Conquering alien worlds starts from the game

A town with a population of more than [-] may not necessarily have a church, but there will definitely be night watchmen stationed there.

For a small city like Lars City with a port and a large population flow, there must be at least four to six night watchmen stationed: a captain, more than three team members, and at least one administrative officer.

When Captain Mace got off the boat and entered the city, the first thing he did was to go to the night watchman station in the city to see the situation - the undead tracking cult came after Taqia, it is impossible to say that Captain Mace was not curious about the situation here.

When Captain Mace found the local night watchman garrison, not to mention his colleagues, even the secretary didn't see it!

Not right!Very wrong!

Compared with Captain Mace's anxiety, Captain Donald's reaction was very indifferent. After being instructed by Agent Stanford on how to use the walkie-talkie, he pressed the call button and said, "The night watchmen in the city heard that they are investigating an important matter. In the past few years, there are not many cases in the city. Captain Gavin’s home is at No. 1-67, Wheel Lane, maybe you can go and ask.”

Detective Stanford, who was observing Donald's reaction calmly, had a subtle look on his face.

On the other end of the walkie-talkie, Captain Mace's face was also a little strange when he heard this reply.

Captain Donald is a member of the Port Guard, and is not in the same system as the Night Watchman. It is not surprising that he doesn't care about the movements of the Night Watchman in the city.

But the night watchman in the city can actually "not haunt the city for a few years", which is outrageous to the point of no end - not to mention Captain Mace, the Stanford detective who often handles cases with the night watchman thinks Outrageous!

After a hasty thank you, Captain Metz on the other end of the walkie-talkie hung up the phone and rushed to Wheel Lane with three subordinates.

The city of Lars itself is not big, there is no obvious separation between the inner and outer city, and no inner city wall was built, only divided by building streets.

Wheel Lane is located in the neighborhood where the inner city and the inner city meet.

The stone pavement roadway that can accommodate two horse-drawn carriages in parallel, the single-family building with a uniform height of two to three floors, and a small courtyard in front of the door. Obviously, the people who can live in this alley must have at least a middle-class income level.

Captain Mays followed the house number to find No. 1-67, and knocked on the door twice.

No one answered.

Captain Mace nodded his chin at his subordinates, and a night watchman immediately stepped over the fenced courtyard that reached the waist height of an adult male, and jumped into the small courtyard of Captain Gavin's house.

Only observing the room from the window of the living room, the night watchman's expression changed slightly, and he shouted out: "Captain, no one has lived in it for at least a few months, and there are spider webs on the firewood in the fireplace!"

The climate in Takia is warm, and only from December to January every year, it is necessary to burn the fireplace in the living room to keep warm.

The fireplace was still stuffed with unpacked firewood, and the firewood had been netted... This at least proved that Captain Gavin's wife hadn't taken care of the living room at home after the winter!

"Pry the door!" Captain Mace made a decisive decision.

The housewife of the neighbor's house heard the movement, came out to look, and found a few strong men in front of the door of Gavin's house next door, and immediately stood in her yard and shouted: "Hi! What are you trying to do, this is the inner city!"

Captain Mace quickly explained his identity, and asked the neighbor's wife about Gavin and his wife.

"So you're a night watchman from Adler. I'm sorry, I made a big fuss." The neighbor's housewife said apologetically, "I don't know Mr. Gavin, I haven't seen him much in the past few years." He only heard from Mrs. Gavin that her husband is carrying out some important tasks of the church, anyway, it’s not something that ordinary people can ask about, I’m sorry, I can’t help.”

"What about Mrs. Gavin?" Captain Mace asked.

The housewife of the neighbor's house became weird, and she faltered and refused to answer directly.

Captain Mace asked a few more questions, and the lady lowered her voice, tried her best to hide her excitement, and whispered close to Captain Mace: "Please don't say that I told you this, sir , Mrs. Gavin's matter is not a secret among us—during the Winter Festival the year before last, she got into a strange man's carriage, and she never came back after that."

Captain Mace's pupils shrank slightly: "The year before last?! You mean, two years ago? The Winter Festival in 1031?!"

"Yes, sir." The neighbor's wife affirmed.

Captain Mace gasped slightly.

Guard Captain Donald gave the address of Captain Gavin's home, and suggested to come and inquire about the news - given the embarrassing situation of the only leader of the armed forces who had been abandoned by all the superiors in the city, he didn't need to cover up for anyone, even Don't hesitate to lie.

In other words—the family members of Gavin, captain of the Night Watch in Lars City, have been missing for two full years, and Captain Donald knows nothing about it!

"Ma'am, have you ever seen Mrs. Gavin leave in a strange man's carriage?" Captain Mace continued to ask calmly.

"I didn't see it with my own eyes. I was busy with family affairs at that time, but I didn't have so much free time to care about other people's affairs." The neighbor's housewife waved her hands quickly.

"Then do you know who saw Mrs. Gavin getting into a strange man's carriage?" Captain Mace said.

"This... I don't know, I just heard people outside say that." The housewife of the neighbor's house noticed that Captain Mace's face was not very good, and couldn't help feeling a little regretful about her talkativeness, and said nervously, "I'm sorry, sir, Don't mind if I've said something wrong, you see, I'm just telling you what I know."

"Oh, I'm sorry, I was too rude, ma'am." Captain Mace quickly adjusted his mood, bowed with a smile, "Thank you very much for your help, I wish you a good mood all day."

Captain Mace has such a good looks that even discerning players are willing to praise him, the neighbor housewife who was nervous immediately relaxed a lot, covered her mouth and waved her hands with a smile.

After thanking the housewife for her help, when he turned around, Captain Mace's face collapsed.

The subordinates pried open the door of Gavin's house, and Captain Mace went into the house and walked around.

On the hanger next to the door of the living room, there were dusty ladies' coats and scarves.

In the kitchen on the first floor, the jam on the cooking table had gone bad, and the small half bag of bread in the cabinet was stolen by the mouse; the flour bag was dug out by the mouse, and the moldy and discolored flour was scattered everywhere.

In the bedroom of Gavin and his wife on the second floor, there is a set of mildewed ladies' nightdresses on the bedside table, and the closet is full of clothes, and there are not many empty hangers.

Captain Mace stood in front of the wardrobe full of clothes in silence for a while, took out the walkie-talkie to call Agent Stanford, and briefly introduced the situation he had initially investigated at 1-67 Wheel Lane.

Detective Stanford was silent for a while on the intercom, and replied quietly: "It seems that Mrs. Gavin is in danger."

"I think so too." Captain Mace said in a sad tone, "Anyway, I'm going back to the local night watchman station now to see if I can find more clues. Detective, please inform Mr. Yang about this. Maybe... we Need the help of the undead."

"clear."

In the city hall of Lars City, Captain Donald, who had been listening to the conversation between the two, was stunned: "Mrs. Gavin actually eloped with someone, my God, I haven't even heard of it—wait a minute, What do you mean by what you said just now, what do you mean Mrs. Gavin is more ill-fortune??"

The Stanford detective put away the walkie-talkie and looked at Captain Donald helplessly: "Based on our experience in handling cases in the Department of Public Security, if a woman goes missing and no one other than her husband sees her leaving with others, But there are rumors that this woman eloped with someone, then there is a high probability that this woman has been killed."

Captain Donald opened his mouth wide and couldn't close it for a long time.

Agent Stanford added: "If we can find Captain Gavin, then we will give priority to investigating whether the captain has the possibility of harming his wife."

"...Wait, but when Mrs. Gavin disappeared, Captain Gavin was not in the city." Captain Donald said.

"Yes, as you said, the night watchmen in the city have 'seldom appeared in the city' in the past few years. Generally speaking, Captain Gavin's suspicion of killing his wife can be temporarily ruled out." Agent Stanford said cautiously, " Of course, if there is follow-up evidence to prove that Captain Gavin was in the city before and after Mrs. Gavin's disappearance, then he is still an important suspect."

Captain Donald was completely unaccustomed to this water-tight agent's way of speaking, his head was getting bigger...

Yang Qiu was looking through the letters and documents of the mayor's office on the top floor of the city hall that the escaped governor hadn't had time to destroy. Agents from Stanford came to the door and told the truth about what Captain Mace had found.

After hearing the situation, Yang Qiu immediately turned his attention to Captain Donald who came up with the Stanford agent: "The family members of the night watchman have been missing for two years. When did this kind of thing become a trivial matter that even the local garrison would ignore?"

Captain Donald froze for a moment.

Yang Qiu stared at him for two seconds, and frowned slightly: "Your cognition seems to have been interfered... No, it should not be just you. Captain, when did you start to think that the night watchman is important to the city of Lars?" optional?"

Captain Donald's sluggish face gradually turned into confusion.

A moment later, the confusion on the face of this elite officer in the National Guard turned into shock.

"My God... Ms. Coins! How could I—?!"

Captain Donald leaned back on his chair with a look of horror on his face.

Detective Stanford has been carefully observing the captain's reaction, and when he saw this, he said solemnly: "Some kind of force interfered with the cognition of Lars City, causing the people of Lars to ignore the night watchman intentionally or unintentionally... Affecting the entire city, Takia's problem seems to be much more serious than we thought before."

Among the cases handled by the Department of Public Security, if there are cases related to mysterious forces, occasionally there will be such a person, a certain phenomenon, or a certain thing that is unreasonably ignored or ignored, or there is a certain person or a certain A situation in which a group of people accepts an irrational phenomenon extremely irrationally.

Detective Stanford once had a similar experience—when investigating a case in Duttata City, a family once ignored the second son who had turned into a mummy in the living room, and sat in the living room where the mummy was sitting every day. I didn't notice any abnormality in my daily life.

"For ordinary people, it is indeed a very legitimate and reasonable reason for the night watchman to stay away from the crowd's sight because of 'performing an important church task'. Although the difficulty of imposing this kind of hint on a large number of people is very high, it is not Can't do it."

Yang Qiu put down the letter in his hand, and walked around the desk with his hands behind his back: "But Captain Gavin's wife is not an 'ordinary person', she is not so easily influenced by hints, she will definitely track down the whereabouts of her husband who has not returned home for a long time."

"That's why she 'eloped with a strange man' and disappeared from public view." Detective Stanford moved his mind, "Wait, that means—"

"The night watchmen in Lars City should have been tricked out of the city by some kind of excuse and wiped out." Yang Qiu said, "Mrs. unforeseen."

"There is only one person who does not appear in the night watchman's 'outside service' statement, and can be ignored by the public like the missing night watchman, and can gain Mrs. Gavin's trust, even in the middle of the night, without disturbing the neighbors. Enter Gavin's house without being at home." Detective Stanford said.

"That's right." Yang Qiu nodded, "This person can continue to maintain the illusion that 'the night watchman is still performing tasks', making people think that the night watchman just 'rarely' appears in the city, rather than not showing up all the time. He can even Regularly contact the headquarters of the Night Watchman in Taqia, lest the headquarters send people to investigate the situation—"

"Administrator." Detective Stanford exhaled lightly, sweat beaded on his forehead.