed."

The old professor pointed to the painting next to it covered with thick cloth: "That's it. Taking this opportunity, I want to show it to the light. It's a vintage oil painting with the theme of Greek mythology. If it is successfully completed , will be a masterpiece.”

After all, the old professor uncovered the thick cloth, finally revealing Tristan's unfinished work.

The canvas is divided into two by a city wall. Below the city wall are many soldiers in Greek-style armor. Some of them are particularly conspicuous, and they seem to be the characters that the artist focused on. On the city wall stands a man in red. She held on to the battlements and looked down, with a mysterious smile on her face. She didn't know if she was laughing at her opponent or she was full of confidence in her own defense.Several heavily armed warriors clustered around her.The woman's dancing red dress is the most vivid color in the picture.

"This painting is called Helen of Troy," said the old professor.

For a moment, Dominique was having trouble breathing.The faces of other people in the painting are very blurred. It seems that the artist has not had time to refine them. Only the face of the woman in red is clear.As the myth says, a woman has a peerless face.But it was this face that brought back memories of Dominique—he had seen this woman before!She was the woman he had seen in his hallucinations when they first went to the gallery to see Ships on the Ice Sea!