Chapter 82 - The Form of Life 02
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Turning over the manhole cover is the first time for Dior and Yuru, although the output of Yuru's prosthetic hand is amazing, but after all, it is still an old-fashioned hydraulic drive, and it is connected to the body, how much power can be supported depends on Yuru himself, to destroy the manhole cover, with the physical fitness of ordinary people, it is almost impossible. In the end, the two decided to enter through the embankment of the underground drainage system, and there was no danger of high tide during the season.
The complexity of the drainage system that Shevolt has completed in recent years is daunting, but Dior has no doubts. Raven people are not aquatic creatures, and there are only a handful of places where they can nest under the drainage system.
Turning on the flashlights, the two of them took out their guns and walked one after the other in the drainage system filled with unpleasant smells. The drainage system is a labyrinth, with industrial waste mixed with domestic wastewater discharged into a distant treatment plant, and some returned to the land. The reason for the decline of the plantation industry in the vicinity of the capital cannot be said to be unrelated, and it will not be long before it will become a city that has nothing to do with agriculture.
There weren't many clues to guide him, Sherlock was the Raven Man's whereabouts he found at the entrance, and the neighborhood had been searched, so the last possibility was here. As winter approaches, the bitter cold southwest wind pours in from the outlet, and the rain that is a little worn can't help but tighten the body. After all, she didn't plan to come to this kind of place in the first place, and was forcibly pulled out by Dio and Sherlock, and the girl who walked in front of the captain's hard work didn't understand.
Soon a clue came to the door, a tattered teddy bear covered in fog and leaking cotton, and clinging to frighteningly large feathers like Sherlock's. Dio picked up the teddy bear and took a closer look, the arrival of this clue further confirmed her suspicion, the next action will be more troublesome, the teddy bear happened to fall into a fork in the road, if you want to explore, it is better to divide the pawn into two ways.
“... This way. Dio didn't think about it, and pointed to a narrow other path.
Yuru didn't refute, nodded and followed Dio to move on. The habits of crows are extremely complex, and if you want to think about them with the mind of an animal, you can find them almost anywhere.
Eventually, near the end of the fork in the road, where they were blocked by an iron bar, Dior and Yuru found the Raven Man's 'lair'.
It would be an exaggeration to say that it was the lair plane, it was nothing more than a carpet of fallen leaves and fallen feathers, and on it lay a large number of strange objects: tattered, dirty pieces of cloth, mirrors shattered into several pieces, frames that were close to shattering, ornate brass music boxes encrusted with gems on the outside, and perhaps the teddy bear outside. In addition, it is a picture frame that is fastened to the ground, and it is not uncommon to see photos in today's increasingly popular cameras, and there are many low-cost photo studios in London.
Dior picked up the picture frame that was buckled on the ground, the glass outside the frame had been shattered, and the photo inside looked very blurry, not only because of the corrosion of some substance, the color of the original color photo had become strange, but he could barely distinguish the person on it. The photo shows a man and a woman, the male is dressed very modestly, while the woman is wearing a sunhat, has beautiful long hair, and has some simple accessories.
"This man... Could it be Geralt Wade?" said Yuru after thinking for a moment, then pointed to the male.
"I don't know, but I don't care about Geralt Wade's love story," Dio said with a wry smile, shaking his head, "I've now confirmed my conjecture... I'll have to check with Sir Blois when we're done. But now that the Raven is no longer here, we have more to deal with than Sir Blois's daughter. ”
"And this music box..."
Yuru picked up the music box on the ground, it seemed that the parts of the music box were still very complete, she wound the music box, and the beautiful canon melody came from the small box, and they didn't know how the Raven Man had brought it here while keeping this delicate machine functioning.
"It's really interesting, no matter which clue confirms my suspicions... It's as if the evidence came out for my thoughts, and maybe I have a talent for being a detective by accident," said Dior, "So, my captain, do you know something?"
"You want to see my distressed expression again, don't you? I'm just sorry to disappoint you," Yuru closed the music box dissatisfiedly, "Raven Man... She must be the daughter of Sir Blois. ”
"There's no clear clue yet, but that's what I do. Dio nodded.
"First of all, the first clue is that of Sir Blois's daughter... Dio, you have seen 'her', but John was surprised when he mentioned that she was the daughter of Sir Blois, and I would like to ask you the reason for your surprise. ”
"Well..."
Actually, it's not a big deal. But Dio was quite sure that the 'daughter of Sir Blois' she had met was anything but noble. The fundamental reason why Dior spent three years with the girl whose name he had forgotten was also this. In addition to her temperament, speech and demeanor, the biggest difference is that she will want to stick to Dior. Even if the aristocracy is declining, there will be one or two servants, surrounded by servants, living a life of clothes to open their mouths and stretch their hands, that is, these aristocratic ladies have lived almost the first 20 years, and even fewer will come to college.
And it's not like the Connor family, which is declining, but still not like an ordinary aristocratic girl, who runs to college, and hopes to make friends with the heir of another declining nobleman without knowing the details, and the best explanation for this behavior is that she wants to have a good relationship with the nobles. Obviously, the family is a famous family, not only came to go to college, but also the adopted daughter of a noble family is almost ... For the aristocratic women of England, it was really an incomprehensible thing.
But a different way of thinking will make you understand what 'Margaret' thinks. She was looking for a way out for herself, the Noble Academy was the perfect place to socialize, and Dio, who was also a woman and a commoner, was the best choice - rather than approaching other noble young masters who were not well involved in the world. It happened to be Hudson's enrollment of civilian students, and it was because of this that Dior would consider her to be just a commoner.
"The above is purely my speculation, and there is no evidence. Dior shrugged.
"Sir Blois's daughter is not like a nobleman... There have been no such rumors, and you have the impression that she is far from the aristocracy. There were rumours that Sir Blois's daughter was suffering from an incurable disease, which was later confirmed, and that she had been given medicine to prolong her life to this day. What follows is only speculation - if Sir Blois's daughter has long been bedridden because of her illness, Miss Blois, who comes into contact with Dior, is just a 'stand-in'. ”
"What about the origin of the conjecture? evidence other than my speculation. ”
"The things in the Raven Man's lair," Rain Ru gripped the music box, "teddy bears, picture frames, music boxes, mirrors, rags." Although I don't know much about the preferences of ordinary girls, at least I think these things are more feminine... Moreover, this kind of music box is not affordable for ordinary people, the gems on it are genuine, and the workmanship of the light stone is worth at least a few hundred pounds. It's an aristocratic thing, if it's an aristocratic thing... Within a radius of several hundred miles, there was only Sir Blois's family. And given the message Geralt Wade left behind, I think he already knew the fact that Miss Blois had become a raven. He didn't commit suicide, but someone shut him up because he knew about the existence of the Raven Man, because he was just an insignificant person even if he died, and no one would think that he had anything to do with the Raven Man. ”
She was cursed to be unable to make her own voice, hug her loved ones, or even be remembered.
"That's probably the kind of conjecture. ”
"Well, that's probably it," Dior said, pulling out his pipe and stuffing some tobacco in, "and most importantly." ”
"The people in this picture, I think are Geralt Wade and Miss Blois," Yuru continued, "and it's a photo from a few years ago. Geralt Wade, as a marginal figure, found out that Miss Blois had become a crow man precisely because he was in love with the original Miss Blois and was not known, and the later stand-in did not know about it, so he did some research and found out the truth. Sir Blois had built these projects five years earlier, before I had become a captain and Dio had not yet gone to university. ”
I am afraid that at that time Sir Blois was making a last-ditch effort for his daughter, accepting financing from other powers, building a chemical factory on his own land, and trying whatever he could for his seriously ill daughter. In the end, in desperation, Ser Blois had to lay the treasure on those whom no one would ask for.
The lunatics of Gear Street.
It is not the astonishing feat of creating a species from scratch, but just a modification based on humans, which may not be possible by Craigwen. And the end result was a very obvious failure, and what appeared after the 'medical treatment' was a complete monster. Sir Blois, who had to hide the truth that his daughter had become a monster and found a replacement, has now lost his only wife, how will he feel now?
“... It's weird. ”
After listening to Yuru's analysis, Dior discovered something strange. She crouched down, took a closer look at the nest, and then put the few remaining items in the nest together.
"What's wrong?" Yuru looked at Dior with some confusion, and she soon noticed that something was wrong.
"A broken mirror... A complete music box... Photos of lovers... Tattered teddy bears... Oh no, I've always thought of the Raven as a creature without intelligence, but if it was really because of the failure of the experiment that they became monsters, and they still had intelligence and memory, they would have acted like this. He broke the mirror because he couldn't accept his appearance, and he lost his temper at the teddy bear because he couldn't hug anything else.
"You don't listen to music until you want to calm down, but the claw-like hands of the Raven Man can't hold things as well as humans, and they can't wind up. How did Miss Blois get all of this to her lair? It's not that Geralt Wade found out the truth after he investigated, but that he lived with Miss Blois after she became a Raven Man! I see... I see, hurry, rain like we, let's go to Sir Blois's mansion!"